Republican News Item B. M. VANDYKE, Editor- PUBLISHED FRIDAYS By The Sullivan Publishing Co At the County Beat of Sullivan County. LAPOHTE, PA. THOS. J. INGHAM, Proprietor. Entered at the Poet Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. 13 Y fi.li J, v " " >T-1- GENERAL OFFICES NtW YORK ANO CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myself as candidate lor the nomination for the office of Slier ill of Sullivan County, subject to the lfe publican rules. W. H. BIDDLE, Feb. 24, 1911. Elkland Township. 1 hereby announce myself as candi date for the nomination for the office of Sherill of Sullivan County, subject to the Pules of the Republican Party. FRED W. SCH AXBACIIKR, March, I, 1911. Forksville, Pa I hereby announce myself as candidate for the nomination for the office of Com missioner of Snl 1 ivan County subject to the rules ol the Republican Party. FRANK STRICKLAND, March, 17, 1911. Hillsgrove, I'a. I hereby announce myself as a candi date lor the nomination lor the otlice of Commissioner of Sullivan Conntv. subject to the rules ol the Republican Party. A. A. LUDY. Mar. 24. 1911. Hillsgrove Fa. SONESTOWN. Mary Wilson entertained the Y. L. B. C. at her home Wednesday evening. The following were pres ent: Ada Simmons, Enreta Boat man, Opal Watson, Mary, Ada and Grayce Wilson, Linda Boat man, Ella Codderman, Emma Boatman and Harry Buck. The many friends of Mrs. John Watson gave her a pleasant birth day surprise Friday evening. About seventy-five were present. Collins Ha/en was a Williams port visitor Saturday. J. R. Molyneux of Hillsgrove was in town last week. The friends of Mrs. J. C. Boat man assisted her in celebrating her birthday anniversary Thurs day. They report a fine time and a good dinner. The Junior and Sub-junior class es of the high school held a ban quet at the home of Watson Speary Friday evening. Those present were: Juniors, James Miller, Giles Converse; Sub-Juniors, Mabel Fnl mer, Edna Speary, Helen Phillips, Anna Andrews, Linda Converse, Freas Hess, Clayton Buck, Blake Gavitt; visitors, Ada Simmons, Eureta Boatman, Amy House knecht, Mary Meyers, Lila Crist man, Edith Basley, Howard Bay and Ritner Fiester. Mrs. J. M. Boatman and son of Masten are visiting in town. Profs. Jaquish and Coolidge saw Eagles Mere Sunday. The Baccalaureate sermon was delivered to the Senior class by Rev. J. H. Hertz on Sunday even ing Mrs. Samuel Crist, who has been visitiug her daughter. Mrs. F. R. Vandermark at Towauda, re turned home Thursday. Leon Myers of Strawbridge at tended church hero Sunday even ing. Freas—Bay. Clarence Freas of Altoona and Edna Bay of Sonestown were unit ed in marriage at the home of the groom's parents in Sonestown on Wednesday evening. Mamie Freas acted as bridesmaid and Elmer BeauCamp of Altoona as grooms man. After a wedding supper the young couple left for a visit to New York City and Syracuse. Newton Maben made a business trip to Muney Valley Wednesday. ROYAL STANDARD TYPEWRITER The Simplest, Strongest and Most Practical Typewriter Made PRICE, $65.00 ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO. Royal Typewriter Building, New York, N. Y. 904 Walnut St, Philadelphia, Pa STORY OF THE MURDER) OF JOHN VEITENGRUBER (Continued from last week.) It was all made very simple and easy for John Kanim, raw uncouth, awkward young immigrant that he was. And that was rather a strange thing, in the light of his personality, as it presented itself to the cheery household he was invading. Tall sinewy, powerful, with the supple muscles of the woodsman, his face had something of the dark "dour ness" the Scotch see in those whose temper is none of the best. His complexion had the inheritance of olive and his hair the straight black ness which so often mark the de scendants of the Spanish soldiery who made their lands beyond the Rhine their stamping ground in the years when Spain was in her mili tary glory. As for the beautiful young wife, she was obedient to her husband's will. Little enough was the room available in the tiny cabin; but if he said the young German might eat and sleep there, she would cook for : him and do his mending. From the instant of John Kamm's arrival at the cabin and his first glimpse of her rosy, laughing face there was no question but that he was willing to accept any invitation to remain, no matter how grudging ly it might be vouchsafed. His dark, somber eyes glowed with a sudden, hungry fire, and a color came into his swarthy cheeks thai made him look positively hand oine. The old cobbler's pledge to find work for him was readily carried out. There was plenty of logging and wood chopping to be done, and young Karnm brought to the work an exceptional strength and a thor oughly efficient skill. The lonely cabin now has another homecoming, nightly, very different from that old John enjoyed after his long journeys through the two coun ties This was the home coming of a young ardent, passionate man, be set with conflicting emotions, thrilled with anticipation that grew with every step he took along the road. So, too, did the little cobbler thrill when he came back from his more protracted absences; but his glow of happiness was no such burn ing fire of desire; no such mingling of hunger of heart and consciousness of nascent guilt, that only waited to betray the sacred bread and salt. For a time the comment may have been—indeed probably was—ground less scandal. It was inevitable that cynical smiles should greet the know ledge that a man so old and insignifi cant as the honest cobbler could be glad to have within his four walls a strapping young fellow, even young er than his alluring wife. But scandal needs nothing more tangible to feed on. A few weeks and it was the general verdict that Mrs. Veitengruber had at last found some one who would be able to con sole her when her husbaud took his autumn trip, which usually endured longest. Those who occasionally saw her, in the scant intercburse which ob tained in that distant time and place, imagined that they discerned a new strange impression of exulta tion on her handsome features. She seemed to he less frankly, heartily joyous; more given to a rapt abstrac tion as though she had some secret hidden happiness that held her in most thoughts. Yet, at times, her face wore an expression of quick anxiety, as though she sutfered, too, some secret pang, whose nature she could disclose to 110 one. The women unhesitatingly di agonized her as a woman in love and | a soul already tortured with remorse. J The men took their wives' verdict and paid 110 further heed to it. Old Vitengrubers, troubles would have to be his own, and old fool and young wife were soon parted, any way. But if the cobbler was too dull of wit to see that he was losing his wife, that was no reason to his pa trons for the loss of their shoes. To ward the end of the summer and in the early fall, when he failed to come around and gather in the foot-worn wrecks of the neighborhood so as to leave his own community provided for before his departure for bis big journey, one farmer after another drove to the little cabin with as many as a dozen pairs, willing to leave them with him if he would undertake to do the work at home. But he was not there. His wife, her familiar smile as ready as ever, but with a queer catch in her breath that no one had ever noticed before, explained that this year htr John had changed his trip. He had gone away earlier and was working bis way back home from Canton, over in Bradford county. So, growling a bit his good-natured patrons drove home again, to make out as best they could pending his return. The winter shuts in early and bard in the neighborhood of Elk Lake, and when November came around the general expectation of Veiten gruber's return began to change from mere expectation to a mild anxiety. And the gossip about the relations between his wife and the tall young woodsman, living there with no one but the little hoy to serve 119 a safeguard of the woman's virtue, grew steaddy in volume and virulence. There was even talk of deputizing a neighbor to intimate his folly when the cobbler should return. No deputy was selected; for no one could quite imagine the man or wo man hardy enough to break in on a fool's paradise they believed John Veitengruber enjoyed. But he was never to return. The sequel to his quiet disappearance came 10 suddenly and terribly to give coarse gossip more than time to gasp, ere it perished in confronting the overwhelming horror of the bloodiest crime the county had ever known. In early November of that year Joseph MeCarty and his brother were searching the Elk Lake woods for some lost cattle. There had been a wind fall but a few days be fore, and the MeCartys' fearing their steers had been in its path and were killed. They carried their search deep into the woods, until Joseph MeCarty came upon a fallen hemlock at the foot of which he thought the soil had lately been dis turbed. He called bis brother and they de cided that there was something bur ied beneath the fallen tree, for there was an unmistakable odor of decay ing flesh. They returned the following day with two other men, only to dis cover that a hole had been dug un der the tree during the night and that some object had evidently been removed. A search disclosed the bottom of a human foot, the hard, callosed sole having dropped from the member as the flesh disintegrated. A number of whisps of hair were found lying on the ground. All knew how Vei tengruber went barefoot much of his time, so that the "slippers" or bot toms of his feet, had become tough and calloused; while the wisps of Hair tallied true to the color of that of the old cobbler. The discovery made by the Me- Cartys was reported to District At torney Ilenry Metcalf, and the ar rest of both Kamm and Mrs. Veiten gruber, by sheritf Amos C. Wilbur, fo'lowed. It was elected that the two should be tried separately and at the follow ing February term the trial of Kamm began before Judg>- Wilmot —of the Wilmot Proviso fame—in the little log courthouse at Lnporte. It was intensly cold that winter, but the court room was crowded with the people of the country, who came on sledges to hear the proceedings. William Cooley and John A. Speak er were associate Judges and James Mftior and Hiram Hoagland were appointed by the court as tipstaves to preserve order. The case was without its corpus delicti; the body was not in evidence as proof of death. It could not be shown that Cobbler Veitengruber was any where but in the land of the living. But the condition of Mrs. Veitengruber as she was led into the courtroom day after day was regard ed as evidence that she held in her heart an awful secret. Kamm was unmoved and was apparently confi dent of acquittal. (To be continued) Sabbath School Workers. Attention. A call has been sent out for a general observance of Anti-Cigar rotte Sunday May 21, 1911. Will all the schools in Sullivan •County kindly observe the day in the man ner best suited to the locality of the school. If you will send at once to your County Superintendent, Programs, Responsive Reading, Pledge Cards, etc., will l>e sent you free of cost. As the available funds for this department are limited supplies will be sent, only 011 application. In the Pennsylvania Herald for April will lx! found our Standard of Excellence. Shall we not all work faithfully to reach this Stand ard this year? Kindly report all temperance work which has been done in the schools throughout the year to your County Superintend ent 011 or before Aug. 1, that your school may receive due credit at the S. S. Convention. Sarah A. Huckell, Temp. Sup t. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that let ters testamentary on the estate of T. J. Ingham, late of the Borough of Lnporte, 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. INGHAM, Executor. Trial List, May Term, 1911. Return Day, May 15, 1011. I.—<!. W. Bigger vs. John Manuel. No. 49 May Term, 190 ft. Framed Issue. Plea, —"Non- Assumpsit' 1 etc. Scouton Mullen 2. Ira B. Yonkin, Adininstrator of John Yonkin, I>ecensed". vs. tieorge J. Litzleman. No. 34 September Term, 1909. Scire Facias stir Judgment. Plea, —Payment. Cronin. Scouton 3.—Thomas I). Bouse vs. i'lie Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. 4ti Decem ber Term, 1909. Trespass. Plea, —''Not (■ililty." Scouton. Thomson. 4.—Patrick Connor vs. Margaret Con nor, Administratrix of John Connor, De ceased. No. 38 May Term, 1910. As sumpsit. Plea, —'"Non-Assutnsit." Thayer. Walsh. s.—Sillick J.Steinhack vs. E. <i Trex ler anil 11. C. Trexler, trading as the Trexler and Turrell Lumber Company. No. t'i7 September Term, 1910. Tres pass. Plea, —"Not Guilty." Scouton. Mullen. ft.—John 11. Crimmins vs. W. F. Randall. No. 94 September Term, 1910. Assumpsit. Plea, —''Non-Assumpsit,' 1 payment, set-oft', and the Statute of Limi tations, with leave to give special mut ter in evidence. Mullen J. C. Ingham, 7. —Caroline Brink vs. Curtis Stroup. No. 1 December Term, 1910. Defend ant's Appeal. Plea, —'"Not Guilty." Scouton. Mullen. Prothonotary's Oflice, Laporte, Penna., April 3, 1911. ALBERT F. lIEEBB, Trofy. Subscribe for the News Item. You can get. warm meals at all hours at Smith Bondman's hotel, Sonestown, Pa. adv. Jury List For May Court. The following names were drawn from the proper Jury-wheel to serve as Jurors for May term 1911, commencing May 15. GRAND JURORS. Name Occupation Residence Adams George Laborer Lopez Hussler L. R. Painter Laporte Boro O'Brien Daniel Mechanic Onshore Borton J. Fdwiu Laborer Cherry Cole J-Dean Justice Jamison city Karrell Raymond Bottler Onshore Krey John W. Farmer Fox Gilligan Michael Laborer Berniee Finait James Laborer Lojwz Dunn Edward Farmer Forks Jocoby Herman Farmer Cherry K ier X. j. Lalx>rcr Dushore Landback George Farmer Col ley Lawrenson Walter Farmer Sonestown Litzelman Gabriel Retired Dushore McDermott Joseph Farmer L<>|>e/. Post E. L. Laborer Berniee Pardoe Ira J. Farmer F.lklanii Rolie Jotui A. Farmer Cherry Shove'in John M. Foreman Berniee Small Andrew Farmer Davidson Snell Samuel Farmer llillsgrove Sick Mcndall Farmer Cherry Starr C. A. Merchant Sonestown TRAVERSE AND PETIT JURORS. Allen William Barber Berniee Baslcy Harry Hotel-keeper Sonestown ltnrk Ed. C. Farmer Laporte Twp. Barnes Allison M. Farmer Elkland Brenehley George Farmer Fox Berry William Farmer Cherry Brown John S. Farmer Elkland Corcoran Frank Farmer Forks Cook Herman Bee-man Dushore Crawley George W. Farmer Mt. Vernon Cole Harry Clerk Dushore Collins William Miner Berniee Devanney Mike Hotel k'p'r Jamison City Peegan John ' Agent Onshore Fullmer Ernest Farmer Davidson Foust Fred Farmer Sonestown Gil more William P. Teacher Cherry Gavitt Morgan Farmer Laporte Twp. Hope P. C. Merchant Berniee Hunsinger Henry Farmer Cherry HofTa W. B. Retired Berniee Hileman John Jr. Merchant Dushore Hymen B. B. Confectioner Berniee Lucas Edward Laborer Hillsgrove Miller Alvin Farmer Mt. Vernon Miller Charles Farmer Collcy Molyneux Robert Teacher llillsgrove Manuel John Farmer Ritigdale Martin Luther Farmer Sonestown More William T. Farmer Elkland Moyer Lincoln Farmer -Eagles-Mere MeCarroll Nelson Fanner Collcy McMalion Frank Teamster Dushore McClintock T. S. Farmer Davidson Mcßride 8. A. Laborer Hillsgrove Orlonsky Frank Miner Berniee Plotts John G. Farmer Elkland Philli|)s Griffeth Farmer Sonestown Rose Andrew Laborer La|iorte Boro Rogers C. S. Farmer Elkland ! Shaffer William Farmer Cherry Taylor Monroe Butcher Muncy Valley Taylor D. M. Retire*! Muncy Valley Taylor Milton Farmer Muney Valley Thrasher Jacob Farmer Cherry Thrasher John Farmer Cherry Upmann George Carpenter Laporte Boro Watson Charles B Miner Berniee M. 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