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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1895.
Bnterdl at the Post Offloe at Blonmsburg, Pa
m second class matter, March 1, 1888.
OUR CLUB offers. r
Every subscriber, new or old, who
pays one full year in advance, wilt re
ceive free for one year 1'he Ameri
can Farm News.
The Columbian and the Philadel
phia Weekly Times for one year
for $1.40.
The Coi.UMMANand the New York
World twice a week, for $1 75. This
is a great combination, one of the
best we ever offered. The twice a
week World contains twelve pages of
the news of the world. It is the best
value ever offered for the money. Try
it. lf-
The Bloomsburg Car Mfg. Com
pany has secured a large contract for
cars for parties in Cuba.
The window decorations in Wesley
Moyer's new stand indicate that Val
entine day is near at hand.
1895 calendars are given away at
this cilice. Call and get one, or on
receipt of a request on a postal card,
we will mail free to any address in
the county. tf.
Of the eighty-nine applicants for
license in Columbia county this year
all except that of Samuel Smith weri
granted. Mr. Smith withdrew his
application before the assembling of
the license court.
The following letters are advertised
Jan. 29, 1895. Mrs. Susan Anthony,
Mr. Hagenbuch, Mrs. Susan Ivens,
Mr. John Newman, Miss Irene Miller,
Mr. John Minor. Will be sent to the
dead letter office Feby. 12, 1895.
James H. Mercer, P. M.
Mrs. L. B. Woll, a missionary who
spent ten years of her life in India,
will give a lecture, to women only, on
the subject, " The women of India,"
in the Lutheran church, on Saturday
evening, Feb. 2, at 7.30 o'clock.
All women are most cordially in
vited to be present. No admission
will be charged.
Dr. George Shattuck, whose busi
11 ess it is to mend broken bones and
human injuries, and moreover an over
seer of Harvard College, says it is
better to break a few bones than to
abolish the game of foot ball which is
now so popular and in vigorating among
students. He would not object to
some trifling changes in the rules of
the game, however.
We are informed that the county
auditors found Superintendent John
ston's account of the institute fund
correct. He had filed in the com
missioner's office last October when
he received the two hundred dollars
for institute purposes, all the receipts
for moneys expended, and a state
ment of the same was exhibited be
fore the auditors.
The Bloom Foor District Directors,
namely, Messrs. A. C. Hidlay, J. M.
Larish and O. T. Wilson, on Satur
day made the following appointments
for the ensuing year :
Secretary, C. A. Kleim ; Treasurer,
J. K. Grotz ; physician for Bloomsburg
and the Poor House, Dr. J. U Kutter ;
physician for Scott township, Dr. F.
W. Redeker; physician for Millville
and vicinity, Dr. J. H. Christian.
Friend, neither lend a borrowing
neighbor your tooth-pick or yoifr
newspaper. Let them buy in both
cases ; for there is no telling how soon
you may want to use these articles.
If you get a wedge in your teeth you
want a tooth pick of your own, and if
your paper is worth taking it is worth
retaining for reference. As for wheel
barrows, &c, let your neighbors
have them by all means, but draw
he line on tooth-picks and newspapers.
ring tlkt fVej&ription. to Ie
-AND I
:FILL IT MYSELF.
1st. With tho purest of drugs. . .
2d. In the cleanest and most complete of prescription tie-nartmenls.
'M. In the most scientific and
4th. For the lowest possible price obtainable for good work.
It is bad enough to be sick, without beiug compelled to
lake impure medicine compounded in an unscientific manner.
Try Us.
Licenses must be lifted in fifteen
ua; nuin me time tncy were granted.
The county statement will be pub
lished in this paper next week.
Certificates of nomination must be
filed by the 1st, and nomination papers
by Monday, the 4th.
Besides the properties advertised
in this paper to be sold by Sheriff
McIIenry, those of T. V. Edgar, and
Glen City Coal Co. will be sold at
the court-house on February 9th, at
2 o'clock p. m.
Among the many Bloomsburgers
who enjoy taking advantage of the
presence of the beautiful snow, singly,
doubly and by the sled load, we men
tion the enjoyable ride of Messrs. W.
H. Snyder and L. S. Wintersteen, to
Catawissa last Sunday.
In the recent reorganization of the
board of directors of the School
Furnishing Company of Eloomsbuig
the following named officers were
elected :
President, A. Z. Schoch : Secre
tary and Treasurer, J. H. Aikman ;
Directors, A. Z. Schoch, J. L. Moy
er, L. xvi. Lreveline. C. W. Neal.
J. C. ISrown, and Wm. M. Reber.
The following officers have been
elected by the stockholders of the
Farmers' Produce Exchange for the
ensuing year :
J. Conner, President t Geo. W.
Supplee, Secretary ; Geo. W.
Corell, Treasurer j Daniel Bryfogle,
B. F. Battin, Directors ; Miss Eva
Rupert, A. W. Spear, Auditors j H.
G. Supplee, Manager.
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, which
is to be played in the Opera House
January 31, February 1st and 2, will
be given as well if not better than be
fore, and all persons attending who
are dissatisfied will have their money
cheerfully refunded as the drama and
rendering is guaranteed to be as ad
vertised. Nothing will be slighted or
omitted and new attractions in the
way of comedy will be introduced.
Last week the face of the editor of
this paper was slightly swollen for a
ronnle of davs. resultine from an ul
cerated tooth, nd this led to many
inquiries as to what lawyer it was inai
simncl un. nr down, and kicked him
in the jaw. The coincidence of an cn
larged face and a local in thi previous
issue is what led to the confusion of
jaws, and it was the high kicking of a
young lawyer that led to the contusion
of jaw. But it was the assistant edi
tor's facial beauty that was marred by
the heel ot a slippery nmo 01 tne taw,
and not ours. We leave the public to
guess who Everit was that did the
high kicking.
Christian Endeavor Day-
The fourteenth Anniversary of the
organization of the Christian Endeavor
Society will be observed in a very
intereresting and practical way on
Sunday evening in the Lutheran
Church. A large class of Juniors who
have reached the age of 14 will be
graduated into the Senior Society with
a special inauguration service, con
ducted by the President of the Society,
Mr. Frank Traub. There will also
u . .I.ia r,m,rtimnip nt music
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and selections besides, followed with
an address by Mrs. Rev. L. B. Wolf,
a returned Missionary from India,
who has been thee ten years and has
many interesting things to say aboutthe
great country. There are few better
speakers a.nong missionaries than
Mrs. Wolf.
When Baby was sick, we gare her Costorln.
Whon she was a Child, she crlod for Cantoris,
When she became Mlns, she clung to Castorla.
When she had Children, she garethem Castorla,
WILL-
careful manner.
W. S. BISHION, Ph. u.
' COUHTY INSTITUTES.
The Law relating to money paid by the
County needs amendment.
The act of 9 April 1867 authorizes
and requires each county Superintend
ent of public schools in this common
wealth, once in each year, to hold a
teachers' institute, continuing at least
five days. He is required to prepare
a ro 1 of members and keep a record
of attendance j and upon the presen
tation of a certificate, at the close of
the session of each annual institute,
setting forth these facts, and signed
by the county Superintendent, to the
treasurer of the county, he is author
ized and required to pay immediately,
out of any money in the county
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
to the county Superintendent, one
.111 c .. . 1 J . ,
1 viuuar lur every mree uays spent Dy
teachers of the county in attendance
at the institute, or as much of it as
may be needed j such money to be
expended by the county Superintend
ent, in procuring lecturers and in
structors for the institute, &c The
amount to be drawn is limited to two
hundred dollars, and the Superintend
ent must present vouchers for the
same to the county auditors, showing
that the money has been expended
as intended.
Each county Superintendent who
may draw money from the county
treasury for the purposes named,
shall file his account of all expendi
tures under the act, in the office of
the county treasurer, with vouchers
for the same, which shall be examined
by the auditors in like manner as other
county expenditures. This law was
passed in 1867, and under it the
county Superintendent is required
only to file an account of his expendi
tures ; nothing is said about receipts,
If his vouchers show that he has paid
out two hundred dollars for in
structors and other necessary ex
penses, he is entitled to draw out
that much from the county treasury.
When the law was passed, it was not
contemplated that there would be any
sources of revenue connected with
the institute, hence as no other
moneys were expected to come into
the hands of the county Superintend
ent, he was not required to account
for any receipts. Since then the
practice has been adopted in nearly
all, if not all, the counties in the
state, of providing a course of even
ing entertainments during the insti
tute, and in the absence of any pro
vision in the law authorizing this, the
county Superintendent must person
ally assume the responsibility. If the
lecture course pays, he has money in
pocket ; if it be a failure, he must
pay the deficit out of his own purse.
These entertainments have been well
patronized here, and as a rule have
more than paid their own expenses.
Each teacher has been assessed a
certain amount, a dollar or there
abouts, as an enrollment fee, and this
has entitled them to admission to the
course. Under the present law, as
the county Superintendent is person
ally responsible for all bills incurred
by these entertainments, there is no
reason why he should not be entitled
to the profits, if there be any, though
our recollection is that the surplus
has usually been carried over from
year to year, and has gone into the
lecture fund.
But no maer what the success of
the lecture course may have been,
the county is always called upon to
pay two hundred dollars, the full
amount allowed by law, because the
expenses of the institute, outside of
the lecture course, always exceed that
amount.
Now, as there is no reason why
there should be any surplus fund, and
as there is no reason why the Super
intendent should be personally res
ponsible for any deficit, it seems to us
that the act of 1867 needs some
amendments.
As lecture courses have become a
recognized feature in county institutes,
the law shou'd be so amended as to
require the county Superintendent to
provide such a course, and authoriz
ing him to charge an enrollment fee
for each teacher j he shall submit a
statement of all receipts and expenses
of the institute, and file the same
with the vouchers, with the county
commissioners, who shall issue an or
der for so much as is necessary to
meet any deficit, to an amount not
exceeding two hundred dollars. If
the receipts exceed the expenses, the
surplus shall be kept as a fund for
the expenses of the next institute,
and if there be any fund in the hands
of the Superintendent at the expira
tion of his term of office, he shall
hand it over to his successor.
This is only a general outline, and
some further details should be arrang
ed. If such an act were passed, it
would be more satisfactory all around,
and would prevent much of the con
troversy that has heretofore arisen as
to what has become of the surplus,
and the county would be compelled
to pay only so much as is necessary
to meet any deficit, and the Superin
tendent would be relieved from any
personal liability.
Call at the Columbian office and
get a handsome calendar for 1895.
We give them away to adults, tf.
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rise stood the Test ot Time
MORE SOLD THAN ALL OTHER
BRANDS COMBINED
la-at-ly. K. Co.
On Tuesday night about a quarter
of ten o'clock, as Lee Martin, clerk
in J. G. Wells' jewelry store, was on
his way home, and had reached Eli
Jones' barn on East Third street, a
man grabbed him by the arm and
then struck him in the face. They
grappled and Martis was thrown
down, and his assailant placed his
knee on his throat, but Martin suc
ceeded in rolling him, and got on top
and pounded the fellow in the face,
and then ran for home. No damage
was done save a few scratches.
Whether the man was lying in wait
for some one else and made a mis
take, or was waiting for Martin, think
ing he had the keys to the jewelry
store, is not known. Not a word was
spoken, and Lee docs not know the
party. He says, however, that he
will mark him the next time as he
intends to go prepared for such ruf
fians.
A Colonial Mansion-
Paul E. Wirt, of BJoomsbunr. of
tne Wirt fountain Pen Company,
spent Friday in this citv with his
architects, E. Culver & Son, looking
lor Duiiding material. Mr. Wirt is
building one of the finest mansions in
L-entrai rennsylvania. It will be
situated on the hillside overlooking
the city of Bloomsburg, with a grand
view of the North Branch and its
beautiful surrounding scenery for
miles down the vallev. To secure
this choice location four lots were
purchased and the buildincs thereon
demolished. The building will be
a fine example of old colonial work,
with state! doric columns extending
from the stone entrance steps to
tne root. 1 he grounds will be laid
out in graceful winding walks and
driveways. When, completed it will
be one of the interesting sights of
the city. Williamsport Sun.
A RECEPTION-
' On Tanuary i8 180c. Mr. and Mrs.
O. J. Merrell started from the home
of the bride, at Rohrsburir. Pa., amid
showers of rice and old shoes, for a.
short tour via. Bloomsburg to Dan
ville, stoppinc at the eleeantlv furnish.
ed " Montour House " of that place,
arriving at 6 o'clock P. M. Leaving
Jan. 19, at 9 A. M., for Greenwood
via Millville, arriving at the home of
the groom's parents 1 1 A. M., where
tney were royally received by their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Merrell.
together with over one hundred
invited guests.
At 12 o'clock A. M. Prof. Otto
Ikeler, brother of the bride, olaved
the march, when the bridal party
was ushered into the spacious parlors
where the newly married counle were
introduced and received the hearty
congratulations and best wishes of all
assembled. After which thev were
invited to the dining rooms where a
bounteous repast was spread. All
participated heartily in this part of
the occasion.
Among the cuests from a distance
were Mr. and Mrs. John Merrell of
Kansas. Mr. Harrv Annleman. Mr.
and Miss Hagenbach, of Iowa, Mr.
fiarry Keim, ot Watsontown, Miss
Lizzie Bennett, Hughesville, Mrs.
Lvdia Hess. Montandon. Mr.
John A. Merrell and family, Maus
dale, and Mrs. Hester Sterner, of
Dioomsourg. .
1 he happy couple received manv
useful and valuable presents, such as
easy chairs, lamps, silver-ware, class-
ware and linen.
About eight o'clock in the eveninir
the Cornet Band from Iola arrived
and under the directions of Mr. J. E.
Eves, rendered several of their choice
selections, which was highly appre
ciated by all present.
A Guest.
Stock Certificates.
Corporations desiring stock certi
ficates, are invited to call and see
samples of lithograph work, at The
Columbian office. Workmanship and
piices are guaranteed to compare fav
orably with city printing. u.
Week of
BED LETT
Be on deck early on Satur
day morning and take advantage
of the values that our RED
LETTER SALE offers you.
Courtesy Br gins At Home.
Courtesy begins at home, and
should be put on with one's slippers
when the ieet are thrust out of bed
in the morning. Let me see a wom
an meet her servants in the morning,
and I can tell you if she be a gentle
woman or no. The thoroughbred
lady in the old acceptation of the
word has a kindly greeting for every
fellow-creature, no matter how lowly,
with whom her life throws her in daily
or frequent contract ; and the little
wayside flowers, in the form of cheery
"(jood Imornings' and "Thank
you's," which she scatters through hen
days, earn for her willing, often de
voted, service, and are most efficient
aids in helping the household ma
chinery to move on without jars.
The woman who, on leaving her
room in the morning, passes her
housemaid in the hall without notice,
unless to rebuke the girl for not hav
ing done her work before, is a boor,
no matter what be her social status;
and her fellow is the woman in a
boarding house who brushes past her
neighbors without more recognition
than she would accord a stone, and
eats her meals in stolid silence which
she usually considers dignified reserve.
Easy and pleasant recognition of
persons with whom she is for the
moment thrown in contact marks the
woman of cultured heart as well as
brain, and implies no further ac
quaintance unless it should be mutu
ally desired. The woman who is
afraid, on occasion, to speak courte
ously to a stranger, or proffer needed
service or information, must be very
uncertain of her own position. From
" M.ttquetl6 of Everyday JAfe" n
DemoresCa Magazine for February.
The New Meat Market.
Louis Lyons, the proprietor of the
new meat stand opposite the Episco
pal parsonage, says : "Just Rive us a
lttle more advertising of the same
kind in The Columbian, please."
But, the type being distributed, we
will say instead that though bread is
the staff of life, good meat has also its
strengthening influence along the
spinal column, and in fact throughout
the human system. For such nour
ishing food see Louis Lyons. You
will find things neat and clean and his
charges reasonable. tf.
Eemoval.
Dr. H. Bierman will remove to his
new residence on Fourth street, be
tween Market and Center, opposite
Presbyterian Church, on February 1st.
4t.
El BALE.
The Clothiers.
Fashionable Livaiy
The well known houseman has
opened a fashionable lively in connec
tion with his boarding stable at the
Exchange Hotel Stahlei whom Km
turnouts can be obtained, single or
double. He has well broken and safe
saddle and drivin? horses for laHii-e
all at reasonable rates. Orders left
at the Exchange Hotel will receive
prompt attention. Drivers furnished
when desired..
tf W. A. Hartzell, Proprietor
your attention to our line of
JEWELRY,
WATCHES,
SILVERWARE,
GLASSES,
ETC
We Blow Our Own Horn
only to attract your attention. Then
we want to invite you to visit us it
is immaterial whether or not you want
to purchase anything. V e are show
ing a fine line of silver and glass ware.
Blowing Your Own Horn
is all right when there is no one else
to blow it for you. Whoever sells
first-class goods at low prices can de
pend upon his customers to blow his
horn for him. This is my policy in
the sale of jeweliy, watches, silverware,
glasses, &c.
J. G. WELLS
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