Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-09-14
September's hot wave is here.

The man who has offended you is
the last to forgive you.
OF course you paid your taxes and
got that five per cent off.
1t is hard job to find anything in
some of the newspapers nowadays be-
sides the political news.
Reports from all over the State of
crowded schools don't look like race
suicide in Pennsylvania.
The man who borrows is a big nuis
ance as is the housewife who plies the
same trade.
Many mans neighbors have just
about the same opinion of him as he
has of them.
1t is nearly the time to perfume the
autumn air with the moth balls done
up in overcoats and like wearables.
w. F. Dildine, one of the energetic
young business men of Exchange,
Translated business with us on We'd
nesday.
Absolutely cured of leprosy, Mary
Barros has been discharged from the
state leper colony on the island of
Penikese.
The reason why borrowed books are
seldom returned is that it is easier to
retain the books than what is inside
of them.
There is somewhat of grim joke in
the arrest of deputy fish warden up
in the northern part of the State on
the charge of illegal fishing.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Deibert
wish to extend thanks to the friends
and neighbors who so kindly rendered
assistance during their recent bereave-
ment.
"Green are the fields affair."" is a
saying as old as Moses, but many a
time when the far field has been
reached the emigrant finds that he is
the only green thing abroad.
The local markets have for some
time been bare of oranges, but the
news has come that the first carload
of the season from Florida was ship
ped this week.
An Ohio farmer claims to have a
hen that lays eggs with the date on
them. That might be a good sort of
hen for farmer, but if city people
knew when the eggs they eat were
laid they would quit eating eggs.
Harry b. Wolf. who has announced
himself as a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress from
the Third Maryland District, began
life as newsboy. He is only &c years
old, and has practiced law for five
years.
MAN WANTED somewhere near
Danyille, to assist us in showing and
selling properties. No experience neces-
cary, if willing to let us teach YOU the
real estate business. Salary $4,000 a
month, to honest man, willing to devote
part of his time to this business. Co.
Operative Land Co., Andrus Bldg, Min
neapois, MINI.
Colonel Edwin Z. Cowell, of Dor
chester, Mass. recently elected presi-
dent of the United States Veteran
Signal Corps Association is great
grandson of Deborah Sampson, the
only woman regularly enlisted as a
soldier in the War of the Revolution.
Numerically the Farmers union is
larger than any other in the country,
and it is growing at the rate of thou
sand members day. lin Texas, where
the first was organized, there are 1000
local organizations, with total mem
bership of 200,0 600.
The school population of New York
reaches nearly 600, 900, or nearly five
times the total number of people in
the city of Scranton. rs, pupils
were put on half-time today, at the
opening of the school term, owing to
lack of accommodations.
The Gould railroad lines, with head
quarters at Pittsburg, have hung out
a sign: Wanted-5, 600 men for rail
road work - The men are needed on
the Western Pacific railroad. which is
being built between Salt Lake City
and San Francisco by Mr.. Gould.
The commissioners of Columbia
county have issued explicit directions
to the assessors in the coal district of
the county to place an assessment on
all coal property at its true and actual
cash value. 1t is asserted that coal
lands in the past have been assessed al
not more than one-fourth the amount
of farm land.