THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. ssa- STRONGEST BANK First National Bank, QF IJOQMSIIURG, PA. Make no mistake, but the Strongest Bank. OFFICERS: . W. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President. E. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. DIRECTORS: , W. M. Kow, K. C. York, Frank Ikelrr, J. II. Wtine E. B. Tiutin, Fred Ikeler, Oo. S. Kol.birn, S. C. Crrasy, J. M. Stavcr, M. I. I ow, Louis Gross, II. V. 1 lower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED l8f.b. I'M C3LUMSIA1 DE'IDCEAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1S69 Published Kvekv Thursijay Moknims, At Bloomsburg, the County Seat 01. Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. F.. EI. WELL, Editor. P. T. TASKEK, Local Editor. GEO C. KOAX, FoRtMAN. TtKMa: Inside the county $1.00 a year in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance. Outside the county, $1.25 year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, LloomsburR, Pa. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 9"3. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. STATE AUDITOR GENERAL, ARTHUR G. DEWALT, of Lehigh. STATE TREASURER. JOEL, G. HILL, of Wayne. JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT, JOHN A. WARD, of Philadelphia, CALVIN RAYBURN, of Armstrong. COUNTY. FOR SHERIFF, W. W. BLACK, of Bloomsburg. FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, THOMAS B. GORDNER, of Pjne Twp, FOR CORONER, B. F. SHARPLESS, of Catawissa. PATES FOR DEMOCRATIC WOBKESS TO IREMEMBER- Last day for Paying taxes, Satur, 4ay, Oct. 3rd. Last day for Filing Certificates of Nomination (State Offices) Tues day, Sept. 22nd. Last day for Filing Nomination Papers, (State Offices) Tuesday, Sept. 29th: Last day for Filing Certificates of Nomination, (County Offices) Tuesday, Oct. 6th. Last day for Filing Nomination Papers, (County Offices) Tuesday, Oct. 13th. Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 1903. The Old faaliiouttd Oouutj Pair. "Some of the newspapers throughout the state located in counties which do not have annual agricultural fairs are agitating for more of these county fairs. So far as we are concerned while Montour county has no fair we are perfectly content. Agricultural fairs are mis named. They are mostly gambling affairs, with horse-racing as a side attraction. Sweat boards and wheels of fortune crowd the entrance and main thoroughfares while the little exhibit of second grade farm pro ducts occupies some small dilapi dated buildings in some-out-of the way place. The old fashioned county fair that stimulated and educated the farmer in husbandry seems to have passed away and the modern insti tution that has taken its place is a school of vice. From a fair of this sort each county might well pray "Good Lord, deliver us." The above is clipped from the Danville Morning News, It strikes us as being a case of sour grapes with our sister town. They used to have a fair there and they con ducted it on just such plans as they have described. That's the reason they haven't auy now. It was a "bum" fair aud deserved to die. IN THE COUNTY ooo deposit your savings in WALTERS' E3TATE. Another step was taken in the complicated anairs 01 me jaie xier man Walters, on Monday monring - , f 1 T ' 1 1 in court, wncn voi. rnsze on half of II. H. Rover of Center Co., : presented a petition to the court Hskinz for a rule on T. C. Rutter Tr, Register and Recorder, and W B. Allen, to show cause why the letters of administration in Walters' estate granted to Mr. Allen by Register and Recorder Rutter should not Le revoked. The rule was granted and the matt:r will come up for hearing before the court. No doubt the rule will ba. resisted on the ground that application should first have been made to the Register and Recorder to revoke the letters, as was done in the case of A. W. Duy, escheator appointed by the state. Application has been made in Philadelphia for letters of adminis tration on the ground that nearly all of Walters personal property is there, but this has been refused un til the letters granted here and in Center county have been disposed of. The petition for a citation to Cor oner Sharpless to pay over the money in his hands to W. B. Allen, administrator, has not yet been de cided by the court. A SAD flToiUENT. A sad incident in connection with the murder trial was the death on Friday morning of Marcella, the little two and half year old daught er of the murdered man. Mrs. Mc Andrews affliction is indeed great. Her husband murdered last March, and now the death of her little girl makes her the object of pity. To add still further to her misfortune three other children are afflicted with the disease, malignant scarlet fever, and are lying uear to death's door. Mrs. McAndrews was called first in the trial of Levan for the murder of her husband, in order to enable her to return to ber sick children. The sympathy of all goes out to her in her deep sorrow. TO THE PENITENTIARY- On Friday Sheriff Knorr will go to Philadelphia to place six con victs in the Eastern Penitentiary. His assistants will be John Watson, Frank P. Davis and Hurley Angle. The convicts are Rhone and Mur dock who robbed the boy whom they invited to ride with them, and who will have three years to think it over; Cortrigbt and Chamberlin who stole a sample cigar case from the Exchange Hotel, and will spend two years in cells; Boyd and Minier, highway robbery, three years. This is the largest number that has been taken from here at one time in many years, if ever. We have a nice line of wall paper and as cheap as the cheapest, at Mercer's Drug and Book Store. BlackHair "I have used your Hair Vigor for Ave years and am greatly pleased with it. It certainly re stores the original color to gray hair. It keeps my hair soft." Mrs. Helen Kilkenny, New Portland, Me. Ayer's Hair Vigor has been restoring color to gray hair for fifty years, and it never fails to do this work, either. You can rely upon it for stopping your hair from falling, for keeping your scalp clean, and for making your hair growi 11.00 a tw'lle. All dratiliis. ' I if your d'tipirlst cannot aunnly youil tend un una uollar ami ue will fcxpio you a imjuu;. ita mn unu frivv mo name ot your ueurtnt tiruH uliira. A del rem, J. '.. A) ill iu.. l.owen, oiu. FROM OOURT HOUSE 00RR1D0F8. The following couples have ob tained license to wed since our last issue. Edward Wardron and Miss Bessie Mowery both of Numidia. Tames A. eaircr and Miss Irene Darves, both of Conyngham towu- smP- Ravmoud R. rahrineer ot Cata wissa township and Miss Daisy E. eager of Ronnngereek twp. Howard R. Yetter and Miss Bertha Williams both of Blooms burg. John E. Deibler of Berwick ntul Miss Rosa M. Duke of Glen City. Thomas A. Young and Miss Per melia E. Custer both of Light Street. William P. Hough of Berwick and Miss Emma D. Shook of Stull, Pa. George Relyak, ahd Miss Mary Pelyo both of West Berwick. Arthur McIIenry and Miss Jennie Hartman both of Bloomsburg. Jesse Iludelson of Salem, Luz. Co. aud Miss Alice Lynn of Ber wick. KEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Peter Michael and wife to Harri son Miller Mifflin. Catharine I'eifer et. ex. to D. G. Miller Mifflin. C. J. Fisher and wife to Martha E. Ervin Catawissa. C. J. Fisher and wife to I. G. Ervin Catawissa. Samuel M. Michael aud wife to R. E- Miller West Berwick. Richard Stiles aud wife to Euos Jacoby Bloom. Samuel Pursel, guardian, to Elizabeth Shw et. al. Bloom. D. Z. Remaley's Admr. to Isaiah W. Bovver Centre. F. W. Pursel to Mary E. Nei hart Hemlock. W. B. Good and wife to Robert Jones Fishiugcreek. James A. Miller and wife to Syl vester Fahringer Locust II. E. Nagle et. al. to R. M. Cain Ccnterville. Jere George's Admr. to Levy Stuler Franklin. T. J. Vauderslice to S. C. Creasy Bloom. The Collegians- College students who have been at home for the summer are going back to their work as the colleges open. Bloomsburg is well repre Sented. Among the collegians are Elmer Wilbur and Ralph Smith Dickinson College, Carlisle. Harry Jacobs, Josiah Johnson aud Lester Richart, State College. Reginald Hemingway, R. W. Sands, and Fred Welsh, Lafayette College, Easton. Clark Snyder, Bucknell Univer sitv Lewisburg. Elwell Funk, Lehigh University, South Bethlethem. Joseph Cohen will enter his second year in a medical course at University Of Pennsylvania; James Wilbur is in the law school, and James Patteu in the Dental school of the same college. Joseph Skeer goes to Wyoming Semiuary, Donald Herring to Princeton, and Rea Ilageubuch to Lawreuceville. Hew Court drier On Monday morning the couit appointed W. C. Richart as court crier in place of John S. Williams, retired. Last Friday morning Judge Little announced that Mr. Williams had retired from the position, and announced the appointment of Jacob Keifer, but to tins both the asso ciate judges objected, not having been consulted in the matter as Judge Little stated. Mr. Richart can nil the position as well as any body. The duties are neither arduous nor complicated. To make a good court crier the in cumbent 'must be a man who can sleep without being disturbed by the court proceedings. His princi pal duties are to say a few words when the court opens and closes; to send a tipstave to do what mem bers of the bar ask the crier to do; and to draw his breath and salary. . Honest men had better keep out of the penitentiary. Recent develop mer.ts show that a lot of crocked work has been going on iu the state prison at Philadelphia, and as a re suit the warden and a number of other officials of the iustiution will resign or be removed. The revenue laws have been violated by usiug old boxes a second time. The law requiring all prison made cigars to be so stamped on the box was diS' regarded, and numerous other ir regularities have come to light. But the latest development is the discovery that counterfeit coins have been make inside the prison walls, and circulated on the outside. How they got outside has not yet transpired, but it will likely be known before the investigation ends. With such carryings on, it is an other warning to honest men to keep out of the Eastern Penitentiary lest their morals may be corrupted by those placed in authority over Convicts in that institution. 'I.J LViiJl'.'t'l'.'l'M. lEym'UiMfVt'' TOWNS END'S FALL naann NOW HERE! jiJ.wuwyarTiBTI!IWIPI'WIJll 'ir'lilliii' tMilJihlll IIHI I Til I 111 i m I Gall and See Before You Buy ? Styles and Prices Always Correct at TOWN WITH TEE CODNCIL The Town Fathers Held important Meeting. The Town Council held a lengthy and important meeting Thursday evening. Mayor Townsend pre sided. Chief of the fire department P. B. Heddens was present and stated the needs of the department. J. L. Dillon's property was in correctly classified and he appeared before council to have it changed. The request was granted and 69 acres of his property was classified as farm instead of suburban prop crty. On behalf of the property owners of Klondike, C. B. Lutz appeared before Council and .requested that they be made to come under the suburban tax rate. The people he said would not object to the rate if the town would accept the street, aud make it more convenient. The matter was carried over. J. L. Dillon complained of the gutters in Scott township. He is suffering damages to his property by reason of a recent change in the gutter. Mr. Neyhard will investi gate. E. F. Carpenter appeared in be half ol Joseph Ratti and stated that the town still owed him $367.33 for a bridge which Mr. Ratti built for the town. Mr. Ratti's taxes are to be paid on this account and the town treasurer be notified of this fact. No action was taken respecting the new Irondale road because of William Ferguson's enforced ab sence from the meeting. A communication from William Chrisman was read in which he asked for another month to make his report in the Bittenbeuder tax duplicate. The amount still due the town is $234.77. By the next meeting Mr. Chrisman will make a full report. The garbage question which oc casioned so much trouble has been settled temporarily at least. The Council has secured permission from L. E. Waller to dump gar bage on the land where clay has been removed, and the Sanitary Committee was instructed to issue notices to that effect. The cost of constructing the sewer on Third street up to the, Prof. Bakeless property according to t-treet superintendant Neyhard, will cost in the neighborhood of $300. The committee also reported on the matter and it is now for the Council to decide what shall be done. Mr. Neyhard reported that six property owners on Magee Avenue have not connected with the sewer. They will be notified and if they dont connect within thirty days the ordinance respecting nuisances will be inforced. Mr. Townsend made several corn' plnints that have reached him con' cerning the Neal bridge over the canal. In connection with this matter a communication from the canal company was read in which they said the town could have the bridge providing they place in its stead a solid road bed with an 18 by 18 inch drainage under it. The proposition was considered and ac tepted. The matter of paving a portion of Main street was again taken up. Mr." Townsend stated that all but two of the eleven property owners have agreed to pay their portion of the expense. It was decided to pave Whitman's alley on the west side of the Court House, as far as Ridge alley. Bids for this work are to be advertised for at once. In behalf of I P. Pursel aud in view of the fact that he has put down a concrete pavement along the Market street side of his store, ,lIEORr. - CLOTHING SEND'S UNCOMMON SAVINGS ALL OVER THE STORE DURING THIS inen Sale We are making you special inducements this week, ones that we are sure will show you clearly how you can save money in buying now, instead of later. Our sale of trustworthy Linens has been a marked success, in fact a great deal more of a success than we ever looked lor, shows that you appreciate our efforts. The sale continues this week. The other departments have not been neglected. We have gone through our stocks, picked out slow sellers, goods that for one reason or another have not sold as we anticipated, put prices on them that will move them quickly. A few of them mentioned here, more to be seen at the store. Unbleached Table Linens. We call special attention to the third item in the list. 25c values at 19c the yd. 40c values at 30c the yd. 56c values at 42$ the yd. 75c values at 62$ the yd. 85c values at 70c the yd. Others at same reduction up to 1. 10 the yard. What About School Shoes ? Do you know the kind we sell ? You should. Moth ers all over town that do are loud in their praise of the shoes we sell for the children. We have always striven to sell the best shoes, not only in wear, but in fit, that we could buy. We know every kind of shoe made and KNOW THAT OURS ARE BEST. Will you let us show you the shoes we have for the little ones? Will you spare a few minutes to come here and examine them. It will pay you. As sure as you do you'll swear by the school shoes we sell, just as hundreds that know them do. JUST A FEW IDEAS HERE. Little Men's Sizes from Misses' Sizes from 1 r to 8$ to 13J, in Vici Kid and 2. Vici Kid. Button and Box Calf, at $1.10, $1.25 Lace Pat. Leather and and $1.35. StockTip, $1.00 to $1.75. Boys' Sizes from 2 to 5 in almost endless assortment. Prices range from $10.0 to $2.00. F. P. PURSEL. Bloomsburg, Pa. Mr. Towsend recommended that a gutter be constructed. Referred to Committee on Highways. It was decided to bnnz the stone crusher from Lime Ridge where it has been for some time to Blooms burg.. The equipment of the cars with fenders by the Trolley Co. was re- ported.JI John Tones made a proposition to remove the sand from Blackberry alley and fill the same with gravel, but it was rejected. Orders for bills presented were issued and the meeting adjourned. Bean th lha Kind Vou Have Always Bomzbt On June 1 the price of hard coal was advanced 10 cents a ton, just as monopoly declared two mouths before that it would be. Suppose farmers could and would do that by wheat, how coal burners would howl. TO INVEST OR SPECULATE in stockt go to a teliuble looker, S. (ioldbcru, 6q Broadway, New York, Member of the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange Buy and sella stocks, Bonds and Oruiii. Cor respondeucc invited. 0-10-4 Bleached Table Linens. Not goods bought for this sale, but the kind we al ways sell. 45c values 35c the yd. 50c values 39c the yd. This is mercerized. 60c values 48c the yd. 75c values 65c the yd. Others at same reduction up to 2.75 the yard. W. H. HOORE, .MAIN AND IKON STREETS, BLOOMSBURG, Pa. Our Fall and Winter SHOES are now in stock- By my careful watching the needs of the people in the shoe line I am able to furnish you with shoes for style, fit and service far above the ordinary shoe. Come in and let us Fit you with a pair. VV. H. MOORE, Cor. Main and Iron 8tb. BLOOMSBURG, PA. ' '
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