THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. 8 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. J. S. Williams & Son, BLOOMSBURG PA. Public Sale Criers and General Auctioneers. tr fifteen years experience. BatlRfactlon r aaranteed. Best returnt of any sale criers In hlmtoctton of the Mate. Write for terms and flu ph. We never disappoint our patrons. At the time an eflort was made to impeach President Andrew John son the deciding vote against such action was cast by Senator Ross, of Kansas. Mr. Ross is now setting type in a newspaper office in Albu querque, N. M. Mrs. Philip Graham fell down the steep embankment into the channel of the canal in the rear of her home at Almedia on Tuesday, and sustained injuries which it is feared will prove fatal. She has been in a semi conscious state ever since the accident. . The committee having in charge the Loan Exhibition during the centennial most urgently request those having relics of any descript ion to send their list immediately to Mrs. llervey II. Grotz, Mrs. S. B. Arment or Mrs. Helena Ikelcr. Howard Lyons, of Pine Summit and Miss Irene Frederick, of Tur tutville crossed the state line to wed, on Thursday last. The cere mony took place in the Lake Street Presbyterian Manse, Elmira, and was performed by Rev. R. Lew Williams. Mrs. J. K. Wilson mid daughter Miss Edna,' L. N. Mover and family, T. J. Vanderslice and wife, Mrs. G. M. Mifflin, Mrs. M. IS. Creasy and Mrs. Mary Adams com posed a pic-nic party which enjoy ed an outing in Rupert Grove on Wednesday. According io the subscription pa per to the Centennial fund, sub scriptions are payable to the treas urer on the first day of July. AH subscribers are therefore requested to make payment to L. N. Moyer, treasurer. 2t. The First National Bank, of Ben ton will be ready for business next Monday. The large safe and all the furniture and fixtures are in place. A concrete pavement is be ing put down in front of the build ing by Walter Laubach, of Alme dia. The Bloomsburg Reserves is the latest base ball organization that will make a bid for popularity and support during the balance of the season. They opened at Benton on Saturday, winning in easy fash ion by the score of 12-7. Lloyd Skeer is manager. For the meeting of the Baptist Young People's Union the Lacka wanna Railroad will sell excursion tickets to Providence, R. I., at one (are for round trip plus $1.00. Tickets will be sold July 8th 9th and 10th and will be good to return leaving Providence not later than July 20th. 2t Moyer Lewis played a trial game with the Berwick ball club Satur day. He had but little opportunity to show his worth as a fielder but he displayed a good eye with the willow, securing two of the six hits. Berwick lost the game to Plains,.score 4-2. Mrs. Margaret Moore died at the home of Miss Dellie Sweier on Iron street Thursday morning. For sev eral years and up to within a few months before her death, when poor health prevented her from attending . to it, she acted as sexton of the Methodist church. She was about - fifty-five years of age. The Rescue Fire Company will attend the Fourth of July celebra tion at Danville tomorrow. They will go as Darktown. Their cos tumes will be more stunning than ever, and with the Lime Ridge Band, the members of which will be made up as niDes, the boys are sure to make a big hit. R. J. Griffith, proprietor of the Espy Hotel was called to Mahanoy City on Friday by the death ot his mother, Mrs. Ann Griffith, aged 80 years. Mrs. Griffith and daughter Miss Jennie, went over on Satur day to attend the funeral, which occurred on Sunday. This was the fourth death in the family within three months. Here is a complaint. Market street, in the vicinity of the old Presbyterian church is being used as a Sunday evening camping ground by a lot of loafers, who take special delight 111 using vile and in decent language' while the people are going home from church. The habit is becoming most obiectiona ble, and the authorities should see to it that it is stopped. The natural ice dealers in the towns hereabouts are complaining that the continued cold spell is hav ing a very unfavorable effect upon their business. Their supply of ice will, they say, more than supply the demand of their customers throughout the entire summer. They usually run out of ice about the middle of August. The Pennsylvania Christian En deavor Convention which meets in Pittsburg July 8th, 9th and 10th, will enroll not less than 20,000 members of that organization, and will be the largest religious meeting ever held in the city of Pittsburg. Enthusiasm of the young people throughout the state has been aroused, and every society in' the state will have its representatives. Mrs. George Ervin died at her home in Catawissa 011 Monday, after an illness ofless than a week. She was taken with a congestive chill on Tuesday of the previous week and remained in a critical condition until the end. The sur vivors are a husband and four small children, the oldest of which is only six years. . William Shultz of Catawissa township lost his house and home by fire on Saturday. While the fire was raging in an uppffr story Mrs. Shultz was working in the kitchen and knew nothing of it un til she was told to leave the build ing by a brother of Mr. Shultz who was the first to discover the flames. With the exception of seventy-five dollars insurance on the furniture everything was a total loss. The latest Yankee advertising de vice is the conception of a Bostoni an. He recently purchased a car go of African parrots in Leith, Scotland, and has had the birds trained to say, "Drink Cream of Kentucky Whisky," in the manu facture of which he is iuterested. He has had them put in gilded cages and is now distributing them among the leading saloon keepers. Among those who sailed from Philadelphia for England on Satur day were Dr. G. H. Hemingway, Frof and Mrs. D. S. Hartliue, Prof. J. G. Cope, and Ray Hagenbuch, of Bloomsburg, and Prof, and Mrs. W. II. Detwiler formerly of this town, now of Hatboro, Pa. They will be absent about two months. The entire front of Jos. M. Schain's store building in Berwick was destroyed by the explosion of the acetyline gas outfit about eight o'clock this morning. The ma chine which furnished light for the building was located in the cellar and it is supposed that water leak ing into the carbide caused the ex plosion, t Steventon and Turnbach, two of this season's Normal pitchers show ed up in fine form on Tuesday. The former occupied the box for West Chester and let the opponents, Rox borough, down with 5 hits, defeat ing them 1 to o. Turnbach offici ated for Chester against Manayunk. Nine hits were made by the Many unkites but nary a one of them reached home. Chester gathered 15. Mrs. Betsy Lowe, of Montour township furnishes a sample of un usual activity in old age. She was 97 years old on Saturday, and she observed her anniversary by walk ing to Rupert, a distance of two miles, where she spent the day with her grand-daughter Mrs. Mary Yost. She assists with all the household work, and frequently walks from three to five miles a day. Notwithstanding her advanced years she is in excellent health. The Columbian office emolovees will be given a day off tomorrow. The Carpet Mill base ball nine is scheduled for two games at Mt.' Car- mei tomorrow. John Conway, manager of the Bell Telephone Co., will spend the Fourth at his home in Scranton. The Winona Fire Comnanv hni secured the Catawissa Military Band for the Centennial parade. - The Lutheran Sundav Srrmnl nf town will hold its annual pic-nic in xiunier s ram between Danville and Mausdale on Thursday July . . The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice, and will be sent to the dead letter office July 8, 190a. Persons calling fr these letters will please say "that they were anverusea juiy 3, 1903 ': Mrs. V. B. Howard, Mr. P. II. Longhlin, F. P. McEntee, John Price. Chas. Uhler, Mr. J. T. Varnev. One cent will be charged on each letter advertised. J. C. Brown, P. M. Centennial Envelope!. HABRISBURO LETTiitt. ! The Centennial envelopes are here and are in great demand. They ar rived on Monday and nearly half of them are sold already. The envelopes contain half tone cuts of the Town Hall, High School, Court House, and Normal School, representing the town, county and state. The words " Centennial Celebration of the found ing of BloomEburg, Pa. August 28 and 29, 1902 " also appear. At the upper left corner is a small space for a business card. This is an excellent way to advertise the celebration, and everybody who writes letters can help the cause along by using them. They cost about the same as ordi nary envelopes. Any printing office or dealer who desires to handle them can procure them at the Columbian Office at the wholesale price. They are now on sale at Bidlcman's and J. W. Moyer's, where they can be bought by the pack or in smaller quantities. This office will not sell less than 250, and a small charge is made for printing the business card on the corner, if wanted. The price without printing is $3 75 a thousand, $1.38 for 500, 70 cents for 250. Printed, $3.50 a thousand, 1.80 for 50c, 1. 00 for 250. Get your order in now. ' 2t. "Tho Hound of the Baskervilles" In Tho Philadelphia Press. Sherlock Holmes' greatest piece of detective work is done in the new story by Dr. A. Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Holmes himself says to Watson, his co-worker. "Here at last is a foeman worthy of our steel." The result is a story which, for thrilling interest, stands by itself. From the first discovery of the hound's trail, when the dried up young doctor brings to Sherlock Holmes the ancient manuscript, to the final scene where the great de tective is brought face to face with the monster of the moorland, there is not a sentence that does not carry the reader breathlessly forward. It is a great novel, with a great subject, by a master of the craft. This thrilling story begins in the Philadelphia Press Sunday, July 6th. Be sure not to miss it. The State at a Glance. York county farmers report a fair wheat crop, which is being har vested rapidly. The post office and Hotel Hous ton at Montgomery were robbed Fri day night. There is no clue to the criminals. - Lebanon county boasts of 7,793 men for the military service. Reading is to have a McKinley memorial monument. The Stroddsburg Pa. State Nor mal School trustees have elected Prof. E. L. Kemp as principal to succeed Prof. George P. Bible. An epidemic of small pox has broken out at Griesemerville, near .Reading, and five cases are reported. . For the meeting of the Young People's Chsistian Union Society of the Presbyterian church the Lackawanna Railroad will sell ex cursion tockets to Tacoma, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Vancouver or Victoria, B. C. at the very low rate of $70.30 for the round trip. Tickets will be sold July 10th to 20th, inclusive, and win oe good lor continuous passage to the first Colorado, Wyoming, Montana or Assiniboia point, west of which points stopovers will be allowed at pleasure t.p to Sept. 10. ine final limit lor return will be September 15th. t Miss L. E. Kelly, buyer for The Leader Store Co. Ltd. was in New York last week, filling in stock. While there, she made arrange ments to handle a line of wash goods for next season, the like of which has never been shown in this section of the councry. The line is a specially beautiful one and is handled bv the stores in the large cities, who cater to discrimi nating trade exclusively. Miss Kelly is always on the lookout for something tasty and different from ner competitors. The Tribune man was most agreeably surprised on Tuesday last to receive a visit from his sister, Mrs. Hattie Hagenbuch, of Blooms burg, Pennsylvania. She will visit here for about three weeks. She is not a stranger in Crawford, having been here for several months some nine years ago and was here several times prior to that. Crawford (Neb.) Tribune. The Catawissa Borough Council has appointed Harry Harnian as special officer to enforce the auar antlne order recently declared to prevent the spread of fever in that town. It appears that some of the people were regarding the ouaran tine too lightly and were not suffi ciently careful in their intercourse with those living in the infected parts ot the towti. The Struggle for Political Supremacy. The Candidates and Platforms Compared. The Advantage In Both Cases Largely with the Demo crat. The contest for the political su premacy of the state for the next four years is now ready to begin. The leaders have been chosen, and the principles upon which each par ty bases its claim for public support have been declared. No matter how ardent the desire nor how de termined the effort to conceal the real issue from the public gawe, ev ery intelligent man knows that it is simply the old struggle between those who believe in Quay and Quayism and those who regard both him and his system as a curse to the state aud evils that ought long ago to have been driven out of poli tics. COMPARISON OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES. ' As between the . Candida es pre sented before the people for their choice the advantage is largely with the Democratic ticket. Those who believe what is as clear to the intel ligent man as the noonday sun, that Quay is a corruptionist of the most dangerous sort and that his system is altogether vicious cannot have a very high regard lor any man who has praise and piaise only for him and his machine; and still less must be their respect for a judge on the bench who praises the political hypocrite who uses the cover of the law to steal from the treasury of the state. Though no suspicion of wrong doing may be fore have attached to Judge Penuy packer, the single fact that he prais es what is wholly evil and lauds a man who pleaded the statute ot lim itations through fear of imprison ment for one of his many evil deeds affords sufficient reason for the opinion that there is something wrong with his moral sense. When any man, and especially a man sup posed to be on a high plane in the world of morals comes out in open defense of one whose name is a syn onym for all that is evil in machine politics, it is safe to conclude that he is after something for his per sonal use and that his moral per ceptions are less keen than his de sire for a political job. If Penny packer is elected Governor it is as certain as anything in the future can be that he will be a servile tool tor the man whose praises he sings and who nominated him for the governorship by means which Pen nypacker would consider sufficient to send an ordinary criminal to the penitentiary if proved against him in his court. The Democratic candidate during his several terms of official position has stood between the people aud those who would plunder them, like a wall of granite. Had he been in the gubernatorial chair the past three years and a half the state would have been spared' the dis grace that has been heaped upon it by the last corrupt legislature and a too willing executive. There is not au honest, intelligent man in the state who does not feel in his heart that Robert E. Pattison would be au infinitely safer man as Gov ernor than Judge Pennypacker, the self-appointed panegyrist of Boss Quay, and who was nominated by the machine-bound delegates of Philadelphia and those who were bribed to vote against their instruc tions. OTHER CANDIDATES CONTRASTED. The Democrats have the same ad vantage in their candidate for Lieu tenant Governor. That George W. Guthrie is an honest, able and con servative man is admitted on all hands, and that he will do his duty, if elected, without fear or favor is not questioned. He has for mauy years been an ardent advocate of the many needed reforms in our po litical system and has taken a spec ial interest in the fight for ballot re form. His opponent has been tried and found wanting. He attempted so gross an abuse of the power which he asks the people to place still more firmly in his hands that the Supreme court of the state ad ministered a stinging rebuke and refused to allow him to take away the homes of those whom he at tempted unlawfully to dispossess. The same is true of the third place on the ticket. The Demo cratic candidate, Mr. Nolan, is an upright business man against whose honesty no question cau be raised His competitor has been charged, even by Republican papers, with using his power in the Senate to further, the interests of the oleo trust. THE PLATFORMS COMPARED, If platforms mean anything at all, the advantage of the comparison must be favorable to the Democrats. The corruption of all sorts that has been rife in Republican rule is pass ed over in the Republican platform withdut any reference whatever, and as silence is said to give assent, the silence of he Republican plat- New Summer Goods Less Than Regular Prices. Parasols Have been selling at $4.50 and $5,00 each. A small lot only one of a kind, reduced to $3.39 each. 3.95 Parasols Reduced to 2.59 Another small lot of different kinds and col ors. Reduced justwhen wanted. form as to the bribery, perjury and general corruption of the Republi can machine in recent years may be taken as an endorsement of the vil lainies that are charged to its ac count. In place of denouncing its own rottenness it attempts to dis tract public attention by pointing to matters beyond the sea aud to other national issues with which the state has nothing whatever to do. It howls for ballot reform just as ev ery Republican platform has done for eight years past; and it is the intention this time just as it has been in the past to lay ballot reform aside after the election and keep it in pickle for the next platform. The Democrats and fair minded Re publicans have presented ballot re form bills at every session of the Legislature for six years past only to have them strangled by the same old political hypocrite who has se lected all the candidates and dictat ed all the platforms of the Republi can party for twenty years. The Democratic platform condemns po litical iniquity of all sorts and deals entirely with the issues which the candidates will have to face if they are elected. NOMINATED BY THE PEOPLE. Never were candidates named less by the influence of political leaders than those nominated at Erie on Wednesday of last week; and the comments of some Republican papers to make it appear that Patti son owes his nomination to the dictatorship of Col. Guffey Is as false as it is foolish. While Col. Guffey is a most able leader he has never assumed to be a boss to thwart the will of his party. He declared months ago that the only part he would take in the selection of the candidates for the Demo cratic ticket would be to see, as far a3 he could, that the choice of the party should be nominated. Dele gation after delegation called cn him after his arrival at Erie and asked him as to whom they should support for Governor. His answer iu every instance was, " Stand for the man your county wants." In a few cases an effort was : made to override the expressed will of the people, and Col. Guffey, to his everlasting credit, insisted that in structions must instruct; and not have it said that our delegates play ed traitor to their constituents as did so many delegates in the Repu blican convention where the choice of the party was defeated by bribery of the most shameless sort. As the Philadelphia Times puts it, " Mr. Pattison had done nothing what ever to forward his own candidacy, and he was not the choice of any of the recognized party leaders. On the contrary, the only effort of leadership was directed against him. But twice' before he had been elected Governor and had given the state a clear, honest, upright ad ministratiou, and the popular senti ment instinctively turned to him again as the natural opponent of the Republican machine in a campaign for the redemption of the state government." If it be true, as everybody seems to believe, that the last Legislature was the personification of corrup tion; if it be true, as charged by Republican papers all over the state, that the flood ot corruption was so strong as to sweep away the j delegates for their expressed choice kjYffflg SUCCESSOR TO J Wash Dress Goods These goods we have bought at special prices and are all of this sea son styles. 18c. Dimi ties and Swisses at 12 1-2 cents a yard. 25 Pieces Batiste 6J4c. yd. wide goods, new pat terns and all colors. Have been selling at 8 andlOc yd, This lot 6 l-2c a yard. for Governor, and nominate instead a man by means forbidden by the criminal law, this is the time whe,i all honest men ought to register their solemn protest against the criminal system that is making oat state the laughing stock of the na tion. The only protest the ma chine fears is one registered at the ballot box by a decided majority of the law abiding citizens of the com monwealth. Let this be the form of protest entered against all forms of political crookedness at the next election. ANDREW J. PALM. PARJl MOTilS. Early apples will be money this year if properly handled. Neat boxes, full measure, no priming, but close sorting. If you will mulch your currants and gooseberries now they will hold their fruit much longer and not shed their leaves so soon. Remember the Bordeaux mixture is not a specific but a preventive hence the time to use it is before the plums begin to rot not after. Don t fail to spray your grapes with Bordeaux mixture at least every ten days during the next thirty; Late varieties can be sprayed later than early. Don t quit spraying apples too soon, that second brood of the codlin moth needs particular attention. Save enough Paris green or arsenate of lead to give your trees an application about August 15th. " Don t make the apple orchard the dumping place for all the old ma chinery, boards and tails, and "a free- for-all pasture for your stock. Horses, cattle and hogs are not conducive to good orcharding unless restricted t the latter for short periods only. Pick your cherries for market, both sweet and sour, with the steins on and never when they are wet witb dew or rain. Sweet cherries for home use are much better picked with the stems on, otherwise they deteriorate in a very short time. With the sours it is not so material. If you want good tips don't fail to cultivate your raspberries, not deep but enough to keep down the weeds. Sweeps on your cultivator are just the thing. As soon as berries are p.cked cut out the old canes and bum them at once. In so doing you destroy many insect enemies. The old strawberry plantation can be readily cleaned up and made to do service another yeai !f not so badly infested with white clover, the white grub, and contains varieties not generally infested with the rust. Mow the site as close as possible. Rake mulch and cuttings if heavy in to small windows and haul off, if trash is not too heavy and in weather very dry burn without raking. We prefer the latter plan, as you destroy many insects and rust spores. If you have the matted row, leave narrow strips of the latest growth and cultivate be tween, as you would in a new site. Exehange. CASTOR I A For Infant! and Children. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tha Signature of
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