Republican News Item.
VOL. XVI. NO. 22
THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS. j|
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fRANCIS W. MEYLERT, j
Attomey-at-Law.
Office in Keeler'a Block.
LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA.
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorn ay-at-Law.
LAPORTK, PA
OrriOß IB CODBTT BDILDIBB
RBAR COURT BOBiB.
J H. CRONIN,
HOTART PUBLIC,
orrica oa MAW BTHBBT.
DUSIIORB. PA
First National Bank
OF LAPORTE, PA.
Capital - - - $35,000.00
Transacts a general banking businrss.
J. L. CHRISTIAN KDW. LAIU.KY
President. Cashier.
3 per cent interest paiil on time deposits,
ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
After Forty-seven
Years Letter Returns.
John Madden of Packer avenue,
Towaiula lias just received a letter
written by him to his wife from
Fortress Monroe during the Civil
War. Where the letter has been
all these 47 years is a mistry.
During the Civil War Mr. Mad
den served with the Third Pa.
Heavy Artillery and for a time
was stationed at Fortress Monroe.
Recently he received a letter that
had been mailed to him, with the
postmark of Towanda on the en
velope. He opened it, read partly
through and then stopped with
amazement, for he realized that he
was reading a letter he wrote to
his wife 47 year ago. Where the ,
letter has been during the inter
vening years, lie does not know.
When received, it was addressed
to him and his present address was
on the outside. It had been
mailed to him in a different en
velope from the one which he
origionally sent to his wife and on
the outside there was no stamp.
It is probable that the letter was
received by the wrong person and
was mislaid. And when it was j
found the finder decided to return
it to the sender.
Mr. Madden says that the letter
brings back to him memories of the
Civil War and of Fortress Monroe
and he fullji recalls all that sur
rounded the writing of the long
lost letter.Towanda. Review.
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HARDWARE
WHEN you think of baying hard- 112 -
ware you naturally ask yourself '
this question: "\Vhat kind of
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
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SANITARY PLUMBING.
We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and not
.r Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt
and skillfully executed
Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa.
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I LOCAL NEWS j
if COUNTY SEAT NEWS TOLD 112
| IN BREEZY PARAGRAPHS. *
**-*#&*■*■■* ■* ******* N.ni;
(iencral Election November 7,
1911.
Roy Jennings of Estella autoed
to this place Monday.
Lloyd Fairman of Sonestown
'was in Laporte Sunday.
Wm. Bogart was a business man
in the County Seat Saturday.
Mrs. F. 11. Ingham spent Satin -
day shopping in Williamsport.
Miss Marie Petennan visited her
parents near Nordniont Sunday.
Ulysses Bird has moved his fam
ily from Forksville to Arena X. Y.
J. I'. Bahl moved his family to
Onshore the fore part of the week.
C. .1. Brink of Kagles Mere was
a business man in town last Satur
tlay.
J. P. Bahl made a business trip
to Knoxvillo the latter part of last
week.
Ellery Carpenter has accepted a
position with the engineer corps at
Lopez.
Ellery and Henry Carpenter re
turned from the Bloomsburg fair
Monday.
N. O. Tarbox and Julius Na
vara were up from Nordniont
Tuesday.
Morgan Qavitt of Sonestown
was transacting business in town
Saturday.
Lewis Gasperine of Bridgeport,
Conn., visited friends in Laporte
last week.
Albert A. Porter of Sonestown
was a business man at the Count}'
Seat Monday.
J. J. English of New Albany
! visited his son John at this place
I the latter part of last week.
Mrs. A. Stackhouse of Masten
| visited her brother, Thomas E.
Kennedy of this place last week.
John Hileman, Jr., the popular
Dushore plumber has been engaged
in reparing the courthouse fur
nace,
F. M. Crossley and wife returned
Monday evening from the Blooms
burg fair and a visit to relatives in
tnat section.
Those Austin telephone girls
who remained on duty while death
stared them in the face may be re
fused a Carnegie medal because
they failed to state whether on not
they were chewing gum at the
ime.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 1911.
ALBERT F. HEESS, ESQ.
(Candidate for Prothouotary and Register and I'icorder,)
Albert F. llees Esq., of Laporte,
who for the past four years has so
ably and satisfactorily filled
the oflice of I'rothonotary, Regis
ter and Recorder and Clerk of the
Courts of Sullivan County, has not
only received the nomination of
his own party for re-election this
fall, but has been signally ho.iored
by receiving the indorsement of
the Democrat party. This is a
great tribute to Mr. llecss' ability
as an otlicer and his sterling worth
as a man.
While Mr. Ileess' re-election is
of course assured, we deem it prop
er to mention some of the qualifi
cations possessed by him for these
important offices and tu refer to his
record, not only as an otlicer, but
as a citizen.
Mr. Heess is a native of Sullivan
County, having been born on the
farm of his father, Theodore Heess
in Elkland township, thirty-nine
years ago. He had the common
experiences of most boys reared on
the farm and early learned to per
form his full share of the work
incident to farm life. The edu
cational opportunities at hand were
eagerly embraced and by the time
Mr. Heess had reached early man
hood he had acquired an excellent
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Local Items.
George Gorman of Nordniont
was a business man in the County ;
Seat Monday.
Wm. Bogart will expose his per
sonal property to pudlie sale at his
residence in Laporte Township on
Wednesday, October 18, 1011, at
ten o'clock a. in.
Thomas Cavanaugh left Monday
for Hamilton W. Va., where he
was called on account of the illness
of his brother James, who is very
low with typhoid fever.
The following letters remain un
called for at the Laporte postoffice
for month ending September .'SO,
1911: Mrs. Helen Boiee llunsing
er, and Zane Manilyenjo.
S. F. Phillips, wife and mother
of Milton autoed to this place the
fore part of last week, visiting at
Dr. Randall's. They were ac
companied home by Mrs. Randall.
Jessie E. Camp of New Albany
will be at Hotel Bernard with a
full line of up-to-date millinery, on
the evening of Oct. 19 and all day
Thursday Oct. 20. All ladies in
vited to come and inspect the goods.
education. Having completed tl o
ourse in th ■ local sch >ols, lie con
tinued his efforts in getting an edu
cation by taking a course in West
town Academy, Chester County.
Jle taught school successfully
for some time.
Having determined to engage
in the practice of law, Mr. Heess
took up the study of Blaekstone
and in 1902 was graduated from
the Columbia Law University,
Washington 1). C. Ho was ad
mitted to the bar of Sullivan Coun
ty at September term 1902 and at
once entered into partnership with
Rush J. Thomson of Onshore, '1 his
partnership was continued until
Mr. iLeess was elected IVothono
tary in 19(17.
As an official, Mr, I leess bus
been all that might be desired.
Careful, prompt and obliging, he
has made an ideal oilicer. IJis
work on the County records will
ever remain a tribute to his pains
taking care and accuracy. In Mr.
Heess Sullivan County has an of
ficial and a citizen, who merits and
receives the greatest respect of his
fellow-citizens. The County is to
be congratulated upon having
him retained in ollice another term.
Advertise in the News Item.
Wolf Socks returned from Har
risburg Wednesday. lie came by
way of Austin where he viewed
the remains of the Jlood disaster.
F. M. Crossley returned Mon
day evening from the Bloomsburg
fair and left Wednesday morning
to attend the Ilughesville fair.
Mr. Crossley is determined not to
miss any of the fairs, so here is
hoping that he has a fair time at
the fairs.
It is reported that the Laporte
tannery will not resume operations
before next spring, which sure
means dull times for Laporte this
winter. Laporte needs and must
have some new industry if it is ex
pected to flourish and be anything
outside the County Seat and a sum
mer resort. The establishing of a
silk mill would certainly be wel
comed by the business men of this
place.
Notice
Bids wanted for hauling coal foi
Laporte Borough School for sea
sons of 1!>11-12 or by the ton,
Coal to Ik i delivered at the sclioo
house.
.fames C. Caven, Secretary
Kidnapped Boy Found
at Ploomsburg Fair.
Seven-yearn old ''Hilly" Wil
liams, kidnapped at the Towanda
Fair about two weeks ago, as it is
alleged by O. Pebee and Ernest Al
bright who drove to the Fair with
a joke of oxen, was located last
Friday at Pebee's tent at the
Bloomsbnrg Fair by a Towanda de.
tective who went there in search
of the child. Pebee was arrested
and taken to Towanda and last
•Saturday a detective went to York
to alTect the arrest of Albright,
who is supposed to be at thai
place.
Chief of Police Detrick received
i telegram early in tin* week to
;eep an eye out for a kidnapped
oy, who would be with a party
riving an oxen team to the fair,
ilenry Carpenter of this place
vitnessed the arrest of Pebee.
Those Keystone Voters.
Tli > Now Albany Mirror says:
it was made plain before the pri
maries that a voter who cast a
Keystone ballot last year could
legally vote nothing but a Key
stone ticket at the primaries this
year. To do otherwise is a crimi
nal offense with a heavy fine and
imprisonment or both. Still hun
dreds of voters violated the law,
took chances of escaping the penal
ty, and we are sincerely sorry for
them. Today there are several
thousand patriotic citizens in this
country who can pat themselves on
the back and say, "1 am a crimi
nal, if what 1 did at the polls, last
year and this year could be proved,
I would have to pay a thousand
dollars line and mabe have togo
to jail in the bargain".
There is A Hereafter.
The late lamented Pill Nye once
said: "Do not attempt to cheat
an editor out of his year's sub
scription to his paper, or any other
.sum. Cheat the minister, cheat
everybody, but if you have any re
gard for future consequences, don't
fool the editor. You will be put
up for ollice some time, or want
some public joy for yourself or
friends, and when your luck is a
thing of beauty, a joy forever, the
editor will open upon you, and
knock your castles into a cocked
hat at the first fire. He'll subdue
you and then you will cuss your
stupidity for a driveling idiot; go
hire some man to knock you down
and kick you for falling."
Baptist Convention.
Enjoy a few days outing by at-
I tending the State Baptist Conven
tion to be held in Reading, Oct. 17-
10. Some excellent topics will be
discussed. You can get special
j railroad rate by applying to Rev.
>• C. W. Walker, Clarion, Pa., and
enclosing a two cent stamp for re
» p'y.
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Tied For Judge.
Maxwell and Fanning are tied
for the Republican nomination i'or
Judge of Bradford County, each
'uiving received 2o(51 votes.
The law makes it plain that in
Capo of a tie the candidates for
for Judge receiving the tie vote
shall cast lots before the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, and the
<<ne to whom the lot shall fall
shall be entitled to the nomi
nation. The modest minded citi~
zens of our sister county are
shocked at the idea of gambling
for so important an otlice, and
while one of the candidates is wil
ling the other one is not, one of
the candidates is willing to with
draw but (he other is not. Ed
ward M. Dunham, formerly presi
dent judge of the Wyoming-Sul
livan district has been proposed as
a suitable candidate to take the
place of the belligerents. The out
look now is that both candidates
will endeavor to secure election at
the polls in November.
| 3 CENTS A LINE ADS. j
FARMERS ANI) MERCHANTS—
Will pay market price for wool.
Adress J. J,. Wincman, Lewisburg,
Pa.
WANTED:--Men to contract for
cutting pulp and acid wood at once.
Stony Brook Lumber Co., Lopez,
Fa. 20t2
FOR SALE—Brewster Block on
Muncy Street, Laporte, Fa., in build
ing lots of 52 x 260 feet, or would
sell to syndicate. Easy terms. Rent
of houses would more than pay in
terest on money invested. Apply lo
F. W. Meylert, Laporte, Pa., or
address Alice Brewster ftassidy,
'2:57 Tea St., X. W., Washington,
I). C. lOsepl
j QUALITY |
M When'people realize that it X
£ is not the quantity for the Jj
$ money, so much as the quality S
♦ that counts, then they will ¥
♦ patronize the store which does T
♦ business in good pure goods. I
g Cut prices often mean cut *
1 qualities. Our prices are as X
2 low as good goods wil allow, x
I • Our goods are not of the cheap J
'• mail-order variety. When ♦
I 2 comparing prices do not for- %
& get to compare qualities. If *
iX you find the prices lower than 5
ours, then you will find the 9
♦ qualities inferior—generally ®
♦ "bargain house" job lots. S
X Ask us to show you why 2
Z our stock is superior. 2
I Buschhausen's. X
Henry and Buck Carpenter at
tended the Bloouisburg Fair last
i week.