Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-12-15
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another Scranton school building was
discovered when large cracks appear
ed In the walls of No. II school on
Key4er avenue. aud it would not be
urnrising il sessions iu the building
are discontinued Whether this ls
done depauds upon the result ot the
.,rapar test applied Monday Ey
officials. Strips Of paper have been
placed over tile cracks on the inside
Of the building aud fastened by strong
adhesive The strips viii be watched.
and If they are broken the sessions
will be discontinued because lt VIII
be evident that the settling continues
A few days ago the floor OF john Can
terhurv's cellar. a short distance from
the school. dropped several feet.
JUST RETURNED-When the Civ
il war broke out over 80 years ago,
william Neady left his home, ~ Ply.
mouth township, Luzerne county, and
went to the front. After the war he
drifted to the west His family heliev-
ed that he had died on the battlefield
The father and mother died. as dill
several brothers aud sisters William
Neadv prospered in the west, and "a
week ago decided to visit his old
home Last Wednesday he arrived at
Plymouth, where the postmaster told
him that there was living at Five
Forks. in Plymouth township, a man
named Neady. William Neady went
to the place and found that the man
in question was his brother.
Wisconsin, an address to the Min
isterium at Altoona, Rev. DIR. Charles
W. Carroll, of Harrisburg, president
of the Pennsylvania Anti-saloon Lea
que. declared that he was sure of 9S
votes for the local option bill in the
next legislature. He said that 70 mem
bers were already pledged to such
bill, nine keystone Party assembly
men would support it, nine Others not
pledged were personally favorable to
the bill, and five others can be brought
into line. He believes the necessary
majority of l04 will be attained.
TEACHERS TO MEET-The Penn
syIvania State Teachers association
will meet i'll Harrisburg December 20
40 and 30, The general sessions viii
be held in the Board of Trade. Vari'
ous department meetings and round
tables will be held also, beginning
with the High school department on
the evening of December %. These
department meetings will be held in
the Board of Trade, the High school
and the caucus rooms of the capitol
BOOMING THINGS-A new 100
acre demonstration farm, an ag-icult-
uraI school. fruit exchanges and cold
storage houses are among the things
planned to make the Lykens valley.
Dauphin county, one of the richest
AGRICULTURAL and fruit sections in this
country, incidental to the building OF
the Midland Pennsylvania railroad
from Millersburg to Ashland.
A FEW LEFT-There are still a
few sticks of timber left standing in
the forest sections of Pennsylvania,
but at the present rate Of destruction
= primiyal pine or hemlock tree will
soon be a curiosity. Samuel Boyce, a
lumberman, has just completed the
lob of outing 500, 000, feet of lumber
at Dimeling, Cleartield county.
SOMETHING FUNNY-WhileM Nor
ris Cope, of East Bradford, was driv-
ing home in a sled. with his wife on
the back seat, she WAS thrown into a
snow drift and her husband drove
quite a distance before he discovered
her absence She was wrapped IN
large robe which prevented her from
making an outcry.
PROGRESSIVE POLANDERS-At
oil City the Polanders seem to be pro.
gressive. They have let contract for
an S.. 900 brick building two stories
high. The lower floor will be used toI
tenement purposes and the upper one
for "A dancing hall The latter will be
equipped with spring floor anc
strictly up to date
ONE BUFFALO .LESS-A large
buffalo belonging to Buffalo BIZ, WIN
tering ON the Charles Trego farm at
Coatesville, died yesterday. The hi&
fellow was one of herd of seven ant
died from an attack of paralysis.
INFORMS ON HUSBAND-Johl
Richter, a rural mail carrier, of Han
over, is at the York police headquart
ers waiting action by the postal au
thorities upon the charges that he ha
been systematically robbing the mails
His wife informed the authorities o
his alleged populations.
HAD TO CHANGE NAME-Be
cause his customers experienced trou
Bile in Spelling and pronouncing hi
name, Max Berkowitz had the Luzern
county court change his name to Ma
Berk