Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-01-31
CONDENSED NEWS.
Get in the ice crop.
The coal man is busy.
Investigate the candidates.

Again the yell, "Shut that door !"
The river is still too high to close
The cold snap is helping to deplete
the stock of the merchants.
This is the kind OF weather that
makes good ice.
While Frank Meyer was making ex-
cavations for row OF new houses in
Reading few days ago, he unearthed
a nest Of forty-two snakes, measuring
from nine inches to two feet in length.
The records and tabulations for 1906
made at the national capital show that
the grand total expended in building
during the year throughout the coun-
try was 1904, $50, 900.
Keep your horses warm by blanket
ing them when you stop and hitch
them in the open.
The local aspirants for Office are get
ting busy. There will be full field to
pick from by election day.
Any grippe in your family now? The
doctors are all kept ON the Jump nova
days
If YOU don't think it is cold these
mornings try walk across the river
bridge.
It's the people who have neglected to
do their duty who complain most
about the results.
If the people do not rule themselves
it is their own fault.
Two hundred female employees in
Hessel. Rains & Cos handkerchief
factory in Lebanon, quit work last
Friday because foreman who had
displeased the o. orators, was not dis
charged.
John Wailich, of Bethlehem, a few
days ago saved from drowning two
young skaters who broke through the
ice, but all three are now threatened
with pnemonia, because of their icy
bath.
The ice harvest on the Pocono
mountains, Monroe county, is on again
and fine clean ice, ten to twelve inches
thick, is being stored. Hundreds of
men and all available teams are at
work
Cruel treatment and being compelled
by her husband TO take in washing to
make living. were the reasons given
by Mrs. Almira McAlarney. of Wilkes
Barre. for asking for y divorce. The
divorce was granted.
: The biggest sleigh ride ever held in
New England took place in Water
bury. Conn, ON Saturday when Ralph
n. Blaikeslee, who conducts a large
freight handling business, took 5000
children for free sleigh ride through
the city
Miss Laura Leighow, of Jerseytown,
who has been suffering with rheum-
atism for some time, is convalescing
The last report of the Pittsburg post
Office shows the greatest per centage
Of profit of any post office in the cuun-
try.
A Mormon church was dedicated in
Philadelphia on Sunday with con
gregation of over 200.
Sleighing continues good, but lit
tie more snow would help it.
Mrs. Krum, of Strawberry Ridge, is
recovering from a protracted it'less
Retribution sometimes pags on the
journey but she generally overtakes
her victim.
About thirty women were nominat-
ed in Philadelphia at the primaries on
Saturday for school directors in the
different wards.
While Patrick Salmon, aged 35 years,
of Mahanoy City, was descending a
stairway on Sunday night, carrying a
lighted lamp, he fell aud before help
arrived he was burned so badly that
he died at the Miners hopsital.
A bill has been introduced in the
national house of representatives auth.
orizing the president to appoint COM
mission to inquire into the tariff ques-
in all its phases. including the
ability of maximum and miuim
duties.
Because his wife refused to quit
ing boarders Vincent Drocowski
of Chester, armed with a revolver,
drove his wife aud four children and
all the boarders out of the home. They
appealed to the police and Drocowski
was required to give bonds to keep the
peace.
Professor Theodore Schott, of Man.
helm, Germany, German SPECIALIST
on the heart who has been visiting
this country. has seen Ex-Governor
Higgins, of New York, and declares
that his case, while critical, is not
hopeless.
Count Tolstoy, the great Russian
writer, is again reported critically i'll.
Owing to his advanced age his recov-
cry is extremely doubtful.
Adam Ray, son of Seth Schuman, of
Allentown, died on Monday morning
Of brain fever, aged months, and two
hours later the child's mother, aged
""rs, died of Ides}ft's disease.