THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, FA. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1901 Rnterrtl at th Pout Ofllre at Blnomiitwg, Pat $ KHcond clun matter, March 1, lttss. PIOTUEISQUE BLQOMSBUEG. Contains nearly one hundred pictures of the town and vicinity. It is bound iu silk, with stiff cover, at $1.00; and in flexible cover, at 75 cents. Only a limited number have been printed. Those who desire a copy should secure it now. Do not wait too long, as the edition is more than half sold now. Pub lished and for sale at Tiuj Colum bian Office next door to Blooms burg National Bank. Entrance through Roys Jewelry Store, tf Roses are beginning to bloom. Legal advertisements on page 7. . . Soft shell crabs on toast are a delicacy. Judge Little held Court in Dan" ville this week. Some June days are rare, while some are positively raw. A new crossing is being placed at Main and Leonard street. For books, of all kinds, go to Mercer's Drug & Book Stcre. DeForest Hummer is clerking at the D. Lowenberg clothing store. For Croquet Sets, from 85c. to $2.25, go to Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Oak Grove will needlfcome clean ing up before it will bua desirable place to hold pic-nics. i Take your bike to the Blooms burg Cycle Works, rear ot Moore's store, for all repairs. Trimmed hats in late styles great ly reduced m price at E. Barkley's. Call and secure bargains. 129 West Main street. i3-2t It is likely that the annual picnic of the Bloomsburg Silk Mill em ployees will be held at Indian Park spar Shamokin this season. S. P. Wolverton, Esq., of Sun- bnry, has been appointed a trustee of the Danville Insane Asylum, in place of Chas. Chalfant, removed. . There will be an Ice Cream and Strawberry Festival at Almedia Pa., Saturday afternoon and even ing June 15, 1901. Proceeds for U. Ev. Church. Telephone. FISHING TACKLE. Have just received a large assortment of fine fishing tackle. Everything of the Latest 'Pattefn AND Highest Gfrade. Rods from $1.25 to $5.50 Reels from 75c. to $2.00. Lines from 10c. to $2.00 Flies,, a Full Assortment. Hook?, all Styles. All V. 3. Rishto.i. Ph. G. Eat BiiUia. Pharmacist LOUD The Newest and Best r $3.00 Shoe for women. Light, flexible soles. Very Shapely and Easy. Name Stamped on Every Shoe. None genuine with out it. W. C. ricKlNNEY, 8 E. Main St. Hammocks many styles and many prices at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. T. G. Ouick. the coal dealer, is j out with a splinter new delivery wagon. It is from lives Bros. factory, Millville. Get your panacea for your little chicks and lice powder to kill the lice, at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Town lots for sale, on easy terms. Bloomsburg Land Improvement Co. Inquire of Sanderson Woods, sales agent. N. U. Funk, Sec'y. Office, Knt Building. (4 25 The Bloomsburg High School took the Shamokin High School boys into camp at Athletic Park Saturday afternoon. The locals are putting up a good article of ball just now. Score, 8 to 4. Invitations are out announcing the wedding of Miss Nellie Harder, of Muskegon, Michigan, to Mr. Percy Angle, of Danville. It will occur at the home of the former's parents, Wednesday, June 26. The Winona Fire Company, at a meeting held Friday evening, de cided to contest for the prize on the Fourth of July. Fifteen running suits have been ordered and the team is now in training. . . "From grave to gay, from lively to severe," may not be just the ad jectives to apply to the weather.but they will serve to express the changeable nature of the climate as served to us this mouth. Many fanners, whose grain was damaged by the hail and wind storm two weeks ago, are feeding the same to their stock. They say it would cost more to harvest it than they could realize from it. John G. Harman, Esq., has pur chased a strip of land twelve feet wide on the west side of his resi dence from Mrs. Sarah Evans, and added it to his lot. It extends back the full depth of the lot to the alley. . .. Hurley Mordan had the second finger of his right hand cut oft on a buzz saw, at the Hawley-Slate Furniture Factory, Tuesday morn ing. He had started to work at the factory only the day before the accident. The farmers of Columbia and lower Luzerne counties will picnic at Grasmere Park, Thursday, Au gust 8th. Able speakers have been secured. This is the ninth annual event. Last season's picnic was largely attended. Geo. W. Bowes, of Locust town ship, is the owner of a freak in the shape of a calf. The animal is greatly detormed, one leg is eight inches shorter than the other three. It can walk forward apparently easy enough, but is greatly hindered in any other movement. .. Miss Sadie Vannatta has been appointed agent for the various in surance companies formerly repres ented by the late C. F. Knapp. Miss Vannatta was Mr. Knapp' s secretary, and is thoroughly ac quainted with the business. Quite a surprise to his numerous friends was the announcement of ihe engagement of William Lowen berg, to Miss Julia Kaufman, which was made last Thursday. The bride elect is a resident of Frankfort, Ger many, aud is a sister of Mrs. Samuel Dreifus, of Milton. The Columbian extends felicitations. The frame building on Market Square that has seen so many bui ness ventures fail under its roof, will no longer change tenants so fre quently as heretofore. It has been changed into an Automobile stable where E. ' B. Tustin and George Low house their machines when not in use. It has been fitted up with water to fill the tanks, a wash-bowl aud other conveniences. Base ball gloves, of all kinds, base ball bats, and all base ball goods, at Mercer's Drug & Book Store. Susquehanna was indescribably weak at every point in the ball game against the Normal School Saturday afternoon. There must be a dearth of material at the insti tution, or else the men were over developed. In but one inning did the Normal fail to score. Result : Normal, 29, Susquehanna, 6. The members of Zion congrega tion will hold an ice cream festival in Mr. E. M. Laubach's grove, at Forks, on Saturday evening, June 29th. If it should be stormy on that date it will be held on the suc ceeding Monday evening. All the delicacies of the season will be served, and all are cordially in vited. Friday's Shickshinny Echo notes the serious illness of Mrs. Charles Moss, at the home of her father, Frank Lewis, Fairmount Springs. She and her husband had only re cently returned from a protracted stay in Arizona. Mrs. Moss spent the winter of 1898 in Bloomsburg, and during that time made many friends who will be sorry to hear of her illness. At the reunion of the Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves at Round Top, Gettysburg, last week, ad dresses were delivered by Major H. H. Gore, of Athens, W. W. Johnson, Philadelphia, Col. J. W. Miller, Baltimore, and Mrs. M. E. Ent, of Bloomsburg. Her husband, the late Gen. W. H. Eut, was the colonel of the regiment. - . -e- . Frank Weir met with instant death near his home in Williams port Saturday night. He was re turning home from seeing his sweet heart, in the southern part of the city, and dashed down the steep ap proach to the Market street river bridge, directly in front of a Phila delphia & Reading train. The young man, by reason ot his fre quent visits, was quite well known in Bloomsburg. .. . Do you want a good second hand bicycle ? If so, go to Mercer's Drug & Uook Store. One ladies wheel, $9.00, with new tires ; one gent's wheel, style, Sentinel, a bar gain at $11.00; one gent's wheel, style, Reading, for $11.00; one high grade Columbia wheel, gent's, for $9.50; one Reading Special, with coaster brake, for $16.50. New last year ; one Crescent tan dem for $25.00. The Normal Quarterly for June was issued on Tuesday. It is an attractive number. Prof. J.. H. Dennis is the managing editor. The introduction of illustrated articles is a new feature, and this is making the magazine more popular than ever. The Quarterly is issued four times a year, each number contain ing about forty pages. The sub scription price is only 25 cents a year, and every old Normal student in town should be a subscriber. Contractor Thomas B. Gorrey had the thumb of his right hand painfully bruised Thursday after noon. He was assisting some ot his workmen in moving a heavy timber at the overhead bridge which is being erected for the new trolley line at Willow Grove, when the blocks suddenly gave way and the heavy weight dropped on Mr. Gorrey's hand. He was brought home in a carriage and the wounds dressed by Dr. Gardner. Notwithstanding the very bad weather he had to contend with M. I. Hennessy, of Bloomsburg, com pleted, this week, one of the finest jobs of artificial stone paving ever put down here, in front of the new Post Ofhce Building, tor Chas. Haas. The work includes steps, coping and side walls in addition to the regular pavement, and is a fitting testimonial of Mr. Heunes sy's proficiency in this line of busi ness. He has contracts lor sever al other jobs which he will advance as rapidly as possible. Berwick Independent, A force of workmen started this morning to tear down the ware house in the rear of F. P. Pursel's store on Market St. The structure is to be replaced by a new forty by sixty-foot building. This will af ford an opportunity for Mr. Pursel to properly display his stock of furni ture and other merchandise, which for the past several years, owing to lack of space, he has been compelled to keep on the third story, which was, owing to the construction of the building, quite inaccessable and hard to show to any advantage. The new building will be two stor ies high and will extend from the rear end of the store back to C. W. McKelvey's property. Envelopes, paper,, tablets, box paper and all stationery, at Mer cer' 9 Drug & Book Store. PURELY PERSONAL J. L. Moyer went to I'liilndelphia on 1 nursiiay. Matthew McKeynolds of Htizteton, spent bunuay in town nitn mt parents. Rohr Mtllenry, of Benton, was among tne visitors to town ihursday last. Mrs. II. A. Guiding and little daughter are visiting her parents at Mt. Uarmcl. Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild, of Bridgeport, Conn., are the guests of Mr, and Mrs. 1'aul E. Wirt. Mrs Alice Vial of Leonard street, went to Philadelphia to spend a week with relatives and Iricnils. Miss Maine Kenney, of Ashland, has heen a guest at the home of John F. Kelley tne past week. Will Iiachman, of Shamokin, was a Sun day visitor at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J, S. Iiachmnn, Mrs. Patrick McFaddenand family will in the future make their home in W llkes-Barre. They moved to that city on Friday. Prof. Geo. F.. Wilbur, W S. Rishton and Ex-SherilT VV. W. Mack, attended Uni ted Slates Court at Williamsport this week as jurors. Harry J. Achenbach, teller at the Farm. ers National Bank, was taken quite ill on Saturday and has been confined to the house evei since. Carl Ilrown spent Sunday with his par ents in town. He is a traveling salesman for the Armour iiecf Co., and is stationed at Olean, N. Y. Mrs. W. K. Armstrong and daughter, Miss Martha ot Milton, are spending two weeks with the lormer s mother, Mrs. ltassert on Catharine street. Mrs. Harry Gemberling and son Rexford, of Selinsgrove, returned to thtir home Sun day evening after spending three weeks in town with relatives. A. H. F.dgar, of the Benton "Argus," gave our office a wall while in town Monday afternoon. He is receiving felicitntions over tne arrival ol a baby girl kt bis home rriday evening. Harry Keller is at home from Lafayette College for his summer vacation. He is a member of the Glee, Mandolin and Guitar Club ot that college, and visited many cities with the organization the past winter, Arthur Koan has resigned his position at the D. Lowenberg store, and will enter W. C. McKinney's shoe store on Monday. R. Frank Colley, who has been in Mr. McKin ney's employ for several years past, has given up the position. Oliver Watts, of Middletown, Pa., attend ed the Ii.-irton-I'cacock nuptuls on Wednes day. While here he called on his many friends, nil o whom were glad to see him. Oliver is a most genial fellow, and we are glad to know that lie is prospering. J. B. Rinard died at his home near Shickshinny Friday, alter a brief illness, with pneumonia. He was aged nearly fifty years. The survivors are a wife and five child ren, Mrs. C. R. Miller, ot Shick shinny; Mrs F. M. Miller and Miss Mame Rinard, of Philadelphia; Miss Ollie B. Rinard, of Wilkes Barre, and Mrs. F. B. Ringrose, of this town. A few weeks ago we published an article from tlie Philadelphia Press headed "Why Men do not go to Church." It gave these two reasons why so few met) attend Church: that they do not get what they want from the pulpit, and the femininity of the hymns. Is it a fact that men do not go to church? and, if so, are the reasons above given a sufficient explanation of the cause ? We would like to hear from the clergymen of the town and county on this subject. It is a good one totalk about. all your and friends think you must be mm; w e n t y years older than you are? Yet It s impossible to look young with the color of 70 years in the hair. It's sad to see young persons look prematurely old in this way. Sad be cause it's all unneces sary; for gray hair may always be re stored For over half a cen tury this has been the standard hair prepara tion. It is an elegant dressing; stops fall ing of the hair; makes the hair grow; and cleanses the scalp from dandruff. ll.OOabottla. All drujglsts . " I bav. been ntlng Ayer'i Hair Vigor or over 20 yours aud I can heartily rocnmmemf It lu tin publlo aa tlw bunt uair toulo in existence." Mrs. G. I,, Aldhuson, April 24, 18M. tutor, T.x. If yon do not obtain all tin benefit you upected from the VIkof, we vuvwr hduhi it. addthIi Dm. 1. O. AVER. Lowell, Hail. r 'v r v v t t y 1 ftzvri June White Sale. We offer you, this month, the most complete lines of all kinds of White Materials, for your own or house use, and at prices to please. White Dress Materials, Ribbons, Laces, Counterpanes, Linens, Curtains, Para sols, in fact, all kinds of White Goods. You should see this offering and prices. WHITS CHESS MATERIALS. All kinds, all styles. 45 in. Swiss, 15c. a yard. White Checks, 7c. a yard. 45 in. White French Lawns, 37 to 70c. a yard. India Linens, 10c. to 40c. a yard. 40 in. Lawns, 12, 14 and 17c. a yard. White Organdy, French Muslins, Nainsooks, Long cloths, &c. COUNTERPANES. Hemmed and fringed, all ready for use. 75c, $1.00, i.31, 1.58, 2.00, 2.50, 3.50. Not a poor one in the lot. You should see them. RIBBONS. All kinds, all widths, and the new Sash Ribbons are here. Velvet Ribbons, in all widths. We place on sale, this week, several big bargains in Ribbons. See them. WASH DRESS GOODS. Never before have we shown such a collection of Wash Goods. Dotted Swiss Muslins, H.J.CLARK & SON. The only make of Rubber Shoes and Boots in the world that will stand this test of elasticity and strength. For sale by F. 0. OEMTLEIR). .... GEO. "W. HESS, THE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN, ' Bloomsburg, Penna. Store open Thursday and Saturday evenings. BELT FINS, BELT BUCKLES AN CLASPS, In silver and gold, rose and green colors. Beautiful designs, great va riety, all new lines. 25c. to $4.oo. J LEE lsLJlEirrXlT JEWELER AND REFRACTING OPTICIAN, 45 West Main Street, - - BLOOMSBURG, PA First-class watch anil jewelry repairing. Batiste and Fine Dimities, now at 15c. yard. Pongees at 22c. a yard. 35c. Foulards, at 25c. yd. Ducks, at 15c. a yard. PANS, PARASOLS. Big lines, all kinds. See them. JUNE SALE UNDERHUSLINS. Big lines of ladies' Un dermuslins, made in clean and healthy work-rooms. Cut full, made good, of good materials. You should see this offering of Under muslins. Many ladies bought these goods the past week. Drawers, 25c. to $1.25. Night Dresses, 44c. to $2.75. Corset Covers, 18c to $i-54- Skirts, 50c. to $3.00. A special Cambric Skirt, with two rows lace inser tion and lace ruffle, at $1.00, A Corset Cover, big val ue, Cambric, 39c. One price cash. 8 3 8 S S 8 m m X s 8 GOLD SEAL Rubbers. -o- Perfect fit, ? Unrivaled In Style, Unequaled For Durability, Jewelry Wisdom. It certainly is tar from wise to buy Jewelry wherever you see Jewelry for sale. The imitation looks like the genuine at first. The wise way is to come right to us, then you'll know precisely what you're buying. You'll be sure you have your money's worth. An additional safeguard is we GUARANTEE EVERYTHING to be as represented.