VOL. 56—NO 3
ITEMS CONDENSED.
Charged with refusing to allow his
house to be placarded for measles,
Wayne S. Grube has been returned for
court by a Lancaster alderman.
Bethlehem is to have a branch of the
United States weather bureau.
An egg that measured 9 by 6 inches
was laid by a hen belonging to R. J.
Heft, of Hellertown.
McKeesport's water tastes like car
bolic acid but is not injurious to the
health. The snow water that was
poured into the Youghiogheny river,
the source of the supply, is responsi
ble.
Stopping to push his daughter out of
danger when they were caught in
front of an engine on tlio Pittsburg,
Fort. Wayne and Chicago tracks, Alex- [
ander Hilger, of Shousetown, receiv- J
ed injuries at Leetsdale that caused
his death.
"I bequeath to my wife all that I
possess, both personal and real," was
the full text of the will of John T.
McAbee, of New Hanover townhsip,
who filed the testament at Norris
town. His estate is valued at $30,000,
The will is the shortest, on record.
Somebody stole the front shoes off a
horse belonging to Jacob Lefever, a
farmer of near Lancaster. The animal
had been newly shod with neverslip
attachments and the thief entered the
stable and removed the shoes with
pincers. Many novel cases of thefts
have been reported to the Lancaster ;
police recently.
" Well somebody else "can have my
breakfast after today," remarked
Peter Jennings, one of the three vic
tims of the nitro-glycerin explosion
near Franklin, that killed him, his 13
year old son aud an oil well shooter,
Jacob Green. This remark to his wife
the morning of the blowup gives rise
to the impression that while in an un
balanced state of mind he caused the j
awful catastrophe. He had no reason
for causing death to himself.
General Charles Miller,of Franklin,
is trying to get a divorce, from his
wife. Ho alleges cruel and barbarous
treatment witli indignities to the per
son. She will not live in Franklin,
where all his interests are. Mrs. Mill
er was divorced from a piano tuner
named A. D. Bulen, who charged her
with desertion. General Miller, who
owns a palatial home in Miller park,
also has been divorced before. He has
four sons and one daughter by the first
wife, who lives in Franklin.
The Chester school board has de
cided to carry into the courts tlio
cases of persons who sell cigarettes to
children.
While wrestling with a schoolmate j
110-year-old Joseph Baker fell on the j
ice at Marietta and fractured his I
skull. His recovery is not expected.
Four thousand miners received word j
in the Greensbnrg-Irwin field that j
the Keystone Coal aud Coke company j
had raised their wages 10 per cent., j
The advance came as a surprise.
Going for three days without food,
Henry H. Hippie, a veteran of the
Civil war, walked from Lancaster to
Philadelphia through the snow. After
asking the police for his dinner he
started out to find-work.
Allegheny county's court liouso
will not ..be traded to Pittsburg city
for use as a city hall. The county
commissioners will erect an office
building at a cost off 1,250,000 on the
site of the old university and Third
Presbyter'an church.
More than half of the hundred men
riding on an accommodation train
near Mt. Carmel were bruised so that
they will bo housed up for several
days as the result of the cars leaving
the track and going over a bank. The
snow saved many lives.
Miss Laura Hemmus White, aged
l>r>, a recluse of Pittsburg was found
deail in her home after the police had j
broken in because stie had been miss- I
ed. One side of her body was frozen
and the other partly devoured by I
rats. Sho was not. thought to be worth |
anything but it.was found by her will |
which was discovered iu the house '
that she had property valued at SIOO. -1
000. Sho asks in her will that her body j
be kept a week before burial and be
examined every day by a doctor. Then
that her heart he pierced three times
to make sure of death. Then tlio body
is to be cremated. Her request will
not bo carried out as a relative has
taken charge of the remains and has
ordered that, they be buried today.
Miss Hannah Ann Zell, of PhiladelJ
pliia, celebrated her 90th birthday an
niversary Monday. She is said to be
young yet in spite of her weight of
years aud takes an interest in the af
fairs of the neighborhood.* Last week
she was elected president of the Ger
mantown Library and Historical so
ciety. The sudden death of a lover
when young made her resolve never to
marry. She was a nurse in the Civil
war and is the descendant of David
Ogden, who canio to America iu the
Welcome with William Penn.
jMontout 3Mnnriftiit
DR. M'CORMACK'S
FINALSERMON
The Rev. William C. McCormack,
pastor of the Grove Presbyterian
church for six years past,preached his
filial sermon at that, place of worship
Sunday morning. At the close of
the service the puplit was formally de
clared vacant.
The Rev. Dr. McCormack lias ac
cepted a call to the First Presbyterian
clitirch at Lima, N. Y. Together with
his family he will leave Danville on j
Wednesday. Probably at no time in j
the history of the Grove Presbyterian I
church lias there been a pastor that 1
has had a more firm hold on the affec
tions of the people. The farewell ser- I
uion yesterday was listened to by a j
large congregation. One heard many
touching tributes to the ability, the i
amiable qualities anil the Christian j
character of the retiring pastor,which j
reflected the general high esteem in j
which he is held.
Dr. McCormack chose as his text, |
Luke xiv, 18: "I pray thee have me j
excused.''
After reviewing the great feast al- j
luded to in the text, the two-fold in- !
vitation extended and the different ex- !
cuses offered by those who wished to j
absent themselves the speaker proceed- !
ed to call attention to the fact, that '
there is something " unnatural about j
the parable." It describes what would j
never tako place in actual life, anil in |
this respect it-is unlike the parablo of j
our Lord in general. You have only !
to think of the parable of the prodigal
son or the Good Samaritan or the I
Pharisee and the Publican to realize !
how delightfully natural the parables i
of our Lord in general are.
They belong to the region of the im- j
agination, but. the meaning is never
forced, the incidents are never arbitr- j
ary. They are transcripts from real j
life. You would never have heard of j
all the people who were invited to a |
feast "with one consent" making ex- I
cuses. People are all anxious togo to j
a feast. Sometimes they will compass j
laud and see to get an invitation. But !
this uunaturalness is the most marked I
feature of the truthfulness of the par- I
ablo. It brings out. the fact that peo- |
pie who in the ordinary affairs of life j
act. with good sense in religion often |
act as if they had parted with their j
senses. In ordinary affairs men look !
to their own interest and they are far j
sighted enough to see what will be to i
their own advantage, but in religion j
they are often blind, and, although j
they know their eternal interests are :
involved, will not look in that direc- j
tiou.
It is to a feast we are invited. God
is the entertainer. Christ will be there, j
Those who sit down at that supper i
will sit dowii with Abraham, Isaac j
and Jacob and the choicest spirits of j
humanity. Heaven will be the ban- 1
qucttiug hall. The feast will last for
ages, yet we hear the invitation as if
it were of an entirely opposite char- j
acter, painful, melancholy, repellent, i
None of the reasons which prevent- !
ed the invited from attending the j
great supper were vicious, yet they j
detained them from the great supper J
just as effectually as they could have i
done had they been the greatest
crimes. Tlio preacher from the pulpit
nearly always speaks as if the people i
were kept from Christ by sin, and, j
therefore, he calls upon the drunkard
to give up his drinking, the thief to
give up his dishonesty, the liar his
falsehood. No doubt people are kept
from Christ by sin. The bosom sin,
which ho will not part with,shuts the
ears of many a man to the gospel, yet
the thing which keeps men and wo
men from Christ may not bo of that
sort at all. It may bo lawful, honor
able, beautiful. I presume that Jesus
intended the excuses which these three
men made to be typical of the hind
rances by which human beings are
kept from accepting the gospel. The
first was a land owner. He had attain
ed the serenity anil dignity of opul
ence, and he belonged to a class whose
place in this world is so pleasant that
| they do not need to think of another
! world. In the lap of opulence they
| forget their eternal destiny. The sec-
I ond man had bought a yoke of oxen.
| He on the contrary represents strug
j gle; how often such men say they
have no time to give to religion. They
do not despise nor contradict it, but
they say it must wait. The third hind
ance is the love of home. Can these
sacred aud silken bonds keep the soul
jof man from Christ? Alasthey can.
The intoxication of love may in itself
be such a paradise that no other para
dise is thought of. Husband or wife
may so fill the homo with worldliness
that religion can find no entrance
there. •
In his final remarks on the iiarable,
Dr. McCormack declared that every
one of these excuses was a pretense.
The land owner could have vieved his
, land another day. The time to prove
oxen was before purchasing them and
not afterwards. The man who Baid he
had just married a wife offered the
flimsiest pretext of all. W T hy should
DANVILLE- }PA., THURSDAY. JANUARY 20, 1910
BIG CONTRACT
JS FINISHED
Mosior & Summers have completed
their heavy contract at the hospital
for the insane, which was begun in
the spring of 1908. The raising of the
male infirmary, the dormitory for em
ployes, along with the siding and cow
shed, were practically completed some
days ago. In the interim the workmen
have merely been applying some finish
ing touches.
■ The work will probably be exarnin
|ed and formally accepted by the trus-
I tees at their next meeting. There is
! not much doubt but that all will be
approved, as the work throughout, ev-
I ery stage has been under the eye of an
] inspector representing the State.
Mr. Sweitzer, the inspector, Tues- J
day stated that the infirmary, dormit- j
ory, siding and cow shed, like the j
| work previously approved and accept- j
! ed by the trustees, is first class in ev- j
| ery respect. The dormitory, which j
1 will be occupied by male employes, is
already being furnished and in a very j
I short time will be in use.
| The contract just, completed by j
i Hosier & Summers represents one of !
' the largest, operations ever set on foot ■
at the hospital. It comprises, besides
j the work just completed, the building j
lof the female infirmary, and the two j
large buildings, one for the acute in- j
sane male patients and the other for j
the acute insane female patients. The ;
work embraced in its entirety lias to- !
tally changed the aspect of the grounds j
and the institution.
MRS. J. B. LLOYD
Our readers will be pained to learn !
! of the death of Mrs. J. Barton Lloyd, j
J which occurred at the Presbyterian |
hospital, Philadelphia, at (i o'clock j
Monday evening.
Mrs. Lloyd went to Philadelphia
| about three weeks ago, her condition
i being very critical. On last Monday a j
j week she submitted to an operation. [
INo permanent- relief was afforded, j
Her condition became very grave and :
from the time the operation was per- |
I formed until deatli ensued there was i
! little ground for hope.
1 What adds to the pathos of the event j
) is the fact that the daughter of the 1
deceased;-Miss Mary E. Lloyd, died j
! under similar circumstances in Phila- j
j delphia two years ago, having under- i
I gone an operation in the Medico-
Chirurgical hospital.
I Mrs. Lloyd was r>B years of age. She |
is survived by her husband and two ,
daughters, Mrs. William Kear, of j
: Wilkes-Barre and Mrs. Paul GrofT, of
Philadelphia. She was a member of
the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church J
' and was a beloved and esteemed wo- j
j man. .
.
HARD ON THE SCHOOLS
A general prevalence of mumps,
| measles and chicken pox, along witli j
j other ailments peculiar to the season, J
|is interfering very seriously with
1 school attendance. It is difficult tore- j
j call a year when disease affecting
| children appeared in so many differ- j
I ent forms and covered such a long !
| period of time. Every day the attend- !
j ance officer is given a loug list of ab- |
I sentees for investigation. Truancy |
j seems to be but a trifling factor and
i at the homes in nearly every instance
absence from school is explained by
the dispiriting placard, setting forth
one of the above mentioned diseases.
FARMER INJURED
Jasper Stetler of West Hemlock
township met with a painful accident
on Tuesday.
Ho was engaged in cutting fodder
for the cattle when his right hand was
drawn into the fodder cutter and bad
ly mangled. The first,second and third
i fingers were caught in the knives, a
deep gash being inflicted on each fing
er.
The wounds bled profusely. Some |
simple remedies were applied to stop ■
the bleeding and to ease the pain un
til yesterday, when the injured man '
was driven into this city, where Dr. |
Curry rendered surgical aid. It will!
be some timo before Mr. Stetler re
gains the use of his hand.
he not have taken his wife along with
him? At a great feast no one is so
certainly in the right place as a bride.
At no time during the service did
Dr. McCormack make any direct al
lusion to the dissolution of the pastor
|al relations between himself and the
Grove Presbyterian church. By re
quest the congregation remained stand
ing a few moments after tlio benedic
tion was pronounced. Stepping aside
Dr. McCormack formally proclaimed
the pulpit vacant in the following
words:
"At the direction and by the auth
ority of the Northumberland presby
-1 tery I hereby declare the pulpit of the
■ Grove Presbyterian church vacant."
1 At the concluding words Dr. McCor
' mack descended the steps leading from
' the pulpit and left the church.
THE COUNTY
STATEMENT
The "county statement," which
has been published annually since
1834, this year for the first time in the
above long interval will not make its
appearance before the public, a cir
cumstance which will no doubt bo a
cause of disappointment, to many per
sons, who are accustomed to seeing
the receipts aud expenditures of the
county for the preceding your in the
columns of the local newspaper.
The non-appearance of the annual
statement is due to a law enacted by
the last legislature and approved by
Governor Stuart on May 13, 1909,
which repeals the former acts provid
ing for the" publishing of the county
statement.
The act of 1834 provided that a 'ull
and accurate statement of all the re
ceipts aud expenditures of the preced
ing year be published by the county
commissioners annually iu one or more
of the newspapers print ed in the
county.
It appears that in some instances
the statement could not be got iu read
iness by February, so that in 1903
another law was enacted extending the
time until June. Section 22 act of
April 21, 1903, cited for repeal, pro
vides that, an accurate statement of all
the receipts an expenditures of the
proceeding year shall lie published
annually once a week for four con
secutive weeks "as soon as it can be
conveniently done after the comple
tion of the report of the county aud
itors but not later than June Ist."
Section 22 in its entirety is repeal
ed,the act being approved 011 May 13,
1909.
Up to a late date it was not general
ly known that the law was repealed.
It would bo difficult to discover how
the welfare of the public may bo con
served by withholding the county
statement. The commissioners realize
that'the public is entitled to full in
formation on the subject of the comi
ty's receipts and expenditures and they
would be glad to follow the time-hon
ored custom, and have the statement
printed, if they were permitted to do
so by the law.
As the law stands at present no pro
vision, whatever exists for publishing
the county statement. It is true, a
copy of the auditor's report is on file
at both the commissioner's anil the
prothonotary's office and may bo ex
amined by any one who calls at those
places. That the average reader, how
ever, who all his life has been kept
posted as to the conduct of affairs and |
the financial condition of the county J
by persuing the local newspaper will ]
hereafter take the trouble to visit 1
either of the two above named offices
for the purpose of seeing the auditor's j
report is hardly within the range of j
probability
PERSONALS
John C. Peifer left yesterday morn
ing for Philadelphia, where ho will
attend the anuual Philadelphia poultry
show.
Charles A. Hartt left yesterday for
a several days' trip to Philadelphia.
Mrs. James Foster, Mrs. J. B. Cleav
er and the Misses Lucy and Alda Bas
sett spent yesterday with friends in
Sunbury.
Mrs. Ada Haupt, Iron street, spent
yesterday with friends in Sunbury.
Miss Ethel Reppert has returned
from a visit with friends in Cata
wissa.
John R. Rote, of Harrisburg, was a
Danville visitor yesterday.
Mrs. Nellie Stohler, Honeymoon
street, is visiting at the home of Mrs.
.T. C. Eisley, Sunbury.
| Joseph Hofer has returned to Wil
' liamsport after a visit with friends
I and relatives in this city.
Miss Ruth Shunian, of Catawissa, is
I visiting at the home of lier*sister,Mrs.
1 Carl Ruckle, Mill street.
Died at Hospital.
' George W. Arnold, who until a few
■ weeks ago was a well known plumber
1 at Sunbury and lieutenant of Company
j K, 12th regiment, N. G. P., died yes
terday morning at the hospital for the
j insane at this place. He was aged 35
i yeats aud unmariied.
1300 Strike at Wilkei-Barre.
Wilkes-Barre, Jan. 19.—Thirteen
hundred men aud boys went out on
strike yesterday at the So. Wilkes-Barre
colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes-
Barre Coal company because the offici
als refused to allow them a check
docking boss. The decision was reach
ed Monday night at a mass meeting at
tended by four-fifths of the men em
ployed at this mine.
The best plan is to have it out with
the one who has wronged you.
THE EPIDEMIC
ISJNABATED
The ailment known as "intestinal
disorder," an outbreak of which
caused the board of health to take
action directing that the water sup- '
ply be tested seems rather to be gain
ing ground than otherwise in Dan
ville and vicinity. Monday an order
went into effect directing that the
drinking water furnished the pupils
of the public schools bo boiled.
The epidemic seems very distressing
in some cases, one of the symptoms
being extreme nausea and vomiting.
The ailment is quite as prevalent in
South Danville aud Riverside as it
is in Danville. The board of health
fearing that the outbreak might be
due to a polluted state of our water '
supply directed that samples taken .
front the hydrants in different parts of
town together with a sample of the
effluent discharged from the sewage
disposal plant at the hospital for the
insane bo forwarded to the laborator
ies of the State department of health
for analysis. Whether or not the out
break can be traced to the water is
doubtful. Among those afflicted are
persons who use spring water. The
prevalence of the disease 011 the south ;
side too, where river water is not
available, would indicate that the
epidemic might owe its origin to some
other cause.
Samples of water and of the efflu
ent have been sent away for analysis
as directed by the board of health.
Pending a report as to the condition
of the same the school board has do
cidedjthat it would be the safest plan
to have the water used for drinking I
purposes at the school buildings boil- |
ed, as was done during prevalence of j
epidemics iu the past.
At each of the school buildings an 1
effort was made Monday morningj
to carry the order into immediate j
effect. Since discontinuing the use ofj
spring water at the school buildings
last fall the pupils have drank the wat
er directly from the faucets. In some
of the wards the buildings are not j
equipped for sterilizing the water and •
the boiling of the latter lias to be j
given out by contract to persons re- j
siding near the schools.
MONTOUR REPRESENTED
In order to obtain the advantages of '
a law of this State, a number of i
prominent farmers of this county have
organized the Montour County Agri- 1
cultural society. At the first meeting
held recently at the home of .T. Miles j
Derr, Limestone township,the follow- I
ing officers were elected: President,
Calvin W. Derr; secretary, James Pol
lock; treasurer, J. A. Cromis; J. Miles
Derr was chosen as candidate for;
member of the State Agricultural I
board to represent Montour county.
The law referred to requires that 1
before a county may be represented j
upon the State board of agriculture, j
there must have been formed in.that (
county an organization, and a sum of 1
money raised which shall bo devoted
to the promotion of agricultural j
knowledge and improvement. The law j
also requires that a sum equal to the i
amount raised by the society be ap- (
propriated from the couutv treasury, |
provided that the annual payment out '
of the county funds does not exceed ,
one hundred dollars.
REMOVING THE ICE
With the exception of in front, of a j
few places the pavements 011 Mill
street due to the persoverence of prop
erty owners, are clear of ice. After
two weeks of reeling and tottering
about 011 the slippery surface it is a
real treat for pedestrian to strike solid
'footing.
' In nearly all the other streets of
town sidewalks still bear a coating of
ice. At some spots melting has occur
red, but, owing to the snow and ice in
the streets, the sidewalks are covered
with water. At most places, however,
the ice is still as solid as a rock ami
defies all efforts to remove it. Walk
ing continues very bad in nearly ev
ery part of town.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED
The clerk of the United States cir
cuit court has notified Paul J. Sher
wood, Esq., attorney for Oscar Thorn
ton, of Berwick, who recently secured
a verdict ot $5,425 and costs in his
damage suit against the American Car
and Foundry company, to the effect
that Judge Archibald has refused the
defendant a rule for a new trial and
that its attorneys, Sprout and Cupp,
cannot have any argument before him.
Wohlfarth'a Winning*.
Wohlfarth Brothers, proprietors of
the snow ball poultry farm on the
south side made a good showing at
the Sunbury poultry show last week.
They had fourteen birds entered—
seven white Plymouth rocks and sev
en white leghorns. On the Plymouth
rocks they won 2nd and 4th cock anil
Ist pen. On the leghorns they won
3rd and 4th cockerel and Ist pen.
PRIMARY I
JLECIIONS
Primary elections are being held al
most daily throughout Montour coun- 1
ty at present. Following are the Dem- i
ocratic and Republican nominations '
of Limestone township and the Demo
cratic nominations of Washington- i
ville, Derry, Anthony and West Hem
lock townships. i
The Democratic nominations of | <
Limestone township areas follows:' 1
Judge of election, John D. Lilly; in- j >
spector, George Van Ordstran; super- j
visor, John C. Foulk ;school directors, 1
11. K. Wagner and S. F. Welliver:
overseer of the poor, W. E. Gieger;
auditor, Elmer Foulk; tax receiver, j'
C. D. Levan ; constable. C. L. Gong- :
er ; justice of the peace, D. W. Rank ;
assessor, John Ashenfelder.
The Republican nominations of
L imestoue township follow: Judge of
election, Calvin W. Derr; inspector
Goorgo W. Swisher; supervisor J. C. ;
Foulk ; school directors, William E.
Bogart and Charles Leech; overseer
of the poor, John Anderson; auditor,
John Zaner; tax receiver, Miles J.
Derr; constable, A. D. St. Clair; jus- j
tice of the peace, Daniel W. Rank; ;
assessor John Ashenfelder.
Following is the ticket as formed by \
the Democrats of Anthony township: !
School directors Allan Watson and P. j
C. Dennin; assessor W. H. Dildiue; |
supervisor, George Dietrick; auditor, j
George Bartlow; judge of election U. I
R. Adams; inspector, JohnYagel; ov
erseer of the poor, Samuel Snyder; j
justice of the peace, Samuel Dewald; ■
town clerk, W. C. Hanghton.
The Democratic nominations for
West Hemlock are as follows: Judge
of election, Charles Sterling; inspect- j
or, John H. Tanner; school directors,
Joseph H. Wintersteen anil William I
Snyder; supervisor, W. B. Moore; as- j
sessor, Charles Dieghtmiller; overseer
of the poor, N. O. Richard; auditor,
Chester T. Balliet.
The Democrats of Derry township j
have nominated the following ticket: I
Judge of election, Charles G. Miller; j
inspector, I). W. Diehl; supervisor, j
Daniel Billmeyer; assessor.George W.
DeGreen; auditor, John E. Wolf; ov- j
erseer of the poor. Amandtrs Shultz; j
school directors, Andrew Depoe, Ed- j
ward P. Oyster and Edward Hawkins, j
The Democrats of Washingtonville !
have made the following nominations:
Burgess, Thomas B. Yerg; assessor, '
George W. Miller; tax receiver, Daniel |
Wagner; auditor. William Seidel;
school director. 11. P. Cotner; high
constable, John Miller: constable, Me
t Clellan Diehl; councilmen, O. Heck
endoru and William Coopi r; judge of
j election, Frank Martz: inspector.
Henry Moser.
! The Democrats of May berry towti
t ship have made the following nomina
tions: judge of election.D.H. Vought;
inspector, Norman E. Brofec; school
j director, R. E Bird. J. M. Vought ;
sujiervisor, Joseph W. Gearliart; as
i sessor, Jerry Vought; overseer of the
poor, Isaac Adams; auditor. E. H.
! Bohner.
Birthday Party in Valley Twp.
j A party was held in Valley township
Saturday evening in honor of Ray 1
I Golder' 's birthday. The evening was \
1 spent with games and dancing after j
j which refreshments were served.Those j
present were Mr. and Mrs Peter \
j Rake, Mr. and Mrs. William Bogart, i
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Steinman, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Sheatler, Mr. and j
i Mrs. Ray Golder, Mr. and Mrs. D.
C. Crossley, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ware,
Mr. and Mrs. George Moser, Mr. and
Mrs. Hollahaugh, Mrs. Amanda Rake,
Mrs. Mary C. Moser, Misses Matrona
Sheatler, Fannio Sees, Nellie Bill
meyer, Margaret Plule, Myrtle Cor
nelison, Stella Warg, Emma Phile,
Minnie Ware, Bertie Moser, Mary |
Phile, Olive Golder, Ruth Stineinan,
Messrs. Martin Robbins,Herman Hill,
John Ortman, W. Fenstermacher, ;
John Fruit, Ortman, Atwood Ashen
felder, Joe Gresh, Sidney Moser, John j
Phile, Elmer Golder, Alexander Stein- 1
man, Homer Sheatler, Russell Moser j
William Phile, Sam Lloyd,and Casper |
Sheatler. Maud, Anna and Stuart j
Golder, Ethel, Allen aud Carry j
Steinman.
Road Tax Election in Point Twp.
| A special election is to be held in
j Point township on Tuesday, February
j 15, to determine whether the work
road tax shall be abolished and the
| cash tax be substituted. This will be
j the second attempt made to abolish
| the old system in the township. It was
turned down by a large majority two
years ago.
Funeral Yesterday.
The funeral of Raymond Anderson,
whose death occurred Monday, took
place from Trinity Methodist Episcop
al church yesterday afternoon and was
largely attended. The services were
conducted by the Rev. Charles Camer
on Snavely. Interment was made in
Odd Fellows' cemetery.
Trespassing on the railroad is still a
, very dangerous business.
ESTABLISHED IN 1855
TWO SPEAKERS
OF PROMINENCE
The Moutour County School Direct
ors' association will hold its seventh
annual convention in the courthouse,
this city, 011 Wednesday, January 20.
There will be a forenoon and an aft
ernoon session.
County Superintendent Derr lias se
cured two very able speakers for the
occasion—Mr. Fred Robbins, superin
tendent of the schools of Bethlehem,
and Emerson Collins, Esq., of Wil
liamsport. Eacli of the speakers will
occupy a period in the forenoon and
the afternoon.
Mr. Robbins will speak on two very
practical subjects: "Essentials in the
Course of Study" and "Wisdom and
Economy in School Management."
Mr. Collius has announced the follow
ing subjects: "The School and the
Citizen" and "New Problems for Our
Schools.''
The officers of the association are :
President, Dr. I. G. Barber; secretary,
Benjamin L. Diehl; treasurer, Jacob
M. Shultz. Since his election Dr. Bar
ber has removed to Wilkes-Barre.
In addition to tlio four addresses
there will be a general discussion on
points brought out by the speakers.
The new ideas advanced and the gen
eral interchange of thought cannot but
prove highly beneficial from an educa
tional point of view. The attendance
and the interest shown in the past
have been highly gratifying. Out of
seventy-five directors in the county
last year sixty-three wore enrolled at
the convention.
The directors receive two dollars per
day and milage at three cents per
mile for attending the convention. In
addition to aid in defraying running
expenses tlie school directors' associa
| tion receives from the county one dol
lar for every director enrolled at the
i convention.
RIVER RISING
The thawing conditions of a couple
iof days past have caused a general
! hold-up in the harvesting of ice. The
| ice on the river, where the snow was
| several inches deep, was found cover
;ed with slush yesterday morning, in
| addition to which the stream was
• rapidly rising.
| The extent of the fresliet is proble
-1 inatical, but those familiar with river
! conditions agree that a sudden and
marked change in the weather only
| can prevent a break-up. By last even
ing the river had risen a couple of
| feet and was still rising. Should there
! be a continuance of mild weather dur
ing the next thirty-six hours it is
feared the ice, although a foot in
thickness, will weaken and break-up.
The boat house used by the Y M.
C. A. swimming cln s, which is ad
vertised for sale next Saturday, it is
feared will be carried off, should the
ice move. Held fast by the ice it is
partly submerged and lies a little dis
tance from shore. An effort yesterday
afternoon to release it and bring it to
a place of safety ended in failirre.
Sleighing Party at Mausdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cope pleasantly
' entertained at their homo in Mausdale
Monday evening a sled load from Sun
j bury and Danville. The evening was
I spent with music anil games. Those
! present from Sunbury were Misses
| Clara Chappell, Maine Newman, Anna
Wier, Katheriue Shipman, Mabel
Rauck, Maud Renn, Maine Schaetl'er,
Mary Shubert,Mae Chamberlin, Anna
Wynn, Mildred Cope; Messrs. Walter
Cope, Stuart Cope, Dan Aurand, Mr.
Willetts, Mr. F. Dodeau, Mr. O. Wel
ler, Robert Cope, Frank Cope, Harry
Wilt, Bruce Broombach.Bert Barthol
omew and Chas. McCloud.
Those from Danville and Mausdale
were Misses Hannah Fry, Anna Quigg,
I Alice Fenstermaclrer, Emma Fenster
macher, Edna Staid, Clara Cope;
Messrs. George Dyer, Dennis Quigg,
i Ralph Cope, Calvin Smith, Raymond
: Yeager and Mr. and Mrs. John Stahl.
Little Hope for Bishop Foss.
Philadelphia, Jan. IS). —The condi>
I tion of Bishop Cyrus I). Foss, of the
| Methodist Episcopal church, who was
| stricken yesterday with paralysis, is
I critical today and but little hope for
j his recovery is entertained. Bishop
i Foss was stricken while in a street
I car and was removed to the Hahne
■ mann hospital, where it was found
| that his entire right side had been par
| alyzed and that he hid lost the power
]of speech. Bishop Foss is ?(i years old
and£is one of the best known prelates
of the Methodist church. He was re
tired several years ago because of ad
vancing age.
A Bad Fall.
Night Watchman Young is badly
bruised as the result fall he sus
tained while in the performance of his
duty about 3 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. He was walking along the alley
at the roar of the Thomas Beaver Free
Library, when he fell striking his face
on the ice. His forehead was painfully
. bruised. He was stunned for a time,
but succeeded in regaining his feet.