Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-10-12
NEWSY BRIEFS FOR
HASTY Reading

Time to gather in the chestnut crop.
The obligations we defer until to-
morrow are usually postponed indefn-
itely.
Old Boreas has been sending out a
few of his advance couriers already.
Sweet as the taste of fiattery may
be, its after fruits are not wholesome.
The company of genuine friend
gives the dullest day golden tinge.
There's a significant difference be-
tween a smile and a grin.
The president of the United States
is setting pace that no ordinary..man
will be able to follow.
Pennsylvania has seen the last of the
district congressional and senatorial
conferences.
The mystery of who was milking
William Clark's COWS at Birdsboro,
Berks county, was solved when two
young pigs were detected in tile act.
The labor unions OF the new State
of Oklahoma, which are quite strong,
especially in the eastern part. Will en-
deavor to have share in the making
of State constitution, and believe that
they are powerful enough to make
their demands felt.
At meeting of the Adams county
conference of the Lutheran church at
Littlestown. the Rev. Amos Sell, a
missionary located in the mountains
near Bendersville, declared that saw
agery in its worst form exists among
the mountaineers located near his mis-
sion.
The shin carpenters at Roach's ship
yard, Chester, are out on strike Tor
an increase of wages and rumor says
the entire plant will SOON be tied up
unless an agreement is reached.
Having sped the Pennsylvania Rail
road company for $25, 900 damages,
Samuel Wellman has been given a
judgement of 81, 750 at Cory. He was
injured while passenger on train.
There are some who say that the
State road after the recent rain did
not afford particularly good travelling.
Michael G. Hope, of West Cornwall
township, Lebanon county, has caused
the arrest of the entire school board
his district on charges of malefeasance
in office in awarding contract TO a
member of the board.
A sour temper and vengeful spirit
shorten mans life.
The damage done by the tornado in
New Orleans Friday will amount to
$3.50, 600. but it will be n total loss as
there were no tornado policies. Prob
ably 200 houses were wrecked or dam
aged and twentv-one people were in-
jured but no one was killed.
The women of Allentown have made
things so interesting for the milk
dealers there, where the price of milk
and cream was recently increased, that
the dealers have gone back to the old
prices.
Richard Ellison. inspector of meats
and milk, of Allegheny, has been
threatened with death or bodily harm
unless he relinquishes his crusade
against the butchers whom he is pro-
scouting for selling bad meat.
After paying the expenses OF Old
Home Week at Pottsville the Local
committee had $500 on hand which
was divided among several local char
tiles.
At conference of Berks county
teachers at Reading State Zoologis
II. A. Surface sopke on Pennsylvania
Snakes" and exhibited twenty -foul
specimens.
@. N. Thurston, Trevorton bust
ness man, was seriously shot by an un
known Young man with rifle, at Sha
mokin, the marksman subsequently ap
preaching his victim and informing
him the shooting was accidental.
The hand of rational authority i
needful for the child's highest good.
The energetic police of West Ches
ter have reduced the dog population
there by almost 100 because mad do
ran amuck through the town recently
The great increase of freight traffi
on the Lewistown and Sunbury divis
ion of the Pennsylvania railroad Ina
necessitated adding five more trains t
facilitate the movements. A new sche
dlle went into effect Tuesday, the onl
change being the additional trains.
A suit brought by the Reading CON
pany against Lawrence & Brown hs
been pending in the Schuylkill count
court for thirty years and the end
not yet in sight.
The president of the Business Men
association of Kittanning declare thu
the merchants of that town sustai
heavy loss every year on account {
the bad roads leading into the bo
ough.
The law continues to take hold
Pittsburg grafters On Monday Polic
man Stephen Carr was found guilty
having taken money from the owne
Of a gambling house to keep it out
the hands of the law.
No citizen of free country apprec
ates the privileges or lives up to h
duties unless he regards the ballot
q sacred privilege.
Some Of them live in the "Lumb
City," too it appears judging fro
the following remarks of the william
port News: "Some parents in this ci
are laying up harvest of regI
which they will reap in the futu
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