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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
PAINTING INSPECTED

Il. A. Simmons of Pottsville, who
recently finished painting the river
bridge, was in this city Saturday on
business connected with his contract
and was present at the meeting of the
commissioners.
The painting was inspected last
week. a few minor defects were de-
tected but the job on the whole was
considered a very satisfactory one.
The contractor has agreed to make
good in all respects and during the
next few days the ironwork will be
touched up at few points at Mr.
Simmons expense, a settlement was
made Saturday.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
PRISONER REMOVED

Edward Moore, who was arrested in
this city by Chief Mincemoyer late
Tuesday night on a charge of robbery,
handcuffed was taken to Watsontown
for hearing yesterday.
Alfred Diehl, the victim of the rob
berry, accompanied by Constable W. L.
Baker, of Watsontown, arrived in this
city during the forenoon and left with
the prisoner on the 10 Pennsylvania
train.
Moore is young man, whose home
is at Middletown, this State. He had
been working for Mr.. Diehl some six
weeks and enjoyed the full confidence
of his employer.
He acknowledged to Chief-of Police
Mincemoyer that he had stolen the
money, and as the prosecutor shows no
signs of relenting there is little doubt
but that he will serve a term of I'M
prisonment.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
How Japs Piay Ken.


In It's most widely practiced form the
basis of the japanese game of ken is
that the fully outstretched hand sig.
miles paper, the fully closed hand n
stone, and two fingers alone extended,
the rest being closed, scissors. Each
of the players, counting one, two,
three, throws out his hand at the mo-
ment Of rronouncinE three, and the
one whose manual symbol is superior
to that of the others, according to the
theory Of the game, wins the trial
Superiority is determined on the hy-
pothesls that whereas scissors can
not cut a stone they can cut paper and
whereas paper is cut by scissors it can
wrap up stone-consequently scis-
sors are inferior to stone, but conquer
paper; stone is inferior to paper but
conquers scissors, and paper is inferior
to scissors, but conquers stone. There
are innumerable varieties of the game.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Lineman Killed by Electricity

Hatboro, Pa, July 20.-Five t
sand volts of electricity, pa.
through the body of G.. MulssbeI
Bell Telephone Company line
caused instant death at this l
when Mulssberry accidentally tou
a live wire while working on tire
Byberry avenue. Mulssberry was
2S years of age, lived in Bucking
Bucks county, and is survived /
wife and two children, the youngC
baby born less than a month ago.
wife is Frustrated over the TRACED,
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
CITY HALL PAINTED

Edward c. Yeager, who had the con-
tract for painting city hall, completed
the work yesterday The painting ap-
parently has been done in workman
like manner The green trimming sets
off the brickwork to an excellent ad-
vantage and the building on the whole
presents an attractive appearance,
The scaffolding at the rear of the
building will next be removed.
Elijah Morgan has been awarded the
contract for painting the fire escape.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
PERSONALS.

Mrs. Lewis Deibert, Gulick's S addi-
tion, is spending a few days with
friends in Wilkes Barre.
Austin Klase returned yesterday aft
'er weeks visit with relatives in
New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lyons left yes
terday for Bloomsbury. after visit
with Mr.. and Mrs John Scott, Front
street.
Mrs. John Mullen and son Walter,
Ash street, returned Thursday evening
after a two months visit with rela-
tives in Buffalo.
Miss Edith Doster, Church street,
left yesterday for visit with Sun
bury relatives.
Mrs. William Harris, Miss Joy
Harris and Miss Belle Harris, of Ply
mouth and Jerome Dollahan, of Bos-
ton, autoed from Plymouth yesterday,
to this city, spending the day with Mr..
and Mrs. E. w. Peters, Lower Null
berry street.
Mrs. John Dietz and children,
Church street, spent yesterday with
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kindt, Maus-
dale.
Mrs. Parson Robinson and children.
Norman and Leon, Lower Mulberry
street, spent yesterday with Mrs. Rob
inson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ.
Yocum, Sunbury.
Mrs. w. Z. Schuck left yesterday
will join her husband who is employ
ed in that city.
Mrs. V. V. Haidacker, of this city,
and Mrs. Harry Billmeyer and daugh-
ter, Martha, of Washingtonville, left
yesterday for a several weeks sojourn
at Atlantic City.
Miss Matilda Woods, Mill street, left
yesterday for short visit with friends
in Sunbury.
Miss Margaret Hankey and Miss
Lena Shut spent yesterday with rela.
tives in Sunbury.
Mrs. II. NJ Trumbower, East Market
street, and Mr.. and Mrs. T.. W. Young
and Miss Crissie Culp, of the south
side, attended the Lutheran reunion
at Rolling Green park, below Sunbury,
yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Russell, Bloom street,
has returned after a visit with her
sister, Mrs. John Duffy, Scranton.
Mrs. Josiah Woodring returned to
Hazleton last evening after attending
the funeral of J. H. Weaver. in this
city Monday.
Mrs W. ]. Keim and children left
yesterday for Collensville, Kansas,
whore they Will join Mr. Keim, who
has been located there for some time.
William Vastine and son Sheffield of
Brooklyn, N. y, are guests at the
home of William e. Young, Pine
street.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
CHESTNUTS BY
THE CARLOADS

@. K. Sober, of Lewisburg, whose
big Paragon chestnut farm in Irish
Valley, near Shamokin, has nation
al reputation, has just received re-
markable offer from a dealer in Seat
tie, Wash. The Seattle man wants to
get into the chestnut business on big
scale and has made proposal to Mr.
Sober TO buy his entire scrop. Seine
idea of what that means may be CLEAN
ed from the statement that the chest
nut farm covers four hundred acres
and contains more than one hundred
thousand bearing trees. Mr.. Sober has
not vet accepted the offer for the rea-
son that it is not the only one made
him, although it is the only one which
includes the entire season yield. De-
mands foI the Paragon nuts are being
received by the Lewisburg man from
every section of the country and his
success in the chestnut business is in
ducing many others in Pennsylvania
and other states to try the experiment.
Although much has been written
concerning the wonderful qualities of
the Sober Paragon chestnuts, yet the
general public is in total ignorance of
its great economic value. Conceive if
you can a chestnut with all the sweet
ness and flavor of the best native
chestnut, five or six times as large,
commencing to bear when three years
old and bearing heavily every year.
Afterwards, trees, strong, healthy,
hardy and rapid grower bearing from
three to thirteen perfect nuts in each
bur, ripening and falling out before
the leaves fall and you have faint
idea of this marvellous production of
nature perfected by cultivation and
selection by Mr.. Sober.
This chestnut must not be confound-
ed with the Spanish or Italian chest
nut, which have none of the great
qualities of the Sober Paragon chest
nut except size. 1t is believed to be a
sprout of one native species and was
lOuni BlONI ing ntdl btIIudHlONH, L u,
but has been greatly improved by the
intelligent care given it by Mr.. Sob
er. Mr.. Sober has large nursery with
young trees amounting to hundreds of
thousands and cannot supply the de-
mand. His orchard is ON an old natur-
al chestnut ridge originally covered
with native chestnuts, huckleberries
and stony, and the land was compara-
lively worthless. Today it probably
could not be bought for thousand
dollars an acre Mr.. Sober simply let
the sprouts come up and grated them
to secure his tree.
Mr.. Sober is a man of wonderful
energy and versatility, a successful
farmer, one of the largest dealers in
timber, mine props and pulpwood in
the country, the patentee and manu-.
facturer of an Acetylene gas generat-
or, one of the first men to realize in
the State the great possibilities of
alfalfa and large grower of the same.
He is the best amateur shot in the
United States, and his friends. who
are legion, would not be surprised to
see him come out any time with an
airship that would solve the question
of air navigation.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
WOMEN DEMAND
SENSAT|ONAL|SM
Japanese Editor Solves Amer
lean Newspaper Secrets.
STUDIES AFTERNOON EDITION.

Kokumin shinbun to Have One, So
Chief Circles Globe to Study Meth
ods-New York and Berlin Papers
Local, While London and Tokyo
Journals Are General In News.
Women are responsible for the SEN
sationalism of American papers. The
fact has been divulged after a world
study of the principal Journals by G.
Date, editor of the Kokumin Shinbun.
Tokyo. Mr.. Date is shrewd, palms.
taking observer. His paper is a morn
ing publication. 1t contemplates start
ing an evening edition.
Wherefore Mr.. Date started around
the world to find out just how other
countries made afternoon papers. He
went across Siberia to st. Petersburg,
thence to Berlin, London, Zurich, Po-
land, the Danube district In Austria,
Vienna, Paris and back to London.
After studying papers in these centers
he came to the United States recently,
and he has been an exceedingly busy
English Papers Not Local.
1.-THE papers in London" said he,
differ from the papers In New York.
They have general circulation
throughout the kingdom. You have so
many centers that your papers are To-
cal and pay little attention to anything
outside of your own neighborhoods.
Berlin is like New York. The papers
are confined to local matters because
the government is O confederation like
yours and there are many centers.
"Our situation is more like that of
the English. We have the second cir
culation in the empire, printing 1S0,-
600 copies a day. OF these more than
100000 papers go outside of the city
into the provinces. We are copying
the American papers largely.
~ find that your papers are not
daily papers-they are hourly papers
This makes it hard for you to verify
many mistakes, but you can always
correct them in the next edition.
Your papers appeal more to women
than TO men as compared with other
countries. Women are sensational In
their nature, and that makes your pa
pers little more sensational than
those of other lands, I think.
Women Cause Sensationaism.
women in your country are very
much more active than in any other
place, and so your papers must be
more active and enterprising in pro-
viding for them, and therefore some
times more sensational
The policy of our paper is imperial
ism. 1t is a political paper. But we
have been friendly to the United
States and have received many evil
dences of the favor of the people
President Taft visited our Office when
he was in Japan, and when your fleet
came to visit us an officer did us the
favor to send us wireless report Of
the fleets whereabouts when there
was much speculation about it in
Tokyo
We have four correspondents in
America-one in New York. one in
Chicago, one in Washington and one
in San Francisco. We have not as
yet telegraph wires in our offices, but
expect TO have them this year"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Installed Tungsten System.

j, j. Newman has recently installed
the Tungsten lighting system at his
store. There are ten lights of 60 Watt
power in the windows and twelve ar
ranged in two rows in the store, giving
a very brilliant light. The fixtures
are of the latest style and the whole
is great improvement.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Recoverinp.

Thelora, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Newton Smith, Front street, who
was operated on for appendicitis at
the Joseph Ratti Hospital, Blooms
burg, about three weeks ago, has re-
turned to her home in this city Her
condition has improved very much
during the last few days and her full
recovery seems only a question of
time.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

st. Louis Inventor Expects to Carry In
His Monster Airship Hundred Pas
sengers at One Hundred Miles an
Hour-Maohine Can Stand Still at
One Spot In the Air Indefinitely.
The incorporation of IN aerial nav
igation company at st. Louis has re-
vealed plans for commercial passen-
ger airship that rivals the widest
dreams of Jules Verne. Officials of
the company declare that within q
year they will have ship that will
carry up hundred passengers in a
forty mile wind and at a speed of 100
miles an hour.
The machine is the invention Of J.
w. Oman, formerly of San Antonio,
Tex, but ut present at st. Louis. One
is in process of construction in the
shops of the inventor at st. Louis. The
inventor claims that his ship can start
either from the land or water. He de-
clares 1t will ascend straight into the
air or can be launched in the manner
Of an aeroplane.
May Be Built In Any Size.
The new airship is called gyro-
plane. so named from the fact that 1t is
combination of gyroscope, the hell
copter and the aeroplane. Its pro-
moters say it can be built in any size
from n two man runabout or a seven
passenger touring car to a monster of
the air that will carry fifty or q hun
dred passengers.
"a thirty or forty mile breeze would
be a help rather than q hindrance to
our machine" said the inventor the
other day I'VE will maintain abso-
lutte equilibrium In anything short Of
n cyclone. The usual obstacles that
prevent the flight OF an ordinary air
ship Will be as nothing TO this machine
of ours"
1t IS planned to construct machines
that will maintain regular service
between cities and states and ever
countries
Carries Poar Hugo ProPeIlers
The gyroScope and the helicopter are
familiar principles in heavier than air
navigation, but never before have they
been applied in the manner employed
by Oman. The model Of his ship rs
fitted with four huge propellers. twelve
feet in diameter, which may be used
in turn for drawing the .""hIne from
the ground or carrying it through tho
air.
The machine has been inspected by
government engineers and pronounced
superior to all others, it is declared.
Ten patents have been granted. cover
ing almost every feature of the ma
chine. The machine is TO be construct
ed entirely of aluminium and macad-
amite and besides carrying four propel-
lers is fitted with two engines
The inventor asserts the machine
can be made to stand still at one spot
IN the air for an indefinite time. we
could drop q thousand bombs on war
ship from n height of two miles with
out moving foot" he declared. Oman
has studied aerial navigation twenty
years.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
The Only Thinq They Ever Did.

John Bright's powers of sarcasm
were almost unrivaled. Some of his
sharpest utterances were against men,
bers of the nobility. When boasts had
been made of the antiquity of prom.
inent family, that their ancestors came
over with the Conqueror, his reply was
prompt, II never heard that they did
ANYTHING else"
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

CIGARMAKERS WANT RAJ
The cigarmakers of the First and
Internal Revenue districts, incl
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Lane
Reading and York, have start
organization with the purpose 0
ting raise in pay. The deman
not be made until another conf
has been held at Reading.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

RESCUED BY DOG.-E. R. L
fell into the water at Rausch's
tion, near Hamburg and was
for the last time when his big
dog sprang into the water and
him by the collar. Rarick, wit
support, managed to reach ST.
water, but was almost complete
hausted and it was some time
he could get to land.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

ANTI. SPLITTING CRUSADE-.s
al Officer Mills arrested three III
Wilkes Barre, charged with spi
on the sidewalk. They were ARA
before an alderman and each fin
and costs. John Melvin was the
day released from the county
where he was committed in defa
paying a fine for the same offense
authorities are determined to brea
the filthy practice.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

A FLYING BASS. Two me
on the Susquehanna at Wright
fished all day for bass without g,
bite. Finally, in disgust they
gathering up their tackle to sta
home when there was a great .
and six-pound bass leaped out
water into their boat. The men
bed their prize and fished no mo
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

COWS HAVE RABIES. - A.
demic of rabies among cows is S
ing over East Nottingham Tow
near Oxford. Eleven COWS have
killed and great excitement pre-
Several weeks ago a mad dol
through the community, but the d
is breaking out in places wher
dog could not have been. 1t is
cows that are affected, all the
thus far having escaped.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Totals
IT Rowe in seventh.
BLOOMSBURY.

Left on base-Danville 4. Blooms
burg .. Stolen bases-Livengood, Kel-
ly, Hagenbuch, Rankin, Rhodomoyer,
Ash ,. Double play-Veith unassisted,
Rankin to Crossin. Two base hit
Mackert. Struck out-by Rowe ;, by
Dougher 3. Bases on balls-off Rowe
>, off Dougher 1. Wild pitch-Rowe.
Sacrifice hits-Livengood, Stefiin Um.
pire-Wilson.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Death of an Infant,

The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
\. G. Shepperson, Nassau street, died
yesterday morning. The funeral (priv-
ateD will be held this afternoon at
o'clock. Interment in the Lutheran
cemetery.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

Miss Blanche Lowenstein and Mrs.
5. Lowenstein and grandchildren.
Selma and Sidney Schain, returned
Tuesday evening from a sojourn at
Atlantic City.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
NEWS ITEMS FRO|
ROUND THE STl

STRAW ROLLING SECT. r,
A. Fisher and select band of de'
called the Straw Rollers have
holding services near Homestea,
tent. Three hundred worshipper
strate themselves on straw beds
roll bout in extraordinary fas
The police are about to take a III
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
BOLT KILLED MOTHER.

BOLT KILLED MOTHER. =
clinging to her four children il
ror, during a severe electrical
at Slatington, Mrs. Ellis Owens
struck by lightning and instantly
ed. Strange to say, none of the
dren were injured. The house W
on fire and damaged about a tho.
dollars.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

WOMAN'S WIT. During the
electrical storm at Buckhorn, Ii
ing struck and set fire to the Lut
parsonage. There was no wat
fight the fire and the men were s
ing helplessly by when an aged
man grasped the situation and da
the gutter. In a minute or two
was a big pond in the street with
cient water to save the building.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Yesterdays Scores.
SUSQUEHANNA LEAGUE.
Rnrwick & Nanticnka IL

SUSQUEHANNA LEAGUE.
Berwick, 5; Nanticoke, IL.
FOUR-COUNTY LEAGUE.
Bloomsbury, 5; Shamokin, 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Chicago, 0; Athletics, ..
Detroit, 3; Boston, ,, II innings
st. Louis, /; New York, ,, 10 il
Cleveland, / Washington, S.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Phila., Ii; st. Louis, ?.
New York. 3; Cincinnati, 6.
Brooklyn, o; Chicago, /, - innir
Boston, 3; Pittsburg, ,.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
Seriously iii.

Former School Director II. II. Red
ding is very seriously i'll at his home
on Foust street That he may speedily
recover is the wish of his many
friends.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21

George G. Keefer, proprietor of the
Mill street store, left on Tuesday fo1
business trip to New York City
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-07-21
new WIZARD
OF The AIR.
Oman Promises Wonders For
His GyrOpIane.
STARTS ON LAND OR WATER.

St. Louis Inventor Expects to Carry In
His Monster Airshp Hundred Pas
seneers at One Hundred Miles an
Hour-Machine Can Stand Still at
One Spot In the Air Indefinitely.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-26
Oddities in the Nelus
All Ouer the World

Mrs Elof Peterson of Hartford
the third the last being boys weighing six and
half pounds
The SO old and have been married for years
girl The last twins the
nd set within four years
PENNSYLVANIA hospital apparently dying
palm of his hand the
heart Spence has good chance to recover
METER RUNS BACKWARDS COMPANY OWES MONEY
Eugene Smith surveyor of 1sp L. has water meter that
The caor other meter but the
distinction that it lies in favor of the consumer. .,
The backward and the water Mr. Smith
he South Bay Water Co.
ward for several days company
that he furnishing It with water He anxious to find
out II the company is going to pay him.
sEes STAMPS TO HELP IN RACE FOR w. s. SENATOR
postage United accord
editor of Bryans Commoner who
Omaha by asking friends donate
voter uring his nomination
WITH WOMAN IN LEAPS FROM AUTO TO FLYING TRAIN.
+ Miss Ellen smake. stalled in the
Rosee H. about to be crushed by freight train
landed on the pilot of the locomotive and held on to rail with
until the train stopped 800 feet further Neither
AUTO FOR FIRST TIME. nvsDEs ARCTIC CIRCLE.
Tamm native of st Louis is the first person
the Arctic circle in a automobile.
He made the passage on July when oo miles directly north OF
flying the American flag from his machine
FAMILY OF - HAVE HARD LUCK BECAUSE OF BAD COIN.
II children, all in chromac
boarded Hundred and Twenth street crosstown
mother of the brood carried bundle big mattress
They more than half the seats the car the due
Then he for the fares claiming that 10
to
gypsy plugged nickel all
offered tell fortunes The stopped and
while when called half
and carried the unuck family of 10 out bodily
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-26

The Veatch congressional club
has prepared sketch Of A. E.
Vaetch, candidate for congress, a
part OF which follows:
A. e. Veatch was born in Davis
county, Iowa, August 10. 1870. His
father, John ]. Veatch was vol
unteer soldier in the Third Iowa
cavalry during the four years OF
the Civil war, and is at present a
member of the Kansas legislature.
having been nominated In the d.
rect primary with one dissenting
vote in q county of 10000 inhabi-
tants. The veatch family came to
America from Scotland in 1850, and
have had among it's membership
many able men, among whom was
Gen. James c. Veatch of Indiana
and Senator R. M. Veatch of Ore
gOn.
A. e. Veatch was raised on a
farm In Kansas and was educated
at Campbell university at Holton,
Kansas, and also at the State uni
versity Lawrence, Kansas. He
was admitted to the bar in 1892,
and Is a member of the supreme
courts of both Kansas and Ne
brsska. He entered the newspaper
business 1t Washington, Kansas,
IL 1898. Where he published the
leading newspaper Of the county
for six years. following which he
Purchased the Jewell County Mon
flor. the official republican paper
OF Jewell county, Kansas. Later
he purchased the Havelock, Neb.-
Times, which he owned two years,
Removing from Nebraska to Col
vile, Wash, where be has made q
tu6tess Of the newspaper business
"A the editor of the Statesman
Index at Colville. A. r. veatch has
built for himself a lasting monu
n,ent in the memory of all OF the
people Of Stevens county who De
ileye IN the survival and triumph
81 the great moral principles OF to
day. As a man of courage, back
bone and ability. he has no equal
no superior ii the Third congress
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-07-26
FIGHT IN
v. J. bRYAN'S.
STATE

GRAND ISLAND, Neb., July 26.
That the floor of the democratic
state convention today will resem-
Bile the liveliest scenes of a wheat
pit or a stock exchange on a pan
icky day. is the prediction made
today by prominent democrats. The
fight will be upon the issue of
county option. William ]. Bryan
will oppose the forces of Governor
Shallenberger and the regulars in
an endeavor to force the option
plank into the party platform.
If the Bryanites are forced to a
compromise, they will insist that
the convention refer the matter to
the various legislative districts and
that the gubernatorial nominee be
pledged to sign county option bill,
should such a measure pass the
legislature. This probably would
satisfy Governor Shallenberger, but
undoubtedly would fail to please
Mayor John Dahlman of Omaha,
both of whom are candidates for
the nomination.