Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-08-10
Brief News Items.
Compiled for fIasty Read
ers of the IntelligenCer,
the Acknowledged Off
Cial Organ of Little rIon-
tour County.
Short sermons are popular.
Make war Oh the mosquitoes.

Best County Paper, S1.00 year.
Good sidewalks greatly add to a
city's thriH " appearance.
Pottstown's Young Mems Christian
association has increased so rapidly OF
late that it has been compelled t) add
five rooms to its old quarters.
With regard to the charitable dis
tribution of the millions left by her
husband, Mrs. Russell Sage probably
by this time has been offered the vol
untary services of as many advisors as
she has dollars to give out.
Gambling at Saratoga has come to
the end. Hereafter there will not be
anything to induce anybody to go
there.
The general impression that the p
r. r. is cutting fares to get ahead of
the Legislature doesn't prove that the
Legislature is going to be composed ex
clusively of patriots
Hunters should prepare to see that
the quail still remaining in this sec
tion are not slaughtered by pot hunt
ers this fall
The p. r. r. having thrown off one
half, figuratively speaking, the public,
not to be outdone in generosity, pro-
poses to throw off the other half
When people read that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company expects to
earn about $276, 900, 600 this year. it
would seem that the rate reduction
was due.
Trespass notices for sale at this
office. Two for &c, or 25c a dozen.
Hot as the weather is the preachers
undoubtedly say some good things
none of us can afford to miss.
The law of the State should
compel the advertising of public mat
ters in the newspaper having the lar
gest bonafide circulation in the com
munity affected.
Among this years crop of medical
graduates in Pennsylvania are II
women, each of whom is grimly re-
solved on practicing surgery and yet
will cry quietly if she gets her finger
cut.
The habit of sobriety is one against
which no employer of labor was ever
known to file an objection. Even the
distillers and brewers and the retail
dealers i'll liquors prefer employees who
never drink.
Bloomsbury is making another effort
to secuie Il market house. Subscription
papers have been left at the various
banks of the town and after the gener-
al public has subscribed as much as it
may desire, the balance of the stock
will be provided for.
Pennsylvania leads the world in
mining. And it is not far behind in
agricultural outturn per square mile.
The States pure food agents have
been in this section all of this week
getting samples of candy that is being
manufactured and sold They have
been particularly active in the mat
ter of mint and cheap candies of that
grade. 1t is also reported that in GER
tain places a pure food agent made
purchases on the curbstone market.
Alvina, Union county. is without a
postmaster. The former postmaster
rasiuna1 nd t,l- hn saG
The r. f. d. has taken most of the
business and there is nothing in the
job.
Even in those months usually account
ed the dullest of the business season,
the judicious advertiser reaps much
richer harvest than his conservative
neighbor who thinks it advisable to
retrench in dull times.
"What is over can't be begun - and
while you may have missed many a
good bargain sale in the stores through
overlooking the ads. there are others
advertised today which are not cover
WANTED:-by Chicago wholesale and
'lttl
or woman) for this county and adjoining
territory. Salary $50 and expenses paid
weekly; expense money advanced. Work
pleasant; position permanent. No in
Vestment or experience required, Spare
time valuable. Write at once for full
particulars and enclose sef-addressed en-
Velope. Address, GENERAL MANAGER,
134 T.. Lake st. Chicago. 9-21
That school of the soldier at Mt.
Gretna is proving of value, and it is
to be regretted that the Pennsylvania
troops are not there.
Politics can afford to give the hot
weather the right of way.
The Chambersburg Ice Company Is
now turning out twenty three tons of
ice daily, all of which is consumed
i'll that town.
The Bloomsbury public schools will
open August 81
A safe guess on the weather: Show
ers tonight and the mex day.
The bridge across the Susquehanna
from Snyder county to Sunbury is now
certainty, work on the piers having
begun.
The earlier one pays his taxes the
better he will feel and the less labor
will devolve on delinquent collectors.
Over 800, 600 pretzels are baked in
Reading every week and the market
for them extends to Japan, India and
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