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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
The Farmers National Bank
MANY PERSONS keep their money in this
bank that they may have it within ready
reach when needed for daily use ; some keep
it here awaiting opportunities for investment ;
others, that they may accumulate, by email
deposits, sufficient to make a permanent invest
ment. It Will Be Seen We Accommodate ALL CLASSES.
WM. S. MOYER, President. A. II. BLOOM, Cashier.
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
J. S. Williams & Son,
BLOOMSBURG PA.
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
W Kirten years experience. Satisfaction
roaranteed. Best return of any sale criers In
Wi section of the State. Write for terms and
aatea. We never disappoint our patrons.
Sheriff Sales
Sheriff Knorr sold the following
properties SaturJay atternoon:
Property of George B. Crossley in
Benton to Cosmopolitan Building &
Loan Association for $150.
Property of Stanley Dodson in
Benton, to R. T. Smith for $300.
The Anna M. S Lynn, property in
Briarcreek township, was stayed by
order of court.
Roll of Honor-
The following named pupils of the
Neyhard school, Orange township, are
so enrolled not having been absent
during the month ending Feb. 5, 190a.
Mary Kelchner, Bertha Welsh,
Elizabeth Welsh, Flossie Fairman,
Ada Fairman, Carl Grambs, Fred
Brunstetter, Warren Kelchner, Millard
Kelchner, John White, Elmer Smith.
Also the following notwithstanding
the inclement weather, made the full
twenty days for the month ending
March 7, 1902.
Bertha Welsh, Elizabeth Welsh,
Mary Kelchner, Flossie Fairman, Ada
Fairman, Warren Kelchner, Millard
Kelchner, Hurley Fairman, Paul
Brunstetter, John White.
School averaging twenty-five each
month.
Mrs. I. E. Schoonover, Teacher.
Licensed to Wed.
The following couples have secured
marriage licenses since our last issue.
Calvin Keller and Miss Bessie
Beach, both of Catawissa.
William Bittenbender of Conyng
ham township and Miss Rosa B. Luiz,
of Mifflin township.
Ira G. Hassert and Miss Violette
E. Frankenfield, both of Bloomsburg.
M. G. Bittenbender of Benton,
and Orpha Z. Young of Sugarloaf
township.
John E. Miller of Catawissa and
Miss Elsie Weaver of Grovania.
Harry Ray Dawson and Miss
Louise Hagemeyer both of Blooms
burg. Leases, 3c each, 30c a dozen.
Notices to quit, 10c a dozen. For
sale at this office. tf.
How Do You Know
those baking powders are made
from alum ?
Their lower price, their unfamil
iar names, generally betray them.
But it is not necessary for you
to know. You know that Royal
doss not contain alum, that it makes
the best food, that it is pure and
healthful. You know that alum
powders are unhealthful. This
knowledge is sufficient to enable
you to protect yourself and your
family from alum baking powders
and the evil results which are cer
tain to follow their use.
ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO, 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK.
QUEER INSCRIPTIONS-
There was a harmonious quartette
of salesman seated in the office of the
Exchange Hotel a few evenings ago.
As is characteristic of the " drummer"
they were telling funny "yarns."
Stories of one sort and another were
exchanged when one of the number
drew from his pocket a little book,
containing a lot of curious epitaphs,
which he had gathered from various
cemeteries during his travels. They
show that not only are the eccentrici
ties of human life made manifest in
the flesh, but they are olten perpetu
ated on the memorial tablets of
the Silent City."
An inscription to a scolding wife
reads:
"Here, underneath this lump of clay,
Lies Arabella Young,
Who, on the twenty-ninth of May,
Gave up the use of tongue."
Some expression to wit is given in
the following:
"Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
And died an old Mann."
An eccentric old resident of Wood
bridge, N. J., who has been dead
some time, composed his own epitaph.
He could never forego his " snops "
and he desired to have the fact per
petuated. It reads:
"Here lies who do you think?
George A. Hollcster. What'll you drink?
V here he has gone or how he fares,
Nobody knows nnd nobody cares."
A whole tale of marital infelicity
is exposed in this couplet:
"Beneath ihis stone my wife doth lie;
She's now at rest and so am I."
The following, which is rather
cheerful in tone is from a cemetery in
New Jersey:
"O Johnny, my husband,
Don't weep for your Lou;
I am happii r here
Than 1 could be with you,
Yours irrows and troubles
Will vanish with life,
Be kind to our children
And get a new wife."
Another from the same locality
carries with it a solemn warning:
" Here lies a proud and stylish lass,
Who dearly loved her looking glass.
Tight lacing killed the thoughtless maid,
And laid her in an early grave.
During a symposium which fol
lowed, the note book was dropped by
the owner, and is now in the posses
sion of the writer. It will be held
until the "drummer" strikes the
town again.
A gust of wind struck oue ot J.
R. Townsend's display cases yester
day, and all that was left was a
mournful relic. There was scarce
ly a piece of glass the size of a man's
hand but what was broken.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE .
Hoboken Pier, With Steam
ship and Lighters, Burned.
A HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IS FEARED.
I.atrr Itrpnrt ar ffallorn of
named Vrnarl Enraprd Chief Kn
stlnrer I'nacponnted For Sy
York Dorka la Danger.
NEW YORK, March lO.-The pior of
the rhirnlx lino In Hobokcn wn do
utroyed by Are Inst night. The atonm
hlp Hrltlsh Queen wan totally Octroy
ed, apvrrnl lighters were burned, the
Are threatened tlie Campbell atorra,
and for a time It looked n If the
flame would renrh the Holland-A mrrl
can line docka. The Mnandani of the
latter Hue was towed safely Into the
stream.
Men who were on the dorks nnd on
the British Queen when the Are started
assert there were ninny lives lost. They
snld that longshoremen were Impris
oned about the ship and thnt some
siillors sleeping In the forecastle of the
Hrltlsh Queen did not pet out.
The Intent Information, however, la
thnt no lives were lost, though It Is as
serted thnt the ehlef engineer on board
the Hrltlsh Queen Is still unaccounted
for.
The Are started at 3:34 o'clock nenr
the end of the I'lia-nlx pier nearest the
North river, anion; cotton bnles, with
which tlie pier was covered. The
flames ran In all directions until the
whole structure, which was n wooden
one, mil-mounted by n frame shed, was
enveloped.
The stennier Hrltlsh Queen, owned by
the riiienix people, was tied to the
south side of the pier, nnd the flames
quickly leaped to her tipper decks.
Her crew hud n narrow escape. Cap
tain I'nttlnson was not n board, he hav
ing become 111 yesterday and gone to n
hospital.
In the same slip ns the Hrltlsh Queen
were a dozen or more lighters, cotton
laden. Thes.1 caught lire, and only one
or two were saved, partially burned.
The captain of the lighter Tonawanda
saved himself, wife nnd child by push
ing a cotton bale Into the water, plac
ing his family and himself on It and
paddling Into the river. The crew of
the I'nited States training ship Ports
mouth got them nshore safely.
At 11:30 the tire on the piers and on
the lighters left In the slips wns under
control. The Ileathburn nnd several
lighters were floating down stream ull
ablaze. The first estimates of the loss,
necessarily hurried, follow: Tiers, $300,-
000; British Queen, iNOO.CXH); cotton
and lighters, ?2no,ooo.
About midnight Chief Croker of the
flre department of New York city be
came alarmed over the safety of the
piers on this side of the river. The
burning barges from Hobokeu were
floating to this aide, and the chief
thought it best to get a large force of
engines and other fire apparatus lined
up along the river front near the Amer
ican line and other piers, which are on
the water front between Cortlandt and
Murray streets.
Funnton Geta a. Home Job.
WASH INCTON, Starch 18. The stat
utory retirement of Major General E.
S. Otis March 25 will vacate the com
mands of the military departments of
the lakes at Chicago and of Dakota at
St. I'nul. Major General Arthur Mac
Arthur, now at Denver In command of
the department of the Colorado, will
be transferred to Chicago, nnd Briga
dier General Frederick Funston, now
In this city on leave of absence, will
Biicceed General MacArthur In com
mand of the department of the Colora
do. Hrigndter General W. A. Kobbe,
who Is also In this city on leave of ab
sence, will be assigned to command the
department of Dakota.
The fosdtr Ulven Ip aa Lost.
LONDON, March IS. The admiralty
has ottlclally announced mat all hope
of finding the British warship Condor
hud been given up and ordered that her
books be closed and that the money
due her ottlcers and crew to March 17
should be paid. The Condor left Victo
ria, B. C, Dec. 2 for Honolulu. She has
not been heard from since her de
parture. She was of UNO tons and car
ried u complement of 130 men.
Bnylnur Morn- For Army Food.
ALLEGAN, Mich., March 18.-A car
load of horses Ik on the way to New
York for shipment to South Africa for
use In the British army. An agent for
the British government has been here
for several days buying horses for that
purpose. Horses physically sound, but
too old to be serviceable, were purchas
ed for food to take the place of beef,
which Is scarce In the laud of the
Uoeru.
foul 11lnT Meet.
SHAMOKIX. l'a., March lO.-The
most Important convention of hard
coal miners since that which resulted
in the memorable strike of li)iK) has
begun here nnd is likely to remain In
tiCKsion until Saturday. The three an
thracite coal districts, known tech
nically as Districts 1, 7 and !), United
Mftie Workers of America, are repre
sented by over liOO delegates.
Slave Denlera Killed and Captured.
MOZAMBIQUE. Portuguese East
Africa, March 1!.--The Portuguese
troops captured Hill slave dealers and
killed fifty others at I'einbu Bay re
cently when the government forces at
tacked twelve strongholds of the slave
dealers nnd liberated 700 sluvea.
I'. m!illiilor White to He tire,
BERLIN. March 17.-Wlth expres
sions of regret the newspapers here
print a dispatch from Washington to
llio effect that Andrew D. White, the
American einlitiKsadoi' to Gcrmuuy,
Will retire next November.
THE PRINCE AT HOME
Warmly Welcomed by Ilia
Brother, the Kaiser.
& PLEASm AND RESTFUL VOYAGE.
Prince Henry n. lie Wonld Me
Ready to Itrtnrn at Once to
America For JaM Bark
Another Trip.
CUXHAVliN. March lO.-The re
turn of Admiral Prince Henry of Prus.
ala to German soli was safely accom
plished amid nil the pomp nnd circum
stance with which the prince's Impe
rial brother had seen fit to mark the
successful ending of Prince Henry's
American mission.
The same good fortune of freedom
from untoward Incidents which char
acterized the prince's transatlantic
Journey continued until the end. The
landing occurred during n period of
brilliant sunshine after an overcast
day.
The Hamburg-American line steam
er Deutschlnnd, from Cherbourg, hav
ing on board the prince nnd his suit,
wns first sighted at half past 6 yester
day afternoon. The German battle
ship Kaiser Wliheliu II. steamed
down the roadstead to meet the
Deutschlnnd and returned escorting
the big liner. The Deutschlnnd tied
up to the new stone quay and was the
first -ship to dock there.
Emperor William stood upon the
quay surrounded by high naval and
municipal officials. As representative
of the American embassy at Berlin
Commander William II. Bechler, the
naval attache to the embassy, stood at
the emperor's side.
The quay was decorated with the
flags of all the states of the empire,
nnd the thousnnds of spectators who
covered the roofs of the great ware
houses nnd the wide slopes overlook
ing the scene cheered wildly ns Prince
Henry walked down the gangway
from the steamer. Emperor William
kissed his brother upon both cheeks
nnd shook hands with the members of
his suit, saying a few cheerful sen
tences to each. In the meantime the
guns of the squadron saluted.
Prince Henry, who looked to be thor
oughly rested, wore a dark blue yacht
ing suit with the Kiel Yacht club but
tons. Speaking of his American trip, the
prince said:
"1 was often tired, and I hnd to be
careful of what I said publicly and pri
vately. I saw and heard so much that
1 was sometimes tired out, but since
my long sleeps on board the Deutsch
lund I would be ready to return to
America at once for Just such another
trip. This one has been so full of pleas
ure and Instruction. It is a good thing
to look upon another people face to
face and form your own Impressions.
I want to say again that I am grateful
for the cordial and generous manner
!n which the people and the president
of the United States received me. You
may be sure the Impressions I received
will be lasting."
Mr. Cleveland' Hlrthday.
PRINCETON, N. J March 10.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who Is now the only living ex-presl-dent
of the United States, was sixty-
five years old yesterday. Mr. Cleve
land spent the whole day at his com
fortable home on Bayard lane with his
wife and children. As he was confined
to the house much of the winter on
account of sickness he deemed it ad
visable, owing to the sudden change
In the weather, to remain indoors and
thus avoid any chance of another at
tack of Illness.
Harvard'! Fond Complete.
BOSTON. March 14.-I)r. J. Collins
Warren and Dr. II. IVBowditcu an
nounced yesterday morning that Mrs.
Collls P. Huntington had glveu $250,
000 to the fund for the erection, equip
ment and endowment of the new Har
vard medical school. This gift makes
up the $4,n.")0,000 needed for the school
and makes immediately available the
proposed gift of three buildings, at a
cost of about $1,000,000, by J. Plerpont
Morgan and the conditional gift of $1,-
000,000 by J. 1). Rockefeller.
Chanted With Heavy Embesslement.
NEW YOUK, -March lO.-Max C.
Mayer, formerly a member of the firm
of hathbome, Mayer & Kathborne, has
been arrested charged with the embez
zlement of upward of $110,000 from the
firm of Kathborne & Co., by which he
was employed before being taken Into
partnership. Mayer got out of the firm
Inst fall, nnd his neculatlous. which
were committed between INI 18 and
1000, were not discovered until about
six weeks ago and then accidentally.
llond Itnylnur Stopped.
WASHINGTON. March lu.-The sec
retary of the treasury has announced
that ho will discontinue for the present
the purchase of United States bonds of
the 5 per cent loan of 1004, the 4 per
cent funded loan of 1IM17, tho 3 per cent
loan of l'.MiS-lS nud the 4 per cent loan
of l!f-!r, Hii"h discontinuance to take
effect at the close of business today.
Textile 'Worker Uet luvrrnae.
FALL ltlVEIt. Mns-t.. March 17. At
a meeting of the Fall Hlver Mnnufac
turers' association it was voted to In
crease wages In all the Fall Hlver mills
10 per cent. The meeting wns attended
by nil those who had signed the ngree
incut not to advance wages more than
(J per cent.
Ilndnon Nil vluntlon Oiion.
TKOY,. N. Y., March 11). The steam
er City of Troy of the Citizens' Hue
has mado Its first trip of the season
from New York city. The trip was a
slow one on account of the high wa
ter. This murks the resumption of
through navlgutlou on the Hudson.
R. E. HARTHAN,
SUCCESSOR TO
I. W. Hartman & Son
Will announce in a few
days, date for opening of
New Spring Merchan
dise in all departments.
R. E. HARTMAN.
800 STOCK HOGS
For our Distillery Pens. Will
pay 54 cents per
thrifty shoats. Weight running
FROM 75 TO 150 LBS.
We are buying and will fill our pens as
soon as possible, so any one who wants to
avail themselves of this market should deliver
their stock as soon as convenient, or communi
cate with us at once.
ROHR McHENRY & SON,
Benton, Pa.
OPENING
of Spring
HATS and
B0NNET5.
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Latest Novelties.
March 21, 22.
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Miss Ella Watson,
124 West Main St.
Fine Concert
A vocal concert will be given in
the M. E. Church in Bloomsburg
under the auspices of the Church
choir on Friday evening April 4th.
Prof. Yetter, the leader of the Choir
has arranged a fine programme. The
local vocalists will be assisted by Mrs.
Elmer E. Melick, of Philadelphia and
Mrs. Ella Fox Gilbert, of Philadel
phia, .both well known and popular
in this community, and Mr. T. R.
Williams of Pittston, one of the best
singers in the Wyoming Valley. The
programmes and posters to be dis
tributed later will give more of the
particulars.
George W. Keiter and the Blooms
burg Water Company adjusted
their differences on Monday. The
suit has been pending ior some
time and grew out of alleged injury
to Mr. Keiter s water power at the
Aqueduct mill, by the extraction
of water from Fishingcreek. The
terms of settlement was payment of
$6000 and the granting of the right
to build a dam at the Barton mill,
so long as it does not injure the
Water Company.
TAILOR-MADE SUIT3.
N. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Reinach, Ullman & Co.
of Chicago, merchant tailors, and is
ready to supply made-to measure
clothing at prices lower than can be
obtained elsewhere. He has a large
line of samples t select from. His
place of business is the third floor of
the Columhian building. 4t.
O-A.SVOTl.T.A..
Bean th IhB Kind You Have Always Bought
Ihj Kind You Have Always
Signature
of
pound lor gcod
SHOES
That wear well,
look well, and are
comfortable.
The Herrick Shoe, for wom
en, at $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.
'Try Me" Shoe, for women,
$2.00.
Box Calf Shoes, for women,
$1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. All
leather.
The V. L. Douglas Shoes,
for men, full line.
If you want solid comfort,
buy our Government Shpe,
$2.50.
W. H. MOORE,
Cor. Main and Iron Sts.
BLOOMSBURG, PA
People are Growing Wiser.
Eattertde at the Seashore.
is a sufficient proof of that fact. It ij
not fashion; it is good sense life pre
serving instinct. After the long con
fining winter, a day or more spent
along the coast in the invigorating salt
air, refreshes both mind and body, an J
prepares them for the Spring demands
of business or society. So strongly
are educated persons imbued with this
fact, that of later years the Easter Sun
day Promenade on Atlantic City's
famous boardwalk has far surpassed ia
style, beauty and numbers, the Easter
show on Fifth Avenue, Rittenhouse
Square and other noted fashion prom
enades of former years. While Atlantic
City ftands first in this respect, num
erous persons prefer spending the
Eastertide at Cape May and Ocean
City.
To accommodate its patrons the
Philadelphia & Reading Route has
arranged to run in addition to its good
regular service, the following fast ex
press trains, with Pullman Parlor Cars
attached from and to Chestnut Street,
and South Street Ferries, Philadelphia.
For Atlantic City, Sunday 3othJ
inst , leave Philadelphia 8.00 a. ni.
Returning leave Atlantic City 9.30 p.
m.
For Cape May and Ocean City,
leave Philadelphia March 39th, ij
p. m., March 30th, 8.30 a. m. Ke
turning leave Cape May and Ocean
City March 30th, 5.30 p. m.
Leave New York for Atlantic City,
March 29th, 1.30 p. m., and returning
leaves Atlantic City March 30th, 5.30
p. m.