Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-05-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

Now for real summer.
Picnics will soon be popular.
The locust trees are i'll bloom.
Vacation days will soon be here.
The thermometer is climbing up.
Let Memorial Day be fittingly OBJ
served.
Bring on the trolley line as soon as
possible
Encourage the "Old Timers" on
Saturday
True patriotism will observe Mem
orial Day
Base ball on Saturday Don't miss
the first game.
Hot weather will have the effect of
hurrying picnics.
Will your coal supply last? is the
question of the hour.
The boys are already looking up the
"old swimmin" hole.
Welsh Bros circus will appear i'll
this city about June 10th.
The strike has already caused con
siderable lull in railroad business.
There is every reason to believe that
the coal strike will be short lived.
Sweet girl graduates are very busy
preparing for the event of their lives.
Attend the ball game on Saturday
afternoon Encourage the "Old Tim
ers. {"
Temperatures have an upward tend
ency now, and as usual, the tornado
disturbance is doing its work.
William II. n Walker of the Second
Ward Hotel, is having the roof of his
hostelry repainted
Invitations will be issued in few
days for a series of dances to be given
at Hunters Park during the summer.
There is every reason to believe that
Danville will have an unusually siren
uous Fourth of July this year.
G.. Snyder, owner of the Exchange
Hotel, Bloomsbury, has purchased the
Normandie, a large Atlantic City
hotel.
The farmers are making preparations
to fight the locusts which are due this
year. They will take all precautions
and the hungry insects will be fought
with every kind of drug and even with
fire.
Jacob Meyer was run over by a
wagon on East Mahoning street yes
terday afternoon. He luckily escaped
serious injury, being slightly bruised
on the right hip and left leg.
We are going to have busy sum
mer in Danville and the merchant
who expects results must reach the
people who buy through the news
papers.
A stand pipe has been put up at
Mill and Centre streets to be used by
the Friendship Fire company to fill
its sprinkling wagon.
FOR SALE-Three story brick house
and lot corner of Front and Mill
streets, 30 feet on Mill and 81 feet ON
Front street Hot and cold water and
bath room. Also two lots 80 X $50 feet
ON each of which are erected a two story
frame building occupied as a dwelling
and store, South Danville, opposite
Penn'a railroad station, A feet front
and 56 feet deep. Both very desirable
properties also a l35 acre farm Situat-
I'd in Rush township, Northumberland
county, about one mile from Boyd 5
Station Large frame dwelling house,
barn and all necessary out buildings
on the premises also two lots situated
in UniontOwn, near Shamokin, In
quire of Oscar S Kase, No. / Mill
street.
The Fourth of July celebration prom
fses to be a success. The Continental
Fire Co.'S committees are active in the
measure.
First to feel the effect of the coal
strike are the train crews laid off.
Miss Mary Mills, daughter of Samuel
Mills, graduated last week from Mt
Sinai Hospital, New York, as a train
ed nurse.
On Saturday Watsontown unveiled
a soldiers monument. An address was
made by General j. p. s. Goblin.
The Philadelphia & Reading railway
company will haul the National Guard
of Pennsylvania to the annual encamp-
ment grounds at Gettysburg this sum
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