MILDRED AND BEBNICE.
H. O. McLaughlin and wife of
Scranton are visiting at the houie
of T. V. McLaughlin in Beruice.
Leo Johnson and wife of Weh
rum are visiting Mr. and Mi's. W.
E. Johnson of Bernice.
Harry McLaughlin and wife of
Pennsburg are visiting the gentle
man's parents in this place.
Albert Kay and wife of Lincoln
Falls are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H.
W. Osier.
Mrs. Dutchburn and daughter
Mattie of Towanda spent last week
with W. E. Joliuson and wife in
Bernice.
Rev. Father Connors of Altoona
spent the Fourth with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. James Conndrs in
Mildred.
C. E. Jackson and wife of Wil
liamsport visited relatives in this
place last week.
James Gallagher of Eagles Mere
is visiting his parents in this place.
Albert F. Heess of Laporte
called on friends here recently.
J. B. Deegan of Say re spent the
Fourth with friends in this place.
John Regan and wife of Mildred
are enjoying themselves at At
lantic City.
t
J. A. Helsman attended a meet
ing of the school directors of
Cherry on Saturday. Hiring of
teachers was the business of the
datf.
ijlarry Kellar and wife were
Har veys Lake visitors Sunday.
Chicken thieves are again at
their work in these parts. On
Saturday evening Harry Kellar
captured two in his chicken house
and after the treatment they re
ceived from him we do not think
they will be in condition to eat
chicken or anything else for some
time except in liquid forrn.
? ElKland Items.
112
The picnic by the Union and Disci
ples churches was greatly enjoyed
by all who attended, A short pro
gram was rendered in the forenoon.
The principal features were a
speech by M. R. Black, prayer by
F. A. Boyle, Oration by W. A.
Gage, Recitation by Dora Brown
and vocal duet by Grace Wheatly
and Mable Boyle. At noon the
people were ushered to the tables
which were laiden with a beautiful
repast consisting of a barbaque
roast which this place has been
famous for for so many years.
The afternoon was taken up by
races and sports of many kinds by
the young people, while the elders
enjoyed themselves by visiting and
telling how things were done when
they were young.
Carl O. Bird who spent the past
year attending school at Mt. Her
man, Mass., has returned home for
the summer. He has recently ac
cepted a position as principal of
the Township High School at East
Smithiield, Bradford County at a
salary of 8812.50 per. month.
A. L. Shoemaker and wife of
Beach Creek and Geo. Bullock and
wife of Jersey Shore autoed to this
place last week to visit Mrs. W. T.
More, who does not improve in
health.
F. A. Boyle is spending the
week in Sunbury looking after the
interests of the Odd Fellows Home.
Mrs. Will Collins accompanied
by her daughter Winifred and
Blanche has been spending a week
with her father S. S. Rogers.
Art Hess who spent most of the
summer working at Masten, is
home for a week.
Several of our young people were
entertained at the home of David
Molyneux on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Albert F. Heess and child
ren have returned to their home
in Laporte after visiting relatives
in Lincoln Falls for the past two
weeks.
Our famous ball players took a
trip to Laquin last week and gained
19 scalps from their opponents,
only losing three. They are
"good Indians."
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Big Lumber Job.
A writer signing Ricketts woods
man sends the following inform
ation to the Enterprise:
The greatest amount of lum
ber ever cut by one sawmill in
Wyoming county, has been cut by
the Trexler and Turrell mill at
Ricketts. The sawmill has a dai
ly capacity of one hundred and
twenty-five thodsand feet and the
stave mill a capacity of forty thous
and feet per day of beech timber.
This mill has been running twenty
years and in that time has cut the
enormous amount of over five hun
dred million feet of lumber. The
logs have been handled on rail
roads some of them being brought
ten miles from the Northeast and
eight miles South and West of the
mill, the average width of the
land cleared of . timber being four
miles.
The company have one year's
work yet aud are then through un
less they purchase another large
tract thirteen miles from the mill,
belonging to the Pennsylvania
Lumber Co. One thing certain
they will never get that much
timber together again in Wyom
ing county at one mill setting as I
doubt if it is in the whole county.
—Meshoppen Enterprise.
Receiver for N. P. A.
As a result of an inquiry begun
several weeks ago to determine the
whereabouts of $37,000 worth of
assets which the former director
ate of the National protective As
sociation of is alleged
to have turned over to the Ameri
can Patriots, a western organiz
ation, Don M. Larrabee of Wil
liauisport has been appointed as
receiver by the Dauphin County
court. His bond was fixed at
950,000.
The large engine for the new
power boat on Lake Mokoma has
at laat arrived and is being in
stalled and soon pleasure trips on
the big boat will be the ragq,
A union Sunday School picnic
excursion was run on the Williams
port and North Branch Railroad
to Lake Mokoma on Thursday.
When you want a real good job
of printing come to this office.
WOMAN IS SHOT
NEAR TAFT BOX
Struck by Bullet Before Presi
dent Begins Speech.
Before President Taft took his seat
In tbe reviewing stand in front of the
soldiers' monument in Indianapolis,
Ind., what is believel by the police to
be a spent pistol bullet struck Mrs.
Harry D. Tutewiler, who was sitting
near tbe president's box.
Mrs. Tutewiler loft her seat for a
holf hour, had the wound dressed antl
returned in time to witness the pa
rade. Neither the president nor any
members of his party were t*id about
the affair, but the police at once be
gan a hunt for the perAin who fired
the shot.
Detectives were aent to the top of
the monument, but a search of the
persons there and a search of the
crowds on neighboring buildings fail
ed to bring to light any revolvers
haded or unloaded. No one seems to
have heard the report of a revolver at
the time.
A Yankee Commission.
Since the golden agj of the New
England trading skipper Yankees
have had a reputation for being
commercial. Few of them, however,
are so eager for a baagain as this
one, celebrated in the Louisville
Times: He was touring J lie souili
for pleasure, but could not dislodge
from his mind tlie customs and
phrases of liis business life.
"Here," said a guide to him one
day, "right here in this room, sir,
Washington received his first com
mission."
The Yankee brightened up.
"What per cent commission was
it?" he asked.
A Witty Comment.
One night several years ago two
young men were dining with two
ladies at the Havlin hotel, in Cincin
nati. The two ladies were members
of Miss Marie Drcssler's company,
and Miss Dressier herself happened
to be dining at the next table. As
the party of four arose after dinner
one of the men's sleeves brushed a
glass from the table and it was shat
tered to bits on the marble floor.
With a twinkle in her eyes Miss
Dressier leaned toward him and
said, "I beg your pardon; you've
dropped the stone out of your ring."
—Town Talk.
LaPoite Township School
Audit for 1911.
George Karge, in acrouiit with I.ni«rt«' Town
ship as Collector of School and building Tax for
the year I'tuling June 5,1911.
To amount due Town
ship by Audit, 1910 17 ST.
To amount of School Tax
Duplicate I_'G9 90
By Exonerations 17
" Laud Returns 9 71
" Treasurer's Commission Is
" ■' Receipt 7">o «ki
" Rebate ;.y 17
•' Commission 2 l>er relit on JWiO.OO II mi
8 8200.00 600
'• Treasurer's Receipt 32G71
"Commission ICili
•' Treasurer's Receipt 80 63
1287 45 1287 45
BUILDING TAX ACCOUNT.
To amount Building Tax
Duplicate 381 39
By amount due Collector
by Audit of 1910 4 31
" Exonerations ti JI
" Land Returns 3 20
" Treasurer's Commission IC,
" " Receipt 345 47
Due Township 221M
381 o9 381 39
Morgan Gavitt, Treasurer of School and Build
ing Funds of Laporte Township for year e'idihg
June 5, 1911.
To amount due by Audit
of 1910 76 75
Amount received of Geo.
Karge, Collector 1502 71
Amount received of State S7B 15
Amount received of Mrs.
Mary Walsh Overp'd in'st 1 50
Amount received of (jo.|
Treasurer 1120 00
By Orders Redeemed:
Teachers' Salary 1890 00
Teachers attending Institute tsooo
Supplies 126 32
Ereigt and Express % 3 57
Fuel 159 50
Auditing and Advertising 12 00
ludgments and Interest 702 37
High School Tuition 81 50
Secretary's Salary and Postage 35 70
Rent and Repairs 91 W>
Attending Convention.2s 86
" Supt. Election 6 42
Attorney Fee 10 00
By Treasurer's Commission Oi 09
Due Township 310 13
3579 11 3579 11
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Resources:
Amount due from (toilertor 22 01
Land Returns : 12 91
Due from Treasurer 310 13
Liabilities iu excess of Resources... :(3 07
,378 75
Liabilities:
Amount Ernest Botsford Note 125 00
" Ambnwe Walsh Order '253 75
378 75
We, the undersigned Auditors of Laporte Town
ship, find the foregoing account true anil correct
to the best of our knowledge and belief.
HOWARD C. HESS.
JACOB H. FRIES,
Auditors.
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torpedo for candy, Simon Fisher, aged |
' forty-six- years, of Chicago, began to |
; chew It. The explosion blew away his 1
' jaw, inflicting a probably fatal wound, i
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Forehanded. j
1 An industrial commission ap
i pointed by congress was conducting
j certain investigations with refer
ence to the operation of mills and
factories in various parts of the
country, and the members became
especially interested in the working
of one mill in a southwestern state.
The investigators were in one room
when the whistle blew for noon.
The operatives put up their tools
and vanished as if by magic. "Do
all the workmen drop their tools the
instant the whistle blows?" asked
one of the commission. "No, not
all," answered the man who was
acting as guide. "The more orderly
have their tools put away before
that time."
' Strange Children.
George Bahcroft, the historian,
used to relate with gusto a joke that
he caught while trotting to school
along a Massachusetts country road.
It was about old Levi Lincoln, says
Percy H. Epler in "Master Minds at
the Commonwealth's Heart." The
old gentleman was nearly blind. A
flock of geese was being driven gob
bling up Lincoln street. Leaning
far out of the carriage, the fine old
aristocrat, thinking they were chil
dren, threw out a handful of pen
nies, graciously exclaiming:
"God bless you, my children!"
Notice Of Transfer
Notice i9 hereby given that a pe
tition for the Transfer of a Retail
Tavern License heretofore granted to
Harry L. Keller, In the Village of
Mildred, Township of Cherry.
County of Sullivan, State of Penn
sylvania, on premises known as the
"Schaad Hotel", to FRANCIS J.
FINAN, has this day been tiled in
my office, and the same will be pre
sented to the Court of Quarter Ses
sions of Sullivan County, Penna., oil
Monday, July 17, 1911, at nine
o'clock A. M.
Clerk's Office, Laporte Pa.,
July 5, 1911. •
ALBERT F, HEESS, Clerk.
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Wheat Bran 27.00 1.40
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Oil Meal 30.00 1.5)0
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Alfalfa Meal 25.0.1 1..10
Oyster Shells 10.00 (50
Choice Cottonseed Meal 31.00 1.(50
Beef Scrap 3.00
Oats per bu. .55
Charcoal 5011> sack .(50
Oyster Shells " 35
140 lb hag Salt coarse or line .50
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Buckwheat Flour 2.20
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