THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
F.STAHUSHFP iSofr.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
EsTA!L!!!iI) CoNSOI.IOAl F.l 1S69
I'i'ium:ei F.ykk'y TiimsnAY Morning,
A: l'-'Xims ur. the County Seal uf
CiKiMiliii County, )'ennylvania.
C.KO. V.. I'.I.WKi.U, ti'iTOR
1. I. TA?KKK, Local Editor.
C.i:o. C. KO AN, For'-mas.
Tkm j :--Itnide the county fl.oo a year
in a ivance ; 1.50 if not paiil in advance.
Ou::i!e the cjtintv, $1.25 a jear, strictly in
vivance.
com tiunication shonl.l be nrlJrefscJ
THE COLUMBIAN.
Bloomstmrg, t'a.
THURSDAY, NOYF.Ml.FR 7, 1901.
The estimated plurality for the
Republican State ticket is 54,000.
Y. V. Hart, Democrat, was
elected Judge of Lycoming county
oYer Max Mitchell, Republican.
Judge Savidge is re-elected in
Northumberland county, and Yoris
Auteu is elected Assistant Law
Judge. Both are Democrats.
.
Weaver's vote for District At
torney in Philadelphia is 43.667
over Rothermel. TheAVrM Anur
ican charges that 50,000 fraudulent
votes were cast by the machine
repeaters.
On Saturday evening last Hon.
Fred Ikelcr was among the speak
ers at the Academy of Music in
Philadelphia. His speech was
highly complimented by several of
the leading city papers. The rress
says:
"Hon. Fred Ikeler is a Columbia
county wonder from au ora:orical
standpoint. Thoe who heard him
at Harrisburg when he made the
Philadelphia Fifth Court bill look
like a plugged quarter and a count
erfeit nickel, knew what was com
ing when the eloquent young man
from the far banks of Fishingcreek
come to the footlights. He made
a speech that caught the audience
time after time as its applause
testified."
The result of the election shows
that Mr. Ikeler's efforts, as well
as those of all others who were in
terested in the reform movement,
were of no avail. They have the
satisfaction of knowing however,
that tbev did their duty.
TEE HALLOWEEN NUISANCE.
Thursday evening and night
Philadelphia was treated to its an
nual dose of the Halloween nuis
ance. Gangs of boys and girls
paraded the streets in many of the
residential neighborhoods making
the night hideous with their shouts
and screams. Front gates were
Carried off, bell knobs injured and
houses invaded with demands for
contributions. Most everything
movable was carried away or dis
placed and the slumbers of people
were disturbed by untimely noises.
This practice of celebrating Hal
loween has become a nuisance
which demands abatement. If
there was ever any authorization
for such acts that time has gone by.
It is a relic of Pagan days aud its
celebration would have been dis
carded long ago had it not afforded
au opportunity for pranks and
practices that are allowed on no
other day or night of the year.
The pranks when performed under
proper conditions are harmless pro
moters of mirth. No one but a
cynic could object to the "ducking"
ana ooDuing tor uoating app.es
and the cracking and eating of nuts
and the efforts to make them fore
shadow the result of love affairs
These methods of celebrating Hal
loween when prppetly conducted
are above criticism.
Much different, however, are the
out-of-door practices when crowds
of unruly boys aud girls take ad
vantage of the old superstition that
spirits walk abroad on Halloween
to commit lawless acts and make
of themselves an intolerable nuis
ance. More harm is done, too,
than the temporary inconvenieuce
given to householders. Many a
Bank
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Louis Gross,
and individuals, solic
boy and girl can date from the
liberty given them on Halloween
the adoption of habits which have
proved their ruin. Parents, usually
careful of the company and lilerty
allowed their children, are persuad
ed to relax strict rules 0:1 this oc
casion thinking that any harm done
will be only temporary. This is a
specious argument the fallacy of
which appears when results become
evident later in "life.
Philadelphia is not the only city
trouble ! with this Halloween nuis
ance. Elsewhere the "fun" has
been even of a more boisterous
character than here, and two deaths
and a number of casualties have
oeen reported so far this year.. In
Brooklyn a young lad engaged
with others in Halloween sport was
thrown under a trolley car and
killed, and in New York city a
girl was so badly injured by the
boisterous conduct of some boys
that she died a lew hours later in a
hospital. And a Commissioner of
Jurors in Peekskill was tripped by
a rone and his skull fractured and
his shoulder dislocated. In Chicago
Halloween celebration almost reach
ed the dimensions of a riot. Pcd
estrains were insulted and cruised
ou the streets and houses and barns
set on fire.
In Minneapolis roaming bands
ot boys have committed so many
depredations on private property
on Halloween that the authorities
have adopted the policy of warning
parents that their children will be
arrested on that night if they are
not kept at home. The Mayor of
St. Paul also issued a proclamation
on the subject. This method of
dealing with the trouble is being
adopted in other cities. No one is
adverse to seusible celebrations of
Halloween. They are among the
harmless frolics which help to maice
life bearable. But they are vastly
different from the intolerable nuis
ances which have been grafted on
to the occasion. Piia. JVess,
Notei From the Pennsylvania Experiment
Station-
The Periodical Cicada
Locust in
or Seventeen
1902.
Year
In the Report of the Pennsyl
vania State College, 1SS9, p. 187,
au account was given of the nature
and distribution of this common
and interesting insect. It will be
seen by reference to it that the
brood of 1SS5 will be due next year
(iqo-5) in the counties ot Bedford,
Fulton, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Jun
iata, Perry, Franklin, Cumber
land, Adams, York, Dauphin,
Lebanon, Lancaster, Berks, Ches
ter, Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks.
Lehigh and Northampton.
It is not meant that the Cicadas
will appear over the whole of this
large area, but that they may be
expected wherever the conditions
herctDfore have been favorable for
their breeding and development.
Brush covered and woody pasture
lands are particularly good breed
ing places. Inasmuch as seven
teen years is liable to make a good
deal of difference in the utilization
of laud, it is quite probable that in
some places lands which seventeen
years ago were not m cultivation.
and were good breeding grounds of
Cicadas, are now cultivated. Upou
diem, and in their neighborhood,
the insects, true to their nature,
may be expected to appear, perhaps
in dangerously large numbers. In
many places the older residents are
able to locate these grounds. If,
now, there should be young fruit
trees or shrubs at hand they run
great sisk of serious injury and
multilation by the egg-laying pro
cess, since the habit ot the Cicada
is to select small twigs into which
it proceeds to cut in order to make
a suitable place for its eggs:
Hence it would be wise for those
in the counties named, who con
template setting out trees this Fall
or next Spring, to find out whether
they are on or near "locust ground"
of seventeen years ago, and if they
are, to defer planting a yeari or
take this risk into consideration.
I If it seems best to take the lisk
it would be well not to prune the
( trees closely on sitting, but to post
t pone it until after the egg-laying of
the Cicadas, which takes place dur-.
'ingjune. By July 1st at latest.
; probably two weeks earlier in the
soutliern tier ot counties, t lie egg-
laving will have been complet.-d
and all its injury accomplished
The pruning may then Ik done and
the cut-off twigs burned, thus de
stroying the eggs of this insect, as
well as giving the form and char
acter desired in the young tree.
Nine-tenths of all the destruction
caused by insects comes from not
"taking time by the forelocks."
People wait until a horde of des
tructive insects suddenly appear,
and then comes the pathetic
inquiry, "What are they, and how
can I destroy thetn or prevent their
attacks?"
Here is a case which is of as
regular recurrence ns the seasons,
and preparation can be jnade to
meet it as one would prepare for
spring plowing or for winter's snow.
It is true that the coming locust
swarm may be reduced in size or
numbers, and may even have been
exterminated in some particular
fields, but should it completely fail
it will be for the first time in 1S7
years, and that is improbable
in audition to the publication re
ferred to excellent accounts of the
Periodical Cicada are given in Bul
letin 95, and the Annual Report for
1894, of the New Jersey Experi
ment Station, and also, iii Bulletin
87 of the Ohio Experiment Station.
The annual reports and quarterly
bulletins of this station will be
sent, free of charge, on application,
and inquiries on agricultural sub
jects answered so far as possible.
Address,
II. P. Amsby, Director,
State College.
November, 1931. (Vntre Co., IV.
Mail Oar nt-r8 Urn tied.
ThJy Vow That Martzv Ce Cemetery it
Haun'ed.
The strange liaiipeninjs on the Ber
wick free delivery route still co'ntinu?,
and the carriers are bee xning much
wome says a dispatch to the Phila
delphia Xsrth American Monday.
Three of them ho drive the wagon ,
from Berwick to various points in the
country round have had thriiluij ex
periences, and the last is the worst of
the lot. A couple of weeks ago a
large catamount sprang from a tree at
Carrier John Jacobys horse and seiz
ed its head. 1 he horse shook the
animal i:f and dashed down . the
mountai 1 to Berwick, Jacoby having
all he co lid do to cling to the wacon
and trust to luck.
A sho t time later carrier Henry
Tresslei's horse stopped short and
shied into tie bush. Tressler saw an
enormous siake in the road, which he
described as being as thick as a man's
leg. It disappeared in the brush and
is suppose 1 to be a python which es
caped from a circus at Berwick a year
ago.
Carrier O. E. Evans noticed that
while pass ng Martzville Cemetery, in
Briar Creek township, his horse acted
in a peculiar manner and bolted.
This occurred twice before Evans, saw
the cause of u, and then the other
night he beheld a terrifying white ob
ject rise at the cemetery fence and
wave its arms. He let the horse bolt,
and now takes a circuitous route. He
says he does not believe in ghosts,
and thinks the apparition is some
joker with a sheet, but he is not going
10 take any chances.
The carriers are demoralized by
these occurrences, and each is now
armed with a double-barreied gun.
After January 1st the railroads
will notaccept as baggage anything
but luggage containing persoual
effects which accompany the owner.
The express companies have been
making a kick over the indiscrimi
nate checking of articles as baggage
which under no stretch of the imagi
nation could be considered as such
Dark Hair
" I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor
for great many' years, and al
though 1 am pas t eighty years of
age, yet I have net a gray hair in
my head."
Geo. Ye'.lctt, Towson, Md.
('e mean all that rich,
dark, color your hair used
to have. If it's gray now,
no matter; for Ayer's
Hair Vigor always re
stores color to gray hair.
Sometimes it makes the
hair grow very heavy and
long; and it stops falling
of the hair, too.
tl.M a ktftlc All rnt.
11 your drniit cannot mrply yoa,
end u on ilW ami will cipreM
you a botcl. lie ur and piv the nam
Ol your ueamt eiireM oilu-e. Addreu,
J. t. A V tilt CO., Lowell, Uaaa.
Lii & ,
To ho i'th prd I rr;-'iv? is r-rofula
ili iv'y ovrr g:iic! ;'::ir ii.'t.ivnu.r'.al. ,
Jt .st'Ai ! nrhtM il tin mck, di- i
f.jr.r. 3 the ft; in, : lai.v.-s tl.. mrecui I
t.ie .i,r;'.r.',) w.wfj i'" :nurc!r, weak- I
n r. t'-.c bi,t!!!, :o. ':..-. ;!'..! wer of
iv -.- .-,:; to w v.is- a;;d tite capacity
for r.row.y, a::.l di-vdr:9 ir.t- con
f n"-.':r:).
::.! rpfO-.T.-'l ci t:n 'of, liitc of
r.r- nr. fc. 1'. :';: 1 strut KiL wo lninpil,
t.tnl If -ti im' a ri'.i.i.i:i' ri-ri'. I v.-otit Itito n
c. !" ml lin linr. I wi.h rtu: k'l to try
11 ,i SarMii arn-i. nr .1 wh'-ri I hl tn'.wi
fix totM-.'S my r.f'k v as h?nlrd. mi l I have
nover ho't nny trouble of the kind since."
Mm. K. T. Snvdi-.k, Troy, Ohio.
Hocd'a Scrsoparilla
and Pills
will rid you of it, radically and per
manently, as they have rid thousands.
THANKSGIVING.
The President's Proclamation-
President Roosevelt issued the fol
lowing proclamation on November 2.
A PROCLAMATION.
The season is mgh when, according
to the time-hallowed custom of our
people, the President appoints a day
as the especial occasion for praise and
thanksgiving to God.
This Thanksgiving finds the people
still bowed with sorrow for tne death
of a great and good President. We
mourn President McKinley because
we so loved and honored him; and
the manner of hisdeath should awaken
in the breasts ol our people a kten
anxiety for the country, and at tiie
same time a resolute purpose not to
be driven by any calamity from the
path of strong, ordeily, popular liberty
which as a Nation we have thus far
safely trod.
Yet in spite of this great disaster, it
is nevertheless true that no people on
earth have such abundant cauie for
thanksgiving as we have. The past
year in particular has been one ol
peace and p!en'y. We have prosper
ed in things material and nave been
able to work fur our own uplifting in
things intellectual and spiritual. Let
us remember tha, as much has been
given us, much wi.l be expected from
um and that true homage comes from
the heatt as well as from the lips and
shows itself in deeds. We can best
prove our thankfulness to the Almighty
by the way in which on this earth and
at this time each of us does his duty
to his lellowmen.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose
velt, President of the United States,
do hereby designate as a day of gen
eral tffanksgiving, Thursday, the 28th
of this present November, and do
recommend that throughout the land
the people cease from their wonted
occupations, and at their several homes
and places of worship reverently thank
the Giver of all good for the count
less blessings of our national life.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done '.t the city of Washington,
this second day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and one and of the independ
ence of the L'mted States the one
hundred and twenty sixth.
THEODORE ROOSEYELT.
Bv the President,
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.
A curfew law is among the proba
bilities for Plymouth, according to the
Wilkes-Baire Record. Inside of a
few weeks the people of Plymouth
will be experiencing the greatest re
formation ever in its history and one
that will be looked upon with interest
by the people of the county, if not the
State. At a meeting ot the council
held recently a resolution calling on
the borough attorney to prepare a
rigid curlew law was unanimously
passed. For a curfew law it is un
usually strong on account of the ad
vanced age which is set for children
to be off the street. The ordinance
i will also cover the dance hall nuis
ance and, :n all, the Plymouth borough
fathers expect to turn the town into
the most moral municipality in the
county. The pastors and press of
both the town and county are called
upon to indorse the first curfew law
ever "tried in Luzerne county. The
resolution that was passed is as fol
lows: " Resolved, That the borough
attorney draw up an ordinance and
submit the same at the next meeting
of council, requiring all children under
the age of 1 6 years to be off the public
streets when the fire gong blows nine
taps, which will be at nine o'clock
each evening, and that all children
under the age of iS years be off the
streets ot Plymouth borough at 10
o'clock, unless accompanied by a mem
berof his or her family over 21 years
of age. Also an ordinance prescnb
inn a minimum age of attendants at
public balls or dances. Second The
hour at which balls or dances shall
close. Third Requiring a license for
the privilege of holding the same, witn
name of hall and managers in which
same is to be held. Tourth Re
quiring the attendance of a police
officer to be detailed ty the chief of
police and such other requirements
will in the judgment of the borough
attorney be necessary to prevent the
evils now resulting from public balls
and children running the streets at a'.
I hours of night
TOWNSEND'S
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CSOVsJt a BkASBIOU.
Faskiofnable
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We have the newest shades, the newest styles in Suits,
and Overcoats, for men, boys and cbildren. Call and examine
the New Fall Stock at
TOWNSEND'S.
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Always on
There is nothing that pays better in this business S
than eternal watchfulness. It pays us, and in paying
us it is bound to pay you. Never a season known when S
the buying chances were better, caused chiefly by jC
weather conditions. Makers and makers' agents are C
most anxious to sell. We're on the lookout for the best, C
where we can buy it cheapest. Then we pass it along
to vou at a reasonable pront for the handling. jg
Special Lets cf Dress Gccis.
We put on sale, this
week, a lot of all wool
Cheviots, 50 ins. wide, all
the good selling colors, and
from one of the best mills
3g in this country. Price, 50
Z2 cents a yard, worth 85 cts.
3r A lot of odd pieces of
Dress Goods, worth 50c.
Price, this week, 29c.
i3 A lot of odd pieces of all
wool imported Dress Goods,
& worth $1 00. Price, this
week, 49c.
:3b Flannelette, far Wrappers.
Sri With the first real cold
3c snaD of winter you'll need
anew wrapper. V hy not
anticipate and buy at this
low price, 10c. Flannel
2 ette, at rjc.
Flannelette Night Kcbes.
J5r! Good, warm winter wear
this, and costing no more
2 than the ordinary cotton
3? lots.
?$i Night shirts, for men, at
5oc-
J5 Robes, for ladies, made
2fc full, at 75c.
i Robes, for ladies, nicely
trimmed, 1 00.
Night shirts, for men,
made as well as you would
make them at home, at 75c
and $1 00.
Ladies' and Hisses' C:ats.
Coat selling has been
good so far this season.
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Notice-
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Bloomsburg Land Im
provement Company will be held at
the office of the company on Monday.
November 25, 1901, at two o'clock in
the afternoon, for the purpose of the
election of a Board of Directors and
Officers. N. U. Funk,
11-7-3W. Secretary.
For books, of all kinds, go to
Mercer's Drug & Book Sttre.
Fall Clothes
You will be forced to
admit that our double breast
ed sack suits are just a little
smarter, just a little newer,
and just a little better as to
crooks and turns of good
tailoring than even before;
this is the handsomest one
you ever saw, and this label
in every one.
CROUSE ft ERANDEGEE
Mammatlmrimf Tailtrt
Utica, .Vn. Kr
1 AV
Not too long, not too
short but with that something
about them that makes our
clothing so satisfying to the
hard-to-please chap.
Same is said of our
hats, our furnishings, they
too look just like the sort
that costs more.
the Lookout.
and we ,have some odd
coats that must be closed !
out, and we think the way ;
to get them- out is to cut )
the prices. Can't tell you I
about all of them, but j
come and we will show
you.
See our three-quarter i
coat, made of all wool Kev- i
sey, at $9 50.
Infant's Wear.
We are agents for "Ar
nold" goods. You want
your infant comfortable.
If you pay our store a visit
you can" pick from orr
stock of "Arnold's" goods
just what you want for
your baby and its mother.
If you can't come, send us
your name and we'll send
you a catalogue.
Wrappers.
We don't sell the cheap
est wrappers made. Don't
try to, but we do try and
get a well made wrapper
that we know will please a
customer, and at the least
price possible.
Wrapper, made of Simp
son print, 79c.
Wrapper, made of good
Flannelette, at 9SC.
Flannelette Wrapper,
trimmed, at $1 25. ,
Wrapper, made of Simp,
son print, trimmed, at 9SC.
PURSEL.
NOTICE-
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PLOOMSBL'RG. BRASS WORK S BONDS.
Holders of the outstanding bonds
accompanying the mortgages on the
Bloomsburg Brass and Topper Com
pany's plant, at Bloomsburg, Pa., are
hereby notified to present the same at
the First National Bank, Bloomsburg.
Pa., for payment.
Bloomsburg Brass and Copper Co
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