. . ' . THE COtUlIMAH fT T S.-A Jf T A.Wv lLvLwA JSkfeffJE and Now York Wook- fl 'y. I Bl l !T(yA tJ ySV3vl AAAVvV' LOs4T KY TWV ti3ing cpace cortainly ly World for $1.06 In iVD V I K l I I I Jl fl II III II 111 I I 1) I I I ill I II III I chowu at usir.ess a Van:). Try thia. XCJJ I I V i A II 1 I II fill I Yl M III 12 men recognize thoval- , ( V J AX AV AVlvly IIVASJXvVVl V iH I'L no of 'The Columbian" JL ( aasa r r "sr NT r v nt ' r r X a3 an alvertising mo- . V" , dinm. VOL 29 BLOOMSBURG'S EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. Rapid Strldoi In tho Public Schools Until a High Standard Hat Been Attained. Less than thirty years ago the child ren of this town obtained whatever edu cation they received in buildings that were no better than those to be found anywhere in the country districts. The old Academy which stood where Dr. J. R. Evans residence now stands, was the high school, though not very high in its curriculum in those days. Three or four teachers were employed there. A small school house at Port Noble, and another on Welsh Hill, and a third at Morgantown, each with one teacher, completed the public school system of the district. In 1867 the Bloomsburg Literary Institute was established, and in 1868 the organization of the Normal School followed, and this wakened the people up to the fact that the public school facilities were far behind the times, and that something must be done. In 1870 the Fifth street school house was erected, and this was looked upon as a great stride forward. Soon afterwards the Third street school house was built, and it was believed then that these build'ngs would be ample for many years to come. But the progres sive spirit that manifested itself in the community and led to the establish ment of many new industries here, brought many people from abroad, and the population steadily increased, until it became necessary a few years ago to erect a third building, the new High School on First and Center streets, a fine structure that did credit to the architect and builder, and to the Board of Directors that caused its construction. Last year the Fifth street building was enlarged, and this year it was found necessary also to enlarge the Third street building. This addi tion was completed just in time for the opening of the schools this month. Thomas Goirey had the contract, and he pushed the work forward rapidly, and performed his contract to the en tire satisfaction of the Board of Direc tors. The building is heated and ven tilated by a new system. The subjects of heating and ventila ting have been given the utmost atten tion by the Directors. After visiting several towns and cities and investi gating the many systems now in use, the Board decided to put in the Stur tevant system of heating and ventila ting ; a system that is endorsed by the best scientific authorities of the day, and is being largely in use in schools and public buildings throughout the country. A brief description will per haps be interesting to our citizens. The Slurtevant system supplies each room with a constant supply of fresh air, distributed through Hues connect ed with each room. The air is forced through the flues by a fan, the air coming into each room which will average per scholar 33 cubic feet of fresh warmed air per minute. The system is claimed to be the best m use. The contract was awarded to the well known firm of B. G. Carpen ter & Co., Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania agents. In connection with the above sys tem Dr. Ross' Cremating Dry Closets have been adopted. These closets have so revolutionized the Sanitary de mand that no modern school building is considered complete without them. The system is entirely independent from, and is in no way connected with the warming and ventilation. In company with Mr. John R. Townsend, one of the directors, and who has been one of the leaders in bringing the public schools up to the high plane which they now occupy, we visited all of the schools last Friday afternoon. The High School is under the direction of Prof. L. P. Sterner, who is also the superintendent of all the schools in town, assisted by Prof. Mauser and Miss Nora Finney. There are 96 pupils enrolled. The A Gram mar school is in two divisions, Miss Alice Wilson having 34 in her room, and Miss Hannah Breece having 35. The B Grammar grade is also in two divisions, Miss Ella Allen having 35 pupils, and Miss Ida Rinker laving 35 ; making a total of 234 in the'High School building. At the Third street school Mr. Ira Brown has charge of the A Interme diate room, with 46 pupils ; Miss Min nie Penman, B Intermediate with 43 pupils ; Miss Dora Breece, A Primary, with 58 pupils ; Miss Stella Lowenberg, B Primary, with 44; Miss Emma Townsend, B Primary, with 45 ; Miss Ida Bcrnhard, Secondary grade, 51 i Miss Eva Rawlings, Secondary, 45. Total number of pupils is 332. At Fifth street school, Samuel Pur sel teaches A Intermediate Rrade, with 35 pupils; Miss Alice Brockway, B Intermediate, with 53 ; Miss Lou Rob bins; A Primary, with 49 ; Miss Alice Edgar, A Primary, with 50 ; Miss An nie Snyder, B Primary, with 53 ; Miss Bessie Holmes, B Primary, with ?o: i.. 3 -ox, oeconaary, with 46 Miss Marv Sheen. Rprnnrl Total in Fifth street school, 38a. Grand total in all the schools, 948. iiuiuuci vi icacners, aa. Formerly th the Third and Fifth street schools, each with a small recitation room ad joining, and each room had a principal and an assistant. Now there are eight wms in eacn bin 'ding, and each teacher has charge of a room. The teachers are an ef ficient corps, most of them graduates of the Normal, and all are deeply in terested in their work. How much interest does the public in general take in the public schools ? Some people look upon them merely as a scheme to get money out of the tax-payer, while too many mothers consider them as a sort of nursery where they can send their children to get rid of them. What the schools need, and what the teachers need to encourage them, is to feel that their work is appreciated, and this can be manifested in no better way than by frequent visits from par ents and relatives and friends. The schools are making the future citizens, business men, mothers and fathers of this community; they are doing a great work, and thev micrtif to ic:. ted and encouraged in every possible way. MAIN'S GEEAT SHOWS. Walter L. Main's shows arrived here on Sunday morning by the P. it R. road, coming from Mount Carmel. A large crowd of people witnessed the unloading of the wagons and ani mals, and the erection of the tents. The show travels on its own train of twenty-seven cars each sixty feet long, four of which are sleeping cars, six box cars for horses, and the remain der flat cars. Last year the train was smashed up on the Pennsylvania road at Tyrone, and nearly everything was destroyed. One of the elephants we noticed was quite lame in one hind leg and were informed that the leg was broken in that wreck. The rail road company supplied Mr. Main with an entire new train. All day Sun day the show ground was a centre of attraction. On Monday morning hundreds of people came to town, and when the parade passed, Main Street was thronged. The procession was a grand pageant, fully up to all it was advertised to be. There were three brass bands, a drum corps and a steam piano in the line, besides dens of wild animals, elephants, camels, &c. The performance in the big tent was excellent in every feature, with nothing objectionable from beginning to end. There was a large attendance at both performances, and the fre quent applause showed that all were well pleased. We never saw a finer lot of horses, and everything was neat and clean. One commendable feature was the absence of fakirs and frauds. The press agent, Mr. John Pifer, was a very agreeable gentleman, who did all in his power for the entertainment of the newspaper men. It was an nounced that Main's show will come here again next year, and if it does it will be well patronized. Keystone Foundry and Machine Oo. The Mears Manufacturing Com pany no longer exists, having been reorganized and merged into the Keys tone Foundry and Machine Company. The entire plant has passed into the hands of the new concern, and C. Mears has withdrawn from the com pany. Jacob W. Moyer is President of the new organization, W. H. Sny der, Secretary; L. S. Wintersteen, Treasurer ; J. J. Brower and W. S. Flekenstine are directors with the others above named. Mr. Moyer is general manager. He has had long experience in the business, and is just the man for the place. He will move his family from Danville to Bloomsburg in the spring. The buildings have been remodeled and enlarged, and there have been ad ded new planers, lathes, drill presses, screw cutters, and other new machin ery necessary for .all kinds of foundry, machine, and planing mill work. Af ter finishing up the Mears washing machines on hand, the company will discontinue their manufacture. Every department is now in operation, em ploying about twenty hands at present. Later on it is probable that thirty-five or forty will be required. The plant is very complete, and the business management is in excellent hands, and no doubt the new company will receive a liberal patronage and meet with abundant success. Word comes from Tennessee that a lyncher of that latitude is likely to be tried for murder. We shall be pre pared to verify the fact when the trial ends. HLOOMSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1894. Grover Wins. The Ashland Advocate of last week, in reporting the races at the Lavelle fair, thus speaks of a Bloomsburg horse s The next race was the a:a5 trot and pace lor purse ot 1 250. The race was a pretty one, some of the finest horses ever seen on the track heinu ntri Five horses started, passing under the wire aimost aDrcast. Urover, owned by Harry Aurand, of Bloomsburg, took the lead in the three heats and maintained that position throuchout in all the heats. J. II. N., owned by Jos. H. Nichter, of Pottsville, took second Dlace everv time, and Tnscnh. ine, owned by Moore & Vandusen, of .1. ..... . uoiuzaaic. 100K third monev. In th last heat J. II. N., wa3 away back as mey passea me tnree-quarter mile DOSt and looked as if he wa nnt omnrt to take his accustomed place, when he seemea to ny ana in the stretch caught UD to Toseohine who was nu&hinr Grover for first place. Josephine broke when nearing the wire and dropped to third. The horses finish ed as follows. Heats 1-2-3 Grover 1-1-1 T. II. N .2-2-3 Josephine 4-3-3 Poser w-5 Mack 5-5-4 Time, 2:32$, 3:34. Fabio Romani. Aiden Benedict's Fabio Romani is a fine creation. It surpasses Monte Cristo in its intensity ot action, in its subtlety of plot, in its cause and ef fect. 1 here are no chasms of sequence that must be bridged by the imagi nation. It steps immediately upon a high, artistic level of intense, active interest, and keeps that level up to the terrific, emotional climax, which is the submerging of the expiring bod ies of the principal characters in the Bay of Naples, amid the crashing thunder of an earthquake, in the weird light of an awful eruption of Mt. Ve suvius, Fabio Romani is a tale of the dead, founded first and last upon the du plicity of woman. Mr. Walter Law rence, as Fabio Momani, the wrong ed husband and implacable avenger, gave a powerful representation of the part. Mr. Lawrence has a magnifi cent physique. His acting is a combi nation of the robust and intense. Miss Engel Sumner, as Nina, the wife of the virtuous, trusting, studious, rich Fabio, the woman who bartered her all for the love of gold, did some exceptionally fine acting. Nina is one of the most remarkable imper sonations we have ever seen upon the stage. (xuwlo Perarrt, the treacherous friend and villainous desecrator of peace and virtue, was excellent. Of Charles L. tar well, as JCespetti, we cannot speak too highly. His de scription of his wife's infidelity, the discovery, his killing her in the arms of her lover and bathing his hands in her warm heart s blood, was the best piece of acting, by far, that we have witnessed for many a ctay. It was superb, grand, terrific. Miss Grace Hunter in her Spanish serpentine and dance steropticon was a dream of the poetry of grace and motion. She has no superior on the stage. The remainder of the large cast was strong and even, the costumes were rich and the stage settings were magnificent paintings of Naples and its vicinity. The spectacular effects of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the burning lava, the earthquake, the sink ing tomb, the struggle in the sea, was appalling and thrilling. The living pictures were, by far, the most beauti ful visions that have ever been pro duced on any stage. Boston Herald. Bloomsburg Opera House, Monday, October 1st. THE FIREMEN RETURN. Headed by Bloomsburg's excellent and finely uniformed band the Friend ship Fire Company returned on Satur day morning from their outing at Norristown and Philadelphia. Though the weather was damp at the time of their departure it was remarked by friends who welcomed them home that the boys looked very dry and nice upon their return. Schuylkill water has been condemned by Phila delphians for lo these many years, and besides the sun was out enough to dry their uniforms ; hence their apparent dryness. Another Scientist off His Base. Rudolf Falb, the well known weath er prophet of Germany, has made one more big mistake. He predicted that the month of September would be very dry and warm throughout Ger many, whereas, the contrary is true rain, rain every day. BRIEF MENTION About People You Know. Mr. an.! Mrs. Slnte have moved into their elegant new home on Fifth itrect. Mn. J. G. Wells has been suffering for the past two weeks with her eyes. Wm. Webb nn4 wife are visiting in Phil adelphia. Wm. Dentler went to Shamokin on Mon day. Norman Cote, of Mifllinville, wa a visitor at the county seat on Saturday. C. H. Kittenhousc, of Mountain Grove was a caller in tnwn on Fridny, O. B. Melick. took a trirt to Wilkes-Rarre on Friday. Miss Clara Peers is mendim? some tim with Mrs. Flisha Hrujjler, of Frosty Valley. Mr and Mrs. Naele are entertaining Mr. Frank Lewis, of Ohio. Will iam I... Parks, of Benton, was among the town visitors on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Nickal are visitors with Mrs. Wm. Beers. W. O. Holmes, the enternrisinir l.lnmlifr of Bloomsburg, took a business trip to the country last wel;. Mrs. L. M. Ilartman. of Uuukhorn. a short lime visiting relatives in Bloomsljurg this week. Mr. and Mr9. ?tcjl.enson, of Philadelphia, are guests at the house of Mrs. Clark, on Market street. Thomas Gorrey, jr., went to Philadelnhia on Friday to pursuu his studies at the Col lege ot l'harmacy. Mr. and Mrs. limes Connor, of Shick. shinny Valley, w-jre Iibiomsburg visitors ou Saturday. Candidate T. B. Mcltenrv and wife snent Monday in town and, intidtntailv, visited the circus. JuJje and Mrs. Elwell passed the fiftieth anniversary of their marri.e uii Svptembtr lyui. Mr W. T. Creasy, the very likely candi date for representative, was among the rush 01 visitors on ruonunv. Hon. V.. M. Tewkslntrv. the southside n:- litical prophet, came also to town on the dav of the circus. Ex-Commissioner B. F. Edrar and hand some young daughter were visitors at the county seat on Monday. We rather think they took in the circus. Mr. Frank S. Bowman, a promising vounc man of New Columbus, is i.nw takiinr a medical course at the Medico Chirurgical College, of Philadelphia. Frank Patterson and bride took the steam. ship Bntanica on Wednesday for an extend ed trip abroad. Rev. Patterson and family went to Mew York to lee them oft. Edward 1. Flynn was admitted to the bar on Monday morning, having passed a very satisfactory examination. lie is a son oi Patrick Hynn. of Central la. and read law in the office of C. G. Barkley, Esa. He has opened an office in Centralia. Frank Ikeler was admitted to the bar on Sfonday mornine, after oassinc a creditable examination. He is a son of President udge E. R. Ikeler. a craduate of Lafayette College, and a young man of excellent char acter and ability, A partnership has been formed with Fred Ikeler under the firm name of Ikeler & Ikeler. OPENING THE CAMPAIGN. """ The Y. M. C. A. Campfire last Monday night was a great success. Everybody was delighted with the novelty of the entertainment, the splendid addresses, the fine music and the elegant provision wade by the Ladies Auxiliary. The music of the Male Choir was very much enjoyed, the solo of Mr. Yetter was highly ap preciated and the violin solos by Mr. Stauffer received much praise. Prof. Wilbur made an excellent address and H. V. White, Esq., reviewed t'.e present standing of the Association so ably that it leaves the citizens of this community without any excuse for not supporting the institution. State Secretary Hurlburt delivered a powerful address which wonderfully stirred up his hearers. If the opening is an indication the fall campaign is to be a vigorous one. Robert J., the famous pacing horse that has made such remarkable time within the last two weeks, breaking the world's record, was bred and reared at Williamsport by R. J. C, Walker. When Mr. Walker went to Europe he sold . all his horses except Robert J, and he gave him to his trainer, Champ Brown, who entered the colt in his first race in Alloona. He got his first record of 2:2 2 J at Albany, when he was 3 years old. He is now 6 years old. Brown sold him for $ 1,500, and is probably kicking himself for it at this instant, for to-day two more ciphers at the right of that figure would hardly buy him. Tbo Levol-Qdadodueb8 of a Plumber Doubted. Herman Pfannesshmidt, a plumber, of Altoona, was recently sent to Peni tentiary for pestering President Cleve land and other high officials with threatening letters. On the ground of his insanity his wife has now petition ed for divorce. Thus plumbers, too, have their troubles in this life. The mills are so busy that it is said the employees will be given only a half-day off during the fair. A Few Boilnrs Goes a great ways in buying clothing at this store just now. Our buyer just returned from the city, and we bought for a price and wiil sell for a price. SUITS FOR MEN $G.50 and $8.50 ; worth $10.00 and $12.00. 810.00 WILL BUY Cheviots, casimere and clays. single and bouble breasted suits for men. OUR PRICE 10.00. Long cut blue overcoats, Regent cutaways, elegant long cut sack suits for young men. CHILDREN'S SUITS. Reefers and Reefer Suits. Jerseys and Fauntleroys- No finer made than we carry. "Where the good clothes come from," TV f). Iowenler5g dlothir,g gtoife. L.i... ) We positively guarantee a saving of 50c to $1.00 ilUpQilfiiUVi j on ail 0ur children's suits and overcoats. FASHION IN A WILDERNESS OF NEW DRESS GOODS This is what you are invited of the latest ideas. The newest productions that have been brought out for the coming season. They are any ot them yours at a price within your reach. Our aim is fine goods at moderate prices. 3 Specials in Dress Goods xst. A lot of novelty dress goods in 13 combinations and colorings at 50c yd. id. A lot of all xoool serges at 40c; regular 50c. goods in 10 shades. 3d. A lot of tailor made suitings at 60c. worth $1.00. A large line of novelty dress goods in dress pattern lengths. A complete line of the popular covert suitings. Gilberts cloth suitings, full lines. , COATS, QAPES. COATS, CAPES. . All the latest in both. Almost anything you could wish, either in cloth or fur. Fur capes of all grades. Cloth capes. Coats. The golf cape. Children's coats. LACS CURTAINS. LACE CURTAINS. ' Full new lines at lower prices than ever. We have just concluded a large purchase of CHENILLE CUR1 AINS wnich we will sell at one-half former prices. Jet Trimmings, a full line. iSilks and 'tloets. Hosiery and Underwear, New Kid Gloves. J'reistley'8 Cravenetles. They will shed water like a duck's back ; also dust. They are odorless. They are the genuine English imperial serge. They come in black, navy blue, brown, green, moka. They will wear like iron and are exquisitely beautiful in texture. Blankets, 500. pair up. " Comfortables, 70c. up. TA BLE LINENS. H. J. CLARK & SON. NO 39 VVear Well children's suits, double knee and double seat, and beautiful children's suits for $1.75, fa.oo and $3.00. Positively and actually worth $15.00 and sold for that in other stores. to come and see. It is made up novelties and the most elegant i! 1 M4 i!
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