Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-11-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

Serious results often follow wet feet.
Teachers are preparing for county
institute.
\ uniform divorce law would be a
uniform blessing.
ldleness is frequently the mother of
crime.
Credit is q great convenience but 1t
j. also a great danger.
\ 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
j. now on in full swing.
japanese children begin to 90 to
Sc oil when six years old. During the
fast four years they learn japanese
AMI 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
ii.e Jamestown exposition next year.
culumemorating the first settlement of
the English in America.
During trip along the Schuylkill
river below Linfeld, Winfield S. Sands
Of Pottstown, who has collection of
90, coo Indian relics, found an arrow
head Of yellow stone four inches IN
length, which is the most perfect speci
men he has ever seen.
The goose bone weather prophet,
FL las Hartz, of Berks county, has had
another attack of illness aud his
health is declining.
Clinton Gates, a public spirited citi
z"u has agreed to macadamize four
squares of street INVEST Conshohocken
at his own expense. costing fully 81,
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Congressman-elect William b. Will
son. of Blossburg. was ably assisted
in his recent campaign by his daugh-
ter, Grace, who has been her father S
secretary for five years. and who is
now only 20 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
lpck Of General Washington's hair.
The relic was given to Mrs. Pechin in
1872 by James A Hamilton, sou Of
Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton NJ. Davis, of Franklin. 81
years old, a veteran oil operator, is
dead Because he got his start i'll the
ore mines he asked short time before
he died that pick and shovel be cary
ed on his tombstone
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 dld yesterday.
The vestry of st. Johns Episcopal
church, York, will establish free
library with the 5000 volumes be-
queathed to it by the Rev Charles
James Wood.
So much illegal fishing has been done
lately between Sunbury and Harris
burg that the State game warden de-
partment has placed an extra force Of
wardens along the Susquehanna river.
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.
The Echo says that fate has decreed a
war and that the geographical posi-
tiOns of the two countries and their
commercial rivalry can only result in
a clash Of arms.
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,
in good repair aud constant use. a
tenant house near the barn, construct
ed of stone and logs, was probably
built about the same time.
The lover of good books need not be
lonely