THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Highest of all in Lcav'cning
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
THURSDAY, DJXEMHER 31, iSyG.
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BRIEF MENTION.
About People Tou Know.
Rolt. Young spent Christmas at lientun.
Curtis Lognn visited Wilkes-Unrre friends
last week.
W. T. Creasy of Catawissa gave us a call
on Monday.
John Donahue, of Scranton spent Christ
inas in town.
tleorge Norman, of State College, is home
en his vacation.
Miss Rose Ohl, spent Christmas with
Milton friends.
John Knics visited his parents nt Ilazlc
ton over Sunday.
F. T. Davis, ofCnnliy was among our
callers on Tuesday.
J. C. Rutter Jr., was in Berwick two days
this week on business.
Miss Ilattie Kingrose visited friends at
Danville this week.
Harry Kline, visited friends at Wilkes
liarre over Christinas.
Mrs. Rev. Kne, of Alloona, visited Miss
' May Sharpless tins week.
W. E. Fisher spent Christinas week in
llazletun, visiting triends.
Will Kelley, of lla.leion spent Christmas
with his parents in town.
Morris Sloan of Scranton spent Christmas
at home on Market Street.
rhil M. White of Shamokin, visited
friends in town on Monday.
Robt. I'ursel, of Philadelphia is spending
his holiday vacation at home.
Edward Enterline of Wilkes-barre visited
his brother Cieorge last week,
Tcter Ashtun of liellefonte spent a couple
days in bloomsburg last week.
Will C. Drinker of Scranton, visited rela
tives in town over Christmas.
Charles II. l.awall of Philadelphia, spent
Christmas with his inotber in town.
J. P. DcLong, of Orangevillc transacted
business in town on W ednesday.
Miss Elizabeth Schuyler is visiting her
urother J. K. tciiuyler and wile.
Miss Grace 1 ogan, of Shamokin, is visit
ing her cousins on Seventh istreet.
Ceorge Lowery, of Scranton transacted
business in liloomsburg on Monday.
Edwin II. Ent and wife visited the latter's
parents at Weatherly over Sunday.
Michael Tracy, of Shenandoah, spent
Christmas with his mother on East Street.
Frank Colley of Philadelphia, spent
Chrisinias with his mother on lion Stieet.
F. M. Kelley, of West Virginia spent
Christnius with his mother, on Main Street.
Jay Allen, a student at the State College
is spending his vacation with his parents in
town.
Miss Mattie Caskell, of Philadelphia is
visiting relatives and friends on Third
Street.
Miss Rey Shultz of Philadelphia, is spend
ing the holidays with her aunt Dr. II. A.
Kobbins.
Hon. A. L. Fritz and son Charlie left on
Wednesday for a two days trip to Phila
delphia. Rev. A. S. liuwuian ol Austin, Pa., was
in town on Saturday, calling upon relatives
and friends.
Charles A. Pollock and wife of Hazleton,
spent Christmas with the formers parents on
Fifth street.
Carlton Caswell of Philadelphia is home
spending his holiday vacation with his
mother.
Arthur Colley, foreman of the tube works
at Shickshinny, visited friends in town over
Sunday.
Miss Carrye Folmer of Shenandoah, was
4he guest of Dr. Kobbins, on First Street
over Sunday.
Misses Beisie and Belle Weil of Plymouth,
visited Miss Margaret Shaffer on Third
Street last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoopei of Willium
sport, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Aurund this week.
Miss M. A Marks, operator at the West
ern Union Telegraph ohice is visiting friends
at Scranton.
Miss Jennie Barkley, who U attending the
Conservatory of Music nt Troy, N. V. is
spending her vacation with;her parents on
Market Street.
YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL AT
RISHTON'S DRUGSTORE
.any day from 7 a. m. to
Immense Hue
....CHRISTMAS GIFTS....
WE MENTION A FEW Foil EXAMPLE, WT "THERE ARE OT1IEKS"
LEATHER COODS of all kinds and descriptions.
PERFUMER Y-T1 '"oat beautiful stock lu town. ,
HAND PAINTED NOVELTIES-Eutlrely new, novel and cheap.
CUT CLASS A law mid henuttrul stock.
WHITMAN'S WORLD-FAMED Chocolates and Hon llous,
W. S. RISHTON,
Opposite P. O.
Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Powder
E. A. 1 '.ycr, of Philadelphia is home
pending his vacation with bis parents on
Market Street.
. James Dougherty, n printer employed in a
j )l ollicc nt Philadelphia, is home spending
the holidays.
W. II. Housel and family spent the holi
days with the formers brother Harry at
Washington, D. C.
E. N. Penin and family of New York
City, arc visiting Mrs. Perrin's parents, Mr.
ami .Mrs. F. P. j)rinkcr.
Miss Minnie Haas and Miss Mary Furman
of Hazleton were the pleasant guests of Miss
Mary Furman over Christnius.
Mrs. J. S. Gilbert of Jenkentown is
spending the week with friends here. Mr.
Gilbert was here over Christmas.
lien (lidding who has been traveling
through the south for a large clothing honse,
arrived back in town on Monday.
Donald Snyder, and family spent Christ
mas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.
Snyder, at the Exchange Hotel.
Ed. Moycr, a " typo," employed in a
large show printing house nt W hite Haven,
is visiting his many friends in town.
Rev. I). N. Kirk by was called to the
home of his father in Rye, N. Y., on Mon
thy, by the serious illness of his sister.
Matthew McRcynolds, of Cjuakertown,
Pa., spent Christmas with his parents Dr.
and Mrs. McRcynolds on Third Street.
Mrs. John Vannatta and little son Tom,
of Lewistown spent Christ mas with Mrs.
Thomas Vannatta and family on Iron Street.
Judge Ikcler attended the meeting of
Judges in Philadelphia on Tuesday, to make
umlorm rules of Court anil a course of
study for law students throughout the state.
E. S. Wintersteen Esi returned from
Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, where
he attended a meeting of the Judges and
examining committees for admission to the
bar ol the several counties in the state.
Legal advertisements on page 7.
A Happy New Year to all.
A distribution of a very neat calen
dar for 1897 is now being made by
M. r. Lutz & Son, insurance agents,
1896 has drawn to a close,
Another leap year does not occur
again until 1904.
Commissioner Ikeler has appointed
Hiram J. Dcmott, of Millville mer
cantile appraiser.
Mrs. Isaac Crawlord, aged forty-six
years died at her home in Light
Street on Sunday morning. She had
been sick for a long time.
Monday morning, was the coldest
we have experienced this winter, the
thermometer in some places in town
registered four degrees below zero.
Col. John Jameson expects to
build a new railroad in Nova Scotia,
seventy-five miles long. It will n.s
through a rich mineral country.
Tauline, aged six years, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Yvm. regg, who resides
on West Third Street,' died on Mon
day. The entertainment given by Miss
Stapleton's class in elocution in
Y. M. C. A. Hall Saturday night was
fine, and thoroughly enjoyed by all
present.
Charles Parish a wealthy and well
known citizen of Wilkesbarre, died
suddenly at the Stenton Hotel at
Philadelphia, aged seventy years.
Death resulted from apoplexy.
There are numerous applicants for
the positions of court crier, janitor,
and commissioners' clerk. It is im
possible to state who the successful
ones will be.
To more fully equip him to fill his
position as director of the gymnasium
at the Normal School, Prof. A. K.
Aldinger, will leave in January to
take a short course in medicine.
The following letters are advertised
Dec. 2S1I1, 1S06: Wm. Beaver, Mr.
Mark W. Boynton, Miss Jessie Philips,
Dr. Sherman, w ill be sent to the
dead letter office Jan. 1 2th, 1897.
jAMl'.S II. MrRCK.R, P. M.
10 n. 111. nml Inspect IiIh.
or buaulUul
DRUCCIST.
rHE HAMPTON ROADS FLEET.
Tho Mont 1'owrrful Nnvjr V.vrr Bonn
I'mlttr our Flute.
Now York, Doc. 81. It wns reportod
last week that ordorn hail boon roccivoJ
t tho Brooklyn Navy Yard to finish
rermir on all slilpi In commission
within tho tipxt ton days. In view of
this country's relations with Spain, tho
iittintion of the imvy Is a matter of un
usual interest, and In discussing this
tho Sun makes the following state
ment: Tho squadron of Aduiiral Dunce
will assomblo rapidly at Hampton
Roads and will includo the poworful
Imttlo ships, Indiana, Massachusetts,
Maino, and Texas, the fast and effective
armored cruisor. Brooklyn and New
York, -,he monitors Puritan, Terror.and
Amphitrito, the cruistrs Columbia,
Montgomory, and Marhluhead, and the
ratn Katahdin. Possibly the Miantono
moh and the Vesuvius will also be
added : but without these or the dispatch
boat Fern, and even excluding tho Ka
tahdin, which possibly may not take
part in the evolutions, there are a dozen
flue vessels at command, nine of them
ironclads. In Oulf waters, too, there
are already the Raleigh and the New
ark, and the Ampkitrite may relieve
tho former.
The fleet that gathers at Hampton
Roads will le the largest and most
powerful array of modern vessels that
ever assembled under our flag.
TOWN MAD FOR COCAINE.
Resident of M.noho.t.r, Conn., Vletlms
of the Drug.
Hartford, Conn., Dec. 31. The co
caine habit has taken such a hold on tho
residents of Manchester that steps are
being taken to obtain legislative re
striction on the sale of the drug. The
evil had its inception whon a local
druggi.it a year ago made a preparation
of cocaine and menthol which could be
nsed as a snuff. It was intended as a
specific for asthma, but the prescription
was passed around, and now hundreds
of persons have bocotno slaves to the
stuff.
An experienced physician says that
ho never heard of a pluce where the
abuse of the drugs had become so gen
oral, and that the future prosperity of
the town was involved.
HER SIXTH MARRIAGE.
Four of Mrs. Llnter' Ks-Hunhniid to bo
Unlier at Her Coming Wedding.
Providence, Doc. 29. The marriage
of Mrs. Eleanor B. Linter to her sixth
husband will occur to day in tho Church
of Emanuel, and four of her ex hus
bands will act as ushors. The entire
murital batch would have been presont,
but the fifth man met with an accident
last week and is confined to his bed. He
gent a present and an invitation to visit
him.
In every instance the lady has ob
tained a divorce without opposition and
without losing the friendship of her
spouso. Sho convinced thoiu all that
thoy wore not well matod, and every
one of them accepted the situation.
ClirlKtmut Dlvorstloni In Kentucky.
Ashland, Dec. US). As a distribution
of ChristiuiM presents was in progress
at Kavunaugh Chapol, Lawrence Coun
ty, on Thursday night, Bill Morrow en
tered the church and amused himself
by emptying two six shooters at the
tapers blaziug on the treo. When mem
bers of the congregation sought to
quiet him ho drew a third revolver and
began shooting promiscuously, fatally
wounding George Pack und injuring
Tom Bonders und Miss Allio Morgan.
Morrow then escaped.
Women Walker Arrive.
New York, Dec. 27. Mrs. II. E-itby
and hor daughter Clara, nineteen years
old, arrived in this city Wednesday af
ternoon, footsore, travol stained and
bronzod by exposure, from a transcon
tinental journey of 4,500 miles, on foot,
from Spokane, Wash. They would
have won $10,000 had they arrived four
days earlier.
Strike Declared Dir.
Boston, Dec. 29. The strike of the
conductors and motormon of the West
End Street Railway lines, in Boston,
was declared off at an early hour Sat
urday morning, and the running of cars
was resumed. Some oi' the strikers will
not bo taken back, other men having
been employed in their placoa.
Mm, lltHM'Ucr'n Kip lli-oktn.
Stamford, Conn., Dec. 80. Mrs.
Henry Ward Booehor was attacked with
dizziness when she aroso early Sunday
morning, and fell to the floor, breaking
her hip. Mrs. Beecher U eighty four
years old, and it is doubtful if she
will be able to walk again, even with
crutches.
Foreign lfulrti and IlllniiU I.umU.
Chicago, Dec. 2S. A suit has been
begun iti Rockford, 111., to secure for
Winnebago Cmnty tho property of
Richard Ilorsfall, who diod in 1801,
leaving a farm of $'20,000 to English
heirs. The suit is under the State law
for tho forfeiture of lands which would
go to foreign heirs, und is the first ol
its kind on record there.
Ariiu'iilriim lilnsutisllt'd.
Constantinople, Dec. 2!).--Tho Anno
niatis are dissutislie I with the terms ol
the amnesty granted a few days ago bj
the Sultan, as it does not improve tin
condition of tho Armenian prisoners ir
Constantinople, and but few will bono-
fit from it in the provinces.
Oeoi';lit's Antl-Ti ilHt I.liw.
Atlanta, Deo. 27. Gov. Atkinson hj
his signature has Uhtilu a law of tin
sweeping Anti-Trust bill pi.ssed by tin
Legislature. It is said that the bill wiv
uiinod at the Anieric in Tobioeo Com
pany, though it covers many things ii
general.
&
Do YouJLJse It?
It's the best thing for the
hair -under all circumstances.
Just as no man by taking
thought can add an inch to
his stature, so no preparation
can make hair. The utmost
that can be done is to pro
mote conditions favorable to
growth. This is done by
Ayer's Hair Vigor. It re
moves dandruff, cleanses the
scalp, nourishes . the soil in
which the hair grows, and,
just as a desert will blossom
under rain, so bald heads grow
hair, when the roots are nour
ished. But the roots must be
there. If you wish your hair
to retain its normal color, or
If you wish to restore the lost
tint of gray or faded hair use
Ayer's Hair Vigor.
The fight for United States Senator
is between John Wanamaker and
Boies Penrose, both of Philadelphia.
Lach one claims to have the lead.
While out hunting on last Wednes
day morning, Elliot Ebner, aged 45
years of Millville, accidently shot him
self, and died in a few minutes.
An order has been made by the
court directing the list of applications
for licenses to be published in the
Benton Argus and Bloomsburg Re
publican.
We will give to the needy ones on
Tanuary 1st. between the hours of 1
to 5 o'clock P. M. Two hundred
loaves of bread and two hundred cans
of corn at the Philadelphia Cash
Grocery Store. 2nd and Market
Street, Bloomsburg. Riggins & Co,
The basket ball game in Normal
gymnasium on Tuesday night, be
tween Danville and Bloomsburg, re
suited in a victory for the town boys,
score 9 to 8. The Danville boys
played a dashing game, and gave their
opponents all they wanted to do to
win.
The men lined up as follows :
Bloomsburg Positions Danville
Young attack Bedea
Moore attack Marks
Aldinger center Limberger
Harrar defense Breckbill
Harman defence Gaskins
Goals from field Bedea 2, Limoer-
ger 1, Moore 2. Goals from fouls,
Bedea 1, Limbeiger 1, Moore 5
Final score Bloom q Danville 8.
Referee, Worthington, Umpires,
Van Horn and Douglass.
"Where Doctors Disagree.'1
There has been a great deal of dis
agreement from time to time about
the therapeutic value of sarsaparilla.
In the main, authorities deny any
particular medical value to the plant
"It's just an old wive's remedy," they
say. And in the main they are right,
There are about a dozen varieties of
sarsaparilla, scattered through various
countries, and of this dozen only one
has any real curative power. So a
man whose experience might be con
fined to the eleven other varieties
might honestly say there was little
value in them. The one valuable
sarsaparilla is found in Honduras, C.
A. Monardes, a physician of Seville,
records the introduction of sarsapa
rilla into Spain as a result of the
Spanish discoveries of the New World,
between 1536 and 1545. But the
root did not accomplish much. But
he ad Is, "a better sort soon after
came from Honduras." It is this
'better sort" that is used exclusively
in Ayer's Sarsaparilla. And it is the
use of this '-better sort" that has
given Ayer's Sarsaparilla prominence
over all other varieties by reason of
its wonderful cures of blood diseases.
Send for the Curebook,' a "story of
cures told by the cured." Free. Ad
dress J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Rent. The west half of a
double house on East Third street,
Bloomsburg. Possession given on
December 1st. All modern conven
iences. Rent reasonable. Apply to J.
W. Conner, Orangeville, or D. W.
Campbell, Bloomsburg. 11-19-tf.
HOOD'S FILLS euro Liver Ills,
Biliousness, Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant luxatlve. All Druggists-
A COAT
We have reduced the prices
quickly, Now is your chance cf buying a coat for little money,
and the best part of winter before you for wearing it. First
comers get the choice. They are all of this season's newest and
choicest coats.
A $12.50 ladies' coat for $8.50.
A $ 7.r0 " " ' $5.00.
A $10.00 " " " $7.00.
And other grades higher and lower. Don't delay. Now is
your time for buying a high grade coat for little money.
Dress Goods.
We have reduced the price of many lots of dress materials
that we will include in the coat sale. So here's a chanco lor
you dress goods buyers, as well as the coat wanters. It will
pay you to see them.
Underwear.
You want underwear this weather. We think it would
pay you to examine our lines. Both ladies' and children's
goods.
Flannel Skirts.
We have reduced the prices of ladies' flannel skirt3 to
move them quickly. Now is your opportunity of procuring a
first-class woolen skirt for little money.
Leggins, wool hoods, ice
caps
Outing flannel night gowns full line.
Kid Gloves.
Try our one dollar kid glove.
H. J. CLARK & SON
I. W.
MTIM
MARKET SQUARE DRY COODS HOUSE.
We are getting ready for a big sale of all cold
weather goods.
They are in our store and will now be pushed to the front.
Don't make a mistake and
go somewhere else for a good
pair of blankets, but come and
see what we can do for you.
The prices will go with the
lateness of the season.
Don't make the same mis
take and look other places for
a good dress pattern, either in
black, brown, green, blue,
rough or smooth, before you
see our line.
Keep your eye on our winter bargains to be soon offered for
CASH ONLY.
I. W. HARTMAN & SON.
IN offering our patrons the compliments ot the
season, and thanking them veiy heartily for
their patronage during 1S9G, we are pleased
to say that as the curtain rises for 1897, it finds
us still "on the stage," better equipped than ever
to act our part as the leading Jewelers and
Stationers.
During the past year, in spite of the "hard
times" we have been pushing ahead adding to our
stock and increasing our facilities for doing both
work and business, so that we open the new year
decidedly in advance of any house ol our kind in
Columbia county.
We appreciate however, that it is but by the
kind patronage of our friends that success can be
maintained, so iu the future as in the past, shall
always strive to merit their favor. We remain
Yours very truly,
HESS BROTHERS
Jewelers, Opticians and Stationers.
TKLEPUOXE.
C&NDIT, FRUIT MD NUTS
FOR CHRISTMAS.
The finest assortment of candy to be found is here, pricoa
from 10c. to (50c. lbn all fresh and pure.
ORANGES, KANANAS AND GRAPES.
All Kinds of Nuts.
It will be to your advantage to call before purchasing.
Telephone Connection. Market Suar
SALE.
on all coats to close them out
wool squares, wool caps, children's
People often say "we will not
take the time to look around
for a Cape or Coat." It will
pay you to look as far as our
corner. Especially now. as we
have a bip; line of fur and
other capes sent us for sale at
prices to match any store out
side of New York or Philadel
phia. It is the first party who
suffer, not us.
Jacket stock yet good.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
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