Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS.


Now for real summer
Whit Sunday May 18th.
Wallace Circus next Tuesday.
Farmers are busy planting corn.
Caterpillars are very plentiful this
spring.
It's hard for the weather to get a
picnic gait on
Mrs Lewis Titel is seriously i'll at
her home on Mill street.
We are now in the warm belt to
stay. The goosebone says so.
The wild honeysuckles are luxuriant
with fragrance on the mountain sides.
The residence of Warren Welliver,
East Mahoning street, is being repaint-
ed.
A number of the churches will OBJ
serve Sunday, June 8th, as Children 5
day.
The reorganization of the School
Board is already interesting to mem
bers.
School vacation is near at hand and
the boys aud girls are full of anticipa-
tion
James Frazier still continues SER
iously i'll at his home on North Mill
street
Light frosts were reported i'll some
sections of the county on Saturday
morning.
The spring robin and the straw hat
doubtless feel that the danger line has
been passed.
The small boy, as well as his SEN
iors, is giving circus posters his full
attention these days.
Extend helping hand to the veter-
ans and aid in making the observance
OF Memorial Day success.
OF course you have noticed the pear,
apple and peach blossoms the new
grass and how sweetly the birds sing
We have added new type to our large
job printing establishment and are
better prepared than ever to give you
good work
The fence at the residence of Jacob
Aten, Lower Mulberry street, is being
removed, which gives the premises
quite an improved appearance.
If what the farmers say is true,
spring chickens will be scarce. This
will be bad news for the preachers,
says an unfeeling non church goer.
William Ritter, Railroad street, en-
ployed at the Structural Tubing Works
had his left wrist badly burned while
handling hot pipes Tuesday night
The Athletic association of the Dan
Vile High School is arranging for an
inter-classic track meet to be held in
this city during the coming summer.
Persons who are thinking about cast
ing off their winter underclothing
should remember that last May we had
a very cold and prolonged rain. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
No better indication of the fact that
the present season will witness a mark
ed revival III the sport of cycling can
be had than the continued inpouring
renewals of l.. A w membership,
not alone in this State, but throughout
the country.
The young people of the Grove Pres
byterian church have formed tennis
club and established a court between
the church structure and the parson-
age, where the ground is most admir-
ably adapted to the purpose. Among
other amusements enjoyed will be
quoits and croquet
Keep the fakir out of Danville. The
people of this city have no need of the
wares offered by the itinerant fakir,
whose loud voice on the street corners
has III the past grated harshly on the
ears of passersby When the people
want goods of any kind they know
that they will find them in the stores
of the city and are not obliged to pick
up bargains on the street corners.
Gettysburg is preparing for num-
Der of big weeks this summer With
encampment of the National Guard,
the State encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the meeting OF
the Army of the Potomac, several
monument dedications and numerous
reunions of veteran organizations the
hospitality of the old town might be
greatly taxed, were it not for the fact
that the people of Gettysburg are used
to company and are good entertainers.