State VOL. 55— NO 33 DK. IUVING 11. JENNINGS, UKN'i IST. Office Jlour* .1. tf. U> VI M. K'i MM t. V. t>> i P. M- Danville. J'"- 425 MILL ST., DANVILLB, I'A. itiseases of the Stomach and .nteslinei? Specialty ITEMS CONDENSED. WANTED Local agent to advertise and introduce the new educational work WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY and ATLAS ot the WORLD. Must ba edu cated and able to furnish good refer euces RB to abilitF and character. IHE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COM PANY, AKRON, OHIO. It takes 288Ja tons of silver dollars to run the municipality of Pittsburg for one year. At a sale of ttie effects'of Mrs. Eliz abeth Levenright, near Marietta, a bed spread made in 181H sold for SIOO. Fifty thousand Disciples of Christ are expected to attend the convention of that sect at Pittsburg during the second week in October. Mr. Lewis Foulk, of Littlestown, was married three times and has twen ty-seven brothers-in-law and is uncle to 135 nieces and nephews. The 9-year-old daughter of John Amspacher, residing near Marietta, was bitten by a copperhead snake and her arms and legs are swollen to twice their natural size. A 1-mouth-old white baby was aban doned on the doorstep of Aaron Rol lins, colored, of Darby. He turned it over to a colored woman, who turned it over to an orphan asylum at Phila delphia. A movement will be started in Dar by creek dredged to make it navigable as far as Chester pike. This creek was navigable for three-masted ships years ago and it is hoped to interest congress in the movement to improve it. Mrs. W. A. Stone, wife of a promi nent citizen at Uaiontown, who mys teriously disappeared from her . home on Decembers and eluded all attempts of detectives to locate her, has return ed to her husband's home. They will not tell where the woman was. Mrs. Ella Bryan, of Philadelphia, fell downstairs and her head went through a window at the bottom. Her throat was cut and she died as the re sult. Mrs. Margaret Hague, of the 1 same place, died from injuries receiv ed by falling down stairs, while Zep ella Tilley fell from a third story window and died. Samuel Kerr, the young Pittsburg boy who invented a wireless telegraph witli which he hopes to surpass Mar coni. was honored by a visit by Jack j Binns. tin- wireless telegraph operator j whose heroism on the fated ship, the Republic, stirred up the land. The two will conduct experiments with the machinery tha boy has built. The stockholders of the Lustre Min ing company, largely composed of Pittsburgers, held another meeting in which they continued to make efforts to raise the $150,000 needed to pay off the debts and keep the valuable prop erty of the company out of the hands of Mexican creditors, in whose land are the holdings. The flotation of a bond of $1,000,000 to clear away all the debts of the concern and raise a working capital was also discussed. .Tames McCafferty, who was arrested at Chester for shooting William Gill, declares the killing was an accident. He says that Gill and he were the best of friends and that he was just show ing his gun to Gill when the weapon went off. The only witness to the shooting, William Twoomey, has been placed under arrest. Mrs. Katherine Soffcl, the woman who freed the Biddle boys from the Allegheny county jail several years ago and served a term in prison for tier part in the notorious escapade, is dead at Pittsburg. Her husband di vorced her and she has been living under her maiden name, Dietrich, since. She acted in the drama depict ing the crime for a while but was not very successful in this. She had been living at Pittsburg until her death in the West Penn hospital making dress es for a subsistence. W. A St one. the prominent citizen of Uniontown whoso wife disappeared and in tracing whom about SIO,OOO were spent and who returned home the other day the family refusing to tell of her whereabouts, lias made public a statement. He says his wife did not know what she was doing at the time site left home and remained in seclus ion until she was found. Her travel ing companion Martin, is said to be in St. Louis at the present time. His wife says that she will not become re conciled with her husband and says that she will work over the washtub the rest of her life before she will re turn to him. INVENTOR OF CARJUPLER That the first T rail in America was manufactured in Danville is a matter of history ; that the car coupler now in use the world over, one of the most important appurtenances of railroads, was invented by a native of Danville is a fact not so well known. That the latter is true, however, is quite evident from an article that ap peared in the "Buffalo Express" of recent date. The article in question ! credits Miller with being ail extrnor- : dinary genius and states that lie was i born in Danville, Pa., of Quaker par ents. When he was fifteen' years of age the family removed to Belfast in Allegheny county, where his father was employed as a millwright. Joseph worked with his father and learned the trade but his mind wandered away from saw and grist mills and he be came a machinist and an inventor. Like many other men of genius he was sadly deficient in financial ability One who knew him has remarked; "He was of a confiding nature, trust ed everybody and everybody beat, him". He died at the age of!) 2 years and is buried in Mt. View cemetery at Olean, N. Y. He invented the car coupler in 1851. soon after the Erie railroad was com pleted. This coupler has been in use ever since and everywhere the world over. Miller secured a patent on his coupler. He sold the State of Massa chusetts for one hundred dollars and that is all he ever realized on his valu able invention. Ezra Miller, who by the way was no relative of Joseph's, invented the buffer in 18l>8. Joseph Miller's patent expiring Ezra Miller made use of it and "Miller's coupler buffer and platform" has become a familiar legend to millions and mil lions of people boarding the cars. Had Joseph Miller's patent been in the hands of some men they would have realized an immense fortune. Ah it was the railroads have made the money. Miller made many other inventions, among them being an improvement in brick manufacturing machinery, the principle of which is employed in modern brick machines. He invented an improvement in lathes, while em ployed by a firm which manufactured screw stump machines. By his inven tion two screws could be made in a day, where before it had taken two days to make one. lie was a pioneer in the invention of mowing machines and was interested in aerial naviga tion. It was always the Same, how ever; no matter how successful, he realized no profit and others got the benefit of his labors. It is doubtful whether at this late day any of our residents can recall the fifteen-year-old-boy, Joseph Miller, when he left Danville to enter upon his busy career which did so much to facilitate the world's work and aid in national development, but which alas brought him so little recognition and material wealth. ■■....PERSONALS Miss Mamie Hoffman left last even ing on a business trip to Philadelphia ' W. ,T. Emeriek and William Berger, of this city, are transacting business i in Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hixson, Nas sau street, left yesterday for a visit ' with relatives in Sunbury. Miss Edith Reed, of this city, Miss- J es Elizabeth Reed and Eva Hopwell. i of Philadelphia, spent yesterday with 1 friends in Wolverton. Mrs. Hannah L. Schnltz and Edward Sellultz returned to Philadelphia yes terday after a visit with the former's brother. James 1). Magill. West Mark et street. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Morris, of Philadelphia, Miss Mary Haydeu and Dr. Wallace, of Jeansville, who are j on an automobile tour, spent yester- j day afternoon at th.i home of Mr. and | Mrs. George B. O'Connor. Riverside I Heights. Mrs. Frank Reiner is visiting j friends in Wilkes-Barre anil Potts- i ville. Mrs. W. Spenser has returned to | Oxford Valley. Bucks county, after a ; two weeks' visit at the home of Mr. ' and Mrs. John H. Hunt. West Mahon ing street. Jolm E. Person returned to William sport, yesterday morning after a visit with William K. Hancock,West Mark et street. Rev. J. T. Rossitcr rteurned to Bal timore yesterday after a visit with Rev. and Mrs. Jos. E. (iuy at the Shi 101 l Reformed parsonage, Bloom street. Miss Sophia Hellner returned to lla/.leton last evening after a visit with Miss Teresa Ledger, Water street. Miss Clara Fischer returned last evening after a trip to Philadelphia and Atlantic Oity DANVILLE- PA., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1909 THE DISPOSAL PLAN! IS IN OPERATION No more welcome intelligence could be conveyed to our readers than the I news that the pollution of the canal and river caused by hospital sewage so long a menace to our town, is now practically at an end. On last Satur day the sewage that drained into the canal was taken up by the new dis posal plant,now in full working order and in two weeks' time all the sew age from the big institution will !«• diverted from the river and subjected j to the process of purification. | A representative of the News ves- I terday visited the hospital for the iu j sane and was shown over the ground 'by one of the officials where the pro gress of the work, the plans and the operation of the plant were studied at short range. The sewage disposal ! plant proper, complicated as it is, by 110 means embraces the greater part of i the work. Two enormous sewers eut j ting across the lawn in front of the ! institution have been in course of j construction pretty much all summer. | The smaller of these connecting with i the nurse's home was completed a j month ago. The larger one draining I the hospital pro]>er is at present under i way. This sewer runs parallel with ! the hospital. Work yesterday was in progress in front of the main en trance. At this point the terra cotta | pipe is laid at a depth of seventeen feet; elsewhere it was necessary to go | down twenty-two feet. An enormous j mound of earth excavated lies at the j very threshold of the administration j building. j In order to connect the kitchen and the wash house with the main sewer, i just described, it was necessary to drive two tunnels through the rock j under the main building which at that j point is fifty-two feet wide. The tun | lie Is formed a very difficult and costly part of the work and a large force ef | men have been employed upon them i for many weeks past. AUTOMATIC PUMPS. The first point of real interest con nected with the sewage disposal svs- Item is the receiving pit or pumping j station in the ravine between the lios- I pital and farm buildings. Through | the two sewers, above described, the ! sewage from the entire institution is | drained into the pumping pit. As it | enters it passes through two grates, which arrest all solids that would like jlv interfere with the operation of the | machinery. Over the receiving pit a solid build ing of concrete is erected. The sewage is lifted through underground pipe to the disposal plant some four hundred yards northward by means of three ! centrifugal pumps operated by elec j trieity. The pumps, which are the | first of the kind ever installed in con j nection with sewage disposal at the I hospital, operate on the principle of J the dredge centrifugal pump and are I especially adapted to the work of | pumping sewage by reason of the fact ; that solids, no matter in what form, j are easily manipulated. In the brief j interval that the plant lias been in op- OPEN SEASON BEGINS j The open season for blackbirds (if all I kinds, shore birds, snipe (Jack or Wil j son) and web-footed fowl of all kinds, began yesterday, September Ist. and . will continue until January Ist. The j number that may be legally killed, I caught or trapped is unlimited. | The above named species are hardly abundant enough in this section to | prove of much interest to hunters and J the opening of the season yesterday | created no stir. It will not be until i October Ist, when woodcock, along j with bear, come in, that the hunters here will begin to get busy. On the 15th of October squirrel, wild turkev, ' quail and pheasants may be legally 1 taken, shot or trapped. Entertained Near Montandon. I Mrs. W. J. Knierick pleasantly en- I tertaiued the clerks of the Emeriek | store and their friends at the home of I her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gil j bert, near Montandon, on Tuesday j evening. Those present were; Misses, i Until Arms, Bessie Hess, Elsie Ben - j nett, Ruth DeMott, Elsie Riffle. Ivy ! Mover, Jennie Stuart : Messrs. Myron ! Rernheirner. Guy Hoke, Allen Forn ' wald. John Boettinger, John Keilly, Arthur Reese. Anthony Seknlski, Wil j liam Kin It, Harry Dailey, William j Breitenbacli, Donald Gilbert and ('harles Gilbert. On Month's Furlough. Midshipman George Jacobs arrived j in i his city yesterday for a visit with | his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Fred j Jacobs, Mill street. Midshipman Jac obs is on a month's furlough following the ending of the three months' cruise of the U. S. S. Hartford, one of the , practice squadron of the Naval Aea | demy at Annapolis. | The cats of Berlin are all registered j and w. ar a tag. eration it has been called upon to ne gotiate very formidable matter no distinctively sewage and it lias gotten away with it all, even large masses, with evident ease. This dispels the last doubt as to whether the plant can be kept in suc cessful operation,as pieces of bedding, clothing and a great variety of artic les, owing to the caprices of the in sane, are apt to find their way into hospital sewage. The pumps average nine hundred revolutions anil have a capacity of -175 gallons per minute. The pumps operate automatically. One or more pump may be kpet contin uously in operation. The usual method embracing the use of floats is employed and as the How of sewage increases or diminishes an additional pump is call ed into play or is thrown off. SEW AGE IS DIY ERTE D. The first immi) was started up last Saturday, when, true to the promise of the trustees, the sewage was divert ed from the canal. The plant is now fully in use and a fine opportunity is afforded for observing its operation. The sewage is pumped from the re ceiving pit into the jjrit chamber at the filter beds.where it passes through two screens of three-fourths of an inch niesli into the primary settling chambers, three in number, each six ty-feet long by Sixteen feet wide and ten feet deep. From the settling chamber the liq uid passes into the "dosing" chamber, where it can be treated chemically, if necessary, as in the ease of contag ion. The settlings or solids are remov ed from the bottom of the settling tank, by flushing or otherwise, into a separate reservoir where they are con verted into fertilizer. From the "dosing" tank the sewage passes by a syphon into fifty four spray ers set in a filter bed composed of <; 1 ._■ feet of gravel and stone. As it is ejected from the sprayers, each one of which resembles a small fountain, the sewage is aerated, after which it (li ters through the deep bed of stone and gravel and drains into tin' secondary settling tank which is the final stage of the process. EIGHTY-FIVE PER CENT PURE. The effluence, which is estimated to be 85 per cent, pure, drains into the little stream nearby and is carried to the river. In its filtered state it is said to be quite as pure as river water above the hospital for the insane; hut the hospital authorities have remotely in view the installation of an addit ional or sand filter, wMfph will render the effluent 95 per cent. pure. The latter, of course, will have to be pro vided for by an additional appropri ation. The sewage at present being treat ed embraces the administration build ing. nurses' home, the kitchen and one section of the female wing. In about two weeks' time connection will be established with every part of the institution and the pollution of the river by hospital sewage will be a thing of the past. THE CENSUS LAW Oil acconut of many false returns sent in by enumerators of a western city ten years ago in an effort to bol ster up tlie population, the present act fixes a severe jienalty for a census j taker who violates his oath. If he j shall willfully and knowingly make a ! false certificate of a fictitious return | he shall bo deemed guilty of a misile- j meanor. and upon conviction shall be j fined not exceeding $2,000 and impris- j onment not exceeding five years. The ' bill also makes provision for those [ who may handicap the census taking j work by refusing to answer questions. I Any person who ignores the questions ' propounded to him by an enumerator is liable to a fine of $ 100 and the same penalty is prescribed for those who shall willfully give answers that are false. TWO MINERS KILLED Two miners, William Thomas of Mt. | Carniol anil John Minnich of Natalie, I were instantly killed by a fall of coal at the Natalie colliery at 1:15 yester day afternoon. The two men who were working partners in the same breast l\ad fired a ! shot and had then returned. It is the | usual custom with miners to dress the j face of the breast immediately after j firing a shot. This Thomas and Min- j nich neglected to do. The unfortunate men were sitting ! down when without an instant's warn- j iug a large fall of rock occurred, the 1 men being buried under tons of debris, j Both were dead when extricated from j i under the rocks. I . Fifteenth Wedding Anniveraary. j Superintendent and Mrs. D. N. Dief- ; fenbacher, on Tuesday evening cole-| limited their fifteenth wedding anniv- j ersary at their home on Bloom street. ! ! A large number of friends gathered to | extend congratulations. SAMPLE BALLOT HASJRRIVED | When tlii! electors of Pennsylvania ! proceed to cast their vote at the next j election tliey will find themselves con fronted with a blanket sheet, the larg | est ballot ever employed at any eloct ! ion held in this state. The customary < specimen ballot arrived at the court house yesterday and to put it mildly i it is a curiosity. j The amendments to the constitution Ito tie voted upon are responsible for ' the unusual size of the ballot and they j occupy probably nine-tenths of the i space. To be exact the sample ballot : is thirty-four by twenty-two inches. i At the top are four short columns pro : viiling for"State Treasurer," "Judge 1 j of the Supreme Court"and "Judge of the Court of Common Pleas." The j last column on the right is blank. ! | None of these columns are over three ! i inches long. The first contains the j names of the candidates for State 1 treasurer in their places with the us- ! i ual instructions for voting; the second i column, the names of the candidates j for Judge of the supreme court with ; j instructions. The column for judge of i ! the court of common pleas is left vac ant while the last column, also blank, j I lias no designation, i The rest of the blanket sheet is oc , cupied by the proposed amendments ! to the constitution, ten in number, | which are to be voted on. Each amend ment, in order to make it explicit, is printed out very fully, the lines in ! plain type running clear across the i ballot. At the right of each amendment is a block of four squares. Two of these bordering on the text contain respect- I ively, the words, "Yes" and ' 'No." Adjoining these on the right are two blank squares. An x marked in the square at the right of the word 'yes" indicates a vote for the amendment. A similar x marked in the square at i the right of the word ' no" indicates 1 a vote against the amendment. At the bottom of the ballot is a I proposed schedule for the ] ripos'd 1 amendments, which are to be voted on i in the same manner. | The proposed amendments, which ! were printed and given a wide circu ' lation throughout the state, are pretty generally understood by voters. As set j forth on the ballot they are very ! plain and those who have neglected to read up on the subject will have no I difficulty in getting at their true 1 meaning. LADY FRACTURES ARM Mrs. Michat 1 Kyerly of Rloomsburg i while visiting in this city Tuesday, ' fell down and broke her arm. Mrs. Kyerly is a guest at the home | j of J. W. Kyerly, Spruce street. Tues i day morning she started out to call j on a friend on West Market street, j When near the courthouse she had oc- j casion to stoop down, which caused her to become dizzy. Falling forward she attempted to save herself by throwing out her arm. In striking the ground her left arm received her weight in such a manner as to break I the bone. ! Dr. Curry rendered surgical aid, re ducing the fracture, which occurred between the elbow and wrist. Mrs. Kyerly is eighty-three years of age and, it is feared, recovery mav be ! slow. THE TANNER SALE I | The sain of the heirs of Joseph Tan | nor took place yesterday afternoon. [ The two farms in Derry township, ! consisting of two sots of buildings and j 181! acres of farm and timber land j were bought by Arthur Mowrer for i $3500. The limestone quarry in Lime- j j stone township was purchased by i Judge Blee for £BO. Recovering From Injury. Miss Ruth Dinunick, of Riverside, who had her jaw badly fractured as the result- of being struck by a foul ' ball during a game at DeWitt's park lon tin? occasion of the Farmers' pic nic, was able to leave the house yes terday for the first time since she re ceived the injury. Surprise Party. Mr. and Mrs. Charles I). Whispell j entertained a number of their friends |at their homo on West Mahoning I street Monday evening in honor of | Mrs. Whispell's birthday. Refresh ments wore served. ! Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Myrt | Fallon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. ! Whispell, John Mosor, Mrs. Caro line Haldorman, Mrs. John Ross, Mrs. Joseph Ricketts, Mrs. Laura Lovett. Laura Ward, Lillian Snyder, Helen Lovett, Ethel Snyder. Hazel Lovett, Hazel Whispell, William Whispell, Miss Annio Ricketts.Miss Ruth Stew ard, Shamokin, Miss Isabella Ryland. » Miss Edna Raup and Milton llanp, | of Sunbury. I The country will be glad to hear of i increasing demands for labor. THE INKING GUPS Individual drinking cups for pupils is a subject that is being discussed by patrons of our public schools. Al though no general action in the matter lias been taken by school boards, yet there is a constantly growing senti ment throughout the country in favor of individual cups, not only for use in schools but also for railway trains and other places where many persons meet and all classes mingle. Borough Suiierintendent Dieffen baclier Tuesday evening stated that lit is aware that such a sentiment exists in Danville. He himself is in favor of pupils using their own cups in school and is pleased to note that not a few of those attending our schools this term are provided with individual cups. While nothing has been done as t.i the matter yet this year at the open ing of the term last season Mr. Dief fenbacher stated, the teachers were urged to take up the matter with their pupils urging the use of individual cups. As a result lasf year individual drinking cups seemed to be almost the rule in some of the buildings. Several of our physicians were in terviewed yesterday, and without ex ception they went on record as in favor of individual cups. It was ex plained that with the opening of the school term each year an increase in infectious diseases among children may be noted due, it is believed, to the practice of all or many children drinking from the same cup at school. WHITE BERRY SCALE. State Zoologist Surface, Harrisburg, has had his attention called to the prevalence this year of a white scale on raspberry bushes, which has done much damage. In replying to one cor respondent, who stated that a number of his raspberry stalks were killed by the scale, Professor Surface said : This pest is known as the Rose Scale, and is sometimes called the Raspberry Scale. It does not attack trees, but it is quite injurious to rose bushes and raspberry bushes., It is to be killed by a good contact insecticide such as can be used successfully for San Jose Scale. I have friends who have entirely cleaned it up in their fields by the thorough use of the lime sulphur-wash spray. I should use either the commercial lime-sulphur wash, diluted one to eight, or the home-boiled, using the formula of seventeen pounds of sulphur and twen ty-two of lime, boiled together one hour, with enough water to boil, and then sufficient water added to make fifty gallons, supplying most of the water after boiling. "This is the regular lime-sulphur wash as prepared for San Jose Scale. It is intended only for dormant plants, or. in other words, to be applied when the leaves are off: but it can be used on the trunks of trees and the stems of raspberries and roses, where it does not get on the new growth of this year nor on the leaves. You can apply it to all parts of the tree above ground save those which have grown this year. It can be applied with a paint brush, but it will be quicker and more economical to use a spray pump, aud a more thorough job can be done. " Instead of spraying the old rasp berry canes for scale at this time of year, I recommend cutting them out and burning them at once. This gets rid of a great many pests. The canes have already done their duty by bear ing fruit and it will give morn room for new stalks to develop. It would be excellent practice to cut and burn old raspberry and blackb 'rrv bushes as soon as the fruit is gathered. You would not. only kill insect pests but also destroy disease germs. To get the best possible results one should have a hot brush fire built, upon which the newly cut stalks could be thrown,even burning them before they wilt, if all the j lest s are to be destroyed. If some of the young insects escape to the new canes they will not multiply rapidly enough to prove serious, and this fall, after the leaves have dropped, you can spray the stalks thoroughly with the lime-sulphur wash, just the same as for San Jose seal " Farewell Party. A farewell party was tendered Miss Laura Gething at her home on sh street Tuesday evening. Those ,r sent were Misses Bertha Keefer, l a ra Gething, Kate Weigolil, Louise Wei gold, Jessie Hemerley, Bertha Kessler, Ida lioyer, Sue Gross, Vinnie Mont ague, Edna Mong, Anna Kelly, Dora Morrison, Messrs. Arthur llarvey, George Rishcl, Georg ■ Crumb, Jam - I Ford, Ben McCoy, John Kilfoil, Wil liam Kessler, Howard By! T. t'lar 'lice Hendricksou, William Anderson; Mr, and Mrs. Walter Gross and daughter Nellie, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rieketts i aud daughter Emma. Refreshments were served aud a very pleasant even ing was spent. Mrs. Edward Schatz, of Philadel phia. is visiting her parents, Mr. and ! Mis. Peter Kellar, Church street. ESTABLISHED IN 1855 DANVILLE ELKS BEAT SHAMQKIN . sv r \ Down to defeat 'IVL IJf j went the Shamok of Lodge No. 754 of this city. The locals luiil the tossers from the coal town completely at their mercy at a 1 staffs, and only stopped making runs when the pedal extremities of the Dan ville base runners became so tired from encircling the bases that it was feared the consequences might be serious. The score was 21 to 12. The line-up of the Danville Elks was Hoffman lb. Gurry c, Diehl lib, Marks If, Vincent 2b, Jacobs cf, Howe ss, Ammerman rf. Rebman p. W. G. Pur sel is manager of the team and Clar ence Haupt, assistant manager. The feature paramount of the game was the pitching of Sam C. Rebman. Shamokin was unable to find the Dan ville twirler at any stage of the giune, and at some stages even Danville, couldn't find him. His puzzling deliv ery included a remarkable array of curves, his spit ball and in shoot do ing particularly fearful execution. Rebman was ably sustained by John Curry behind the bat. T. G. Vincent at second came in for second honors making a double play unassisted. Aside from the base ball game the Shamokin Elks gave their brethren from tliis city a most excellent time which included an outing during the day on Mt. Poko and more entertain ment at the social rooms last evening, which lasted until the special left foi Danville. Among tile members of the order who took the trip were Harry Ellen bogen, John Arms, Joseph H. Patton, Theo. Hoffman, Henry Divel, John R. M. Curry, Edward Purpur, Ralph B. Diehl, (i. Fred Smith, Arthur H. Woollev, Philip Benzbach, J. C. Peif er. Dr. *Slmltz. Simon Hoffman, A. Amesl>ury,J. H. Cole, Emil Gaert ner, Fred Owen, Sam Rebman. San Marks, Simon Ellenbogen, W. Kasi West, Harry Cromwell, John Jacobs, W. G. Purs'el, W. C. Williams, Geo. Leehuer, Dr. G. A. Stock, Eluier Peters, Fred Howe, John Hixson, Edward \V. Peters, Arthur Freeze, Harvey Dietrich, John F. Tooley, Clarence Haupt, Tlios. G. Vincent, Geo. Maiers, Edward Fallon, Carl <.* Ruck. 1. W. W. Gnlick, Harry Wenck, David Evans, R. Scott Ammerman, Wm. L. Morgen, East Grange, X. ,T. , No. 135; James Ryan, Dr. K. A. Cur ry, T. J. Price. Surprise Party. Miss Margaret Flanigan was tender ed a pleasant surprise party at her home on East Market street on Satur day evening. Those present were : Ed na Lidington, Jennie Goodman, Flor ence Bollinger, Florence Lidington, Mable Bowman, Harriet Reeder, Dil lie Young, Mary Gulick, and Mrs. Edward Duke; Charles Lidington, Leroy Young, Guy Case, Daniel Con road, Williard Brouse, Merrian Gross, Irvin Iletrick, Harry Lidington, John Bollinger, Hiram Young, and William Duke, of Northumberland and Ira Carl of Bloomsburg, Mary Litterer, Clara Beyers, Jessi Hartman. Helen Kelly, Blanche Reed, Margaret Flan igan, Vinnie Montague, Ella Faus naught, Blanche English, Edna Sea man and Mary Rentier. Arthur Har vey, George Krum,Daniel Brady,Paul Flanigan, Ralph Heims. .Tames Reed and Raymond Thomas. Refreshments, were served and a very pleasant even-j ing was spent. Belated Cherry Crop. Cherries on the first day of Septem ber are a rarity. C. M. Johnston, 304 Grand street, however, is one of the few persons who enjoys the novelty of eating cherries so late in the season. One of his trees, which by the way, bore a good crop about July 4th, lias produced a second or at least a belated yield, the cherries being equally as large and well develojied aud only a littl" less luscious than those of the first crop. Mr. Johnston left a branch at this office Tuesday, which contain ed sixteen fine flurries. Festival for Park Benefit. A 112 s ivi 1 will b t hill at the home of John Hugh s, I 1 torn s ret, this evening. The proceeds will be devoted to the pure' ase of tl )w> rs fur Memor ial Park. Ice cream, Cake, coffee and sandwiches on safe. In case of in clement weather the festival will be held tomorrow evening. All are invit ed. Ethel Henninger, of Shamokin, re turned to her home in great agony holding a plait of her hair in her hands and said that some unknown man grabbed her anil suspended her by her hair on a meat hook and then tl id leaving her hanging. Her weight tore some of her hair from her head anil she fell.
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