vol. xyi. no. 26 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. | SHEHHSKSsuzßsaaHasßHaassaia fRANCISYV. MEYLERT, Attoruoy-at-Law. Office in Heeler's Block. LA PORTE, Sullivan County, PA. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney at-Law. I.AFORTE, VA OFF If K IB COUKTV BOILDIJIU nkakoouat nOUBR H. CRONIN, ATTORN KY--AT LAW, ROTAKY rUBLIC. orric* on baih sthbut PUSH ORE, rA First National Bank OF LAPORTE, PA. ('dpi/ill - - - pr>,ooo.oo Transacts a Reneral banking business. .1. L. CHRISTIAN EDW. PAULEY President. Cashier. 3 per cent interest pui't on time deposits, ACCOI'NTS SOLICITKI). ft/ ' f y yj**" \M A ? ° 7 Take One ' J Pain Pill / then— Take it NM, E " y To the best of Backache Get a Box of Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Otherwise Backache May get the best of you Nothing disturbs the human j system more than pain whether ! it be in the form of headache, backache, neuralgia, stomachache or the pains peculiar to women. l)r. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are a standard remedy for pain, and , arc praised by a great army tit' j men and women who have use ! | ! them for years. "A friend was down with LnGrippe and nearly crazed with awful backache. , 1 gave her one Anti I'ain Pill and left another for her to take. They helped her right away, and she says she will never tie without t em again." MRS. G. 11. WuiiH, Austinburg, O. At all druggists—2s doses 23 cents. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Intl. Shot by His Own Wolf Trap. Wilber, Neb. —Arthur Krauter, n farmer near here, was shot by his own spring gun wolf trap. He was trying to drive a calf into his barn and accidentally stumbled over the trap, kicking the bait. Both barrels of the gun were discharged into his feet and legs. More than SO shots were removed later. Makes a Deadly Tea of Weed. Perth Amboy, N. J.—Mrs. Andrew Kramer and her two children, eight and ten years old, are in a serious con dition at tlicir home here as a result of drinking tea made from poisonous weeds. Mrs. Kramer took the potion for rheumatism on the advice of neigh bors and when she was taken serious ly ill the two little girls took sips of the deadly drink before calling the neighbors. COLE'S } - -SwS?- Up-To-Date ZJpiSR if WHEN you think of buying hard- J.'• •X. ' ware you naturally ask yourself this question: "What kind of iQfjjgMj&l'fiLi. . 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 npecial attention to Piping. Steam. Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt / and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. MOTHER BEAR HOLDS UP UNCLE SAiVI'S MAIL ! i Carrier Puts Up Fight With Re» volver and Bruin and Cubs Are Driven Off. Spokane, Wash. —A mother benr with a Hat Nelson battle gleam in her eye and an Ad Wolgast lighting crouch, and her two little cubs, held up Uncle Sam's mail in the rorvl be tween Sandy and Marmot and gave C. M. Tlailey, rural mail carrier on the route, the time of his life when lie accepted her challenge the other afternoon. Bailey was driving leisurely along toward Sandy in his mail wagon lie hind his two sturdy horses when the | bear popped into sight as he rounded I a curve. She was standing on her .Ji \;\ fl . ' /-/r-N \ \ j \ : Bear Attacks Carrier i haunches in the middle of the road in i a distinctly belligerent attitude, her ! cubs frisking about her. Bailey was so surprised that he pulled up his horses and waited for developments. He didn't have to wait very long i With a growl and a flourish of her | forepaws, the bear made lor the mail carrier, the cubs waddling along after her on all fours. Hailey's horse : snorted in terror at this unexpected move by Mother Bruin, and whirled | about in the road so sharply that the I wagon was upset and the mail and I mail carrier spilled out in the dust. As Bailey picked himself up he \ pulled his automatic revolver out of 1 his pocket and fired at the bear. | which was almost on him. The bullet j went true, and she rolled over in the | road, snarling and clawing. She seemed to have enough of battle, for ' the next minute she picked herself | up and scampered off into the woods I with the cubs, leaving a trail of blood , behind her. As soon as the shaken Mailey could ! collect himself, he caught his horses, which had stopi>ed after running a short distance down the road, and, i with the aid of a party of aiftoists that came along soon after he righted his wagon and hitched up. Suggestive Dances Barred. i Kansas City, Mo. —Dance halls of this city in the future will have to bar j the "bunny hug," the "grizzly bear" and the "turkey trot" styles of danc ing. The recreation department of the j board of public welfare ordered that i such dances be eliminated here in tlie j "interest of the morals of tile young j people of the city." LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, NOv/EMBER 17 1911. GIRL'S HAIR IS CUT OFF WHILE ASLEEP Revenge by Playmates Thought to Have Been Motive Prompt ing Deed. Oklahoma City, Okla. —Revenge by playmates Is said to have been the motive that prompted some nno to reach through a window of the home of Claude Weaver, an attorney, during the night and cut off the locks ot liar bam, his fifteen-year-old daughter, as she lay asleep. When the girl awoke in the morning her long braids lay on the floor near the bed. Mr. Weaver has hired a detective to work on the case. Recently Miss HEBiii. Cuts Off Girl's Hair. Weaver has been taunted by her play mates who resented what they termed her tendency to be "stuck up." Cyn thia Powell, a girl friend, also had re ceived a letter threatening her with dire punishment unless she continued to speak to certain boys of the neigh borhood. The police suspect that one of these boys cut off llarbara'?i tresses. LION CLAWS A LITTLE GIRL An Eye Gouged Cut, an Ear Torn Oft and Her Face Terribly Mangled. Syracuse, X. Y.—Clawed and bitten by a huge lion in a side show at the state fair here, Laura Burns, aged seven years, of Morrisville, N. Y., hov ers between life and death. The girl was frightfully mangled when she fail ed to keep back of the ropes and cams within reach of the monster beast. The lion caught her with one of hi; massive paws and while he held her fast he clawed her with the other paw as he tried to pull the child into his cage. Attendants rushed to the child's aid, but the animal had her fast in his grip, and infuriated by the taste of blood refused to let lose until prodded with heated irons. When tinally it released the child it was found that the lion had gouged out one of her eyes, torn off an ear and lacerated her face and the upper part of her body. The great throng and the shouts of the crowd frightened Clawed by a Lion. the rest of the beasts in the tent, so that keepers had to guard them with loaded weapons. Even Stole His False Teeth. Indianapolis, Ind. Daniel Hums was held up here by two men who robbed him of sll and his false teeth. He had placed his false teeth in a vest pocket. The robbers went through his clothes for his coin, and then one ran his nimble fingers into the pocket where the false teeth reposed. "We can use these," said the robber, who proceeded to pocket b.i« teeth. LATEST NEWS OF SONESTOWN. 11. \Y. Simmons and Wilson Starr are among tin' first to start butcher ing some very nice Porkers. George Kie.-s expects to ac company his daughter, Mrs. \Y. L. Wing, to Florida the latter pari of I his week. J. S, IJichart is husking 11is corn on the A. T. Armstrong farm. Alexander Hess laid a iinc board walk in front oi his residence on Main Street last week. This walk has been badh needed in wet weather, but was not essential in dry weather. John Converse recently closed a very busy season at his Cider Mill. Benjamin Mcllenry was a busi ness man in town last Tluirsd iv. Harry Has ley is building a new ice house near the railroad, which will be very convenient. Aslier ( hristinan left for Masten Wednesday, where he hasa position. Joseph llelsnian's two sons of Mildred visited their uncle, Harry Basley, here last week. J. W. Laird was re-elected con stable of Davidson tow uship. Now I reckon we will have to walk the straight and narrow path for the next three years, but Jerry is all to the good. George Kiess of Ilughesville, visited bis brother William of this place last Sunday, and being storm stayed did not return home until Monday morning. William Bog-art left for Maslen Monday. Smyth Bondman and wife Visited William I'arnieter and wife of Eagles Mere last Sunday. AUTOMOBILE SITi'LIES. For Spark Plugs, Batterys, l'rest (>-Lite 'I auks, Carbide. Automobile tires, Patches, Cement, brass Polish Autt mobilw SJ ip, Sponges, Cliain oise. Gasolene and Grcescs ol ail kinds, etc., call at Murray brothers Garage, Lopez. Pa. Mail and phone calls promptly attended to. C. W. Sadler. John Sucll and Samuel Snell were over from llills grove Monday. MOOSE CHASES AUTOMOBILE I'ittsfie'd. Mass.—As a party of an foists were going dvi r Washington mountain ' toward lhrUet, they were chased for half a mile by a moose tb • '* , -■l*. ~ r'• ) { (J ] j MI I I P'-jA "j jW x Y 112 - r Moose Chases Autoists. that is believed to have escaped from Harry l'avne Whitney's mountain pre serve. The pursuit was watched by Daniel Camp, who lives near Jacob's Ladder. The automobile gained on the moose, which gave up the chase, left the road and disappeared in the forest. The moose was seen later by James Ualla her of Becket while on a hike near Redtop, the villa of Mrs. Fannie Uur [ gess iu liecket. GIRL IN BEATTiE CASE IS NOW ON THE STAGE Young Woman Who Was Chief Witness for State Is Now an ''Actress." New York. —lieulah Hinford, who came to this city after the trial ot Henry Clay Heattie, Jr., for the niur der of his wife in Virginia, lias ap peared 011 the vaudeville bill in a local theater. She played there several days before an announcement that she war %. «*|||s ra \ Wm. WffiiA 1 iMal! f 7 { 011 the t ill was made, tiien ti card an nounced "lieulah Hinford and com pany." Her sketch, "Grandma," tells the story of a wealthy woman who, alter many years, finds her daughter, who had married a poor man and been cast out. Hut the Ilinford girl had nothing to do with the emotions of the play She appeared as a maid and had three lines a speak: "A letter!" "(live the girl a chance" and"Officer, here's your In her dressing room the girl said she had been living in the Hronx ever since she reached New York and that before she was realesed in Vir ginia she signed a contract with a New York manager to appear in vaudeville. She said she is only seeking to make a living, and does not see how the po lice can keep her from doing some thing that is not against the law. She still insists Heattie is innocent of the murder of his wife. Negro Drayman Turns White. i Hloomington, lnd. —William Arnold aged sixty, a negro drayman, is grad ually turning white. Following an ill ness which was believed to be tuber culosis, white spots appeared 011 his hands. The skin became tender and the white simts grew larger. At tht same time Arnold improved in health until he is now in excellent physical condition. His body is covered with large white spots. Lightning Spoils Girl's Joke. I Atchison, Kan. —"1 am going tc stand here and let the lightning strik< me," Flossie Mart man said jokinglj while she stood on the back porch ol her home near l-Vrnell. A second latei lightning struck the lawn 20 feet from where she was standing, rendering hei unconscious some time and leaving her in a dazed condition the rest ol the afternoon. Youth Killed by Vaccination. New Brighton, I'a. — Vaccinated 21 days ago upon entering school, Albert G. Glass, aged six, died from lockjaw. The vaccination, it is said, became in fected a few days ago and tetanus developed. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ZEiTTGHESVILLIi], \ CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Sur ' ,lus 1,1(1 FRANK A. REEL>F,R, Cashier. Net I'roliis I 90.000. DIRECTORS: Transacts a General W. C. Front/., John (\ Laird, C. \V So lies, I Hanking Business. L - V,,,a " Mv °' s Kmnk A.R00,i..r, Jacul.lv.-, J. A. S. Ball, John Hull, lVter Frontz, Accounts of Individ ual and Firms solicited. Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, Cue Dollar per Year. 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEFOSITS. 75C PER YEAR JOHN B ENGLISH, EDITOR Our Big Bargain. 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