A Hie Pager —-For Hie Home Ihe circulation of this paper is in creasing rapidly. It will pay you to advertise in the AMERICAN. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR OK. HIVING H. .IKNNIN(SS, DENTIST. Office Hours 9 A. .»/ to 12 M'(> 4 MM < s '-. Ir. M.to 4 I'. U. Danville, I'a. SIII L.T7., J1 l». 4'_T) Mil l. Sr., DANVII.I.E, PA. diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty J yi. W. I». AXIiI.K, DENTIST Office: 218 Mu.i. Ktkkkt. etlli |-.\ti'itrtMl wtllioul t'alu. Crown Hint ISridgi? W urk u specialty. tC<|Ulpi>e<l Willi I lie Intent ami MOHt improved 1 nsli-iiment.i urn! prepared I" execute tlie most difficult work. DR. O 11. REYNOLDS, -DENTIST.— Offiee, Opposite Boston Store, Danville, Pa, Dentistry in all its branches, ('barges Moderate and all work (Guaranteed. Establish**! 18»2 Harvest is nearly over. The country hereabouts looks beau - tiful. Nothing is said about a scarcity of water this month. The Hazletou Item has suspended publication. The lawn mower needs frequent at tention. These are grass growing days. By some gratifying mix-up of weath er dates July stole one of those "rare June days" yesterday. Mrs. Wesley Hartzell is seriously ill at her home on Grand street. Hereafter the Lackawanna R. R. will charge 25 cents for checking baby carriages. Fishermen say that bass are shy and that few of the gamey fish have been caught so far. The anglers declare, that the sport has I wen poor this year. The ants are now of the proper size to warrant the success of the Sunday school picnic. It pays to own a coal pile these days. One half of the school vacation is almost gone. George Treas, of Railroad and Wal nut streets, is the happy father of a fine baby girl. The days are declining. There is something like six minutes difference in their length since June 21st. Superintendent West has a large number of electric fans in operation In business places and homes throughout the city. The express companies have been handling big fruit shipments for sever al weeks past. A haudsome new name plate adorns the cash register at Elias Maier's res t au rant. Jnly weather is going to be all right if the present indications hold out. But the right, to change this opinion is reserved. This is the time of the year that the school board usually invites bids for the winter's supply of coal,hut owing to the strike on at present they can take no action. Bloomsburg town council took ac tion Monday night looking to the pav ing of Main street. Bloomsburg is booming its centen nial celebration. The thermometer is holding to the eighty mark these days. The oats will be a fine crop this year due to the abundance of rains. The amount of money paid out in wages in Danville monthly is estimat ed at SIOO,OOO. The public fountain is a popular place for watering horses, it frequent ly happens that several are awaitiug their turn. The lailies of St. Paul's M. E. church will hold a social Friday evening at the home of Mrs. F. H. Vaunan,South Danville. Pine apple has come i.itohigh favor as a fruit for summer. It refreshes the stomach, cools the blood and aids di gestion. Early closing now gives the streets a deserted appearance after six o'clock in the evening. Jesse W. Beaver, Pine street, has a very flue garden. His table has been supplied with tomatoes of his own rais ing for two weeks past. The garden is much admired by passers-by. A hack load of people from Blooms burg and Catawissa will attend the sixth dance of the summer series at Hunter's Park this evening. Colonel J. Sweisfort and family moved to Hunter's Park yesterday afternoon to spend a week camping out. Beyond the periodical charges upon the commissary department the latest Gettysburg engagement has been tie void of fatalities. An icecream festival will l>e held at the Toby Run School House on Sat urday evening for the benefit of the Sunday school. All art* invited. Dorothy, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Thomas, First street, is lying seriously ill. Mr. anil Mrs. John Bird of River side, were entertained yesterday at the home of John Keim, Front street. "THIS COI'NTRY WILL NEVIiR HE ENTIRELY FREE UNTIL IT SUPPLIES ALL OF ITS OWN DEMANDSWITH ITS OWN PRODUCTIONS." VOL. 47—NO 20. WANT LIGHT AND WATER Riverside unquestionably is one of the most attractive little boroughs in this part of the state. Its cozy dwellings, its well-kept lawns and gardens, its broad streets and abund ance of refreshing shade impart an irresistible charm. The citizens are aware that they have a beautiful bor ough but there are still a few things which they covet. Riverside Is situated in close prox imity to the prosperous town of Dan ville and might enjoy the luxury of electric light. Yet after dark the little municipality is enveloped in darkness as dense as that which hangs over the most remote backwoods locality. The good burgher who ventures abroad at night either takes a lantern or gropes his way as best he can. This may suit some but to others it does not seem at all progressive and they are beginning to agitate electric light. The sentiment is growng very rapidly and in a short time, it is stated, the Standard Electric Light Company of this city may he asked to extend its service of street lighting at least so as to take in Riverside, if not South Danville. The object is to in stall five or six arc lights in the bor ough selecting points where the need of light is felt the most. A better water supply, one that would afford some protection in case of fire,is needed quite as much as electric light. Said one of the leading citizens in conversation yesterday: "Our town is exposed to extraordinary peril. It has been very lucky thus far. But re flect on what might happen if a fire were to break out in any one of a half a dozen different localities. Let the weather be dry and a wind prevailing and with no fire apparatus and only the wells to draw on there could be but one result: a whole street or a large portion of the borough might be wiped out of existence." The question of water is a problem not easily solved. Some think the borough should have its own supply, while others advocate the less practic able course of "purchasing water from Danville, assuming the borough could be induced to lay a main across the river. In time no doubt the problems as to light and water will be solved when the population ofrhe pleasant little borough now a thousand or twelve hundred will no doubt increase ten fold. Politics and Base Ball. The game of base ball between the ' 4 Ul»l Tiu*»-io'' «t»»l Mi Itou, CAliO'lnlo^ to be played at Milton this afternoon, has been postponed until tomorrow j afternoon on acccount of the Republi can congressional conference, which will meet today at Sunbury. Hon. Fred A. Godchafles,who is one of the candidates,lives in Milton and a large delegation of Miltonians will goto Sunbury to attend the conference to be on hand to do the shouting. Saturday afternoon the Springfield team will meet the "Old Timers " at ' DeWitt's Park. For next week Dau ville has one game scheduled at home and two out of town. They will goto Bloomsburg Tuesday, July 22, and will play the'Shamokin club at De- Witt's Park on Friday, July 25. Sat urday the 20th, they will journey to Watsontown, and on Tuesday, July 29, will cross bats with Sliamokin at the coal metropolis. Quoits Under an Awning. One of the most popular games in Danville is the old fashioned one of quoit pitching. The most enthusiastic devotees are a few prominent business and professional men who gather near ly every day in the lot at the rear of F. G. Peters' store. As soon as gentle spring permits the I game is on and it lasts until winter's j rigors stops the pitching. The eon- I tests are very close and the players are j all skilled. They have erected a stout ! canvas awning over the quoiting j ground so that they can pursue their j favorite sjiort rain or shine. Neither I the hot rays of a summer sun or a | heavy downpour of rain interferes with the game in the least. Under J canvas quoiting goes on regardless of weather. The awning is gaily de- j corated with flags and presents quite i a handsome and cosy appearance. Engine for Brick Yard. An engine and boiler have been brought from the lumber camp of G. M. Shoop, in West Virginia, and will be used at the brick yard which is to be established north of this city. The engine is now being tested by Joseph Lechuer and will be erected at the yard whenever matters have progress ed far enough to make necessary the use of machinery. The boiler will be set up as soon as possible. Vitrified paving bricks are to be manufactured, but it will be some time before active work will he begun. Those who are interested aie still hav ing the clay examined by chemists and practical brick men. When they have assurances that the material has passed all tests the making of a new industry will be started. Entertained by Lafey Children. The Lafey children, Isabelle and Cornelia, of Chester, who are visiting in this city, their old home, gave an excellent entertainment Friday eve. in the parlor of the St. Elmo Hotel. John C. Moyer, proprietor of the hotel, bad invited a number of friends who were delighted with the singing and dancing of the children. ! GENERAL ADVANCE ; AT TWO PLANTS The advance of wages announced at j the Heading Iron works some weeks ago I raising the price of paddling from $4.25 j to £1.50 per ton went into effect Mon day, the 14th inst. The advance is one of the most important which lias heen grauted in this eity for many years past, as all classes of labor, even the most unskilled, are generously affect ed. Not only is the price of puddling near high water mark under the ad vance hut the wages fixed for common labor, $1.25 per day, are the highest paid in fifteen years if not a longer period. James Mallen & Company have granted a similar advance at the Dan ville Rolling Mill, raising the price of puddling to the same figure, $4. 50 l»er ton. As is natural the wage-earn ers at these two plants arc in quite a happy frame of mind, while the ad vance has created quite a lot of in terest throughout the community. Recently the Danville Stove & Manu facturing company granted an advance of 10 per cent to its moulders. It has frequently been remarked by those em ploying labor here that Danville can boast of as intelligent and as skillful a class of workmen as can be found anywhere. It is evident that they de serve the highest wages that capital can afford to pay. At the same time it is worthy of note that our business concerns are not unmindful of what is duo labor, a lact attested by the ad vances in wages made from time to time Thus unlike some neighboring places Danville suffers little or not at all from labor troubles, and business along all lines is in a prosperous state. Monument to Cost SIO,OOO. Solicitors are busy at work canvass ing the borough for subscriptions for the soldiers' monument. The field, to be covered, comprising the borough of Danville and the rural districts of the county, is quite a large one and scarcely more than a beginning has been made; yet the amount subscribed is considerable and quite sufficient to inpsire the committee with hope that the monument can be built with but little difficulty. Soliciting'thus far is limited to the First, Second and Third Wards of Danville. Solicitors are be ing appointed in the Fourth ward, in Washingtonville and in each of the dif ferent townships, who in a short time will be working together as one man to raise the money required. The cost of the monument, such as contemplat ed, is estimated at SIO,OOO. As soon as ths sum is subscribed the contract for 11 "■» "''tl ' It wop Id not be surprising if the soldiers' monu ment became an accomplished fact yet during the present year. There has been no project on foot in this county in its entire history tliat has appealed to all classes so strong ly, and that the monument already has been deferred too long seems to be the unanimous view. It is hoped that the liberality which has greeted the solicitors in the beginning may con tinue to characterize the subscriptions until the end. It is the intention of the committee after some time to be gin publishing the list of contributors together with the sums subscribed. Picnic at Island Park. The Suubury and Northumberland lodges of the Knights of Pythias are arranging for a big picnic to be held at Island Park during the sessions of the grand lodge at Suubury. This will occur next month and will bring to this section prominent Pythians from all over the state. Beaver Lodge, No. 132, of this city, usually holds a picnic annually, but this year its members will goto Is land Park to meet the visiting breth ren, and spend some time in Suubury at the grand lodge meetings. It is ex pected that a number of the grand lodge officers will be invited to come to this city for an evening as guests of Beaver Lodge. As tin* Danville Knights have a wide reputation for hospitality such an event would bring many from out of town to the castle hall of the local lodge. Bridge Work is Completed. The work of repairing the bridge ; across the river, between this city and South Danville, has been finished add i ing to the safety of the passage ways for pedestrians. Many new railings j were putin, and all of them were braced under the tloor of the walks. I This was a tedious task and required \ considerable careful work on the part of the carpenters employed by the County Commissioners. New flooring was also putin on both walks and the bridge is now in good shape. The County Commissioners are to be coin mended in the promptness shown by ordering the repairs made so soon after the matter was favorably reported by , the last grand jury. Farewell to Cadet Walsh. The special service Sunday in Salvation Army hall was well attend ed, as Cadet Li la Walsh bade farewell to the Danville corps togo to New York city. She will take up a course of six months in the training home, ! under Brigadier Osborne, to become an officer in the army, i The services consisted of song and praise and an address was made by Cadet Walsh. She made many friends during her stay here and their best | wishes will follow her not only to the training home but throughout all her work in the army. She will leave in a few days for Rochester, and will go I from there to New York city. DANVILLE, I'A.. THURSDAY .11 LY 17. 1002. IHSONII. PARACIIAI'IIS. Charles Savage spent Sunday with his parents in Bloomsburg. Miss McDaniels of Packerton, is visiting Miss Jane Alexander, this city. Mr. anil Mrs. George Fornwald of Bloomsburg, were visitors in this city Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Yost and family of Bloomsburg, spent Sunday witli Mr. anil Mrs. Lewis Kessler, Vine street. Miss Harriet Bootly of Bridgeton.N. J., is visiting at the home of her fath er, Robert Boody, Nassau street. Miss Alberta Seiler of Sunbury, spent Sunday with friends in this city. Miss Alice Speight of Tarborough, N. C., left for Baltimore, Saturday, after a visit with Miss Jane Lloyd, West Market street. Miss Irnia Thompson of this city, left Saturday lor a visit with her mother in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harder of Catawissa, spent Sunday at the home of the lattcr's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farley, Cherry street. George Hornberger of Hazleton,spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hornberger, Cooper street. Misses Verna and Margie Ncwbaker of Steelton, are visiting their uncle, Dr. P. C. Ncwbaker, West Mahoning street. Miss Gussie Doster is visiting in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Miss Maud Schick of Sunbury,spent Sunday with her cousin, Miss Nellie Schick, Honeymoon street. George Eggert of New Milford, and William Eggert of New York City, are visiting their parents, Mr. anil Mrs. Calvin Eggert, Upper Mulberry street. Miss Mary Hendricks spent Sunday in Berwick. Miss Leo LeDuc spent Sunday wit relatives at Boyd's Station. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Longenberger spent Sunday with relatives in Cata wissa. Misses Rebecca and Chrissie Smith, West Mahoning street spent Sunday at Roaring Creek. Miss Ruth Winner of Williamsport, is visiting Miss Marie Fettermau, Grand stieet. Edward Arnold of Sunbury, spent Sunday at the home of Adam Weascr, Riverside. Miss Mary Heighton returned to Philadelphia yesterday after a visit 111 this city. Mrs. P. M. Kerns, Nassau street, left vc.sterdav lor a visit in Philadel phia. Robert McCluro of Pittsburg, is visiting at the home of Rufus Yastiue, South Danville. Theodore R. Angle will arrive today from Lehigh University. Miss Edna Berninger of Roaring Creek, was a visitor in this city yes terday. D. B. Heddens was in Bloomsburg yesterday afternoon. Miss Helen Ramsey spent yesterday afternoon in Sunbury. Miss Martha Watson of Berwick, was a visitor in this city yesterday. Miss SaraDeeu, East Market street, left yesterday for a visit in Gettysburg Miss Catherine Nolan of Williams port, left yesterday for Catawissa after a visit with friends in this city. Mrs. Otto Grey, East Market street, spent yesterday in Sunbury. Mrs. Philip Gallagher left yesterday for her home in Pittsburg, after a visit with her mother, Mrs. John Barry, Alton street. Mrs. G. J. Cunningham, Upper Mulberry street, returned home last evening from a visit at Selinsgrove. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Peiffer auil two children of Dußois, arrived in this city last evening for a visit with Mrs. Peiffer's parents, Mr. antl Mrs. S. J. Welliver, Mill street. Mrs. Thomas Haigh of Camden, N. J., returned home yesterday after a visit with Mrs. Charles Bird, East Market street. Alfred Watts of Milton, was a visit or in this city yesterday. Miss Nellie Tweeds of Montandon. visited friends iu this city yesterday. Miss Isabel Wetzel, Ferry street, left yesterday for a.visit in Berwick. Mrs. Cora B. Wintersteen left yes terday for a visit in Bloomsburg. Mrs. W. (r. Williams, West Market street, left yesterday for Gettysburg. Miss Mary Holloway, Bloom street, was in Sunbury yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Edward Hamberger of Lock Haven, returned home yesterday after a visit with her brother, Joseph Lech uer, Lower Mulberry street. Miss Martha Russell, Bloom street, left yesterday for a visit in Williams port and Lock Haven. Misses Mautl and Elsie Bennett, Church street, left yesterday for a two-weeks visit in Pottsgrove. Mr. and Mrs. Henry 0. Cobb, Mill street, returned yesterday from a visit in Miffliuburg. Miss Edna Reed, Wall street, return ed home yesterday from a visit in Northumberland. Mrs. J. G. Li Hey and son Fred, of Muucy, left yesterday for Bloomsburg after a visit at the residence of John P. Reefer. Mrs. Alice Grey returned yesterday from Nescopeck. Miss Stella Fisher, East Danville, returned home yesterday after a visit in Nescopeck. Dr. Patton of Washingtonville,drove into this city, yesterday. Other Personals on Fourth Page. TO ANIMALS It is surprising to what extent per sons accredited with being humane and law abiding fall into habits of neglect in dealing with dumb brutes which amounts to positive cruelty, tine would think that such persons are unaware of the existence of a society for the prevention of cruelty to an imals judging by the risks they take. There is scarcely a day but the sensi bilities of people are pained by the spectacle of a horse tied along the street for hours at a time, hungry and in need of water, if not driven nearly to distraction by the flies. This much in town; in driving into the country I a person is fortunate, indeed, if lie ' does not meet a lame horse or one driven with sore shoulders or other wise afflicted, which reveals with every step a degree of misery that must make the life of the brute a burd en. These instances of cruelty, it is true are now and then due to the brutal instincts of the driver, but it is only just to state that in seven cases out of ten they are to be attributed to mere thoughtlessness, the owner, per hai s, having never reflected upon the dumb brutes in his service as creatures of feeling like himself, but rather as pieces of machinery to be driven and worked up to the very limit of their endurance. A case in point occurred in this city yesterday. Shortly after noon the at tention of Chief-of-Police Miucemoyer was called to a three-horse team which according to the stories told had been standing on Water street since early in the morning, six o'clock according to some. Two of the horses bore the appearance of hard usage, being very thin and bony with badly abraded shoulders. The horses had been driven some five miles in from the country. They were badly in need of both feed and water and in their unrest had pawed deep holes into the ground. The spectacle was not a pleasant one to gaze upon and as hour after hour passed and the driver did not putin an appearance the residents in the vic inity became very indignant. Just before the officer arrived the owner materialized. The latter did not seem to think he had committed any great fault. He did not deny that the team had stood on the spot since morning, but said that he himself had not as yet had anything to eat. It was the driver's thoughtlessness that was largely responsible for the plight of the poor horses. Used to hard work and deprivation himself he imposed the same conditions oil the dumb brutes and took no further thought. He un ',V;, r . 1 12; VxV?. 1 , 'AV. iV.i get his horses fed before driving home. What many people need, evidently, is to be educated up to a finer regard for the comfort of dumb animals. Education with its refining influence is doing a great deal in this direction. It is evident, however, that there are manv who have the care of animals in their charge who will bestow the pro per treatment upon them only by com pulsion and that an arrest now and then is necessary to serve as an ex ample. Grand Army Encampment. Goodrich Post, No. 22, G, A. R., has unanimously decided to hold an encampment at DeWitt's Park next month. It will last a week and the veterans expect to have a tine time in the tents. The camp last year was largely attended, but rain spoiled the days on which the best programs were scheduled. This year the Grand Army men hope for fair weather and will arrange a week of amusements that will attract big crowds. At the next meeting of the Post a date will be decided upon, committees will he appointed and the work of ar ranging for the encampment will be started. A Wise Improvement Made. A very good improvement has just been completed at the Water Works which consists of the removal of the "solutiou"tanks, two in number,from tins boiler room to a position immedi ately above the large settling tank, where the contents can be drained as needed into the water to be filtered. Before the removal it was necessarv to maintain a small engine for pump ing the solution up to the settling tank. This engine is now dispensed with and a corresponding saving of steam effected. Attacked by a Black Snake. Lewis Hort, contractor at the Dan ville rolling mill, had a thrilling ex perience with a big black snake Mon thly evening at 7 :i!oo'clock,while cut ting rye. - He was attacked by the snake, which was eight feet long and in jumping backward cut himself across the right knee with the knife of the cradle. A long gash was inflicted, and by the time Hort got the cradle away from In-, knee the snake had made gootl its escape. He was given surgical atten- J tion by Dr. Panics, and pluckily went j to bi> work at the rolling mill witli- I out losing a turn. Grootn Came from Germany. Frederick Bukenberger, of Wurtem liurg, Germany, and Miss Marie ltoiii zelmau, were married Monday even ing at the home of Mrs. George Zeifle, sister of the bride, 011 Green street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. E. Winner, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. The groom arrived in this city last Friday from Germany. SHAKING IN EXPORT TRADE The Danville Stove & Manufactur ing company Saturday made a large shipment of stoves to Honolulu, Sand wich Islands. Exporting has become a very important factor in the trade of the local plant and insures for it a constantly increasing patronage. Dan ville has been shipping stoves to the different South American and West India ports for some time past, but it is only quite recently that the Sand wich Islands have been added. Japan is another new field just acquired,and within a few days past a largo ship ment was made to Nagasaki. On an average two foreign shipments are made a week. The shipment to Honolulu was niado ; up exclusively of "Hustlers", a small and cheap-selling wood cook stove which one person can carry around without much difficulty. The ship ment to Japan was composed of Prince Beavers, a stove suitable for either wood or coal. Tho Prince Beaver has become very popular with the local trade and the Japs will no doubt soon want more of them, while the little Hustler will surely fill a long-felt want among the euormous American and English population of the Sand wich Islands. Recently Curry & Vaunan complet ed a lot of structural iron work for South Africa. Another shipment of iron telegraph poles turned out at the Structural Tubing Works here went to London, England. Altogether it is gratifying that our industries are shar ing so conspicuously in the constantly growing export trade open to this country. It insures a permanency to our manufacturing plants which must give our town a bright and prosperous future. Organization of Trackmen. Stephen Kisner of Sliickshiuuy.canie to this city Sunday to consult with track Foreman Harry Freas, president of the Bloomsburg Lodge, Brother hood of Railway Trackmen of Amer ica. This lodge includes in its mem bership the D. L. & W. trackmen be tween Nanticoke and Northumberland. The first regular meeting will be held at Bloomsburg next Sunday after noon and will be attended by Grand Organizer R. P. Neal and three assist ants. Meetings will be held monthly, and the lodge already has a good mem bership. Mr. Kisner is the represent ative of the trackmen from the upper end of the district and he came down to see President Freas in reference to arranging for the attendance of the trackmen from Nanticoke anil vicinity. Two large greenhouses are being built at Castle Grove, iu which will be grown violets and American beauty rosts. The violet house is nearly completed and will be ready for use in a few weeks. It is iy feet wide and 213 teet long. The dimensions of the rose house are 20 feet by 321 feet anil it will be finished by the middle of August. A brick wall, similar to that on Nicholas avenue anil Railroad streets, is being put up at the east end of Nicholas avenue,and a wire fence will be erected 011 the embankment of the Reading railroad. Double ornamental iron gates will be placed at the Nich olas avenue entrance to the Grove. The field south of the railroad and east of the station has been enclosed by a wire fence and is used as a pad dock for the coach horses. Stereopticon Entertainment. A stereopticon entertainment will be given iu St. Paul's M. E. church this evening at 8 o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Nishida, a native of Japan. The views will show the natural scenery of Japan and illustrate the manners and customs of its people. No ad mission fee will be charged, but a silver offering will be taken at the close of the entertainment. Frame Work Raised. Edward Gorman's new house 011 East Market street, is going up very rapidly. The frame work was raised yesterday. The dwelling will be quite commodious, 22 feet by 55 feet, it inches. It will be two stories and a half in height,with a handsome porch front and rear. The best of workman ship is being put 011 the building. Hurt at Rolling Mill. Adam Desmett, a stocker employed at the rolling mill of James Mallen & Company, bail his left foot injured yesterday afternoon and had togo to his home. Hi* was taking stock to one of the furnaces when several pieces of the iron fell 011 his foot. Gross-Swatliareu. Mr. Jacob Gross ami Miss Thora Swathareu of Bloomsburg, were mar ried at Washingtonville yesterday afternoon. The knot was tied by the Rev. Owen Reher at the parsonage of the Lutheran church. Picnic was Well Attended. The picnic of Trinity Lutheran Sun day School, at DeWitt's Park yester day, was well attended. The day was delightful and many people went over to enjoy a day in the woods. Another First Ward Junior. There is another First Ward Junior and lie is entitled to his juniority be ' cause he only arrived yesterday. R. Scott Ainmerman, Esq., is the happy 'father of this new citizeu ESTABLISHED IN 1855. SCHOOL Mil) IMEEOINCS The School Board held a regular meeting Monday eve The principal part of the session was devoted to the re port of the Building and Repair Com mittee, which had gone very carefully over the ground to determine what im provements were needed. The recom mendations. which covered a wide scope, were adopted in full. Com pared with some previous years the school buildings were found in very good condition at the close of the term, and it was the sense of the board that the teachers are entitled to no little credit for the evident good care taken of the school property. The Third Ward building is in ex ceptionally good condition. Two window glass are needed, but beyond these the only repairs recommended was some cementing on the steps at the Pine street entrance. Considerable repairs are needed in the First Ward building. The paper on High school ceiling, considerably the worse for wear, will be removed and the ceiling calcimined, blue to be selected as a color. The walls in the senior secondary room are also to be scraped and calcimined. The window sills in the third school were ordered repainted The Director's room is to receive a general over-hauling, the matting on the floor to be replaced with new. The large stoves in the two recitation rooms installed when the Smead & Wells heating and venti lating system was adopted were con demned as enormous coal consumers and much larger than necessary. On motion of Mr. Green these were order ed to be removed. On the west side of the building a No. 3f> cellar heater will be installed which will warm both the Directors' room and the re citation room above it. The small globe stove at present in the Directors' room will be removed to the recita tion room 011 the east side of the build ing. The proposed change will obviate the necessity of carrying more than a very little coal up stairs—add to the floor space in the Directors' quarters and make it possible to keep things much cleaner in that portion of the building. Outside the building, it was ordered that two or three flag stones, broken, in the pavement ou the Pine street side be replaced with new ones. As usual there is some changing re quired in the desks. There is a good deal of experimenting among teachers to determine which way the pupils should sit so as to receive the light to the best advantage.Each year generally brings some new idea or a change pre viously made was found ill-advised an commended. The grammar scnooi 01 the Second Ward and the fourth school of the Fourth Ward art* among the rooms in which the seats this year will be re-arranged. In the First and the Fourth Wards the desks through out will be dressed off and varnished. A heavy retaining wall was ordered to be built at the Welsh Hill school to divert the water which in times of rain threatens to ruin the building. The cost of this improvement is esti mated at 9100. The building at the Fourth Ward school known as the "annex" was al so ordered calcimined on the interior. The cloak room of the first school of the Second Ward was ordered re moved at the suggestion of the teach ers. Treasurer Schram presented his statement of finances to date, which showed a net balance 011 hand of i 1330.45. The joint meeting of teachers and directors relating to the choice of text books for the ensuing year will be held 011 Monday night, August 4th. It was reported that during vacation the school grounds at night and fre quently during day become a rendez vous for unruly boys who become quite a nuisance, disturbing the neigh borhood, injuring the shade trees and often breaking windows. Ou motion it was ordered that the police be ask ed to closely watch the buildings and arrest all offenders, who will be made to pay the full penalty of the law. New Home of Odd Fellows. The new Odd Fellows Home, to be built on the property four miles east of Sunbury, will be a tine structure and is to cost 930,000. It is to be fire proof, four stories high and will accommodate two hundred orphans. A new barn is also to be built. The present orphan age will be used as a home foraged Odd Fellows and their wives. Ground will be broken next spring for the new Home. The finance committee submitted a report showing that in six years the grounds and buildings have been paid for and that there is #3,000 in the treas ury. The Home lias fifty-eight inmates and is in a flourishing condition. The location is a good one,oll the Shamok in division of the Pennsylvania rail road and the Homo is visited by many people from all over the state. Injured at Clearfield. John Junod, of Jersey Shore, who is well known in this city, was injur ed in a runaway at Clearfield yester day. The horse took fright at a freight train and threw Mr. Junod out, breaking several ribs and injur ing him internally, lie is a member of the tobacco firm of Junod, Potter & Company. .lames Zoug of Altoona, arrived in this city last evening for a visit with friends. JOB PRINTING The oUceof the AMERICAN being furnished with a large assortmen of job letter and fancy type and jot? material generally, the Publisher announces to the public that he i.<- prepared at all times to execute n. the neatest manner JOB PRINTING Ofall Kinds and Desc!rption our pi ices before you place your orders. MASONIC EVENT Masonic Hall, this city, may be the scene of a very distinguished event, about November 4th next, the date of the sesqui -centennial anniversary of the initiation "of George Washington into the "Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Freemasons." The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania at its last annual Grand communica tion resolved to celebrate the- anniver sary by suitable ceremonies in Phila delphia. It being impossible for the members of all the lodges of the jur isdiction to participate in that celebra tion the Grand Lodge recommended that the lodges throughout the state should hold similar celebrations. In commemorating the event the subord inate lodges arc permitted to unite in a joint celebration,taking iu, if desir ed, all the Masonic lodges of the dis trict. The lodges of the district of which Danville forms a part, are nine in number under District Deputy Grand Master John W. Farnsworth of this city, who is very much interested in the sesqui -centennial and is in favor of making it a joint celebration. The members of the fraternity throughout the district, it appears, take kindly enough to the idea of a joint event, and naturally look to Danville as a place for holding it, both on account of its central location and the fact that it is the home of the District Grand Master. It is a source of great satisfaction to Freemasons that they are able to claim Washington as a member of the craft. As shown by the records it was the peculiar good fortune of the craft in Pennsylvania to have very fraternal relations with the illustrious brother, who was as great as a Freemason as he was great as a soldier and a states man. The Masonic apron Worn by Washington, a most beautiful piece of feminine handiwork, made ;by the wife of Marquis de Lafayette and pre sented by the latter 011 the occasion of his visit to this country in 1784 may still bo seen among the treasures in the library of the Masonic Temple iu Philadelphia. The Prohibition Convention. The Montour Couuty Prohibition convention will be held in the Court House ou Monday, July 21st., at 2 o'clock, p. m. Candidates for the No vember election will be nominated, a new county committee will be elected, and other necessary business trans acted. Lee L. Grumbiue, Prohibition candidate for Lieutenant Governor, a most impressive speaker, will be pres ent and State Chairman Jones is also mass meeting will be held in the Court Honse, to be addressed by both these speakers. All in sympathy with the great Prohibition cause,both men and women are cordially invited to at tend these meetings. T. W. MILLS, County Chairman. For Benefit of Outiug Fund. The First Ward Juniors have chall enged the Third Ward Juniors for the base ball game to be played for the benefit of the children's outiug fund of Philadelphia. The Third Ward aggregation has accepted the challenge and all bauds are busy getting ready for the game. The date—originally Thursday, July 24th—has been changed to the 22nd inst., Tuesday next. The game, which will be played on the lawn of J. B. McCoy's residence, West Market street, will be called at 2:30 P. M. Posters have been printed announc ing the game aud today the sale of tickets will begin. A number of can vassers, including the little base ball ists themselves, will be at work. It is hoped that they will be received kindly. Took Away Many Ashes. The embankment of coal ashes, along D. L. & W. avenue between Church and Pine streets, has been re moved by the force of railroad track men, under Foreman Harry Freese. They took away about 125 tons, enough to fill three cars,and have leveled the avenue between those streets. The culvert at the Church street corner is to be repaired and when all the work is done the avenue will be much improved in appearance. Score Tied Three Times. The First Ward Juniors and boys from the Flats played a close base ball game yesterday morning, 011 the lawn at tin* rear of .T. B. McCoy's residence. Three times the score was tied, but the Juniors finally won, the figures at the finish being 1!> to 14. Another game will be played tomor row morning. Game Won byJMonarchs. A base ball nine from the puddling department of the Structural Tubing Works played a game with the Mon archs Saturday afternoon, at DeWitt's Park, the Monarchs winning by a score of S to 3. A feature was the fine play ing of Morgan, who held down third base for the Monarchs. Next Saturday the Monarchs will goto Espy to meet the club of that town. Struck by Puddle Bar. Henry Fleckenstein.a puddler at the Reading Iron Works,was painfully in jured shortly after noon yesterday by being struck by the puddle bar 011 the face. Two bad gashes were inflicted, one above the other and below the right eye. Dr. Wiuterstecn adminis tered.
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