THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. i ! t,': Si '0 it is 2? 1 .-1 it. 1 ' il ft V M r "i STRONGEST BANK IN THE COUNTY First National Bank, Make no mistake, but the Strongest Bank. OFFICERS: W. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAYER, Vice President. E. B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier. DIRECTORS: W. M. Low. E. B. Tuv.in, J. M. Staver, K. O. York. Kred Ikcler. M. I. l ow. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED iSf6. THE COLUMBIA! DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 189 Priu.isitED Eveky Thursday Morning, At Bloomsliurjj, tlie County Seat 01 , Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. Et.WEI.L, Editor. n. J. TASKKK, Local Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Fokemas. Tkkms: Insulethe county l.eo a year in alvance; l-50 if not paid in a.lvancr. Ou'.side the county, jl.25 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should be addressed THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomsburg, I'a. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. iP3- DEMOCRATIC TICKET. STATE AUDITOR GENltRAL, ARTHUR a. DEWALT, of Lehigh. Sf ATE 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 Pine Twp, FOR CORONER, B. F. SHARPLESS, of Catawissa. DATES TOR DEM0OEATIO WOBKEES TO IREMEMBER. Last day for Paying taxes, Satur, day, Oct. 3rd. Last day for Filing Certificates of Isomination (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, I93- STATE DEMO0EAT3. Jhert Will be an Interesting Series ol Meet ingi Held Throughout State, After the State Democratic cam paign has been opened on the last day of this month at Allentown there will be an interesting series of meeting held throughout the eastern part of the state. The de tails of this series will be settled later in the month, but it is planned to carry the campaign forward with vigor and to make the Republican nominees work overtime in their very homes. The State Committee will make the arrangements and Chairman Hall and Secretary Meek will spend from now until election day in the city. They will meet from time to time with division and county chair men in reference to meetings and crmpaign work. There will be meetings held at which the State issues will be put before the people, while in the larger cities the meetings will be iddressed by well known orators. Farmers who had large crops of lay this season are fortunate. The lay is worth a good price now and vill, in all probability, advance. deposit your Frank Ike'.er, (!ei S. Hobbina, I.ouis Gros, J. H. Wtlne S (J. Cri-av, II. V. 1 tower. LETTIR Or ACCFPTANCE 01 H. 0. Patlon ol Lancaster. Pennsylvania. ! Lancaster. Pa.. Sept. 23, '03. Chas. R. Jones, State Chairman ' Dear Sir: As promised I here with transmit formal acceptance of the nomination for state treasurer, ! as tendered by the Prohibition state convention at Gettysburg, June 17, 1903. Thanking the delegates for the honor conferred upon tr.e I pledge mvself if elected to perform duties of the office with fidelity to the interests of the public. I appeal ' for the support of the people 0:1 the following: FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES. Government is instituted for the protection and welfare of the people. Its true function is to prevent wrongs rather than to seek remedies. On this ground we base tb policy of J'Ton-ibition as applied to the liquor "traffic, since that tnffic is destruct ive of. the people's broadest and deepest iutetests financially, mor ally, socially pd politically. MORAL INCUBUS. For the people through their government to tax or license the liquor business is to sell, for a price, the privilege to debase, to rob, to plunder, to kill. Herein lies a moral incubus upon our Christian civilza tiou, which must be removed before we can reach a high moral standard in church or state. Logical contradiction. From a moral and patriotic stand point the government by upholding the liquor traffic places in a contra dictory attitude, for while declaring its purpose to provide for its own degeneracy, since the traffic pro duces ignorant and debauched vot ers, conscienceless legislators and weak executives; at the same time it is the most prolific source of the very conditions which government is designed to prevent disorder, crime, pauperism, burdensome tax es, individual, social and political debasement. Herein lies generic politics. Who can successfully assail the position of the Prohibitionists? SUFFRAGE. Taxation without representation is both unfair and un-American, even if the taxpayer is a woman. unrepresentative government No frse people can long maintain thsir freedom, nor adequately reap the fruits of civil liberty, when they surrender their individual political rights to an oligarchy of political "bosses." who, in defiance of rep resentative government, assume to select candidates for public office "in job lots," and who make of politics step-ladders up which to climb to political preferment, and wno even dictate legislation in their own favor, as in the matters of re gistration, the ballot law and cor porate power. As a state we are a shameful spectacle before the world and are reaping the bitter fruits of such truculence to spoilsmen such as bribery, corruption, stuffed ballot boxes, padded registration, fraud, Poorly " For two years I suffered ter ribly from dyspepsia, with great depression, and was always reeling poorly. 1 men tried Aver s barsa- parilla, and in one week I was a new man." John McDonald, rnnaaeipnia, i'a. Don't forget that it's "Ayer's" Sarsaparilla that will make you strong and hopeful. Don't waste your time and money by trying some other kind. Use the old, tested, tried, and true Ayer's Sarsapa rilla. 11.00 a bollla. All druiflsls. Aik your doctor what lis tlilnkt of Ayar'a Sanaparilla. Ha kuovi nil about thla grand old family mMllriiia. Follow lut adttca aud w will baaatUDM. I. t. AVIK CO., Lowall. Mata. public plunder, franchise grabs, grafts, a lowered tone of political nnd bv.smes morals, a lack of re gard for law, disre.sjH.-ct tor courts in short, political debauchery. Woven in with all this is the liquor power, the natural ally ol the political corruptionist, as also the saloon, an incubator " ofallpolm cal "birds of prey." MUST REGAIN LOST POWER. The growing demand for the In itiative and Referendum shows an awakening of the people to the fact that they want to retake, in some measure, the power they have yield ed to the spoilsmen. CAPITAL AND LABOR. The mutual dependence and co related interests of capital and labor should lead both to arbitration in disputes, and to the recognition of organization as a primary right of each. LEGAL ROBBERY'. The people are entitled to the best government at the lowest ade quate cost, otherwise popular inter ests and individual rights are lost sight of and the natural functions ot government are addicated. Extravagance through excessive sallanes and the creation of un necessary offices, as well ns pulls and rake offs are legal robberies. l-KI-.S SALARIES. All officials should receive fixed salaries and all fees be covered into the treasury. To continue a law by which a Secretary of the Com monwealth may receive ns compen sation, in four years, from $75,000 to over $100,000, ought to put any party so doing forever out ot busi ness. PIGMY MUZZLER. The recent libel law sweeping in reach, uncertain in terms, does not wholly commend itself to thought ful citizens, but as a political issue it is to insignificant, white tfc very foundations of government are slij. ping away. CHAMPION MUZZLER-. The "champion muz'Ser," in the liquor power which aims to iftuzzte' into silence presidents, congress men, legislators, editors, teachers, preachers, physicians, lawyers, tradesmen, workingmeu; iu short, to day this muzzier represses the expression of noble thought, tender feeling, and even open prayer, in great degree, among christian people. Whither are we drifting, fellow citizeus, in church as well as state? So ia the grip of the saloon power is the average old party can didate that he bows before it as a fawning sycophant, and makes it a center for the distribution of boodle to buy votes. Who so elected would not be "muzzled?" APPEAL FOR PATRIOTISM. As candidate lor state treasurer I appeal for a return to the old time patriotism of true representative government, a patriotism quickened by the conscience of the voter, and that puts the honor of the Common wealth and the welfare of the whole people above self and party fealty. For the votes of such I ask, and I shall ever cherish their support. H. D. Patton. w- The Grovania Post Office- The post office at Grovania, which has been out of been out of business since 'the fire at C, D. Garrison's store three weeks ago was re established on Monday. Mr. Garrison, who is preparing to re build his store has improvised a structure to be used as post office until the store is completed. The necessary equipment in the way of concelling apparatus, &c, have been received from the post office department. Since the fire the patrons of the Grovania post office have been obliged to go to Danville lor their mail. Every honest man of whatever station in life, will heartily endorse the proposition made in the little paragraph from the editorial col umns of the Wilkes-Barre Times : "It has been well said that the country needs a revival of common honesty that will root out grafts of all kinds labor grafts, monopoly grafts, political grafts, municipal grafts, public, private, official and individual grafts. They should all be cut up and rooted out, and the ground be replanted with common houesty." . Gold Water Party Noiniuatos Candidates- The Prohibitionist's of Columbia County held their annual convention in the old Presbyterian Church Fri day afternoon. There was nothing very exciting about the gathering, neither was it very largely attended. Geo. W. Correll presided as chairman, and W. J. Bidleman was secretary. Following are the nominations made: For sheriff, J. L. John ; Jury Com missioner L. P. Kline i Coroner, Dr. I. L. Edwards. Notwithstanding all the modern Improvements in husbandry, says an exchange, the matrimon ial har vest is still gathered with the cradle and thrashed by hand. TOWNS END'S FALL Call and I Styles and s TOWN. TAKEN TO THi; PEN- Sheriff Knorr and his assistant's John Watson, Frank P. Davis. Hurley Anyle and A Jain Rarig iscorted sx convicts to the Eastern Penitentiary on Friday. Rhone and Murdock, the two high way robbers, will have three years to repent for their misdoing. Neither the fact that they were on their way to spend an extended per:od at haul labor, nor the serious other charge, which they will have to face, that of murder, for which they are wanted at Wilkes-Barre, had any apparent effect on mem, while enroute to the Penitentiary. They were lively and jovial, Mr. Watson mtomis us. and twitted and chidcd one another all the way down. They did, however, display some inter? st when the news boy passed through the train with the paper. They bought three copies of the Wilkes-Barre Record and read very carefully an article it contained on the discription of the men wanted for the murder of a man by the name of Baltes, at Wilkes Uarre, early in the morning of June 9th. After read ing the article, they conversed in subdued tones for a few minutes, folded the paper, and appeared as Jovial as ever. The other convicts were Court- right and Chamberlain, sentenced to two years each for the theft of a sample cigar case from Exchange Hotel, and Boyd and Mmier, sentenced to three years each for highway robbery. Never before has the number taken to the Penitentiary at one time been as large as on this occasion. AN EXTEAOEEINAEY ENGAGEMENT It is a fact worthy of note that Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Ubervilles" which is to be seen at the Grand Opera House on Sat urday evening, is one of the very few English novels that has been translated into French. In fact, outside of Dickens and a very few of Brete Harte's, no English novels have been translated into that language. The French critics, in thus honoring Mr. Hardy among English authors, acknowledge his masterly, his marvelous insight into human character, and his beautiful diction. ft The story, as the title implies, is centered arouud the life of Tess, and is intensely interesting. Car line Rohr as the heroine carries her audience with rare skill, through the various scenes and caps an ex citing climax in the last act when she stabs, her lover to death. More Fishery Prosecution- There have been more prose cutions by the State Department of fisheries lately and the constables and wardens throughout the state are keeping keen eyes open for of fenders. The amount-of fines col lected thij summer exceeds any sum ever before gathered in that manner. r:f- CLOTHING NOW HERE! See Before Prices Always SENO'S A Store of Progressive ideas I The heading gives yon an idea of one of the many reasons why this store is growing. It is one of the many reasons for our success. We are striving all the time to j make the store more helpful to the buying public. If you ; have any thing. to suggest we will be pleased to hear it. We are looking for new ideas all the time. j Newe9t Dress Good3 They are here in &11 their loveliness. The assort ment is complete. We will give you a few ideas here ; more at the store. Zibelines, 52 in, wide, 75c to 1.69 a yard. Novelties, those new weaves with the knotty nobby tufts at 1.98 a yard. Rhodesia," its all wool 46 in. wide, four shades 85c to 1. 00 a yard. Venetian cloths, in all colors 38m. wide, 50c a yd. Cheviots, some rough some smooth, 1.00 to 1.7s a yard. Mohairs, in plain white or plain black, 44m. wide 56c to 1. 00 a yard. Prunilla, its a pretty new creation 75c to 1.39 a yd. Broadcloths in all shades Soin. wide 1.00 to 2.98 a yd. Wool Crepe 1.00 to 1.25 a yard. Shirt Waist Stuffs We are showing a finer line than ever. It will as tonish you at its varity and prices. 27m. wide fleece lined vestings, at 17c, 19c, 22c., 25c. and 28c. 27in. wide fancy pattern vesting at 39c. F. P. PURSEL. Bloomsburg, Pa. Will Go To Danville. The third and deciding tennis match between Danville and Bloom will be played at Danville on Tues day next. It will be remembered that each have won a match, and the players generally favored pull ing the deciding event off on neutral grounds. The matter however was decided Monday night by telephone. Billy Gosh speaking for Danville, chose head, and the coin thrown up by W. S. Rishton fell to the 'floor with the Indian's "phiz" upward. Rishton says he could very easily have Aim-flamed his friend, but he didn't have the heart to do it. The local players will be the same as on the two previous occasions, viz: Rishton and Dentler, and Peck and Ent. Bmui tha a The Kind You Han Always TO INVEST OR SPECULATE in itotki go to reliable broker, S. Goldliero 60 Broadway, New York, Member of the New York Consolidated Stock Kxvhap-e Buyt and tellt itocka, Bond and Grain. Corl tespondence invited. 9-10-4 SanarttaVCTaattlMMa Yon Buy ? Correct at 27m. wida face pattern vestings, tnerepriticd, at 42c. 70c., aad 95?. 27m. Figured Pique at tS cents. 27in. Figured Fancy stripped silk vestings, with a colored thread in strip, 59 cents. Flannellettes and Outing Flannels Best of bargains are to be found here. We were fortunate in our purchases, you get the benefit. Out ings at 7c, 8c, ioc. Flannelettes at ioc, 12c. and 17 cents. Furniture We are now showing all the latest designs for Fall and Winter at prices that are purse persuading. It will pay you to look here before you purchase. Side boards, Golden Oak 12.50 to 39.00. Quartered Oak Sideboard French Plate mirror, either serpentine or swell front at 25.00 and 32.00. Thevare worth fully one fourth more Wisconsin Rockers, great variety, these are bolted together.heat will not affect then, 3.25 to 12.00. Bed Room Suits 16.75 to 60.00. W. H. HOORE, main and iron 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 ub Fit you with a pair. ' , W. H. MOORE, Cor. Main and Iron St&. BLOOMSTCURG, PA. J
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