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While coming from Wilkes-Barre PUBLIC PRESS Visitors in and Drink Manufactured by the Montour Ridge Water HARRY WALKER, Proprietor NORTHUMBERLAND, ftc Death of Mrs. Mary Fertig Mrs. Mary Fertig, widow of the late George Fertig, who died about six years ago, passed away at her home on lower Queen street on Tuesday evening after a long illness with a complication of diseases. Eight months ago she received treatment in the Mary M. Packer Hospital.

For the past seven weeks she was bedfast at her home. The deceased was 66 years old. She was a native of Snyder county, and came to Northumberland after her marriage to Mr. Fertig, about forty years ago. For many years she was a very active member of St.

John's Lutheran church, being especially interested in the Ladies' Aid Society. She was always ready to lend a helping hand in any work for the benefit of the church. Two sons, William 'and Howard, of this place remain also three brothers and one sister, as follows: Frank and John Sholler of Edinburg, Benjamin of Lewisburg, and Mrs. Hettie Bullock of Kingston. The funeral will take place at the Lutheran church this Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

The pastor, Rev. H. C. Michael; assisted by Rev. Isaac Cadman of the M.

E. church, will officiate. The casket bearers wilr be T. J. Fisher, Chas.

H. Dodge, Jno. A. Mitchell, Noah Leitzel, H. M.

Geiger and Harry Steele. Interment will be made in Riverview cemetery. Trolley Over Kapp Heights You can get it at all stands. Let us deliver a case door. drinking to your Intrust Your Business WITH Law Attorney REAL ESTATE United Phone Morgan Building, NORTHUMBERLAND, PA.

"Ton-the D. L. W. last Sunday the As sistant Editor met L. H.

Dennis, former Principal of 'the- local schools, who with his wife was returning from a trip" over the great Lakes and through the Middle West. Mr. Dennis is greatly interested in his new educational work-that of promoting the study of agriculture in the public schools under the State Board of Education. He reports fair progress. Our Valuation The assessed valuation of Northumberland for this year is $741,869.

Distributed by wards it is as follows: First Ward, Second Ward, Third Ward, $168,090. The total valuation this year is $32,806 higher than it was last year. On this valuation at 17 mills $12,611.77 will be derived for the public schools, and at mills will be derived for the Borough, Adam Smeltz, who was released from the Mary M. Packer Hospital about a month ago, although not completely recovered, has been able almost daily to attend fo his large truck patch on Kapp Heights. Jacob Straub, who farms James Taggart's farm, formerly Fulton's, in Point township, has also some wheat on the farm that has yielded beyond his expectations.

We have seven heads in the office that are worth seeing. About one-half of the new concrete floor on the half side of the North Branch bridge is completed. The frame work for the side walk is also in place. Owing to the disadvantage of the traffic under which this work must be done it proceeds slowly. Persons looking for an easy job are reminded that Prof.

Surface, 'State economic zoologist, will give $50 for a specimen of the hoop snake, of which wild stories have been told. Prof. Surface does not expect to be impoverished, however, for he says there is no such thing as a hoop snake. On Wednesday a peculiar character was seen on local streets. He was an enthusiatic desciple of Weston and claimed to have followed the Open Road for many miles, crossing the continent several times." He said he had walked 3000 miles during the past yeas, although he was 65 years of age.

In order to substantiate his assertions he displayed a book in which were entered the signature of a citizen from every town through which he passed. Rev. H. C. Michael's Class of Men of St.

John's Lutheran Sunday School held an outing in the grove on the upper east side of Packer's Island last Saturday. An exciting baseball game "and a clam bake were features of the affair. Classified Advertisements Lost and Found Lost Heifer, dark (Jersey) about 14 months old. Suitable reward upon return to Jas. Taggart, Northumberland, Pa.

Bell Phone 113X. 7-26 Special Notices Money to Loan Apply to M. H. Taggart, Att'y. For Sale For Sale Horse, Harness and Wagon.

Will De-sold cheap. Apply to Paolo Scudieri at his Fnrit Store in the Lloyd Building on Front street, Northumberland. 7-12-2t. For Sale -A fine lot of O. I.

C. piffs both eleven weeks old. Weigh about 70 lbs. Price $7.00. In quire of W.

H. Geise, R. F. D. No.

1 Point Township. Liots For Sale Valuable Town Lots for Sale A number of town lots desirably located are for sale. Inquire of C. C. Linton, Northumberland, Pa.

Laundry Northumberland Electric Laundry Family washes and rough dry work a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. E. L. Howell, proprietor.

Front street, near Queen. House Cleaning Vacuum Cleaning Phone or leave your Vacuum Cleaner orders at Howell's General Store. Greenhouse E. H. Luckhart otters a nice lot of seasonable vegetables, cut flowers and plants at his green house on ater street.

United Phone, No. 38E. Orders will receive prompt and careful attention. The greenhouse is closed at 5.30 o'clock on Saturday afternoons'. Piano Tuning tlT'Orders for the services ot E.

D. Kains, the piano tuner of Reading, may be left at Rutter's Drug Store. Out of To wn Mr. and Mrs. Luther Leitzel spent Sunday in Harrisburg.

H. H. Whiting of Sterling Run is in town for a few days. Mr. and Mrs.

William Yeager vis- ited Harrisburg on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mailey visited relatives at Harrisburg on Sunday.

rRaymond E. Randels is on a trip to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Detroit. C. G. Van Alen left yesterday for a business trip to New York City and other points.

Misses Rachel and Marian Weekes have been visiting friends in Harrisburg and Carlisle for the past ten days. Mrs. Nathan Shaffer of Allen-town is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Gu-bin.

Miss Annie Seasholtz returned on Tuesday from a visit of two weeks in Scran ton. Daniel P. Butler and daughter, Miss Florence, were visitors in Bloomsburg last Sunday. Mrs. Hettie Bullock of Kingston is here to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs.

Mary Fertig. J. O. Herman of Edwardsville spent last Sunday with his brother, I. L.

Herman, and family. Rev. George T. Street and family have been speuding some days in Philadelphia and Wildwood, N. J.

Mrs. Nesbit and family of Philadelphia are visiting at the home of Mrs. William Hamor on Front street. Mrs. Homer Dauberman and daughter, Claire, have returned from a visit with relatives in Naples, N.

Y. M. Gubin, daughter, Miss Goldie, and son, Victor, have returned from Allentown, where theyavisited relatives. -Miss Rebekah Brautigam has returned from Philadelphia after a visit of several months with relatives in that city. 9 Miss Virgie Johnson returned on Tuesday from Shamokin where she spent two weeks with Mr.

and Mrs. John L. Sheef. Clayton Johnson returned on Sun day evening from a visit to Philadelphia, Atlantic City and other nearby places, during a two weeks' vacation. Mr.

and Mrs. George Angstadt and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Poet of Lewis burg have been in town this week on account of the death of Mrs. Mary Fer-tig.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ruch and chil dren, Miss Ethel Leighow, Jesse Lehtz and little Evelyn Roush spent Wednes day at the Lentz farm east of Sunbury. -C. W.

Gutelius, and Laurence L. Gutelius spent last Saturday and Sunday at Wilkes-Barre and Harvey's Lake. Miss Annie Priesley will return on Saturday from the Adirondack mountains, where she spent the last three weeks with Mr. and Mrs. William Forsyth.

Charles and Edgar Gennaria, two youthful bicyclists from Bloomsburg, passed through town last Saturday on their way to Gettysburg where they went to see the National Guard Encampment. -Dr. L. M. Holt, of Clearfield, Pa.

who until recently was associated with the General Hospital in Lancaster, arrived in town the fore part of the week and has opened offices on the second floor of the Walter Building. Eachary Hench, who was confined in a Philadalphia hospital for fourteen weeks with typhoid fever, and was discharged from that institution two weeks ago, is here for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Mary Hench, and uncle, Wm. E. Taylor.

Miss Grace Snyder returned on Monday evening from a month's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Will Lesher in Washington, D. and with her uncle, Rev. Wiest and family in York, Pa.

To-morrow (Saturday) she will go to Espy, where she will be one of a house party to be entertained by Miss Grace Bradbury. -Mrs. Elmer Heppenstiel, accom- panied by ber daughter, Mrs. Mary Black, both of Harrisburg, after a visit of four days with the former's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Hackenberg, on upper Fifth street, and brother and sister, returned home last Saturday evening. Dr. J. H. Rorke, wife and little son, accompanied by -Mrs.

William Taylor, started to return to their home in Reading by auto last Sunday. They did not get any farther than Shamokin when the auto broke down and the party were compelled to take the train for Reading, leaving the auto behind for repairs. Miss Gertrude Slack, after spend ing a vacation of ten days with her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. R.

M. Slack of this place, will return to-morrow to Phila delphia, where she is a student in the Episcopal Hospital of that city. Miss Gertrude is possessed of the quiet winning ways to make a skillful nurse. Her mother will accompany her to the city to spend several days with rela tives and friends. "Devoted to the General Welfare of the Town of Northumberland.

FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912. INews of the Vicinity Wenck's Drug Store has been paint-d by Sidney Lloyd. E. S. Lloyd is painting H.

E. Walter's building on Queen street. Frank Raupt has had ground broken for'the erection of a house on Priestley Terrace. The residence of Samuel Derk on Orange street has been greatly improved by paint. Greensburg borough has begun condemnation proceedings to acquire its water supply.

S. W. Haag and assistants are paint 5ng one of George Jones' houses on upper King street. Bruce P. Yeager just finished wiring a bungalow for N.

C. Reuch near Rolling Green Park. Danville's Fourth of July Committee spent $174.21 for the sane celebration held in that place. Mrs. Amanda Trutt has had ground broken for the erection of a house on Steele's Sub-division.

Robert Lugar landed a twelve-pound carp while fishing on the West Branch Tuesday afternoon. The annual eight-county reunion of the G. A. R. veterans will be held at Edgewood Park on August 14.

Catawissa recently voted almost unanimously for a loan of $16,000 with which to pave its main street. Charles Forest and family, newcomers, have taken apartments in the Weaver, house on Market Square. The Supply Committee of the Board of Education has awarded the contract for next winter's coal to H. E. Walker.

Thomas Byers, the carpenter, and son of Sunbury, expect to erect a small house on Kapp Heights in the near future.8 Life insurance to the amount of $17,000 was paid in Northumberland last year according to the Insurance Press. Work was recently started on the erection of a single "house for Thomas Propst at the corner of Seventh and King streets. Northumberland is well represented at the National Guard Encampment at Gettysburg this week with a good quota of young men. 4 Mrs. Gus Shaffer of Point township was admitted to the surgical ward of the Mary M.

Packer Hospital at Sun-bury this week. Jon Anderson, aged 58 years, while -watching an amateur baseball game at Renovo, was hit behind the ear by a ball and fell dead. -Frank Bright, who went to Stroudsburg with Roy Long several -weeks ago to play at a summer hotel, lias returned home. The Borough of Huntingdon has secured a loan of $6,000 without a vote of the citizens for the permanent improvement of its streets. Daniel Zerbe made a fine set of concrete steps at the property of Mrs.

Helen T. Clark at the corner of King and Fourth streets this week. John Kane, while playing with bis brother, Paul, at the Kane home on Orange street the other evening, had a small bone in his right arm broken. Elmer D. Pierce, the enterprising young jeweler, has erected a large electric sign, shaped and lettered like a -watch, in front of his store on Queen street.

J. P. Yonng, the well known D. L. W.

freight clerk and Borough Auditor, has been seriously ill at his home on lower Queen street for the past few days. Harry Cope has moved from the house on King street neatThird, to the house on Queen vacated by William Sellinger and family, who moved to Bloomsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williamson have moved to this place from Watson-town.

Mr. Williamson was recently transferred to this place by the Penn-C sylvania Railroad Company. The party who recently purchased the former home of E. J. Renner on upper Water street is having extensive alterations made to the house.

The front part is to be used for a store room. The police of this vicinity have received information from the Danville Hospital authorities to look for an escaped patient trom the hospital, one Charles Sterner, of Snyder county, who escaped from the hospital Tuesday morning while he, with a number of others, was being taken through a corn field. He escaped from the institution several years ago and after a nine months' absence turned up and sought admittance. Miss Martha Geddes is spending a week with her aunt, Mrs. A.

L. Miller in Nescopeck. Cape May Wildwood, Ocean City, Anglesea, Sea Isle City, Holly Beach, Avalon, Stone Harbor, NEW JERSEY THURSDAY, August 8, 22 SUNDAYS, July 28, August 11, 25 $4.75 Round Trip $4.50 Round Trip Via Delaware River Bridge Via Market Street Wharf From Northumberland THURSDAY TICKETS GOOD FOR TEN DAYS STOP-OVER ALLOWED AT PHILADELPHIA For full information concerning leaving time of trains, consult small hand bills or nearest Ticket Agent. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD There is some talk in town of the S. S.

trolley company extending their line from Sixth street on Queen to Kapp Heights and thence over the Heights for some distance, making a connection with the line along the Railroad It is reported that in this way the com-; pany would get around the situation imposed by the Borough Council, which, refuses to grant the request of the company for a connecting link on Sixth street. The company has the necessary franchise from the Borough to the borough limit on Queen street, so that the Council could not stand in the way of the company in connecting their lines by way of Kapp Heights. It will be remembered that the Sunbury and Northumberland trolley company last October secured a franchise from the Borough over the two remaining squares of Queen street from the terminus at Sixth street. Work was started on the extension, but was abandoned with the merger of the trolley interests. Some people believe the reported plan to make a connection over Kapp Heights is only a hoax on the part of the trolley company to lead our Council to favorably consider the much coveted link on Sixth street.

Vandals Shot at Insulators The Northumberland County Gas and Electric Company is calling attention in these columns to the fact that their insulators in Point township have been maliciously damaged and warning guilty parties that they be prosecuted for the mischief. It seems that they have shot at the insulators with revolvers, not only damaging them but making them ery dangerous. We notice that the Borough speed limit signs placed where the main roads enter the town have also been targets for vandals with revolvers. The local police should keep their eyes open for such culprits. Missing Charlie Dowling has been missing fro ill town since last Saturday.

On that day he left home at noon, after eating lunch, and walked out over Kapp Heights, where he was last seen. Word was sent to surrounding towns to be on the lookout for him. Local men are also making a search. Death of a Child A nine-months old baby of Mr. and Mrs.

John Ruch died Wednesday morning, death being caused by inflammation of the bowels. The child, a boy, was one of a pair of twins. Rev. Max Wiant will have charge of the funeral which will be held this Friday at 4 o'clock, P. M.

Several months ago another baby of Mr. and Mrs. Ruch's died. Three Fine Houses A group of three fine houses are just about nearing completion on Steele's Sub-division. One of these houses-double frame has been erected by Joseph Ornsdorf the telegraph operator, who with his family located in town a year or so ago.

They will occupy one side of the house. Another house-double frame is that of Frank C. Brouse. Both of these houses are of good size and well arranged. What promises to he a very cozy single house is the one being erected by Mrs.

Josephine Crumbine. It is a four room frame house and has some very nice appointments. Mrs. Laform recently purchased the house at the corner of Duke and Second streets which was purchased from Miss Mary Taggart by Charles Kramer of Sunbury for the S. Street Railway Company several years ago.

She is having an addition built to it and will use it for a boarding house, Bruce P. Yeager wired it for electric light this week. Bell Phone EYE-GLASS COMFORT! Our New Style Eye-Glass Mounting will please you. The style that holds fast and feels comfortable. Sold exclusively by us.

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Frank Erdman, of Ralpho township, former County Commissioner, was recently awarded the contract for the remodeling of the Court House at Sunbury. The present roundabout way of reaching court room No. 1 will be changed and a new flight of stairs leading directly to it will be built. The jury box and prisoner's stand on the right hand side of the court room will be improved. The section inside of the rail and in front of the judges bench will be refurnished with chairs, and many other improvements for the convenience of the members of the bar will be added.

A strange man was arrested for trespassing at the Union Passenger Station by Officer Rhoads the other day. He was given a hearing before Squire Roush in Sunbury and got a jail sentence. Local Train Service Pennsylvania Railroad Northern Central Railway (IN EFFECT MAY 28, 1912) Regular trains stopping at Northumberland northward on week-days leave at 8:47 A. M.j 123; 6.19; 9.13 P. M.

Sundav trains northward leave at 6.23 10.06 A. 6 32 9:13 P. M. Trains passing through town at A. M.

on week-days and Sundays stop on signal or notioe to agent or conductor to receive or discharge passengers. Regular trains stopping at Northumberland southward on week-days leave at 12 09 2.M 2.68; 7.55 9.39 A. 1.40 5.07 8.39 P. M. Regular Sunday trains southward leave at 12.08; 2.46; 2.58 8.02 A.

1.40; 6.07 8.39 P. M. Trains leave Sunbury for Shamokin and Mt. Carmel on week-days only at 6.02; 10.05 A. 2.05 6.35 P.

M. Train 8 leave Sunbury for Wilkes-Barre on week-days at 6.30 10.00 A. 2 00 6.30 P. M. Trains leave Sunbury for Lewistown on week, days at 10:10 A.

6:30 P. M. On Sundays at 5:30 P. M. Lackawanna Railroad Bloomsburg Division Trains leave Northumberland for; Scranton on week-days at 6:45 10:00 A.

1:50 5:25 P. M. On Sundays at 6:45 A. 6:25 P. M.

Trains arrive at Northumberland from Scranton on week-days at 9:30 A. 1:12 4:55 9:40 P. M. On Sundays, at 1:12 9:40 P. M..