Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-03
CONDENSED NEWS.

Make the most OF 1907.
Broken the resolution yet?
Let Little Sunshine In. ="
Have you turned over new leaf:
Candidates for municipal offices are
rather scarce.
II ere's not much excuse for the loaf
er in Dsnville just now.
People are already talking OF the
mummers' parade for 1908
Won't be much of an ice crop If this
kind of weather keeps up.
Don't growl at the weather; remem-
ber the fine DAYS OF last fall.
Coasting is a lively sport for the
boys and the girls, too. but it Is at
tended with innumerable dangers.
Now that the days are lengthening
there promises TO be veriflcation of
the old proven about the cold strength
ening.
The right kind of men need not be
afraid to announce their candidacy for
council and school board.
Bring your will power to bear and
make resolutions which will be benefi-
cial to you in the new year.
We can't regulate the weather, or
we should have il fair and cold. The
return Of grip conditions is not pleas
ant
From all parts of the State come re-
ports of unprecedented holiday bust
ness. Pennsylvanians know how TO
spend money as well as to make it.
All Of us will be year older today,
but only Scrooge would ask how
many of us are dollar richer.
The magnificent new St. Patrick's
cathedral at Harrisburg. will be ded
icated before the beginning of Lent.
February IS, if possible, the date de-
pending upon the completion of the
organ The exact time cannot be fix
ed for some time yet. The dedication
will be the most important and i'm
pressive church ceremony ever held in
Harrisburg.
No one disputes the project that the
year 1907 will be the most prosperous
ever known in this country.
It is to be hoped that 1907 will wit
ness decrease in the slaughter that
marked 1906 The casualties OF the
year have been greater than in war.
Lumbermen throughout all the State
are among the happiest of all of US. as
there is sufficient snow in the timber
districts to operate with more than
ora mary alacrity.
A six inch fall of snow has startled
England Ii is evident that the people
over there never saw western biz
zard.
There is not so much need OF addi-
tional legislation as an enforcement of
the laws already on the books.
The shortest " i'll ever placed on rec
ord in the registers office in Lehigh
county was that of Mrs. Leonara
Green, probated on Thursday. 1t was
dated March 22, 1904, and read as fol-
lows: Everything l shall have left
after my death / want my daughter,
Laura r. Peters to have -
Stephen Krulla, miner OF Free
land, Luzerne county, while testing
revolver with which he said he in
tended TO shoot a paramour of his
wife, accidently discharged the weap-
on. The bullet entered his thigh and
1t was thought amputation would be
necessary.
Joseph d. Sankey. of Mahoning
township. Lawrence county, has heen
taken to the Warren insane asylum.
his mind having become seriously af-
fected by the use of hair preparati on
which contained sugar of lead
George Younger, aged Is years. has
been arrested at Allentown for steal
ing a mail pouch from q truck at the
railroad station, the day before Christ
mas. He confessed his guilt and said
he expected to make haul of Christ
mas presents
An English engineer who is at pre-.
sent visiting New York. declares that
Tonor To r,toh mr. 1rar
out war ships and munitions of war
with prodigious activity and keeping
the government plants busy day and
night. He may know what he is talk
ing about.
Dr. Madison c. Peters, sensation
al preacher in New York city, who Is
constantly striving after the speotac-
lar. has abandoned his pulpit and leas.
ed theatre for Sunday services, de-
nouncing the pulpit as coward {
castle" and declaring that hencefortt
he will be pastor to all who neeo
him.
A sharper victimized most of the
grocers in Butler the past week by
buying cold sotrage eggs from whole
salers at 25 cents per dozen and ther
selling them to retailers for 80 cents
ss strictly fresh eggs.
Conrad Funkhauser, of New Castle,
had been engaged to be married OF
Christmas day and all arrangement!
had been made for the event when h,
was stricken with typhoid fever abou
a week before He died en- Wednesda.
and was buried yesterday, arrayed il