Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1905-02-17
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Established In 1928.
Little drops of water
In a rainy spell,
Make you wish you hadn't
Iant ypur new umbrell,

In rainy spei,
Make you wish you hadn't
Lent your new umbrell.
The Intellgencer is the best local
paper in Montour county.
Lucky is the man who lives on the
sunny side of the street.
The Far Eastern war is year old
and the situation is about the same.
Samuel NJ. Trumbower appeared on
the streets yesterday after severai
weeks Illness.
The Intelligencer is at your service
as a news or advertising medium. We
await your commands.
The ground hog now shows dis
position to play fast ana loose.
The strike in St. Petersburg has
ended. Aud with it ends the suppose
revolution.
Gettsyburg college is quarantined
because of the presence of smallpox
among the students.
The ground hog saw his shadow and
IL is going 10 be cold weather for some
candidates after February 2lst.
You can't blame the ground hog for
going back. But what of those wealth
er sharps who assured US this would
be a mild winter?
whether the goosebone, the ground
hog or the sun spot are in any way
implicated, the fact remains neverthe-
less that no man need go to the Arctic
regions to experience genuine winter.
Hon. j. Henry Cochran, of Lu-
zerne county, will accept our thanks
for furnishing this office with the
Legislative Record.
We never sausage grounding
weather. The mercury on several
occasions, very recently, tluttered in
the thermometer, in this vicinity, at
ten degrees below zero.
Transfers are driving the ice be-
tween Berwick aud Nescopeck. The
path is now clear and people may go
across with safety.
There have been more snow storm
two to one this winter than last-not
to mention the low temperatuTe-and
yet some people ridicule the goose
bone man.
Frank Yeager, of Danville, bought
the property of d. N. Shipe on Line
street, and will move here on April J..
The property was purchased through
Hoffman g. Sun.-Sunbury Daily.
The Reading Railway Company has
ordered forty new high class locomo-
tives, which Indicates a measure of
prosperity unparalleled in the history
OF the company.
Mr.. w. r. Mills, of Exchange, gave
us a pleasant business call on Wednesday
morning.
The Shamokin Division of the Read
ing railroad is so greatly blocked by
drifted slow that the company has
raised the price of laboIeIs for shovel
ing the snow to lS cents per hour
Representative Bowen introduced a
bill in tine House at Harrisburg on
Tuesday. providing for an appropria-
tion of sl5, 600 for the acquisition of
Fort Augusta. by the State.
The greatest show on earth. the
Barnum and Bailey enterprise. will
exhibit at Harrisburg, on May %. Ar
rangements are now being made for
the proper location.
WANTED 10 men in each state to
travel. tack signs and distribute sam
PIES and circulars of our goods. Sal
ary $1,000 per month. $500 per day
for expenses. KUHLMAN CO., Dept.
Atlas Building, Chicago.
Danville was visited on Sunday last
by snow storm, which was followed
by rain. And still the sleighing and
skating is excellent and still the cut
ters and boys on steel blades glide
over the CLASSY surface of the "beau-
tl1ul TO cneerinS music.
Jingle Jingle, clear the way,
'Tis the merry, merry sleigh;
AS it swiftly glides along,
Hear the burst OF happy song.
Mrs. Frank G. Angle is recreating
at Hamilton, on the Burmuda Isles,
opposite the coast of South Carolina,
where she is sojourning for the bene-
fit of her health. We trust the gentle
lady will be mnch benefited and that
she may return safely to her home in
city.
The Daughters of the American Re-
volution, of Sunbury. will hold a
dance on the evening of February %,
the proceeds to be applied to the pur.
chase of Fort Augusta. The price OF
3ickets will be one dollar.
The men of the passenger crews o Il
the Pennsy lvania railroad heretofore
known as brakemen are now called
guards. the change of name having
taken place on January lst.
Lookout for icicles hanging from the
ewes of roofs. They are liable to fall
and infict painful if not fatal in
juries.
The current issue of the Churchmar
contains a half-tone engraving of Rev
DR.. James II. Darlington, of Brook
lyp. bishop-eleot of the Harrisburg
Episcopal diocese.
Secretary of the School Board W. Fl
Ortiz is i'll at his home on Bloom street
Mr.. and Mrs. W. +. Flick, of Kase
vile. entertained few of their friend
at dinner on Sunday. Those presen
we're: Mr.. and Mrs. II. Sandel, Mr.
aud Mrs. G. B. Kase. Mr.. and Mrs. O
Rhodes and daughters Edna and Dorca
The most attractive sale bills yo,
see throughout the country are print