Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-10-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

The leaves are commencing to fall
from the trees.
Pottsville has two automobile factories
both of which are working overtime on
rush of orders.
October 6,is the last day in which you
can pay a State and County tax to give
you a right to vote at the November
election.
The annual crop of foot ball victims is
already being harvested.
Miss Clara Smith is about again after
a severe attack of grip.
Evans & Son are erecting roof over
the weigh scales at their Marble works
on Ferry street.
Jacob II. Boyer and Bro, have secur-
ed large plastering contract in Cata-
wissa.
BENJAMIN 2. Harris is having a neat
veranda erected in front of his home
on Mulberry street.
The uniformed employees of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company have DON
ned their winter caps. 1t will only be
short time until they will begin to wear
their overcoats.
A Snyder county peach grower Tues
day disposed of 25OO bushels of the fruit
at GO cents bushel.
OF all the plays portraying life In
Dixie land during antebellum days, none
have been half so true to nature and so
successful from an artistic and financial
standpoint as the famous Martell COM
edy drama, "South Before the War,
which comes to the opera house on Sat-
: urday evening.
The body of the late William NJ. Ben
nett, whose death occurred at Adgar,
Ala, last Friday and which was brought
to this city Monday morning, was in
tered in the family plot at Hendrick-
sons church yesterday afternoon under
K. T. honors.
A 4-year-old daughter of Thad Vincent
had close call for her life near Natalie
on Monday, when she was run down by
mule team and severely bruised.
deep cash on the head and badly
scratched face and hands were the re-
suit.
In less than five weeks the voters of
the United States will decide who shall
be their President for the next four
years. The time is short but consider
able money will be spent by both sides
and oratorical force will be expended in
convincing the citizens of the country
of the merits of the respective issues.
Money, however, will be the most po-
tent factor.
Experiments made by german physi-
clans have shown that about % per
cent of all school children have some
defect in their hearing.
Employees of the Standard Gas COM
pany were at work yesterday at the cor
ner of Mulberry and Ferry streets, in an
attempt to locate a plug in the gas main.
The plug is located somewhere under
the ground at this point and several
hours have been consumed in the search.
The company, will, as soon as they
street, which thoroughfare has been
without this illuminant for some time
past.
Miss Jennie Martin wishes to inform
the public and her patrons that she has
removed her dressmaking establishment
from 22G Mill street to 52S East Marke
street.
A silk printing establishment of New
York will locate in Sunbury in the nea
future The site selected is in Edge
wood and one of the buildings to b.
used is the building once used as a fl,
net factory.
This is the third week of the creates
strike that was ever known in the an
thracite coal region. The greatest be
cause of the number of men out and be
cause of it's extension over the entir
field where anthracite is mined.
Engine No. 953 on the d. l.. & w
makes two round trips daily betwee
Scranton and Northumberland, thu
covering distance of 800 miles. She
handled by two crews, each crew maxim
one round trip.
Charles Vol, laborer at Howe
Folks Structural Tubing works, ha
his left foot crushed by the dropping
rail from the buggy about o'cloC
this morning. He was taken to his hon
on Sidler's Hill.