Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-03-19
EAGLES MERE.

for the ensuing year: President, E.
v. Ingham; Clerk of Council, G.
Peale Jr.; Treasurer, E. s. Worth
ington; Street Commissioner, A. l..
Meyer; Solicitors, T. J. & F. II, In
CHAM.
The project for building a new
school house is moving along slowly.
The number of pupils is too great for
the present quarters, and something
in the way of more room must sure
ly be provided before next school
begins. The talk now is for grad
ed school and an entirely new build
ing large enough to be thoroughly
comfortable for teachers and pupils.
The present conditions certainly de-
mand improvement, and as our di-
rectors are of the progressive kind,
we have every reason to believe that
the right thing will be done at the
right time.
A social candy pull-some sort of
''stuck up'' social function was CIV
en- by Mr.. and Mrs. John Haymen
at their home on last Wednesday
evening.
Miss Florence Weaver has been
visiting friends in town.
Mr.. Sones has recently placed a
new engine on the "Loyal Sock ex-
tension" The engine has the culti-
waited 'toot" belonging to engines
connected with the biggest railroads
of the United States, and makes one
almost think he is somewhere"
Engine No. 1 is now used for haul
ing logs to the mill, and the new one
handles the traffic on the main line
as far as Loyal sock Junction, where
the side-thrashing-tie-smashing ma
chine relieves it of further RESPONSE
bility.
It is becoming the settled convict
ion of the local public that the Buck
wood road is not of sufficient cali
bre to handle the business of the
road. Their whine has heretofore
been "give us more work for the
road and we will show YOU" This
year the whole community decided
to patronize, and the result is, that
cord after cord remains in the chop
ping because of the weak manage
ment of the transportation company.
The truth is the management is
short of motive power, and they are
of course, not able to buy, and they
don't seem to be able to borrow
transportation facilities" The Post
Office Club suggests that there should
be more heads-of-departments with
private secretaries, and that the
common hands should be made to
work longer hours; fix up the gener-
al offices and each clerk ought to
have a new typewriter, the ones now
in use have old style letters-not at
all modern; the house of entertain
ment in the woods where the work
men take their lunch, ought to have
new stove, but possibly if the walls
are papered with new stylish paper,
in warm colors, it might answer all
purposes. 1t might be wise also te
do something to improve the morals
of tho men. Other roads we know
of have their Christian Endeavol
rooms, and in some instances the
head men of the company have had
interest enough in their men to give
them the true meaning of the wore
Christian. Working men are no
mere beasts of labor, born to las
forever and its asking mighty llittl'
of the management to instruct then
in the right way, if it is done a
noon-time and after working hours
Something must be done for no mat
ter how much wood you may saw
if you can't get it, its no use to saw
Even in Eagles Mere "the signs
point to an early spring. The boar'
walks are humping their backs, witt
here and there new plank exposing
| its white face to the leaden sky; tn
rusty nail popping up from its rot
: ten bed of decaying wood; lthe til
can which shielded the dead oyste
for many a weary day, lies on tn
melting snow bank in the yard; tn
ash heap is being gradually sprea