vol. xyi. no. 42
THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY.
1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ;
fRANCIS W. MEYLERT,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office in Keeler'e Block.
LAPORTE, Sullivan County, PA.
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorn ay-it- Law.
LAPOKTK, PA
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News Items Contents.
The News Item has been en
larged it now ceutaiu»B six column
pages, just twice as large as for
merly. It, is the secoud paper in
size and the neatest appearing pap
er in Sullivan County, we have en
larged on every feature but one.
aud that is the price, which still |
remains the same as usual, 75 cents j
per year.
Our locatiou at the County Seat j
makes it convenient for us to ob- j
tain notes of public iuterest con- j
ceruing the Sullivan County courts j
aud reports of Legal proceedings, j
All important news of the county j
seat is published. This should be !
of iuterest all iu the county.
Our |continued stories are re
ceiving the highest commendation
from hign-gtade fiction readers.
All the general foreign aud dos
mestic 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
gleaued for items of interest.
The New York market aud lat- !
est quotations are published week
b-
in fact the News Item is the j
best aud newest paper in Sullivan I
County and the price is only 75
cents per year. Subscribe uow.
For Congress.
1 hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Congressman of this,
the sixteenth Congressional Dis
trict of Pennsylvania, subject to the
decisiou of the Republican voters of
the District. Your support is
earnestly solicited.
Very respectfully,
I. CLINTON KLINE.
Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 20, 1912.
FOLEYSHONETHCAR
Surra Ooltfai PravraU Peeweeele
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ware you naturally auk yourself f
this question: "What kind of vV
stove, washer, cutlery, gun,"—or
whatever it may lie —"shall I buy? jon't ponder over these things
nor spend your time looking at pict' .es in "cheap goods" mail-order
catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have
a line variety of standard goods to choose from When you tliink of
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SANITARY PLUMBING.
We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and llo}
Air Heating, (ieneral job work and repairing lu all branches, prompt
y aud skillfully executed
Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa.
Republican News Item.
Teachers' Meeting
At Sonestown.
The seventh monthly teacher's
meeting will be held at Sonestown
March 15 and 10. Following is
the program :
Friday at 8:00 p. m.
Exercises by the schools.
Lecture to be supplied.
Saturday 10:00 a. m.
Teaching Reading, Miss Gavitt.
Seat Work in Arithmetic, Miss
Buck.
The Place of Music in Educa
tion, Miss Phillips.
Abuse of Test Books. Mr. Ar
uies.
How to Study Children With
Advantage, Miss Myers.
Normal Training for Teachers,
Prof. Jaquish.
Assigning Lessons, Miss Cook.
1:30 p. in.
Sense Training, Mr. Hasten.
Teaching the use of the Dic
tionary, Prof. Green.
Methods for Teaching Patriot
ism, Miss Hern.
Individual Instruction, Miss
Houseknectht.
Preparation In English for the
High School, Prof. Leahy,
How Can the School best Aid the
Home? Prof. Bowles.
Straw Ride.
Last Saturday night a rabbit and
I a chipmunk were sitting behind a
tree along the road about a mile
1 this side of Sonestown, talking
; about the weather and etc, when
; suddenly a rumbling sound was
! heard in the distance ; peering
from behind the tree they saw a
dark object approaching. "Here it
comes" said the chipmunk ; "There
it goes'' said the rabbit, as it rum
bled by and disappeared in the
distance. Be not alarmed gentle
reader, it was simply a party of
young people from Laporte en
joying a straw ride to Sonestown,
where the evening was spent at
the Sonestown Hotel. A bounti
ful chicken wallle supper was
served and the evening thoroughly
enjoyed by all. At the proper
hour the lumber wagon was mak
ing its return trip containing, when
they were not walking : Ida Har
tung, Edith (Jumble, Jennie Ep
ler, Mabel Parker, Iva lless, Mar
gueritte Crossley, Amy Knouse;
Lawrence Gumble, Hex Eddy,
John English, Guy Crossley and
Carl Biddle.
Administrator's Notice.
Estate of Martin Mullen, late of
Laporte Borough, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Let
ters of Administration upon the
ostate of Martin Mullen, late of La
porte Borough, Sullivan County,
Pennsylvania, deceased, have been
granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make payment, and
thos" having claims or demands
against the same will present said
claims, duly authenticated, to
E.J. MULLEN,
Administrator of Martin Mullen,]
deceased.
Laporte, Pa., March 11, 1912, i
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 15 1912.
r Covnty Seat
j Local and Personal Events
Tersely Told.
Subscribe for the News Item.
Hazel Little of Nordmont is in
town.
Prof. John Leahy was in To
-1 wauila last Saturday.
F. M. Crossley made a trip to
Hughesville Thursday.
~H. J. Deniott ef Milleville was
a business man in town Monday.
! W. J. McCartney of Sonestown
1 was in Laporte the fore part of the
> week.
Born, to Rev. aud Mrs. Null of
I Fostoria, Ohio. March 7, 1912. a
I
son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John
Hauler of Onshore, March 1. a
daughter.
Wolf Socks was a business man
man iu Jersey Shore the fore part
of the week.
Isaac Shaffer and S. O. Cox of
llughesville were business men in
Laporte Monday.
A wise man some times changes
his miud, a fool never does.
Hurrah for Teddy !
Mr. ami Mrs. Morgan Gavitt
are rejociug over the arrival of a
son. born March 8.
If every man was as big as he
feels there wouldn't be standing
room iuthis country.
The V.l. S. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Edward Lailley Mon
day evening, March LS.
Lost Between Sonestown and
Laporte, a Belt Buckle. Finder
please leave at this ollicc.
The young people will hold a
penny social at the home of G. S.
Eddy this (Friday) evening.
Mr. anil Mrs. Albert Hess at
tended the funeral of Richard V.
Rogers at Forksville Wednesday.
The Ladies Aid of this place
were royally entertained by the
Ladies Aid of Eagles Mere last
Thursday.
As there seems to be a dearth
among Republicans wishing to
announce their candidacy for the
different offices to be filled at the
Spring Primary, we suggest that
you send the name of some friend
whom you consider lit to lill any
of the following offices. We shall
be glad to place such a list before
our readers, and only require your
signoture as a guaranty of good
faith: 2 delegates and 2 alternates
to the National convention from
this Congressional District: Deleg
ate to state convention: Member
of assembly from this county.
Anti-Slang Society.
The gii ls in a neighboring town
have an anti-slang society. A certain
miss was elected president. Asked if
she would accept, she replied:
"Sure, Mike, but gosh, I'm so rat
tled iu my cupola, that I'm really
short of gob. We are certainly hit
ting the high places and I never tum
bled to such a noise before, but
when I give you the high ball 1 ex
pect you to get there, Eli, and
whoop'er up for all that's out; I
think I'm up to snuff enough so the
Ilies won't light on me while doing
the president stunt of this society
act, but I won't stand for any
monkey doodle business from you
gals while I aiu running the ranch. |
We gals ought to extend an invite
to the married ladies to get out and
help us shoot this slang business,
it's getting to be fierce.
j A Problem For The County
Commissioners.
There is no getting around (lie
fact that the Prothonotary's Office
is too small to properly take care
of the county's business. The
vault is n;nv overflowing with the
county records, aiul all space is
orfiined and jammed lull. The
file ease ol' the Coinnion I'leas are
all I'd led and in some instances
three to live terms have been
placed in llie same cast!, and many
records have had to be taken out
of the office and place in the
vaults in the old ollicc formerly
used by the County Commissioners.
This makes it very inconvenient
and troublesome to get access to
all the records, and reflects not
on our ollicers, but on the county.
Some provision must be made in
the immediate future for the care
of our records. We believe we
have a Hoard of Commissioners
who are competent and will take
the proper steps to have the nec
essary additional room provided.
This condition has not come sud
denly for it lias been known for a
number of years that there was
not sufficient vault room for this
office. There have been a num
ber of suggestions, all more or less
with objectional features. First
there is the tireproof huildingsouth
of the Court House, built orignally
for the Prothonotary's and Com
missioners' office. This building
contains two large lire proof vaults
with steel doors, and is sufficiently
large to keep all records for a
number of years to come. The
east room of this building has been
fitted up for a juvenile jail, but
this need not necessarily interfere
\\ith the vault room.
(Second-, titer - is the office next
to the I'rotiioiiotary's office now
used by the District Attorney,
Superintendent of Schools and
County Surveyor which if made in
a lire-proof vault would more than
double the vault capacity of the
present oiliee. The great difficulty
with this is the expense anil un
certainty of getting a vault that is
tire-proof. ft is thought by main
that the present vault would noi
prove fire-proof in ease the court
house should burn.
Third, a large fire proof vault
might be built in the cellar below
the present otliee, that would afford
sufficient room for a good many
years to come. This would not be
much darker than the present
vault, but would involve consider
able expense iu making it surely
lire proof. Fourth. An addition
could be built on the north side ol
the present office and made lire
proof but would detract very much
from the appearance of the present
building. There are probably other
methods of making this necessary
enlargement, but these are all we
have heard suggested. That anot
her year should not go by without
additional room for the office is ap
parent to any one w ho lias occasion
to give the matter consideration.
But as we stated before wo think
the present Board of Commissioner
fully competent to find anil choose
the best plan for making the im
provement.
Any boy or girl who has had
scholastics advantages knows that
leap year belongs to the solar
year system. Those more advanced
know that civil and astronomic
time are made equal by adding a
day every fourth year and that
this makes leap year.
A card party was given at the
home of Mrs. T. J. Kceler Wed
nesday evening in honor of Miss J
Jennie Epler of (Juakertown, l'a.. j
who is spending a few weeks in i
Laporte. Those present were Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Keeler, Sheriff Cott, j
Margueritte Crossley, Kdith (Hum
ble, Mrs. Jane A. Roberts, Esther
Vougli, Ida Maitung and Prof.
John L. Leahy. All report a good
time.
LATEST NEWS OF
SONESTOWN.
If Guy Crossley should get his
nose peeled would his eye ball V
John V. Lesher of Sun bury,
Democratic candidate for Congress,
was in town Friday.
If Capt. Chase should slip and
fall t>n the pavements in Eagles
Mere would Raymond Kehrer?
We dont hardly know how to
talk to a young man from Eagles
Mere when we meet him, as we
are told that he knocked a steer
through a window. Guess we
wont speak to him about the
knocking business.
We have a man in Sonestown
who says he was in such a hard
shower that it,rained faster in the
bung hole of a molasses barrel
which had both ends out, than it
could run out of the ends.
Win. 11. Dildine of Muney was
in town Monday evening:
A. J. Bitler of Exchange was in
town Monday.
Harry Glass of Sunbury was iu
tow 11 on business Tuesday. *
Peter Stetler of Muney was a
business man in our litte hamlet
Tuesday evening.
Win. Stanley, Hush Bottsford
were down Iroin Nordmont Tues
day.
Richard V. Rogers.
Richard V. Rogers, of Renovo.
Pa., died Friday morning, March
S, of diabetes, at the age cl' about
b"> years. Mr. Rogers was a sou of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rogers: of
Forksville. lie was an attorney
and had an elegant law practice at
Renovo. He stood well in social
and business circles. He was a
member of the Masonic fraternity.
His death in the prime of life is
severe shock to his relatives and
I: lends anil serious loss in the com
munity where he lived ami was
prominently identified with its
businss interests.
File remains were brought to
Forksville, Monday, to home of
parents, and the funeral was held
Wednesday. Mr. Rogers is sur
vived by his wife and three child
ren. Also his father, mother and
two brothers, William 11. Rogers
of La porte, and Fred A. Rogers,
of Brooklyn, N. V. Onshore Ga
zette.
Adminstrator's Notice.
Letters of Administration on the
estate of John W. lieaton, late of
Laporte Township, Sullivan County
Pennsylvania, having been granted
to tin* undersigned, all persons
iudebeted to the said estate are re
quested to make payment, and
those having claims, to present
tlii! same without delay, to.
JAMES C. CAVEN", Adminis'r.
Jan. 29, 1912.
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ton 100 lb
Corn Meal 29.00 1.50
Cracked Corn 29.00 1.50
Corn 29.00 1.50
• Sacks each 6c with privilege of
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Schumacher Chop 3l\oo 1.05
Wheat liran 32.00 105
Fancy White Midds. 33.00 1.70
Oil Weal 42.00 2.10
Cluten 34.50 1.75
Alfalfa Meal 29.00 1.50
Oyster Shells 10.00 60
Brewers Grain 30.00 1.50
Choice Cottouseed Meal 33.00 1.70
Luxury Flour sack 1.25
" " per bbl. 4.M0
Beef Scrap 3.00
Oats per bu. .60
Charcoal 50 lb sack .60
Oyster Shells " .35
140 lb bag Salt coarse or tine .50
100 lb bag Salt .35
Buckwheat Flour 3.00
Slhumacher Flour sack 1.60
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Spring Wheat,,(Marvel) " 1.70
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