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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,
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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