Local Items. fit Read M. Brink's ad. Oysters at Boudman's, Sones town, Pa. Joseph Stalford spent Sunday in Towanda. They say that A. C. Jenkins has a buster of a calf. Ash Wednesday this week start ed the Lenten season. Fred Heaton made a business trip to Williamsport Tuesday. W. B. Ritter is spending a few days in Harrisburg on business. James Morau, Sr., is visiting his daughter, Mi's. Wm. Kelly in Binghamton N. Y. The Sunday Schools of Eagles Mere enjoyed a sleigh ride to this place Saturday afternoon. Miss Edith Gumble is spending a few days with her friend Kath ryn Donovan at Muncy Valley. Mrs. Mabel Ritter, who has been in Hillsgrove for the past few weeks, has returned to Laporte. A fine new daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Flynn on Monday morning. Feb. 27. Eighteen families have left Ly coming County to take up their residences in the State of Wyom ing. Miss Dora Crist returned to her home in Sonestown Saturday after spending some time with friends in this place. Quite a number from this place attended a dance at the home of Jas. Russel near Nordmont, Mon day evening. Miss Mabel Morau, is again able to resume her studies in the High School, after several weeks' sickness of LaGrippe. Prof. Bender docs not request us to state that if scholars are not at their place of business when he peals the new bell, he may peel them. Miss Minna Frickey, a deacon ess of Washington, D. C., will preach in the M. E. Church in this place Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Mrs. Teresa Gallegher and children, who have been visiting for some time in Lestershire, N. Y., have returned to their home in this place. The many friends of Donald Ing ham, who has been very ill at his home in New York City, of pneu monia, will be pleased to know that he is rapidly recovering his health. H. Z. Baker of Newville, Cumber land county, has four bottles of pre served seventeen-year locusts of dates as follows: 1851,1808, 1885 and 1902. He was 12 years old the first time he saw them, and is now 72 years past. Each bottle is labeled and contains one locust for each of the dates names. New Albany has passed an ordi nance forbidding the Bale of fire" crackers, torpedoes, etc., and ex ploding the same within the bor ough limits. This was done to provide a safe and sane Fourth. The reform bee seems to have about fifty-seven varities of buzzes and is playing each tune in turn for the benefit of the New Albany people. • Joseph Wrede, who left this place some time ago to enter the naval service, writes home that he likes it very much. He is sta tioned on U. S. School ship, Frank lin, at Portsmouth, Va., where he will be until June. Joe is in the Art Class and his many friends will lie glad to know that he is making good in his new venture, but are not surprised as all who know him are aware that he is ' 'good goods" and has the determination that al ways succeeds. NORDMONT. Mr. Clyde Sheets of Sonestown spent a few hours here Friday. Mr. John Edgar made a business trip to Williamsport Saturday. Mrs. O. J. Sherinam wlio has been ill for the past few months has gone to Williamsport for treat ment. Mr. Abe Knouse has gone to Dushore to work. Mr. Oscar Lewis and daughter Mrs. Levi Richard and son Paul, of Benton, spent Sunday evening with W. B. Snider and family. The oyster supper held Saturday evening was very largely attended. Mr. W. B. Snider wife and son Ernest spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Central. Kenneth the little son of Minard Peters is very sick at this writing. Mrs. Housekneclit of Muncy spent Sunday with her son John at this place. Miss Florence Peters returned home Saturday evening after spend ing a week at Laporte. Mr. J. G. Hess spent last week with friends at Central. Mrs. Howard Hess and daugh ters Kathryn and Josephine are spending a week with George Karge and family at Ringdale. Mr. Lloyd Speary was in Wil liamsport Thutsday and Friday of last week. Mr. J. H. Gansel of Williamsport spent Tuesday night with W. B. Snider. MVNCY VALLEY. Miss Frodrica Myers entertained the following friends at lier home Friday evening: Blanch and Anna Staeklionse, Mrs. Herman Myers, Jane Smith, Edna Taylor, Phoebe Worthington, Martha Jankosky, Etta Bradley, Grace Betz, Alma and Mary Myers, Mabel Fnlmer, Kathryn Donovan, Kathryn Brad ley, Celia Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rimsnyder, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Worthington, Nellie Jill son, Effie Danley, Gyla Montague, Eda Worthington, Madge Fnlmer, Myrl and Pearl Jillson, Lillian Crawley, Marcella and Althea My ers, Mi's. Iva Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Myers Earl Fnlmer, Gar rison, Leon and Donald Myers, Donald and James Miller, Harold Bender, Ritner Fiester, Foster and Elmer Meyers. After an injoyable evening of games of the season, refreshments were served. The Grammar School has orga nized a Literary Society. Miss Pearl Jillson has gone to Eagles Mere where she has em ployment. A crowd of young ladies of this place attended church at Kedryon Sunday. Master Lawrence Worthington has been quite ill for some time. Albert Cragg, who recently had his foot amputated at the hospital, is recovering from his operation quite rapidly. The schools enjoyed a sleigh-ride to Sonestown Thursday. Miss Buelah Houseknecht has been on the sick list. Fire Destroys House. A farm house near Shunk, be longing to E. M. Letts was totally destroyed by fire on Friday of last week. The occupants, Mr. and Mi's. Floyd Morgan, were away from home at the time and when fire was discovered and help had arrived the flames had gained such headway that none of the contents could be saved. The house was partially protected by insurance but none was carried on the con tents. A Card. Hillsgrove. Pa., Jan. 23, 1911. To the School Directors of Sullivan Co.: I hereby announce myself as a canili-1 date for the office of Superintendent ot | Schools. Respectfully submitted tor your decision. Election. Tuesday, May 2,1911. J. Robert Molyneux, Hillsgrove, Pa. SONESTOWN. The high school enjoyed a sleigh ride to Eagles Mere Wednesday. A number from town attended the social at "Glidewell's" school house Friday evening. The weight social held at this place Saturday evening was well attended. Frank Magargle has purchased a Shetland pony which arrived Saturday from the West. Mr. and Mrs. Archer Darling and daughter of Hughesville visit ed the gentleman's parents here over Sunday. Mabel Speary visited Ada Sim mons over Sunday. Mrs. Clias. Simmons and Martha Simmons were Hughesville shop pers Friday. Mrs. E. J. Lock wood was a Williamsport visitor last week. Lester Boatman left Saturday for Few York City where he will join the standing army. Edna Lock wood is visiting rela tives at Jersey Shore. Rev. Rounsley of Hughesville conducted a special service here Thursday evening. Twenty-two were baptized and twqjty-four tak en into the church. Mary Witson is on the sick list. Mrs. Dan Corsou was a Hughes ville caller Saturday. Meets Death in Mine. The O" Boyle and Foy coal mine at Bernice was the scene of a fatal accident Saturday, when in a fall of about eight tons of rock, Anthony Glimmer, an employe was killed. The mine has been in operation since 1904 and this was the first fatal accident in its his tory. Anthony Zebridge, another employe, received a severe fracture in the leg. Fire at Ricketts. On Tuesday night about 8:30 fire destroyed the home of Wm. Sykes and Edward Chapman at Ricketts, the occupants escaping with scarcely apparel enough saved to clothe them. The fire was of unknown origin and was not dis covered until too late to save the contents of the building. A. P. Miller of Muncy Valley svas a business man in Laporte Wednesday. March came in neither like a lion nor a lamb this year. Draw yonr own conclusions. You can get oysters of Smith Boudman at the Sonestown Hotel; Stewed, Fried or Raw. Mrs. Jos. Carpenter was taken to the Packer hospital in Sayre on Thursday of last week, and was operated upon for cancer. At latest reports she is recovering. Harry l'ertshou of Murray town was discharged from the Packer hospital at Sayre, Saturday. On Jan. G, he was caught under a fall of rock in a coal ine and after be ing taken to the hospital it was found necessary to amputate his left leg and one finger of his right hand. If a certain bill that has be«n presented in the Legislature goes through, the "rubber" practice so common on the rural telephone will have to cease. The bill pro vides: "making it a misdemeanor, with a penalty of not more than 825 fine or 10 days in jail, for per sous other than telephone employes to listen to conversation." There is no doubt of the necessity of such a law for the practice of listening to other peoples' conversation on the quiet is very common and is an annoyance. Besides this, when several receivers are released from the hanger at a time it makes talking between two parties very ' difficult because it lessens the car -1 ring force of the wires and if t he distance is very long the convers ants can scarcely hear the voices of each other. Curfew In London. Although we do not rlug the curfew bell to clear the streets of children, Its warning sound can still be heard iu one place lu London. This Is at Lincoln's Inn, where its ringing is u relic of mediaeval times, wliej bar- ! rlsters and students lived In the Inn and were subject to the despotic rule of the benchers in such matters long nfter there was n legal necessity for "lights out" at op. m. Now Lincoln's Inn is deserted In the evening save by watchmen and the police and perhaps the ghosts of all the parties in Jarn dyce and Jarndyce. who may revisit the sceue of their litigation—the old hall which remains as Dickens describ ed it In the wonderful opening chapter of "Bleak House."!— London Chronicle. An Unintended Error. The Critic—ln the twelfth chapter of your novel you say. "As Clifford Dan gcrfleld came slowly up the long gar den walk Clarissa, with maidenly ad miration, gazed upon him." The Author—Well, isn't that all right? The Critic—Hardly. llow can Cla rissa "gaze" after she lias been blind ed? The Author—After she has been blinded? What are you talking about? The Critic—Why. iu the previous chapter, in which you describe Clif ford's planing mill, you say, "For a long, fascinating minute Clarissa rest ed her heau'iful brown eyes upon the swiftly revolving buzzsaw."—Atlanta Constitution. The Oldest Known Bookkeeping. In the primitive villages of the An des, scattered through IVru. Bolivia and Ecuador, the descendants of the ancient Ineas depend upon the "kipu" for keeping all their accounts. It was In use when I'izarro conquered Peru, and the Andean Indians have never improved on it. It Is the oldest known form of bookkeeping. The kiju is sim ply a collection of knotted strings. Dif ferently colored strings denote differ ent articles In daily use and ten dis tinct knots the ten numerals. In the absence of a written language It is a inarvelously perfect system. Large transaction.* are conducted as accurate ly by It as If double entry bookkeeping were employed. Curious Cossack Ci'storrs. Many queer i-ustoms and usages are prevalent among the Cossacks of the Don. No mau changes his clothing on a Monday. If he did it is believed that he would suffer from a severe skin dis ease. On Thursday no fat or llesh must be pickled or corned. If any one neglected this the moat would be full of worms in a fortnight. Wool is not spun 011 a holiday, else the cattle will sicken and die. A hell is always given an uneven number of eggs to hatch, never an even number. Bones left from a dinner at a funeral are thrown Into the river, else the dead will ap pear to the living in fearful shape. And nt the same meal no one dare cut bread. It must always be broken. Solemn Moments. "It Is a solemn thing." said the young man, "when a woman trusts a man with her affections." "It ain't so solemn," said tlie man with the |ink necktie, "as when she won't trust him with his owu wages." —London Tit Bits. Brown Defeats Wolgast. Knock-Out Brown, of New York, de feated Ad Wolgast, lightweight cham pion, in a six-round light in Philadel phia. Brown carried the battle to Wolgast in every round. He was wonderfully strong and aggressive and Wolgast took many hard knocks. It was Wol gast's stamina and ring generalship that prevented Brown from knocking him out, but at that on several occa sions the champion was hard pressed Canada Bars Negroes. The Dominion government decided to stop the immigration of colored persons from the United States and stopped at the boundary at Winnipeg a party which intended togo to west ern Canada They were stopped because they were regarded as undesirable citizens. Pope Sees Aeroplane Flight. The pope for the first time saw an aeroplane flight. Aviator Fischer, starting at Caphanelle, two miles out side of Rome, circled the dome of St. Peters and returned to his starting point. His holiness watched the flight from a library window. 1911 M ARCH iM S ]AA.'T IWiT FIS 11121314 5 6 7 BT9 1011 112 131415161f18 1912021 22 2324251 |2g!27,28 1 20!30|31l I MOTICE. I" The Directors of Colley School District, will receive bids for the six room, frame school building, to lie hui't nt Lopez P.i. Plans and speci fications can be seen at the office of L. Dunn., J. P The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and bids must be iu the hands fit the undersigned not latei than 10 A. M. Saturday March, lKlli., IHI 1. FItANK A. IIOAO, HEC'Y. Lopez, Pa. 42-3t. SHVNK. Tlu! battle that is being fought between Winter and Spring seems at present (o bo in favor of Spring and we believe no one is sorry. W. 11. Fanning is on the sick list, A. I?. Kilmer Esq., of Wheeler ville transacted business in town Saturday. Mis. William Bagley of Athens is visiting friends and relatives in this place. C. N. Porter is ill at this writing. The monthly meeting of the School Directors and town officers was held Saturday. Messrs. Harry and Edward De witt and sister Pearl visited at D. W. Baffin's Sunday. Clara Wilcox of Williamsport and Jessie Wilcox of Sayre, are spending a few days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. (J. K. Wil cox. Mrs. J. R. Biddle is slowly re covering her health. All cases of mumps are reported better. P. M. Soper and wife visited relatives in Millview over Sunday. |f Dependable || B 8 WE handle goods that are cheap, but not cheap goods. We want our goods to become ffiSSj your goods and our store your store. If it is gjggg || Clothing, or B **** **** l|| Shoes or §§ §| Anything M to l'uruish man. woman or child up in classy, attractive and dapeiulable attire, then we have just the articles you need. Give us a call now. S^o? ||| MAX MAMOLEN, LAPORTE. || SMTalks On Advertising By Charles Austin Bates. No. 39. There is no business or profession which advertising will not help. Some of the professions have been very slow to recognize this, but gradually they are coming to a realizing sense of the importance of publicity. An eminent musical artist in Chicago recently published a pamphlet advertis ing himself. The opening paragraph aw/ i states the advertising case as he sees it: A 7 " This is a quickly moving age ; the gl / .//^fc' sensation of to-day is forgotten to-mor fi twfi&fei'. row ; competition is keen and everyone is ®' 111 nSST anxious to keep before the public by some £ 11 means or other; the appetite of the t reader has been dulled, and to attract him It Wagain either new facts have to be ab form. What is the artist to do to keep flm IT 11 apace with the hurried throng who are to ° t0 '' sten to k' s son K ? He " This is a quickly moving age." un 9ome con,. mercial element with the exercise of his art. It does not suffice that he considers himself mrßl V great; he must succeed in impressing others V» tence tells AI Vri/f lex have"the " '*** r ""*' r ttn est store ant ' l^e est stoc k in the world. TbT His prices may be among the lowest, but he will ]pff/my// not se " a dollar's worth unless he succeeds in _ 1 making people believe that he has and does these things. The greater number of people who know that a man is in business and what he sells, the better his busifaess will be. Advertising is the quickest and best way to impart this information; newspaper advertising is the best kind <rf adver xf J \ tising, because it will carry the information to -It does Hot suffice that he coHstJtn more people for less cost than any other kind. ""'infimpressiug 'others with'' This is a faCt which a lead P encil * "«»• that fact:* figuring will demonstrate beyond argumtat. Copyright, Charles Austin Bates, New York. fllM BYGONE DAYS**I Extracts From the Columns of the ♦ News Item Fourteen Years Ago. 9 Married at the home of the bride's parents on Wednesday evening, by Rev. Powell of this place, Mr. George Chase to Miss Maggie Deremer. The County Superintendents' meeting will convene at Harris burg next Wednesday. Supt, Mey lert is 011 the program to open the discussion 011 grading schools. J. J. Webster of Kstella was in town Wednesday. He is having the lines run that border the tract of timber land at the mouth of Mill Creek, 11 [>oll which he will operate this spring. Shunk —A young miller arrived at the home of O. J. Williams on Monday morning, weighing iiine pounds. To say that Olin is pleased puts the expression very mildly. Take a little time off and visit the sick in the community. It will do you 110 l.arm and will do them a world of good.
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