Home Paper -—For the Hie Ihe circulation of this paper is in creasing rapidly. It will pay you to advertise in the AMERICAN. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR DK. 1 KVINti H. JENKIKGB, Office Hoi/rn V A. M to 1- M w -* Mill I / /> j/ to 4 I'. M. Danville, I'a. N SIII I.T/., M. * • 4-"> M it.i. ST., DANVII.I.E, PA. Diseases of the stomach and Intesvines .. Special! •* J \V. |». Wt.l.K. DENTIST OKKII K: 21 S MHI -RUTIN. eelli Kxtraeleil without I* Clown :.ud Urklm V. . a Specialty. •equipped »It || 1 1" latent and iWMg improved lii-u I , , I tuiiul pre pa i• .1 In . xcoute the mos DR. C. 11. REYNOLDS, -DENTIST— -288 Mill St., - Danville, Pa. Dentistry In ail its branches. Charge Moderate and all work Guaranteed Established 1H92 CONDENSED NEWS/ Thrifty householders aie fitting up their screen doors. If rain means a big hay crop there is no danger of a scarcity this year. The annual season of calamity in storm and ttcod aud fire that every year seems to sweep across the coun try, has begun heavily this season, with the Oklahoma and Kansas torna does, the cloudbursts, wind and hail in Indiaua and Texas, and the Penn sylvania railroad wreck. The man with the rheumatism is more the rule than the exception these days. The heroic girl has been having her turn in various parts of the country lately These are the days when every pub lic improvement should be kept mov ing. Oue of the best aids to sanitation is the white wash brush. And the ma nipulation of it is good exercise too. School days are now growing less and the youth now count? the days iu stead of the weeks. If the kaiser is asked by the czar to explain he should tell it over again with added emphasis. Kuiopatkin is beginning to talk gaiu. This is significant of developments. From letters received from Judge Little, who is at a rest cure sanitar ium at Elmira, N. Y., it has been learned that his health is greatlv im proving, he gaining strength each day. It is possible that he may be home this week but the change is working such a benefit iu his health that he may stay there during the remainder of the month. The Dauphin County Commissioners are still holding under advisement the purchase of the bridge across the Sus quehanna at Clark's Ferry from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The price asked is $6,500. The Commission ers will inspect the structure shortly. An armory for Dauville is one of our needs. Let the N G. P. Putin a strong claim. The annual meeting of the Pennsyl vania State Bankers' Association will be held at Wilkesbarre, Thursday aud Friday, June 15 and 16. Governor Pennypacker feels like a boy in vacation,siuoe disposing of the bills left him by the Legislature. The New York Central Railroad Company has placed an order for oue hundred aud fitty steel passenger cars with the Berwick plant of the Ameri can Car and Fouudry Company. No specifications have as yet been receiv ed but it is likely that the cars will be of different construction from the Long Island or Interborough orders. Steel passenger cars are fast taking the place of wooden cars in the Rail road Companies equipment. Detective Johnson, of Northampton county, says this is the time of year when the professional burglars leave the large cities and come to the coun try districts, and he warns the busi ness people to keep a light burning in their stores at night and not leave much money iu the safes. Another practice he savs should he avoided as much as possible, that of clerks and merchants carrying largo rolls of money exposed to view to the hanks during the day A MATTER OF HEALTH iffi egg [M . M POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS MO SU Mmtmi lililii lAnifricfctt* V "THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER BE ENTIRELY FREE UNTIL IT SUPPLIES ALL OF ITS OWN DEMANDSW 11 II IIS OWN PRODUCTIONS. VOL. 50—MO 20. IIIVI:It UK WAS INSPECTEIK The inspection of the river bridge took place during Saturday forenoon according to the program outlined in this paper last Thursday the in spectors being Emil Swensson.of Pitts burg; William A. Alloutt, of Glen j Kiddle aud 1). M. Currey, of Spring City. John E. Stott. Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds aud Buildings, was present, i along with H. R. Leonard and rep resentatives of the different coutract iug firms. The report will be present ed to the Dauphin County Court to day. The inspectors wore at their work considerably before 10 o'clock. Each of them is an expert of recoguized abil ity aud they went about the inspec tion in a way which showed that they were able to take iu the big structure as a whole aud to size up the minutest details of construction all at the same time. Armed with the plans aud specifications they went over the en tire length of the bridge comparing the Iron work of the bridge with the dimensions of the same specified in the plans. It was scarcely 11 o'clock when they completed the superstructure. Next in Dan Ross' naphtha launch they 1 made a tour of the substructure in- ' specting the piers and the bottom of I the bridge. About au hour was con sumed iu this work, after which they weut into session in the grand jury room at the Court House. The inspection attracted a good many citizens to the bridge. In this uumber were several Oouncilmen, in additiou to Messrs. Cooper, Cook aud Leighow. the Board of Couuty Com- ■ missioners. The latter were joined by Messrs. Cooner aud Raudenbush of the Northumberland County Board of Commissioners, who arrived on the 10:17 Pennsylvania train. While the inspection was in progress the County Commissioners spent the time conversing with the contractors 1 and others who were authorities on matters relating to the inspection aud < thus many important and practical 1 facts were learned relating to the : bridge. As to the finished structure itself there seemed to be but one opinion ; it is oue of the finest bridges ever ereot ed by the State and as Mr. Stott re marked it is "fit to span East River." H. B. Gibbs, Treasurer of the King Bridge Company in conversation with a representative [of the AMERICAN I explained many facts relating to bridge construction under present conditions. It is solely due, he said,to the present law which provides that the State shall build bridges that such structures as spans the river here are at all pos sible. He cousiders the law a wise one, as the counties of the Common wealth consulting their comparatively limited resources would be able only to build a bridge that would possess none of the imposing qualities of the new one here and would be jioorly adapted to withstaud the ravages of high wat er and ice. Incidentally Mr. Gibbs remarked that the King Bridge Com pany builds no finer bridges than ours to meet the demands of traffic such as exist here. The bridge, the experts all agreed, would serve humanity for a century, but that it to be well tak en care of. It,will probably need no repairs for five years,but at the expira tion of that will have to have a new coat of paint aud regularly ev ery five years thereafter, it will have to be repainted. So much for the bridge proper. When it came to thejmatter of unfinished ap proaches, oue of which threatens to impede traffic for months to come, the visitors "were unable to conceal their disgust. Mr. Stott, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings,probably voic ed the sentiment of all the others when he remarked "It seems very unfortuuate indeed; here the people of Montour aud North umberlaud counties have been crying loudly for a bridge; they wanted it at the earliest possible day and the State in order to accommodate them went as much out of its wuy as possible, spar ing neither labor nor expense and now after the bridge has been pushed to completiou to find that the approaches are unfinished is really too bad." Of course, on the Dauville side the ; unfinished approach is ouly incidental to street paving, which has the entire I thoroughfare cut off from Market street i to the bridge,and while tlnre seems to have been some misunderstanding as to curbing the whole approach will be finished aud ready for tratlic by the time tin other part of the street is paved. II R. Leonard, the engineer who made the plans for the bridge, made some very practical suggestions rolat nig to the approach, which will no doubt be acted upon by our County Commissioners. The curbing, which seetns bound by no rule,whatever, but extends in half a dozen different direc tions, will be removed end the entire approach paved from wing wall to wing wall. The upper wing wall which as things are arranged at present, shows up quite oddlv. Engineer Leon ard thinks should be permitted to re main as it is and a sort of H curbing to define the entire width of the ap proach be extended in a straight liue I from the end of the wing down to the I eleotric light pole where the corner of It.be curbing is established at ptetenv | Continued on Fouith Page | FDI H HOUSES BUKGLAKiZhIi Our town 011 Saturday morning was thrown into a state of excitement by i news that several burglaries had been i committed during the night. Four ' houses were robbed, the burglar* get ting away with considerable booty. Throe houses broken Into were sit- ] uated on East Market street At the 1 fourth house, East Market street, oc- , i copied by Abraiu Burger, the burglars j were in the point of gaining admit- , tatice when Mrs. Thompson, a daugh ter, was awakened, who gave the alarm. < The burglars, two in number,escape 1, ■ but in passing under the electric light lamp they were seen by Newton Pur- ! < gel, who noted that they were men | both short of stature. At Frank Berber's the burglars 1 broke open a window and stole a gold watch belonging to Mrs. Betgner. < They did not arouse auv of the iu mates and Mr. and jdrs. Bergner did \ \ not know they were robbed until Sat- i urday morning. At White field Ford's they also fore- i ed au entrance through a window and | operated so quietly that they did not cause any alarm. They there .-tole eight dollars in money. At John Johns' the burglars found oue of the windows raised and a scr en inserted. They had no difficulty in , gaining entrance here. Inside they > ran across a lot of eatables and par- j took of quite a lunch,leaving tin- r< m- ( nants of their feast scattered over the floor. Their booty consisted of a j child's bank containing a small sum I of money. Leaving East Maiket street the bur glars proceeded to the D. L.it \\. statiou where they attacked the hotel j opposite conducted by Eugene Mover. They here forced their way through a < window into the bar room The cash register contained abouts3. This they . carried out on the railroad breaking it open and removing the money. They also stole from the hotel four bottl s of whiskey and five boxes of cigars. The burglars were evidently Strang ers and suspicion pointed to a group of hobos who were found in hiding about the Bessemer blast furnace.Sat urday, but who were routed during the afternoon. [£dwin floore Valedictorian. The seniors of the High School have completed their work for the year and aro now enjoying a vacation of two weeks preparatory to Commencement. Bdwin Moore carries off first honors Catherine Vastiue lifts second honors Other members of the class who have attained au average of 95 for the three years are a* follows: Verna Reed, Bertha Kase. Bessie Hooley, Amanda Youngman, Mary Lyon. The following are down for orations at Commencement: Edwin Moore "The Unknown Hero." Catherine Vastiue—"The Heracles of Modern Nations." Lucretia Rhodes "Rowing. Not Drifting." Verna Reed—" Winning Elements.' t Mary Lyon—"Modern Cerberus." Bessie Hooley—"Class Poem." Presentations will be made by Marie Fettermau and Amanda Youiigmau. Bertha Kase will deliver the Mantle Oration. Isbaella Blue will accept the Man tle. Blanche Seohler—"Class History." , Helen Tooey—"Class Propheoy. " , Department of Music. The music recital,which was a feat ure of the close of the school term last year will be repeated this season and will take place in the High School room on the evening of Friday, May 26th, at 8 o'clock and will last oue hour. The object of holding there cital in the eveniug iustead of during the day as last year is to give parents of pupils, employed duriug the day.au opportunity to be present. The recital program will consist of chart work, songs, and the like taken from the text books as the work is carried on in grades duriug the year. The idea is to give the public a fair idea of the work done iu musio through out the schools rather thau to give a first class entertainment. A cordial invitation, therefore, is extended to parents and others interested in the progress of the schools to be present at the recital, i The first recital was held last spring, j The one arranged for the present will | be in many respects similar to the one last season, but will be more advanc ed at some stages owing to the fact that oue year's work has been added to the course. The department of i music is advancing steadily and the recital next year will be still more ad vanced than the present. A New Fence I.aw. The new line fence law which was recently approved by Governor Penny packer, will be of interest to every farmer and property owner iu this state. The act provides that each prop erty owner must keep up half of the line fence and if he does not the ad joining property owner can put up the fence and collect the cost for so doing. In case of disputes the township audi tors are made the arbitrators In this capacity township audito.s will be im portant officers hereafter as liue fence disputes are numerous. Soon all roads will to Williams port lor the Knights Templar, and many there will be who will travel them DANVILLE. PA.. THURSDAY MAY 18, 1905. win iiwii.li THE WMCWALI, The upper wiugwall of the approach to the river bridge on the Danville side of the river, which has formed the subject of so much discussion of late, is to be rebuilt by the County Commissioners. A joint meeting of the Board of ' County Commissioners and the Streets and Bridges Committee of Council was | field yesterday morning to cotno to some understanding relative to the ap proach to the bridge. The full board of Commissioners, Messrs. Cook, Coo per and Leighow, was present along with Messrs. Vastiue,Reifsuyder,Bov er and Dietrich of the Committee ou i Streets aud Bridges. After looking over the grounds the party withdrew to the Grand Jury ' room w here some time was spent iu discussion. The jurisdiction of the 1 Borough extends up the approach only six or eight feet,the width of the pave meut on the South Side of Front street. The committee of Council took the view that the approach should have sidewalks and were determined to live op to their convictions by instal ! ling a curb, ou each side as far as the Borough's jurisdiction extends. The Couuty Commissioners.however, had resolved not to maintain a side walk ou the approach,but to pave from wiugwall to wiugwall. The inter | change of thought was futile to change tie plans of either the Committee or the Board of Commissioners and the work will have to he completed ac ! eordingly, paving the entire width of the approach dowu to the borough's liue, where a sidewalk with the usual curbing will break the surface. The subject of wiugwall was next taken up by the County Commission ers. Whether to rebuild the upper wiugwall or to try to overcome the de fect in some way iu fixing op the ap proach was the question. Engineer Leonard Saturday, made a practical suggestion as to remedying the defect, which found favor with some. Others perhaps the larger number—saw no other remedy than the tearing down of the wall and rebuilding it at a differ ent angle. The Commissioners yielded to the popular sentiment and decided to erect a new wiugwall. The pres ent wall will be permitted to stand, ouly the coping being removed. The new wiugwall will In built on a line with upper sidewalk of the bridge and will extend just as far ajtbeone built by the bridge contractors. A heavy curbing will exteud from the end of the wall at the same angle dowu to Front street. The etlect of this will he not only to remove au ugly defect which detracts much from the appear ances but also to widen out the ap proach, making travel more conveni ent. The builltug ot the wall was let tp D. J. Rogers,who in order that no de | lay might occur,begau work yesterday afternoon. A lai ge quantity of stone on the spot will be used iu the new wall. The work will proceed rapidly and will probably be completed about the time street paving is finished. i lixposed to Danger. The woikuieu on the trolley track ou East Market street, are much annoyed by children who crowd upon the track and expose themselves to injury. The men must have elbow room. Picks and sledges are flying about in all directions aud the boy or girl sim ply euters a game of chance when he or she attempts to circulate among tiie workmen. The painful accident which beft 11 Thos. R. Evans Monday evening well illustrates in how many different ways a persou may be exposed to dang er when standing upon the track while work is iu progress. The matter is thus alluded to that it may be brought to the attention ot parents,teachers aud others who should 1 employ all measures possible to keep I the children off the track. There is no time of day when boys and girls are wholly absent, but the worst hours are when the children are on their way to or returning home from school. Large Crowd Attended Game. A large number of Danville people witnessed an exciting aud well played base ball game betweeu the Cuban Giants aud Bloomsburg Normal School at Bloomsburg yesterday afternoon. The game was very close until the seventh inning. The final score was 6 to 1 iu favor of the Giants. Those from this city who attended the game were: John Foster, Alex. Foster, Harry Fields, Elias Maier, Will Anderson. George Anderson, Thomas Tooey, Theodore Fischer, Rob ert Adams,Moran Waite.W. J. Baldy, Kugene Maus, K. B. Diehl, Rev. W. O. McCormack, William MoOlore, James Scarlet, Ralph Kisuer, William Russell. Thomas Welsh, Joseph Heim, Harry Welliver, Joe Rosenthal, Isador i Rosenthal, George Maiers, Dr. E. A. Carry,G Shoop Hunt, Dr. J O. Reed, • A. C. Amesbury and Dr. I G. Barber. Benefit (iame. A benefit game of base hall will be played in J. B McCoy's yard ou May • 80th, Decoration Day. The contesting teams are "The Junior Athletics" and "The Third Ward Juniors " The game n is expeote I to be a close oue, for both teams are about evenly matched. The a beni tit is tor the two teams play rig. A large crowd will no douht be pie - eut as both teams will work very hard - to show their skill. The ticket- are 10 il cents and are on sale by tin tubers of 1 both teams. The game will commence 1 at 2 :80 sharp PESSIMAL PAKACKAPIIS Miss Jeuuie Knort is visiting rela tives iu Scrautou. James Deuneu spent Sunday with friends in Bloomsburg. Mrs. William SVaite.of Sugar Notch, spent Suuday at the home of John G. Waite, Ferry street. Mrs. Mont. Rishel and daughter Jennie, of Utica, N. Y , are visiting relatives in this city. John L. Voris and son Gilbert, of Pottsgrove, spent Suuday at the home of W. Fred Jacobs, Mill street. Mrs. B. S. May. of Chicago, is vis iting her sister, Mrs. John Patton, Lower Mulberry street. Warren M. Keiser, of Shamokin speut Sunday iu this city. George D. Crocker, of Williauisporf, representing K. G. Duu & Compauy, transacted business in this city yester day. Robert Jacobs and Edwin Moore vis ited friends at Fottsgrove yesterday. Mrs. Fanny Heddeus.of Washingtou ville, visited friends in this city yes terday. H. E. Cotner and Charles W. Derr, of Washingtouville,spent yesterday in this city. Mrs. G. Oelschlager and grand daughter Louisa Kreiger left yesterday for a several weeks visit with rela tives in Pittsburg and Cleveland, Ohio. Clarence Seidel.of Wasliiugtouville, was a Dauville visitor yesterday. Charles Wagner, of Limestone town ship, transacted business iu this city yesterday. Mrs. Jesse Wyaut aud daughter Laura left yesterdav for a visit with friends iu Harrisburg. John B. McCoy was a Northumber land visitor yesterday. George B. Kase left yesterday for a trip to Laucaster. Rev. Edward Haughton left yester day for a visit with friends in Scrau tou. William Fagley, of Bloomsburg, transacted business in this city yester day. Register and Recorder W. L. Sidler transacted business in Bloomsburg yes terday. Mrs. J. J. Kline, of AlUntowu, ar rived iu £l»if ctf ysnterday tar a visijt at the I: mu of Mrs. George Maim, East MarkV street. Andrew Billmeyer.of Liberty town ship,called on frieuds in this city yes terday. 'Squire G W. Hirlman, of Beutou, was iu this city yesterday. New Work at hospital. The appropriation of over |200,000 granted by the last legislature for new buildingc, &c., at the Hospital for the Insane will bn immediately available and work on the splendid system of improvements will begin in a very short time. Long befoie autumn much of the work will be far under way. Philip 11 Johnson of Philadelphia was appointed engiueer and architect to have charge of the new work by the bo»rd of Trustees at their last regular meeting. He is already working on the plans and specifications for the power, light and heat plant, which will be one of £<ie first buildings erected uuder the new appropriation. For this building $91,000 has been appropriated. The idea is to concen trate all the departments into whioh the consumption of fuel euters uuder one roof. The power, light and heat plant will of necessity be an extensive structure located at a point on the grounds couveuieutly reached by the cars. The concentration as described will have the effect of cutting down the cost of heat, light aud power to a very appreciable extent. Trustees who were interviewed yes terday stated that they could not say to what extent work would be pushed ou any of the other buildings during the present summer, but in view of the urgency existing they saw no rea son why all the improvements should not be gotten under way just as soon as possible. The building of the pow er, light and heat plant will be com menced just as soon as the plans and specifications are completed. Pardon Granted David Barrett. The Board of Pardons in|regular ses sion at Harrisburg yesterday grauted a pardou to David Barrett of this place who is undergoing imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary. Barrett was convicted January 17, 1901, of burglary, receiving stolen goods, etc., aud on .lauuary 19, 1901, sentenced by Judge Little to pay the costs of prosecution, a fine of S2OO and undergo an imprisonment at separate and solitary confinement at hard labor iu the Eastern penitentiary for a per iod of nine years and six months. Barrett's case was presented to the Board of Pardons by Edward S. Gear hart, Esq., of this city, the argument taking place in the State Supreme Court in the Federal Building Bar rett's pardon was the only one granted in Pennsvlvania yesterday. The good news last evening was tak en to Barrett's aged mother, who rc ! sides in Kusi Danville. The faculty preliminary examina tions of the Bloomsburg State Normal School will be held Wednesday. June 7. at 9 a in The state board examina tions will he held Wednesday, June 14, at 9 a m V'li'iM, COP The Dauville Guu Club is holding a two days' blue rock shoot at Hunter's Park, which begau Tuesday. Condi tions were fairly favorable for shoot iug and some good totals were attain ed. Kollowiug is the score: Event No. I, ten targets— H. Money, 10; Hess, 10; Tovev,s; Rohrer,2; Speis er, 9; Rudy, 7; Dietz, 8. Kvent No. 2, fifteen targets—H. Money, 11 , Hess, 10; Tovey, 7; Rohr er. 6 ; Spieser.ll ; Rudy. 10; Ditez, 12. Event No. 3, twenty targets—H. Money, 18; Hess, 15; Tovey, 12; Rolir er, t>;Speiser, 15, Dietz, 14; Money, IB; Derr, i); Mensbach. 10. Event No. 4, fifteen targets—H. Mouey,l2; Hess, 14; Tovey, 11 ; Speis er, 12; Rudy, 12; Dietz,l2. Money,lo; Derr, 13; Meusbach, 18; Liwreuce 12. Event No. s,ten targets—H. Money, 10; Hess,9; Tovey,9; Rohrer, 5; Speis er, 8; Rudy, 6; Dietz, 9; Money, 6; Derr, 9; Mensbach, 4 ; Lawrence, 7. Event No. fi, twenty targets—H. Money, 19; Hess, 14, Tovey, l2; Speis er.. 16; Dietz, 17; Money, 17; Derr, 11; Mensbach, 12. Event No. 7, fifteen targets—H. Money, 15; Hess, 14; Tovey, 8; Rohr er, 10; Speiaer, 12; Dietz, 12; Money, 10. Event 8, fifteen targets—Money, 14; Hess, 13; Tovey. 10; Speiser, 13; Rudy, 18; Dietz, 10; Money, 11; Derr, 10; Meusbach, 10; Lawrence, 13. Event No. 9, twenty targets—H. Money, 18; Hess, 18; Speiser, 15; Dietz, 17; Mouey,ls; Derr, 14; Meusbach, 16. Event No 10, fifteen targets—H. Mouey, 13 ; Hess, 15 ; Speiser, 13 ; Rudy, 8; Dietz, 12; Mouey, 12. Event No. 11, fifteen targets—H. Money, 14; Hess, 13; Speiser, 13; Rudy, 14; Dietz, 13; Mouey, 14. Eveut No. 12, ten targets—H. Mouey, 10 ; Hess, tf ; Speiser,7 ; Rudy,7 ; Dietz, 9; Money, 5. Totals—H. Mouey, 164; Hess, 154; Tovey, 74; Rohrer, 2'.»; Speiser, 144; Rudy, 77; Dietz. 145: Money, 118; Derr, 66; Mensbach, 65; Lawreuce 32. The annual spring Target. Tourna ment of the Dauville Gun Club,which began Tuesday morning, oame < to a close last evening. The shoot was oue of ttie\noßt successful ever held by the Dauville club. As on Tuesday the weather condi tions yesterday were maiuly favorable. For awhile duriug the afternoon the wind interfered somewhat with the shootiug, but nevertheless the scores made were uniformly good. On each day shooting began at 10o'clock sharp, lunch being served on the ground. The principal event of the shoot was the team race for a loving cup, whioh took place yesterday afternoon and was won by Dauville. The cup was pur chased by the Danville Gun Club to be contested for by any team in Penn sylvania. The ouly teams that enter ed the race were the Milton Rod and Gun Club ami the Dauville Gun Club. There were five men on each side, the number of targets beiug 25. In the cup contest, although the wind was blowing hard, Danville out distanced its competitor, Speiser piling up a score of 25 straight. The scores for the day were as fol lows : HIT MISSED Mouey 163 22 Hess 134 81 Godchailes .... .. 152 53 Dietz . . 133 52 Mason, J. D .133 27 Haney. 128 47 Mason, F. H. . . 104 81 Rishel 136 49 Speiser 162 23 Fox 2525 Lawrence 78 82 Rudy 73 42 Striue 46 34 Harris 27 38 Dellaas 21 29 Phile 87 28 Military Coat With a History. Mrs. R. W. Eggert has in her posses sion highly prized heirlooms in the form of a military hat and coat worn by her father, Valeutiue Best, when he was Brigadier General ot the mil itary iuthe early 40's. The coat, of navy blue, lined with white satiu, and highly decorated, is unlike anything ever seen by men m.w liviug ami is without counterpart ex cept in old engravings showing rnili tary heroes dead aud gone for many years. The coat is some approach to the claw hammer pattern. It is double breasted with ten buttons ou each side. Ou each shoulder is a rich epaulette, while at the extreme end of each of the long uarrow tails is a heavily em broidered star indicating the wearer's rauk. The coat is well preserved and is still a handsome garment. It was worn on at least oue distinguished State oc casiou and that was when General Scott with his staff visited Danville. On that occasion General Scott was the guest of General Best at the fam ily homestead ou the present site of the Groue building occupied by the post office and the local lodge of Elks. Valeutiue Best was one of Dan ville's most distinguished citizens. He was founder of the Danville Intelligencer. He was Speaker of the Senate audit was solely through his efforts that Montour county was formed Commencement exercises will have the call for the next few weeks. ESTABLISHED IN' 1855 FOR SUPERIOR COURT |HUGE •" I Charles Chalfant, Esq., lias beeu chosen as delegate to tlie Democratic State Convention, which will be held at Harrisburg Wednesday next, May 24th. Pursuant to a call from the County Chairman the members of the Demo cratic Standing Committee of Mou- > tour County, convened at the Court House yesterday for the purpose of electing a delegate to the State JCon vention. The convention was called to order at 10 o'clock, County Chair man Horace C. Blue prasiding. Joseph R. Patton filled his post as Secretary. The following committeemen or their substitutes were present: Anthony township, Samuel Hilner and S. J. Dennen. Cooper township, Alfred Biecher and James Baylor. Danville—lst ward, Arthur G. Jame son and John G. VVaite; 3rd ward, W. Fred Jacobs; 4th ward, George Bach inger and Patrick Scott. Derry township, Oliarles W. Stamm and Jacob S. Umstead. Liberty township, William J. Clark and A. A. Falls. Mahoning township, Michael Break bill. Valley township, Elmer Sidler and Pierce Appleman. Washingtonville, Elmer Cotner and Thomas F. Kerswell. West Hemlock township. William F. Moore and C. J. Deighmiller. Charles Chalfant, Esq., was unani mously chosen as delegate to the Dem ocratic State Convention. Thomas F. Kerswell of Washingtonville was chos en as alternate. The following resolutions were un animously adopted: Whereas, Our late Representative in Congress, Hon. 0. H. Dickerman, has faithfully and impartially discharged the duties of his office, therefore Resolved, That we endorse his offic ial acts as those of an able and con scientious representative. Whereas, Our Representative in the State Senate, J. Henry Cochran, has ably and faithfully served the constit uency of his district, therefore Resolved, That we likewise approve him as an able and careful representa tive in whose care the public interests are at all times safe. Whereas, The voice and the vote of our Representative R. S. Ainmerman while iu the Legislature has always been found to be on the side of the people, in consonance with the palpa ble conception of their rights—for such laws as would benefit all the peo ple and against ail forms of corrupt legislation and machine rule, there fore. Resolved, That we recommend him to the voters of Pennsylvania as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court and further Resolved, That we instruct our dele gate to use all honorable means to in sure his nomination. It will fall to the duty of Mr. Chal fant as delegate from the district in which Mr. Ainmerman resides to make the speech nominating him to be Sup erior Court Judge. Mr. Chalfant is one of the ablest orators of this sec tion and in electing him as delegate the Committee made a wise choice. HIH effort will no doubt goon record as one of the ablest and most effective nominating speeches ever made at auy convention. Opening liame on Saturday. The opening game of base ball will be played at DeWitt's Park on Satur day afternoon between the Danville base ball club and Springfield. Danville will put a strong team iu the field. The best of last year's play ers will be retained in addition to whom other first-class players will be employed. The Springfield club is well known iu Danviile, where it has fre quently played. It is one of the strong est teams hereabout. It is needless to say that the opening game will abound iu interest and should be witnessed by every lover of base ball. Game will be called at 3:15 o'clock. The Danville club needs encourage ment. It has assumed heavy expense and has been obliged to fix the price of admission to the opening game at 25 cents. It is at some risk that the game has been inaugurated but it will be run ouo month as an experiment. Beyond one month, therefore, it will all depend upon the encouragement re ceived. If the patronage warrants it the game will be continued and only first class teams will he putin the Held. The grounds at DeWitt's Park are in first class condition, S. M. Waite hav ing beeu employed upon them during the whole week thus far. The grand stand will seat five hundred. The new bridge will afford a delightful walk to the ground. The liue up will be printed later. Trolley Extension. Superintendent Mountnev has given out that he has been successful iu se curing the right of wav tor the exten sion of the Lewisburg, Milton and Wataontown Electric Railway from ; East Lewisburg to Northumberland, and that today the engineers will go to work on the survey. This line will traverse a rich and populous agricul tural section of the county. The super intendent says that with a very few exceptions the residents alongjthe line were heartily iu favor of the project and gave lum assistance in promoting ' the matter. JOB PRINTING The office of the AMERICAN i being furnished with a large nsortment of job letter and fancy type and job material generally, the Publisher an noulicet- to the public that he is prepared at all times to ex ! cute in the neatest manner. .JOB PRINTING Of ail K Inds and Description WANT TO Iliiy. THE FERRY Now that the river bridge has been completed and tiie prospects are that it will be turned over to the two coun ties at almost any day the logical sequeuce would seem to be that w« will have little more use for the ferry boat with the cable, etc., making up its equipment. As a consequence com munications are being received at the office of the County Commissioner# looking to the purchase of the ferry outfit. The free ferry up to the present stauds the two counties about one thousand dollars. The outfit has been in use a trifie over a year and while it has depreciated somewhat the Com missioners think it ought to be oheap at one half of its cost, or five hundred dollars, and have decided upon that figure as a price. The ferry boat is one of the largest and best used on the North Branch and it is wanted at several points where bridges taken away by the ice gorge have not yet been replaced. According to indications Danville itself may have use for the ferry for an indefinite time longer. Up to the pres ent the County Commissioners have had no word as to the nature of the inspectors report who examined the bridge last Saturday and it is not known whether or not the report haa been presented to the Dauphin County Court. Complications relating to the approach at the South Side'are suoh as to make it impossible to predict when the bridge may be thrown open to the public. Meanwhile the farmers of Rush and Gearhart townships are subjected to no end of inconvenience and feel very much aggrieved that now when the bridge is at last completed there should be so much delay. When they visit town they often find it almost Impos sible to get through with their busi ness in time to catch the ferry before it closes down for the night. Now that the river approaches low water mark the ferry begins to make slower timo. At certain hours there is quite a congestion of wagons entailing a long aud tedious wait at each landing. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning there were some fifteen vehicles waiting on the Dauville side. Half a dozen of these were taken on the ferry, leaving nine; of that number at least one-half were left behind on the following trip and had to wait lor the greater part of an hour. Undoubtedly we are en tering upon a seasou when all the de lays aud annoyances of ferry travel ex perienced before are about to be re peated, which makes it especially un fortunate that anything should occur to prevent the use of the bridge. Celebrated (iolden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Shannon celebrated their golden wedding an niversary at their pleasant home at Riverside, yesterday, surrounded by their sous, daughters and grandchil dren and a large number of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Shannon were married at Bloomsburg.May 17th, 1855, by Rev. John Moorehead, and subsequently re moved to Riverside in 1871. During their residence in this community they have made many friends. They have beeu faithful workers iu St. Peter'a M. E. church. Mr. Shannon was ac tively eugaged iu business in this oity until about a year ago, when he retir ed. The day was spent most delightfully by the host aud hostess and their guests. Many beautiful and valuable presents were received by the venerable couple. Among the guests present were: Jacob Hess, Mrs. Bruce Kepner, Mrs. John Shannon, of Berwick; Henry V. Oman and Mrs. Frederick Lecher, of Wilkesbarre; Mr. aud Mrs. William Lorati aud Mr. and Mrs. John Dewald, of Hughesville; Mr. aud Mrs. John Landau, of Washington, D. C. ; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boyer aud Joseph Wellington Shannon, of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. John Keim,Mrs. Reuben Boyer, Miss Ruth Boyer, of Danville, and from Riverside the following: Rov. and Mrs. Emory T. Swartz, Mr. aud Mrs. Samuel Gulick.Mr. aud Mrs. John Conway. Mr. and Mrs. H. M Yocum.Mr. aud Mrs. Samuel Morrall, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hess and son Jos eph, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hummer, Mr, and Mrs. Jesse Shannon, daughters Helen and Ethel and sou Clyde, Mr. aud Mrs. William Kimbel aud daughters Margaret, Mabel, Dorothy and Harriet aud sons Joseph and Albeit, Mr. and Mrs. R. B Bird and daughters Eva. Esther, Anna aud Florence aud son Elliott.Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Morrall and son Harold, Mes danies Celestia Gearhart, John Geist, Hannah Pitner.Sarah Cleaver, Marga ret Kennedy, Hannah Bird, Dorcas Dimmick, Charles Haughawout, O. O. Sliultz, William Treas, Emma Shannon ami children. Ralph and Miriam, Catherine Hazelett, Eli Hoover, Miss Hannah Gearhart, Messrs. Isaac Hoff man and George Gaidner. During the evening the following guests were present: Mrs Charles Henry, of Jersey City; Miss Bertel Wolverton, of Sunbury; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Kimbel,Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Sheppersou, Mr. and Mrs. John Ungor, Mr. and Mrs. Johu McCloog' ban, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Clark, Mr. and Mrs William Ritter.Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hoover, Mesdames Edward Outh bert, Samuel Bucher, Elizabeth Roth, Miss Hattie Kimbel. Mrs Jacob Berger audßenjauim Landau.
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