Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-24
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Shiremanstown, Cumberland coun-
Y, which recently had $40, 900 fire
is moving now to secure good water
supply and chemical fire engine.
Daring his leisure moments R.. H.
Johnson, a wheelwright of Reading,
made a table inlaid with 3.2l2 pieces
of wood.
The Odd Fellows reunion at Selins-
grove, on Saturday, was attended by
5000 Odd Fellows and their friends
from Snyder, and adjoining counties.
People of Homestead are happy, as
today the Homestead Steel works will
go on double time. All the sdepart-
ments, except few plate mills, will
be in operation.
Within few rods of the old Drake
oil we'll near Titusville, where oil was
originally discovered in 1859, we'll
drilled few days ago blythe Kehr
estate is now flowing nearly one hun
dred barrels day.
September. 1874, the Susquehanna
river at Duncannon was lower than it
had been since 1903 and stone was
then marked and charted Thursday
this stone showed the water to be ten
inches lower than it was then.
The Schwenkfelder memorial day,
observed annually for ia years since
the first Schwenkfelder, immigrants
arrived in Philadelphia, will be cele-
brated on Thursday at the Krausdale
church, near Pennsburg, Montgomery
county.
A novel feature in connection with
the formal opening of the new bridge
at McKeesport will be public mar
riage of Herman Wanderie and Miss
Elizabeth Grim of McKeesport by
Mayor Coleman, on the new bridge at
clock Thursday afternoon.
D. S. Duprienes, while fleeing from
the Pottsville police force because of
a series of burglaries committed in
that place, of which he was accused,
fell from freight train in the Phila-
delphia g. Reading tunnel. near Tama-
qua, on Saturday and was killed.
Rev. Philip Pfatteicher, a widely
known and prominent Lutheran min
lister for forty-eight years pastor OF
Zion Lutheran church in Easton, died
very suddenly on Friday night, the
seventy-second anniversary of his birth
and thirty fifth anniversary of his
marriage.
A girl who gave her name as Mary
Kelly oame'to the home of Mrs. John
E. Marsden in West Philadelphia last
Thursday and applied for position
as domestic. She was engaged and got
to work at once. On Saturday she
went out ostensibly to mail letter.
Time passed and the girl did not re-
turn and then it was discovered that
she had looted the safe and carried
away about $4,000 worth of jewelry.
G. S. Roberts, of Norristown, serv-
ed strawberries at his dinner on Sun
day, the fruit having been plucked
from his own garden,
The dog catcher of Norristown is
also looking for stray goats which
seem to be an annoyance.
Farmers in the northern part of
Lawrence county are excited over the
striking of oil and natural gas near
Moravia.
Representatives of New York
syndicate are buying up farms in
northern Berks county that have Gem
ent rock deposit.
The price of farm land in Lancaster
county is higher this year than it has
been for fifteen years. Farms Of from
fifty to one hundred acres with good
buildings sell at from Sl75 to 1925 per
acre
Miss Minns Huppert, prominent
grammar school principal of Potts
vile, aged 35 years, who was stricken
with sickness several weeks ago when
she said she would not live longer than
September 20, and true to her predic.
tion she died on Sunday.
John Wort, the veteran teacher of
York county, has just begun his six.
tieth year in the school room at Pros
pect school, near Hanover. Although
he is 76 years old he walks daily five
miles to and from schools with the
buoyancy of young man.
During a celebration at the home OF
John Am brose, of Gilberton, Schuyl-
kill county, on Saturday night at
which there was dancing, the house
toppled over and two adjoining houses
went with it. Several persons were
badly injured and the affair created
much CONSERVATION. The houses were
resting on blocks in the process of be,
ing raised and the dancing had caused
some Of the blocks to drop ont.