Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-01-12

Choose men of the highest ideals for
school directors.
Berwick has found it necessary to
pass a curfew law.
Andrew Russell is seriously i'll at
his home on Church street.
The Reading goosebone man has
been enjoying a laugh all to himself,
Keep your sidewalk clean and re-
oeive the blessings of the community.
Be kind to the horses during the
severe, cold, penetrating, windy wealth
er.
Go to the primaries and exert your
influence Then be satisfied with the
result.
Lei the Legislature pass a bill for
the publication of the laws and it will
please the people.
Every ward has its best men-let
these be put on the ticket for Council
and the School Board.
Choose good, sensible, honest men for
school directors ditto for councIlmen;
ditto for all other offices.
Jack Frost will have to do some
strong work before the ice harvesters
will be able to resume business.
The close of the first week Of the
new year no doubt finds many of the
new resolutions on the ash heap.
The time and place to knock" is at
the primaries, not after candidates
distasteful to you have been chosen.
The weather man treats US to an oc-
casional snow furry just to prove that
he continues to have snow in stock.
The legislature is having Today
recess and can't do much TO excite
criticism during that time, which Is
something to be thankful Tor.
The rumor that another Russian war
ship WAS blown up by mine Satur-
day turns out TO be untrue. 1t Is hard
to And another Russian warshlp.
The trouble is many people under
estimate the importance OF the School
Board, and are inclined TO nominate
indifferent candidates.
IL is little premature to announce
a failure of the ice crop. There :
sufficient time between now and next
Far vnta - a
liquid to fill all the houses in this Sec
tion.
Sc. Louis is finding it exceedingly
difficult to recover from the reaction
caused by the close of the Worlds
Fair
To stop and start train costs as
much As to run it a mile. In store ad-
vertising frequent stops are still more
expensive.
Cupid had his innings in Indiana
county last year, if nowhere else IN
the State Indiana issued more mari
age licenses than ever before iG its his.
tory and more than any other county
in the state.
HelleItown, Northampton county
borough with 300 inhabitants. has
eleven residents whose aggregate age
is nearly 1000 years. Each is more than
so years old, the oldest being 81 years.
A local wag who says he isn't afraid
to die is responsible for this The ice
is on the sidewalk, And the law is OF
the shelf If you don't like TO tread
Oh ice, Just clean it OF yourself.
The government crop report is good
and private reports are better, to th'
effect that Winter wheat is in bette
condition than month ago, and aver
ages well for the season. This las beer
tender point in the outlook
The most encouraging result to hu.
manity of the Harvard Experts fou
years investigation Of cancer is tina
it is not hereditary. This should prov,
q balm to many who live in constan
dread OF this horrible disease because
died of it, 1t would have been ye
more encouraging, however, if the in
vestigations had hrld out hopes of dis
oovery either of canse or cure.
John D. Rockefeller, the other da
announced to a crowd of young me
~ believe in the papers. Give ther
liberty and freedom of speech. be
lieye in liberty. The readers of tn
papers are intelligent and they 500
sift truth from untruth. " Oonsidern
the home truths Mr.. Rockefeller hs
been hearing from the papers for tn
last twenty years, this IS distinctl