Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-06-04
In Memory OF the Dead.

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fully carried out. The public gener-
ally remembered the veterans, and
participated in the days events.
Many flags were unfurled and flowers
in great profusion were contributed
for the decoration Of graves of the
soldiers dead.
The exercises of the day were con-
Quoted IN the M. f church, opening
prayer by Rev. w. III. Norcross was
followed by patriotic airs by a select
choir. Rev. II. w. Null was orator
of the day and his address was high
ly enjoyed being somewhat out of
the ordinary style of memorial adj
dresses.
Completing the programme which
Was arranged by the veterans and
carried out by j. c. Pennington,
master of ceremony. The few re-
naming defenders of our nation,
headed the line of march to the
cemetery where the graves of their
comrades were appropriately honoc
ed and decorated.
Martial music was furnished by
the Laporte Drum Corps, who did
credit to themselves in the perform
ance of their part Of the program,
which was their initial appearance
on a public occasion.
The Rev. c. F. Choolzzi, graduate
of Kings College, Oxford, Trinity
College, University of Berlin, special
ecclesiastical envoy of King Menelik
of Abyssinia, is spending few days
in Philadelphia.
He is telling the negroes OF that
city, among other things, that Eve
was negro, that Moses was a ne
gro, that Solomon was Il negro and
that Homer was a negro.
His present business in this cOun-
try is to tell the blacks 10 go back to
Africa, where he says they belong.
He bases his assertion that Moses was
was a negro on Biblical story to the
effect that God told Moses to put his
hand in his bosom, and that WI zen
Moses drew the hand out it was
white, Therefore he must hav1heen
black.
/ He says that Solomon ) mother'wtis
a Cushite, and that the Ahyssinnians
are the only Cushites in the world.
Formal orders will soon be issued
for the bigger mobilization of federal
and state troops in ten years. The
final plans for the establishment of
eight military camps this summer
for the Joint training of regular army
and militia soldiers have been con-
kcluded by the assistant secretary.
1 Governor of the various states have
been notified Of the time when the
militia organization OF the several
states will expect to go into camp
A new method of making good
, roals is being adopted in many
townships of our neighDoring town
: ships. A Supervisor published the
following letter in the Danville
: News:
Sir:-Derry township installed sew
eral road drags during the first part
2 of this week, made after the king
: drag as pattern. The first day
t several men with teams and drag:
were started out and when night
came to our surprise, each man haG
put in the best of shape about five
miles of road The results We're fal
! superior to those obtained with the
u large four wheeled scraper and TIM
d cost about One-siXth that of th'
scraper. A saving of six hundred
: per cent. and better work done.
t The old theory was to drag
5 lot of sward and mud out of TIN
Il ditch from three to eight inches il
: depth-materia wholly unadapte'
for good roads-and place it in tn
> center of the highway, where it lie
u a soft spoDgy mass, to be Worl
q down by the tread of the poor horse
n or to be washed away by the rain
u until the next season finds it back il
r the ditch from " here it was taken.
/ With the King drag installed tn
D. best kind of material is used-the re
"a fined scrapings from the middle c
'r the road. These scrapings the dra
rs takes off the high places and deposit