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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-04-11
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE

My Home place on Elm ST. 200 it.
front, containing more than one acre
of land, two houses and barn; with or
without greenhouse or will reserve
greenhouse ard sell with business
separate
Store property at III North ST. now
occupied by Miss Leonard.
A $50 Silver ST. property containing
about l-3 acres. with good tenant
house, village water, shade trees, etc.
VIII sell house and lot separate, or
sell or lease lots on This property at
reasonable prices.
Terms easy on all OF the above. En-
quire of
GEO. r. HEATH
ELM STREET
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Fell Under Train at Hilton.

Harry Held, whose residence is some
where in New York State, is a patient
at the Mary NJ Packer hospital, Sun
bury. the victim of an accident, which
occurred at the Reading passenger sta
tion at Milton, on Saturday afternoon,
Held is connected with the Electric
Theatre company, which exhibited at
the Milton fair grounds during the
last week, and on Saturday he decid-
ed to go to Bloomsbury and make ar
rangements for the appearance of the
company at the fair at that place this
week.
When Held arrived at the Reading
passenger station at Milton, the train
was about ready to leave and by the
time he had purchased his ticket it
was in motion. Rushing out of the
station he attempted to board the train
and missing his footing he fell. Still
retaining his hold on the handle he
was dragged for some distance and
when he finally left go the wheels of
one of the coaches passed over the
back part of his right foot badly crush
ing it.
DR.. Ross was summoned and Held
was given medical attention and it
was decided to send him to Sunbury
to the Mary M. Packer hospital. He
was met at the station there by DIR.
Shindel, the Reading company's ply
sician, who accompanied him to the
hospital and dressed his injury.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
|PLACING POTATOES
ON THE MARKET

With one exception the largest mar
morning. The generous yield of the
summer due to plenty of rain and care
full farming, for which the people of
our county are noted, was never more
strikingly in evidence. abundant to
overfiowing, choice and delicious in
quality literally every product of the
field and garden was represented in
the long row of wagons, which cover
ed nearly every foot of available space
There were just 105 one-horse wagons,
2l double wagons and IA butchers and
bakers in line.
In order to reduce the labor of stor-
ing away the crop, the farmers are en-
deavoring to sell as many potatoes as
possible. AS consequence the big
yield of tubers was reflected in mar
yet by large quantities, which were out
of proportion to other products on
sale. They sold fairly we'll at 60 to So
cents per bushel
Chestnuts found n place among the
other products and the large quantities
of these brought in would indicate
that there is very large yield. They
sold as low rs IL cents per quart, al
though many were disposed of at IA
and Is cents.
Heretofore, with probably the ex-
ceptions of Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, the largest markets of the yeal
were apt to occur during midsummer,
when garden vegetables, fruit ant
berries were in season. Such large
market in October is unusual and Cal
be accounted for only by the fact thai
the season has been very prolific ont
and that the farmers find themselve!
in the possession of n eur"rabuu lance
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Il Squares on Election Ticket.

The voters of the State will have
enough parties from which to select q
candidate this fall, there being twelve
party squares for State tickets on the
ballot. OF course every new party that
took out nomination papers and secur-
ed sufficient number designers is en-
titled to a place on the ticket, and to
have separate square, and the inde-
pendents have been unusually active.
The parties entitled to squares on the
ballot this year are as follows Repub-
lican. Democratic, Prohibition, Social
ist, Socialist Labor. Citizen, City,
Commonwealth, Jefferson, Lincoln,
Referendum and Union Labor.
There are many other parties that
have filed papers in the State depart
ment claiming certain party names
for judgeship, Legislative and congress
sional nominations. and in some coun-
ties there will be as many as fourteen
squares on the ticket. Among the
names pre- -empted are Mitchell, Penn
sylvania Blacksmith, Roosevelt, Square
Deal, Nomination Paper Party, SEN
atorial, Judicial Reform, Butler Re-
publican, Federation and Majority
Rule.
1t will be some time yet before the
official ballots will be certified from
the State department, as there are so
mauy contests on before the Dauphin
county court that certifying it now is
impossible.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Died in the West.

A letter was received in this city
yesterday from Coulterville, Cal. an
nouncing the death of Benjamin w.
Tomlinson, which occurred at that
place on September 2Sth The deceas-
ed was native of Danville He was
an uncle of Mrs. W. ii. zimmerman
and is well remembered by all our old
er residents. Prior to the Mexican
War he was clerk in the post Office at
Danville under Alexander Best as
postmaster. At the breaking out of the
Mexican war he enlisted with the Col
umbia Guards of Danville under Cap
tain Wilson. At the close of the war
he returned to Danville and was hon
orably discharged with the Guards at
the court house.
Soon after the Mexican war W. H..
Gearhart, known familiarly as cali
fornia Bill" who, along with other
Danville young men, had fallen vic
tim of the gold fever and made his
way to California, returned East for
a visit with relatives. Mr.. Tomlnson
was charmed with life and opportuni-
ties on the Pacific coast as described
by Mr.. Gearhart and when the latter
returned to California the deceased
accompanied him. The two men for
some years together led the arduous
life of prospectors, sharing the many
vicissitudes of fortune.
In the process of time Mr.. Gearhart
returned to his home at South Dan
vile, where he spent the remainder of
his life. Mr.. Tomlinson, however, had
become welded to the mountains, the
flowers and the genial climate of Cali
fornia and, although many induce
ments were offered him to share a
home with relatives in Danville, he
persistently declined. He, however,
never lost interest in his native town.
Through all the years that interviewed
since his departure he kept up a reg
ular correspondence and once, just at
the close of the civil war, he paid Dan
vile a visit.
At the time of his death he was in
his eighty first year. He was bachel-
or, a man of refined tastes and of kind
ly sympathetic nature, who was be-
loved by those around him.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Will Be HANDED
over ON FRIDAY

Buchanan q Company are now
about winding up work on the heat,
light and power plant at the hospital
for the insane and on Friday it will
be handed over to the trustees of that
institution.
The plant is now running to the
perfect satisfaction of all concerned,
furnishing heat as well light to the
institution. Yesterday all three en-
gines were run together. The trial was
eminently satisfactory. While one ell
gine and dynamo answers the pur,
pose ordinarily, yet there are emer-
gencies when it may be necessary &c
combine all three into one unit II
was necessary, therefore, to know how
the three engines would pull together.
A few hands are still employed
cleaning up outside the building and
connecting up few motors, among
which are a 40-horse power motor il
the carpenter shop, 25-horse power
motor for the threshing machines a 10
horse power motor for the bake shoI
and a 10-horse power motor for the
electrical pump to supply the boilers
The work began on May 9th, the
heaviest part of the contract being the
wiring of all the buildings to the
number of 2300 lights. The compile
tion of the plant so much earlier than
was expected as we'll as the first clas
quality of. work done speaks volumes
in praise of Mr.. Stutterheim, the rep
resentative of Buchanan & Company
who has been on the ground since til,
work began and will remain until Fri
day. although all the other representa-
tives of the firms that had hand il
the work have returned to their homes
| The largest number of hands employ
ed was ninety five, eighty y-seven o
whom were Danville men. In this con
nection it is worldly of note as reveal
ing the pleasant relations between Mr.
Stutterheim and the men working un
der him that at DO time during th
several months of difficult and exact
ing labor did he find it necessary t.
discharge single man. Mr.. Stutter
helm is a most companionable an
agreeable gentleman; he is the soul o
courtesy and is always fair. Under til
circumstances it is not strange tina
the same cordial relations that obtai
between him and his workmen ar
found to exist between him and tn
hospital authorities and every one i
the community with whom he cam
in contact.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
TO IMPROVE
SCHOOL GROUNDS

An improvement is on foot at the
grounds of the first ward school build
ing, which, it is hoped, will have the
effect of keeping the grounds clean
and dry, thereby making it more pleas
ant for pupils and promoting cleanli-
ness in the school rooms, Heretofore
in times of rain the school ground un-
der the tramp of hundreds of little
result was that immense quantities of
mud were carried into the building.
In order to improve the play ground
at previous meeting of the school
board it was decided to order a car
load of crushed limestone from Lime
Ridge and to spread it OH the ground
as an experiment The material has
arrived and Tuesday a team was en-
ployed hauling the crushed limestone
from the car to the school building
where it was spread over the play
ground in thin course.
The material is ground very fine and
seems to answer the purpose nicely.
Under the tramp of multitude of feet
it instantly becomes packed solid up.
on the ground. 1t is very clean and in
short time, it is said, will become
quite hard and dry, regardless of the
weather.
Mud is great annoyance at each Of
the other school buildings and if The
crushed limestone is a success in the
first ward the intention is tn use it al
the school buildings in each of the
other wards of the borough.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
THE IMPRISONED
PBDDLERS PAID UP

The two peddlers who refused to
pay the fine for peddling without Ii
cense Friday and were committed to
the lookup to undergo five days i'm
prisonment became weary of durance
and before they had served the first "a
hours decided to pay the fine and costs
of seven dollars and breathe the pnre
air of freedom again.
As they settled with the justice and
went their way it was difficult to de-
termine whether they were affected
most by the humiliation of their ex-
perience or the loss of their money,
with which it went so hard to part.
They loitered about town for awhile
Saturday, but it is not known that
they made any attempt to peddle.
Citizens could aid very much in at
would go to the trouble to notify the
officers when one of these itinerant
dealers makes his appearance. The
fellows are very sly and often carry
merely small handbag, so that it
may be some time before the officers
discover what is going on. In the vast
majority of cases it is safe to assume
that the peddler has not paid five dol
lars for the privilege of selling goods
for one day and if he has he will very
quickly produce evidence of that fact.
On Friday it is said that at least one
party instead of notifying the officers
actually gave one of the peddlers a tip
when the officer came near. so that the
| fellow was able to escape.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Picking Culm to Keep Warm.

Because of che dead lock in the school
board, of Conyngham township. Col
umbia county, the schools are with
out fuel and in some parts of the dis
trict the teachers and pupils are COM
PEELED to go out and pick coal from
the culm banks or else close the
schools, according to the Ashland
Telegram, which speaks of the situa-
tion as follows:
lowing to factional differences in
the school board, affairs in the Con-
yngham school district are in deplor
able condition, and there is much in
dignation among the people. These
difficulties have retarded the school
work in many ways for the past six or
more weeks, and the tardy action of
the courts in giving the people redress
is anything but commendable. Prompt
action is what the people want. but,
it seems, must be content to see it drag
along while the school system is Grip
pied, and children deprived of the
rights to which they are entitled un-
der the laws of the State. There is
great wrong somewhere and it should
be the duty of the courts to rectify
this wrong at the earliest possible
time.
Because of these contentious teach
ers are unpaid, as we'll as others to
whom the district is indebted. No sup
plies have been received, and the
schools are without fuel In some
parts of the district. it is said, that in
order to keep the rooms comfortable
teachers and pupils have been compel
led to pick coal from the culm banks
or else close the schools
1T is certainly disgraceful refiec-
tion on our laws when any man, or
body of men, are permitted to be re-
sponsible tor such condition of af-
fairs as is here pointed out. The legal
remedy should be applied. and it should
be done quickly, and without any fur
ther dallying with the law.
1.-The mandamus served on the presi-
dent and secretary Friday orders that
the report for State appropriation be
made out at once, and that they re-
port to court the first Monday in
December that the duty has been per-
formed, or they will stand committed
for contempt.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Floor on Catawissa River Bridge

The floor ON the Catawissa bridge
has been causing all kinds of trouble
ever since the structure was opened to
the public. On the Danville bridge
the wear and tear of weather and
traffic seems only to produce better
road for all kinds of travel.
In view of the fact that Danville
and Catawissa bridge floors are built
of the same material the following
latest condemnation of the up-river
job from the Bloomsbury Press, will
be interesting:
"Ten times worse than it was earlier
in the year, those who have seen the
flooring of the Catawissa bridge de-
scribe it as being. While the condition
was bad enough then, the upheavels of
the blocks used in the flooring were
only in spots, standing out like huge
boils on an otherwise fairly good sur
face, but today the condition is such
that the entire bridge is in the same
condition. The blocks are elevated in
places from twelve to eighteen inches
and the general opinion is, that the
job is about the worst that was ever
worked off on an unsuspecting public.
1.-THE situation has now passed the
point where mild words can be used
in describing it. 1t is squarely up to
the county to have the condition rem
edied before the county has a lot of
damage cases ON its hands. With the
bridge in its present condition they
will follow as surely as night follows
day. 1t has only been good luck there
have been no serious accidents there
already. A horse in crossing the
bridge Saturday, fell down and the
horse of George Martin, of Blooms
burg, fell down Sunday afternoon.
Fortunately, neither horse was injur-
ed.
"The Penn Bridge company was
the contractor for the bridge and they
are the ones directly responsible for
the BRIDGES condition. Welderlick, of
Allentown, did tile floor job under
sub and when the blocks were
put in it was stated in these columns,
as we'll as in other county papers that
the work was of inferior order, but
the inspectors allowed it to pass.
County Commissioner Hess stated
yesterday the contractors were the
ones to make good and that the Com
missioners were trying to hold them.
Somebody should be held
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Death Claims Well Known Lady

Miss j. Nettie Henrie after pro-
tracted and painful illness departed
this life on Saturday morning. The
deceased was the daughter of the late
Samuel Henrie and was lifelong
resident of Danville.
She was a young woman of most eX-
emplary Christian character. Kind
and sympathizing by nature through
out her entire life she was devoted to
others and in return was deeply below
ed for her tender sympathy and self
sacrifice. She was nearly lifelong
member of the Grove Presbyterian
church and among the younger people
of town there were few that were
more widely known.
Her sufferings covered a period of
much over a month. For a week or
more preceding her death her case was
regarded as hopeless. She bore her
suffering with patience and Christian
fortitude. She was conscious until
nearly the end. which occurred at 3 80
O'Clock Saturday morning
The deceased is survived by two
brothers. John T. of Berwick, and
Frank @. of this city; also one sister,
Miss Anna, who resided at the family
homestead on Bloom street along with
the deceased and her brother Frank.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
Big DRAIN FOR
CHURCH STREET

The succession of heavy rains dur
ing the summer and fall, which has
demonstrated that the borough's sys-
tenn of drainage is totally wrong, has
brought council face to face with a
problem that is more important than
street repairs or paving and demands
speedy solution. For reasons not
necessary to explain in some parts OF
the borough the surface water has
been diverted from natural channels
following the slope of the land into
artificial waterways where it has
seemed expedient to lead it, As is al
ways the case when natural law is
violated there was penalty to pay
and this has followed every time the
water has accumulated under the
prolonged and heavy rains that made
the present season unique. The stories
of overtaxed cutters. of flooded pave
ments and cellars on Bloom and Low
er Mulberry streets are twicetold tales,
but the bad state of affairs is clearly
due to the diverting of the water
The matter was taken up at the last
meeting of council and all agreed that
tho only solution was to get the wat
er as far as possible back into its orig
inal channels, which would imply that
the excess above the z. & r. crossing,
instead of being conducted down
Bloom street, should be permitted to
follow the natural slope of land do wn
to Billiards. S run.
Pursuant to action taken at that
meeting Borough Surveyor Keefer of
Sunbury came up to Danville Tues
day and in company with p. J. Keef-
er, superintendent of sewers, and
George Jacobs. T. W. Bedea and Amos
Vastine, councilmanic committee on
streets and bridges, went carefully ov-
er the ground to see how the excess OF
water on Bloom street might be got
rid of without causing annoyance and
damage.
Some of the councilmen favored sink
ing pipe along the alley at the rear OF
the Grove church, Others favored Pine
street, while still others thought that
Church street was the only thorough
fare that should be considered. The
borough surveyor favored Church
street Tuesday and this was the thor
oughfare selected by the committee tc
contain the proposed drain, which will
take in the water above the crossing
and pass through under both the z. &
X. and the D. l.. & w. railroads. The
committee yesterday was divided be
tween an 1S-inch and 24-inch pipe
This point will be finally settled by
council when the committee makes it
report at the next meeting. The pro
posed drain will add something to thu
borough's expense account, as it will
have to be laid at considerable deptl
and the distance between Bloom stree
and Billiards. run is over two squares
Nevertheless it is necessary improve
ment, one that has been deferred to-
long already.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
FOUR MEN killed
BY AN EXPLOSION
TAMAQUA. Oct. D.

terrible explosion occurred this
morning at the lower mill of the H.
A. Weldy Powder company's plant
about three quarters of mile north of
here. Four men were instantly kill
ed and two others fatally injured.
The explosion occurred in the dry
house where 800 kegs of powder were
stored. The explosion was terrific and
was heard and felt miles away from
the scene of the catastrophe.
The dead. who are all from Tama-
qua, are:
Wilson Sassaman, aged AZ, wife and
several children.
Thomas Pursel, aged 2S, single.
Calvin Deiber aged 49, single.
Edward Dreisbach, wife and two
children.
The injured are:
Irwin Sassaman. son of Wilson Sassa-
man, married Horribly burned and
can't live.
Lorin DeWire, of Winfield, Union
county, p. q r. painter, leg torn
off, critical condition.
Pursel and Deiber were in the DIR
house and were blown to pieces. Irwin
Sassaman had just left the dry house
before the explosion occurred. He was
hurled into mill pond. Wilson Sassa-
man was in the keg house and was
burned to death.
Lorin DeWire, one of the injured, is
a p. & r. painter and was painting a
railroad bridge spanning the Schuyl-
kill about 50 feet from the mill when
the explosion occurred. His leg was
torn off near the body and hurled 90
feet away, while he fell into the river
and swan ashore.
DeWire was taken to the Ashland
hospital ON p. g. r. passenger train.
A physician attended him enroute.
The doctor forgot the severered por-
tion of the leg when the train arrived
at the hospital, and it was discovered
later by the baggagemaster when the
train reached Shamokin.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
State Buys Timber Land.

The recorder of deeds of Clinton
county received for record an agree
ment of sale whereby the State comes
into possession of 9545 acres of land in
Noyes and Beech Creek townships, in
that county. A similar instrument
was filed with the recorder of Centre
county for 5000 acres, making an addi-
tion of more than 10, 500 acres to the
forest reserve in that section.
The land Is being sold by the Ly-
coming Land & Lumber company, of
Williamsport, for $3.50 an acre. The
State now owns Co. 600 acres in Clinton
county, known as the Hopkins reserva-
tion, which will grow in value.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
AN OLD LETTER.

Our townsman, James M. Kelso, has
in his possession an old letter that is
a most curious document 1t was writ
ten in 1S4l by F. r. Skunk, at that
time superintendent of common schools
of Pennsylvania, and was addressed to
Mr.. Joseph Kelso, father of James M.
Kelso, who was then school director
in Chester county. The letter was in
answer to an inquiry made by Joseph
Kelso about point under dispute in
the Chester county school board. The
most curious part of the epistle is that
no envelope was used. The paper was
folded and then sealed upon itself. f.
r. Skunk was later, i'll 1914 elected
go, ernor of Pennsylvaniaand re-elect-
ed in 1S47.