Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-08-31
CONDENSED NEWS.

simiie become a fact?
The sad sea waves are telling theil
sorrowful tale to big audiences.
There is bumper crop of snake
stories. sure enough.
That laundrymen's convention al
Philadelphia ought to be a clean af-
fair
Erwin Hunter is attending the
Grangers picnic at Williams Grove
this week.
Marion Rapp, % years old, of Phil
adelphia, was sent to Moyamcnsing
prison in default of bail on charge
OF blgamy. a witness having declared
that she had been married eight times
and never divorced or made a widow.
That the State oonstabulary force,
when organized, ill be ready to meet
any emergency, it is declared, is at.
tested by the fact that men accustom.
Ell to war and also to detectives work
are to he in the command. At the pre-.
sent time Captain John c. Groome.
superintendent. and Dr.. Francis ID.
Patterson, examining surgeon, are on
the lookout for specialists, and are
particularly anxious for ex-regular
army men.
The management of the American
Oar and Foundry Company at Berwick
have received authority TO proceed at
once with the erection of 80 new
houses Fifty of these will be equipped
with bath and will he modern and of
attractive design. The other forty will
be comfortable homes, and of class
decidedly better than the cnos former
ly built by the company.
The Board of Trade OF Easton has
appointed committee to confer with
the Bethlehem Board of Trade in an
effort to have \ boulevard eighty feet
wide built between Easton aud Bethle-
hem.
The State Board of Public Buildings
and Grounds have definitely fixed the
18TH OF September a. the lime for
their meeting at which time they will
take action upon the appointment OF
all engineer for the Mifflinville bridge.
Every man owes it to himself and
fessiOn Read the display advertise
ment of the six Morse Schools Of
TeIegIaphy, in this issue and learn
how easily young man or lady may
learn telegraphy and be assured posi-
tion.
The annual stated meeting of the
thirteenth Pennsylvania Veteran Cav
airy Association will Re held at +.
IN Thursday. September %. 1908, AT
Headquartors Post 5S, G. A. X. Harris
burg.
In granting privileges to side shows
and similar attractions which will be
on the grounds :of the York County
Agricultural Society as part of its
forty eighth annual exposition, which
will open Tuesday. October 3,the rule
rgidly applied last year, prohibiting
attractions of AN immoral or objection
able character. is being enforced. All
gambling will be prohibited.
The fight against the yellow fever
outbreak in New Orleans goes braVely
-, IUbiIa tI,aFa laya haap IN avaaaS n
LOO cases aud more than $50 deaths
the outlook --is more cheerful than a
any time since the disease manifested
itself. The situation has settled into
steady and uninterrupted combat car
ried on intelligently between soienc
and its enemy.
An Apostolic uiropiar letter was re
Gently sent from the Vatican to all tn
Spanish aud South American bishop
forbidding hereafter the selling O
special dispensation for money con
sideratiun At the time of the crusade
against the Mahometans, several POpet
IN order to raise funds for these eS
peditions against the followers c
Mahomet, granted list of privilege
and dispensations. which was calle
the "Bulla CruoiatH," and whic
could be obtained from the clergy
Spain on payment of small sum
money
One of the things that should be di
ooursRed in this state Ii the annul
raid on the woods at the opening
the so-called hunting season. tt
wholesale destruction of bird and an
NAL life is a reflection on our civiliz