Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-07-26
CONDENSED NEWS.
Hot enough for you.
Plcnics almost every day now.
Tie finest DAYS Of the summer.

Berry picker, tell some sensational
sbaIe stories
M human being is constantly on
tifr's highest level
The curbstone market is toothsome
proposition these days.
Festivals here aud festivals there,
festivals everywhere.
The south side approach becomes
more inapproachable every day.
poor advertising medium may be
likenei unto "A file-which takes some
thing from everything with which it
comes into contact. but returns nothing
which has been taken.
The anthracite coal trade is report
Ell extremely dull at this time, al
though operators look for little squirt
next week to enable dealers to re-
plrui>h their stocks before the Aug
u-t increase Of ten cents a ton in price
goes into effect.
BeTks county has found use for the
state constabulary They are stationed
al Adamst0wn 10 preserve order dur
ins a Campmeeting, where they may
be both ornamental aud useful
The health board of Greater New
York asserts that % per cent of the
infant mortality OF that city Is due TO
diaT.hoeal diseases resulting from the
feeding Of impure milk.
The annual report of the State
Christian EndeavoTers in session at
Altoona shows an encouraging growth
OF IA " ide awake Christian organiza-
tion.
John W Gates SAYS, THE excellent
crop reports, which are becoming bet
ter every day, the large and increasing
earnings Of the steel and iron COM
panies. railroads and business enter.
prises in general. will eventually in
iuence higher prices for stock, but we
can look for this usual midsummer
dullne-s for some time to come -
The hucklebeTTy crop viii be the
smallest in many years, but the black
berry promises 10 be the most plenti-
ful within a decade, and peaches,
pears aud apples Will be abundant, so
tue blueberry will not be missed 50
much
Penn Haven Junction. about five
miles northwest OF Mauch Chunk, ac-
c0rdinL 10 reports, is running alive
with bears II is common thing 10
see bIg burly bear making his way
down the mountain in quest of some
thing 10 eat.
According to the Harrisburg Tele-
graph one OF the questions 10 Toe
thre-hed out toy the next legislature
j. Shall the electric and trolley
lines carry freight and express 1t
j. doubtful il any votes will be cast
IN the next legislature against the pro-
position, 20 we'll will it he attended
to in the election of members
Lucy Gilbert, of northumberland,
while walking along the road at Blue
Hill Friday night was knocked down
aud chOked bv an unknown man, but
20 strongly did she resist that she was
able 10 free herself and escape. The
girl states that the fellow was a
stranger who was likely waiting to
leave on freight train.
The mischievous child is always
worth training IN right channels.
American boys should be taught to
prize the ballot as precious herit-
age
only small minority of prohibi-
tionists are members of the prohibi
tion party vet.
LOST OR MISLAID, Policy No. 26Oo2
issued by The Penn Mutual Life lnsur-
ance Company. on the life of Samuel
Mile The finder viii please return 1T to
the undersigned Application has been
made for the i~suing of "A duplicate.
SAMUEL MILLS,
Danville Pa.
The Philadelphia Pitt-burg and Erie
Telephone Company, for which a
charter will be asked on August 1th,
will have its principal office in Har.
risburg. The company will extend the
lines Of the independent companie.
and will spend about 81, 900, 600 in it,
efforts 10 compete with the Bell sys
tenn throughout the greater portion OF
this State and New York.
Legal proceedings have been institut
ed against Williamsport for -, 00l
damages BY Jacob +. Winters. I'm tia,
statement OF the case filed. Mr.. Winters
alleges that he was injured on th'
night Of March goth, the accident hap
pening on East Third street, neal
Geiger alley. The plaintiil maintain
that because of ditch across the
thoroughfare, unprotected by sigma
lamp, he was jostled out of Wagon
and that the bones of his right lei
were broken in three places.
John Leshinski, of Big Mountain, i
afflicted with sleep walking and hi
latest somnambulistic feat terminate,
with diTeful results Last evening h
walked out of a second story windOy
aud in the fall, cut his head, brok
two fingers aud was otherwise badl
used up, although fortunately escapin
internal injury.