Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-02-14
CONDENSED NEWS.
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The world will eagerly listen to the
bearer of real message.
Every good citizen ought to interest
himself in local politics.
For short month February is full
of important dates.
Publicity is the best cure for certain
social evils.
Street corner gossip is attended by
so much discomfort these days that 1t
is sparingly INDUCED in.
At license court in Schuylkill coun-
ty only twenty-one of the 400 applica-
tions were granted. Reductions of sa-
looms is due to wholesale violations of
Sunday law.
An eight town base ball organization
is now proposed, which will include
Shamokin, Pottsville, Hazleton, Allen
town, Mt. Carmel, Sunbury, Milton
and Bloomsbury.
The simplified spelling project seems
to have accompanied the wise ground
hog into his hole.
There seems to be no special reason
why Danville should not also have
State armory.
Councilman ChalIis Evans. of Sha-
mokin. found pear shaped pearl In
an oyster that would have been worth
1900 but il was damaged by having
been boiled.
There are moments when silence is
the highest wisdom.
Bills before the legislature to pro-
mote private ends should receive scant
consideration.
1t is the belief of many that Cover
nor Stuart in spite of his gentle ways
is capable of cultivating the veto hab-
it.
should not be neglected, but it should
not be permitted TO dominate the
whole life.
The absence of the free pass should
make no difference in the attitude OF
statesman, and yet it does.
Fear is frequently the active ally of
virtue
Ninety-four relatives came in tor a
share of the So, 696 estate left by the
late Isaac Krick. of Sinking Springs,
Berks county, which was adjudicated
by Judge Bland in Orphans court.
Curiosity is pretty nearly univers.
al possession, but there are times when
it should be severely regulated.
The morally unfit are usually the
first to vanish from the world.
East Bangor, Northampton county,
claims to I've the healthiest town in the
State Not case of contagious disease
occurred in the town last year.
A local firm in Pottstown has been
convicted and fined 800 for selling
adulterated chicken feed. The feed
was purchased from New York firm
and the local firm says it was repre-
sented to be absolutely pure.
A revision of the property asses.
ments in LuZerne county has raised
the valuation over $40. 600, 900, mainly
arising from an increase in the valua-
tion OF coal lands.
The police of West'Chester are look
ing for slick forger who passed some
forged checks upon several citizens.
Temperance i'll eating and drinking
is essential to long life.
1t is hinted that gloves date back to
the earliest ages. No doubt of this, ac-
cording to the looks of some you notice
worn on the streets.
The man who wants work and can
not find It is one of the curiosities of
the age. Indeed, il is lucky job that
can find man.
Toxic is to have an international ex-
hibition next year, from March 80 to
September 30. This is in addition to
the large exposition fixed for 1910.
Oil painting was an art thoroughly
understood by the ancients, but was
ost sight of, and only revived about
the end of the thirteenth century, A.
d.
The reign of the snow king thi
winter has been all that any one could
desire and the sleighing party is max
ing the most Of it.
There really is going to be an elec
tion next week. One would not think
so. to judge from the lack of interest
manifested.
Over 2, 900 nickle-in-th slot gamb
ing machines have been driven out OF
SchuyIkill county by the crusade ot
the Law and Order society.
Lincoln was in his early days /;
temperance lecturer and all his life {
total abstainer from intoxicants. HI
never tasted liquor.
A Berlin scientist claims to have
found way whereby head can b
made to grow again on human bod,
after decspitation. If he comes to thi
country he will fill long-felt wan
after every change of administration.
The man who pays attention to an
nous letters is almost as unworth
as those who write them.