Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-28

known. There are doubts entertained as
to whether it will be rebuilt very soon.
Bernice Echoes.
| Mr. Thomas Lynch left Friday noon
for Ithaca, N. Y. where he intends to re-
main for the future.
Mrs. Solemn Burns visited friends at
Lopez on Monday.
Mrs. NJ. Donovan visited friends in
Towanda last week.
A number Of our boys attended the
dance at Marshals last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.S.Taylor visited friends
in Towanda Wednesday Of last week.
&c. Hibbard and son Henry attended
the funeral of Mr.. Hibbard's brother at
Montrose Tuesday of last week.
| Mrs. Thomas Kelliher visited friends
at Towanda Tuesday.
The Bernice Comedy Co. under the
auspices OF the Bernice Cornet Band gave
their concert Tuesday evening OF last
week in the l. o. 0. F. hall to a fair sized
audience. The piece entitled" The Man
ager's Trials was well rendered. Prof.
Jas. Rutherford was the star. The song
and dance, "My Pretty Pearl" and the
love song, "Will You Darling Wait for
Me" by Master Thomas johnson was
well sung and acted. The trio, "Will
You Not Come Back Again" by Messers,
Rutherford, Kinsley and Cook was very
! fine.
fyou want to know the short cut to
Satterield just ask Sally.
Michael Gilligan of Lopez, visited his
brother James F., on Sunday.
A number Of the boys from here attend.
ed the dance at Satterfeld Thursday
evening. We understand some of them
had the color of their eyes changed.
That's right boys, practice on one another
for Uncle Sam will want fighters after a
while.
The Comedy Company with the band
played at Lopez Friday evening.
Miss May Watson visited friends at
Towanda last week.
Rev. j. C. Campbell and Hon. J. s.
Line attended the Presbytery at Scranton
few days last week.
Mrs. S. c. Campbell is visiting friends
at Wilkesbarre this week
A. L. Wilmot was in Shrewsbury last
week viewing the location of new bridge
in that township.
We notice that some of our potriotic
citizens who have been bowling for war
with Spain are now busy examining their
patriotic bodies to find some deformity to
exempt them from service. The stars
and stripes were not raised and held up
by calamity howlers and we can thank
God that our patriotic citizens are men
who do more fighting than talking and
who are the first to extend a helping hand
10 vanquished foe: such are the men
who placed the stars and stripes above our
country, and who will keep them there to
the end OF time. An old saying is; our
enemy looks small at distance. 1t is too
true, but we think some of our war fana-
tics have had their sight magnified. We
expect the doctors will do rushing busi
ness for the next few weeks, writing disa.
bility certificates for the war howlers.
God hates coward but what must he
think Of man who is too big a coward
to help his country in time OF trouble, yet
by his voice is always trying to stir up
internal and external strife.
Mrs. John Nc Donald visited friends at
Towanda last week.
Mr.. Jas. Gilligan and Mrs. Patrick
Murphy and Miss Amy Kelley visited
friends at Overton Sunday.
Some of our boys had scrap at Mil.
dred Friday evening. Such is life in time
of war.
The small boy and the angle worm are
the best Of friends now.
Those who cannot support their country
when called upon at this crisis should
remove at once to some foreign country
or some climate congenial to the breeding
Of copper-headed snakes.
| VIM. Jennings Bryan ought to enlist in
the cavalry as buglar, he surely has the
wind.
The Gazette scribe stated last week that
we was having trouble with the ball bear
ings in our knowledge box. He also said
We might have some for sale. We did
have but he has bought them all and
closed a contract with us to fix his know.
ledge box. Hereafter it will run on ball
bearings so it will not make so much noise
when in use. He will have the repairs
done as soon as he returns home. He is
now visiting at M. Gilligans Of Main St.