Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, July 01, 1909, Image 1

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VOL. 55—NO 25
DR. IRVING H. JENNINGS,
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IfEIIS CONDENSED.
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Because he was refused food a tramp
attacked a farmpi's wife near Greece
City, poured acid oa !.er face and
bmtaliy beat her.
Pearl Alvater, cJ Pittsburg, while
trying to escape a street oar, ran iu
front of an automobile and was pain- j
felly injured.
While Hany A. Bridegan,a Reading
fireman, was cleaning the headlight '
oc '.is engine, he wa* knocked down 1
aud injured -o badly that he will die.
With his arms entwining a trolley 1
pole,Allen A. Nouuemacher, of Moun
* ™""' «"is found dead by neigh
bor-. Ha had been stricken with heart j
failure on his way to work.
Suffering from a deiangeneut of the
miud.John Cnrley. of Pittsburg, leap- t
ed from tlie third -tory window of his
hoc.?. On examination it was found (
that he 1 ad fractured both ankles. 5
The baby sou of Mrs. John Hafula, s
of ASJeutown, choked aln.ost to death 112
trying to swallow an opeu pin brooch
whlch a year old sister had given -
bin to i lay with. v
The Montgomery County Kapid
Tiar.sit company went nto the hand*
of a receiver. The capital stock is
worth .*300,000 and the property is ea
cumbere 1 with a "-"P0,O00 mortgage.
Uncle Sain i- loosing for a ruau to
take charge of ;iiis fourth-olasi post
offie at Cook port, near Salfsburg. Tie
job paid the enormous salary of S2O
during the last fiscal year. Somehow s
there are not mauy applicants.
Announcement was made tiiat the c
Reading Adler, the oldest German 1
newspaper in the United States has 1
been sold by its proprietors, Ritter and e
Co., to John Weller, proprietor of the r
Post, another Reading German paper. 1
The new management will assume e
charge on Saturday.
After being lured from Baltimore to
Philadelphia by a mnn who promised 112
them work.two boys found themselves £
deserted in a strange city. They were
penniless and starving, and were ar- ,
rested on the charge of stealing bread
from doorsteps. They gave their names
as Otto Barson and Raymond Brown. .
The crops iu all sections of Berks
county promise a large vie!.i this vear.
Rye and oats are very promising. t
Farmers in the western part of the s
nountv greatly fea- the success of their v
w ; eat crop however, because of the |
activity of insects.
The' Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg
has luring tiie past week received 11,- t
000 specimens of South American fish c
all packed in jars of alcohol. The 00l- 1
lection was made by Professor C. H. t
Eigenmaun.who with an assistant has j
baen in South America for two years. s
Jennie Henkins. of W;:kt>s-Earre.
earae upon a blacksaake over seven !
feet in length lying in her father's c
field. Taking a stick she attempted to i
kill the reptile, which fought hack, t
There v ere thirty minutes of roval t
battling before the girl came off vice- i
orious. A half hour later neighbors i
found and killed the snake's ma:e. i
In her anxiety to bid her husband !
goodby at the Charieroi station, Mrs !
Marie Antonio of California neglected 1
to take the car window into aoccr.at
and thrust her head through the glass.
She was severely gaßhed and was re- i
moved from the train to have her in- '
juries dressed.
Frank Singleton, of Darby, '.ad a
large laud turtle in liis ce! rto drive
away ratr. A number of rodent"
made a concentrated atr. on the
turtle and there was a:i 1 ilngly
hard tussel ending how.c. Ie tur
tie's defeat. Three front if rats
were found near its bo iv t .: r
fierceness of the conf. r.
Two weeks ago when a :arload of
wild iiosea was unload: a: Fir -, wood,
three of the mustangs escaped to the
mountains. Two wer" captured three
days later, but t hp third has been fol
lowed all this time by John Keller
who landed him "cowboy style'' and
brought him to Fleetwood. The horses
were shipped east from Indian Territ
ory.
After robbing the barn of Edward
Lip!,art. at York, of a lot of tobacco,
the thieves set fire to the barn and
tried to destroy it. The ringing of the
dinner bell attracted the neighbor and
people from Red Lion. A bucket bri- j
gade was formed and the barn was
saved.
c o a »o highway department has
]m •tie L«t «112 aI • > b!l» I
inn- I n,m Janua'v 1 May 31
'J.I ore arc *4.435 !:tonnes .u the li»t
DANVILLE LI!
10 NIIICIE
STANDING OF THE CLLBS.
W. L. P.O.
Nanticoke 8 1 .885,
Danville 7 3 *778 j
Neseopeck 5 J .550
Benton ... .4 4 .500 j
Aldeu 3 5 .875 ;
Shickshinny... ... ....8 5 .875
Bloomsburg .. ... 3 0 .833
Berwick 1 7 .125 j
Result of Saturday's Games
Nanticoke i; Danville 1.
Alden 3, Neseopeck 1.
Shickshinny 0; Bloomsburg 3.
Berwick 4; Kenton 4.
Danville's lose to Nanticoke breaks '
the tie for first place tiiat has been ex
isting ierweeu this town and Nauti
coke for the past four weeks, Danville
dropping to s°cond place and Nanti
col-o taking position at tiie hea;i.
Ne-copeck surprised the watcher- on
Saturday by losing and that to Allien.
Benton tied with Berwick and Recrea
tion dropped oue to Shickshinny.
The shifting was again all done in
the second division. Bloomsburg drop
ped from fourth to second—from the
end. Alden went from sixth to fifth and
Shickhinny jumped from seventh to
sixth. Berwick still remains the tail
ender.
Next Saturday Danville plays at
Nanticoke,Alden at Kloouisburg, Her
wick at Benton an 1 Shickshiuny at
Nesoopeck
J' - ' With the aid of a i
very strung team
_ Nanticoke loaded
a 7 to 1 victory un
to t' ie ' r special
train anil took it
along home with
—them on Saturday
amid great rejoicing—by N'auticoke.
It was a sad story of hard lack, iil
omens, spells, slumps and otiier heart
reading phenomena of base ball, of
tiie kind that is excusable because ev
ery team that has ever gathered to play
the great American game has found ,
Itself at some time or another in its
existence to be up against just such
proposition? as Danville experienced
Saturday,
Danville has nothing to complain of
in Its team. They lost a game that
meant lctj to the local fans, hut they
played hard and they did their best,
but the Goddess of Good Luck turned
her back squarely on the Danville
warriors and siuil< ! benignly on Nan
ticoke, and that settled it.
Even Pinkie Coveieskie, usually the
d:, r-.'.ing star of the Danville team.i .id
tiis ctl day, He «a- wil I at times,and
when he controlled his carves it was
with a slow ball tha' the Nanticoke
heavy hitters just naturally plastered.
' ON THE OTHER HAND.
Naut oke romped through an all
but errorless game with apparent non- |
chalance. They iieided like tiends and
batted like demons, darn em, and gave
the enthusiastic rooters from up the
river plenty of chances to yell them
selves hoarse.
It was a matter of comaoa report
here after tiie game tiiat a large maj
ority of the Nanticoke nine were not
regularly signed niemherFof that team,
but ringers recruited especially for
the Danville game. Without going in
to the 'ruth or falseness of tiie rumors
it is sufficient to say tiiat 112 such gc
iupson'' are being tolerated in the
league the sport will scon lc-e its
popularity. The matter s'icald be in
vestigated.
A SAD STORY.
The detailed story of the game is a
sad on",but here goes —you lon't have
to r,-ad it if you don't want to
Nanticoke to. U first bat and Lehr
first i: i ~rrue ; : out Pitcher Swam
bury ; ok a pretty single to center and
Conwsy got to first -tation on a
grounder: >'als:i drove one to Hess
v, i \v. ' the runner to reach first
on a b:: t.TOW; Murray drove a long
fly to Brown and Swamburv scored
t . was caught. Walsh was
•ar.ghs r.t s ond by Umlaof while
.-'! ■>n uisk! v. <= at bat. leaving Con
••fay on la*e.
Dcoiey aud Clayberger were outs on
infield drives; Thomas hit to right,
but remained on base while Coveleskie
went down on a grounder to the j .t b*
er's box.
la the second and third neither side
scored 1 ut seven men batting for each
side.
In the fourth Walsh opened the fatal
half with a two bagger to the right
field fence : Murray drove cne to short
aud was out- and Shemanski struck
out; K,it7. witii 2 strikes and 3 balls
• droppod oue over the right field fence
' sooring Walsh; Haley hit to right
scoring Kotz; Macalanv got a pass and
then Lehr put another one over the
right pallisade, scoring Haley and
Mitcalany, Swambury was out on a
i'l'vt- J •*•!«. *•>»»•<•'Lelir on base.
In ti.e fiftii tnere i.ot'rug .Hap.
DANVILLE PA., THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1909
JIBS 111
BIMB
At a special session of court Satur
day morning James Ryan of the third
ward was chosen as county comtnis- ■
sioner to fill the unexpired term of
George W. Miles, dsceased. Judge
Evans aud Associates Blee aud Welliv
er were en the bencii.
The principal business on baud was
the filling of the vacancy existing iu (
the board of county commissioners.
There were over a dozen of applicants
for the appointment. The names of
several when submitted were accom
panied by petitions more or less num
erously signed. The court deliberated
quite awhile over the appointment. At
length Judge Evans read the following
decree, first explaining that he did not
concur in the appointment:
"Aud uow. Juno 2fi, IOC!', James
Ryan is appointed county commission
er of Montour county to fill the uuex
pired term of George W. Miles,deceas
ed. providing said appointee file au
affidavit that he voted fnr George W.
Miles, the deceased county commis
sioner,at the November election, 1008. j
(Signed),
FRANK G. BLEB, A. J.
L. W. WELLIVER, A. J.
Duriug Saturday Mr. Ryan's bond
was executed, in addition to which he
filed the affidavit required and took
the oath of office.
MISS JANt l tiIRD
MADE LIBRARIAN
Miss Janet Bird has been elected
librarian aud Miss Edna Gearhart as
sistant librarian, of the Thomas Leav
er Free library for one year from Sep
tember Ist next, the date when tiie
resignation of the present librarian
goes into effect.
Miss Bird was chosen at a previous
meeting of the trustees but the pro- I
ceedings were not made public. At r |
regular aieetiug of the board on F
day night Miss Gearhart, a daughter
of M. G. Gearhart, was elected assist
ant. Present at the meeting were : Dr.
Juo, Sweisfort, chairman; F. M. Her
r.':»tns, secretary; W. E. Gosh, Hoa. i
James Foster, F. G. Sohooh, Simon I
Dreifuss, T. J. Rogers, F. C. Derr, i
aud Edward Purpur.
both going down one, two, three.
In the sixth au error, a scarifice aud
a hit scored oue for Nauticoke, For
Danville Brown flied out to Macala
ney; Dooley was hit by pitched ball;
Clayberger flied out to Haley, Thorn
as drove a pretty hit to right field, af
ter being -truck ou the uose by a foul
tip from his bat, but with two on 1 a c e
Coveleskie struck out.
la the seventh Nauticoke war, jvtir
ed in order. For Danville Coutts got
first on four balls. Lewis flied to
Walsh who caught Coutts, making a
double play unassisted. Hets hit to
tiie left field fence, but Umlaut was
out on a drive to Macalanv.
In the eigiit both sides made one tal
ly. Murray opened for Nauticoke with
a hit to second and stole second. She
manski flied out to Brown; Kutz took
a two bagger over the fence scoring
Murray. Haley was out Umlauf to
Thomas who threw to Hess and caught
Kutz, completing a pretty double. For
Danville Brown put oue over the fence
for two -acks: Dooley got first on
Walsh's error; Clayberger sacrificed
out; Thomas was out to Walsh and
Coveleskie was out ou a grounder to
short. Brown scored ou Conway's
passed ball.
Iu the ninth Nanticoke was retired
with three men at hat. Fcr Danville
Lewis had a single ia t' e last innings
but it was no use.
The score:
DANVILLE
R. H. O. A. E.
Dooley, c .0 0 tl 2 0 '
Clayberger, rf .... 0 11 O i
Thomas, lb . .0 3 10 11
i Coveleskie ~.0 0 0 8 01
Coutts, If 0 1 0 0 0
Lewis, 2b .0 1 2 1 0 I
Hess, 3b . . .. .0 1 2 11
I'mlauf, ss .. • .. .0 0 8 1 01
' Brown, ot 1 l 8 0 o!
"Total 1 7 27 O "■!
NANTICOKE.
R. H. O. A. E.
; Lehr, cf 0 11 0 0
I 8 warn bury,'p. i l 0 5 o
Conway, c. . .... .0 0 4 1 "
Walsh, lb 1 3 15 0 II
Murray.2b 1 ] 2 1 0
i Shemanski. 3b 11 1 3 . o |
Kutz, rf l a o i 0;
Haley, ss 11 2 1 <> ,
Macalanv, if I 1 2 i 0 ,
Total .. . 7 10 27 13 1,
Danville . . 0000 000 1 o—l]
' Nauticoke 1004010! o—7 ;
Two base hits, Hess, Brown, Lehr,
Walsh 2, Kutz 2. Sacrifice hits, Clay
berger. Lewis, Hess Stolen bases,
Lewis Lehr, Murray. Left on bases, •
Danville 7, Nanticoke 3. Struck out.
by Oovleskie ti, by Swambury 4. Dou
ble plays, Uinlauf, Thomas, Hess;
Walsh, liases on balls, off Coveleskie
1, off Swambury 1. Hit by pitched
ball, Dooley. Wild pitches, Coveleskie
;3. Passed halls Conway. Umpires,
Fisher and Aineworth. Time of game
? 01
IE ■
The first of the four tournaments to
be held by the Central Pennsylvania
Teuuis league was played on Saturday
on the courts of the Berwick Tenuis
club,the meet being a success in every
way.
The tenuis was not of as high an
order as may be expected later in the
season when the teams iiave had more
practice. The exceptions to this
were the Pottsvilie and Danville teamß
which played very strong games Potts
viile lost but one set during the day,
chat to Danville: Danville lost but
two sets during tic day, those to Potts
vilie.
The result- of the sets are as fol
lows :
Berwick beat Shenandoah 6 1, 6-3.
Berwick beat Girardville H I, t-6,
6-5.
Pottvsille beat Berwick 6-. 6-1.
Bloomsburp beat Shenandoah t!-0,
3-6, 6-1.
Bloomsburg beat Shamokiu 6-2, (5-1.
Pottsvilie beat Bloomsburg 6-1, 6-3.
Suubury brat Shenandoah 6-3. 6-4.
Girardville beat Sunbury 6-3. 4-6,
6-4
Shamokiu beat Scnbury 6-3, 6 0
Dauvillo neat Girardville 6-1, 6-1.
Danville beat Shamokiu 6-:!. 6-0.
Pottsvilie beat Danville 6.3, 2-6, 6-2.
The percentage of sets wou during
tie four tournaments will decide the
awarding of the prizes at the end of
the season, lu the standing Pottsvilie
now leads with Danville second. The
percentages of the four leader- are
now as follows : Pottsvilie .boT, Dan
ville .714. Bloomsburg and Berwick
tied at ~>7l.
The players representing the towns
wtrf 3osh and Watson for Danville,
l)i- sou and Lockard for Berwick,
S aetfer and Beddell for Pottsvilie,
jlick and Monahan for Girardville,
Selwell and Swift for Shenandoah,
Hill and Hollenbach for Siiauiokin,
Miller and Rishton for Bloomsburg,
Purdy audShuster for Sunbury.
The board of governors held a meet
ing after a very enjoyable dinner and
decided to hold the next tournament
at Shatuokin July 1 <th, the third at
Sanbtry August :'.rd and the last at
Pottsvilie September 6th. The prizes
to be contetsed for will bo two silver
loving cups.
The two chief objects of these tea
nis tournaments are to foster and en
courage the playlug of tennis and to
promote sociability among tennis play
era,and if the tournament on Saturday
is any criterion both objects will be
accompli-hed as t:ie members present
witi.out exception voted the meet a
decided success.
31 PATIENTS
UNDER TREATMENT
D.\ George A. .Stock, physic au-in
. - ' t.ie tuberculosis dispensary
h<. r-s iH- '.a -following report for
tli'j u i>nth einn:.g .June 20,1!t09, which
show - that gooii results are being at
tained aud that the dispensary, al
though only a trifle over a year old, is
a factor not to be despised in the
world wide crusade against tuber
culosis.
During the month two patients were
admitted; one was discharged. The
uumi-er of patients from the previous
mouth was thirty, number of patients
remaining at t-ud cf present mouth,
thirty-one Gun patient was discharg
ed re: rred to tamilv physician
Number o» return visits itade,forty
five. In tea patients there was in
crease ol weight: in seven the weight
was uuohanged; in tourteen there was
loss of weight. Guly two patients took
medicine during the month. The nurs:e
made twenty-six visits.
Three hundred and thirty-six quarts
of in;lk aud eighty-six and one-third
dozen egg- were ordered. Fourteen
patients received milk and ten patients
eggs.
SUPERINTKN DENT'S
SALARY RAISED
The school board.{Monday night, as
an afterthought,' decided to raise the
salary of Borough Superintendent
Dieffenbacher. He was voted an in
crease of ten dollars per month, rais
ing his salary from fIJOO to SIB2O per
year.
This action followed a pretty gen
' eral advance cf salary granted teach
ers. Mr Dieffenbacher did not ask
for an advauce, but eomu of the mem
bers seemed to think that the differ
ence was too slight between the salarv
of the principal of the high school and
what was being paid the borough sup
erintendent. Hence the advance.
Joseph Weidskin, of Philadelphia,
was asleep near a window in the third
story of hie home. He rolled over and
fell out of the window to the side
; walk, where he struck, fracturing hif
skull.
PUBLIC H
IMB EEECIEB
! The teachers of the public schools of
the borough were elected for the ensu
ing year at the regular meeting of the
j school board Monday eve. 'ihere were
few changes in the personnel of the
corps. In several instances there was
a change of salary, the advauce on the
whole being greater than for some
years past.
The full board of direetois was pres
ent as follows: W. A. Sechler, Dr.
Barber, J. W. Swarts, H. H. Red
ding. W. J. Burns, J. N. Pursel, J.
H. Cole, Jacob Fischer, Dr. Cameron
Shultz, W. H. Grth, Augustus Heiss
and Joseph M. Gibson.
The committee on teachers and cer
tificates consisting of J. N. Pursel,Dr.
Barber, W. H. Orth and Dr. Shultz
made nominations of teachers, janit
ors aud attendance officer for the en
suing school year.
The schedule presented showed sev- '
eral changes As teacher of Biology.
History aud Mathematics in tne high
school J. H. Gaskius was nominated
to the place o? Miss Adda Hay
man, who filled that position last year.
Mtss Lovet-t, teacher of the second
grade in the first ward last year, Was
not an applicant this year. The vac
ancy caused v.as tilled bv promoting
Mi-s Martha Keim from the first grade
of the first ward. The vacancy there
by caused in the first grade was filled
by Miss Jeanette Pickard.who returns
to the corps after a year'- absence
caused by ill health.
After some discussion on :he subject
of salaries teachers were elected for
the borough schools as follows
HIGH SCHOOL.
Prin ipal and teacher of Languages,
E. O. Bickel; Science aud Mathem
atics, John Kase; English and History,
Mrs. E. \. Coulter; Biology, Historv
and Mathematics, J. H. Gaskins; Com
mercial Branches, P. 'A'. Maglll.
FIRST WARD.
sth aud 6th Grades, Rose Gallagher;
4th Grade. Winifred Evans ; 3rd Grade.
Helen Tooey: 2nd Grade, Martha
Keim ; Ist Grade, Jeanette Pickard.
SECOND WARD.
7th and Sth Gradw»r '
sth aud 6th Grades, Mary Welsh; 4th
Grade, Alice Guest; 3rd Grade, Yerna '
Reed; 2nd Grade, Helen Shannon: Ist
Grade, Viola Young; Ist Grade As
sistant, Alice Smull
THIRD WARD.
7th an 1 Sth Grades, Sara Massel
man: sth aud 6i i Grades, Katluvn
Bennetts; 4th Grade, Prudence Bl'z
zard: 3rd Grade, Laura Mann; 2nd
Grade, Harriet Bauhuan; Ist Gra i-,
Jenuie Lawrence.
FOURTH WARD.
7th and Sth Grades. M. L. Bloom.
sth and 6th Grades, Tillie Jarr.es; ith
Grade, Allceß.rd; 3rd Grade, Kuth
ryn Rogers; 2nd Grade. Harriet- Fry;
Ist Grade. ~ara Wilson.
WELCH HILL.
let aud 2nd Grades, Ruth Frick.
JANITORS
First Ward, A. J. Gearaart; Second
Ward, D. K. Pensyl; Third Ward,
Seth Loricer; Fourth Ward. Calvin
Eggert; Welch Hill, Mrs. Anderson.
Attendance Officer, W. E. Young.
In a few instances there was a slight
ad'.auce of salary. The principalship
oi the high school was advanced from S
$!035 to $! 100 per term. In English
and historv the salary was raised from
S7O to (75 ; in the commercial depart
ment from S9O to ss»s In science and
mathematics and in hiology. history
aud mathematics the salary remained
unchanged—s7o per month.
Miss. Tooey, Miss Reed, and Miss
Mauu having procured « professional
> certificate their salary was advanced
to so<i per month to comply with the
1 minimum salary act. Other advances |
were made as follows: Miss Gallagher
i raised from SSO to $55; MiEs Welsh
1; raised from -iOO to siis; Miss Shannon
i raised froru 140 to *45; Miss Bennetts
! raised from SSO to $55; Miss James,sso
to |so; Miss Frick, f4O to 111.
Mr. Pursel presented an application
of Miss Tooey for a permanent certifi
cate. On motion it was ordered that
• the officers of the board he requested
to affix their signatures to the applica
-5 tion.
» The following bills were approved
t for payment;
. The Gem . .$2.00
. Peter A. Winters .60
r William Miller 2.50
Robert G. Miller ft.GO
. X P. LeDuc 1.50
G. A. Rossuian 3.00
D. N. Dieffenbacher 4 20
1 Montour Democrat .. 6.00
Danville Sto. & Mfg. Co 12.30
. | Penu'n. School Journal 14.85
Seth Lormor. 12.00
George F. Keefer ... .5.00
The summer playgrounds provided
by the school board and the Century
club of Pottstown, will be opened on
1( j July 6 with Miss Elsie Borneman and
( ] j Samuel F. charge of the girls
( ] and boyß' grounds respectively.
„ Shenandoah bartenders have organlz-
J ed for a shorter day.
d 111
BIT II Iffl
It has been learned from an author- 1
itative sonrce that the mile or goof
i State highway petitioned for and sur
veyed on the south Bide of the river
can not be built this -eason and prob
ably not next season. T'.iis informa- j
tlon comeH as a surpr'jQ following as
it doss a statemen' made earlier in the
season by a rep- .-entative of the State
highway dep- .meet to the effect that
the reconstruction of the road would
in all probability be taken up this i
j summer.
j As week after week passed, how
ever, and the State highway depart
ment was not heard from Oliver Hoov
er anil W. R. Clark last week took a
trip to Harrisburg to determine the
status of the State highway.
From the assistaut State highway
commissioner Messrs. Hoover and
Clark learned that, owing to shortage
of.funds available for road reconstruc
tion.it was impossible to say when the
j State highway in Gearhart township
: could be built—certainly not this sum
mer and it was doubtful whether it
could be bailt next summer.
The only section of State highway
in Northumberland county that will
be built this year lies inTurbot town
ship. Application for the latter roa-i
was made prior to petitioning for the
highway on the soutii side, which, it
will be recalled, lies on the Suijbury
road between the river bridge and
Kipp's run.
AUTOHOBILE TRIP
OF 721 MILES
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Price, acconi
panied by Mrs. Evan Jones and tiieir
daughter, Miss Florence, who joined
the party in New York, returned to
Danville Tuesday evening after along
automobile trip of 7:21 miles.
With Will G. Brown as chauffeur,
the party 'eft Danville at noon last
Wednesdaproceeding by way of
Wilfces-BJ rre, Pocono Mountains and
Stroudsb rg to Delaware Water Gap.
They art ved at New York Thursday
afteruoo They spent Friday, Satur
' dar endav in New York. Dur
ing the : stay in the metropolis they !
took a long auto trip up the Hudson
and visited all tt e places of interest.
! In New York, too, they were joined
by Miss Price, who had arrived by
steamboat from Botson, where she was
.trending school.
About 10 o'clock Monday the party
started on the homeward trip, spend
ing Monday n!c! r at tV Delaware
Water Gap house. About 10 0 clock
Tuesday morniug they en..' irl.r-d on
the last stage of theii jonruey rriv
:ng at Danville at 7 .-'.J o'clock.
1: is worthy of note that du: :-g
• heir long trip re t!i;i um ait - '
w:sh a liugle u..- .tdveun t», Tlif-y : J
l.ot sOstaia a puncture neither was a
readjustment of th« eoglne n« et tat •
Y» )UNG
WERE SURPRISED
Mr. aad M:> Charles A. Hart* were
tendered a very pleasant surprise ?.i
tiieir new home,7: 5 E.ist Market street.
Monday sveuing by a number cf t'lQir
friends.
The occasion was :ie return of the
young couple f-oru ti.• ■ir honeymoon.
Among those present were fourteen Df
the bride's girl fries !s, who came up
from Sunbury, arniel with horns and
tinware, to n tlie celebration.
; Tiie following were present Misses
Esther Killer, Essie Srein, Lou Bow
en, Jennie Leslie. Edna and Jennie
Lyons, Dora Orner, Bess and Eathryn
Kerchner, Francis Yrager, Carrie
Trek-sler, Rnsa W >'•, Gussie Clark
and Sara Yarnell. of riunbury Mioses
May Books, Julia Arms, Katharine
Yastine, Jessie Kimerer, Bianciie
I St-chler and Messrs. Edwin Moore,
John Kase. Mvron Bernheimer, Dr.
, C. Raymond Herringtou and William
L. McCoy, of tliis city.
ICE CREAM
BY NEW PROCESS
Fallon s havp installed a It a< ice
•ream machitA. the first ever used in
Danville. It is something of a marvel
both in point, of capacity and the qu
ality of product.
The ice is first ground and mixed
with salt. The brine produced is con
veyed by pipes to the machine con
taiaing the cream, where tlie freeziug
occurs. An electric motor furnishes
the power.
The freezing occuts almost instant
aneously. On Monday evening ten
I gallons of ice cream was made in thir
: teen minutes A secoud trial brought
about better results, ten gallon- being
produced in eleven minutes. JThe ice
cream was frozen dry and perfectly
! stiff.
Hazleton's school district has receiv
j td f.'.tiiiO in tuition from non resident
{ pupils in a year.
ESTABLISHED IN 1855
Ell HI
jpui
Our townspeople while enjoying a
final nap about five o'clock yesterday
morning were aroused by an alarm of
fire, which was the first that ti;e fire
bells had been heard in Danville for
several months.
The fire ooourred in the Pennsyl
vania Brake Beam works and,although
the damage that resulted was slight,
yet for a few minutes the plant was
in great danger.
A portion of the felt that covers the
roof, worked loose and blew [liown to
a point near the eaves where it lodged
against the iron smoke stack, at the
northeastern part of the plant where
the assembling department is locat
ed. As soon as the fire was replenish
ed for the day and the stack became
hot the felt ignited.
The watchman discovered the fire at,
the very moment when it originated
and tried to apply the means at iiaud
to extinguish it. Tiie fire plug, how
ever, broke while he was attempting
to open it and the water poured out
over the floor of the works.
Acting upon the first impulse the
watchman ran over to East Market
street, which at that early hour was
still deserted. Procuring tie key he
entered the hose house of the Wash
ington Fire company and rang the
bell.
This orought out not only the Wash
ington, but also the Friendship Fire
company. The "Washiea"' were the
first to reach the mill. The fire on tiie
roof was burning slowly and had done
but little damage. It was only the
work of a few moments to connect the
hose and get a stream of water on the
roof, after which tiie fire was soon ex
tinguished. Five doilars will cover
the damage done by thelfire. The wat
er, however, especially that which es
caped from the broken fire plug,''caus
ed considerable damage about the mill.
The flow of water from the broken
plug could not b? checked until the
foreman made his way over to East
Market street and turned the water
off. Meanwhile the floor of the plant
was deluged.
EXCELLENT PROTECTION.
No plant is bettergprepared for fight
ing tire than the Brake Beam works.
Four plugs are installed, each with a
long section of hose conveniently ar
ranged so that while one man attaches
the boss and turns on the water anoth
er can unreel the hosa carrying it to
any part of the works desired. Water
can be gotteu on auy'pirt ct the mill
by the employes of the plant in lons
than five minutes after tiie tire is dis
covered, provided the men remain (cl
hca . •
A MEDAL • OR
SAVING BRILL
Aitlicr Brunei. - u i.f Dr. and Mrs.
.!. W. Bruner.of : nis.bnrg, has been
presented with a u.< : for bravery l.y
tiie American Boy, a monthly paper,
published by the Sprague company of
Duluth, Mich.
Several weeks ago young Bruner in
company with William •Brill, sou of
the Rev. Wm. Brill, of Bloomsburg,
formerly pastor of St. Paul's M. E.
chnrch, this city, were in swimming
near the "Red Rock" bridge. Brill
could not swim, but lie jumped from
the rocks into the water anyway. See
ing he oould not swim young Bruner
went to hi> aid,and after a loug strug
gle succeeded in getting his companion
to shore.
IMPROVEMENTS
ABOUT THE STATION
The Pennsylvania railroad company
is making a nice improvement 011 the
south side in connection with the fence
recently erected to enclose the track.
Opposite the station the space be
tween the track and fence is being
neatly terraced and sodded auei the
gutter along the track laid with brick.
| The bauk flanking tiie brick pavement
leading from the crossing to the sta
tion has also been leveled and sodded.
The improvement along with the
new fence adds very much to appear
ances about the station
CHANGE I N PENNSY
MAIL SERVICE
Beginning with this mcming a
change will take place in the mail ser
vice from the local post office ever tiie
Pennsylvania railroad. The mail which
has been carried on the 10:0tl train
will now be carried on tiie 7:03 tiain
and the service 011 the former train
will be discontinued. The mail will
be closed at the office a half hour be
fore time of departure.
Thi- will allow letters catching the
7 :02 a. in. mail to reach Philadelphia
at 12 :50.
2 Miss Mary Rogers, Bloom street, re
turcef) home yesterday after visiting
1 her aunt, Mrs. S V. Border at Clear
; field.
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