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YOL. XXX. LITITZ, PA.3 THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1906. NO. 4.
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Fall 1906 Winter m
The Leader
fN this season of the year when old Ammn
begins to bring forth her beautiful olor-ings
of nature, it is always evidentthat
you are reminded of heavier clothing andany-thing
else in the line of clothing.
We are prepared to present to you this meet-ing
and invite you to come and examine or line
of SUITINGS and S U I T S for a child fronihree
years of age to the middle-aged and old.
Our line of PIECE GOODS in BlackBlue
and Neat Mixtures are beauties—trougrings
that will make you look neat and snappy.;
Our line of READY-MADE in len's,
Youths' and Children's is superior to *y we
have ever placed before you.
Our Medium Weight, Dark Gray, )xford
Mixed and Brown OVERCOATS art swell,
either in the long or short, and the neat srring-bone
figure in R A IN COATS will agaiiprevail
this coming season.
Not to weary you in a lengthy articlftf read-ing
matter, we wish to inform you we dress
you in anything from head to foot with yle and
comfort at prices surely right.
H . B U e H
Leader of Clothing and Gents' Fuiishings
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good leathers.
Straight and swing lasts.
Medium or narrow toes.
Cuban or regular heels, lace, button or Ber.
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A R. B Ö M B E R G S , LITITZ. PA
M. M . S O U D E RS
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR
LITITZ, PA.
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FRINGE, SHADES, BELLS,
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Tfeding Farmers' Hotel in the City,
Centrally Located.
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IRRIGATION,
And Union Irrigation Co.
in Louisiana.
An Interesting Exposition of Irriga-tion,
and the Possibilities of the
Union Irrigation Company
in Louisiana.
.Special Correspondence Manufacturers1 Record.
Visiting the Northern offices of the
Union Irrigation Co. in this city, after
having familiarized myself with the
situation in the Opelousas district of
Louisiana, where the company's irriga
tion enterprise is to be operated, I am
doubly impressed with the extraordi
nary character of this great undertak
iug, both as to the nature of the work
itself and the conservatism and sub
stautiability of men who are identified
with it.
No one with the slightest knowledge
of irrigation benefits, as seen not only
in the West and Southwest of this
country, but in the very cradles of civil
izati-iD in India and in the land of the
Pharaohs, can fail to comprehend the
possibilities irrigation contains for the
fertile fields of Louisiana's prairies
and no one who studies the plans of the
Union Irrigation Co. and reads the re-ports
of engineers, attorneys aDd bank-ers
who have thoroughly examined
every detail of these plans can help be-ing
impressed with the extraordinary
and complete knowledge of conditions
they reveal, the perfection of detail
reached and the remarkably careful
methods adopted to safeguard the inter-ests
of those who invest in the securities
of the enterprise.
At Lancaster I found on the occasiou
of my visit, in consultation with officers
of the company, Mr. Samuel M. Gray,
of Providence, R. I., one of the most
distinguished engineers of this country.
When Baltimore decided to construct a
great ssweragesystem three of the noted
engineers of America were employed to
plan and outline the system of construc-tion.
One of these three was Mr. Gray.
This fact gives present pertinent signi-ficance
to the fact that Mr. Gray has
been all over the ground whera the
Union Irrigation Co. purposes to oper-ate,
has examined the plaas and every
feature of the whole work, and has given
the project his unqualified endorsement
as an engineering proposition.
The financial plan has been passed ou
by bankers here and in New Orleans,
and has been pronounced flawless, and
eminent lawyers have given altogether
favorable opinions on the company's
charter and plans for the protection of
the investor. The bankers have backed
up their opinions by investing their own
money in the enterprise, and theofficers
and directors of the company, the ma-jority
of whom are directors and officers
in banking companies, are so impressed
with the possibiliies of the project that
they have agreed to serve without com-pensation
until such compensation can
be paid from the earnings of the com-pany.
i As [ mentioned in previous correspon-dence
on this subject, the financipl plan
contemplates the sale of bonds to the
amount of $525,000, with which to pay
for the pumping plant, the building of
five miles of main canal with 50 miles of
laterals, sufficient to irrigate 25,000
acre-!, and the construction of a rice
mill. The bonds, payable in gold and
bearing 6 per cent, interest, carry with
them a bonus of fully paid-up capital
stock of an amountequal to one-half the
bonds subscribed for. The bonds are a
lien on all the property of the company,
and under the terms of trusteeship, by
which the Interstate Trust & Banking
Co. of New Orleans is to handle the
company's funds, no money is to be paid
out except for improvements and the
actual necessary expenses of getting the
plant in operation. Among the assets
of the company is the vastly valuable
right of way in perpetuity for the main
canal, 350 feet wide and 30 miles long,
in addition to rights of way for lateral
canals 200 feet wide and a good many
additional miles for sublaterals and
ditches. These rights of way were pur-chased
four years ago, and are worth an
incalculable figure, as they could not be
bought to-day at all in their entirety.
I a fact, almost the whole value of t he
enterprise hinges on these rights of way,
as they command the entire situation,
affording practically the only feasible
way of irrigating a large portion of t he
prairie lands of Southwest Louisiana.
The possibilities of this enterprise are
fairly bewildering when one grasps the
project in its entirety and institutes com-parisons
with what irrigation has ac-complished
for other sections. A sur-vey
of all Southwest Louisiana demon-strated
to the founders of this enterprise
that only at the point selectec, near
Washington, is it possible to get an in-exhaustible
supply of fresh water, which
can be raised by one " l i f t " and distri-buted
over practically all of Southwest
Louisiana, a territory comprising 1,250,-
000 acres of land, from one pumping
plant and without the necessity of any
"relifts". There is thus afforded to this
company a monopoly of a situation as
full of dividend paying possibilities as
if one owned the ozone privileges of al-most
an entire state.
The company will take its waters from
a bayou that connects with an arm of
the Mississippi. Into the deep bed of
the bayou the waters from the Missis-sippi
would flow faster than apy num-ber
of pumps could lift it put. The res-ervoir-
canal of the Union Irrigation Co.
will lie along a sort of backbone, the
highest elevation anywhere in the sec-tion,
from which there is a gradual
slope both to the southwest and to t he
north. So water from this canal will
easily and without other storage or re-lifting
irrigate the entire section, and
can be extended even to the lowlands
of the Gulf.
I n the Crowley district, to the south-west,
where irrigation has transformed
a barren waste into a populous farming
region, where land has risen from 25
cents an acre to $50 and even $100, and
smart towns have come up from the
plains within 20 years' time, there are
40 different irrigation companies, with
60 different plants, which irrigate about
250,000 acres. Prosperity in a marvel-ous
degree has come to the whole coun-try,
and the irrigation companies have
been enormous dividend payers. These
companies cannot extend operations,
however, for the reason that present
demands in certain seasons exhaust the
water of t he bayous, and in many in-stances
salt water from the Gulf flows
back to fill up the void. In any event,
the lands lying so far to the north as
those of the Opelousas district could
never be irrigated from the sources that
supply the Crowley district, for if there
was fresh water in abundance the cost
of the numerous reliftings that would
be required would make the price of
water prohibitive. So a wide section of
the prairies of southwestern Louisiana
must, if irrigated at all, get their water
from the north, and t he Union Irriga-tion
Co. has secured the only perfect
point where such-operations may be
conducted.
The plans and purposes of the Union
Irrigation Co. would be unique and full
of profitable posibilities if the country
proposed to be served were another un-inhabited
plain given over to grazing
and wild fowl. Instead, however, it is
now a phenomenally-fertile region, and
a part of it has been under cultivation
140 years. While back from the bayous
there are vast stretches of prairie lands
that never have been broken, it is de-monstrated
that here is a section where
the rich loam will produce indefinitely
and without fertilization great yields of
a large variety of crops—corn, cotton,
tobacco, vegetables, fruits, berries, etc.,
as well as the rice (when irrigated), to
which the lands are particularly adapt-ed.
So the declaration is made that net
only nowhere in the world is there a
point from which so much laud may be
irrigated from one plant, but that no ir-rigation
plant anywhere will be able to
serve a section where so great a variety
of crops may be raised as in the terri-tory
to be covered by the Union Irriga-tion
Co.
While upland rice-growing is a most
attractive farming proposition, large
fields being easily worked at unusual
profits by comparatively few hands, and
on this account the first efforts of t he
Union Irrigation Co. will be turned to-ward
what may be called the whole-saling,
which water furnished to rice
farmers constitutes, yet the company is
not unmindful of the advantages in
every way to be gained by intensive and
diversified farming, and from the very
beginning will give demonstration of
the benefits of irrigation in raising crops
of every description, including vege-tables
and berries. The people of Lou-isiana
are educated to the profitableness
of rice-growing, and it is stated that
every gallon of water the Union Irriga-tion
Co. could (urnish if its plant were
completed could be contracted to-day.
But having in mind the enormous de-velopments
possible in a section where
greater diversification prevails, an at-tempt
« ill be made to build up farming
operations along these lines. With in-tensive
and diversified farming — a
family to each 40 or 80 acres—there
would be here on these Louisiana prair-ies
oue of the richest and most prosper-ous
farming sections on the globe.
There would be new and populous
towns, with factories, shops, stores and
banks to be established, additional
steam roads required, and interurban
trolley lines and all the developments
that go u i lh the upbuilding of well-populated
and thriving communities.
There would in this way be an in-crease
in land values and a general up-lift
of the entire section more nearly in
accordance with what has been ac-complished
by irrigation in other parts
of the world. In Egypt, for instance
where a greater appreciation in land
values was caused in three years follow-ing
the introduction of irrigation thap
had occurred in 4000 years before, the
peasants are raising many varieties of
vegetables for market, as well as corn,
cotton, cane and dates, and ah average
yield of $115 an acre per annum is coin-
In 1904 the lowest price that
lauds in the irrigated district could be
bought for was $250 an acre, whereas
three years before such lands would
bring not more than $100 an acre, Irri-gation
has already added more than
$1,000,000,000 to the laud values of
Egypt. In Colorado, lauds that sold at
an acre before the water was turned
on are now worth $100 to $i00, while
some irrigated lands there have sold at
as much as $1000 an acre. Instances
might be multiplied almost indefinitely
from the deserts of Arizona to the
valley of the Ganges—all of them de-monstrating
without variation or excep-tion
the phenomenal increase in land
values and in prosperity which come
from the blessings of a certain and sure
supply of water provided by irrigation.
And equally certain and sure are the
profits resulting to those who provide
rrigation. I n India the government has
spent $125,000,000 in irrigation enter-prises.
Not only was the government
enabled thus to place 800,000 people on
previously-arid and abandoned lands
within nine years' time, but there have
been received in fees a sum sufficent to
meet all carrying charges and interest
payments and to show an annual clear
profit of $3,500,000 besides. Not alone
does irrigated enormously increase the
value of lands and enable the farmer to
increase his product two, three and
some times even a hundred fold, but it
brings an immediate result to the stock-holder
in the irrigation enterprise,
whether it be the State or individual,
and, unlike some forms of taxation, it
constitutes but a small fraction of t he
added prosperity which the user of the
water enjoys. Indeed, it seems there
is but one side to the irrigation question.
What that side is these illustrations
show—but one or two out of volumes—
and as indicated furthermore by the
fact that such private or mutual enter-prise
at the Fort Collins (Col.) Water
Supply & Storage Co., supplying water
only to stockholders, with 600 shares of
$100 par value, has been so successful in
every way that its shares are quoted to-day
at $3000, or a premium of $2900 a
share.
Illustrations might be enumerated
without number, but it may be worth
while to mention other Colorado irriga-tion
enterpriseswhich havebeen notably
successful in order to give emphasis to
the fact that hardly any other enter-prise
is so great a dividend payer and a
profitable investment of so attractive a
character as is an irrigation company.
For instance, the stock of the Greeley
Irrigation Co., of Greeley, Col., par
value $25, is to-day worth $150; t he
stock of the Bocky Ford (Col.) Canal
Co., par value $10 per share, has a mar-ket
value of $400 per share; the mar-ket
value of the stock of the Catlan
Canal Co. of Rocky Ford is $150
above par, that of the Rocky Ford
Highline Canal Co. $225 above par, and
the Greely and Loveland Irrigation Co.
of Greely, Col., par value of shares $100
market value $350 per share. The par
value of the shares in the reservoir
owned by the same company is $400,
and the present maiket value is $1300
per share,
I n the light of the universal experi-ence
of irrigation enterprises it is abso-lutely
impossible to limit or define the
degree of success which will follow the
inauguration of the Union Irrigation
Co's plant. The waters of the Missis-sippi
and t he Atchafalaya carry a rich
silt, and as the soil of the Opelousas
prairies never has requirtd a fertilizer,
the water used for irrigation will supply
all the fertilization required for ages to
eome. The climate down there is re-markably
equable and agreeable Winter
and Summer; the variety of possible
products is greater than almost any-where
else ; the working days in a year
are almost three times as many as in
Pennsylvania, for illustration, and with
irrigation the Opelousas country must
become one of the most famous and
prosperous farming sections anywhere.
I pity the people of the United States
who are flocking to the frozen North-west
in Canada when such vastly su-perior
opportunities exist in the South-land,
superior right now, and destined
to be increasing greater throughout all
t i m e . ALBERT PHENIS.
Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 17,1906.
Rustic Bridge on the Road Leading
Along the Furnace Hills*
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N a trip to t he Furnace Hills many rustic bridges are passed over but t he
bridge represented in the above picture is probably the most beautiful.
The bridge crosses the Hammer creek, along a road wood-walled with
trees, the upper growths of which meet, turning it into a caverned
thoroughfare.
At different places in the mountain there are numerous little creeks—
creeks that wind their way oyer beds filled with boulders, dashing with a
gurgling sound, here and there forming a pool. It would surely delight the
heart of a poet. Beautiful specimens of ferns can be seen growing by the sides
of the creeks. The Furnace Hills are rich in botanical and etymological
specimens
One of these small creeks is called "Poplar Run." Along this creek, not far
from the road, is a flat rock, the size of an ordinary table. On this rock many
picnickers spread their luncheon. Eatables are an important factor on a trip
to the hills, for the ride and fresh air stimulate the appetite wonderfully.
Then, if the traveller gets as far as Poplar Run, it is worth the time and
difficult walk in reaching it, visit "buzzards roost". But t h a t ' s another little
story which will be described in next week's issue.
Lititz Should Have a Complete
History in Book Form»
T' 'HE future is not so far distant when all of us will be in darkness so to
speak concerning the early history of Lititz. While much history is
considered dry as dust by many of our growing population, yet there
are recollections that would cause many a hearty laugh. It is a great
pity that there is no complete history in book-form, for the early history of
Lititz is prolific. The book could be made interesting with accounts of some
of the early jokej. We would like to read an account of the salute fired by
Capt Kissel's company in front of the "Sisters' House" on a certain Fourth
of July. We would like to read the history of the first base drum ever intro-duced
in Lititz.
Christmas, Easter and Pfingsta were live days in old Lititz, when callers
were treated to "lady fingers" and "leb kiiche". Tell us of the time when the
fair ladies rode on horseback and prided themselves on their sidesaddle more
than the modern owner of an automobile.
Give us a description of t he mustering oi the battallion at Lititz, and t he
fair sex who used to swarm the sidewalks on such occasions Tell us all about
the military parade which used to be held once a year. REB.
Some Political Reminiscences*
"^HE appearance here last Saturday of t he Lincoln-Democratic candidates
for state honors brings to mind former hot political campaigns and the
prominence in which Lititz figured in most of them. This town as
well as Old Warwick, as it was generally styled, had many hard shell
Republicans and Democrats ever since the two parties came into existence.
During national and state campaigns political discussions ran high and became
so hot t h a t many sores were created that probably never were healed. Neigh-bor
against neighbor was no unusual thing in these debates which developed
into mud-slinging of the worst kind. Nor did it stop here. Boys hardly in
their teens picked up much of this heresay and frequently engaged in bodily
battles in standing up for t h e rights which their fathers contended for.
Uniformed marching clubs were natural among the Lititz and Warwick
Republican representatives whenever a campaign was in view. The Demo-cracy
being largely in t he minority, as a rule was too weak in numbers to or-ganize
marching clubs, but they never took a back seat in doing their share
in hurrahing when the proper time came to cheer for their party and in getting
up mass meetings at one or t he other of the hotels.
A Democratic victory meant the resurrection of the "Old Warwick" iron
cannon, which was kept in storage for years at Keller's mill at Rome, and
many salutes merged from its mouth upon receipt of the news of Democratic
success in this or any other state.
The old cannon cost the Warwick Democrats many a keg of powder.
When brought into service contributions were solicited for ammunition and
the gun was taken to t he rear of the spring grounds, or else out on the bluft
near Machpelah cemetery, or to Owl Hill and loaded up so heavily that when
it belched forth it could be heard miles around.
Lititz on frequent occasions held big mass meetings and evening parades,
which required special trains on t h e Reading and Columbia railroad to bring
the people here and return them.
One of the more recent campaigns which later on caused much amusement
to his opponents was the time when Delamater, candidate for governor, made
a tour of the county. He stood on the porch of the Springs Hotel before a
large crowd and in course of his remarks said : " I t isn't a question of my elec.
tion, but a question of how much a majority I will receive." Delamater was
defeated by a large majority by Robert W. Pattison, who was twice elected
governor of the state by t h e Democrats and dissatisfied Republicans.
Thus we could go on and recall many more incidents of campaigns which
would be new to t he younger portion of our people, but let this suffice to say
that things politically are no more as they were ten, twenty and thirty years
ago.
Pointed Paragraphs.
But few men would insure if they
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Did you ever know a man to perform
all he promised ?
After a girl gets to be about so old she
ceases to want to go on the stage.
A bachelor says that fully one-third
of a woman's pleasures in life are de-rived
from her ability to shed tears at
will.
Unless a man has been married at
least six months, he dosen't know all
the reasons he should have had for re-maining
a bachelor.
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198. 9th St., Reading, Pa.
WITHIN THE COUNTY.
The First U. B. Church of Ephrata
has unanimously voted to ask for the
return by the Conference at Reading
this week of its pastor, the Rev. C. E
Boughter.
In September, 1902, the first year of
rural free delivery from Ephrata, the
four carriers handled 6,800 pieces of
mail during September. During Sep-tember,
1906, they handled 17,300
pieces.
Graybill Zimmerman, of Middle
Creek, who was severely injured by an
accident, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, is still
unconscious most of the time. Upwards
of fifty of his neighbors met and in a
half day had his twenty-eight acres of
corn in shock.
B. F. Brubaker, poultry breeder, of
Mt. Joy, has sold this season 8700 eggs
to breeders. His strain is Barred Ply-mouth
Rock. Mr. Brubaker believes
in advertising.
Elizabethtown is to haye a new
weekly paper, the Herald. The first
number will appear on Friday, Octo-ber
12.
Col. E. D. Roath, the venerable Jus
tice of the Peace, of Marietta, last
Thursday celebrated his eighty-sixth
birthday anniversary. Col. Roath, be-sides
being the oldest Justice of the
Peace in point of service in Pennsyl-vania,
is the oldest Odd Fellow in Lan-caster
county and t he second oldest in
the State.
Pupils of Rheems school took a trip
on a large hay wagon to the Susque-hanna
river. The children were left
loose in a watermelon patch and claim-ed
that they had more than their full of
melons.
A few days ago William Ressler, of
Mascot, saw two wild ducks on his
father's dam. He shot both of them at
one shot.
David Landis of near New Holland
has a steer which escaped and evaded
capture for over two weeks. A large
number of boys and men finally caught
the bovine after a hard chase. The
animal clears fences with ease.
Will Build Bouse in Tree Tops.
A supreme effort to escape death from
consumption is being made by Charles
Battersby, thirty-five years of age, of
Wrentham, Mass, He has suffered
with tuberculosis for several years, and
has tried the climates of California, Sar-anac
Lake, and Arizona, but none of
these places has been of a n y benefit to
him. Mr. Battersby has now decided
to build a house in the tops of two ad-oining
piue trees on his farm, and he
will spend the winter there. Access to
the treetop home will be had by means
of a rope ladder, wnich Battersby will
pull up each night. From his airy
mansion the patient can survey the
work of his farm.
Entire Town Makes Violins.
There is a little town named Mark-neukirchen
in Saxony where nearly
every inhabitant is engaged in the
manufacture of violins. The industry
gives employment to nearly 15,000
people, who live in Markueukirchen
and the surrounding villages. The old
men make the ebony fingerboards,
screws and stringholders, and the
younger ones, with strong, steady hands
and clear eyes, put the pieces together,
which is t he most difficult performance
of all. The women attain marvellous
skill in polishing the violin after i t is
fitted up and almost every family has
its own peculiar method of polishing,
which is handed down from mother to
daughter—some excelling in a deep
wine color, others in citron or orange
color. The more expensive violins are
polished from twenty to thirty times
before they are considered perfect and
ready for use
Lancaster May Get Railroad Shops.
I t is rumored that the Penn'a Rail-road
Company may establish division
headquarters at Lancaster and that
large repair shops and a yard will be
located there. If this report proves
correct the headquarters of the middle
division now at Harrisburg, will be
moved to Lancaster. It is said that the
recent improvements on the Phila. di-vision
make the change necessary.
Expects to Escape Gallows.
Mrs. Kate Edwards, who is under
sentence of death for thé murder of her
husband, John Edwards, at Stouchs-burg
more than five years ago, is^won-dering
who will be the next governor
of Pennsylvania. For more than a
year and a half Governor Pennypacker
has ignored the case , of this woman,
and will not fix the date for her execu-tion.
The board of pardons refused to
interfere.
Her opinion of Governor Penny-packer
has improved lately, since he is
not taking any action 011 her case.
" I believe that God has answered
my prayers," she declared to her spir-itual
adviser, Rev. S. S. Schweitzer of
Ephrata, a few days ago, "and that my
life will be spared. I asked that I
should not be hanged. I have suffered
much for my sin, but I believe that
Governor Penny packer's heart has been
touched, and that his successor will not
allow a poor, ignorant woman to be
sent to the gallows."
Roy«a
B a K i n g * P o w d er
A b s o l u t e l y Pure
DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF
TARTAR BAKING POWDER
Royal does not contain an atom
of phosphatic acid (which is
the product of bones digested
in sulphuric acid) or of alum
(which is one-third sulphuric
acid) substances adopted for
other baking powders because
of their cheapness.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Letter to John Mumtna, Lititz, Pa.
Dear Sir: Here's the difference be-tween
two pure paints ; one strong ;
the other weak.
C. P. Hanger, Staunton, Va., painted
two new houses, the houses exactly
alike: one another pure paint, the
other Devoe. Devoe cost a quarter less
for paint and iabor.
People generally are paying twice-over
for paint.
Yours truly
F . W . DEVOE & Co.,
9 New York.
P. S.—Manheim Lumber & Hd w. Co.,
Manheim, and 8. L. Weaver, Ephrata,
sell our paint.
Sick Heahache,
—largely a woman's complaint—is
chiefly caused by indigestion, consti-pation
and torpid liver. You can pre-vent
it by taking a dose of Dr. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, once
every few days immediately after a
meal. Pleasant to the taste. No nausea
or griping- Write Dr. David Ken-nedy's
Sons, Rondout, N. Y., for a free
samqle bottle. Large b ttles $1.00, all
druggists. 8
OYER THE STATE.
Allentown, during the first nine
months of 1906, has grown to the ex-tent
of 480 new buildings.
Harrisburg's reservoir has not been
cleaned for six years, and t he Board of
Water Commissioners are having the
work done this week. The sediment
that has collected over the bottom is
more than a foot deep.
Robert Sehaffer, of Easton, a senior
in the Moravian Theological Seminary,
was elected Superintendent of the
Central Moravian Sunday School to
succeed Rev. Howard Rondthaber,
resident professor of tbe Moravian
College and Theological Seminary.
A pear tree on the farm of I ra John-son,
in Durell, Bradford county, pre-sented
a mass of bursting white blos-soms
ou the first day of October that
greatly surprised the owner. The tree
blossomed as usual last spring, and
there was a good yield of fruit from it
during the summer.
Two men who owned residences in
Glen Hazel, Elk county, finding their
employment in lumbering at an end,
tore down their houses, removed the
materials to Ridgway and used them
in the construction of new buildings,
which are almost identical with those
in which the materials were first used.
Ridgway people are urging owners
of farm lauds in E lk county to awaken
to the advantages that are open to
them by reason of the 6,000 people that
are to be fed in that town, with good
wages prevailing and a disposition to
live well animating the community.
With a market such as Ridgway, E lk
farmers should have no trouble to be-come
participants in that town's pros-perity.
Skin grafting will complete the pro-cessof
healing the legs of El vin Miller, of
Weatherly, both of which were stripped
from the knee down last week, when
he stepped into a vat of lye at the Val-ley
shops. Friends and relatives are
contributing portions of their cutrele.
Buffalo Bill's stock, such as horses,
will have their winter quarters in
Coatesville and vicinity. Buffalo Bill
has been in the old country for several
years. Horses will be kept on t he fol-lowing
farms: James Low, Manor, 40
head; John R. Lilley, Fallowfield, 40
head; James Greenwood, Valley, 40
head. S. W. Elliott, with the Barnum
& Bailey shows, is placing the stock
there. He says the horses have left
London and are on their way here.
Eight men were killed in the explo-sion
of illuminating gas in the subway
excavation at Sixth and Market streets,
Philadelphia, last Friday. The con-tractor
and United Gas Improvement
Company disagree regarding the respon-sibility.
While hunting in the woods near
Mifflinville, Claude McMurty, of Miff-linville,
was accidentally shot by a
companion, E. D. Davis. The men be-came
separated in the brush and Davis
seeing a squirrel fired at it, the shot
taking effect in McMurty's right side,
inflicting a serious wound.
The severest thunder storm of the
year visited Doylestown, when in three
hours 4 12 inches of rain fell, flooding
cellars and doing considerable damage
to streets and gardens.
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