Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-11-26
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Local and Personal Events
TerSely Told.

Mr., and Mrs. b. S. COwell spent
Thanksgiving with friends in New
Albany.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Higley spent
Thanksgiving with their son Emer-
son, at Eldredsvllle.
A valuable horse owned by con-
tractor A. G. Little of Eagles Mere,
recently died of lockjaw.
Ex-Proth. w. j. Lawrence was
up from Muncy on Saturday doing
business at the county offices.
Henry stepp is at the William
sport Hospital being treated for a
large abscess under his left arm.
The many friends of Miss Name
Fries will regret to learn that she
is not as we'll as few months ago.
A. T. Armstrong on Saturday pur-
chased the Mathew Taylor farm sold
at sheriff sale for the sum of $230O.
Miss Maud Crossley of LosAngelos
California, is expected to arrive in
Laporte next week for short visit
with her parents.
Editor Fred Newell was in town
Friday night installing officers in
the 1. O. o. F. Lodge at this place.
He reports the various lodges of this
county in fiourishing condition.
Miss Kathrine Murrelle who re-
Gently graduated as trained nurse at
the Williamsport hospital, stopped
at Laporte Monday night to visit
friends while returning to her home
in Athens.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Leo. Wrede
of Satterfield, Thursday, November
10, girl. Both mother and baby
are doing well. Pop is "setting up"
the treats.
Miss Emma Spencer spent Thanks
giving with her brother, ]. I'll. Spen
Ger and family in Williamsport
| Her mother, Mrs. II. H. Spencer,
has been there for the past two
weeks.
Mr.. Joseph Weisbrod well
known resident of Cherry township,
died at the home of his son charles,
Wednesday of last week at the age
of 62 years.
Governor Pennypacker, on We'd
nesday appointed Samuel Gustil
Thompson, of Philadelphia, to th'
State Supreme Court vacancy crea-
ted by the death of Chief Justice
McCullum. Mr.. Thompson is
Democrat and served nearly one
year on the Supreme Bench by ap.
pointment of Governor Pattison.
The Bernice constable, in lengthy
article published in the Sullivan
Herald last week, makes reply to thu
statements made in the News Iten
concerning the Polish woman recent
ly arrested at Bernice and lodged il
the county Jail with evidences o
brutal treatment. He denies having
used any violence in her arrest. A
we have no reason to doubt his state
ments we accept them as truthful,
yet her story of the affair was some
what contradictory.
BY IA decision of the Suprem
Court of Pennsylvania, just handed
down, 10000 acres of forest in the
mountains of Pike and Monroe
counties-the best hunting and fish
ing region in that famous wilder
ness-is thrown open to the people.
The decision adjudges the Blooming
Grove Park Association, make W
chiefly of prominent New York
men, an illegal corporation and an
nuls it's charter.
Rural mail carriers are strictly
prohibited from carrying verbal
messages. fla farmer should tell
them to tell neighbor Jones to come
down his way, as he wanted to sec
him, the carrier could not lawfully
deliver the message. The proper
method would be for the farmer to
write a letter or postal to neighbor
Jones and have the carrier deliver
it. The reason is that the govern
ment wants all the revenue possible
from the postal service, and desires
those who are benefited by it to pay
for the same.
DIR. N. C. Schaeffer, State Super