Montour VOL. 58—NO. 28 DR. IRVING H. JENNINGS, VENIIST. Office 11 ours A. .!/■ t'> 12 M 10J, Hill Ht.. I I'. M. to i P. M. Danville. Pa, sih'lt/., m. 425 Mii.i Sr., Danville, Pa. i f the Stomach anil Intestines" a Specialty lIEI CONDENSED. Birthdays were kept even as far back as the time of Pharaoh. Of course there is nothing at the hot torn of all this war talk. Japan, one of the poorest of nations, is not going to tackle the richest on earth. A tombstone to be ereced in a Bath (England) cemetery to ttie memory of an engine driver who was an ardent geologist is to be composed of the fos sils he collected in his rambles. A grain of fine musk will scent a room for twenty years. Paris derives a huge revenue froui the sale of dolls' dresses. The man who knows nothing out side of his own business may have a good income, but he is mighty uuin teresting. Now the national government is hot j footed after the tobacco trust. It's a i lucky trust that can escape. A consul at Trebizond, writes that ! recently it took eight months for sohie j stylographic pens to come by express ; from America to a port in the Black Sea. It is estimated that the sun will be able to supply the present amount, of i heat for another 80,000,000 years. The world's record tor the greatest ' number of divorce cases is held by the I Hungarian city of Arad. The sordid mind never sees any of the permanent beauty of life. Justice is that attribute of law which the guilty most dread. The military spirit is a valuable but dangerous national asset. The mimic world has attractions at times for the most prosaic soul. The realm of romance is owned in fee simple by the world's poets. Temperance in youth usually brings a tranquil age, but not always. True prosperity may come disguised j as downright poverty. Prudence is the handmaid of thrift. The charity that thinketh no evil ' blooms in some pure hearts. The candidate who can handle a j grain cradle is pretty sure to win the { hearts and the votes of the farmers. " i There is a factory in Amsterdam, j Holland, which cuts and polishes |4OO, - I 000 diamonds annually. We trust that none of the county I candidates will fall into the cocktail , trap set for Vice President Fairbanks, j The Thaws have raised two millions ! of dollars for the second trial of Harry K Must expect to hire higher priced lawyers. Merchants who advertise need not fear that their bank accounts will not stand the strain of summer vacation demands. Like all other bullies. Russia would like to see some other nation whip Japan, since she herself could not do it. Japanese Admirals seem to be the strongest advocates of peace at the j present time. Perhaps they are good * judges. A great many critics live in glass houses and frail ones at that. Eloquence which comes from the ; lips only never makes any lasting im pression. One of the performers at a London | music hall iB a man who delights the j house nightly by lifting an automo bile,carrying two men,with his teeth. ; A British company has obtained per mission to run three steamers on the j Tigris, the famous river of ancient ! Ninevah. The American proposals at the peace j conference aie likely to fare as well as those presented by other c.-rjous. Sometimes a display of force pre- j serves the peace very much more eflVc ! tually than any other method. Abundaut knowledge frees its pos sessor from many a foolish blunder. Race rioting is getting entirely too I common in this country, and is an injustice to Uncle Sam, who must bear the brunt. Captain Richard P. Hobson has writ ten his first book —a boy's story of navy life—into which it is said he has put his own experiences at Annapolis. The sand of Sahara averages three feet in depth, but in some places it has been found 300 feet below the sur face. The average life of a horse is twenty years, but these animals have been known to work in harness up to 45 years. NIC GIRL IEIS ■EH DEM Agnes H. Garger, an actress filling an engagement with the Eclipse Car nival company, holding forth on the i cinder tip, fell from an automobile while desceuding the hill uear the Oak j tree hotel about one o'clock Thursday ! morning and sustained injuries that i caused nearly instant death. I It was au especially sad affair.- Aside from the natural horror that belongs j to an accident of that sort all the cir ' cumstances of the girl's life aro such | as to appeal to sympathy aud probably 1 never before has a tragic death occur red in Danville that has made sucli an impression ou our citizens, i Ou Wednesday night after the close jof the performance Miss Garger au d j auother actress. Agues McVey, accept i ed an invitation from Fred Owen and Harry Cromwell to take a ride to the ' Oak tren hotel in their automobiles. | On their way out Miss Garger accom ; pauied Mr. Cromwell in his auto, Miss McVey following with Mr. Owen It was about one o'clock when they start |ed for home. On their way back to j Danville the two girls chanced part ners, Miss McVey riding witli Mr. j | Cromwell and Miss Garger following : with Fred Owen iu his machine, j They had proceeded only a short j | distance from the hotel and were mak- j | ing the best time they could in the j j darkness, when soon after crossing a i j water course, which gave the machine j a violent jar, Mr. Owen became aware ! that he had lost his companion. He ! I stopped his auto and running back J some thirty feet- found the girl lying I along side the road. She was uucou- j | scions, although still breathing. The latter fact encouraged the young|man to believe that she was only stunned ■ and in a short time might come around ! all right. Hastily reversing his mach- j ine he backed it to where the girl lay : ; and picking up the insensible form he placed it in the automobile by his side. The young man's feelings may be imagined as supporting the insensible ! iorm with one arm and manipulating the machine with tiie other he made his way through the grim silence of the starless night toward Danville. As the sequel showed during at least half the journey of four miles or so the girl was dead. Mr. Owen is of die opinion that there were signs of life until they reached Mausdale. It was not quite two o'clock when Mr. Owen with his gruesome burden arrived at the City hotel. Hastily in forming the landlord of what had oc curred he ran down to the residence of Dr. Curry and awakened the phy sician, hoping that there might still be some possibility of bringing the girl back to life. Dr. Curry responded as quickly as possible but the most cursory examination sufficed to reveal that the girl was dead and had been so for some time. Meanwhile Mr. Cromwell aud Miss McVey. who nowhere on the home ward trip were in oompany with Mr Owen, arrived at the hotel. The grief j of Miss McVey on learning that her ; companion was dead was touching in the extreme. The body was removed to the under- ! taking establishment of John Doster's Sous. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held on which occasion Dr G. A. Stock, who was chosen as coroner's j physician,made an examination of the body. The full story of the tragedy was brought out at the inquest.. Justice of the Peace W. V. Oglesby was acting coroner in the case. The following jury was impanelled: E. H Miles, John G. Voris, W. B. Startzel, Edward P. Thomas,,!. C. Mincemoyer and W. E. Youug. After viewing the body at the un- ] dertaking establishment the jury re tired to the office of Justice Oglesby, where testimony was takeu. Dr. Stock, who made examination j of the body, testified that there was a compound fracture of the skull with the tissue broken over the spot. It was such au injury aB might have been caused by a "direct and a blunt force," euch as might have been ex erted had the girl violenty struck the ground head foremost in falling, es pecially, had she come in contact with a stone or rock. The fracture may be a very extensive one and it probably lacerated the large vein, which would have caused hemorrhage, j The fracture of the skull with the j hemorriiage was sufficient to account ! for death, which might have been in- \ stantaneous or followed in ten minutes. \ Other witnesses examined were j Theodore Doster, the undertaker, who j described how the girl was dressed, ! Miss McVey, who related many incid ents of the trip; Harry Cromwell,who told what he knew of the affair, nnd Fred M. Owen himself, who explain ed the best that he could how the dreadful accident occurred. With Miss Garger lie left the hotel and was going down the hill at a moderate rate of speed. He had covered about two thirds of the distance between the ho tel and Robert Cornelison's residence, DANVILLE, PA., THURSDAY. JULY 18, 1907 wlieu in swinging round a curve where the road was rough the accident oc curred. Each witness testified readily going over the entire ground and without contradiction presenting facts, which conform witli the account of the accid ent as given above. / : After returning to Danville and learning the dreadful outcome of the i trip Mr. Owen prevailed upon Chief 1 of Police Mincemoyer, Officer John j Grier Voris, Will G. Brown aud John Hinckley to proceed to Oak tree hotel and the spot were the accident occur red aud to make a thorough investiga -1 tion. The party went out iu two automobiles. They looked carefully over the ground, but were unable to detect a single circumstance that would cast the least shadow of doubt | ou the story as related by those who | figured in the affair, j The verdict of the jury was to the j effect that "Agnes H. Garger came to | her death on or about la. m ou the ! llth day of July, A. I)., ISIO7, from a fractured skull, the result of acciileut i ally falling from an automobile driven by Fred M. Owen,on the road leading from the Oak tree hotel to Mausdale iu ' the township of Valley,county of Mon j tour, State of Pennsylvania and do further say that the said Fred M. j Owen is not criminally responsible for | said death." j But very little is knowu in Dau- I ville, even among the show people, about the unfortunate girl who lost J her life. She joined the Eclipse Carn < ival company at Mahanoy City during j the firemen's convention there some | four weeks ago. Before going to Mah ! anoy City she was in New York and I while there, along with Miss McVey, secured an engagement witli the Eclipse j Carnival company by means of the Davis theatrical agency. Miss McVev, ; j however, never knew Miss Garger be fore she met her at the agency and Is nuable to throw much light ou her ' antecedents. A few facts, however, are known j among the theatrical people. Among { these is the fact that the girl was quite i talented, is a graduate of the Anna 1 Morgan Dramatic School,of Chicago, which is known as one of the finest and most aristocratic institutions of > its kind in the country and is situated u the Fine Arts building adjacent to , the Auditorium Hotel. Among the dead girl's personal effects are pro- j grams relating to the school, which j show that Miss Garger was the star j pupil.The girl was about twenty-three j years of age and spoke with a slight foreign accent, which was often takeu | for French. It was generally believed, i however, that Miss Garger was of 1 Austrian birth. Acting upon such clews as were \ found among the girl's personal effects, \ telegrams were sent to New York ami Chicago yesterday morning with the hope of finding parents or some other relatives. Among her papers was found a letter highly recommending j her as a nurse to Mrs. J. S. Butter- | field, of Chicago, as well as another , letter from Mrs. Butterfield, written some three years later, recommending Miss Garger to another party. A telegram was accordingly dis- | patched to the Butterfield family at j the address given apprising it of the J fact that Miss Garger had been killed aud making inquiries concerning rela- j tives. A reply received last evening iu- j formed the authorities that Miss Garg er has a mother residing in Bnda J Pesth, Hungary. The telegram begged j for a full account of the affair, especi- \ ally information concerningjthe burial, j Manager Yost, under whom Miss Garger was employed, speaks very I highly of the girl. She did a dance nightly and posed in the living pict ures. Will Be Wedded on Aug sth. Invitations are out for the marriage of Heber H. Lloyd, son of William Lloyd of this city and Miss Florence May Hudson, of Brooklyn. The wed ding will be solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pierce Hadson.No. 1823 Nos trand avenue, Brooklyn, on Monday evening, August sth, at 8:80 o'clock. Mr. Lloyd is assistant teller in the Flatbush National bank. Visiting Old Home. G. W. Dietz, of Fort Worth and L. T. Dietz, of Big Springs, Texas, are visiting at the home of their brother, S. M. Dietz, at the Gillaspy house. Both the Dietz brothers are natives of Danville, having removed to Texas a number of years ago.This is their first visit east In a number of years. G. W. Dietz is a general foreman of the shops of the Texas Pacifio railroad and L. T. Dietz is a passenger engine er on the same road Pomeranian Pups. .Tack Bateman is proudly exhibiting at his store on Mill street a litter of six Pomeranian pups The pups are only several days old,and are most In teresting. Misses Mane and Charlotte Jacobs will return to their home in Ocean City today,accompanied by Miss Clara Jacobs and nephew, John Guise. DEATH US J. I HHBH James M. Vandevender, for tuany j years a resident of Danville, departed this life at his home in Northumber land, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock Tuesday night. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday af ; ternoon and will be conducted by Cal i vary Commandery, No. 37, K T., of j this city. The deceased was seventy-five years of age and is survived by his wife. Up to some sixteen years ago Mr. Van devendor along with his wife was a resident of this city, owning a pleas ant home on Vine street. Thedecoas | ed was a carpenter by occupation and ! for many years was employed as such ! at the hospital for the insane. I He was an intelligent man and a good ! citizen, honorable in all his dealings ; i he was of genial disposition and had j a large circle of friends taking in not only Danville, Northumberland, but also other neighboring communities. J The deceased was a member of the Masonic lodge at Sunbury and of Cal | vary Commandery, K. T. No. 37, of I this city. The members of the com j mandery, who will have charge of the ; obsequies, will take the 12.51 D. L. & i W. train on Saturday and proceed to j Northumberland in a body. Prev | ious to the funeral just two weeks to the day, Calvary Commandery laid away another brother, John Jacobs, Sr., whose funeral took place on July 6th. j Mr. Vandevender had been ill for five weeks. He suffered with a coin plication of diseases. The immediate cause of death was heart failure sup erinduced by rheumatic neuralgia. Bloomsburg Band Visits Danville. There was more music heard in this city Saturday evening than for a long time past. The Bloomsburg baud paid Danville a visit, rendering a number of artistic selections on Mill street, in addition to which the Mechanicsville baud, which is holding a festival on Bloom road, come down to Mill street to play a few tunes. For a while both bauds were playing, the Bloomsburg band near the river bridge and the hatt<* «* Mill Bloom street. The Mechanicsville band soon retir ed to the festival"**! furnish music for that occasion, leaving the Bloomsburg baud in possession of Mill street. The latter band serenaded the leading ho tels and many other places along the street. The music was very much en joyed,all agreeing that the band play ed exceedingly well. The band on such friendly visits will always find a wel come in Danville. Attempted to Rob Liquor Store. Au attempt was made to break into Batemau's liquor store, Mill street, on Saturday night. The miscreants sue- | ceeded in breakiig open one of the shut - | ters when they were detected and they ; beat a hasty retreat. Last week Mr. Bateman had several valuable chickens stolen from the yard back of the store. The next visit of the thieves may be j followed with some sensational de velopments,should they choose to make their reappearance. DOG TAGS ARRIVED YESTERDAY MORNING The dog tags ordered by the county commissioners a week or so ago arriv ed at the courthouse yesterday morn- j ing and all is now in readiness to en- j force the new dog law. The tags are of brass and are num bered from lup to 1200. On the bits j of brass are imprinted; "Montour County," the number of the tag , and j the words, "Dog tax for 1907." The tags will be distributed among the tax collectors, who will furnish them to the owners of dogs on the payment of dog tax. Any dog found without a tag will naturally be taken for one that has escaped being as sessed—certainly as one for which no tax has been paid. If the law is car ried out such a dog will pay the pen alty of its owner's neglect with its life. Those whose dogs have been missed by the assessor should call upon the tax collector, explain matters and by paying on the dog secure a tag, which is the only thing that will save the canine from slaughter. Painting Veranda. George S. Tillson is painting the handsome veranda recently erected at the residence of Frederick Held, Bloom street. Mr Tillson also painted the veranda at Mrs. Louisa Bloch's resi dence, West Mahoning street. Congregational Meeting. All who are intersted in the welfare of the Immanuel Baptist church are requested to attend a congregational meeting Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock Arrogance is generally its own even tual punishment. IIL AND Jit BLUE | The action of the court in legally j abandoning the old cemetery on Bloom street has awakened a great deal of inquiry to determine how many there may be among the many hundreds tfiat are buried there who in their day and generation were prominent in the j affairs of the community and by their ; labors earned a grave that should en dure beyond the brief span embraced j by the years in which they have slept | in the old cemetery. | There is scarcely a day but the bur ial plot of some well-known family of I the past comes to light. The latest to claim attention is the one opposite Upper Mulberry street on which lie buried Michael Blue, a Revolutionary soldier, and his sou, Captain Isaac Blue, who organized the "Danville Blues, "an organization which took part in the war of-1812. Arrangements are being made for the removal of both ■ of these graves. Michael Blue, born on November 7, 1749, was a native of New Jersey. Early in life he settled in Valley township, then Columbia county. He was the father of Captain Isaac Blue, who lies buried by his side. A large family of descendants reside in this section, among whom is Commission ers' Clerk Horace C. Blue, great grandson and grandson respectively of Michael Blue and Captain Isaac Blue. Horace Blue has among other time stained documents relating to his great grandfather a pension certificate, which is one of the very few of such documents relating to a Revolutionary claim that are extant today. The cer tificate, which bears the date of March 19, 1833, and is signed by "Lew" Cass. Secretary of War, sets forth that Michael Blue "was a priv- I ate in the army of the Revolution and is entitled to receive twenty-six dol- ! lars and fifty-seven cents per annum during his natural life, commencing March 4, 1831, and payable semi-au- 1 uually on March 4tli and September 4th in every year. Michael Blue, however, died on February 14, 1833, over two mouths before his pension paper arrived. ! ... .. .... | Revolutionary soldier that have de scended to Horace Blue is an ancient and time-worn copy of Whitefield's sermons, which, according to a mem orandum on the fly leaf entered in the owner's own hand writing, was pur- 1 chased November 11. 1803, at the store of William Montgomery, which oc cupied the present site of the Montour House. The Dauville Blues, of which Isaac j Blue was captain, was in acitve ser- j vice on the frontier in 1813. aud was stationed at Black Rock wiiere it suf- I fered severely from malignant fever. In the company were Jacob Sechler, Samuel Yorks, John McCoy, Edward Morrisou, Herbert W Best and Isaac j Blue. Michael and Isaac Blue, father and son, were worthy compeers of Will- j iam and Daniel Montgomery, Captain : Jacob Gearhart, Robert Curry and ! others who amid the privations of j pioneer life laid the foundation of a ■ rich and prosperous community and whose bodies along with those of the ! two former were laid away in the j same spot, God's acre, then sacred j and well kept, but which with the j lapse of many years due to the changes I that come with time is no longer re vered but has been suffered to fall in tj neglect and decay. Pleasantly Surprised Mrs. Peter Mottern, was pleasantly surprised at her home in East Danville on Saturday, the occasion being her 59th birthday. Music was reudered by Samuel Mottern, Peter Rudy and Calvin Eggert. A fine simper was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. S. Winner, Mr. and Mrs. E. Strouse, Mr and Mrs. J. Ronndsley.JMr. and Mrs. C. Eggert. Mr. and Mrs. W. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. L. Cashner. Mr. and Mrs. P. Rudy, Mr. ana Mrs. A. Hem erley, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hemerley.Mrs. M. Sidler, Mrs. C. Sweeney, Mrs. J. Mottern, Mrs. C. Mottern. Mrs. Mann. Mrs. Persing, Mrs. J. Haney, Mrs. Lefler, Samuel Mottern, John Hemer ley, Jessie Hemerley, Olive Miller, Masters Paul Hemerley,Clyde Rounds lev. Paul Strouse, Walter and Roy Cashner, Mr. Delworth of New York. Passed Successfully. Dr. C. Raymond Herrington, son cf our townsman, F. M. Herrington, re ceived notification Tuesday that he had successfully passed examination by the board of dental examiners in Philadelphia on June 12-15. Born, a Son. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haas, East Market street, are the happy parents of a baby boy, born Sunday morning. Misses Ethel and Jessie Major, of Norristown.are visiting Miss Margaret Cole, Bloom street. ■I ORDERS OH OF BODIES i Judge C. C. Evans, Tuesday hand |ed down a final decree ordering and | directing the removal of remains of | the dead from the old cemetery on Bloom street in pursuance of the hear [ ing held in the courthouse on Satur ; day. July 6th., on which occasion a I petition was presented from the trus- J tees of the Grove Presbyterian church ! aß fci"K for the legal abandonment of the cemetery. I The petition, set forth that no in j torments had been made in the cemn- I tery for years, that the burial ground J was wholly abandoned and neglected, and had become a public nuisance. A number of leading citizens testified at the hearing, corroborating the | tions made by the petitioners as to the neglected condition of the cemetery i and the extent to which it was a det- I riment to the borough. LOT OWNERS HAVE NO TITLE. | Borough Solicitor E. S. Gearhart j cited authorities to show that the own ers of lots have no real claim or title to the laud that in purchasing a lot | they merely brought a grant or license |to bury on the ground and if at any ' time, owing to change of conditions, it became necessary to legally abandon j the cemetery the most that they could ' ask was due notice and sufficient time to euable them to remove their dead, provided they did not wish to leave the disposition of remains to the peti | tioners asking for abandonment. In disposing of the matter there fore, about all that devolved on the court was to empower and direct the removal of such bodies as remain at the present day. When the remains are removed pursuant to the decree the I old cemetery will cease to exist as a | cemetery and will be wholly at the ! disposal of the trustees, the petition ers in the case, to which body the ! ground was transferred during the ! eighteenth century. As is generally j known the distinct understanding is j that the trustees will present the i abandoned site of the burial giound to the borough, which will grade the ! spot and use it as a public park. FINAL DECREE OF COURT to the court that due and legal notice j of this hearing has been given as here tofore directed in suoh behalf, and af- | ter a full hearing of the parties, their j proofs and allegations the court is ! clearly of the opinion that the within | described cemetery or burial ground I has long ceased to be used for inter,- j ments and that the same has come to ! be so neglected as to become a public j nuisance and that the remains of the bodies interred therein seriously in- | terfere with and hinder the improve- ' ments, extensions and general progres- 1 sive interests of the said borough of 1 Danville, aud that.therefore.the court j do hereby authorize, empower, order and direct the removal of such remains of the dead as can yet be found therein from the said cemetery or burial j ground by the within named trustees ■ aud petitioners in a fateful manner at j their own expense to such other burial ground or grounds as they may select for such purpose, and, if desired by j the relatives or friends of suoh dead, J to some properly regulated burial j ground'or cemetery in the immediate ! vicinity and the court do hereby fur- I ther order and direct that before re- ! moving any of the said bodies the said | trustees shall publish for twoconsecu- i tive weeks in two daily or weekly newspapers of the said borough of Dan ville a notice deolaring their inten tion to remove said remains in pursu ance of this act; and it is hereby fur ther ordered and directed that rela tives and friends of such dead shall have the right to so remove said re mains at any time during said pro ceedings at their own expense before actual removal by the said trustees; and it is hereby still further ordered and directed that all bodies when so removed shall be plaoed in separate caskets and graves and the headstones, monuments or other marks placed by the remains of said bodies shall be taken by the said trustees and placed as near as can be in the same relative position as before removal. By the court, CHARLES C. EVANS, P. J. HEALTH BOARD YIELDS POINT. In view of the above decree the re moval of the bodies, which lias been going on steadily, will no doubt re ceive a fresh impetus. Under the state law disinterments are not permitted during the months of June, July, August and September, but owing to the exceptional conditions the board of health has suspended the law as far as it relates to the old cemetery on Bloom street and will permit the re moval of bodies during all the sum mer months. Fred Held will leave today forWap wallopen, where he will be employed by the Danville Foundry & 'Machine company. Charles G. Cloud left last evening for a trip to Philadelphia. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 ill VP 1 WEB VK Edward Sainsbury, who lias the con tract for painting the roof of the court house along with other public work, was putting the finishing touches on the cupola of the temple of justice yesterday. He gave the dome a coat of paint and while he was about it overhauled the weather vane, which for some years has been suspected of not being overly accurate in indicating the di rection of the wind. It was observed that while the wind blew out of the south and the rain was pouring in tor rents the weather vane on the court house stood pointing unalterably in a direction that indicated fair weather. Under exceptionally high winds it is true, the vane changed its position slightly at times, but it seldom hap pened that it indicated anything liko the right direction of the wind for two days in succession. The theory was that the vane owing to the action of rust or other cause had ceased to movfi freely on its up right axis. In effect this was pre cisely the cause. Mr. Sainsbury found an accumulation of scale on the up right rod nearly one-sixteenth of an inch thick, which interfered with the movement of the vane. He removed the scale and oiled up the mechanism as a piece of gratuitous work, which he believed the public would highly appreciate. The weather vane will no doubt repay the slight attention by henceforth indicating the direction of the wind with unfailing accuracy. SCRAPING EAST MARKET STREET During the past week or ten days the street commissioner has had a force of men at work scraping East Market street and hauling the ground that accumulates to different parts of town, where it is used in filling up low places. The section of East Market street to be scraped lies between Honeymoon street and Mill street. The work tak ing in the south half of the street is pretty well completed and about a the scraping, have been hauled away. The enormous quantity of ground removed conveys some idea of the depth of mud that lay on the street at times. The scraping of the street re moves the mud as a factor in the future but it leaves the bottom uneven and stony. It is very clear that the street will not be improved much for geueral traffic unless a course of crushed stone properly coated with screenings is placed on the street where the loose earth has been removed. This, of course, would imply that the street on each side of the trolley track should receive the same treatment. DEATH OF IRS. JOHN CASEY Mrs. John Casey, Spruce street, de parted this life about 8 o'clock Tues day evening after a long illness of consumption. Although verv much in disposed since last Christmas the de ceased was bedfast oulv some three weeks prior to her death. She was twenty-six years of age and is survived by her husband. The fuueral will take place on Fri day at 9 a. m.from St. Joseph's Catholic church. Interment in St. Jo seph's cemetery. Farewell Party. A farewell party was tendered to Joseph Reckafus on Sunday at the home of Fred Becker, Sidler hill. Re freshments were served. Those present were : Theodore Becker, Joseph Gib son, William Becker, Charles Lake, Garner Rose, Edward Ackley, Frank Becker, Jacob Becker, August Shultz, William Hickey, John Mintzer, Fred Smidley, Charles Smidley and Joseph Reckafus. Prominent Contractor Dead. Thomas Gorrey, a prominent con tractor of Bloomsburg, died yesterday afternoon at his home, after an illness of several months of Bright's disease. He has been confined to his bed for three weeks. The deceased was born in New York City in 1848. He was widely known in Danville. Tho funeral will take place Saturday morning at 1) o'clock from St. Col umba's church at Bloomsburg. Will Paint Building. J. H. Cleaver is preparing to paiut his brick store building at the corner of Mill and Northumberland streets. A stone color will be employed with white trimmings. The building is already scaffolded on the Northumberland street side Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Snyder i' - turned to Shamokin yesterday after . visit at the home of Richard Si jdor, Mahoning street.
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