Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-10-11
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STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Cleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-ltems of Busi-
ness ard Pleasure that lntereat.


Twenty-Five hea of Nebraska colts
were sold at public sale at Oxford at
from $65 to SIPS head.
While working in a QuakertOwn
hay press Charles Trauger cut four
fingers off his left hand.
The fair and festival conducted by
the Nesquehoning Hose Company
netted more than $500 toward the
purchase of a new steamer.
DR.. j. Fred Wolfe, of Bethlehem,
announced that there will be another
Bach Festival next year. probably last
in the spring.
Rather than go to Jail for stealing
$3.50 from his best girl, Miss Annie
Takas. Joseph Szukice, of South
Bethlehem, married the woman.
The Rev Aaron Myers, of Elizabeth
town, and Miss Laura Lands, of Lam
caster, sailed as missionaries to
China.
Former County Superintendent of
Public Schools George W. Snyder Of
Clearfleld, has sustained a stroke Of
paralysis.
William Weisinger was sent to Jail
by the Lancaster Court for 80 days
for stealing bottle of milk from a
doorstep.
Seven men were parolled for year
and two others fined 500 and given
parole in Pittsburgh, as result of
selling baseball pools.
Andrew Fahringer, an undertaken,
WAS arrested at Elysburg by the State
Board of Health, charged with bury
ing man without a permit
Sufficient stock has been subscribed
at Sunbury for the establishment OF
the Barber Car Company, which will
employ 800 men and boys.
The Tionesta indicator says that
the red squirrel has become so plen-
tiful that they have become a nuis-
ance. They are eating the sweet ap-
pies and nesting in the barns One
Forest county farmer is credited with
killing "a of the animals in his barn
one day last week.
The superintendent of the Mexican
County Home raised a field of oats
that averaged 60 bushels to the acre,
but Superintendent Fred Baker, Of
the Potter County Home, last week
threshed 744 bushels of good, sound
oats from a field OF II acres, actual
measure.
In the old days Of floor speculation
In oil, when every broker amounting
TO shucks had his scout among the
hemlocks where the spouters gushed
serene, no company was more fifty
represented than Forest Oil. 10. p
Cappeau, its field man, who as man
and boy has been associated with
this business 40 years, was an Oil
City caller this week. JOS scouting
days began with the KinZua mystery,
back in $780, still in the harness,
where they will end only the Record
ing Angel knows.
While working on the new State
road west of Lockport, near Lock
Haven, Edward Winner killed black
snake, which was engaged in a vici-
GUS battle with two workmen. Seiz-
ing the snake by the tail, he pulled
1t from the mountainside to the pub
lie road, and Just as it was about to
coil around his body he stepped on it
and then cut the head off with one
blow from the ak. The reptile, which
was a genuine blacksnake with skin
as glossy as velvet, measured seven
feet in length.
At the ting of Oil City and
Franklin men in Franklin the recon-
mendation was made that the name
of the new organization be "The
Wanango Golf and Country Club"
One of the committee making the rec
ommendation offers the following ex-
planation: "'Wanango,' pronounced
giving the two as the broad sound as
in Auburn. 'Wanango' was the Indian
name for this section of country, and
when so spelled and pronounced is
much more euphonious thin the Eng
lish adaptation, as Venango. and
when written 'Wanango' cannot be
confused with the county name
BY the overturning of kettle Of
hot water Mrs. Charles Bradley, OF
Chester, was seriously scalded.
The Schuylkill & Conestoga Valley
Railroad is securing rights of way
fhrnuoh 1nnar Rucks Countu