State Library Republican News Item. VOL. XYI. NO. 37 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT 'THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. I COUNTY SEAT | LOCAL AND PERSONAL ;| 1 EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD J. Mrs. Carrie Borton called on Mrs. Dotha Hackley on Sunday. Mr. Nelson Lawrenson spent Sunday at his home in this place. Smith Bondman of Sonestown transacted business in this place on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Maddox walked to Eagles Mere, and returned last Monday. Sheriff Cott transacted business in Nordinont and Williamsport 011 Saturday. Mrs. R. W. Mason and son re turned home on Monday from Austin, Pa. Mrs. Ellery P. Ingham and son Donald returned to New York City 011 Monday. Donald Ingham and Olga Crane drove to Eagles Mere 011 Friday and were calling on friends there. E. J. Mullen and E. P. Ingham accompanied W. W. Jackson in his automobile to Towamla 011 Fri day. I). W. Pealer of Lopez, candi date for Congress, was a pleasing caller at the News Item office 011 Monday. Miss Marie Petennan of Nord mont, Jennie Hess and Clarence Hess of Laporte Twp. are attend ing school here. The work 011 the State road is now in progress 011 the Ingham hill, the road is being widened and put, in first class condition. Miss Nellie Milliter of Nordinont, who has been at Niagara Fall all summer, returned on MOll lay to resume school at this place. Mr. E. W. Morgan and wife, Rev. E. A. Ileim, wife and infant daughter autoed to Laporte from New Mildred, Pa., on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Angle and daughters Etta and Pearl of lVnns dale took dinner with Mr. Samuel Mahaffey and family 011 Sunday. FOB SALE—TWO lots situated 011 Main street and Spring Alley in Laporte Borough, known as the Wurllloin lots. Inquire F. 11. Ingham. Those who attended the dance at Dushoro Saturday evening were : Ida Hartung, Mabel and Francis Mornn, Tresken and Anna lJuseli hauscn, Olive Keeler, Alice Bahl, Nelson Lawrenson and Prof. Leahy. 011 last Sunday the officers and employees, with their families and friends, of the Williamsport & North Branch railroad held their annual picnic at Lake Mokonia, the event proved to be a great sue t-ess and everybody had a very pleasing day's outing. At a meeting of the Senior Class of the Laporte High School the following officers were elected : President, Samuel Kennedy; Secre tary, Mabel Moran; Treasurer, Olive Keeler. The other members of the class are Nellie Hunters, Margaret Draper, Iva Hess, Rex Eddy and Clarence Hess. The following enjoyed a corn roast at the Lake, 011 Friday even ing: Ida Hartung, Margaret Cros sley, Olive Keeler, Helen Car penter, Tresken Buschhausen, Mabel and Francis Moran, Ellery Carpenter, Alfred llelsman, Prof. Leahy, Eugene McNellan, Tony Murray, James Moran and Mr. Cate. CHESTER COUNTY FARMS ALL SIZES, FREE LISTS PAUL STANSBURY, COATESVILLE, PA. ROBBERS MADE BRUTAL ASSAULT ON WOMAN Two Negroes and White Man Attack Mrs. Charles Miller of Watsontown ONE STRUCK HER ON HEAD WITH REVOLVER While Another Hit Her Ter rible Blow With Fist — Caught at Danville Watsontown, Sept. 14.—While Mrs. Charles Miller, who lives about a mile out of town near the plant of the Watsontown Brick and Clay Products company, was work ing in her kitchen Friday afternoon ol' last, week she was interrupted by the entrance of a squat, broad shouldered man of about forty,who premptorily demanded a drink of water. She filled a tincup for him, continuing her work. The fat man drank the water, looked curiously about the room and strolled toward the open door with the tincup in his hand. Mrs. Miller is not sure, but she thinks he raised the empty cup to his mouth as if drinking a toast to someone on the railroad tracks below the house. He then walked back to the table and put the tincup on it. As he started toward the door a shadow length ened out over the threshold and a negro of magnificent proportions strutted into the kitchen. Mrs. Miller is a self-reliant woman, a characteristic which has been rather developed by her residence along the lonely road which winds its way south, out of Watsontown, but the appearance and actions of the men alarmed her. The fat tramp smiled at the big negro and again walked to the door, tincup in hand drinking another imaginary toast. The black in the kitchen demanded a piece of broad and butter. Mrs. Miller got it for liim, wondering the while how she might esca|>c from the room. The Hat-headed negro took the bread in his hand and as a step sounded on the porch dashed it at Mrs. Miller's feet. "I don't want your grub," he hissed, Mrs. Miller braced her self and leaned against the wall. Approaching her was a second negro, larger than the ordinary man. A few hundred yards away was her husband at work in the brick yards. But between them was a peaked hill, an effectual bar rier to sound, and immediate res cue. As she reached for a straight lucked chair for support, a shining revolver was pressed against her temple by the black just entering the room. ''We don't want any thing to eat. we want your money, 1 ' he said. She sobbed that she was pooi and that her husband had none. Her two-year old baby, asleep in the next room, woke up and started to cry. Before the lit tle fellow's first wail for his mother died away, the black, who had re fused the bread struck her over the head with his fist, while his con federate, carrying the revolver, struck her over the heart with the butt end of the weapon. Both swore at her as she fell in the. corn er, stunned by the blows. The white man, wBo seemed to be the leader of the gang, stood over the prostrate woman as a rude gag was forced into her mouth and her hands and feet tied with heavy twine. Following a motion from the chief, Mrs. Miller's body was dragged into the next room, near her baby's cradle, and a heavy set tee dumped over on her. When the sofa struck her she lost cons ciousness. It was about 3:30 when the squat tramp entered the Miller home. It was 4:30 when the mother, at tracted once more by the sobs of luir babe, strained at the bonds which held her, but strained in vain. A few minutes later her son, Charles, home from school, threw himself into the room. In one moment he saw his mother pinned to the floor by the settee,in another he had loosened her lionds and was on his way to the brick yards to get his father. When father and son arrived she was able to give a pretty good account of what had happened. A half dozen men from the plant started on the trail left by the robbers, but lost it near the river bank. Meanwhile word was 'phoned to the authorities in town. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1912. Dr. H. R. Miller hurried to Mrs. finding that her condition was critical, made so by the shock of her imprisonment and the heavy blows dealt her. Alderman B. Frank Fisher, who has charge of the police investigations, 'phoned word all the • way between Wil liamsport and Harrisburg to the authorities, at the same time en listing the aid of the railroad police of lw>th roads. Friday night 8 do/en men hunted through the woods and along the river all the way to Montgomery, but with no success. They were able to trace the trio to a boat east of the Mil ler home, but here the clues ended. An examination of the Miller home after the holdup men left showed that they had dug up a ten-dollar bill from a bureau drawer and that they had made free with a suit of clothes, a pair of chickens and a peck of newly dug potatoes. Friday night the station at White Deer was broken into, entrance be ing gained through a window. The thieves found nothing to steal. It is thought likely that the black and white trio are responsible for both crimes. Captured at Danville Danville, Sept. 14.—The trio of desperadoes who bound and gagged Mrs. Miller at Watsontown Friday were arrested here this afternoon after a chase that had several sen sational features. Chief of Police Minceinoyer got a telephone mes sage from Milton shortly liefore noon that two negroes and a white man believed to be Mrs. Miller's assailants, were on a Reading freight train headed for Danville. Accompanied by John McCloud as deputy the chief went a short dis tance beyond the borough limits where he awaited the arrival of the train. After boarding it he in structed the engineer to stop at the North Mill street crossing. Evidently the trio had seen the chief climbing onto the cars and when the train stopped they made a dash for the hills, with the chief and deputy McCloud after them. The officers drew their revolvers and fired several shots after the fugitives, calling to them to sur render. The sing of the bullets over their heads had the desired effect, the three men stopping and holding up their hands as a sign of surrender. One of them offered some resistance when the officers came up but he was quickly sub dued. In the meantime Chief of Police Bixlea, of Milton, had started toward Danville in an automobile. He arrived here after the arrest was made and the prisone s were given into custody. They will be taken to Watsontown and given a hearing at once. Mrs. Miller Identifies Assailant Watsontown, Sept. 16. —Edward Stoddard, colored, has l>een positi vely identified by Mrs. Charles Miller, of this place, as one of the three men who assaulted her at her home here, Friday, following his capture, along with two other men, at Danville, on Saturday. Mrs. Miller could not identify the other two men and they were subsequently released. » Stoddard attempted to offer an alibi that he had been in the county jail at Williamsport at the time of the attack, but the jail authorities at that place stated that no colored man had been discharged Saturday morning, at which time Stoddard claimed he was liberated. A description of the two men, who have not yet been apprehend ed, has been given by Mrs. Miller as follows : White man About 18 oi* 19 years old; not over five feet tall. Fiery red hair, face covered with freckles. Quite well dressed, and has fairly good appearance. Wore light gray suit with fine stripe. Yellow-brown cap with wide brown stripe. Black half-shoes. Negro—Very black. Big and heavy. Light pants, covered with dirt, black coat, black slouch hat. black shirt. Wagner—Snyder On Monday morning, at 10:20 p. m., Squire Caven at his office in rear of Court House, united in mar riage William Curtis Wagner of Columbia county and Miss Jennie Frances Snyder of Ricketts, Sul livan county, in the presence of Ira Cott and N. C. Mabin. j FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAPORTE * * * * * <j( * THIRD ANNIVERSARY [SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH Elsewhere in this issue may be found there : port of tht condition of the First National Bank of | Laporte, a careful perusal of which gives ample ; evidence of its continued growth and general ; prosperity. 112 Possibly the appended figures taken from there- I gular reports to the Comptroller ol the Currency, show- I ing the amounts ol Deposits, Loans, Surplus and [ Undivided Profits, and Assets, each year since organiz ation, may be of interest to the many Iriends of the \ institution. '• Surplus and I Undivided \ Date Deposits Loans Profits Assets \ Nov. 16, 1909 - - 11,464.37 - - 8,679.50 - - 106.82 - - 38,263.69 \ Sept. 1, 1910 - - 33,776.28 - - 37,393.99 - - 1,042.91 - - 66,069.19 [ Sept. 1, 1911 - - 35,201.78 - - 42,487.28 - - 2,097.65 - - 87,574.90 ; Sept. 4, 1912 - - 52,945.17 - - 55,333.06 - - 3,819.92 - - 106,801.58 \ The Facilities of the Baud and its new and conveniently equip ! ped building with the fire proof vault and burglar proof safe, | together with its steady increase in business, augur well for its \ future success. This Bank considers it part of its business to ac ! commodate it customers in every reasonable and legitimate way. ; Corporations, Firms, Merchants, and Individuals are offered > every service and facility consistent with SOUND BANKING 112 METHODS. ALLEGED BOAT THIEF CAUGHT WITH STOLEN PLUNDER William Walters, of Athens, Pa., said to be known under the alias of Joe Smith, also as Walker, was arrested at Harrisburg on Friday by Joseph Ibach, police detective, on a charge of stealing a skiff from Carroll F. Lamn, of Williamsport, and of robbing a dozen cottages and club-houses along the river on his way to the city in the boat. Walters has lieen living there lately, the police say. It is sus pected that he has made a business of river pirating. It is believed that this is the fellow who stole a 1111111 IKM- of boats in Sunbury and vicinity. Lamn missed his boat last Wed nesday. He got trace of it, and he and Horace Hanna, also of Wil liamsport, obtained a boat and started after the thief. They found themselves always just missing him, so Friday they telegraphed to the local police at Milton and went there by train. Ibach caught Walters in the act of selling a boatload of goods of all sorts. Walters was arrested and his merchandise seized. Lamn identified the rowlioat positively. Letter From James T. Ailman Thompsontown, Juniata Co., Pa. September 12, 1912 Mr. Editor: As a Democrat I am not suppos ed to be particularly anxious to up hold the Republican majority in the Legislature. Yet I believe in giving every man his just dues. If Sullivan county is to be represented in the next session by a Republican she can do herself credit by return ing the Hon. Mandus W. Reeser. As a member of the Legislature in 1911 he was found almost with out exception at his post and the records will show that his vote, as a rule, was cast for the best interests of the people he represented with out regard to who introduced the bill or who championed it. Respectfully, JKROIIET. AILMAN. Note —Mr. Ailman was the minority leader of the House of Representatives in 1911. EAGLES MERE. Eagles Mere lias beeu getting some very interesting information in regards to China and Japan from a polished and experienced speak er, who has triveled extensively in the "far East." An unknown woman teacher was instrumental in converting one Chinaman to Christ. This China man prove 1 to be a great or anizer.. The speaker Rev. Frederick J. Stanley, D. D., L. H. D., compar ed a l>ody of Chinaman with our hoys at Washington which was not much to our credit (but never mind we will get there yet, according to Holy Writ.) Hotel Eagles Mere was a e< ntre of attraction for Heaven's Artillery a few weeks ago. Mr. Alfred Newhart, the "clerk" has such a winersome an 1 fun rolicking way with him that almost everybody calls him "Alfred." "Alfred" had a very lame ankle but quicker than you could say "Jacl' Robinson" the ankle was O. K. of course son e glass bulbs were put out of commission. But all is well that ends well, and tlia popular Landlord is all ready to greet his many friends. R. D. Kelirer "the John Wanamaker of Eagles More" received a little of the heavens fire. Miss Sulie F. Dreisbach wh' se many kind acts as woll as words, has made for her a host of friends (Rich and Poor) had one light burn.nl out, but now everything looks brighter than ever,and bread, cake, candy, ice cream, etc. is 011 deck in good shape. Diregs. Woman liyured in Leap From Runaway Carriage Picture Rocks, Sept. 16.—Leap ing from a carriage in which were Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Burrows, of this place, and Frank Artley, of Wil liamsport, when the team of horses ran away, while returning to this place from Eagles Mere, late Sun day afternoon. Mrs. Foster re ceived severe scalp wounds while the rest of the party escaped with minor bruises. The party had been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Little, at Eagles Mere, and about 5 o'clock started to drive to this place. While descending a steep 75C PER YEAR C. S. DAUBERMAN, EDITOR grade, a part of the harness on oue of the horses gave way, causing the team to speed down the hill, Mr. Foster was driving and after racing along for some distance managed to turn the team into the woodß, stopping them without injuring any of the occupants. After repairing the harness at the home of J. S. Courson, about four miles from this place, they again started to drive here, Mr. Artley holding the reins.. After proceeding but a short distanc the harness again gave way, frighten ing the horses, which plunged along at a rapid gait. Fearing a repetition of their thrilling ride earlier in the afternoon the occup pants leaped out, Mrs. Foster, however, being the only one to re ceive serious injuries. The horses were later caught. Dr. C. C. Coon er, of this place, was called to at tend the injuries of the party. NORDMONT. Messrs. Willie Dietrick and Harry Woodward of Wilkes-Barre are spending a few days visiting friends here. Messrs. Horace Edgar and Bers Sniner autoed to Dnshore Wednes day. Mr. Walter Beck of Picture Rocks was a business visitor in town on Wednep vy. Miss Olive Peters of Williams port is spending a few days with her parents, E. C. Peters and family. Mr. Chas. Wesley, wife and son speut Tuesday in Williamsport. Mrs. Philip Peter man visited friends at Muncy Valley Wednes day and Thursday. Mr. Clyde Shipman of Hughes ville was in town Thursday. Mrs. Nora Hunter and daughter spent Thursday at Picture Rocks. Messrs. Harvey Hess and Wil liam Kern drove to Sonestown on Friday. Mr. Ellery Horn and family of Sayre are visiting K. C. Horn and wife here. Mr. S. McHenryof Benton spent Sunday with friends here. Miss Nellie Hunter returned home Friday from Niagara Falls. MUNCY VALLEY C. J., Greenya of Williamsport was in town a few hours Tuesday. M. E. Hughes of Bloomsburg transacted business in town Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Miller and son Grant, and Will Moran autoed to Catawissa Friday. Mi's. C. R. Grimes of Catawissa spent Sunday with her parents. Mi's- Thresa Donovan is visiting her son at Newberry. Mrs. J. Brady Bigger and child ren of Bingham ton, N. Y., spent a few days last week with her brother Will and family. Miss Phoebe Worthington is spending some time at Renovo. Death of Mary Shrimp Mrs. Mary Shrimp, of Forks township, died Thursday, Sept. 5, at the age of 90 years, 9 months and 11 days. Mrs. Shrimp was a daughter of Jonatahan Shaffer, who was born in Northumberland county and came with his family to Sullivan county in 1834, locating on the farm in Cherry township now owned by George Shaffer and son She married Henry Shrimp and with her husband located on the homestead in Forks township. Mr. Shrimp died about 13 yean ago. Mi's. Shrimp is survived by two sons, Phillip Shrimp and Man essji Shrimp of Forks township; three daughters Mrs. George Litx elman and Mrs Joseph Ritchlin, of Forks, and Mrs. D. H. Epler, of Quaker town Pa.; one brother, George Shaffer, of Dushore and one, sister, Mrs. Henry Fulmer: of Dushore. the funeral was held Monday interment taking place in i Peace cemetery, Cherry towmhip.
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