Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-04-02
CONDENSED NEWS.

House cleaning is III order.
Observe Arbor day on Friday.
Be careful about the brush fires.
Hoboes are on their annual tour
DAYLIGHT for eleven hours and grow
ing.
The chirps of the robins are not
very loud these chilly mornings. The
birds are evidently under the belief
BY this time that they left the sunny
south little too soon.
Saturday proved busy day for the
milliners of Danville, many Of them
working until late hour at night.
The improvements at the First
Baptist church are nearing conn le-
tion
A progressive policy always wins.
Danville should cultivate every trend
in that direction.
The editors of the High School
"Orange and Purple" are receiving
congratulations upon the bright and
neat appearance of their April num-
ber
Servant girls are very scarce i'll
Danville and housewives desiring help
find it hard to secure.
The Board of Trade is for Danville.
Let every citizen be likewise.
New ties and rails are being
laid in the switch at South Danyille,
and Riverside. The switch is nearly
mile in length and extends from the
water tower to point below Rivel-
side Borough. The work is under the
supervision of Section Foreman Nuss.
Interesting services will be held at
number of our churches on Sunday
next-Palm Sunday.
Just now the average woman's
thoughts turn toward the Easter hat
or bonnet.
Parents do not visit the schools as
often as they should
Better not put the camphor balls in
the overcoats yet.
Coleman & James, the wagon makers,
yesterday dissolved partnership and
discontinued business. Harry Salmon.
formerly proprietor will again assume
the management. Mr.. Coleman will
be in the employ of Mr.. Salmon.
Shamokin will have a big Fourth of
July celebration, this year, if the
plans of number of its citizens are
successfully carried out.
The kind of outdoor exercise that
the average man doesn't like is trans
ferring personal effects from one hab-
itation to another.
Now that we are to have gentle
spring according to the calendar it
may be considered safe to house the
snow shovel.
Bucknell University will have a
first class base ball team, which will
open it's season Saturday, at Philadel-
phia, playing with Pennsylvania I'm
iversity.
The mild spring has caused the
grass to grow rapidly and many lawns
are now being moved, something un-
usual for SO early in the season.
Coal is now down to the lowest
notch for this year. Stop saving for
your summer vacation aud fill your
bins.
Even a weather prophet is not averse
to pun if we may judge from the
following from Coles for April:
"The month has some very good in
dications, which it is to be hoped will
overbalance the evil ones, but if Aries,
The Ram, which is in opposition to
Earth, should take a notion to butt,
then watch out" What fools some
mortals be.
For RENT-A blacksmith shop, cor
ner Mill and Centre streets, Danville.
Elegant location and good trade. In
quire'at 500 Mill street, Danville, Pa.
Half a million dollars will be spent
by the big coal companies in the an
thracite region this summer in intro
ducing electricity into the mines. The
adaptability OF electricity to coal
mining having been thoroughly dem
onstrated, it will now be brought into
general use The Lehigh Valley Coal
company has already started work in
equipping several Of its collierifs.
Haulage systems are being introduced
which will furnish not only power,
but splendid illumination, which will
penetrate the darkness of the mines
with food of light. Electric drills
and other mining instruments are also
being experimental with.