Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-07-07
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Haven. Pa.
The flies are here for good.
Good crop growing weather.
Next fourth of July it is likely some
additional features will be cut out
Allentown uses 9, 500. 600 gallons of
water daily, an average of $50 gallons
per day to every man, woman and
child.
There is a probability that the Penn
.sylvania Canal Company will repair
the break in the dam at Sunbury if
the people in that section VIII bear a
portion of the expense.
The 1904 Williamsport directory
gives that city A, ,5i2 population.
Williamsport is one of the most pro-
Rressive inland cities in the state.
Seasonable weather makes the farm
er and the merchant happy as well as
busy.
II so.ae of the July dividends come
In the shape of good weather we will
be satisfied.
Over three hundred people were
poisoned by eating ice cream at pic
Dio held at Elizabethville on Monday
Five physicians were hurriedly sum-
moned from nearby towns and al
though a number of the victims are
still very i'll no deaths are expected
In order to bring illegal liquor deal
eIs &c terms the Sons of America aud
the American Mechanics Lodge of St.
Claire, SchuylkIl county, have offered
tl00 reward for the arrest of all such
dealers.
Summer is speeding, and the improve
ments in this city should be started at
once.
IL is TO be hoped the casualties of
the 1904 Fourth will fall below the
casualties of its immediate predoces-
sors
Ii Ia in order now to enumerate the
casualties and figure up the losses
Four months association with Kuro-
his army and daily observation of its
methods have convinced Oscar King
Davis that the best thing Russia can
do would be to negotiate for terms of
settlement. That opinion is growing
Capitalists OF Remove and North
Bend are discussing the advisability
of constructing trolley line from
Remove to North Bend. and there is a
strong possibility of the project TAX
ing definite shape in the near future
China, according to the latest census.
contains a population of over four
hundred millions, or more than one
quarter of all the inhabitants OF the
world.
Ii is believed the casualty list has
been materially reduced as a result,
principally, Of the efforts of the news
papers
The National Cash Registry com
pany of Dayton, Ohio. will send one
thousand of its employees TO the Worlds |
Fair, paying their transportation and |
Tor their admission to the grounds |
during five or six days. Among these |
employees are six hundred girls
Bloomsbury merchants now close
their stores at p. m.
The farmer is now getting busy and |
his work is in the sunshine
Berwick church goers have petition
ed council for curfew ordinance.
= After lapse of three months, when
the last case of small-po developed at
WilliamsFort. the dread disease has |
again broken out in that city
The manufacturer will have enough
blank cartridges on his hands to fill
early orders for future events, if he is
fortunate enough to receive any
A terrific rain storm, accompanied
severe electrical display, broke
Wilkesbarre Tuesday night II
Z" heaviest thunder storm of the
Tbs streets were flooded for a
The Shsmokin papers publish nine
cases of injuries, more or less serious,
In that town, resulting from 18th of
July explosives on Monday.
III Lyman H Howe. of Wilkesharrc,
the moving picture man, who is we'll
remembered in Dmgille, il stiu in q
philadelphia hospital and will prob
ably undergo another operation ON the
knee which has given him N mocb
trouble during the past few years