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BLOOMSBURG, FA. .
' THURSDAY, J UN K I J, '1899.
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teami claim matter, March 1, 18JHJ.
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PURELY PERSONAL
Warren Lee, of Scianton, spent Sunday in
town.
George Slo.m of Baltimore, pcnt Sunday
and Monday in town.
Mrs. James T. Thornton is enjoying a visit
with Keailing relatives and friends.
John Mickey has left town and gone to
Johnstown, where he has secured a position.
Fred Woods, rode to Derrs on his wheel
Sunday and spent the day with his mother.
John K. Kobison of Mifilintown, Pa., gen
eral building inspector, was in town yester
day. Miss Rosnbel'e Fennessy of Frackville,
has been the guest of Mrs. G. W. Ruckle on
Fifth street the past week
Dr. and Mrs. O'Brien of Denton, were
entertained Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Ruckle of West Third street.
II. II. White, representing the Co-operative
Building and Loan Association of Balti
more, Md., is in town this week.
Miss Edith Dickerman and Miss Cathar
ine Datesman of Milton, are the guests of
Mrs. Harry Humphrey on east Third street.
Harry C. McUride, wife and son of Fair
view, were visitors at the home of Mrs. Me
Bride's parents, in town the fore part of this
week.
Thomas Low, a student nt the University
ef Syracuse, is spending his vacation with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs E. VV. M. Low Bt
Lime Ridge.
R. G. Kichline, representative of the Slat
ington Slate Company, visited Theta Castle
K. G. E. on Monday evening last and assist
ed in initiating eight Knights.
Dr. W. M. Reber and son Max are attend
ing the commencement exercises at State
College this week. The latter intends enter
iug the institution the coming fall.
Mr. Foster L. Smith of Jamison City,
passed through town on Wednesday on his
way to Pittsburgh, w here he has accepted a
position with a Glass Manufacturing Co.
Miss Annie Woods has returned home af
ter an extended visit in Blair county. She
was accompanied home by Miss Lewis, of
Altoona, who will be her guest for a few
weeks.
Irvin A. Snyder, accompanied by his moth
er started for St. Louis Wednesday to attend
the meeting of the Gram) Lodge of Klks.
Mr. Snyder is a delegate from the lodge of
this town.
Mrs. W. B. Allen and two little daughters,
Rebecca and Catharine, accompanied by Miss
Ella Allen, left on Saturday to visit the form
er's husband, W. B. Allen at Waterbury,
Connecticut.
Miss Bitting of Camden, N. J , is the
pleasant guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph I'res
ton on East Third street. She Is a daughter
of W. B. Bitting, well known traveling sales
man for Price & Company, paper dealers of
Philadelphia.
II. V. White, member of the State Board
of Agriculture left on Monday for Bellefontc
to be present at the commencement exercises
of State College. He was accompanied by
C. E. Adams of Briarcreek, J. B. Ikeler of
Greenwood, and F, P. Hagenbuch of Light
Street.
Delegates Dildinc, Randall, Adams, Turn
er and iirennan represented tliis county in
the Democratic Stale Convention at Harris-bur--.
Others who attended from here were
A. L. Fritz, William Chrisman, C. B Ent,
J. S. Williams, John G. McIIenry and Geo.
V.. Elwell.
When you want any
Goods from ,
RISHTON
Call him up by Tele
phone and he will de
liver it.
Just received a new lot of those
Mossberg Chime
Bicycle Bells, 75c.
A good Bicycle for sale
"$1 5.00.
W. S. Rishton. Ph. G..
OasrsUe P. 0 Pharmacist
YelepUone No VKH ...
Each h c
Pure
OWTM ()., NfW VOUK.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warficld entertained
a party of friends at the Nittany rod and gun
club on Tuesday nftci noon in honor of their
house gust, Min Yicl.t Miller, nf Bloomsburg,
Miss Lillic C. Henuli, of Itarrisburg, and
Mrs. John P. Harris Jr., of Tyrone. (Bell
fonte Watchman.,)
Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Sharplcss of
Pueblo Colorado, arrived in town on Satur
day. They in company with Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Vanderslice, Miss Hcleqi Vandcrslicc,
George Vanderslice, Miss Vcrl of Hnzlcton,
and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wilson and two
daughters Edna and Martha are now camp
out at Beaver Dam, Lycoming county. The
merry party expects to remain out ior a month
or more.
Legal advertisements on page 7.
Water melons are on the market.
Lamps at reduced prices at Mer
cer's Drug & Book Store.
"With the .Men Behind the
Guns," on next Saturday evening.
Charles Decker is making some
improvements to his Fifth street
property.
That toilet soap, as good as any
ioc. soap ever sold, at 6 cakes for
25c, at Mercer s, is great.
C. II. Creasy has accepted a po
sition as engineer for the Hawley
Slate Furniture Company.
Lieut. Godfrey Carden, in Nor
mal Auditorium, Saturday evening,
June 17th. Admission, 25c.
The prospect for a good wheat
crop is not very good, we are told,
but yet there are some very promis
ing fields to be seen hereabouts.
For Rent. Double house, on
the Lightstreet road, just above
Town Hall. Inquire of E. E. Bit
tenbender, or J. L. Richardson,
Bloomsburg. 6-15
The Friendship Fire Company
flushed the water plugs, and at the
same time tested the power of the
engine, at the head of Main street,
Tuesday evening.
The brick crossing between the
post offics and Exchange Hotel
block has been lowered to grade.
It appears the crossing was two
inches too high.
It is said that candidates for pub
lic office are so numerous in Chester
county that one farmer has adopted
the plan of handing each comer a
card reading: "All candidates look
alike to me. Don't stop this plow."
The Hotel Haag of Milton, has
changed hands, J. H. Bibby its form
er proprietor succeeding J. Hunter
Schuyler, who for the past year or
more has made the hotel one of the
most popular hostelries in the State.
Prof. Losey's orchestra will hold
a dance and festival at Hess Grove,
Rupert, Saturday evening next.
Hacks will leave Market Square
every half hour. An enjoyable
feature will be a band concert to be
giyen at half past sev en o'clock.
James Davis has broken ground
on East Fourth street for a set of
green houses. Mr. Davis was form
erly employed by J. L. Dillon, but
for the past two years has been em
ployed by a florist at Scranton.
The work of ths Democratic Con
vention on Tuesday was greatly ex
pedited by having the vote of the
townships all arranged in tabulated
form and ready for verification be
fore the opening of the meeting.
W. A. Evert's office was made the
headquarters of the convention, and
the credit for the above stated con
dition of affairs belong wholly to
that gentleman.
The commercial travelers of
America, when they next meet in
annual convention at Albany, N. Y.
this season, are going to announce
their slogan as "Death to the
Trusts". They represent an army
of three hundred and fifty thousand,
fifty thousand of whom are out of
employment because the trusts have
so contracted business as to leave
no place or need for their services.
These men are a potential factor in
all political campaigns because they
travel to every city and hamlet in
the land and are well informed, con
vinc'ng talkers. When they com
mence to talk "Death to the Trusts"
they will sound the death knell to
the party that has prostituted itself
to the selfish, grinding greed of cor
porate combinations. The Repuli
can party will then have met its
greatest enemy.
Bicycles, froni $25 to $65, either
ladies' or gents', at Mercer's Drug
and Book Sto;c. '
Ice cream served, with all flavors
in soda water, at 5c a glass, at
Mercer s Drug & Hook Store.
In the Doak Kquity case, Judge
Savage sustains the defendant and
dismisses the bill at the cost of the
plaintiff.
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
Tacob Dildine. for manv vears
past an inmate of the Alms House
died on Friday. He was a former
resident of Greenwood township.
The Drum Corps of the Boys'
Baigade, last week received six new
fifes, six tenor drums and a base
drum. An instructor has been
chosen, and the boys are becoming
quite skilled.
Friday last, the Feast of the Sac
red Heart was observed with unus
ual solemnity by the Catholics
throughout the world, at which
time they consecrated to God the
closing year of the nineteenth cen
tury. The result of the primaries fur
nished no surprise, except in the
matter of majorities. Any body
after a little consideration could
easily have foretold the outcome. It
was one of those cases in which
coming events cast their shadows
before.
We learn from a resident of that
town that the Catawissa paper mill,
is crowded with orders, and that the
plant is running to its full capacity.
Additional machinery is being ad
ded, and improvements are being
made, which when completed will
necessitate the employment of many
more workmen.
The Burgees of Nanticoke, we
notice has ordered the police to
arrest all users ot protane language
in the streets, t or every oatn ut
tered a fine of 67 cents is imposed
If such a decree was in force in
Bloomsburg, our town treasurer
would have to have an assistant to
handle the funds.
George B. Crossly has disposed
of his restaurant on Centre Street to
William Gross, of Bloomsburg who
has taken charge and is conducting
the business. Mr. Crossly will en
gage in the lumber business, he
having a large tract of timber at the
mountain which he will manufact
ure into lumber the coming sum
mer. Benton Argus.
Mrs. George W. White died at
her home in Berwick last week,
Thursday, and was buried from her
late residence Sunday afternoon
The deceased was born in Beaver
Meadow in 1842, making her at the
time of her death 56 years of age.
She was the mother of eight chil
dren, five of whom survive.
The Normal School base ball nine
defeated the strong Stroudsburg
Normal School club at Normal Field
Saturday afternoon, by a score of
10 to o. The features of the game
were the excellent work of both
pitchers, and the fielding of the
locals. The Normal has won ten
out of eleven games thus far, a rec
ord that has never been approached
by any other team the School has
ever had.
The editor of the Farm Journal
asks : ' ' Why have a mortgage on
the farm, poor crops, rheumatism,
sour bread, grip, leak in the roof,
hole in the pocket, skeleton in the
closet, or any other pain or trouble,
when you can get the Farm Jour
nal for the balance of 1899 and all
of 1900, 1 90 1, 1902 and 1903, near
ly five years, by paying a year in
advance for the Columbian ? This
you can do if you are not too late.
A Connecticut farmer gives the
following method for .abating the
caterpillar nuisance. He says:
"Every year I hear of caterpillars
destroying whole orchards. There
is nothing so easy to dispose of. I
bore a hole in the tree deep enough
to reach the sap, fill the hole with
sulphur and plug it up. The sap
takes the sulphur to every limb and
twig, and the caterpillars disappear
a once. I have used it for years."
We are requested to announce that
a grand trout dinner, supper and
festival will be held at Central un
der the auspices of the Ladies Aid
Society of the M. P. church on Sat
urday, June 17th. The Jamison
City Cornet Band will be present
during the festival to enliven the
occasion with some choice and in
teresting music. The public is cor
dially invited to attend and by their
liberal patronage aid a worthy cause,
as the proceeds are to be used for
the benefit of the church. Every
body come who can, as all are as
sured a pleasant and enjoyable
time. .
Ice cold soda, with fruit flavors,
5c. a glass, at Mercer's Drug and
Book Store.
"Trust not to appearances," but
put your faith in Hood's Sarapa-
rilla, which never dissappoiuts. It
is tue best medicine money can buy.
Warren Ivyer is superintending
the construction of the cycle path
between Bloomsburg and Rupert.
The work was commenced 011 Mon
day. Last week John Wanamaker the
merchant prince, made a contract
with the New York Jaurnal for a
page advertisement, every day ex
cept Sunday for one year, for $250,
000. And yet there are some mer
chants who do not believe in adver
tising, and never spend a penny in
that direction.
The postoffice will be removed
to the Moyer building to-morrow,
and the carpenters will at once be
gin work in the Wirt building.
Tlie contract for the front, which
will be of stone, has been awarded
to William Evar.s, of Danville.
Mr. Evans did the stow work on
the Methodist church.
For the benefit of milk buyers we
publish the following test for water
ed milk, which is simplicity in itself.
A well polished knitting needle is
dipped into a vessel of milk and im
mediately withdrawn in an upright
position. If the milk is pure, some
of the fluid will hang to the needle,
but if water be added to the milk,
even in a small proportion, the fluid
will not adhere.
A new rule has been adopted on
the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road and hereafter schedule time
must be strictly maintained. That
is if a train is delayed for five or ten
minutes for any case, it will be ex
pected to reach its destination that
many minutes behind its scheduled
time. It has been the practice
heretofore to make up a few minutes
between stations, but from now on
it is prohibited. 1
Berwick had a free-for-all fight
Saturday afternoon, and as a result
William Betterly had one of his legs
broken, and sustained other severe
cuts about the head, while another
fellow by the name of Moyer was
badlv disfigured. There were sev
eral other participants, but they es
caped uninjured. The altercation
was caused by a disagreement as to
the merits of pugilists Fitzsimmons
and Jeffries. The melee was quill
ed by the policeman.
Mrs. W. E. Williams, this week,
received a check for $25.00 from
the Philadelphia Tunes, the prize
for best humorous story or melange
made up of the larger headlines in
the advertisements in a recent issue
of that paper, without the use of
verbs other than those found therein
and with the connective aid of the
particles. There were two or three
hundred contestants for the prize,
but Mrs. Williams, by adhering to
the rules of the contest, and with
the aid of much native wit, became
the winner. Jierwiek Independent.
There are too many people in this
world who are utterly regardless of
the rights of others, and the ones
that we have specially in mind are
those who walk along the streets
and throw banana peel, orange rind,
peanut shells, paper bags, boxes,
or any old thing on the pavement,
or on well kept lawns. Aside from
the danger of injuring somebody by
a fall, the dirt thus made has to be
swept up by the owners of proper
ties. It is just as easy to throw
such things in the gutter, and it
shows much better breeding.
Joseph, a young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Griffith, was frightfully
cut and bruised about the head and
body on Thursday afternoon of last
week by falling from the Philadel
phia & Reading railroad trestling at
Rupert, a distance of about thirty
feet. It appears that the youngster
had walked out on the trestling and
was looking over when he lost his
balance and fell to the stony bottom
below. He was picked up by some
workmen, and conveyed to the home
of his parents on West First street,
by Max Reber of. Market street,
who was on his way home in a
buggy.
Go to Mercer's Drug and Book
Store
For bicycles.
For tires,
For inner tubes.
For all bicycle sundries.
For hammocks, $1 to $4.
For croquet sets, $1 to $2.25.
For lamps, at reduced prices.
For all toilet soaps.
For combs and brushes.
For all patent medicines.
For blank books of all kinds.
For box paper, ioc. to 50c. a box.
For tablets, ic. to 35c. each.
For poultry powder and horse
and cattle powder.
For lice exterminator.
For pocket books, ladies' or
gents'. - -
And get your prescriptions filled
there. Opposite Episcopal Church.
Profitable Reading:.
A dollar is worth just ono hundred cents. To spend that
dollar in cheap, trashy imitations of good, dependable merchan
dise, and by thus doing save a few cents, is not true- econotm
The following items are reliable merchandise of good quality,
as we endeavor to have the whole stock consist of reliable anc
dependable merchandise at lowest prices.
line Sale of White Goods.
40 in. white lawns, 10c yd.
36 in. India linens, 22c yd.
32 in. India linens, I2jc yd.
50 in. French Batiste, 50c yd.,
washes nicely.
68 in. French organdy, 50c yd.
29 in. white corduroy, 25c yd.
28 in. white pique, 25c yd.
30 in. dotted pique, 45c. yd.
Ladies Furnishings.
Some very low figures on ne
cessary articles for present wear.
A good, plain crash dress skirt,
for 39c each.
Ribbed cotton vests, low neck,
silk taped, lace edge trimmed,
10c.
2 yd long net ties, lace trimmed,
50c.
2 yd long silk ties, newest out,
48c.
Fine Lisle Hose, children's, all
sizes, 6 to 9, great value, 19c
pair.
Ladies' fine hose, in plain or
drop stitch. Special values,
25c pair.
Ladies' white Taffeta gloves,
25c pair.
Stockinet dress shields, ioc pr.
Nice belt buckles, 25c.
A very good summer corset,32c.
R. & G. fine batiste corset, $1.
White pique dress skirt, trim
med with insertion, $1.
Ladies' white chamois gloves,
75 c. pair.
CLARK
SHOES! 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 FIT.
TED Glasses. My long
experience is at your
command. I examine
your eyes FREE ard
tell you whether or not
you need glasses. Can
supply all kinds of OP
TICAL GOODS AT
MODERATE PRICES.
JF. E. HOYS,
Works of Reference
AT REDUCED PEI0E8
At BIDLEMAN'S BOOK STORE.
"The American Educator," 6
vols, quarto, cloth leather. Illus
trated. "Chambers Encyclopedia," 10
vols. Royal 8vo, cloth. Illustrated.
"Appleton's Encyclopedia," 16
vols, royal 8vo. Sheep.
The new board of pension exam
ining surgeons was appointed last
week. It is composed of Drs. Re
ber, Brown and Arment.
r
Ribbons.
All silk, plain Taffeta, good
quality, in the wanted colors,
4 in. wide, 22c yd.
Best quality all silk Taffeta
made, 5 in. wide, all colors,
50c yd.
Lot of No. 5 all silk fancy rib
bons, 5c yd.
Special lot double face satine
ribbons, suitable for neck an.6
belt ribbons, 30c yard.
Sailor and Walking Hats.
New lots, new styles, new low
prices. Sailors at 24, 50, 70, 85c.
Trimmed walking hats at
Si 25, worth $175 and $200.
Only a small lot, act quick if
you want.
Wash Dress Goods.
Fine printed organdies, choice
styles, i2jc.
Extra fine dimities, I2jc.
A lot of organdies, 10c.
Plain color pique, I2ic.
40 in. plain colored lawns, I2c
yard.
34 in. sheer Madras, 15 cts.
yard.
Linen color crash, 15c yard.
Dress linens, 20, 25 and 35c yd.
All linen homespuns, 17c yard.
Wash Dress Skirts.
In Cotton. In Linen. In Pique.
39C
47c
70c
85c
$1 25
1 75
2 00
2 50
2 98
$1 00
1 7$
2 00
2 50
2 7S
&c SOILST.
LINE
DEWTLER.
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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 best
of modern appliances and eauinment
all these we employ to make your
picture penecuy sausiactory.
Ye.Kre.S,10,ylnK "evoral now ntylen of work.
In both the plat.ln0t.3rpe and rarbonotte thiuik.
that are exclusive wlih us Id Uloomaburir
ui'. ii to date:. umaourtr.
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PHILLIPS STUDIO,
MAIN STREET.
Opposite Episcopal Rectory.
11-24
Married-
Shaffer Young. At Ever
green Farm, Millville, June 8th, by
Rev. J. V. Martin. Henry W.
Shaffer and Mary Young.
For Bent.
Rooms on second floor fiont, over
B. Gidding's clothing store. Inquire
of J. G. Wells. 61 tf.
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