Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1907-01-04
Brief News Items.

County.
Next comes lent.
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.
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 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 verification Of
the old proven about the cold strength
ening.
The right kind of men need not be
afraid to announce their cand idacy 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 it 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 we'll as to make it.
All of us will be year older today,
but only a 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 13, 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.
1t is to be hoped that 1907 will wit
ness a decrease in the slaughter that
marked 1906. The casualties of the
year have been greater than in war.
Trespass notices for sale at this
office. Two for sc, or 25c a dozen.
The Xmas entertainment was again
in evidence in many Of the churches
of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. r. Wald, of
Dalmatia, spent sometime during the
holiday season, visiting in this city,
guests of their daughter, (Mrs. Lutz)
and family.
Miss Alice Billmeyer, charming
young school marm ofShepherdstown,
Md, spent the holiday season with
Rev. and Mrs. Guy, this city.
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
ordinary alacrity.
A six inch fall of snow has startled
England. 1t is evident that the people
thara
zard.
Harvey Lichard and family, of
near Exchange, and Gordon Dieffen-
bacher, Of kelly's Point, were recent
visitors of Prof. and Mrs. D. n.
Dieffenbach er.
There is not so much need of addi-
tional legislation as an enforcement of
the laws already ON the books.
WANTED-Lady to advertise our
goods locally. Several weeks home work.
Salary $1,000 per week, 81 90 a dav for
expenses. SAUNDERS CO., Dent w.
46-4S jackson Boulevard. Chicago, Ill.
1-25 07
IA 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 then
selling them to retailers for 30 cents
as strictly fresh eggs.
The shortest will 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 p, 1904 and read as fol-
lows: F." Everything | shall have left
after my death l want my daughter,
Laura r. Peters to have"
Stephen Krulla, a miner of Free
land, IIuzerne county, while testing
revolver with which he said he ill.,
tended to shoot 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 been
taken to the Warren insane asylum,
his mind having become seriously af-
feoted by the use of a hair preparation
which contained sugar of lead.
George Younger, aged Is years. has
been arrested at Allentown for steal
ing a mail pouch from 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.