Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-02-13
CONDENSED NEWS.
MiIder weather will be welcome.


The Father of his country comes next.
Mrs. Erwin Hunter is on the sick
list.
Ash Wednesday services We're well
attended.
There will be a graphophone enter
tainment at the United Evangelical
Church on Saturday night. Admission
10 cents.
The voter KNOWS he has the power
to choose
Charles Beyers is very i'll of infamma-
tory rheumatism at his home on Mill
street.
It is to be hoped that the valentines
will be decent this year, though nobody
would venture the hope that they might
be handsome or artistic.
Miss Sadie Laidacker Of South Dan
vile is visiting relatives in Washing
tonville
Fourth entertainment of the y. NJ. c.
A Course will be held in the Opera
House tomorrow evening.
Cold weather has spoiled what fun
there was in truancy.
William Sweitzer is critically i'll at
his home on Grand street.
Dehorning of cattle scientifically and
successfully done by Thomas Gething.
successor to Geo b. Kase.
Charles Hershey, Ferry street is con
fined to his bed by an attack of rheu-
matism.
The man who is too Indifferent to
vote needs looking after See that he
gets to the polls.
George Freeze and David Unger, of
South Danville, have opened up a tin
shop at the latter's place.
ST. Valentines day February IA, will
be observed this year with greater pomp
than ever before. This years crop of
valentines is now ready and the designs
are even more elaborate and beautiful
than in former years.
Miss Elizabeth Fisher, Of Catawissa,
spent yesterday with relatives in South
Danville and Riverside.
February weather has so far been
rigidly winterish making happy the
prophets, goosebone and otherwise who
declared that we would have an old
fashioned winter
Danville is one Of the most eligibly
located cities in the state for manufac-
turing purposes. Investors should note
this fact
Soon the High School senior will be
the object of attention
Enjoy the sports Of winter all you can
while they last.
1t is at last dawning upon the minds
of the renters Of this city that the in
crease Of industries will encourage the
building Of more houses which will GER
tainly result in the reduction of rents.
Mrs. Henry Lyon entertained num-
Der of friends at Progressive Euchre last
evening at her home on Lower Mul-
berry street
Hereafter the fellow who walls for an
old-fashioned winter will get himself
very much disHked
jesse Carey foreman at the Shovel
Works is lying i'll with pneumonia
at his home on Bloom street.
st. Valentine 5 day tomorrow The
Post Office employees are looking for the
usual volume of mail.
The anniversary of Lincolns birth is
being more generally and more widely
observed each year. In nearly every
state Of the Union February u has been
made legal holiday, and it is not very
far off when the day will be considered
equally as important, and Of as much
interest, as February % the birthday of
Washington
The carpenter work at the Reading
Iron works Is now practically completed
and according to appearance the 1G-inch
and the 2O-inch mill will be ready to
start up by the middle of the present
month at the farthest thus bringing the
whole plant into operation. The car
penters have a couple of cranes to build
which will be the work Of only day or
so. At several parts Of the mill the
roof remains to be finished, but this is a
work that can proceed after the works
are started. The only task which may
cause delay is the adjusting of the blast
pipes, which are some distance from
completion