Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-16
ITEMS CONDENSED.

The temperance people OF West
Grove, Chester county, have just COM
menced the erection OF a $1,000 hotel
in the town.
Since the beginning of the present
year the commissioners Of Beaver
county have spent over 81, 900 for the
Pasteur treatment of persons bitten by
mad dogs,
William Evans, a miner, fell down a
mine breach in West Schuylkill near
Pottsville, distance of 800 feet, but
dropped on mule that was lying at
the bottom, which broke the fall so
that his injuries were slight.
Indications point to a very busy fall
at the great Bethlehem Steel works
and the clerical force has just been
notified to take their vacations during
July, as none will be granted in Aug.
While Mrs. Joseph Diller, aged 4S
years, wife of we'll known farmer
residing near Hanover, York county,
was waiting in the Office Of DR.. R. n.
Mesenhelder, for consultation with
him, she was stricken with heart dis
ease and died in few minutes.
Henry Leh, prominent merchant of
Allentown. has secured 257 big four
horse loads of hay from seventy.fve
acres.
The yield of milk is falling off great
ly in Southern Chester county on &C.
count of the pastures getting short"
on account Of the drought.
The York Benevolent association has
purchased 500 tons of anthracite coal
for distribution to the poor of York
next winter; s,-
The seventeenth annual assembly OF
the Pennsylvania lChatauqus, at
Mount Gretna, Lebanon county, open
ed last week with an enrolment of
34S stundents, the largest in its his
tory. OF these 244 are teachers.
George Laubach, of Durham, Bucks
county. has hen that is very good
layer, and has selected large grand
father rocking chair in the parlor as
her nest for laying, and will not be
satisfied unless she gets there. Her
whim is granted. -
Mary Chester county farmers have
begun threshing their wheat crop, real !
izing from twenty-five to thirty bush
els per acre, fair average.
1t cost three residents of Parkes
burg, Chester county, $27 for picking
cherries from a tree on alarm where
there was a notice against tresspass-
ers
James H. Fisher, OF Yellow House,
Berks county, has just sold the heav-
lest four weeks-old calf ever raised in
that section, its weight being 1856
pounds.
DR.. W. J. Scanlin, a prominent ply.
sician OF Shenandoah, was returning
from professional trip at O'Clock
Sunday morning, when he discovered
the inside of Covelesky's shoe store in
flames. He quickly awoke the Covele-
sky family, which he found almost
sutfotated, and then sent in a general
alarm.
st. Johns Lutheran Orphans home
at Mars, Butler county, was dedicated
on Sunday in the presence of 800
persons. Most of the services were
held in the grove adjoining the home.
The home was built at cost of $25,.
900. 1t adjoins st. Johns Lutheran
Home for the aged.
Charles Sheler, trucker near West
Chester, has planted.45, 900 cabbage and
1000 900 celery plants.
The silk mill at Baby, Berks coun-
ty, which had been suspended for sew.
eral months, has resumed operations.
On account of the intense heat manv
OF the churches in PHILADELPHIA held
open air services on lawns or open lots
on Sunday evening.
The pay roll in the mills, furnaces
coke plants and coal mines of the
various companies clearing through
Plttsburg banks was the largest on
Saturday of any pay day since last
October.
Two men were killed and eight in.
Jured, one seriously. on Saturday even.
ing, when fat car on which fifteen
ere ard thnir friends were be.
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