Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-10-01
CONDENSED NEWS.


IN our stores.
Fall shoppers are beginning active
business.
Fast are coming the cold days whom
everybody is blue-blooded.
The watermelon crop Is nearing an
end
The iremen are preparing for the
Allentown convention next week.
Saamokin has a house famine Many
families cannot rent suitable homes
ia that city.
Montour county ought to make an
early report to the State Highway
Commissioner.
Small boys have commenced to
gather walnuts.
1t seems like touch of Indian Sum
mer.
Recent events suggest that much
costly missionary work has beon vast
cd in Turkey.
The first frost reminds one that the
Thanksgiving turkey is beginning to
cast its shadow before.
The overproduction Of coal is a
strange contrast to the situation OF a
year ago
Allentown boasts the largest attend
anoe at a county fair. Down there 1t
is reckoned a sin not to attend.
Yom Kippur will TO celebrated as n
holiday today by our residents of
Hebrew nationality.
The harvest is sufficiently abundant
10 bring forth thanks from the church
es Harvest Home services are now on.
An effort will be made by Tamaqua
people to get the new miners home
located in that place.
Undoubtedly the weather man is do
ing the best he can with the available
material.
shut that door" will be the demand
heard with the advent of cooler wealth
or.
Chestnuts are Iipcning and "a good
hard frost will loosen the burs. But
the average boy does not wait for Jack
Frost bat climbs the trees and pounds
the burs open.
This State will have great exhibit
at St. Louis unless all sigus fail. The
Executive Committee Of the Commits.
sion II working rapidly and most in
telligently toward that end.
Many towns in the hard coal region
are preparing for the celebration OF
Mitchell Day, which falls on Thurs
day. October %
House plants are being potted and
taken in before Jack Frost gets a
caanca To giyo thom nip.
As tho weather becomes cooler the
reading and amusement rooms Of the
Y. NJ D. 4 become more and NOR,
attractive to many young men of onI
city The dnly Attendance il large.
The huut.. 5 moon rs making heauti.
ful these Autumual evenings.
Ideu crop westJror is reported the
past few day $ for late cereals.
A baby boy has arrived at tho home
OF Alfred Forney, Walnut street.
Long hair is no" ia st,In The foo
ball season 'us nuonol.
The political pot IN the county j!
beginning to boil
The electric fan has ceased to pu
on airs.
Only three more months of 1908.
AT the rate the TURKS are burnint
villages in Bulgaria, til, Sc days, moth
ing but cities will be left in tina
country soon Every instalment of re
greta aud apologies issued by tn
sultau.is followed by few oonhsgra
tlons aud the destruction Of seVers
villages
The hospital wards are already re
ceiving football victims for treatment
The double tracking OF the Penn
sylvaula Railroad between Mt Car
mel aud Sunbury will rot be hegu
before next summer An extra trac
will be laid at Mt Carmel for 80
yards for siding room, work to com
mence soon.
All voters ~ years of age an
upwards must have paid within tw
years state or county tax in order
be entitled to vote. This tax must b
paid at least one month before th
ectiou The last day for the paymer
this year is Saturday, October 3rd