Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-03-29
County Seat
Local and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

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Messrs. Henry Pardoe and A. T..
Wilcox of Forksville, were county
seat visitors Monday.
T.. G. Potter was at Sonestown
Monday.
Miss Emma Bahr has returned to
her home in Cherry township.
l.. r. Bussler was a Hughesville
visitor the early part of the week.
Ex-Judge f. NJ. Dunham, who
has opened a law Office at Sayre,
spent Sunday with his family here.
Rev. Thos. F. Ripple, pastor OF
the M. +. church, is attending con
ference at Tyrone, this week.
The stork visited the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Rose, Saturday
night and left a girl baby in their
care.
Jacob Herr has shipped his stock
of goods from his clothing store to
Elkland, Tioga county, for which
place Mr.. Herr will start Thursday
morning.
Mr.. Henry Stepp who is employ
ed at Berwick, has been spending
a week with his family here.
Mr.. Robert Mason is taking a
course in stenography at the Potts
Short Hand College, in William
sport.
Mr. Martin Mullen of Overton,
| has rented his farm at that place
and is now making his home with
his son. Atty. f., j. Mullen. at this
place.
Sportsmen will soon enjoy trout
fishing and short season of duck
shooting. 1t will be legal to shoot
ducks from the lst to the 18th of
April. Trout fishing will begin on
April 10.
Monday morning Mrs. Simon
Breiger and children started for
Meehan Junction, Miss, where they
will join Mr.. Breiger and son Carl,
and daughter Edna, who have been
at that place since last fall, and
where they expect to make their
future home. Their many friends
wish them health aud prosperity in
their new home.
Ames & Hammond, attorneys for
John III. Harding and Rebecca A.
Harding, of Hughesville, who re-
Gently brought suit for damages
against Lawrence G. Watts and Peter
and T.. b. Ritter, Muncy hotel
keepers, alleging that they furnished
liquor to Harry Harding, the plaint-
ifs son, a minor, on January 8, 1906
and who died the same night, have
| filed statements in the case. The
two statements are practically the
same, and in one Mr.. Watts is asked
to pay damages in the sum of $4,000
in the other Messrs Ritter are asked
the same amoant, making total of
$40, 900 in the two cases.
The Sullivan County Telephone
Company are extending a line from
Muncy Valley to Nordmont by way
of the road known as the Elk Lick
road which runs through thickly
settled farming district of Davidson
township. The majority of ia. mers
along this line will have phones
installed in their homes. The farm.
ers of Davidson realize that they
must forge ahead i'm order to keep
up with their progressive brothers in
Western Sullivan. and Cherry and
Colley townships, who have been
enjoying the advantages of tele-
phones in their homes for some time
past.
No more eggnog for James Salerno,
the Williamsport murderer, Is the
edict of the county commissioners
attorney of Lyco;Iing county, unless
the sheriff wishes to pay for it him
self. Mr.. Strictly the attorney, ad-
vised the county auditors not to al
low the sheriff's bill of over two
hundred dollars for extras in the
way of special food and dainties for
prisoners. Most of the money was
spent ON Salerno AT the advice of the