FiKST NATIONAL BANK, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Condensed from Report to the Comptroller at clone of business December :o, 1 901. . O RESOURCES. LOANS AND INVESTMENTS $538,805.73 DUE FROM BANKS 27,812.55 CAS I ANO RESERVE 113,854.37 $677,572.65 LIABILITIES. CAPITAL STOCK $ 60,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits 139,127.62 National Bank Notes Outstanding 60,000. CO DUE BANKS $ 26.656 2 DEPOSITS 411,788.71 438.445.13 -0 X1T St7B3L&a DIRECTORS : Myron I. Low, Geo. S. Robbins, J. M. Staver. o Dr. U. W. M. Low, Dr. J. H. Vastink, EfcT Accounts of bauks, corporations, firms and individuals, solic ited upon the most liberal terms, consistent with good banking. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, EtrtBLisHKD 1837. Consolidated 1869 Puuushkm Evkkv Thursday Morning, At liloomshurg, the County Seal of Columbia County, I'ennsylvania. . GEO K. ELWELL, Editor I), f. TASKKR, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, I onr.MAN. Terms : Inside the county ft.oo a year Ih advance; 81.50 if not paid m aJvance. O.i' vie the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in Advance. Vil communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Hlooms'.mrR, Pa. V.IURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1902. fOa STATE SENATOR. For some years past Columbia county has been in a district which has been represented in the State Senate by a man who has been a credit to the district, to the state, and to the Democratic party. This man has been and is the recognized leader of his party in the Senate ; he has been urged to accept a nom ination for Congress in his own county of Lycoming, repeatedly : his name has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for Gov ernor ; he is one of the most active and prominent Democrats in the state, and his sagacity and wisdom as a lawmaker have made him a most valuable representative of the people in the halls ot legislation. We refer to Hon. J. Henry Coch ran, of Williamsport.- Last week we suggested the name of Hon. W. T. Creasy as a possible candidate for the Senate, but he informs us that he will not be a candidate for that office. This yeai is an important one, as there are so many offices to be filled. It is very necessary that good strong men shall be nominated in order that the state organization may be helped and strengthened. This is especially true of the district nomi nations for Congress and the State Senate. Strong influence has been brought to bear upon Senator Coch ran, and it is said that he has con sented to be a candidate for re-election, a fact upon which the Democ racy of the district is to be congrat ulated. We have heard of no candidate in Columbia county, and it would be a handsome thing if the Sena torial confrrrees of this county -could be tendered to Senator Coch xan without opposition. Hon. Fred Ikeler will be a candi date for the legislature for a second term. It has been the custom in thin county for many years to ac cord a second term to members of the legislature, usually without op position. Where there has been opposition, the party has rebuked it by adhering tuthe two term rule. This has been true in the cases of men who have never been heard fro!ii in HarrisLurg, mere figure heads, who made no mark How much the more should it be ob served in the cases of men of ability and prominence! Mr. Ikeler's first speech in the House attracted the attention of the whole state and fro n that time forward he was one of the few members that could get the attention of the House when ever he arose to his feet. He is known as an honest, able and fear less Democrat whom the machine could neither intimidate nor buy. Such men, men who can command the respect of their fellow-members, are the ones who can render their constituents the best service. 1 . Hon. W. T. Creasy will stand for re-election as Representative from this county 111 the Legislature. He has served his party faithfully, and he lias served the people hon estly. His merits have been rec ognized throughout the state, and his nomination as State Treasurer, and subsequent election as Chair man of the Democratic State Com mittee, were a compliment to Colum bia county. Such men ought to be kept in public service, and this county will honor itself by sending Mr. Creasy back again to the House of Representatives. $677,572. o5 VIBE - PHOOP VAVLTS. E. B. Tustin, Louis Gross, There is no reason why the President and his daughter should not help the German Emperor in his effort to boom the American shipbuilding industry. w Six people in France have been living on pellets cf chemical food. Three have lost weight, two have kept the same, and one has actually gained flesh on the strange diet. President Roosevelt has signed an order to return $375,000 in silver to the Chinese! government. It rep resents the share of loot secured by United States marines at the fall of Tientsin. A Rochester man claims to have discovered a process for transferring photographs to the human skin. Tattooing will be a back number and human picture galleries a reality This opens an untold vista of possibilities. Statistics from England and in the- United States show that the rate of suicide is increasing rapidly. So marked has this increase been that the problem promises to be one of the most important sociological questions of the future. Sousa, the great band master, has written a novel, "The Fitth String," a tale of a magic violin. Persons who think of him only as a musician and a composer are not aware that he is a writer of prose and verse of a high order. . From Klondike's icy mountains to Madagascar's strand is a far call, but the latest gold discoveries are reported from the African island. Prospectors are warned that climatic conditions are worse than in Alaska, at the other extreme ot temperature. Philologists say that there are 3.424 known languages in the world. Of these 278 are African, 578 are European, 937 Asiatic and 1,624 American. The attempt by an en thusiastic theologian to locate the garden of Eden in America never carried much weight, but here is a chance to speculate on the possible site of the tower of Babel. There has been placed in the room of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, at Washington, a painting 01 the battle of Santiago. The "Brooklyn," Schley's ship, is in the thick of it. Sampson is rep resented by a thin line of smoke on the horizon. After Literature, rep resented by Maclays had its say, it looks as if the sister Muse of Art is trying to do some "vindicating" on her own account. The attention of the Czar of Rus sia has been called to the useless ness of the 4300 Russian monks in the 742 monasteries, and he has de termined that they shall be made to devote some of their time to car ing for the sick and educating the poor. In all the monasteries there are only 1593 beds for the sick, and eighty-four houses in connec tion with them in which the poor are housed. Not a single monas tery supports a school. The Czar evidently does not approve ot this monkey business. "Mothers' Meetings" for a Magazine. In the current number of the Za dies1 Home Journal is begun a new and rather novel department which is called "Mothers' Meetings," and which is to treat solely the subject of the proper education of children. It is the outgrowth of editorials on this subject which have appeared from time to time in the Journal, and in it will be printed the actual cxpeii ences of parents who have learned from experience the criminality of the modern "cramming" system at schools and the evils arising from late hours, or social evenings for children at home. The desire is that this de partment shall be contributed by readers of the magazine. THE COLUMBIAN, THE LI0ESSS COURT. Ever since the passage of the Brooks High License Law the Courts have been troubled so to construe its not well expressed or digested provisions as to formulate and establish a uniformity of prac tice in the granting of licenses, or at least to agree upon a rule where by the discretion of the Judges might be guided. The first section of the Act enumerates house, room, place, hotel, inn, tavern and in the fourth section it gives hotels, taverns, inns, restaurants, saloons: this still left eating houses, named in the Act of 31st March, 1856, P. L. 200, unenumerated, although a license may be had for one, as per Morris' License, 2 Pa. C. C. Rep. 79 and Gilbert's License, 2 Chester Co. 269. We have in the law- therefore, six separate localities with recog nized names, which a man may ob tain a license to keep and maintain and in which he may sell by retail, vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors or any admixture thereof. I have been at pains to gather from the Century Dictionary the defini tions of those words or names and present them for consideration and comparison and distinction. Hotel A house for entertaining strangers or travelers an inn especially an inn of some style and pretensions. Inn A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers: In law, a public house kept tor the lodging and entertainment of such as may choose to visit it, and pro viding what is necessary lor their subsistence,' for compensation; a tavern; a public hotel. Iu conse quence of thus holding out the house as a place of public entertain ment, the keeper comes under the obligation to serve all coiners, and to answer, within restrictions pro vided by law, for the safety of their property. Tavern A public house where wines and other liquors are sold, and where food is provided for travelers and other guests an inn: Synonyms inn, tavern, hotel, house Iu the United States, inn and tavern are rarely now popular ly applied to places of public enter tainment, except sometimes as quaint or affected terms; but in law, tavern is sometimes used for any place of public entertainment where liquor is sold under license. Hotel is the general word, or, often, house, as the name of a particular Hotel. - Restaurant An establishment for the sale of refreshments, both food and drink: a place where meals are served; an eating house. Eating-house A house where food is served to customers; a place of resort for meals; a restaurant. Saloon A place where intoxi cating liquors are sold and drank a grog shop. Thus far the Dictionary where by it appears that the saloon is at the bottom of all places where liquors can be obtained and where nothing else is furnished. Some thing more may be said about an Eating-house. It was held in Morris' License, 2 Pa. C C. R. 79, "The court will not license an Eating-house, unless the accommoda tions are, in a measure, provided which are demanded by the locality, the habits of the people and their wants. An eating-house located in a cellar, without accommodations for ladies, who have occasion to resort to it for meals, etc., refused until proper accommodations are furnished. And in Gilberts' Li cense, Chester County, it was held that, "The general license laws of the State require that accommoda tions for the supply of meals to the public shall be furnished by those applying for eating- house or liquor license. It there is no demand for such accommodations, it is conclu sive evidence that a restaurant or Eating-house is not needed there; mere tippling places or drinking saloons not being legalized by the general law of the State." These A Cough J ,4 1 have made a most thorough trial of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and am prepared to say that for a!! dis eases of t!ie lungs it never disap points." J. Early Fin!ey, Ironton, O. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral won t curs rheumatism ; we never said.it would. It won't cure dyspepsia; we never clai.r.cd if. LJut it will cure coughs and colds of all kinds. We first said this sixty years ago; we've been saying it ever since. Tlirte tim s 2.1c, S5c, fl. Ail irt-xjlm. Consult yoi-r doctor. IT he snys t-ik. it, then lo an titt myH. If li. tuilii you uot to take It, tlion duii't take It. He ltuow, It will) liliu. We am wllltUK. J. C. A YEK CO.. I.owoll, Mail. BLOOMSBURG, PA. An Ancient Foe To health and happiness is Scrofula as ugly as ever since tiim Immemorial. It causes bunches in the neck, dis figures tho skin, inflames the mucous membrane, wastes the muscles, weak ens tho bones, reduces tho power of resistanco to lisea?ti and the capacity for recovery, and develops into con sumption. A bunch nrpMrod en tho left aldo ot my nock. It vkiiaed prent pain, wm lanced, end been mo rt runnluir Kite. I went into a f?nernl dscllrio. I wrs p?reunded to try lood'n Sarsipnrllla. and when I bad taken six bottles iuf nech was htali'd, and I hare never had any trouble of the kind since." Mrs. K. T. SuvDnn, Troy, Oblo. Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills will rid you of it, radically and per manently, as they have rid thousands. before the Act of 1887. A paragraph in a newspaper some time ago attracted my atten tion It was to the effect, that during the Paris Exposition a party of ladies from the United States made inquiry for an Ice Cream Saloon. The person interrogated looked at them for a moment, then said: "Do you want something to drink with your cream? If so, you will find one at (giving address). If not, you will fini an Ice Cream rarlor at (giving address)." It was a nice but proper distincttion, and it would be well to heed it always. Ice Cream Saloon A place where wines or liquors are served with the cream. , Ice Cream Parlor A place where only coffee is served with the cream. In approaching the question of the granting of licenses, it is to be remembered that no license is neces sary to enable or authorize a person to keep and. maintain a house for the accommodation of the public and the entertainment of strangers and travelers. The question of license is wholly confined to the right and privilege 01 selling at that place vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof, by retail in less quantities than one quart. And although the Brookes law says nothing about rooms and beds and stabling and other necessary appliances for the comfort and convenience of guests, the public and strangers and travel ers, yet by other unrepealed laws such things are required, and it must be shown that an applicant for a Hotel, Inn or Tavern is provided with all such things as go to pro vide and secure the accommodation of the public and the entertainment ot sti augers and travelers. Having shown that to the Court, the next step is to show that there exists a necessity at that place for such a house for that purpose. And that he is a proper person to keep and maintaiu a house where vinous, spirituous, malt and brewed liquors are to be kept and sold. It has been held that it is the duty of the Court to grant a license for a hotel when there is a necessity for the house, fitnecs of the appli cant and sufficiency of the accom modation and that it is the neces sity for a hotel or eating house which is to be considered; the necessity for a liceuse to sell intox icating drinks follows as a necessary incident and that the true object of the license laws is the accommoda tion of all classes of citizens and where the higher classes are suffi ciently accommodated, it may be necessary to grant additional li censes for the accommodation of the humbler citizens. And so it has been said, the necessity ot license to sell liquor must be made to ap pear distinct from the necessity for a hotel or tavern. From all that has been said no rule can yet be formulated or established which shall guide the discretion of the Judge. The nomenclature in the license laws is misleading and confusiug. Hotels. Iuns and Taverns in the Liceuse laws are identical, fhey are lor the accommodation of the public and strangers and travelers Hence rooms, beds, meals, stabling for horses and all incidental accotn modations must be provided. Restaurants, eating-houses and saloons belong to a different class No beds or bedrooms are required, nor stabling lor horses. The pub lie which desires meals, refresh ments, a place in which to sit and smoke and rest, frequents this de nomination of resorts. And this public is entitled to houses, places or rooms, and such accommodations as satisfy their needs. j. g. f. They 8tand by Bobley- The Democrats of South William sport have unanimously adopted the following: "Resolved, That we, the Demo cratic party of South Williamsport, n convention assembled, do request the Democratic members now holding, or who shall be elected to hold, the office of school director to not vote for the adoption of any history in our borough schools which does not give to Admiral Schley the honor of being the naval commander at the battle of Santiago." Clearing. BIG BARGAINS In All Winter CLOTHING MUST BE SOLD To Make Room For Come early and see the Bargains at Townsend's CLOTHING STORE. THE YEARLY SALE! This is another popular selling event, which has been care fully planned for another chance to buy wanted merchandise at shaved profits. Another demonstration of the wisdom of halv ing our rightful profit and doubling our output. It's as broad as it is long, as far as our gain is concerned, except the gain of in creased business and adding more friends to the store. It's a good deal broader than it is long for you, for there is an actual, honest, money saving flavor about this sale that you will readily understand and appreciate. WE'VE EXPLAINED WHY. First is the Table Linen News This is profitable news for you if you 11 profit by it. The Table Linen lines are never so complete as at this time. The prices are never so tempting as now. Read. Unbleached Table Linens. 52 ins. wide, good weight 22c. 56 ins. wideworth 45c, at 39c. 64 ins. wide, worth 60c, at 49c. 60 ins. wide, heavy, all linen, the best value we have ever of fered, at 50c. 68 ins. wide, extra good value, 45c. 60 in. heavy German, all lin en, 47 c. 66 ins. wide, extra heavy, all linen, 69c. 72 ins. wide, worth $1.00, 75c. 72 ins. wide, worth 1.25, 98c. Bleached Table Linens. We start them at 22c. ' 64 ins. wide, all linen, 47c. 72 ins. wide, all linen, 58c. 68 and 72 ins. wide, worth 85 and 90c, at 69c. 66 ins. wide, extra value, 72c. 72 ins.wide, worth $i.25,at 98c. 72 ins. wide, worth $1.40, at $1.10. 72 ins. wide, worth $2.00, at $1.69. Some Special Things in the Grocery Department. We will sell one barrel of good Blended Flour at 50c. a sack for one week, beginning Saturday, January 25. We will begin January 25 and sell one week one of Chase & Sanborn's brands of Coffee at I2jc a pound. If you enjoy a good cup of Coffee, try a pound of this Coffee. Good big Prunes at Sc. a pound. F. P. PURSEL. To inexperienced patentees all patents are of equal protective val ue. They all have the seal of the Government and a blue ribbon; but some patentees know the import ance of claims and it is to their skill aud perseverance in securing protecting claims that C. A. Snow & Co., of Washington, owe in part their reputation aud succces. Silk tassels and pencils for pro grams for sale at this office. tf Out Sale, These are a few crices. come and see the rest. We can match Table Linens with Napkins, from 50c. up. What You Save On Napkins. JNapkins are a necessity now adays. There is a napkin bay ing chance awaiting you in this sale, such as you've seldom been invited to take advantage of. Napkins, worth $1 25, at 98c. 1 w. at si 2C. 1 7S. at I 49 I 6$. 1 79. 2 19. 2 25. 2 98. 425. 500. 2 00, at 2 25, at 2 50, at 2 75, at 3 50, at 5 00, at 6 00, at A Feast of Toweling and Towel Bargains. Many of our customers wait for these sales to replenish their linen presser. You've always needed toweling and towels. Buy them now and save money. 5c cotton toweling at 4c. 8c linen " " 6c 10c . " - " 8Jc. I2jc " " " 9JC. ISC " " " I2jc 14c ' " " 1 ijc. Extra good value in towels at 25 c. a pair. Extra good value Huck tow els at 25c. a pair. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, and will be sent to the dead letter office Feb. 11, 190a. Persons calling for these letters will please say that they were advertised Jan. 28, 1903": Miss Emily Andem, Mr. E. G. Hennan, Mr. Wm. H. Magill (4), John Muhn. Mr. George W. Thomas. One cent will be charged on each letter advertised. O. B. Mmxick, P. M. leave 1 4. n. 6 110' 6 I 10 1 ( I M 8 40 ( 10 I II 4 U M Tho
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