VOL 27. Senator Herring is lay ing a stone pavement at the rear of his property. Next Monday is Memorial Day. The program appears elsewhere in this paper. The foundation wall are built for, the new dwelling house of W. C. Ricl art, corner of Iron and Third Streets. James P. Thornton has been en paged as sexton at the Episcopal Church. Knt Tost, G. A. R. will attend the Methodist Church in a body next Sunday morning. A $so,ooo fire occurred at Bclle- fonte on Wednesday, destroying an immense grain warehouse. The members of O. U. A. M., are requested to meet , at their ball on Memorial Day at 1.30 p. m. sharp in fill regalia. ' 1 1 Th! Normal School excursion to Centra' was postponed from last Sat urday to Thursday, on account of bad weather. The District Grand Chiefs of (he Knights of the Golden Eagle for Co lumbia County are J. Lee Harman, Bloomsburg, C. B. Spurr, Centralia. The Globe Minstrels will give an entertainment in the Opera House this Friday evening. They have been hard at work rehearsing, and it is said that they will give a good performance. A huge culm bank at L. A. Riley & Go's Logan Colliery, near Centralia, is on fire and a gang of men are fighting the flames, which are spread ing rapidly. Edward Lunger died at his home in Itenton township on Thursday, May 1 2th, after a lingering illness, aged 40 years. He leaves a wife and three children. Bacon Hess sent two fine trout down to James riendershot on Tues day. One measured 17 inches. They were caught by him near his home at Cole s Creek. Members of the press are invited to accompany Ent Tost on Memorial Day morning to the several points an- ti . .1 . miauy Visited Dy mem 10 decorate the graves of soldiers. John Rose committed suicide at Milton because his home was to be sold on Saturday. The sale went on, with Rose's remains lying on the tluor, unknown to auctioneer and purchasers who collected outside. Prof. Morris, principal of the Pub lie Schools at Catawissa, has a tempt inc offer made him for California. One place he is offered $1500, another M200. Ihe directors of Catawissa will make an effort to retain him. The funeral of Mrs. D. P. Butler who died at her home on Catharine street on Tuesday morning after a lingering illness, took place in St. Paul's Church on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Her husband and two sons survive her. Policeman Thomas arrested a man last week Thursday for purchasing liquor for Friday Dehart. The prison er was discharged by the President of Council on account of ignorance of Having committed an offense, but the next man arrested on such a charge cannot plead ignorance. Owing to the facts that the pave ment was torn up around the church the Rector was KiiflVrinrr frnm a tie vere cold, and no sexton had been secured to take sharers of the church. and pump the organ, the evening service at &t. rauis nurcn was omitted last Sunday evening. Chas. P. El well, having returned from Boston, where he has been a music student for the past three years, will give lessons on piano or violin. Piano lessons in New England Conser vatory Method, violin in German method, as taught by Emil Mahr, of N. E, Conservatory, and Henry Heindl of Boston Symphony Orchestra. Also lessons in harmony and instrumenta tion. 2 1. The attention of the School Board having been called to the impure wa ter in the well at Fifth street building, on account of drainage from the privy vault and stables adjacent to it, it was directed that the well be dismantled. Some cases of diphtheria in that neigh borhood, during the past winter, were attributed to the use of water from the well. It may inconvenience few families, but the general public will be benefitted by the abandonment of the welL ' JOHN M. BARTON. John M. Barton died at the Dan ville Hospital for the Insane on Wed nesday morning at 10 o'clock. He had been suffering from an atiack of erysipelas for about two weeks, but his condition was not considered alarm ing. On Wednesday morning the doctor called on him, and found him about as usual, but a few moments later an attendant called the doctor back saying that Mr. Barton was worse. Before the doctor could get to him hi was dead. The deceased was a son of the late Caleb Barton, and was aged sixty seven years and eieht months. He waS twice married, his nnlu .-h;il Mrc C. W. Funston. beimr the daughter of is first wife. His second wif. w.i Mrs. Hannah Dichl. daughter nf New ton Boone. He was eneatred in bus- ness in Philadelphia for several wars. For the past few years he has been an invalid. He was clerk .it the Mr.n- tour House, Danville for a number of years, lie was a man of very kindly .Imposition, and had manv friends. He was a brother of Mrs. A. A. Butler, N. W. Barton, and Mrs. I. W. Mc- Kelvy deceased. The remains were brought home on Wednesday night, ana tne itinera! took place at the house of his dauehtcr. Mrs. Funston. this Friday morning at 10. xo o'clock. Rev. W. C. Leverett ofliciatinc He was an Odd Fellow, and the members of Van Camn l.ndire I O O. F., attended the funeral in a body. The funeral of Abraham W. Fry took place on Sunday afternoon at his late residence at a o'clock. The attendance was very large. The ser vices were conducted by Rev. P. A. Heilman, Pastor of the Lutheran church, of which Mr. Fry had been a consistent member for many years. For twenty two years he taught the infant class in the Sunday school. Rev. V. C. Leverett assisted in the services, Mr. Fry having been sexton of the Episcopal church for the past nine years. As the funeral cortege mored to the cemetery, the Lutheran and Episcopal bells were tolled. The choir of St. Paul's church, with whom Mr. Fiy had met regularly for the past year, sang two hymns at the house, it being the first occasion on which they have sung at a funeral. Mr. Fry was born in Bloomsburg, and had resided for forty-five years in the house where he died. He was a man of very genial temperament, and was especially fond of children. He was "Uncle Abe", or "Grandpap" to everybody, and there was many a tear shed over the remains of the good old man. At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Paul's church held on Monday even ing, May 23, the following action was taken : Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove suddenly from this life Mr. Abraham W. Fry, who has been for nine vears the Sexton of St, Paul's church. Resolecd. That the Rector and Vestry of the church deplore his sud den death, and send to Mrs. Fry this expression of their sincere sympathy, praying God's comfort for her in this time of her great affliction. Mrs. Abbie Herring died at her late residence on Penn street, Bloomsburg, on Tuesday morning at five o'clock, aged 81 years. She was confined to her bed for about three weeks. Four daughters, Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Hannah Weiss, Mrs. Mary Kitchen, and Mrs. Elinira Phillips, survive her. She was a member of the Lutheran church for many years. Funeral Ser vices were held Thursday, conducted by Rev. P. A. Heilman, pastor of the Lutheran church. Fire in Locust Township- The house of Wm. E. Fetterman, near Snyder's mill, was destroyed by fire on Thursday last, the only portion of its contents saved was a trunk and a little bedding from the second story, and some of the furniture down stairs, about $30.00 worth in all. The family had eaten dinner but a short time previous and were out in the field planting corn. Mr. Fetter man, who is a huckster, discovered the fire while on his way from the field to the barn to hitch up. It is supposed that a spark from the chim ney lodged upon the roof and was fanned into a flame by the high wind which prevailed. He carried an in surance in the Locust Mutual Fire In surance of $400 on the house anil con tents, $150 on clothing, etc., and $100 on provisions. He will realize about $600 from the total amount, and his loss is upwards of $1.000. Catawissa News item. After 'several postponements - the Normal Excursion took place on Thursday. ' I3LOOMS1JURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1S92. WALLER Mr. W. E. Lulz commenced a se lect school here on Monday. We need a longer term of school here and he will no doubt have a good attend ance, but it would perhaps have been more largely attended if it would have been opened sooner as some have gone to attend other schools. Miss Luella Mendenhall, of L'wis bnrg, is visiting her parents and friends at this place. Misses Alverda Everhart and Jos ephine Horn will represent the Union Sunday School, as delegates to the County Convention at Orangeville next week. The funeral of James Evans of Pine township was held here on Monday. Rev. S. I. Shortcss conductad the ser vices. Bishop Breyfogel of Reading will preach here next Sunday morning. He will also be present at the Sunday School Institute on Saturday. It is very seldom that a bishop ever preach es here, and with but few, if any ex ceptions, we can say this will be the first one thai has ever visited us. Yet there remains quite a bit of corn to be planted around here ; even if the grangers and alliance men are hustling around in such a lively way ; still such weather as we have been having is about as favorable to one as the other. EAST BENTON- John Baker, of this township, is in his 78th year and remarkably active for a man of his years. He is a staunch democrat and a reader of the Colum bian, and several other leading demo cratic journals. Samuel Gibbons of this place is ser iously ill with pneumonia. The fami ly is in a manner helpless, as Reuben, the father of Samuel is in his 80th year and Nirs. Reuben is in delicate health. Just now it is unusually wet and cool Corn planting is now in the prime of its season. The wheat prospect was never in a more promising condition in this com munity than at present. Fruit of all kinds may be looked for in abundance from present appearan ces. The Itenton Argus is a spicy, neat ly printed, and a well gotten up paper and deserves the patronage of every citizen of Benton township, as well as a large circulation in all points of the county. Its editor is progressive, fear less and decisive. We will take the Argus as soon as we can handle more papers, and we would welcome all the papers in two counties and many out side, if we had the means of getting them here. There is no loss in plenty of papers, as all of them being valua ble information. A newspaper educa tion is the most speedy and all those exercised thereby are educated on all topics and events to the latest mo ment that they can possibly transpire. Essentially necessary as both are, pub lic schools and newspapers, if we were obliged to do without either, we un hesitatingly say, we would prefer to do without public schools, rather than do without newspapers. True, education without both would be a slow progress. Thanks for both. A short time ago Mrs. Lee Golder of Cambra, escaped uninjured with her babe from what might have proved fatal to both. Driving a pony hitched to a road cart and destined to Still water, the animal from some cause or other became unmanageable and ran away, stopping in Nathan Tubb's barn yard. Mrs. Golder became entangled or fastened in the cart and in the event of a wreckage she would have been dragged to death. Airs. Jackson Crawford, formerly of Shickshinny, now of this place, last Saturday was taken suddenly very ill. The first quarterly meeting of this conference year was held at the Hami line church last Saturday. The Lord's Supper was administered on Sunday. There will be an abundance of rab bits this coming game season. We congratulate Judge Ikeler for remitting the tine imposed upon the boys for capturing the stray deer that crossed their path in its pursuit of cap tors. The boys were not hunting, and when the buck came along the temp tation for capturing him was too great for any nioital to resist, and Judge Ike ler did perfectly right. It was on his part an act of justice in every sense of the word. An uncriminal petty griev ance should never succeed to be avenged, and such we think is the in tent of the law. Every man in town is invited to the Men's meeting next Sunday at 2:30 p. m. J. S. Wilson will lead the meeting. The male choir will furnish music. MEMORIAL DAT, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1892- I'ROr.RAM IN' ELOOMSISCRO. At 2.30 P. M. all taking part in the exercises excjpt the Normal School, will report to the Marshal on Market Square where the line will form and move up Main street to the Normal School, where the Phjlologian and Calliepian Societies will join the line. Marching down Main to Centre, up Centre to the Cemetery. Dirge by the Bloomsburg Cornet Band. Ri tual services, Decorating, Music while dccoi ating, by the Y. M. C. A. Choir and Band. The Philologians and Cal'iepians will decorate through the cemetery as sisted by members of the Ent Post. Also the craves in the circle. Sons of Veterans will decorate in the old grave yard. After decorating all will retain to the circle. The line will form and move to the Opera House, where the addresses will be delivered in the following order : Opening Prayer. Music by the Y. M. C. A. Choir. Address by Rev. Heilman. Music. All ministers invited on the stand. All places of business will close from a to s P. M. C. P. Sloan, Chief Marshal. P. S. Moyer, Assistant COMMITTEE. T. Holder. R. J. Morris. F. M. Gilmore. P. S Moyer. T. M. Dawson. Wm. Swentzel. ST. ANDREW'S BROTHERHOOD. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is an organization of the Protestant Epis copal Church. It has its General Council and Central Headquarters, with branches or chapters throughout the Country. Its growth has been re markable. The present Rector of St. Paul's Church formed a Chapter of the Brotherhood in this town in 1887, which Chapter was 136. Now, just five years later, there are over eight hundred Chapters in the United States, comprising thousands of young men. It has a Constitution of which Arti cle 1st is as follows; Objkct. The sole object of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew is the spread of Christ's Kingdom among young men, and to this end every man desiring to become a member thereof must pledge himself to obey the Rules of the Brotherhood so long as he shall be a member. These Rules are two : The Rule of Prayer and the Rule of Service, The Rule of Prayer is to pray daily for the spread of Christ's Kingdom among young men and for God's blessing upon the labors of the Brotherhood. The Rule of Service is to make an earnest effort each week to bring at least one young man with in hearing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as set forth in the services of the Church and in young men's Bible class. The name of St. Andrew is given to this Brotherhood because St. An drew was the first disciple of our Lord and he "brought his brother to Jesus." The officers of the Chapter in Bloomsburg are the Rector of St. Paul's Church, President; Dr. S. B. Arment, Director ; Mr. John G. Hai man, Secretary and Treasurer. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., pout office and will be sent to the dead letter office June 7, 189a. Mr. Edward Brewer, L, D. Conrad, Miss Maggie Hertz, Ruben Hess, Harvy B. Leach, Miss Bertie Martin, Miss Mattie B. Robbins Cards J. E. Lance. Persons calling fgr these letters will please say they wert advertised May 24, 189 a. One cent will be charged on each letter advertised. A. B. Cathcart, P. M. MILLVILLE. No doubt the market will be over run with chickens this spring, as Richard & Brison have erected a pair of nice pen houses. J. P. Eves Post G. A. R. ot this place have issued the following pro gram for Decoration day : Detail No. 1 will go to Rohrsburg, Lemons and Greenwood to decor ate. Detail No. 2 will go to White Hall and Jerseytown ; after decorating these various places, they will return to Millville for dinner; at 1.30 they will parade to the graveyard here, re turning to the Free Church where a memorial sermon will be preached by Comrade Monroe. The Ladies are especially invited to contribute flowers at the different places of decoration. Miss Allie Kester has a fine stock of Ladies' fancy goods. Her show windows are very attractive. It will pay those wishing such goods to give her a call. The G. A. R. Post expect to get up a fourth of July celebration. Ida Eves is lying sick at the home of her sister Alcesta Sands in east Millville. C. R. Henrie has been appointed town treasures. R. L. Rich is building a straw shed to his barn. Rob. Bardo is doing the carpenter work. Teachers' Examinations, 1892- The examinations of applicants for schools in Columbia county, will be held as follows : Bloom In High School Building, Wednesday, June 8th ; Franklin and Catawissa At Cata wissa, Thursday, June 9th; Briarcreek and Berwick At Ber wick, Friday, June 10 ; Centralia and Conyngham At Centralia, Wednesday and Thursday, June 15th and 16th ; Montour At Rupert, Friday, June 24th; Hemlock At Buckhorn, Monday, Tune 27th ; Beuton, Sugarloaf and Jackson At Benton, Thursday, July 7th j Fishingcreek At Forks, Friday, July 8th; Scott At Espy, Thursday, July 14th ; Centre At Grange Hall, Friday, July 15th; Beaver and Main At Mainville, Wednesday, July aoth ; Mijlin At Mifflinville, Thursday, July 21st ; Roaringcreek and Z,-cuM At the Lower Slabtown School House, Fri day, July 22nd ; Pine At Iola, Wednesday, July 27th; Jilt. Pleasant At Millerlown, Satur day, July 30th ; Orange At Orangeville, Wednesday, August 3rd ; Milluille and Greenwood At Mill ville, Friday, August 5th ; Madison At Jerseytown, Monday, August 8th. Special examinations will be held at Bloomsburg, in the High School Building, Saturday, .September 17th, and Saturday, October 8th. All persons expecting to teach in county whether summer or winter term should attend the examination in the district in which they expect to teach, as no special examination will be granted, except upon a written ap plication, signed by at least three members of the Bo .ml, desiring to employ said applicant. The examinations will commence at 9 o'clock A. M. All directors are respectfully in vited to be present. The next Annual Teacher's Insti tate will be held in Bloomsburg, De cember 1023, 1892. Suggestions from teachers and others in regard to the arrangement of the program for the next Institute, will be cheerfully received. The same must be sent in not later than July 1st. W. C. Johnston, County Superintendent. SHOOTING MATCH. A grand shooting tournament will be held on the Benton Fair Grounds, on Tnursday, June 2, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m. using Blue Rock Tar gets. All sportsmen are invited to at tend and take part in the event. Should the weather prove unfavorable on the above date, postponement will be made to Thursday following, extra events to suit shooters. The match will be under the auspices of the Ben ton Gun Club. , The ministers of the M. E. Church of the Danville District met in the Bloomsburg M. E. Church on Mon day. There were afternoon and evening sessions, at which addresses were made. The special subject under discussion was the spirituality of the camp meeting. NO. 22 PERSONAL. Miss Mary Unangst is visiting her brother in New York City. Mrs. E. N. Perrin and ' son'of New York are visiting at F. P. Drinker's. Mrs. Rebcr of Lewisburg is visiting at her son's Dr. W. M. Reber. Prof. L. P. Sterner spent this week in Philadelphia visiting the schools. Miss Grace Harman is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Louis Cohen spent last week in New York City. Judge and Mrs. Elwell went to Towanda on Tuesday. L. A. German Esq. of Derrs was in town on business last Saturday. Mr. antl Mrs. Layton Runyon will start for Minneapolis on June 1. C. 1). Spigelmyer of Williamsport was in town on Tuesday. Mr. Miles Smith formerly of Jersey town, has moved from Milton, to East Liverpool, Ohio. Dr. G. S'uart Kirby of Mauch Chunk spent Sunday in town with his family who are visiting at Mr. I. S. Kuhn's, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Buckalew went to Hazleton on Tuesday, being called there by the illness of Mrs. Buckalew s. sister. Judge Ikeler nd Senator Herring were among the guests at the annual banquet of the Lycoming county bar held last Saturday evening at tht Hotel Updegraff, Williamsport. Mr. I. L. Snyder has moved from Rock Glen to Hazleton and hisadJress is 278 North Laurel street. He is in the employ of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. and has recently been promoted to a position of operator and clerk. He has many friends in this county who will gladly learn of his progress. H. J. Clark & Son have a new safe in their store. Thomas Gorry is laying a concrete pavement at his West street property. The Commencement exercises of the State College will be held June 12th to 15th inclusive. William Fleckenstine has sold his livery stable and stock to C. P. Gir ton and A. C. Hidlay, who will take possession about June 1st. The Columbia County Sunday School Convention will meet next Tuesday and Wednesday in Orange ville. Persons going by rail will please notice a cha.ige of time. Besides the extensive addition to their house corner of Third and West streets, Alexander Bros, and Louis Cohen are laying a concrete pavement. They will have a fine property when completed. Our office has been in a confused state for the past week, owing to im portant changes being madej in Fthe machinery. In a few days we shalf be better equipped than ever before, id can turn out nearly double the quan tity of job work that we have hereto fore done. Prof. G. E. Wilbur received a letter on Wednesday from Mrs. V. C. Ward of Columbus, Ohio, announcing the death of her mother in Scotland, whither she had gone on a visit. Her father died only recently. Mrs. Ward was formerly Miss Marion I. Imrie, teacher of drawing at the Normal School. Mrs. Jenness Miller will lecture on Dress Reform in the Opera House, on Saturday 28th inst. at 3 p. m., having been engaged by the Young Womens' Christain Association of the Normal School. A collection will be taken up to pay the rent for the hall. Tickets of admission can be obtained of Mrs. Grant Herring, Miss Flora Jones, Miss Dora Marr, Miss May Sharpless, Mrs. D. J. Waller Jr., Miss C. Wel livr, Miss Garrison, or Miss Harvey. Miss Marie H. Bishop, who is about to leave Williamsport for study in Nev York, has again been lucky in a newspaper contest. The Canadian Queen, a family newspaper published in Toronto for $1 a year, offers prizes very often. The last prize was a ticket to Europe and $300. Miss Bishop, in trying for this, received a special prize of a very pretty diamond ring for sending the first correct answer on a certain day. This does not effect her position in the contest, which will close June 2, The great reason for the success of Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in its positive merit. It cures where other prciarationt il jX . . , I. v.. I if! I' ! i
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