Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-08-14
CONDENSED NEWS.


of the Thomas Beaver Free Library.
The double house being built for
Thomas j. Rogers, on East Front
street, is nearing completion.
A handsome veranda has been built
to the front of c. G. Ritter's residence
East Market street
Harvey Dietrich has placed new
cash register in his hotel, the Susque-
hanna House, South Danville.
William Nuss is temporarily work
ing in the Pennsylvania freight sta
tion, South DanyilIe, i'll the place of
Charles Mills, who is at Shenandoah
with Company +, Twelfth Regiment,
N. G. p
An ice cream social Will be held
Saturday evening at the hall of the
Salvation Army, on Ferry street.
The G.. A. r. encampment at De
Wits Park is we'll worth visiting.
The sunshine of happiness illum-
mates the home of Edward Brent, on
Mowrey street, and the reason there
fore is the arrival of baby boy.
Solomon Pensyl, of South Danville,
has some sowed corn that has grown
to height of seven feet.
The choir of Christ Episcopal
church will render song service at
Washingtonville next Sunday after
noon
1t hasn't rained quite every day
since ST. Swithin's, but the exceptions
are only about enough to prove the
rule.
The man with an empty coal bin is
anxious about the future.
The Red Men are making arrange
ments for their big picnic to be held
at Hunters Park on Labor Day.
A large number of vacation seekers
left Danville for many points on Sat
urday.
The county fair period is again at
hand.
Mt Carmel is free from small -pOX.
The last smallpox flag has been re-
moved from the residence of Rev.
Gehman The Mt. Carmel authorities
have been kept on the jump with the
disease since April llth. There are
three patients in the municipal hospit
al, who will be discharged in the next
few days
Bloomsbury will be an interesting
place on the 2Sth and 29th inst. Dan
willie will be we'll represented in the
centennial celebration.
The postofiice building at Newborn,
n. c., will be destroyed by fire owing
to the presence of smallpox i'll the
building. This probably will be the
first instance in the country III which a
post office has been officially burned
lt is awful to have to sweat about
next winters coal i'll this kind of
weather, but then you would have to
sweat anyhow.
The postal authorities have fixed a
penalty of 5000 on persons taking mail
out of the post Office other than their
own and not returning it. The law Is
to have people look at their mail he
fore taking it out of the office, and
should they have mail other than their
own they must return it at once. 1t
also includes newspapers.
The county fair announcements are
especially attractive.
The thermometer yesterday morning
at 30 O'Clock, registered 4S degrees
and the record at noon was 20 degrees,
The Bloomsbury Centennial Is being
widely advertised.
The moving pictures exhibited al
the Baldy House last night to advertise
proprietory medicines attracted "a bis
crowd which nearly blocked the street
The cool weather of yesterday, IS
pecially in the morning, is anothcI
new phase of this most rcmarkabl,
summer. 1t was hard to realize tina
it was the middle of August. There
have been late October days mucI
warmer.
Herbert Wyle directed the orchestr;
for the Clerks Moonlight Picnic anC
dance at Shawnee Park near Blooms
burg, last evening.
A concert will be given for the ben
eft of the Methodist church, Wash
ingtonville, at that place on Sept
18th. Talent from Danville will max,
up the program.