Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-03-18
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term on Monday, March Goth, 1909.
The laboratories. library and gymn.
asium, the new halls of the literary
societies and the Model School are
pleasing to all earnest students.
For further information address:
D. j. WALLER, Jr., Principal.
The chief of police in Harrisburg
has placed ban on the Maxim gun
silenoer so far as that city is concern
ed
The borough lookup at Coatesville
must BIZ lively place. One of the
policemen the other night caught forty
rats in the building.
After many people have died and
still more have been i'll from typhoid
fever. the waters of Cedar and Haas
creeks in Lehigh county, are to be an
alyzed.
A Pottstown octogenarian who has
been following up the "goosebone"
weather predictions declares that April
will be colder month than March
this year.
The snow is so deep on some OF the
country roads in Chester county that
the supervisors have forces of men en-
gagged in shoveling the drifts open so
that travel may be resumed.
Sharon borough has law suit on
its hands. 1t has been sued by T Nc.
Gavin for S., 900 damages. for injuries
sustained when dirt caved in on him
while he was working in ditch.
The Punxsutawney chamber of COM
merce is busily engaged in the en-
deayor to raise $50, 900, an amount
which it is said will be the means of
bringing to that town $3.50, 600 silk
mill plant.
tThe general store of Daniel Weiss at
Easton is apparently mark for the
burglar. The other night it WAS rob-
bed Of goods valued at $3.50, making
the second robbery this winter and the
eighth altogether.
Being without funds, the result, it
is said, of gambling, Edward Setendorf,
tobacco agent, slashed his throat
with a razor in the stables of the Eel
ton hotel, York, aud the chances for
his recovery are slight.
Several weeks ago Thomas McWil-
liams, aged 80 years. slipped and fell
on an icy sidewalk in New Castle and
was taken to the hospital for treat
ment. He died in that institution on
Thursday as a result of the injuries.
While Ira W. Stratton, Of Reading,
was critically ill, the newspapers of
the metropolis of Berks county pub
lished obituary notices of him. He
didn't die, however, and has Just won
the endorsement of the Republican
caucus for president of select council.
Just how far the notices helped in at
tanning this object is not stated, but
they evidently aided some.
Salem Reformed congregation, at
Allentown, is arranging to erect new
church edifice at a cost of $75, 200.
James Riser, of Reading, was fined
$40 on Saturday for having robin in
his possession.
Warden John Bungard, of the Fay
ette county Jail, is ON trial this week
at Uniontown. charged with furnish.
ing liquor to prisoners and on Sunday.
The congregation of Trinity Luther
an church, SunbuIy, burned the last
mortgage which stood recorded against
their beautiful house of worship last
Sunday night
The school board of Meadville has
also gone into the business OF making
school codes and submits its effort to
Legislators and Others with a great
deal of confidence.
Pennsylvanians are invited by the
Civic association to take renewed in
terest in the vital question of forest
preservation. Several important mea.
sures are before the legislature.
The directors of the poor of North
ampton county received last year SEA,
1877. IS and expended S22. 4S9 0s. They
paid for outdoor relief SO, GGl. 60. The
population in 1900 was 90, ,6S7.
Judge Brumm. of Schuylkill county,
recently directed that two young con
victs who had been detected in the
act of breaking jail should be sent to
the eastern penitentiary to serve the
rest of the term. But the mothers Of
the convicts got after the Judge and
he agreed that they should remain in
the county prison.
Yielding in the march Of improve
ment in Jenkintcwn, Montgomery
county. an old tree under the shade o.
which it is declared General Washing
ton tied his famous white horse, ha
been cut down and dragged away.