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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
QUICK ASSETS.
In addition to our legal cash re
serve, we always carry a large in
vestment of choice bonds. By so do
ing we are enabled, at all times, to
command abundant funds for every
possible emergency.
Farmers Nat'l Bank,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Ent Building, Next to Court House.
WM. S. MOYEJt, Prksidkxt. A. H. BLOOM, Cashier.
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
BI.OOMSBURC. PA
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
Fifteen yenrs experience. HatlafHctlon
ITiarantwcl. Hesl returns of any SHle erlers In
midsection of the statu. Vrlto for terms and
dates. We never disappoint our patrons.
tor sale and for rent-
For Sals: A brick store build
ing and dwelling, together with
stock and fixtures One of the best
locations in Bloomsburg. Apply to
J. C. Rutter Jr. 8-1 tf.
For Sale. A steam boiler for
house heating purposes. Good as
new. Satisfactory reasons for sell
ing. Inquire of Dr. J. C. Rutter,
Bloomsburg, Ta. 8 I tf
For Sale: A good fixed focus
camera, taking pictures by 4)4
inches, good as new. Fitted with
time and instantaneous shutter, two
diaphragm stops, two tripod sock
ets two view finders, ground glass
and door, and two double plate hold
ers. A good all around camera for
amateurs. Call and examine it at
The Columbian office, or .address.
X Y Z
267 Market Street,
tf Bloomsburg, Pa.
Sale of Securities. There
will be offered for sale, on Monday,
Sept. 2d, 1901, at the Court House,
in Bloomsburg, a lot of securities,
consisting of a Carpet Mill bond,
Bloomsburg Silk Mill stock, Steam
and Electric Light Co. mortgage
bond, Penn Elevator Engineering
Co. bond, six shares Ice Co. stock,
&c. J. S. Williams, Auc.
Public Sale. W. B. Allen,
executor of the estate of Joshua
Fettermau, late of Bloomsburg,
Pa., deceased, will expose to public
sale, at the Court House, on Satur
day, Sept. 7, 1901, valuable real
estate, situate on the north side of
the Lightstrett road. This property
is a very valuable one and a num
ber of first-class building lots could
be carved out ot it. Sale to com
mence at two o'clock p. m.
Public Sale. Owen W. Cher
ington, administrator .of the estate
ot Lawson Hughes, late of Mill
Grove, Columbia County, Pa., de
ceased, will expose to public sale,
on the premises, in Mill Grove, on
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1901, at oue
o'clock p. in., two tracts of land,
one containing 15,826 square feet,
and the other 70 square perches
of land, the former being known
as the Terrace House property.
The improvements thereon are a
3-story frame building and a large
frame stable.
For a good bicycle, either ladies'
or gent's, go to Mercer's Drug
& Book Store.
President McKinley will visit the
Buffalo Exposition on September
5th. He will go over the Pennsyl
Tania Railroad, by way of Sunbury.
The stockholders of the Pennsyl
vania Telephone Company will
meet in Ilarrisburg today when
there will be submitted for approval
or disapproval an agreement in
writing for the sale of the Central
Pennsylvania Telephone and Sup
ply Company to the Pennsylvania
Telephone Company. Little op
position to the purchase is antici
pated, a majority of the stockholders
having already consented.
LATE STATE NEW3,
Jr. O. U. A. M.The State
Council of the Jr. O. U. M. will be
held this year in Pittsburg, begin
ning September 17. There will be
plenty ot entertainment.
Governor Stone has appointed
'W. R. Stroh, of Mauch Chunk,
and Dr. L. II. Williard, ot Alle
gheny, members of the commission
to select a site for a homeopathic
insane hospital.
The P. & R. Railroad Com
pany . is having a great deal of
trouble in supplying the collieries
with enough cars to keep them
working. The heavy traffic on all
braiichps is the cause.
It is etimated that the Penn
sylvania railroad company pays
over a million dollars each year in
wages to its employees in Sunbury.
The monthly payments amount to
nearly eighty thousand dollars.
The assessors, of Luzerne
county, have found that there are
in that county 74,256 children be
tween the ages of 6 and 21, who
arc eligible for school, and of this
number less than 3000 do not go to
school.
Rudolph Chock, of Shenan
doah, aged 25 3-ears, committed
suicide by drowning in a mine
breech filled with water Friday.
The victim was a cigarette fiend,
and incessant smoking is supposed
to have affected his mind.
The Rettig Brewing Company,
of Ashland, has been chartered with
a capital ot $200,000. John M.
Green, of Danville, is the presi
dent of the new company, which
has secured all the property of the
Rettig estate, in Pottsville.
Elijah Barnhart, of York, 45
years old, claims that he is the
champion com busker of Eastern
Pennsylvania. He has put out a
standing challenge of $50 to meet
any corn husker in the United
States. Barnhart husks eight and
a half bushels an hour without
hurrying.
The small pox patients at Ash
land have been removed to the
Butler township hospital, and that
town is now free from the disease.
The six cases, when all bills are
paid, will cost the boiough between
$1200 and $1500. A movement is
now afoot to completely quarantine
the town of Schuylkill Haven, over
a dozen cases existing there.
The flag of the Watsontown
Boot and Shoe company was thrown
to the breeze Saturday afternoon
upon the receipt of a thirty thous
and pairs of shoes contract from the
Quartermaster General of the
United States Army. Work on
the contract will be commenced as
soon as the stock can be' bought,
and there will be work for all of the
shoemakers thereabouts until the
end of the year.
David Tate, of Lemont, while
feeding a steam thresher at the
barn of Philip Wortz, near Houser
ville, Centre county, fell into the
cylinder, and before the thresher
could be stopped one leg was
ground to shreds. It took an hour
to remove him, as the machine had
to be taken apart. Tate never lost
consciousness. Though the acci
dent occurred at 8 o'clock' Tuesday
morning he lived until noon.
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House Plants For The Winter.
Some of the Varieties Which are Easiost to
Grow Insoors.
The best time to get decorative
plants to be grown indoors during the
winter is early in September. At that
season artificial heat and high, moist
temperature have been dispensed with
and plants are growing more naturally
than at any other time in the year.
There are but few which one can ex
pect to giow well in the house in
winter. The aspidistra is a plant
which cannot be killed by ordinary
neglect. Give it all the water it needs,
an occasional application of fertilizer,
and a reasonable amount of light.
The agave is a stately riant, and a
well grown specimen always attracts
attention. For the hall it will be
found quite as ornamental as a p3lm
Because of the semi-succulent nature
of the foliage it will not require much
water except when it is growing. As
paragus Sprengeeri is another plant
which grows as well for the veriest
amateur as it does for the owner of a
greenhouse. Plant it in a soil of rich
loam, and give it a liberal allowance
of water when it needs it, a 6hady
place to grow in, and a frequent
shower-bath. Begonias are not often
classed among the very robust plants,
but iheie is one variety which I have
found sure to grow well under diffi
culties. This variety is B. argentca
guttata. Give it a soil of sandy loam,
well drained. Be careful not to over
water, but shower it frequently. Eben
E. Rexford, in the Ladies' Home
Journal for September.
Sale of Bonds
Sealed proposals will be received
by the Finance Committee of the
Bloomsburg Literary Institute and
State Normal School of the Sixth
District of Pennsylvania, at Blooms
burg, Pa., until September 20th, 1901,
at twelve o'clock, noon, for the pur
chase of forty eight thousand dollars
($48,000) of first mortgage bonds,
bearing interest from the first day of
July, 1901, at four per centum per
annum, payable semi-annually, on
January and July of each year, free
from all taxes, interest and principal
payable at the office of the Wyoming
Valley Trust Company, of Wilkes
Barre, Pa., trustees. Sixteen bonds,
of the denomination of $500 each,
forty bonds of the denomination of
$1,000 each, payable July 1, 1931,
and redeemable on and after July 1,
191 1. Said bonds are issued by ap
proval of the Auditor General of the
State of Penn'a, by virtue of an Act
of Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, approved May 2 2d,
1901.
Bidders will be required to state,
in writing and in figures, the gross
amount they will pay for the bonds,
in addition to the accrued interest at
the date of delivery, and no bids will
be accepted for less than par and ac
crued interest at the date of delivery.
Each proposal must be accompa
nied by a certified check in the sum
of five hundred ($500) dollars, paya
ble to the order of the treasurer of
said Bloomsburg Literary Institute and
State Normal School, as a guarantee
that if the bid is accepted, the bonds
will be promptly paid for when de
livered. The said committee reserve the
right to reject any or all bids.
Proposals should be addressed to
the undersigned, and marked "Bond
Proposal."
C. V. Miller, Chairman,
2t Bloomsburg, Pa.
The Millers to Meet at Williamsport
Local millers are preparing for their
annual convention at the Park Hotel,
Williamsport, Fa., on September 10
and 11. Matters of interest to the
trade are to be discussed, and a meet
ing ot unusual moment is anticipated
on account of the conditions which
confront the eastern flour makers.
An attractive program has been ar
ranged. Among the speakers are
Hon. Emerson Collins, one of the
most notable platform orators in the
last presidential campaign, who will
give the millers an address on "Reci.
procity" ; then there are a number of
addresses arranged for on the sub
jects of "Milling Consolidations,"
"Local Organizations of Millers,"
"Comparative Flour Values," "Cuba
and Export Opportunities," etc., by
other speakers.
At Williamspoit the delegates will
be the recipients of several compli
mentary entertainments, arranged in
their honor, and at the close of the
convention they will take a special
train for Buffalo, visiting the Pan
American Exposition, Niagara' Falls
and other points in that vicinity.
Special railroad rates have been
granted by the various railroads. The
convention arrangements are under
the auspices of the Pennsylvania
Millers' State Association, whose
headquarters are at 424 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Eeduoed Rates to Danville, Labor Bay.
Account Knights of the Golden
Eagle reunion, at Danville, Monday,
September 2d, the Philadelphia &
Reading Railway will sell excursion
tickets at rate of single fare for the
round trip, with a minimum of 25
cents, to Danville and return, from
Newberry, Lewisburg, Catawissa,
Bloomsbuig and intermediate ticket
stations. Tickets will be good on all
regular trains that date. Excursion
rate from Bloomsburg, 29 cents.
A special train will leave the P. &
R Depot at 12:40 p. m.
Poor Oats Crops-
Trie ways af nature are past finding
out. Last summer was an unusually
dry one, and the oats made but a
poor crop. This summer has been
an unusually wet one and luxuriantly
growing, dui tne oats crop is not a
good yield.
say "Consumption can ba cured."
Nature alone won't clo it. It needs
help. Doctors say
"Scott's Emulsion
Is the best help." But you must
continue Its ugo even in hot
weather.
If you have not tried It, end for free sample.
SCOTT & UOWNIi, Chemists,
409-415 tearl Street, tfcw yor!;
50c ana ji.oo; all druggist. ,
J4HES BEiLLY & SON, '
mmi m mm.
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS.-
EXCHANGE BLOCK, SECOND FLOOR
CIDER YINKHR13 SCARCE.
The lover of cider vinegar will have
to depend largely on the product of
other states for his supply of that ar-
. tide this year. The apple crop in
this state is going to be a total failure
; in many districts and only half of the
l
average in many omers.
The manufacture of vinegar in
Pennsylvania has become such an
important industry that a corps of
state agents is kept constantly in the
1 field trying to keep all but pure brands
I off the market. An official of the
, food department states that few adul
( terated samples have been collected
this year, l.efernng to a report that
has been going the rounds of the state
press he said:
"A report has been in circulation
in the public press that the law has
been and is preventing the farmers'
from manufacturing vinegar. That
the farmers may fully understand the
workings and objects of the vinegar
law, it becomes necessary for the de
partment to make a brief statement
in regard to the manner by which the
standard was obtained. In the first
place, cider was obtained from apples
from different sections of the state and
j of different varieties, also in different
stages of ripeness; from these apples,
cider was made and the vinegar from
this cider was submitted to the chem
ists of the department for analysis,
and by that means the vinegar stand
ard was estab'ished. You can very
plainly see by this method, a fair
standard was reached. The law re
quires that the barrel in which the
vinegar is contained, shall be stamped
with the date of making, that it is
pure cider vinegar made from apples
and the name and address of the
manufacturer.
"In the case of farmers who do a
small business in vinegar, it does not
pay them to go to the expense of hav
ing this stamp made, therefore, by at
taching a suitable sized card on the
head of the barrel, upon which the
requirements of the law are written,
they will meet with the requirements
of the law. Any honest farmer who
makes vinegar from cider obtained
from apples, unwatered or unadulter
ated, that has had sufficient ace to
make the required acidity, need have
no fear of prosecution. This law
was established for the Durnose of
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protecting the farmer and consumer
and to prevent fraud from manufac
tured vinegar, and since this law has
been established it has proven a great
benefit to the honest farmers and has
had the effect of checking, to a great
extent, the sale of artificial vmecar
throughout the State of Pennsylvania.'
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THE F. M. LEADER
Bargain Store,
Lockard Building, Main and Centre Sts.;
BLOOMSBURG,
Best Bargain and Novelty Store
IN COLUHBIA COUNTY.
Make your headquarters here when in town,
inp-s for hot weather pleasure and eoinforf :
Croquet Seta, "The Best," at 90c. and $1.10.
Hammocks, all styles, from 75c. up.
The Children's Delight Juvenile Garden Sets, 10c. and 2oc.
Our line of Summer Stationery cannot be matched for style, quality and
The "Halm" Hammocks and Marguerite Chair. New and pleasin"
Sterling Wickless Oil Stoves, for summer cooking. '
Extra Fine Fibre Water Coolers. Once tried always used.
The "Hess" Perfumes, unexcelled. All scents.
The E. & 13. Non-Corrosive Ink. The best in the world.
The Famous U-No O Shoe Dressings and Polishes.
.Floral and Plain Crene Pappr. All colors and designs.
A full line of Fine China and Crystal Glassware.
Pest assortment of High Grade Low Priced Jewelry in town. '
Our line of Tin, Granite and Agate Ware, cannot be excelled,
lieed Anti Kusting Tinware. AVe guarantee it.
Celebrated Wade & Butcher Cutlery. You know its quality.
Baskets, all kinds and sizes, at prices that will astonish vou.
made!W 18 Celebrated SuaP aud Wo1 SoaPs- Best toilet and laundry soaps
Hundreds of other articles too numerous to mention.
Our roott "Quick Sales and Small Profits, and Fair Dealing to All " We shall
mahpdVt atany SPEC,IAL ATENTION GIVEN TO
iUail. UUDlvLb. Pry us and be convinced.
P. O. Box 558.
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copyrighted
CEMT
ONE
Monday, Sept. 2,
Store open every evening
It's costing; some people dimes
Doinjrs" better.
13ic;,
Table Oil Cloth, Vj Yds. wide,
very best grade, neat and fancy
patterns. "Store Doings" sale
13JC per yard.
13ic.
Oak Curtain Poles, 4 feet
long, with ends and brackets of
wood to match. "Store Doings"
sale I3$c.
13ic.
Lancaster Gingham, in best
colors and style, for aprons, 2j
yards. Will be sold during
"Store Doings" sale for 13JC.
13ic.
Kleinert's Dress Shields,
feather weight, perspiration
proof, and will outlast the gar
ment with which worn. "Store
Doings" sale 130.
I. W. HARTHAN & SON,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
To Make Furs Look Like New-
When furs become worn or soiled
at the neck they may be renovated
by gently rubbing with cotton batting
saturated with gasoline, which should
not be used in a room that has artific
ial heat or light. Axle grease, tar,
paint and pitch, may be removed by
rubbing first with oil of turpentine
and then with ether. Dark furs may
be cleaned with fine cedar or mahog
any sawdust which has been heated in
an oven. Alaska sable, seal, electric
seal, fox, etc., should be beaten with
a switch until free from dust, then laid
with the fur side up, and hot saw dust
rubbed in. Be lavish with the saw
dust and vigorous with the rubbing.
THE LARGEST AND
The
F. M. LEADER,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
Doings,"
All Kights Kcservcd.
WEEK,
to Saturday, Sept. 7,
until 8 o'clock. Saturday, until 9,
to dollars for not knowing "Store
I3c.
Jror 3 J yards of Lace. If you
don't like it, or can buy as good
elsewhere for the same money
as'at "Store Doings" sale, bring
it back and take your money
back.. 3J yards of lace for 1 3 Jc.
I3ic.
Note the saving between iSc.
a yard for Dress Goods. That's
the come-down in price at our
"Store Doings" sale. Were 180,
now 1 3jc a yard.
I3c.
Children's Knitted Undcr
waists, well made and finished.
"Store Doings" sale, each 13.JC.
Children's Parasols, m several
sizes and many colors, reduced
from 19c and 25c for "Store Do
ings" sale, to 13JC.
After this place the garment upon
feather pillows with the furry side
down, and beat well until all traces
of the sawdust have disappeared.
Then hang out in a shady place.
White furs may be cleaned in the
same way, using white cornmeal in
stead of the sawdust, or if only slight
ly soiled, by rubbing well with magne
sia in cakes. Wet furs should never
be dried near the fire, but shaken and
hung away in a cold room, then
brushed. September Ladies' Jlomi
Journal.
Town lots for sale, on easy terms,'
Bloomsburg Land Improvement
Co. Iuquire of Sanderson Woods,
sales agent. N. U. Funk, Sec'y.
Office, Ent Building. . (4 25
PENN'A.
following are our offer-