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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
PREPARING
TO TRANSFER

The Sunbury Transit company Mon.
which is to provide for the transfer on
the south side and to make it possible
to carry passengers to DeWitt's park.
Iu a week or SO the cars will be run
ming down through Riverside.
Work began Monday morning. Fiji
teen hands were employed under the
supervision of Q. P Hancock and A.
II. Woolley. Excellent progress was
made and by night about two hundred
and fifty feet OF track was we'll under
way, the rails being spiked down aud
n portion of the track ballasted. One
gang OF workmen was employed in
Gearhart township extending the track
westward and another gang on avenue
f in the borough. The work will b.
easily completed this week, should fair
weather continue.
The overhead work will have to be
constructed where the additional track
is being laid, distance of some seven
hundred feet but from the corner Of
avenue f and Third street to the park
the poles are erected and the span
wires are in position. Probably the
most difficult part OF the work that
yet remains will be the laying Of the
wires under the track Of the railroad
at the crossing on avenue f: The wires
will be carried through in a conduit
of metal. which will have to be sunk
about ak feet below the rails and
buried in concrete.
THE company purchased two new
cars in New York last week. AS soon
as these arrive and work on the track
is completed passengers will be carri-
ed through to the park.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
DANVILLE IN
A TENNIS LEAGUE

A movement to form a tennis league
among the towns in eastern Pennsyl-
vania is progressing rapidly, Shamok-
in having been selected as the place
for holding the organization meeting
during the latter part of this or the
fore part of next month. Representa-
tives will be present from Danville,
Pottsville, Girardsville, Ashland.
Bloomsbury, Berwick and Sunbury.
The Shamokin club is planning to con.
duct tournament during the week Of
the league meeting and expects to Sc.
cure number of expert players for a
series of games.
Arrangements are being made to
send large delegation of tennis
enthusiasts from DanviIle to the big
coal town for the event.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
AS VIEWED BY
A HORSEMAN

Should the creo- resinated blocks that
form the paving on the river bridge be
kept clean or should they be permitted
to lie covered with dirt. as an aid TO
travel. is a question that has not as
yet been decided to the satisfaction Of
all people.
From purely aesthetic viewpoint
one should say that accumulations Of
all sorts ought to be removed from the
bridge and the paving kept scrupulous-
ly clean. Viewed from another stand
point, however. a few persons strong
ly discountenance the removal OF the
ground or dust from the driveway.
Among the latter is no less an au-
thority on horses and on driving than
Veterinarian ]. j. Kline, whu yester
day took the advanced position that
instead Of taking any pains to clean
the bridge the county commissioners
should cause ground to be hauled on
the driveway, covering the paving
blocks wherever they are exposed.
or course, his allusiou was toa the
danger of horses falling. The paving
blocks when wet, he said, aye as slip
perry as glass and horse is unable to
keep his foothold The ground, which
accumulates on the bridge enables
horse to maintain a foothold and is,
therefore, blessing rather than 9TH
erwise.
Several times in the past the drive
way was swept clean, after which it
was a painfully common spectacle to
see horses falling. Except in few in
tanoes the shafts or some other part
of the vehicle was broken, even if the
horse was not injured, to say nothing
of the alarm and the embarrassment
occasioned.
Not only in times of rain but dur
ing foggy mornings are the creo-res-
mated paving blocks apt TO be slippery
and dangerous for horses. The only
remedy, the veterinarian states, lies
in permitting the ground to accumu-
late on the driveway and according to
his view there can not be too much OF
it on the blocks.
The above is entitled to much con-
sideratioD, although it pleads for a
condition repugnant to the masses,
who have no experience in driving
and are accustomed to look on clean
driveway as a feature essential to re.
veal civic enterprise and TO show that
we appreciate our full responsibility
in caring for the bridge.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
CLEANING UP
THE STREE <

Pursuant TO action OF council the
street commissioner has put force of
men at work cleaning up the princi.
pal streets of town in order to have
them in good condition for the Odd
Fellows anniversary.
The men, with horse and wagon
employed, were at work on Front
street yesterday They were under In
structions to-remove all loose stones
and like objects that detract from the
appearance of the street and would be
In the way of marching.
That the streets are in need of at
tention no one will doubt who observ-
es how quickly load of stones and
trash accumulates on the wagon used
by the workmen in cleaning the streets
That the visitors ON Odd Fellows
day will have better opinion of the
town if the streets present clean and
tidy appearance is a self-evident fact.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
DEATH OF A
FORMER RESIDENT

E. V. Flick. formerly OF this couu.
ty, died at his home, Three Rivers,
Michigan, at o'clock Sunday after.
noon.
A telegram was received by the rel
atives in this city Sunday evening
stating the bare Circumstance Of his
death but giving no details. Mr.. Flick
for several years prior to HE death
was afflicted with lumbsgo and an all
ment of the spine. He was frequently
incapscitated for active employment,
but was not thought to be in immedi
ate danger. When last heard from. a
couple of weeks ago, he was in his
usual health.
The deceased is survived by his
widow, three sons, Ambrose Flick,
Chicago Harry and John Flick of
Three Rivers, Michigan and four
daughters Mrs. John Cooper and Mrs.
George Ricketts,, this city Mrs Abram
Oberdorf, Gearhart township. North
cumberland county. and Mrs. Oyde Pur-
sci of Three Rivers. William Flick Of
this city, and Robert Flick of Will
Transport are brothers, and Mrs. L.
V. Boyer, of Mausdsle, Mrs. Albert
Weidman, of Norristown, and Mrs.
Betz of Kansas are sisters OF the de-.
ceased.
E. v Flick was native Of Mon
tour county and prior to some five
years ago, when he removed to Mich
igan, spent his entire life in this sec
tion. He was member Of Mausdale
Reformed church and was we'll es-
teemed throughout the community,
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
TAG DAY On
april 27TH

1t is now settled that in order to
swell the fund for the firemeD's con-
veDtion tag day" shallIbe held in
Danville Committees are being ap-
pointed to carry out the project and
the tags have already been ordered.
The work of preparing for the fire
mems convention devolves upon the
executive board Of the fire department..
which is being assisted by Burgess
Amesbury and several other public
spirited citizens. The responsibility
and the amount of work involved is
enormous, and the executive board
very highly appreciates any assistance
rendered.
The executive board Of the.fre de
partment is composed Of the following
persons: Friendship company, Harry
Rupp, John L. Jones, Harry Trum-
bower, Alfred Stead, John G.. Waite;
Washington company, A. Q. Rost,
Wesley Hollobaugh. Seth Lormer,
David Evans; Continental company,
John Tooey, Edward Gibson, Alfred
Mellin, Robert Vincent; Goodwill
company, Dallas Hummer, William
lies, John Mitchell. Josephl Gibson.
The citizens, who, in addition to
Burgess Amesburys are cooperating
with the executive board to make the
convention a success are the follow
ing Ralph Kisner, Esq, Thomas G.
Vincent, NJ H. Schram and Edward
Purpur.
AS first step in arranging for tag
day it was necessary to get number
Of ladies interested, who would be
willing to actively assist in carrying
out the purposes Of the day.
AS the result of efforts put forth the
following ladies agreed to act on the
committee; Mrs. T. J. Price, Mrs o.
NJ. Leniger, Mrs W. L. Slider and
Mrs. Edward Purpur.
The above ladies will get number
of young people of both sexes interest
ed, organizing them into committees
for the purpose OF handling the tags
on tag day. This is an important work
which the ladies will enter upon at
once.
1t has been decided to select April
27th as the date for tag day. On that
occasion the town will be crowded
with visitors to see the Odd Fellows
parade and naturally the proceeds will
be large.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
CONTRACTOR
Sinks A drain

An unforeseen exigency has arisen in
the work of filling up the old canal at
the hospital for the insane, which en-
tails considerable additional labor and
expense upon the contractor. AS re-
suit the work will not be completed
nearly so soon as hoped for.
The branch of the work being COM
pleted this spring is the replacing OF
the course of fertile ground scooped out
of the bottom of the canal and depos-
tied on the bank before the work of
filling up of the old waterway with
cinder began. In replacing the fertile
earth the dredging machine is being
employ Fair progress was made
from the start and the section of can
al between the culvert at the hospital
entrance and the western boundary Of
the grounds was about half completed
when it was discovered that the up
per section, between the culvert and
the gas house, was unfit to be covered,
as it was saturated with water and was
soft, resembling quicksand.
Owing TO the existence of big
spring in the canal just east of the
hospital entrance the above condition
was foreseen by the engineers and the
plans and specifications provided that
the contractor should take care of the
drainage.
Mr.. Rockwell Tuesday explained
that when he filled up the canal he
did not think 1T would be necessary to
sink pipe. but believed that the water
would drain through the underlying
deposit of cinder seeking the natural
outlet near the gas house.
1t trauspired, however. that the
theory didn't work aud nothing re-
NAMED but to employ workmen and
sink line of pipe from point op.
poste the spring to the gas house
1t is on this branch of the work that
the majority OF the men are employed
at present, The pipe being laid is OF
terra Gotta five inches in diameter. 1t
is sunk some five feet below the sur
face.
Mr.. Rockwell is kept quite busy
oscillating between the dredging mach
inc at the lower end of the canal and
the big drain at the upper section and
he finds it impossible to keep both de-
partments working to the best advant-
age AS result he will not be able to
complete the contract nearly so early
as he expected to. 1t will probably re-
quire two months to complete the
work.
Mr.. Rockwell has met with many
unexpected delays since he began work
here but his perseverance prevails over
all difficulties lie is determined to
make a good job of it," he saws, aud
hopes Ito come out all right
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
FALL CAUSED
BROKEN JAW

An unfortunate mishap occurred in
the yard of the Park hotel, Washing
tonville, Tuesday, when Jos. Bateman.
young man aged about thirty, of Nc.
Carmel, who is visiting his brother,
John hsteuan, the proprietor of the
Park hotel, suffered an attack Of verti =
go while walking in the yard. He fell
and struck his face in such a manner
as to fracture his lower Jaw. His in
jury was dressed by DR.. Snyder and
he was removed to the Mary Packer
hospital at Sunbury, from which in
stitution he left only few days ago
where be had been treated fora brok.
en- nose, sustained in the same way. 2
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
Will enforce
MILK Law

Among the bills approved by Cover
nor Stuart is the milk bill, which Wit
ally affects milk men and ice cream
manufacturers.
The local board of health is desir-
Gus that the law bs brought to the at
tention of the above class of dealers,
as it will be strictly enforced.
The milk sdulteration bill, which
was approved by the governor on March
24th, imposes fine of from twenty
dollars to fifty dollars on persons who
sell milk adnlterated with water or
with fat removed. The same bill i'm
poses similar fine on perso us selling
ice cream containing less than six per
cent. of butter fat or preserved with
chemicals.
1t will be observed that the above
law is much more rigid and sweeping
than the one under which the pure
food representatives have been work
ing. In the act just approved by Gov
ernor Stuart it is not a question of
whether milk comes up to a certain
standard of purity but whether any
water has been mixed with it or cream
removed.
1t is a matter of experience that,
whether due to the fact that fat has
been removed or to other causes, much
of the milk as we'll as ice cream sold
throughout our State lacks deplorsbly
in natural richness. The effect of the
new act will be to give the consumer
a better quality both of milk and of
ice cFaam
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
VISITING THE
COAL. MINES

Six students of Princeton university
arrived in this city via the Danville
and Bloomsbury trolley line yesterday
and, after taking supper at the Mon:
tour house, left on the 7 :5l Pennsyl-
vania train for Shamokin.
The students. who are accompanied
by Professor Gilbert Van Ingen, were ::
D. J. Sin Clair, o. H. Scott, J. O.
Beam, II. Jones, g. f. Dodge and Bayard
Dodge
The object of the tour through this
section is to visit the coal mines in
order to obtain practical information.
not available in books.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
PHOTOGRAPHIC SAFE LOCK.
Only Its Masters Voice Will Open
Denver inventors Device.

Only Its Masters Voice Will Open
Denver inventors Device.
George j. Charpiot of Denver has in
vented photographic safe lock which
he says can be opened only by the
owner. Tests in the presence of ex-
perts substantiate the inventors claim.
Instead of a knob on the door there
is the mouthpiece of n telephone. A
delicate needle is attached TO the dia-
phragm, the end of the needle resting In
a groove of sound record made on n
phonograph cylinder. The word which
the safe is locked on is thus recorded,
and the one who uttered it must repeat
1t before the safe will open.
In the tests n dozen men tried to
initiate the voice of the man who lock-
ed the safe, but the lock would re-
spond only to the right man.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
Wanted Results.

You are always trying to throw
cold water on my literary ambitions"
growled the aspiring author. You
say it doesn't pay. Look at Charles
Dickens, will you? He left a fortune
OF 100000, all earned with his pen"
II know l., dear" said his wife, ca
ressing him. but don't you remember
that Aladdin could make more than
that in FIVE minutes by simply rubbing
an old lampf I'd 80 much rather
you'd do something Of that kind, Winr'
Chicago Tribune.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08

OF MARCH

The spring like weather conditions
that have been such source of delight
since April 1st were superseded yester.
day by stormy weather A high wind
prevailed that was more characteristic
of March than of April. No one could
venture upon the street without being
buffetted about by the wind and ex.
posed to real danger. Sign boards were
nearly wrested from their fastenings
Vehicles. like pedestrians. made slow
progress when facing the wind.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
Primaries Are Expensive.

That the expense Of holding primary
elections throughout the State is large
is shown by the appropriation bill
passed finally by the senate yesterday.
The bill sets aside 81, 0OO 600 for that
purp ose. The State bears all the ex-
pense of holding primaries, including
the printing of ballots.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
Making Garden.

Garden making as the result of the
early spring this year is we'll under
way at present. At many places large
beds have been dug mp and planted.
Onions and lettuce will soon be grow.
Ing nicely.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
A. ii. GrOne iii,

A. H. Grone, the stationer, who is
confined to his home. Mill street. with
an attack Of inflsmmatory rheuma-
tism, was reported as some That i'm
proved yesterday. He has been i'll for
over a week.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
Practical.

"a young man has telegraphed me
that he has just welded my daugh-
ter"
"I hope he's a good practical man"
"I guess he is. He wired me col
ecf"-Kansas City Independent.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08

The big stick" has been laid aside,
but not forever. it is to be hoped.
Proved useful instrument In Il. RS
hands.-Jackson Cdich.) Citizen-Press.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
TWENTY DAYS
IN PRISON

Jacob Miller was au befor
Justice Of the Peace Dalton v sterday
afternoon charged " t..,.. ly con-
duct. In default Of H,u "a . costs he
was committed to '", su DAYS.
Miller, it is all"srA lu , I'll Use be.
cause some men were working on the
street and on Tuesday was so violent
in his abuse not only of the workmen
but also Of the street commissioner
that the matter was reported to the
police.
Yesterday Chief Mincemoyer lodged
information. The arrest was made by
Officer Voris.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08

The school board Of Pottstown is
looking up site upon which TO build
its new high school, so pay for which
there will likely be 8 new bond issue.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08
MISSING Links.

Probably the first item that Presi-
dent Taft will consider will be the
missing links of the White House
grounds.-Lansing (Nfichl Journal.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-04-08

Oats should be discouraged In the
cultivation Of taste for young birds.
especially IS the robins are now busy.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04
QUIT ON MARCH IL
House Fixes Date for Final Ad-
j0urnment.
Will Stop Doing Business Next
Tuesday.
MORGAN LOSES FIGHT
Wanted Final Adjournment to
Be ON Wednesday.
for a Memorial
Hall Agreed To.

The house today by a vote of 80 to
IT passed the resolution by White of
Ottawa to stop doing business next
Tuesday, March 9, at midnight and
setting the time of final adjournment
for Friday night, March IL, at 6
o'clock; that the house consider house
bills only up to Saturday night at
midnight and that the senate consider
only senate bills up to that time;
that appropriation bills be considered
up to next Tuesday night.
Morgan of Reno called up the ad-
journment resolution and the temper
of the house was so strongly in favor
of setting an early date for adjourn
ment that the resolution was at once
lifted out of committee and placed
before the house. Buckman moved
what practically amounted to the
terms of the White resolution. Nor
gan substituted the dates of adjourn
ment Wednesday. Then White moved
the substitute above which was
adopted.
There was hot time in the house
while the adjournment question was
being considered. Some forty MEM
bers relieved their minds under the
two minute rule. In the end Morgan
of Reno and Davis of Kiowa lost
their first battle in the past two weeks.
The motion adopted really calls for
adjournment March 8, as only few
members need to stay until the 18th
to receive the governors approval or
rejection of bills.
The senate had some time ago
passed a resolution to adjourn Satur-
day night of this week. Therefore the
senate may amend the house resolu-
tion of this morning.
For G. A. r. Memorial.
The ways and means committee Of
the house has definitely agreed to
recommend for passage the bill of
Jewett of ~Sedgwick appropriating
0,00O for the erection of a hand
some and commodious memorial hall
in which to keep the war relics and
the collection of the state historical
society. The bill will be presented to
the house tomorrow morning and will
pass with rush.
The new building is badly needed,
as Kansas has an exceptionally fine
and large museum occupying most
of the fourth floor of the state house.
besides all the volumes and papers
of the society. The memorial hall
will be located on a lot facing capitol
square and the bill carries with it the
right of condemnation for the ground
necessary for the proposed building.
The new structure will be fire proof
and strictly modern. 1t is to be built
of Kansas stone and brick. The
funds with which to build this mem
oriaI hall will be taken from the KAN
sas war claims recently awarded by
congress.
The ways and means committee has
agreed upon the forestry bill abolish
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04
THIRTY THOUSAND IN Line
Largest Parade Seen Since the Inaugu-
ration of Grover Cleveland
Follows the Induction of Taft and
Sherman Into Office.
WAS LARGELY MILITARY AND NAVAL
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Made Up
the Bulk of the Procession.
Rough Riders Give Place to Fox Hunt
ers From Maryland and Virginia.

Washington, March 4.-More than
thirty thousand marching men partici-
pated today in the great military and
civic pageant. which constituted the
principal spectacular feature of the
presidential inaugural ceremony. APP
proximately twenty-five thousand of
these were soldiers, sailors and mar
ines of the military establishments of
the United States, bodies of the Ma
tfonal Guard of many states, with
large contingents of spruce cadets and
midshipmen from the the national
military and naval academies. The re-
manning eight thousand were citizens
from all parts of the United States
banded together in commercial and
political organizations, many of them
distinctively uniformed campaign
clubs.
Numerically, the inaugural parade
today was not so large as that which
marched along historic Pennsylvania
avenue from the Capitol to the White
House when Grover Cleveland. the
only Democratic president of the Unit
ed states since the Civil War, was
inducted into the~office the first time.
The parade today, however. had dis
tinctive and impressive quality, which
no similar pageant ever possessed
This wear, each state represented sent
the cream of it's citizen soldiery and
the finest of its civic organizations to
do honor to William Howard Taft
and lanes SchooIcraft Sherman, the
new president and vice-president of
the United States.
Lining Pennsylvania avenue. from
the Capitol to the White House, were
immense stands for spectators and ev-
erv seat was occupied. Every vantage
noint in the window and on house
ron was taken when the head of the
nagnificent. column of thrty-odd
thousan1 men. swung around the curve
at the Peace Monument and straight
ened out for its more-than-a a-mile-long
march to, through and beyond the
brilliant Court of Honor. The avenue
was a great lane of streaming white
and vivid green, the official colors of
this. the most picturesque of inaugur-
al ceremonies. ~,
All Carried Flags.
Almost every person among the
scores of thousands that jammed the
SideIvalIcs and thronged the buildings
along the route of the parade carried
a n,iI7iatllre Star Spangled Banner, at
facbed to a golden staff. These We're
waved with right good will and no bet
ter evidence of the patriotism of the
American people and the popularity of
the new president and vice-president
could have been afforded than the re-
centfon which greeted the organiza-
tions as the procession swept between
the tbrongs which lined the great av-
enue on both sides.
After Major-General J. Franklin
ReIT. the grand marshal of the parade,
accomnanied by his brilliantly uni
formed staff, had passed and been &C
corded a vociferous greeting, the