"HE COLUlviblAiM, In .vJOMSBUh nx, X V 1 w PURE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ovai mwmfl pownrw THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMS BURG, FA. VIIUKSDAV, JUNE 1, 1899. Kntrrfft at ttif I'ott OJttif at Htnmnttwrg, I'a. et tecanil claim mutter, ilurvhi, lung. A GREAT OFFER- Farm Journal From Now to Deo. Nearly Five Yean. 1903, By special arrangement, made with the publishers of the Farm Journal, we are enabled to offer that paper to every subscriber who pays jor The Columbian one year ahead, for only $t.oo, both papers for the price of ours only : our pa per one year and the Farm Journal from now to December, 1903, neany 5 years. The Farm Journal an old established paper, enjoying great popularity, one of the best and most useful farm papers pub lished. WT This offer should be accepted without delay. tf Democratic) Committeemen- Beavor C. Z. Schllcher. Kenton Boro. H. O. Mcllcnry. Benton Twp. Abe Hartman. Berwick, N. K. Cbag. Brader. Berwick, H. K.-J. C. Kurman. Berwick, N. W. M. C. Carey. Berwick, 8. W.-H. nrelfuss. Bloom lnl U. B. Oirtsmau. Bloom ad Frank Baura. Bloom 8rd K. K. Zarr. Bloom 4th John Kelly. Brlarcreek-K. O. Jones. Catawlssa Twp.-l). II. Fetterolf. Catawba Boro . B Khawn. Central! Ist-Pat. Kogarty. C'entrallad-Kd. Walsh. Centre Jue Welxs. Cleveland -W. II. Small. Conynguam K. N. couynghmn W. N Km'l Levan. Conyngham W.-John Curren. Conyngham 8. W. Peter Meltnger. I'onynghara s. K. John Waif ti. Klahlngcreek K J. M. Vt'pnner. Flsblngoreek W. M. W. MoUenry. Franklin 8. D. Lo reman, (treeawood K. J. B. Fullmer. Greenwood W. W. B, Kyer. Hemlock V. Stroup. Jackson Alex Knoute. locust J. W. Snyder. Madison J. K. Hhuman. -Main J. F. Uauman. Mimin J. A. Kromer. Mlllvllle-J B. cole. Montour James tulck. Mt. Pleasant A. fcanlch. N. P. W. Bones. Pine a T. B. Oo'duer. Jtoarlngcreek-Chaa. Krelscber. Scott K Win. Dcltterlck. Hcott W. H. C. Johnston. Sugarloaf N.-B. D. Cole. Sugarloaf 8. J. M. Larlsh. Democratic Primary Election Notice. The Democratic Primary Election f Columbia county will be held on Saturday, June roth, 1899. The poles will be open at the regular vot ing place in each election district, be Iween the hours of 3 and 7 o'clock p. jn. Official tickets will be placed m charge of the officers of each election board, from whom they can be pro , cured by Democratic voters. Candidates for the following named offices are to be voted for at this elec tion : Five persons for State Delegates. One person for County Treasurer. One person for Prothonotary. One person for Register & Recorder. One person for District Attorney. Two persons for Commissioners. Two persons for County Auditors. Each district will ako elect a Com mitteeman and Primary Election Board, to consist of one judge and two inspectors. 1 he County Convention will be held in the Bloomsburg Opera House on Tuesday, June 13th, at 11 o'clock a. m. John G. McHenry, R. G. F. Kshinka, Secy. Chairman. You can get an extremely neat and tastv picture frame at Mercer's Drus &. Book Store for 30 and 33 cents for single and 50 cents for double, 75 cents for three, 90 cents for four 1. 00 tor live, 1.25 tor six pictures in a frame.. We are informed that wild flow ers are later this year thau they liave been in forty years. Well, how did you like the Bicycle Show Who can sav now the Cleve land Ball and Roller Bearing is not a creat invention ? We still have one of those fine Cleveland Tandems for $50.00. Wolff American. $50. Reading. $25 to $50. Barnes, $ O to $65. Cleveland, $35 to $75. Fine Combination Tandem for rent. W. S. Rishton, Ph. G.. CoDosita P. 0 Pharmacist lepiione No VXK Sawing ipowgmer co., wtw voww. PURELY PERSONAL Matllicw McUcynolils returned from (Juakertown on Saturday. Oscar and Less Alexander and their wives, spent sundny in Nnnticoke. . Miss l.illie Sloan goes to Baltimore to-morrow to visit her brother Frank. D. J.Taskcr, our local editor, spent Dec oration Day in Iiinghamton, N. V. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Gilbert of Thilaiel. pliia spent Tuesday in town with relatives. Miss Waller of Washington, D. C, is a guest at the Waller mansion on Market Street. Simon P. Case, of Philadelphia, was in town on Wednesday. He is getting pretty well along In years. D. W. Campbell, Superintendent of the B. & S. K. K. has been ill for several weeks, and is now slowly improving. F. M. Everett and wife of Mt. Carmel came over on Saturday to visit relatives. They returned home on 1 uesclay. Dr. J. W. Iiruncr s little son Arthur was five years old on the eighteenth of May. On that day he was presented with a little brother. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Armstrong and daughter, and Dr. E. E Clark and wife of Milton spent Sunday with Mrs. Geo. M assert, Mrs. Armstrong's mother. Henry F. Dietcrich. the popular landlord of the St. Elmo Hotel, has recovered from his severe illness, and is now attending to the comfort of his guests again. Thomas Gorrey. Jr. returned from Cuba on Saturday. He enlisted in Nebraska n Col. William J. Bryan's regiment, and has been near Havana fur some lime. He is not anxious to return to Cuba. Legal advertisements on page 7. Tires from 5.00 per pair to 10,00 per pair at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. C. II. Reynolds, formerly of Cat awissa. has opened a dental office in Danville. , Window curtains and wall paper prices risrht at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. A trout dinner and supper will be held in Myers' Hall, Central, on Saturday, June 3d. rrof. W. H. Detwiler will ad dress the Y. M. C. A. meeting next Sunday at 2:30 p. ui. Croquet sets, hammocks, base balls, bats, masks, gloves, etc., at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. The next meeting of the Demo cratic State Press Association will be held in Harrisburg on June 13th. For bicycle repairing the Blooms burg Cycle Works can not be beat, shop rear Moore's Shoe Store. Joseph W. Moyer Esq., of Potts- ville, has been appointed secretary of the Democratic State Committee. A nice lot of Clover and Tim- othv Seed, just received by the Bloomsburg Store Co., Ltd. Prices reasonable. 3-9 The Good Will Fire Company will hold their first annual picnic at Iless Grove, Rupert, 011 Saturday June 17th. Emory D. Hagenbuch, the dairy man, ot L,igntsireei, appeareu m town on Tuesday morning with a fine new milk wagon. The latest style in type for visit ing cards has just been received at this office. Special prices given to Normal and High School students. From a Wilkes-Barre paper we learn that it cost over $10,000 in cold cash to run the First Presby terian Church of that city last year. The next Diocesan convention of the P. E. church m Central Penn sylvania will be held in Scranton next May. Good health is worth more than anything else to you, and every bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla con tains good health. J. E. Fidler has placed a steam enniie in his Gem Laundry on Market street, and is now prepared to laundry work either by hand or steam. R. W. Jacobs has changed his Sunday news stand from Housel's to the front of Savage's, All the New York and Philadelphia Sunday papers are for sale. The trial of the persons charged with counterfeiting government stamps and bills, will be tried June 26th. Ellery P. Ingham, one of the defendants is very ill. You can get the finest toilet soap that we have ever run across, 6 cakes for 2 scat Mercp.r'3 Drug & Book Store. Mrs. Crawford's sale on Wednes day was well attended. Yon can always find a large and well selected line of perfumery at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Ask to see the new style of visit ing card at this office. Can't be told from an engraved card, and costs less than half as much, tf The name of No. 3 fire company is Winona, not Wynona. We helped to name it some years ago, and therefore know how to spell it. Next week will be the last issue before delegate election. Any can didates who desire to have any thing published then, must get it in early. For bicycle sundries, bells, cyclo meters, lamps, toe clips, butters, cements, saddles, tool bags, graph ites, pumps, wrenches, enamels, etc. , go to Mercer s Drug & Book Store. The North Branch Steel Works at Danville, expect to start up to day, and also the two double pud dling furnaces of the Mahoning Rolling Mill. This will give work to 100 additional men. Shame upon the man, woman or child who is mean enough to steal flowers from the graves of the dead. This has been a common practice in past years. Don t let it be repeated again. It is a criminal onense. ana an example may have to be made in order to stop it. Be sure and read our great offer of the Columbian for a year and --- - - ' 1 the Farm Journal for the balance of i8qq and all of 1900, 1901, 1902 1903, nearly five years, all for the price of our paper alone. Just walk up to the captain's office and draw the greatest prize you ever drew. A slight fire occurred in the plain ing mill ot R. T. Smith & Son, Benton, Pa. , on Saturday afternoon. It was quickly discovered, and ex tinguished in twenty minutes. Its early discovery no doubt prevented a serious conflagration, as the wind was in the right direction to have swept the town. 1 Frank Jones, the oldest bus driv er in this section, had his foot bruis ed by a horse stepping on it, at Buckalew's stable on Monday. Mr. Jones has been driving bus for about twenty five years, working lor JacoD Diehl, Geo. Risewick and Buckalew Bros., successive owners of the same livery, almost continuously during that time. The Bloomsburg Club has closed its club house, the Billmeyer prop erty, on Market street, and the per sonal property was sold at auction on Monday. Too small a member ship and too large expenses are the causes of dissolution. it is re ported that F. P. Billmeyer's fam ily will occupy the premises during the summer. Dr. T. C. Harter was circulating among his many friends in Mordans ville and vicinity the past week. He is the oldest man in the field for Register & Recorder. As "he is a man of strict sobriety, industrious habits, courteous and obliging, he is making a strong fight for the nomination for the othce to wtucn he aspires. Chief of police Knorr is breaking up the gangs of street corner loaf ers lliai congregate near uie churches 011 Sunday nights. Boys, if you want a nice comfortable place to wait for your best girls who go to church, go inside the churches. You will be welcome at any of them, and you will be iu good company. Owing to ill health Mrs. A. L. Crawford is going out of the milli nery business, and her entire stock has been sold at auction. Mrs. Crawford and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. M. L. Crawford, start to-morrow for Baker City, Oregon. They will soon go to California, where they expect to reside in the future. Charles T. Hendershott, who broke his ankle by falling off a step ladder at Mrs. Mendenhall's on Normal Hill, about two weeks ago, is improving nicely, and is able to move around me nouse wun crutches. It will be several weeks before he can resume work. He is a painter and paper hanger of long experience, and is classed among the best. William E. Dieterich of Espy was unfortunate enough to have an arm broken on Tuesday morning. He drovs to Bloomsburg with a load of radishes, and while standing in front ot Harman & Hasserts shops the whistle blew, frightening the horse. Mr. Dietencn was stand ing at the side of the wagon and was thrown down. He was taken to Dr. Redeker's office, where the bones were set. The officers of the Columbia Co. Agricultural Society held a meeting last Saturday. The front and awning at G. A. McKelvv's drug store have been brightened up by a coat of paint. lint Post G. A. R. attended serv ices at the Baptist church last Sun day morning. Rev. J. D. Smith preached an appropriate sermon, which is very highly spoken ot. The greatest hit yet is the Toilet Soap that you can get at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Two boxes for 25 cents, three cakes in a box, it is highly perfumed and is fine for the money. While going through Reading last Thursday, on its way to Potts- ville, a car on the train carrying Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show caught fire, and the contents, con sisting of wagons and canvas, were destroyed. It may be an item not generally known that the United States Su preme Court recently handed down an opinion to the effect that poultry running at large is wild game, and persons upon Wi'om chickens may trespass have the right to kill them. Mrs. John Zeisloft of Terseytown, one of our esteemed subscribers who rarely fails to pay in advance, was the first one to take advantage of our liberal offer to send the Farm Tournal for five years to those who pay a year in advance for The Cotv UMBIAN. jacou jJUiULHjy was vu uis way iu i church on Sunday evening a little Jacob Bomboy was on his wa y to after seven 0 clock, and when in front of Thomas' music store be came dizzy and fell down, striking his head on the corner of a box, and cutting a gash about two inches long on the left side ot his bead. He was assisted toG. A. McKelvy's drug store where his wound was dressed, and he was able to go home. While passing up the street Mon day morning, the writer was stop ped by a crowd of bright school boys who wanted to know if he could answer the question: "What three noted men had trouble grow ing out of their connection with fruit trees?" After admitting his inability to answer, the boys en lightened him by saying: "Adam with an apple tree; Washington, with a cherry tree; and Quay, with a plum tree. The rinladelphia inquirer says that there is a growing sentiment that for the brute who beats his wife, who ill-uses children, or who maltreats defenseless animals, a short term 01 imprisonment is an adequate and ineffective penalty, and that the opinion is gaming ground that for such offences the whipping post, which our neigh bors in the State of Delaware have never allowed to be abolished, con stitutes the enly appropriate and deterrent punishment. Governor Roosevelt put himself on record the other day as in favor of it. It has been the habit, not without reason. to resrard the whipping post as a relic of barbarism, but the fact re mains that there are some human brutes who are insensible to any other thau physical punishment. Flogging would not degrade them. It would only deter them from re peating a peculiarly despicable of fense. " Trust Not to Appearances." That which seems hard to bear may be a great blessing. Let us take a lesson from the rough weather of Spring. It is doing good despite appear ances. Cleanse the system thoroughly; rout out all impurities from the blood with that greatest specific, Hood's Sarsaparilla. Instead of sleepless nighU, with con' sequent irritablenesa and an undone, tired feeling, you will have a tone and a bracing air that will enable you to enter Into every day'a work with pleasure. Kemember, Hood's titter disappoints. Sorofuta Bunche -"Au operation helped my son temporarily (or scrofula bunches on bis n.ck, but Hood's Sarsapa rilla caused thera to disappear entirely." Mas. Lwis A. CAarurria, 61 Wsd.worth Street, Hartford, Conn. , , Catarrh " I ba? bad no return of the catarrh whloh troubled ma for years, since Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me." Mrs. Job Martin, Washington St., Ogdensburg-, N. Y. Dyspepsia. " Nothing relieved me of my dyspepHla until I took Hood's Sarsapa rilla. It cured me and I can eat three good meals every day. f flye it to my children every spring." Faao Pomi.ra, 437 Houth renna uireat, inusanapoiis, lnd. Hood'i fill ent II r 1)1 1, the nop In-luting and with Hood'i BrvriU only outtiarTic to tal Supplying Every ing Every Taste Keeps this store replete Safety, as well as satisfaction, place. Thoroughly dcperciaDie mercnanuise is wuuu mv 7 1 ' . f '. r - Osmotic t.,iir.tf1iiittr c cur en tint Vff?tV me price 01 me nucnui, vaccina ay.inm-j or j", r ing that truth in mind may benefit you when ready to buy. ing Organdies, Dimities, Lawns. We mention these goods again for your consideration. Our lines are complete in every way in these handsome printed fa brics. We think it will pay you to come and see them. The cloths and printings are all that one could wish. Prices to please the most critical buyer. rarasols, Fans, Umbrellas. Parasols of all kinds, fine fans of all kinds. Umbrellas for sun or rain. See our, special um brella at $1.25. Corsets, Bustles, 6r. Complete lines of all kinds. The famous R. & G. No. 397 Corset, from 18 to 36 in stock. Summer Corsets at 32 and 50c. Batiste Corsets, very light, $.. Model Form Corsets, $1. Black Crtpons. We offer some attractive lots of these goods at very attrac- ive prices. Come and see them. Dress Ginghams. All the choicest of the sea son s weaving is here. Amen can Gingham at 10c a yard (us v . uaJy 1 2c)-. Extra wide Ginghams, I2lc yard. finest uingnams. 25c a yam, CLARK SHOES! SPECIAL $2 SO To meet all the require ments of trade. Everything used in this line "the best." Quality, Style, Fit. F. 0, Defective Eyes Can be made to see perfectly and the trou ble entirely removed, by PROPERLY FaT TED Glasses. My leng experierce is ai your command. I examine your eyes FREE aud tell you whether or cot you need, glasses. Can supply all kinds of OP TICAL GOODS AT MODERATE PRICES. JT. IE. ffi0Y, Tewelci. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoflke, and will be sent to the dead letter office June 13, 1899: B. F. Apple, Mrs. Blanche Cole. Miss Mae Connor, Sadie E. Davis, Mrs. Trease Hartman, Mr. Clyde Na gle, E. E. Moore, Mrs. Elvira Walter. Persons calling for the above letters will p'ea&e say that they .-. advertised June 1, 1809. O. B. Mellick, P. M. Need and Satisfy with freshness, brightness, cheer. comes irom dealing at me w White Dress Goods Are the goods now in de mand, and especially by the young lady gradu?i.e. We say to them, as well as others, this stock is complete, with full line of French Organdies, Muslins, Batistes, Nainsooks, Linen de Indias, &c. at prices to please all. Come and see them. Ribbons, Laces, &c. You can almost to certainty find what you desire in this stock of these goods. All kinds, all colors. Shirt Waists. If you. have a waist want come and see this stock. New lots of white and colored ones this week. Wash Dress Skirts. The collection of these in Ducks, Linens, Pks and Crashes, is complete. We say come and see them. Prices, from 39c up wards. Trimmed Skirts at 47c Lace Curtains. We have several lots of these at less than usual prices. Doift you think you should see them? &v S03ST- SHOES!! LINE DEWTLER. Critical Judgment finds no flaw in our Photo graphs. Let your friends de cide we know their opinion will be complimentary to our work. Skill, taste, experience, with the beat of modern appliances and equipment all these we employ to make yosx picture perfectly satisfactory. We are showing several now styles of In both the DlatiDOtyne and carbonette that are exclusive with us In Bloomsburg. KB VP TO DATE. O THE PHILLIPS STUDIO, MAIN STREET. Opposite Episcopal Rectory, 11-34 , BLOOMSBURG ELECTRIC LIGHT POWER CO. Bloousbuko, Pa., SI arc n 80, 18M A special niflellnir of the stockholders ot the Bloomsburg Klectrlo Llifht and Power Com pany will lie held at the onice of Mr. K. it. Mullen, President, No. OOtt Arch street, Phila delphia, Pa., on the Mil day of Juue, ltMlt, be tween the hours ot s p. m. and 6 p. m., tor tka purpose di rttiuyiDg ine aeuuu ui tuv j-rau-deut and Hecretary In executing a certain boad and mortgage, Jannary. A. I). 1 e. bearing date the first day mw, recovaeu m iu ujuuu ui win uecoraer ot neeuH, in aim tor me county 01 Columbia, In Mortgage Book No. U, at pge N. 7; and for the transaction ot such oilie, buii nexs as may properly come before the meeting, jot 11. M. FKAN CIS, (secretary.
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