Home Paper-—- —.For ilie Bom The circulation of this paper is in creasing rapidly. It will pay you to advertise in the AMERICAN. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR DR. IRVING H. JENNINGS, DENTIST. Office Hours 9 A. M to 12, M- 104 Mill JP. M.to UP. M. DanvilU. Pa. gIIULTZ, M. D. 425 MILL ST., DANVILLE, PA. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty W. P. ANGLIC, —DENTIST OFFICE: 218 MILL STKKKT. Teeth Extracted without I'ain. Crown and Ilridge Work a Specialty. Equipped with the latest and most Improved Instruments and prepared to execute the most difficult work. DR. C. H. REYNOLDS, (FORMERLY OP CATAWISSA). DRNIIB7 Office, Opposite Boston Store, Danville, Pa Dentistry in all its branches. Charge Moderate and ah work Guaranteed. Established 1892. ISSIiT Here it is November, A. D. 1900, and two persons were overcome by the heat in different parts of the country on Tuesday. The small boy is announcing what he expects for Christmas. Here is a man in Scranton who com mitted suicide because his wife obliged him to get up first in the morning to cook his breakfast. There are probably some men in this vicinity who are in the same boat, but we doubt their committ ing suicide on this account. Murder and attempts at murder by means of carbolic acid have become so frequent of late that some special pun ishment ought to be devised to fit the crime. The residence of Heister Foust on Front street is being re-painted. Remember the poor on Thanksgiving Day. Patrick Welch and family, former resi dents of Youngstown, 0., are occupying the Lane residence on Church street, formerly occupied by Thomas Jones. Tb«? Methodist Episcopal church, of Milton, will be dedicated December 9th by Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, D. D. LI- D. The eleventh annnal convention of the Northumberland County Christian Endeavor Union will hold its session in Shamokin in St. John 's Reformed church on November 29th and 30th, and the gathering promises to be the largest and moet successful in the history of the union. It is gratifying to note the interest a majority of the property owners in this section have taken in the matter of cleaning away the rubbish which ac cumulated about their premises during the fall. No such fall weather has been experi enced in this section for many years and the ' oldest resideuter," that mythical person always appealed to for verifica tion of events climatic and wonderful in a meteorological way, has been as much suprised as the ordinary individual and wayfarer. Edward Foley, the well known roll turner is ill at hii home on E. Front street. William DeWitt, of Riverside, passed through Sunbury on Monday on a hunt ing expedition down to his old home in Lower Augusta. He looks as young as he did thirty years ago.—Sunbury Daily. The Ladies Aid Society of St. Peter's M. E. church, South Danville, will give a chicken supper in the basement of the church on Thursday evening, December lit Tickets 25 cents. It ha* been generally decided that the century ends with the last day of this year and in oonsequenoe, many towns are preparing to celebrate it in a sig nificant way. Thanksgiving will be more generally uhserved this year than for many years, ;va it marks the close of a oentnry. D. H. Burt, of Carbondale.was in Dan ville Tuesday, when he sold machinerv made by the Wilson Laundry Machine company,of Columbia, for the new laun dry to be opened by Ralph Hodge and Harvey tkringer in the building in the rear of Kickett's clothing store on Mill street. Miss Mary K. Snyder, a descendant of Governor Snyder, who died at Selius- i grove recently, left amung other lie quests the following: To the Incorporat ed Trustees of the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania of the Episoopal Church, the Ail Saints C'hnroh building being erec-ted at Selinsgrove, also lot on which it stands with two story house and out buildings. also her Pennsylvania Rail road stock, 10.1 shares, and all uth<-r money invested, also her honse and lot at Selinsgrove and house and lot on the corner of and Aroh streets, in Sunbury. To the rectory honse at Selins grove, library furniture, carpets, pic tnros *nd fixtures. All the rest, residue And remainder of her estate, real and personal or mixed to the said Incorporat ed Trustees forever. The plays at the Opera House this afternoon aud evening will no doubt be first class. The company is a capable one aud well worth seeing. You will hear all that is new in songs and music and the entire program will be sure to please. "" IIS COIJNTRY WILL NEVER BE ENTIRELY FREE UNTIL IT SUPPLIES ALL OF ITS OWN DEMANDSWITH ITS OWN PRODUCTIONS." VOL. 45—NO 48. PrfOGRAM FOR THANKSGIVING Sunbury K. of P. Members Will Visit This City To-Night. Arrangements have been completed for Thanksgiving amusements in Dan ville to suit all tastes. The members of Beaver Lodge, No. 132, K. of P. are planning to entertain seventy-five or more members of the Sunbury lodge at a regular meeting in the evening. Following the meeting the members of the two lodges will enjoy a banquet at Armory hall, prepared by Caterer G. Fred Smith. The Sunbury lodge has arranged to run a special ex cursion train from that place to South Danville,leaving Sunbury at6:3o o'clock. Returning the train will leave South Danville at 12 o'clock, midnight. The committee in charge of the en tertainment is: Simon Hoffman, John G. Waite, William J. Williams, Keel.v A. Ream and Edward Purpur. All lodge members are requested to meet at the lodge rooms at six o'clock to be escort ed byStoes' band to the South Danville station to meet the visitors. A strongly contested foot ball game is promised at DeWitt's park this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, between the Danville and Catawissa High School teams. Good trap shooting, both at blue rocks and live birds, is announced for sportsmen by the Mausdale gun club. Two plays will be presented at the Opera House by the Maude Ilillman company "Charity Bess" will be the matinee bill, and "Blackmail" will be played this evening. Some of the younger people are ex pected home from schools, and several Danville families have arranged to spend the day and eat Thanksgiving turkey with friends out of town. Numerous social gatherings will beheld this evening. The well fattened tur key is the only one who can find noth ing for his satisfaction in the plans for the day, and even he is inclined to think that he will be '"in it." Ulinton Willett Spilled Molten Iron With Which He Was Working. Clinton Willett, oldest son of Mrs. Rebecca Willett, of Riverside, burned hisfoot badly while working at the Stove Works about three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Young Willett was carrying a ladle of molteu iron from the cupola to the molding room of the "dog shop" when he struck the ladle against a mold, spill ing the metal over his left foot. He was taken home and the injury was dressed. On October 25, 1899, Clinton's brother ! Frank was run over by the cars and both of his legs were cut off. Interesting Chemical Experiments. The Y. M. C. A. free entertainment course was auspiciously opened in As sociation hall Tuesday eve by the chemi cal experiments made bv Prof. J. C. Carey, of the Danville High school. The entertainment was well attended and it was enjoyed by all present. The experiments were both interesting and instructive. Prof. Carey 'illustrated many of the simple laws of nature, showing the chemical changes that are frequently necessary to produce certain results. These entertainments are free to the men ofDanville. The next one will be ; on Tuesday evening, December 4, when Miss Augusta Gilmore, of Williamsport, will give readings. Plucky Woman and Burglars, Another attemptat burglary was made early Tuesday morning at the residence of Mrs. William J. Deen, West Mahon ing street. The thieves first attempted to get into the cellar. Failing in that they pried ■ open the shutter of one of the first lloor windows. Mrs. Deen was awakened by the noise. She took a lamp and a revolver and went down stairs to investigate. Her appearance frightened away the burglars just as they were raising the window. Preparing for the Fair. Preparations are being made for the fair to be held under the auspices of Friendship Fire company. From the; present outlook the fair promises to be a . great success. It will probably be held j in the store room formerly occupied by j the Schoch grocery. it will be opened . about December 15. Many displays will be made by Danville merchants and in- ! teresting contests will be field. Stoes' band will furnish music during the fair, j which, if successful, will be continued! two weeks. Spike in Horse's Foot. J. B. Cleaver's valuable horse was bad- j ly injured Tuesday afternoon by run ning a large spike into his right hind, foot. Mr. Cleaver was driving on Mill street near the flour mill when the horse stepped on the spike, which was driven ! into the frog of his foot about two and . a half inches. The nail was removed' and the injury poulticed. It is believ ed that no permanent injury will result, j Starting Up the Saw Mills. Owing to the long drought, Bailey & Shepperson have had their Glen City and Tomhicken saw mills shut down for several weeks. The heavy rainfall the past few days has filled the small streams and they will put the mills in operation i this morning. Sawing will be resumed ! at many other mills in this part of the state.i DANVILLE, PA.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,19(H). IN FAVOR OF THE COMPANY Verdict for Defendant in Boiler Explosion Damage Suit. For thirteen hours the jurors wrestled with the case of Barron against the Reading Iron Company and at three o'clock on Saturday morning they reach ed a verdict of no cause of action, or "in favor of the defendant," as it was an nounced, when court convened at 10:30 o'clock on Saturday morning. Following this verdict, much curiosity was manifested concerning the delibera tions of the jurors and what caused them to take so long to arrive at a ver dict. It is understood that from the time the jury-retired, all twelve of the men were in favor of rendering a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, if they could con strue the law so that such a verdict could be given without proof that the accident was caused by neglect on the part of the company, and that at first six of the jurors were of the opinion that such a verdict could be found. But dur ing the night these six became convinc ed that the law, as explained to them in the charge of the Judge, precluded a ver dict for the plaintiffs unless the evi dence proved negligence on the part of the company. On this point the jurors were all agreed, believing that no evi dence was produced in the trial which proved such negligence. It is under stood that the amount of damages,should a verdict have been given for the plaint iffs, was not considered, the only ques tion being whether any such verdict could be found at all. As soon as the verdict was rendered, the attorneys for the plaintiffs made a motion for a new trial. They were grant ed two weeks in which to prepare a case with exceptions. A Peculiar Accident. Peter Fisher, of Third street, an em ploye of the Reading Iron Company, walked for some distance, after his leg was broken at the iron mill on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Fisher was employed at the large scrap shears. At about 4:30 o'clock a large piece of boiler plate was being cut at these shears. Six or eight men were ' holding the iron, but as thooks. Give your children a foreign paper which contains not one word about any person, place or thing, which they ever saw or perhaps ever heard of, and how could you expect them to be interested ? But let them have the home paper and read of people whom they meet and of places with which they are familiar and soon an interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed and those children will read the papers all their lives and become intelligent men and women, a credit to their ancestors, and strong in the knowledge of the world as it is to-day. Salvation Army Notes. Special services will be conducted in Salvation Army hall on Sunday after noon and evening. This will be Ensign and Mrs. Heift's last Sunday in Dan ville. In the afternoon Kev. Dr. \V. I. Steans will speak and the Y. M. (J. A. quartet will sing. In the evening Ensign and Mrs. Heift will speak of the work during their stay in Danville. On Tuesday night will be the final farewell. The officers from .Milton and Sunbury are expected to be present. A Thanksgiving service will be held at the hall tomorrow eveuing. Chicken Supper. The ladies of Golden Link Temple, No. 122 K. G. E., will hold a chicken supper in Armory hall on Saturday evening, December 1. Price of tickets 25 cents. Basket Ball on Friday Night. The Mahatioy City basket ball team will play the Danville boys at Armory hall on Friday evening. A good game may he expected. HOLIDAYS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS Decided Upon at Monday Night's Meeting of the Board. The public schools of Danville will be closed on Thanksgiving and on Friday of this week. They will also be closed for the week beginning December 24, but school will be held all of the week beginning December 31, including New Year's. This was decided upon at the regular meeting of the School Hoard Monday evening. President of the Board Fischer and Directors Keefer, Orth, Burger, Barber, Harpel, Werkheiser, Black and Fenster mricher were present. Dr. Barber reported that the commit tee on buildings hopes to have the rail ing at the Second ward school fixed be fore the next meeting. The treasurer was directed to draw an order for the payment of the teachers' salaries for November. The question of closing the school on Friday as well as .on Thanksgiving brought to light the fact that some of the teachers desire to have the schools closed for the two davg, and some of them do not. On Mr. Orth's motion, the question of closing was decided as already stated. Dr. Barber called attention to a set of mathematical blocks that were recently purchsed by Professors Gordy and Carey for the purpose of helping pupils to bet ter understand the calculation of sur faces and solids, both in the study of arithmetic and geometry. Prof. Houser explained the working of the blocks. On motion of Mr. Keefer, $lO was ap propriated to reimburse Professors Gordy and Carey for the purchase of the blocks, which will be owned by the schools. The following bills were ordered paid: <). B. Sweitzer $21.80 R. L. Myers & Co., 18.00 Standard Electric Light Co., 11.96 Frank Schram 7 40 Willurd Miller, 2.00 Seidel & Bausch, 5.50 P. M. Kerns & Son 1.25 William Quigg, 2.50 William E. Young, 4.37 Giun & Co., 5.00 Werner School Book Co., 4.80 American Book Co., 3.20 P. & R. freight, 45 Joseph Gross 50 Danville Basket Ball Players Badly Beat en by St. Clair. St. Clair, forty-eight; [Danville, seven teen. That tells the story of the down fall of the local basket ball.team at St. Clair on Saturday evening. No one knows what caused it nor how the St. Clair boys made such a large score. Gaskins, one of the defense men was not feeling well and Substitute Ob erdorf was played in the first half, which at the end stood thirty-two for St. Clair and two for Danville. In the second half Gaskins was putin and the Danville players did much better. The St. Clair boys put up a much better game than the local team expect ed, and the fast plav completely de moralized the Danville boys. Arrangements are being made for an other game between the same teams to be played in this city in the near future, and at that* time the Danville boys hope to turn the tables on the visitors. The teams lined up as follows: Danville. St. Clair. Klase Attack Johnston Bedea Attack Titus Newbaker Center Hughes Oberdorf | n 112 } . Gaskins i Defense [ ltt >' ,or Sechler Defense Ray Summary. Goals from field—Hughes, 9; Johnston, 7. Titus, 3; Ray, 3; Taylor, 1; Newbaker, 4; Sechler, 3. Klase, 1. Goals from foul—Titus. 2; Bedea, 1. Reese, Referee: Diehi, Umpire. Instructive and Interesting Lecture of Dr. Darst at the High School. The High school room was crowded Thursday night when Dr. Darst delivered the only evening lecture of the Institute. His s ibject was"l, the Heir of All the Ages." It was an eioquent and instruc tive lecture, treating of the advance of the human race from the Creation. He pointed out the creative energy of the Divine Being that enters into every thing. Four principal racial forces were tak en, as the basis from which the modern race has inherited its advantages. They were the Hebrew, with its- genius for re ligion and enduring strength; the Grecian, with its artistic and classical culture; the Roman with its laws, and the Teutonic, with its development of liberty, which was carried from the Ger man forests to England and from there to America. This tide of creative progress, he de clared is still moving on. At Christ Church. At Christ Episcopal church the Thanksgiving services will be a celebrat ion of the Holy Communion at 8 a. m. and Morning Prayer and sertr.on at 10:30 a. in. The < Hiring will be for the bene fit of the Packer Hospital, Sunbury. Ordered to Ship Boiler. Orders were Monday sent to the Babcock & Wilcox company to ship at once the boiler for the Water Works an nex. Work on this building is progress ing rapidly. It will be ready for the slate roofers this week. Don't forget the Shooting match at Mausdale today. ESTABLISHED IN 1855. PRIED OFF THE MONEY DRAWER Thief Tapped Till With a Meat Cleaver — Secured Seven Dollars. Some thief, who tapped the money drawer with a cleaver, secured about $7 from the butcher shop of Theodore Hoff man, Jr., No. 708 East Market street, early on Saturday morning. The theft was committed between six and seven o'clock. The men had all gone out with the wagon, and Mr. Hoff man was down town at market. The door was locked and the key was left for Theodore Hoffman, Sr., in a place known]only to people connected with the shop. It was still dark when the theft was committed, but it is supposed that the thief watched the man who locked up and after every one was gone took the key and unlocked the door. When he went out, after taking the money, he locked the door behind him and put the key back where he found it. Evidently he could not work the com bination of the money drawer, failing in which he took a meat cleaver and pried the drawer off. He left three cents. As near as is known he secured §7. No clue of the thief has been discovered. Deaf Mute, Looking for a Man, Started Eumor of a Bobbery. Sunday afternoon it was rumored that an attempt to commit a robbery had been made at G. Fred Smith's re staurant on Mill street. The rumor started from the fact that about one o'clock a stranger was found in one of the second 'floor rooms. When Mr. Smith tried to learn what he wanted.the stranger made signs to indicate that he wasuleaf and dumb. He wrote on a pad saying that he was looking for George Watson. Mr. Smith knew of no such man, but he emphatically ordered the fellow to leave the place. Whether he understood or not, the man grasped the restaurant keeper's * meaning and promptly went out. After he left the restaurant the strang er applied at several places for directions to tiud the man for whom he was look ing. If he was shamming that he was a mute, as some of those who saw him be lieved, he played the part well; for no ruse commonly used to expose sham mutes worked in his case. Chain Gang Remedy Badly Needed in this County. Josiah Flynt, the well known "hobo" author and student of social economics, oncewrote. "Justso long as the Amer ican housewife continues to feed every tramp that begs at her door, just so long will she have tramps to feed." It can as well be said that just so long as the authorities of Danville and Mon tour county follow their present meth ods of dealing with tramps just so long will they have tramps to deal with; and more than that, just so long will the pre sent epidemic of chicken stealing and petty pilfering continue, to say nothing of bold-ups and more serious crimes. According to the present system, tramps who make themselves too obnox ious in their begging are given a night's lodging in the lock-up and are turned loose in the morning to again prey on the public. Many others are furnished with a free night's lodging, with per haps a breakfast thrown in, at the tramps' hotel at the Poor farm. In this way the fellows are insured a comfortable place to sleep, and they can easily beg or steal their food with no fear of severe punishment. The tramps like this system, as their numbers in this vicinity indicate. Let the Council of Danville and the Montour County authorities pass ordi nances, directing that all tramps, found within the county limits, must serve at least ten days in the county jail, such sentence entailing ten hours work each day in a chain gang at breaking stone or on the public highways. Then let the authorities see that the law is rigidly enforced. It is safe to predict that within thirty days from the passage of such ordi nances there would be few "Hoboes" in Montour county, and the present epi demic of petty thieving and more ser ious crimes would be a thing of the past. The few tramps who still remained in the county would be forced to accom plish considerable toward the better ment of the public highways, without in any way keeping honest men from their regular labor. The honest citizen and tax payer would like this system, the tramps would not. His Birthday Anniversary. Charles Livziey was pleasantly sur prised by a number of his friends on Monday evening, the occasion being his 21st birthday. Those present were the Misses Irene George, Dora White, Lena Ryan, Elsie Elliott, Cora Hendricks,Lil lian Hendricks, Hattie Reilly, Lizzie Mnginlev, Emma Hunt, Bertha Rielly, Mrs. Livziey and Mrs. Rowe. Messrs Charles Woolridge, S. Welliver, J. Ell iot, Edward Lovett, Arthur Woolridge, C. Rosencrautz, Ezra Hendricks, Abra han Hiatt, James Kielly and A. C. An trim. Realized Nearly Twenty Dollars. The cake and apron sale of the Ladies' Aid society of Christ church, held at the home of Mrs. C. Kobson on East Mahon ing street Tuesday afternoon |and even ing was well patronized. Most of the articles on sale were disposed of. Tea was served. Nearly S2O was realiz ed. jyjo rmiiiiiiu The office of the AMERICAN being furnished with a large assortmen of job letter and fancy type and job material generally, the Publisher announces to the public that he is prepared at all times to execute in the neatest manner JOB PRINTING Of all K inds and Descrption. JQgPGet our prices before place your orders. IS WELL KNOWN IN DANVILLE Rev. D. E. Stuart Who is Under Cloud at Wilkesbarre Conducted Meetings Here. The publication of the picture of the IJev. D. E. Stuart in the Philadelphia papers Friday confirmed the belief that the young minister now under a cloud in Luzerne county at one time figured prominently in Danville church circles. Mr. Stuart is the clergyman who is ac cused of malpractice in connection with the death of his girl wile at Plymouth a few days ago, and against whom it is stated that the charge of murder will be preferred. He was arrested at Philadel phia and taken to Wilkesbarre early in the week. While a student at Bucknell Univer sity at Lewisburg a year ago last spring, Mr. Stuart conducted a series of revival meetings at Immanuel Baptist church on Walnut street. At that time he was also acting as supply for the church at Montandon. He preached here several times both before and after the revival meetings. Immanuel church was without a pastor, and several members were very anxious to extend a call to him. He was popular in Danville and his evangelistic services were successful, about twenty-six conversions resulting. He pretended to take a great interest in the work here, one of his favorije ex pressions, frequently repeated, being: "How I do love this little church and its people!" i Suggestions for School Work Made by Able Instructors at High School. Secretary W. D. Laumaster, of the Y. M. C. A., conducted the devotional ex ercises at the opening of the Institute in the High school room Thursday morn ing. Miss Patridge occupied the second and third periods of the forenoon sfession, continuing her talks on language study. She said that children make errors in written language because of ignorance and carlessness. Teachers should not point out errors made in the written ex ercises, but should keep all papers ex amined and make a list of the mistakes made by each pupil. Children must get the thought before they can properly use language in writing and they should first be taught orally, and then the writ ten lessons should be corrected by oral exercises. The children should copy lessons, and strict accuracy should be required in this work. Dr. Croswell continued his nature study talks, using plant life as his sub. ject. In studying plants, he said,teach ers should lead children to become thoroughly acquainted with a single plant, its growth, habits and life, and the pupils should be encouraged to grow plants at home. Dr. Darst again spoke on pedagogy, saying that all knowledge, all thought and all ideas must be acquired through observation, and these must be woven together by the child for future use. Mrs. A. R. Ramsey, of Philadelphia, organizer of the Congress of Mothers, addressed the afternoon session of th 3 Institute in the interest of the cause she represents. She said that the great force in making the home is the school, and that the teacher's view should be brought into contact with the mother's view in order to accomplish the best results. The Congress wants to put kinder gartens into schools throughout the State, especially to save the children who have depraved mothers, or no mothers at all. Mrs. Joseph H. Johnson and Mrs. W. D. Laumaster sang a duet. In her afternoon talk, Miss Patridge spoke of general school work, and the duties of directors, saying it is not good business for directors to employ teach ers and then never visit the schools. Dr. Darst directed his address to dir ectors as well as teachers, saying that the development of boys and girls is a subject worthy of the earnest attention of thoughtful men. He then spoke about the combination of art and literature in to poetry. Peculiar Accident. William \l. lleddens, who is employ ed at the Structural tubing works, met with a peculiar accident on Saturday evening. He was working on an emery wheel and was cutting a piece of twine on it when one end of the string caught in the wheel. The other end was wound around his Before he could loosen the cord the thumb was broken below the joint. Dr. Newbaker reduced the fracture. Cut by Chip of Iron. While James Mcßride, Jr., of South Danville, was emplojed at the Curry & Yannau machine shops, on Saturday afternoon, a deep gash was cut in his face by a piece of flying iron that had been chipped from a casting. Dr. Smith dressed the wound. Fire Department Election. The election of officers for the tire de partment will be held next Saturday evening at Friendship Engine house on Ferry street. The polls will be open from 0:30 to 8 o'clock. A chief and four assistants will be elected. Notice. An adjourned meeting of the Montour County Agricultural Society will be held at the California Grange Hall on Monday, Dec. 3rd at 2 p. in. The ob ject of"the meeting is to complete the organization and elect officers for the ensuing year. All farmers in Montour county are requested to be present and take partiu the proceedings. J. K. MURRAY, Pres't.