Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-04-07
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NEW ONES? Pleasant easy work.
Profit > dollars day. Sample and
particulars free. THE CROWN co.
1882 S ST.. Washington, D. G.
Dogs, germs and sidewalk spitters
are dangerous things for the public
health, is the opinion of the McKees-
port board of health, which is going
to wage war on them.
The Harrisburg hospital faces large
deficit and has appealed to the public
for contributions. The income is not
as large as it used to be and the num-
Der of patients treated is greater.
York is experiencing a scarcity of
skilled labor and at a recent celebra-
tion of the Manufacturers association
plans for overcoming this difficulty
were discussed President G. Elmer
Smith suggested the encouragement
of young men to become apprentices
in the mechanical trades and declared
that the opportunities presented to the
ShllltNl WI hIDttll dlt SSlChiCl tillh NiiOSS
in the overcrowded professions.
1.-The party workers are not training
with the spotted license or local op-
tion crowd this year but in every leg
islative and senatorial district pro-
hibitionists will be nominated against
local optionists, said State Chairman
lockwood, of the prohibition party,
recently, after he remarked that he had
visited nineteen counties in eastern
Pennsylvania since February and
that all these counties had named COM
plete party tickets.
Several railway lines in the Schuyl-
kill and Lebanon valleys are to be
leased to the Reading Transit COM
pany following a recent meeting of
the directors of the Interstate Rail-
ways company. The lines are as fol-
lows: The Schuylkill Valley and Unit
ed Traction of Reading; the Obey Val.
ley, the Neversink Mountain, the
Metropolitan Electric and the Lebanon
Valley Street Railway. The Edison
Illuminating company, of Lebanon,
also passes under the Transit COM
pany's control. Peter E. Hurley, of
Trenton, it is rumored, will succeed
DR.. Walter A. Rigg as general manag
er at Reading.
One cent an hour of an increase has |
been granted by Charles Nj. Schwab
10 the laborers at his Bethlehem steel
plant. This makes the rate 1315 cents
an hour, and is believed to be the fore
runner of series of advances to be
made by the steel concern. The ex-
pected increases include additional
pay for overtime and Sunday work.
Schwab made good his word that he
would listen to the grievance of the
dissatisfied employees only after they
returned to work. a committee Of
Bethlehem citizens has left for Wash
ington to present to President Taft
and congress the resolutions recently
adopted by the Bethlehem industrial
commission condemning the action of
the strikers agitators who petitioned
this and other governments asking
that the steel company be given no
more contracts.
George E. McCloskey, of Washing
ton. is the champion flag g-presenter of
Pennsylvania In the past thirty years
he has donated more than 100 flags to
school houses, churches and patriotic
organizations.
Services in the Munhall Methodist
Episcopal church were adjourned on
Sunday while the congregation formed
a bucket brigade and fought fire that
had broken out near the house of wor-
ship. By the time that the regular
firemen had arrived the flames were
we'll under control.
Some careless person set fire to a
magnificent tree that had become
Landmark in Fairmount park, Phila-
delphia, where the drive from Georges
hill crosses Fairmount avenue. The
beautiful big plant, now stands
charred and bare. The tree was festo-
oned with vines, which were pulled off
by the firemen.
Her hat coming in contact with a
gas jet while she was singing a solo in
Grace Protestant Episcopal church at
Honesdale, Miss Minnie Smith quietly
took off the big affair and handed it
to male member of the choir, who
hurriedly carried the flaming mass
outside. Cries of horror filled the
church and panic was narrowly avert
ed.
earle Consul, aged years, was car
ried twenty feet on the fender of a
street car in Pittsburg, then rolled un-
der it and was wedged so tightly be-
tween the front truck guard and the
ground that it was necessary to raise
the car to release him. He did not lose
consciousness and sustained fractures
of the right leg and left knee, besides
numerous bruises.
Farmers are praying for rain in up
per Lancaster county and wells are
going dry.
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