THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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The Farmers National Bank
The Directors of The .Farmers National
Bank, last Thursday declared the regular semi
annual dividend of three per cent, payable
May 1st, and placed $10,000 to surplus, making
that .item $50,000.
WM. S. MOYEIt, Pkksidext.
THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, FA.
THURSDAY, MAY I, 1902
Hniorrtatth PontOfflc at Blomntburg, Pa.
as second olam mattrr, March 1 , 18SH.
Cilnmbia & Montour Electric Railway Company
TIMK TABLE.
lprtb Bloomsburir. Leave Berwick.
a. a. r. m.
(xi is o
sk in
t 111 2 16
714 S 04
7 B M
8 40 4 40
28 BH
10 Hi 8 1
11 04 7 04
11 5!i 1 W
9 3u
10 m
From Pownr House.
iKor Lime ltldire only.
A. M.
B 52
8 40
7 !W
8 16
9 04
9 52
10 41
11 ts
1 16
r. u.
1 04
1 b:
2 40
8 28
4 1
C 04
5 l
6 in
7 as
8 u
9 01
10 40
Arrive Bloom, 11 5a
On and after January 9, 1903, the first car on
Columbia & Montour Electric Hallway will leave
Power House, Instead of Market Nquare, at 5.00
a.m. The last car for Berwick and points be.
yond Lime Kluce. leaves Hloonmbunr at 9. 80 p.
vt. For Espy, Almedla and Lime KldKe.last cur
leaves at 10 40 p. m. Tbe last car from Berwick
leaves at 10.40 p. m., arriving at Blnomsburs
11.52 p.m. L O. UAL'KEIT, Bupt.
Highest Rates For Moulding.
The Danville Stove & Manufactur
ing company has granted an addition
al advance of 10 per cent to the
moulders in its employ. The rates
paid for moulding are now 30 per
cent higher than 1898 prices and are
the hichest naid in the history of the
plant. The advance, which follows
a voluntary raise of 5 per cent made
at the beginning of the present month,
went into efiect Monday morning.
The advances combined, 15 per cert,
will increase the earnings of the
moulders considerably and add cor
respondingly to the cost of manu
facture. None but the moulding de
partments are affected. Morning
News. '
William 0. Bomboy.
William G. Bomboy, for some
years an attendant at the Danville
Asylum, died at that institution on
Thursday of pneumonia and heart
trouble, in the forty-fourth year of his
age. Ji wife and a son survive, to
gether with two brothers and three
sisters, Frank and Leonard of Blooms
burg, Mrs. Isaiah Hartman of Wil
liarasport, Mrs. B. F. Foulke, of
Danville, and Mrs. Austin Correll, of
Hemlock township. The funeral was
held Monday.
Both Telephones.
WHILE
THEY LAST
We will sell all our bicycle
sundries at cost and below
to close them out.
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"VVe have Gone Out of the
Bicycle Business aud if you are
quick enough you can get what
you want for little or nothing.
We will close EVERY
THING out regardless
of cost
W. S. RlSHTON,
Market Square Pharmacist.
Ait r rmi niirnn
Great Shoes,
In Every Leather.
The Patent Leather Shoe
That Won't Break Thro'.
Trv a oair. We have
the exclusive sale.
C. HcKINNEY,
8 E. Main St.
A. II. BLOOM, Cashier.
A OINOH.
Plains was the Normal's apponents
on Saturday. We are not going to
give a detailed account of the game,
save to say that it was the rankest
exhibitfon on the part of the visitors,
that we have ever witnessed. If the
outfit has any supporters at home,
their peepers would certainly have
sprung a leak, had they witnessed
Saturday s game. The Normal play
ers were tired running bases and the
other fellows were played out by
chasing the ball, so by mutual consent,
after seven innings had been played,
they quit. If the team deleated
Wyoming Seminary 11 to o, what
show would the Seminary boys have
with the Normal? The score was 2 1
to 5. Shaffer, Turnbach and Steven
son each had a turn in the box.
Sheep received them in good form.
Railroad Officials Visit Bloomsburg-
Bloomsbuig had a visitation from a
number of the officials of the D. L. &
W. R. R. on Tuesday. The party
came down on a tour of inspection of
this division of the road. They stop
ped here for dinner, dining at the
Exchange Hotel. They were: Ed
win M. Rine, Superintendent, Scran-
! ton; L. B. Folley, Superintendent
Telegraph, New York; J. B. Keefe,
Division Freight Agent, Scranton; C.
F. Colley, Chief Train Dispatcher; C.
C. Foltz, Jno. Finnerty, P. May, A.
G. Elom, Jr., Scranton; A. B. Wallace,
Assistant General Freight Agent, and
H. H. Hollister, Jr., New York.
The Teachers' Strike Again
The school teachers of Pittston
township, Luzerne, went on strike
again last week. In November they
quit, because they hadn't received
their salaries, and the schools re
mained closed for four months or
until the latter part of March. The
State appropriation amounting to
$3200 was promised them, and the
schools were opened Last week
they discovered that the appropria
tion would not be paid over, owing
to the failure of the district to com
ply with the law. The section which
says that seven months school must
be held each year, is the one which
was violated. The amount due the
teachers, is $6000.
Will Put Down Another Well.
The Pine Creek Oil Co., whose
first drilling for oil yielded gas and a
salt well, being under the impression
that oil exists further up towards the
North Mountain, has met again and
decided on a new enterprise. A well
will oe drilled near the foot of the
North Mountain. Here the company
expects to strike a gusher, as it is
nearer to the centre of the oil rock in
that district. The newly formed
company met on Saturday and ad
ditional shares were sold to help the
project on its way. The Register
well now yields a flow of gas and salt
water, both coming from the same
strata. It is a difficult matter to
separate the gas from the sodium.
Clyde Dewitt and wife spent a
few days in town with relatives this
week. He has been etnployed'for
the past two years at DuBois, Pa.,
but on Saturday moved his house
hold goods to Scranton,- where they
will live in the future. He is a
machinist by trade and is a son of
J. M. DeWitt of West Third Street.
HURLED INTO ETERNITY-
An Awful Explosion of Powder At Krebi
Station, Saturday, Kills Five.
Five human lives went out with an
awful explosion which occurred at
Krebs station on Saturday. The tri
bute of property was also large. Two
hundred kegs of powder exploded
totally demolishing ten buildings, all
belonging to the Reese and Redder
Powder Company. The men were at
work in the various buildings at half
past one when a report of an explos
ion at the dry house attracted their
attention. They united their efforts,
in the hope of extinguishing the
flames, which were now enveloping
the building. Water appeared to be
only fuel for the fire however, and
realizing their futility of further com
bat, they decided to flee for their
lives. But alas, they had delayed too
long. Before they had time to reach
places of safety, the flames had com
municated to the contiguous build
ings in which were stored the powder,
and in the terrible explosion which
followed, huge timbers were hurled
through the air with terrific force, and
the men were struck down and killed.
The men were all residents of
Ringtown. Their names are Irvin
Wolfe, aged 35 years. Amos Yarna',
general foreman, aged 35 years,
leave3 a widow and five children;
Alexander Lindermuth, chief powder
maker, leaves a widow and four child
ren! John Rupert, aged 25 years,
who had been married only three
months; Elmer Stauffer, leaves a
widow and two children.
Two horses were also killed. The
aggregate loss is placed at $40,000.
This is the thirJ time that the plant
has blown up, but the firm, undis
mayed by disaster, will start at once
to rebuild and on a much larger scale.
THE RACE PKOGEAM-
For This Fall's Exhibition of the Columbia
County Fair Is Complete.
The executive committee of the
Columbia County Agricultural Society
held a meeting on Saturday. The
race program was given more time
than anything. The committee be
lieve this to be the leading feature of
the exhibition, and they are right. If
increased purses are any inducement,
we ought to have some of the fastest
horses in the country here this fall.
The purses aggregate $3,500 or
$500 more than those ot last year,
with an additional $100 to the horse
breaking the track record of 2.o8.
The complete program as decided
upon by the committee is as follows:
County race.... purse $200
2.27 class trot " 400
2.22 " " " 400
2.17 " " " 400
2.22 " pace " 400
2.21 " " '.. " 400
2.17 400
2.13 " " " 400
2.08 " trot or pace " 500
The committee decided to make
some improvements about the
grounds, in the way of painting the
office, and other buildings that need it.
The next meeting will be held on
Saturday, May 24th, when the appli
cations for the dining hall privilege,
which were held over on Saturday
will be considered.
R. 0- MEAL BUYS MILLS.
Idle Iron Plant at Hollldaqsburg to be
Operated by Harrisburg Capitalist.
A dispatch from Hollidaysburg was
received in this city late last night
says Friday's Harrisburg Patriot,
stating that Robert C. Neal, of that
city, has purchased the Hollinays
burg and Gap iron works. The dis
patch stated that the plant has. been
idle for some time past but that the
new owner will have it fitted up im
mediately and will resume operations,
giving employment to 300 men.
The word was received too late to
have it verified by Mr. Neal, who is
the owner of the Harrisburg rolling
mills, in the lower end of trje city.
Mr. Neal is most prominently identi
fied with the iron business and his
local plant has been growing in im
portance and in output during the
last couple of years.
The Hollidaysburg mills are old
ones and have been among the few
plants of the state that have not been
in operation for the past winter. The
location is considered a good one,
however, and it is believed that under
Mr. Neal's direction the mills will
soon be of importance.
Farmers all over the county, if
reports are correct, are planting
more potatoes this spring than for
many years past. High prices,
during the past winter is the cause
of it. What is true of this county,
is true of other sections, and we
predict a superfluity of the tubers
next fall and winter.
The will of the late Mrs. Martha
A. McKiiiney was admitted to pro
bate on Monday. The children,
3 in number, will share equally in
the distribution ot ttie property
The executors are W. C. McKinney,
W. M. Reber, aud R. C. Drinker
PURELY PERSONAL
Mr, and Mrs. D. J. Waller, Jr. returned
to their home in Indiana, Pa, on Monday.
James Scarlet of Danville, transacted
legal business in Bloomsburg on Tuesday.
Miss Delia Gcisingcr will go to Millers
burg on Saturday lo visit friends for a few
days.
George Allcman and Frank Wolverton
spent Sunday with Iheir friend John Adams,
at l'hillipsburg, N. I.
Mrs. B. A. Gidding and her sister, Miss
Goldsmith, of Mt. Carmel, who has been
visiting- her (or a week pnst, spent yester
day in Wilkesllarre.
Mrs. William Levcrett returned to Phila
delphia, over the P. & R. Railroad on Mon
day. She and her hus'nand expect to visit
relatives here again in August.
Mrs. Charles Culp, aged nearly
forty-five years, died at her home
on Kast street, this town, Saturday
morning. She was a daughter of
Robert Pursel deceased, and leaves
a husband and five children, besides
three sisters and two brothers to
survive her. The sisters are Mrs.
Alfred Freas, of Rohrsburg, Mrs.
George Hagenbuch, of Benton,
Mrs. Alfred Ziegler, of town, and
the brothers Isaiah and Henry Pur
sel, both residing here. The fu
neral services were conducted at
the house by Rev. W. M. Fry
singer Tuesday afternoon. Inter
ment was made in the cemetery at
Light Street.
A CONTEMPTIBLE TRIOK-
There is very little of the gentle
man in a fellow who willfully throws
tobacco quids at windows of business
places. The windows ot Josiah Rals
ton's tobacco and confectionery store
and those of G. A. McKelvy's drug
store, were all bespattered some time
during Sunday night. We do not
know the perpetrators, but whoever it
was, their whole being, from toes to
the top of their cranium, must be in
a state of moral depravity. It was
a contemptible trick and certainly
deserves punishment.
Temperancetown And Whiskey ville.
The little folks of the Junior League
of the M. E. Church announce to
their friends that they will give an
entertainment in the lecture room of
the church on Friday evening, May 2.
There will be music and recitations,
and a temperance dialogue by 20 boys
and girls, entitled "Temperancetown
and Whiskeyville." The Juniors want
a big audience and a big silver offer
ing. The League now numbers 120
and it is a live organization, as all
will admit who attend this entertain
ment. As It Looks in Chicago.
The mornings seem to be getting
up earlier of late.
A should be dropped from the
alphabet it makes men mean.
Sweetening one's coffee is the first
stirring event of the day.
A man may be every inch a gentle
man and not very tall at that.
Some men seem to think the milk
of human kindness flows only from
bottles.
There is nothing original about
Wall street, which is noted for its
quotations.
A woman wants to see everything
that goes on. That is probably why
she stands in front of a mirror while
dressing. Chicago Daily News.
Uold In Sullivan County.
Peter Gilmore, a Sullivan county
farmer, has found gold on his farm.
Recently he discovered what he
thought was gold quartz and sent
some of it to an assayer, who yester
day returned the analysis, showing
that the quartz contains gold to the
value of $1.40 per ton.
As mines in the Western fields pro
ducing as low as 30 cents per ton are
operated, Mr. Gilmore is elated, and
all land in the vicinity has taken a
sudden rise..
Spring Shoes
In shoes as
in all other
things only
a few are
experts in
the busi
ness.
Our large
buying and
cash pay
ments give
us the ad
vantage of
buying of
the best
sho e m a k
ers. Women' Oxfords, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50
and 3.00. Women's Shoes, 1.50,
2.00, 2.50, 3.00, 3.50.
Men's W. L. Douglas Shoe 3.00,
3.50, 4.00. Men's Government
Shoe 2.50.
W. H. MOORE,
Cor. Main and Iron Sts.
13LOOM.SBURG, PA
0 3Lil
are offering full lines of all Kinds
of Goods for Spring and Summer
wear in the newest effects. They
invite you to inspect their showing
of this Season's Goods.
DRESS MATERIALS
Almost anything you
might desire may be found
in their assortment.
Sparsfot Etamine $1.15
a yard. Prunella "Crava
netted" $1.00 a yard. 45
inch Colored Cords 55c yd.
DRESS TRIMMINGS
All the wanted kinds are
here for your selection.
Chiffon Appliques.Buttons,
Batiste Appliques, Buckles,
Escurial Bands, Braids,
Venice Bands, Embroider
ed Bands and Edges, All
over Laces.
WHITE DRESS GOODS.
All the kinds for all oc
casions are ready with all
the necessary trimmings
you want. No matter what
kind you want, its here.
This department offers all the newest
effects in Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats,
Flowers, Ribbons, Buckles, Etc. See our
new line of Fine Trimmed Hats Do you
know we trim hats free of charge. Our
prices save you money.
ONE PRICE-CASH.
SIMS Of
except inferior shoes, can be found
here. We offer
whether it be calf or kid, and made
up in an honest manner, into styl
ish and durable footwear, for men,
women and children.
Any and every new shape or
style that is worthy of considera
tion will 'be found in our stock.
Our ladies' shoes, at $2.00, have
had a remarkable sale. Their
merits have won friends every
where. Another good shoe is
Colonial Dame,
TALK
I Close to the Eyes.
wnenever you see a persuu wcumig ma ...v . m
may know that the glasses are not strong enough. Pushing them away from
the eyes makes them magnify more. Lenses should always be worn just as
close to the eyes as possible, without touching the lashes. If they are correctly
fitted it is just as important to have the lenses in the right place as lo have
them of the right focus. If the eye does not look through the centers there is JJ
a prisinatis effect. If the lashes touch there is irritation. If they are too far
from the eyes they magnify too much. Every pair of glasses that I sell receives
particular attention from this standpoint. I see that all these requirements
are fulfilled. I see that the lenses suit the eyes, that the frames fit the face t
and that they are a convenience and comfort to the wearer.
O-GO- 77 Hggg,
Optician and Jeweler, BLOOMSBURG, TENN'A.
If your Eyes trouble you in any
Way--consult me about them. 1 can
help you if glasses are needed.
J. LEE MARTIN,
Optician and Jeweler.
. Telephone 1842.
Notes.
Four different forms of notes have
just been printed at this office. They
are, a common promissory note,
promissory with waivers, judgment,
and judgment with waivers. Neatly
bound in books of twenty-five, 10
cents. tf.
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SILKS SILKS
All the wanted kinds for
all purposes are here.
Waist pattarns, Colored
Taffetas 75 c. yd. Special
27m. Black Taffeta 84c. yd.
Satin Liberty 85c yd. Print
ed Satin Liberty 90c yd.
(usually $1.00 a yard). 22
inch Poie DeSoie $1.00 yd.
SILK GRENADINES
Thy're here-They're right.
They don't slip. They are
made by Courtald & Co.
They're all silk. Priced
right.
CURTAINS AND
MATERIALS.
You will want curtains.
VVe offer good values in
Lace and Heavy Portieres
that it will pay you to see.
Lace Curtain Specials at
1.35, 1.50 and 2.25 a pair.
The best 5.00 heavy curtain
ALL KINDS,
honest material.
at $2.50.
F. U. UENTLER.
NO. 20.
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Deeds, '
A new lot of deeds have just been
printed at this office, conforming to
the Act of 1901. They are as good
as the best, and cheaper than some.
Trice, 6 cents each, or 5 for as cents
Orders filled by mail on receipt ot
the cash. tf.