Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-30
County Seat Indices.
AND CHANCES AT THE TIMES.

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Mrs. F. G.. Mostellar of Gwava
is visiting relatives in town.
Mr.. Robert Stormont arrived
home on Wednesday, from his jour
ney to Scotland.
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller has
promised to duplicate every dona-
ton to Vasser College to an amount
not exceeding 100000.
One of the splended steeds of
DR.. Rose Morgan, slipped and fell
on the ice one day last week, injur-
ing the animal badly enough to
place it on the retired list for few
days.
-Messrs. Asa and Charles Kilmer,
of Western Sullivan, were business
men at the county seat, Tuesday,
where legal papers were drawn
making them agents for the disposal
cf their fathers personal property.
-Wackenhuth, the genial doctor
of Picture Rocks, was in town Mon
day, on professional call, and found
time to call on several old time
friends while on his way to the
station.
A spread of smallpox is feared
in the slate regions of Northampton
County, as hundreds of Italians who
insisted on viewing the corpse of a
woman who died of smallpox, are
allowed to roam at large.
-Chas. Coleman of this place,
was taken very ill with appendicitis,
Thursday of last week, and for sew
eral days was in a serious condition.
He is now improving and his friends
are hopeful for his recovery without
an operation.
Leo Wrede of Hughesville, was
taken ill with symptoms Of diphthe
ria, on Tuesday at his boarding
house in that place. The house was
at once quarantined. Leo visited
his home at this place last week and
it was feared he had contracted the
disease from his sister, Miss Mollie.
Had Edwin Markham never
written anything else, he would
have been entitled to respect for his
statement ga man becomes relig-
ious only when he comes into broth
erly relations with his fellows not
forgetting his hairy and feathered
kinsman of the fields and sky.
George German of Nordmont,
was county seat visitor on Thurs
day last. He informed his friends
here that it is his intention to leave
Sullivan county, in the near future
and move to Bristol, Tenn, where
he was at one time employed, in
his more youthful days. Mr.. Cor
man has been one of Sullivan coun
cy's substantial citizens for the past
nine years, and the best wishes of
many friends follow him down in
the cotton region.
Miss Mollie Wrede was taken
ill with diptheria last Saturday
which developed into serious case
Sunday. DIR. Gamble of Forksvile,
was in constant attendance for two
days, and now has his patient in a
fair state for recovery. The borough
health officers, on Monday posted
notices about the premises of Mrs.
Wrede, quarantined the home and
ordered the schools closed to prevent
the spread of the dreaded disease.
No new cases have as yet broken
out.
Joe Dominick, an Italian EN-
ployee of the Laporte tannery, on
Saturday last was taken to the Will
iamsport Hospital, by Supt. J. W.
Flynn, suffering with anthrax on
his left arm. Dominick was under
the impression that he had been
taken to the Hospital to have his
arm amputated, and at the first un.
gaurded moment made his escape
from the building and went directly
to the station, boarding the late
train for home. This train, how
ever, does not run farther than Pic
ture Rocks, where he was obliged
to get off, but nothing undaunted
he walked to Muncy Valley, dis
tance of twelve miles, where he re-
mained for the night, and journeyed