Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-05-24


the brick paving, and was fatally hurt.
Lancaster county has the heaviest
hay crop in its history; but its tobac-
co crop is about month behind in
planting.
Lansford business men are urging
the Lehigh & New ENGLAND Railroad
Company to extend it's line into that
town
Russell Dietrich, of Easton, has
been appointed superintendent of
State roads in Northampton, Monroe
and Carbon counties.
Injuries sustained at Edisons ce
ment plant at New Village, caused the
death at the Easton Hospital of John
Phillips.
The Chester Board of Trade started
a movement with the view of having
the Court House removed from Media,
the county seat, to the former city.
Most every one gets drunk once in
a while. at McKees Rocks, your Hon
or" explained a new constable, grilled
by Pittsburgh Judge.
The Rev. Jacob Singer, pastor OF
the congregation of Beth Israel Tenn
pie, York, has accepted a call from
Temple Bnai Jeshuuran, Lincoln,
Neb.
AS Stanislaw Quick, a wellknown
citizen of Mahanoy Plane, was trying
to cross the street he was run down
by a cyclist and his skull was frac
tured.
William Williams and wife were
driving to Shamokin from Hickory
Swamp, when the latter fell back In
the carriage and died from stroke of
apoplexy.
Walter Brookins gave a short fight
in his aeroplane at Altoona and land
ed in a marsh. He had to take his
machine apart to get it out Brookins
was uninjured.
Stephen Butler of Girardville. and
number of companions, rendered idle
by the coal suspension, were riding
on a Reading freight train near Sha-
mokin, when he fell between the cars
and was killed.
Over one hundred automobile own
ers have sgnified their intention of
participating in the automobile parade
and demonstration the first day of the
Cumberland Valley Volunteer Fire
mems Association Convention in
Waynesboro
Henry Huber of Pittston. is making
arrangements to visit his former home
in Germany. 1t is thirty-four years
since he left his native land. Mr..
Huber came to this country Septem-
Der II, 1872. He remained couple of
years and returned again TO Germany,
where he spent some few years, and
again came to America.
Monroe Cottage, known as the old
Fisher homestead, located midway be-
tween East Stroudsburg and Analo-
mink, was sold for 900 to Phila-
delphian, who will make the place a
home for retired Catholic priests The
property consists of 1875 acres, and is
along the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Railroad.
Honesdale r. ID. route No. l, makes
his deliveries with an automobile, and
most of his patrons get their daily
mail three hours earlier than hereto
fore. Mr.. Groner leaves the office at
II o'clock and covers the % miles III
four hours. Formerly with horse it
took him over seven hours to cover his
route.
One of the surest signs that
Smethport, Mexican county, is still on
the map is the fact that it is impos-
sible to secure a desirable tenant
house in the borough at the present
time. When the houses are all occu-
pied, and the rents at top notch, it
does not look very much like a dead
community, does it?
Gypsies who went to HaZleton from
Danville and We're arrested for getting
$50 under false pretenses from a for
eigner at Sheppton. were ordered
away from Jeanesville, where they
had pitched their camp.
Seventy y-nine residents of Northum-
berland county have taken out papers
in the office of Frederick j. Bylod,
ProthoBotary and Clerk of the
Courts, preliminary to becoming citi-
zens of the United States of America.