Republican News Item. VOL. XVI. NO. 46 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. J COUNTY SEAT § I LOCAL AND PERSONAL § | EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD § xx *x* * * ********** xx xx xx xx *■ Miss Teresa Fries is on the sick list. Miss Amy Knouse is visiting relatives in Benton. Miss Anna Ilcarn spent Tuesday evening in Dushore. Tony Murray and Miss Frances Moran autoed to Mildred Sunday. Mrs. E. C. Potter had a "sewing bee" at her house 011 Wednesday. Miss Sadie Rogers of Lincoln Falls is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. F. Heess. William P. Shoemaker spent Sun day with his family in Cherry Township. For Sale —An Emblem Bicycle in goo 1 condition, will sell cheap. Inquire at this Office. Mr. Herbert keeler and Miss Ford returned to Binghamton I ues day evening of lastweek. Grant Carpenter returned home Monday evening of last week, after spending some time in New York State. Miss Olive keeler enterained at afternoon tea Saturday Nov 8, in honor of Miss Grace Ford of Bing hamton. Misses Margaret Draper and Iva Hess walked to Nordmont on Sunday, visiting at the home of the latter. State High School Inspector Denison and County Supt. Kill goro visited the high school at this place last week. Misses Olive Keeler and Margaret Crossley spent Saturday and Sun day at Sonestown as the guest of Miss Opal Watson. Misses Olive Keeler, Mabel Moran and Anna Buschhausen at tended the basket ball game at Bernicc Friday evening. Frank Fowler and family have moved to a lumber camp neat- Eagles Mere for the winter, They expect to return in the spring. Miss Mable Moran entertained the fol ing at six o'clock dinner on Wednesday evening of last week Grace Ford Ida Hartung and Olive Keeler. For Sale—Two lots situated 011 Main street and Spring Alley in Laporte Borough, known as the Wurfflein lots. Inquire F. 11. Ingham. The pupils of the high school are doing some very interesting work in experiments in agriculture. The patrons of the school will find this work worth listening to and going to see. A few weeks ago Miss Jessie Wrede found some strawberry plants in blossom and transplanted them, keeping them in a box in the warm sun near the window. The plants are now full of ripe berries of good size and still blossoming. A Social will be held at the home of Mrs. G. S. Eddy on Friday evening, Nov. 22, 1912, for the benefit of the M. E. Sunday School. Ice cream, cake and coffee will be served free. Adults 15 cents, child ren 10 cents. You arc all cordially invited. There are five basket balls now owned by the children of the Boro. schools. With some practice now every grade will be able to do some good work. The Sirls in the high school are preparing to play their first game with the girls of the Eagles Mere high schojl this week. As the cold weather has prevented outside playing the terms are using the pavillion at the lake. A crowd of young people gather ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Gumble on Monday evening and gave their daughter Alta a pleasant surprise, it being her 15th birthday. The following were present to help celebrate the oc casion: Anna and Ellen Busch hausen.lva Hess.Hennerita Krause, Dotha Mahaffey, Margaret Draper, Hazel Minnier, Anna Krause, Elsie Phillips, Marion Cott, Gertrude Krouse, Edith Gumble, Rex Eddy, Samuel Kennedy, Adam Yogel, Leonard Collins,- Fred and Harry Mahaffey, Emmons Gumble, Law rence Gumble, Ramyond Gumble, Lugene Kennedy. John Leahy and Misses Helen Carpenter and Jessie Wrede, teach ers in the borough schools,attended the Sullivan County Teachers As sociation at Sonestown Friday and Saturday of last week. Forty-six teachers were enrolled. Dr. Mc- Neal of rhe Department of Health at Harrisburg addressed the teach ers on the subject "A Character Study —Aaron Burr," giving a biographical sketch of Aaron Burr and ending by showing, by his ad vantage of birth and environment, what he might have made of his life. Especially had his mother been spared to give him a mother's training instead of his early train ing being given by a bachelor uncle of Puritan birth. EAGLES MERE. Mrs. Monroe Bennett and Harry Feaster were in town Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Booth and children were visiting Henry Smiths' 011 Sunday. The boys' basket ball team play ed at Laporte last week, but owing to the rain, the game was delayed until sojate that it was possible to play only the first half. The girls of the high and gram mer schools have organized an athletic association called "The Spartan Athletic Association." They are putting a lot of good work in their basket ball team, which bids fair to show good re sults. Mrs. Myrtle New hart was visit ing her mother at this place recently Mrs. Burkholder is keeping house at the Forest Inn, in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher. The Ladies' Aid of the M. E. Church met at Mrs. Edward Cum mings last Thursday. Mrs. Cum mings served a delicious dinner, and a lot of sewing was accomp lished. Mrs. Blanch Fries named her baby Nelson Benjamine, after her husband's father. Hurvey Chamderlin has caught two pet rabbits. Chicken-pox has broken out in the borough schools, as well as the township. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fox are away visiting, and in their absence Mrs. Samuel Rightmire is staying at the crestmont Inn. MILDRED AND BERNICE Mrs. S. A. Dieffenbach and Mrs. M. E. Loveton were Dushore visi tors Wednesday. Mrs. Winfred Watson of Cherry Mills was visiting Mrs. Thomas Walters last week. Mrs. James Ramsay of Mildred was visiting her son Frank, who has been in the Sayre hospital for the past two weeks, he is improv ing. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Yonkin of Cherry Mills was visiting Mr, and Mrs. Charles Watson Sunday. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, NOV. 22 1912. The basket ball game played at this place in the hall between the team of Laporte High School and Bernice 011 Friday evening was only a dream as far as the boys of Laporte were concerned. We don't know if they will ever know that they were in the game unless they read about it or some one tell them the score which was 52-4 in favor of Bernice high school. This makes seven games played this season and won live of them. If you have not received your commission for one of the post oflices or some other government position it is because you are not one of the faithful ones. Charles Cook was visiting Sayre friends. Harry Walker and sister are visiting Williainsport friends. Miss Jennie Collins of Clearfield is visiting her mother, Mrs. Wil liam Collins. Tony is a cracker jack for giving the candidates two or three hun dred of a majority until the morn ing after election. It is always the other fellow that comes out ahead. NORDMONT. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foust spent Friday in Hughesville. Born to John Little and wife on Nov. 15, a daughter. Mrs. Eliza Little visited friends at Laporte Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Minard Peters and son Kenneth are visiting Mr. and Mrs. (Jeorge Wilson near Unity ville. Miss Millicent Givitt spent Suu day with her parents at Soneptown. Mr. and Mrs. Holland Horn spent Friday in Williamsport. Mr. Willie Young of Benton was in town 011 Monday. Dr. Davis of Sonestown was in town Friday. L. T. Richard of near Benton spent Saturday night with W. B. Snider. E. C. Peters spent Monday at Muncy Valley. Messrs. Walter and Abe Levan of Bloomsburg was in town Tues day calling 011 friends. Miss Lottie Speary has gone to Sayre to work. Mr. George H. Fisher of Lewis burg was a business caller in town Tuesday. M. D. Horn returned home from the Williamsport hospital Tuesday. HEMLOCK GROVE Miss Mazie Phillips, who is a Senior at the Bloomsburg Normal School, spent Sunday at her home. W. H. Lawrenson drove to Hughesville on a business trip on Monday. Drinking fountains were placed in the school rooms, and drinking was very popular for a few days. Mrs. L. B. Deckert visited her sister, Mrs. Herbert Firman on Tuesday. Misses Orpha Amies, Clara, Ester and Eflie Phillips took din ner with Miss Mazie Phillips on Sunday. M- J. Phillips went to Blooms burg 011 a business trip Monday. Harry Buck visited M- J. Phil lips and family Sunday. Miss Clara Phillips is working at 11. B. Armes'. Brady Chestnut has placed a lath machine on his saw mill. William Moran of Muncy Valley while speeding his car along the mountain road,ran over and nearly I killed a hunting dog belonging to R. E. Warburton that was laying in the road near its home. » 1 NORMAN P. HILL FATALLY SHOT BY SAMUEL A. KEAGLE Died While Being Taken to the Hospital in the Police Ambulance SHOOTING OCCURRED IN HILL'S OFFICE AT WILLIAMSPORT Norman Hill, aged forty-seven years, a book-keeper in the veter inary of Sheriff William T. Tom linson, corner Church and State streets, Williamsport, was fatally shot by Samuel A. Keagle, other wise known as Bakly Keagle, who lives in a room at No. 36 East Third street, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Keagle's bullet penetrated Hill's left breast near the heart. Hill died on the way to the Williams port hospital. The shooting took place on the street in front of the sheriff's oflice. The shooting grew out of Keag le's being ordered from the veter inary oflice by Hill, who became tired of Keagle, who was said to be under the influence of liquor. In the scramble to get Keagle out Hill went along and then Keagle drew a thirty-two caliber revolver and fired at Hill at a distance of only a few feet. Hill fell and Keagle, who was armed with a revolver and a rifle, disappeared from the vicinity. A brother of Dr. Edward Lyon was in the veterinary oflice at the time of the shooting, and with several clerks from the oflice of the Emer son-Brantigam Company, across State street, ran to Hill's assistance when they heard the report of the weapon, and saw Hill fall. After the shooting C. C. Crouse, who was going down Third street in an automobile, was hailed by Charles 11. Smith, a Pennsylvania railroad policeman, who happened to be 011 the street off duty, and a search was made for Keagle, who was at Third and Mulberry streets. Smith made a flying leap for Keagle, who pulled his revolver. Smith knocked it from his hand and he and Crouse made the man a prisoner. He was taken to the city hall. Hill lived at No. 457 Elmire street and had a wife and family. NOTICE TRANSFER Notice is hereby given that a Petition for the Transfer of a Wholesale Liquor License hereto fore grauted to Thomas W. Gahan. 011 premises located on the West side on German Street, in the Borough of Dushore, County of Sullivan, State of Pennsylvania, to MARC T. CAMPBELL, has this day been filed in my olfice, and will be presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Sullivan County,Penna., on Tuesday, November 26, 1912, at nine o'clock a. in. ALBERT F. HEESS, Clerk. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1913 Almanac The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1913 is now ready. It is the most splendid number of this popu lar Year Book ever printed. Its value has been more than ever proven by remarkable fulfillments of its storm, weather and earth quake forecasts this year. Profes sor Hicks justly merits the coufi deuce and support of all the people. Don't fail to send 35c for his 1913 Almanac, or only 81.00 for his splendid Magazine and Almanac , one year. The best one dollar in vestment possible in any home or business. Send to World and Works Publishing Company, 3401 ' Franklin Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. (Ad ver tisement.) 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Mr. Bierly refused to cut the dis eased trees and wrote a formal pro- ' test, which the Commissioners were somewhat surprised to find was in tended to be in a nature of an ap peal, based ou the conteution that the tract did not belong to him. At the same time various incor rect and absurd statements were made as to the effectiveness of the I Commissioner's work, the cause of the chestnut blight disease, etc. Because of these thing! <t aacms only fair to present here a correct statement of the whole matter from the standpoint of the Commission itself, and afterward pay no further attention to the matter, as the whole thing is a very simple affair. In accordance with Mr. Bierly's J so called appeal and because of the requirements of the Legislative 1 Act, experts were instructed to 1 make a second investigation of the tract and the fact appears to be that it was technically in his pos- session at the time, though pay ments had been made,showing that 1 he expected to be the owner. In the meantime the actual owner, Mrs. Anna M. Greniuger, 1 who resides 011 the tract and holds * the deed, has done a part of the work of removing infections as a result, curiously enough, of a letter [ from Mr. Bierly himself, in which L he stated, '-The best way is to have . I them cut down and made into fire wood at once." On October 29th, ;; after reinspection of the tract by ~ the experts especially detailed for [ that purpose, Mrs. Greniuger was , informed that the previous inspec i tion was correct, and that the eoni | pletiou of the work of removing • the infections must be done. The ( work was completed October 30. t So far as this particular tract is I concerned, therefore, there is noth ing further to be done. Everything has been carried out just as the Chestnut Tree Blight Commission expected it. would be. At last re port 110 infections ha .e yet been found 011 land actually owned by 5 Mr. Bierly. If such should be i found, however, 011 his or any other tract in that vicinity or auy r where in the county, it is expected % that the removal of diseased trees " will be made promptly and exactly within the twenty day period al lowed. The disease is so destruc i tive and spreads so rapidly that uo 3 time can be lost, and the Commis -3 siou cannot afford to give a single day of leeway after the ex- I piration of twenty days' notice. I As to the thejry of worms caus . mg the disease, nothing has becu 75C PER YEAR C. S. DAUBERMAN, EDITOR better established than the fact that it is caused by a parasitic fun gus in which worms are in no way concerned whatever, except that after the disease is once established, the larvae (worn s) of certain in sects may carry the disease from infected to healthy portions, but the disease itself i 9 in no way con nected with any kind of insect or any other animal. It will occur in small trees with smooth bark where there is no indication at all of the work of any kind of insect. It is found true, however, that insects follow the disease, working in the dead portions of the tree which have already been killed by the fungous parasite. The Commission has been pleased as a rule with the hearty co-oper ation given by chestnut tree owners generally throughout the State. On account of this co-operation, there is little doubt now that over one-half of the entire state will be rid of this disease by January 1, 1913. INJURED BOY GETS $4,250, FATHER $750 Lad Was Dragged Under Oar Wheels at Plant of Ameri can Car Company Blooinsburg. Nov. 15.—The jury in the United States court, sitting at Scran ton, who at 11 o'clock yes terday morning took the case of Walter Bird, Jr., and Walter Bird, Sr., his father, against the Ameri con Car and Foundry Company, returned a verdict yesterday after noon at 4 o'clock in favor of the plaintiffs in the sum of $5,000, $4,250 of which is for the boy and $750 the compensation for the par ents. The Birds were suing to re cover $50,000 damage. The victim presented a pathetic picture with his left arm gone at the shoulder and his right side, along the hip and leg, almost torn to the bone. The wounds were protected by skin that had been grafted from two small sisters of the injured boy. A dozen or more employees of the shops of the company in Ber wick were witnesses in the case on Wednesday. The plaintiff con tended that the company waa neg ligent in that an air pipe that car ried power for riveting machines was set close to a railroad track in the shop, and that Bird while push ing a car had his foot caught be tween the rail and the pipe and was dragged under the car wheels. A section of the rail with the air pipe 9 and valves attached, was ex hibited in court. Masked Man Fells Woman When His Presence is Known Berwick, Nov. 13.—Awakened by a noise in a room adjoining, Mrs. Minor Smith, of North Berwick, who was alone in the house with her babj T , entered the dimly-lighted room to investigate. She was horrified to see a man, with a black mask over his face, leap toward her. He grasped a chair and felled her to the floor, unconscious. Jumping through the window, breaking the sash as he went, the burglar escaped. The continued screams of the baby brought neighbors to the scene, with the husband, employed at night at a steel plant, leading the posse. 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