Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-05-14
LOLIlty Seat
Local and Personal Events
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on Laporte friends on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Bennett have
moved from this place to South
Brook.
Atty A. F. Heess of Dushore, was
in Ls te, on legal business We'd
Mr.. niah Kelly of Hughes
Vile, Wa. "a Laporte business man
on. Tuesday.
Mrs. f. V. Ingham of Eagles
Mere, visited Laporte friends over
Sunday.
F. M. Crossley received painful
injuries by falling from his lumber
wagon, on Wednesday.
DR.. c. d. Voorhees, and wife, and
merchant G. A. Starr of Sonestown,
were Laporte visitors on Thursday.
Walter Spencer of Williamsport,
is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. II.
H. Spencer at this place. Walter
tips the scale at 200 pounds, and car
ries his extra avoirdupois in very
neat proportions.
A large force of men were called
out Monday forenoon to fight fire
that started in the brush near the
Gansel farm. Before it could be
brought under control it had reached
Kohensparger's fields and some of
his fences destroyed.
Mr.. Edward Schrader has moved
his family to South Brook, near Lo-
pez, where he takes charge ola large
bark peeling job for the Union Tan
ming Co. Mr.. and Mrs. Schrader
extend a cordial invitation to all La
porte friends to call at their summer
home at South Brook.
Howard Lyons made the county
seat business call Wednesday. His
usual jovial manner would indicate
that he is not worrying over the fast
disappearing profits to be made from
an investment in a newspaper enter
prise. The Hughesville Indepen-
dent is one of his treasured creations
and he has every reason to feel very
proud of such newsy and creditable
sheet as the Independent.
Friday last Joseph Wrede of this
place, Walter Lorah, of Sonestown,
and Patrick Donahoe, of Dushore,
took civil service examination at
Milton for an appointment to the
Annapolic Naval Academy. There
were thirteen applicants and there
will be one appointment made from
this Congressional district this year
and four next year.
Mr.. Ray Kessler, one of Nord-
mont,s most substantial citizens, has
resigned the position of superintend-
ent of the acid factory of the Sutten,
Peck Chemical Co., place he has
creditably filled for five years. He
is also one of the owners of the grist
mill and general store at Nordmont,
and is interested in industries in
Indianna County which requires his
personal supervision, and where he
will make his future place of resi-
dence. Mr.. Ernest Botsford sue
ceeds Mr.. Kessler as superintendent
of the factory.
Laporte Borough has grievance.
One that grows in seriousness and at
once demands the attention of our
councilmen. A privilege granted
many years ago when the county
seat was in its primative state to
allow cattle to pasture upon the
streets Is now considered by some to
be public right. To fill the
street with a constantly increasing
herd of cattle, swine and horses to
trample down ornamental trees,
break up sidewalks and fences and
destroy gardens and yards, and the
worst of all, make liberal use of the
sidewalks for purposes for which
they were never intended and which
seriously offends vision and decen
cy is positively not right. We care
not to probe this particular nuisanc
too closely for collectively they have
already been punctured by pedes
trians sufficient number of times
that everyone fully understands wha
they are without further suggestion
Unless the authorities have NOR
pride in the administration of thi
VILLAGE than has been the custom