Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-29
ITEMS CONDENSED.

uelpnld, Whl1e SSbtlAS AC"uy ava
last Sunday, put long hatpin in her
mouth. While she was adjusting her
hat it slipped and in falling it struck
the hatpin with such force that the
sharp point of the pin was driven IN
to the roof of her mouth. Mrs Gill
bert's face began to swell later and
she called in physician VINO perform
ed an operation. Her face continued
to swell and is now twice its natural
size.
CARELESsNESS CAUSE OF
DEATH. - Carelessness caused the
death of Stephen Lazara, an employee
of the Bethlehem steel works. He was
warned by his foreman not to walk
under moving crane, but either he
forgot or misunderstood, for he did
walk under it when it was carrying a
mould weighing several hundred
pounds. When he was directly under
meath it the mould slipped and fell on
Lazara, crushing out his life.
NO RACE SUICIDE HERE.-An-
nouncing that for the third time twins
had arrived in his home, Dominoco
Domichell, living near Greensburg,
went to town and went to all the city
and county officials in search of the
man who gives prizes to fathers who
promote the birth rate. Finally he
ba alIrasS nf nhnnHOrp
Roosevelt. and he left for home saying
he would tell "that person" of his
antirace suicide beliefs.
PLENTY TO EAT.-John Swatara
and Mary Dubrowski, who were mar
ried at Hazleton, had the record we'd
ding feast Three hundred guests made
away with 12O chickens, calves,
side of beef s hams, 2 cases of sum-
mer sausage, > cases of frankfurters,
30 half barrels of beer 10 gallon of
whisky, 10 gallon of gin, barrel of
porter and any amount of pop. Strange
to say there were no fights worth men,
tion.
1Alh Lit D<A In EANI&A1AN LllS
arrangement of her coiffure like those
i'll the time of the eighteenth century,
saved Miss Lena Ferry, of South Beth
lehem, from being killed. When the
controller of trolley car flashed and
burned out, Miss Ferry gave a leap off
from the car and landed on her head
on the ground. But was saved from
serious injury by her hair.
SEPTEMBER STRAWBERRIES. -
Visitors to the farm of V. l.. Lerch,
of Seidersville, near South Bethle-
hem, were pleasantly surprised when
Mr.. Lerch treated them to luscious
second crop strawberries fresh from
his yard. Delicious berries have also
been picked along the Pergiomen Rail.
road
GOING SOME. The Pennsylvania
Special has made new record be-
tween Jersey City and Harrisburg, 60
ing over the 1S9 miles in 1856 minutes
The train was made up of several all
steel pullmans. The speed averaged
more than mile minute, including
all stops.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS Penn
sylvania has not so much infantile
paralysis as New York, the report of
the Census bureau on diseases show
ing that our own state has had 76
deaths from that cause, while New
York has had 115.
SNAKE GOOD WATCHMAN. "A
six-foot blacksnake, captured by John
P. Fry and John w. Graham, of Long
Level, this summer, has been made a
pet by the latter, and is now quite
time. AS encouragement to tramps
its presence serves better than a watch
dog.
WARNED, BUT WAS KILLED
Section Boss Lapp warned James Nc
Gee not to take a certain short cut
across the Pennsylvania tracks near
Berwyn, but MCGEE knew better and
was killed by train.
b1GGEh Del MOI SAT
isfied with the way population is CO.
ing, Bethlehem has started a move
ment to annex much territory east,
west and north of town.
GARDENING PAYS. Members of
the Olivet club of Reading, realized
81, 800 from the sale of vegetables rails
ed in city gardens made on vacant
lots.
LUCKY HUNTER. A Titusville
hunter recently stumbled across a
bee tree" which he at once proceed
ed to cut down, appropriating the
honey, which amounted to 40 pounds.
Mans law makes no provision for
Furnishing thefts of that sort
PEAR TREE IN BLOOM. = The
Rev. Irwin Wanger, of Norristown,
has pear tree which is in full bloom
for the second time this year and il
will bear another crop of pears if the
cold weather will hold of ing enough
SHOOTS HIMSELF, OF THE
THIEVES. Joseph Goot of Gil
berton, thinking that ii es were