Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-20
Brief News Items.
Compiled for TASTY Read
ers of the Intelligencer,
the Acknowledged Off
cial Organ of Little rlon-
tour County.

Shad flies are in evidence a sure
sign of spring.
The waters of the Susquehanna are
slowly falling.
Bicycles made their appearance on
the streets this week.
Will Danville be favored with base
ball teams the coming season?
The individual without first class
cold this week is entirely out of
date.
Don't forget the printer in making
your April settlements. He needs
the money.
Fishermen tell lis of the prospects
for catching bass in the Susquehanna
the coming season.
There is not particle of snow to
be seen on the mountains and in the
valleys of this neighborhood at this
time.
This game of building the biggest
warship, which the nations are play
ing, is a pretty expensive amuse-
ment.
Tacoma, Wash, is to have a So,
600, 900 steel plant. They can do
these things out West now without
bothering the East for the money.
1t is both tough and rough that in
the midst of plenty there should be
famine prices put on coal. When is
the government going to bust the trust
again.
Cleanliness is not only next to god
illness, but it is necessary to public
health. 1t is time for citizens to clean
up the winter accumulation of rub
bish about their premises, if any
exists.
The American Car Company at
Berwick during the month of March
turned out 1926 cars, giving employ
ment to 1900 workmen. The total
length of these cars if put in one train
would be seven miles.
''Na, na," said the canny Scot to
his Irish friend, "y've been threatin'
all night. I'll ma let ye pay for this
one. Well toss up to see who stands
for it," Wonder if that Scotchman
didn't draw up the Coal Trusts offer
of arbitration p
One way to insure is to get home,
get wife, get family. Don't worry
if you do die. If you leave your
widow in comfortable nest she'll
easily get successor to you. And,
being wiser, she'll pick better one
second time-can't fool a widow.
Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached: "Our ingress into life is
naked and bare, our progress through
life is trouble and care, our egress out
of it we know not where, but, doing
we'll here we shall do well there. l
could not tell more by preaching a
yea"
If the Daughters of the Revolution
wish to purchase the site of Fort,
that was the scene of a fight and a
massacre, let them become possessed
of old Fort Freeland, mile from
Watsontown. 1t can be purchased
for few hundred dollars and it was a
real fort-not a trading post. Besides
there is no flaw in the title. Mil
tOnian.
The people of this city will be sur
prised to know there are % places
in the United Stated called Danville,
located in the following states Ar
kansas, Alabama, California, Geor-
gia, Illionis, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, North Caro-
lima, Ohio, Pennsylvanias Tennesse,
Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wash
ington and West Virginia.
An exchange says: "The kickers
on farm are not so hard to get along
with as the kickers in town. On the
farm there are kicking cows and the
long cared friend the mule, but in
town there is the knocker who wants
all the privileges of municipal life
without paying anything in return
and blocks as far as he can, every
public improvement. The COW can be
butchered and the mule traded on a
shot gun, but town knocker is a
grumbling, growing hoodo.
Paste this over your desk If you
haven't desk on your looking glass !
If you haven't looking-glass, over
your bed If you haven't bed,
wear it next to your heart Be sure
to keep it by you so that you may re-
member, dollar is your best friend !!
Never answer advertisements that
promise to pay you thirty dollars a
week for sitting home, doing nothing
Save your stamps and your common
sense The postoffice hasn't cornered
all the frauds yet ! Never run from
a policeman or dog 1! They'll think
you are guilty whether you are or
not! Then you are sure to get a
clubbing, or biting, no matter how
little Won NAV deserve IL Thera are