Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS.

A number of social events are sched
uled for this month
Nearly everybody has bad cold
these days.
Now let US hope that King Winter
will enable the ice harvest to be COM
pleted.
Twin daughters arrived at the home
of Frank Arms, corner Factory and
West Front streets, Saturday evening.
1t is hard to realize that our merch :
ants are buying Spring goods in this
weather.
A United telephone has been placed
in the Peoples Bank.
The new year has already made some
notable death claims.
AS is usual at this period of the year
a large number of railroad employees
are on the sick list.
The New Year resolutions have been
felt in police circles. Very few drunk
and disorderly men SO far this year.
Clearing off the sidewalks under
present weather conditions will be al
most an impossible task. The scatter
ing of sawdnst or ashes in icy places
will be appreciated by pedestrians.
The people will not have much re-
spect for the Independent operators If
they force up the price of coal.
The liverymen are pleased with the
prospects of a few days good sleighing.
There are no disease germs in the
atmosphere now.
The merry sleighing party now holds
the balance of power.
If there ever was need for hustle it
is in the mining of coal.
The wheels of the wagons creaked Ill
the snow yesterday, giving pretty good
evidence of intense cold.
knights of Pythias from all over
the state will meet at Pittsburg Fri
udy JO ulsCuSS JlduS lOI clSCbluS q
home for aged members.
Former Sheriff James n. Miller is
on the sick list His condition was
much improved yesterday
What the people want more than
anything else is coal, coal and more
coal.
The pursuing posse has not yet
caught the goose-bone man. but is
closing in upon him. The sheriff ought
to be conveniently absent when the
culprit falls into the hands of incens-
ed citizens.
1t is likely that the reported number
of heat prostrations yesterday was ex-
aggerated The weather was not so
intensely hot as the yarn spinners have
represented.
George B. Wright, who has for some
time held the position of superintend
ent Of the local district of the United
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
has been transferred TO Pottsville,
where he will take up the duties Of
superintendent of the recently con-
solidated districts.
A delegation of Allentown firemen
has been at Buffalo and invited several
of the crack fire companies of that city
to take part in the annual state fire.
or
Summer. The Allentown tiremen are
leaving nothing undone to make the
convention q success.
The silk mill owners of Lackawanna
county will abandon as quickly as pos
sible the employment of girls for night
work at the mills. Full grown boys
will be hired in place of the girls.
Mrs. George Boudman, Pine street,
was very agreeably surprised yester-
day by visit from some of the ladies
OF Harmony Lodge, No. II, an auXili
ary to the Brotherhood of Railroad
TraInmen, of Northumberland Tho
following ladies' were in the party !:
Mrs Charles Orner, Mrs John Young,
Mrs. Albert Harman, Mrs. John Sam
psell, Mrs. Lewis Orner, Mrs. John
MaileY and Mrs. Margaret Hopewell.
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