illonluur tjjwi American. VOL. o4—NO. 30 , 15. IRVING H. JENNINGS, D ENI IST.- — Oflcr Hour' A „ , r: 7 i"4 -VM / /'. M. ■<> -/ t' -" DaneilU. F | will be entirely finished by Thanks ' j giving day, when the postponed cere > monies will be held. Mir D BROKE MP EARLY Battery D, 3rd Battalion. United ! States Army, which pitched its tents at Cauip Daniel Montgomery Monday afternoon,broke camp at au early hour Tuesday morning ani over a hundred strong inarched down through town leaving by way of Northumberland street. Tuesday night the battery en camped at Selinsgrove. The regulars while in camp afforded our citizens an object lesson showing what army life iu at least one of its phases is like,and that all classes took advantage of the opportunity to learn no one will doubt who witnessed the congestion of people about the camp and noted the crowded condition of the trolley cars as the latter transport ed the people back wards au i forwards. The degree of curiosity if not real enthusiasm shown far eclipsed auy previous manifestation of the people. As a drawing card the artillery camp had the average circus beat a mile. It is to be regretted that the break ing of camp took place at an hour — between five and six o'clock—when only a few people were astir. The sight was really worth seeing. The farmers were just lining up in the curbstone market when the artillery meu, riding two abreast, passed along Mill street and disappeared down Northumberland road. It was about 6:20 o'clock when the troops turned the corner at Mill aud Northumber land streets. About the only persons I who witnessed their departure were the farmers attending market and a few early risers of town who had come out to make purchases. The visit of the battery was a speci- i al delight to the members of Goodrich Post and other veterans,as the mount ed soldiers begrimed with the march, the cannon and the other accouter ments of war constituted the only re minders of active service that they had seen since the days when they themselves were Uncle Sam's fighting men and participated in the weari some march and encamped in the fields at night. As the battery passed down Mill street Tuesday morning one of our veterans saluted an officer aud he executed the greeting with so much grace and dignity that he won the ad miration of the artilleryman,who was overheard as lie remarked to a com panion: "That man is an old soldier." During the stay of the regulars the veterans were shown every considera tion and it was quite plain that the proper feeling of comradeship existed between the artillerymen and the vet erans who preceded the former in ser vice. BRICK MAKING PRACTICALLY OVER Brick making, which due to the im provements at the hospital for the in sane has been a leading industry dur ing the summer, is likely to move »t a halting pace between the present and fall. John Keim, who has the contract for furnishing the rough or red brick to Mosier & Summers, lias made his last delivery, having furnished over twelve hundred thousand brick. This is a little less than figured on by the contractors, the hand'made brick pro duced by Mr. Keim proving somewhat larger than the machine-made pro duct which were employed in the cal culations. Embracing his fourfyards Mr. Keim had over sixty men employed up to a day or so ago. He expected to be kept busy untilJOctober,but Messrs Mosier & Summers have made such excellent progress on the buildings that the brickwork at this stage is practically completed. Iu order to keep pace with the pro gress of the work Mr. Keim was ob liged to nearly double his force of men, in'addition to which he has had a large number of teams employed in hanliug brick. The brick delivered at the hospital include,not only the buildings for the iusaue, but also the new piggery, the contract for which is also held by Mosier aud Summers. Now that the hospital contractors are supplied Mr. Keim finds himself with a surplus of four hundred thousand brick on hand. In view of business conditions he does not feel encouraged to pile up a much larger stock aud Mr. Keim lias been obliged to suspeud a number of his employes. He has hopes of selling more bricK, but it is doubtful wheth re he will resume on such a large scale any more during the present season. Juvenile Base Ball. The "Teddy Bears'' defeated the ! "Bumble Bees" in a game of base ball on the Merchants Jfield yesterday afternoon by a score of 6to 4. The j battery for the "Teddy Bears" was IM. Little aud L. Murray: for the "Bumble Bees," Keefer and Hickey. Lewis E. Taylor, of Perkasie, is I taking a walk around the bordors of Bucks county, a distance of 320 miles. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 STATE HUM ON SOUTH SIDE The preliminary survey for the State highway petitioned for on the south side of the river was begun yes terday. During the morning Engineer W. L. Butler, of Wilkes-Barre, repre senting the State highway department accompanied by a corps of assistants, arrived in Danville aud proceeded immediately to the south side where the corps began work. The appearance of the engineers has revived interest in the proposition to improve the Suubury road under the act of May 1, 190."), which up to a few mouths ago constituted an issue on which the people of the South side were nearly equally divided, many advocating the State highway as a much needed public improvement quite iu line with the progress of the times and others opposing the improv ed highway as unnecessary and as en tailing on Gearhart township a heavy and needless expense. The petition was originally ; made about two years ago.askiug for a mile of improved highway in Gearhart township. Suubury road to the line of Riverside borough is less than half a mi lie "in length. In order that the mile might be covered the petition asked for the improvement,; alongjwith the above named thoroughfare, of Sun bury street Avenue as far as the borough line. About this time theJ£Penu6ylvania railroad company entered upon repairs on Hazletou Avenue, which rendered a reconstruction of that'street [unnec essary. Early last spring the citizens of Gearhart township and Riverside borough jointly petitioned the county commissioners for one mile of State highway to begin at the river bridge and to extend Gear hart township and Riverside borough. The proposed highway will extend from the bridge to the farm of John Mowrey, the latter some distance be low Riverside borough. The last proposition proves no more popular than the first with a good many of the tax payers of Gearhart township. Iu Riverside borough there seems to be little opposition. The county commissioners of Nor thumberland county upon the presen tation to them of a petition from Gear hart township and Riverside borough, pursuant to the act of May 1, 1905, petitioned the State highway depart ment to undertake the reconstruction of the Sunbury road. As the next step provided for in the act the State highwav commissioner caused the highway to be examined. That the engineers have appeared aud beguu the survey is taken by the pe titioners to indicate that the represen tations were found to be well founded and that the work from now on will proceed with little delay. The present survey is ouly prelimi nary in its nature, h-iug only a mat ter of measurements an I the stakiug out of the roadway. A circumstance which reassures the petitiouers is the fact that while the petition presented asked for only one mile of State high way the engineers are under instruct ion to carry the preliminary survey four miles down the river. What may be back of this order no one presumes to know, but it is taken to indicate that the interest of the State highway department has beeu aroused and that it is desirous of learning not ouly what changes should be made iu the existing highway but also how far it might prove expedient to carry the improvement. THE HIGH SCHOOL PROPOSITION Riverside borough, it seems, has about abandoned the idea of establish ing a high school the preseut year aud in all probability the pupils of that town eligible for the high school, like those of Gearhart towuship, will bo sent to Danville. Riverside has some fourteen high school pupiis. while Gearhart township has twenty-four. A member of the Riverside school board Tuesday stated that although there is little likelihood of a high school beiug established there this year yet the idea has by no means been abandoned and that a high school is something that will be pretty sure to come to pass in the near future. WM. GETHING BROKE 2 RIBS William Gething, West Hemlock towuship, yesterday morning sustain ed a peculiar accident when he frac tured two ribs, while in the act of emptying a bucket of refuse. I Mr. Gething had carried two buc kets of slop to the refuse barrel, and was lifting one bucket up to the bar | rel when he slipped and fell, striking j his side on the other bucket. He drove at once to the office of Dr. Curry where tbe injury was dressed.