THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG. PA.
J. S. Williams & Sod,
BLOOMSBURG PA.
Public Sale Criers and
General Auctioneers.
WT" Fifteen yars experience. Satisfaction
xnaranteed. Best return ot any sale criers In
nlB section of the State. Write for terms and
teles. We aerer disappoint our patrons.
LOCALNEWS.
Legal advertisements on page 7.
Ladies' euchre at the Wheelmen's
club house tonight.
No cracked collars at the Gem
Steam Laundry. Try us.
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Sunday Schools are rehearsing
Christmas programs.
Ask Mercer for it, if he has not
got it he will get it for you. Try it.
Seven years in business is our
reference. Gem Steam Laundry.
Send your work in early. Gem
Laundry will be closed Thanks
giving. Give us a call and be convinced
that we are the best. Gem Steam
Laundry.
Pure Drugs at popular prices is
what you get at Mercer's Drug and
Book Store.
The report of the Strike Com
mission is the next great event of
public importance.
Try Dr. Hess' Chicken Panacea,
it will make your hens lay. At
Mercer's Drug and Book Store.
C. W. Nuss has secured employ
ment in Pittsburg. Mr. Nuss is
an expert moulder.
Brook's celebrated Chicago Ma
rine Band will appear in the Opera
House, Danville, tomorrow night.
The great laugh provoker "A
Dutchman's Honeymoon " will ap
pear at the Opera House Monday
uight.
The! a Castle No. 276, Knights of
the Golden Eagle will attend servi
ces at the Lutheran church Sunday
morning.
The diagram for the Normal
School Minstrel entertainment is
now open at Bidleman's. Get a
seat now.
A number of our merchants are
away this week, replenishing their
stock, in anticipation of a big holi
day trade.
D. D. Dyke of Centralia has sold
his hotel to John Tretter. The
new proprietor took possession
Tuesday morning.
D. L. Chapin of New Columbus,
was called to Easton, Pa., on Tues
day of last week, by the death of
his sister Permilla.
A number of our representative
young people are planning to at
tend the Americus Club dance at
Sunbury Thanksgiving eve.
Hog Cholera medicine at Mercer's
Drug and Book Store.
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Guerney Lyons has secured a
nosition at barbering in one of the
leading shops in Altoona. He left
for that place on Monda)
All Philadelphia papers 2 cents, by
the month delivered 30 cents, 25 cents
1 month at the store. J. V. Mover.
John P. Conway will be one of
the vocalists in a select minstrel
antertainment that is now in pro
cess of preparation at Hazletoiu
.
B. F. McLaughlin returned on
Monday from a hunting trip at
Beaver Lake. He brought with
him 33 rabbits, 14 quails, 9 pheas
ants and 5 squirrels.
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H. II. Hulme, A. V. Kressler
and John Welliver, viewers for a
road from Millville to Wellivers
ville, met on Tuesday. Their re
port was against a road.
Lincoln J. Carter's "Fast Mail"
at the Opera House, Nov. 21st.
This attraction is well known in
Bloomsburg. The scenic embellish
ments are very elaborate.
The vacancy on the teaching
force of the Berwick schools caused
by the resignation of Harry Hess
has been filled by the election of S.
J. Johnston of Millville.
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The Young People's Society of
the Lutheran church will hold a
social Tuesday evening next. A
very pleasing musical and literary
program will be rendered.
Frof. C. H. ' Albert was an in
structor before the teachers' insti
tute of Monroe county at Strouds
burg this week. He returned
home Wednesday evening.
Blank books, ledgers, day books,
journals, counter books, cash books,
legal paper, fools cap, letter paper
and all stationery supplies at Mer
cer's Drug and Book store.
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James D. Shaffer and family have
moved to Wilkes-Barre.
Mr.
Shaffer's house on Third Street will j
be occupied by Cashier Milleison
of the Farmer's Natioual Bank.
The County Commissioners on
Saturday received from J. N.
Thompson his check for the $96,000
issue of county bonds together with
the accrued interest at four per
cent to 1903.
Lamps to burn at Mercer's Drug
and Book Store.
Dr. C. H. Senn, who for several
months past has been a resident
physician of United States Marine
Hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, has
located at Washingtonville and
taken up the practice of the late
Dr. J. P. Hoffa.
We carry a nice assortment of
Twelve Mo. Books bound in cloth
for 19c. Some of the more popular
titles are Robinson Crusoe, Black
Beauty, Black Rock, John Halifax,
Arabian Nights, etc., at Mercer's
Drug and Book Store.
Sylvester Sitler of Light Street has
for sale a brood mare and well-bred
colt. The mare is of good size, and
will work anywhere. The colt is of
pacing stock. Any further informa
tion can be obtained by addressing
Mr. Sitler. 41.
In the stomach of a cow butchered
near Montrose, Susquehanna coun
ty, a good-sized pocketbook with a
large brass clasp was found. The
pocketbook contained a roll of bills
and 43 cents in change. A shingle
nail and a hairpin were also found.
Reporter Journal.
tire on Thursday evening last
completely destroyed John Mussle
man's house a short distance from
Rohrsburg. The fire was first dis
covered in the roof, and was caused
by a defective flue. The house was
only recently constructed, and its
destruction entails a loss of nearly
$2000.
Normal won from Susquehanna
University on Saturday by the
score of 13 to o. To those who
did not witness the game the score
is indication of a close contest. It
was, however, very one sided and
the locals had an easy time of it.
The attendance at the game was
only fair.
If you want a hot water bottle,
fountain or bulb, syringe, nipples
or baby fittings go to Mercer's
Drug and Book Store.
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The time of the year is coming
when farmers coming to town
should bring with them horse
blankets to keep their'horses warm
while standing for hours on the
streets. The men who neglect
their duty to poor dumb brutes
should be tied to the post and made
suffer like a horse.
While hunting in the Pocouo
Mountain last week, Clarence
Trego, of Berwick, shot a forty
pound catamount. When the
animal was discovered in a tree it
leaped for the hunter. Trego
dodged and then fired seven shots
from a Winchester rifle into the
beast before it died.
You don't want to miss the Nor
mal minstrels next Monday night.
You will enjoy a good hearty laugh.
The jokes are all new and good,
with plenty of good singing. The
end men will be M. Cuff and Bert
Marcy from the School and Frank
Colley and Gerald Gross from town.
The Olio, or afterpart will consist
of some neat acts, such as dancing,
club swinging by Alfred Arms
trong, vocal solos by Frank Colley,
and illustrated songs by D. J.
Tasker. Seats are now ou sale,
One of the unexpected results of
the extension of the rural free de
livery service is the discontinuance
of post offices in the smaller rural
communities. As a result of the
extension of the service last year
1,906 post offices were discontinued
effecting a saving in the salaries of
postmasters aggregating $116,807.
At no time during this season
have the sunsets been of such rare
beauty as those which accompany
these latter days of autumn. Near
ly every evening, when the sky is
clear the sun leaves behind a
trail of glory which fills the whole
western sky and lingers for nearly
an hour while twilight deepens.
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The largest line ot lamps in Old
Columbia County at Mercer's Drue
and Book Store.
The Lord's Supper will be cele
brated in Emmanuel (Heller's)
Reformed Church in Madison town
ship on next Sunday morning, Nov.
23, at 10.30 o'clock. There will
be preparatory services and infant
baptism on Saturday afternoon at
2.30 o'clock. All members are
urged to be present at both these
services.
A change has just become effect
ive in the passenger service of the
Catawissa branch of the P. & R.
J. J. Lewis, who for some years
has been train-master at Newberry,
has resumed his old position as con
ductor of the mail train, causing
Patrick Gordon, formerly of Ash
land, to return to the train that is
known as the Bloomsburg annex.
This is the season of the year
when newspapers caution those who
use guns, to be careful, as accidents
of a fatal or painful character take
place each" fall. For some reason
each gunner seems to think that he
will be exempt from danger and
becomes careless. Guns are dead
ly weapons, should be handled with
extreme caution and never pointed
at a person, even in jest.
District Attorney elect A. W.
Duy, is the first republican elected
to that office, in the history of the
County. Columbia Couuty is now
eighty-nine years old. It was form
ed from a part of Northumberland
county by an act of assembly pass
ed in 1813. Mr. Duy will have
charge of the Commonwealth's
cases at the February term of court.
Young Bros, big horse sale was
well attended on Saturday after
noon. The horses were all nice
looking animals and in the main
brought good prices. C. C. Moyer
of Danville, purchased a handsome
team ot sorrels. There were several
other horses bought by Danville
men. Young Bros, it is under
stood will be back here in March
with another lot of horses.
"Uncle Zeke" says we are going
to have a cold, snowy winter.
Nature has told him so and he de
clares Nature never tells a lie.
Corn husks are thick and the silk
heavy; the woodchucks are going
to sleep while the clover is still
green about their holes; the feathers
pull hard from the wild ducks and
the goose bone is white from tip to
tip.
Some unknown vandal or van
dals broke open the door of the
Winona Fire Company's parlor in
the Town Hall a few evenings aeo
ana aia considerable damage to the
furniture. The chairs and sofas
were urset, stand turned UD-side-
down and other articles in the room
thrown about in chaotic fashion.
If the perpetrators can be caught
they will be taught a lesson. They
certainly deserve the limit of the
penalty.
It is announced from Washington
that the gold dollars to be struck in
commemoration of the centennial
celebration of the Louisiana Purchase
by a World's Fair at St. Louis in
1904 will be ready'in December of
this year. Two designs will be used,
one the head of Jefferson, who nego
tiated the great purchase, the other J
tne head ot AicKinley, who issued
the proclamation of the World'- Fair.
The Lackawanna's attempt to
burn oil as a fuel for locomotives
has proved a failure; oil falling far
short of requirements. The tests
were conducted by experts in the
use of oil fuel in locomotives and
worked fairly well up to a speed of
40 miles an hour with light trains.
But greater speed, heavy trains and
grades stalled the engines as steam
could not be made fast enough.
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It is impossible to keep some
men down and equally impossible
to lift some men up. When a fel
low once gets the corner grocery
and dry goods box habit and his
wife takes in washings to support
the family, you have got a hard
proposition. It would be a good
thing if all such men could be
drafted iuto the army, for they are
of no use whatever to either their
families or the community at large,
J. O. Hoffman, who so success
fully conducted several perform
ances of " The Man in the Moon "
here about a year or more ago,
produced the piece in Lewistown
last week, to tremendous business.
The people of Lewistown were de
lighted with the show.
Nothing appeals to the thrifty
housekeeper's tastes so strongly as
fine china. L. E. Whary's assort
ment comprises table plates, bread
and cake plates, fruit saucers, cups
and saucers, sugr.r and cream sets
and miny others, all beautifully
decorated and in the latest and most
artistic shapes.
Go and see L. E. Whary's china
bazaar. His stock is larger and
finer than ever before.
It will interest many in this vi
cinity who have relatives iu the
service to know that the govern
ment has decided not to send a
special Christmas ship to the Phil
ippines as has been done in the
past. When the large army was
in the Philippines one vessel carried
no less than 10,000 packages. The
government announces that all
Christmas packages addressed to
soldiers will be forwarded to the
various points so as to be delivered
during the holidays.
"Circumstantial Evidence," Sun
an3 Fowler's much exploited pro
duction, held the boards at the
local play house Tuesday eveuing.
The show had been extensively
advertised and a large audience
was present. The play did not
come up to expectation. The
general impression appeared to be
that if the proprietors would ex
pend a little more money and get
people who can play the roles and
a little less on advertising, the
show would be more of a success.
No nicer, in fact none as beautiful
as the lamps that Mercer the Drug
gist is selling.
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The life of Rev. Ebenezer A.
Smith, a retired minister, came to
au end peacefully Sunday evening
at the home of his mother-in law,
Mrs. Jemima Brittaiu on west First
street. The deceased had beeu af
flicted with consumption for mauy
yeais and it was this disease that
compelled his retirement from the
ministry. He was seventy-five
years of age and his life throughout
was most exemplary. A wife sur
vives. Short funeral services were
conducted here at noon on Tues
day and the remains taken to
Springfield, Mass. for burial.
If you are looking for something
in the line of china ware, you can
find just what you want at L. E.
Whary's: Don't make your pur
chases until you see his stock.
The music loving people of ou:
community will have a treat in the
M. E. church on Friday evening
Nov. 21st at which time a grand
concert will be rendered by the
following famed vocalists. Miss
Grace Spencer of Scranton, a so
prano that is hard to excel. Mrs.
Ella Fox Gilbert, Philadelphia the
famed contralto. T. R. Williams,
Pittston, the superb tenor that
captivated the "reat audience here
last season and O. H. Yetter whom
we are all proud to call our own
always holds his end down well.
Mrs. Grant Herring who always de
lights and entertains to a high de
gree will be the reader on this great
occasion. The benefit is a piano
fund for tbe Sunday school and the
tickets have been placed within
reach of everybody. 25 cents to
any part of the auditorium.
120,000 Starving-
We mean the 120,000 hairs on
your head. They are starving.
Their food is so poor they are al
ready leaving you very rapidly.
Soon you will not have one left un
less you use Ayer's Hair Vigor.
This stops falling of the hair and
makes the hair grow rich and
heavy.
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Sheriffs Sales
Sheriff Daniel Knorr will expose
to public sale at the Court House
in Bloomsburg ou the following
dates. Sales will commence at
two o'clock of each day.
Saturday, Nov. 29, property of
John k. Lockard, situate in Blooms
burg, consistiug of a large three
story brick store building kuown as
the Lockard Block, located on
Main street, aud a large two and a
half story brick dwelling house,
frame stable and out buildings on
Fifth street.
Saturday, Dec. 6tlv property of
Jennie E. Sponger consisting of a
house and lot situated in Catawissa
borough.
The above sales are in addition
to those advertised elsewhere in
this paper.
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Box papers from 10c. to 50c.
Tablets from k to 2 sc. Envelnnp
from 5 to 1 6c. per pack. All station
ery at Mercers urug & Bookstore.
policy makes a narrow store too narrow to gain
and retain I he support of the public. The mer
chant who docs business in an unattractive store
cannot please the public so well as one in a daylight
store filled with the brightest, newest merchandise.
That's why we arc building, our patrons compel us
to make room.
118 Styles of Flannels
and Outing Flannels.
They look like French Flan
nels; coming in stripes, figures,
Persian designs, plain colors,
polka clots and plaids Every
grade worth keeping and most
ly at less than regular prices.
8, 10. 12i and 15c. a yard.
In speaking of ' The Fast Mail"
the Detroit Free rrest of Aug. 6th
says: "The first week of the new
season at Whitney's Opera House,
was begun with a matinee yester
day, when there was a successful
and memorable revival of "The
Fast Mail." This was one of the
first popular hits that Lincoln J.
Carter arrived at as an artificer in
the fields of the mechanical drama,
and from season to season it has
yielded that indefatigable worker
and enterprising manager a large
measure of prosperity. It is still
in excellent condition, better, in
fact, than in some other years
and at the present representation
of it such as to command the empha
tic approval of the numerous Whit
ney contingent of play goers. The
scenes are in good taste aud admira
bly fitting the story, and the sensa
tional effects are produced with an
appearance of truth to life that
moves the spectator to turbulent
admiration. Among the most as
sertive of these are the Engine
Room of the Steamer "St. Louis"
the mid-river wreck, the whizzing
train in the act of grabbing U. S.
Mail, and the moou light view of
the Niagara Cataract. Pleasing
specialties are employed by way of
embroidering the performance
proper. The Fast Mail will be at
the Opera House tomorrow night.
OEBISMAN'S AIM WAS GOOD.
He Discharged the Contents of a Shot Gun
into Jesse Rambo's Head.
Thomas Christuan, living on the
Samuel Turnbach farm below Lime
Ridge, was assaulted by his hired
hand Jesse Rambo yesterday. The
assault was made after Mr. Chris
man had refused to give Rambo
money with which to buy drink.
A dollar was the amount demanded
and when it was not forth coming
Rambo pounced upon his employer
and beat him to the ground, at the
same time muttering a threat' that
he would kill him. Chrisman's
family heard the noise and his
daughter grabbing a shot gun ran
to aid her father. When she
reached the scene the two were
fighting desperately. She placed
the gun against the fence where
she thought her father would get
it. Iu an instant Rambo made a
dash for the weapon but the girl
was too quick for him. She picked
up the gn and tossed it to her
father. Realizing that Chrisman
had the upper hand of him, Rambo
took to his heels. Chrisman placed
the gun to his shoulder and pulled
the trigger, but the shot missed Sre.
The second attempt discharged the
contents of the gun, striking Rambo
in the back of the head. His ears
were perforated and his neck pretty
badly spotted, but not seriously.
He had reached a good distance as
a result of the gun's failure to act
the first time and to this fact he
probably owes his life.
Rambo is a bad character. It
was he who mixed up with Joe
Fcst in a fight here last summer
and in which he was stabbed.
The American Limestone and
Cement Company of Watsontown
with a capital of $15,000 was grant
ed a charter on Monday. The di
rectors are John G. McIIeery of
Benton and C. D. Eaton, Alice L.
Eaton, J. R. McNall and Chcrles
C. Evans of Berwick.
Women's Suits
That Fit.
If they are a little too loose,
or a little too tight we alter
them just as a tailor would. We
don't want to sell a misfit
because it don't suit you, there
fore don't pay us. Several kinds
of navy and black suits. Lines
that we can't re-order, now re
duced to close out at 18.50,
17.50 and 1G.50, Suits for
13.75.
Visions of Thanltigiving.
Now doth the turkey see in dreams
The visions of a day
That makes his heart go pit-a-pat
And turns his feathers gray.
The smell of celery gives him pain,
And though his ees ore wet
With tears of coining sorrow, he
Tries bravely to forget.
A little cranberry is to him
The crimson badge of fate
Thnt he must wear when he is called
Into his future state.
An oyster makes him shut his eyes
. To miss the sight of it;
And when he sees an axe Great Seoul
He almost has a fit.
He thinks about the people who
Will sound his requiem.
And wonders how it's goin to feel
To be inside of them.
Ah, guileless dreamer, you are up
Against Thanksgiving l'ay;
You've got to starve yourself to death
Or die the other way.
William J. Lampton, in New York "Sun.'
Licensed to Marry.
Prothonotary and Clerk of the
Courts W. H. Henrie has issued
marriage licenses to the following
couples:
Elmer Yohe of Locust- township
and Miss Katie M. Berger of Locust
township.
Coriel W. Hess ot Berwick and
Miss Eva J. Hagenbuch of Orange
township.
Anthony T. Conway of Centralia
and Miss Mary E. Brennen of
Ashland.
Ray C. Hassert aud Miss Atta
Titnian, both of Bloomsburg.
Bruce E. Sutliff of Asbury and
Miss Martha A. Hartman of Wal
ler. ELECTION NOTICE.
The annual meeting of the Stock
holders of the Bloomsburg Land Im
provement Co., for the election of a
President, board of Directors and a
Treasurer will be held on Monday,
November S4th, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon at the office of the Company
in Bloomsburg, Pa. N. U. Funk,
i3-t. Secretary
SHOES
If you have not seen
our line of SHOES, it
will pay you to see it.
We have the largest
Stock of Shoes
of any store in this sec
tion. Made by the best
Manufacturers especi
ally for me, and will FIT
AND WEAR.
aueccsson'TO J
Our School Shoes
are made extra strong
to stand the hard ser
vice given a School
shoe.
W. H. MOORE,
Cor. Main and Iron Sta.
BLOOMSBURG, PA