Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-09-24
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transacted business in town Tuesday.
He returns to college this week.
John Scarbeck and Miss Aella Nc
Clintock both of Muncy Valley,
were recently united in marriage.
Miss Henrietta Hicks of Brooklyn,
n. Y. is being entertained by Miss
Eliza Shaut.
A. E. Tripp spent Sunday and
Monday at his home in this place.
He is engaged at carpenter work on
the stave mill at Laquin, which
will be put in operation next week.
Mr.. f. P. Ingham was in Wilkes
Barre on business several days this
week.
Editor George Streby of the Du-
shore Gazette, was genial caller at
this office on Monday.
Friends of Miss Lizzie Brogan, of
Dushore, who is in the Sayre Hos
pital where she underwent an Oper-
alton for appendicitis, have received
word that it would be necessary to
perform second operation, the first
not proving entirely successful.
Work has begun on the silk mill
at DushOre, by firm of contractors
of Scranton, and it is the intention
of the owners of the new industry
to have it booming before the new
year sets in.
Boston negroes are denouncing
Booker Washington and his theories
and methods by resolution, but the
negroes are not the only people who
fail to recognize their best friende.
Large shipments of Nordmont
chop followed the business trip of
merchant A. p. Wieland to Hills
grove and intermediate points last
week. The Nordmont chop is rap
idly gaining customers among scien-
tific feeders throughout this section.
Insurance Agent George Brown,
of Lopez, was explaining the merits
of the New York Home Life Insur-
ance policies to Laporte people on
Monday. The superior points can
be ascertained in his advertisement
elsewhere in these columns.
The c. G. Phillips Uncle Toms
Cabin Show held a one night stand
at the county seat Monday, arriving
from Bernice Sunday morning. The
most striking features about the show
were the fifty head of horses and
thirty people in parade with two
bands. A good attendance greeted
the evening performance.
The days of damage by the fobert
rifle, in cities and boroughs of this
State are nearing an end, for after
the 18th of October it will be unlaw-
full for any person to discharge one
of these, or, in fact, any gun that
impells with force metal pellet of
any kind. The last Legislature pass
ed the act and it was signed by the
Governor, and is as follows: Six
months after of April 10Th 1908, it
will be unlawful for any person to
discharge in any city or borough of
this Commonwealth tiUbert rifle,
air gun, spring gun, or any imple-
ment which impells with force a
metal pellet of any kind. The pen
atty is five dollars for the first Of
fense and fifteen dollars and ten
days Imprisonment for the second
offence.
1t was on the road coming from
Dushore to Laporte Tuesday that
Philo Messenger learned the humOr
of Irish wit. 1t was such that gave
him dangerous laughing fit. He
came into town laughing; laughed
all the time he was here and was
still laughing when he left town.
Philo had purchased horse at To-
wanda and was bringing it home
hitched TO blackboard that was Civ
en- to him by the man who sold him
the horse. AS Philo says, ga funny
Irishman" was riding with him to
the county seat and as they were en-
gagged in talking of the good wagon
thrown in with the deal, Philo de-
cided to try the speed of his new
horse. A few sharp cuts of the whip
laid over the back of the animal sent
the buck board around the turns like
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