Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1904-07-14
County Seat
Local and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

MIR. ana MIS-. r. W. GallaShef
were shopping in Dushore Tuesday.
Mrs. f. M. Crossley is spending
several days i'm Dushore.
Mr.. II. l.. White of Hoytville,
was Laporte visitor last week.
Mr.. w. w. Jackson and family
of Dushore, spent Sunday in Laporte.
Miss Eliza Shaut is the gnest of
friends in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mr.. Frank Otterbein of Altoona,
is spending short vacation with
LadOrte friends.
Miss Jenneate Spencer is spending
a few weeks vacation with her moth
er at this place.
The News Item Office force took
their usual semi-annual vacation
last week. Our correspondents are
taking another, this week.
Send your little or big jobs of
printing to the News Item ofiie for
prompt service, neatness in eXcu-
ton and reasonableness in price.
Mrs. Jordan and daughter, Miss
Elsie, of Athens, and Miss May
Mutfiley of Baltimore, are the late
arrivals at the Mountain House.
Miss Villa Murrelle of Athens, is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. M.
c. Lauer at this place.
The dinner given by the Evangel-
ical church at SOnestown on the
Fourth was success. $l09 was
realized as net receipts.
Miss Lizzie Dominic who has spent
the past two months at Ricketts,,
has returned to her home at this
place.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Lauer of DushOre was
Baptised at the Episcopal Church
last Sunday. a large number of
friends and relatives were present.
The Lady Minstrel Show at this
place June % and 30, netted over $50
for the benefit of the st. John church.
Mr.. Mortimer Funston is home
with his parents at this place for
prolonged visit. Mr.. Funston has
served seven years in the t. S. army
and was recently given an honorable
discharge, at which time he was
holding the rank of Corporal.
Mrs. Esther M. Gregory of the
Garfield Memorial Training School
for nurses, at Washington, ID. c., is
spending her vacation with her
mother and sister at this place.
Mr.. Martin Rouse of Forks town.
ship, died Thursday, July I, of APP
poplexy, aged 53 years. Mr.. Rouse
was highly respected citizen, and
leaves wife and seven children to
mourn his loss.
During the progress of the Demo-
cratic convention at st. Louis it was
telegraphed all over the country:
"The gold plank goes out" This
was considered triumph for Bryan.
That old Democratic politician from
New York Hill, smiled when he
agreed to let the gold plank slide.
He knew his nominee. After the
nomination was made, Judge Parker
cody informed the delegates at the
convention that he was a gold man.
They could take HIM with that plank
or they could go without him. After
all Mr.. Bryan was outwitttd. 1t is
ut least amusing politics.
Husbands are Il peculiar animal.
All families have at least one hus-
band among them, and husbands are
quite different from married men. A
husband has more authority i'm his
own house than his wife's mother.
A married man can't even call his
pants his own. A married man snea-
ks out to the stable to smoke. A hus-
band stalks into the parior with a
cigar in his mouth and if his wife OBJ
,jects swats her over the head with
the family bible. Husbands were
first invented for the amusement of
the women folks. Married men were
invented to henpeck. Exchange.
Lots of funny things occurred in
the convention at Chicago. One of
them being when Chairman Champ
Clark tried to make an announce