VOL 29
NORMAL NOTES.
The first annual Gymnastic F,xhibi
tjon which took place on Monday
evening, was a pronounced success
from start to finish. The hall was
well filled with an appreciative audi
ence, and the various parts assigned
the students were rendered with the
precision of clock work. The music,
always a pleasing and enlivening feat
ure were amusement is sought, was
rendered in such a rt.anner by the
Normal orchestra as to nicely fill-all
intermission. The Grand March in
which 200 student participated afford
ed opportunity to see them in drill
uniform. But the similarity was con
fined entirely to the uniform, which
was quite neat and appropriate both
for male and female participants. To
note the ever changing style of bear
ing and facial expression as the stu
dents passed in review, was to the
writer quite as entertaining as the
lively ball throwing at the close of the
exercises, which was certainly the
most exciting part of the program.
Hall games being in no wise free from
danger makes such lively scrambling
the more attractive to many no doubt.
The following is the program as ren
dered without comment upon individu
al participants :
PROGRAM.
Ovfrtiin Norninl Orelioslra
(.rand Muroh a d Students
and Drill Normal Hoys
l'anilli'l llura.. Messrs. Miller, Vrlhorn,
VaiiKhii, CrobftUKh anil Put trrson.
I'nmliltKiHnn Work Wumlnnncl numb Hells
Hoi' Work (side) Model Seliools Hoys
Horse Work (lonif)
.Messrs. Young. Vnnnnttit, Meliioni, Miller,
M'KUMp, llutton, .Moore, llarrar, Hit,
Coheu and llrpwer.
Anvil chorus Normal Cllrls
Horizontal liars
.Messrs. Melliorn, Partington, Williams, llut
ton, Vannatta and I'ror. Kunlge.
Indian I'lnb Duet, ,.1'rofs. Aldlntfrratid llunlKO
Orange Knee Mcxli-1 Mehool Ho) a
The winner of eaoli heat lo receive an orange.
Mat Work
Messrs. Vnniiatta. Young, Vaughn, Deritler
and l'rot. Aldlnger.
" t'oxey's A rmy."
llasket Hull Normal vs. Bloonisburg
Because she was scolded for steal
ing a penny, little Miss Emma Mark
dropped herself into the Delaware
river and perished. Whether it was
the little theft or the thought of it
that actuated the child, no one can
determine. Judas Iscariot, who com
mitted suicide for his meanness, which
he fully recognized, was a gentleman
and a christian compared with some
professors we know who will never die
till they meet a natural death, and
then their chances will be nowhere
compared with those of Judas Iscariot.
We will only remark incidentally
that when basket-ball players contrive
to hang on and hug each other at one
end of the room when the ball is in
the other, it looks to one unacquaint
ed with the game considerably more
like fight than fun. Just about another
such a spirited game as that played at
the Normal Gymnasium last Monday
night and we should not be surprised
to see some fun among the players
that is not down on the program.
Such games, though attractive, are
always played at more or less risk.
We are convinced that organized
labor quite as frequently invites dis
tress through unreasonable strikes for
higher wages, as that capital deliber
ately inflicts distress upon wage earners
through personal greed. Bricklayers,
for instance, who are getting $3.50
per day in these times and yet strik
ing themselves out of work because
they are refused $4 per day, illustrates
the point.
Edison now proposes to grease ships
for rapid navigation through the water
just the same as you would grease and
thereby benefit a hard pulling and
squeaking wagon. It looks sleek
enough at first glance, but whether the
lubricating material would stand the
swash of the briny deep, is a question.
Last Sunday's storm was quite a
fierce blow that was accompanied
with more or less hail. No doubt it
did considerable damage that was not
reported, as well as considerable that
we saw and heard of.
The ringing of the court houre bell
this week reminds us of the tribulat
ions of this life. The number of cases
coming on for trial this session is
somewhat larger than usual we are
informed.
It would seem that the Reading
Railroad is a financial wreck, if it be
true that its liabilities are in the
neighborhood of $100,000,000 in ex
cess of its assets.
You miss a great saving of money
you don't visit Lowenberg's on Sat
urday. Gooda will be sold at lower
prices than other merchants pay for
them.
Neiswinter Brothers, of Ohio, will
sell at Nanticoke, on the 17th inst.,
u!en-arloa1 of horses. through J. S.
"'Iliams auctioneer,
liLOOMSKUllG, PA., FIUDAY, MAY 11. 1894.
NO 19
PURE WATER.
We lived once in a city where the
Dutch seemed to get control or on the
blind sulc of the law-making power,
and with an eye to business, becr-mak-ing,
the innocent pumps of the city,
which seemed to be a perpetual eye
sore and hinderance to the down-flow
of beer, were filled up. With hearts
full of sympathy for reckless water
drinkers, and full themselves to the
neck with the effervescing properties
of beer, the thing to be done was to
do away with the pump nuisance in
order to preserve the health of the
more reckless who would actually
drink water in summer time in pre
ference to beer, swallowing the imper
ceptible microbes and animalculi at
every gulp with the indifference of so
many monomaniacs bent upon keep
ing sober.
It was charged by the Dutch that
surface drainage filtered into wells 40
feet deep, whether cemented or not,
and whether the streets were macadam
ized or not. And though the well-water
was actually the purest in the city, the
wells wre punctually filled up by regal
order ami royal command in the inter
est of those selling beer and soda water.
Only this and nothing more. As for
the water furnished from rescrvoirs.the
only source of supply after the wells
were filled up, an epicure could never
tell which it tasted most of as between
decaying fish or imprisoned frogs and
tadpoles. Right next to pure morals
we say give us pure water. Nothing
more justifies the use of intoxicants
than impure water, and the Dutch
know it, and so ought Americans.
NOT ALL THE SAME KIND.
Editor ok The Columbian :
The article that appeared in the
Bloomsburg Daily last Monday in re
gard to the colored element of this
place, it is very true that there is a
lowly, degraded set of colored people
in this place that nukes it hard for a
better class that tries to take a step
higher in this world toward progress.
Now, the class that participated in
that ungodly affair Friday night is
among the lowest. Wake up you
brethren and sisters, and make men
and women out of yourselves. It isn't
the color that makes the person ; it is
Principle. Don't get trashy because
you are black.
A Respectable Colored Man.
K. L- 0. E. CONVENTION.
The Ministerial, Sunday-school and
K. L. C E. Convention of Lewisburg
district, Cent. Pa. Conf., Evangelical
Association, will be held in the
Bloomsburg Evangelical Church, May
15th, 1 6th and 17th. A full pro
gramme covering local church work
is prepared for the occasion. Ministers
from Lycoming, Sullivan, Wyoming,
Susquehanna, Lackawanna, Luzerne,
Columbia, Montour, and Northum
berland counties will attend the con
vention, and delegates from some of
these counties will be present.
KOPE JUMPING.
We published a short time ago a
case of death resulting from rope
jumping 132 times by Miss Henrietta
Purcel, of New Jersey. For the benefit
of little girls given to this habit for
want of better exercise we mention
another case, that of Miss Dora Fran
kell, ofTottstown, who jumped the
rope 200 times and fell exhausted.
Permanent disability the doctors say,
will be the result in this case.
TEE BAND.
The Bloomsburg Band gave the
citizens quite a serenade on Tuesday
evening, from the gallery or veranda
of the court house. The pavements
were thronged with eager listeners
and the music was of the kind well
calculated to entertain.
And now the big property is in
jeopardy as well as the smaller estates.
At Mahanoy City, on the 3d inst., the
Sheriff seized a big colliery owned by
the Primrose Coal Company, on a
confessed judgment in favor of the
Delano Land Co. for $52,000. The
colliery employed 500 men and boys.
As a business enterprise, agricul
tural fairs arc not thrifty these days,
it seems. While Benton has already
announced a determination to have
no fair this year, both the charter and
effects of the Luzerne County Agri
cultural Society have been sold re
cently by the sheriff for $15.
Almost anybody can see the pro
priety of the " good roads " feature of
Coxey's urgent demand from our
statesmen in Congress assembled.
When roads are bad it is difficult for
commonwealers to get along very fast.
Let us have good roads by all means.
BRIEF MENTION
About People You Know.
Clifton Creasy lias put up .1 nice portico
in front of his house.
Herman Knies is learning the pholoera
phic art with Capwtll.
Mrs. Fulton and Mrs. J. G. Freeze went
to l'hiladelphia on Tuesday.
Ve are glad to report the improved con.
dilion of Mr. BcnshofT's child.
Louis TVrnhard Jr., has registered with
1-rcd Ikcler Ksi., as law student.
Constable S. W. Kccdcr, of Franklin, was
among callers at this ollice this week.
Mr. Ira Doty, of IJcrwick, wo notice
among others attending court this week.
Krncst Hrittain, of New Columbus, was
among early passengers on the U. S.
Mrs. F. P. Drinker entertained her son
V. W. Drinker, of Scranton, on Sunday.
Stanley Hryfo:;!c is the happv owner of a
fine bicycle, and he makes good use of it.
Mr. William F I tower, J. P., of Frank
lin, was among callers at thi3 office on Mon
day. CJ. M. Tustin, John Harman, C. A.
Pmall and C. Dates were admitted to the bar
last Monday.
Mr. Randall, editor and proprietor of the
Catawissa " News Item," dropped in upon
us on Monday.
During the illness of Miss Jennie Utt,
Miss Delia Stadon has been clerking in l'ur
sel & I f arman's store.
l'.ditorC. II. Dorr, of the Ilerwick In.
dependent," was one of a number of bicycle
riders who came to town on Sunday.
Mrs. J. S. Gilbert, Miss Martha Clark,
Miss Maggie Fox, Mrs. M. L. Kline and
John I-ox went to Philadelphia last Friday.
We must report another little victim of the
measles in the person of William G. Savage,
whose burial took place la.st Saturday in
Koseniont Cemetery.
Judge Millard, being able again to be
about, is now at his K.st of duiy and the
recipient of many friendly greetings. His
friends are numerous.
Mr. Kdgar, the proprietor of Stillwater
planing mill, boarded the morning train at
Zaner's on Monday, with tools and imple
ments to build with in liloomsburg.
Torrance Andrews, an old soldier friend
whom we had not met since the close of the
war, by chance took seat beside us on the
Monday morning train. He is older by
some 30 year3.
J. S. Wiilinms, auctioneer, is a busy man ,
these days. His orders for sales this week
were at Shenandoah on Monday, Locust
Dale on Tuesday, Wilkes-Uarre on Friday,
and Jerseyshore on Saturday.
Mrs. Z. II. Stevens, of New Columbus,
who has been for some years helplessly pros
trated with spinal affection, anticipates
going soon to Philadelphia to undergo a
course of medical treatment there.
Capt. John Huckalew, of Fishingcreck,
came down on the 11. & S. on Monday. He
spoke of the possibility of depositing his
collection of Indian relics with the trustees
of the Normal School of liloomsburg.
We are pleased to mention the call of our
old friend and school teacher H. II. Brown,
of Light Street. Though the indellible
marks of remorseless time have changed him
somewhat, the old time expression still re
mains. liditor W. II. Smith of Benton, was in
town on F'riday, and met Mr. Bausher of
Williamsport, passenger agent of the P. &
K. road, with whom he made arrangements
for an excursion train to Atlantic City next
August.
George C. Roan, J. V. Mover, Frank
Dawson and Charles Thomas attended the
State Convention of the Knights of the
Golden Kagle, the former representing Theta
Castle of Bloomsburg for the third time,
started on Monday morning for the Conven
tion in Kaston.
Mrs. R. W. Oswald went to New York on
Monday, with her mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Hanly and Mrs. Woodin of Berwick.
With them was Woodin Hanly, who will
sail about the 15th for New Zealand, Aus
tralia, and other foreign lands. He will be
on the water over 100 days before landing,
and will be absent from home over a year.
He goes away for his health.
Rev. John Hewitt spent last Sunday and
Monday in town as the guest of Col. Freeze.
On Sunday he made a brief address in St.
Paul's Church in the morning, and preached
in the evening. Large congregations were
present at both services, Mr. Hewitt came
here in 1870 as Rector of St. Paul's Church,
and remained until 1875, and was Principal
of the Normal School from 1S71 to 1S73.
He is now rector of a large parish nt Lin
coln, Nebraska, and is Principal of a school
there. His business in the east was to ob
tain .30,ooo for the school on a mortgage
on the property.
A large number of copies of " The
Magic City " are being sold in Blooms
burg, and some have been sent out
by mail to subscribers through the
county, but not nearly so many of the
latter as there should be. It may be
that the trouble of cutting out the
coupon, and sending ten cents by
mail has deterred some from ordering
the work. To such we say that they
can get the portfolios at this office at
any time when they are in town, as
they want them, one or more at a
time. Don't miss this opportunity.
Regular subscribers need not bring
the coupons. Those who are not sub
scribers must either become such, or
buy a paper containing the coupon.
Numbers 9 and o are ready this week.
Some boy's who were playing ball
on Main street by the Episcopal
Church, knocked the ball through one
of the stained glass windows. This
kind of amusement 011 Main street
ought to Le prohibited.
The big discount Sale at Lowen
berg's on Saturday.
"By Fair Dealing We Thrive."
IT'S NOT A QUESTION
As to whether or not we
sell more Clothing than
any two stores in town
combined. WE DO IT. At
least our popular trading
does it.
I MBHH EraCB M0W
THIS IS THE STORE
For Sweaters,
Bicycle Pants,
Bicycle Suits,
Belts,
White Vests,
Canes, I
and all such goods.
msm
THAT'S JUST IT-
A MIGHTY LITTLE MONEY WILL GO A GREAT WAYS JUST NOW
The following telegram speaks for itself :
JetT-f-fttcii . (7fct et-fg ffiee 4alj?e
ecu
tie ttitdivei.
Of. eg.
-pep-
Children's Suits.
Our Mr. Gidding went direct to the factory, inspected the
goods they were O. K., and were shipped at once. They are
now on our tablea and such an array ot First Class Clothing at
so little money has never been equaled in this vicinity.
Bought for spot cash and sold at a small margin above cost.
The following few items will give you an idea ot what we . are
offering. We guarantee these prices to be the lowest ever
quoted for such qualities and if you can match them for any
where near our price at any other store in town, your money
will be returned to you for the asking :
AN IMMENSE SELECTION
of Mens' all wool suits in light, medium and darkehades
per and salts, stripes, plads, in fact,
every conceivable pattern for
Guaranteed positively all wool and
fast colors every one of them
worth from $10 to $12. If you can
match them for less, your money back
for the asking.
We've many other styles and patterns in goods
that sold earlier in season at from 12 to $15, now
$8.48 AND $9.75 Sin-.
BOYS' SUITS i" cheviots, cashmeres, worsteds and
whipcords, light medium and dark colors, elegant fitting, at
Not one of them worth less than $8.50 and up to $13.00.
Beautiful all of them at the above prices.
Actual Worth $3.00. Actual Worth $3.50. Washakie Snoa Pants.
f)8J)j ant! $8.75.
Double - Breasted.
Neat Patterns.
98 cts.
Perfect Fitting.
Actual Worth, $a
Special Price $1.93.
For Excellent
Wool
$1.98
Knee Pants Suits.
Sizes 4 to 14.
Special Price $2.25.
15 Cents.
For Blue Flannel
Boys' Knee
$2.25
Pants Suits. All
Sizes.
Wash Like Dish
Rags. Boys' Knee
15 cts.
Pants, All Sizes.
Actual Worth 39c
In addition to the above we've plenty to offer in many other things, which space does not permit us to men
tion here. Remember this, what you buy of us is guaranteed as represented and if not satisfactory, money
returned. Our salesmen are obliging, and it won't cost you anything to come in and see what we can offer you.
Remember the place and location.
J. M. GIDDING & CO.,
Opposite Bloomsburg Banking Co., and 2 Doors below Post Office,-
BASE BALL AND BAT ni nrMtionnnn r- .
With Every Knee Pants Suit. b LUU IYI O b U KG, PA.