THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA,
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1901 '
Sntrrettatllie I'uH OJNre at Blnnmntiurg, I'a.
I tecnntt cta matter, March 1 , IHStf.
APPRENTICE WANTED-
Boy wanted at this office to learn
printer's trade. Must be at least six
teen years of age, and a fair reader
and speller. Resident of town pre
ferred, tf.
Legal advertisements on page 7.
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Coal dealers are crowded with
orders.
For books, of all 'kinds, go to
Mercer's Drug & Book Store.
The longest day was June 21,
since that time they have lost over
an hour and a half.
Take your bike to the Blooms
burg Cycle Works, rear of Moore's
store, for all repairs.
The county fair season is rapidly
approaching. Only six weeks 'till
Bloonisburg's big show.
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Envelopes, paper, tablets, box
paper and all stationery, at Mer
cer's Drug & Book .Store.
See to it now that you are prop
erly registered, else you will be
deprived of your vote this fall.
The Winona 20th Century Min
strel Stars at the Opera House
Monday evening, September 16.
T. L. Gunton is one of the ama
teur photographers of Bloomsburg
who is meeting with good results.
Get your panacea for your little
chicks and lice powder to kill the
lice, at Mercer's Drug & .Book
Store.
All correspondence in regard to
the Bloomsburg tair should be ad
dressed to the secretary, A. N.
Yost.
Base ball gloves, of all kinds,
base ball bats, and all base ball
goods, at Mercer's Drug & Book
Store.
Which would you rather do,
miss your best girl when you are
flush or meet your worst creditor
when you are broke?
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This is the last week of the early
closing of stores for this season.
The business plac.s will be kept
open from Monday night on till
eight o clock or thereabouts.
For Croquet Sets, from 85c. to
$2.25, go to Mercer s Drug cc
Book Store.
Telephone.
FISHING TACKLE.
Have just received a large
assortment of fine fishing
tackle. Everything of the
Itej., fhttQn
AND
" Rods rom $1.25 to $5.50
Reels from 75c. to $2.00
Lines from 10c. to $2.00
Flies, a Full Assortment.
Hookp, all Sty ha
W. S. Rishton, Ph. G.
Ent Building. Pharmacis
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. ricKINNEY,
8 E. Main St.
August will soon be reduced to
memory.
Hammocks many styles and
many prices at Mercer s Drug &
Book Store.
Don't forcet the festival at Or-
angeville Saturday evening. Spec
ial train. xo cents, up and back.
Music by Bloomsburg Band.
President Truesdale, of the Del
aware, Lackawanna cc Western
Railroad, predicts a revival of the
great mining record the coming
winter.
The Columbia & Montour Elec
tric Railway Company is putting in
new poles and raising the feed wire,
in accordance with the town ordi
nance.
The Hamlin Car Works, of Cat-
awissa, have received so many or
ders that in order to fill them
promptly the plant is running
double turn.
The Normal School Pan-Ameri
can excursion to Buffalo reached
home Saturday night at one o'clock.
It was a successful and enjoyable
trip in every way.
Hack Ernest, who was recently
shot by Aaron Trexler at Aristes
has so far recovered that he was
able to leave the State hospital the
past week and return to his home.
St. Ignatius parochial school at
Centralia will open September 14.
Mother M. Pius, for four years at
the head of the parochial school at
Mt. Carniel, will have charge of it
this year.
Bloomsburg's public school room
doors were thrown open Monday
morning. The students, in in
creased numbers, were all on hand
promptly, ready to begiu their
school work.
The Hawley-Slate Furniture
factory is advertising- for boys.
Steady, work at good wages is
promised. The opening of school
has greatly reduced the number of
boys employed at the factory.
The Berwick Cornet Band will
give a grand concert at the festival
held by the Lime Ridge Cornet
Band, on Saturday evening, August
31st. Cars on Electric Railway to
Bloomsburg will ruti until 12 p. tn.
Rain last Saturday prevented
what promised to be two interest
ing ball games. Berwick vs. Dan-
ville "Old Timers," at Berwick,
and Berwick vs. Almedia, at Al-
media. They will be played later.
One of our exchanges tells of two
Lehigh county lovers who went to
sleep on the railroad track and were
struck by a train. They can ap
preciate what is meant by a rude
awakening from love's young
dream.
The usurpation of authority by
a motortuan on one of the electric
cars Sunday evening compelled the
conductor to sprint nearly three
squares to catch the moving vehicle,
which was dashing off in the direc
tion of Espy.
After a four-days' tie-up, by rea
son of washouts, the Catawissa
division of the P. & R. Railroad,
above Danville, was opened for
traffic Friday. At Danville the
washout was so great that a trestle
250 feet long was necessary.
The Orangeville Band will hold
a festival at Academy Grove, Or
angeville, on Saturday evening,
August 31st. There will also be a
band concert, the Bloomsburg Band
having been engaged to furnish
the music. The B. & S. Railroad
will run a special train, leaving D.
L. & W. Station at 7:30, and re
turning from Orangeville at 11:15
p. in. Fare, from Bloomsburg and
return, 30c., from Lightstreet, 15c.
In case of rain the festival will be
held the following Saturday eveu
ing, September 7th.
Edward B. Tustin Jr. celebrated
his seventh birthday yesterday by
giving a party to a number of his
little friends.
Mrs. Catharine Rhawn died at
her home in Catawissa Saturday
morning aged nearly eighty-two
years. She was the widow of the
late Casoer Rhawn.
The Welsh Bros, shows arrived
in town early this morning. The
street parade will take place at
noon. Two performances will be
given, one at two o'clock and the
other at eight.
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Victor Williams, aged ten years,
died at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Milton F. Williams
in Nescopecic on Saturday, from
blood poisoning, caused by the
sting of a bee.
While preparing to take a drive
Thursday morning last, the horse
stepped on W. C. Johnston Esq's
left foot and mashed it to such an
extent that he was unable to wear
a shoe for several days. lie could
walk only with the aid of a cane.
Six chickens were ground to
pieces beneath the wheels of a trol
ley car, above Almedia, Tuesday
afternoon. This is not an unfre
quent occurrence, but never before
have so many been killed at the
same tune.
George B. Appleman of Rohrs-
burg left on Monday for Delaware
to purchase a car load of peaches.
He expects to have them here today.
Those who want peaches had better
place their orders early as a good
percent of the car load was sold be
fore he went to purchase it.
The Columbia County W. C. T.
U. convention will meet at Berwick
September 5 and 6. An interesting
program is being prepared. Mrs.
Norine Law, the gifted Evangelist
and lecturer, of Detroit, Michigan,
will be in attendance. Lectures
both evenings.
Emma H. Ever. Co. Sec.
Parties desiring to sell stock in
the Greene Consolidated Copper
Co. may communicate with me,
stating number of shares and price
per share. Reference : First Na
tional Bank, of Bloomsburg.
L. O. Emmerick,
Att'y-At-Law,
Gorman Block, Hazleton, Pa.
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Governor Stone has appointed
John J. Ryan to fill the office of
Justice of the peace in Centralia re
cently made vacant by W. J. Gerrity
resigning. Mr. Ryan has reason to
rejoice over his success, as the ap
plicants for the place were numer
ous. He is a man of unquestioned
competency and the appointment
gives general satisfaction.
From exterior appearances there
is left little room for doubt as to the
success of William Rush's skunk
farm venture. Within an enclos
ure of two acres he has two hun
dred of the fetid animals, and fig
uring on the characteristic rapidity
by which they multiply, he ex
pects in one year to have five times
that number. Their pelts, in a
green condition, bring $2.00 apiece,
so that it can be readily seen that
the profit, with any kind of success
at all, is immense. In conjunction
his four boys are raising frogs in a
pond nearby, and have in captivity
400 of the croakers. These, in
season, find a ready sale.
Those who love peaches have a
happy time of it Ibis year. During
the early spring we were not start
led by the old-time cry of "peach
failure," and now that the fruit is
coming to the market there is not a
doleful note -from the whole peach
belt, as to the decrease of crop or
poorness of quality. All is serene
and lovely, lor that very reliable
journal, the Baltimore Herald, as
sures us that this will be the banner
year for peaches. The crop through
out the whole country is estimated
to be about 75,000,000 bushels,
and rather over than under the
amount.
The position of a newspaper pub
lisher is described in the following
excellent manner by the Pittston
Gazette : "The publisher of a news
paper has one thing to sell and oue
thing to rent. He has the news
paper to sell and the space in the
columns to rent. Can any one in
form us why he should be expected
to give away either one or the
other ? He can do it if he chooses,
and he does, as a matter of fact,
furnish a great deal f space free.
But it does not follow that he ought
to be expected to do it. It ought
to be recognized as a contribution,
exactly as would the giving away
of sugar or coffee by the grocer.
But, strange to say, it is not looked
upon In that light at all, yet every
body knows that the existence of a
newspaper depends as much upon
the rent of its space and the sale of
the paper as the merchant s success
depends on selling his goods instead
of giving them away."
PURELY PERSONAL
Lawrence Toolcy went to l!ufflo on Sat
urday night.
A. C. AchenWh, of Orangeville, is spend
ing to-day in town.
E II. Sloan, of Orangeville, was in town
Monday on business.
Miss Kditli I'hillips is the guest of friends
in Sliamok-n this week.
Gerald dross spent Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday with relatives in Danville.
F.x-Sherif! J. B. Mcllenry und Hon. Rus
set Karns; or Denton, lie n town to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Clark, of Harris
burg, aie visiting their relatives in town.
Mr. and Mis. Paul E, Wirt returned home
on Tuesday after an absence of several
weeks.
Charles Skcer, Frank P. Kyer and S. K
Didlcman have returned from the Jluffalo
Exposition.
C C. Trench is attending the Farmers'
Annual Picnic at Williams' Grove, below
Harr.sburg, this week.
Charles E. Geyer arrived in town from
Philadelphia Monday evening. He holds a
good position in that city.
Mrs. Halph G. Phillips left on Tuesday
for Eaglesmere to join her husband, She
will remain during September.
Miss Grate Chromis has returned home
from her vacation. She visited friends in
Wilkes-Barre and other cities.
Mr C. B. Kobbins and sister, Miss Liz
lie, and Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Mendenhall
w-nf to Buffalo on Tuesday to visit the Ex
position. Harvey Dietlerich was noticed shaking
hands in town Tuesday. Harvey reports
business good at the Susquehanna Hotel,
Riverside, of which he is proprietor.
Freas Hicks, of Catawissa, was in town
Friday evening, rehearsing his part of in
terlocutor for the Winona Minstrels, which
hold the local boards September t6th.
William Rcice is home from Philadelphia
spending his vacation. He will leave here
Saturday for Mahanoy City where he will
iprnd a day or two and will then go back to
the city.
Fred Woods, of Pittsburg, spent Sundiy
with his sisters, the Misses Ida and Marga
ret Woods. He is nt present visiting his
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. F, JJerr, in
Jackson township.
. Arthur Roan, who went with the Normal
School Excursion to the Pan-American Ex
position, diil not return with the excursion
ists. He stopped off in Williamsport, vis
ited his friend Percy Currin, and from there
went to Tyrone, where he spent two days
with Boyd Evans. He arrived home last
evening.
J M, Devine, of Kingston, representing
J. VV. Guernsey, the leading piano and or
gan house, of Scranton, was in town on
Tuesday, looking after the trade in this ter
ritory. Mr. Devine is a native of Danville,
but for the past several years has been re
siding in Scranton, and later in Kingston.
During his stay in town he was the guest of
his sister, Mrs. R. VV. Jacobs, on Market
street.
The Clerk's Association moon
light picnic at Shawnee Park Tues
day evening was a very enjoyable
affair. Schwarz's orchestra accom
panied the party and furnished good
music.
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"I like to see the hose lying in
the garden in the morning," said
the suburbanite. "Well," replied
Cittiman, "I get a good deal of fun
out of watching the hose on roof
gardens at night."
John C. Lemons, one of the old
residents of Greenwood township,
died Friday evening, at the age of
about 70 years. Funeral services
were held Monday forenoon and
interment made at the Lemons
cemetery.
A western physician is advertis
ing for 400 dead bodies and prom
ises to give $50 to each person
signing a contract bequeathing his
or her body to him. Here is a
grand opportunity for the legion of
loafers in town and vicinity, who
spend their time in idleness, to earn
an honest. dollar.
It has been said that the straw
berry, the oyster and ice cream, are
the greatest evangelists. They
serve to sustain many Sunday
schools and have built and furnished
more churches, paid the salaries of
more preachers, and helped more
heathen than any other natural
agencies in the world.
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Do you want a good second
hand bicycle? If so, go to.Mercer's
Drug & Book 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 $9-5 i one Reading Special,
with coaster brake, for $16.50.
New last year ; one Crescent tan
dem for $25.00.
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Latest fad.
An intelligent young lady in a
nearby town after entertaining a
gentleman friend last Wednesday
until the chickens were crowing
their last nightly crow, handed him
a pencil and paper and asked him
to make nine ciphers in a line thus:
000000000, then to commence at
the first on the left and from the
right side of cipher draw a straight
line down; on the right side of the
fourth make a short Hue up; on the
right side of the fifth make a line
down; on the right side of the
seventh make a short line up, and
from the right side of the eighth
one mark down, and when he had
read what he had written it didn't
take him more than a jiffy to wake
his departure.
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Household Linens.
We place on sale, this week, complete lines of
bleached and half bleached Table Linens, in all grades,
and the patterns are the choicest we have ever shown.
Also Pattern Cloths, Towels, Napkins, Towclings by the
yard. You will find these Linens reliable in every way.
No matter what price they maybe, they will be the best
for the money.
Bleached Damask.
62 in. Bleached Linen,
all linen, at 50c a yard.
68 in. all linen Bleached
Damask, at 65c a yard.
72 in. all linen Damask
at 85c.
70 in. all linen Damask
at $t 00.
72 in. all linen Damask
at $1 15.
72 in. all linen Damask
at $1.46.
72 in. all linen Damask
at $i.S6.
Towelings.
Cotton Towelings, 5c Yd.
All linen Toweling,8c "
Heavy all linen Towel
ing, 8c a yard.
Heavy all linen Toweling
IOC.
Bleached all linen Towel
ings, IOC.
Washed Crash, all linen,
. I2jc.
Fine Crash, all linen, 15c
a yard.
Counterpanes.
We offer, some extra
good values at $1 00, 1 31,
1 58, 2 00, 2 25.
16I H. J. Clark & Son.
The only make of Rubber Shoes
and Boots in the world thnt -.il
stand this test
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F. . DEMTIEIEI.
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REDUCTION SALE !
, Noy going on in
Rogers'
ALL BRANDS.
If you are interested, come early, as they
will not last long at this low price.
J. LEE MARTIN.
The Selinsgrove Times enters
complaint against the grown up
condition of the streets in that
town. Vegetation, it seems, is
thrifty on the thoroughfares, and
the Times thinks that the authori
ties should mow it down and cart
it away. We, like one of our Sun-
bury exchanges, would respectfully
suggest that the slumbering village
down the river get some points
from Bloomsburg's energetic munic
ipal dads. In this town they don't
allow grass to get enough headway
to make a streak on a pair of white
duck pantaloons.
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Shoots and Pillow Cases.
All hand torn and hem 'd
ready for use, at about
what the muslins cost you.
It don't pay to make sheets
these days.
Half Bleached Linen.
60 in. all linen Damask.soc
66 "
62 "
68
72 "
72 "
Union
54 in.
50c
54C
60c
75C
U 00
Damask Part Cotton.
i
Union Linens,
25c
28c
54 " ' .
56 " " "
Towels.
By the piece, pair
37C
50c
or
dozen, at lowest prices.
Pattern Cloths.
In all linen goods, finest
make, in z, 3, 3J and 4
yards long, in choice pat
terns, with open and closed
boarders, at about the
same price as linens of
equal grades by the yard.
10 Yds good Unbleached
Muslin, 1 Yd wide, for 50c,
ONE PRICE.
CASH.
GOLD SEAL
Rubbers,
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Perfect fit,
Unrivaled
In Style,
Unequaled
For Durability.
of elasticity and
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Jewelry Wisdom.
It certainly is far from wise to buy Jewelry
wherever you see Jewelry for sale.
The imitation looks like the genuine at firs.
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 (JUARANTEE
EVERYTHING to be as represented.
GEO. wThESS,
THE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Store open Thursday and Saturday eve'gs.
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Tea Spoons,
Table Spoons,
J KJIlveS HorkS.
BLOOMSBURG
PLATING WORKS
ARE NOW READY TO
GOLD PLATE your watches, riugs, chains,
or valued souvenirs.
SILVER PLATE your worn table service or
household ware,
NICKLE PLATE your Moves and heater.,
bicycles, skates, lamps, buggy and harne
trimmings, or any rusty or shabby metal ar
ticles, making them look like new good.
Send postal or goods to works, on West
street, south of D. L. & V. K. K., Bloom.
l' rn. 8 15 3n