Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-09-06
CONDENSED NEWS.


Thanksgiving is the next legal holi-
day.
By all means let US have a county
fair.
The picnic season will soon be on the
ragged edge.
Yesterday was the last day for regis
tration for the fall election.
Sportsmen claim that rabbits and
quail will be abundant this season.
The fall term of the Bloomsbury Nor
NAL school will open on Monday next
The Rev. Warren j. Ellis, of Phila-
delphia, will fill the pulpit of Trinity
Luth eran church on Sunday next.
The Dauphin county court does not
propose to naturaize foreigners who
cannot speak the English language. as
was shown Monday when only five out
of forty applicants for citizenship were
granted papers.
The Lycoming county fair will be held
at Williamsport, September 18th TO l4th.
The forty seventh annual fair of the
Union county Agricultural Society will
be held at Lewisburg, September 25th to
2Sth.
The summer is nearly over and many
persons who went away to recuperate
are coming home to rest.
We may have some very warm wealth
er during this month. The second hot
test day of the year 1897, occurred
Sept 9.
The Philadelphia & Reading Railway
will sell excursion tickets for the Lycom-
ing fair at WiIlamsport next week at
the rate Of single fare for the round
trip.
On Monday another daily paper was
issued at Shamokin with the title, Morn
ing Truth. This will eShamokin four
daily papers, one morning and three af-
ternoon.
Howard Patton, who has been EN-
ployed as messenger boy at the Western
Union Telegraph Office for some years
past, has resigned and accepted a posi-
ton in the store of the Grand Union
Tea Company.
Mahoning Tribe No. II Redmen will
have family picnic at DeWitt's park
on Friday, September 7th.
Labor Day was celebrated in many
Pennsylvania towns this year on a scale
never before reached
Notice has been issued from the Potts
vile office of the Philadelphia * Read
ing Coal and Iron Company to the effect
that the price of coal for domestic con-
sumers will be advanced % cents per
ton at the collieries. Chestnut coal at
the collieries under the new schedule of
prices will cost 1915 ton
The water supply of all the towns in
Schuylkill county is getting very short.
Shenandoah residents are now provided
with water for only five hours during
the day and Notwithstanding this re-
striction the supply is daily getting
e.. shorter.
Alexander Billmeyer's park, near
Washihgtonville, is becoming quite a
popular place for picnics. There is
scarcely day when the weather is fav-
orabe that there is not a large crowd
there.
The linemen of the Montour & Col
umbia Telephone Company are engaged
in stringing wires between this city and
Washingtonville. The line will be com
pleted before many days.
For SALE-A farm of 80 acres about
five miles from DanviIe, on the road
leading from Mausdale to Jerseytown.
Good orchard, house, barn and other
buildings. Easy terms. Address, Box
90, Mausdale, Pa.
Henry Rempe's jewelry store will
shortly be moved into the recently re-
paired Gross building on Mill street.
The Pennsylvania railroad telegraph
Office at Kipp's Run has been abandon
ed
The l31st 7. v reunion will be held at
Watsontown on Tuesday, Sept IS. The
date of the reunion is the 3Sth anniver.
sary of the battle of Antietam, in which
great fight the regiment took part.
Mrs. 0. II. Ostrander, of Riverside, i:
recovering from a severe illness.
As matter of fact, it can be STATED
without fear of contradiction, that no
body has as yet hunted the weathe
man with gun.
Most physicians say that August wa
month with an unusual number o
cases of sickness