Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-09-16
. SHULTX, M.
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WANTED-LOcal agent to advertise
and introduce the new educational
work. WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY
and ATLAS of the WORLD. Must be
educated and able to furnish good re-
ferences as to ability and character.
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING
COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO.
The wages of the hard coal miners
for the month of September will be
three per cent, above the basis.
Ten -year-old Miles Kistler, of Long
acre, is dead from lockjaw contracted
by being injured by a fertilizer mach
inc.
Five councilmen and one contractor
of Swoyersville, near Wilkes Barre,
were arrested for alleged grating in
the letting of contracts.
In Pittsburg in the near future fish
commissioners of three States will con-
fer in an endeavor to stop the con-
tamination of streams with fish i'll
them.
John Pola, of Shamokin, endeavored
to commit suicide by eating sulphur
matches, because his wife lectured him
about intemperance. He did not have
any money to buy revolver and as
the result of attempting to end his
troubles in the way he did endured
much agony until a doctor relieved
him.
Segert Bache, of Mount Vernon,
Delaware county went to his chicken
house in the early morning and sur
prised fox. A fierce fight followed.
For ten minutes the man and beast bat
tied and then other persons arrived and
Reynard escaped. Bache's hand was
so badly chewed that it will have to
be amputated.
j. f. Ambrose, an oleo dealer of Nc
Keesport, has been fined $3.50 in addi-
tion to a sentence to serve ten days in
jail for selling colored oleomargerine.
A few such sentences it is thought
will put an end TO the alleged com
bine of the oleomargerine dealers in
Allegheny county. These fellows are
alleged to be united so that if one is
fined an assessment will be made ON
all and the unfortunate one will not
be out so much money.
A forest fire broke out near Wilkes
Barre and as the danger was very great
and the men We're miles away fighting
another dangerous fire twnety or more
women turned out and fought the con-
flagration. They back fired and used
all other tactics very skillfully, and by
hard work managed to keep the fire
confined to one section of the woods
and prevent it from doing very much
damage. They will be paid the same
amount of money for their work as the
men would have been.
Six sophomores of Franklin and
Marshall college at Lancaster were ar
rested for mailing commands to poles
for the freshmen to obey. When they
came up for trial before the mayor of
the city he quizzed them about the
Bible and found them painfully ignor-
ant. Instead of fining them $50, the
amount designated for their offense,
he ordered them to learn the Beatit-
ndes and the Ten Commandments and
TO report to him for recitation They
must also remove the 200 signs they
tackled up.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
company started operations at the big
gest breaker in the anthracite coal
fields at Coaldale 1t takes only forty
men to run the breaker and i'll conse-
quence of its starting two small col
lieries have suspended operations
throwing 100 men out of work.
c. V. Miller, a Pennsylvania rail
road passenger brakeman running on
southbound train from Buffalo to Oil
City, was arrested and lodged in the
Titusville jail charged with stealing
$500 from under pillow on Pullman
train. He is said to admit the theft.
saying that he was hard up owing to
the recent illness and death of his
mother.
Hazleton may be entered by the
Philadelphia and Reading railway.
The board of trade of the town has
been working ON the matter for some
time and the railroad officials now in
tend to use the Lehigh Valley tracks
so that the only expense will be the
building OF switches. Agreement will
have to be reached between the two
roads to bring about the improvement.
High school sophomores started to
haze freshmen in Shamokin and their
leader was promptly placed under ar
rest. This practice was stopped few
years ago and the burgess, bound that
1T shall not be revived, has given ord
ers to the police to arrest those indulg-
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