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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
Thursday, mxemuer 30, 1S97.
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OUR OFFERS FOE 1893-
We are able to offer our subscribers
some special inducements for advance
payments for 1898.
The Columman, and A'ew York
World, three times a week, $1.65.
ColumiiIan and Philadelphia Weekly
Times 1 45.
Columbia and Demorcst' Maga
zine, 1.75.
Columbian and Farm Xe:cs, 1 00
Subscribe now, and get the benefit
of these reduced rates. tf.
A HANDSOME GALES DAB
F.very subscriber who has paid in
advance for The Columbian will be
presented with a handsome calendar
for 1898, by mail. Every one who
pays during December will also
receive one. Those who come first
will have several designs to select
from. tf. "
The first of the year is a good time
to square up, and take a fresh start.
Owing to carelessness on the part
of some, and the hard times on the
part of others, a much larger number
of our subscribers than usual, have
not paid for The Columbian during
the past year. Statements have been,
and will be sent to all who are in ar
rears, and those who receive them are
earnestly requested to make payment.
Please do not lay them aside with the
idea that any time will do. We need
the money now.
A Farmer's institute will be held at
Mausdaie on January 12 and 13. The
following prominent speakers will make
addresses : J. A. Woodward, J. H.
Peachy and Dr. Frear. J. K. Murrv,
who is the County Chairman, will
gladly mail programs to all who request
it.
Hannah Shannon, died at the home
of William Shaw, her brother-in law
oa West Street Monday morning.
The deceased was about seventy
seven years old and had been confin
ed to the house by ill health for a long
time. The funeral took place yester
day afternoon.
Thos. B. Hartley, who has been
engaged for some time past in the
editorial department of the New York
Times, has gone to Paris, in the inter
est of that paper. He will also furnish
weekly letters for other New York
papers.
The room on Main Street, now oc
cupied by Charles Reice as a meat
market, his been rented by W. H.
Gilmore, who will open a toy store.
Mr, Gilmore will take position April
1st.
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Fragrant
Offerings.
EXQUISITE PERFUMtS forma tempt.
"C pari oi our Holiday siock,
STERLING SILVER Novelties in beau
tiful varieties.
LEATHER GOODS in form of pocket
looks, letter boo ;s, dreeing cases, and d'z-
ens of beautiful urtick-s in lea.lier.
Hand Painted Novelties
dainty array and cheap in price.
LOOK AT OUR WINDOWS.
We Tik3 Magasino Tiolists.
W. S. SKETCH PIj.IV'.
Opjo&ito P. 0. . Pharmacist,
BRIEF MENTION.
About Pooplo tou Know.
Will II. Hrower went to Philadelphia on
Tuesuay.
W. II. Allen ha relumed home after a few
wcek't nay at Wilkcsbarrc.
Mrs. Martin I- rcy of Wilkes! .arrc, in visit
ing her father Dr. Warner on Sixth Street.
Louli Rcrnnnt, Jr.. of Pcranton, visiied
hi! parents in town this week.
Fred Hoy of HulTalo, New York, spent
S.in.lay with friends in town.
Miss Mablc Peacock and Miss Mame
Gruver are visiting in Reading this week.
Stephen Reice and Irvin Snyder left for
Philadelphia on Sund.iy for a few days stay.
Carlton Caswell is home from Philadel
phia, spending the holidays.
Oliver Kelley of Haleton, visited his
parents on Seventh Street over Christmas.
Carl Wirt, student at Harvard University,
is nt home for the holidays.
J. C. Wcigand and wife of Wilkesbarre,
Sundayed with the lalter's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joshua Fctterman.
Miss Pauline Wirt. lin U ntn, !;.,
I young ladies' school in New York, is spend-
. in'' her thrtsfma Irt-nhnn lw.
S ....... s.wimii 1 1 1 J I M l ,
John Gilbert nnd wife of Philadelphia
visited nt the home of William Webb in town
oer Christmas.
II. C. Hufnagle, a former resident of this
town, now residing at Millgrove, was a
visitor to town on Wednesday.
James Dougherty of Philadelphia, came
up on Friday to spend Christmas with his
pircnls in town.
G. W. Whitenight of Ruckhorn, pave this
ollice a pleasant call Wednesday and renewed
his subscription.
Miss Anna Solleder visited her uncle
Reuben hi tm ire, at Wilkesbarre over Sun
day.
Elmer Dru(;lcrof Philadelphia, is spending
his holiday vacation with his mother and
other relatives in town.
Miss Annie Woods, who has l.ecn visiting
relatives and fi tends in lilai.- county for the
past two months, returned home last week.
Arthur Ohl. who has been attending
college nt Collegeville, is spending his holi'.
clay vacation with his parents on 1- iftn Street.
R. R. Little aud w ife left on Monday for
Hot Spiings, Arkansas, where the former
will be treated for rheumatism.
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Eyer accompanied by
their son Warren went to Danville nnd spent
Christmas day with their daughter Mrs. Dr.
Meredith.
I'.lwood and Willets Krug spent Christmas
with their father, Chas. Krug. The former
lives at Wilkesbarre and the latter at Peck
ville. W arren V. Kramer, who for several vears
has been employed in Philadelphia, is now
spending a week visiting his father, John W.
Kiamer.
Legal advertisements cn page 7.
A telephone has been placed in this
office.
Skating was ery good on the canal
Saturday and Monday.
Rev. H. C. Monroe of White Hall,
conducted services in the Baptist
Church on Sunday.
Christmas and the season of gift
giving has passed and trade has again
reassumed its wonted calm.
W. W. Crawford on Wednesday
purchased a lot on corner of Wood
and Penn Streets in the Neal addition.
He will build at once.
The employees of the Furniture
Factory each received a silk handker
chief as a Christmas present from
Superintendent W. H. Slate.
Diseases often lurk in the blood be
fore they openly manifest themselves.
Therefore keep the blood pure with
Hood's Sarsapanlla.
Leases that will collect the rent for
the whole year if tenant leaves before
expiration of term, also notices to
quit, for sale at this office. tf.
Christmas passed off very quietly
in town. The banks and business
places were closed. Services in keep
ing with the occasion were held in
several of the churches.
Mrs Elizabeth Gruver died at her
home on Park Street Tuesday evening.
A husband, Amos Gruver and one
son survive. The funeral will be held
tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
The Christmas number of the
Belief onte. Watchman appeared in a
handsome colored cover. The Watch
man is one of the best and neatest
printed weeklies that reaches our
sanctum.
The population of Bloomsburg, to
day, according to the Williams Di
rectory which is the result of a com
plete canvass, is 7373. This represents
the number of people strictly within
the town limits.
The gold mounted pen offered as a
prize by the Nagle Drug Co., of Espy,
to the person who could guess the
nearest to the number of cough drops
contained in a glass jar, was won by
Samuel Shaffer. His guess was 7015.
The number in the jar was 7040.
Uriah Welliver, an old resident of
Jerseytown died at his home at that
place Tuesday morning. Death re
sulted from paralysis. lie was a
brother to Mrs. William Kreamer,
who resides on Founh Street this
towu.
THE COLUMBIAN.
The Harman Sc Hassert Car shops
are not working this week.
Peter Hippensteel's farm in Mt.
Pleaant township was disposed of at
Orphans' ' Court sale on Friday last
for $1700. Hervey Stauffer was the
rnrtchaser.
C. 11. Campbell spent Tuesday
fishing at Benscoter's lake, and caught
twelve pike and one perch. The
largest pike weighed 4 pounds and 3
ounces, and was 25 inches long.
On April 1st Louis Gross will move
his clothing store from its present lo
cation into the room now occupied by
H. W. Sloan. It is rumored that the
latter intends going into business with
another firm in town.
S. W. Mears will sell tomorrow at
two o'clock the new barn and wagon
shed situated on the Mears lot, corner
of West and Fifth Street. The pur
chaser will be required to remove the
barn within thirty days.
We have received a handsome
calendar from J. II. Maize, agent for
the American Fire Insurance Co. A
picture of Betsey Ross sewing the
first American flag at her home in
Philadelphia 120 years ago adorns
the top of the calendar.
The following letters are advertised
Dec. 28th, 1897: Mr. Bruce Black,
Miss Katherine Bennetts, Miss Myrtle
Butler, Mr. W.. B. Campion, Hon.
George W. Creasy, Mrs. George W.
Engle, Miss Prudie Miller. Cards :
J. A. Gilmore, Mr. Harrv Michlosky.
Will be sent to the dead letter office
Jan. 1 1 th, 1898.
J. H. Mercer. P. M.
Rev. L. L. Sicher, a very successful
and earnest Evangelist began a series
of meetings in the Lutheran Church
last evep::4. These meetings are
intended to do good to glorify God
and help to build up His Kingdom in
this place. Therefore all are invited
to come and worship with us. You
shall be made welcome.
The Sunday School of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church held its Christmas
entertainment in the Church Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock after which the
children were treated to a turkey
dinner in the Parish House. The
expenses of the dinner were paid by
the Sunday school and was given
instead of a pound of candy to each
member which has been the custom
heretofore. The choir was also inv ited.
When two widows get mixed up
there's going to be trouble or fun and
complications are averted and fun
dealt out by the bushel in the latest
comedy success, '"The Real Widow
Bron." The ingenious complications
of the plot are greatly enhanced by
appropriate and tasteful costuming,
brilliant music and clever acting.
Opera House Jany. 4.
P. Solleder & Co. is the place to
buy your shoe making outfits cheap,
Have just received 2 large barrels of
Patent Reversible Iron Stands of four
different styles. A large stock of sole
leather, strips of leather, cut soles,
hammers, knives, clinch nails, cement,
threads, etc. Wholesale and Retail
at Rock Bottom prices.
1 2-1 6-31.
Alexander C. Jackson, son of C. B.
Jackson Esq. of Berwick, was ad
mitted to the bar on Monday, after
passing an excellent examination. He
is a young man of high attainments,
a college graduate, and the grandson
of the late M. E. Jackson Esq., who
for many years stood among the lead
ers of the Columbia County bar with
such men as Hurley, Clark, Comley,
and Baldy now deceased, and Buck'a
lew who has retired from practice, and
Col. Freeze, who is the only one of
tha: school of lawyers still enlaced
actively in his profession.
Wasting
in Children
can be overcome in almost all cases
by the use of Scott's Emulsion of
Cod-Liver Oil and the Hypophos
phites of Lime and Soda. While
it is a scientific fact that cod-liver
oil is the most digestible oil in ex
istence, in
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
St is not only palatable, but it is
already digested and made ready
for immediate absorption by the
system. It is also combined with
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the hypopnospmtes,wnicn
supply a food not only for
the tissues of the body, but
for the bones and nerves,
and will build up the child
when its ordinary food
does not supply proper
nourishment.
lie ur von grt SCOTT'S EmuUlcn. Se that tin
Bun "J li.ii r on tht wrjpptr.
All UruggUtt ; JtK. nj f t.oo.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chtaiuu, Nw York.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
J. E. ROYS.
Christmas
Offerings.
What is more beautiful or
more precious than something
useful in toilet articles mounted
with
STERLING SILVER,
or some piece of jewelry en
graved with a beautiful mono.
gram. There is truly nothing
that will take its place or fill
the heart with greater pleasure
and irratitude. Don't fail to
see our magnificent assortment
We carry only the finest and
positively reliable goods. All
articles hand engraved without
extra charge.
Jeweler and Optician.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the Farmers Institute which
is to be held in the Opera House at
Catawissa on Thursday and Friday,
January 6 and 7. Hon. J. T. Roth-
rock, Commissioner of Forestry of
Pennsylvania, will give one of his cel
ebrated illustrated lectures on the
forests of Tennsvlvania. Everybody
is cordially invited to attend.
Died at Orangeville Nov. 26th
1897 Benjamin Wertman aged Si
years, 2 months and 15 days, leaves
two daughters Mrs. Geo. F. Kindt
and Sarah who took care of her
father since her mother's death 25
years ago.
Again our hearts arc bowed with grief
Our tears in sorrow flow
A loving father now is called
To leave this world of woe.
The home is sad and lonely now
For there's his vac-int chair
For we who loved our father dear
Would always find him there.
His children now are weeping
For their father they loved so well
But they know that he' in Heaven
1 Where he can love them still.
ATTENTION.
Comrades and friends of the
G. A. R. there will be public installa
tion of the Officers of Pealer Post
No. 43 s G. A. R. at their Hall at
Orangeville January 1st., 1S98, at
2 o'clock P. M., sharp. After instal
lation oysters will be served at 20
cents per dish, everybody invited.
By order of the Committee.
BIBOII YANDINE.
The home of C. E. Vandine was
the scene of a pretty wedding on
Wednesday when his daughter Minnie
was married to Joseph Berch, of this
town. The groom's brother, Rev.
Bruce Berch, performed the cere
mony. Temperance Mass Meeting.
The churches of town will unite
next Sunday afternoon, Jan. 2, at 2:30
o'clock in a temperance Mass meet
ing to be held in the ' Opera House.
There will be good singing and several
interesting speeches. All friends of
the church and all friends of temper
ance are earnestly invited to be
present.
OUADWI0K-WANI0H.
Arthur J. Chadwick and Miss Martha
Wanich were married at the residence
of the bride's parents Tuesday even
ing. The ceremony1 was performed
by Rev. B. C. Conner of the Metho
dist Church and was witnessed by a
large number of inviied guests. Miss
Cora Hagenbuch presided at the
organ. The bridesmaid was Miss Eva
Wanich, sister of j the bride. Ray
Nuss was best mn. At the con
clusion of the ceremony, a wedding
supper was served. The bride received I
f . 1 . I
many oeauiuui preients.
Methodist Episcopal Ohurch.
The recular Love Feast Service
wiil be held Wednesday evening Dec.
29, at 7:30 o clock. The annual
Watch-nicht service will be held Fri.
day evening Dec. 31, at 10:00 o'clock.
1 he bacrament of the Lord s Simner
will be administered next Sunday Jan.
2. at both the morninz and evening
t J
services. The special revival services
will be?in on Sundav next and hehelil
every night, except Saturday night,
until notice is given to tne contrary.
All Christians are earnestly asked to
pray for these meetings and every
body is cordially invited to attend
them.
HOOD'S PILLS euro Liver Ills, Bil
iousness, Indigestion, Headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate 25c.
Holiday Buying
la nearly over. To those who
my come to this 6tore, you will
for gift giving aud at moderate
Dress Goods.
These are always acceptable,
and make useful gifts. You
will find our lines quite com
plete. 50 in. all wool Suitings, 50c yd.
45 in. Black Figures, all wool, 75c yd.
38 in. Black Mohairs, 50c yd.
43 in. Fine Mohairs, $1.00 yd.
Handkerchiefs.
All the newest effects in
Handkerchiefs are here for your
approval at little prices.
4 Embroidered Hdkfs. for 25c.
3 " " " 50c.
See our 25 and 50c lines.
A Merry Christmas To AH.
Read over this list it may help you in buying.
We 6how good lines of the following :
Ostrich boas, fur collarettes, feather boas, mufflers, mittens,
kid gloves ; hosiery for ladies, gents and children : underwear,
dressing sacques of eiderdown, gents' canes, neckties, ribbons,
pocketbooks, card cases, hair and cloth brushes, fancy baskets,
clothes hampers, silverware at reduced prices, cut glass, knitted
skirts, wool skirts, separate drees skirts, lace curtains, derby
curtains, table covers, fur lloor rugs, framed pictures, table lin
ens, towels, napkins, counterpanes, lunch cloths, umbrellas,
silks for waists, dress patterns, coats, capes, medallions, cuff
buttons, jewelry, small china at reduced prices, lamps at re
duced prices, Colgate's fine extracts, handkerchiefs of all kinds,
men's shirts, black dres3 goods, colored dress goods, wood stools,
jardiniere stands, umbrella stands and many other articles.
. J. CLARK &. SON.
I. W. MMN & M.
MARKET SQUARE DRY COODS HOUSE.
A good many people come in on the home run and wait
until the two last days to make Christmas purchases.
On Thursday and Friday you will
want to come to our store to see the
crowd.
Our tables have been almost entirely
changed since last week. Many new
articles have been opened. The dish
es have been re arranged to fill up
vacant places, and those who have not
been in
changes.
before will ( not know any
The best dishes always sell first, but
our stock was so large that many ex.
tra nice ones are still here, and you
can find prices to suit your purse.
Last week we managed to interest a good sized crowd, and in return they
interested us by carrying away many packages. This week we expect to
double the number, both in people and packages. SEE SEE.
(Store closed all day Saturday.)
I. W. HARTMAN & SON.
XIViAS PRESENTS
Christmas
Presents.
The place to buy them is at
THT" 1
Who are now readv with the
ever exhibited. We have
DIAMONDS,
Solid Gold, Gold Filled, Silver and
Nickle Watches ;
Onyx, China, Porcelain, Plastic Marble,
Iron and Wood Clocks;
Solid Gold, Gold Filled, Nickle, Aluminum
and Steel Spectacles, which will be fitted by a
vji.iuuuic wpucian anu i-ocior 01 reiraciion.
SOLID GOLD. GOLD FILLED, AND GOLD HATED
JEWELRY,
QUADRUPLE PLATS AND STEELING SILVSSWAIJE.
The very latest and newest decorations in
Fine China and Royal Teplitz ware.
Wood, Leather, Celluloid and Plush Manicure, Toilet, Shav
ing and Dressing: cases. Albums, Mirrors, Bibles, Books, Purses,
Pocketbooks, Folding: Pocket Kodaks, Cameras, &c, S-c.
Now is the time to buy, as the early customers get the best
selection. Goods engraved free.
HESS BROTHERS
Jewelers, Opticians end Stationers.
-TEtEPHOSIE-
m
have deferred buying as yet we
find many useful articles suitable
prices.
Coats and Capes
Always acceptable gifts. We
have greatly reduced the prices
on these goods. You should see
them.
Silk lined Boucle Coats, $6.00.
Double Capes, braid trimmed,
$1.98.
Misses' Beaver Coats, $2.98.
Umbrellas.
New lines on sale, the very
latest styles, both in ladies and
gents'. Just the article for a
gift. You should see them.
Some are buying Capes, Coats,
Blankets and dress goods for presents.
Some aje buying Handkerchiefs,
Mufflers, Boas, and Collarettes for a
present.
Some are buying fruit dishes, celery
dishes, rose bowls, vases, cracker jars,
cup and saucers, etc., for a present.
Some are buying gloves, , kid mitts,
laces, neckties, etc., for a pr esent
Some are buying toy beds, cradles,
horses, cars, goats, cats, washboards,
pianos, etc., for a present.
(See the west window fo r -.Jiir.
Christmas
Presents.
finest and largest stock we have
Bloomsburg, Pa