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THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTA13LISHP;U 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsburg, the County Scat of
Columbia Countv, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI. WELL, Editor.
I). T. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Fokum an.
Terms: Inside the county ft. 00 a year
In advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, ft. 25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, HloomsburR, Ta.
" THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR. STATE SENATOR,
J. HENRY COCHRAN,
of Lycoming: Co.
Subject to the decision of the
Senatorial Conferrees of the 24th
Distiict.
FOR CONGRESS,
ANDREW L. FRITZ,
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the decision of the
Congressional Conferrees of the
17th District.
The following announcements
are subject to the decision of the
Democratic party of Columbia
County:
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
C; A. SMALL,
of Catawissa.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
HON. FRED. IKELER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
HON. WILLIAM T. CREASY,
of Catawissa Township.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AN"D CLERK OF
THE COURTS,
R. R. ZARR,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
JOHN K. MILLER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
GEO. H. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
(South Side)
WILLIAM H. FISHER,
of Main Twp.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
(North Side)
GEO. W. STERNER,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM BOGERT,
of Scott Twp. '
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
A. B. CROOP,
of Briarcreek Twp.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
of Bloomsburg.
We clip the following editorial
from the Phila. Record of March 7:
" Hon. Andrew L. Fritz of
Bloomsburg is announced as a
candidate for Congress in the Six
teenth Pennsylvania District. The
Sixteenth District-Columbia, Mon
tour, Northumberland, Sullivan
is one of the sure Districts into
which the Republican Legislature
has gerrymandered as large a De
mocratic majority as possible.
Should the nomination go to Mr.
Fritz a sure Democrat, with ability
and experience to enable him to
make himself usefulboth to his con
stituency and the country, would
take his scat in the next Congress."
Presides f
Vice Prks't
Cashier
Asst. Cashier
E. B. Tustin,
Louis Gross,
FRED IKELER FOR LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR.
A special from Harrisburg lo
yesterday s Philadelphia Press says:
"Certain prominent Democrats
recently summoned Representative
v red T. I feeler, of Columbia County,
here tor a conference, with a view
to ascertaining whether he would
accept the party s nomination for
Lieutenant Governor.
Mr. Ikeler did not fully commit
himself, but it is understood that he
gave his friends sufficient encourage
ment to induce them to make an
active canvass."
PERSONAL REGISTRATION.
The Joint Committee for the Pro
motion of Electoral Reforms in
Pennsylvania, of which Clinton
Rogers Woodruff, of the Municipal
League, is chairman, has prepared
a draft of a Personal Registration
bill which will be presented to the
next Legislature for adoption. The
"Joint Committee" represents the
Municipal League of Philadelphia,
the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform
Association and the Civil Service
Reform Association of Pennsyl
vania. Under the provisions ol the
Joint Committee, personal registra
tion is made to apply to cities of
the hrst, second and third class.
By the proposed act the Court of
Quarter Sessions in each county
affected shall direct the County
Commissioners to divide the wards
of the respective cities into regis
tration districts of compact conti
guous territory, to contaiu not
more than 2,500 voters. The court
is to have power to arrange such
boundaries, and shall on the first
Saturday of each August appoint
three registrars, not all of the same
political parties, residents of the
city lor five years preceding. Each
registration board may appoint two
clerks, having the same qualifica
tions, the compensation of all to be
fixed by the court.
The registrars for each district
are to meet at such places as may
be fixed by the court, on the 64th,
62d, 29th, 27th and 17th days pre
ceding the general election, and the
29th, 27th and 17th days preceding
the municipal election, and remain
in open session from 10 A. M. to 6
P. M. and from 7.30 to 10 P. M.,
to hear and determine the claims of
persons claiming to be entitled to
vote ft the approaching election.
Every claim lor registration must
be made in person and under oath,
The claimant is required to give
full and explicit information as to
his residence and other legal quali
fications, such as payment of taxes
and naturalization. If he is not
known to the registrars, or if they
are not satisfied as to his right to be
registered, be must produce a quali
fied elector who can make the re
quired affidavits to establish his
right.
If the majority of the registrars
are of opinion that the claimant is
entitled to vote in that election dis
trict at the next election, his name
shall be immediately placed on the
register of voters for the election
district wherein he lives, which
said registry shall state suffictent
information to lead to the identifi
cation of the registered voters.
There shall also be provided a
column at the end of the line where
the voter, if challenged and able to
write, shall sign his name on elec
tion day before receiving his ballot.
Two of the lists, including the
one containing the signatures of
electors, shall be filed in the office
of the clerk of the Court of Quarter
Sessions for the respective counties
until they are required for use at
the polls, when they shall be placed
in the hands of the election officers
for that purpose. Of the two lists
so filed the one not containing the
signatures of electors shall be kept
open for public inspection during
office hours. The third registry
list shall be exhibited at the place
of registration in the registry dis
trict until the day of election. After
the day of election two of the lists,
THE COLUMBIAN,
including the one containing the
signatures of electors, shall be re
filed in the office of the clerk of
Quarter Sessions, and by him re
tained for a period of two years;
the other shall be placed in the
envelope-with the other election
papers for transmission to the Pro
thonotary. Parties or groups of electors en
titled to watchers at the general
election may have watchers at the
registration. Provision is made for
adding names to or striking them
from the lists by the court. Any
registrar knowingly registering a
voter not entitled to registry or re
fusing to register one lawfully en
titled thereto, is liable lo a fine of
$500 and imprisonment for one
year, while for not properly per
forming their duties through negli
gence the registry officials are lia
ble to $100 fine. Other penalties
are provided for violations of the
act.
TOO EXTRAVAGANT.
Sayi a Connceticul Justice of the Supreme
Court.
In an address at Hartford one
evening last week, Simeon E.Bald
win, of New Haven, associate justice
of the Supreme Court of Errors, of
Connecticut, and professor in the
Yale Law School, chose aa his sub
ject, "Saving and Spending." He said
that a single man earning $1.50 a
day should lay by 25 cents, a day, and
should not get married until he had
$100 saved up.
He said there was a general tend
ency to spend more money than
necessary. He declared that lace
curtains were too frequent in work
ingmen's homes. He had traveled
abroad considerably and saw no other
country where they spend so much on
the table or ate so much as in the
United States. Nobody ought to eat
more than two heavy meals a day, in
his judgment.
There is intemperance in eating as
well as in drinking, the judge said.
He added that the American work
ingman eats twice as much as the
European. The English, French, Ger
man and Italian people do not eat
nearly as much meat as the Ameri
cans, who should eat more fruit.
According to Judge Baldwin, the
whole American Nation is spending
too much in eating and furnishing the
home, and although the Nation is
much richer, people are not saving so
much in proportion to income as fifty
years ago. The people are making
too tpuch display, too much dash, and
are too extravagant in many ways.
Conservation of Enemy.
"You Hay you never jrossip?"
"Never," answered Misa Cayenne.
"When I feel die-posed to hear my
neighbors diseusned I merely mention
a name and proceed to Wsten." Wash
ington Star.
So Cause for Worrlnient.
Edith 1 want to tell you something,
llertha. Mr. Swevtser tells me he
loves me.
Bertha Oh, I wouldn't let that trou
ble me; Fred always wan eccentric.
Huston Transcript.
With Some Emphasis,
As Jlr. Ruiubo cume blundering
In thtough his from door he barked
liia jiUin against a chair that had
been carelessly left in the way.
"Blank dash the blank dasliety
dashed old trap to blanknation!" he
exclaimed.
The noise aroused Mrs. Itambo, wEo
had retired.
"What are you doingt Absalom?" sh
palled out from an upstairs room.
"I'm swearing off, Nanshy," he re
plied. Chicago Tribune.
Iloomlna- the Ple.
"Is this place healthy?"
"Healthy? Thin air would bring a
dend man to life."
"That being bo, how do you account
for the great array of grave stones
up in this country?"
"Them? Oh them's to keep the
corpses w hut's buried there from corn
In' up nnd over-populatin' the town."
Harlem Life.
Asth
ma
"One of my daughters had a
terrible case of asthma. We tried
almost everything, but without re
lief. We then tried Ayer'a Cherry
Pectoral, and threo and one-half
bottles cured her." Emma Jane
Entsminger, Langsville. O.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
certainlycuresmany cases
of asthma.
And it cures bronchitis,
hoarseness, weak lungs,
whooping-cough, croup,
winter coughs, night
coughs,' and hard colds.
Tares tUct: 23k., 50c., SI. All druggists.
Coniult your doctor. If lie sys take It,
tbeu do . lie snyt. If h. Cells you not
to tales It, then don't tuka It. lis kuowt.
Lmvs It Willi him. W m wIIIIuk.
J. 0. AY Ell CO., Lowell, Mail.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
There
Are 2400
Disorders Incident to the human frame,
of which a mnjority nro caused or pro
moted by inipuro blood..
Tho remedy is simple.
Take Hood's Sarsiiparllla.
That this medicine radically and
effectively purifies the blood Is known
to every druggist, known to hundreds
of thousands of people who themselves
or by their friends have experienced
its curative powers.
Tho worst cases of scrofula, the
most agonizing sufferings from salt
rhmtm and other virulent blood dis
eases, are conquered by It, whilo
thoso cured of boils, pimples, dys
peptic and bilious symptoms and thnt
tired feeling arc numbered by millions.
Hood's Sarsapariila
Will do you good. Begin to take It today.
FENHSYLANIA hTATE GKANUE
The executive committee of the
State Grange was in session in Har
risburg Thursday night until after
midnight and Friday morning gave
out a statement in which they call
the attention of the Governor and
the Secretary of Agriculture to the
neglect to use $5,000 of the $35,000
appropriation for the proper repre
sentation of the State at the Charles
ton Exposition in exhibiting the agri
cultural lesources of the Common
wealth. The Grange commends the efforts
of Forestry Commissioner Rothrock
and calls Secretary of Agriculture
Hamilton to task for ignoring the
provision of the law creating the de
partment of agriculture which pro
vides for the discussion of the sub
ject of taxation at the farmers' insti
tutes. The Henry oleo bill is com
mended and protests are made against
the ship subsidy and irrigation bills.
The statement of the Grange in
full follows :
"On the question of pood roads the com
mittee reaffirms its position advocated at the
last session of the Legislature, namely, that
the state should collect a special fund for
toad improvement by taxing all personal and
corporate property and distribute the same
lo the several townships of the state in pro
portion to the number of miles of public
roods in each.
"In this connection we commend to all
interested in road improvement the address
of the secretary of this committee piesentcd
at the Buffalo international good roads con
press, and obtainable free from the United ,
Slates Department of Agriculture, public
road inquiries bulletin No. 21.
"The severity of the recent freshets and
the immense damage done thereby call forci
bly lo mind the needs for the preservation of
our forests and we recommend that farmers
and others plant forest seeds and trees on
hillsides nnd rouyh nnd waste lands, which
in time would hold the snows and rains from
sudden (low and prevent soil Irom being
washed oway. In this connection we desire
lo specially commend the good work done by
our forestry commissioner, Dr. J. T. Roth
rock. And we would urge upon people gen
erally greater care and assistance in prevent
ing forest fires.
"We respectfully call the attention of the
present Secretary of Agriculture to the law
creating the department of agriculture
wherein provision is made requiring the pres
entation of the subject of taxation, and re
gret that he has ignored the request of the
State Grange, the Slate Hoard of Agricul
ture and the requirements of the law in re
fusing to provide for the discussion of the
subject of taxation at our fanners' institutes.
"We also call the attention of the Gov
ernor and the Secretary of Agriculture to
the act of the Legislature appropriating 35,
000, of which $5,000 wa set aside for a
sate agricultural exhibit at the Charleston
Exposition, and would inquire why this pro
vision of the act has not been carried into
effect, thereby showing the agricultural re
sources of the state. We condemn this neg
ligence and inefficiency ns being on a par
with the failure of the enforcement of the
oleomargarine laws.
'We hereby enter our protest against the
expenditure of the $5,000 for any other pur
pose than that provided for in the act.
"We urge ihe United States Senators
from Pennsylvania to use all honorable
means to further the passage of the House
measure providing for the election of United
States Senators by a direct vote of the peo
ple. We hereby thank the members of the
House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
who voted in favor of the Henry oleo bill
and urged its passage through the Senate.
"We again enter our protest against the
passage of the irrigation and ship subsidy
bills.
"We insist thai the Grange platform of a
tariff for all or a tariff for none, be carried
out in the adjustment of our import duties
on cur new foreign possessions, and a re
duction of duty on farm products shall be
followed by a corresponding reduction on
manufactured products."
A Surprise Party,
Friday morning a jolly crowd of
ladies were conveyed by Welliver's
four-in-hand to the pleasant home of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kessler, Danville.
Arriving in good time and after a
happy greeting and a social time,
dinner was announced. It is neediest?
to say the table groaned under the.
weight of good things which the
ladies only know how to prepare on
such occasions. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Hughes, Mrs.
Cherrington, Mrs. Riddel and son
Earl, Mrs. J. D. Thomas, Mrs. I.
Cadow, Mrs. II. Giger, Mis. F.
Kreigh, Mrs. T. L. Smith and son
Theodore, Mrs. J. Stiner, Mrs. G.
Kleckner, Mrs. Anstock, Mrs. J.
Welliver, Mrs. C. Yost, Miss Mary
Oblosser and Lula Beagle.
As the hour drew near all departed
for their homes, hoping to have the
Let Us Be
Your Clothier
This Spring;.
Our assortments are large, dis
tinctive and original. We can sat
isfy you in all the new spring
styles. All we ask is that when
you are looking for your
SPRING SUIT
pay ua a visit, if only to look.
We will satisfy you that our styles
and prices are right.
Our Merchant Tail
oring Department
Is now lvplete with all the
Spring Novelties in Suitings,
Trouserings, &c. Our stock is
larger than ever and prices lower.
Ciill and inspect
The Spring Styles.
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Nev-gocarts. New-gocarts.
F. P. PURSEL
Fresh From" Fashion Centers. News that will interest
Every Buyer, concerning New Spring Dress Goods. Some
very pretty Silks. Stvlish Tailor Marin Knits A TK
of New Shoes for Spring. Newest, Nobbiest Walking Skirta.
oeusuu r urnuure seuing uegins.
Dress Goods News. . New Spring Shoes.
The new gown stuffs are here. Another season is here and we
Ready to be talked about, readv have the finest, most varied
to be inspected, ready to be sold, equipment of shoes this store
Needless to tell you that in has ever attempted to show,
choosing we have chosen just The best makes in this country
those weaves, just those color-, are here ready to show you.
ings that fashion dictates, as be
ing Popular. These hints your
guidance.
38 inch Albatross in all the
new colors for sprirfg. The new
spring goods for Waists and
Dresses 50c. Vigero will be big
sellers for spring. We show all
the new colorings for spring.
Price 85c and $1.25.
Canadence Cloth 44 in. wide
in Blue mode, Tan, Brown, and
Black. Price $1.00.
Bright Silk Weaves.
The new Silks this season
outvie the products of all previ
ous seasons, in beauty and price.
Waists, Skirts, or ' Gowns, it
matters not which. This store
shows the wanted thing in Silk
at the wanted price.
New Tailored Suits.
The selling of Tailor-made
suits, begins early. Hence we
are early prepared to show you
neat, complete equipment of the
very latest fashion
Ladies' Eton jackets with
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yoke, facing in Grey, Black and
Urown mixed, $10.50.
Ladies' one Button Cutaway
Jacket with silk faced lapels,
made of Basket weave, Trimmed
Skirt. Price $12.00. Ladies
double breasted Jacket with
Peplum. made of Basket weave.
Price $11.50. .
New Oil Cloth, Linoleum, Carpet chaius, Dinner seta and
Bed Springs. New Go-Carts. We have one of the best makes,
we show a big assortment, and we sell them at the lowest
prices. We invite you to come and see them.
F. P. PURSEL.
pleasure to surprise Mrs. Kessler in
suiiic luiure nine again. j coruai
invitation was also extended to come
again. A Guest.
Deedjj.
A new lot of deeds have just been
printed at this oflice, conforming to
the Act of 1901. They are as good
as the best, and cheaper than some.
Trice, 6 cents each, or 5 for 25 cents.
Orders filled by mail on receipt ot
the cash. tf.
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$2.00. We show at least 5
different styles, and we guaran
tee every pair.
$2.50. The American Girt.
They are stylish, fit well, you
will be pleased if you try a pair.
$3.50. The Patrician shoe if
you try a pair, you will not wear
any thing but this shoe.
New Walking Skirts.
Walking Skirts are in much
demand at all times and seasons.
They are in greater demand at
the beginning of a season. Price
1.1.50. 2-50, 2.69, 4.50, 5.50 to
8.50.
Furniture Selling
Begins.
If you are figuring on a new
piece of Furniture of any sort,
bring your figures here and see
how closely we can fit you out
as to style, quality and price.
We ve planned to make this big
-furniture equipment very use-
I fill f A M1t Vvll f1 MOC M1KH1
f ul to our buying public.
Coaches - $6 75 to $25 00
rancy Kockers
White Beds
Chiffonier
Bed Room Suits
Sideboards
1 75 to 20 00
4 75 to 18 00
6 00 to 1 5 00
18 00 to 50 00
10 00 to 35 00
Dining Tables
5 00 to 20 00
Dining Chairs, set, 5 00 to 20 00
The following letters are held at
the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoftice, and
will be sent to the dead letter office
Mar. 25, 1902. Persons calling for
these letters will please say "that the
were advertised Mar. 11, 1902":
Miss Elsie Dolls, Mrs. Susie
Hunter, Mrs. B. F. Keller (2) Mrs.
McGilorary, R. W. Taylor. Cards,
Mrs. II. F. Keller.
One cent will be charged on each
letter advertised.
O. B. Mellick, P. M.