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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER t6, 1S99.
KntrrrA at th Font Ogle at Blnmntlwry, Fa.
a nmrnrt old mailer, Miirvh 1, I HNS.
A UKEAT OFFER-
(arm Journal From Now to Dec,
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
for Thk Columbian one year
ahead; for only $t. 00, both papers
for theprice of ours only ; our pa
yer one year and the Farm Journal
from now to December, 1903, nearly
5 years. The Farm Journal is an j
Id established paper, enjoying
treat popularity, one of the best
and most useful farm papers pub
lished.. W This offer should be accepted
without delay.
Wanted !
We want 500 new subscribers to the
Columbian this fall, and as a special
inducement will include the Farm
jvnrnal from now until Jan 1,-1904
free.
Or the New York Thrice a week
World for three months free.
Or the Cou!fMiAN and World one
ear (or $1.50.
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PURELY PERSONAL
Miss Lulu Cole is visiting friends at Mill
lille. John Kenyon spent Sunl;iy with friemls at
Unityville.
Mrs. Hoyd W Kuiman is sojourning with
Iiiends at Scianton.
1. S. Woods is transacting business in
Philadelphia this week.
John Dngins, of Wilkest-arre. was the
gnest of friends in town over Sunday.
Max Kelicr, who is a student at State Col
lege, spent Sunday with his parents in town.
Mrs. Knv Teitswotth has-l't-en visiting at
llie home of her father on 1 ifih street the
post week.
Prothonotary William II.. Ilenrie left on
Saturday for l'tttsl.j;, where he is serving
as a juror this week.
E. S Harrar, Division Ticket Agent of
Hie Teiina. Railroad Company, is ul with
typhoid lever at his home in Williamsport.
J. S. Fuist, of Williamsport, Secretary
nl Treasurer of the Central Pennsylvania
Telephone and Supply Company, spent a few
hours at the local exchange Saturday.
Miss Cora Mess and Miss Eva Mcllcnry,
Jwti of Stillwater's popular young ladies were
guests, a few days last week, at the home of
the formers brother, Charles W. I less, on
ibe Zarr farm beyond Dak Grove.
Mrs. Paul E. Wirt, Miss I.ouis Sloan,
Miss Lillian Hernhard and Rev. I). N. Kirk
by attended the Ladies' Auxiliary Convention
4 the Central Pennsylvania iJiocese of the
Episcopal Church at South Bethlehem, last
week.
The Rev. Bishop Paniel A. Goodsell of
Cbatanooga Tenn., has been appointed to
preside over the next Annual Session of the
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Sitcthodist Episcopal Church to be held at
llazleton in March 1900.
Hiram Freas and wife of Chicago arrived
in town Friday night and are the guests of
31rs. Nora A. Yetter on Fourth Street They
were at one time residents of MilHinvillc.
Ihiring the past twenty years, lays Mr. Freas
which time has elapsed since his last visit
kwe, the improvements are almost incompre
hensible. Legal advertisements on page 7.
Lloyd Paxton is. ill at his home
iu Rupert.
Perfumery by bottle or in bulk at
Mercer's Drug & Book Store.
Fire destroyed the Salvation,
Army Barracks at Berwick at au
early hour Friday morning last,
entailing a loss ot about $800.
Lamps from 25c to $12.00 at Mer
cer's Drug & Book Store.
OH, MY CORN!
How often you hear that ex
pression of pain !
To all who suffer thus, I say,
without fear of contradiction,
that
RISHTON'S
RUSSIAN CORN CURE
absolutely removes the corn ev
ery time, without pain. 1 will
refund the money in every case
that it fails. Also
REMOVES WARTS.
V. S. Rishton, Ph. G..
Snt Balding. Pharmacist
Telephone 491.
co. , rw vn.
Yesterday's Philadelphia nguirer
contained an excellent likenc s$ of our
popular townsman and Register and
Recorder elect, John C. Rutter Jr.
"Doine nothing is doing ill."
Impure blood neglected will become
a serious matter. Take Hood s
Sarsaparilla at once and avoid the
ill.
Owing to want of space our puz
zle department Is omitted this week
There was no correct solutions re"
ccived to last week's puzzles.
Owing to the fact Hon. R. R.
Little was a former attorney in some
of the cases before the court this
week, Judge Dunham is presiding
lie is accompanied by his wife.
J. L. Girton has been notified by
the Department at Washington that
his son Charles has been transferred
from the 14th Infantry to the nth
Cavalry.
Our venerable townsman, Mr.
John Titel, will celebrate 111s one
hundreth birthday today. The
event will take place at his home on
Third street.
We do not hesitate to make the
assertion that we have the finest and
most complete line of lamps and
lamp trimmings ever kept in
Bloomsbure. at Mercer's Drug &
Book Store.
The High School loot ball eleven
went to Berwick 'Saturday alter
noon and met defeat. Score 22 o
Kach team has won a game. The
decidinar contest. we understand, is
now being arranged for.
A. B. Vansickle and Miss Ida
Stackhouse were married at the
home of the letter's parents, Mr
and Mrs. Thomas Stackhouse in
Sugarloaf township, Saturday even
ing. Rev. M. C. Lain othciated.
The tumbling down of a lumber
pile at the Car Shops in Berwick
Saturday morning injured J. B
Mart., an employee, to the extent
of a bruised leg. He will be inca
pacitated from work for some time.
Capt. Alonzo M. Knt was elected
prothonotary of Klk county last
week. lie was nominated by the
democrats and endorsed by the re
publicans. He is a son of Mrs.
Helen M. Knt of Fast Third street.
There will be a chicken and
waffle supper given iu the dining
rooms of the M. E. Church at Buck
horn, Saturday evening, Nov. iS,
Elaborate preparations arc being
made. All invited. Supper from
5 to 10.
A slight change of time table of
the P. & R. went into effect on
Sunday. The train in the after
noon now leaves Bloomsburg at
3:36 instead of 3:40. There is only
four minutes diflerence, but it means
a great de?l sometimes.
An explosion supposed to have
been caused by a box of celluloid
films, coming in coutact with heat,
destroyed Lyman II. How's moving
picture outfit one night last week.
Mr. Howe has appeared before sev
eral capacity audiences in this town
during the past two seasons and his
pictures were all excellent.
William Drane, aged about 16
years left Ins home at Wyoming
over a week ago and up to the pres
ent time his whereabouts are un
known. He is five feet tall and
weighs about 115 pounds. His
parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Drane
are greatly worried, and any inform
ation regarding their boy will be
thankfully received.
Notwithstanding the loss of his
barn and several cows by fire, Fri
day night, John K. Bittenbender
was around bright and early Satur
day morning supplying his custo
mers with milk and cream. It re
quired a great deal of hurtling on
Mr. Bittenbender's part, but it
saved his patrons the trouble and
annoyance of looking elsewhere for
their supply of milk.
A flourishing business through
out certain sections of the country
at present is that of gathering old
scrap iron, lor which two and three
cents per pound is being paid by
junk dealers, who haul it to the
nearest railway station for shipment
to Pittsburg iron mills. A year ago
scrap iron was looked upon as being
of 110 new value in places where it
is now being gathered.
Puffs, puff boxes, baby powder
and all the requisites for the little
ones at Mercer's Dn "n-: Store.
You can get a nice globe for your
amp at Mercer's Drug & Book
Store.
The Bloomsbtirg Creamery Plant
was sold by Sheriff Black on Satur
day to C. W. Miller, attorney, for
$755-
The Mordansville Woolen Mill,
owned by C. L. Sands & Co., was
slightly damaged by fire Thursday
night last.
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 oysters and strawberries have
played a prominent part in the world.
They have built and furnished more
Churches, paid the salaries of mere
preachers and helped more heathens
than any two other natural agencies
in the world.
Gospel services under the auspices
of the Salvation Army rre advertis
ed to be held in the Moyer building
below Market street, commencing
tonight. The meetings will
be 111 charge of Fnsign Wall, ot
Buffalo. Ensign and Mrs. Heift of
Danville, and Captain Hilts of Buff
alo. All are most cordially invited
to attend.
For books of ill kinds, for drugs
of all kinds, for brushes of all kinds,
for pocket books of many kinds, for
tablets of many kinds, for perfum
ery of many kinds, for wall paper,
for syringes of all kinds, for lamps
of all kinds, for any thing that
ousrht to be kept in a first-class
drug store go to Mercer's Drug &
Book Store.
The Men's Meeting at the Y. M.
C. A. Hall next Sunday afternoon
will be addressed by Rev. J. M
Fckard, pastor of the First Presby
terian church of Northumberland
Rev. Eckard is a young .man and
very much interested in Y. M. C.
A. work. We speak for him
large audience. There will be good
singing and plenty of it. A cordial
invitation is extended to every man
in Bloomsburg. Strangers always
welcome.
During the recent forest fires
hundreds of small game lost their
lives in the flames. A hunter on
surmounting a small knob near Os
ceola, which had been encircled by
the fire and finally burned over,
found hundreds of skeletons of rab
bits and pheasants who had suc
cumbed to the furry of the flames,
after being driven for safety to the
circle within the fire, which gradu
ally narrowed untill the helpless
creatures were suffocated and finally
consumed. .
The smoker, given by the Wino
na Fire Company, to the Rescue,
of the Fourth ward, in the Town
Hall, last Thursday evening,
proved to be a most delightful af
fair. Paul Harman, on behalf of
the Winonas, made a short address
of welcome, after which the cigars,
pipes and tobacco, were passed
around, and everybody proceeded
to enjoy themselves. At nine
o'clock progressive euchre was
started, and from that time on 'till
half-past ten the greatest interest
was manifested. The prize, a beau
tiful pipe, was won by Tom B.
Moore. Arthur Roan, who all
through the game played the deuce
for the ace, was given the booby
prize.
Y. M. 0- A. BAZAAB.
The Fair and Bazaar to be held in
the new Y. M. C. A. home will open
on Monday evening next, and con
tinue each afternoon and evening dur
ing the week. There will be a large
number of beautifully decorated
booths, each representing a separate
line of goods, excepting in the depart
ment of fancy work which will require
a number of booths to display the
magnificent assortment that has been
prepared. It would require too much
time and space to enumerate the vari
ous departments, but it will be well
worth seeing.
Efloits are being made to have a
short program of music rendered each
evening along with some other extra
attractions. A lunch supper will be
served each evening from 5 o'clock
except Wednesday. The Bazaar will
open with a "Corn Carnival" and on
that evening the bill of fare will be
made up largely of various corn dishes.
The other evenings will be as follows:
Tuesday Ham lunch and Ice Cream;
Wednesday Ice Cream, Cake and
Coffee; Thursday Assorted Sand
wiches; Friday Chicken; Saturday
Pepper Tot and Potato Soup.
Season tickets will be sold for 15
cents with a coupon worth 10 cents at
the Bazaar. Everybody m Blooms
burg and vicinity should plan to at
tend. The object is a worthy one,
and the ladies who have the work in
charge should receive the encourage
ment of a very generous response.
See our fine 50c lace curtains be
fore you buy, at Mercer's Drug &
I'oo'i: S:t ".e.
John Fanl Jones.
The bones of John Paul Jones will
be removed from their obscure burial
place in Paris and brought to this
country and buried in the National
Cemetery at Arlington I he grave
was found by the correspondent of the
Philadelphia limes after 'two months
search, under a little building now
used as a laundry.
John Paul Jones was an American
naval officer, born in Scotland, July
6, 1747, and died in Paris July 18,
1702. He came to this country as an
apprentice on a merchant vessel and
at the commencement of the Revo
lution he entered the Colonial service
as a lieutenant in the Navy. It is
said that he hoisted, on the flagship
Alfred, the first American flag ever
displayed. It bore the device of a
pine tree with a rattle snake coiled at
its foot. He was appointed Cap
tain in 1776, receiving commant of
the Alfred, and the next year of the
Ranger, taking many prizes on the
sea. In 1777 he sailed to Europe
and harrassed the coast of Scotland,
In February, 1770, he was appointed
to the command of the Duras and
changed its name to "Bon Homme
Richard," in honor of Benjamin
Franklin. He captured and destroyed
twenty-six vessels. His most noted
battle was with the Serapis on Sep
tember 2nd, 1770. near the Strait of
Dover. Both vessels were in actual
contact, firing broadsides into each
other with tetrible effect. The Serapis
was captured and the Bon Homme
Richard sank after all the wounded
had been transferred to the Serapis.
Captain Jones was received in France
with distinguished honors. A sword
was presented to him by Louis XVI.
In 177 1 he returned to the United
States and Congress voted him a gold
medal, and Washington sent him
highly complimentary letter. Later
he went to Paris as an agent for prize
money, and while there he was invited
into the Russian service as a Rear
Admiral. He subsequently quarreled
with the Admiral, the Prince of Nas
sau, and by the intrigues of enemies
fell into disfavor at court, and retired
with a pension that was never paid.
He took up his residence in Paris
where he died in poverty and neglect.
After 107 years he is now to receive
the honors due him from this country,
and his remains will be brought here
and re inteered with the honors of war
due to an Admiral of the United
States Navy.
The Bock Band Concert,
Presbyterian Church Thursday Nov. 23.
The Till Family will give their
famous entertainment next Thursday
evening, Nov. 23, in the Presbyterian
church under the auspices of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A.
The prcceeds will go toward the
building fund. Admission 25 cents
No one should miss hearing this most
novel entertainment in existance,
Everywhere it is received with great
enthusiasm.
bUAKKHriARI
"Tongues in trees, books In running brooks,
Sermons In stones, and good Iu Kverytulug.'
John Ruskin "I congratulate
you most heartily on the wooderfu
instrument you havj composed of
Skiddaw rock, no less than on the ad
mirable skill of execution with which
vou have learned to exhibit its pecul
tar qualities. You have given me a
new insight into crystalline rock sub
stance, also a new musical pleasure.
Bishop Vincent "Twenty thous
and peopie heard the Rock Players at
Chatauqua. It was pronounced a very
unique and pleasing entertainment."
Rev. Dr. J. S. Ramsay, New York
"The Rock Concert was one of un
usual excellence. Uur people were
delighted."
Rev. Dr. M. Hulburd, Philadel
phia "An entertainment of rare ex
cellence, which may be listened
to
with profit and interest by all alike
the artist or amateur, or even the one
who has little music in his soul.
J. M. Cornell, New York "The
concert was enjoyed hugely by the
large audience. For novelty it ex
cells anything of the kind I have ever
seen.
Box paper either ruled or unruled
from ioc to 50c per box at Mercer
Drug & Book Store.
E. M. Savidge is now prepared
to serve hot as well as cold soda to
his patrons, he having added an ad
ditional fountain to his store.
Wall paper and window curtains
at Mercer's Drug & Book Store.
Cauuas Uiven Away.
Any of our subscribers who will call
for them at this office, will be present
ed with some Canna bulbs, a beautiful
nrnn mental p'ant. tf.
COAT SELLING ? YES,
Underwear.
Ladies' combination ribbed
suits, heavy fleeced, at 48c.
Ladies ribbed vests ana
pants, pearl buttons, trench
neck, lleecy lined, crocnet eciges,
at 25c.
Try our B. h J. vest and
pants, heavy fleeced, at 50c.
Children s vests, trom 5c. up.
Dress Goods.
A ffood, black crepon, 42 ins.
wide, nice patterns, at, $1.00 yd.
52 in. all wool suitings, 50c.
yard. v
50 inch all wool peDDle cloth,
75C yard.
38 in. wove polka dot cloth,
25c. yard.
45 in. all wool serges, at 05c.
yard.
Cloakings.
We show a line of cloakings,
in black, colors and plaids, for
CLARK
m mm tcim
Get the correct shape for your par
ticular type of feet.
IkDOi that this
i Wf3r7 IS BRANDED
"QUEEN QUALITY" famous.
Also a complete line of the. famous
CURTIS SHOE for men.
F. D. DENTLER
The new rings, settings, bracelets and brooches, are all here.
Sterling Silver Top Scent Bottles,
ONLY 25 CENTS EACH.
GEO. "W". HESS,
OPTICIAN AND JEWELER,
6 E. Main St. Bloomsburg, Pa.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoflice, and
will be sent to the dead letter office
Nov. 28, 1899. Persons calling for
these letters will please say "that they
were advertised Nov. 16, 1899":
J. K. Enbanks, Mr. F. C. Lidke,
Mr. John. Mildon, Patrick McGraw,
Our lines of garments was never more
complete than now, nor as low in price foi
good quality. Styles right in every way. We
are showing the new 6-button Dip Front Coat,
all linerl with handsome Taffeta Silk, Fly Front -Coats,
Golf .Cafes, Plush Capes, Children'
Coats,' &c.
A Wool Kersey Coat, all lined, nicely
stitched, at $10.00.
Three special Kersey Coats, all lined coal
sleeves, stitched edges, at $7.00, 8.50, 9.00.
Misses' Kersey Jackets, fine cloth, at $5.
Children's Short Coats, from $2.00 up.
Golf Capes, from $7.00 upwards.
making coats, golf capes anc
jackets. ;
Children's Caps.
A full, new line of caps,
toques, &c, from 25c. upwards
Petticoats.
Ladies' black satine skirts, $1.
A very handsome skirt, madi
of mercerized Italian cloth, ir
black and colors, looks like silk,
at $3.00.
Ribbed skirts, fleecy lined, at
23c and 50c.
Linens.
We are showing a complett
line of table linens, napkins,
towels and table cloths, am
napkins to match.
A heavy damask, all pure lin
en, extra wide, at 50c. a yard.
The best 75c. and $1.00 bleache
table linen shown. Napkins,
from $1.00 dozen up. Towels,
all prices. '
&c
QUEEN
VlJALITY"
are made in special
shapes to fit the sev
eral types of feet. The
price is not the only
thing that has made
The Fall Bridesmaid
Will have no difficulty in making a selection
for a gift from our fine stock of beautiful goods.
From trinkets to silverware is a long step,
for there are so many things between, costing
very little and costing a good deal. We want
our stock well known : it will meet eveiv want.
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 best
of modern appliances and equipment
all these we employ to make your
picture perfectly satisfactory.
VcaieslKiwIiiR rpTiel D( w Htylen of vor
In both the pluilnotype and carbonptte Oniah
tliat are exclualve wltn us In Hloonibbutv
BK IP TO DATE. "
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THE
PHILLIPS STUDIO,
MAIN STREET.
Opposite Episcopal Kectorv.
11-34
H. K. Nuss, Miss Wihilda Shoemak
er (a), Mrs. Lavina Sutcher, Miss
Minnie Williams.
Cards Charles Post.
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
O. B. Mellick, P. M,