Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

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-Laporte twp. Auditors, Henry Karge,
VIM. Lloyd and Joseph Traugh were in
town Tuesday dischargipe be duties OF
their Office.
Spring must surely be mere, as 1t has
been emph asized by an occasional reck-
less pioneer from birddom coming to this
cold town.
Miss Grace Lawrence returned home
Saturday after closing very successful
term of school in Davidsod Twp. near
Nerdmont
Borough Auditors, j. Ii. Spencer,
Thos. Z. Kennedy and H. A. Karns ad-
iusted the accounts of the borough on
Monday.
james Dieninger while up from
Harrisburg seeing friends dropped OIL be-
tween trains and shook hands with our
towns people Saturday.
Don't expand with indignation be-
cause we ask you to pay for the last two
years subscription to the News ITEM. AS
soon as you can raise it we want it.
The weather man had hard time
getting the rain machine to work, but
managed to accomplish his task on Sun
day
Pay in advance, then when you read
notice to delinquent supscribers you
will have the satisfaction of saying, "That
doesn't mean me anyhow
AN honest man will not buy what he
knows he can not pay for; he will not
borrow money when he can see no way to
pay it back.
If in choosing your friends you select
those who love truth better than all else
you will never be called upon to decide
between honor and friendship.
A country newspaper Is the ofiiclal
organ of the town, but occasionally an
irate subscriber stops it, little realizing
that it is these '.stops' that makes the or
gan peal the louder,
Services at the Baptist church next
Sunday as follows. Sunday School at II
a. IN. Christian Endeavor at 700 p. IN.
Preaching 500.
Great Britain is going TO spend sllO,
100000 on her navy this year. At the
rate OF increase going on all over the
world, peace will soon be more costly
than war.
Well bet anything that after the
present experience some syndicate will go
into the wholesale manufacture of war
ships so as to have big stock OF ready.
made goods for war scares.
The rich are miserable because they
have discovered that money can not buy
happiness, and the poor are wretched be-
cause they have not money enough to
make the experiment
1t is the easiest thing in the world
for a woman to get herself talked about
but it isn't halfso easy to prove there is
no real reason for it.
There is nothing on earth that does
so much toward making tyrannical dis
position gentle and loveable ms a chasten-
ing course Of real sorrow.
BY casual observation it is seen that
a lawyer has to press his own suit when
he goes courting, but judge in conducting
his counting exercises the equity allowing
his claim too well settled to be shaken.
H. G. Place of Proctor has moved
into the rooms occupied by Chas Tinkle
| paugh at Fairview Cottage, and will open
grocery store in the meat market bull
| ing built by Harry Spencer.
| IS. S. Frank of Spring Mills, Pa. is
serving as mail agent on the W. q N. B..
this week, while Mr.. Chas. Yeager is re-
pairing and renovating the Cheney resi-.
dence and moving into same.
Constable A. L. Tripp, on Friday
arrested T. F. Pierce of North Towanda
on charge Of larceny, and had him
bound over to next term of court. Pierce
had leased a team of horses to VIM. Craig
of Muncy valleysasstj had been hauling
bark for j. j. Wen!sr. Some difficulty
arose between the parties and Pierce went
to the stable and took the team along
with some harness that is alleged not to
have belonged to him.R
--Messrs. A. l.. Armstrong and Geo.
Kiess, of Sonestown, passed through town
Friday evening on their return home
after a hard days work scaling logs at
Celestia. CAP will soon. commence the
operation of his saw mill at Celestia
where he has for many years kept the
place booming with some kind of enter
prise. Mr.. Kiess, whose honesty has