j0 : - VOL. 55—NO 43 ITEMS CONDENSED. WANTED—LocaI agent to advertise and introduce the new educational work, WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY and ATLAS of the WORLD. Must be educated and able to furnish good re ferences as to ability and character. THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO. Coke production from the Uniontown district for the week ending October HO broke till records. It was 443,254 tons. Fdwaril Kiefer, an* employe of the Reading stove works, was instantly killed by being struck by an emeiy wheel which made 3,000 revolutions a minute and broke from its bearings. Wellington Ross, a fanner drove fifty feet over a precipice near Sha lnokin with a two horse team. The animals were killed and he lay seven teen hours before he was found. He is still living. Francis Faco has been taken from Pottsvillo to New York where he will bo deported to Italy. He violated the immigration laws in coming hero, as ho has a prison record. He entered the country in disguise. Antonio Merrio, a peddler, of Car negie. was robbed at Cannonsburg and beaten so badly that ho had to be sent to a hospital. Three ribs were broken, liis skull was fractured and he was in jured otherwise. Two unknown men were tlio perpetrators of the deed. He was relieved of his pack and $ 100. Great crowds attended the funeral of the Modieo-Chirurigcal student Michael Lavelle Burke, who was in jured so badly as the result of a foot j ball game with the College of Phar macy team, in Philadelphia, that he died. He was buried at Shenandoah and thirty-six priests were present at the funeral services. George Loxterman was so badly in jured at Pittsburg by being struck by an auto driven by Patrick ,T. Counel ley, that lie died in a half hour. Ho was agoil 8 years and was picking up his school books when the accident happened. His sister canglit him by the hand and tried to pull him from harm's way and was nearly'run over herself. The cliaffeur is out under $2,- j 000 bail. As the result of playing with fire, '■ two children of Mi andJMrs. Benjamin Patterson, of Dinsmore, Washington county, set the house on fire and their little 18-mouths-oldJsister was burned to a crisp in her cot. The parents were absent from the house for a short time ( and when they were returning the ! children ran to them screaming and told them that the house was.buruing. They tried several times to save the infant but were driven back by the flames. The children lighted a broom at the grate of the stove. C. D. Eliding of near Butler, held a ttobert rifle to his head with the in tent of suicide and though his son held his hand and said "Don't do it papa, " he pulled the trigger and ended his life. Fifty thousand dollars' property loss was oaused by a freight wreck near Stionilsburg, on the Delaware, Lack awanna and Western railroad. There were sixteen cars in the wreck, which was the result of a sideswipe in a cut, Attorney Oliver Evans, of Limerick, n member of the Norristown bar, shot at a rabbit and tlio bullet passed over its head. The animal was hypnotized, it seemed, by the occurrence, for the man was able to pick it up. He let it go again, anil again the bunny acted as if it were in a trance. Trainmen on the Reading ami liar- j risbnrg division of tho Reading road I made hotter time during the month of I October thau they have for two years. 1 All have been steadily employed. ! About 2,000 cars of coal are mined | daily and one day last week eighty- \ . ight loaded freight trains traversed j the division. Mayor Magoe, of Pittsburg, an 1 State. Health Commissioner Dixon will discuss a sewage disposal sy.»tc m fa!' the Smoky City tomorrow. Tte id. ;i is to drain the water regit. - !!»ss of t!ie city lines. It. is pretty v.. 11 ttled that the city and the nearby boroughs should not have separate sowers but that them should be one metropolitan system. Northumberland county was the lirst j lo turn in the official returns of the elections. The secretary of tho com monwealth addressed a congratulatory letter to Prothonotarv Dissingor on ac count of this. Charles Inman, aged 11, an employe in a Chester factory, was stabbed in the hip, chest and thigh by a com panion during a fight. The weapon used was a penknife. The wounded boy is expected to recover. Albert hanger, a New York thug, pleaded guilty to seven indictments ranging from burglary to attempted murder at court at Lancaster. He shot Constable Keesey when that officer placed him under arrest for selling liquor illegally. He was sent to the eastern penitentiary for a| maximum term of thirty-three years and a mini mum of eight years three months. FILLING UP ' THE OLD CANAL The first stop Friday night was taken in tlio iictmil procedure of abating the canal nuisance. Chief Burgess Auiesbury was pres ent anil reported a conference w liich | took place between himself and Divis ion Engineer R. M. White on the oc casion <if the latter's visit to Danville last week. The division engineer,he said, seem ed very fair. The D. Ij. & W. Kail roail company is willing to contribute financially to the tilling up of the can al and about all that is required now, before the first step can be taken to ward getting rid of the nuisance is to make an estimate of the cost of all the work ami to provide for surface drain age. Ho also exhibited a blue print furnished hv the 1). I'. & • Railroad company showing what sections oi the canal the various manufacturing con cerns of town have agreed to fill up with cinder. Kvery part of the canal seems provided for in this way by one industry or another, with the excep tion of the part lying between Church street and Mill street. On motion of Mr. Curry it was ord ered that an engineer be employed to make a survey of the canal in the bor ough making an estimate of the cost of tilling it up and also to provide for drainage of surface water. WILL ASK STATE AID. Mr. Cleaver of the committee on streets and bridges reported that as a second thought the committee had de cided to see whether a brick pavement nan not be laid oil East- Market street extension under the act <>f May 1,1905, instead of constructing a macadam as the intention was at first. They also decided to see whether the entire sec tion of East Market street between Cook's court and the hospital macadam can not be reconstructed or paved with State aid. Pending a decision in this matter, he said, the survey as ordered was discontinued. On motion of Mr. Everhart it was decided that the borough endeavor to secure State aid in paving East Market street from Cook's court to the hospit al macadam. STREET REPAIRS. On motion of Mr. Cleaver it was ordered that the borough purchase ten our loads of crushed limestone from Pond Hill fur the purpose of repairing streets; also that bids be invited for delivering the same on the streets where needed. On motion an order for $179.19, rep resenting money received from the State was ordered drawn in favor of the Firemen's Relief Association. On motion of Mr. Curry it as order ed that Mr. Blizzard be notified to re pair flie pavement on which his prop erty abuts. In case of neglect the street commissioner was instructed to make the repairs according to the ordinance. It was also ordered that fifty feet of hose be purchased for the Goodwill Hose company. On motion of Mr. Curry it was ord ered that the man employed at. Mem orial park be withdrawn each autumn on November Ist, the flag not to be raised except 011 special occasions while a watchman is not employed. The following members were pres ent: Schatz, Finnigau, Cleaver, Pur gel, lies, Everhart, Marshall, Curry, Connolly and Von Blohn. The following bills were approved for payment: BOROUGH DEPARTMENT. Labor and hauling $30(1.88 1 Regular employes 117.50, Imperial Mfg. Co 1.80 Standard Gas Co .50 ; James Gibson.. 24.75 ; Walker anil Kepler 52.19 1 Franl: 11. Stewart Elec. C 0.... 58.33 { 1.. I. Breakley..: 3.10 Danville Fdy. & Machine Co.. 2.31 Washington Fire Co 7.80 Sum MeCiu-Jt. 8.00 United Tel dc Tel. Co 90 Peoples' Coal Yard 20.50 Thomas G. Vincent <5.00 J. H. Cole 153.79 Silver Springs Quarry C 0..... 16.28 Weiliver Hdw. Co 2 .70 WATER DEPARTMENT. Regular employes $153.35 Peoples' Coal Yard ... 94.98 Friendship Fire Co 10.45 Cranilall Packing Co 20.72 John H. Goeser. 3.38 A. M. Peters 2.24 Adams Express Co 2.20 Atlantic Refining Co 28.93 Standard Gas C 0... 1.93 B. B. Brown 20.25 Jos. Carpenter 15.00 Rev. Frank Frisher, a former pastor of the Mausdale Reformed charge,will return to his home in Philadelphia to day after a several days' visit at the home of F. W. Hagenbucli, < irovania. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cashner, East Market- street,left yesterday for a visit with relatives near Winfleld. DANVILLE-}PA., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1909 CLARENCE CARR ADJUDGED INSANE A regular session of court for argu- j ment was held Saturday. His Honor I Judge Evans and Associates Blee anil | Weiliver were on the bench. Two j matters of interest were acted upon, | one being the case of Clarence Carr, who was adjudged insane and was ordered committed to the hospital lor the insane and the other a petition signed by some eighty taxpayers, ask ing that the dividing line between Perry and Liberty townships be chang ed at a certain point. CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIANS. In re: Clarence Carr, an alleged lunatic, the commission appointed | made the following report: "We the undersigned resident prac ticing physicians of Pennsylvania, ; hereby certify that we have within ! one week prior to the date thereof at ; Danville, Montour county, Pennsyl vania, separately examined Clarence Carr of the same place anil believe that the said Clarence Carr is insane, and i that the disease is of such a character j and degree as in our opinion tore- j quire his confinement in a hospital or j other establishment where the insane ' are detained for cause and treatment, ! etc. R. S. PATTEN, j W. R. PAULES. | ORDER OF COURT. Judge Evans made the following order: And now, November i>, 15)09,the phy- j sicians duly appointed by the court of | quarter sessions of Montour county to ! examine Clarence Carr, an alleged lunatic, charged upon oath of Archie Earp with surety of the peace, having | returned that it is their belief that the saiil Clarence Carr is insane and that the disease is of such a character and degree as to require his confinement in a hospital or other establishment where the insane are detained for cause and treatment. Whereupon the court order and de cree that the said Clarence Carr be conveyed by the Sheriff forthwith to 1 the State hospital for the insane at ; Danville, Pa., then to be kept until ' duly and lawfully discharged there- ( from. By the Court. CHARLES C. EVANS, P. J. j A PETITION. A numerously signed petition was | presented to the court asking that the line between Derrv and Liberty town- j ships be altered. The line between the said town- j ships as now established, running in a \ straight northerly direction from a stone in the middle of the public road j leading from the borough of Washing- j tonville to Oak Grove in Liberty tow n- j ship, to a stone in the centre of the i public road leading from the village j of Mexico in Limestone township to j the borough of Washingtonville, at or > near the residence of James Pollock, is I very inconvenient by reason of the I great distance the scholars and the ; children of parents residing within the j territory in Derry township embraced S within the proposed liew dividing and ! the present line above described are j required to travel in attending the ' public school of said Derry township, I in that the school, in Derry township, j most contiguous to the respective | homes and residences of said scholars, is more than one and one-fourth miles I distant, while the public school in j Liberty township, at which they would j be enabled to attend in case the divid- ! ing line is changed,would be less than ! one-half mile distant. There were some eighty petitioners almost equally divided be tween Derry and Liberty townships, who represent ed that certain property owners would be greatly benefited by the proposed j change in the dividing line, us their j farms now lying partly in Libertyj I township would then bo wholly eni- j I braced in that township, where the j : major part of their tax is assessed. ! It was ask. id that the line be altered |to run as follows: Beginning at a I point in the public road leading from ! ! Washingtonville to Danville about 150 I | yards north of the residence of Mr. 1 (Jollier on said road; thence in a I straight line in a northerly direction to a certain stone in the center of the public road leading from the village of Mexico to Washingtonville at or mar the residence of James Pollock. COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED. The court appointed John A. Ellis, A. J. Uitler and B. E. Stead, commis sioners to inquire as to the propriety of granting the prayer of the petition ers and to make return of their find ing at the next term of court. At II:15 o'clock court adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock on Friday, the lOth inst. Mrs. J. 11. Eyerly, Lower Mulberry street, left yesterday for Dewart to at tend the funeral of a friend. D. A. Howe, of Williamsport, was in this city yesterday touring in a White Steamer. "MICROBES AND MEN" Rev. E. O. Taylor, M. A., D. D., of Boston, Mass., director and field sec retary of the Scientific Temperance Federation of America, delivered two addresses in this city Sunday, one before a meeting of ladies and gentle men in the V. M. C. A. Hall at 3:80 o'clock and the other at the First. Bap tist church last evening. Dr. Taylor has achieved distincti tion as a lecturer and text book anth er. He has been s|>e,cial lecturer 011 Scientific Temperance to the Univer sity of Chicago and sevt ral other col leges. His lectures deal with the scientific phase of the alcohol pro blem. AT THE Y. M. C. A. Dr. Taylor took as his subject, "Mi- 1 crobes and Men, or the Chemistry of Alcohol." A synopsis of the discourse | follows: The prophet Hosea once said: "Mv People Are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge. " One hundred and eighty thousand people. Dr. Taylor declared are de stroyed in our country every year for lack of very little and very simple knowledge touching the nature of alco hol. We know more about alcohol today he said, than we did twenty-five years or even one year ago. The researches of chemical and physiological science have brought to light new facts and principles, which have displaced old time theories, notions and guess work. The first step in educating the peo ple 011 this subject the speaker stated, is to educate the preachers, teachers, j editor.* and all Christian men and wo- j men. Dr. Taylor said that alcohol is 110 ; longer classed as a food by the highest j scientific authorities, but as a poison, and that as a ]*>ison if has two char- j act eristics—one as a narcotic and the j other as an irritant. As a narcotic it j has a selective affinity for the nerves and is in the same category with eo- I caiue, chloral, morphine and opium. | As an irritant it is in rank with arsenic and other like poisons which j attack the deliuute membranes of the . body. The logic of this classification it was j averred is that we are compelled to j deal with and dispose of alcohol the I same as we deal with and dispose of | other drugs with which it is properly , classed. We deal with cocaine nior- | pliiuo and the like as DRUGS, not as j foods, stimulants or tonics. We place both the social and the leg- i islative ban on tin- drugs mentioned, i Good chemistry and good logic, Dr. j Taylor declared, compel us to put ! alcohol under the same ban. Hi- said there is 110 more use in science for the beverage use of alcohol in solutions called beer, wine and whiskey than there is for the same use of cocaine, morphine or opium and that there is no more justification in the legalization of places where alcoholic liquors may be sold than there is in legalizing opinm or cocaine joints. The argument that prohibitory leg islation interferes with a man's right to eat and drink what he pleases the speaker held, is as absurd as it would be to affirm the same concerning mor phine or cocaine. The same was said of the argument—"They will have it anyway, therefore, we might as well legalize it, tax it and make it pay for the harm it does." The speaker aver red that 110 thoughtful man would say that of morphine. The argument that if you prohibit the sale of liquor it will drive business to some other town was also disposed of as absurd. Would men use such a plea iu behalf of any other narcotic drug with which alcohol is classed? Dr. Taylor declared that if any man professing intelligence would undertake to build up his busi ness by advocating a law legalizing the sale of cocaine for luxury purposes he would be warned to leave town be tween two days. AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH j At the First Baptist church last evening Dr. Taylor took as his sub j ject: "What is Temperance? A scien , tifie Answer." lie began his address by giving and illustrating his own do j finition of temperance, viz: "Temper ance is the moderate use of such things I as are good in their essential property, j Alcohol as the essential property of j alcoholic liquors,being a narcotic-irrit , ant poison, it logically follows he | said, that total abstinence is the only | temperance, and that Prohibition is I the only scientific policy of govern ment. ' • j After enumerating the several char acteristics of alcohol as a poison, among which was the universal kill ing of all forms of life from microbes ( to men, Dr. Taylor closed his address |as follows: "Alcohol kills men. Dnr j iug the war with Spain we lost 2500 j soldier boys. During the same time j outsido the army we lost (50,000 men from drink. And yet every one of the 00,000 was as specifically and physiolo gically killed by aoloholasany soldier A PRISONER'S BOLD ESCAPE Abram Jones, colored, was in the lime light Tuesday forenoon. As the result of alleged blood-curdling threats directed at his wife he was placed nuder arrest. Upon being brought up before the justice he made a dash for liberty. He wearied out the officers who pursued him and as the town clock struck twelve disappeared over the brow of Montour ridge north of the town. Information was lodged against Abram by his wife, the charge being one of surety of the peace. .The war rant was placed in the hands of, Officer Voris, who, after some difficulty, succeeded in locating Jones at the home of the latter's parents and took him into custody. THE ESCAPE. After swearing out the warrant Mrs. Jones waited at the office of Justice Dalton in order to be present at the hearing. Considerable time was con sumed in making the arrest and the woman becoming weary left for anoth er part of town. Soon after she left, however, Officer Voris putin an appearance with Jones. Leaving the prisoner in the justice's office the policeman started out in searcli of the wife, whose testimony was needed. A few minutes afterward, about the time lie thought the policeman was at a safe distance, Jones, who sat at the end of the table between 'Squire Dalton and the door, without the least warning, arose and made a dash for i liberty. The prisoner was in quiet conversa- | tion with the justice and the latter . was taken wholly off his guard. Be- ■ fore lie could realize what had oecurr- 1 ed .Tones hail gained the door and was i legging it our toward Center street. THE PURSUIT. As the justic flew out of the door i in pursuit lie saw Officers Mincemoyer and Voris in the distance and he hast- j ily beckoned them to follow. By the j time the pursuit was rightly organ- | ized Jones had gotten as far as the | "flat" school house. From this point j at a rather leisurely gait he moved over to Northumberland street. In i this direction he was headed off by j J Chief Mincemoyer and he retraced his j steps in a northerly direction. To j elude Officer Voris and Justice Dalton I who came down West Centre street,he j was obliged to employ all the tactics I that he could command and to do ! some lively sprinting. "AFTER HIS DOG." The people in that section were un [ aware of what had occurred and as j the fleet-footed Abram cut across lots they wondered at his hurry. George Perry asked him what he was running for, whereupon the resourceful Abram explained that his dog had escaped and that he was trying to catch him. A moment later the officers came I along and the true cause of Abram's I rapid movements was learned. When the fugitive crossed the borough line and took to the mountain tlie pursuit was abandoned. MRS. HARRIET N. RUSSELL Mrs. Harriet Newell Russell, a life long and esteemed resident of Dan ville, died at 0:30 o'clock Saturday evening following a stroke of paraly sis. She was aged seventy-seven years, jj The deceased was the widow of the late Andrew C. Russell,and was a na tive of Danville, her maiden name be ing Harriet Newell Lnndy. She was nearly a life-long member of the Mah oning Presbyterian church and was a consistent Christian. Six sons and one daughter survive: John IJ. , Robert, Andrew 8., and Walter Rnsell, of Danville, Harry N., of New York; Albert L. Russell, of Waynesboro, Virginia, and Miss Eliza beth Russell, of Danville. Although a stroke of paralysis, sus tained over a week ago, was the im mediate cause of death, yet the de ceased had been in feeble health for a ■ considerable time prior to her death. Mrs. P. E. Harpel and Mrs. Tlieo. R. 'Angle spent yesterday with friend in Wilkes-Barre. Miss Olive Miller, of Philadelphia, is visiting at the home of her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Mill er, Ferry street. boy was ever killed by a bullet shot through his brain or heart. Scientific men are not'discussing exclusively the overdose as killing men but the nature of alcohol. It is as much the nature of alcohol to kill a man as it is the na ture of arsenic to kill a dog. " Dr. Taylor will deliver the third lecture of the series in Y. M. C. A. hall tonight. At the close of his ad dross he announces he will burn alco hol out of beer, illuminating ttie room with the amount of alcohol found in a pint of beer. The lights of the hall will bo switched off. EPIDEMIC II ON THE WANE It was reported at the meeting of the school board Monday night that the I outbreak of diphtheria and scarlet fev- ] erin the second ward is steadily on < the decline. A sentiment was express- 1 ed in favor of taking action looking to | ' obtaining a modification of the health j 1 board's order to the end that the : schools, now closed, may be opened at 1 the expiration of fourteen instead of : twenty-one days. j i Tim quarantine in its various rela- ' tions became the subject of prolonged j discussion. The fumigation of the i books as conducted was considered as j : of doubtful efficacy. Especially was it ' 1 deplored that the pupils were permit- | < ted to take their books home after ' fumigation,retaining them during the ; i period of quarantine. At all events it 1 was the consensus of opinion Jthat the i books should be fumigated again on the re-opening of the schools. Dr. Shultz, who is secretary of the board of health, was appealed to for advice, but he could give no assurance that ! the board of health would favorably consider the proposition to modify or j reduce the quarantine period. Con- : sequently no action was taken. . The question of paying the teachers of the second ward for the time that the schools were closed by action of board of health was discussed at length, i On motion of Mr. Pursel it was order- ! ed that the teachers bo paid for one- i fourth of a month, the time taught, I and in case they bring their school up | to the standard, for the entire period of quarantine. On motion of Mr. Pursel it was ord ered that the schools be closed on Nov ember 34tli to remain closed until Dec ember 6th, covering Thanksgiving and j institute week. COUNTY INSTITUTE. Mr. Fischer reported that- County Superintendent C. W. Derr desired the j use of the high school auditorium for holding the sessions of the county in stitute. hi the discussion that followed it i developed that there was considerable j objection to granting the county sup erintendent the use of the high school room for holding the county institute. j The room last year, it was explained, , was defaced during institute and loft j in a very dirty condition. Besides, the i institute being a county affair the j board could not see the justice of ob- \ liging the Danville school district to : shoulder the expense of furnishing i fuel and suffering the annoyances \ above complained of. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that the sessions of the county in- | stitute should be held in the court house. No action was taken in the matter. The county superintendent, however, will be apprised oft! * u titude of the school board. Air. Fischer reported that maliei >\> ly-inclined boys on Welsh hill are in 1 the habit of annoying the school oi that place, making it almost impossi ble for the teacher to proceed with ' • ' work. During discussion it developed that the notice has not as yet been , posted at the Welsh hill school offer- j ing five dollars reward for the arrest j and conviction of persons trespassing j and defacing the building, which was I authorized to be erected by the school board a couple of months ago. The notice will be posted forthwith and j every effort will be made to secure the i arrest and conviction of persons dis- j turbiug the school. The following members were pros- | ent: Sechler, Orth. Swarts, Bums, j Redding, Schultz, Pursel, Fischer, Cole and Sidler. The following bills were approved for payment: VV. H. Risliel $ 1.60 j H. S. Reppert «... 2. 50 B. B. Brown 4.00 I Oh as. D. Bryan .... .8.". Scott Foresman. 10.00 i I West Disinfecting Co 88.18 • Danville Sto. & Mfg. Co -'4.8-1 j Standard Gas Co .... 6.01 j 15. O. Savage 2(5. 75 ; MRS. F. H. OWEN. Marv Ellen,the wife of F. 11. Owen, died at the family residence, Mill street, at 2:05 o'clock yesterday after nooon, following a long siege of ill ness. Mrs. Owen was a native of Jersey Shore. A portion of her married lift was spent at Wysox. About eighteen years ago, along with her husband, sou and daughter.she removed to Dan ville and lias since resided here. She was a most estimable woman and had a large circle of friends. She was a consistent member of the Mahoning Presbyterian church, of this city. Mrs. Owen was 71 years of age and in addition to her husband, she is sur vived by one son, Fred M. Owen and one daughter, Miss Elizabeth A. Owen, both of this city; also by one sister, Mrs. Henrietta Angle,of Danville and a brother, Benjamin Pnrsell, of Kansas City. ESTABLISHED IN 185 c RAISES PUDDLING 10 54.50 A ION Telegrams sent out from Reading to the New York and Philadelphia news papers state that the Reading Iron company has posted notices in its mills to the effect that a new schedule of wages affecting nearly two thousand men will g<> into effect on November 22nd. Puddlers are to be increased from $1 to $4.50 per ton. There will be an increase in all departments especi ally among the laborers. Another dispatch states that the wages of several thousand employes of the Bethlehem Steel company will be restored to the scale in vogue before the 1!)07 depression. In general the in crease will amount to ten per cent, and will affect all departments. An an nouncement to the above effect is made by Charles M. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel company. An increase at Pottstown lias also been announced. MONTOUR ROLLING MILLS. The good news coming as it does when we stand on the threshold of winter is especially cheerful. Best ot all the Reading Iron company, which owns and operates the Montour Roll ing Mills of this city is among the heavy iron firms that have granted au advance. Witli plenty of work in town and with wages restored to the former scale the long winter should have few terrors. It is especially gratifying that the advance granted by the Reading Iron company improves the condition of laborers along with other classes of employes. COUNTY INSTITUTE- Couutv Superintendent C. W. Derr, of Washingtonville, was in this city Tuesday attending to some matters pertaining to the county institute, which will be held on the week of November 29th. During an interview Mr. Derr stat !ed that owing to opposition in the I school board of the Danville district | he would hold the sessions of the coun ty institute in the courthouse this 1 year, assuming, of course, that the room there can be secured. In prob ably the majority of the comities the ! teachers' institute is held in the court house and Mr. Derr does not anticipate ; meeting with any opposition from the I county commissioners. ! In the high school the desks serve as 1 an aid to the teachers when the latter are obliged to take notes. The cloak rooms, too,available at the high school, will be missed at the courthouse; but Mr. Derr thinks that the latter build , ing in the main will answer tin pur pose very well. On eertain days when special features bring out increased attendance the court room may prove preferable, preventing the overcrowd ing that now anil then made things unpleasant in the high school auditor ium. Still, the county institute has been held in the high school au ! itorimn for so many years—practically during the history of the institute—that any change at his late day seems like au | innovation. The high school room, | with its atmosphere of learning and j culture, seems logically the place for I holding the sessions of the county 111- 1 stitute. 11l Montour county the high ; school room is commodious enough to ; meet practically all requiremeuts.aud, ! for this reason, there seems to be a few J persons who question the utility and the wisdom of making the change j proposed. BOROUGH ENGINEER | Engineer G. F. Iveefer yesterday re -1 turned to Danville and resumed work !on the survey locating the borough boundary line. ' Yesterday he was working on the dividing line between the borough and I Mahoning township where it intersect.- Bloom street and at points northward. | This is one of the placi - where the | borough and township authorities do : not seem to agree to the exact loca | tion of the line. Unless delayed by bad weather the engineer will finish the survey as it relates to the borough line by Satur ! day. The next municipal work that Mr. | Reefer will bo called upon t« perform in Danville will be to make a survey |of the old canal for the purpose of solving the problem of surface drain- I age and making an estimate of the cost !of filling up the disused waterway. The survey will be finished as early as practicable, pursuant to action of council taken at the last meeting and in order that the D. L. & W. Railroad company may be enabled to carry our its plans relating to the abatement of the canal nuisance at as early a date I as possible. Mrs. W. P. Startzel.Mill street, left yesterday for a visit with relatives in Ilarrisburg. Mrs. Charles Jameson, West Malum s ing street, was a Bloomsburg visitor yesterday.
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