THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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OFFICERS:
E. V. M. LOW, President, J. M. STAVER, Vice President.
E B. TUSTIN, Vice President. E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier
DIRECTORS:
W. M. Low, V. G. Yorks,
E. H. Tustin, Fred Ikeler,
J. M. Staver, M. I. lw.
Frank Ikeler, J. II. Vastine
Geo. S. Knbbins, r. C Creaky,
Louis Gross, II. V. llower,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Esri!i.isnt.n 1 837. Consoi.ioai ei i 8C 9
FUHi.isiiF.n Lveky Thursday Morning,
At rlloomsliurg. the County Seat 01
Cnluinliin County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. ELWELL, Editor.
D. J. TASKEK, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KUAN, For km an.
Tkkmsi fnsiclethe county if 1.00 a year
in advance ; f 1 .50 II not paid in aivance.
Outside the county, f 1. 25 a year, strictly in
Advance,
All communications should le addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Hloomsinir,;, Pa
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1903
Life can be made a success. It
is not a question of climbing above
poverty. It is a question of under
standing life. So many of us have
been lured away and fascinated by
wnat turns out o be phantoms and
false cods. We have to wheel
back and begin over again and fight
along again t tremendous odds, and
yet with all that life can be made a
success; tor success consists tn do
ing right, in doing the best you can
with what you have, of years of
experience, of sorrows, of chances
of joys and of hope. Fight until
the end.
The farmer who orders a man off
his premises is considered the mean
'.st man on earth ; yet it is strange
how so many consider themselves
privileged to roam over his lands.
gathering nuts and such fruits as
they wish, under the plea that it is
plentiful and he has more than he
needs himselt. It is in very few
cases where a farmer would refuse
to grant one the privibge of stroll
iug over his farm and picking up i
few nuts, and helping themselves
to some of his fruits, if they would
only asic permission to do so ; but
they seem to think the asking not
at all nuecssary if he is a generous
man. it is tne :ame in respect to
gunning, and the farmer must go
10 tne trouble ana expense of post
ing notices in order to orevent truii
ners from almost taking possession
of his premises and often destroy
ing ins property.
Bad Money In Circulation. '
The Hazleton Sentinel says bad
money in silver pieces, nickels
dimes and Quarters, with nn
ional half dollar, is being circulated
in 1 1. 1 f T i , 1
.i u icgiuu. in mis Dusy season
when conductors of trolley cars are
worked almost beyond their limit
ot endurance the counterfeiters and
shovers of the queer find it com
paratively easy to work off their
accumulated stock o bad money.
There is no other time of the year
when the capacity of the cars is
taxed as at present and evidently
for that reason the queer shovers
have availed themselves of the op
portunity to bestow UDon the con
ductors many half do lars which
fall far short of being a good fac
simile of the true coin.
That they were being worked by
a band of these men was discovered
on Friday in Wilkes-Barre, by a few
of the conductors who, when they
attempted to make change, found
they had received bogus coin. The
counterfeit was stored away in a
separate pocket and it became the
duty of the conductors to make up
the deficit.
Some of the worthless coins were
shoved off on Bloomsburgers Satur
day and it was no doubt done by
the party that operated in Wilkes
Barre. Our merchants should ex
ercise care in dealing with strang
ers. The money which has been
received is made of very light ma
terials noticeable when compared
with ordinary coin. The ring of
the bogus niece is flat unH An
it takes but a slight examination to
detect the difference in the true and
untrue pieces.
I'OR RERE3ENTATIVES.
Propcl of a Hoi FigM lor the Legislature
on the South SideFour Candidates
In the Field.
The following dispatch from
Bloomsburg appeared in the Phila
delphia Press of Monday:
"Ex-State Chairman'William T.
Creasy, of Catawissa, announces
that he will be a candidate for the
legislative nomination at the Demo
cratic primaries next June. Under
a rule of the Columbia County
Democracy the south side of the
county is entitled to one legislative
nominee, and for several years Mr.
Creasy has had a comnnrativelv
easy thing of it, no one apparently
oeuig wining to make a contest
against him. Next vear linwpwr
there promises to be a change, and
already three aspirants from
Creasy's own town have announced
heir willingness to fill the nosition
which thev n1.1inr.1it1 Prpac ve
held a sufficient length of time.
lne candidates are CharW T
Randall, editor of the Catawissa
eict Vw. ex-Countv Chairman C.
A. Small and P. W. Gordon, a
railroad conductor. All three men
men have taken active cart in local
politics, and the June primaries on
me soutn side promise to bp the
iveliest on record.
On the north side fourcanHi.Li
are already in the field for W1M.1
tive honors to fill the place of Fred
A. li.eier. WOO Will not niram a
... a-
:audidate. Ihev are iv.riKtrit
Attorney John G. Harman, ex-
Kepresentative William Chrisman
ex-Superintendent of Schools Will
iam C. Johnston, of Bloninshiirfr
and Georsre B. Hummer, n lnmW
ceaier ot iilk Grove.
Mr. JohnstOIl has aiinnnnrpil that
ne will not be a candidate."
Suggestions Fcr Better Jurors-
The Allentown Morniir d),
l j .
ciuerea me vjrv eeneral disma
now going on in the State reo--.ri.
ing the average character of names
piacea in tne jury wheel. Our con
temporary sees that the trr.nhl
that most citizens who would make
the best jurymen resort to all sorts
of devices to avoid the service.
It asserts that the laws
MIH.IIIC
wiv nticiiiuu ui names ror me m-..
wheel a.e in need of revision, and
advances the suctrestinn tVif it
should be made a misdemeanor lor
any man to try to influence a iurv
commissioner to omit hi
. - . ' UdlUCi
There is a great deal of force in that
proposition. It is worthy of dis
cussion and intelligent considera
tion, and it is well to have a free
interchange of views on all fMtr
of the present svstem sinr-e of
tention now being given the sub
ject all over the commonwealth in
dicates that
be forced upon the next Legislature
iur some action.
Some of the present r1iffiu..
could be removed by the courts in
many cases, it is not so iu all dis
tricts, but it is the fact in many that
men of more or less prominence in
a community Who are draa-i. r,
jury service are able to get excused
on one pretext or another T,
men who have the influence in w.
cure this exemption and too gen
erally it is merely i
gets them off are just the citizens
who are most needed on juries.
They are men who would he liteiJ
to act with intelligence if they had
the public spirit to serve or the
courts would insist that they do
their duty in their turn.
Wo doubt jury commissioners in
many instances have much i
answer for. Thev do tint olnratro
measure up to their reallv
sponsibilities, but they are not to
be held accountable for all that is
wrong. Philadelphia Press.
In Spain a field laborer receives
on an average of 28 cents a day as
wages, and this is withont board-
The new pipe organ for St.
Matthew's Lutheran Church, due
half of the cost of which was paid
by Andrew Carnegie, is expected
to arrive some time in January, A
description of the instrument has
already been given iu these columns.
.orEaiN i'ESDE:ir of HomourrjRE
The committee of Horticulture of
lie Louisiana Purchase Exposition
to be held at St. Louis next year,
las appointed Cyrus T. Fox of
Reading as Superintendent of Ilorti
:uUure for Pennsylvania Mr. Fjx
has many friends and acquaintances
uid also some relatives, living in
his county, who will be pleased to
.iear of his appointment. He is tin
doubtedly well qualified for the
position as he has devoted neatly
Ins whole life to the study of horti
culture, and is an authority on the
subject.
The Lehigh Register published at
Allentown speaks of him as follows
Mr. Fox will make the arrange
mcnts for the representation of this
State 111 the Horticultural Depart
ment of the World's Fair, to be
held next year in St. Louis, open
ing on April 30 and continuing six
mouths.
Exhibits of fruit, vegetables
flowers, plants and shrubbery will
be solicited from now until the open
ing of the exposition, and provision
will be made for collecting the same
and forwarding them to their desti
nation. Exhibits will also be as
sembled at different points 111 the
State while the Exposition is in
progress. Winter varieties of fruit
of this year's crop will be got to
gether and put in cold storage at
1 nr .
aiuereni places, to be drawn as
needed.
For many yeats Mr. Fox Ins do
voted much tune and attention to
the horticultural interests of the
State, especially the lomologica
and has worked unselfishly for their
protection and advancement. He
has been the State Pomologist ever
since the organization of the State
Board of Agriculture in 1877, rend
ering valuable service, and serving
all this time without pay, as there
is no salary attached to the office
A report prepared by him and pre
sented to the State Board of Agri
culture on the first of January, 1893,
was the first official notice that was
given of the aparancein Pennsyl
vania of that dreaded and most de
structive insect, the San Jose scale
This report was widely distributed
among the fruit growers of the State
and a copy was sent to every news
paper in Pennsylvania with a re
quest to publish the remedies to be
used in fightfng the seals. Had the
warning which was then given been
generally heeded, many thousands
of dollars would have been saved in
the last nine years to the fruit
growers of Pennsylvania. By the
end of 1895 the San Jose scale had
extended its depredations to twelve
counties, and now, in the last
month of 1903, there is not a coun
ty in the State in which it cannot
be found.
It may be expected that Mr. Fox
will do good work for the State in
the matter of the horticultural dis
play at St. Louis, iu giving the
Pennsylvania Commission the bene
fit of his more than thirty years'
experience in the management of
agricultural and horticultural ex
hibitions. His recent notable sue
cess as manager of the industrial
and agricultural exposition held in
the city of Roanoke, Va., may be
regarded as pointing unerringly to
wnat may be accomplished for
Pennsylvania's honor and fame at
St. Louis."
ln!UllFiraaiHCJsiUl.llli. II IUMI
"G-ET THE IZIETZ'r
TWENTY SILVER DOLLARS
PRICE OF OOAL MOST 8TAY UP-
Several Big Companies Will Shut Down
During Holidays.
An Associated Press desnatch of
uec. 19 says : i ne Jehigh Valley
Coal Company and the Lehigh &
vviiKes tiarre coal Company an
nounce a suspension of work from
December 24. to Tanuarv and it is
iiKeiy mat this move will be fol
lowed by others. The Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Col Pom.
pany seem to favor this period of
suspension and restriction.
inose lamiliar with the coal
trade sav there is a hrislr HemnnH
for coal at present, and restriction
VBwnchitis
' I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral in iny house for a great many
years. It is the beet medicine in
the world for coughs and colds."
J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y.
All serious lung
troubles begin with a
tickling in the throat.
You can stop this at first
in a single night with
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Use it also for bronchitis,
consumption, hard colds,
and for coughs of all kinds.
Torn slits 1 25c., COc, $1. All iraulsfs.
Conialt yonr doctor. It h ssys talc It,
then do as h sayi. if he tolls you nut
to tuka It, I lion don't tak It. Hs knows,
Un It with Mm. W. r wllllnc.
J. C. AVER CO., Lowt.ll, Mail.
1 wtelra Mi Mi
TO BE
Given
For Particulars see
Window at
Townsend's
Clothing Store,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
is more to keep up prices for the
Winter than because of overpro
duction. The prospects for a good
Winter's work are bright a9 thtre
is a brisk demand for coal at all the
distributing joints.
The Delaware, Lacka wanna &
Western Coal Company will pay its
employees 7 per cent, advance on
the .sliding scale lor December.
This company computes the wage
rate in advance of the official fig
ures of Charles P. Neill, and p;vs
the men the incriase during the
month it is earned. The other com
panies pay the increase in the fol
lowing month. The December rate
is the sama as the official rate for
November, although the Lack
awanna's November rate was but 6
percent, over the scale.
Pomona Oraoga Meeting.
The first quarterly meeting of
Grange No. 5, of the subordinate
granges of Columbia and Lower
Luzerne Counties, will be held in
the hall of Rohrsburg Grange No.
108 on the first Friday of January,
1901, at ten o'clock sharp.
The forenoon session will be de
voted to the transaction of the
ordinary routine business. In the
afternoon the following program
will be the order unless changed by
the Orange:
PROGRAM.
The Welcome Address, Worthy
Master Bro. Geo. B. Patterson, of
Rohrsburg Grange,
Responded to by Bro. Russell
Karns, of Benton Grange.
Music, Benton Grange Quartet
Installation of officers for the
Next Biennium. by Worthy State
Lecturer Bro., Cornell.
Music, Columbia Grange.
Recitation, Sister Lizzie Heacock.
Benton.
Select Reading, Bro. O. T. Hess.
Col. Grange.
Music.
Address, by State Lecturer Bro.
Cornell, Along Educational Lines.
Music.
A talk on the Good of the Order.
W. S. Laubach.
The evening meeting will be de
vote 1 to the conferrine of the decree
of Pomona, if there be applicants
ior tne same. Matrons from ad
joining counties have a cordial in
vitation to attend and enjoy the
day with us. W.J. Bidlhman.
Woithv Lecturer.
Thirty-five Years a Judge J
The Hou. C. A. Maver. of T.or-fc
Haven. has been on the henrh Inner.
er than any judge in Pennsylvania.
In speaking of his unequaled term
of services the Democrat of T.opl-
Haven, speaks as follows :
'loday. December nth. lie
could be seen sitting upon the bench
in tne court house in this city, dis
posing of leeal points with his usual
dispatch and quietly celebrating the
73ra anniversary of his birth and
at the same time celebrating the
thirty-fifth anniversary of his
service on the bench. This is the
longest consecutive term any judge
in any district in the State ha
served. Judge Mayer has five
years of his present tefm yet to
serve and judging from his annear-
auce he will serve out that time and
have several vears to snare to rnner
with the young fellows after be has
rounded out his forty years on the
bench.
OAHTOIIIA.
Bears th ) i hi im you Have Always Bopi I
Silverware as Gifts.-
At almost one third less than
Jewelry Stores charge
you for it.
Children's Cups, Cream and Sugar Sets,
Match and Hsir Receivers.
Cake Dishes, Sugar Shells,
Butter Knives, Childrens' Sets.
Tea Sets (either 3 or 4 piece sets.)
IH1TATI0N TIFFANY WARE
at about 1-10 the cost of the srenuine. and
it takes an expert to tell the difference.
Fruit Bowls, Syrup Jugs,
Tobacco Jars, and Smoking Sets,
ROGERS SILVERWARE.
Wm. Rogers' Knives, Forks and Spoons
in 2 ounce goods. Dessert, Table
and Tea Spoons in Handsome
cases, either Oxidized or Bright.
FJP.PURSEL.
BLOOMSBURG, - - PENNA.
Thk Strenuous Like.
Everv dav the ixtrm .
quaniiiy of nutritious matter to supply the
deficiencies of the day before. The building
up process must begin at the breakfast table.
i r , me new ccreai, lasies gooa and fur
nishes that material A l.rnobr... KPL
fits the entire body for the strenuous trials of
me u. -it is maue ot ht i.i
wheat. has a taste to It. One dish
makes vou want another Vrn ..n ima
at any meal. At grocers eveiywhere. iy
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Practical Plumber, Steam, Gas and
Hot Water Pittera
Steam and Hot Water Heating. Lead Burn-
ing. Sanitary Plumbing of all Descrip.
tions. All Work Guaranteed.?
Estimates Cheerfully Purulsliei
438 CENTRE STREET, BEIX'PHONE
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
W. H. HOORE,
MAIM AND IRON STUEETS,
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.
W. H. MOORE,
Cor. Main and Iron Sta.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.