Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-10-23
News Items OF Interest at the
COUNTY SEAT.

Mere, spent SUNDAY WIN lLapofIe
friends.
Chas. r. Funston made bust
ness trip to Shamokin and Phila-
delphia the latter part of last week,
returning home on Tuesday.
L. R. Gumble was a lucky hunt
er on Tuesday. He brought home
about twenty pounds of squirrels
and pheasants.
Mrs. John Hassin is recovering
from a week illness.
Mrs. Nancy Kochensparger is
reported much improved in health,
having been able to leave her bed
last Sunday for the first time in
many weeks.
Miss Helen Humphrey of To-
wanda, is the guest of Miss Eliza
Shaut.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Mullen visit
ed relatives at Overton from Thurs
day until Monday evening.
The Union party is out Oft. That
comes from trying to nominate both
democrats and Republicans to the
same offices. Water and oil will not
mix, neither will discordant elements
from two parties become harmon
ious whole.
We were constrained for several
years to call Scouten, "Boss." Since
the last Democratic convention the
title seems to require an addition;
"BOOdle Boss" is the more apprO-
pirate appellation at present.
"Republicans have nothing to
offer" These were the words spOk-
en- in the Gazette Office by an indie
pendent voter from Cherry township
last week"
The above is clipped from the
Sullivan Gazette. No doubt that
man had been looking around for a
bath, and went to the wrong door.
Let him go and ask f. q. Rogers
if he knows when he can get bath,
or read Dixon's speech on the bath
bill.
We are conscious that we give too
much prominence to Scouten, but
his paper pours out falsehOods like
chaff from a tanning mill, and it is
our unpleasant duty to expose them.
Although it is a fact established
beyond question that the +. A. God
charles Nail Co. is not in the nail
trust or in any other trust. Scout
ems Herald continues to repeat the
lie.
1t is well for ScOuten that the days
of Ananias and Sapphira have past.
Which is the worse, for a man to
be persuaded to take the unanimous
nomination of a convention for the
Legislature, or for man to be run
ming around the county begging for
delegates to nominate him? In one
case the Office seeks the man, in the
other, the man seeks the office.
An ancestor of Ulysses Bird was one
of the three pioneers in the west of
this county more than a hundred
years ago. His numerous decend-
ants have been good citizens and
borne honorable names, but they
have not been Office seekers or office
holders.
Ulysses Bird did not seek the NOM
ination for Treasurer. He was un-
animously nominated blythe Repub-
lican Convention without solicita-
ton on his part.
Miss Josephine Colt concludes her
Childs Singing Glass at Eagles Mere
on Saturday evening with a very
pretty cantata, entitled "The Fairy
Revel.' Admission 10 and 20 cents.
All who attend this entert inment
will be sure to spend a delightful
evening.
John G. Swank, son of p. G,
Swank, died at his fathers home
near Muncy Valley, of Brights dis
ease, aged 23 years and IL months.
The funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. j. Guilden, and the re-
mains inferred in the Sonestown
cemetery. The pail bearers were
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