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bloomsburif, the fount.r "Pat. ol Columbia
('numr. l'ennsvlvanla.
OK'). K. Kl.WELL Kuitoh.
1. J. TAMKKK, LOCAL KuiTOR.
Q&O. V. KUAN, FOHIMAN.
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rtncfl; fl.M It not paid In ailvnucn Outside
th county, !.! a year, strictly In advati,'.
All communications should be addri-sHi'd to
TUB C'OU'MIHAN.
Hlouinsburif, Pa.
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1899.
POLITICAL CARDS.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
M. A. BIBBY,
of Catawissa.
IOR COUNTY TREASURER,
WILSON YEACER,
of Locust Twp.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
W. B. SNYDER,
of Locust Twp,
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
JERRY SNYDER,
of Locust Twp.
I'ROTIIONOTARY AND CLERK OF
THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR
FOR
IHOTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF
THE COURTS,
WILLIAM H. HENRIE,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
VM. BOC1ERT,
of Scott Twp.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
CLINTON K. DEWITT,
of Benton Borough.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
J. W. PERRY,
of Sugarloat Twp.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
W. H. FISHER,
from the South Side.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
JOHN N. GORDON,
of Montour.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
W. F. STOHNER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
DR. T. C. HARTER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
A. N. YOST,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REG'STER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C. A. SMALL,
of Catawissa.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN G. HARMAN,
of Bloomsburg.
t" The above announcements are all subject
w me uttcimon 01 i.ne iiHiuocrduo uount.y (in
vention, to be heli Tuesday, June lath. 1HU.
Primal y election, Saturday, June 10. 8 to 7 p. in.
There was no celebration of Dew
ey Day in Spain.
The $20,000,000 agreed upon to
be paid to Spain for the Philippine
Islands has been handed over to the
Spanish Government, by the Sec
retary of the Treasury.
It is announced that Mrs. Geo.
W. Childs, widow of the late well
known editor of the Philadelphia
Ledger, will marry Gen. Joseph
Whaeler in Washington this month.
This is the season of the year
when the man who has been eating
onions insists on buttonholing his
friends and breathing the sweet
perfume directly in their breath.
The odor of onions at first is not
so bad, but when coining second
handed, it is quite different.
Trailing arbutus parties are pop
ular nowadays, but they say the
pretty spring flower is not as. num
erous on our hill sides as it once
was. This is due to the fact that
many who gather it from year to
year are not careful, and tear out
the roots, thus gradually destroying
the plant. The proper way is to
clip it with a pair of scissors, leav
ing all the root intact. Had this
been done in the past the woods to
day would have been luxuriant with
the coveted flower.
There is little or no change in
the Philippine Island situation.
Aguinaldo has twice sent agents
with a flag of truce to the camp of
Gen. Otis with a plea for cessation
of hostilities, but their tonus were
not satisfactory. General Otis will
accept nothing but an unconditional
surrender. It is believed that the
insurgents are about ready to throw
themselves on the mercy of the
Americans. Au early settlement of
lifflculties and ending of the war is
looked for.
OBSERVATIONS.
A German firm has decided to put
beer tablets on the market. It is
claimed by the makers that a small
tablet dropped into a glass of water
will turn it into beer, as fresh as if
just drawn. The next thing in
order is the invention of a tablet
wherewith to make the glass of
water.
One year ago the residents of our
coast cities were trembling with
Ereat terror over the bugaboo of a
Spanish fleet and were waiting for
a special session of the legislature
to erect gunboats for them with
which to drive off the expected in
vaders. Their ridiculous panic re
sulted in depriving them of a sum
mer's growth, injured the resort
business and made them roundly
ridiculed all over the country.
The house in which Abraham
Lincoln died is owned by the Gov
ernment, and is maintained for free
visitation. The Government did
not buy it until long after some re
verent citizens had fitted it up on a
lease lrom the owner, who, by the
way, had occupied a prominent
place years ago as one of the de
fendants of Wirz, a Rebel prison-
keeper, who at the time the object
of general detestation, and whom
the man referred to considered un
fairly dealt with.
"Two years ago," savs "The
Boston Transcript," "a Maine lum
bering party, not being able to find
the ccnventional ereen ash for
planking their shad, had recourse to
a green rock maple slab. The heat
started the sap in the wood, which
bubbled and hissed about the fish,
imparting its delicate flavor to the
dish when ready to be served, and
lo! it was discovered that a new
table delicacy had been added to
the world's cuisine. Now there is
no more green-ash planked shad for
the Maine people, but sugar maple
every time.
BIATE NEW8 ITEMS.
Before daylight Tuesday morning
a match was applied to the Reading
Iron Company's new anthracite blast
furnace. The furnace is the largest in
Eastern Pennsylvania and two years
were required to build it. The capac
ity is 2000 tons weekly.
The body of Mrs. Sophia Rup
pert was on Sunday found in the
river below Wnliamsport. Several
weeks ago Mrs. Ruppert disap
peared from the Williamsport alms
house, where she had been staying,
and all trace of her was lost. She was
mentally unbalanced.
- Phoenixville is suffering from a
scarcity of skilled and unskilled labor,
and some of the industrial plants there
are greatly hampered. The new silk mill
needs 200 or 300 operators at once,
and can only get 75. There is also a
scarcity of labor in the hosiery mills
and in some departments of the iron
and steel works of the town.
Wilkesbai re's new court house will
be of the French Renaissance style of
architecture, three stories alike and
all four sides alike. The courtrooms
are on the third floor and the building
will oe equipped with every conveni
ence. By a vote of two to one the
commissioners decided to accept the
plans of S. J. Osterling of Pittsburg.
The sale of the Wilkes-Barre &
Wyoming Valley Traction Co's. line
lo a New York and Boston syndicate
was made public last week. The stock
was sold at $41 per share, the par
value being $100. The capital stock
is five million dollars and the road has
been paying one per cent, on this.
The amount realized was $2,050,000
which is about twice what the road
cost.
William Koons, 62 years of age,
attempted to commit suicide by jump
ing out of a third story window of the
Peters House, Allsntown where he was
stopping. He was seriously injured
One ot his legs was fractured in three
places and his thigh broken. He had
told people at the hotel that he had
considerable trouble and had several
married children who reside in Phila
delphia. He is a tinsmith by trade
and has been living in the vicinity off
and on for several years.
Foul play is suspected in the
death of John Martin, the P. & R
railroad man, who was found dead on
the hillside at Port Clinton, a few
days ago. Martin had been missing
since March i'i, on which day he had
received his pay for February. That
evening he told his mother he had
few little bills to pay, he having drawn
about $45. It is supposed that parties
knowing that Martin had his pay
his pocket, struck and killed him, and
then pulled his body behind the clump
of bushes in ordei to hide their crime
In his pockets were found but fifteen
cents. His watch and keys were un
disturbed. Even though Captain Coghlan's
little speech at the New York banquet
did create German ill feeling toward
us, it was a pretty sensible jingle for
all.
WHY FARM?
One Man Give Hit Reanont For Avoiding the
City.
A contributor to one ot the leading
agricultural publications gives his
reasons for being a farmer. He says:
I am thankful that I am a farmer,
and am glad to be known as such in
whatever gathering I may happen to
be. Why, dear young man, there is no
more honorable or happy occupation
on God's beautitul earth than that of a
farmer, and to look down on the man
simply because he gets his bread and
butter by tilling the soil shows a lack
of proper education. To own a farm
and properly till it is indeed some
thing one may be proud of. To have
good animals to feed and look after is
a pleasure that no one can enjoy as
can the farmer, and the man who pos
sesses a farm carefully worked and
stocked with animals has nothing to
be ashamed of if lie is an honest, up
right man. Indeed, I know of no oc
cupation that I would choose in pref
erence to farming, and in my younger
days I had the opportunity to try sev
eral. The farmer is his own employer.
He does not have to go or come at
the sound of a bell or whistle. He
may set out trees and shrubs about
his home, making it as attractive and
pleasant as his taste dictates. No
home can be made more delightful
and homelike than tiie farm home
under the hands of the tasty farmer
and his assistants.
The wages that the city man re
ceives often seems to the farmer to be
large, but when he comes to pay for
house rent, fuel, light and other ne
cessaries, what a small part is left 1
Only a short time ago a man who
as been iti business for a long, term
of years in the city told me he ought
not to have left the farm
To compare the average city man's
surroundings with those of a well-
kept farm is enough to convince me
that the farm is the better place in
which to rear a family, and that it
may be made the pleasanter home.
The green fields and woods may be
enjoyed to the fullest extent we hear
the sweet songs of the birds while at
our work, and there is pleasure, in
looking after the domestic animals
and seeing them grow. The field
work, although at times somewhat
hard, is, on the whole, agreeable, and,
ndeed, fascinating 5 never monoton
ous, as are many kinds of mechani
cal work. Such pleasant evenings as
may be enjoyed on the farm after our
day s work is done 1 Isn't there a
great degree of satisfaction in pro
ducing what we need to live on ?
Wholesome fruits and vegetables can
be grown that cannot be had in the
city usually, because when they reach
the consumer in the city they are not
fresh. Give me the eood old farm
after all.
A neat swindle is being worked
with great success in nearby towns,
and our residents are duly cau
tioned. A woman book aeent ap
pears in town and goes from house
to house, leaving books lor exami
nation, xsext day a man calls to
see if the books are wanted. A
few days later the woman aeent
again appears, and on being told
that the man had taken away the
sample books she weeps copiously,
says the villain has been collecting
her books all over town, pleads pov
erty and so on, and accepts the
pronered compensation.
The United States is the only
great nation whose postal receipts fall
below its expenditures for the service
"Courage and Strength
in Times of 'Danger'
Ifead the warning between
the lines. What is that warn
ing It is of the danger from
the accumulation of badness
in the blood, caused by the
usual heavy living of the
Winter months. Spring is
the clearing, cleansing time
of the year; the forerunner of
the brightness and beauty of
glorious summer.
Follow the principle that Nature lays
down. Start in at once and purify your
blood with that great snecilic, llood'i
Sarsaparilla. It never ditiappointg,
Cl'ltJ-" Sixteen weeks ot grip mude mo
weak, but after all else (ailed Hood's Sar
snnarllla cured me. Later I overworked
and dyspepsia and canker In moutli and
stomach bothered uie. 1 took the Harsapa
rllla pualn and It completely restored rue.'
AIRS. KI.IZABFTH 1'OMAN, HXelcr, IS. H.
Rheumatism -"Myself and a friend
both HUlfered fruni severe uttaeks of rheu
matism. Hood's SarsapurlllH cured both,
We would not be without It." WM. 11
Lekter, (15 Leonard St., Fall Klver, Mass.
I lead and Cask - " For one year pain
In my back and head prevented my house.
hold duties. I took Hood's Kursaparllla and
am a well woman. It also cured the Krlp
In our fumily." Mas. Mattik ukndkiimun,
Cor, First and Franklin Ave.,(!oluiubus,Ind.
Jooil'c iHlU cure llvw IIU. tlie non-trrlUtlntf and
ouiy cathartic o un noou mrt Hpurnm,
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tl 0$& Are marvels of cheapness to all who see
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Star Clothing
Drink GrainO.
after you have concluded that you
ougnt not to drink coffee. It is not a
medicine but doctors order it, because
is nealthful, invigorating and appe
tising. . It is made from nnri irraina
id has that rich seal brown color
id tastes liks the finest crades of
offee and costs about 4- as much.
Children thrive on it because it is a
genuine food drink containing nothing
ut nourishment. 15 and 25c. at gro
cers. A.11-..A
STEAT PARAGRAPHS.
Electric fans are now in season.
Isn't it tunny how a live wire will
kill senses.
Tongues arc very often speak
easies, without a license.
Love is a game between two
hearts and both are bound to beat.
There is no disputing the fact
that lightning has a striking appear
ance.
The girl who looks as pretty as a
picture must owe some ot it to her
irame.
Practice doesn't always make
perfect, at least not in the case of
some doctors.
The Filipinos have about learned
by this time that the way to surrender
is to surrender.
Many people are of the opinion
that there will be great openings for
Americans in the Philippines when
hostilities have ceased. About the
only openings will be holes in the
ground.
Some of our fishermen have been
sadly disappointed the past week.
They were of the opinion that ill they
had to do was to bait a hook,, throw
it in the water and the fish would
take hold. There are tricks in all
trades and fishing is no exception.
The Bright Star
in the firmanent has appeared in the
Corona Rheumatism Cure, which posi
tively cure all rheumatic affections,
by killing the microbe which causes
the dreaded disease. This new scien
tific remedy is advertised in another
part of the paper, and can be obtain
ed from your local druggist. The
Company's reputation and many tes
timonials in its favor will be a great
"Ray of Hope to any suffering from
this trouble.
OASTOIIIA.
Bean tu ) The Kind Yea Have Always Buujjlt
Signature
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WAVERLY
FOR BOYS.
To see this Shoe is to
buy it. It you buy it once
you will buy it again. Up
to date in style, fit and
finish.
These Shoes in stock at
W. H. Moore?s.
Con. Second and Iedn Sts.
SHOES
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Values That Eclipse Them AH
High Grade Goods at Low Prices.
OUR ALL-WOOL
SUITS AT
LOTS
AT TOWNSEND'S
F. P.
Women,s$2 Shoes
At $1.29 a Pair.
This latest offerintr of the
Shoe Department is remarkable.
The assortment comprises the
very newest and most anoroved
shapes for spring wear. Goods
that it purchased in a regular
way would command R2.00.
They are in Polish and Button,
and the price, $1.29 a pair.
fluslin Underwear
A p-reat opportunity for fruo-al
women to replenish the sunnlv
of undermuslin is presented to-
day. w e snapped up a lot of
these high grade underwear last
week, and offer them this week
at one-fourth less than regular
price. Ladies night robes at
65c, worth 85c; skirts, with full
hemstitched ruffle, at 85c, worth
i 10; ladies drawers, worth
35c, at 28c.
Special Black
Taffeta Silk.
24 inch wide, regular $1 qual
ity, at 75c. One 36 inch wide
silk, we could not buy to sell for
less than $1 50 per yard, we will
sea tnis week at ?i 15.
Dress Goods.
Every wantable kind of ma
terial is included in this dress
goods stock. We spend months
and months of attention tn mW.
ing this stock of goods, which
tasnion has decreed as correct.
Grey cheviot, 50 inches wide,
good weight, for tailor-made
suits, 00 a yard ; 8 pieces of
neat.mixed effects.regular price,
56c, we will sell at 40c per yard;
heavy cheviots, in herring bone
and plain effects, at 59c the
regular 75c quality.
Porch Rockers.
You will want to be comfort
able this summer, and possibly,
F..P.
SPECIAL SALE!
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Now is the timft tr o-f Inrirn'ne tU j. .
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days we will give you many
aa iiuw
Do not miss tbsn ennninl oloo
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ply of pretty Coats, Capes and
Ladies' Tailor-Made Suits, from $5.00 up.
Ladies' Coats Capes, Separate Skirts. Coats for misses and
children. In this line our stock is large. Prices low
Ladies' Fur Collarettes, from $2.00 up.
nnf 8rfw rheS i"creas?s dail'. Ladies' Fine Shoes, from
&A?fr r . Fle Shoes-froi 98c. up. Good Calicoes, 3c
Good Muslin 3ic Our stock of Underwear is complete. We
JS Leather brand Stockings for ladiesmisses
and boys. Corsets, for 24c. up. ,
1U1fG?fery PePartment is improving daily-adding new
goods at better prices. Our whole stock is complete and prices
always right. It will pay you to see our goods before yof bu?
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited. '
Corner Main and Centre.; ALFREKMcHENRY. Manager
$3.75, $5, $5.98
OF BARGAINS-
House
Pursel.
don't want to pay much to make
yourself that wav. Our porch
rockers will do it," and the $1 50
kind we will sell you at $1.29,
the $2 kind, at $1 49.
Bed-Room
Furniture.
We h andle the line manufac
tured at our home factory.
Mark the word exclusively, for
no one else in town can get
these goods. There is no line
in the state better. The way
we buy these goods, and the
saving in freight, packing and
hauling, we can save you at
least from $5 to 1 8 a suit. Look
around, come to our store, and
we will prove it to you.
Women's
Tailor-Hade Suits
There is not a suit in this
stock that isn't well made.
There isn't one that is not right
up to date, in cut, style and fin
ish. If the skirt is not the right
length we have it made to fit
you before you take it out of
our store, so you don't have to
go home and get a dressmaker
to fix it for you. Price, from
$5 to $22.
Special Offer
In Our Grocery
Department.
One gallon cans of apples at
25c, worth 35c; Tandem peas,
worth 1 8c, two cans for 25 c. Ev
ery kind of VanCamp's soups at
ioc a can; gallon cans of maple
syrup, from one of the maple
camps in York State, for $1 25
per gallon; the best tomatoes
that are canned, 2 cans for 25c.
Oranges, lemons and bananas.
We ace agents for the best cof
fees and teas in the world
Chase & Sanborn's. We sel
these coffees from i2jc to 40c a
lb; teas, from 40c to $ 1 a lb.
Pursel
o"""3- . "uiuiy mc next 30
goods at and below cost. Wool
15. iress IjrOOdS, ITOm 50C. tO XO
WTa 1, J..t 3... j J
,v, nan; just icueiveu new sup
Fur Collarettes for ladies Fur
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