VOL. XYI. NO. 40 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. I COUNTY SEAT § | LOCAL AND PERSONAL § I EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD J xx xxx %********* * George Mosier of Dusliore was in town Monday. M. W. Rush of Col ley was in town on Monday. Jacob Jacoby of Ringdale was in town last Friday. Charles C. Diltz of Dusliore was in town on business \\ ednesilay. Mrs. Win. H. Kennedy of Galejon is visiting friends in town. Guy Crossley was in attendance at the Hugliesville fair on Thurs day. J. Patton of Mildred trans acted business in this place on Mon day. Mr. F. M. Crossley was down to the Hugliesville fair on Wednes day. W. P. Peterman of Nordmont was calling on friends in town on Sunday. J. A. Traugli of Nordmont was in town 011 business Saturday of last week. Frederick Miller of New York was in town a few days for part of this week. Benj. 'F. Crossley of Dusliore spent Sunday with his parents in this place. J. S. Karns and wife of Benton registered at the Laporte Hotel 011 Wednesday. Willard J. Diltz of Dusliore transacted business in town on Wednesday. For Sale —An Emblem Bicycle in goo I condition, will sell cheap. Inquire at this Office. George L. Kaier of Mohauov City transacted business in this place Friday of last week. County Commissioner Joseph Sick was attending to his duties at the courthouse 011 Monday. County Commissioner Irvin Hot tenstein attended to his duties at the courthouse fill Monday. William Etelien and Miss Julia Burns of Mildred were calling 011 friends in this place 011 Sunday. Mr. Lawrence (Jumble left Mon day morning for Jersey Shore, where lie has accepted a position. Miss Tresken Busehhausen left 011 Saturday for Philadelphia, where she expects to take a position as stenographer. FOR SALK—TWO lots situated on Main street and Spring Alley in Laporte Borough, known as the WurtHein lots. Inquire F. 11. Ingham. The following from Williams port autoed to this place 011 Sunday: W. W. Jackson, P. M. Newman, 11. J. Payne, L. H. McLaughlin and A. R. Spicer. Harvy L. Maddox, who is at present looking up the insurance business in Sonestawn and vicinity, was a business caller at this office Friday of last week. Landlord John Hansen, Jr., wife and children started by automobile on Monday for Blooinshurg, where they will visit friends and also take in the big fair at that place. MiH£ Frannces Kennedy left on Monday for Gateion, Pa., with her aunt, Mrs. Win. Kennedy, with whom she will make her home and goto school there this winter. Vernie Gunible with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Finkla went to Roselle Park, N. J., last week. Miss Vernie expects to attend school at that place and make her home with Mrs. Fin Me. fctftte Republican News Item. Much credit is due the teachers and pupils of our Borough Schools for the. great improvement they have made on the school grounds. For a couple of years this work lias been going 011. picking up, raking, and grading. It is worthy of praise. A farewell party was gi /en at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John (Jumble on Monday of last week in honor of their daughter, Vernie, who left Tuesday morning for Ros. elle Park, N. .1., t" attend school. Refreshments were served and all report having a good time. Those present were 1 Edith (Jumble, Marion Cott, Iva lleess, Anna Busehhausen. Margaret Draper, Ellen Busehhausen, Alia (Jumble, Frances Kennedy, Rex Eddy, Samuel Kennedy, Clifton Rose, Raymond (Jumble, Emmons (Jum ble, and Mr. Bennett. HORDMONT. Those who took dinner with Julius Nilvarin and family Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. George Fiester, Mr. and Mrs. George Derrick, Mrs. Bert Snider and Ilenry Dewey Minard Peters and son Kenneth spent Saturday in Williamsport. Horace Edgar autoed to Muncy Sunday afternoon. Miss Ella Keller of Williams port is the guest of George Fiester and family. Mr. James Miller of Muncy Valley was in town Thursday. Rev. Scheehterly of Sonestown took dinner with W. B. Snider and family Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Hasseu of Laporte autoed to this place Faiday evening. Mr. Claude Speary made a busi ness trip to Williamsport Wednes day. Mr. Walter Beck of Picture Rocks was in town Saturday. W. B. Snider was a business caller at Sonestown Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Tarlox autoed to Laporte Thursday. Mr. Henry Mosteller of Laqnin was calling on friends here Satur day. Messrs. Clyde Sheets and John Converse of Sonestown visited \V. B. Snider Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Shaffer and children of near Laporte w ere the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gansel Sunday. EAGLES MERE. Alfred Newhart was up on Pros pect hill the other day when an o]d bear with her cub came out of the woods-he had his gun in his hand but was scared so badly he could not shoot her. Mr. F. W. Peale has an apple tree from which he got bushels of apples and has so many pump kins that he (losen't know what to do with them all. Herbert Chamberlin and Snip Rider was out coon hunting and caught two skunks. Laßue Worthington caught, a skunk in a box trap the other day. Mr. A. 11. Marr sold his farm and has moved away. HEMLOCK GROVE Miss Lizzie Bay of Williamsport was calling on friends here last week. Mr. M. J- Phillips and daughter Helen wore to Williamsport on Tuesday. ( Mrs. Herbert Fireman and daughter Anna are visiting her sister, Mrs. E. A. Fulmer. Elmer Crawley and A. F. Myers have been thrashing buckwheat for their neighbors. Miss Orpha Arms, who is teach • ing the Sugar Grove school, is driving a two year old colt from her home to the school and back I each day. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Phillips and daughter Helen started to Blooins burg fair on Monday with the car 1 nit finished the trip with a horse and buggy. Misses Orj*pa Arms, Clara and Esther Phillips attended services at Bethel Sunday. The school here closed Thursday and Friday for Hughesville fair. Mrs. L. B. Deckert called on friends at North Mountain last Sunday. Mrs. Burgess Swank visited at H. B. Arms' Sunday. VOTE" Foil Ft. REESER Jn a recent issue we gave good and suttlcient reason why Mandus \V. Keeser should be elected a member of the Legislature from this county. These reasons dealt with his familiarty with the now State Road lawfvand the fact that his experience an 1 ability will en able him to do more good for all the people of Sullivan county in the matter of State Roads than any other person couhl possibly do- Rut there are ot her reasons-Ma-ndus W. Keeser is a son of William Keeser, one of our pioneer settlers. He has spent his whole life in this county. He has been a laborer in the woods, and on the farm. He has taught school and all his lift; has been a farmer. In the Grange he has taken an active and intel ligent part and it would be hard indeed to pick out a man more in sympathy with those who toil in the woods or in the fields, and as competent to render these services asM-W. Recser. Without disparage ment or criticism disparagement we honestly advise everyone who reads this article to vote for M'mdiis W. Keeser for Assembly. Kveiv tax payer will be benefitted by his elec tion for he will make ''good'' at llarrisburg. Those who are inter ested in having State Roads I.i n/r in this county and who want an honest and intelligent representa tive at Harrisburg should cast their vote for Mamlus \V. Keeser. Results of the Base Ball Game at Forksville Fair East Forksville t), Hillsgrove 3. On Thursday afternoon, Sept. L'C), East Forksville beat Ilillsgiove before a large and spectacular crowd. The battery for Hillsgrove being Harrison, Bachleand Rinker. The battery for Ea.st Forksville lieing Rouse and Shatter. Bern ice & Mildred 3 East Forks 0. In a very interesting game on Friday afternoon, Sept. 27, Bernice and Mildred proved themselves Champions by beating East Forks Helsnian allowed his opponent but three hits. The battery for Bernice and Mildred being A. Helsnian and C. Helsnian. The battery for East Forks being Rouse and Shaffer. Death of Charles Kester After a lingering illness Charles Kester of Forks township, died at his home on Tuesday, October 1, at the age of 71 years, f> months and 24 days. The funeral services were held Thursday with interment at Overton. Deceased is survived by wife, and four sons, Alfred and and George of Forks township, and Jerome and Charles of Missouri. Death of Katherine B. Landon Mrs. Katherine Becker Landon, aged 30"years, wife of Harry W. Landon, died September 14, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lan don, 100 Main street, Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs. Landon was formerly a resident of Laporte. I Besides her husband, she is sur j vived by her father, Samuel Becker, three brothers and one sister, John, Granville and James Becker, and I Mrs. Lewis Haas, all of Bingham- I ton. A VIATOR'S NERVE SAVES HIS LIFE Wire of Machines Break in Air at Milton Fair—Cooly Steadies in and Descends Milton, October 4.-While thous ands were intent on the races yes terday after watching with breath less interes the start of Aviator Cecil Peoli's (light, the young air man, shortly after his start into space, was battling for an instant or two for his life. His coolness, the result of long training, and his steady nerve, the reward of a care ful system of living, came to his aid in the critical minute and he was able to get his plane safely to the ground. Paoli made a pretty getaway from the green to the left of the grandstand. He shot up in the air and was soon lost to sight of those in the stand. He had not traveled far when the machine sudd nly wavered. A wire connecting and controlling one of the wings had snapped. Peoli, realizing his dan ger, steadied his machine as a bicycle rider saves his falling w heel, and glided down to a field 011 the Chamberlin farm. Working in the Woods Working in the woods isatrade; and to know how to handle an axe is 110 small trick, a "feller" has to grow up with it. Did you ever watch a good chopper swing his double-bitted axe? Why he is as graceful in the movements of his arms as a cat is with her paws. That axe goes exactly where he wants it to, even to the 32d of an inch —yes, and most of the blows ;,»-e exact. But how little a thing w ill cause serious trouble, a little twig in the air 110 bigger than a shoe string will turn the axe blade to one side, and of't times give a man a dangerous cut. Some of the "old experts" get a little careless sometimes, in their haste they neglect to have clear sailing over head. Let me tell you something that you know, and also something that you do not know. You all know who I refer to when I speak of "Honest Abe the Rail Splitter," famous in the U. S. A. and Europe. I doubt if there is a man living today who could handle an axe any better than he did. No matter how big the tree, those long, strong arms .of the wise GOD loving Abraham Lincoln "lifted" the axe high and clear, and down came the tree. No "rails" could lie split until the tree was down. Some people are so dumb that they think the "Great God" does not know or p<tice anybody in this age. But that don't "cut any ice" with you or I. Now here is a fact, here is a statement from Holy Writ: "A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." Psalm 75:5, read the 4th verse, and call to mind the "Civil War." These thoughts come to mind in connection with several visits to "Nolan's Camp" about live miles from Eagles Mere. The cauips have a "farel of about one hundred men, with room for more, there are 73 fine iron, spring bedsteads with mattress, etc., in the second camp. At present two men do all the cooking, etc. But ginger ! don't they have to "get up and get." Two cooks also look after the 2(5 "boys" at the first camp. Say! you old lazy bones how would you like to eat your morning meal at sa. 111.? That is what "Nolan's Men" do, and go to work as soon as it is light. They are as fine a bunch of men as I ever saw, hardy, strong, tall, good-natured, quiet and consider ate of each others comfort. One feels at home with them, of course it goes without saying, that the hard work, pure out-door air gives strong, healthy bodies, and healthy bodies should give healthy minds. DIRKGO. CHESTER COUNTY FARMS ALL SIZES, FREE LISTS PAUL STANSBURY, COATESVII.LE, PA. TAFT IS SURE OF RE-ELECTION MANY DEMOCRATS WILL TURN WILSON DOWN Philadelphia, Oct. 4, 1912. Republican managers in this city are more confident of victory today than they hav< been at any time since the start of the campaign. The feature of the week lias been the definite settlement of the electoral problem. There lias been a grow ing feeling of security 011 this point for some time, hut since the meeting of the State Committee in Ilarrishurg on Monday there is no longer any doubt that the Roosevelt electors will re sign from the Republican ticket ami be replaced by men who will support Taft and Sherman in the electoral college of the State. The fact that this substitution demanded by good morals and an overwhelming public sentiment, including sentiment among those who have supported Roosevelt himself, will be delayed for another week, does not shake the confidence of those who are directing the Republican campaign. "All voters who wish to cast their ballots for the straight Republican ticket, and who have been tormented by the fear that they might be in voluntarily voting for someone not on the ticket, may disabused their minds on this point," said Congress man J. Hampton Moore, today. Mr. Moore is Chwirinan of the National Republican Congressional Committee of Pennsylvania, and lias recently launched one of the most active campaigns that has ever been conducted in the Keystone State, lie has set ou foot an investigation in every one of the thirty-two ''ongres sional Districts, with A- to as certaining what industries in cadi would be affected, and how seriously, by the removal of protective tariff. His argument is that as the second manufacturing State in the I nion, and the second State in point of population, Pennsylvania would suf fer more and more speedily from the the application of Democratic Free Trade policies than any other State iu the Union, with the possible ex ception of New York. Francis Cur tis, who is in charge of the Repub lican ational Committee's Parman ent L .erary Bureau in New York, visited the Pennsylvania I lead qurters yesterday and expressed himself as delighted with the out look here, and the work being done. Secretary 1 lilies, anil Congressman , McKinley, Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in Chicago, are more than pleased with the trend in the last few weeKs. j "We are at least reducing the tight 'to the real issue, said Mr. Curtis,and eliminating the side issues which 1 have from time to time obscured it. This one real issue is not Taft or i Roosevelt, or Taft or Wilson, but WORK AND WAGES. From the rural distrit ts of the State, the most encouraging reports are coming 111 every day. Dr. Wilson's speech ai Williams Grove, appears to have made a profound and very unfavor able impression upon the Pennsyl vania farmers, not only in that sec tion but in all other sections of the State. The sentence which has been singled out for special criticism i:- the one in which the Democratic , candidate assured his hearers that i"the farmer does not need protection '' Asa bid for the agricultural vote, it is doubtful if any other assertion 1 could have been more unhappy. The farmer is convinced that he does need protection, as well as any other man, and he is beginning to look about , him in order to determine to what 1 extent he has profited by Republican 1 policies. He is learning that the 1 old complaint put into his mouth by Democratic promoters, to the effect that everything he buys has increas ed in price, whereas he sells at about the same old figure is an absolute falsehood. The greatest activity is being mani fested in all the manufacturing dis tricts. Meetings like the one in SI.OO PER YEAR C. S. DAUBERMAN, EDITOR Hristol, where the representative business men and manufacturers, to gether w illi the representative wage earners employed hy those enter prises, met in a mass meeting of pro test against Free Trade; are being held or arranged for in the near fut ure in every community w here there is any industry that could he adverse ly a H'reted by being thrown into com petition with the world's cheap labor. Every new announcement of pros perity is accepted at the Republican Campaign headquarters as another nail in the coffin of the opposition. A recent dispatch from Pittsburg to the etfect that that city is now paying $1,(100,000 a day in wages, and that the only reason it does not pay more is because it cannot tiud the men to take them, has Caused many persons to ask the question: "What would we profit |, v •, politi cal revolution'.' ('ould times be bet ter than they are? Isn't it possible that they might be worse'."' Railroad men have had this high pressure prosperity forced upon them in a rdher peculiar manner. Not only are they hard at work them selves, with almost every car in ser vice and a serious shortage threaten ed, but in all the larger cities they are being besieaed by employment agencies to provide men and to help steal the men which other agencies are furnishing to contractors. 7"> cents is otiered for every man cap able of wielding a pick and shovel. Wages are in no case less than $1.50 and go as high as * i ,s"> a day. Trans portation is provided to the point of employment and usually a week's board in addition after arriving at the destination. Recently one agent who was bringing twenty-live work men from New York to a point in western Pennsylvania, was held up in llarrisburg by another agent who took all but nine of his men by offei ing higher wages, although the first agent received no refund for the money he had expended in trans porting them from New York. , "Is it such conditions as these," said Congressman Moore, that argue for a Republican administration iind a Republican Congress, more fully than any speaker couldfilo. Sensible men will refuse to vote against prosperty. There can be no doubt that Pennsylvania will be found to be overwhelmingly Repub lican as usual on November f»th. Shot Himself Through Foot While Out Hunting Harris Boyle, a thirteen-year-old boy, whose parents reside in the mountains back of llillsgrove, was taken to Williamsport on Sunday morning and entered in the \\ il liamsport hospital for treatment for a badly injured foot. On Sat urday afternoon the lad was limit ing squirrels with a title and was holding the gun over his knee, when in someway it was discharged. The bullet penetrated the upper part of the foot ami came out be low the great toe. The wound was extremely painful and the boy had some distance togo before he reach ed home. The house is lar from any physician and it was necessary for the parents to dress the injury as best they could, until medical attention could be secured. Sunday afternoon an operation was performed and the second toe was amputated. It is not believed that any further amputation will be necessary, or that gangrene will set in. Mother Kills Baby and Swlf Scranton, Oct. 7. In a gas-filled room the bodies of Mrs. John J. Walsh and her babv were found at their home here Saturday with their throats cut. It is believed that Mrs. Walsh afted cutting the baby and herself turned on the gas in the room to make sure de* certain. 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