Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-02-15
County Seat
Local and Personal Events
!. .Tersely Told.

Mrs. Jennie Whitbeck is visiting
friends near Muncy Valley.
M. j. McNellan who has been at
Leetonia, several weeks. has gone
to Titusville where h0 is employed
in the tannery.
Miss Name Buck of Dushore,
spent Sunday with her parents,
Sheriff and Mrs. Frank Buck.
Mr.. Edward Schrader and family
moved from this place to Hillsgrove
last week.
Mrs. Margaret Mapes has gone to
Hillsgrove where she will spend
some time with her son, Mr.. John
Whitbeck.
Eleven days absence in thirty
years is the record of Miss Emma
MUIR as a Middletown school teach
ere This break i'm the record of con-
tinuOus service was due to Il fail
downstairs.
The Mikado, Il Come Opera in
two acts, will be presented by local
talent at the Court House, on Friday
evening February %, at s O'Clock BY
the following well known talent:
Misses e. Shaut, j. Wrede, a.
Lauer, b. Wrede, Fora Carpenter,
O. Mason, V. Eddy, +. Gallagher,
E. Stackhouse, a. Perry, Mrs. r.
Meylert, Messrs l.. Perry, r. Mason
f. Lauer, j. and c. Wrede, f. Cross
ley, G. Stacknouse, +. Carpenter;
Mrs. T.. NJ. Dunham, musical direct
or; Miss Alice Brewster, stage di-
rector
While hitched to an ice piow on
Lake MakOmo Wednesday, the
team Of w. c. Mason broke through
the ice and was precipitated into
seven feet of water. it required the
combined efforts of several men for
fifteen or twenty minutes to pull
them out bodily. The harness was
ruined otherwise no seri-
Gus damage was done.
The county statement is some
later to appear in the News Item
than with the Gazette and Review.
The price given to these papers
was of a sufficient amount which
enabled them to get the type set on
o machine. The Republican party |
organ through accident got the
publishing of the statement, but at
such reduced figure that necessi-
tates hand composition.
The new road tax law passed in |
1905, which makes a change in work
ing out the tax on the road, and |
other amendments of the old law |
has received several .jolts in court
Judge Benton of Mexican
county, has declared it unconstitu-
tional, and Judge Criswell of Frank
lin county, has rendered an opinion
holding it void, because of uncertain
provisions.
In order to get Il piece of gold leaf
Garfield Intton, at pottsville, Sat.
urtay night placed Il 81 gold piece
on the Reading Railway tracks in
front Of an approaching tain. The
gO'a clung TO the wheels, and was
carried along by the train. The
boy who is only ten years old, ran
after the cars in his desperate de- |
spair, and has not since been heard |
Of.
The Monroe County Ministerial
association has taken up the cudgel
against Graveyard Membership"
-Dcing the class of church members |
Who wish the ministers to preach !
heir funeral sermons, but refuse to |
Day cent toward the support of the !
gospel.
Hughesville and vicinity is ex-
.ited over reports of rich anthracite
.oal finds in the nearby mountain,
md big develOpmentj are looked |
or shortly. a slope is being sunk |
n the side of the mountain and has
struck rich bed of fire ebay Of the
hardest kind and this j. taken us II
trong proof of the presence of hard
'oal.
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