Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-11-23
Brief News Items.

Brief News Items.
Compiled for HIasty Read
ers of the Intelligencer,
the Acknowledged Off
cial Organ of rlontour
County.
Best County Paper, s1.0O year.
One week from today we give thanks.
Serious results often follow wet feet.
Teachers are preparing for county
institute.
A uniform divorce law would be a
uniform blessing.
County Supt. Chas. Derr gave us a
business call Monday.
Idleness is frequently the mother of
crime.
Credit is great convenience but it
is also great danger.
A little rain makes the sunshine all
the more appreciated when it comes.
Have you got that Thanksgiving
turkey yet?
The season of foot ball enthusiasts
is now on in full swing.
Many an "old maid" is far hap
pier woman than her married sister.
The man who changes his mind
acknowledges that he knows more to-
day than he did yesterday.
Unreasonable weather, but a cold
wave is on the way.
The lover of good books need not be
lonely.
This is the season when the prudent
person will be very careful concerning
his clothing and habits.
: The boy who fills hIs mind with the
thoughts of the great does wise
thing.
Our sisters, Mesdames Elmer f. Deck
ard and A. Ii. Martin, of Liverpool, STOP
ped off to visit us on Wednesday and
Thursday while on their way to attend
the funeral of a cousin at Berwick
The vestry of st. Johns Episcopal
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library with the 5000 volumes be-
iqueathed to it by the Rev. Charles
James Wood.
There are some French journals that
believe Japan and America are bound
to fight soon and that appear eager to
keep the subject before their readers.
war and that the geographical posi-
tions of the two countries and their
commercial rivalry can only result in
a clash of arms.
A barn on the Frank S. Hess farm,
In Elizabeth township, Lancaster
county, between Perryville and Clay,
was erected in 1928 by Christian and
Susanna Schenkle. 1t is of limestone,
;n good repair and constant use. A
tenant house near the barn, construct
ed Of stone and logs, was probably
built about the same time.
Japanese children begin to 60 to
school when six years old. During the
first four years they learn Japanese
and Chinese in the next four years
every child has to learn English
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
carry out the promise of the previous
cabinet and Spain will participate in
the Jamestown exposition next year.
commemorating the first settlement of
the English in America.
During a trip along the Schuylkill
river below Linfield, Winfield S. Sands
of Pottstown, who has a collection of
20, 600 Indian relics, fornd an arrow
head Of yellow. stone four inches in
length, which is the most perfect speci-
men he has ever seen.
Clinton Gates, a public spirited citi
zen, has agreed to macadamize four
squares of street invest Conshohocken
at his own expense, costing fully a,
600.
More people of Coudersport are re-
ceiving aid from Potter county than
all the rest of the county. Couder-
sport people do not understand why
this is the case, saying the town is
prosperous and that industries are un-
able to obtain sufficient men.
Cold has been discovered on the
farms Of Philip Madeira and Martin
Schaeffer, near Allentown. A Phila-
delphia expert pronounced the stuff so
far mined sure guarantee of the pre-
sence Of gold in paying quantities.
Headquarters have been opened in
New York to promote W. J. Bryan's
nomination for the presidency in 1908,
and Bryan clubs are being organized
throughout the south.
Congressman. elect William B. Will
son. of Blossburg, was ably assisted
in his recent campaign by his daugh-
ter, Grace, who has been her fathers 8
secretary for five years. and who is
now only 30 years old. She carried on
the correspondence of Mr. Wilson. ac-
companied him on his campaign tours
and arranged his itinerary.
Mrs. Margaret Pechin, of Philadel-
phia. has presented to the Washington
Memorial chapel, at Valley Forge, a
lock of General Washington's hair.
The relic was given to Mrs. Pechin in
1872 by James A. Hamilton, son of
Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton NJ. Davis, of Franklin, 81