THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG. PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
IU.OOMSBUUG PA
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
tw Fifteen years experience. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Best returns of Buy snle criers In
Fills section of f he Htate. Writ for terms and
(bites, ver dlsuppolnt our patrons. 1-5
BALLS.
Feb. 21, 1900. K. O. Heller
and Mrs. Oliver Heller, Admrs.,
will sell, at public sale, a property
in Hemlock township. Sale to
commence at 10 o'clock a. in.
Thursday, Feb. 8, 1900.
Charles Heller, executor of the es
tate of Peter Heller, deceased, and
the committee of Eliza Heller, luna
tic, will expose to public sale, on the
premises in Pine township, a lot of
personal property, consisting of
farm implements, live stock, house
hold goods etc. Sale to commence
at 10 a. m.
Winthrop Bryfogle's hot houses
are extensive, and his products are
fine. He has noweady for market,
among other things, some beautiful
carnations.
George F. Moore, son of John
M. Moore of West Hemlock, Mon
tour County, Pi., died Saturday
svening January 20, aged 20 years
months and 14 days. He was
I uried Monday January 22 at 2 p.
ri., in the New Columbia Cemetery
at New Columbia, Montour County
Pa. .
Do you keep chickens ? Then
you ought to have the farm Jour
nal. We have a clubbing arrange
ment with this great litth paper,
by which we can send both papers
for $1 00, our paper one year and
the Farm Journal five years (all of
1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904),
but you must pay in advance that's
all. Pay up.
"Willie" Stetley, who is pretty
well known here in town, by rea
son of his connection, on several
different occasions, with our base
ballists, has turned up at Syracuse,
wherejie is employed as a liquid
dispenser at a cafe. Willie very
often, while in our midst, showed
symptoms of mental weakness, but
'vitb it all, it must be admitted that
Le knew the national game by
heart.
The Tamaqna Recorder is of the
opinion that the framer of the new
mercantile tax law is a brainless
fop. It says: "The man who
drafted the new mercantile law
should go around among the mer
chants and find out how little brains
he has. The merchants are up in
arms about the law and there may
be lots of fun in the State before all
merchants pay their mercantile
licence this year. We fail to see
where the new law is any improve
ment over the old one."
00L. CO. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The proceedings of the annual
meeting of the Columbia County
Agricultural, Horticultural & Me
chanical Association, will be found
elsewhere.
The list of membership shows
that there 206 perpetual members
now living. There are 78 mem
bers who are not yet perpetual,
making a total membership of 284.
A perpetual member is one who
has paid in ten dollars in dues to
the Association, and this can be
paid in yearly dues, or all at once, j
The annual statement shows the
total receipts for 1899 to be $10,
37, 23. The largest items are the
receipts from 23058 tickets sold,
$5764.50 ; stand rents, $1065.50 ;
grand stand, $968.10; horse en
tries, $1065.00 ; and money bor
rowed from bank, $1092.40. The
ticket item shows how greatly ex
aggerated were the reports of at
tendance at the Fair, as sent out
from hereto the city dailies last
October. They made it appear
that the total attendance was about
70.000.
The premiums paid amounted to
$4426.83 ; salaries of officers, $800 ;
and the total amount paid out by
the Treasurer was $10368.44, leav
ing a balance of $41.21 due him.
The present indebtedness of the
Society consists of this balance due
the Treasurer, $20,000 in bonds,
and a $500 note, discounted at bank.
Total, $20,541.21.
STATE NEWS.
The old wire suspension
bridge, across the Loyalsocic, at
Montoursville, was removed last
week.
$35,000 has been subscribed for
a new Y. M. C. A. building at
Shamokin. Work will be com
menced at on:e.
Options are reported to have
been secured on twenty-six West
ern Pennsylvania brick plants, with
a view of forming a trust.
The Altoona Iron Company on
Monday posted notice announcing
an increase of 25 cents per ton in
the wages of its 200 puddlers.
The body of George Herron, a
Scran ton man who had been miss
ing for several days, was found
floating in the Lackawanna river,
at South Scranton. How he met
death is a mystery.
. A Lock Haven detective has
received a latter offering, for cash,
to reveal the hiding place of the
body of John Rohn, the wealthy
lumberman, who has been missing
since April last.
Thomas Davis, who had been
falsely incarcerated in the Schuyl
kill county jail since May 5, 1S99,
was given his liberty last week, and
left for his home in Wilkes-Barre.
Davis was arrested on supposition
that he was a fugutive from justice,
and that he committed some crime
in Luzerne county. His innocence
was not established until last week.
Thomas Williams, a young
married man, of Blossburg, went
violently insane lat week. He
rushed into the street, where he di
vested himself of nearly all his
clothing. Then he ran along the
railroad, cutting his feet quite bad
ly. He was captured and confined
in the borough lock-up. On Mon
day he was taken to the asylum for
the insane at Danville.
The farmers of Nittany and
Brush valleys, in Centre county,
engaged in a regular cattle hunt.
Over 100 fine animals escaped from
their herds while grazing last sum
mer, and are running around Nit
tany mountain. The cattle are
wary as a deer, and hunters have
been unable to get within half a
mile of them. During the last
week the farmers tried the experi
ment of a general round-up of the
stock. Fully 100 men, mounted
and on foot, surrounded the herd,
but even then could not get them
I out of the woods. Lassoing was
I then resorted to, and in this way
tour were caught. Persons who
were in the chase declare the stock
is as wild as the wildest of cattle
on the western plains.
Meat Prices to Tumble- .
Retail prices of beef and pork will
probably tumble 111 consequence of
the meat war between Eastern and
Western dealers, which began two
weeks ago. Local jobbers have or
ganized to protect the interests of the
dealer in Eastern meats and. if suflic
ient support can be raised, efforts will
be made to shut out Western meat.
The competition which has resulted
promises to bring down prices.
It is said that the "war" was started
by the Western dealers trespassing
upon the business of the jobbers who
act as go-betweens to the wholesalers
and retailers. A Chicago firm ignored
the jobbers and sold meats to houses
at reduced prices. Meat dealers in
this city are confident of victory, al
though they realize that enormous
wealth is behind the Western packers.
J'Aila. Timet.
ANNUAL MEETING .
01 the Columbia County Agricultural. Hor
ticultural and Mechanical Association.
The annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Columbia County Agri
cultural Society was held in the Court
House on Saturday, January 20, 1900.
The meeting was called to order at a
o'clock p. m., by President E. 11.
Sloan.
H. V. White was elected chairman.
Harry S. Barton and A. N. Yost were
elected secretaries, and C. C. Yetter,
reading clerk. The chairman made
some pointed suggestions as to farm
ers' institute work and recommended
that a farmers' institute be held on the
day of the annual election in connec
tion with same.
The minutes of the preceding an
nual meeting were read and approved.
The roll of membership was cal'ed.
t27 perpetual members, and 53 mem
bers in good standing answered to
roll call, making 180 in attendance
out of 296 members.
As the treasurer's report was print
ed and placed in the hands of mem
bers, the reading of same was dis
pensed with.
The matter of fixing salaries for
ensuing year being the next business,
on motion of O. T. Wilson, duly sec
onded, the salaries to be the same as
last year.
The election of efficers was then
proceeded with. E. H. Sloan was
nominated for president. There be
ing no other nominations, the reading
clerk was authorized to cast the bal
lot of the Society.
The following were nominated for
vice presidents : John W. Bowman,
Stephen Pettit, I. B. Ikeler, C. E.
Adams,A. C. Creasy and J. T. Reeder.
The chairman named as tellers to
count the vote ; G. E. Wilbur, J. W.
Hidlay and H. Mont. Smith.
A. N. Yost was nominated for sec
retary, J. C. Brown lor treasurer, and
W. B. Allen for librarian. There be
ing no opposition, the reading clerk
was authorized to cast the ballot for
the nominees, and the chair declared
them elected.
For executive committee, F. P.
Hagenbuch, W. J. Hidlay, Henry
Deighrniller, Elisha Ringrose, A. R.
Henrie and Thomas Mensch were
nominated. W. H. Ever, Wm. H.
Stahl and F. E. Miller were appointed
tellers to receive and count the vote.
William Masters, J. B. DeLong, E.
E. Low and fohn Scott were nomi
nated for auditors. The chair ap
pointed F. B. Hartman, T. D. Straus
er arid W. A. Evert, tellers.
H. V. White was elected a member
of the State Board of Agriculture for
the term of three years.
W. T. Creasy was elected to repre
sent this Society in the organization
of farmers' institutes.
While the several tellers were count
ing the vote, the advisability of hold
ing a farmers' institute in connection
with the annual meeting was discussed,
and on motion of A. P. Young, duly
seconded, the executive committee
was authorized to prepare a program
for a farmers' institute, to be held in
the forenoon of the day of the annual
election.
The vote for vice president re
sulted as follows: C. E. Adams, 138,
Stephen Pettit,' 132, A. C. Creasy,
115, I. B. Ikeler, 93, J. T. Reeder,
92, and J. W. Bowman, 82. Messrs.
Adams, Pettit, Creasy and Ikeler,
were elected.
For members of the executive com
mittee, F. P. Hagenbuch had no
votes, Henry Deighrniller, 92, W. J.
Hid'ay, 91, A. R. Henry, 67, Elisha
Ringrose, 63, and Thomas Mensch,
42. Hagenbuch, Deighrniller and
Hidlay, were declared elected.
The vote for auditors was as fol
lows : William Masters, 119. J. B.
DeLong, 114, F. E. Low, 76, and
John Scott, 75. Masters, DeLong
and Low, were elected.
There being no other business to
transact, the meeting, on motion, ad
journed. Harry S. Barton,
A. N. Yost,
Secretaries.
To the Young Mod of Bloomsburg.
If you would like to spend an hour
next Sunday in a profitable and en
joyable way, go to the Mens" Meet
ing in the Y. M. C. A. Building on
Market Square at 2:30 o'clock. If
you have never been there, drop in
and see how you will like it. We
believe you will want to be there
often after you start. Don't miss it!
Philippine War Scenos.
Our brave soldiers are still fighting
and struggling for supremacy in the
Philippine Islands, and some excel
lent pictures have been secured of
the boys in blue while in camp and
in action. The scenes are depicted
in a very realisitic manner by the Ly
man II. Howe Moving Picture Co.,
at the Opera House on Thursday
evening, February 1st. Reserved
seats at Bidleman's.
The bread which received the first
and second premiums at the Columbia
county fair in 1898 and 1899 was
I baked from t.ie Leader flour manu
factured by Ikeler & Fleckenstine.
11-30 2mos '
flummol Revealed Bead Babe's Grave.
SAID HIS MUROKRKD WIFE SI'OKfi TO
HIM WUII.F. UK LAV IN A TRANCK.
Despite the efforts of the Lycoming
county officials to keep the matter a
profound secret, it has developed that
William Hummel, the accused mur
derer of his wife and her three child
ren, furnished Sheriff Gamble with in
formation that enabled the officers to
locate the remains of Baby Delaney
in the stable on Thursday morning.
Hummel has been representing him
self as a spiritualist to "the Sheriff
during the past month, and on Wednes
day of last week asserted that the spirit
of his murdered wife communed reg
ularly with him. He said his wife de
sired to have the body of the child
recovered in order that it might be
properly buried, and besides, its find
ing would greatly aid him to establish
his innocence of the four fold murder.
After interesting the Sheriff Hum
mel said that his wife had told him
that she would divulge the hiding
place of the dead babe if he would
incorporate certain questions in a
letter and send them to parties wnom
she designated j that when the letter
was answered she would be free to
reveal the location of the grave.
Sheriff Gamble agreed to send such
a letter and, as Hummel is unable to
read or write, the Sheriff prepared the
letters. He read them to Hummel on
Wednesday night. Hummel relapsed
immediately into a seeming trance.
After rousing himself he informed the
Sheriff that the body ot the baby
would be found buried in the dirt of a
horse stall in the stable on his farm.
A few hours later the remains were
dug up at the exact spot indicated by
Hummel
The authorities say that the revela
tion made by Hummel as to the
whersabouts of the body is a virtual
confession that he committed the
murder and buried the body.
Dr. H. W. Cattell, of Philadelphia,
has been engaged to analyze blood
spots found on clothing worn by
Hummel.
1
Plans For Census Taking.
Opportunities for Employmont of Men Other
Than Enumerators Aro Limited.
An official statement has been
issued by the Census Office at Wash
ington, with reference to the industrial
census. It is as follows : The census
act provides that the statistics of manu
factures may be collected by enumera
tors or by special agents, at the dis
cretion of the director. He may desig
nate certain cities, towns or other
manufacturing centres in which the
manufacturing schedule shall be with
held from the enumerators and placed
in the hands of special agents. A list
of such cities and towns has been pre
pared, numbering in the aggregate
over 1,000 and a careful estimate
shows that all of the manufacturing
establishments included in the locali
ties to be withdrawn from the enumer
ators can be visited, and returns from
them secured, within the brief space
of thirty days, by the employment of
2.000 special agents, who will be paid
by the day. The compensation which
it is proposed to allow them is $4 per
day, except in special cases, but it can
in no instance exceed $6.
In the collection of manufacturing
statistics the director proposes to
utilize as far as possible the organiza
tion created for the general enumera
tion by placing the supervisor of census
ot the proper district in charge, by
grouping the localities withdrawn, and
by employing the best of enumerators
for an additional month as special
agents.
It will thus be seen that the oppor
tunities for the employment of men
not employed as enumerators will be
limited, and that the amount to be
I. W. Hartman & Son. I I. W. Hartman & Son
The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist.
! '1
Hartman's
$10
Ladies'
COATS
going at
Hartman's
$15
Lndies'
COATS
now
Bad Weather
flakes
- Good Prices
for the
m E2J Buyer Wearer. Zl5-
SELL 'EM ? YES ! If price will do it.
Buy a Coat or Cape now. Bound'to be in style next winter
because they are the latest productions of this season.
SAVE HALF YOUR MONEY.
Hartman's
12.00
Ladies'
CAPES
at
$ 8.00.
Hartman's
5.00
Ladies'
COATS
for
$2,50.
If you could place $5.00 in
some secure place in 1900, and
be sure that you could go
there in 1901 and find $10.00,
you would do it.wouldn't you ?
This opportunity is identical.
500 Women's Night Dresses.
Nothing superior as to. quality, or superior as to price, any.
where.
f-vft- Gowns are made full width and full length, good
y0t quality and well trimmed.
$. . Gowns are as good as many gownsselling at $1.39,
1 1 y and they look as well, too.
$1 -f-v Gowns are fine enough, trimmed beautifully, and
m. they'll wear as well as $2.00 gowns.
Tht Discoverer of Swamp-Root at Work In
Eli laboratory.
There Is a disease prevailing In this
country most dangerous because so decep
tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by
it heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
or apoplexy are often the result of kidney
disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad
vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack
the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Then he richness of tho blood the albumen
leaks out and the sufferer has Brlght's
Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis
covery Is the true specific for kidney, bladder
and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands
of apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists In fifty-cent
and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free
by mail, also a book telling about Swamp
Root and Its wonderful cures. Address
Dr. Kilmer 8c Co., Blnghamton, N. Y. and
mention mis paper.
I
Hartman's I
Ladies'
CAPES
only
WHITE
SKIRTS
$1.39
If you buy one, and don't
like it, or buy one so good
cheaper elsewhere, bring it
back and take your money
back.
Hartman's
5.00
Ladies'
CAPES
selling at
$13.33.
I. W. HARTMAN & SON,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
earned by the special agents is not
large.
The reasons for adopting the sys
tem here outlined are two, namely,
economy in expenditures and the
desire to meet the wish of Congress
for a "quick" census.
Newspapers Pay the Beat.
Prompted by a desire to settle the
long standing question as to what
kind of advertising is the most re
munerative Frank Daniels, the well
known comedian, made an experi
ment last week at, Wallack's Theatre,
New York. The result will no doubt,
set at rest all arguments in regard to
the much discussed subject hereafter.
Speaking of it to a New York news
paper man, the experimenter said :
"As everybody with eyes must
know, theatrical organizations pay out
a fortune every year for advertising.
This advertising takes many forms,
newspaper, billboards, lithographs in
windows, elevated railroad stations,
postal cards, street cars and a hundred
and one other things supposed to
catch the eye of the public.
"There was a pretty warm argu
ment the other night in my dressing
room over the best form of advertising. '
1 didn't take part because I knew how
it would result, as I had heard the
same argument many times before.
"But the next day I consulted mv
manager, Kirke LaShelle, and we con
cluded to test the thing by the only
reliable means, so that night between
the acts, ushers distributed among the
audience slips with a brief printed
statement setting foith the disputed
question and politely asking the reci
pient to indicate by a check mark in
the list of various advertising forms
employed, what had attracted him to '
the performance the ad. in the news-!
papers, bill-boards, window lithographs !
or something else ?
"Well, the people seemed to take ,
kindly to the idea and the response
was most liberal. Eleven hundred
slips were handed to the ushers after i
the next curtain, and of that number
nine hundred and ninety-one showed
that that many of the eleven hundred
had been attracted by the newspapers
solely. Henceforth, the comedian
concluded, "the newspapers will get
ten-elevenths ot all the money Mana
ger LaShelle sets aside for advertising
purposes."
And it will apply to every other
business with equal force. Good,
seasonable and judicious advertising
never fails to bring its returns.
An Old Gams Worked Successfully With
Mew Trimmings.
A slick young man, says an ex
change, recently succeeded in swin
dling women in a number of county
towns out of considerable money. He
was selling table cloths at $3 eact
and giving a dozen napkins to mate1!
as a premium. The table cloth, of
which he had only one with h'm, had
the appearance of being worth it
least $5, to say nothing of the value
of the napkins, which were even of t
finer quality, and the sale was some
thing phenomenal. He collected
one-half in advance, and now every
time the door bell rings the guileless
housewives think they are goins to
get their table cloths and napkins.
Hotel Tor Eent.
The Park Hotel, at Towanda, Pa,
is for rent. Possession given Ari!
1st, 1 goo. Located in the heart of
the town, opposite Court House. For
terms, apply to Geo. E. Elwelt,
Bloomsburg, Pa., or E. V. El well,
Towanda, Pa. tf.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postofiice, and
will be sent to the dead letter office
Feb. 6, 1900. Persons calling for
these letters will please say " that they
were advertised January 23, 1900":
J. C. Gibbon, Mr. James Sibert.
One cent will be charged on eadi
letter advertised.
'O. B. Mellick, P. M.
For Rent.
Proctor Inn, well furnished, front
Feb. 1 st 1900. Rent cheap. Apply
to G. E. Elwell or A. L. Fritz, Blooms-
burg, Pa. tf
WANTED SEVE K A I, HCRSONS FOR
District (Jllice Managers in this State to rep
resent me in tliuir own and surrounding
counties. Willing to pay yearly 1600, pay
able weekly. Desirable employment with
unusiinl opportunities. References ex
changed. Enclose self-addressed damped
envelope. S. A. I'nrk, 320 Cnxton Uuilding,
Chicago. 12-21. l6t
Ask to see the new style of visit
ing card at this office. Can't be told
from an engraved card, and costs
les.i than half as much, tf
HI Alert Snilcion.
"Did you nay the man who talk3 o5
coming io this place has money t
bum?" suid the citizen who had bon
conipluining ubout the way things ar
run.
"Yes, sir; that's the phrase I usei.';
'money to burn.' "
"Well, we don't wont him. I cans
through him. lie's one of these op
pressors, lie wants to burn all
money he can git his hands on, so w
muke it scarce." Washington btar.
Deductive Heaaonlntf.
"I believe you have been secretly
married to young Mr. Noodle!" cried
ihn 1rtiti fnthnr.
"How ridiculous!" replied V
fimiirliter.
"Well," said her Bin;, "he used to.
come here ut eight o'clock and stay
till 11:30, and now he doesn't get herP
until nine o clock 'und leave ui iu.i
Philadelphia Press,
I. it i ...inM.
"Harold," murmured, the beuutili'J
maiden, shyly, "um I the ouly 6"
you ever told you loved?"
"I will tell vou the truth, dearest.
answered the manly youth, Irani"!
fondly over her. "Vou are not.
"I think vou mlirht have lied a 1"'
tie, Harold for me," she said. t"rlr
ing tearfully aw-iy. Chicago Tnl,u"f
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