Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-12-24
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Local and Personal Events
TerScly Told.

A merry Christmas and happy
New Year to all our readers.
Mrs. II. J. Ingham is quite ill, the
result of a severe cold.
Mr.. w. C. Mason and daughter
lone, did shopping in Williamtport,
Monday.
Henry Stepp has return home
from the Williamsport hospital much
improved.
Geo. Brown, the popular insurance
agent of Lopez, was Laporte Wis
itor last Friday.
Following the long established
custom of dropping an issue in or
der to take a Christmas vacation, the
News Item Office will not issue II
paper next week.
Simon Breigher has resigned his
position at the tannery and accepted
one with the Laporte Cooperage Co.
He will move his family to the An
drews residence next week.
Messrs. Scott Wieland Ernest Bots
ford of Nordmont, were passengers
on the Monday morning train from
Towanda where they took degree
in the masons lodge on Saturday
evening.
There is rumor afioat which has
of late gathered credence to the effect
that the w. & N. b. will construct a
spur connecting their line at Holmes
Mills to the l.. V. road at Bernice
in the early spring and will run all
passenger trains to Bernice. The l..
V. will use the w. & n. b. track
from Satterfield to Bernice, thus
obviating the necessity of turning
the locomotive at that point each
time the station is passed.
1t is said on good authority that
the prices of meat are to take a big
drop. The wholesalers of western
meats advance as the cause of the re-
ductiOn the falling off in demand
within the past month, due largely
to the suspension of men and cutting
of wages. The workingmen have
had their wages reduced and one of
the first they stopped buying was
meat in so large quantities that had
been purchased previous to the cut.
Therefore there is nothing left for
the dealers to do but cut the prices
down to a point where the consumer
generally can join in the buying.
The opinion prevails that when the
prices are cut down the end of high
priced meats will have been reached.
Remarks, it is said, have been
heard from inside circles to the effect
that the w. & N. B. management
have about perfected arrangements
to run the morning train, due at La
porte 1887, one hour and half
earlier, making connections as usual
at Satterfield and also at Halls with
an early train for Williamsport.
This commendable change, if made,
will be greatly appreciated by the
public who desire to get out in the
morning to do business. Now, if
the evening south bound train could
be run an hour earlier as far as Hugh
esville, there would seem but little
chance for the dear public to COM
plain of the train service along this
line.
During the last session of the State
Legislature bill was passed by that
body and signed by Governor Pen
nypacker, which reads as follows:
"Be it enacted, ETC., that the Board
of County Commissioners of the sew
eral counties of this State, may upon
the petition of ten reputable free
holders of any township, borough or
oity in their county procure for, and
furnish to said petitions some suita-
BILE and appropriate metal markers
for the g, of each and every sol
dier or or who served with hon.
or in Q military forces of the Uni
ted States, buried within the limits
of said township, borough or city to
be placed on the grave of such sol
dier or sailor for the purpose of per-
manently marking and designating
said grave for memorial purposes.
Mrs. Clowa Brakeman died at the
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