Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-09-26


| We were in error last week in
stating that the season for legally
killing pheasants opened, on Sept.
lis. 1t should have read October Is.
Hunters please take notice.
LOST An umbrella between La
Porte and EaglesMere, the finder
will please return the same to A. j.
Hackley, LaPorte who who will re-
ward him for the same.
The beam hands of the LaPorte
tannery are taking two weeks va
cation, during which time that
part of the tannery in which they
do their work, will undergo repairs.
John Smith of Davidson, died, of
old age. on Sunday. Interment in
Elk Lick cemetery, on Tuesday.
Deceased had been ailing for several
years and confined to his room for
over q month";
DR.. Hill of LaPorte and David
Osler of Forksville, were conferees
to the Democratic conference held in
Sunbury, on Monday, and assisted
to nominate Hon. S. p. Wolverton
for Congress.
Our sportsmen spend their leisure
hours on Lake Mokoma hunting
wild ducks. Billy Meyer, says
there must have been a hundred in
a flock at the head of the lake, on
Friday.
Mrs. Frank McDermott and family
of LaPorte twp, eft for Ontario,
Canada, last week where she joined
her husband, who is superintendent
and boss tanner in large and ex-
tensive tannery at said place.
Mrs. S. f. Colt, Jr., and two
youngest daughters, of Philadelphia
are visiting their many friends ut
LaPorte Mrs. Colt has been on
the sick list for time and has
come to the mountain for relief.
Miss Mollie Keller of LaPorte,
who is head nurse of the Pennsylva-
MIA Hospital, will finish her course
in said institution to-day Thursday }
and will return home on Saturday,
where she will spend short vaca-
tion.
Quite number OF LaPorte peo-
pie will attend the Hughesville Fair
to take place on Oct. Sill. They
say that the trotting will be first
class which is quite encouraging to
many of our citizens who enjoy the
! passtime, of witnessing the same.
The young woman at Phillips
burg sent three kittens to her friend.
the butcher, and he returned the
present by sending her a bologna
sausage tied up in ribbons and
marked : Zone of the wanderers
returned"
We have few men in town who
live on the interest of their money
that is, we surmise they do, because
they don't do any manual labor.
S25, in some mems pocket puts
them on the top shelf and it would
seem that they are monarchs of all
they survey.
| Ex-county commissioner, George
Albert, of Cherry, is dangerously ill
and but little hopes is entertained
of his recovery. lie is sufferin from
a cancer in his stomache.
LATTER MIR Albert died on
Tuesday, at l p. m. Interment will
take place in Bahr's cemetery
to-day friday, at 2 O'Clock p. M
Judge Mason of LaParte, is sur
veying a driving Park around
Lewis Lake, this week. The syndi-
cate is having the work done and
hope to have the drive completed by
next season which will afford the
guests of the Mere much pleasure
and will have tendency to induce
the cottage owners to bring fast
horses to the mountain, as they will
have chance to test their speed.
The homely proverb that we never
miss the water till the well runs dry,
finds an illustration in the partial
failure of this years fruit crop.
Even the failure of the peach crop,
bad as it is, is not to be compared
to the scarcity of apples, the effect
Of which will be felt in almost every