Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-16
Republican News Item.
THURSDAY, JAN. l6 1902.
Ice houses are being filled with

MIR. Joe Gansel and family NOV
ed from the Laporte Tannery to
Hillsgrove, last week.
Rev. Skellington of Proctor, is
assisting Rev. S. b. Bidlack in his
revival work at this place.
MIR. Ray Kessler of Nordmont,
was transacting business with his
lawyer, A. J. Bradley, in town on
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. F. M, Crossley
drove to Benton, last Sunday and
are visiting friends at that place and
bloomsbury, this week.
1T is rumored that II. j. Keeler
NAV sell his stock of merchandise
and rent his store building to c. B.
Jennings of Estella.
Merchant A. p. Weiland of
Nordmont, made this otficea pleas
ant call Saturday while in town
looking up new customers to deai
in the product of his grist mill.
There seems to be great activity
in the telephone business in different
parts of the United States. Te'e-
phone lines are being run from town
to town by the way of the leading
farmers along the route who are be-
coming subscribers. 1t will not be
long now before the farmers will
begin to have Office hours.
Revenue amounting to Sl5,6O5-
As was derived, from mail at the
Dead Letter Office during the past
wear. OF this amount s., 1885,. .26 was
realized from the sale held Decem-
Der, 1901, of parcels, which could not
be restored to owners, and the bal
ance, or $12,320.19, was actually
received through the mails in cash.
Hon. Galusha Grow, of Penn
sylvania, a member of the present
House of Representatives, was in
Congress before many of his col
leagues were born. He took his
seat on the first day of Dec. 1851.
Among his colleagues then were
Henry Clay, John A. Logan, Thad-
deus Stevens, Roscoe Conkling and
others long since passed away.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will go
through the ceremony of breaking
bottle of wine over the Prov of the
German Emperor's American-built
yacht. A little rehearsal with bot
tied water will enable her to do it
correctly. The Kaiser, however,
missed it when he failed to select
Mrs. Nation, by the way, why not
spill lager beer instead of cham
pagne, Hoch der Kaiser.
The citizens of certain town
in Michigan, have established a pre-
cedent which may be widely copied.
Incensed at the charges of their ply
sicians, they contracted with one
physician to care for the health of
the town at stipulated salary of
81, 800 per annum, agreeing to pay
a stipulated fine where the doctor
found he had been called unneces-
sarily.
1t is said that the old time ira
dition that women must wait for a
marriage proposal Is to be relegated
to the attic. A western movement
by st. Louis clergyman favors pro-
prosal by women. Many women
support themselves and a husband,
and if a women is able to support a
husband she should certainly have
something to say, in fact everything
to say, in the selection of one.
There are score of men in
America whose fortunes exceed
those of monarchs of one hundred
years ago. But instead of using
their vast wealth in selfish pleas
ure and eXtravagent pagentry, many
of them are using it for the pro-
motion of industries through which
thousands live with comforts un-
known to kings of the past century,
while a few, of whom Mr.. Carnegie
is most conspicuous, are lavishing
millions for the public benefit.
Muncy Valley,
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Gallagher, Jan. s, daughter.
BY the efforts of pupils and teach
or, {. lihrarxr of 1Oh hooks oil oh nicG