iHontouf il§§li American. VOL. 54—NO. 36 DR. IRVING H. JENNINGS, Office Hon rs A. M.to VI M. 104 .Will St., IP. M.to 4P. if. Danville, Pa, (1 shuli"/,, M. >• 4"J."> MILI ST., DANVILLE, PA. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty ITEMS CONDENSED. While hauling wheat into a barn at East Prospect, York county, a] load was accidentally overturned upon Jac ob Glibert and his sou Frauk. Both were out alive, but considerably bruised anil almost suffocated.. The Lancaster, Oxford and Southern railroad, in southern Lancaster coun ty, twenty eight miles long,which has been running successfully as a steam road for a number of years is being equipped for running by electricity hereafter. Chief Fish Warden Cresswell last week entered suit against a number of prominent residents of Earl township, Lancaster county,for violating the fish laws. Among the number was Rev. J. S. Kurtz, a Mennonite minister, wiio on Saturday pleaded guilty to having aided in erecting fish screens in the Conestoga. He was fined $25 and costs and so also were five other men. A movement is on foot to connect North Bethlehem,having a population of 3,000, with Bethlehem, a start to ward a greater Bethlehem. Twenty-five thousand boys and girls iu Philadelphia, between the ages of 6 and 14 years, proved to their inter ested aud admiring parents that they j had mastered many difficult athletic ! exercises wiien the fifty-three play grounds maintained by the board of education closed their gates on Satur- ; day. Isaac Messer died at the Lancaster county hospital last Wednesday, aged 55 years. He had the unique distinc- , tion of not having any hair ou his head and not a tingle hair ou any part of his body. Many years ago be took an overdose of saltpetre which, he said, caused all of his hair to fall out aud none ever appeared again. Dr. McWhorter, of Philadelphia, while hastening to answer a telephone call early ou Saturday morning, fell over his bulldog, which guards the top of the staiiway, and fell headlong to the bottom, the dog tumbling after him, disposed to start a fight in the mixnp. Dr. McWhorter had an arm fractured. While Earl Mearig, aged 10 years, was walking a narrow sidewalk in front of the Reading paper mill in Reading ou Saturday, a wagon was backed to the office door of the mill with the tail board extending out, which caught the lad's head and crush ed it to a pulp against the door sill. There were 398 deaths in Philadel phia last week, a decrease of 101 from ! the proceeding week, and forty-five less than for the corresponding week last year. Six of the deaths were from ' diphtheria and five from typhoid fev er. There were 102 cases of typhoid fever in the city. While working at a powerful j'steain hammer in the Duquesue steel plant, near Pittsburg,on Saturday, a foreign er slipped aud fell, his head going un der the hammer, which crushed it flat, causing instant death. The Portuguese chamber of deputies has passed the budget which estimates the deficit at $2, 000,000. Emigration aud arbitration treaties with the Un ited States have also beeu passed. Ou Perrysville avenue, Allegheny, live Samuel and Thomas Morrison, twin brothers, S4 years of age, believ ed to bo the oldest twins iu the State. They are Civil war veterans have nev er been sick, have always lived iu Al legheny except a few years after tiie war when they resided in Kentucky. Their sister, Mrs. Nancy Neeley, agtd 75 years, keeps house for them and tl:eir haby brother, David, aged 65, 1 es with them. Their father died at 1 tho age of 107 years Benjamin Land is, of near Middle ton, Dauphin county, lias not spoken | vo any one for thirty years, because the girl he loved jilted him and mar ried another man. Her husband was killed iu a railroad accident sixteeu years ago aud she lives uear the Land is home, but he never speaks to her. Flying gnats swarmed in Frankford, Philadelphia, in such immense num bers ou Sunday evening that it was nlmodt impossible to endure being out 1 doors. A number of persons were ob liged to have their eyes treated be- j cause of the numerous gnats that flew into them. William Hammer, of Tarentom, Al-, legheny county, aged 3 years, on Son day fell into a well forty feet deep and was rescued uninjured by his brother Orville, aged 6 years. oraiin FOR GRADUATES The school board, which has experi enced much difficulty in the past in i keeping qualified teachers on hand to j supply vacancies in case of illness or j other cause of absence in the regular corps, has decided this year to establish what might be called a training school ' for teachers, in which all graduates of 1 the high school will have an opportun -1 itv to enroll and from which will be selected as needed teachers to fill vac ancies occurring temporarily or other ! wise. . The school board for a number of years depended upon pupil teachers to fill vacancies, but the plan was very unsatisfactory. The teacher capable : of handling the school, for which she • was needed was seldom available when she was wanted. The custom of elect : ing a supply teacher was found to he if anything still more unsatisfactory, {as such a teacher, if at all qualified, ! could rarely be retained without a guaranteed salary a proposition to which the average school board does | not take kindly. | The plan adopted by the local board j provides for a post graduate course, which will be in the hands of the bor ough superintendent. Iu its nature it will be a home course with recitations at the superintendent's office arranged | mutually to suit the convenience of 1 the instructor aud'students. The cur -1 riculum will embrace all the essentials of a normal school course especial at tention being given to pedagogy. Such a course of study supplementing the regular high school course will qualify the student for good practical work in any grade of our schools. Those taking the post graduate course will be selected by the borough sup- ! erintendent for filling vacancies tem porarily while the graduates of the course, who may wish to teach will always receive the first consideration from the board when a teacher drops out and there is a vacancy to fill per manently. BARN BURNS WITH ENTIRE CONTENTS The large barn ou the farm owned by William Beaver, aud tenanted by James Hill,about nine miles from Ex change on the road leading from Clarkestown to Hughesville, was de- j stroyed by fire Saturday night along witii nearly the entire contents, which included ten head of horses. The fire broke out about 10:30 o'clock. The tenant and his family were away from home. The origiu of the fire is enehrouded in mystery. Before anyone could reach the barn it was a seething mass of flames. It was impossible to save the horses Five head of cattle were gotten out of the barn, but not before they were so bad ly burned that they will probably die of their injuries. Five head of cattle could not be reached aud were burned along with the horses All the horses were first class anim als, one being a stallion valued at $3,- 600. All the season's crops burned with the bpru. The loss will ap- ! proximate SIO,OOO. The tenant had no insurance on stock or ciops. The barn was partly covered. AUGUST WAS A NORHAL fIONTN HARRISBURG, Sept 2. The monthly meterological summary issued by the Harrisburg branch of tho United States weather bure:iu shows that August was nearly a norm al month, though everybody thought that it was very cold for the season. Hut the average for the month was 7) degrees, while the meau of the last 1 twenty-one Augusts is only 72.6, 0110 record was established, however, I hat was for the lowest temperature ever recorded in August. It was 50 degrees, on the 21st, On the 4th, the temperatrue was 93, just 5 degrees from the absolute maximum for twen ty-one Augusts. Last month Was de ficient in rainfall by 16.5 inches, only 24 3 inches having fallen. GEORGE JACOBS ARRIVES HOME George Jacobs, midshipman at the naval academy, Annapolis,Md., reach ed this city Saturday to spend a month's vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jacobs. George has completed his first year at Annapolis. Ho is looking very well j and is much pleased with his experi j once. Along with his class he has just j returned from a practice cruise along I the New England coast. Rake-snyder. i Roy Hake and Amanda May Snyder, both of Valley township, were united |in matrimony yesterday by Rev. O. IW. Raver at his residence, No. 108 ; Ash street. DANVILLE- PA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1908 IHDIEIIIS SLIGHT MIC OFT The public schools of the borough of Danville opened Monday morning with a total enrollment of 1120, which is just twenty-five less than were en rolled the first month last year. The most noticeable falling oft' oc curs in the high school. At the close of last term 201 pupils held promotion cards for that grade. It was expected that nothing less than this number would 119 enrolled in the high school this year. It was the matter of consid erable surprise, therefore, yesterday morning when it was found that only | 170 were present in that grade. Of 1 non resident pupils 55 hold promotion ! cards for the high school. Of these non-resident pupils all were present | yesterday but 6. These latter along 1 with 4or 5 others that are known, it is claimed, can be relied upon to en ! roll later. But there is still a defici '• ency of about twenty that can not be ; accounted for. As it stands at present the enrollment in the high school this year is about the same as last. It was to provide for the large in crease of attendance so confidently ex pected and which up to the present has failed to materialize, that the addi tional teacher was employed in the high school and the general rearrange ment affecting the grammar schools 1 was made. It is of course, not outside the range of probability that all the absentees may yet appear and enroll, in which event the above noted prepara tions made by the school board will be fully justified. Under the redisricting of the bor ough the attendance of the three gram mar sellools is more nearly uniform than before. In the second ward gram mar school, Monday, 34 pupils were enrolled with 4 more to come in; in the third ward, grammar school 42 pupils were enrolled; in the same grade of the fourth ward 37 were en rolled with 2 more to come in. ANCIENT WOODEN BRIDGE TORN DOWN The old wooden bridge over the Chil lisquaque on the Milton road at Wash- | ingtonville, a landmark for nearly a ceuturv, is now a thiug'of ttie past. It was torn down last week to make way for the modern steel bridge being er ected on the site by theJNelson Mery dith Co. It seems difficult to determine just when ttie old bridge was built. Aged men say that it was already a land mark when they were boys. It was weli suited to the traffic of the primi tive days in which it was planned and built, but was not strong enough to carry, with safety, the heavy traction engines that roll along the country roads in these latter days. It is worthy of note that the timber composing the bridge was found to be still in good condition. The stonework of the new bridge consisting of abutments and wing walls was finished Saturday. The bridge will be completed during the present month. The Chillisquaque could be forded at that point during t low water, but traffic for the most part is diverted around by the bridge at DeLong's. The stone work was in charge of Alexander Carbaugh, of Chambersbnrg. The bridge at Lobach's, contracted for by the United Construction com pnny, is completed. In a short time work will begin on the new bridge ou the Jerseytown road near J. W. Lowrey's. The Nelson Merydith Co. also have this contract. DANVILLE PITCHERS WON AT QUOITS In a friendly contest at the Danville Quoit club Monday afternoon be tween members of the club and a party of visitors from Sunbury the local pitchers demonstrated their superior cleverness at the game by winning all of four series played. Three five game series were played, which resulted as follows: First ser ies, Speece and Seaholtz, of Sunbury, 41; Warner and Fish, of Dauville, 64. Second series, Adams and Seaholtz, of Sunbury, 26: Everhart and Stranb of Danville,76. Third series,Seaholtz. and Speece, of Sunbury, 50; Curry and Connolley, of Danville, 69. In a three game series Shannon and Barber, of Danville defeated Soaholtz and Adams, of Sunbury, by a score of 10 to 19. The occasion proved most enjoyable to both the visiting pitchers and the members of the club, of whom there were about twenty present to watch the pitching. ! Mr. aud Mrs. Gideon Klinger, of Seybertsville, near Hazleton, celebrat ed their sixtieth wedding anniversary and the fifty sixth birthday anniver sary of their son, Roger, on Monday, by holding a family reunion. All of their six children and their families were present. OWNED OF DOC IS ARRESTED Ohlef-of-Police Mincemoyer, finding it impossible to rid the streets of un muzzled dogs by Bhootlng them has de cided to invoke the aid of the act of March 27, 1903, which implies the causing of arrest of persons who per mit their dogs to be at large without being properly muzzled. Notwithstanding the vigilance of our officers, in various parts of town, there are dogs running unmuzzled. Some of these cauines seem to bear a charmed life and by sheer good luck manage to elude the officers; others,it is no secret,are aided by their owners, who keep the dogs penned up or tied when the officers are in that part of town, but release them as soon as the blue coats disappear. Section 4 of the act of March 27, 1903, provides that any person violat ing the provisions of the act. of a quar antine or of a regulation or order to restrict, confine or muzzle dogs, duly established by the State Live Stock Sanitary board for the purpose of re stricting the spread of rabies or hydro phobia iu the manner provided in other sections of the act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars at the discretion of the court. It is plain that if the above law is enforced a quarantine against dogs established by the Live Stock Sanitary board nowhere need prove a failure, whether a man is employed or not to shoot the dogs found running at large without being properly muzz'ed. The first arrest under the above act | was made Tuesday morning, when Mrs Elizabeth Shultz was arraigned before justice of the Peace Oglesby. i She was accused of turning her deg loose without wearing a muzzle, of j oalling him in when the officers ap- : peared and of turning him out upon the street again when the officers left. On hearing the information, which was lodged by Chief Mincemoyer,read the woman pleaded guilty. Chief Mincemoyer later withdrew the charge, the defendant agreeing to pay the costs, which amounted to three dollars, and agreeing also to keep the j dog tied or muzzled, either of which ! is essential under the law. To permit a dog to run unmuzzled even on the owner's own premises is in violation of the act. Iu this way two persons of Danville have been badly bitten within a week. A large number of dogs in Danville have been killed by the officers during the quarantine, but henceforth. Chief Minnemoyer states, he will give his attention to the owners,making arreßt in all cases, where dogs are found running at large unmuzzled. The quarantine against dogs in Danville will not expire until October Ist. Even then.it is understood,it will be optional with the borough whether to raise the quarantine or not. DEMOCRATIC HASS MEETING The Democrats of Montour county will hold a monster mass meeting at Washingtouville on Friday evening, September 11th. Addresses will be made by prominent and well-known leaders of the Demo cratic party including Senator J. Henry Cochran,of Williamsport; Con gressman John (}. McHi nry, of Ben ton, and Hon. R. S. Ammermau of Danville. The reception committee is compos ed of the following: Hon. Alexander Billmeyer, Associate Judges, Frank Q. Blee nud L. W. Welliver; Joseph B. Seidel,burgess of Vashingtonvillr : B. S. DiefTenharher. president of the borough council: O. W. Derr, county superintendent.' Christian Heckond orn, chief marshal; C. W siedel, Councilman; Bruco iielley, R E. Cotuer and George P. Cotner. A feature of the demonstration will be a monster parade led by a military band. The town will be illuminated with red light and fire works will be discharged. TWENTY-SIX NEW CAMPS INSTITUTED At the forty third annual state camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of Amer ica, held at Hazleton last week, 1,100 delegates were present. During the year, 26 new camps were instituted, and 13,869 new members were receiv ed ; the total membership is 88,979, a net gain of 6,67-1 over the year prev ious. The financial statement showed total annual receipts of $812,169 and expenditures of $780,752, and sale of property owned by the order #1,932, - 659. There are 762 camps. Charles Aronsby.a miner, was caught under falling coal in Maple Hill mine near Mahanoy City, on Monday, and crushed to deatb. BUS DDIIDLE MIBER OF DEATHS j The report of the local registrar for August shows seventeen deaths, includ ing those which occurred at the bos | pital for the insane. In July, includ ing all, the number of deatfiß reported was" fifteen. As usual at this season of the year the births far exceed the deaths. In July the number of births was more than double that of the deaths, being thirty-two. J.The births for August have not as yet been all returned to the local registrar, but it is not likely that the number will fall below that of July. But one case of typhoid fever was reported during the month. Other cases that were reported the previous month are now convalescent. Two casts of malarial fever were reported, but the type is not serious. There are eight cases of scarlet fev er. This disease made its appearance some two months ago and since then according to the monthly reports It would seem to be gaining ground. There was one case of diphtheria dur ing the month. Two cases of pulmon ary tuberculosis were reported. A considerable number of juveniles are nursing sore arms as the result of being vaccinated. Under the school law teachers are required to refuse admission of any child to their schools except upon a certificate signed by a physician setting forth that such child has been successfully vaccinated or that it previously had small pox. In the case of all pupils admitted to the schools last year or previously, vaccination, of course was a pre-re quisite.so that]ouly those remain to be vaccinated who have just reached school age. Iu many instances the par ents of these, unfortunately, postpon ed vaccination a little too long and school has opened before sufficient time has elapsed to reveal whether or not the virus will "take." The at tending physician is unable to give the necessary certificate stating that vaccination lias been "successfully" performed and as a result the children are prevented from being enrolled as pupils during the first week of school. COMMUNICATION FROM DR. DIXON Dr. Stock, the medical inspector of Moutoor county, has received a com munication from Dr. Dixon,the health commissioner of the State,urging that he be especially alert at this rime on account of the dangerous increase of typhoid fever in thefState. The health officer isjurged to be care ful that no cases of typhoid fever go unreported that may exist on dairy farms or on municipal water sheds As soon as the officer has reliable in formation of such cases he is directed to report them immediately by tele phone or telegraph to the county medi cal inspector. Dr. Dixon deplores that antngonisnj in some instances'has been aroused by the health dealing with dairymen. This, he regards, due in grent measure to the brusque manner of the health officers'and'the disagreeable way in which they are apt to approach the dairyman. The departmentJ'JJwishes its rep resentatives to impress everyone that it is working for the interest of t lie farmer as well as of those who use his products. Dr. Dixon enj:> ns the health officers to'rnake overy po' -i --ble effort to secure the co-operation and goodwill offdairymeu when mak ing inspections. Thefarmers, he said, should be told that dairy conditions throughout the state are such as de mand au investigation, that conclu sions may bo reached for the double purpose in view of determining tho most safeguarding the puritv of the milk supply an 1 conserv ing the interest of the farmer and peo ple genera'ly. Out of over 11-1,000 deaths in the State last year 10,000 wero of children under two yeais of age, who succumb ed to stomach and intestinal trouble. Iu r earchiug for tho cause of this mort i .ty the investigation naturally turns to milk, which forms tho principal diet of children nuder two years of age Hence tho movement has been set on foot, looking to a general better ment of dairy conditions. EVANGELICALS BUY 30 ACKES A committee of the trustees of the bible conference of the United Evan gelical church has closed a deal for the purchase of thirty acres of laud on the hill west of West Milton,a beauti ful site,commanding a Milton and the Susqueiianna river,upon which it is proposed to erect cottages and an auditorium for a permanent meeting place of the bible conference aud to hold campmeetings and other churoh functions. It is understood that the work of arranging the grounds and er ecting the buildings will begin next spring. HI DESTROYED BYJCK FIDE The barn on the farm formerly known aB the Philip Shultz estate, east of the borough, now owned by James Ward, of Philadelphia, was de stroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon along with its contents. The tract of land is leased by Thom as Welliver, East Market street. The house on the place is occupied by the son of the lessee, Lafayette Welliver. The property is in charge of J. N. Price, of this city, father-in-law of the owner. The fire was caused by a spark from a traction engine. Mr. Welliver was engaged iu threshing yeßterdav. About 3 o'clock they finished up the work that they had on hand at the barn and then, witii tiie traction engine and thresher, they started for a field near by where some grain was stacked. As the engine passed by the side of the barn a red hot coal dropped out of the fire box and ignited some Btraw that was strewn on the ground. The fire was discovered almost instantly and might have been extinguished with a bucket of water,had it been at hand. As it was in an instant the flames communicated to a piltf of straw and a moment later the barn was on fire. It was impossible to save the building. The alarm was carried to town and the fire bells were rung. The entire fire department was on the ground but it was unable to render muoh service owing to the lack of water. Tho burn ing barn was situated 900 feet from the nearest fire plug on East Market street, which is situated opposite the office of the Pennsylvania Brake Beam company. The only plug available was oue on the hospital ground some three hundred feet east of the fire. Some delay was caused in making connec tion owing to the fact that the fire plugs at the hospital do not correspond iu size to those in the borough. The Washington Hose fin ally got a stream on the fire, but not until the barn with its contents was doomed to destruction. The house, which stands directly north of the site of the barn, stood in great peril aud was twice on fire. The wind seemed to blow directly from the burning baru to the house,but the latter was shield ed by two large apple trees, which fortunately stood directly between the house and the baru. Each time the house took lire the tltnips were extinguished by a bucket brigade formed of people who had rushed up from town at the first uews of the tire, before the fire department had responded For awhile it seemed very <'onbtful whether the house could be saved. All the household goods were carried outside uud piled nil along the trolley track The barn was a frauie structure 50x35 feet. It was burned to th» ground. Among its contents that went up in smoke were three pigs. 120 bus hels of wheat, 800 bushels of oats and 8 tons of bay. One hog was gotten out of th-3 barn, but it was so bully buri - ed that it had to be killed later Mr. Welliver carried no insurance on the stcok or grain. There was three huudred dollars insurance on the barn. PAYING MONEY TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS HARRISBURG, Sept. 1. 'State Treasurer John O. Sheatz, who has paid out more money to the school districts of Pennsylvania in sixty days tliaa any state treasurer who ever sat in t'i' otKio, today announced that he expected that all of the 2270 districts would be paid by ttie end of the pre sent month. "Many of the districts have already received their warrants, bu»- they have not turned them in,although we stand ready to pay out every cent they call for, " said Mr. Sheatz Less than 100 districts remain to be paid. Pittsburg and Allegheny receiv ed their warrants today, the former getting $262,000 and the latter about SIOO,OOO So far warrants for over $5,- 500,000 of the school funds have iieeu drawn. This week payment of the $137,500 appropriation for the borough high schools will be started for the lirst time. Just 441 schools have applied for a share. The township high school payments will also begin, there being $137,500 to divide between ;i47 dis tricts, as against 301 last year. Funeral of W. D. William!.. The funeral of W. Daniel Williams, whose death recently occurred at New Columbia, will bo held at that place today at 1:30 o'clock. Friends of the deceased desiring to attend will leave ou the 12:10 Pennsylvania train. S The deceased was a member of Mah oning Lodge No. 516 F. & A. M.of this city. He will be buried with Masonic honors. In the new Japanese diet there will be fourteen native Uhristian deputies, twice as many aB were elected last time. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 BOD. SURVEYOR NRBNin ! Horough Surveyor George F. Keefer was in town yesterday on business connected with his office. | While at city hall he entered into a discussion of street repairs, dwelling upou the relative value of .paving and macadamization. He went on record unqualifiedly in favor of paving. A pavement, such as the one on Mill street, he said, allowing for a few minor repairs hardly worth taking in | to account, should last thirty or forty years, while a macadam needs recrown ing or repairs of some sort every two or three years. He cited the case of the macadam on north Mill.street,con structed only last year, which already necessitates expenditme of money for repairs, to show that the borough of Danville would have been wiser had it paved the entire street to the bor ough line. In discussing the proposition to re construct East Front street he was un alterably in favor of paving rather than macadamization. Iu addition to the cost of construction, in macadam, the outlay for repairs, needed almost annually,should be taken into account by the borough. The cost of putting down the macadam, all of* which, would have to be borne by the bor ough, would nearly equal, if it would not exceed, the borough's share of the cost of putting down a pavement. Tiie property owners of Front street who have indicated their preference for paving above macadamization, the borough surveyor says, deserve credit for their civic pride aDd enterprise. If it is a question with the borough whether to pave Front street or to macadamize it, the borough surveyor thinks that council under the cir cumstances would do well to harken to the property owners, who are will ing to expend their money forthepur po>e of securing a clean substantial street instead of one that possesses the opposite of these qualities. DEATH OF MISS MARY E. RICHARDSON Miss Mary E. Richardson, a former resident of this city, died suddenly in Chicago yesterday afternoon. A tele gram bearing the sad tidings was re ceived by relatives here last evening. None of the particulars are known. Miss Richardson was for many years a teacher in the public schools of Dan ville. She left here several years ago. At the time of her death she resided with her sister, in Chicago. Surviving the deceased is one broth er, William,of Kansas City, and three sisters: Mrs. Meinrach, of Chicago, with whom the deceased resided; Mrs. Frank Jameson of this city and Mrs. Clark Sechler of Chester. By a coincidence the three surviv ing sisters were in this city k at the .Tameson homestead,last evening when the telegram containing the news of Miss Richardson's death arrived. The body will be brought to Dan ville for interment. The funeral ar rangements will be made known later. ASLEEP ON RAIL CRUSHED TO DEATH Charles Quick, aged nearly fifty years,of Forks, was killed by a Blooms burg and Sullivan passenger train near Zanere, Tuesday evening. The indica tions are that he'had laid down on the railroad and fallen asleep. The accid ent occurred about 7 o'clock. Engineer Casey saw the form ot a man lying across the rail, but the impetus of the train sent it over the spot where he lay. His leg and arm were cut off and the skall was crushed. He was not dead, however, aud in an effort to get aid to him quickly, the engine was detached from the train aud hurried to Benton were Drs. Sidney and Wil liam Hoffa were taken aboard aud bacu to the scene of the accident. Quick had died, however, a few min utes after the engine left. He is sur vived by his widow and twelve chil dren. BASKET BALL LEAGUE DISCUSSED There is strong talk among the bask et ball players in Bloomsburg of en deavoring to organize a basket ball league for the coming season to iu cludo the towns of Danville.Sunbury, Miltun, Shamokin, Bloomsburg and Berwick, and play at least Jtwo games a week, one at home and one abroad. In former years the teams in the towns mentioned iiave been about equal in strength, and it is believed that an organization of this sort would greatly augment the interest in the game. A few days ago Alfred Reifsnyder, of Reading, on a hunting trip in Lan caster county, captured twenty-three ground hogs.
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