Court Proceedings. December Sessions, 1911, December 11,1911, Grand Jury called and «worn and Hon. Albert L. Dyer appointed Foreman. Dec. 12, 1911, the Grand Jury tiled their report aml werx dischraged, having passed upon eight Bills of indict ment, of which five were found "True Bills" and three were found "Not True Bills." Nellie Mayo vs, Raymond C. Mayo. In Divorce. Divorce de creed- Rebacca E. Earnest vs. Daniel L. Earnest. In Divorce. Albert F. Heess, Prot'y., is appointed Com missioner to take testimony. Kate M. Thall vs. James J. Thall. In Divorce. Frank W. Buck, is appointed Commissioner to take testimony. Anna L. Annin vs. Howard B. Annin. In Divorce. Alias Sub poena awarded. Arlissa Millhincvs. David B. Mill hime- In Divorce. Frank Lusch, Esq., is appointed Commissioner to take testimony. Samuel L. Kincheloe vs. Nevada Kincheloe. In Divorce. Subpoena awarded. John L. Bahr vs. Anna Bahr. In Divorce. Subpoena awarded. Minnie A. Barry vs, Thomas J. Barry. In Divorce. Second Plu ires Subpoena awarded. Granville B. Tyson vs. Mary A. Tyson. In Divorce. Rule for Al imony and Council Argued and c. a. v. James Thomson, surviving Ex ecutor of the estate of Josiah Jack son, deceased, vs. B. Rush Jackson surviving partner Ac. lu Equity. Case set down for hearing at the Court House in Laporte on Tuesday, the Uth day of February, 1912 at ten o'clock a. in. In Re; Appointment of Auditor to audit the accounts of Albert F. Heess, rrothonotury, Register and Recorder, in account with the Com monwealth. John G. Scouton, Esq. is appointed auditor. 111 Re : Order to fill Jury Wheel for 1912. The Jury Commissioners and the President Judge, are direct ed to place in the Jury Wheel the names of 400 sober, intelligent and judicious persons to serve as jurors to serve in the several Courts of Sul livan County for the year 19)2. 111 Re; Applicatication for Char ter for the Workingnian's I'rotecti ve Association of Mildred. Hearing continued until tha tirst day of next Term at ten o'clock a. 111. In the matter of the admission of William T. Carey, as Student-at- Law. On motion of E, Mullen, Esq., he is admitted to practice in the several courts of Sullivan county, and sworn in open court. In Re: Petition of John E. Bleiler, Administrator of A. B. Bleiler, deceased, to sell Real Estate. 111 the Orphans Court of Sullivan County. The Court de crees a public sale of the Real Es tate and directs that the Adminis trator lile a bond in the sum of S3OOO. Same day approved bond Hied. In Re : Appointment of Audi tor for Cherry township. Joseph Yonkin is appointed. Commonwealth vs. Hattie White Charge, Assault and Battery. Grand Jury lind not a True Bill, Prosecutor, Aaron M. Brown to the costs. Commonwealth ys. Charles Hop per. Charge, Threats to Shoot and Kill. Heard before the court without a jury. The court senten ces the Defendant to pay the costs of prosecution and to enter into a recognizance in the sum of S2OO to keep the peace for one year. Commonwealth vs. Charles Rain say. Charge. Shooting and Kill ing Wild Bird. Grand Jury find not a True Bill, the County to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. George Heck ner. Charge, Murder. Grand Jury lind a "True Bill", the court certifies the case into the Court of Oyer and Terminer for trial. Commonwealth vs. Rose Min nier. Charge, Larceny, Grand Jury finds not a True Bill, the prosecutor, Calvin Craig, to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. Frank Mir able, Frank Candilere, Paul Jieti and James Jieti. Grand Jury finds True Bills in all cases. Charge, Violation of the Game Laws. Upon payment of all costs by the defendants, sentence sus pended. December 11, 11)11, at .'5:00 o'clock p. in., the following ac couuts were confirmed Ni. Si. First and final account of Al fihonsus Walsh, Executor of the ast Will and Testament of Patrick Fannon, late of Dushore Borough, deed. First and Final Account of Owen Donahoe, Executor of the last will and testamont of Lizzie Fitzgerald, late of Dushore Borough, Deed. First and Final Account of Mary Drugan, Administratrix of the Estate of Patrick Fitzgerald, late of Cherry Township, Deceased. Third and Partial Account of W. W. Jackson and Blanche W. Sturdevant, Executors of the last will and testamant of Bernice W. Jackson, late of Dushore Borough, Deceased. First and Final Account of Thomas F. Kernan. Administrator of the Estate of John Kernan, late of LaPorte Township, Deceased. Third and Partial Account of W. W. Jackson and Blanche W. Sturdevant, Trustees for the Devisees of George D. Jackson, late of Dushore Boro., Deceased. At same time the following sales of Real Estate were confirmed Absolutely by the Court : Return of sale of Real Estate by William Powers, Guardian of Mar tin Rouse, James Rouse, Leonard Rouse and Eugene Rouse. Return of Judson Brown Sheriff, Trustee to sell Real Estate of James Kane, late of Cherry town ship, deed. 111 partition. Return of sale of Real Estate of Daniel W. Pealer, Trustee to sell Real Estate of John Lawrence, late of Dushore Borough, deed. In paratition. Return of sale of real estate by John I). Reeser, Administrator of the Estate of Amos Keeser, late of Dushore Borough, Deceased. Owing to lack of time and space we are forced to continue the court proceedings, which will be con cluded in our next issue. A CHRISTMAS ■By MA.-RCMA [Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso' elation.] DEAR COUSIN JACK— Pray come to spend The Holly days with your true Friend. In Hopes that Weather will permit To your good Pa.rents Pa has writ. And you and Ned and Frank can ride Your Ponies by the Chariot's side. I am desired to say that Nan Expects such Sport with Cousin Fan. She has a Doll from London Town. With an Egret and Tabby Gown. She is so proud I But. Jack, we Boys Can think of better Things tha.il Toys. Ha.) begs his love. Pray answer quick Your faithful, loving, COUSIN DICK. P. S. —There came gilt Gingerbread From England in a Box: for Ned There's a Dragoon; for Francis, too; But. Jack. I'll save King George for you • ••••■• OF LONG AGO FIELD THE yellowed letter, so it runs. Oft read by sons and sons of sons. Above the formal sheet, outspread. Dick bent his curly, ribboned head. With tight grasped goose quill moving ./•low. That Christina! season long ago. Twas sealed and sent—one must confess. 11l sealed : a finger burnt, I guess I Black Pompey rode 'twixt kith and kin With ebon face and ivory grin. To bear .such letters to and fro In Christmas season long a,go Our fancy painty the Yulctide sport At hospitable Holly Court - How Dick and Nan and Harry run To welcome Ned and Frank and TJH And Jack, with apple cheeks In Christmas season long ago What mirthful games, what generou cheer. What sirloins huge, what cider clear. What "puddens"—Dicky spelled it thus- What nut brown turkeys odorous. What big mince pies in spicy row. In Christmas season long ago I As round the hearth the circles smiled What log fires roared 'neath mantels tiled. Where, figuring forth the Scripture tele, Blue Jonah fed the azure whale I What singing sounds, what genial glow. In Christmas season long ago I What stories told as snug they sat By Cousin This or Uncle That. Till Dicky vowed togo to sea. But Jack a soldier bold would be. Fight for the King and make a show In scarlet coat. long, long ago. All passed, like scenes in shifting fire. And sailor Dick grew up a squire. While —strange the change the swift years bring- Bold Jack fell fighting gainst the King. All vanished like the melting snow Of Christinas' season long ago. j Financial Statement of Laporte Township. Financial statement of Laporte Township Koad Funds ending Dec. sth, 1911. To amt. of indebted ness, audit of Mcli. 6th, 191t $1,800.86 To temporary 10an... 900.00 By amt. paid on tem porary loan $700.00 To amt. due treasurer 44.98 By amt. of indebted ness $2,045.84 $2,745.84 $2,745.84 Minard Peterman, Overseer of Poor, in account with laporte Township ending l)ec. sth, 1911: To amt. on hand last audit $ 95.63 To amt. received Geo. Karge, Coll. 114.10 By bills paid: Shed Peterman (rent) C. Broschart $ 26.00 E. Emig (state hospital) 68.50 Auditing 2.00 Bal. paid P. Peterman, suc cessor 107.23 3 days service 6.00 $209.73 $209.73 Harvey A. Hess, Overseer of Poor, in account with Laporte Township, ending Dec. 5, 1911: To amt. recived of E. L. Sweeny.... $ 36.00 To amt. received of Geo. Karge 101.71 To amt. received of Geo. Karge 287.49 By bills paid: Geo. H esstwork) C. Broschart $ 4.25 E. Speary (work) C. Broschart 6.00 Nordmont Supply Co. (sup plies) C. Broschart 132.63 7 days service 14.00 Bal. due overseers from last audit 22.25 Bal. in oversers hands 246.07 $425.20 $425.20 "Disbursements of Road Funds of Laport Township ending Dec. 5, 1911: To amt. of orders drawn $2,775.28 By repairs and maintenance of road $952.03 By repairs on bridges and cul verts 145.00 By machinery, tools .etc 299.52 By salaries of roadmasters. .. 258.91 By expenses of supervisors... 96.00 By stationery, etc 12.55 By prothonotary fees 5.20 By auditing and statement... S.OO By attorney fees 30.00 By temporary loans paid 70(1.00 By maintaining water trough. 9.80 By interest paid 146.55 By damage case, Fred Hunter. 87.00 By witnesses, Fred Hunter case 24.72 $2,775.28 $2,775.28 Morgan Gavitt, Treasurer of Road Funds, in account with Laporte Town ship ending Dec. sth, 1911: To amt. received of M. Flynn, Treas., March 6th, 1911. . $ 96.79 To amt. received of G. Karge, C 011... 16.00 To amt. received of Laport Bank .... 297.00 To amt. received of L. R. Gavitt 200.00 To amt. received of G. Karge, C0i1... 1,023.79 To amt. received of F. H. Ingham .... 100.00 To amt. received of Laporte Bank ... 396.00 To amt. received of E. L. Sweeny .. 100.00 To amt. received of State appropriate 364.22 To amt. received of G. Karge, C 011... 92.00 To amt. received of E. L. Sweeny.... 100.00 By orders redeemed $2,775.28 By Treas. and Sec. commission 55.50 To amt. due Treas. and Sec 44 98 $2,830.78 $2,830.78 Geo. Karge, Collector of Road Funds, in account with Laporte Township ending Dec. sth, 1911: To amt. due town ship last audit... $ 386.61 To amt. of dupli cates of road and special road tax.. 1,925.34 By amt. paid, off $1,023.79 By rebate on same 53.87 By commission on'same 30.71 By amt. paid 1910 tax 16.00 By aint. paid even 992.00 By commission on same 4.50 By land returns 19.12 By amt due township 1,071.96 $2,311.95 $2,311.95 We, the undersigned Auditors of La porte Township, having audited the above accouftts tind them correct to the best of our knowledge. ERNEST H. BOTSFORD, E. C. PETERS, Auditors. Christmas Exercises. The Laporte Borough and Tan nery town children are invited to the school house in Laporte Bor ough Sunday afternoon at 2:30, at which time and place Christinas candy and oranges will be distri buted among the children. Some one will lie called upon to make an address. Be sure and be present. The parents are also invited. Come everybody. Mrs. Dotha Hack ley and grand son, Orr Laurenson accompanied Mrs. Lillian Pickering to her home at Thompson, Pa., where they will remain for the winter. Miss Eunice Ingham, a student at the Lock Haven Stat*; Normal School is s|>ending her Christmas vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Ingham at this, place. LATEST NEWS OF SONESTOWN. On the last day of the hunting season, Martin Shoemaker had the good fortune to shoot a rabbit, which he thinks followed him off the North Mountain last week. He shot it directly back of his house and there is no rabbits left in Sonestown that close to any dwell ing. Mrs. Mary Jane l'ainten, who is on the sick-list is better at this writing. Robert Simmons made a trip as fireman on the Towanda run last week. It was his first trip on that run and he was not used to the rocking of the locomotive on the rough road, consequently he wore the skin oil" his back and hands shoveling coal. Mrs. Riley Stienback and sou Buffalo of Newell were in town a couple days last week. Smith Bondman was buying Christmas poultry in Eagles Mere last Thursday. Doodle Richie was in Hughes ville last week Wednesday having some dental work done. He look ed natural upon his return, but said it felt easier. — m Sullivan County Man Puts in Strenuous Day. Talk about a run of hard luck ! Hear the story of Albert Hughes, a farmer residing in the Forksville, Sullivan county region. Hughes got up at 4 o'clock the other morn ing to start fire under the big boil er preparatory to the killing of three fat hogs. He laid his new gloves near the fire place while he applied the match, and forgetting to remove them it was only a few minutes until he saw them envel oped by the flames and destroyed. In adjusting a plank above the mouth of the barrel in which the hogs were to Ik* soused, and just after the barrels had been iilied with scalding water, Hughes slip ped on the wet boards and his legs went into the water almost to the knee, burning him terribly. He hung onto work, however, and inside the next hour, by the falling of a heavy butcher knife oil' the ledge where he had hurriedly laid it after sticking one of the pigs, a gash three inches long was cut in his bare arm. That wound put him on the shelf for the remain der of the day, though he did manage to get around to keep the fires going, In the afternoon, while a kettle of lard was rendering over a rousing lire, Hughes, with his crippled arm attempted to ad just the kettle, and he tilted it sufficiently to send a shower of the liquid grease out upon the fiames. In an instant the whole kettle of lard was on fire, and Hughes just escaped being signed by the ton gues of flame, which for ten min utes or more reminded one of an oil tank on fire. That really should have been enough ill for tune for oue da.y but that evening at the supper table he got a bone in his throat, and the doctor who had been sent for ealiei in the day to dress the knife cut, was called again to remove the bone. As soon as this had been ac complished, Hughes went of to bed, lest something else of even a more disastrous character happen to him. He thinks there must have been an unlucky change in the moon for him.--Towanda Re view. Rueben Faust and Clarence Boat man of Sonestown made the county seat a call Wednesdev evening. Edison's declaration that "this country needs men of brains and not politicians who supposed they j had brains," will meet with approv-: al. The following persons were Williamsport visitors this week: F. M. Crossley, John Hassen Jr., and wife. Rev. C. 11. Doupe, Clarence Harvey, Ellery Car peuter and Henry Kraus. Newsy Notes from Muncy Valley Miss Pearl Jillson of Williams- ' port spout Sunday with her par- 1 ents at this place. Mis. James Morran of Laporte was visitiin town Sunday. L. T. Jillsou, who is working for the Queen City Tannery at Titusville, is visiting his family here. Harold Benden was in Williams port Friday. Martha and Walter Reiinsynder of Renova are home for Christ mas. Miss Manda Minnier of Kettle Creek is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. Fenstamacher. "" Daily Review Bargain Days. The ninth annual bargain days for The Daily Review are an nounced for the week beginning Dec. IS, when the paper is sold to subscribers by mail who pay a full year in advance, at the remarkable price of $2.25 per year. The Review gives each day a complete synopsis of the news of the world, all the important news' of Bradford county, and every [ week letters from all parts of the county. There is no better daily newspaper for Bradford county people than the Review Supper and Dance. An oyster supper and dance will be held at. the (Jrange Hall in Muncy Valley, Friday night, Dec. 22. Everybody is cordially in vited to attend. Mrs. J. L. Smyth spent the latter part of the week with her brother, C. R. Lauer at Lock Haven. FARMERS AND MKUCIIANTS Will pay market price fur wool. Adress J. L. Wineman, Lewisburg, I'a. The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru dent housewife. Money saving advantages arealways being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on • **** **r**■ r *">*** ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. AH answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HILLSGROVE, PA. H Dependable || II j8 SK $ |Mp« We handle goods that are cheap, but not *5gS cheap goods. We want our goods to become ftf&l i 4 #* - vour goods and our store yonr store. It' it is ittSPl | Clothing, or § <0- Shoes or J 1 Anything g to furnish num. woman or child up in classy, iff!*?* - * attractive and dapendable attire, then we have v V -< just the articles you need. Give us a call now. p MAX MAMOLEN, LAPORTE ' f|l / Hughes Bill Passes House. WASHINGTON, DEC. 11. The Hughes Bill limiting all employes on Government work to eight hours per day, passed the House today. Recess taken ten minutes. Taken for receiving John Aucon na, Berks county, wh > served in 37th Congress. John G. McHenry. Mrs. Williard Masteller. The remains of Mrs. Williard Masteller, who died at her home in Nebraska, arrived in Nordmont Wednesday evening, and the funeral was held at the home of Charles Gansell at that place Thurs day, interment in Cherry Grove cemetery. Mrs. Masteller was a daughter of Charles Perry aud wife of near Nordmont. Our Big Bargain. To each and every person who pays us $1.50 for two years sub scription to the Republican News ' 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 no time in taking advantage of this liberal offer. AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES. i For Spark Plugs, Batterys, Prest- O-Lite Tanks, Caibiue, Automobile tires, Patches, Cement, Polish 1 Automobile Soap, Spou'joa, Chain oise, Gasolene and Grecses of all kinds, etc., call at Murray Brothers Garage, Lopez. Pa. Mail ami phone calls promptly attended 10. Wanted—All kinds of hides, from bear to muskrat. (lash or tra