Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-05-14
CONDENSED NEWS.
Now for real summer.

Now for real summer.
Picnics will soon be popular.
Electric fans will soon be iii order.
The strawb berry festival Is ripening.
A laugh factory-Dumont' Minst-
rsls
Dumont's Minstrels on Saturday
night.
Let Memorial Day le fttingly oh
served
Straw hats cannot be held back any
longer
The annual commencement period
Is near at hand.
Old Sol has evidently settled down
for a seasons run.
The boys are already looking up the
"old swimmin" hole
Something badly needed in South
Danville-a street sprinkler.
Long Lasting Laugh" is the trade
mark OF Dumont's Minstrels
Thomas Prout is adding new front
porch TO his residence Oh Grand
street
The spring robin and the straw hat
doubtless feel thar the danger line has
been passed
The committee OF the G. A r. posl
Of the city is completing arrange
ments for Memorial Day.
The record of smallpox for this STATE
il appalling, due wholly to careless
Ness about vaccination.
Keep on improving the streets; also
repair tie sidewalks. Good streets are
the marks of a live town.
The fruit trees are beautiful with
bloom, but the dusty roads make driy
ing in the country unpleasant.
The new laws enacted by the legis.
lature are now being studied ny those
Interested in their enforcement
A nice, little old fashioned Fourth
Uf July celebration weuld be decided
ly appropriate this year. Let Us have
it,
While the Southern peach crop will
be comparatively small one, the sup
ply will be made up by extra fine
fruit
Beginning Sunday next Sunday
School at Trinity Lutheran church
will be held at . Il. III. during the
summer months.
Though their ranks arc thinning out
veterans show no lack of energy in
their preparations for the observance
of Memorial day.
Good ball with good clubs will be
patronized in Danville. Keep the
game up to the mark and the attend
ance will be in keeping with it.
The John Robson circus and men
agerie, one of the best shows in the
country, will exhibit i'll Sunbury, on
Thursday, May 2s The show uses a
special train of thirty five cars.
Northumberland county has about
forty one boys committed at Glen
Mills Reform School, Philadelphia
only two crooks from Northumber-
land county are confined to the East
ern penitentiary.
Those fifty y-nine councilmen of ScIan-
ton who have been indicted by the
Grand Jury for neglect Of the streets
will be arrested Immediately This is
a radical move, bat the people now
and then insist upon such things be-
ing done
Three roaring burlesques will be
presented by Dumont's Minstrels.
The Ladies Orchestra, ~ Uncle
Toms Cabin and The Automatic
Girl or, Is She Alive or Merely Ma
hcinery:" An evening of genuine, first
class minstrelsv can confidently be ex-
pected.
Jersey Shore is to have a silk mill.
At a recent meeting of the trustees of
the silk mill everything was settled
definitely aud all necessary papers
were signed. Since everything is clos
cd up there is no further excuse for
delay and operations will be begun in
the near future.
Some idea OF the destruction going
on by forest fires may be obtained
when II is stated "A woods fire started
last Friday, six miles away from the
town Of Vintondalo, Cambria county,
has burned unit. Monday night it was
within a quarter of a mile of the will
age, and help had been summoned, and
the people were out in force to save
the town from destruction.