ilUmUmv American. VOL. 55—NO 32 DK. IRVING H. JENNINGS, Office Llou m A. M.to 11 M. 104 Mill St., p. M.to 4P. M- Danville, Pa, «M U /,, M. 425 MILL ST., DANVILI.K, FA. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines a Specialty lIEK CONDENSED. WANTED :—Local agent to advertise 1 and introduce the uew educational , work WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY and I ATLAS of the WORLD. Must lis edu- j cated and able to furnish good refer- I ences as to abilitr and character. THE SA A I,FIELD PUBLISHING COM PANY, AKRON, OHIO. At a meeting of the Darby school board a committee was appointed to perfect a fire drill for the schools and introduce it to the pupils at the open- i ing of the fall term. Couucilmau Klein, of Pittsburg,has been ordered rearrested by the court j for failure to renew his bail, pending recsut appeal from judgments in the j graft cases. George W. Baxter, an operator, of Cleveland, dropped dead in the lobby j of a Pittsburg hotel as the convention ofjOld Time telegraphers ended. Ha 1 was prominent in his profession. Zarbe, the Pittsburg man who built an aeroplane and had the misfortune to have it destroyed in a storm last May, is said to be building another machine of a type entirely different | from any now used. IsaaclDunn, colored, of Williams port, was'at work on the rectory cf a church whenjthe bell on the church next door started to toll for a funeral. The tolliug'of the bell is thought to ■ have caused his heart to fail, for he dropped over dead. A car in Pittsburg jumped the track on a bridge;2oo feet above the earth near Kennvwood park,and the passeu gets, screaming with fear, were hurled to the floor|in;heaps. Tiie car stopped before it leaped, but two persons were injured as it was. As a result of a conference with at torneys representing the L'nited Mine Workers of America, District Attor ney O'Brien, of Soranton, has decided to conduct a rigid investigation into the granting of a mine certificate to Charles Steumaeh, who was killed be cause of his ignorance of the mining \ laws. M. H. Vanhorne, of Columbia, N. J., bought an auto in Pennsylvania and rode from Eastou to Doylestown in it. When he started the thing in Doylestown Upstarted out at a terrific gate and collided with a telegraph pole. He became disgusted with the thing as a result and offered it for sale for SSO. There was a rush of persons willing to purchase, but the machine was lauded by the fire chief. A scourge of cholera among the early i settlers in what was then known as Birmingham, caused the members of St. Michaels' Roman Catholic church, in South side, Pittsburg, to make i solemn promises to celebrate the an- j niversary of the day as holy when the plague should be checked. It was j checked and the promise has been kept, 1,500 people attending mass and services in the church on Thursday. Seven year-old Earl Yarnall, of near Media, died from lock-jaw caused by running a fishbone into his foot. Hugo Hansen, a Dane living on a farm near Pittsburg,saw three negroes in his orchard stealing apples. Taking a dog he raced them, when one of them turned and shot him. His wounds may prove fatal At the close of the year ending April 30, there were 167 branches of the Young Men's Christian association in the State. These had enrolled 51,427 members, which is an increase of near iy a thousand over the previous year. The Catholics of Pittsburg are con templating the erection of a new SBOO, - 000 high school. All the churches iu the diocese will aid in the support of the institution, the building of which will mean that the other Catholic high schools will be abandoned. School Director John McAfee, of East Natujeal.near Pottstown, was on his way to a meeting of the school board when his horse ran away and he was thrown on a paling fence, along which he was dragged. He held onto the reins all through the accident. Nailed to the door of the Slatington police station was a notice that Robert Pierce, a well-known slate operator, would be killed by September 15. The man cannot explain the mysterious threat and is unaware that he has any enemies that might seek his life. A squad of policemen in disguise raided the cigar store of Joseph Senior ot Chester, and confiscated some gam h'ina "tpparatus wnich they found t-h«>r». Srusor, who : s vreM fcnnwn In Bp irt'.uc ciro es and"on e others, were playing poker wheu they were cacy lit. BOM FAB Jl[ SESSION James T. Magill was re-elected wat ' er commissioner, to serve for the next i three years, at a regular meeting of council Friday night. I On motion Peter J. Keefer was re j elected superintendent of the water 1 works without any opposition to serve for the ensuing year. ! On motion the four employes—Ed ! ward F. Bell and Jacob Byerly. eng ■ ineers, and Edward Wertman and 1 George Hullihen, firemen—were re i elected without any opposition to serve during the ensuing year. On motion of Mr. Pursel it was ordered that the borough solicitor bo instructed to bring suit against the Danville and Bloomsburg Street Rail way company to recover all costs,&c., | paid by this borough in the trial of the case of Mary A. Densberger against the borough of Danville and for which j said company is liable under the terms of its contract with this borough in the txteusion and regrading of A j street. The proposition to pave East Market street is beginning to attract repre sentatives of the various brick manu facturing firms to Danville. George B. McGrath, representative of the Bessemer Limestone company of Youngstown, 0., was present at couu- j cil Friday night. His company manu factures a ten-pound red shale block, j the company's yards being looated in I the western part of Pennsylvania, Mr. McGrath at considerable length explained the"Standard Rattler Test," to which paving blocks at the : present are mostly subjected by up-to date municipalities before they are ad opted for use on the streets. W. H. Wason, general superintend ent of American Uniou Telephone company, of Harrisburg, appeared be fore council protesting against the granting of a franchise to the People's Telephone company, which he said in return for the privilege of bringing its wires into Danville on the poles of the American Union Telephone company had agreed not to disturb conditions by applying for an ordinance to build its lines in Danville. He called attention to the fact that the citizens of Danville through the 'phones of the American Union Tele phone company can use the People's Ideal line and have full benefit of the latter's service. If a franchise be granted to the People's Ideal line it will become necessary lor citizens to install an additional 'phone, which, with the American and the Bell, will run the number of 'phones up to three —an unnecessary burden, which peo- i pie should not be asked to shoulder. In addition the subject of poles must be taken into consideration. Our streets are already heavily burdened with poles and it was urged that the num ber should not be increased by grant ing the franchise in question in view of the well established fact that we al- | ready have abundant and reliable tele- | phone service. The following members were pres- j ent: Schatz, Cleaver, Finnigan, Pur sel, lies, Everhard, Marshall, Curry and Connolley. The following bills were approved for pavment; BOROUGH DEP'T. Labor and hauling £142.75 Regular employes 117.50 James Gibson .. ... 14.25 Washington Fire Oo 3.00 J. H. Cole 23.15 Atlantic Refining Co 36.67 talker & Kepler 111.05 j United Tel. & Tel. Co 1.25 Sara McOuen 8.00; Postage and box rent 11.75 B. O. Tillinghast.. 2.00 George F. Keefer 85.00 | T. L. Evans & Sons 17.00 WATER DEP T. Regular employes -■? 161. 40 The Gem 14.00 William E. Limberger 4.25 People's Coal Yard 169.32 Friendship Fire Co 18.75 American Oar and Fd'y. Oo ... 83.30 Atlantic Refining Co 28.94 Danville Fd'y. & Machine Co.. 6.10 THE ELKS PICNIC A GREAT SUCCESS The annual outing of Danville lodge, No. 754, B. P. O. Elks, took place yee terday at DeWitt's park, and proved to be one of the most pleasant affairs ever held by the local antlered herd. The attendance was quite large. The Miles & Foulke orchestra fur nished music for dancing during the afternoon and evening. Several hotly 1 contested base ball games were in pro gress during the day and other amuse l ments filled pleasantly the time be -1 tween the excursions to the well laden tables. An ammonia pipe burst in the plant of Swift <& Co. in North Side, Pitts burg. and an engineer and eleven : horses bud narrow escapes. DANVILLE. }PA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 26, 1909 DAHVILLE ill Ml 11I0N Results of Saturday's Games | Danville 6; Benton 8. Nescopeck 2: Bloomsburg 0. ' Nescopeck 5; Bloomsburg 9. Alden 8; Berwick 6, 10 ins. i i Shickshinny 3; Nanticoke 8. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.O. Nanticoke 15 4 .789! Danville 14 4 .777 Shickshinny 10 9 .526 Nescopeck 10 10 .600 Benton § 10 .441 Berwick 6 13 .421 i Bloomsburg S 11 .421 Alden 5 15 .250 1 It was a lnoky thing for Danville i that Benton was not playing good ball : on Saturday. Had the visitors put up any kind of a fast exhibition the locals would have been flayed. As it WBS Danville won by a score of »S to 3, and both teams played ragged ball. Most of the run getting during the j gauie was the result of the wildest j kind of work—overthrows, poor judg ment,muffed flies and juggled ground ers, all being on the list. But the J balm of the fact that we won went a i long way with the large, crowd pres ent toward soothing the pain caused by the up-iu-the air playing. Ooveleskie in the box for Danville, pitched a good game, although not up to his best. Benton hit his delivery : freely, but were able to tally but four safties. "Pinkie's" best work was shown on severnl oocasions when his team had gotten him into a bad hole. j Jones, in the box for Benton, was tlie mainstay of his team, and about the only man on it who put up a real first class exhibition. He had a dandy out and several ottiers up his sleeve, and he had the Danville heavy hitters j pretty well mystified. Our friend Mr. Relchard, of Bloomsburg, of "1001 ball" fame, guarded first station foi Benton. He was given a rousing re ception. Benton opened the ball by sooring a run in the first innings. Brannigan 1 flied out to Metzler, Charles received a pass and McOarty singled into centre, Charles going to third ; Long drove a | grounded to Livengood who threw to first, Charles scoring on tiie play ; E. j Laubach flied out to Ammerman. The visitors did no tally again until the Tth when they took two, the result of errors and a hit. Ooveleskie had two strike outs in this innings or they might have been running yet. Danville's runs came in twins in the 3rd. 4th and sth. Mackert opened the 3rd by accepting a present of first base; Metzler sacrificed him down, and then Hess took a pass: Umlaut advanced the runners a base : Hess and Mackert both scored when Brennen dropped Livengood's easy fly Ooveleskie opened the 4th with a two bagger into center: Ammerujan drove an infield grounder which was thrown to third to catch Umlauf run ning for Ooveleskie, but the Danville runner was safe by a close margin; on Mackert's fielders' choice Ooveleskie scored and on Metzler's single Am merman scored. In the fifth Livengood opened with a two bagger; Dooley reached first on a sacrifice bunt sending Livengood to third; Stock filed out to Brennen,who without apparent reason threw the hall way over the third baseman's head, allowing Livengood to soore; Ooveleskie drove one to M. Lanbach at short who threw way over Reich ard's head, Dooley scoring. Hagemyer, of Bloomsburg, umpired the game, and gave entire satisfaction to both sides. There was not a kick registered by either team during the ; entire game. The score : DANVILLE. R. H. O. A. E. Hees, 3b . 1 0 0 2 2 Umlanf, ss 0 0 2 a 4 Livengood, 2b 1 2 4 2 0 Dooley, o i 0 6 2 0 Stock, lb 0 0 10 0 0 Ooveleskie, p 1 j 0 4 1 Ammerman, rf 1 0 3 0 0 Mackert, If .1 0 0 0 0 I Metzler, cf 0 1 3 C 0 Totals 6 4 27 15 7 BENTON. R. H. O. A. E. Brannigan, If 0 2 1 0 0 Charles, 2b 1 o 11 0 ! McOarty, c 0 1 7 2 0 | Long, rf 0 11 0 0 E. Laubach, 3b 0 0 3 2 0 Relchard, lb 1 o 7 0 1 I Brennen, cf 1 0 3 0 2 !M. Laubach, ss 0 0 1 I I ; Jones, p 0 0 0 4 D Totals 3 4 24 10 4 Danville .0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 x—6 j Benton 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 o—3 Two base hits, Ooveleskie. Liven good. Sacrifice hits, Umlauf, Dooley, Metzler. Stolen bases, Mackert, Metz- I ler, Dooley, Reichard. Struck out, by Ooveleskie 5, by Jones 7. Bases on ; balls, off Ooveleskie l.off Jones 5. Hit j by pitched ball, Hesß. Umpire. Hage ! myer. SESSION OF ARCH WENT HI The session of argument court con vened on Saturday at 10 o'clock a. m. with his Honor Judge Evans and As sociates Blee and SVelliver on the I bench. In re-petition of Couley W. Foust, j guardian of Walter Foust to dispose of property, owned by the latter situated | on the comer of Market and Iron streets, at present occupied as a hotel by Joseph Smith, to Mary A. Thomas cf Rhorsburg, Columbia county, for tle sum of *3850. The sale was ratifi ed bv the court. JUVENILE COURT. A petition was presented to the court from Anna R. Simiugton, pray- j ing that the court take jurisdiction and make provision for the care and welfare of Thomas Leroy O'Brien, a boy under the age of sixteen years, son of John O'Brien. The petition further stated that the boy has been abandoned by his father and has been at the home of the petitioner since February 21, 1908; the mother is dead, there are ni other relatives capable of caring for him aud that he is a child dependent and iu need of the care and protection of the court. A rule was granted to show cause why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted, returnable ou Septem ber 11, 1909, at 10 o'clock. HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS. The hearing was had in the habeas corpus proceedings instituted by Clyde Applemau of Valley township, to re cover possession of his daughter Myrtle Applemau. at present in the care of Mrs. William Wiutersteen, of Valley township, having been taken by her ou the death of her daughter, Appleman's wife, about a year ago and nursed back to health. Many wit nesses were called by Mrs. Wintersteen to prove her contention that Apple man was not a tit person to possess the child. An equal number testified to the good character of Applemau. The morning session came to a close with the case still up. AFTERNOON SESSION. In a short afternoon session testi mony was continued. Several wit nesses were called on both sides. The court refused to decide the case on Saturday, took the papers in the case and will hand down an opinion later. FESTIVAL A BIQ SUCCESS The festiaval held on the lawn at the home of Mrs. Belle Harris, Upper Mulberry street, last night was a com* plete success. The worthy object to which the proceeds will be devoted, namely, the purchase of flowers for the beds iu Memorial park next spring, aided much in the success of the un dertaking. The lawn, which adjoins the park, was tastefully decorated with bunting while Japanese lanters hanging in every conceivable place, made the picture a most pleasing one. The tables, ten in number, were presided over by some twenty ladies and were crowded from seven o'clock until ten. It was nearly twelve before the affair was brought to a close. Too much credit cannot be given to the ladies who gave their time and at tention to such a worthy object. The affair was gotten up under the direc tion of Mrs Mazie Reuninger, assist ed by a number of ladies who take a deep interest in the appearance of the park. HOLE IN COURT HOUSE CEILING When William M. Heddens, couit ' crier, opened the Montour county ; chamber of justice, Saturday morning lie found a startling state of affairs, a portion ot the ceiling having dropped, marring the beauty of the one thou sand dollar decorations that have been i recently installed there by the C. Day Rudy company of Harrisburg. The hole left by the falling plaster ;is several feet in diameter and the ; oeiling for some distance around is loosened and ready to fall. The com missioners no not believe that the ; damage was caused by any leak in the roof, but incline to the belief that the plastering was not secure before the decorations were put on. CONTRACTS FOR THE STONE WORK The Montour county commissioners on Saturday awarded the contraots for j the stone work of three of the county j bridges as follows : Coleman bridge. Liberty township, jC. P. Boyer, of Liberty township, J $181.25. Ootner bridge, Derry township, E. O. Welliver, of Danville, $431.00. Buok run bridge, Anthony township, E. O. Welliver, of Danville, $233.00.|; James Heokendorn was the only oth er bidder, the latter bidding for the work by the perch. SCHOOL BOARD JL SESSION The regular meeting ot the school board was held Monday eve. The fol lowing members were in their places : He'ss, Sechler, Cole, Fischer, Swarts, ; Shultz, Redding,Burus, Gibson,Orth. Mr. Fischer of the building and re pair committee reported that the re pairs on all the buildings both inside ; and out are approaching completion. > He called particulai attention to the 1 excellent work done by Mr. Grove on the desks in the high school room Mr. Burns of the committee on sup- ! plies reported that but one Remington ' typewriter had been exchanged for a Smith Invisible machine. The supply ■ committee was instructed to purchase a clock for one of the rooms. Superintendent Dieffenbacher en- j dorsed the recommendations of Prof- ! essors Mover and Bickel in favor of the Milliken and Gale text book in Physics for use in the high school. On motion this book was adopted bv the board. Superintendent Dieffenbacher re- j ported tnat the senior secondary school in the first ward will be overcrowded this year, there being ten more pupils than there is room for. Room can be made for these pupils in the other wards by a system of transfers. On motion the following system was ad opted as recommended by the transfers committee: All senior secondary pupils living on West Mahoning street and Mill street, north of Mahoning street will be transferred to the third ward senior secondary school; also all senior sec onuary pupils living north of Centre street and east of Mill street will be transferred to the fourth ward senior secondary school. Iu the grammar schools,if last yearV lines are continued, there will be 34 pupiis iu the fourth ward, 39 in the , second ward and 53 in the third. By a proposed readjustment of the lines it can be so arranged BO that there will be 41 pupils iu the second ward, 37 in the fourth ward and 48 iu the third. On motion the matter was placed in the hands of the transfer committee to act in conjunction with the superin tendent. BILLS PAID. The following bills were ordered paid : American Book Oo $377.30 Roberts & Mack 109.50 ReadiDg Iron Co 1.88 Pennsylvania R. R. Co 60 88 Mrs. Harry Kaufman 30.00 Mrs. Ella Lynn .... 30.00 Morning News .... 5.75 C. L. Eggert 2.25 Boyer Bros ... 27.10 Joseph Lechner 7 33 Rebeca Lovett 24.00 Anna Anderson . 6.00 Emery Shultz 11.85 E. H. Sainsbury 28.20 F. C. Henry 4.50 A. H. Orone . 14.48 Palmer Co 4 80 Remington Typewriter Oo . 4.05 A. J. Nystroam it Co 25.00 Henry Holt 'e iu Shamokin ceme tery. COMPANY F HAS FOUR EXPERTS In the National rifle match now go ing on at Camp Perry, Ohio, Company F has the honor of having one of its members, Private Eisenhower, on the Pennsylvania rifle team as alternate. When it is explained that the rifle team is composed of the twelve best shots chosen from the Pennsylvania State militia the honor conferred will | be appreciated. j Company F has been improving rapidly in marksmanship. Dnring the last four years it has been given more attention than formerly with gratify ing results. Last week Captain Her ' rington qualified as an expert, bring ing the total number of experts In the company up to four, three more than we have had at any other year. The i experts, in addition to Captain Her rington, are Private Eisenhower, Cor poral Beagle and Sergeant Yeager. The company's standing will be I greatly advanced in future inspections by reason of the additional experts, each expert being rated at two hun dred per cent. SLICK SWINDLERS WORK MERCHANTS i About one hundred merchants in Mt Carmel and its environments bit on a [ clever swindling scheme. Two smooth ; tougued strangers pulled off the game j there, and they worked it successfully ! in almost every town in the region. ! The two men would explain how, | for thirty cents down,they would col lect on delinquent accounts for a cer tain percentage. In this way they got ' over 100 of the dealers to cough up. and the strangerii departed with over ; S3O of their money. It was all done in one day, and paid the men fairly well. They made their preliminary payment small so that merchants bit readily,and there would 1 be little likelihood of squealing. ! Mrs. Anna Van Why Is dying near I Bethlehem from lock-jaw as the result | of a wound caused by a rusty nail.