Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-06
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Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD

armers Busy IN Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-Items of Busi-
nese and Pleasure that Interest.
Because there were very few forest
fires in Carbon county this summer,
Sportsmen think game will be plenti-
full this fall
Eight baby boys have been sur
named Woodrow in the vicinity Of
Concord since the Baltimore conven-
ton.
To enter the Methodist ministry AS
sistant Postmaster j. Donald Hook
man, of Waynesboro, has left the
Government service.
William 3. Houser has been ap-
pointed Justice of the Peace at Par
sons, Luzerne county, vice w. R.
Bryant, resigned.
Ground was broken for a large ad-
dition to the plant of the James II.
Mann AK Company, in Mann,s Mar
rows.
c. F. Bonner, of Tamaqua, defeated
for the presidency of the Panther
Creek sub-district of the United Mine
Workers, held the office five years.
ST. Thomas has raised S335.5O for
improvements to its village and will
hold an oX-roast to replace $29324,
the sum expended during the year
William Pomeroy killed a siX-foot
blacksnake that had entered his sis
ter's kitchen, near Concord, and was
on its way to the top of a towel rack
An expert believes there is an mex
haustible supply of crude oil on the
farm of jeremiah Yaukey, near Fay
etteville, and Yaukey will bore for it.
w. J. Denning, storekeeper at the
Pennsy's Altoona car shops has com
pleted 55 years in the service of the
company and will be retired in Febru-
airy.
The small army of mine laborers
who left the Lehigh mining region for
Europe when the spring suspension
began will be back on duty before
Thanksgiving.
The Yorktown Local of the United
Mine Workers paid the funeral ex-
penses Of Charles Williams, of Nc
Adoo. shot in a row with a companion
over a woman.
Attorney F. II. Woods has resigned
as a member of Council of Washing
ton borough, preparatory to moving
to Cincinnati He is a son of DR. Hen
ry Woods, of Washington and Jeffer-
son College.
The greatest production of hay per
acre reported this season in Lycoming
county is that of Charles Williams,
above Hillsgrove, who harvested 81
tons from seven acres. The field was
at one time the bottom of a mill dam.
Nj. E. York, an aged resident of Wy
Son. near Hazleton, narrowly escaped
Death under the hoofs of an infuriated
bull The animal had pulled himself
loose from a stake in the stockyards
and was walking away when Mr. York
took hold of the rope, intending to
lead him back to the lettering post.
The maddened bull turned on Mr..
York, knocking him under foot For
tunately he was driven away before
Mr. York was seriously injured.
William Richart, of New Columbia,
a teacher in the public schools for 40
years, was in Montgomery recently en-
deavoring to organize reunion of the
Nancy Station School Clinton town
ship of 1861, 1863 and 1864. Mr.
Richart taught the school these years.
The building was erected in 1861, and
Mr.. Richart was the first to teach in
the building. Mr.. Richart is endeavor-
ing to get enough of his former pupils
together to hold a reunion.
A few seasons ago misguided ports
men of Spartansburg planted what
they believed to be seed of wild rice
in Clear Lake, at that place, to pro-
vide food for migrating wild ducks
and encourage them to stop there long
enough to be shot. 1t has since de-
veloped that the seed was that of the
rankest kind of watershed. 1t is said
that unless the lake is drained and
dredged free of the roots of the
growth, fishing in the lake will be
completely spoiled.
Charged with adulteration of milk,