Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-02-18
CONDENSED NEWS.
This cruel winter

This cruel winter
Baltimore is taking just pride in
her own pluck.
Our exchanges bristle with caution
TO the people TO boil their drinking
water before using it. The freshets are
CARRYING with them the germs of
months and the danger of typhoid and
ether disease is increased with the
moving of the streams.
Ash Wednesday services were well
attended
According TO old signs We should
have the heaviest snow storms of the
season before Spring sets in. but no
big storm Is in sight yet. though a
snow storm is following the lake. and
may reach this section by Friday.
If this kind of weather keeps on
while longer the average coal bin will
begin to cry for mercy. But there is
one thing for which all aF thankful,
and that is the absence of coal
strike
DR.. Horace William Burg, of North
umberand, one of the leading physi-
clans of Northumberland county, died
a. the Medico Chirurgical Hospital,
Philadelph Tuesday evening at five
O'Clock, after an illness of weeks from
Hotchkins disease, contamination of
the blood which is supposed TO have
been contracted during the small pox
epidemic at Northumberland last win.
ter.
Don't forget the warm supper to be
given tonight in &. A. Il. Hall by the
DR.. Yeomans Bible class. Everybody
cordially invited.
The NJ rrchauts' Protective Associa-
tiou of Berwick has framed a formal
request TO the banks of that town for
new paper money. This is for the pre-
veution Of coutsgion. Bloomsbury
banks have already done this, and are
serving crisp new greenbacks to their
patrons.
one doesn't hear so much nowadays
Of the good old fashioned winters The
old inhabitant who delivers his annual
discourse upou 1.-THE kind of inter we
used to have" has not been very
much in evidence this winier We are
certainly enjoying n winter of the
strenuous kind. 1t is severe enough and
the Oldest inhabitant is satisfied
Cigarettes and cigarette papers have
been tabooed in Coudersport, Potter
county, all the dealers of that town
having agreed TO cut them out of their
stock of goods
If the peach crop isn't killed it gen
orally gets tin-cauned, anyway.
The new catalogue, now on press,
Of Bucknell College will show an en-
rollment of over 700 students. an in
crease Of sixty over the preceding year
and forty were unable to register be
cadSe of lack of room.
New aud Modern Pullman sleepers
have been placed on the Reading trains
between Williamsport and Philadel-
phia, which leave both cities at u 80
O'Clock at night
Blue bells and dandelion seem to be
far of from us yet but both are in
bloom at Summit Hill where the fam
Gus burning mine has kept parts of the
ground at a springlike temperature.
How many short years is it since
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera,
The Mikado. had all the nations
laughing at the Japanese:
1t is beginning to look as though
the grounding did see his shadow and
that the cid sdage Is holding good
The Allentown curfew law has re-
ceived knock out blow by the mayor
vetoing it, He took the ground that it
did not go far enough and did not
reach the right individuals.
Well, the spring elections are over
and yet there Is no spring.
There are large number of Ameci-
cans of the Dewey brand behind the
Japanese guns. This may be the secret
of the Mikado's success.
People who want to see the st. Louis
Exposition, and hundreds will, should
begin to save right away. The fare
from tbs Att to Missouri will be