REPUBLICA N TICKET. BTATK Governor John K. Tcncr, Washington Co. Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds, Bedford Co. Treasurer C. Fred Wright, Susquehanna Co. Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry Houck, Lebanon Co. COUNTY State Senator Clyde Clias. Yetter, Bloonisburg. Representative in Assembly M. W. Keeser, Colley, Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. S. Local Items. -i&tßrink's ad is corrected weekly. Win. Landback of Dushore is attending Court this week. Editor St re by of Dushore was a business man in town Monday. St. John's Church. (Episcopal.) Evening Service, 7:.">0 p. in. About three hundred people at tended the Overton Centennial held at that place on Friday of last week John P. O'Neill of Mildred. Democratic candidate for Repre sentative, was in Laporte the fore part of the week. If. L. Hirst and his "brand" new wife, of I'hilapelphia, are vis iting his sister, Mrs. F. W. Mil ling in this place. Peter Murray and Martin Lincli of Murray, have accepted the agen cy for the Milllinburg wagons and will place tlieiu on exhibition at the Forksville fair. George Power of Overton has a well in which oil is found in such quantities as to render 4he water unlit for use. Efforts have been made to pump the well free of oil but have been unsuccessful as it appe.,;.' I > How in faster at every attempt to roniove it. Mr. M. \V. Reeser, the popular < .-.i.didatc of the Republican party for Representative, has been in at tendance at Court this week, shak ing hands with his numerous 1r" 'tid.s. Being a native of Sullivan (' < ,ty and from a highly rsspectcd family of pioneers, and withal a )>: 'iitleinan of intelligence and in fluence. he deserves a hearty sup p rt at the coining election. Laporte was surprised Tuesday by a young couple arriving on the morning train who seemed to be delighted to be in Laporte and ap peared to think it a very good place to spend their Honey-Moon. Their actions proved that they were newly married and had come up on the hill to escape rice and old shoes. They are from Phila delphia and will no doubt spend the winter here as they will be afraid to return to their friends. A. T. Swingle and Ulysses Bird, of Klkland, Reese and Sheriff, of Williams-port, and Dr. W. F. Ran dall and J. 11. Thayer of Dushore have purchased thirty-six hundred acres of timber lands in Sullivan county, New York. There will l>e thirty or forty million feet of lum ber on the tract, mostly hard-wood. These gentlemen will put a mill on the tract at once and commence to manufacture lumber. —Gazette and Herald. The annual Bloonisburg fair will be held on Octol>er 4, 5, 6, and 7. This event is the great yearly hol iday time of the people of Columbia and adjoining counties. It is here where the best of what is produced in the State is placed on exhibition annually and where thousands come to see and compare ideas. The exposition feature will be greater than ever. Competition is open to all. High class free at tractions have been secured. The races with all s.">oo purses and the excellent track will draw the best horses in the country. The Mid way will be complete with all the known attractions and will include Mr. Mile's Wild Ostriches. Two first class bands each day. Pre pare to meet your friends at the Big Fair this year. ad SONESTOWN. A jolly crowd of young people enjoyeil a corn roast Wednesday evening. Collins Hazen and Dunning Lockwood left Thursday for Ni agara, where they have employ ment. A largr number from here at tended the railroaders picnic at Lake Mokoma Sunday. Services in the churches as fol lows: Methodist Sabbath school, 10:00; Epworth League, (J.SO; Preaching, 7:00; Prayer meeting, Thursday evening, 7:.'io. Evangel ical: Sabbath school, 10:00; Christ ian Endeavor, 0:00. All are invit ed. The Grammer and Primary school opened Monday with the following teachers: Howard Pay, Anna Speary and Walter Hazen. Harry Puck, who is teaching school at Nordmont, spent Sunday with his parents. Several gentlemen from this place are attending court this week. A number of ladies from this place attenud a surprise party given for Mrs. MacAlarney at Aluncy Valley, Monday. Boulder Falls on Miners. Two miners were seriously injured at the Davis colliery, Pottsville, Pa. by the very means which they were taking as a precaution to save there from accidents. The men were trying to pry down a loose overhead boulder which hung in the roof of their breast when the big rock suddenly fell with out warning and crushed them. Longest Fence In the World. The government is preparing to build what will be the longest fence ever constructed in the world. The fence will extend from El Paso. Tex., to the Pacific coast, a distance of over 1000 milos, and will divide the United States and Mexico. The fence will be of barbed wire. Work will begin In a few weeks. Cholera Claims 100,000 In Russia. The cholera epidemic, which origl nated in southern Russia, already has claimed upwards of 100,000 victims. It is now stretching its way aeross Asl atic llussia. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA FLOUR weak; winter clear, $4(Lf -1.25; city mills, fan cy, $6&6.40. RYE FLOUR quiet, at sl@4.lU pel barrel. WHEAT firm; No. 2 red. new, 99'6 @BI.OO Vfc. CORN dull; No. 2 yellow, local, 63 H 64c. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 39Vfec.; lower grades, 37c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, ItiVi 4/17 c.; old roosters, ll 1 / 4@l2c. Dress ed firm; choice fowls, 18c.; old roof, ters, 13c. RUTTER firm; extra creamery. 32c EGGS steady; selected, 31 (g 33c ; nearby, 27c.; western, 27c. POTATOES quiet, at 58®60c. bush Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards) CATTLE steady; choice, $7.20@7.40; prime, |0.90@ 7.15. SHEEP firm; prime wethers, $4.6 C @4.75; culls and common, s2@3; iambs, $4.50@7.25; veal calves, siu@ 10.60. HOGS steady; prime heavies, |9.7c (5 9.80; mediums, fl0.06@10.10; heavy Yorkers, 19.80® 9.90; pigs, $9.25@9.70; roughs, $8.50@9. BOYS' RUSSIAN SUIT. Pattern No. 3216.—R1ue and whtt* Scotch gingham in combination with white linen la used for the stylish out fit as here pictured. The suit consists of a blouse with a pnnel front, a deep sailor collar and sleeves boxplaited to cuff depth; the knickerbockers hav<t the fullness at the knee confined by elastic-run ensing. The pattern is In 4 sizes—2 to 5 yeirs. For a boy of 3 years the suit re quires as illustrated 1 1-2 yards ol ch eked material 27 Inches wide, with 3-4 yard of plain material 36 inches wide, or of one material throughout 2 7-8 yards 36 inches wide. THE YOUNG MAN FROM WYOMING AT EAGLES MERE. A SULLIVAN COUNTY NOVELETTE. BY THOMAS J. INGHAM. "At last we reached my uncle's humble door in Windham County, Connecticut, and me' such a hearty welcome that we felt quite at home. We spent several weeks resting and visit ing, and 1 enjoyed myself very much. My mother's practical mind, however, would not permit this mode of living very long. One day she called 'Cretia and I together and said: "'Mv children, we must not remain in idleness, living on my brother's bounty, lie is not rich, as you can see, and has a large family to support. We are all able to work, and must work. Your father's pay is uncertain, and the money he gets is not worth much when he gets it. If he can get any money ahead we shall need it all to get started again when we get back to our farm in the valley. I worked at housework by the week before I was married and 1 can do it just as well now. 1 have procured a place to work at an inn at Norwich, where I can get high wages for these times, and sure pay. I have also got a good place for 'Cretia among nice people near here, where she will get only moderate wages, but will be treated as one of the family. And for you, Ellicott, 1 have found a place where you can work for your living and have a chance to goto school. When there is no school you will have to work ever) - day, and when there is school you will woik nights and mornings. It is a good chance for a boy so young as you are, and you must do your best to earn your living and learn all you can. It is hard for us to separate—' here she bowed her head and put her handkerchief to her eyes, and I could see by the motion of her throat that she was trying to swallow down sobs. 'Cretia and 1 both cried, and then mother, wiping her eyes, brightened up and continued: 'Never mind, we must be braver than this; it's nothing very bad after all. We can get to see each other once and awhile, and when the war is over and father gets home, we can all be happy together.' "She kissed us tenderly, and with many charges about our health and good behavior, she started for Norwich and we went to our places. CHAPTER ELEVEN. " 1 he summer passed; the leaves turned to crimson and gold, and withered and fell; the snow whitened the earth, the ice covered the streams, and snow" and ice were both melted away again by the genial sun of spring. Then came a letter from father, stating that he had been ordered to report to Gen eral Sullivan for an expedition against the Indians who com mitted the massacre at Wyoming, and who still ke 1 the Sus quehanna Valley in terror. That letter gave me a keener sense of my father's danger as a soldier than I had ever had before. Ihe fearful sound of the Indian war whoop I heard in the battle still rang in my ears. 1 trembled at the thought of my father going to fight them. I com nunicated my fears to my mother, and she replied in her deci> ve way. 'There is no more danger in fighting the Indians than in fighting the British if the soldiers understand their kind of warfare. Your father writes that General Sullivan can be trusted. We must pray for the success of this expedition and for your father s safety. It is a campaign for our own home, and our future depends upon it.' "We heard that the expedition had started up the river, but news of its progress came slowly. It was late in the sum mer before a letter came from father, and then he wrote that they had followed the Indians into all of their strongholds, and beaten them in every battle; had burned the wigwams and villages; had destroyed their corn-fields, and left the places where the proud Six Nations had lived a habitation for owls. "Without any furlough or chance to visit his family, father was ordered to report to General Washington. lie continued in that armv nearly a year more, when he was wounded. I lis right arm had to be amputated, and as he felt unfit for further service, he resigned his commission and was honorably discharged. "He came to my uncle's, where we all met him, and were greatly rejoiced to see him. He had a dejected look, however, and when mother pressed him to tell what disturbed him, he slightly moved the poor stump of an arm, and said, 'What can I do on the farm?' "'Oil, ho,' said mother cheerfully, 'is that all? We're glad to get you back even with one arm. Work? We can all work. You don't know how smart your children are getting to be.' " 'Cretia put her arms around his neck and said, 'Just wait until we get back to the farm and you'll see how much 1 can help.' And I putin a boasting word or two, so we all cheered him up. "He soon began to practice all kinds of work with his left hand, and in time learned to use it for almost all work—even for chopping. "We remained in Connecticut until the following spring. In the meantime father got his back pay —in Continental money. It was not worth much, but with that, and the earn ings of mother and 'Cretia, a team and wagon were bought, and also such tools and provisions as we had to have. We then took the long, toilsome journey back to the valley. We had been absent nearly three years, and found nothing of our home left except the broad, rich, fiat land which the Indians could not burn or carry away. , "I had grown to be a stout lad of fourteen and was able to do a good deal of work, and my sister, a rosy girl of seven teen, was active and as helpful as any girl could be. As we stood on the site of our ruined house, father and mother ex pressed their thankfulness that we were there together and well, and said we would soon have a house to live in. We drove the team into a little grove, and then with poles and bark fashioned a hut for temporary use. Into this we carried our movables, and really felt happy. "We then plowed the broad fiat, shaped like a smoothing iron, between the creek and river, and planted corn, potatoes, beans, peas, and such other summer crops as we could get in. We did not have t.o build much fence for the steep banks of the creek and river protected two sides of our great field, and we had only to build a fence across the shortest line of the tri angle. "The land was an exceedingly fertile sandy loam, and we soon had the pleasure of seeing beautiful rows of tasseled corn, thrifty potatoes and waving oats. Every day we could spare from farm work was employed in cutting and hauling logs for the new house and barn we had to build. "Before winter set in our crops were harvested and stowed away in a log barn, and we were living in a snug log house. As we gathered around the hearthstone, and felt the pleasant warmth of the blazing lire, when Ihe first snow storm of December was howling around the house, mother remarked that we were very well prepared for winter, and "happier than King George, who has lost his colonies.' The news had just reached us that Cornwallis had surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, and you may be sure il was joyful news to us. (To be continued.) Summer Knit Underwear. If you Imve light, Summer l T nderwcar to buy, we are showing some values that are cheap. Ladies' low neck, short sleeves and sleeveless vests, 10c, 12<c, 15c, 25c. Ladies tine Swiss rihlied gauze vests, extra value, fur 50c -to £1 (in- Mens' hnlhriggan shirt and drawers, shirts have either lung or short fir long sleeves, for 25c to 50c. Children's summer knit underwear in all qualities and at right prices. Corsets For All Figures Every figure has its appropriate corset. Our sales ladies the greatest care and the utmost patience* in securing the right corset for the right tigure. Some brands are suited to stout fig ures, others to slender figures. Try us lor your next corset. Curtain Nets, 12 l-2c to 75c. White Dress Skirts, 95c. La dies' Petticoats, 50c. Misses' Long Coats, $5. T.inene Coat Suits. $2.95. White Shirt Waists, $195. Children's Wash Dresses, 95c. All Qualities of Silk Umbrellas. Ladies' Black Pttticoats. Made from Mercerized fabric that has the finish of Heather bloom and will wear just as long. They have a deep corded and ruttlcd you nee. SI.OO, #2.25, #1 50 and $2.00. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., 313 PINE STREET, WILLIAMSPORT - PENIN'A. Printing ((/£ The best is good en= ough for anybody. It is not too good for you. You get the best Hi Oils Office | -f ■ + A ■■ Calling Cards We have appropriate type faces for Calling Cards. Rusi ness Cards, in fact any kind of society printing. Come in and let us show you samples. Prices are reasonable. News Item Office.
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