THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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OFFICERS:
V. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President.
E. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
W. M. Low,
E. B. Tusiin,
J. M. Staver,
, O. Yorks,
Fred Ikcler,
M. I. Low,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Mokmnu,
At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ET.WELL, Editor.
I). J. TASKER, Local J-.ditor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tkkms: Insiilethe county 00 a year
(n advance ; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
O itside ihecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, EloomsburR, Ta.
VITURSDAY. JULY 16. 190.1.
Assessments For 1903.
The total valuation of all taxable
property in Columbia county is as
follows:
Real Estate.... ....$10,889,153.00
Occupation 981,635.00
Horses.. 267,410.00
Cows 89,429.00
Total valuation, $12,225,627.00
On this the county tax of 4 mills
amounts $48,902.52.
Money at interest.. 1,587,06600
Hacks 3,630.00
On these two items the state tax at
4 mills is $ 6.382.S6
The dog tax is 1,504.50
The total of county, state, and
.iog tax for 1 903 is.$ 56,789.88
The valuation and assessments
"or Bloomsburg are as follows:
Real estate $ 2.128.501.00
Occupation
214.190.00
17,085.00
1,640.00
2,361,316.00
9.445"-26
Horses
Cows
Aggregate
County tax
Money at interest...
State tax
Dog tax
356,483.00
I.43I-43
I39-.50
increases over
Inere are some
1902. Real estate is assessed $3,
512.08 more than last year, and the
aggtegate is increased $473,710.
borne very careful and accurate
work has been done by clerk J. W
Hidlay in making up the assess
ment table, there being a difference
of only 12 mills between the aggre
gate amount of county tax, and the
aggregate of the ludividual taxes in
each township. Mr. Hidlay is
reliable man and well' fitted tor the
position he is filling so acceptably
tiis cnoice Dy the commissioners
was a wise one.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS-
Since the death of J. I,. Girton
there has been no one in the town
who is specially authorised to pro
tect dumb animals from cruelty.
Mr. Girton was an officer of the so
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, but no successor has
been appointed. There are occas
lonal exhibitions of abuse. Not
long since a man drove a horse from
Danville to Bloomsburg in 3S min
utes, on a wager. When the Ex
change Hotel was reached the horse
was ready to drop, and it was a
clear case of cruelty, but no one
wanted to appear as prosecutor,
though many bystanders were loud
in the'r denunciation of the driver.
Some one interested in horses ought
to be willing t accept the appoint
ment as agent for the Society. We
believe there are some fees attached
to the position.
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Huckleberries were very plentiful
in market this morning and sold
readily at ten cents a quart. There
was also a large and very nice
variety of vegetables. One man
had a lot of frogs for sale, but the
demand was so great that he dis
posed of all of them in less than
fifteen minutes. They brought
$1.50 a dozen.
Millville's new school room
will be furnished by the local
branch of the Americau School
Furnishing Co. The order for
forty desks was secured by Hon.
M. J. Phillips, the company's
agent.
Siirplm
ifnij.ooo
deposit your savings in
I'rank ikelcr,
Geo. S. Kohbins,
Louis Gross,
J. II.
Vtine
C. Creasy,
II. V. Hower,
SUPERINTENDENT EVANS
County Superintendent W. W.
Evans has finished the first year of
his administration with much credit
to himself, and with great benefi
to the schools. He has high ideals,
and he has labored constantly to re
alize them. One of the most im
portant and beneficial of his innova
tions has been the publishing of the
Columbia County School Journal, a
monthly magazine issued from Sep
tember to May. This has offered a
medium by which he has brought
the directors, teachers and pupils
closer together, aud has enabled him
to get hiuisclt in closer touch with
all the schools. At first, there was
some little resentment manifested at
what was considered a too strict
surveillance on the part of the sup
erintendent. Some directors were
not pleased with the prcspect of
having made public the fact that
they had not made a single visit
during the year, to the schools of
their district, aud were slow to ac
cept any advice or suggestions from
a young man so new to the office.
But Mr. Evans' evident determina
tion to perform all his duties fear
lessly now commands respect, and
he is receiving hearty cooperation
in quarters where he at first found
most opposition to his plans, and it
is now generally acknowledged that
the affairs of the public schools have
never beeu better administered than
they are now.
The continuance of the School
Journal, we understand, has not
yet been decided upon. The Sup
erintendent gave much valuable
time and labor to the preparation of
the Journal each month, and at the
end of the year he found himself
several hundred dollars out of pock
et. That it accomplished much
good is admitted, but it is not fair
to ask him to continue its publica
tion at his own expense. The sub
scnption price is only fifty cents a
year, and there ought to be enough
friends of the public schools who
are willing to pay this small sum,
to put it on a basis where it will at
least pay for itself. It's publication
was a great stride forward, and its
discontinuance would be a back
sliding. Some scheme ought to be
devised to maintain it, so that the
good work that it has already done
may continue and increase.
U ay Fever Season Here-
The hay fever season, so distress
ing to victims, is here in all its
terrors and the unfortunates afflict
ed with the malidy will have a dis
tressing reige of it. Its duration is
from five to six weeks and some
times longer. Many of the victims
hie themselves off to some cold
climate, where they remain until
the departure of the season for the
disease. A cold climate is the most
effective balm for the disease.
There are some oeoole who
always see a trace of the devil in
the most innocent of pigrams.
ong
About a year ago my hair was
coming out very fast, so I bought
a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It
stopped the falling and made my
hair grow very rapidly, until now it
is 45 inches in length." Mrs. A.
Boydston, Atchison, Kans.
There's another hunger
than that of the stomach.
Hair hunger, for instance.
Hungry hair needs food,
needs hair vigor Ayer's.
This is why we say that
Ayer's Hair Vigor always
restores color, and makes
the hair grow long and
heavy. $.00 s sotlle. All druzrlsli.
If VOIir drill'friMt fnnnr.. ......il.
sonU ua one dollar anil we will exiiri-ns
ym a hottle. Ho tur anil plve the name
of your nearest expri-ns olhre. Address,
J. C A 1 f.U CO.. Lowall. Mail.
IN THECOUNTY
Spring Medicine
There is no other season when good
medicine it so much needed as In the
Spring.
Tho blood Is Impure, weak an
impoverished a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality
loss of appetite, lack of strength, and
want of animation.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills ,
Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality
strength and animation, ana cure
all eruptions. Have the wholo family
begin to take them today.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla has been used In
our family (or soma time, and always with
good rasnlts. Last sprint I was all ran
down and got a bottle of It, and as asual
recelred great benefit." Miss Bichh
Bores, Stows, Vt. ,
Hood's areaparllla promises) to
ure and kssps the promise.
PK0FLIOA0Y IN WASHINGTON-
1 he scandals in the post office
department, in the war department
111 the fiscal service of the muuicipa
government and 111 the police de
partment in Washington are the
prolific sources of gosip in the na
tional capital. Every department
appears to be honeycombed with
crime of one character or another
and the heads are apparently power
less to either regulate or check the
trouble. The government is de
moralized, as a matter of fact, and
no man can predict the outcome of
the investigations already in pro
gress and those yet to be instituted
Still Republican state conventions
in various sections are "pointing
with pride" to the record of the
party. The Pennsylvania conven
Hon which met a week or so before
the postal revelations bcean declar
ing wit U Pharisaical satisfaction that
in half a century the public had
lost nothing in defalcation or delin
quency ot the party. The facts
show that ever since Senator Hanna
ana nis lrienas have broken into
the places of authority there has
been a saturnalia ot corruption and
a carnival 01 crime in Washington
11 uas louim louement in everv
t. 1 r j , , . .
place.
The maladministration, rnisap
propnation and profligacy of the
government by the Republican par
ty have cost the people more since
the civil war than the successful
prosecution of that most expensive
01 an wars, ancient or modern, cost.
c 1 : . ... .. '
nuiu ueginning 10 ena. it tne re
dundant revenues and the taxes in
ciaent to the protective system
which never reached the treasury
are considered, the people have
paid as much as the present valu
ation of all kinds ot prperty over
and above the legitimate expenses
01 me government.
Upset by the Gale.
TT
nciiry ureaoenner was among
mose wno experienced some of the
torce ot the storm last Saturday
He had been to Bloomsburg attend
ing market with a load of truck,
ana Having disposed of his goods
was on uis way to his home in Main
township. His fourteen years old
son John was with him. When
they reached a point near Burt
Bankes in that township, on the
river road, the wind cautrht the
covered truck wagon and turned it
over into the gutter which was full
of water. The horse was thrown
down, but regained its feet and
went down off the other side of the
road with the wagon. Coming to
a stream which it could not cross it
came back up to the road and went
home. The top of the wacon was
broken, but no other damage done.
When thrown in the gutter the boy
was under the crates, and Mr.
Bredbenner had to let the horse- py
as he was busy rescuing his son
from under the boxes, otherwise
the boy might have drowned. They
started home through the storm,
but before they reached there, thev
were met by Mrs. Bredbenner and
a neighbor, Mr. Goodman. The
wife was naturally very much al
armed when the horse came home
alone with the wagon broken, and
had started out to meet them. Mr.
uredbenner's head was cut and bis
leg bruised, but not seriously. He
was in town 011 Tuesday standing
in market as usual.
Clerks Will Pionio-
Gerald Gross, Elmer McBride,
Edward Leighow and Charles Sterl
ing the committee, named by the
Clerks Association to select a place
for holding the annual picnic, has
decided on Fairchild's Grove. The
picnic will be held the first week in
August. The clerks never spare
any pains to make their picnic an
enjoyable one, as those who attend
ed last year's outing can attest.
More particulars will be given later.
Mid Summer Sale of
PER CENT.
REDUCTION
ON ALL
.sr
THE LIBRARY.
The Directors well Pleased with the First
Month's Work
There was a unanimous expression
of satisfaction on the part of the di
rectors of the Bloomsburg Public Li
brary at the amount of work done by
the library during the month just end
ed at the meeting held Tuesday even
ing. The meeting was attended by-
all the directors but two and a lively
interest was manifested. In regard
to the matter ot maintainance it was
decided to allow those who have filled
out support slips to exercise their own
prerogative as to the manner or time
of payment, that is they can pay it all
pt once or at any time within three or
six morins. 1 nere nas been a very
liberal ami altogether gratifying re
sponse from the slips but still more is
needed to place the library upon the
desired self sustaining basis.
The report of the first month's work
prepared by the librarian Miss Rr n-
ninger and assistant Mrs. Worthing
ton and submitted
was a most pleasing
that the people are
to the directors,
one, and showed
appreciating the
library.
A program and course of study are
now under consideration which will
have for their aim systematic and pur
pose reading.
To all those vho spoke at the
opening held in the Court House a
vote of thanks was extended, and it
was ordered that a letter of thanks be
sent to each one of them.
The library is here to stay, and
with the proper support and co-opera
tion on the part of the citizens, there
is no height in usefulness and good to
which it cannot attain. The library
is one of which the town can well feel
proud.
Teachers Elected
The schools of Center township
will be presided over the coming
fall and winter by the following
teachers who were elected Saturday
afternoon : Willow Springs school.
Laura M. Redeker, of Bloomsburg;
Lime Ridge Primary, Elizabeth
Smith, of Lime Ridge; Campbell,
li. B. Aikman, of Lime Ridge ;
Miller school, Dorothy L. Kiefer,
of Lime Ridge; Whitmire Primary,
G. W. Henrie, of Orangeville:
Whitmire Grammar, Rolandus
Kocher, of Fowlersville; Fester
school, Irene Hortman, of Fowlers
ville; Grange school, Geo. Ruckle,
of Centre; Hidlay school, Frank
Harris, of Centre; Lime Ridge
Grammar school not elected, male
teacher wanted.
Good Will Festival.
Good Will Fire Co. No. 4. will
hold their annual festival at their
hose house coruer of Main and
West streets on Jnly 31 and August
A. B. Naylor is chairman of the
committee of arrangements. The
Good Will has nearly fifty members
all active men and good citizens, and
they deserve a liberal patronage.
They have purchased their own
apparatus and are always ready to
end a helping hand in timeot need.
Money spent with them is well in
vested.
Berwick will hold a special elec
tion on Tuesday, 21st instant, on
the question of increasing the
borough's indebtedness. They
want to spend f 60,000, for sewers
and other needed improvements.
CASTOR I A
for Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature
TOWNSEND'S
031iQTSII3Sr3-
FOR 2 "WZBZEIKZS A.T
TOWSMSEW D'S.
EXTRAORDINARY
SALE OF MUSLINS
FOR ONE WEEK.
In the face of the heavy advance in the price of cotton
we are oiTerirjg you in this sale muslins that we could not
duplicate at the prices we are selling them to you.
Don't confuse these muslins with the usual one3 offer
ed at euch sales. We did not buy CHEAP MUSLINS
to sell at this time. They are all STANDARD makes
and the kind we sell the year round, and this store is
noted for the good quality of the muslin it sells. We
stake our reputation on our Annual Muslin Sale. You
cannot afford to mis3 it.
A good bleached muslin
worth 7c. the yard,
10 yards 50c.
A good weighty bleached
muslin with no starch,
worth 8c. the yard,
10 yards G5c.
A good, fine bleached
muslin, same grade as
Hill's, the kiud you use
for making underwear,
10 yards 75c.
It always comes handy
in the house we mean
calico. Best, indigo blue
during this sale,
10 yarda 49c.
Extra good quality counterpanes, full
size, hemmed, ready to use. Real value, !
$1.50. Sale price, $1.19. I
Friday's atmospheric experience
has convinced us that of all summer
discomforts excessive humidity is
the worst. From different sections
of the country comes reports of in
tense heat and numerous deaths and
prostrations. At Harman & Has
serfs in the afternoon the ther
mometer registered 115 and at many
other places it wasequally as warm.
It is difficult to enjoy even driving
in such weather as that of Friday.
Even at the watering places, the
papers say, people stewed and
steamed and simmered in the at
mosphere of a Turkish bath. The
writer feels like apologizing for
these remarks upon the hackneyed
subject ot the weather. However,
the weather has been the foremost
topic of conversation, hence this dis
quisition upon it.
A new Presbyterian church will
be erected in Benton soon, a lot
next to the Argus office which was
willed by Mrs. Rohr McIIenry for
that purpose. The building will be
a frame, 56 by 72 feet. Dr. Hem
ingway has been holding occasional
services in Benton for some time
past.
Clothing
Unbleached muslin, fine
and soft.worth 0c. the yard,
10 yards 45c.
Good, fine unbleached
muslin, the threads are fine
and round, worth. 7c,
10 yards 50c
Unbleached muslin, fine
and heavy, about the same
quality as Appleton A.,
worth 8c. the yard,
10 yards COc.
Best quality of un
bleached muslin, worth 9c.
the yard,
10 yards 68c.
F. P. PURSEL.
We overheard a lady say she
wouldn't go to a certain church pic
nic because the people were too un
sociable. There is some merit in
that claim too. At a church picnic
everybody should enter into the
spirit of the occasion and make an
effort to have everybody enjoy
themselves. Unfortunately there
are always some people who hug
their exclusiveness too close to their
hearts. Preachers should tell their
people from the pulpit to extend a
welcome to outsiders and thereby
encourage the spirit of sociability,
and Sunday school teachers should
warn their scholars of the hallow
ness of a life based on selfishness.
Be sociable at your church picnics
and you will have bigger crowds
and a better time.
A handsome display of busts in
the windows of Alexauder Bros. &
Co., attracts much attention. The
collection includes heads of Indians,
Egyptians and Orientals of various
kinds. They are of plaster, and
are brightly and artistically colored.
They make very handsome orna
ments at reasonable prices,