Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-12-22
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of the darkest days in the history OF
pittsburg Electric signs were burning
sif IL were midnight, stores and
offices we're lighted and headlights ON
the street cars were ahame Many ac-
ridents occurred, but no deaths were
tepurted Trains were delayed aud
there was much confusion in the han
ding of railroad work. pittshurg with
It's pail of smoke was the centre of the
fog. Reports from towns ten miles
away said chat the sun was shining.
INVESTIGATIONS-Dr. J. II.
Bennett chairman Of the Sanitary
committee of the York city council,
declared at the meeting of the body
that certificates of successful vacCinH.
tion are being furnished by certain
physicians of that city to school chill
dren who have never been inuculated
An investigation has never been or
dered and prosecutions Will be brought
against those medical men found gull
ty of the practice.
REVENGE OR MALICE?-While
he was delivering package at West
End home, two foreigners jumped in
TO the grocery wagon of h. l., Bianco,
of York. and drove of rapidly. At a
railroad culvert half mile beyond the
city they stopped, and one deliberately
fred two shots from pistol into the
horses's head. The animal was dead
when Bianso reached the spot. and the
strangers had disappeared,
OLEDST MOTORIST-Schu ill
county claims the oldest active mot
orist in Pennsylvania He is Robert
Allison, of Port Carbon, trustee OF
she State hospital at Fountain Springs,
. splendidiy- preserved man who play
ed public game of cricket for char
ity. when he was past 70 years of age,
and is sn active motorist. who will be
So years of age on the 25th of the pre-
sent month, Christmas day.
GAINS I3S PER GENT. The boI-
ough of Emaus, founded in 1912 by
Count ZinEendorf, as a place of refuge
in the new world where the Moravians
might worship without fear of mol
estatioR, claims to be the banner town
for increase of population for the last
ten yests. Its population in 1900 was
1 1.468. Under the new census it is 3 1901,
3 gain Of 1881 per cent.
FIRES SELF IN SLEEP. While
LeepinR in the motor pump house of
the Blue Mountain Consolidated Wat
er company at Ssylorsburg. Charles
DerhSamer, attacked by a nightmare,
knocked over red hot stove and 10 in
a critical condition from burns.
FORTUNE FOR MINER-While at
work in the mines at Throop, ham
let near Scranton John Stewart Hugh
%, q miner, Saturday received word
that his almost forgotten great aunt
who had died in Scotland, had left him
fortune of $75. 900.
CLOSE CALL-While washing his
hands at his home Arthur Anderson,
paying teller in a Chester bank, not
iced an obstruction poked through the
wire screen leading to the waste pipe.
He then discovered that the largest of
the three diamonds in his ring was
missing. He summoned plumber
who found the diamond in trap ar.
ter a search Of over three hours.
CHAMPION PALLBEARER-J j.
Brennan. of Mahanoy City, represent
alive recently elected to the Legisla-
ture. holds a unique record He claim
to be champion pallbearer of that sec
tion. he having served in that capac-
ity at the last A funerals of members
of Severn post, G.. A. Il.
A BIG PRoJECT-The Johnstown
Chamber of Commerce has taken up
the PROJECTED electric railway line 10
Ebensburg and IS endeavoring to raise
tho hliOuhb AtttSsdIN g-Ob, OOU--tO
complete it.
AGREED-The Everett Press saws
that the man who has discovered tLat
carrots can perfectly supply the place
of eggs in cooking should have % uen-
sion now and a monument later.
COLORED CLUB CoIored pcouie
of Scranton have decided TO raise
$40, 600 to build handsome club
house. Over $50, 600 has already been
raised
PREPARED-A tramp attired i'll a
tennis suit topped off with straw
has attracted much attention in Ches-
ter. as he passed through that city on
his way to Florida.
MARRYING CRAZE-n little
Sharpsburg ten schoolma'ams have
married and quit their desks since
September.
STIFF HAT SAvES-A stiff hat
that he wore douhtIess savad tba I;Fe