Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-07-11

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the Fourth of July with his parents
at this place.
Joe Wrede spent few days Of
last week with friends at English
Center.
Mr.. A. Gasperine of Bridgeport,
Conn, was visiting friends at La
porte Tuesday. He drove to Lopez
Wednesday to visit his old friend
o. Bonci.
Chas. Lauer Of Lock Haven was
at Laporte Tuesday managing the
sale of furnituae at the Mountain
House Mr.. Ellis Swank of Muncy
Valley auctionered.
Sunday School 1000 a. m
Preaching 11.00 a. m.
EpWOrth League 7.30p. m
This is the order of service at the
Methodist Episcopal Church next
Sunday.
The Inspecting tour about town
made by the council last week re-
vealed the fact that many property
owners are negligent in keeping
their premises free from rubbish
that has been allowed to accumulate
from year to year, and permit the
growth of weeds that seed prOfusely.
A stimulation of local pride among
property owners will he greatly ap-
preciated, and in fact required if our
town is to grow handsome in old
age. If you have no local pride,
borrow some.
A Committee appointed by the
town council visited the News Item
Office earley one morning last week
and served official notices that the
Editor had been unanimously elect
sd to fill a vacancy in the council
caused by retiring member.
After it had been satisfactorily
explained why our services were
needed, 10y the use of cross references
from a recent issue of the News
Item, we accepted forthwith the
service of notice and was sworn in
to office on the spot-perhaps the
quickest action ever known to have
been executed in that honorable
body. Should we fail in filling the
Office with justice and credit it will
be the fault of judgement and not
of heart.
Since the moving Of the village
park it presents most handsome
appearance. 1t renewed the interest
of the V. l. S. and the ladies turned
out in goodly number Wednesday
evening and added beauty to the
rockery as well as other improve
ments. Everything indicates a
forward movement. Let everybody
help to stimulate such healthy en-
terprise now being manifested. En-
courage our local authorities in m TX
ing improvements by giving our own
properties little better appearance.
1t is these many little considerations
that makes town grow in beauty.
Nature has showered upon us her
most choicest blessings, and with
perfect unity and effort for the good
of our common cause, great will be
the result.
Mrs. H. N. Noyce, a guest at Miss
Finnigan's cottage, praises Laporte
in every particular excepting its
sidewalks and numerous dilapidated
old barns. Praising town is most
excellent advertisement and an eX-
ample worth emulating. If there
be one better way than another to
ruin town, it is for those who re-
side in it to go about apologizing
for its existence. There are some
who are always ready to say, by
their action at least, that this place
don't amount to much. They will
tell you that the town is dead; that
no one would think of stopping here;
that some town adjacent is more re-
spectacle, more enterprising. This
is all wrong. There has been sc
much of this talk in recent years
that the News Item nearly acquired
the same habit Every good citizen
of this town should take a special
local pride in all that pertains tC