VOL. 33
HE COLUMBIA COUNTY TIIR.
A VEBY SUOOESSHJL EXHIBITION.
Large Attendance.—Fine Exhibits.—Good
Races.
The forty-tourth annual fair of the
Columbia County Agricultural Society
is past and gone and all that remains
is history.
It was one of the most attractive
fairs the society has ever held, the ex
hibits in every department being larg
er, grander and more varied than ever
before. The society, during all the
years of its existence has enjoynd the
reputation of giving one of the best
fairs in Central Pennsylvania, and
while other fairs are poorly attended,
this one never fails to attract large
crowds, not only from this but adjoin
ing counties.
The attendance on Wednesday and
Thursday was about up to former
years. On Friday a continual down
pour of rain kept people away, and
prevented the races from taking place,
but on Saturday in spite of the un
favoratle condition of the weather,
people came streaming into town by
trains and wagons by the thousands.
There is no way of computing the at
tendance with any degree of accuracy.
The display of horses, cattle, sheep
and swine was never better, while the
poultry department, was far in ad
vance of former years.
Among the leading exhibits on the
ground were:
Hawley—Slate Furniture Company
with a fine exhibit of bedroom suits,
extension tablse, sideboards, etc.
The space occupied by Creasy &
Wells, lumber dealers, attracted a
large number of people and the chalk 1
„ talks by Mr. Taylor were very inter
esting. '
J. Saltzer, was on hand with a fine s
line of pianos, organs and sewing '
machines.
In the west side oi the large build- 1
iug was the Normal School exhibit. 1
It contained specimens ot work in 1
clay modeling, wood work, drawing <
etc. <
The display of lamps by James H. 1
Mercer eaught the attention of every
body. It was tastefully arranged and :
presented a fine appearance.
The Aqueduct Mills, G. W. Keiter, 1
proprietor showed a nice display of his
product. This mill manufactures the ]
brand of flour known as "Moss Rose,"
every sack of which is guaranteed. It
has an extensive sale.
L. E. Wharv displayed the latest
patterns in stoves, etc.
There were many other exhibits,
which we would not attempt to enum
erate, consisting of curious relics etc.
The attractions were numerous.
The Origirfal North Carolina Jubilee
Singers; largest living gorilla in the
world; victims of Spanish cruelty, and
many other shows of various kinds
were on the ground and judging from
the number of people going in and
out, did a paying business.
The races were never more inter
esting, some of the best horses in the
state contesting. In the free for all
race on Saturday, Democracy, owned
by J. G. Millbourne of Chester, Pa.,
broke the track record of 2: going
a mile in thereby winning an
additional purse of $5O. Consider
ing the heavy condition of the track,
caused by Friday's rain, the time
made is remarkably fast. All the
other races were well contested. Fol
are the summaiies:
2:18 CLASS PACING—PURSE *.BOO.
Barry M., br. g.,Watklns, N. Y 1-1-1
May Wilkes, b. m., Chester, Pa 8-2-8
Joe Pilot, b. g., Red Hill Pa 8-4-2
Stratb Blue, d. m., Antestort, Pa 2-8-8
Uncle Job, ch. g , Athens, Pa 7-8-4
Lady Alice, b. m.. Union City, Pa 4-8-5
Vm. Brookfleld, br. g., Bolivia, N. Y..... 5-da.
Time, 2:1714, 2:17, 2:17.
2:87 CLASS TKOT-PUHSE 800.
Tlda Blonde, b. ra. Patterson, Pa. 1-1-1
Prince Royal, b. g. WUUamsport, Pa 2-2-8
AntezeUa, b. s., Ulrardvllle, Pa 3 8-2 |
liock X, b. g., Scranton, Pa. 4-4-4
Time, 2:22, 2:82, 2:80.
2:40 CLASS PACING-PURSE 1310
Drex, blk. g„ Rushvllle, Ind 1-1-1
J. B. 8., br, g., Sidney, N. Y 2-2-5
Lady 1)., b. in., Savona, N. Y 4-8-8
Heart ot Oak, b. a, Trenton. N. J 8-4-2
Budd Wclser, blk. g., Lewlsburg, Pa 5-5-4
T. J., br. a, Itbtca, N. Y 7-8-8
Tbeda Clark, b. in., Towanda, Pa 6-7dr
Time, 2::8, 2:22)4, 2:24.
8:00 CLASS FARMERS HOHSES—PURSE $l5O.
Grace m. m., Light Street, Pa 1-1-2-1
Mary K., blk. m., Foundry vlUe, Pa 2-2-1-2
Nellie, s. m., Espy, Pa 8-8-8-8
Mary U., b. m. Light Street, Pa 4-4-4-4
Mime, 2:54, 2:42, 2:48,2:47.
2:20 CLASS TROT-PURSE $BOO.
Idld, b. g., Lewlsburg, i'a 1-8-1-1
L- B. Chase, ob. in., Watklns, N Y. .. 2-2-2-2
Excel, b. g., Camden, N. J 8-1-8-8
Nancy W„ Port Jervta N. Y 4-4-4-4
•rune, 2:28, 9:80, 2:86)4, 2:28.
2:29 CLASS TROT—PURSE $3OO.
Tilda Blonde, b. m., Patterson, Pa 1-1-1
Antesella, b a Ulrardvllle, Pa 2-2-8
Prlnoe Royal, Wllllamsport, Pa 8-8-8
Blnghamton Wilkes, blk. g., N. Y 6-4-4
Bene ot Hedgetleld, b. m., illusion, Pa . 4-5-6
Dock E., b. g, Scranton, Pa 5-8-6
Time, 22WK. IMS)*.
2:21 CLASS PACING—PURSE $BOO,
Drcx, blk- g„ Rushvllle, Ind 1-1-1
Walter K., a. g.,Mt. Carmel, Pa 2-2-4
Nannie L., a., in. Willlamspnrt, I'a 8-8-3
Spain, b. |j-, WUkeabarre. Pa 4-4 3
Marigold, b. g., Lewlsburg, Pa 6-5-8
nighwood spider, b. g., wllllamsport I'm
Plelljero, cb. 8., Mlddlotown N. 7-7-7
Ezra A., b. g , Scranton, Pa 9-8-6
Bellman, br. g., Scranton, Pa 6-9-9
Time, 2:22)4. 3:21)4. 2:38
FKEE FOlt ALL, TROT OR PACING—
jtUKStfi $4OO.
Democracy, g. 8., Chester, Pa...,,,. i-l-l
Rocky P., cli. a.. Red Hill. Pa 2-2-2
Geßner, a g., Sing Sing, N. Y 6-3 sB
Charles Sumner, br. s., watklns, N. Y.... S-4-1
Mascot, b. g„ Buffalo, N. V 4-Sdr
Allen, s. g„ Mt.' armel, Pa S-Sdr
Time; 8:18)4. 2:14, 2:15.
Politics at the Fair.
Friday was to have been a great
day for politicians at the fair, but the
rain spoiled it, and the gathering of
the clans was postponed until Satur
day. First, Mr. Woodin came down
from Berwick with a special train, and
two brass bands. At 10.41 Lieut.
Polk came up from Danville with a
special train and a brass band, and
was met here by the Bloom Band and
a large delegation. He was accom
panied by Co. F 12th Regiment U. S.
V. of which company he is an officer.
They marched to Main street, up to
East, and down the other side to the
fair grounds. They were cheered all
along the line. Hon. J. Henry Coch
ran of Williamsport, candidate for
Senator, spent the afternoon on the
grounds, and met many people.
Died at Porto Bico-
The sad intelligence of the death
of Charles Stohner, youngest son of
Mrs. B. Stohner, proprietress of the
Central Hotel, which occurred at
Porto Rico, on October 3rd, reach
ed town byway of a letter from
Wilbur Fisher, a member of the
same company, Friday last.
On the fore part of July, when
Captain Ellicott visited several of
the towns in this state in search of
recruits, Stohner in company with
Wilbur Fisher, went to Scranton
where they stood the examination
and were accepted. They went to
Camp Townsend, Peekskill, N. Y.,
where the conpany was encamped
for nearly six weeks, after which
they were taken to Porto Rico. His
mother has had no word from the
Captain of the company, as to the
cause of her son's death, but the
letter states that it was typhoid
fever. He died at 2 o'clock in the
morning, and was buried with mili
tary honors, at four o'clock in the
afternoon of the same day.
Charley had not been enjoying
good health for a long time before
he joined the company, and he
frequently was laid up for two
weeks at a time with severe attacks
of rheumatism. But despite his
condition, he was determined to go
and do what he could for the op
pressed.
An effort will be made to have
the body sent home.
No exhibit on the Fair ground
last week attracted so many people
as the handsome, and elaborate dis
play made by our hustling music
dealer J. Saltzer. In his booth in
the east side of the large exhibition
building he had tastefully arranged
all the leading makes of pianos and
organs, consisting of the Mason &
Hamlin, Kraukauer, Jacob Bros.,
and the celebrated Shoemacher gold
string pianos, eleven organs, among
which were represented the very
best makes in the world. Beside
this he also showed several patterns
of the high arm Singer, and Demor
est sewing machines, five rotary
wash machines, and four 1898
model Demorest bicycles. It was
the largest and handsomest display
in that line on the ground. Five
first class musicians supplied good
music and the place was constantly
surrounded by an admiring crowd.
Company A, First Regiment, Uni
ted States Vounteer Engineers, has
been mustered out of service and is
on the way home from Porto Rico.
Word to that effect was received in
town on Monday. Skyles M'Killip
and Wilbur Fisher are members of
this company. They are expected to
arrive here in about ten days. The
experiences they have had during
the three-months' stay in the battle
burdened country wi'l, no doubt, be
very interesting to hear.
Adjutant General Stewart says that
former members of the National
Guard, who enlisted in the United
States service and were honorably
discharged, will be given sixty days
after their muster out to re-enlist in
the National Guard, and those who
re-enlist within the next sixty/days
will be credited with continuous ser
vice in the National Guard. The old
regiments will retain their old num
bers.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1898.
Swallow Not In It.
As the Philadelphia Record al
leges, there is manifestly a con
spiracy of ' 'open and covert'' Re
publican Machine organs to deceive
the voters as to the probable out
come of the political campaign in
this state. Dr. Swallow himself
says he will have 375,000 votes.
The chairman of the Prohibitionist
committee declares that the Doctor
will be elected. The Quay organs,
avowed and surreptitious, by magni
fying everything Swallow does, and
either ignoring, misquoting or be
littling the great speeches of Mr.
Jenks and his colleagues on the
ticket, are clearly striving to make
their readers believe the arrant
falsehood that the fight for the Gov
ernorship is between Stone and
Swallow, and that if the former is
not successful,the latter is sure to be.
No man a single remove above
the level of an idiot can make study
of the figures and agree to any such
conclusion. Last year there was a
sort of Swallow craze. He had
made himself conspicuous in con
nection with the expose of the Grace
church and other Machine scandals.
He had been taken into court and
tried for libel. It was an off year.
The Democrats were hopeless, the
Republicans more or less disgruntled
and disorganized. Everything that
could go Swallow's way went that
way. He and his backers were as
sure of election as they are now,
yet in the poll he had less than half
as many votes as Brown, his Dem
ocratic opponent, though Brown's
vote was the lowest vote cast for
any Democratic candidate in the
state for many years past, and the
vote for Mr. Ritter, the Democratic
candidate for Auditor General, was
268,341, as against Swallow's 118,-
969, or 150,000 greater. Not since
iB6O has the Democracy polled less
than twice Swallow's vote of last
year; often it has been three times
as large, and in 1896 was 433,228,
or 315,000 above it.
As Chairman Garman said, in a
recent interview, he would have to
add 200,000 Democrats and as many
more Republicans, or one out of
every two Democrats and one out
of every three Republicans to win.
No man with a head on his shoul
ders believes that he can come with
in hailing distance of doing that.
His claims are absurd. The be
hind-the-fence Machine organs that
seek to bolster them are deliberate
ly deceiving their readers and know
it. Wherever Swallow got a large
vote last year the craze is spent. In
every such locality he will certainly
lose all his Democratic supporters.
He carried Lycoming county. At a
Swallow meeting in Williamsport,
Lycoming's county seat, last week,
less than 100 voters attended.
Swallow will not poll half of the
365,000 votes he claims and which
he says will elect him. Yet Dele
mater was defeated in 1892 with
447.655 votes when both the nor
mal Republican and the normal
Democratic vote were smaller than
they are now.
Mr. Jenks' vote, on the other
hand, is not likely to be much less
than 500,000. He will get the
Bryan vote of 1896, the Palmer and
Buckner vote of the same year, the
Democrats who voted for McKinley
and all the independent Republi
cans who are really sincere in their
professed desire to rid the party of
their incubus and disgrace of the
Quay Machine. When a score of
men like George Baer, of Berks :
A. B. Farquhar, of York ; Simon
P. Wolverton, of Northumberland,
and Senator Cochran, of Lycoming,
sit down with another score like
James M. Gufiey, of Allegheny,
and Joseph C. Sibley, of Crawford,
as they did in Philadelphia last
week, to devise ways and means to
( elect Mr. Jenks, it means that Mr.
• Jenks and his colleagues and the
j platform satisfy every section of the
party, that the two wings of the
party are flopping together, that
there will be no defections to Swal
, low or anybody else, and that
Democratic victorv is in the air.
And when the newspapers that
profess to be against Machineism
and yet are doing all they can to
give it aid and comfort, are compell
ed to abandon their policy of sup
pression or distortion of the facts,
as they soon must be, it means that
such independent Republican drift
as seems to have been going to
Swallow will revert to the ablest,
purest and in every way the best
map that has been nominated by
any party for Governor of Penn-
♦
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Next Week.
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sylvania in more than a generation
—Hon. George A. Jenks.
That Romance is a Fake.
The following fairy tale is going the
rounds of the papers, and would be
very romantic if there were a word of
truth in it. On inquiry we can find
no trace of the people named. Here
is the story.
Samuel Gassaway, who was be
lieved to have been dead for thirty
seven years, has just returned to
Bloomsburg and been reunited with
his wife. They were married in 1858.
When the rebellion broke out Gassa
way enlisted for two years, and when
he returned his wife had removed
from Bloomsburg. Mrs. Gassaway
believed her husband was dead, as he
had not written. This is now ac
counted for, as he had been badly
wounded and was in the hospital for
many months.
Gassaway made a thorough search
for his wife, and, not finding her, went
to Van Wert, Ohio, where he subse
quently married. Six children were
born to them, but they all died and
the mother soon followed the last one.
Mrs. Gassaway believed herself a
widow, did not apply for a divorce,
and in 1888 married Jesse Heading
ton, of Catawissa, with whom she
lived unhappy for seven years. Head-
Ington, crazed with drink, later com
taitted suicide.
A few days ago Gassaway came
back to Bloomsburg and was startled
to learn that his wife was alive. He
called on her, but she failed to rec
ognize him, and after he had informed
her who he was she was most indig
nant at his supposed impudence. He
later convinced her beyond a doubt
and they have happily resumed mari
tal relations.
The report going the rounds of the
newspapers to the effect that the
Blootnsburg Silk Mill is to be re
moved to Lock Haven, is all a fake.
The proprietors never thought of
making a change, though they may
be interested in a branch mill that is
going up at Lock Haven.
Democratic Meetings.
Democratic meetings will be held
at the following times and places.
Able speakers will be present to dis
cuss the issues of the campaign.
Tuesday, Oct. 18 —Mill Grove
and Light Street.
Wednesday, Oct. 19—Millville
and Bear Gap.
Thursday, Oct 20 —Hetlerville
and Diets' School House.
Friday, Oct. 21 —Slabtown and
Grovania.
Saturday, Oct. 22 —Beaver Valley
and Canby.
Monday, Oct. 24 —Waller and
Stony town.
Tuesday, Oct. 25 —Centralia and
Miller's Hotel.
Wednesday, Oct. 26—Catawissa,
Buckhorn and Fowlersville.
Thursday, Oct. 27 —Mifflin X
roads, Stillwater and Five Points.
Friday, Oct. 28—Swamp School
House, and Mifflinville.
Time and places for other meet
ings until the close of the campaign
will be announced later.
The Oentralia Teachers.
The newly appointed Centralia
School Board met last Friday even
ing and elected Capt. W. W. HefF
ner, superintendent of schools vice
Smith Murphy, who taught the last
term. J. JH. Eisenhower's claim
was ignored entirely. Five mem
bers of last year's corps were depos
ed and the following elected to take
their places: Misses Katie Moran,
Sallie Black, Ella Gorman, Bridget
Laughlin and Harriet Cook, Sev
eral of these ladies filled positions
on the corps several years ago. The
entire corps consists of eleven teach
ers and a superintendent. The
schools opened on Monday.—Ash
land Telegram.
J. L. Dillon, florist, is building an
additional green house above the
old ones near Oak Grove. The
new structure is to be three hund
red feet long. The continual im
provements being made by Mr.
Dillon, give evidence of his increas
ing business.
NO- 42
Methodist Ohurch Notes'
The ordinance of Baptism will be
administered to children in the Sun
day School room next Sunday morn
ing Oct. 23rd, at 10:00 o'clock.
Love Feast will be held on Wed
nesday evening Oct. 26.
The Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper will be administered Sun
day morning and evening Oct. 30.
Special revival services will be
held for four weeks, beginning Sun
day Oct. 30. All the members and
friends of the church are earnestly
asked to pray for the meetings and
to do all in their power to make
them a success.
Charles A. Bomboy, oldest son of
Mrs. Hester Bomboy, died of pneu
monia at his home in Espy on Mon
day last, at the age of 22 years.
His illness was of very short dura
tion, having taken sick but two or
three days before his death. He
was a general favorite among all
who knew him, and his sudden de
mise has cast a gloom upon the
whole community. His estimable
character was ever in evidence, be
ing conscientious and energetic at
all times. He was interested in.
church work, and his death was
unnecessary to develop his sterling
qualities. Funeral services were
held on Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, in the M. E. church at
Espy, conducted by Rev. H. D.
Flannigan.
Mrs. Miller, wife of Clark Miller,
departed this life at her home on East
street Tuesday morning. The de
ceased was about thirty-two years of
age, and had been in ill health for
some time past. She is survived by a
husband. Mrs. Miller has an unusual
large number of relatives, and the
funeral which will be held to-day will
no doubt be largely attended. The
remains will be interred at Swenoda.
The room on the second floor of
the Exchange Block, directly over
James Riley's barber shop will be
fitted up and used by the Prohibi
tionists as their headquarters from
now till the close of the campaign.