Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1903-03-26
County Seat
Local and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

Jos. Gansel of Hillsgrove visited
his parents here over Sunday.
Hon. M. J. Phillips of North
Mountain visited Laporte on We'd
nesday.
E. V. Ingham of Eagles Mere is
recovering from severe attack OF
gripp which confined him to his
room last week.
F. w. Gallagher, Thos. E. Ken
nedy and F. M. Crossley journeyed
to Williamsport on Wednesday to
witness the boxing exhibition by
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries.
Atty. w. P. Shoemaker is attend
ing the Masonic lodge dedication
exercises at Williamsport this week.
Laporte is represented at the M.
E. Conference now in session at AL
toona, by Rev. s. B. Bidlack and
Miss Myrtle Bryan.
James H. Gansel has secured the
contract for erecting the abutments
for the iron bridge near Hillsgrove,
which will be constructed by the
state. Mr.. Gansel will commence
work the first of April.
Joseph Sunlen, a foreigner en-
ployed by the Union Tanning Co.,
was taken from here to the Will
iamsport Hospital on Monday, suff-
ering with inflammation ofthe bowels.
He died the day after arriving at
the Hospital.
Mrs. Esther M. Gregory, daught-
er of Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Brewster,
has entered the nurses training
school of the Garfield Memorial Hos
pital, at Washington, ID. c., where
she will take a three years course
in professional nursing.
The notorious Mr.. Rathbone and
some of his friends among the DEM
ocratic editors have construed the
silver service presented to general
Leonard Wood by the fashionable
tennis club of Havana, as bribe
presented by a gamblers association.
Michael McNellon Jr. left last
week for Williamsport where he
will assist his father in sprinkling
streets this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Cowell of Ber-
nice, and Mrs. Alice Cowell of South
Branch spent a. few days last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. B. s. Cowell.
1t is estimated that, with no legal
obstacles, it will be at least a year
and half before actual work can be-
gin OH the Panama canal.
A Chicago man has gone to court
for an injunction to keep his wife
from pulling his whiskers. Men of
that kind have a remedy in their
own hands, and that is better than
whiskers in their wives hands.
1t is, to shave.
Mr.. Ernest Frycklund former
pastor of the M. E. Church at this
place, and who was for the past two
years engaged in the mercantile bus
iness in Patton, Pa, has accepted an
appointment as pastor of church in
the Pittsburg conference and resum-
ed his ministerial duties again.
Chas. Bryan of Forksville was do
ing business at the county seat on
Wednesday. Owing to the damage
done to his farm by log driving he
has found it necessary to sell his per-
sonal property and cease farming.
He will engage in selling new pat
ent sprayer among the farming dis
riots OF Sullivan and Bradford cOun-
ties.
A change in the w. & N. B. time
table took effect on Monday which
makes the north bound train No.
525 one hour later than formerly,
and now arrives at Laporte from
Halls at 9:27 a. m. This gives the
patrons along the line as far as La
porte the daily morning papers. The
r. p. O., clerk makes his transfer
to the South bound train at the La
porte Station.
The Rev. J. r. Bradford of the
Baptist church of Barnesboro, Pa,
and former pastor of the Laporte
Baptist church, is in very poor
health, suffering with brights disease.
Constant and Watchful care is given