Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-07-10


Mr.. Harry Tax who was oper-
ated upon for appendicitis and also
for abscess on the liver, at the Will
iasmport Hospital last week, is re-
ported as improving after his life
being despaired of for several days.
Late arrivals at the Mountain
House are: Mrs. VIM. Goodall, Mrs.
Charley and daughter Doris, Phil
adelphia; Mrs. j. b. Duble and
grandson, of WilliamspOrt; Mr..
Stout and Miss Stout, New Bruns-
wick, N. ].
The County Commissioners have
let the contract for the erection
of the iron bridge at Lopez to the
Nelson & Buchanon Co. of Cham
bersburg, Pa. The contract price
is $1S5O.OO. The bridge will be 80
feet long with an Is foot driveway.
The Company takes the old bridge
which was washed out for $1l per
ton. The bridge will he complet-
ed by December.
Constable A. A. Baker, ex -officio
game warden, captured two men
on June %, having fifty trout un-
der six inches in length in their
baskets and promptly brought them
before Squire Buschhausen. The
parties pleaded guilty and were
fined $500 and costs. One man
had twenty-four trout and the
other twenty-six but they conclud-
ed to divide the amount equally
between them. Constable Baker
says the taking of trout under six
inches and taking more than fifty
in one day must be stopped if he
has to spend all his time along the
creeks looking up those violating
the law.
Its over, thank Heavens. This
is one great feature about the ever
glorious Fourth. It's glorious to
feel that you have escaped unharm-
ed if such has been your good for
tune. When one begins dodging
cannon crackers, skyrockets and
stray bullets we do not exactly
know whether we are to fight fire
only few hours or if that kind of
exercise is to continue throughout
eternity or even longer. But it
has been so decreed that annually
we should take our lives and fatal
in our hand and help in
doing more or less thunderous hon.
or to the brave mOrtals who have
died for their country. Our glor-
ious Fourth has many times dOub-
led the list of martyrs on the altar
of liberty. 1t is grand to think
how cheerfully we lay down our
hard earned dollars and our lives
together for such exhibitions of
patriotism. 1t is sublime to pic
ture the valor of the brave citizens
who hold explosives in their teeth
and blast out their molars. 1t is
magnificent to imagine the sensa-
ton of the reckless use of fire arms
and explosives at the cost Of lives
and limbs. How inspiring to re-
member the thousands who become
crippled and killed celebrating the
glory of our republic. While ora
tors throughout the land are telling
how these great commonwealth
are being knit closer and closer
together until they are almost as
perfectly organized as a trust the
cannon firecracker is engaged in
tearing these United State and the
inhabitants thereof asunder.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS J.
MacIlvain Of Bridgeyille, Del.
and Miss May Rosa Funston, Of
Laporte, Pa, were united in
marriage in Philadelphia, June
"a, 1902, at the P. f. Church of
the Evangelists Catharine, above
7th street, by the Rev. c. w.
Robinson.
The wedding was q quiet affair
only the intimate friends Of the
contracting parties being present.
The bride, who was given away