Republican News Item
F, L. TAYLOR, LESSEE.
B. M. VANDYKE, EDITOR.
PUBLISHED FRIDAYS
By The Sullivan Publishing Co
At Hie Count y boat of Sullivan County.
liAl'OH'i'E, PA.
TIIOS. J. INGHAM, Soc'y & Treas.
Entered at the Pohl Office at Laporte, hp
second clans tnail matter.
| PROFESSIONAL CARDS, jjj
r-IRST NATIONAL BANK
OF DUSIIORE, I'KNN'A.
CAPITAL - - $50,000
1 I'BPJiUB - - J40.000
Does a General Banking Business.
FISHER WELLES, M. D. SWARTS.
[•resident. Cagliior
8 per eent interest allowed on certificates.
fRANCISW. MEYLERT,
Attorney-at-Law.
office in Keeltr's Block,
[J A FORTH 1 , Sullivan County, PA.
I & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORHKYB-AT-LAW,
Legal business attended to
in this IRND adjoining oountiop
.A PORTE, rA
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAPORTE, PA
OrPICK t!f COtIKTV BHILDine
MEARCOtJUT UOUBE.
J # H. CRONIN,
ATTORN EY V AT LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIO.
oprtl'a OB MAIS HTK«KT
OUSIIORE. iM
First National Bank
OF LAPORTE, PA.
Capital - - - $25,000.00
Trail acts a ceneral banking business.
T.IOS. .T. ixciiam, i:nw. i.am.ky
President. Cashier.
3 per cent interest paid on time deposits,
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
J P. BAHL,
TONSORIAL ARTIST
Pool Room, Confectionery, Tobacco and Cigars.
Opposite . Hotel Bernard
LAPORTE, PA.
What The Comet May Do.
The approach of Halley's comet
seems to be regarded with mingled
('••clings. "The superfluous are
worrying without cause over the
dreadful things they expect will
happen when that aerial facsimile
of Barnum's "Whatisit" swipes us
wite it stem end, forgetting that
nothing has ever happened from its
former visits nor front those ol' any
other'comet. Scientists naturaljy
•anticipate its coming with scientific
ii.terest in the hope that some light
may be shed upon the movements
and constituents of these myster
ious visitors. Then, again, there
are others who assert that the cel
estial wanderer will bring to the
world any amount of good.
We read, for instance, of a pro
fessor (they are always professors)
w ho says that the star dust emitted
by the comet's tail, when it envel
ops the earth, will clarify the
minds of men, lead them to higher
thoaght, and set us all studying
the signs of the zodiac. Imagine
all Laporte out star-gazing 011 a
night like some of those not far
past, when man's footpath was
rendered precarious by its icy cov
ering. We believe terrestrial stars
caused by the impact of unlucky
gazers against the slippery thoro
i'are, would be quite numerous.
We are not much interested in
t!ie zodiacal chart, but we welcome
anything that will clarify the mind
•and lead to loftier thinking, and
we could use some of that dust to
snuff tip into our own think tank.
Our lawmakers, who now so fre
<l tently seem to be befogged, will
f j e able to think and act with in
fallible clearness, 'iind never again
w ill they be in doubt as to the con
stitutionality of anj' measure before
congress or a state legislature.
I he whole puzzle of high prices
will be solved, and every mind,
whatever its former benighted state
will become so luminous as to
clearly understand the workings of
the tariff. It is even possible that
it may so affect the minds of some
witnesses in beef, sugar and other
trials, that the unfortunate lapse
of memory from which they now
suffer, may be entirely overcome
and every detail of past shady
transactions remembered and re
counted. And then there's—but
if we keep on supposing, we will
have no space left for our corres
pondence. Suffice to say: If Hal
ley'* comet will only do these
things, it has our permission to
switch its dusty appendage in our
face till Kingdom come.
On a Farm Eighty Years Ago.
The writer, when a little boy,
went to his father's meadow in
haying time where his father and
three hired men had been mowing
and were then whetting their
scythes. "Who mowed this awful
looking swath?'' inquired the little
boy, pointing to one 011 which the
stubble was cut in ridges resem
bling stairs. "Your father!" an
swered Jason Horton, one of the
men, in a tone which showed he
was glad the poorest mower in the
company was the boss. The boy
was considerably disconcerted and
plainly showed it. lie had con
denied his father's mowing incau
tiously, not knowing that it was
his. Like most little boys he had
believed that everything his father
did was right, and now it appeared
that be was a poor mower, and that
his son had told him so. The little
fellow was troubled but his father
cheered him by quietly saying:
"Yes, they can all beat me, but
you must learn to be a better mow
er than 1 am."
I remembered the admonition
and when I commenced mowing
kept the heel of my scythe down
level with the point, and cut a
smooth, level swath.
Scythes were kept in all the
stores, of different lengths, and
they did not differ from those in
use now in shape or temper. For
stumpy meadows the shortest were
preferable. My father's meadow
being free from stumps, the longest
scythes having more cutting edge,
cut easier and could cut a wider
swath.
In regard to snaths, there were
none for sale anywhere, and every
man made his own, with as much
bend or as little as he saw fit. My
father's was of ash, steamed and
bent by himself as he bent his ox
yoke bows. 11 is three mowers had
natural crooks which they had
hunted up in the woods—one being
a big laurel bush. It was not un
til a number of years after this
that we heard of the "patent"
scythe snath. They were first
manufactured 011 an extensive scale
in Massachusetts, by a man named
Lampson. lie was not a Yankee
as we would naturally expect, but
■a Jew, with a beard as long as the
old patriarchs of' Old Testament
times, as pictured in the family
Bibles. The mown grain was
spread with pitch-forks, and raked
with hand rakes. We did not
hear of any horse-rakes until some
time after the advent of the patent
snaths.
Castki.au.
ESTELLA.
Merton McCarty and Harry
Webster are working on A. T.
Mulnix' saw mill.
Mabel McCarty has returned
from Willianisport, where she has
been for some time.
Center School was the first to be
closed for the term. Harry Kiins
was teacher.
Miss Yaw of Big Bottom was in
this place Sunday.
The Odd Fellows contemplate a
shad supper in the near future.
Edith Edler who has been at
Bernice for some time is again at
her home.
Jerry Davidson and wife an* 011
the sick list.
Mrs. David Boylcs of Bear Moun
tain, visited her brother, U. G.
Little, last week Thursday.
A. J. Ilaekley and wife are in
Susquehanna county, called there
by the sickness and death of the
lady's mother, Mrs. Susan Mes
senger.
SHERIFF BROWN
NABS DESERTER.
TaKen Into Cvstody While At
tending a Party Near
Sonestown.
Williamsport News.
Sheriff Judson Brown on Satur
day night took into custody War
ren E. Parcel], charged with being
a deserter from the regular army.
The man had for ahout a week
been stopping at a Sonestown hotel
registering under an assumed name
and claiming to be a detective in
the employ of the government. On
Saturday night Sheriff Brown drove
to Sonestown to apprehend him,
but was told lie. had gone to the
home of Jonathan Ritchie, some
distance up the mountain, to at
tend a maple sugar party. The
night being very dark, the sheriff
secured the services of Constable
J. W. Laird, who accompanied
him to the Ritchie home, where
Purcell was found in the uniform
of a private of the United States
Army.
When confronted by the officers
he admitted his identity, and after
being relieved of his weapons he
was brought to Laporte and at
midnight placed in the county has
tile. The sheriff at once got into
communication with the adjutant
general of the army and expects to
deliver his prisoner to the military
authorities of the general govern
ment at New York City.
Purcell enlisted in Co. E, 13th
Infantry of the United States army
on Nov. 17. 1908, and is reported
to have deserted from Fort Leav
enworth, Kansas, on Feb. 12, 1910.
Fugitives from justice will do well
to give Sheriff Brown's bailiwick a
wide berth.
LATER.
Sheriff Brown, accompanied by
De\\ itt Sciulder of Kenneth Square
who has been staying in La porte
for some time, left for Fort Porter,
Buffalo, N. Y.' Thursday morning,
where they will deliver the prison
er to the military authorities.
Sheriff's Sale.
By virtue of sundry writs of Fieri
Facias issued out of the Court of
Common Pleas of Sullivan County,
Pa., to me directed and delivered,
there will be exposed at public sale,
at the Court House in the Borough
of Laporte, Pa., on Friday, April S,
1910, at two o'clock p. in., the fol
lowing described property, to wit:
The undivided, one-half idterest in all
those two certain lots, pieces or parcels ol
land, situate in the Borough ol Englo
Mere, t'ounty of Sullivan, State ol Penn
splvania, hounded and described as fol
lows:
LOT Nil, 1. Situated in Ivigles Mere
Borough, Sullivan County, Pa., at the
southwest corner ol' Alleghany Avenue
and ha Porte Avenue, coutaiteng in tront
on Alleghany Avenue, westwardlv, one
hundred sixty-seven and one-halt (167J)
feel to the easterly side ol' Fern Alley and
extending in length or debth, southward
ly, ot.that width, between the easterly
side of Fern Alley and the westerly lineot
LaPorte Avenue, one hundred and fifty
(150) feet.
The above lot is improved and has
erected thereon a large hotel building
known as "Hotel Alleghany," the same
being a licensed hotel. Said hotel is
about seventy-live by ninety feet, tlnee
stories high and contains all modern con
veniences. An annex, twenty bv twenty
four leet, contains the bar-room and all
necessary tix'.ures. There is a good well
upon the properly. The buildings are in
good condition and the grounds attractive.
This lot and improvement? are sold
subject to the lien ol a certain mortgage
amounting, with interest, to about $4,-50.
Said mortgage is tully recorded in the ol-
I'ice of the Hecorderol Deeds, at LaPorte,
L'a., in Mortgage Book Vol. ■'{, page 357.
LOT NO. 2. BEGINNING at the
southeast corner of lot No. 7, of the plan
or plot ol hagles Mere, as shown by map
of Gamble's Addition on plot made by
William A. Mason showing the allotments
of Eagles Mere, at a point on the wester
ly side of LaPorte Avenue; thence wester
ly along line of said lot No. 7. one htm
dred sixty seven and one-half (11>7A) leet
to the ea.-t line ol Fern Alley; thence nor
therly, along the east line of Fern Alley,
to the south lineot Lot No. 1, as above
described; thence along the southerly line
of said Lot No, 1. above described, oast
waidly, one hundred sixty-seven and one
half (lti7i) feet, to the west line of La-
Porte Avenue; thence southerly along
the wist lineot LaPorte Avenue, to the
place ol beginning. Being lots > os. 7
stid 5 of said Gamble's Addition to Eagles
Mere.
The defendant's half interest in the last
mentioned lot is lo be sold subject to the
restrictions contained in the deed of James
M. Gamble and wite to Peale and Dick
son, dated Oct. 4, 1886, recorded in Sulli
van County, in Peed Book Vol. 19, page
580, to wrich reterei ce can be had.
The half interest in the above men
tioned lots is sei/.el, taken into execetion !
and to be sold as the properly of \V. 11. i
Van Buskirk, at the suit "of Fred \V. !
Peale. j
.II'DSON BROW V, Sherill.
Sheriffs Office, LaPorte, Pa.,
March 14, I'J 10. Mevlert, Attorney.
I FIREMEN DISCOVER
II TRIPLE KILLING
Called to a Blaze in New York
House Find Father Shot Two
Sons and Himself
A VICTIM OF MELANCHOLIA
Herman H. Morltz, Real Estate Man,
Corners, Clubs and Shoots His Two
Boys Dcfore Suicide Outbreak
Climax of Melancholia.
New York, N. Y., Mar. 15. —Her-
man H. Moritz, u retired real estate
dealer, whose home was in No. 2210
Aqueduct avenue, The Bronx, sent his
wife and servant away from home,
shot his two sons to death, set fire
to the house and then killed himself.
Before he sent a bullet into his own
brain he left the house, saw to it that
a tire alarm was tuYned in and then
returned to his home and killed him
self. The firemen were forced to push
his body aside to get the front door
open. The man had been suffering
from melancholia longer than a year,
and his condition had become much
worso in the last week. Nothing had
been said by him up to the time of
the shooting.
The family was wealthy and each
of the slain boys would have received
from the estates of their mother and
grandfather about $250,000.
The victims were George, 17 years
Old, a student in the Bordentown
Military Academy, in New Jersey, who
died in his school uniform after he
had been shot three times as he
crouched in a closet in a bedroom, and
Walter, 12 years old, who was chased
by the maniac from the second floo?
to the cellar and shot down near a
coalbin behind which he had tried to
Bcreen himself. It was not until the
firemen had extinguished the blaze
which the crazed man had kindled
that any one had any idea Moritz had
murdered' his two sons. The body of
Ceorge fell out of the closet when
they opened the door to see if any
traces of fire could be discovered
there.
Before Moritz did the shooting he
took both his hoys out for a long
walk, which they enjoyed exceedingly,
having no idea their father in sending
their stepmother and the servant
away merely was clearing the way for
n.urdering them and killing himself.
Mrs. Anna Moritz, the wife, who
had gone to Englewood, N. J., at the
request of her crazed husband, was
Informed there of the triple tragedy.
Biie returned hurriedly to New York,
and is prostrated in the home of
friends in The Bronx. Borough Presi
dent Miller of The Bronx, who was
counsel for Moritz and guardian of
his two boys, took charge of the
Moritz home.
Moritz retired from the real estate
business four or five years ago, after
having prospered. lie owned, among
other properties, the three-story frame
house in which the tragedy took place.
NORDMONT.
Mrs. H. I). Williams entertained
a number of ladies at her home on
Wednesday of last week. ITer
guests were: Mesdames if. C. 11 ess.
Ct. M. Fiester, W. B. lla/.en, (Jer
liart Hess and Lloyd Fail-man.
M. O. Peters, wife and son, Ken
neth of Picture Bocks, are visiting
his parents at this place.
H. C. Hess and family visited
relatives in Sonestown over Sunday.
James Miller of Mttncy Valley
was a culler in town Tuesday.
Madge Gritman his returned
home after spending the winter at
Powell.
r
Ernest Botsford visited his par
ents at Palmyra, N. Y., hist week.
Cecil Botsford visited friends in
Sonestown over Sunday.
Harry Lloyd of Montgomery was
the guest of his uncle, Harvey
Amies, last week.
Mrs. Harry Smythe has returned
home after a two weeks' visit with
her sister in Ilarrisbnrg.
W. B. Ilazcn and wife and Mrs.
Thomas Laird attended the funeral
of Mr. Simmons at Sonestown last
Thursday.
MUNCY VALLEY.
Rev. Ruth and wife went to
York Tuesday to attend Conference
Brady Houscknecht transacted
business in Williamsport Saturday.
Mortie and Josephine Housc
knecht and Penile Jillson spent j
Sunday in Eaglesmerc.
Smith Bondman and wife ol'
Sonestown, called on relatives here
Friday evening.
James Miller and Leo Moran at-'
tended the spelling contest tit La
porte Wednesday evening.
THE LEADING RETAIL
STORE OF N. E. PENN'A.
□ Fowler, Dick & V/alker announce \
nj that their New Catalogue of b
g Fashionable Garments for Spring =
j n and Summer of 1910 is now §
2 ready. A copy of this Style =
Book will he mailed Free upon E
application.
FOWLER, DICK & WALKER,
| _ BOSTON STORE. South Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
RILLSGROVE.
Mrs. Till Meyer of Mawr Glen
spent part of last week with John
Speaker and family.
Buras Woodley who was operat
ed on at- the Williamsport hospital
recently litis returned home much
improved.
Jacob Caseman had the misfor
tune to fall down cellar Thursday
daof last week fracturing his
shoulder and one limb. Dr. Mcr
vine reduced the fractures.
Miss Lilzie Lit/el man has re
turned to her position in the Don
aldson Sanitarium in Williamsport.
Administrators Nbtice.
Letters of administration 011 the
estate of Albert S. White, lute of
Davidson township, Sullivan County.
Pennsylvania, having been granted
to the undersigned, all persons in
debted to the said estate are request
ed to make payment, and those hav
ing claims, to present the Minie with
out delay, to
Mrs. Sibyl Hallstead,
It. 1). 1, Sonestown, Pa.
Administratrix of Albert S. White,
deceased. Feb. 2.'5, 1910. 40t<»
I 3 CENTS iLINE ADS. j
t
FOR SALE—A team weighing
about 2,(mil lbs. Broke single or
double. Sell separate or together.
Inquire of G. S. Eddy, Laporte, Pa.
GET. YOUIJ WIM I
Of course you get y ur
wish if you come to our I
s'ore for y< ur goo.ls We
have about everything in
the Gener.tl Merchandise
Itne that you could wish for
,md our sto>. k i-> neat, clean
and up-to-d.ile in quality.
I *
BiischhciuseiVs.
LAPORTE, PA
Poultry, Butter, Eggs and Country
Produce.
Dressed Calves and Hogs.
Write for prices :
PARRISH SOU AU E MARKET.
lfitli & Parrish Sts.,
. Philadelphia, Penn'a.
Anyone sending a nketeh and description may
quleUjr ascertain our opinion free whether an
Invention is probably patentable. Com muni ca
imSVr T t A 3 [V o, i ndcnt,tt, -,HANDBOOK on Patent*
sent rreo. Oldest agency for securing patents.
1 litems takon through Munn & Co. receive
tptcuil notice, without Dlmrtre, In the
Scientific American.
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. I,nrcest cir
culation or any BcientlUc Journal. Terms, *3 a
Bo ' J by * u newsdealers.
MUNN & Co. 3etßfoadw «»- New York
Urauch Oillce. 026 F 8t„ Washington. C.
DeWill's Kidney and Bladder Pills
FOR BACKACHE
M. BRINK'S
PRICES For This Week.
100 His.
I Oil Meal $2.20
1 Gluten 1.75
Coin Meal 1.-10
Cracken Corn 1 40
• j Corn 1.40
■! lii.'st Muncy Midds. 1.00
■ Hrown Midds. 1 r>/»
Buckwheat Midds. 1,15
Oyster Shells 00
! Wheat Bran 1.50
- Sehuniaeher Chop 1.50
. 100 lb Buckwheat Flour 2.40
| Lump Salt 75
. Beef Scrap ,'{.oo
I Meat Meal 2.50
j 140 11) hag Salt tiO
4 ! s(> Hi hag Salt 30
5(5 11) hag Backing Rock Salt. 40
i Slhiunacher Flour wick 1.55
• S Marvel " "1.75
' Money *• " lAO
- 24 lh sack Helm. Tahle Meal (10
-,10 11i " '' " " 25
I Veal calves wanted every week
..on Mondav, Tuesday and Wednes
j day.
Live fowls and chickens wanted
| every Wednesday.
Light pork wanted at highest
• ( : market price.
11. BRINK, New Albany, I 1 :!.
t 7
The Best place
to buy goods
Is often asked by the pru
■ pent housewife.
Money saving advantages
I are always being searched for
I.ose no lime in making \
thorough examination ofilie
New Line of Merchandise
Now on
.»****-*** *« *"C
*****-*** iMHlHlt******
7 7 7 ??? 7 7 7
STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
Ail answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
BEiHagrove, Pa.
Gbippewa
Ximc IRUne.
Lime furnished .n car
load lots, delivered at
Right Prices.
• Your orders solicited.
Kilns near Hughesvilla
P®nn'a.
i
M. E. Reeder,
MUNCY, PA.
ALL HORSES DIE.
Metropolitan Live Stock Insurance Co.
is writing contracts to cover your invest
ments in horses and cattle against death
of any cause for a small amount, quarter
ly, semi-annually or annually. Agents
wanted everywhere. Home office, 410-411
Bastable Block, Syracuse, N. Y.
Try a SMALL AD in this
paper, It will pay you.