Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-08-06
ITEMS CONDENSED.

NJ. FL. Rhoads, of New Berlinvllle'
Berks county, has raised cucumber
tlirtv.six aud one half inches long,
the longest ever raised in the county
Japan is making an attempt at loco
motive construction As an experiment.
five engines are being built at the
Hyogo Railway works. one Is COM
pleted and in use giving satisfaction
Burma is making money out of pea
nut growing. The peanut acreage in
creased from 3, 500 acres in 1903 to So
900 acres in 1907.
At the bethlehem Steel works last
week the semi monthly payroll was
sl75, 900, the largest since last fall.
A cement mill is being erected at
Molltown, Berks county, that has
capacity Of 1900 barrels of cement
day.
Kutztown, Berks county, has build
ing boom, as upwards of twenty-five
new residences will be erected this
fall.
William Berkey, OF Caernarvon
township, Lancaster county, has thresh-
ed four acres of oats which yielded 224
bushels, an average of fifty.six bushels
per acre.
The school board of Pine Grove,
Schuylkill county, is hopelessly dead
ba a1oarinn Nf tpAphRrS.
and steps have been taken TO oust the
board and have the court appoint a
new board.
There are seventy.eight prisoners at
present in the Chester county jail and
only three of them are women.
Reading planning mills are.now work
ing overtime as there are many orders
for wood workfequipments for houses
and a general building},boom is an
ticipated
A calithumpian band appeared at
the home of Samuel Wall. South Leb-
anon township, Lebanon county, on
Saturday night, to serenade his daugh-
ter and her husband who had just been
married. Wall directed them to leave
and when they failed to heed he shot
into the crowd and struck Florence
Shelly, aged years. on the knee as
she was standing outside the crowd.
Eight citizens of Washington, head
ed bv Professor ". II Temple, OF
Washington and jefferson college, who
are interested in local history will in
few days go TO Cumberland, Nd,
and then return on foot over the old
Braddack road TO the Monongahela
river for recreation and to gather
points of history relative to General
Braddock's S disastrous march made "a
century and half ago.
While Edna Shappell, of Pottsville,
aged II years, was running to tell her
father, on Saturday, that her little
brother had fallen and broken.his arm.
she was run down by an express team.
The horse trampled her and the wheels
passed over her body, inficting injur-
les. Her condition is critical.
Moth millers and other insects
swarmed into the dancing pavilion at
Lenape Park, near West Chester, on
Friday night in such immense num-
bers that they interfered with the
dancing program of the Brandywine
grange, Patrons of Husbandry. But
at some ones suggestion the lights
we're put out, when the pests dispers-
ed and the dance went on.
The assessors returns for 1908 in
Lancaster county, show 90, 1913 tax
able residents. The assessed valuation
of the real estate is 296, 265, 3l4, Money
at interest subject to taxation, 322,
39l 500. The cleared land sums up
$40. 100 acres and the timber land 5S,-
7O7 acres. There are 28, 240 horses ana
mules valued at 81, ,661, $50 aud so, 2SS
head of cattle valued at S763, S72.
OF the twenty-three deaths ingesti.
gated by the coroner of Montgomery
county during July, six were caused
by drowning.
A saloon keeper and three miners
Of Minersville, on Saturday night got
into a dispute with Simon Kurzung
over the number of years that man
should work, and their dispute led to
blows in which Kurzung was struck
on the head with base ball bat, a
mine drill and bar hose with brass
nozzle, causing conclusion of the
brain, which will likely cause his
death His assailants were arrested.
On Sunday evening. in schenley
park, PittsDurg, Charles Byerly, while
riding motor cycle. collided with
Joseph B. Brown and Lewis Johnston,
who were seated ON a tandem motor
cycle. Brown sustained fractured
skull and is not expected to recover.
Byerly had leg and an arm broken
and Johnston had an arm broken and
sustained internal injuries.