itUmtour jVmrriran. V VOL. 54—NO. 27 1 I.l{, IRVING H. JENNINGS, )>tfce Hour« .4. .1/. to 1-2 M- 104 -W»'W /'. .1/. (o P. -V. Danville. Pa. p -illl'LTZ, M. \25 SIII.I. ST., DANVILLE, PA. Diseases of the Stomach anil Intestines 3, Specialty lisipr Of 278 young men aud women ex ami ned by Professor Stine, superin tendent of the York county sohools. to qualify for certificates to teach, 103 failed to pass. A pledge to raise SI,OOO for mission and education work among the fore igners in the Butler presbytery was given by the Christiau Union conven tion in Butler on Saturday. Charles M. Ott, aged Si years, of Coopersburg, Lehigh county, has so far this season worked every day in the hay field and has kept t. p with the best of the workmen. The residence of Henry Shearer, near Wrightsville, York county, was de stroyed by fire on Friday, started by sparks from a railroad locomotive. Mr. Shearer, an invalid past 80 years of age, and a blind sou, were barely saved by the neighbors. William Finiev, aged 53 years, tiled on Saturday afternoon in a bathtab.it his homo in Philadelphia, while tak iu r bath, tie was found sitting np right in the tub by his son-in-law. ; H-nrfc failure cans' 1 1 his doith. Miss Uhil, superintendent of the Or-wscr ho-pital.at Chester, has receiv ed an auouyuious letter threatening hor ,'itii serious consequences boe;iu.->! she rode in one of tiie Chester Tiic tion company' ■ cars. prisoners in the York county jail nude »u ucouipt to escape ou Sat urday an ! probably Would have sue *• I but tl: plot was discovered be. it oould be carried into effect. I L'he „ v. Isaac O. littcler, presi dent i svove City college, at v.irovo City, Mercer while in New York r> cently cau€<: on Andrew Car negie mil appealed for ai 1 fo'rin lege When he reached home a chei k lor $20,000 for the college awaited him. Mrs Ernest Miller, aged 63 years, of Garrett Hun, Armstrong county, was lodged in the county jail on Sat urday, charged with larceny of veget ables from a neighbor's garden. Briggs Wesley of Stillwater, Colum bia county, Thursday caught a brook trout in Fishing creek that measured twenty-two and one-half inches in length and weighed four pounds six ounces. Thirty slot machines, estimated to be worth ss,ooo,exclusive of their con. tents, were confiscated in Homestead, West Homestead and Munhallhy three county detectives, on Thursday morn ing. Mrs. John Stillwell, of Lincoln, Lancaster county, was burned to death . Wednesday evening by pouring kero sene on wood in a stove in which she thought there was no fire. A big blaze burst up and enveloped her in flames. Charles Dyer, jr., of Philadelphia, who had bought a'toy cannon to cele brate the Fourth, concluded to try it on Thursday, with the result that the index finger of hi 3 right hand, was blown off and the hand badly barned. On WednesdayJSliaron surgeons op erated on l 7 l 7 years, for appendicitis and found in his ap pendix two smalljteeth and a hair. It is had swallowed the teeth whenfhe was a child. No time is'beiug lost in beginning the improvement of the fifty or more miles ofJ[roads ordered macadamized in Allegheuy county. The countv coin- advertise at guee. The cost will approximate $1,000,000. WhileJßeruice Hunt of Eastou aged 7 years, was playing in the yard on Thursday with severaUninpauiona she ran against a clothesline which caught her under the chin and threw her viol ently on the ground. Convulsions fol lowed and an hour later she died. On Thursday haymakers on the farm of H. A. Sell, near Hanover, York county, noticed a cow in a near by meadow, jumping about and bel lowing loudly. Upon investigation they found that eight weasels were at tacking her. After a lively fight they killed several and drove the others away. Michael Shalko, of Bethlehem, on Thursday went to the Lehigh river to take a swim, was seized with cramps in shallow water and W»B drowned. George W. Hippie,of Pottsville.whlie climbing a pole on Thursday to adjust some telephone wires, came in contact with a heavily charged electric light wire and 2,300 volts passed through him. He dropped to the sidewalk a bine flame issuing from his month, and his skull was crushed and neck broken by the fall. StlllL PATHS HD MET The plan adopted to prevent over crowding in the high school by utiliz ing vacant space in the other wards has aroused quite a storm of protest from patrons in the first ward, who j censure the school directors for admit j ting non-resident pupils when to do ' so they have to crowd town pupils out Jof the ward in which they live and j oblige them to attend school in an ad j joining ward. | A member of the school board, who I belongs to the committee that has the | matter of readjustment in hand, was in terviewed Friday and asked wheth [ er there is any probability of the ac tion taken at the last meeting being j rescinded or in other words whether it may be regarded as final that the first ward grammar school is to be transferred to the third ward, occupy ing the room vacated by Miss Bloom's grammar school, whioh in turn is to be transferred to the vacant room in the fourth ward. The reply was that the action taken would undoubtedly stand. The board would bo glad, the director said.to adopt some other solu tion to ths problem, if a good one could be suggested, but up to the ries ent there seems to b6 no other way ! out of the difficulty. There are two points, the director said, that the public is uot well in formed on. One of these is that the time Ims arrived when a flit.li teacher is indispensable iu the high school re gardless of the number of non-resident pupils. It is the employment of this instructor,ueetled to teach the resident pupils, (Jut us > iitates the addition- i A iozen years ago there were only ; n-.iety pupils .u the high ;uhool with j the »ame number of teachers eMoloy e;l :it present. The number (if high -t hool pupils since then hits-been gradually increasing until there aie now 150 resident or town pupil- Eli- • minuting the 55 non-resident pupils! that are expected to attend, the school j board believes tjiat it would be ill ad vised to tr'j fifjjfet along any further without employiiig a fifth teacher and occupying another roonj. The classes *>-e uuwieldyoml full justice can not I.f. «• wisher; ' employed as many uon-resiilent pß.l'ls" as desire to attend can be taken care of and they will add considerably to the revenue of the district, more than counterbalancing the cost of the addi tional teacher. Another thing that the public does I uot understand, the director stated, is that in conjunction with the proposed changes iu the grammar school the borough will be redistricted to make it as convenient as possible for the pupils. To illustrate.it has been learn ed that while the first ward grammar school has fifty pupils the same room of the second ward has only twenty seven. In redisricting, as relates to the pupils of the latter grade the line between the first and second wards will be shifted so as to equalize the number of pupils in the grammar .schools of these two wards. Thus it follows that in all instances where practicable pupils will be assigned to • the nearest schools. In all the propos ed changes, the director said, the school ' board has acted ou the advice or with the concurrence of the borough super intendent. The director explained that the finances of the school district are in excellent shape. In addition to em ploying a fifth teacher for the high school, he said the salary of the prin cipal will undoubtedly be raised—from S9OO to probably $l,lOO. Bloomsburg, which employs six teachers in its high school, has just raised the salary of its principal from SIOOO to SI3OO. The fifth teacher wnicii the board has de cided to employ iu the high school here will receive S7O per month. iWACADAMIZATION WfcLL UNDER WAY The macadamization of Cherry street is progressing nicely. The excavating was completed last week and the course of cinder has been applied along the greater part of the way. Street Commissioner E. S. Miller has i ordered the limestone for the upper course, which will be applied as socn it arrives. The cinder and the limestone together will constitute a roadbed some sixteen inches in thick ness. Cherry street has always been soft and miry in the spring of the year At times at was next to impa-sable. The street has been repaired from time to time, but no permanent improvement was made. Macadamization seemed j to be the only remedy. In order to build an approved road bed the street commissioner has cans ' ed heavy chunks of cinder to be plac ed in the bottom course. These when covered with the 5-inch course of lime stone will not be detected on tlie sur face, but will add to the strength and permanency of the roadbod. enabling it to resist the heaviest traffic at any season of the year. DANVILLE; I PA., THURSD/ Y. JULY 2, 1908 Rill 10 IP SAIL A movement is on foot to secure the release of Peter Dietrich on bail pend ing his next or third trial at Wilkes- Barre in September for the killing of James A. Jones. The matter was brought up at a ses son of court Saturday morning, when Ralph Kisner, Esq..on behalf of Hon. Grant Herring of counsel for the de fense, asked the court to fix bail in the case. Judk'e Evans, said he was iu doubt as to which court had jurisdic tion in Dietrich's case under the change of veuue granted—that of Mon tour county iu which the suit was in- j stituted or that of Luzerne county to j which the case was sent for trial. He, j therefore, declined to make an order Saturday, but stated that he would fix the amount of bail. There was some surprise when the j court announced the sum of fifteen thousand dollars as the amount of bail i that would be required. The amount j demanded by the court when the form- j er trial was pending was ten thousand ! dollars. When Judge Evans reaches a ! conclusion in the matter, which will probably be in a few days' time,court will convene and the application will i ! he disposed of. Iu addition to Judge Evans Associ ate Judges F. G. Blee and Hon. L. W. ! Welliver were on tho bench Saturday. The principal business before court was argument on exceptions filed ti>; the report of viewers ou the publi< road near Bonfield's ill Limestone township, E. S. Gearhartrepresenting I the county commissioners and Hon. , H. M Hinckley the petitioners. A subpoena in divorce was granted in the oa-a of Anna Charlotte Byer< vs. Edward Byors. Auditor's report ws- confirmed ni si in the estate of Samuel Wolf, late of the borough" of Danville, deo'd. Auditor's report in the estate ■,[ i Joslah Wolf, late of the borouuh of Danville, deo'd., was confirmed ui si I by tho court. WAS HINCiTON VILLE'S 112 810 FOURTH Enthusiasm lias taken moI of thee "borough of Wa>hiugton - ille in firm grasp, aud all classes in the town and in the country surrounding are making preparations for their big cele- i bration of tho 4th ou a scale that i would put many a larger town in the shade. The hospitable people in tho cele- ! brating town intend to have the very grandest time they ever had—a bigger parade, more visitors and more enter tainment—aud they intend to surprise j those who come that way on Saturday I by showing just how regardless they can be when the occasion is presented. The big parade is to be the feature 1 preeminent of the day, and for this display grand preparations are being perfected. All the regular stunts and j many new ones are to be included. Automobiles, elaborate floats, fantas- i tics, lodges, societies, school children and the G. A. R. with their cannon ! drawn by a band of boys will be in the line of march. After the parade ' exercises will be held on the Presby- j terian church lawn, at which time ad- ! dresses will be delivered by Rev. 1 Kohler, of Strawberry Ridge, Rev. S. I V. Bedickiau and Rev. Hefner, of Washingtonville. The townspeople are decorating j elaborately for the occa>ion sev- j eral arches will grace the line of march. It is said that every hack in Miltou has been chartered for the day to take people to Washingtonville. ; From Turbotville and Exchange the lodges of Odd Fellows and many oth- j ers are going to be theie. Of course i Danville will send a large delegation to the scene of the festivities. Ample preparations are being made for the entertainment of the visiting hosts. Especially in the way of re freshments are the Washingtonville ites bending their energies. In addi tion to tho three hotels and three j restaurants, there will be numerous other places where dinner and supper may be obtained. WITHIN 4 INCHES OF LOWEST MARK The river, which has been falling rapidly for a few weeks past, is now within four inches of the lowest water mark. The coal diggers find it difficult to 1 ply their vocation owing to the low stage of the river. Two of the dredges have been removed to Northumber land by their owner, Ceorge Ruch. Those that remain find but little coal iu the channel. An enormous quantity of river coal has been extracted at this ! point sinoe spring. Farm Sold. Tiie William Ande farm,near Moores bnrg, has been sold by the Ostrander agency to James Hendricks. The farm is a 90-acre tract with a fine brick home. PICIPAUP BINS OPEN The principalship of the high school is left open for the present, although the salary was fixed Monday. Miss Adda Hayman.who at one time in the past was a member of the faculty,was elected as tiie fifth teacher of the high school. An adjourned meeting of the school board was held Monday eve for the pur pose of electing feachers for the ensu ing year aud transacting auy other business that may not have bee-i com pleted at the previous meeting. Mr. Sechler of the committee in teachers and certificates presented a report,embodying the nominations for teachers aud salaries to be paid. The changes iu salaries involve, below the high school iu th. first grade of each ward an advance of ss,raising the sal ary from SSO to $35. The salary of Miss Musselmau, who under the change assumes the principalship of the third ward, was raised from S6O to $65. The salary of Miss James, who under the former arrangement was principal of the Fourth ward, was reduced fronj $55 to 950. The salary of the high school prin cipal was fixed at slls. The salary of the two teachers iu science aud ma thematics was fixed at S7O per n nth. The salary connected with the posi tion of English r >d history was raised from $65 to *7O. The teacher of the commercial department was raised from SBO to |i)o per month. Teachers aud Janitors were duly elect d i follow, for '!■■•.> eusuing HIGH SCHOOL, i'l • ' ■■ ici: -<■ aud mathematics, Joliu Kase: ic/ence aud mathematics, Ad* l *. Hayman; Eng lish aud hlstorv, i». A, Coolter; com oreial F W. Magill. FIRST WARD. Fifth and sixth grades, A. Gal lagher; fourth grade, Winifled Evans; third grade, Martha Keim; second grade, Jennie Lovett; first grade, Janet Pieknrd. SECOND WARD. Principal aua. taveath ana ([jsfe'FvW •I»ft!rnn.?«fxtii grades, Mary Welsh; fourth pirade, ; Alice Guest; third grado, v'erua Reed ;' second prade, Helen Shannon; first j grade, Viola Young. THIRD WARD Principal aud seventh aud eighth grades, Miss S. C. Musselnian; fifth aud sixth grades, Katherine Beuuetts: fourth grade.Prudence Blizzard; third grade, Laura Maun: Third Grade, Alice Small; second grade, Harriet Boudmau; first grade, Jennie Law rence. FOURTH WARD Principal and seventh aud eighth grades, Miss M. L. Bloom ; fifth and sixth grades, Tillie James; fourth grade, M. Alice Bird; third grade, Kathryu Rogers; second grade, Har riet Fry; first grade, Sallie Wilson. WELSH HILL. Miss Helen Tooey. JANITORS First ward, R. G. Miller; second ward, Daniel Pensvl; third ward, Seth Lormer; fourth ward, CalvinJEggert; Welsh Hill, Annie Anderson. Attendance Officer, W. E. Young. C. P. Murray appeared before the school board to request that the lease on the Flat school building be extend ed six months, as Mr. Goeser is mak ing every effort to resume the manu facture of shoes in the building. The matter of the lease was brought up at a previous meeting when a resolution was adopted request ng tiie solicitor to regain possession of the school building. Subsequently a temporary agreement was entered into by the committee and Mr Goeser. On motion of Mr. Orth it was decid ed that further aotiou ou the matter be postponed until the next meeting, when it will be decided whether the bnilding shall be leased another term to Mr. Goeser or to another party in the borough, who "iesires to lease the building for manufacturing purposes. AGED FARMER HAS DIPHTHERIA John McNinch, aged forty-eight years, a farmer residing near Jersey town, is critically ill of diphtheria. He is suffering from a type of the malady of the most virulent form,and it is not expected that he will recov i er. His throat s paralyzed Dr. H. E. ' Klase. of Jerseytown, is the attending I physican. He first saw the case Friday evsning, and found it is an advanced stag 6, the friends of the aged man np to that time believing his trouble to be only an ordinary case of sore throat. One of the remarkable things about it is that Mr. McNnich is the only diphtheria patient in all that sec tion and he has been nowhere that he oould contract it. Cases of aged persons contracting diphtheria are very rare. BBSS ROGERS' • PIMM! P ">BS Rogew believes in a sane | Foi { t July. This does not imply tlia' noes not believe in a ronsing pak c observance of the day. On tiie conti y lie wants all classes to enjoy theon ves in the various ways that ! custom has approved. All that he asks is that the several laws relating to fireworks, framed to protect the pub lie, be observed, He has tersely set forth his position in the procalmation, which follows : To the Public: In view of the long list of casualf'es that iu the past have accompanied .he observance of Fourth of July not only will the borough or- ' dinance regulating the pale and ex- j ploding of fire works be strictly en- ! forced iu the borougli of Danville, but! also the several acts of assembly pro- I hibiting the sale and use of certain i fireworks that contain high explosive J compounds. The borough ordinance in sectio i I Ist provides that it shall not be lav - ful for any person or persons to sell j fireworks in any of the various forms j except one day prior to aud on the j Fourth of July. Persons violating this j sect on will be subject to a fine of five i ciol ars for each and every offense. Section Snd provides that it shall not bo raw ful for any person or' per sous to discharge rookets, fire, crack- ; res. squibs or other pyrotechnlcal 1 works within the limits the bor ough of Danville at an* "Mier time ' tb»o«pon%he jfwrwl *v, »he | Fourth of .July. A penalty of five clol l irs is piov.Vpl fir each and over*/ offense; JgP' "pi. it of » - !iably;appro".''"l Ma. 1. ■,% 1S)08, prohibits the sale or use of firo woikg and fire oracknrs containing pioric acid or plcrates; all explosive canes using clilorate'of potash or oth er high explosive ammunition; all ex' plosive canes using blank cartridges; all blank cartridge pistols; nil pellets and tablets or tablet* oomposd of chlorate of potash or other high ex plosive compound. Violations of the act are punished by fines of S3O to *300! or iinprisommmt of days tor! morths or by fine and imfijironipgin,. The '•> uiiti 41C A&if, ""pfrHtitftta the sale of cannons, revolver* or ether deadly weapons to any one under ifi| years of age. The act of Juue 11, 1883 prohibits the manufacture and sale of any toy cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, or any deadly weapon. The act of June 11), 1901, prohibits the manufacture and sale of firecrack ers containing dynamite, chlorate of potash or any salt petre, sulphur or charcoal. BUILDING REMOVED TO NEW SITE W. A. Shepperson, who purchased the office building belonging to Mary A. Hofer, ha- removed the structure from Nicholas avenue to Front street, where it is installed as a kitchen to I one of the dwellings owned by Mr. Sbeppeison. On last Friday morning the work of moving the office began, but it was Saturday night before it reached its destination. The first stage of the journey was made on the rnnninggear of a single wagou. The building,how ever, which is >ome twelve feet square and of the same height wa- hard to balauce and when the clock work- was reached it toppled over into the gutter re-ting on its side. The office had to be rai-ed by jack aud blocked up >o that it could be re loaded. Two wagons were procured with -eparate team- of horse-, and on Saturday afternoon the la-t -ta»e of the journey was completed. The build ing supported by two wagons rode more firmly, but the difficulty wa that the two team- would not pull to gether aud there wo- danger of up-et ting from that cau-e. It wa- only aft er many delay- that the building wa placed on it- new site. A VOLUMINOUS MASS OF RECORDS Prothonotarv Thomas G. Vincent I yesterday certified to the records of Peter Dietrich, by which it is under stood that all important data relating to his past trials in this county have been transmitted to Luzerne oounty where he will next be placed on trial. The trial at Wilkes-Barre will in reality be Peter Dietrich's fourth tiial, his first trial endiug in disagree ment by the jury. Naturally the var ious legal papers used in the preced ing trials, together with the memor anda of the proceedings of court by this time have grown into a ponder ous mass. Prothonotary Vincent yes terday estimated that the weight of j the package is over five pounds and he ! said he would have to send it to | Wilkes-Barre by express. The man who keeps his eyes and ears I open learns something every day. ILL IODIC IP nil The fact seems pretty well establish ed that the new invention in the form of an improved umbrella offered to | the local board of trade is not likely to result in a new industry for Dan i ville. At the meeting held in city hall Monday night no definite action was taken either as to the reorganization of the board of trade or handling the new invention. There was a fair 'representation of citizens at the meeting, among them being, in addition'to J. H. Goeser, ; president, and Sam A. McCoy, secre j tary, of the board of trade,the follow ing well-known business men : P. Q, Hartman, George F. Reifsnyder, W. , J. Rogers, C. P. Murray, Julius Heim, J. J. Newman, Thomas Evans of T. L. Evans'sons,Thomas J. Evans, Evan Jones, George Jacobs, Jacob Gass, Walter Gaskins and B. M. Davis. Messrs. Sanders and Wildey, were also-present with a model of the new umbrella . It seemed the consensus of opinion among those who examined the umbrella that it was a good thing. The board of trade and the promot ers, however, did not seem to be able to get together. The former did not see its way clear to purchase the pat ent. although it was not altogether averse to taking up the "Manufacture of the article, if Batisfa\ v terms could be arranged between parties. The promc rs were <iv u until Tu- n day to -übuiit a proposition. By evening, however, nothing bad boon a icomplished. facts were brought out.dtUii' tha discussion, which seemed ro d< ~ viuv a .-ood many that M ipip: umbrella is hardly the sore of a vv '* tide that the board of trado sh~ u Al ' torcst itsolf in |p any great e N itl " was discovered in the first pi -tent. It in the manufacture of umb ace male help is almost exrlug "el-las Jo ployed. Danville has alreai' ively em ablishments employing \v • y S »-V esr except at such titnes at tli atnen and when the male members of 0 prosetit are irregularly employed, t' R ' farnil; pretty sure to be a deUoiew. thora ; Tothe bpard of tradejt <ji« tof help TTae'a gfjj paiiay ~u %■ t»S" establishment of an industry whijn the class of wage-earners needed are not here to operate it. Under the condi tions, therefore, it is not probable that anything will be done with the new umbrella in Danville, whether the in vention possesses much or little merit. The board of trade is more interest- ; ed iu an effort to effect- a reorganiza tion. President Goeser has called a meeting for next Monday night at S j o'clock in council chamber. Obvious ly an active board of trade has it in its power to accomplish much for a municipality. While casting about for new industries it will not forget that its function is also to aid and foster those already established. As regards the latter Mr. Goeser re marked Tuesday that the local board of trade would have a prolific field to work in. No less than three industries, he said, the foundry formerly operated i by John Hoolev, the clock works and ! the Mosaic Wood flooring plant, now i idle or practically so, could be operat- | ed with a profit, if taken hold of and fostered by the board of trade. Another work that should be taken up after reorganization is the proper advertisement of the town, showing its advantages as a manufaeturing center, bringing here new industries and along with them men who are the heads of families. WILL CONVICT NEXT TIME HARRISBUItG, July 1. Attorney James Scarlet, prosecuting attorney in the capitol graft oases, was at the attorney general's department today conferring with Assistant De puty Attorney General Cunningham regarding the prosecution of the next suit. Asked when the trial of the next case would come off, Mr. Scarlet said he did not know, as that was a matter entirely in the hands of the district attorney and would be arranged at the convenience of the court. "I am here to confer about the case-)," said Mr. Scarlet, "but I do not rare to say what case will be next tried. It will, however, be one that will convict, aud we are going right on witii the other cases." It is said that the next case to be tried will be one against A. S. Wet ter, of the firm of Payne & Co., the charge being false pretence. Before that trial, however, will come the argument in the motion for a new trial for Messrs. Snyder,Mathues.Shu maker and Sanderson, convicted in March of conspiracy. Three large owls attacked James H. Jamison, nightjwatchman at the plant of the Stewart Cement company in Sharon, early on Monday morning and j severely lacerated his face and hands with their talons. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 Mil ACT «112 11 An attempt is being made .in this city to enforce the act of 1794, which aims to prevent violation of the Lord's day by the performance of unnecessary work. Joseph Smith and Theodore Hoffman appeared before Justice of the Peace Oglesby last night in response to in formation lodged by Joseph Divel. The parties are all butchers. There were preseut also several persons as wit nesses along witii some spectators, the latter including two ministers of the gospel. The information, signed by Joseph Divel, aud taken on oath before Just ice of the Peace Oglesby, set forth in substance that on the 28th day of June, 1908, it being the Lord's day, Joseph Smith at his shop did otter for «ie and did sell meat, said work, employ ment and business not beiiy work of necessity or charity, contrary to the act of assembly in such cases made and provided. Therefore ga id Joseph Smith forfeits dollars. Information s- m j[ ar j n eV eiy respect was lodged " igaiust; Theodore Hoffman. The cas of iTo6 ,eph;;Smith was taken up firstf an( j t | )e information was read. Bot! |i Joseph Smith aud Theodore Hoftu /an declared that the work which they "i',id on Sunday was necessary, as anion* t [,eir customers are a number of fau l ilies of the poorer class who do ! !ot ..vo ice and who. therefore, b ' an able to keep meat from Saturday "renins until Sunday noon They stat ed that they jrpgasd themselves as In forming a worts USghy necessary wheu they op;n their ehupS on Sunday morn ing to enftUa.pyif n# who can not af ford the testtry of :• 0 to pnrehas-'-meat that will • • : untainte 1 for their Sunday dinu, 4 Justice OglvHby a,-0;e 1 that- the ue ffiudayt out-el- a pica of guilty or not guilty ns char,: •J'by ■ (ho iufouuation. Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Hoffman explained that thfey were not ready to go into a hearing, as fheir attorney was qut of w»tj. Uuder'the circuuist , auoes .iu.wco Oglesby consented that thefibearing mifetvt be postponed, an-1 ■ • next t! CHia Je" ieard. Section Ist of the act of 1794, pro vides that if any person shall do or perform any worldy employment or business, whatsoever on the Lord's lay commonly called Sunday, work of necessity and oharity only excepted,or diall use or practice any unlawful s?ame, hunting, shooting sport or div arsion whatsoever on the same day aud be convicted thereof, every such person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay four dol lars, or suffer imprisonment. It is provided that nothing in the act shall be construed to prohibit the dressing of victual? in pri»at'> families, bake houses, lodging houses,iuus and other houses of entertainment, nor the delivery of milk or the necessaries of life before 9 o'clock in the forenoon, nor after five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day. A FINE CATCH OF BLACK BASS W. G. Pursell, his son Harold, M. H. Schram aud Harry Ellenbogen re turned home from a fishing trip down the river last evening with twelve of the finest bass that ever came to town. There was not a small one in the lot, all ranging in length from ten to four teen inches. Four of the biggest ones were hooked by Master Harold Pursel. The river was never in a better con dition for bass fishing and it might be added that not in mauy years have bass been more plentiful. Persons who frequent the river bridge find pleasure in watching the move ments of a monster black bass which seems to haunt the deep water at the foot of one of the piers. The big bass can easily be seen from the bridge and may be observed at all hours of the day. It is apparently tweuty inches long and wieghs no less than four pounds. There is scarcely a day but persons fishing from off the sidewalk of the bridge throw out their lines in pro ximity to the monster fish but no mat ter how temptingly baited or near by the hook falls, the bass declines to bite. Died on 50th Annivetsnry. Mr. and Mrs. George [McMahan, of Parker, Butler county, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Fri | day and their fivejchildren, grand chil dren and other friends to the number of about two hundred attended the celebration. Shortly[after the festivi ties Mr. McMahan said he felt ill, a i stroke of apoplexy ffollowed aud his death ensued on Sunday evening. A daughter was born to Mr. and I Mrs Elby F. P. Bachman, of Aflen | town, on Monday, who weighed only two pounds, but is in good health.
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