Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-04-24
CONDENSED NEWS.

May flowers next.
Welcome to spring
Plant the sweet peas.
Awnings are going up.
Dandelions are i'll bloom.
Visions Of vacation arise.
The whitewash brush is in demand.
A few warm days will burst the
buds.
Spring has been evidently trying to
slip in unobserved.
The fishing season hasn't produced
even a first class lie thus far, but its
young yet.
Gardens are being gotten into shape
for the spring sowing.
The front of the Globe Warehouse,
Mill street. is receiving a new coat Of
paint.
\ walk through the city now pres
enta a picture of great activity. Peo-
pie in all parts of the town are clean
ing up and burning the accumulated
stuff
A new fence has been erected at the
west end of the tar pavement, East
Market street, to take place Of the old
building which collapsed under last
winters snow.
Mrs. Maria Rhodes, West Market
street, has recovered from her recent
illness.
The country roads are improving for
bicycle travel
1t is safe to assume that the goose
bone weather prophet no longer has a
blizzard up his sleeve.
Councilman NJ ID. l.. Sechler is con
fined to his bed by illness.
The people OF Bloomsbury are TAX
ing steps looking to the proper observ-
ance and celebration of the one hund-
redth anniversary of the founding of
the town.
Invite Central Pennsylvania people
TO come to Danville on the Fourth of
July.
II. l.. Dewitt has just received from
Glen Bros, Rochester, N Y, fine
lot of trees for the improvement Of his
Walnutdale" fruit and truck farm.
The residence of Mrs. Samuel Gold
smith is receivinga a new coat of paint.
THE man behind the plow" is hav-
ing things pretty much his own way
these bright, spring days.
The weather man is making up for
his bad behavior during the early part
of this month.
Councilman David r. Montgomery
is able TO be about again after ser
ious illness.
Jersey Shore people are preparing tc
extend cordial welcome to the odd
Fellows next Saturday
The residence of Mrs. Perry Deem,
East Market street, is being repainted.
The front of J. B. Cleaver's depart
ment store has been much improved
recently A glistening black paint
with gold decorations makes a most
inviting appearance.
r. II. Woolley's office, Mill street,
has been given a new coat of paper
and renovated from top to bottom. 1t
now presents a very cozy and artistic
appearance.
If this keeps up few days there L
be flies on the weather man.
Danville and prosperity seem destin
ed to go hand in hand.
The boundaries of Uncle Sam do
main are manifest when the wires re.
port hot wave and blizzard rag
ing at the same time
There is a growing demand for
trolley line in Danville.
A very handsome brake recently puT
chased by Liveryman Erwin Hunte
was seen upon the streets for the frs
yesterday.
The mercury registered 50 degree
in the shade in various parts of tin
town yesterday.
A good warm rain is what is need
ed now to make the vegetation jump
We have had the temperature o
summer for several days past but it
too early for the straw hat
The public schools of Mt. Carme
have been closed indefinitely by tn
board of health of that place on aC
count of the small -pox epidemic
There are now sixteen cases bein
treated at the pest house