THOSE TAX
LIENS AGAIN
The ourious tax muddle which has j
existed in this county for some three
years past has been brought to the sur
face again. This is a perfectly logical
state of affairs, as it very vitally af
fects E. W. Peters, the retiring tax
receiver, whose duplicate must be set
tled by January 1, 1907. The parties
to the muddle, which involves some
100 tax liens, are the attorney aud the
prothotary, who represent, a big amount
of fees; the tax colloctor. who is re
sponsible for the safety of tlie taxes
involved,and the borough of Danville,
the school board, the overseers of the
poor and the county commissioners,
whom the tax receiver has to satisfy
before he retires.
The matter came up before council
at its last, meeting; nearly an hour
was spont in discussion, but no action
was taken,the matter being left in the
hands of the borough solicitor. Monday
night the same question came up be
fore the school board, attorney Ralph
Kisner being present to advise the
members as to the safest course to pur
sue in the premises.
Mr. Kisner as attorney for the school
board went on record more than a year
ago, taking the position that the liens
as entered up were illegal aud advis
lug the board to refuse to pay the bill
of $123 foes presented to it by the pro
thouotary.
The liens, which were for the taxes
of 1903, were entered up under tne act
of June 4, 1901. The vital question is
as to the time of filing liens and is in
volved in section 10th of the act, which
sets forth that "claims for taxes, wat
er rates, lighting rates aud sewer rates
must bo filed in the court of common
pleas of the county in which the prop
erty is situated, on or before the last
day of the secoud calendar year aftor
that in which the taxes or rates are
first payable."
Mr. Kisner contends in the first
place that the liens wore irregularly
entered—that two years 6hould have ,
expired after 190*3 before the tax re- !
oeiver could avail himself of the pro- 1
visions of section 10. of the above act.
Mr. Kisner's contention in the sec
ond place is that the tax lieus were
entered merely aa an act of the presi
dent aud the secretary of the school
board aud without official and legal
authority of those bodies.
To further complicate matters thir
teen of the parties against whom the
liens ore entered have rendered full
satisfaction of the amounts duo as
ihown by the tax lieu docket in the
prothouotary office, but the transfer
of said taxes so paid has not been
made to the tax receiver for the reason
that the prothouotary aud attorney who
entered the liens maintain and contend
that the districts involved should pay
thair respective fees on all lieus that
have been entered for the protection
of unpaid taxes.
The entering of tax liens under the
act of June 4, 1901, from the very first
met with much opposition aud has
proved the subject of a great deal of
heated discussiou both in council aud
in the school board. Neither ol these
bodies approved of the action of its
officers iu giving their signatures.
Some of the tax eutered up is for
very small amounts, although the ag
gregate represents hundreds of dollars.
In the smaller sums the aggregate of
fees, filed with the tax claim, repre
sents a sum several times as largo as
the tax due.
There is much objoctiou to the plan
pursued by the attorney, which was
to make four separate liens represent
ing the borough, the school district,
poor district and the county with sepa
rate fee for each, instead of making
the four districts co-creditors and fil
ing one claim and charging one fee—
provided that fees iu the premises
were legal. As a result of this method
the attorney's fees accumlate very fast
and along witli the prothonotary's fees
equal a sum iu comparison with which
•he taxes due aud entered up seem ri
diculously small.
Celebrated 2otli Birthday.
The homo of W. W. Hollobaugh was
the scene of a vory pleasant surprise
party Friday which was tendered iu
honor of Mr. Hollobaugh's 20th birth
day.
The atfair was a complete surprise
to Mr. Hollobaugh, aud the occasion
proved most enjoyable to the large
gathering of guests. Iu the afternoon
mu*ic was fnruisiied by a graphophone
and in the evening the Delsite orches
tra, of Mausdale, rendered a number
of selections. The amusements indulg
ed iu were numerous,but dancing was
the feature. An elaborate diuuer was
served aud iu the eveuing refreshments
were served. Mr. Hollobaugh was the
recipient of a number of gifts. At a
late hour the gusets returned to their
homes wishing Mr. Hollobaugh inauy
happy returns of the day.
Tiioso present were Mr. aud -Mis.
Charles Hollobaugh, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Luckoubill, Mr. aud Mrs.
Raymond Golder, Mr. aud Mrs. Elmer
D. Phillips, Mr. aud Mrs. Mont Con
fer, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Shultz, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Fausey, Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Hollobaugh, and Mr. aud
Mrs. David Dyer, of Uuiou Corner;
Mrs. Ellen Yeager, Mrs. Saoina Sny
der, Misses Lulu Yeager, Elizabeth
Flick, Mamie Yeager, Eva Phillips,
Florence Fausey, Anna Murray, Nora
Cooper, Jeuuie Garnet, Eva Beyer,
Laura Fenstermachor, Winifred Flick,
Dora Uinstead, Mary Merrell, Olive
Golder, Elise Confer, Maud Golder,
May Confer and Anna Golder ; Messrs.
Guy Runyau.Kiy Shultz, Elmer Gold
er, Charles W. Dyer, Lorie Yeager,
William Beyer, Adam Phillips, of
Miltou ; Raymoud Yeager. Peter Sau
dle, John Holler, Calvin Artor, Ed
ward Delsite, Charles Flick, Purdv
Arter, Herbert Hendricks, W. B Kase,
(Charles Snyder, Harry Yeager, Spenc
er Arter, Francis Delsite. Lewis Fig
lea, Harry Marr and Charles Figles.
Demonstration at Geary's.
Ob Fridav, December 14th, A W.
Stephens,State San Jose scale iuspect
er, will give a demonstration ou the
farm of Amos A. Greery, one mile
Irea lbs Rath Baptlut ehureli.
AS TO TOWNSHIP
ROAD TAXES
The following article from the Phil
adelphia Press treats with a subject
that is of prime importance, and is
commended to tiie attention of the ,
.readers of the lutelligeucor, and
especially those who reside in the ,
townships:
At the last regular session of the
legislature an act was passed authoriz
iug townships of the second class, up
on proper petition to the court, to vote i
ou the question of requiring road taxes
to be paid in money instead of being |
worked out,as has been commonly the j
case. Many townships took advantage ,
of this act at the last February elec
tion. Not all of those voting gave a
majority for the payment of the road
tax in cash,but a largo proportion did
aud thereby manifested their progres
sive spirit. The coming February elec
tiou affords another opportunity to
those townships that- took no action
last year, or which theu gave a nega
tive vote. Upon the petition to the
court of twenty-five citizens of a
township the court is required to
authorize an election, the petition to
bo filed at least thirty days before elec- !
tiou. Thero are couviucing reasons
why the system of working out the j
road tax that has prevailed iu tho most i
of the townships of the State should '
be abolished. It has never made good :
roads and never will. Tho greater part j
of the work is wasted, for it does not ;
even keep the road in decent repair.
State Highway Commissioner Hunter
recently said that $5,000,000 are annu
ally wasted in Pennsylvania shoveling
loose dirt on the roads,which is wash
ed away by tho first real rainstorm,
leaving the roads in even worse condi
tion than before anything was done to
them. It was a very conservative state
ment. If the road taxes were collected
in cash the supervisors would have
something to work on, and could use
the money where most needed. It is
another advantago that each township
which decides to adopt the cash sys
tem will receive from the State an
amouut equal to 15 per cent, of the
total road tax collected in such town
ship. This is entirely apart from the
State aid for roads constructed under
the supervision of tho State highway
department. It is so much mouey
turned over to the township authorit
ies for road repairing aud to bo ex
pended by sueh authorities. Tho beuo
fit which townships of tiie second class
may derivo from tho application of
this act are indisputable. It should be
. brought to the attention of tho people
; in all su'jh townships, so that a vote
can be taken on it at the coming elec
tion.
TRIBUTE TO THE QT AIL.
Dr. Kalbfus pays this tribuue to the
quail: "No game bird seems to have
a firmer hold upou the public mind
than tho common quail, or 'Bob
White,' aud a study of this bird, un
dertaken by tho biological survey at
Washington, demonstrates, by almost
limitless examination and experiment,
that the ecouomic value of the quail
is equaled by but few birds, and ex
ceeded by none. His food supply is
more varied than that of most birds,
aud is almost without exception drawn ;
from a scource through which nothing '
hut good can result, lie consumes
many things, such as potato bugs, ;
; chinch bugs, tho cotton boll woavel, j
certain caterpillars, spiders and other \
insects, that most birds avoid, and
\ that, when takeu at all by such other
| birds, are eaten to a limited extent
only." Prof. Surface says in his bul
letin of Jauuary, 1904: 'No birds on
. the farm aro more valuable as seed
i eaters and insect destroyers than the
! common quail."
SCRAPPLE.
This is the way the West Chester
Local News enthuses over scrapple:
"The scrapple seasou dawns upon us,
with its ravishing perfumes and its
j poesy. Scrapple follows sauer kraut,
j aud is itself followed by the buck
j wheat cake The three constitute and
j compose the great gastronomic trio
logy of the late autumn. They are
equally savory ami their ineffable es
sences aro alike stimulating aud re
vivifying. Sauer kraut, perhaps, is a
shade the most nourishing, and the
buckwheat cake, it may ho admitted
is the most romantic of the trio. But
even agaiust these irresistibly seduc
tive delicatessen, scrapple holds irs
own. For tho br>f month following
the tulliug of tlio leav> • t'u king j
viotu tl and master alim- it ol 111 >» great i
plain people."
NOT UNLUCKY.
The Shamokin Daily News docs not '
beliovo iu the superstition that usual
ly gathers around tho number 13. The
News ou Tuesday celebrated its 13th. I
birthday by issuing an anniversary
edition do luxe, and takes occasion to
say a fow modest words about its own
success and popularity. The News tie
serves all of the measure of plenty that
is filling its horn, for the success that
is attending the efforts of the paper
are but tho outcome of years of untir
iug effort to keop the sheet clean,
newsy and fair to all.
THINKS IT'S A GOOD ONE.
According to the Greeusburg Tri
bune,the Westmoreland Couuty School
Directors' association has unearthed
an act which became a law July 27,
1842, aud by the provisions of which
the couuty commissioners of each
county aro required to publish iu not
loss than two newspapers iu the eouu
ty for two weeks,a statement showing
the aggregate valuation and assess
ments made by each assessor iu the
couuty. The Tribune thinks the law a
good one aud insists upoj its enforce
ment.
Goes to North Dakota.
Goorgo J, Vauderslic.e, of Blooms
burg, left yesterday for Dickinson.
North Dakota, where he has accepted
a position as stenographer in the gov
eminent land office at that placo. Mr.
Vanderslice took the examination in
Wilkes-Barre aud easily passed it. The
now position is a most desirable one.
Mr. Vanderslice was formerly court
•ttuographer in Ibis judicial district.
ABOUT 735 TONS
OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE
The season of the year has now ar
rived when in the very nature of
things but; little more work can bo
done on the stroets and yet tho fact re
mains that tho general run of our
streets are still in a very bad condi
tion.
Among the streets that should have
becu included in the repairs made are
East, Market street, Front street, Wal
nut street and Church street from the
D. L. &W. railroad northward. It is
hoped that these important thorough
faros will receive early attention next
spring.
Council has done some very good
work on street repairs this fall, but it
was not until it discarded cinder as a
material and adopted limestone. West
Market street & Centre street as far as
repaired show up very nicely and con
clusively prove that our street com
missioner is an adept at street con
struction when lie is given proper
material to work with.
Iu all 735 tons of crushed limestone
from Dennis Bright's quarries have
been used this fall. Tho cost of tho
stouo in tho quarries was 60 cents per j
ton; tho hauling cost 43 cents per tou.
What other labor was involved did not
amount to more than S3O, so that the
total cost of tho street repairs made
approximates SBOO.
In this connection it is proper that
tho public should know that the re
pairs made with cinder on Bloom
btroot above A street last summer cost ;
the borough some SSOO. When wo boar
in mind what a source of annoyance
tho ciudor proved ami what a poor
street it is after all, no person will
need to think twico in order to render
his decision iu favor of liemstone for
street repairs. Where the latter has
been used all agree that tho money was
wisely expeuded, while where cinder
was employed the money was practic
ally thrown away. All of which
would indicate that while councilmen
have many duties to perform not the
least of these is to see to it that the
people's money is expended iu a way
to securo the best return.
Rewards and Punishments.
Some oi us do not protond to know
much about methods of taxation. We
are dreamers, unpractical, devoid of
those severely practical traits which
are characteristic of the successful busi
liess man of the times, and at odd
moments bewildered by modern meth
ods. Sometimes it looks to us as
though it would bo better to roverne
processes.
There is tho question of taxation,
for instance. Ought a man to be lined
or rewarded for the display of public
spirit? Here is a citizen who owns a
corner lot, having thereon erected a
disreputable looking frame building
worth a few hundred dollars. Ho tears
it down and erects on its sito a splen
did edifice, au ornament to the town,
instantly his tax bill leaps up.
Auother citizen, of a very prudent
frame of mind, is the owner »112 a vac
ant lot iu a good neighborhood. It is
likewise a neglected lot. Weeds grow
there in tho season for weeds. Old tin
cans and other debris ornament it. In
winter tho sidewalk in front of it—
whero there is a sidewalk—is usually
covered by snow and ice. Others build
j all around it and the lot gradually iu
j creases in value. But tho tax of the
owner never increases. It is a more
trifle compared with the amount paid
by his progressive neighbor* who have
helped to build the city.
Would it not be possible to devise
some more equitable method? If the
public-spirited citizen is taxed a little
more every tinio he adds a bit to the
appearance of the city, should not tho
non-progressive person who does noth
ing worth while to help tho town and
who is benefited by tho enterprise of
others be fiued in some way for his
lack of civic spirit? We speak witli
hesitation and reserve, admitting that
there may be reasons for existing cus
tom, which is likewise rather veuer
able, which we have not been able to
fathom.
Speaking from tho standpoint of a
visionary, does not the mau who
beautifies the landscape by a handsome
structure deservo tho applause of his
follow citizens and tho approval of tho
municipality? Does not he who re
moves au ugly and dilapidated shanty
and puts in its place a modern busi
ness block which attracts tho atten
tion of visitors and creates thoughts
of beauty in tho mind of tho busiest
passer-by do a good deed? And is it
not the duty of the State and of the
municipality to recognize the good
which meu do and to reward them for
it?
Speaking from tho same impractical
standpoint, does not tho fossil or tho
skiuflint stand in the way of the prog
ress of the pooplo? Is it not true that
he fosters tin cans and weeds and
othor unsightly things, that ho makes
his neighbor wax iiot with auger when
beating out a path through the untrod
den KUOW ? Is it according to tho etern
al fitness of tilings that such a citizen
should bo actually rewarded for his
stupidity or parsimony? Wo do not
pretend to know; we merely inquire.
ECLIPSES IN 1907.
Iu 1907 there will bo four eclipses,
two of the suu and two of the moon.
The first a total eclipse of (lie sum,
January l*4th, invisible in the United
States; visible iu Kasteru Russia and
the continent of Asia, ending at sun
set in Japan.
The second is a partial eelispe of the
moon, January 27, partly visible in tho
Uuitod States, the moon setting eclips
ed.
The third is the annular eclipse of
the suu, invisible throughout South
America and the South Atlantic Oceau.
Tho fourth is a pratial eclipse of the
moon, July 24, visible in tho United
States The moon enters ponuuibra, 8
o'clock, 69 minutes; moou leaves pen
umbra, 1 o clock 4*>-minutes the fol
lowing morning.
A roll call in tho barn yard just
now would show up a big good list of
"killed and miaaing."
MOONLIGHT
SCHEDULE AGAIN
The borough council has decided to
adopt a moonlight schedule for tho
electrio lisht plant.
This will probably prove agreeable
news to economically inclined taxpay- :
ors, who percieve undor this schedule '
a perceptible reduction in cost of op
erating tie plant, but the action will .
not bo regarded with much approval '
by another class who, as they express !
it, waut good light at all times and as j
taxpayers they are willing to pav for it.
The latter class cite the failure and
dissatisfaction that followed an at
tempt to run on moonlight schedule
during the first year or so of the plant's
history. The mere fact that there is a
moon in the sky,regardless of the fact
whether under the then existing con
ditions it proves much of a factor in
producing light or not, they state, is
too often taken as an excuse for shut
ting down the plant at any hour and
thus the streets are apt to be in prac
tical darkness when light is most need
ed. Even at full moon, when the trees
happen to be out in leaves.it is urged,
the streets are too dark for pedestrians
and electric light is needed.
! Council, however, believes that all
| these things can be regulated. As will
be perceived by the report presented
at the last meeting of council the elec
tric light plant last month was in op
eration 382 hours, representing in that
I time consumption of coal amounting
Ito $207.50. If the time the plant is in
operation can be reduced monthly
I some fifty or sixty hours by the aid of
| the moon the saving, as cau easily be
! computed, during six months of the
I year will be considerable. Altogether
! our borougli fathers have deemed it
j wise to make another experiment,this
I time under restrictions that will be
! sure to produce satisfaction, if such a
! tiling is possible. Tiie moonlight sche
\ dule will be in force some six mouths
1 of the year, only when the trees are
1 not in leaves. During that time the
| shutting down and the starting up of
i the plant as it relates to the moon will
he directly in the hands of Borougli
| Electrician Newton Smith, whoso good
judgment no one doubts. A shutting
i down of the plant will ho permitted
] only when the moon '• large enough
: to cast a brilliant li hi * id the slty is
I positively clear.
LINCOLN FARM
ASSOCIATION
A number of our citizens are being
enrolled as honorary members of the
Lincoln Farm associatiou, a patriotic
| organization lormed by American
| citizens for the purpose of preserving
' as a National Park the farm ou which
I Abraham Lincoln was born.
Ou August 28, 1905, the birth-place
! of Lincoln—a farm of 110 acres in the
1 bluo grass region of Kentucky—was
i put up at public auction to be sold for
taxes. All but one of the bidders rep
resented some business concern trying
to secure the property for advertising
purposes or private speculation.
The farm was purchased by Robert
J. Collier aud is now in the bauds of
an association of patriotic citizens.
There are wealthy men who would
gladly give all the moueyj needed to
carry out this plan, but as Lincoln
was a man of the wholo people it is
believed that this memorial should be
a work of the people. Upon contribut
ing any sum between 25 cents and $23
a person becomes an honorary member
of the Lincoln Farm Associatiou and
will receive a handsomely engravod
certificate filled in with his name—
and it is all the same whether ho gives
25 cents or $25.
The matter of receiving subscrip
tions is left in the hands of I. X.
Gri3r, Esq., and those who wish to
bocome members nay enroll their
names at tho First National Bank for
the present; later on the paper will be
placed at some other central point
Tho Lincoln farm plan is endorsed
by President Roosevelt and Grover
Cleveland. Mark Twain, who is one
of the board of Trustees, indulges in
this characteristic remark :
"Tho government is spending mil
lions every year on agricultural col
leges and model farms to teach tho art
of raising more corn aud squashes. In
tho present political, inoral*and social
atmosphere of the Americau people
there is nothing in that line that cau
compare with this little model farm
that raised a man.''
MOVING BACK
TO DANVILLE
Siuce tho starting up of the Heading
Iron works especially duriug tho pres
-1 ent week, thore has been a steady in
flux of people into town, aud from
general appearances in a short time
there will not be an empty house.
It is a well-kuowu fact that after
the shut down at the Heading iron
works a good mauy families moved
away. On Welsh Hill, especially, a
number of company houses were vac
i aut and boarded up during tho sum
mer. These are tho dwelliugs that are
now mostly boiug occupied and mov
ings are of almost daily occurrence.
Some of tho families formerly lived
heio aud are merely returning witn
the advent of better times. Others are
strangers who have been attraced by
uows of resumption aud waut to try
their fortunes in a new field.
TEACHERS SEEK OFFICE.
It is said that llou. Henry Houck,
secretary of internal affairs elect, has
about 3,000 letters from office seekers
on file, although he never would ad
mit it, much less talk about it. At
Lebauon it is said that public school
teachers in Pennsylvania who,because
of their euvirouut have beccme rather
timid as a rule iu seeking political
preferment, seem to think that their
opportunity has arrived in the elec
tion of one of their fellow-pedagogues
to a State office.
Their euergies are now being em
ployed in writiug letters to Mr.
Houck. As he has never been an ac
tivo politician, in this fact many
office-seeker* seem to see a chance of
elevation.
THREATENED
STRIKE ON P. k I
There is a point of difference be
tween the maiiageraeut of the Phila
delphia & Heading railroad aud its
employes in regard to a new schedule
of wages which if not settled to the
satisfaction of the men may result in
a gigantic strike involving 4000 of tho
company's employes. The negotiations
pending for some mouths between the
management and the meu hare reached
a crisis which may determine whother
a strike, far reaching in its results,
will be called, or the railroad author
ities recoguizo tho schedule submitted
by the meu in which their demands
are ombodied.
Some two mouths ago representa
tives of the locomotive engineers, loco
motive firemen, railroad conductors
aud railroad trainmen submitted n
schedule to A. T. Dico, general super
intendent of the Reading, requesting
an increase in salary which amounted
about 14 per ceut. This schedule fixed
a scale of wages ou each division of
the road for tho class of employes be
longing to the organizations named.
One of the most important requests iu
it was that tho men be paid from the
time they reported for dutv, after bo
iug called instead of from the time
the? took out a train. Under the sys
tem at proseut tho men are called
thirty minutes before train time, aud
'•re uot paid tor that thirty minutes.
From the time the negotiations were
started tho demauds of the men were
j put oil' until November Ist when there
I was an inciease of wages to all meu
receiving less than $2 0 per mouth.
This increase was refused uuless thoro
was au understanding that the sched
ule should bo signed by the company.
This was decliuod by tho management
for the reasou that it would ba a tacit
acknowledgement ou their part that
the employes had a right to negotiate
differences from tho standpoint of
organized labor and not iu their in- 112
dividual capacity. Were it not for this |
fact, the labor men say, the schedule j
would bo signed without delay.
The last conference between Super- !
iutendent Dico and the labor repres
entatives was hold at Reading on Sat
urday, and it is'said Mr. Dice refused
point blank to sign tho schedule.
Supervisors flay Be Indicted.
Unless the supervisors of Upnor
Augusta township, Northumberland j
county, repair certain of the township'
roads within the next thirty days,they
may be open to indictment iu crimin- j
al court.
For the past soveral years tho mail
carrier ou rural free delivery route
No. 1 ruuuiug betweeu Sunbury and
Kliuesgrove, has made frequeut com
plaints regarding the poor oouditiou
of tho roads over which he passes, and
tho constant danger of accident from
ruts, washed out banks and unrepaired
bridges.
Postmaster F. K. Hill of Suubury,
has received a letter from tho fourth
assistant postmaster general stating
that unless the roads of tho township
aro repaired .within the next thirty
days route No. 1 will be withdrawn.
Mr. Hill immediately forwarded this
information to tho supervisors of the
township, who are C. P. Reinhart, F.
W. Cooko aud Peter Koefer. If the
supervisors fail to act and tho peoplo
along the route lose their froo deliv
ery route thereby criminal aet.iou may
bo brought against the township auth
orities.
Governor-olect Hughes,of New York
spout Tuesday at the national capital.
He passed tho night at tho white house
and has had an interview with the
president ami his cabinet-.
MASTERS SALE
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE !
In Equity.
By virtue of an Order of tho Court
of Commou Pleas of Montour County
granted to him for such purpose, the
undersigned will expose to public sale
upon tho promises situate in the First
Ward of the Borough of Dauville,
County of Montour and State of Penn
sylvania, ou
Saturday, Dec. 29th, 1906
at two o'clock in the afternoon of the
said day, the following described real
estate, to wit:
All those two certaiu town lots of
laud situate in the First Ward of tho
Borough of Dauville, County of Mon
tour and State of Pennsylvania,bouud
ed and described as follows, viz:
THE FIRST THEREOF,—Fronting
thirty and five tenths feet on Water
street ou the South, two htfndred and
thirty two feet ou alley on the East,
twenty seven and nine tenths feet ou
alley on tho North and two hundred
and forty teet 011 lot of land hereinaf
ter described 011 tho West, being Lot
1 Number two in plan of lot>|laidout by
| A\ G. Voris.
; THE SECOND THEREOF—Fronting
' on Water street 011 the South, lot Num
ber four of Lewis Byerly on the West, j
| au alley ou the North aud lot Number
two hereinbefore described 011 the
East, coutaiuing in front thirty aud
five tenths feet 011 Water street, two
hundred and forty-eight feet on Lot
Number four of Lewis Byerly, twenty
seven aud uiue tenths feet on allev and
two hundred aud forty eight feet on
Lot Number two above described, be
ing Lot Number three iu plan of lots
laid »ut by A G. Voris, and where
upon aro erected a
Two-Storv Brick Dwelling House,
| and other out buildings, with the ap-
I pursuances. To ho sold at tho suit of
Paul M. Smith vs. Daniel Smith et al.
TERMS OF SALE:—Twenty five
per ceut, of the purchase money shall
lie paid in cash upon the striking
down of the property, and the balance
thereof shall bo paid 011 the confirma*
ion of the said. Deed to be delivered
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof
upon confirmation absolute of the sale
and the payment of tho balance of the
purchase mouev, and the cost of writ
ing deed shall bo paid by the purchas
er or purchasers.
WILLIAM L. SIDLER, Master.
MICUAEL BRECKBILL, Auctioneer,
WILL INVITE BIDS
FOE CURBING;
Now that the State is advertising
for bids for the paving of North Mill
street tho borough of Danville is fol
lowing suit and is preparing to adver
tise for bids for putting down the curb
along the portion to be paved, some
12U0 feet in length. Borough surveyor
Keefer is at work ou the specifications
and will have them read)* in a few
days.
Although the owners of abutting
property have agreed to pay for the
curbing, yet the work will be done by
the borough and all the curbing will
ho included in one contract. Tho curb
ing iu all respects will be like that
employed on that portion of Mill street
already paved.
It is said that there will be one or
more local contractors among the bid
ders for the paving 011 North Mill
street,as well as for putting down the
curb. Tho proposals will bo opened on
Wednesday of next week, December
19th.
Although the State will pave but
three-fourths of tweuty foot or fifteeu
feet, the State highway department
invites proposals for the eutire width
of the street. It advertises for the pav
ing of tweuty feet, three-fourths of
Which tho State will pay for, and al
so for twelve feet additional. This is
done in order to secure uniformity in
the work and that the paving —the
seventeen feot belonging to the bor
ough as well as the fifteeu feet de
voloving on the State—may be com
pleted at one and the same time.
Tho State highway department has
made it very plain that it iuteuds to
enter upou the paving for tho very
first thing next spring. For this rea
son it is proceeding to award tho con
tracts early this winter and is so care
fully attendiug to other details. Iu
order to keep pace the borough is be
stirring itself to award the contract
| for curbiug.
D. 1.. & w. CANNOT
FURNISH PIPE
The borough of Danville has been
notified that the D. L. & W. railroad
company, which promised to procure
tho irou pipe needed for the sewer to
be laid under its track at Church
street, owing to the scarcity of the
exact size wanted, will be unable to '
furnish the pipe without considerable
! delay. •
j It is very desirable that the sewer
i should be completed before winter sets
in and rather than run the risk of be
-1 ing hold up with the work until too
late the borough has decided to pro
cure aud pay for the pipe itself. Ac
cordingly an order has been placed
with the Dauville Foundry and Mach
ine company, which will have the pipe
] ready to deliver by the last of next
; week. The pipe, which will be twen
ty-four inches in diameter, will bo
1 cast in three joints each about five feet
: long.
» By the time the pipe is finished Sup
' eriutendeut P. J. Keefer will have
the excavation completed, which will
1 consist of a tunnel under the D. L. &
W. track. Beyond that point tho full
completion of the job will be the mat
-1 ter of only a few days' time.
STOLE WAGON AND
LOAD OF GOODS
Word was received from Lykeus by
, local officers yesterday morning that
* a wholesale robbery had been com
mitted in that place Tuesday night,
aud that tho supposed robbers were
last soon fleeing in this direction.
At about midnight several uukuowu
parties with an auger and bit manag
ed to break open a back window 7 in T.
A. Honsol's department store, the
largest establishment in that vicinity.
Once inside they ransacked tho place
of all tho valuables it ooutaiueJ. They
filled a Dayton wagon wnich they had
outside with costly furs, jewelry, suit
cases aud other articles to the value
] of almost SICOO.
Several residents of Lykous, return
ing home at a late hour, saw the men
driving rapidly out of town, but did
not recognize them. The Dayton wag
> on, tho bay horse and the stoleu moods
, are the only clues which the police
I have with which to trace the robbers.
(lave Ground Glass to Hogs.
, Tho laudable ambition to raise the
biggest porkers in Rupert has led to a
sad state of affairs. Ou Sunday, states
George Shaffer, of that place, some
, one placed ground glass and poison iu
! his pen while he was away. The ob-
I vious purpohe was to kill Mr. Shaffer's
hoirs, which, he says, are among the
( largest in that section.
The hogs,however, failed to eat any
of the glass aud »ro yet living. Mr
Shaffer is so wrought up over the af
fair that unless apologies are otlered, !
arrests w ill be made. There is a sus
, pected party.
birthday Party.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl McWilliams ou
tertaiM'i! a number of the friends oi I
tho.r daughter Margaret Monday eveu
ing in honor of her 7th. biithday.
Those preseut were Mrs. Ambrose
George, Mrs. Lizzie George, Rhoda
O'Brieu, May McWilliams.lda Eugle,
Rachel Miller, Helen Miller, Annie
Rouoy, Heleu Bvers, Phi I lis Byers,
Minnie Oberdorf, Elsio George, Stella
McWilliams; Richard Mc Williams,
Charles Fisher, Abe Engle, John Mc-
Williams, William Coleman, Arthur
McWilliams, William Henry, William
MoWilliams.George McWilliams.Mrs.
Lizzie Forred.
castor 1A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Moved to Johnson Farm.
Yesterday Adam Flickinger of Straw
berry Ridge, moved ou to the Frauk
Johusou farm, about a quarter of a
mll« out from Htrawb«rry Bldg*.
ELOPED WITH
BROTHER-IN-LAW
The police of this city.hold warrants I
for the arrest of Oharlea tfnttou. alins
Charles Ray, of this city, and • Miss
Ada Krnin, ot Derry township, the
former charged with denerrion and nou
snpport and the latter bring wanted
as a runaway. The two people arc sup
posed to be headed toward New York
State.
The couple left town over a mouth
ago and have thus far managed to
elude pursuit, although the police of
several up-the-river towns have been
aiding to effect 'their capture The
case is also remarkable as showing the
infatuation of a farmer's daughter
for a man nearly twice her own age.
If there is anythiug more needed to
add spice to the episode it lies iu the
fact that the young woman in the case
has stolen Sutton's affections from her
own sister and has actually run away
with her brother-in-law.
Sutton or Kay as he is sometimes
known is a native of Danville. His
wife before marriage was Miss .Jennie |
Krum, of Derry township. The latest :
claimant to Sutton's affections, how
ever, as the sequel shows is Miss Ada
Krum, his wife's sister. The latter is 1
but seventeen years of age. She is de- I
scribed as short of stature,and as hav
ing light hair. When she left home ;
she wore a blue skirt and black coat:
her hat was grey in color and trimmed
in black.
Sutton is 80 years of age, tive feet,
seven inches in height; ho weighs 120
pounds and has dark hair aud mus- 1
tache. His face is pitted with small
pox. When he left home he wore a
dark suit aud a grey cap.
The couple left Danville together
on Monday, November sth. The police 1
were instantly put on the trail and ;
from that time till the pretseut have
been working very quietly. They were
furnished a large number of clues,but
in each case when they arrived at the
spot the couple had passed on. Thus
each day seemed to promise an early
capture which never materialized.
At present the officers despair of
finding the runaways in this section.
The deserted wife ami the parcuts who
are highly respectable people,are very
much grieved over the disappearance
of seventeeu-year-old Ada uuiltr cir
cumstances such as described. At fi.eir
request the matter in all it« dotails is
made public with the hope that the
newspapers will be able to aid in
bringing back the runaways.
Sutton is believed to have had liitle
or uO money aud judging from the
slow progress made it is deemed likely
that the couple are making their way
on foot. On the night after lvaving
Danville the police- discovered that
they spent the night in the depot at
Roaring Creek. The coui.le spent Wed
nesday, November 7th.. iu Berwick.
On Thursday, November 2V, over two
weeks later,they arrived at West Nan
tlcoke.
At tiie latter place they spent the
night as guests of a family with whom
Sutton was acquaiuted auil w hero he
represented the girl as his wile. These
people later learning of Sutton's es
capade caused the authorities here to
be notified, giving full information
not only as to the relation that the
two were sustaining, but also as to
their next destination, which was
Forty Fort. Bejoud this point ail
trace of the couple has been lost, but
it is believed that they are ou their
way to New York State, where Sutton
has relatives.
Improvements on South Side.
The work of improving the bridge
approach and the street leading down
to the station, beguu last week by
Gearhart township ami the Pennsyl
vania railroad compauy, will not be
completed this fall.
The macadami/ation will be carried
from the bridge southward to the rail
road crossing, where work will stop
for the winter. But a very short time
will be required to complete the mac
adam up to the point designated.
The improvements on the street lead
ing down to the freight house will be
takeu up for the very first thing next
spring. Meanwhile the Danville aud
Suubury Street railway company will
have ample time to raise the track of
its line as required to conform with
the change of grade.
Couuty Comm ssioner Cook is author
ity for the statement that the couuty
commissioners will haul limestoue on
that portion of the approach omitted
by Gearhart township aud which nat
urally devolves on the two couuties.
While the couuty commissioners are
about it,it would be a very good thing
if they would give the bridge a good
cleaning, as with the approach on the
south side iu good order mud will no
longer be a factor on the driveway. At
places there is an inch or more of mud
on the bridge carried there by the
wheels that ploughed through the
muddy approach'. Some of this mud
has found its way over the entire
length of the bridge aud is even drag
ged out over the paving ou Mill street
near the bridge approach It detracts
very much from the appoarance of the 1
bridge, aud now that there are pros
pects of keeping the driveway clean
the mud should be scraped up aud
hauled away without delay.
home for Aged Odd Fellows.
The Odd Fellows havo decided upon
what the old building at the orphan
age, near Suubury, shall be put to,af
ter the completion of the new build
ing next year, and the decision reach
ed will appeal to every one interested
in this great benevolent institution.
Immediately after the completion of
the new wings, and they have been
made ready for the occupancy of the'
numerous orphans cared for there, the
old buildings will be fitted up for the
use of aged and infirm Odd Fellows
aud their wives. Thus the Odd Fel
lows will not only have a home for the
orphans, where they will be cared for
and educated, but they will have a
lraveu of rost, for the Odd ' Fellow hud
his wife iu the declining days'of thefi
lives.
This institution has bceh a splendid
success ever since its beginning. All
iu this seotiou will wish the Odd Fel
lows the greatest success in the exten
sion of tlieir charitable institution.
For Lung I
Troubles |
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral ccr jj
tainly cures- coughs, cckls, |
bronchitis, consumption. And |
it certainly strengthens wen!; j
throats nr.cl weak lungs, j
There can be no mistake about |
■ this. You l.now it is true. And j
j your own. c v ill tay sc. j
rhe • •->t kind i testimonial
"So tor I er sixty your*."
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INHIIIt \ K, liK.VI. I. ANN PRaLTIUK
DR. J. BWEIBFORT,
DENTIST.
' l : ae* ODi'MUNDER for the painless ex
traction .»f teeth. Dentistry in sll
its hnmches and all work guar*
I an teed.
CHARGES REDUCED.
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