VOL. 55—NO 21 DR. HIVING H. JENNINGS, OjHce flours A. M.to l'l -V- 10 4 Mill St., P. M.to AP. M. Danville, Pa. 125.M11.L5T., Danvili-B, Pa. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty IIEIS CONDENSBD. Gettysburg has just dedicated a new high school building. York county has contracted for the j construction of $200,000 worth of ;m- j proved highways. Bradford county is again to be the j 6cene of aotive gas and oil operations, j a Pittsburg company having leased a j large traot of land whioh will ba de veloped. Harold Davis, of Scranton, who was drowned, was buried in the same grave with his grandmother, who died from j the shock and grief over the death of her favorito grandson. John Budcos accidentally dropped a j spark into a can of powder, which set | off a lot of dynamite in the North j Franklin colliery,near Shamokin, and j was blown to pieces. Scranton's recent industrial exposi- [ tion was a financial suocess in addi- J tion to proving a great advertising j soht me for the industries and bnsiness j houses of the city. Mayor Magee, of Pitrsbnrgand Wll- j liacn Flynn, it is said, will contest ■ with Senator Oliver for the United | States senatorship when his term ex- j pires and a lively fight is anticipated. j State Forestry Commissioner Robert ; S. Conklin has announced that the 8,- ■ 700 acres of forest land bought in | Westmoreland and Somerset counties i have been constituted a State forest j reserve. With the evident purpose of wreck ing a passenger train due at Hazleton in the afternoon, an iron bar was placed in a main line switch, but the obstacle was discovered before any damage was done. In Bradford county oourt the dam- i age suit of Robert R. Rockwell against the Lehigh Valley Railroad company j resulted in a verdict for f',ooo for the i plaintiff. Rockwell was a student fire- i man and was injured in a wreck Mrs. Elizabeth Oeschger, 71 years | old, of Lancaster, is dead of lockjaw, j When a young woman she burned her | arm and the wound never fully healed, j Recently it itched and she scratched j It with her finger nail, reopening the ! wound and causing blood poisoning. Since the State laws now restrain the coal companies from dumping sul phnr water and culm deposits into the j streams, the various fish associations 1 of Schuylkill county are restocking j the creeks with trout fry to replace j the fish killed by the poison. In a day of tragedies at Pittsburg, ! three persons killed themselves, two ! failed in attempts to end their lives and a woman shot her husband. Albert Shilusky, 6 years old, is in the Pottsville hospital suffering from | a rifie ball in the right temple fired j from a gun in the hands of 18-year-old J Edward Frank. Prominent agricnlturists and scien- ; tific men assembled at York yesterday j to atteud the spring meeting of the farmers' normal institute and State 1 board of agriculture. Elmer Stieve, a fireman, accidental- j ly took a dose of acid instead of cough J medicine and died within an hour. The acid belonged to a brother of the j unfortunate man who used it in jew- j erly te6ts. Declaring that he found life in a j country town too monotonous, John ! Bleer, of Valley View,hanged himself j from n rafter in his barn. He had been , dead for six hours when his body was ! discovered The parade which will be a feature j of the annual State convention of the | Patriotic Order Sons of America, to j be held in Washington the week com- j xnencing August 23, will be reviewed j by Governor Edwin S. Stuart. Former Judge William Waugh, cue of the oldest jurists in the State, is I dead at his home iu Greenville, Mercer J county. He served three terms on the j Mercer county bench and later was j prothonotary of the county. He was ' 91 years old. Efforts are being made at Pottsville ! to free Sergeant Charles Gordon, of the United States army, who is in jail there on the charge of highway rob bory. It is asserted he should be turn ed over to the army authorities and an appeal will be made to President Taft. Boarding himself James ,T Stein has ior twenty-five years been the sole oc cupant of a twelve room house, near Seisholtsville, which he erected in the hope of it being a favorite spot for rnmner boarders, because of its close proximity to a fine spring o' water wl.ijh he discovered iuthe woods. iTlontouf' iAmrriran. A PETITION M NEBS At a regular meeting of council Fri day eve a communication was receiver] from several property owners calling i attention to the fact that the stenoh arising from the gutter on the north side of Bloom street between Vine street and Memorial park is almost un bearable and a menace to health. A number of drainage pipes, it was ex plained, empty directly into this gut ter. On motion the matter was refer j red to the committee on streets and j I bridges with power to act. | It was reported that there is much j ooaplaint from residents on the score ; of ball playing on the grounds of the | ; Good Will fire company. No especial j action was taken, as it was understood ' j the policemau will take the matter in ! j hand and see to it that the practice is I stopped. On motiou of Mr, Marshall it was ! ordered that gravel from the deposit i j near the old fair ground be used as a j top course for macadam on one of the j j streets of the borough by way of ex- | ) perlment. | Mr. Ourry called attention to the j j bad condition of A street. On motion ; the matter was referred to the trolley ! j company, which is responsible for re- j | pairs on that street. Mr. Purnel reported that thire is I j "more typhoid fever in Danville tiian j j is generally known" and he advised i j that the water supply be analyzed. No < ; action was taken, as it is understood ! I that a report is pending from the State j i department of health, which recently ! ' took eamples of river water for the i purpose of analyzing it. j A communication was read from J. j H. Oole asking premission to place 1 I two terra ootta flower vases at the ! ; western entrance to the park. On mo- | tion Mr. Cole's request was granted ' i by connoil. • On motion of Mr. Von Blohn it was ordered that the lirst story of the Good ; Will hose house be repupered and re painted. On motion of Mr. Cleaver it was I ordered that a room in tiie basement 1 of city hall be oonverted into a ladies' i toilet room for public ÜBO. Ttie following members were pres ent : Schatz, Cleaver,Pnrsel,Marshall, j Curry, Connolley and Von Blohn. j The following bills were approved j for payment: BOROUGH DEPARTMENT. Regular employes 1117.50 Labor in Light dep't 51.75 Walker and Kepler ... 132.85 Washington Fire Co 7.28 Danville Knitting Mills C 0.... 12.00 ; Elliott-Lewis Elec. Co 296.71 ( T. L. Evans' Sons , 61.79 A. F, Hart man 15.90 Chas. E. Voris 3.10 1 Labor and hauling 330.95 i D. L. & W. R. R. Co 206.50 WATER DEPARTMENT. Regular employes 1161.40 j Wallace A. Hoover 10.00 j Welliver Hdw. Co 9.50 j S. Lowenstein 5.95 i Globe Warehouse 3.15' Washington Fire Co 65 j D. L. & W. R. R. Co 11.22 I FARMERS DEPLORE LACK OF RAIN Notwithstanding the prevalence of ' wet weather during April and the 1 early part of May the farmers are be ginning to deplore the lack of rain The highways are very dusty; be- j sides rain is needed to start the crops. Showers have been predicted by the ; weather bureau almost daily for a , week past but so far as this section is ; concerned rain has not fallen in cop ious quantities of late. Due to the lack of rain the river is I j falling rapidly, which is a condition | much dreaded owing to the polluted j state of the water. When the river is ; low and sluggish the "hospital sewage i ,is much more apt to reach the intake of oor water works than when there i is a brisk and to dilute and carry the sewage away. BOTH HANDS CAUGHT IN SHEARS Adam Borokner. an employe of the J | Reading Iron works, was badly injur- j i ed yesterday forenoon. While working ! | at the shears both hands came in con- I | tact with the machinery, a finger of t I the left hand being severed at the first j j joint anil the fingers of the right hand 1 ! being badly mangled at the ends. The injured man was taken to the I office of Dr. Cameron Shultz, where i he received surgical aid, after which lie was assisted to his boarding place on Montonr row. The unfortunate mau is a German, who has been in this ; country about 18 months. He is un able to speak English. Owing to the nature of his injury lie is practically helpless. An English inventor has devised an air cannon for throwing a life line 'rora the shore to stranded vessels, or | from stlauded vessels to the shore. DANVILLE PA., THURSDAY. MAY 27, 1909 nan JOW LEADS Results in Susquehanna League. Bloomsburg, 3; Nantiooke, 7. Danville, 0; Nescopeck, 3. J Berwick, 8: Benton, 6. Alden vs. Shickshinnv, wet grounds. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P. C Shickshinny 2 0 1.000 Danville 2 1 .667 Nantiooke 2 1 .667 Nescopeck 2 l .667 I Bloomsburg 1 2 .333 ] Benton 1 2 .3:13 ; Berwick O 2 .333 | Alden 0 2 .000 " Danville's defeat on Saturday ;it the I hands of Nescopeck and Nanticoke's i I victory over Bloomsburg tie three j teams for second place in the Susque hanna league race. Shickshinny holds out with a'percentage of I.ooo,but not having played on Saturday on account of wet grounds, is one gatne behind the sohedule. Recreation, Berwick and Benton head the Becond division, each with a | win and two loses, and Alden brings I up the tail of the procession with two j defeats and a percentage of .000. Next Saturday Shickshinny plays 1 Recreation on the Shickshinny grounds j and if the Bloomsburg boys are able j to take the up river team into camp, | and Danville should take one from the j Fishing Creekers at Benton, the old j order of things will be reestablished. Alden does a turn at Nescopeck next Saturday and Berwick plays at Nanti- j coke. Danville took its first j qI dose of Susquehanu league,' defeat on Saturday from ,J last year's Champs, the ! Nescopeckers. It swallow- ; < ef l hard and didn't taßte a jry bit good, but they got it g? w down, and it may do some ftood. It was a hard game to lose. Both teams seemed to feel the effects of the ' depressing weatiier, Danville a little j more than Nescopeck. While the play- J ing of the Danville team as a whole | and individually, with one exception. ; was errorless, the team aotion was ; sluggish, resulting in two Innings in j allowing the visitors to score runs that | were not earned. Frank Ooveleskie, of Shamokin, | brother of the "Giant Killer." the j famous Harry Coveleskie of the Phil adelphia Nationals, was on the mound : for his first game with Danville. Al- ; though he pitched a fine game Nesco- ! peck's scoring could not be blamed en tirely on the field, for in both the first and fifth the fun was started by a base j on balls. Despite the defeat, however, ! Covoleksie made a favorable impres sion on the local fans. He has an easy \ delivery and the fact that in Satui day's game lie was a bit wild is par doned by those who know the Pole by the fact that the damp, cold air would not allow him to get warmed up to his j job. On the other hand, Shipe,Nescopeck ! championship twirler.who is accredit- 1 ed with having won the pennant for his team last year.was working in his best form—he and the irrepressible lit tle Fowler behind the bat making a battery to strike fear to the hardest j hitter's heart. HOW IT HAPPENED. Nescopeck won the game in the first innings. Gilbert was first up and was presented with walking papers. Moyer sacrificed and Gilbert went to third on an overthrow Patterson lined one , through short and Gilbert crossed the i plate. Patterson was caught at second j and Splain's liner to short was an easy | one for Logan. Danville went down ; one, two, three. In the second 11. Shipe hit through j second. Lawrence got a base on balls. Fowler skied to Brown and went out. Shipe then drove one into left. This loaded the cushions. Everybody on j their feet as Gilbert sent one into deep | left which Clayberger dropped,but re- j covered in time to send it home and catch Shipe at the plate. Dooley re turned the ball to Omlauf at third in time to discover both Lawrence and Shipe on the bag at the same time, and the side was retired, with the crowd wondering what had happened. In Danville's half two strike outs and an infield grounder did the work. In the third and fourth innings there Was nothing doing, the pitohers get ting in some strong work,totalling be j tween them in the two innings ten | strike outs. In the fifth after Shipe had fanned and Gilbert had gone out or a drive to : Logau, Moyer walked. Patterson put j one against the center field fence, lauding himself on first and Moyer on I third Splain lauded one some place j where nobody was, both Moyer and Patterson scoring before the batter was caught, at second. In Danville's half Thomas made Danville's first hit, Mackert sacrificed and Thomas stole third while Dooley was striking out, DIES HE# BEIEII MIS The trustees of the hospital for the insane at Danville having received an appropriation for additional roal estate is proceeding to acquire a portion of the John K. Bennett estate under the ! act of May 6,1891, whioh provides that ! when lands needed for hospital pur | poses that lie adjoining cannot be pro | cnred by purchase, suoh landß may be | marked off and occupied by the hospit ial and proceedings instituted for the ! valuation aad cordevnnatioc of the | traot. A petition of the trustees of the hoa ! pital for the insane at Danville was presented at court Saturday asking for the appointment of viewers to value the tract of laud which is thus taken for hospital purposes. The petition for appointment of viewers followed in pursuance of a res olution duly enacted and passed by the trustees on May 19, 1909, which reads as follows : "Whereas, The trustees of the hos pital for the insane at Danville have endeavored to agree with Ellen Cole man Bennett for the purchase of a traot of land consisting of one huu dred and seventy-six acres and sixty ! perches adjoining the hospital land in the borough of Dauville and township of Mahoning and have been unable to ; procure the same by purchase from said owner; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the aforesaid trus- i tees by their president and secretary ■' take immediate possesson of said tract of land for the purpose of said hospit al and mark oil, use and occupy the , same for said purpose and that the said president and secretary he and they are hereby authorized and directed to 1 institute all necessary legal and judi cial proceedings for the valuation and fixed condemnation of paid tract of land in conformity with the provis- ■ ions of hi act of the general assein- I bly.'' The petition for viewers sets forth that "the petitioner has entered upon j and is now occupying for the purposes described all that certain farm tract , of land situate in the borough of Dan- 1 ville and the township of Mahoning, the same of which John K. Bennett. ' late of said county, was seized in his j demesne as of fee, etc." The petitoner therefore prayed the court to appoint under the provisions \ of the act of general assembly describ- j ed above a jury of viewers consisting J of three discreet and disinterested citi- | zens of the county, who shall not be j owners of adjoining property or resi- | dents of the borough or township' wherein the land is situated, to view j the premises, estimate and determine \ the value of the land so taken to be 1 used for the purposes aforesaid, etc. i The petition was signed by William j Field Shay, president, and G R. Van 5 Alen, secretary, of the board of trus- j tees of the State hospital for the in- 1 sane at Dauville. Pursuant to the petition Judge Evans appointed as viewers : B. C. Dennen, George Cotner and J. W. Lowrie. Col. H. L. & P. Co. Organized. At a meeting held yesterday after noon at 4 o'clock iD Bloomsburg offic ers aud directors for the recently form ed Colombia Heat, Light & Power company, which includes plants in this city, were chosen as follows : President. E. R. Sponsler, of Har- ! risburg ; vice president, M. I. Lowe; treasurer, M. Millheiser; secretary,A. W. Duy; general counsel, W. H. Sponsler; local counsel, A. W. Duy; directors, W. L. Lowrie. A. W. Duy, 0. M. Oreveling, P. R. Bevan, ft. Scott Amnierman, B. F. Mevers, M, 1. Lowe. H. R. Roch, W. O. Blllman, M. F. D. Seandlan, E. R. Sponsler and William M. Pyle. but the runner was caught stealing home. The rest of the game was scoreless and all the innings was pretty much the same. The soore: |D AN VILLE. R. H O. A. E. Logan, ss 0 0 3 3 0 ; Olayberger, If 0 0 11 0 Omlaaf, 8b 0 11 1 0 i Ooveleskie, p 0 0 0 a 0 I Brown, rf 0 0 1 0 0 I Thomas, 0f.... 0 1 0 0 0 Mackert, 2b 0 0 1 2 0 \ Dooley, o 0 1 14 1 0 ! Sechler, lb 0 0 6 1 2 _ _ Total 0 8 27 11 2 NESOOPECK. R. H. O. A. E. j Gilbert, cf 1 110 0 I Moyer, rf 1 0 1 0 0 | Patterson, lb 0 2 S) 0 0 | Splain, 2b 1 0 1 3 0 Smith, If. 0 1* 3 4 0 iH. Shipe, 3b. . 0 0 0 0 1 Lawrenoe, ss 0 0 0 11 | Fowler, 0 0 0 12 3 0 1 Shipe, p 0 0 11 0 Totals 8 4 27 12 2 I Dauville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o ! Nesonpeck 1 0002000 o—3 | Scarilice hits, Mackert.Moyer. Stol ien bases, Danville 4, Nescopeck 4. | 3truck out, by Ooveleskie 12, by Shipe 12. Double plays, Shipe, Splain, Pat terson. Bases on balls, off Ooveleskie 3, off Shipe 1. Hit. by pitched ball, Splain. Umpires Hayden and Ains worth. Time of game 1:45. USSIER IIUICTOII Miss Margaret Sidler will be valed iotorian and Lowis Robinson, salutat crian at the high school commence ment this year. Miss Margaret Kim bel and Miss Effie Hendrickson are two other honor students. Principal E. O. Biokel at the regular j meeting of the school board Monday | night recommended the entire senior ! class for graduation, and, on motion, j I it was ordered that diplomas be grant- I I nrt to the class,thirty-three in number. ! Beside the four above named stud ents, who attained an average of 95 or over, Mr. Bickel stated that there were a number of others who came very near the honor line. The class on the whole, he said, is an exceptionally strong one. ANNUAL MUSIOALE. The final examinations are now in progress in the borough schools and j things are beginning to take on the ' peculiar air that characterizes the j close of tfie term. On Friday afternoon next the annual \ mnsicale will take place in the high school room. It will be conducted the same as on previous years and will show the nature of the work (lone in the schools The mnsicale will begin at 2 o'clock and will last one hour. The public is cordially invited to at tend. Borough Superintendent Dieffen bacher conducted examination in musio in ail the rooms and is well pleased with the result, which shows that the teachers have done their work well and are proficient in practice as well as in theory. Only one-fourth—or even less—of the pupils, in the nature of things, can participate in the mnsicale, although all are known to be equallv proficient. | COMMENCEMENT WEEK. On Moudav the schools will partic- ' ipate in the Memorial day parade. On Tuesday, the examinations, now in progress, will be completed. On Wednesday the grammar school commencement in the second, third aud fourth wards will be held. On Thursday the Lincoln and Gar- ; field societies will hold their annual contest. On Friday class day and commence ment will take place. PENALTY FOR ~ THROWING STONES A session of ccurt was hold 011 Sat- j urday with his Honor Judge Evans j and Associates Blee and Welllver on ( the benoh. A feature of the proceedings was the i case of a thirteen year old boy who 1 pleaded guilty of striking another boy | on the head with a stone. The court's 1 astion in the although char- i acterized with clemency, yet will no j doubt in the future act as a deterrent when boys quarreling are prompted to resort to the throwing of stones. The case was tiiat of Commonwealth I vs. Peter Rellly. The arrest was made ! on April 11th, the charge being that j Rellly had struck John Gippel, a ten j year old boy,on the head with a stone, j Master Gippel was in court as a wit- j nees.his forehead still bearing the mark I of the blow. The father of the injured I boy testified, explaining that it had | been necessary to have a doctor to dress the injury. Both sides agreed that j there had been a quarrel,of which the Btone throwing episode was the out come. 9 Judge Evans deoided to suspend sentence, giving each of the boyß a lectnre. He imposed no tine in the case, but sentenced the boy's father to pay the costs. He made it clear to the latter that the costs—some five dollars will have to be paid. He informed the defendant, Peter Reiily, that for hit ting the other boy with a stone the court could send him to the county jail for a year. He was permitted to go free but whether he wholly escapes punishment or not will depend upon his conduct in the future. If he does not behave himself properly the court informed him that the sheriff will be after him and he will be putin jail on the charge to which he pleaded guilty Saturday. MEMORIAL PARK ILLUMINATED By way of experiment Memorial park was lighted up Saturday night. The effect was remarkably fine the large globes constituting a cap sheaf of beauty whioh makes the park quite as much of an attraction at night as during the day time. The ornamental iron poles wore ; planted on Friday. On Saturday the I finishing touches were applied to the work.The 80-watt incandescent lights, ! which approximate each one hundred 1 candle power, are enclosed in a globe | of aiiont one foot in diameter. £Tho SO-Wft t lamps afford abundant 1 light, while the large globes seem to ; be just what are needed to touch up the park at night. The four lights, I one at each corner of the monument, ] light up the spot admirably,and along with the two globes at the Bloom street entrance, constitute the princi pal attraction. The four other lights distributed abont the ground suffice to illuminate the entire tract making it possible to get about as easily at night as during the day time. MB BEFORE SCHOOL 11 A regular meeting of the school j board Monadyjeve'was almost wholly j occupied in discussing the part the '[ pupils and teachers will take in the ' Memorial day parade. On motion the regular order of busi- ! ness was suspended to hear the report of the teachers of the public schools of j Danville in regard to the Memorial j day exercises. Mr. Muglll, speaking for the leach- ; ers as a whole, said that the decision 1 of the teachers as to participating in I the parado would not be made known ! unless it was understood that the ic vitation to the teaohers to parade had not been recalled. It was the sense of ' the board that to their knowledge no j such "invitation" had been extended; but that a "request" had been made. An "invitation," the board thought. 1 was to be extended by the Mtmorial j day committee. Mr. Magill stated that no invitation , was extended by the Memorial day | committee to the teachers of the first ! ward. Superintendent Dieffenbacher ■ stated that he personally had extended ■ the Invitation in behalf of the board j and the monument committee. A read- i ing of the minutes on the subject brought to light the fact that the board at that time said that the teaoh ers could not be commanded to turn out but that they shonld be urged by { the superintendent to do so. Mr Magill now presented the unan imous resolution of the teaching corps ! as a whole. The resolution Inasmuch as wo have been ; brought before the public in an unfair light and quoted as saying we would not parade at the dedication of the soldiers' monument on Memorial day, we wish to put ourselves in the right light by saying that if it adds to the dignity and success of the occasion, we aie j unanimous'in saying that we will parade and insist that this is what the majority said in the beginning In answer to President Pursel's ques tion, asked of Mr. Magill. as to the ' exact reason of the lady teachers for ! net wishing to parade, Mr. Magill j stated that taking part in such a pro- j cession places them in an embarassing position. Mr. Orth moved that the resolution be accepted. It was the sense of the i l oard that the resolution should not j bo aocepted as read, objection being j made to the latter part of the resoln i tion. The board was of the opinion j that all necessary invitation had al- ; ready been extended when the board j stated that they would take charge of j the school children with the assistance of any teacher "whose patriotism prompted her to assist." On motion of Mr. Sechler seconded j by Mr. Burns it was decided that as ! it was the view of the board that the parading of the teachers would add to the dignity of the occasion, the board reaffirm its action of the previous meeting, and requested that the same 1 be published as follow*; The motion of Mr. Burns : "That the directors assume control of the schools from their respective wards and take charge of those pupila who will turn out without teacher." BACCALAUREATE SERMON. On motion it was decided that the school board meet in the directors' room on Sunday evening next at 7 :15 o'clock to proceed in a body to the Mahoning Presbyterian church where the baccalaureate sermon will be prpached. On motion of Mr. Fisoher it was ordered that an invitation be extend ed to the directors-elect to join the school board in attending church Sun day evening. A communication was received from the Boldiers' monument committee in viting the school board to attend the dedication of the soldiers' monument. On motion the invitation was accept ed and it was decided to attend the exercises in a body. On motion it was ordered that the teachers and pupils assemble at their j respective school buildings at 1 o'clock Monday, May 31st, preparatory to leav ing the high school building at 1:30 o'clock. Those present were: Fish, Cole, Heiss, Fischer, Lloyd. Burns, Swarts. | Barber, Orth, Pursel, Redding, Sech- ler. J The following bills were approved i for payment: ! O. B. Savidge 117.25 |J. P. Bare 25.00 ! Ralph Kisner 50.00 Ohas. E. Voris 3.10 William Miller 3.50 A dog belonging to George Thomas" of Black Ridge colliery, was given pnblio burial on the 'estate of Frank Brundage, formerly United States consul at Aix-la-Chapelle. Thomas and Brundage were the chief mourners and the interment was made beside the grave of a 112 1,000 dog buried some time ago. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 STREET FI MIKE A special meeting of council was called last night for the purpose of considering a proposition to establish a street fair in Danville : during the Six-County Firemen's conventiun and to transact any other business that might come up. W. M. Alden, the manager of the Penn Amusement company, was pres ent before conncll and explained that his concern had closed with the fire department of Danville to bring his entire oompany hero during the con vention week. The tire department, he said, had expected to securo an open lot but of this they were disappointed. They were now casting about for a new tract but could find nothing suit able except a section of Ferry street between the D. L. & W. Railroad crossing and the old canal. Mr. Alden explained that it would bo necessary to olose np about fifty feet of the street over the canal. Mr. lies, who is a member of the firemen's committee, explained that the department had entered into a con tract with the amusement company nndei advantageous terms and that the firemen expect to realize well by the transaction. The proposition was discussed at length, when It seemed to be the con sensus of opinion that the seotion of Ferry street between the railroad cross ing and the canal could be dispensed with during the week of the conven tion. On motion of Mr. Jones, seoonded by Mr. Finnigan it was ordered that the use of the above described section of Ferry street be granted the Penn Amusement company during the fire men's convention. MARKET CHANGED. President Scliatz explained that ow ing to the congested state of affairs on Thursday, June 10th, it would be in advisable to attempt to hold market on that day. The matter was discuss ed, after which it was on motion ord ered that on the week of the firemen's convention the curbstone market be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sat urday. Mr. lies reported that considerable feeling'ln the second ward has been aroused by the fact that the tree plant ed in Memorial park by the school children of that ward has been trans planted. Mr. Marshall, chairman of the park committee, explained that he had removed the tree to make room for a flower bed to be planted by the Grove Presbyterian ohruch, but that he did not know that the tree was as sociate'! with the second ward iu the manner described. LOCAL TEAM IN TRI-TOWN HEET The Danville High School Athletlo association is In receipt of an invita tion from the Bloomsburg State Norm al school tc meet the teams of that in stitution and the Berwick high school iu a tri-town athletlo meet to be held on Monday, June 7th. The local as sociation will accept and will send a full teain to Bloomsburg on the occas ion. The events in the Bloomsburg meet will be the same as at the meet to be held here next Saturday except that the pole vault will be added and a two mile run will be substituted for the mile run. SALOON LICENSE WAS TRANSFERRED Assoolate Judges Frank G. Blee and Hon. L. W. Welliver held a session of court yesterday morning. The saloon license at the stand on Northumberland street was transferred from the late Frank Oochelle to Peter Treas. There was no other business on hand and the session was a short one. BRICK CROSSING AT PARK ENTRANCE The street commissioner] yesterday morning began work on the brick crossing on Bloom street opposite the soldiers' monument. The[erossing will be eight feet wide, of vitrified brick and will prove a convenience, enabl ing person to cross from the southern side of Bloom street over to thejpark, passing in at the main entrance. The work will probably be completed to day. RAILROAD CROSSING IS REPLANKED I The P. &R. Railway company yes terday completed the work of replank Ing the crossing on Bloom street. The sidewalk on the company's right of way on the south side of the street was also repaired, the plank, which formerly did Bervioe, being removed and in its place a course of pulverized limestone applied.
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