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Ever have them?
Then we can't
tell you any
thing about
hem. Y ou
know how dark
everything looks
how you are about
ready to give up. Some
how, you can't throw off
the terrible depression.
Are things really so
blue? Isn't it your nerves,
after all? That's where
the trouble is. Your
nerves are being poisoned
from the impurities in
your blood.
J
9i
napanua
purifies the blood and
gives power and stability
to the nerves. It makes
health and strength, activ
ity and cheerfulness.
This is what "Ayer's"
will do for you. It's the
oldest Sarsaparilla in the
land, the kind that was
old before other Sarsa
parlllas were known.
This also accounts for
the saying, "One bottle
of Ayer's Is worth three
bottles of the ordinary
kind."
11.00 a kottl. AUdraifMs.
Writ thm Dootor.
If Ton hr x complaint whtTr
nd aoalrft th bent tdmIokI KdrloA yon
c.Q possibly rceWe, wrtt th doctor
t rly. Ton IU rcly prompt ro
plj, without ee.t. Addr...
IB. J. 0. AYER, Lowell, lUu.
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG. PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
BLOOMSBURG PA
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
v fifteen years experience. Satisfaction
Hiaranteeil. Best returns of any Bale criers In
this section of tbe State. Write for terms and
dates. ver disappoint our patrons. 1-5
SALES
Saturday, May 26, 1900, at 2
o'clock p. in., Carnelia A. Dent will
sell at public sale a valuable house
and lot situated on Third street,
Scott Town, Bloomsburg, Pa., con
taining excellent water, a good
barn and fruit trees in abundance.
Teiras made known on day of sale.
S. R. Bidleman is prepared to
show new patterns of wall paper for
1900, at the lowest prices. He has
the agency for the only wall paper
factory that is not included in the
Trust. tf.
The business people as well as
other individuals, should exercise
care in exchanging money as there
seems to be quite an influx of
counterfeit silver dollars circulating
in this vicinity, several bogus dol
lars, and bad money of other de
nominations have already been re
ceived by many business men here.
Swindlers are unusually numer
ous and active, and it behooves peo
ple to be on their guard. Pay no
money in advance to strangers. It
isn't business like and it isn't safe.
And if a glib fellow claiming to
represeut a Boston firm wants you
to buy a gravestone and wants you
to pay $10 down to bind the bar
gain, don't do it. A number of
Nescopeck people did that to their
sorrow.
1 1
The corner stone of the new St.
James Reformed church will be laid
on Sunday, June 3. The services
will begin at 10:15 a. m. The Rev.
Dr. J. I). Thomas of Bloomsburg,
will deliver one of the addresses.
As this will be a great event in the
history of that community, a cordial
invitation is hereby extended to all
to be present. A special offering
will be lifted for the benefit of the
new church. A. IIoutz, Pastor.
The Farm Journal is unlike any
other people; for one thing it prints
no quack medical advertisements;
for another it takes five year sub
s:riptions and gets the paper to its
subscribers the full time, if they
are anywhere on this planet, even
if they move two or three times; if
they die their heirs get it. Now
we are going to combine with the
farm Journal and send the Colum
bian one year and the f arm Jour
nal nearly five years (remainder of
1900, and all of 1901, 1902, 1903
and 1904), to every advance-paying
subscriber, new and old, to the
Columbian, This great offer had
better be accepted before it is withdrawn.
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Dr. Tunnan's condition remains
about the same.
' The Normal School will play
base ball with Susquehanna Uni
versity, at Selinsgrove, Saturday
afternoon.
The Montour nnd Columbia Tel
ephone Company has erected its
poles for the Benton line alongside
the Bloomsburg & Sullivan Rail
road track.
1 Geo. W. Weaver's horse sale, at
Hotel Ent stables, yesterday after
noon, was attended by a big crowd.
There were many beautiful horses
disposed of.
The bicycle stdepath law is being
laid aside in several counties of the
state. The law is said to be de
fective in construction, if not un
constitutional. V. E. S. Baker died in Philadel
phia last week. He was the secre
tary of the Irondale Company, this
town, when the furnace was in op
eration many years ago.
A union meeting will be held in
the M. E. Church Sunday evening.
Short addresses will be delivered
by the various pastors of town. It
will be a temperance meeting.
James Barkle, aged fortysix
years, died at his home a short dis-
; tance above town Friday morning
last, a victim of pneumonia. A fam
ily consisting of a wife and three
children survive.
Rev. Harry Hannan, of Altoona,
will deliver the address at Orange
ville on Memorial day. He was
born in that neighborhood and the
many friends of his boyhood will
be glad to hear him.
W. C. Richart has retired from
the feed and grocery business and
has sold his stock and fixtures to
C. A. Kitchen, who will hereafter
conduct the business at the same
stand on Iron street.
E. L. Meyers of Railroad street,
went to Wilkesbarre on Tuesday to
witness the Knights Templar par
ade. While the procession was
passing, he was made the victim of
a pick-pocket and robbed of about
$14.00.
The badges tor the census enu
merators have been distributed.
They are made of silver, in the
form of a shield with an eagle over
the top and are inscribed as follows:
"United States Census 1900." The
enumerators will begin work next
week, June 1st, and will have till
the 1 6th to finish.
Woodsmen and hunters say that
the recent forest fires drove out of
the county a big lot of game that
populated the woods hereabouts.
Persons who have visited the burned
territory - discovered innumerable
carcasses of burned rabbits. The
fact is certainly to b.e deplored, as
it will make game scarce this fall.
The Centralia correspondent of
the Mt. Carmel Item says that the
people of Ceutralia are anxiously
looking forward to June 1st. On
that day, if rumor counts for any
thing, the big colliery, which for
more than two months gone by has
not turned a wheel, will resume
operations, and together with its
dependencies will employ more
hands than ever before.
Sunday evening, May 12, at 8:20
o'clock, fire broke out in the garret
of S. B. Henderson's fine residence
at Montgomery, and destroyed the
garret and its contents. The goods
were removed from the first and
second stories. The children had
retired before the fire broke out,
but were gotten out safely. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss is covered by insurance.
Mr. Henderson is well known in
Bloomsburg. His wife is a sister of
Mrs. S. C. Creasy and J. G. Wells.
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A deal was consummated on Mon
day, whereby the hardware store
on the corner of Main and Market
street, passed from S. F. Peacock
& Co., who have conducted the
business successfully for years, into
the possession of J. G. Wells Two
traveling salesmen will be on hand
tomorrow and commence at once to
take inventory. The new proprietor
will take charge on Monday. He
is well known, having conducted a
jewelry store for many years in the
Columbian buidhng.
1 m . .
The practice of cigarette smoking
among the male members of our
schools has reached such a point
that the co operation of parents and
teachers will be necessary to break
it up. It is indeed a. sad comment
ary to see boys of tender years in
dulging in the vile habit. During
the recess period nearly every day a
number of boys may be seen 111 some
alley or other out of the way place,
where they will not be seen by any
one who is liable to inform on them
smoking cigarettes The sooner it
is condemned the better it will be
for the boys.
THE COLUMBIAN
The prize for the winter series of
progressive euchre, at the Wheel
men's Club House, was won by F.
D. Dentler.
J. L. Richardson is laying a con
crete pavement in front of his resi
dence on Normal Hill. O. B.
Mellick has the contract.
HUMMEL IN TRAINING.
Being Put in Physical Condition to be
Hanged next Month.
Murderer William Hummel has
but twenty days to live, and he is
rapidly getting into shape to with
stand the awful ordeal, says the
Williamsport Sun. He has picked
up wonderfully during the past few
days, and the improvement is all
laid to the exercise cure adopted by
Deputy Sheriff Joe Smith. Deputy
Joe said that the night before he
induced Hummel to put on the
gloves, and a lively bout of twenty
minutes followed. To-night Joe
says they are going to run a loot-
race in the yard surrounding the
county prison. Deputy Joe is now
thinking of giving Hummel elec
tric baths and massage treatment,
so that there will be no possibility
of a collapse before the hanging
day. This novel treatment to save
a murderer from collapse is attract
ing attention all over the country.
A Good Market
C. R. Housel & Son's Bloomsburg
Market is the best of the kind ever
kept in town. Followine are the
fruits, vegetables and fish, they are
ottering: J.imes, strawberries, pine
apples, bananas, Navel oranges, toma
toes, beans, peas, spinach, new pota
toes, beets, radishes, onions, celery,
lemons, lettuce, cucumbers, cabbage,
egg plants, shelled peas, sweet pota
toes, cauliflower, squash, Bermuda
onions, turnips, carrots, parsnips, co-
coanuts, clams, asparagus, rhubarb,
rock fish, sea bass, flounders, porgies,
dressed catfish, ctoakers, ciscoes, blue
pike, soft shell crabs, brook trout.
Thev are well worthy cf patronage
and encouragement, because they are
giving the town all the advantages of
a city market.
G. A. S- ncampoent.
Reduced Rates to Gettysburg, Pa., via Penn
sylvania Railroad, Account G. A. R.
Encampment.
For the G. A. R. Encampment,
Department of Pennsylvania, at
Gettysburg, June 2-9, the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company will sell
excursion tickets to Gettysburg from
all stations on its line in the State of
Pennsylvania at rate of one fare for
the round trip. Tickets to be sold
and good going June 2-5 and to re
turn until June 1 1, inclusive (minimum
rate fifty cents. 5-24-2t
AGENTS WANTED To sell the
Marsh Reading Stand and Revolv
ing Book Case. Best office or li
brary article ever patented, and sells
EVERYWHERE ON SIGHT, at a good
profit. Why stand id'e with such a
chance to make money ? Ask the
publisher of this paper to show you
sample of this stand, or write us for
full particulars at once.
(i416m) Marsh Mfg. Co.,
No 542 West Lake St., Chicago.
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, and
will be sent to the dead letter office
June 5, 1900. Persons calling for
these letters will please say " that they
were advertised May 24, 1900" :
Aten, Miss Mary Hick, Elner C.
Bond, Mr. V. II. Horn, Mr. Chris.
Burke, Miss Delia Tarker, Miss Dora
Gross, Mr. Allen Weber, Miss Edna
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
O. B. Mellick, P. M.
A Generous Offer!
To persons who would like to
own a camera, but hesitate
about buying one because of
the fear that they could not op
erate it correctly, or get satis
factory tesults,
WE MAKE THIS OFFER:
We will load the camera and
assist the purchaser in expos
ing, developing and finishing
the picture, free of charge. Pur
chasers will be given all the ad
vantages of our experience in
making pictures for several
years. We are always ready to
help our customers at any time.
or. :s. dko-srs,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
BLOOMSBLJROPA.
I. W. Hartman & Son.
QUALITY
Is that which creates satis
faction and confidence in the
goods one buys, and in the
merchant who sells them.
If You Buy it At
Hartmans it's
Good.
Wrappers, 59c.
Dark calico wrappers well
made ; full sweep skirt : lined
waist. Style entirely new this
season. This price for one week
59c
Summer Corset, 29c.
Not the be.st we carry or the
second best, but it's a good cor
set for hot weather : better than
you've been accustomed to see
at 29c.
Ladies' Vests, 12c.
These ribbed summer vests
for ladies with taped neck, and
taped arm sizes, pure white,
all sizes. Better than most mer
chants sell for 19c; 2 vests for 25c.
Pearl Buttons, 5c Doz.
White as snow ; not the dirty
sort. We have a lot comprising
3 of its best sizes. Your
choice of cither size for 5c.
3i in. Taffeta Ribbon,
19 cents.
500 yards of it. It's a good
silk taffeta and sells regularly
at 25c per yard. All the stand
ard colors." While it lasts per
yard 19c.
I. W. Hartman &Son.
ELKS' REUNION-
(Special Correspondence.)
Atlantic City, N. J., May 18.
The fourteenth annual Grand Lodge
and Re-union B. P. O. Elks will be
held at Atlantic City on July 10, 11
and 12. Atlantic City Lodge, No.
276, has appointed an executive com
mittee which has been at work the
past five months arranging all the de
tails for this convention. Various
sub-committees have been appointed
to work out the details for the enter
tainment of the largest gathering of
Elks from all over the United States
ever assembled at their yearly meet
ing. All the arrangements have pro
gressed most satisfactorily and every
body, whether an Elk or not, who vis
its Atlantic City at that time will be
amply'repaid for their trip to the sea
shore. In this series of weekly letters
full information as to what has been
done and the attractions which will be
offered will be given to the readers of
this paper. Any specific information
desired can be secured by addressing
Emery D. Irelan, Chairman, or Her
man O. Mulock, Secretary of the Ex
ecutive Committee B. P. O. Elks Re
union, Atlantic City, N. J.
That Atlantic City is the world's
amusement parlor, nature's own sani
tarium, and a grand galaxy of spark
ling pleasures is well known. When
people reed rest, recreation, or re
vivification; when they feel overwork
ed and weary, downcast and lonely,
and long for the cool invigoration of
the sea, and the magnetic influences
of spontaneous gaiety and irrepressible
merriment, they hasten to Atlantic
City, and in its endless round of re
fined amusements live the fairy's
dream of paradisaical existence.
Besides the sea and the beach and
the soft sea air, which were its piimary
attractions, Atlantic City has develop
ed an endless variety of artificial at
tractions. First of all is the Boardwalk. This
magnificent teel structure is an ad
junct to the sea which has become
even more popular than the sea itself.
Thousands who never wet their feet
in the bounding surf come annually to
tread this greatest of the world's pro
menades and to enjoy its life. It is
here that the life of the resort centers.
On one side lies the beach, with its
white sand and its caressing waves,
and beyond stretches away the illimit
able sea, with its rolling billows, its
light and shadows, its whitecaps and
its sails. On the Boardwalk is another
scene a constant stream of ever
varying but always joyous life. The
light and color are wonderful; the ani
mation, the laughter, and the over
flowing good humor, are irresistible.
It is one great parade; where human
nature in ail its endless varieties may
be seen and studied. The lights from
the booths and bazaars beyond, the
happy faces and merry glee of count
less children, the soft, nellow colors
of the women's summer gowns, the
grace and loveliness of the younger
women themselves, the gay and gall
ant young men, the dizzy whirl of the
merry-go-round, the soft and swelling
I. W. Hartman & Son,
HARTflANS!
A Dollar Saved is
Better Than a
Dollar Earned.
"We'll save a dollar for a man
nr woman in a few minutea.wh
would have to work half a day
or more to earn it. linn
about it I Then test it.
Silk Waists, $2.69.
In all of our experience, never
before have we sold silk shirt
waists so rapidly. 1st, it's the
waist, quality, style and the
way its made. 2nd, its the
price. Silk shirt waist, $2.69.
25c. Per Piece
For trimming ribbon. 100
pieces, $ in. wide, black and
white, and all colors; maybe
used with or without the skirt
string. 10 yds in a piece for 25c.
Black Pins, Ic. a box.
Put up in little black boxes
and generally sold at 2 boxes
for 5 c. This lot will go at, per
box, ic.
10 Yds. Muslin, 55c
Men and women say it beats
anything at the price. Sold 500
yards to one man last week. It's
full yard wide, unbleached
and a good round thread. 10
yards for 55 c.
59c Pulley Belts, 25c
We have people coming from
far and near for our pulley belts,
because we have exclusive
styles, not to be had elsewhere
in Bloomsburg. 25c to 59c.
I. W. Hartman & Son.
notes of the orchestra, and the thous
and and one pictures presented by
the throng as it moves on all com
bine to make this one of the greatest
exhibitions of kaleidoscopic life ever
witnessed. And then at night, the
splashing waves, the soft air, the irrid-
escent sea, the full moon over the sea,
and over all the beautitul starlit heav
ens, inspire an ecstasy seldom experi
enced. The amusements which have sprung
up along this great avenue are its
great auxiliaries. Almost every device
known among men for amusing is
found here merry-go-rounds, switch
backs, observatories, Ferris wheels,
phonograph parlors, Punch and Judy
shows, streets of Cairo, Japanese gar
dens, swimming pools, shooting gal
leries, shuffleboards, and many more,
each playing its own part in the great
harmony of the whole. In truth, this
Boardwalk presents the appearance of
a continued fete or carnival.
Four great piers extend from the
Boardwalk into the ocean. Many of
the larger hops are held upon these
piers, and at night, when illuminated,
they present a charming picture, with
their swift gliding dancers and the
rhythmic music that seems to float on
the glinting waters of the sea.
There is much free social gayety at
Atlantic City. Most of the larger
hotels have their own orchestra for
the season, and hops are given every
evening, concerts are trequent, and
amateur theatricals, private parties,
and progressive euchres, are in con
stant vogue. Firstclass performances
by some of the best musical and dra
matic talent are also given in various
theatres.
The bathing at Atlantic City is, of
course, a popular feature. Nowhere
can it be indulged in with less danger
or more delight. During the fashion
able bathing time between eleven
and one many thousands may be
seen breasting the waves, splashing in
the smoother water, or sunning them
selves on the beach. And many who
do not enter the water love to sit be
neath the great umbrellas or in awning-covered
swings, beyond the reach
of waves, and watch the sport of the
bathers. Life guards constantly patrol
the beach or ride in open boats be
yond the breakers, ready to assist any
luckless bather who has unwittingly
ventured too far.
At the upper end of the island, at
the Inlet, a fleet of sate and speedy
yachts, ably manned, is ever ready to
take out parties desiring to sail or fish.
The annual horse show will be held
this year during the same week as the
Elks' Convention, and as this is one of
the social features of the year will be
greatly enjoyed.
Atlantic City offers one diversion
which no visitor should fail to enjoy
an excursion by rail and boat to Som
ers' Point and Ocean City, Sea Isle
City, or Avalon, by way of Longport.
Starting from the station at the
corner of Atlantic and Tennessee
avenues, the electric cars of the Long
port line run to Longport, seven miles
south of Atlantic City. Here, from a
double-decked pier always swept by
I. W. Hartman & Son
PRICED
la the power that lets do
the bars to a merchant's mer
chandise, and prompts people
to buy, and buy eavingly.
The Price at Hart
mans' is the
Lowest.
Dress Ginghams,6icyd
This is a gingham better thm
any one of our town merchants
sell for 6Jc, 8c and 10c a yard
other places. Our price for this
new lot, just received, GJc.
10c Percales for 7Kc.
These are dark Ground o-ni.
extra good quality ; make beau,
tiful dresses or waists for ser
vice. One vard wide, and npvof
sells for less than 10c. a yard.
This time, yard, 7jc.
25c. Oil Cloth for 15c.
This table oil cloth is the best
grade. Just like others sell at
per yd. 25c. Any merchant who
may decry the quality of our
table cloth either don't know
the quality we sell or don't know
good from poor oil cloth when
he sees it, or wilfully misrepre
sents our oil cloth, which we
sell at 15c per yd., that he may
inveige people into paying 10c
per yard more to him, who sells
no better than we sell.
I. W. Hartman & Son.
the freshest breezes, the boat is taken
which perform the marine portion of
this exclursion. The steamers are
constructed of the best material, and
are staunch enough to undergo a set
voyage. The steamer ride covers an
exceedingly pleasant trip across the
placid waters of Lgg Harbor liay to
Ocean City or Somers' Point, accord
ing to the choice of the nassenizer.
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The trip between Longport and Oceaa
City occupies about seventeen minntes
and that between Longport and Son
ers' Point about twenty-five.
The hotels of At antic Citv ate
among the best in America, and corn
Dare favorably with anv in the world.
They are constructed on modern plans,
contain all the conveniences whico i
progressive age has devised, and are
conducted, as to cuisine and service,
according to the highest and mojt if
proved standards.
There are fully seven hundred hotel
and boarding-cottages located here.
Rates can be secured from $5.00 per
week up to $200 per week, and tiie
rates as given are bv contract from
the proprietors.
Any additional information con
cerning the Reunion arrangement!
win be cheerfully furnished by address
ing the committee.
Reduced Kates to Cam den, Ind-, vifc
reuDBylvania Railroad.
For meeting of Old Order of Get-
man Baptist Brethren, at Camden,
Ind., Tune .1 to 1000. the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company will sell,
from May 31 to June 3, inclusive, ex
cursion tickets to Camden, Ind., from
stations on its line west of Baltimore,
Md. (not inclusive!, west of and in
cluding Lancaster and Reading, and
from stations south of and including
Sunbury, at rate of one first-class lim
ited fare for the round trip. Tickets
will be good returning until July S
inclusive. 2ti7
HOOD'S PILLS cure Liver IIH, Bil
iousness, Indigestion, Headache-
easy to take, easy to operate.
Shoes!
Do You
Know
We have the Largest Stock of
Shoes in the County (
You will make a mis
take if you fail to see our
lines before doing your
shoe buying-.
W. H. rioore,'
Co?.. Second and Ikon Sts.
lUoonisburg P iU