S THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. A Curious Fact! It is really remarkable the number of cheap plated watch eases 8oltl tbe3e uays, cases flint will Mear from six weeks to two years, containing a guaran tee warranting them tor 20 years. The construction of the guarantee is misleading. Tire case will not wear out, al though the gold is all worn off. When you buy n watch case, get a good one, which is guar anteed not to wear off in 20 years, and if it does, you can get a new case. We sell O-old. Filled. Watch Cases that have stood, the test for years, and personally guaran tee every case, in addition to the manufacturer's guarantee. J". IE3. dko-STS, 1SLOOMSBURG, TA. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. J. S. Williams & Son, BLOOMSBURG PA Public Sale Criers and General Auctioneers. WW Fifteen years experience. BaMsfnettwn tnarante ert. Best return of any sale criers In IblB section of the H(te. Write for terms and dates. ver disappoint our patrons. 1-6 General Auctioneer. When you need a good auctioneer it will pay you to call on the undersigned. I have had 13 years experience, I deal fair with my fellow-bidders, therefore, I am able to get you the best returns of any sale oryer in this section and I charge the least for it. Resi dence, C. R. Buckalew firm, ligbt Street road. l'O't office address, Bloomsburg, Pa. Letters addressed to me will receive prompt attention. '-8 J. H. Ei-twine. Lamps from 25 cents to $13.00 et Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Piano Tuning. Will Guernsey, the piano tuner spent all last week in town. He will be here again the first week in Febru ary. Leave orders for tuning at thie office. . The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, and will be sent to the dead letter office Feb. 13, 1 90 1. Persons calling for these letters will please say " that they were advertised Jan. 29, 1901": Frank Malcom, Mr. S. T. Pletche:, W. H. Stone. One cent will be charged on each i letter advertised. O. B. Mellick, P. M. T. H- 0- A. Notes. On Thursday evening, February, ,-7, -.Salvatore Di Grazia, the world's fa mous Banjoist, will give an intertain ment in the Y. M. C. A. building Sot , the benefit of the Boys Brigade. Ad mission 10 cents. The meeting next Sunday will be an interesting one. All men hou Id .en deavor to be present. Everyone will find a cordial welcome. Usual hour, 2:30 p. m. Judge Yerkes on Kidnapping. In addressing the Grand Jury in Bucks xounty recently Judge Iferkea said: 'Chirr', stealing seems to be a growingclass of crime which threatens particularly suburban communities, such as we are rapidly becoming, and there is na effective method of punish raent. Far, one if I had a child I should be tin some anxiety in this 1 respect. I avould rather see the rfoihl dead than sac it carried away by those Sends. I atn-sure any parent would 1 feel safer witlt .its child in the grave. "It is the &ty of every community to raise its uoice in favor of the punishment of fltch an offense in the severest sense. aN'ow is the proper time to secure legislation to inflict ad ditional penalties-even not short of deatk. There is sc.w before the State Legislature a bill, introduced by a member from Luzerce county, which inflicts the death penalty for this crime, g hope, lor toe, that it will become a law." Severe measures are needed to 'epress this evil, and hanging is none too good Cor these cowardly and brutal child stealers. We hope the members front this county will vote r the bill. Makes the food more delicious and wholesome OVl SAKINO POWOF ' ' " i STATE NEWS j " Miss J. Guss Ditting possesses the reputation of being the only woman gas plant operator in the State. She is the president and principal stock holder in the Hollidaysburg Gas Com pany, having purchased the works of this corporation at ShcrifTs sale in August, 1899. The plant has- been conducted under her personal super vision ever since that time, and she has displayed acute business capacity in its management. -Superintendent O. O. Esser has resigned his position as superintendent of the P. & N. Y. division of the Le high Valley, taking effect January 13, J. A. Droege, who has been tenipor i!y occupying the position as acting superintendent, has succeded him. Mr. Esser had been superintendent of this division lor six years, and has been in the service of the Lehigh Valley all his life, working his way from office buy to superintendent of division. His resignation is occasion ed by his poor health. Beaver Meadow ia excited over the presence of a strange dragon-like animal in the Old Temperance mine. The miners describe the animal as being three feet high and four feet long, with a small head, a long whisk ered nose, and eyes as large as silver dollars. Its tracks show a good-sized foot with six claws. While pushing a car in the mines a miner was attacked by the animal, which jumped on his back with fierce growls. The miner's clothing was torn from his back before other miners, rushing to his assistance, frightened the beast away. During the last year only 296, S91 logs, representing 56,390,092 feet board measure, were rafted out of the Susquehanna boom. The year was a most unfavorable one for lumbering operations, owing to the small rainfall. There are now in the boom about 40, 000,000 of logs and 25,000,000 feet cut last winter are still back ready to be put into the water next spring. Since 1862 there has been rafted out of the boom over thirty-nine million logs, representing nearly nine billion feet board measure. This signature is on every boa of the genuine Laxative Bromo-Qxiinine Tablet. ' the remedy that cures cold In one day Catalogue Statistics Furnished by the University of Pennsylvania. The annual catalogue of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania tor 1 900-1 90 r, recently issued, is a publication of four hundred and eighty seven pages, and contains detailed information concerning all departments. The .University now has two hundred and sixty five officers of instruction and two thousand five hundred and seventy-thiee students, representing 'forty-four different states and terri tories and twenty-six foreign countries. Among the more important announce ments, the following mr.y be noted. For the first time, candidates for admission to the Medical School are required to pass examinations (unless they hold a degree from tome recog nized College or University) equiv alent to those demanded for entrance, to the Academic ' department. Announcement is made ot the early erection of a new Medical Laboratory, equipped chiefly with a view to special work in physiology, pathology and pharmacodynamics. Important changes are mentioned with regard to the admission of students to advanced standing in subjects offered in the Medical School. Courses in New Jersey and Dela ware practice have been added to the Law School curriculum ; while in the Graduate School, a new group in Ethnology and American Archaeology has .been established under the direc tion of Professor Hilprecht Two notable additions have been made in the .college Courses. One is the Course in Commerce and Industry, .extending over four years, andleadmg Co the of B. S. in Economics ; and the other is an arrangement by which a candidate may obuin the degree of B. S.,(or A. B.) and M. D. within aj period of seven yeare, by a combina tion of contain studies included in the College Senior Year .and the Fust year of Medicine. Announcement is also auade q a new end important course in the College on the Govern ment of Colonies and Dependencies. The University Library contains up 1 wards of two huidred thousand bound 1 volumes, and same fifty thousand un bound pamphlet. Gaines from 5 cents to $1.00 at Mercer's Drue & Uook Store. CO., HW YOK. KRIOOADM'S ANSWER. In the Common Pleas Court, Columbia County. Commonwealth of"! 1'ENNSYI.VANIA.eX relatione, John G. IIakman, District Attorney, vs. William Krick- 11AUM. December Term 1900. No. 6. The respondent excepting and reserving, all manner of exception to the errors both in form and sub stance, makes answer to the said suggestion. That it is true that he became surety at the time and in the man ner suggested upon two cettain bonds cf the Treasurer of Columbia county. And he further sys in relation to the bond filed with the commissioners of the said county that the same was approved by the said commissioners, as is shown by the following minute: "Bloomsburg, Pa., Jan. 4, 1900 The commissioners all present. Minutes of yesterday read and ap proved. Treasurer's bond present ed. Whereas Jeremiah Snyder of Locust township has beeu duly elected Treasurer of Columbia county, and has entered into a bond to the county in the sum of $60, 000.00 with C. A. Kleim, Welling ton Yeager, Win. Adams, S. R. Carl, David Beaver, Wm. Krick bautn and K. C. Yeager as sureties, and presented the same to the board for approval. The same was ap proved this 4th day of January, 1900, and filed in the commis sioners' office." And he further says that at the time said bonds were signed by him as one of the sureties, T. J. Vander slice was the attorney for said treas urer, and also private counsel for the respondent, he raised the ques tion as to whether it was proper for him, being a county commissioner, to become one ot the sureties on the said bonds, whereupon he was ad vised and informed by said T. J. Vanderslice, "That this made uo difference and it was all right." And he further says, that he entered upon the duties of county commissioner, and duly qualified as such on the first Monday of Janu ary, 1897, and that his term of office ended on the first Monday of January, 1900, and that having Deen re-elected, he entered upon the second term of the said office on the first Monday of January, 1900. And he further says, that the said bonds were signed by him as one of the sureties aforesaid upon the nth day of December, 1899. That the respondent admits the passage of the Act of Assembly ap proved March 31, 1S60, cited in the said suggestion, but he is advised and believes that its provisions are not applicable to the facts set forth in the said suggestion, relating to him being one of the sureties of the said treasurer. That it is not true that the re- spondent while exercising the duties and office of one of the commission ers of the said county, contracted with Krickbaum and Creasy own ers, proprietors and publisiiers of the Democratic Sentinel, a weekly newspaper published in the said county for the publication of the annual statement of the finances of 1 he said county from January 4U1, 1897, to January 4th, 1898, as set forth in the said suggestion. That it is not true that the re spondent while exercising the ' duties and office of commissioner of the said county contracted with himself, as the owner and proprietor of the said Democratic Sentinel lor the publication and printing ot a certain order of court and blank forms amounting to $9.75, which were paid for out of the funds of the said county, as eet forth in the said suggestion. That it is not true that the re spondent in the year 1898, while exercising the duties and office of commissioner of the said county contracted with himself as the own ernd proprietor of the said Demo cratic Sentinel for the publication of the Sheriff 's election proclamation, and the printing of marriage license blanks furnished to W. H. Ilenrit, clerk of the Orphans' Court. And it is also untrue as set forth in the csid suggestion "That a regular cotiuty order was drawn by the said commissioners of Columbia county for the payment of said bills out of county funds, which said order were cashed and paid by the county treasurer of Columbia county to the said William Krick baum." That it is true that the said Sher iff published in the said Democratic Sentinel the said election proclama tion for the year J898 and that the Hum of $25.00 was paid by the said county to the respondent for the Snid pul dieit ion. And the respon ent further says that the publication of the said proclamation by the said sheriff, and the payment for the same were made prior to the first Monday of January, 1900. That it is not true as set forth in the said suggestion, that the re spondent some time during the year 1899, while exercising the duties and office of commissioner aforesaid contracted with himself as owner nnd proprietor of the said Demo cratic Sentinel for the publication of the election proclamation. That it is true that the sheriff of the said county published in said Sentinel, owned and published by the re spondent, the said proclamation for the year 1S99, and that the stun of 525.00 was paid by said county to the respondent for the said publica tion. And the respondent further says that the publication of the said proclamation and the payment of the same as aforesaid were made prior to '.he first Monday of January, 1900. That it is not true as set forth in the said suggestion, that in the year 1900 the respondent while exercising the duties and office ol commissioner of the said county contracted with himself as owner and proprietor of the said Sentinel lor the publication of the sheriff's election proclamation. That it is true that the said sheriff published in the said Sentinel the election pro clamation for the year 1900, and that the said sum of $37.50 was paid by said county for the publish ing of the same to the respondent. That it is not true that the re spondent as set forth in the sugges tion, while exercising the duties and office of commissioner of the said county contracted with himself as owner and propietor of the said Sentinel for the subscription of the said county to the said Sentinel for the term of three years, em bracing the years 1898, 1899, and 1900. It is true that in ac cordance with the Act of April 18, 1893, on January 6th, 1897, tne three commissioners of the said county niade selection of the three newspapers to be taken at the ex pense of the county, that John N. Gordon, one of said commissioners, sekcted the said Sentinel, Nehemiah Kitchen, another of said commis sioners, selected the Republican, and the respondent, the other com missioner, selected the Columbian, newspapers published in the said county. That this selection was continued during the years 1898 and 1899, embracing the three years tha said commissioners held office, and that the subscription price for the Sentinel, amounting to $3.00, was paid by said county to the re spondent. That when the respond end entered upon his second term of office on the first Monday of January, 1900, a new newspaper subscription was made by the com missioners of said county under said Act, as follows: Nehemiah Kitchen, one of said commissioners, selected the Republican, W. H. Fisher, another of said commission ers, selected the Sentinel, and the respondent, the third commissioner, selected the Columbian. That the respondent in answer to the charge of being a stockholder of the Bloomsburg Water Company, which furnishes water to the public buildings of the said county as set forth in the said suggestion, says: It is true that the respondent is a stockholder iu the said company, and was for many years prior to his hrst election to the office of commissioner of the said county; that when he entered upon the duties of the said office iu 1897, the said company was supplying water to the said buildings generally and have continued since that time to furnish the said water under its meter rates, for which it has been paid the sum of $586.07 to October 30, 1900. And the defendant fur ther says that he is a minority holder of stock only in the said company, owning 150 shares of the par value of $10.00 each out of a total issue of 18.000 shares of the said company, and that the other two commissioners of said county are not and never have been stock holders or members of the said company, or in any manner inter ested therein. That the respondent in answer to the charge of being a stockholder of the Bloomsburg Electric Light Company, which supplied the said county with light during the years 1897 and 1898, says that on or about the 19 day of September, 1899, he sold and assigned all his stock iu the said company, and sincj that time has not been a stock holder of the said company, or iu any manner interested therein. And he further says that when he entered upon the duties of the office oi commissioner in 1S97 the said company was supplying the said county with li;;ht and have con tinued since that time to furnish U12 county light under its rates for which it has been paid as fol lows; For the year 1897 $103.47, and for the year i8q3 $101. oj.. And the respondent further says inai no was a minority holder of the stock of the said company, and the other two commissioners were not stockholders of the said compa ny or iu any manner interested therein. And the respondent fur ther says that the sai I light was lurnisfoed and payment made for the same to the said company prior to the first Monday of January, 1900. , , And the respondent further says in relation to the bond of the county treasurer filed with the sa.d com missioners, that the said county treasurer has duly executed and delivered to the said commissioners in the place nnd stead of said bond, a new bond in the sum of $60,000 with good and sufficient sureties, which has been approved and ac cepted by said commissioners and filed in their office, as and for the bond of said treasurer, and the re spondent further says that he is not tmw a snretv on the bond of said treasurer required to be g:ven by him as such treasnrer 10 ine com missioners of said county, and that the bond of the couutv treasurer to the said commissioners and recited in said suggestion has been cancel led by resolution of the board of commissioners of said county and is not now 111 force. And tins tne re spondent is ready to verify. Wm. Krickbaum. Columbia County, ss: William Krickbaum being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that the facts set forth in the foregoing answer are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Wm. Krickbaum. Sworn and subscribed before me this 18th day of January, 1901. ) J. C Rutter, Jr., seal. Register and Recorder. In connection with the foregoing, the following affidavit is pertinent: Columbia County, ss: Whereas William Krickbaum, one of the County Commissioners of Columbia county has become one ot the sureties of the Treasurer's bond of said county, Jeremiah Snyder being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the treasurer of Columbia county, that said William Krickbaum is one of his sureties, that at the time of the execution of the said bond, the said William Krickbaum suggested in as much as he was one of the County Commissioners he had bet ter not become one of said sureties; at that time stating that it might be a mistake for him to do so, where upon T. J. Vanderslice, who was my attorney at that time, . stated "That does not make any difference. that is all right," whereupon said Krickbaum with Wellington Yeag er, Simon Carl, Wm. Adams and others signed and executed said bond. Jeremiah Snyder. Sworn and subscribed before me this 31st day of December, A. D 1900. C. A. Small. On Friday last a replication was hied. It is as follows: In re Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, ex relatione John G. Har man, District Attorney, vs. William Krickbaum. In the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County, No. 6, Dec. Term, 1900. The relator, John G. Harman, District Attorney of Columbia County, excepting and reserving all manner ot exceptions to the errors, both in form and substance, makes answer, replication and demurrer, to the alleged answer of William Krickbaum, respondent, in the above entitled proceeding, as follows: First: So far as the said answer of the respondent admits the facts recited in the suggestion ot the re lator and demurs thereto, the said relator joins in said demurrer and says that petition and suggestion are sufficient in law, and therefore moves the Court for judgment of ouster. Second: So far as said answer ex pressly denies the facts recited in said suggestion and, petition, the said relator joins issue. Third: For further reply to the new matter contained iu said answer the relator excepts to the scandalous aud impertinent allegation contain ed therein, that T. J. Vanderslice was at the time said bond was ex ecuted and approved, Attorney for the said County Treasurer, and at the same time private counsel for said respondent, and advised the execution and approval of said bond in the manner stated in said sugges tion, and moves the Court to ex punge from the record said scand alous aud impertinent matter. Fourth: For further reply to the said new matter, the relator admits that the fact3 recited on the last page ot respondent's answer in re gard to the cancellation of the original bond of the said County Treasurer, and the snbstitution of a new bond in the place and stead of the old onej are true as stated and set forth in said answer, and the re lator demurs thereto and suggests to said Court that the action of said County Commissioners iu canceling the said original bond, was in itself a violation ot Section 171 of the Act of March 31st, i860, and said action of the respondent in .itself makes him liable to be removed from office for violating the provisions of' said Act and the relator asks that said violation be considered ns a part of .v. I,-... :.. ,1.:. me original sunsinuMii in hum case and therefore moves the Court f, judgment of ouster. 1 A . A IV. r, i.r, i, John G. Hakman, Grant Herring, Attorneys for Relator. State oe Pennsylvania ) County op Columbia. ) Tnlni G. Harman. District Af. rnrimv rf Cflllimbi.l CotltltV. lwim. . I - J . - . p dulv sworn according to law clo'h depose ana say inai me lacis set fntth in the within answer, renlir-a. tion and demurrer, are true and cor rect to the best of his knowledge nnd belief. John G. Harman, Dist. Atty. Sivnrti and subscribed 1 W. H. to before me this Jith MI EN'Rlri. day of January, 1901. ) Proth'y. . A Qreat Convenience to the Publ'o The Lackawanna Railroad is plan- ning still further improvements in in Dining Car Service. Having equipped its through trains with palatial dinini cars and opened an elaborate restau rant in Us Hoboken terminal, it is now arranging to supply a buffet service on through express trains between Net York and Plymouth, Pa., via Scran ton. This service was started cn Wednesday, January 23d. The train leaving New" York at 4:00 p. m. will be equipped with a vcstibuled buffet, drawing room, par lor car, enabling patrons to secure dinner before reaching Plymouth. The corresponding eastbound train, leaving Plymouth at 7:05 in the morn ing, will be similarly equipped. Not only will the parlor car pas sengers have the benefit ot the new service, but arrangements have been made whereby the occupants ot the coaches may also enjoy a similar ser vice. A portion of the coach nearest the parlor car on each train has been fitted up with four tables, suitably se cured by headboards, and a special waiter will be in charge of this por tion of the car. Another waiter will be detailed for the buffet car, so that parties ot both are assured a prompt, efficient and satisfactory service. (y Sermon on Advertising. Recently the editor of the Cresco (Ia.) Times gave an instructive talk to his patrons through the medium of his columns. He said in part : "The 'Times' has had three propositions within six months to publish wriie tips' with views of Cresco business enterprises and business men and buildings. Undoubt edly there is littjf risk of losing money in such a scheme, but what good results from such write lips, or from such advertising? "It may gratify the vanity of the ciiuea to have his business ability and his success eulogized, but it will never ndd a dollar to his fortune to pay a transient, travel-stained pencil pusher to write a few paragraphs of f raise concerning himself and his business, lis neighbors, who are associating with him daily, know him too well to believe anything that is not true about him. "What the merchant needs to help him sell goods is not a picture of his good build ing, or good looking face, but an advertise ment in the papers of what he has to sell nnd then to invariably adhere as to price and quality to the specifications of the advertise ment. "Editors have nn opportunity to son pretty closely the ellect of different kinds of advertising, and to see the effect of neglect ing to advertise in the local papers. The observant editor might be dropped down in to a dozen stores in a town, in which he was an entire stranger, and he could determine in half an hour any pleasant weekday wl'ich of the stores advertise judiciously. "Merchants who advertise attract uttang ers; those who do not, keep a few old cus tomers until they begin to learn through the advertising columns that cheaper and more up-to-date goods are sold at other stores. The merchant who does not advertise cannot aflord to renew his stock with up-to date goods, for he has not sold his old stock, so Be loses his old cus.omert and keeps his old goods, and all because he will not advertise." WANTED ACTIVE MAN, OF GOOD character, to deliyer and collect in Pennsyl vania for old established manufacturing wholesale house. $900 a year, suie pay. Honesty more than experience required. Our reference, any bank, in any city. En closed self-addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers, Third floor, 334 Dearborn St , Chicago. io-25-lGt. School Shoes ! Will Soon be Needed. Our 28 years' ex perience enables us to select for you the right shoe for seryice. Full line of V. L. DOUGLAS' Fall and Winter Sho3S for men now in stock. W. H. MOORE, Cor. Main and Iron'Sta. BLOOMSBURG, PA 1- &
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