Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-01-28
CONDENSED NEWS.

lUNUENOEU Ne " y.
one million copies Of a religious
work 10y Rev William TOenues Of
Hazleton have b3en printed and will
be 50 q TO defrav a church debt of $22, e
600.
Jlunlry 20, i, the last day on whic h
cert Il ares of nomination may be fled
from boroughS and townships, and
I'eh utry /, is the last day on which
uominr, ion papers may he filed from
such districts.
T1e Milton Standard is getting an
x.oIs about haze ball prospects for
n.Xt season and wants the town to get
together, pointing out that Watson
town Is already under way.
Ground Hog Day, February ,, comes
on apact, and then perhaps we II have
our weather program arranged for the
next six weeks to come. And there are
sjme people who really believe in the
ground hog theory.
Township voters should see to it that
they eject constables who will per-
form their duties.
Numerous recipes for the preyen
ii n aud cure of smallpox are now be-
jug publshed, but after all the only
tried and true remedy is vaccination.
Voters should remember that it is to
citg councils.
Pennsy's declared purpose to 60
ahead with the immense improveme
planned last year means plenty of
work and good times for many com
munities along the giant railway sys-
tenn
The Pennsylvania railroad exhibit
for the ST. Louis fair is ready for ship
ment and it is needless to say that it
will be one of tie greatest attractions
of irs kind within the grounds.
Funny that in almost every city and
town in the State they are suffering
from too much water
The annual report of tie Williams
port Board of Trade shows that town
to be progressing at rapid pace. 1t
has the lowest death rate IN the state,
ten per thousand.
The sixty fifth annual session of the |
Eastern Pennsy lvauia Conference of |
the Evangelical Association will con-
vene February 2jth at the Emanuel |
Evangelical church, Allentown.
A probable strike of 5000 teamsters
and drivers at St Louis. Mo. will be |
averted by settlement by arbitration.
The acquittal of Mrs Bechtel as an |
accessory to the murder of her daugh- |
ter Mabel by the jury of Lehigh coun-
tians was undoubtedly a righteous |
verdict The aged woman should never |
have been compelled to pass through |
the terrible ordeal to which she was
subjected. The case of the common
wealth was surprisingly weak.
In again bringing the old fashioned |
winter to the front, the weather bureau
ought to fit the cold snap to the flood |
time when it would do the most good
An official of New York dramatic
agency estimates that fully $500 act
ors. stranded in strange places by the
q ioho nF ,,fn tho
road. have for two months been wend-
ing their way back to that city.
The next holiday, Lincolu's birth
day, February 70.
willard Spencer, author of Miss
Bob White that recently appeared
here, is at work on new opera which
he hopes 10 complete by the spring of
1904 He will leave for Florida in a
few days to put on the finishing touch
es
Allentown has a record for immoral
ity and crime that should arouse its
citizens TO bestir Themselves aud re-
move the cause. When the cause is
known there ought surely to be found
remedy radical enough to bring
about cure
The man who said that hard winters
have gone out of fashion Is in a hospital
suffering from bad case of frost bite
A decision of the Luzerue county
court is of interest to attorneys through ,
out the state The court states that
lawyer has no right to ask defend
aut who is on the witness stand if he
has served time in Jail.
The alternating grounding is al
ready shifting unrasily in his lair,
but the chances are he'll have to do
somo digging 10 reach tn surface.
Nothing moro crgel can b. concoiv.
ed han TO let a clipped horse stand
unblauketel untsido during winter
weather