Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-11-05
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Local and Personal Events
TerScly Tod.

Atty. A. J. Bradley came up from
Philadelphia to cast his vote here on
Tuesday.
A. f. Botsford of Nordmont, has
moved from that place to Connecti-
cut, where he has been employd for
some time past.
Charles Covert of NordmOnt, has
moved his familyto Opp, Lycoming
county. Jerome Reed, of this place,
has moved to Mr.. Covert's farm near
Nordmont.
Mrs. Clara Baker has gone to Ath-
ems to live with her daughter for the
winter.
Wedding invitations are out an
nouncing the marriage of Mr.. John
V. Finkle to Mrs. Rosa Mead on
Thursday, November ~.
Jasper Gasperine of Bridgeport
Conn, was visiting old time friends
in the second ward, Tuesday.
S. w. Brown of Philadelphia,
passed through town Tuesday eve
ming on his return from visiting Es-
tella friends. Mr.. Brown is engaged
in the insurance business in the
Quaker city.
Some one was successful in calling
up the Laporte telephone exchange
Monday and in sending the news to
the Williamsport Sun of the 300 h.
bear killed by Gordon Warburton at
Estella, the story got converted some-
where along the line into giving F.
w. Gallagher the honor of the vic
tory and it was so published. You
can begin to make yourself familiar
with these facts.
Mrs. w. B. Ritter spent Wednes-
day with her daughter at Satterfield.
Miss Bessie Flynn of York State,
is visiting her brothers, John and
Michael, and later will visit her
brother Edward, at Hillsgrove.
Joseph, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Fries, last Sunday fell
off the porch where he was playing
and hurt his arm quite badly. 1t
was at first thought that his arm was
broken, but on the arrival of DR..
Randall who was called to attend
him, it was found to be only bad
bruise.
Patrick d rsey, who was admitted
to the Williamsport Hospital, last
week suffering with a broken back,
died on Thursday. He is survived
by a wife and several children.
Mr.. John Henly and Miss Clara
Hatton, both of Mildred, were mar
ried on Wednesday, November 4th,
by Rev. w. j. Campbell of Dushore.
Patrick McHaIe Of Sugar Ridge,
Bradford county, 50 years of age,
was burned to death while trying to
eXtinguish forest fires near his home
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Martin
Gallagher, formerly of this place is
one of the nine surviving children of
Mr.. McHale.
We have no hesitancy in voicing
our belief that an election judge who
gets SO filed up with happiness that
there is no room within him for any
other emotion or to be able to eXer-
else any faculty while serving on an
election board, and his friends pro-
nounce him intoxicated and has to
leave his honored station, is of that
class of citizens who regard executive
dignity with about as much concern
as could pass through the eye of a
needle.
1t would be rather mellow joke
on the editor Of this paper for having
been obliged to swear in his vote on
Tuesday, owing to the assessor fail
ing in his duty to place our name on
the registry list, but for the fact that
many others We're subjected to un-
necessary delay in their voting for
the same reason, places the joke in
that class which has no funnyness
about it that we can see. There is
little room for excuse in placing such
an erroneous registry list in the
hands of an election board as was in
use at Laporte Tuesday. The law