Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-09-16
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Local and Personal Events
TerSely Told.

shoemaker, lnurSuay, oepl. 10, Il
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Wing visited
with Picture Rocks friends over Sun
day.
Atty. F. III. Ingham was transact
ing business in Hughesville Tuesday
Miss Celia Donovan of Muncy
Valley, is the guest of her sister
Mrs. Jacob Fries.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Worthington, Thursday Sept. 16. a
daughter.
Mrs. Theresa Gallagher has NOV
ed to the Mead cottage with her
family.
A new iron fire escape has been
placed on the east side of Hotel
Bernard.
John j. Webster and A. T. Null
nix, of Estella, were business men
in town Tuesday.
A very pleasant reunion of the
Ingham family was held at Eagles
Mere Wednesday, with Mr.. and
Mrs. +. V. Ingham.
Mrs. Helen Boice Hunsicker and
nurse, Miss Sommers, visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. r.. A. COnklin at
Picture Rocks over Sunday. Mrs.
Hunsicker sang at the morning and
evening services in the BAPTIST
church and was greatly appreciated
bv her large Picture Rocks audience.
Decollotte gowns are being worn
just trifle lower than formerly
the sheath gown will be slit just a
wee bit more-and now comes the
seatless and ''nuthin," nuthin'
gowns. We men will soon have to
turn Christian Scientists and just
imagine we don't see anything
Mr.. Clarence Frey has returned
to the position he held at the La
porte Tannery before taking charge
of the Laporte Hotel for Mrs. Gal
lagher. Clarence made most ex-
cellent landlord and his extended
circle of friends would have greatly
enjoyed to see him continue as
their genial host.
Love, sunshine and common sense,
thoroughly mixed in the proper pro
portions, beat all the patent medi-
cines on the market as "A cure-all for
the ills of mind and body-and no
alcohol is needed as a dissolvent or
preservative. "Children cry for it,"
Joseph Carpenter took possession
of the Laporte Hotel Monday, with
his daughter Mrs. r. w. Mason
temporarily in charge of the Gull
nary department. The glad hand
was generously extended to Land
lord Carpenter on his return to the
county seat as permanent dwell
Ter and business associate. His
two sons will conduct his hotel at
English Center for the present.
Already have extensive improve
ments been started about the La
porte Hotel. Bath and toilet rooms
will be provided and considerable
remodeling done to both the inter
ior and exterior, including a two
story porch and a coat of paint.
The demand of the day are for a
more thorough and practical train
ing in the common English branches
There is much soaring 'mong stars,
delving 'mong rocks and attempt
ing to raise the dead languages to the
exclusion OF something more prac- |
tical and useful. Too much gilded
show, dress parade aud superficial
knowledge of common things to be
of any use in the ordinary routine of
life were ninety-nine one hundredths
of us are destined to flop out an ex-
istence. Too little practical appli-
cation of what really ought to be
known. There is more eagerness to
get the end than there is a desire to
know what there is between the be-
ginning and the end. What we
want is less show and pretention
and more downright actual know
ledge of what we ought to practical