Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-09-13

CONDENSED NEWS.


September hut wave L. here
Winter l. approaching, bat the south
sids approach not Yet.
or rours+ you paid vouI taxes and
got that hye per cent of.
Nobody ought to growl about the
weather mans handout these days
There ara few umbrellas that can
stand a. much rain on Sundays as on
other day- If the week
TIE man who has offended you is
the last i0 forgive YOU.
An Oh5o farmer claims to have a
lien that LAYS eggs with the date on
them That might be good sort of
ben for a farmer bat II city people
knew when the eggs they eat were
laid they would quit eating eggs.
ItIsa a hard Job to find anything in
some of tIia newspapers nowadays be
sides th. political news
Reports from all over the State of
crowded -chools don't look like race
suicide u PENNSYLVANIA.
IL j. nearly the time to perfume the
autumn tlr with the moth balls done
up iu uE. i.oats and like wearables.
Tie u.tu who borrows is big nuis
auce a. I- the housewife who plies the
=ame TRADE.
There j. ~omeW hat of grim joke in
tie arrest ot deputy fish warden up
ln the northern part of the State on
the char, OF Illegal fishing.
Culn, Edwin T. Cowell, of Dor
chester. i ass, recently elected presi
dent of the United States Veteran
Signal CORPS Association Is great
grandson # Deborah Sampson, the
only woman regularly enlisted as a
soldier n the War IF the Revolution.
Harry B.. Wolf. who has announced
himself a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Congress from
the ThiId Maryland District, began
life a- "A new-boy. He Is only 26 years
old. and has practiced law for five
wears
The state Health Department Is pro
ceoding with vigor in requiring the
imF.uyem, ut OF sewer systems through
ont tie State. over ljO permits foT
new systems have been issued so far
and abuses too numerous to mention
have been corrected.
Mr and Mrs John A. Deibert
wish % extend thanks to the friends
and neIehbors who so kindly rendered
assistance during their recent bereave-
meut
Numerically the Farmers union is
larger than any other in the country,
and iJ is growing at the rate of "A thou
sand member. a day In Texas, where
the first was organized, there are 4, 600
local organ zations, with a total mem
bsrship OF 2p0. coo
Many a mans neighbors have just
about the same opinion OF hlm as he
has 81 them
Judging from the large number of
county fairs that are coming 1t is "A
blessing that the peanuts are so plenty.
The Gould railroad lines, with head
quarters al Pittsburg, have lung out
a sign Wanted, 600 men for rail
road work The men are needed on
the Western Pacific railroad. which is
being built between Salt Lake City
aud san Francisco by Mr.. Gould
The school population of New York
reaches nearly 600, COO or nearly five
times the total number of people in
the city OF Scranton. 20, 600 pupils
were put ou half-time today. at the
opening of the school term, owing to
lack ut accommodations
Game Warden Frank Rowe and an
assistant, ina attempting To arrest two
foreigners near Sugar Notch on Satur-
day, for killing song birds, were shot
bv one of the foreigners in resisting
arrest and then the game warden drew
revolver and bullet pierced Adam
Rustas. and be fell dead Public opin
ION. under the circumstances, will ap-
prove the action Of Warden Rowe
The reason why borrowed books are
seldom returned L. that il is easier To
retain the books than what is inside
of them
The commissioners of Columbia
county have issued explicit directions
to the asses~ors in the coal district of
the county 10 place an assessment ON
all coal property at its true and actual
cash value. Ii D. asserted that coal
lands iu the past have been assessed at
not more than one fourth the amount
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