Financial Statement of Laporte Township. Financial statement of LapOrte Township Koatl Funds ending Dec. oth, 1911, To amt. ot indebted ness, audit of Mch. 6th. 1911 To temporary 10an... 900.00 By unit, paid on tern porary loan w To amt. due treasurer 44.»» By amt. of indebted ness $2,745.84 $2,745.84 Mlnard Peterman, Overseer of Poor, in account with Laporte TownshiiJ ending Dec. sth, 1911: To amt. on hand last audit $ 95.6u To amt. received Geo. Karge, Coll. 114.30 Hv bills paid: Shed' Peterman (rent) C. Hroschart * 2b.ui E. timig (state hospital) bs.bi Auditing ' Bal. paid P. Peterman, sue cessor a days service $209.73 $209.7S Harvev 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 auit. received of Geo. Karge 287.49 By bills paid: Geo. H east work) C. Hroschart $ 4.2,i E. Speary I work) C. Hroschart 6.0 C Nordmont Supply Co. (sup plies) C. Hroschart 132.6,i 7 days service 14.00 Hal. due overseers from last audit Hal. in oversets 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 Hv repairs and maintenance of load $9.>2. 0.1 By repairs oh bridges and cul verts 14.).0( By machinery, tools .etc 299.;>2 By salaries of road masters... 2.>8.91 By expenses of supervisors... 96.0 C By stationery, etc 12.j)«J By prothonotary fees By auditing and statement... s.Od By attorney fees By temporary loans paid 700.0 d By maintaining water trough. 9.80 By interest paid 146,55 By damage case, Fred Hunter,* 87.0(1 By witnesses, Fred Hunter case 24.12 $2,775.28 $2,775.28 Morgan Gavitt, Treasurer of Road Funds, in account with Laporte Town ship ending Dec. sth, 1911: Tt> 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. K. Gavitt 200.00 To amt. received of G. Karge. C 011... 1.023.79 To amt. received of F. H. Ingham 100.00 To amt. received of Laporte Hank ... 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. 100.00 100.00 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. Kai ge, 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, 5% off $1,023.79 By rebate on same 53.57 By commission on same 30.71 By amt. paid 1910 tax 16.00 By amt. 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 accounts find them correct to the best of our knowledge. ERNEST H. BOTSFORD, E. C. PETERS, Auditors. They Liked the Story. ' Ccnan Doyle related this anecdote to show how a good story can delight simple minded folk: In u remote village the blacksmith had got hold of an old copy of a suc cessful novel. In the long evenings he used to read it aloud to the villagers, who fairly reveled In it and listened it out patiently to the end. At leugth, when the happy turn of fortune thriv ed which brings the hero and heroine together and sets them living long and happily, according to the most approv ed rules, the villagers were so delight ed at the happy ending that they rush ed off to procure the church keys and rang a merry peal, as tbey were wont to do when a member of their commu nity was married. Embezzled over a tvnmon. Following an examination of the books of August Hopke. the defaulting assistant secretary of the- Fidelity Trust company, of Louisville, Ky.. a meeting of the company'! stockholders TUB IS TREED BY MUCK BEAR Pennsylvania Schoolma'm in Lonely House Wigwagged a Passing Teamster. • w Girl While Preparing for Opening of the Term Accidentally Locked Up With Brute, Which Had Been For aging Among Dinner Pails. Galeton, Pa.—A teamster driving along the lonely Kettle Creek road the other day had his attention attracted by the frantic waving of a pair of hu man arms that were thrust out of the attic window of a little schoolhouse which sets back from the road near Oleonn, and in one of the most pic turesque but isolated sections of all that rather wild part of Potter coun ty. Stopping his horses so that the rattle of the harness chains was stilled, his ears were greeted by piti ful calls for help, in an unmistakably feminine voire, and then, looking sharply at the lfttle opening at the gable end of the schoolhoitsp, he could distinguish the lace of a woman back in the shadow of the building, for the window was not lai#« enough to per mit bother her head and arms to pro trude at the same time. Holding a conversation from his po sitlou on the ground, the teamster was affrightedly Informed that there was a bear on the first floor of the schoolhouse and the woman advised him t« run for a gun before he at tempted to open the door. The woman was Miss Crissie Roper, the appointed teacher at the Oleona school, and In the forenoon she had gone to the schoolhouse alone to ar range some things preparatory to the opening of the term and to get ac- Teacher Takes to Attic. quainted with the place. She expect ed to find some carpenters at work making repairs upon the interior of the school building, but while the door of the building was unlocked and ajar there were no workmen about, they having, as she subsequently learned, gone to another schoolhouse down the pike several miles to attend to some work, expecting to return to the Ole ona school in the afternoon. The men had left their dinner pails there. When Miss Roper entered the room and found it deserted she decided that she would turn her attention to sweep ing the floor, and swung the door shut in order to get the broom which she thought must be behind it. The door clanged shut and fast, for the spring lock had made her a prisoner without any key with which io unlock it. Realizing her pre li "imc 'it, the young woman set about to find a way by which she might release herself from her lonely prison. The only way she could accomplish this, as she saw. was to take a small ladder with which the workmen had reached the attic, and which still stood in that position, with its upper rung reaching the opening into the dark apartment, where extra books and other accouterments were kept, and which looked to the timid new teacher as though it was a very likely place for bats to roost, and if she could move it to one of the win dows it would afford her an opportuni ty to get down to the ground. Just then she heard a sound in a lit tle room off from the main apartment. «nd at the next instant she was over whelmed with fear at the sight of a full grown b'iack bear that came shuf fling out toward her. The animal h:ul evidently boen attracted into the schoolroom through the open door, and, finding the workmen's dinner buckets, had been indulging his appe tite in cake and other toothsome del icacies. Rut the sight of the young womah and the piercing shriek she uttered as she beheld the animal and recognized that she was locked in the building with him rather startled Hruin, and he retired to the other apartment. In the meantime Miss Roper, seeing a way of escape up the ladder into the attic, climbed up there, bats or not bats, and once up on the rickety floor she •irew the ladder up to her, so the bear would have no chance of getting her. She struggled with the little attic win dow until she got it open, and then began her vigil for h«ly. I REMARKABLE CASE i OF AN EX-CONVICT I ■ Is This Man George A. Kimmel, or Is He the Prince of Impostors? Weird Story of Man Released From a New York Prison Who Claims to Be Former Respected Citizen of Michigan Town. Niles, Mich. —The first picture shown herewith is that of George A. Kimmel. and was taken 13 years ago. The sec ond is that of Andrew J. White, who claims to be Kimmel, and who came from Auburn Prison to prove his Iden tity to Kimmel's family. George Kimmel was reported to have died, and his mother and sister tried to collect $25,000 insurance on his life. Then the man in the second pic ture turned up in the Auburn peni tentiary and the insurance company is trying to substantiate his claim. The man has given some evidence of a knowledge of Kimmel's family and friends, but !>i ß supposed mother says he has also shown extraordinary ig norance of some thing which he should remember; and she does not recognize him as her son, though she will not say he Is a fraud without further In vestigation. Thirteen years ago George Alfred Kiiiiinul disappeared frojn Arkansas City, where he had been employed in a bank, though several years before that he had left his home in Michigan and had never returned to visit his family. Prom {hp (lay gf his disappearance and up to a brief time ago when an Auburn penitentiary convict about to be released announced that he was the Kimmel and the Ex-Convict. missing man his family and friends had no word of any kind from him, and the general opinion was that he was dead. Seven years after her son's disappearance Kimmel's mother in stituted suit in the St. lA>ui» court* for the insurance which she held on his life. A Jury rendered a verdict in her favor anil declared Kimmel to be legally dead atid upon this verdict one company paid Mrs. Kimmel on a $&,000 policy. Another company which car ried a $25,000 policy fought the claim and carried the matter to higher courts. Meanwhile this latter company directed a conutrywide search for Kim mel and finally announced to the court that the man had been located in Au burn prison. Kriends from this city went east after Kimmel, when word was received that he bad been found and they ac companied him from Auburn to Niles, having sent word immediately to his relatives that there wasn't a doubt in their minds as to his Identity. The ex-convict gives a rather hazy but not unconvincing account of his wanderings since he disappeared In 1898. He said: "1 left Niles many years ago togo into business at Ar kansas City in 1898, and while In St lx>uis at that time 1 was 'slugged' by liold-up men, and for a long tim* my memory was quite bad. I must have wandered much while in this condi tion, and eventually brought up in New York. 1 have little to say about the trouble 1 got into which made it necessary for me to leave Arkansas City or the mixup in New York, which resulted in my being sent to prison, but I was not responsible at either time, and 1 do not think that I should be judged for that. 1 feel better now than I have for 13 years." The man, who, by the way, waff con victed and sent to prison under the name of White, claims that during his years of prison life his mind was so , clouded that anything he had to say as to his real self was regarded as the mere wanderings of an irresponsible I person, and that it was impossible for I him to proclaim himself as £immel. GEAR'S IMPUDENCE MAKES HIM TERROR Trap Gun Is Rigged Up to Put an End to His Career. BRUIN FELLS FARMER Infuriated and Badly Wounded, a 400- Pound Maine Bear Knocks Would- Be Captor Senseless and Almost Tears Him to Pieces. New York. —"The brazen Impudence of the Maine bear," said a man from Maine the other day to a reporter here, "is what makes him a terror to the backwoods farmers of thai state ami was what led to the putting of a price on his head some years ago. It also led to the invention of various devices for destroying him. "The favorite device was the trap gun. In nine cases out of ten when this gun went off it settled Ihe bear. I have known instances, though, in which the trap gun fell a little short of doing its work thoroughly and led to unpleasant consequences for the farm er who set it. As 1 recall it now. a little the worst torn-up man 1 ever saw or heard of was a farmer named Havvey, who made a trilling miscal culation once on a Maine bear that had touched off a trap gun. "The bear had busied himself for some time in playing havoc with Har vay'a farm products, both of growing crops and live stock, and so Harvey Joßt patience with the marauder and rigged up a trap gun to put an end to his career. An experienced woods man, one William Johnson, directed the arrangement of the trap gun, and Bruin Pells the Farmer. fortunately for Farmer Harvey accom panied that citizen when he started out to visit the gun the next morning. "Ordinarily the Maine bear gets into trouble with the trap gun during his night's outing. In the case of the Harvey bear the bear had put off hid visit to the baited trap gun until morning, and it was just as Harvey and Johnson were drawing near the spot where the gun was set that he took hold of the bait and tired the gun. "Hearing the report the two uien hastened forward and saw the bear, a very big one, writhing on the ground, bellowing like a bull. He was badl> wounded, but not so badly but that r-hen he saw the men approaching he could get quickly to his feet and make a rush for them. "Johnson was alert enough tn get out of the way, but the bear caught the less experienced Farmer Harvey and felled him to the ground with n blow from one paw that knocked him senseless. Then the bear clawed and chewed and ripped Harvey to such an extent that when Johnson succeeded in at last killing Hruin with a club lie took the farmer on his back and car ried him home for dead. 'iHarvey's face was torn out of all reqognition. The tlesh on his arms, frojn his shoulders down was stripped off to the bone in many places and his che6t was frightfully lacerated. He wasn't dead, though, as the doctor found when he got there and looked him over. When 1 came away front that region, where 1 h.id been hunting about that time, there was a question whether the farmer would recover from his wounds, and I never heard whether he did or not. Hut the bear weighed over 400 pounds." Shot by His Own Wolf Trap. Wilber, Neb. —Arthur Krauter. a 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 hip feet and legs. More than 80 shots were removed later. Ladies Swipe R. R. Towels. San Francisco, Cal. —Twenty-one thousand dollars' worth of towels were "lost" by the Southern Pacific railroad last year and from that rea son women who ride on its trains and boats will be compelled to fur alsb their own towels hereafter. The Canary's Claws. If yon aiive a canary or other ease bird look to its claws from time to time, for iti a state of captivity the bird's nails grow so long that they need cutting. It this be neglected the bird is in danger of getting its nails caught In the cage and hanging there till it dies. Use a sharp pair of nail scissors and take care not to cut more than just the tips of the ualls. If you hold tiie bird in a good light you will see a little red "thread" in each nail. This you must avoid, or you will draw blood and hurt your little pet. Broiled Caterpillar. Fancy eating caterpillars for dinner! The very thought is enough to upset one, yet among the natives of Rhodt sia caterpillars are greatly esteemed as an article of diet. Only the tough, hairy skins are used, these being plae ed in the ashes of a wood tire, where they shrink and blacken. This particu lar kind of caterpillar is found in con siderable numbers throughout the country. Ofteu an army of them may be seen crawling up a tree trunk, each caterpillar touching its predecessor.— Wide Wori' 1 Matrav.ine. Mamma s Own Daughter. His Daughter i>add>. you were twenty-ti ve when this was taken, weren't you'' Why. you might have sat for it yesterday. Her Father—M'yes; your mother's own daughter. Well. well, you'll tind it on the table. 1 think. nis Daughter—Find what, daddy, darling? Her Father—The check book, my own lamb.—New York Journal. His Profile. Blank, a fat millionaire, was arrang ing to have Ins portrait painted. The length three-quarters was settled, and then the painter saiu: "And shall the view be profile or full face. Mr. Blank':" "Profile. by till means," was the re ply. "The curve of the stomach gives a dignity to the figure."—Philadelphia Bullet iu. Tha Sailors' Line. "Pop, what Is the line the sailors talk about'/" "It is a certain degree which the ships cross in their voyages." "Oil! I always though the line was where they hung the wash of the sea." —Baltimore Auicrlcau. FItA M F.KS ANI» M KIWI I ANTS— Will pay market price fur woo). AilressJ. L. WiiH'inan, Lewisl>urj», Pa. The Best place to buy goods Is otten asked by the pru dent housewife. Money saving advantages ;ire always being searched for Lose no time in making a thorough examination of the New Line of Merchandise Now on |EXHIBITION| ********* «***. *«»»» 111 ??? 11l ST BP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. ALI answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HILLSGROVE, PA. t P Dependable j| B ® m is WE handle goods that are cheap, hut not §Bjlp< cheap goods. We want our goods to become vour goods and our store your store. If it is 11 Clothing, or gE X*** ***^ || Shoes or || J Anything ft to furnish man, woman or child up in classy, j&jL 4 rojS attractive aud dapendablo attire, then we have tiff?*. §gg just the articles you need. Give us a call now. MAMOLEN, L Ap o^^g ,QOURT PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS, HON. CHAB. E, IKKKY I'rwldent Judge, Uonoraliles Junius P. Miller ami Dentil* Keefe Assoc. Judges of the Co rn of Oyer mid Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Orphans'Court und Com mon Pleas lor the County of Sullivan, have issuiil their precept, bearing da:<'the'J'Jth iluy of Dec. 1911, to me directea, 1..r hol ing the several courts in the Borough of Lajoi M .M. ndaytliu 12th day of February 1912, at 20« mi i p. : . Therefore,notice Is hereby given to the uon.n< •. Justices of the Peace and Constables within the county, that they be then and there in their pro|>- er person at 2 o'clock p. m.of said day, u iUi their rolls, records, inquisitions examinations unit other remeinberanees to those things lu which their offices appertain to be done. And to those who are bound by their recognizance to prosecute against prisoners who are or shall be in the Jail of thesaid county of Sullivan, are hereby untitled to be then and there to prosecute against them an will be just. J. G. COTT, Sherlfl. Sheriff's Office, LaPorte, Pa., Jan. ti, IVI2 Orphans Court Notice. Notice is hereby given that the First and Final Account of Judsou Drown, Trustee for the sale of Keal Estate of James Lane, late of Cherry Township, Deceased, under proceedings In Parti ion in the Orphans Court of Sullivau County to No. 1 February term. 19] 1, has been lilcd in my office. * And the same will be presented, to the Orphans Court of Sullivau County, to be held at LaPorte, Pa. on the Twelfth day of February A. 1). 1912. at 3 o'clock p. in., for continuation and allowance, anil the same shall then be conlirmed Ni. Si. ; and Confirmation Absolute will be futuivd thereon by the UIITK OF ilit OrpUans V oi.r'.. IUIUHS E.xpectiois in w riling are pie\ious ly filed. ALBERT F. UK ESS, Clerk of the- Oiphana Court. Clerk s Office, Laporte, Pa,, January 15. 1912. Card of Thanl:3. Fred G. Beaton and Mary G. Ileaton wish to extend their siu eeiv thanks to friends and neigh bors who so kindly assisted at the death of their t'athev JoUu \\ _ Heuton. "I had been given up to die by three or our best doctors, I could not stand it to be on my feet and I was so swelled in the abdomen I could hastily breathe. But thanks to Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy and Nervine I r.ra able to be about the streets, a walking ad vertisement of the curative qual ities of your remedies, akhdugh It am 70 years old." JOHN R. COCHRAN, Lewistown, 111. Better than any statement v.e could make regarding the value o£ Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy arc these words of Mr. Cochraw. Ee speaks from experience, the highest possible source of knowl edge. If you have any of the signs of a weak heart, such as, pain in the left shoulder or arm,, hinting and hungry spells, short n?ss of breath, smothering spells,, fl uttering or palpitation of the heart,, you need Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy which for over twenty years has been recognized as the best pcepa ruiion of its kind to be had. Sold under a guarantee »ss«trinj the return of the price of the first bottle If it fails to benef't, AT ALL DRUGGISTS. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
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