Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-05-31
CONDENSED NEWS.
.ast week Of bowling season.


II you re wise you'll advertise. -
The rains have done good at the OPP
FORTUNE moment.
che pretty laurel will soon crown
the Rerry hillsides.
Hav you observed that the crooked
man is>seldom smart enough to escape
the law long arm:
Under the post office appropriation
bill which Senator Penrose reported
TO the Senate this week, rural free de-
livery carriers are 6.ve fifteen days
leave of absence each year, exclusive
of Sundays and holidays, and $500, 600
is appropriated to pay substitutes.
After season of drouth and cessa-
tion of servere storms, the winds and
clouds and electric forces have again
combined, and reports come of cy-
clones, and terrible atmospheric con-
tentions In Texas and Nebraska a
number of lives have been lost, build
and crops ruined by hail, wind and
tightening
When swallows fly low, wet weather
may be expected, because the insects
which the swallows pursue in their
flight are flying low to escape the
moisture of the upper regions of the
atmosphere.
You can always judge the worth of
a citizen by the appearance of his
home and his wife rules there, which
goes to prove the theory that the wo-
man makes or breaks the man. GaS
Honesdale is said to be one of the
prettiest and cleanest towns in the
State Sad considerable of the credit
for this condition is ascribed to the
Women's Improvement Society, which
in the last year did its work at an eX-
pense less than $500. The society has
in its treasury $500.
The authorities of Northumberland
county have discovered that one Au
gust Reitz, now in Jail at Pottsville
on the charge of'eloping with another
mans wife is the same chap who is
wanted in their county for burglary,
having escaped from one of their off
GERS two years ago.
Four of the lady teachers of the
Sunbury schools will not be applicants
for reelection owing to the very good
reason that they will be brides before
the time set for the school bell to
ring for the opening of the next term.
The friends of Stanley Morris, an
amateur gardener of Darby, are pok-
ing fun at him because some tomato
seeds which he planted recently and
tended with assidious care have devel-
oped into sturdy maple trees
There is reason to believe that elec-
trio transportation is simply in its in
fancy. Perhaps if we could revisit this
locality a century hence we would be
quite as much surprised as our great
grandfathers would be if they could
return and look about them
There is probability that the 50
greenbacks will soon be reinforced by
goldbacks of the same denomination.
When these are supplemented by clean
backs for all paper currency there will
be cause for general congratulation.
A telegram from Nahanov CITY de-
o,ara. .La+ NJ o,d Nrrs Co,,roI
o"arthah' VINO i've near IilaO poI-
ough are the parents OF twenty-seven
children of whom twentv-fve are
living Twenty of the numher are
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To all members of the Y. NJ. @. a:
The baths are u.yv IN nronar coudi-
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The month OF June brides will soon
ba bara and tla cron uromises IN no
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The Berks county court has granted
fortv.nina 4 ivorces since Tauuorv
Accordir,, m a buIIatin inst issuod
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by the interstate commerce colllihIS'
sion, / .l09 people were killed on the
railroads i'm this country during the
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passengers ana persons employed IN
baggage. express aud mail cars.
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