Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-07-31
CONDENSED NEWS.
July's last day.


August, the vacation month next.
Campaign fairy tales are about due.
The open season for trout fishing and
for killing of woodcock will close to-
day.
The Mahoning Presbyterian Sunday
School will hold its annual picnic at
DeWitt's Park on Thursday, August
William Fausnaught, of No. ISL East
Market street, is the happy father of a
fl ne baby girl
The double house of Andrew Smith
near the d. l.. q W passenger sta
tion, is nearing completion and will
soon be ready for occupancy.
The Laubach building, No. 3l7-32l
Mill street, is being painted and will
present fine appearance when the
work is completed
Perhaps August will evaporate some
of July's dampness.
The peach season is opening up, but
the indications are that the crop will
be small in this section.
Alexander Ashton of Nassau and
Cooper streets, has a suntiower stalk
growing in his garden which has
reached a height of fourteen feet
School childrel have only five more
weeks vacation.
A United telephone has been put in
at Hunters Park, which makes it very
convenient for picnickers and those
who visit the park.
The Rev. L. ID. Ulrich, pastor of
Trinity Lutheran church. will enjoy
his vacation during the month of
August.
Sub mail carrier Edward Purpur is
on duty during the vacations of the
regular carriers.
No one has ventured TO suggest that
a wet July makes a dry Christmas,
The windows i'll the offices of the
Prudential Insurance Company, located
in the Brown Building on Mill street,
are being lettered.
Those who want to fill their coal
bins are beginning to show a feeling
of nervousness.
The railroads of the country were
never as busy as they are today This
means business and general prosperity.
The house owned by Mrs. Susan A.
Twist, at No G2O East Market street,
has been re-painted.
G. @. Ritter is having a new porch
built in front of his residence on East
Market street
Levi Sechler, of Grand street, has "a
fine lot of sunfowers growing in his
garden. They are all very high, but
the tallest measures over seven feet
Mrs. William Meyer, of Chambers
street, sprained her left ankle at
Pottsgrove, Sunday, by stepping into
a post hole.
The man who has been waiting for
the clouds to roll by this summer must
have lost considerable time hc might
have saved between showers.
A number of little children through
out the city are down with cholera
infantum. July and August are two
Of the worst months of the year for
infants and great care must be exercis-
ed in their diet
III. l.. Dewitt, assistant station agent
at South Danville, is confined to his
home by illness.
The Young Mems class of Trinity
NJ Il. Sunday school will hold fes-
tival on the green patch beyond the
culvert, Bloom street, on Saturday
evening, August End Everybody in.
vited
Edward Campbell, the genial man.
ager of the Danville Mercantile Com
any, is feeling very proud over the ar
rival of a baby boy at his home
There is considerable debris i'm thC
Susquehanna as the result OF the high
water and some of it has come great
distances.
Now we are promised period OF
excessively dry weather to off set the
period of dampness.
Three fine horses trained to the sad
die will arrive at Castle Grove from
New York to-day They are intended
for lady guests who will arrive in {
few days. The horses will be accom-
panied by an instructor in horsebacl
riding.