VOL. XYI. NO. 21 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. |m>Tss¥NTLTATDS. B pKANCIS W. MEYLERT, Attomov-at-Liaw. Office in Kecler's Rloek. LAPOH'I'E, Sullivan County, FA. £ J. MULLEN, Attornay-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA orrica in COUNTY BUILD ma NKARCOUOT HOUBB. J H. CRONIN, LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. orrica ON MAIN RTRBBT. DUSHORE. PA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. Capital - - - $3, r >,000.00 Transacts a Roneral banking business. J. I/. ('II It IST I A N KDW. IjAltliKV President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest pniil on time deposits, ACCOt'NTS SOLICITKI). Lycoming County Fair "Lycoming Comity Fair, hol«l uuler the auspices of the Muncy /alley Farmers' Club of Hughes ville, Penna., comes off October 10th, 11th, 12th ami l.'Hli, and promises to be the best ever held in the County. The secretary is busy on the inquiry list for good horses and amusements from all parts of the State. All are anxious to get in 011 the last Fair on the circuit for 1911. The Club are replacing their old grand-stand with an up-to-date new one, which will be amply j large to take care of all. The Agricultural and Home Depart- j ments will be crowded with the best tV State can produce. We want you all to come, and we will give you a good show for your money, as everything goes at the llughesville Fair. Our expenses are heavy and we want your support. We paid out ! last year, $2,000,00 for exhibits, j ami 82,500,00 for racing, not in-1 eluding our outside expenses- Holding these annual Fairs is not, what a great many people think they are. They cost money and require a lot of hard work, to give j you a good exibition, and in return j we cheerfully solicit your support I and hope to have three good days, j Come one, come all, to the llughes ville Fail, October 10th. 11th, 12th and 13th. Our Big Bargain. To each and every person who pays us for two years sub-j scription to the Republican News j Item, on or before Jan. 1, 1912, | we will give absolutely free of charge, 100 envelopes with your name, address and return request neatly printed in the corner. Every' subscriber to the News I Item and every person who is not a subscriber should lose 110 time in taking advantage of this liberal offer. COLE'S Up-To-Date zmmr., HARDVARE^^JB^P^ WHEN you think of buying hard ware you naturally ask yourself . ,0®" " W this question: "What kind of stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or *-•' whatever it may he —"shall I buy? Don't ponder over these things, nor spend your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from When you think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Ilot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job wurk and repairing In all branches, prompt y and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. Kepub'ican News Item. LOCAL NEWS | COUNTY SEAT NEWS T/DLD 1 $ IN BREEZY PARAGRAPHS. * T. F. Weaver of Mildred was in town Tuesday. 11. J. Bolt of Mawr Glen was in the County Soa't Monday. Albert F. Ileess was a business inan in Dushore Tuesday. J. F. Breitenlach of William sport was in Laporte Tuesday. F. W. Meylert and wife attend ed the Forksville Fair this week. Peter Stether of Muncy transact ed business in Laporte Tuesday. Miss Mabel Parker visited her parents in Sonestown last week. Election is over once more and the"l tohl you so" is on the job. li. U. Pussier visited friends and relatives in llughesville last week. Where is that much talked of hotel that was to be built this fall? J. Walter Ilass of Williamsport was a business man in town Tues day. Joseph Mclntire is engaged in hauling bark to the Laporte tan nery. E. V. Ingham and family of Kagles Mere returned to Atlantic City Monday. Alphonsus Walsh Fsq., of Du- I shore was transacting business in town Monday. County Commissioner, Valentine Kobe of Dushore was a business man in town Monday. ■* The new mail route between La porte and Kagles Mere resumed (operations last Monday. Miss Vina Upmann left Monday 1 morning for Atlantic City, where i she will spend the winter. j The play of war between Italy and Turkey is being advertised ex pensively in the newspapers. | (!. S. Eddy and wife have re- I turned from a visit to their aunt at West Terry who is very ill. 111 an address at the Missouri Valley Fair, William J. Bryan an nounced that he was not a candi date for president. Out only long enough to prepare I the verdict in the ease of John Pvjterinan, the aged resident of Sugarloaf township, Columbia I county, who was charged with the murder of his brother, Abraham Peterinan, the jury returned a ver dict at Bloomsburg of ''not guil ty." LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 1911. The Official Returns Of Primary Election. The primary election is over. The nominations are made. True there are more dissatisfied over the result than are pleased, hut with so many candidates in the race noth ing else was to be expected. Everybody must bear in mind that the candidates selected are the choice of the people as a whole, and 110 opportunity is given to cry "Boss Rule''. Those who were unsuccessful will do well to bear in mind, that it is the voters of Sullivan County who have made their choice for reasons of their own, and to claim that, this, that and the other one is to blame f'T their defeat will merely make them appear ridiculous. The reasons for defeat are nearly as numerous as the candidates defeated. Many did not work hard enough, some did not let the people know soon enough that they were candidates, many voters had given their pro mises before all the candidates were known, and 011 reasons that go without casting any personal re flection 011 the defeated candidates. The people in general admit that the nominations are good, and it would have been hard to have se lected a poor ticket from the ma terial in the field. The only strife among the Re mblicans was for commissioner, Joseph Sick of Cher ry and Irvin Hottenstino of Forks, being the successful candidates. —» m <— Atheletics at Forksville. Our High School Track and Field team journyed to Forksville Wednesday, but owing to the rainy weather the meet was not held, nevertheless a few athclcMc stunts were pulled oft' in which our young athelete, Grant Carpenter com peted with results as follows: Hundred yard dash. Vernon Bird the famous Est el la splinter won first place with Carpenter a few ihchos behind, Molynix came in third. Time, ten seconds. The High jump was a tie at live feet between Carpenter, Bird, Moly nix and Frye. October 12 is a Holiday. Columbus Day, Oct. 12, will be a legal holiday for the whole State under the terms of the act of Feb ruary 1, 1911. This announce ment was made Monday at the otlices of the State Banking Depart ment and was in response to many requests for information regarding it. Commissioner W. 11. Smith explained that under the act of June 'J.'l, 1907, the first Columbus day act, it was made a legal holi day in only public otlices. The new act makes it a legal holiday for the whole State, which would include Review. White-May. Ernest White of Lopez, and Miss Bertha Anna May of Murray town, were united in marriage on Wednesday, Oct., 4. F. G. Lauer of Muncy visited his sister at this place a few days The V. I. S. will meet at the homo of Mrs. F. H. Ingham, Mon day evening, Oct. 9. Mrs. Philips of Kennett Square, who has been visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. Edward Ladley returned home last Saturday. A valuable cow belonging to F. H. Ingham, which strayed away and had been missing for four days, returned home of her own accord Q n Wednesday afternoon. Foil TREASURER : Republican, Joseph A. flelsman, 513. Democrat, Frank W. C. Grail'ley, 4 10. FDR rROTIIONOI'AUY = Republican, Allien F. Ileess, 543. Democrat, Albert F. 11 cess, 87. <>, N. Molyneux, 07. FOR SHERIFF : Republican, Lloyd McCarty, 435. Win. 11. Middle, 99. Democrat, •I. <!. Colt, 552. Michael Collins. 301. FOR COU N'l'Y CiIMM ISSK >N EH : Republican, Joseph Sick, 247. Irvin Hottenslein, 228. William A. (iumhle, 190. Frank W. Muck, 148. William 'l'. More, 130. Roland S. Marl in, 128. William R. Collins, 52. Frank Strickland, 11. Democrat, Will in M. Snider. 349. George Kroscliart. 290. Clinton A. DieH'enliaeli, 289. Minard IVterman, 254. Michael <iillij»an, 197. William 11. lvraiiH, 147. Michael I'liilbin. 130. FOR ASSOCIATE .11'DUE: Republican, Anthony M. Kilmer, 438. James P. Miller, 471. 1 )cmo<;rat, Dennis Keel©, 014. Charles A. Starr, 284. Wiiliam M. Ritter, 238. Joseph Me 1 'erniott, 199. Iletiry Rich I in, 190. William Oempsey, 112. FOR CORON Eli: Republican. C. M. Mradlord, M. 1474. Democrat, l)r. R. .1. Me Henry, 509. FOR AUDITOR : Republican, OliverS. Mender, 330. Thomas R. Crimmius, 290. (J. Eldaah Wilox, 18 i. James C. Caven, 144. Democrat, Michael McDonald, 508. D. F, McCarty, 473. James J. Teevan, 203. S. Bird Taylor, who has been employed in the News Item Ollicc for the past few weeks, left for his home in Elmira Saturday. The man who studies the rab bit's foot in Georgia says we are not going to have any winter. We'd like to believe it. A Washington woman has had her husband arrested because he imagines he is a ball player. There are others still at large. That Kentucky woman who died laughing at one of her hus band's jokes is probably some men's idea of a dutiful spouse. Misses Dorothy and Louise Up tnann left for Philadelphia Tues day morning, after spending a month at their home in this place. At Kennett Square motor cars were used to haul the colored vot ers to the polls, but several refused to vote, giving as an excuse that their race is not being treated right. Many Laporte people who in tended attending the Forksville Fair Wednesday, are very angry at the weather man for dishing out such disagreeable weather on that particular day. A boulevard beginning at the school house, extending by the summer cottages and opening on Muncy street has been completed. It is about one quarter mile long and opens up that section of the i mountain side for cottage lots. Like Days of Old. The idea of witches has been re vived in the Italian colony at Eden burg, Lawrence County, anil unless a sickly infant horn the other day improves rapidly some thing serious will happeu to some one. The father and mother did not goto the expense of hiring a physician, as a result of which the child has not yet been getting well, and the neighborhood blames it on witches. Death in some form, pro bably by scalding, is «aid to await the person who is believed to he the witch. The foreigners are following a traditional method of determining the guilty person. A woman sits at the door of the shack peeling pota toes. A small group of wc m watches the potatoes boil ove an open fireplace. Still another g «up watches a pot of boiling water on a stove in the room. It is tradition that the guilty person will goto the potato pot and lift the lid to ascertain what is hoili tg. This is a sign for the second 112 roup to throw scalding water on her. In the hope of preventing trouble the employer of the father induced him to permit Dr. 11. C. Mitchell to visit the sick child, and the in fant has Improvad a little since. Surprise Party. Last Friday evening Olive Kecler was greatly suiprised when twenty-live of her friends gathered at her home in honor cf her seven teenth birthday. Those present were: Helen Carpenter, Mabel Moran, Helen McDormott, Amy Knouse, Anna Buschhausen, Julia Walsh Gertrude Knouse, Linda Snider. Ellen Walsh, Jessie Wrede, Iva Hess, Margurcte Croasley, Frances Moran, Esther Vough, Zoe Carpenter, Tessie Fries, Bertha Johnson, Ida Hartung, Jesse Rog ers, Mrs. J. A. Roberts, Mrs, T. J. Kecler, Rex Eddy, Henr Kraus, Ellery Carpenter, Nels«.n Lawrenson, J. Leahy, Grant Carpenter. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that the partenership lately subsisting be tween Elmer Rigger and Clarence E, Dunham of Eagles Mere, l'a., under the firm name of Rigger and Dunham, was dissolved on the first day of September, 1911, by mutal consent. All debts owing to the said partnership are to be* received by said Elmer Migger and all de mands on the partnership are to lie presented to him for payment. Eagles Mere, Pa., September 1, 1911. CLARENCE E. DUNIIAM, C. E. BIGGER, AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES. For Spark Plugs, Batterys, Prest- O-Lite Tanks, Carbide, Automobile tires, Patches, Cement, Brass Polish Automobile Soap, Sponges, Cham oise. Gasolene and Greeses of all kinds, etc., call at Murray Brothers Garage, Lopez, Pa. Mail and phone calls promptly attended to. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ZEITTGKHIES^TIDLIE!, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEPF.R, Cashier Net Profits 75 00 °- DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm, Frontz, John C. Lainl, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W * C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, . I Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz,' Accounts oflndtvid- j A s Ball) John 8111l uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST P.AID ONETIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR JOHN B. ENGLISH, EDITOR. Think of This. Did it ever occur to you that the inhabitants of this mundane sphere today are but the degen erated posterity of the once perfect man and woman. Perfect, physic ally, morally and mentally. \\ ith each following generation, the human race has become more and more degenerated physically and morally and at the same time has advanced intellectually, until at the present day, we are readi ing the zenith of intellectual glory, while we are standing on the very brink of moral and physical de struction. Our large cities are the incubat ors and brooders of vice and cor ruption, filled with houses of shame for the degradation of young America, while crimes and depredation are rampant. Perhaps our forefathers were not as intelligent as we» but they lived in stricter obedience to the laws of nature, and we of the pres ent generation must learn to obey those laws, we must learn to train ourselves physically as well as mentally or we are doomed to be come a race of nonenites. j 3 CENTS A LINE AVS. j FARM Kits ANI) MERCHANTS Will pay market price for wool. Adress ,J. L Wincman, Lewisburg, I'a. A\ ANTED:—Men to contract for cutting pulp and acid wood at once. Stony Brook Lumber Co., Lope/, Pa. 2012 FOR SALE—Brew3ter Block on Muney Street, Laporte, Pa., in build ing lots of 52 x 2(>o feet, or would sell to syndicate. Easy terms. Rent of houses would more than pay in terest on money invested. Apply to F. VV. Meylert, Laporte, Pa., or address Alice Brewster Cassidy, 12.'57 Tea St., N. \\\, Washington, D. C. lOsepl j QUALITY j 2 Whcnjpeople realize that it 2 2 is not the quantity for the 2 2 money, so much as the quality ± ♦ that counts, then they will T ♦ patronize the store which does ♦ T business in good pure goods. * « Cut prices often mean cut 5 J qualities. Our prices are as x J low as good goods wil allow. * ♦ Our goods are not of the cheap ♦ ♦ mail-order variety. Wh en * S comparing prices do not for- 2 2 get to compare qualities. It J 2 you find the prices lower than J 2 ours, then you will tind the 9 J qualities inferior—generally ♦ "bargain house" job lots. g X Ask us to show you why 2 2 our stock is superior. x I BuschhauserTs. J
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