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,licenses of the Stomach and Intestines
a Specially
S CONDENSED.
There js money in cocoa nuts in tho j
federated Malay states. The growers
there have plantations worth $20,000,-
000.
A capacity of 500 barrels a day is
expected from the Chinese cement
government's cement works now being
built at Soo Toug Wei.
£ The Kentucky court of appeals has
decided that it is unlawful for a lot
owner to bury the body of a dog or
any other auimal in his lot.
Jorgen Urlickson, a well digger at j
Eagle Lake, Minn., was caught by a j
fall of earth fifty feet below the sur
face, aud buried alive.
The Germau government will spend
a billion dollars ou its navy during
the next ten years if it can secure the !
consent of the reichstag.
Milwaukee is pluming herself upon
the fact that no less than sixty-four j
conventions,large and small, will meet |
there during the year 1908.
A Reading cigar firm last week fill- j
ed an order for 27,000 cigars for the j
oil king, John D. Rockefeller.
A 6-months-old sou of John Reed,of |
Tower City, Schuylkill county, died j
on Saturday from injuries sustained j
by swallowing a safety pin. The pin
had caught in the child's throat.
Mayors Guhtrie and Kirschler have
agreed to postpone the finaucial union
of Pittsburg aud Allegheny until the
beginning of the new financial year,
ou February 1, 1908.
Edward Cliism, aged 64 years, trea
surer of Colwyu, Delaware county,
who had his spine broken a month
ago by falling from tho roof of a
building, which rendered him entire
ly helpless,died of his injuries on Sat- j
urday.
Xu a fire at the home of Mrs. Marg
aret Staley, in Norristown, ou Friday
night, Jennie Staley, aged 11 years, !
and Margaret Wilson, aged 5, were so j
badly burned that both died at the
Norristown hospital on Saturday.
Charles Krause, of Slatington, was !
teasing his little sister on Saturday,
when she threw a hat pin at him,
which struck him in the left eye,
puncturing the eyeball so badly that j
it is feared lie will lose his sight.
Rev. William Boyd Craig, one of
the oldest aud most prominent minist
ers of Carlisle presbytery, who died
last week at his home near Shippens- j
bur#, has bequeathed $12,000 to the
missions boards of the Presbyterian j
church, the American Bible society !
aud the Amerioan Tract society.
Edwin E. Hopkins, who lost both |
legs in an accident on the Northamp- \
ton Traction liue at Easton, when a j
car ran away from the car barn and :
rushed down a steep grade into the 1
car of which Hopkins was luotorman, ;
has sued tiie company for $50,000 dam- |
BgOB.
Charles Goodburn employed at the j
Fort Wayne railroad station iu So- :
wickley was walking beside a moving
passenger train ou Saturday when he
collided with a truck aud was thrown
under the train. Fortunately the train
was brought to a stop just as a wheel
was cutting into the man's trousers.
Early on Saturday morning burglars
bound and gagged George®Hendrick
son, watchman at the union station at
Langdeuburg, Chester county, as he
was seated in the cab of a Baltimore
aud Ohio locomotive and then entered
the station, blew open the safe aud
took all the money it contained.
Mrs. Edith Lukensdied at her home
on Melon street, Pliilati Iphia.on Sat- j
urday,aged 99 years.Her husband died
in 1838. Throughout her life she
never suffered any severe illness aud
until quite recently was remuikably
well pre-erved in body and mi no.
The American Can company,of Pitts
burg, hui received an order from the
California Fruit Growers' association
for 300,000,000 caus to he delivered at
the rate of 60,000,000 cans per year for
five years. This is the largest order
ever placed for these useful articles of
commerce.
Jacob Ressler, cf near Cains, Lan
caster county, had a crop of 690 bushels
of corn from four acres of laud this
year.
it bus been"decided to bond Hazleton
in the spring to raise $60,000 to defray
the expense of street paving on a large
scale.
Charles Anderson fell into a pond at
Yardley, Backs ooanty, on Saturday,
and was drowned.
IMPORTANT ACTIOI
ON SEIDNE
Important action «m taken by the '
borough council Friday night, which
might indicate that a well laid plan
in 011 foot for the disposal of hospital
sewage accord! D|( to a method that
will prevent pollution of the river.
On motion of Mr. Russell it was
ordered that tlic following resolution*
be adopted:
That the bo rod nil of Danville co
operate with the trustees of the State
hospital for the insane at Danville,
Pennsylvania, in procuring a safe and
sanitary method of disposing of its
sewage.
That, if, in the wisdom of the de
partment of health of the State o
Pennsylvania, it shall appear that the
use of the old canal and connection
with the municipal sewer is the most
feasible plan,then permission he grant
ed such hospital to make such connec
tion.
On motion of Mr. Russell it was
ordered that a committee of three in
cluding the burgess and president of
council be appointed to act in con- I
junction with the trustees of the lios- i
pital for the insane in providing a
better method of disposing of the lios ;
pital sewage President Sweisfort ap-f
pointed John L. Russell, Jacob Dietz
and George B. Jacobs as members of
said committee.
The president explained that there !
were several vacancies in the board of
health caused by the terms expiring. J
The matter was discussed at some
length when the president made the
following appointments on the board
of health :
Second ward, J. Newton Pursel:!
third ward, Jesse B. Cleaver: fourth
ward, Robert Farley. Iu the first ward
the members are Dr. P. O. Newbaker,
president, and James Sliultz.
On motion of Mr. Hughes it was
ordered that repairs be made on the
Goodwill engine house; also that the
gutter on the roof of city hall be re
paired
On motion of Mr. Moyer it was ord
ered that a building permit be grant
ed to D. R. Eckinan, who wishes to
make alterations ou his property on
Mill street including repairs on a
stable in the real.
The following members were iu
their places: Sweisfort, Jacobs, Ever
hart, Moyer, Dietz, Russell, Angle
and Hughes.
The following bills were approved
for payment:
Regular employes 1127.50
People's Goal Yard 4.90
Jno. Hixson 12. 20 !
Expressage 30
Labor and Hauliug 67.40
D. L. & W. R. R. Co 29.65
James Gibson 18.00 j
Atlantic Refining Go 9.46
Jacob Reed's Sons 36.00
WATER DEP'T.
Regular employes 205.50
Labor and Hauling 50.10
P. H. Foust.. 119.25
Friendship Fire Go 14.63
Jno. H. Goeser 10.13 i
Leavitt Machine Co 137.50 ,
Jno. Hixson 50
GUARD INSPECTION
DATES ANNOUNCED
Details of the spring inspection of j
I the infantry organizations of the Na- j
i tional Guard of Pennsylvania have
i just been announced in general orders
i issued by Adjutant General Stewart
at Harrisburg.
At these inspections the organiza
tions will be paraded by battery,troop
and company,in the State uniform, in
light marching order, infantry com
panies without leggins. Ratings will j
be made for all concerned upon dis
■ cipline and equipment,clothing, books
| and papers.
Following is a schedule oi dates for
tho several inspections of the Twelfth
regiment:
Headquarters, February 7; regiment
al baud, February 14; hospital corps.
February 7 ; Company A, February 10;
Company B, February 12; Company
C, February'B; Company D, February
13; Compauy E.February 7; Company
F, February^; Company G, February
11; Company H,
! pauy I.FeDruary 14; Company K.Feb
ruary 7
McHENRY'S NEW
PENSION B*LL
Coal mine disasters of recent oc
currence, causing the loss of five liuu
i dred lives, prompted the introduction
in the house at Washington, Saturday,
by Mr. McHenry, <>f Pennsylvania, of
a bill "to supply relief and alleviate
suffering incident thereto." The bill
provides for the establishment iu the
department of commerce and labor of
a bureau of mines and mining, whose
duty it shall bo to investigate all coal
mine accidents and supply monetary
relief to sufferers out of a fund to be
created by a tax of one cent a ton on
all coal mines in the United States.
DANVILLE, PA., THURHDAY. DKCKMRKR 2f>, IW>7
COniNMTI
Ml OH. Dill
Dr. Cameron Shultz, secretary of
the local board of health, lias receiv
ed a stirrlug communication from
State Health Commissioner Dr Caninel
G. Dixon, relating to the outbreak of
typhoid fever iu this city, which will
nt) doubt have the effect of arousing
the people to a true sense of their dan
ger, causing them to institute pro
per investigation to determine wheth
er the uuhealthful conditions are due
to neglect aud to adopt measures that
will compel the observance of all the
precautions known to science.
In the several articles relating to the
subject this piper has only reflected
the views of the physicians. In tone
these articles, it will be recalled,were
various. If one physician was pes
simistic in his views another tried to
minimize the outbreak and both seem
ed oonscientious iu the matter. Pre
vious to the present the local regis
trar's report showed no more than
eighteen cases on the list.
Meanwhile the impression got abroad
that there was a larger number of ty
phoid fever cases. The evidence came
to the people in a way that seemed to
carry conviction with it. They became
distrustful and alarmed and in order
that a remedy might be applied before
the state of affairs had lasted too long
some one wrote to Dr. Dixon, asking
that he look into the matter. Dr. Dix
on, however, had already the subject
under consideration.
Several weeks ago, it will be recall
ed, the State health commissioner
wrote to the local board of health and
wanted to know what it was doing to
trace the disease to a source. Mean
while, the number of cases seemed to
increase. During the last ten days,
especially,new cases have been report
ed daily. Two deaths from the disease
have occurred aud in several cases the 1
patients are now lying very low.
It was learned from the local regis
trar, Saturday, that during November
and 111 December thus far there have
been forty cases reported. A leading
physician Sunday stated that he had
three new cases, which would have to
be reported Monday. How many cases
may be reported by other physicians is
problematical. Dr. Dixon is uuder the
impressiou that there are nearer sev
enty-five cases of typhoid fever than
forty in Danville aud he seems to be
pretty well informed ou the status of
the outbreak.
It was at first stated that there is a
prevalence of intermittent and malari- \
al fever in Danville as well as of ty- !
phoid fever It now appears,however,
that at least in some of the cases it is
only a difference ojopinion among the
doctors. The cases are not all well de- ;
fined ones aud what one physician .
diagnoses as malarial fever another
would call typhoid. The fact remains, j
however, that typhoid fever is pre- 1
valent and tho lay mind derives little
consolation 1 from the fact that in a few
cases of fever some of the character
istic symptoms aro lacking. It is evid
ently a time for some sane action,
which can not be too prompt.
Dr. Dixon in his communication to
the secretary urges the board of health
to proceed at once with a searching
investigation to determine whether or
not any of the doctors fail to report
the full number of cases of typhoid
fever uuder their treatment; if any
are found guilty of such negligence the
board of health is instructed to pro- ;
ceed at once to prosecute them.
Dr. Dixon advises that the milk as |
well as the water used for drinking
and culinary purposes be boiled. He
also advises against the eating of un- j
cooked vegetables or food stuffs of any
sort, as all such are a possible source
of infection.
He strongly recommends that in all
cases the use of milk bottles aud con
tainers used by milk dealers beforbid
| den. It is positively forbidden that
• these bottles be used in houses where
typhoid fever exists.
The State health commissioner also
directs that all houses wherein ty
phoid fever exists be placarded.
WOIiK ON BRIDGES
MOVES SLOWLY
The bridge over Beaver ruu at Rob
bins' farm in Liberty township is now
! completed and is open for traffic.
1 The county commissioners are ready
! to begin work on the bridge over the
j same stream at Mrs. Henry's farm,the
' stonework of which was completed
! some mouths ago.
I The work on the several bridges of
the county has piogressed much more
slowly than was anticipated by the
county commissioners. It is likely,
however, that all be completed
before next spring.
Underwent Operation.
Mrs. Josephine Kimerer has return
ed from Philadelphia where she has
been for a month recovering from an
operation for appendicitis. The opera
tion was successful and Mis. Kimerer
is in excellent health.
UMBRELLA STANDS
FOB ISCW
In view of the prevalence of sickness
about town school board Monday night
devoted oonsii erahle time to the dis
cussion of sanatory measures to be ad
opted in relation to the schools.
Mr. Burns raised the question wheth
er it might not be advisable to have
the school buildings cleaned during
the holiday vacation. If a thorough
scrubbing would be too expensive he
thought the "wiping up" of the floors
anil a washing off of the woodwork
might do as a compromise: anything,
he said, to obviate the clouds of dust
that envelop the rooms when
ever sweeping is being done. In his
opinion the dust in itself is a source
of great danger and cleaner floors, he
thought, would result in less dust.
Dr. Barber expressed similar views
on the subject and he took the view
that an unnecessary amouut of dust
was raised by the janitors He thought
a preparation might be procured that
would keep down the dust when the
school rooms are being swept.
On motion of Mr. Sechler it was
ordered that the secretary look into
the matter ascertaining the cost and
the practical value of such prepara- j
tions.several of which are advertised.
On motion of Dr. Barber it was ord
ered that the cellar of the first ward
school building be given a general
cleaning out, article not essen
tial to heating the building to be re- \
moved.
Mr. Fischer called attention to the
necessity of having tho woodwork of
the cellar of the first ward school
building painted during the coming
Christmas vacation.
On motion of Mr. Sechler it was j
ordered that the building and repair
committee be instructed to have the '
painting done during vacation as rec
ommended by Mr. Fischer.
An umbrella stand, something speci
al in design, to meet the demands of
the school room, was adopted by the
school board Monday night. A model de
vised by Mr. Burns of the second
ward was produced before the board
Monday night. Tho stand is nearly six
feet iu length, the base being in the
form of a /.inclined trough.
The members approved of the pat
tern aud on motion of Mr. Fischer it
was ordered that bids be invited for
23 umbrella stands, five feet, three
inches, in length, aud one eight feet
iu leugtli, each lined with galvanized
iron.
The following members were pres- ,
eut at the meeting: Pursel, Orth, j
Swarts. Burns, Redding, Barber, Fish, ]
Fischer, Sechler, Foulk, Heiss, Cole. |
The following bills were approved !
for payment:
Wm. Quigg $ 26.50
George Sechler 1.00 !
Saddler Rowe &Co 6.75 j
Boyer Bros 3.20 j
Mary Rouusley . 2.00 |
Teachers anti Janitors 1211.75 j
COPPERHEAD SNAKE
KILLED ON SUNDAY
Attracted l>y the warm sunshine a
copperhead snake, Sunday, crawled out
of its winter rotreat on the south side !
of Montour ridge. The pleasaut little
sunbath, however, caused his snake
ship his life, for while he was enjoy
ing his siesta George Mock of town
came along.
Snakes aro a novelty about Christ- j
mas time aud George for a time was
inclined to doabt his senses. Perceiv
ing the venomous nature of the reptile j
he coucluded to keep a safe distance.
Calliug to Harvey Lamberson, who
lives a short distance below,the latter,
with his famous dog, which has a rec- ,
ord for killing snakes,joined Mock on
the ridge aud led the attack ou the
copperhead. The little dog, however,
did the work and there w 11 be one
copperhead less to infest that locality
next summer.
The snake was over two feet in
length.
FLOOR SINKS
WITH BIG CROWD
Monday it was learned that a ter
rible catastrophe had been averted at
Exchange, this county, by the nar
rowest kind of a margin on Sunday
evening, when the floor of the Epis
copal church of that place sank six
inches under the strain of a big crowd
that had gathered to hear the rendi
tion of a Christmas service.
It was not until Monday morning
that the defective floor was discovered
and it was then sagging six inches in
the middle. One of the largest crowds
that ever gathered for a like ocoasion
was present Sunday evei.ing, even all
| the standing room being taken. The
service passed off most auspioiously
and none of the spectators had the
slightest suspioiou of the awful dan
ger they were facing. The church was
heated by two stoves and had the floor
collapsed fire would no doubt have
been added to the other horrors.
OHM FOILS
,i ON IMS
yesterday—Christmas', 1907- was the
birthday of a very venerable woman
of Danville, Mrs. Mary A. Miller,who
resides with her son, William Miller,
Cherry street. Mrs. Miller was born
in the year 1HIi« and is accordingly H*
years of age.
The venerable woman although only
twelve years short of the century mark
is in the full possession of her facnl
ties. Her eyesight is somewhat be
diiumed, but her mind is clear, her
memory especially, being a marvel.
Like all aged people, Mrs. Miller
loves to dwell on the past and she
talks most entertainingly of her early
life. She was born iu New York State,
but has lived in Danville for seventy
years. When a girl she came down
the north branch on a raft, settling
with others of the family in Salem
township, Luzerne county. She lived
for awhile in Shickshinny and Ber
wick. At the latter place she was mar
ried and when 18 years of age remov
ed to Danville.
Mrs. Miller has been married twice,
the children of the first marriage be
ing Richard W.,Galvin L.and Hiram
Eggert, Elmira (Mrs. Whittenbaugh)
of Williamsport, and Virginia, (Mrs.
Joseph Mottern) of Meclianicsville.
Hiram Eggert lives at Portland, Me.
Mrs. Miller's second husband was
Thomas Miller, who died many years
| ago. The children of this marriage
are Thomas, William and Charles Mill
j er, all well-known residents of this
city.
Today should be a "Merry Christ
mas" at the home of Mrs. Miller.
1 That a birthday anniversary and the
great church festival should fall ou
; the same date is iu itself a pleasing
' coincidence, but when the birthday
marks the 88th milestone of life's
journey the tenderest of emotions are
aroused and the occasion assumes an
added significance. .
BREAKING GROUND
FOR FOUNDATION
Ground was broken at the light plant
Monday for the new engiue aud dy
namo. The proposition in the present
case is a much more serious one than
is usually implied when ground is'
broken for a foundation, as before a
beginning conld be made it was neces
sary to cut through nearly a foot of
! solid concrete that formed the floor of
I that portion of the water works.
| The foundation, which will have to
j be sunk some twenty-five feet,presents
! a difficult problem throughout and it*
: self may prove a pretty heavy item of
; cost.
The force of men employed Mon
' day barely succeeded iu removing the
| concrete, which had to be chipped out
! with sledge and drill. Next will fol
low the work of excavating As the
| earth is removed the stoutest kind of
cribbing will have to be installed in
i order to resist the heavy jar caused by
operating the high speed engine and
dynamo, which stand distant a mat
ter of only ten feet.
The excavation will have to be sunk
i down as far as the bottom of the sub
cellar under the pit of the water plant,
where the pumps are installed, the
depth below the floor of the light
plant where the new engine aud dy
namo are to be installed being, at
! least, twenty-five feet. No less than
i 200 cubic feet of earth will have to be
j removed.
The work on tho foundation is it:
! charge of Superintendent of Construc
j tion P. J. Keefer mid will not be
finished iu much less than two weeks'
I time.
PROMINENT
WOMAN'S DEMISE
Mrs. Margaret A. Bird, East Mark
let street, departed this life very un
l expectedly Monday morning.
Mrs. Bird waß in her usual health
j up to Friday night, when she was
I seized with an attack of acute indiges
j tion. She was very ill for awhile but
j seemingly improved. During Satur
-1 day and Sunday she was considerably
indisposed, although her full recovery
was confidently expected by the fami
' ly. Her death, therefore, which oc
curred at 8:30 o'clock Monday inorn
t ing, was wholly unexpected and came
as a great shuck.
I The deceased was the widow of
i Charles A. Bird, who departed this
life six years ago. She was seventy
two years of age and is survived by
two sous, Wellington H. Bird,of Phil
adelphia, and John O. Bird, of Pitts
burg, three daughters,the Misses Alice
aud Janet Bird,and Emma (Mrs. John
R. .Teiobs) of Dauville; also by one
brothft*, Jacob Martz, of Washington
ville, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Frazier of Washingtonville, aud Mrs.
Jacob St. Clair, of West Point, Neb.
The deceased was a native and a
life-long resident of Montour
1 She was a woman widely known and
most highly esteemed.
AS CONSTRUED
01 DO. DM
The school authorities this year find
themselves confronted with the same
difficulty in getting the people to ful
ly understand the provisions of the
school law relating to diphtheria ami
other contagious diseases that has em
barrassed them year after year in the
past.
The point ill which the law is most- !
ly misunderstood is involved in a ease
which has occcuried in town during
the presont week and which has caus
ed some unpleasantness between a
patron and the school authorities In
many cases it appears that when dipli
tlieria breaks out in the family the
children that are not ill are hustled
off to another house—say,the residence
of grandparents or of other relatives,
the impression being that living, as
they then do. apart from the infected
household they will be permitted to
attend school.
The patrou is probably aware of the
provision of the school law, which re
quires the authorities to exclude a
child exposed to diphtheria or other
coutagious disease from school for
thirty days after recovery of the per
son last afflicted in the household.
Tho law specifically states that, no
child belonging to or residing with
the family of any person or residing
in the same house in which any per- !
son may be located who is suffering
from diphtheria, scarlet fever, diph
theretio croup, membraneous croup, '
&c., shall be permitted to attend any
public, private, parochial, Sunday or 1
other school and all school principals,
Sunday school superintendents or oth
er persons in charge of such schools I
are required to exclude any and all
such children from said schools, sncli !
exclusion to continue for a period of i
thirty days following the discharge by
recovory or death of the person last i
afflicted in said house or family and
the thorough disinfection of the pre
mises.
While the above section of the law
seems explicit enough it does seem to
leave some misunderstanding in the
minds of a few people relative to the
case that the school authorities are at
present dealing with—in other words,
whether a child removed from the par
ental home on the outbreak of com- j
municable disease and kept aloof from
the infected household may not be
permitted to attend school.
That no mistake might be made in
Interpreting the law in this relation
last year the question _ involved was
submitted to State Health Commis
sioner Dr. Dixon, who in reply settled
the disputed point for all time.
Dr. Dixon made it clear to the local
school board that a child exposed to
contagion by living in a family in
which a case of diphtheria or other
disease develops, even though removed
to another household free from infec
tion, under the law cannot be permit
ted to attend school until at the ex
piration of thirty days after tho child
has been removed.
At tho request of the school hoard,
in order that the public may be in
formed, this papei has taken up the
matter explaining the construction
that Dr. Dixon puts upon the school i
law iu relation to the disputed point.
BIG ROLLER
MILL BURNED
The valuable roller mill at Ciiil
lisquaque, along the Pennsylvania
tracks between Milton aud Northum
berland, was destroyed by fire Tues- I
day.
The mill was the property of Ben
jamin Frey and Sons and is a total
loss. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO
on which there was an insurance
amouuting to $6,000.
The fire was discovered about 12:30,
while the workmen were at dinner
and the mill was deserted. The flames
were seen by the Frey family as they j
sat at the dinner table. The fire had <
then gained such headway that all ef
forts to save the structure were futile. !
George H. Ludbasl Jger, of Lower
Nazareth township, Northampton conn
ty, while walking to his home on the
trolley track early Sunday morning, I
was run down and cut in two by one
of the Lehigh Traction company's big
cars, only a few yards from his resi- 1
dence.
Positive orders issued on Saturday j
evening by many coal companies in j
the Schuylkill reigon, that tho mines !
should work all this week, except on
Christinas day, have been met with |
positive declarations that the men ;
would not work Wednesday or Thurs- j
day.
Shoemaker—K reamer.
William Shoemaker and Miss Marg
aret Kreamer were married on Dec
ember 18th at the home of Rev. H. C.
Monro, White Hall.
The average length of life of a trades
man is two-thirds of that of a farmer.
ESTABLISHED IN I
DEATH OF JOHN
TTLER OBERDORF
John Tyler Ulwrilntl.n widely knnito
ritisr-Pii of Danvilln. departed tin* life
at It o'clock Tuesday morning after
a protracted illness due to a complin
tion of dispasea.
The deceased was sixty-six year* »»f
age. Hp w»h born near Kipp's iiin.in
Northuinbpilaud count\, and resided
in South Danville and this city during
the greater part of liin life.
For many jears he wan engineer at
the Beading Iron works; lie alio had
charge of an engine at the works of
Carry & Vaunan He was especiallv
skillful an an engineer and was an
authority on matters pertaining to
that occupation.
Tho deceased, however, was best
known as musician and baud direct
or. For a number of years he was con
nected with Stoes' band. He later wa
director in the Citizens' and in Dan
ville and Mechaniesville hands. He
also played in various orchestras.
As he advanced in years he became
incapacitated for hard work and he
accepted au agency under the Prudent
ial Life Insurance company,a position
which he tilled for eight years. For
two years prior to his death he lived
retired.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, one daughter, Miss Jane, and
seven sons: William, Haydn, Frank,
Charles, Oeorge.Gearhart and Walter.
The sons all are residents of Danville
with the exception of Charles, who
lives at Lewisbuig.
The funeral will be held on Friday
at 2 p m.
RED CROSS STAHPS
IN DANVILLE
During the last couple of days Bed
Cross stamps have made their appear
ance* in Danville and have been used
along with postage stamps,on packages
sent through the mails. They were
procured from the "North American"
ottice in Philadelphia by Will G.
Brown, toho so for as known is the
only person in Dauville who possessed
any of these stamps.
Mr. Brown as a yuletide greeting
presented the stamps to his friends
about town and thus they became
pretty well circulated.
Mr Brown intends to send for an in
stallment of the Bed Cross stampß con
taining the New Year greeting. If
there are any in Danville who would
like to assist in the war against the
"white plague" by purchasing thesis
stamps all they have to do is to call on
Mr. Brown, making known their de
sires, when he will procure any quant
ity they desire when he sends iu au
order for his own stamps.
IT MAY BE A
DULL VACATION
A good snow fall or at least colder
weather that would produco skating
would he very timely at present.
Without either sleighing or skating it
is feared that the teu days' Christmas
vacation will be void of charm for the
thousand or so ot' boys and girls that
have been let loose from school. We
shall watch the we ather indications
during the next few days with a great
deal of interest.
Moser—Carr.
John Aivin Moser and Mrs. Carrie
B. Carr, both of Derr.v township,were
united in marriage Tuesday morning
at 11 o'clock by the Bev. C. D. Lerch
at his home on North Mill street. At
tendants Warren Fenstermacher aurt
Bertha Moser of Valley township.
Miss Alciuda Thompson, aged 75
years, was found dead in bod on Sat
urday night at her home iu Union
towu. She lived alone audit is be
lieved she had been dead about twen
ty-four hours. For nearlv forty years
she had been a teacher iu a private
school.
While Mits Elizabeth Hatbeid, of
Washington, aged 17 years, was kneel
ing at her bedside in prayer on Sun
day morning, her night dxess ignited
at a gas stove and she was burned so
badly that she died at the hospital in
the evening.
On Saturday as Mrs. Oliver Breneis
er. of Oakbrook.near Reading, was on
her way home from a grocery store,
she was accosted by a man who, after
asking some information, grabbed her
pocket book, containing *2O, andes
caped.
A farmer's organization for the pur
pose of raising Pennsylvania grass fed
cattle on a largo scale was formed at
Pottsville on Saturday. Large tracts
of land on which the timber has been
cut will bo utilized as pasture ground.
Bt. Bev. John E. Fitzmaurice, D.
D., bishop of Erie.dedioated St. S'<-| -
hen's new Catholic church at Mel -
ville, on Sunday, assisted by a l»>
number of priests. The church on
1100,000.