vol. xvi. no. 40
THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY.
Office in Keeler'e Block.
I.APORTE, Suin»»n Couuty, PA.
E J. MULLEN,
Attorn*y-at-Law.
LAPOKTX, PA
orrica ia COORTT aoiiDia*
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J H. CRONIN,
ATTORIF EY*AT LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC,
ornoi om M Al* BTRIIT.
DUSHORE. PA
Firs* National Bank
OF LAPORTE. PA.
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Transacts a general banking business.
J. 1.. CHRISTIAN . EIIW. I.AIH.EY
President. Cashier.
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News Items Contents.
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pages, just twice as large as for-'
uierly. It is the second paper in j
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er iu Sullivan Couuty, we have en- j
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per year. |
Our location at the Couuty Seat
makes it convenient for as to ob
tain notes of public interest con-1
cerning the Sullivan County courts
aud reports of Legal proceedings.
All important news of the county
seat is published. This should l>e
of iuterest to all in the county.
Our JdOntinued stories are re
ceiving the highest commendation
from hign-grade fiction readers. ,
All the general foreign and dos- j
ui«stic news is published weekly.
Our old soldier's column is
greatly appreciated by the surviv- j
ing veterans of the Civil War.
Each week a snapshot (is taken
at State News. All Pennsylvania
gleaned for items of interest.
The New York market and lat
est quotations are published week-'
lv.
In fact the News Item is the j
best aud newest paper iu Sullivan
Couuty aud the price is only 75 ;
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For Congress.
1 hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Congressman of this,
the Sixteenth Congressional Dis
trict of Pennsylvania, subject to the
decision of the Republican voters of
the District. Your support is
earnestly solicited.
Very respectfully,
I. CLINTON KLINE.
Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 20, 1912.
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HARDWARE
WHEN you think of buying bard
whatever it may be —"shall I buy? jon't ponder over these things
nor spend your time looking at picly .es in "cheap goods" mail-order
catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve tlie problem. We have
a fine variety of standard goods to choose from Wlu*i you think of
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SANITARY PLUMBING.
We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Ho?
Air Heating. General job work and repairing In all branches, prompt
y and skillfully executed
Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa.
Republican News Item.
LATEST NEWS OF
SONESTOWN.
Melvin Fox lnia returned to his
home iu Eagles Mere alter spend
ing a couple weeks in Souestowu.
Mr. Edgar of near Souestowu is
quite ill at this writing.
Win. Bogart was called to
Masten last Thursday on account
of the serious illness of his father.
A. T. Armstrong attended the
lioiv*saleat Hughesville Friday.
Bertie Paintaiu has returned
home from the Williamsport hos
pital where he was op -rated upon
for appendicitis.
Robert Simmons is improving
uieely at th;s writing.
J. W. Laird was a business man
at the County Seat last Saturday.
Milton WorthingtonoM'nityville
transacted business in town last
Friday.
The News Item subscription list
is growing rapidly in Souestowu,
three new subscribers being added
during the p* | week. J.J. Tem
ple, 11. L, t ies, and (.J. L. Rooks
beiug the ' If you are not
a subscril id care to subscribe
the price • cents payable at the 1
Souesto otel. If you receive'
the papei ,is week and you are
not a subscriber, it is merely a
sample copy, if you wish it con-j
tinued you should subscribe at
once.
John Edgar is again working for
James Meyers.
Mrs. Anna Ilaus of Masten
is visiting her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith Bondman for a week.
J. 11. Stackhouse of the Moun
tain House in Shrewsbury town
ship was in town last Monday.
Robert Smith of Eagles Mere!
visited at Smith Boudmau's Sun
day.
Roll Call.
Beruice and Mildred Absent
Souestowu Present
Muucy Valley Absent
Ricketts Absent
Nordinont Absent
Forksville Abseut
Hillsgrove Present
Eagles Mere ' Present
Remember we furnish stamped
envelopes and paper to correspon
dents.
Adminstrator's Notice.
Letters (if Administration on the
estate of John W. lleaton, late of
Laporte Township, Sullivan County
Pennsylvania, having been granted
to the undersigned, nil persons
indebeted to the said estate are re
quested to make payment, and
those having claims, to present
the same without delay, to.
JAMES C. CAVEN, Adminis'r.
Jan. 29, 1912.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 1 1912.
(County Seat
Local and Personal Events
Tersely Told.
Friday ia the first day of
i' March.
I W. B. Snider of Nordinont was
'in the County Seat Tuesday.
Dr. Daly of Dushore was a
professional caller here Tuesday.
T. S. Tompkins of llillsgrove
wat a county seat caller Tuesday.
Fred lleaton, Oeerge Upmau
and Baymoud Minnier are work
at Masten.
We are informed that a milk
i wagon w ill make daily visits to
Laporte during the coining sum
mer.
Miss Helen Carpenter accom
panied Miss Fay Hess to her home
at Nordinont Saturday' evening
visiting over Sunday.
i E. J. Mullen Esq.. had the
I misfortune to slip and fall on the
; icy sidewalk Tuesday resulting in
i a badly sprained wrist.
The V- I. S. will hold its
| Food and Bake Sale at J. Ij.
Smyth's store Saturday afternoon
beginni.ig at 2:30 o'clock.
A Social w ill be held at the home
lof Mrs, J. IJ. Smyth for the bene
fit of the M. E. Church on Friday
evening. March 1, 1012. A silver
collection will be taken. You are
invited.
The ladies of the M. E. church
springs a new one o*\ the inhabi
tants of this burg. It is called a
left hand social and will be iu pro
gress at Mrs. J. L. Smyth's Fri
| day evening.
Don't croak. Leave that to
frogs and stagnant pools. A few
croakers through are neessary in
every community to measure the
rate of progress at which live men
are advancing.
A Left llaud Social will be held
lat the home of Mrs. J. L. Smyth
for the benefit of the M. E. church
Friday evening, March 1. ISHIi.
A silver collection will be taken.
All are welcome.
Don't grumble if your paper is
not always Hush up to the high
standard of your ideal. Charitable
remember that no editor is capable
of getting up quite as good a paper
as you could yourself.
There is no way of improving a
place as much as by encouraging
good merchants, good schools and
good people to settle among you.
and this cannot be done unless you
spend your money at home.
Some people never hand in an
item of news for publication, but
if we happen to miss an item in
which they an- interested they are
sure to hand us a north pole stare
that would freeze the liver of a
polar bear.
We invite you to our town be
cause we know you will be delight
ed with its surroundings, delighted
with its people, delighted with its
laws, delighted with its school
privileges, and delighted with the
moral element that exists and is
largely sustained by the people.
A Tunkhannock wo nan recent
ly found an old fashioned ten dollar
greenback, dated l.Sti.'J, in the fami
ly Bible. She was looking to see
on what date Auut Euphiina was
born. She told her husband about
it.and he has since read the good
book through four
Sentinel
The Town Croaker.
In every town you liiul some
men who always croak and growl :
their chief amusement seems to be
to snarl and whine and howl. Of
course they do not prosper well
such people seldom do—and so
they strive to make themselves ami
all their neighbors blue. If strang
ely come these men endeavor to
get them off alone, and while they
speak in doleful tones, tell them
how the town is dead and passed
away, and hasn't any enterprise
that half begins to pay : how real
estate is very low and taxes very
high, and every improvement
scheme is sure to wane and die.
The gooil book says a day will
come when all must pass away
and swop for wings and golden
harps this tenement of clay, the
earth will burn with fervent heat,
the sun go out iu gloom, and every
living, breathing thing shall liiul a
real tomb. When that time conies
the croaker who drives against his
town —and tries to drive good men
away and break their efforts down
will be declared it victim for a
special dose of llanie—ten thous
and years and lie will lie roasted
just the same. Meantime the en
ergetic man who labors for his
tow n, always works to build it up
instead of tearing down, will ride j
from earth to heaven in a Pullman '
palace car, and dw ell in peace for-j
ever where the lirst-class angels;
Bury the croaker out in the
wood in a beautiful hole in the
ground, where the woodpeeke l '
pecks and the bumble-bee bums
aud the straddle bug straddles
around. He is no good to the town
piifh :to unpractical, stingy and
dead, but he wants the whole
earth, and all of its crust anil the
stars that shine overhead. Then
hustle him off to the bumble bees
roost and bury him deep in the
ground : he's of no USL; here, get
liini out of the way, and make
room for the man that is sound.
HILLSGROVE.
Miss Cora Hutl'smith has re
turned to Dushore after spending
a few days with her parents here.
Horn, to Mr. and Airs. Rufus
Boyle 011 Feb. a daughter.
Laura Intz of Mountoursville is
the guest of Wynova Holl'man on
Center St.
Dean Rogers of Lincoln Falls
spent Sunday in town.
Mrs. Fred Buckley who was
operated 011 'Tuesday of last week
is getting along nicely.
Lou Barto has returned to Hills
grove after spending a week with
parents at I'enusdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward llotVman
are visiting relatives and friends
at Picture Rocks.
Pete Yroman is on the sick-list.
Misses Myrtle and Hazel (iumhlc
entertained a few of their friends
at their homo Thursday evening.
All reported a tine time 1
John Stevens.
John Stevens of Eagles Mere
died at his home in that place Sat
urday, Feb. '_M, ISM'J, at ."> o'clock
a. in., of pleurisy aged (18 years.
Air. Stevens was a veteran of the
Civil war. He has been a resident
of Eagles Mere for the past >
years. His many friends will re
gret to learn of his demise.
Deceased is survived by a wife,
six sons and one daughter.
Funeral was held last Monday
intermeut in Eagles Mere cenie
tery.
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Social Party.
' 1 A party was held at the home
: of Mr. and Mrs. John Knouse
' Wednesday evening, Feb. 28,
i' 1912. in honor of their daughter
Amy. A jolly sleighing party
> from Nordinont were present.
I Various games and amusements
- were indulged in. At about one
) o'clock a violin in the hands of
Mr, Keeler of Nordinont suddenly
i became active and the old familiar
I strains of "Waltz Mo Around
' Again Willie" floated through the
I rooms out of the back door and
down toward Lake Mokoma.
t This was too much for the young
people, so with the Nordinont or-
I chcstra, consisting of Miss Ida
llartung, organist and Mr. Keeler,
furnishing the music, a couple
s hours*of dancing was indulged in.
At a late hour the young peo
ple departed and everybody agreed
that they had a line time. Those
: in at tendance were :
Edith Gamble, Margneritte
! Cross ley,, Itl;t llartung, Amy
| Knouse, Jessie Wrede, Jessie
Rogers, Gertrude Knouse, Iva
■ I (ess. Fay UPSH, Lenna Fiester,
Lottie Speary, Clara Morris, Nel
! lie Hunter, Cecial Hottsford, Marie
j Peterinan, Fredie Arms, Mabel
Parker, Irma Walizer, Guy Cross
ley, Grant Carpenter, Carl J!id
: die. Hob Hunter, Harry ilunten
j Harry Horn, Hairy Knouse,
Frank Botsford, John Leahy,
John English, Dewey Fiester,
| Stanley May, Hurt Snyder and
j Hiiy Anders.
Democrats and the Tarriff.
The Democrats in Congress a/*'
I still c 'litin'v.iiig their 'do
I policy. Although tliej* have the
j opportunity of passing tie; Wool
Bill reducing the tarriff on nianu
! factored woolen which President
j Taft vetoed last summer on the
J ground that his Tariff Commission
j has not reported ou this subject
j i>nt they have now reported show
j ing that reduction can be made
without injurying the woolen in
: dustry t h,»v are taking measures in
! which the government is still in
the dark as to scientific informa
j tioi . and which of course will
draw another veto from the Pres
ident if passed. In other words,
(lie Demorats are merely trying to
| • 'makea record - ' and to bluff the
j public, so as to gain an advantage,
|if possible, in the presidential
j campaign. However, the people
j will understand their game of
plaving politics instead of states
manship and will act accordingly,
at voting time.
EAGLES MERE.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
: Smith Feb. 'JS, 1012, a daughter.
John Prink is a great boxer,
when practicing he knocked Mr.
Stere through the window.
The lumbermen are very glad to
j sec the snow again.
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S When people realize tliat it
X is "ot the quantity for the
2 money, so much an the quality
J that counts, then they wUI
X patronize the store which does
• business in good pure goods.
£ Cut prices often mean cut
2 qualities. Our prices are as
| '"W as good goods wii allow.
J Our goods are not of the cheap
• mail-order variety. When
• comparing prices do not for-
S get to compare qualities. If
X you find the prices lower thau
2 ours, then you will And the
1 qualities inferior—generally
"bargain house" job lots.
Ask us to show you why
our stock is superior.
Buschhausen's.
:M. BRINK'S
PRICES For This Week
i »
toil 100 lb
' Corn Meal 29.00 1.50
, Cracked Corn 29.00 1.50
, Corn 29.00 1.50
• Sacks each (Jc with privilege of
. returning without expense to uie.
Schumacher Chop 32.00 1,05
| Wheat Bran 3C.00 105
Fancy White Mulds. 33.00 1.70
Oil Meal 42.00 2.10
Gluten 34.50 1.75
. Alfalfa Meal 29.00 1.50
k i Oyster Shells 10.00 00
1 Brewels Ovaiu 30.00 l.tiO
' Choice Cottonseed Meal 33.00 1.70
I Luxury Flour sack 1.25
" per bbl. 4.90
Beef Scrap 3.00
Oats per bu. .60
' Charcoal 50 lb sack .00
i Oyuter Shells " .35
t 140 lb bag Salt coarse or fine .50
100 lb bag Salt .35
Buckwheat Flour 3.00
Slhumacher Flour sack I.GO
" " perbbl. 6.2tf
i Spring Wheat Marvel) " 1.70
i Veal Calves wanted on Monday,
. Tuesday and Wednesday. Live
I fowls and chickens on Wednesday.
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