Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-05-25
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visiting friends i'll town.
Mr.. Il. A. Conklin spent part of
last week at Carbondale.
Miss Ella Tripp is visiting friends
in WilliamSport.
Mr.. Frank Gallagher was a Will
Transport visitor Saturday.
Ex-Sherifi Cott was Laporte Wis
itor this week.
Mrs. John Hassen has been quite
ill, but is improved at this time.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Flynn, daughter, on Monday May
-.
Miss Mary Eddy of Bradford
county, is visiting her parents at
this place.
Miss Helen Culver of Leets Island,
Conn, is visiting her brother, j. G..
Culver, at this place.
Charles Funston has been awarded
the contract for painting the two
dwelling houses on North Muncy
street, owned by the Building Asso-
citation.
Mrs. John Shailer is quite sick
with neuralgia of the stomach. Her
mother, Mrs. f. z. Wilcox Of New
Albany, is taking care of her.
Mr.. Daniel McCarty has moved
his family to Walston, Jefferson
county, where he has a good posi-
ton.
William NJ. Cheney of New York
| City, was IN town several days last
week in the interest of the New
York Press, being advertising solic-
itor for that paper.
Mrs. Edward Schrader and daught-
or Hattie spent "Wednesday at Sat
terfcld with Mrs. Leo Wrede.
The clothes-pin factory at SOnes-
town is being enlarged by the adj
dition of another engine and boiler
and two machines that will very
materially increase the output OF
pins and wages to the workers.
Mrs. Norman Stackhouse, who
has been visiting her brothers, Will
lam and Thomas Kennedy, for sev.
eral weeks has gone to Jamison City
to visit her sister, Mrs. John Gallag-
her.
The undertaking honesty with
which President Roosevelt assails
every evil, and the candor with
which he points out to the public
his aims and purposes is constant
source of famaZement, and sometimes
necessary to conceal his purposes and
deceive the people with evasions and
platitudes. And yet, the heartiness
with which the American people
stand ready to support the President
in his every policy, the 'promptness
with which they eXpouse the reforms
he proposes and the unamity with
which they voted for him last Nov
ember is sufficient TO demonstrate
that the old methods are obsolete and
the new are worthy of the emulation
of every man in public life.
The bazaar held last Friday on the
por0l of the Bingham Mansion" for
the benefit of the Episcopal Sunday
School was success in every respect.
A committee of the Sunday School
composed of Eunice Ingham, Helen
Carpenter, Cornelia Eckerson and
Donald Ingham not only planned
the entire affair but made the articles
Lemonade, cake, candy and fancy
articles of every size, shape and col
or were for sale. The bazaar netted
neat little sum OF money and was a
SDtldl SutNtSo.
The Bloomsbury Press is authori-
ty for the statement that the contem
plated improvements III the Amer
lean Car Il Foundry Company :
plant at Berwick will not be made
The company wanted forty acre
plot Of farm land adjoining the pres
ent site and the owners have placed
the price at 81 200 per acre. The
additions contemplated would have
made the Berwick plant the most
elaborate car shops in the world. 1t
was intended to double the capacity
of the wooden car part of the plant
so as to turn out forty cars a day
More than a thousand extra hands
would have been needed 1t would