Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-08-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

Enjoy outdoor life all you can.
We'll August may warm up bit.
The berry season is nearly ended.
Farmers have commenced to plow.
The home raised roasting ears are
fine.
Tramps are numerous on the South
side this summer
Starched clothes soon lose their
stiffness this weather.
The campaign committees are now
opening headquarters
Sanstrokes have been lost in the
shuttle this kind of weather.
Lancaster county is harvesting the
largest crop OF oats i'll % years.
Mrs. Samuel Sainsbury is seriously
i'll at her home on Grand street.
The hot air man has evidently been
doing something TO the weather.
Mrs. P. @. New baker and Mrs. James
Foster have taken cottages at Hunters
Park
All you need to enable you to enjoy
your outing is plenty of dollars and
plenty of good sense
Danville' improvements this year
are more extensive than usual This
indicates a go-ahead spirit,
The farmer who is busy with his
harvest would be thankful for at least
full week OF dry weather.
Milwaukee stands high a. a center
of the tanning industry. But that
isn't what made it famous
The trout season came to a legal end
on Sunday. Remember that il has An
otfense against the fish laws is expen-
siVe TO say the least.
Not even the Japs will sympathize
with the bomb thrower who killed
Minister PlehVe when punishment is
meted out to the wretch.
Snydertown has shown is education
nj progress and libeTality by extend
ing its school term one month and in.
creasing pay of teachers.
Ii costs the people over $500, 600 per
year to let the congressman distribute
free seeds 1t makes the people receiv-
Ing them think they are not forgotten
by their representatives, If it does
nothing else.
Frog farming is recommended by
the state department of fisheries.
With plentiful supply of frogs legs
there will be no need TO worry over
the price of spring lamb. The spring"
frog will be in season all the year
round.
Many people are Improving their
time by improving tho appearance of
their lawns and premises. Nothing is
so attractive as "A clean. we'll kept yard.
Ii adds value to the nome, value to
the town and value to the industrial
spirit of the individual.
There is one convention scheduled
TO take place in Pennsylvania this
month that is bound to he quiet. lt is
that Of the States deaf mutes and it
will be held at Allentown on August
10 to 30. Field sports will be held and
q base ball game played.
The attendance at the st. Louis ex-
position il Disappointing, and the
management has begun to retrench ex
penses. beginning, of course. with lab
or. Reductions of salaries from to
90 per cent. will be made on August
lst. and large number of employees
notified their services would not be re-
quired.
OF course 1t costs money to bring
customers to a stOre-but no store ever
yet lost money through having too
many customers.
Again it is announced that decis-
i've battle in the Far East is imminent.
It 10 the same battle that was immin-
ent two weeks ago
PottsVille and Reading parties are
preparing to drill for coal near Ber-
wick A dam Is being built at the
swamp to furnish water for the engine
operating the drill, and it is said that
work will be commenced this fall.
The new operations are nearly opposite
the coal prospecting of George Wessle
on the Neseopeck mountain
Mrs. Charles G, Haughawout. South
Danville. desires tn return thanks to
neiRhbors aud Others snr the kind as
sistance rendered her during the i'll
ness and death of her husband.