Republican News Item B. M. VANDYKE, Editor- PUBLISHED FRIDAYS 8j The Sullivan Publishing Co At th« County Beat of Sullivan County. LAPORTE, PA. THOS. J. INGHAM, Proprietor. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, r.s second-class mail matter. THIS FAPI3 EEPPE3EN7CD FCFOPEir ADVERTISING BY Th£ GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myfelf as candidate tor the nomination for the office of Slier ill of Sullivan County, subject to the Re publican rules. W. 11. BIDDLE, Feb. 24, 1911. Elkland Township. I hereby announce myself as candi date for the nomination for the office of Sheriff of Sullivan County, subject to the Rules of the Republican Party. FRED \V. SCHANBACIIER, March, 1, 1911. Forksville, Pa. I hereby announce myself as candidate for the nomination for the office of Com missioner of Sullivan County subject to the rules of the Republican Party. FRANK STRICKLAND, March, 17, 1911. Ilillsgrove, Pa. I hereby announce -myself as a candi date lor the nomination tor the office of Commissioner of Sullivan Count v. subject to the rules of the Republican Party. A. A. LUDY. Mar. 24. 1911. Ililfsgrove Pa. Are We Growing? Newspapers throughout the State are publishing the fact that Laporte is the smallest county seat in the Commonwealth and lay great stress on the point that from the year 1900 it has dropped in population from 441 to 245. This would naturally result in a good many people acquiring the idea that for some reason Laporte has been very nearly wiped off the map, which is an error and an in justice to the citizens whose efforts for the past decade have made the village a larger and more attractive place of residence and consequent- there is no way at present of ascertaining whether or not tho number of inhabitants have increased or decreased—judg ing from general opinion, the town is larger than ten years ago. The fact that the tannery population since 1900 has has been trans ferred from the borough to the township accounts for the great drop in the number of residents. Of course properly speaking, the borough has decreased as the given numbers show, but nevertheless the same number of people or more are still in Laporte or separated separated therefrom by an imagin ary line dividing the borough from the township, and it would look easy at first glance to determine whether the number of residents in the present borough have in creased or decreased, but anyone able to solve the puzzle will be giv en a receipt for subscription ex tended two years in advance. This is the season of the year when property holders should look after the condition of the sidewalks along their property. It has been noted that in several places along the streets of Laporte the walks are in need of repair, in part from the action of frost and water and in other places because the material has succumbed to the infirmities of old age and fell through, leav ing dangerous foot paths for the traveler. Nothing will disgust a visitor to a pretty village like La porte more than to be forced to keep continually watching the path he is traveling while out for the purpose of sight seeing, in order to keep from stepping through a hole iu the walk or l>eing tripped by a lx>ard that is loose at one end. Such a crack in the shin has been the cause of more than one side walk being wished an unpleasant trip to infernal regions. Eagles Mere Rail road Poceedings. A further formal proceeding that has been taken in the suit of Hen ry Laussat Geyelin. receiver of the Eagles Mere Railroad, is an order of Lycoming county court direct ing Congressman George W. Kipp of Towanda, recently appointed a co-receiver, to intervene as a plain tiff in the suit begun by Mr. Geye lin, February, 8, last against the Williamsport and North Branch railroad for the recovery of alleged overdue rentals. The case is No. 35 on the trial list of the May adjourned term of the court of common pleas in Ly coming county. The attorneys in this case are Nicholas M. Edwards and Candor and Munson, for the receivers, and Crawford and Mul len for the defendant] corporation. At the time Mr. Kipp was ap pointed co-receiver, Seth T. Mc- Cormick appeared before Judge Hart in his behalf. Mr. Edwards combatted the idea of the co-receiv ership and appeared as ounsel for the receiver. Mr. McCormick's name does not appear in the print ed announcement of counsel in the case nor does that of Mr. Edwards. / —Williamsport Sun. County Superintendent's Election. On Next Tuesday the school di rectors of Sullivan County will meet at Laporte for the triennial election of a county superintendent to serve for the ensuing three years. Supt. J. E. Reese Killgore has proven an able and efficient officer. He has been untiring in his efforts to build up the schools and his work has met with the approval and endorsement of directors, teachers and the public generally. At the department of Public In struction he is regarded as one of the most able superintndents in the State and as a strong educational leader. The passage of the new School Code will make many changes iu the adminsitration of school affairs and the experience Supt. Killgore has had will be of great benefit in the enforcement and application ol the new legislation. Mr. Killgore is a candidate for re-election and the directors of the county will make no mistake by continuing him in office for another term. Tickling a Hippo. "Come here and I'll scratch your tongue. Caliph," a visitor to the Cen tral park menagerie heard the keeper say to the young hippopotamus. The visitor hadn't expected that the hippo understood English, but appar ently he did. He came up to the edge of the tank, opened his jaws a yard or so and waited. The keeper put his hand into the open mouth and titil lated the animal's tongue with tho ends of Ids fingers. "That's the way to make a hippo love you," said the keeper. "They like to be tickled, just as a cat likes to have you stroke its back. Caliph wouldn't close his mouth on my arm, nnd I know I am taking no risk. They are the most amiable big beasts In the world, and I would trust them more than I would an elephant."— New York Sun. Force of Light. Light has an actual mechanical pressure and can be measured In the laboratory. It has been found that the sun's light in itself presses against the earth with a force some thing like 70,000 tons. As the surface of a sphere varies as the square of the radius, and as the volume or mass varies as the cube of the radius, and as the mechanical pressure of light on the whole surface varies as that sur face, and as the force of gravity varies as the mass, if a sphere Is made smaller and smaller it is easily seen that the pressure of light does not de crease so fast as the force of gravity, so bodies beyond a certain minuteness could not reach the sun, but would bo repelled by the mechanical force of Its light.—Chicago Record-Herald. Dear Denial. "I have heard the late Archbishop Ryan tell of two plump gourmets who were discussing during Lent their fa vorite fast dishes," said a Phlladel phian. " 'Trout,' said the first, with a sigh, 'has gone up, thanks to the high cost of living and the Lenten demand.' " 'Yes,' said the other. 'lsn't it ter rible? Oysters, terrapin, teal duck, wine, caviar—everything is dearer. In deed, I often wonder these days where one is to get the money to fast with.'" STORY OF THE MURDER OF JOHN VEITENGRUBER SULLIVAN COUNTY CRIME OF MORE THAN HALF CEN TURY AGO. Story of One of the Uost Tradegies in Pennsylvania's History—The Only Capital Punishment in Sullivan County Iu the series of "Pennsylvania's Greatest Crime Mysteries," The Philadelphia North American re told as follows the thrilling story of the murder of John Veitengruber, which occurred more than half n century ago, hut which is still re membered by many of the old resi dents of Sullivan county: Every one in Sullivan county and the eastern section of Bradford knew old John Veitengruber half a dozen years before the outbreak of the civil war, His cabin near P.lk Lake, in the upper end of Sullivan countv, was poor enough—little better than the old log cabin of the early pioneer days, with a tiny patch of truck garden attached and its furnishings so meager as barely to suffice for Spartan living. But the lonely cabin held two jewels, and there were few men who saw them there who failed to envy their possessor. One was old Veit engruber's little boy, a fair-haired, sturdy, bright-eyed youngster, whose charm seemed the reflection of the brilliant beauty of of old John's other treasure, a wife so young that she was always mistaken for a daughter when strangers saw her with a bent little man. How he got her no one over knew. She was so young, so lithe, so spark ingly gay, so freshly rosy—why un der heaven, the few neighbors wond ered, had she ever given all that youth and fire and devotion to the mean unimpressive creature who called her his frail and his schatz, with such a happy intonation of com plete content? For all her liveliness, she could be quiet, demur, dignified, even in the cold peasant fashion that chilled the ardor of some blades who had heard of her and made trips from miles away, to see whether it was possible any woman so young and fair could be steadfastly true to a husband like hers. And she was a notable housekeep er. No other home thereabouts, however furnished with the comforts that rated them as luxuries, could claim more perfect cleanliness; and few other tables, since all depended on about the same supplies of food, offered more savory odors to tempt the appetite. It was always a new delight to old John when he came home, after his long absences, to note how neat the humble cabin looked, to smell the good wholesome cooking that seemed to transplant Germany to this vast, wild land, and (o receive the gentle tender kiss his frau so quietly ofTered him. Those were the times when she seemed least jocuad, least laughingly jocund. He uf-.ed to tease her about it, telling her she always had to wait so long, and she loved him so much, that her love's sweetness was in danger of becoming vinegary. A day or so and she resumed her wonted high spirits; and then the cabin was a flood of jovial laughter, until he had togo away again. John Veitengruber was an itin erant cobbler, practicing a phase of the the trade which has all but van ished from the countryside today. He did not like it and his pretty wife protested that she liked it less. Once she told him that was because she felt, whenever he returned that, she was getting married all over again and getting U9ed to him. "Ach, then you are a bride all the time!" rejoined her husband, de lightedly. "And me, it is true, I feel always like the bridegroom. Are you not happy, so, when I come home again?" "You are, Hans, aren't you?" she asked him, with her familiar smile reappearing. "Well, then, so am I." Perhaps with healthy young body, her lively temperament and her boy to satisfy her mother love, she did succeed, at every return, in passing safely over the echo of the repug nance with which old John had or iginally inspired her, reconsiling herself to the anomaly of their union, as many other women have done, by thinking of his affection, his kindness, his uniform good na ture and the sterling worth of his de cent, sober character. And he was a good husband, work. ing faithfully at his poor trade, bringing home all his meager earn ings, depriving himself that his wife might have some cheap vanities and his boy some elieup p'ayings. His cobbling tours lasted, some times a whole month. He traveled all over Sullivan county and as far into Bradford as Canton. lie was a good gossip; therefore beloved of fireside, welcomed to lodging and a meal, with scarcely a thought of ex pecting him to do work in payment. They used to regard him, to, as something on the order of a weath man, his advent regulating the seas, ons. When the road opened in the spring there was Friend Veiten gruber, his slender kit of tools and his modest supply of leather lugged alone, turning up at the farm house to make a new pair for those un fortunates, or extravagant ones, who had either worn out their boots until human ingenuity could no more re pair or were so wasteful as to in dulge in new footgear before the old was fit only for barn door latches. Everybody knew that summer had come when John's own feet made their unashamed debut—and that was sometimes a good deal earlier the old time calendars set tlu date. But the country folk took John's feet for it, because many argued that they were so close to nature's heart that their owner certainly ought to know. Small boys used him as their great ex ample in persuading reluctant moth ers to let them go barefoot, while colds and whooping cough still ling ered among the dews. Pall too was reckoned by his com ing; and that was the most impor tant trip of the year. Farmers and their families, with snow that could drift yards in depths and temperat ures that ranged around zero, had to have sound well-soled boots and shoes. Many a time Veitengruber trudged barefoot into the farmyard whose owner was wearing heavy heavy-knit woolen socks inside his cowhide boots. His welcome was heartiest when the snow began to fly, for he was the mainstay of all who could not afford to make a special trip to a town for their re pairs and had let the whole supply of foot wear run down to the ragged edges. His Paradise Hours. The height of summer and dead of winter were likely to find the cob bler at his own tabin, in the sum mer because his customers were then generally as independent as he was of sole leather and in the winter because the hardships of foot travel were too severe. Those were the cobblers paradise hours, while he delved and toiled as Adam did when Kden was first forfeited toman and man first knew the sober joys of a home and food and a wife and child, preserved to him by the sweat of his brow. The primal curse of labor never worried him; Eden was where his humble cabin stood. Hut in the summer of 1855, after a thick letter, superscribed in the ang ular German style, there came to the cabin a guest—John Kamm, straight from the beloved fatherland, with all its accents and its homely news. How old John Veitengruber wel comed him! Work? Why Hannes, there is work here, in this big young land for every man who has two arms, lie should have work that very day, if he wanted it. A home? where should the son of old friends and neighbors dwell but there, in the cozy and happy cabin, whose mistress could make hasenp fefler better than the king's own cook—and she needed company, be sides. (To be continued.) MUNCY VALLEY. Miss Celia Donovan, who lias lieen visiting friends and relatives in Williamsport, has returned to her home. Grace Betz entertained the M. E. Choir at her home Thursday evening. Mrs. S. A. Ring who has been quite ill for some time has again recovered her health. Charles Palmatier, wife and daughter Elsie of Nordmont visited relatives in this place Saturday and Sunday. Miss Theresa and Mary Gansell visited their sister at Sonestown over Sunday. A number from here attended the State and Capitol social at Sonestown Saturday night. 11. B. Wells of Towanda was in • Laporte Thursday putting several pianos in shape for symplionious key manipulation. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that let ters testamentary on the estate of T. j J. Ingham, late of the Borough of T.aporte, Sullivan County, Pa., de ceased, have been granted to F. 11. Ingham, resident of said Borough ( to whom all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment and those having claims or demands will make known the same without delay. F. 11. INGIIAM, Executor. , Ladies , of La Porte and vicinity A full line of Ladies' Misses and Children's TRIMMED HATS will be on display in the parlor at Hotel Bernard on Wednesday evening May 3d and Thursday May 4th, for your in spection and selection. Latest designs and trimmed according to 1911 styles. Purchase your hats for spring and summer at this time. JESSIE CAMP, NEWALBANY, PA. fc^^".2"^. 2 A '^'2^2 i A!"*? Jury List For May Court. The following names were drawn from the proper Jury-wlieel to serve its Jurors for May term 1911, commencing May 15. • GRAND JURORS. Name Occupation Residence Adams George Laborer Lopez Bussler L. R. Painter Laporte Boro O'Brien Daniel Mechanic Onshore Borton J. Edwin Laborer Cherry Cole J- Dean Justice Jamison City Farrell Raymond Bottler Dushorc Frey John W. Farmer Fox Gilligan Michael Laborer Bernice Finan James Laborer Lope/. Dunn Edward Farmer Forks Jacoby Herman Farmer Cherry Kier X. j. Laborer Dushore Land back George Farmer Colley Lawrenson Walter Farmer Sonestown Litzelman Gabriel Retired Dushorc McDermott Joseph Farmer Lopez Post E. L. Laborer Bernice PardoelraJ. Farmer Elkland Kohe John A. Farmer Cherry Sliove'in John M. Foreman Bernice Small Andrew Farmer Davidson Snell Samuel Farmer Uillsgrovc Sick Wendall Farmer Cherry Starr C. A. Merchant Sonestown TRAVERSE AND PETIT JURORS. Allen William Barber Bernice Has ley Harry Hotel-keeper Sonestown Rurk Ed. C. Farmer • Laporte Twp. Barnes Allison M. Farmei Elkland Brenehlcy George Farmer Fox Berry William Farmer Cherry Brown John 8. Farmer Elkland Corcoran Frank Farmer Forks Cook Herman Bee-man Dushore Crawley George W. Farmer Mt. Vernon Cole Harry Clerk Dushore Collins William Miner Bernice Dcvnnney Mike Hotel k'p'r Jamison city Pecgau John Agent Dushorc Fullmer Ernest Farmer Davidson Foust Fred Farmer Sonestown Gilmore William P. Teacher Cherry Gavitt Morgan Farmer Laporte Tu p. Hope P. C. Merchant. Bernice Hunsinger Henry Farmer cherry Hoffa W. B. Retired Bernice llileman John Jr. Merchant Dushore Hymen B. B. Confectioner Bernice Lucas Edward Laborer uillsgrovc Miller Alvin Farmer Mt. Vernon Miller Charles Fanner Colley Molyneux Robert Teacher Uillsgrovc Manuel John Farmer Ringdale Martin Luther Farmer Soncstowtl More William T. Farmer Elkland Mover Lincoln Farmer Eagles Mere .UcOarroll Nelson Fanner Colley McMahon Frank Teamster Dushore McCllntock T. S. Farmer Davidson Mcßride S. A. Lnborer Hillsgrove Orlonsky Frank Miner Bernice PlottsJohnG. Farmer Elkland Phillips Griffeth Farmer Sonestown Rose Andrew Laborer Laporte Boro Rogen C. 8. Farmer Elkland Shaffer William Farmer Cherry Taylor Monroe Butcher Muncy Valley Taylor D. M. Retired Money Valley Taylor Milton Farmer Muncy Valley Thrasher Jaeob Farmer Cherry Thrasher John Farmer Cherry Upmann George Carpenter Laporte Boro Wateon Charles B Miner Bernice M. BRINK'S PRICES For This Week. ton 100 lh Corn Meal 23.00 1.15 Cracked Corn 23.00 1.15 Corn 23.00 1.15 • Sacks each 6c with privilege of returning without expense to inc. Schumacher Chop 24.00 1.25 Wheat Bran 28.50 1.50 Fancy White Mulds. 30.00 1.(50 Oil Meal 37.00 1.1)0 Gluten 26.00 1.35 Alfalfa Meal 25.0 ) I.SO Oyster Shells 10.00 (iO Choice Cottonseed Meal 32.50 1.70 Beef Scrap 3.00 Oats per l)ii. .45 Charcoal 50 lit sack .(">0 Oyster Shells " 35 140 11) bag Salt coarse or fine .50 50 lh hag Salt 25 Buckwheat Flour 2.20 Slhumacher Flour sack 1.50 Muncy '• "1.15 " per bhl. 4.40 Spring Wheat " " I.fiO Potatoes per hu .50 11. BRINK, New Albany, Pa. The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru pent housewife. Money saving advantages are always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on AIIMIUIUkIIUiUkAAAJUf J V ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HILLSGROVE, PA. ! QUALITY | 2 Whcn'peoplc reaiizejthat it 2 { is not the quantity for the $ 2 niouey, so much as the quality 2 jx that counts, then they will x i * patronize the store which does ♦ * business iu good pure goods. ♦ X Cut prices often mean cut * X qualities. Our prices are as T ! x low as good goods wil allow, x } Our goods_are not of the cheap 9 i# mail-order variety. When • i 9 comparing prices do not for- ♦ ■ get to compare qualities. It 2 i 2 you find the prices lower than x 2 ours, then you will tind the J J (jualities inferior—generally £ J "bargain house" job lots. ♦ 2 Ask us to show you why 2 2 our stock is superior. X 2 Buschhausen's. 2 Lm *aZ Gbippewa Xtmc IRUns. Lime furnished .n car load lots, delivered al RighV Prices. Your orders solicited. Kilns near Hughesvill* j Penn'a. j Is M. E. Reeder, MUNCY, PA. WANTED At once. Men to represent us either locally or traveling. Now is the time to start. Money in the work for the rij;lit men. Apply at once and secure territory. ALLEN NURSEDY CO., Rochester, N. Y. Try a SMALL AD in th s paper, It will pay you. A Classified Ad will sell it.
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