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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
STRONGEST BANK
moo,
Capital tl
First National Bank,
OFBLOOMSUUItG, IA.
STATEMENT.
At the Close of Business November ioth, 1904.
RESOURCES.
jans,
. S. Bonds',
ther Bonds,
tilding,
$311,13 94
50,00.00
;i56, 125.00
27,100.00
e from Banks andJU. S. Treas. 34,159.71
. .tih and Reserve, 129,288.31
$698,705.96
E. W. M. LOW, President,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Blooms! iurg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EI.WELL, Editor.
D. J. TASKEk, Local Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tekms: Inside the county if 1.00 a year
In advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $ 1. 25 a yenr, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, Bloomshurjj, fa.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905.
Political Announcements.
SUBJECT TO THE RULES OF THE DEMO
cratic party.
Primary Election, Saturday
June io. Convention Tuesday,
June 13th.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
A. N. YOST
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
ISAAC REICHART
of Scott Township.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OF THE COURTS,
C. M. TERWILLIGER
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
M. II. RHODES
ot Bloomsbusg, Pa.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
ELISHA RINGROSE
of Center Township.
Subject to the rules ot the Republi
can Party.
Primary Election Saturday, April
15th. Convention, Monday, April
17th.
Little of importance has occured
in Congress during this week.
Judge Swayne has been acquitted,
a result long defore discounted by
the evident weakness o f the case
against him, although it is general
ly admitted that the House Mana
gers made a more creditable show
ing, in the light of the facts, than
did the defence. Most of the time
of both houses has been devoted to
consideration of the great supply
bills.
Senator Bailey has introduced in
the Senate a resolution which is cal
culated to reveal to the country that
nothing but the obstinacy ot the
Speaker of the House prevented the
admission of Oklahoma to the Un
ion, provided, of course, the Speak
er persists in his present course to
the end.
The naval appropriation bill has
passed both houses of Congress and
is now in conference. It provides
ror two new battleships and the de
bate in the Senate developed the
fact that the Republican programme
for the upbuilding of the navy will
provide for the construction of one
newbattleship each year, heerafter,
these ships to be constructed at an
approximate cost of $7,000,000 each
and the entire navy to call for annu
al appropriations of $i.ooo,ODO,ooo.
y ;
The' Russian government is be
leived to be making effort to induce
the 25,000 Slavs in the Pennsylva
nia anthracite region to return home
and enlist. Most of these men have
been in America only a few years,
and are favorably disposed. Free
passage and considerable money
constitute the consideration offered.
plus
Oi'O
LIABILITIES
Cnpital i
hurplus and Profits (net)
Circulation
Deposits
$100,000.00
1145.392 98
49,300.00
404,01298
9 698,705.96
E. F. CARPENTER, Cashier.
THE BAR.
Columbia County has on its kal
endar of resident attorneys, about
fifty names, gentlemen of good abil
ity, of high character, trained at
Classical Academies, at State Nor
mal Schools, at Colleges and Law
Schools of good reputation as educa
tors in their special departments and
studies. Complete amity seems to
exist between the different mem
bers and in a perfunctory way they
are end are held to be legal breth-
eru And yet when all that hns
beeu stated there seems to be lack
ing the atmosphere of cheerful fel
lowship which ought t o permeate
the intercourse of the members of
the Bar.
1 1 has been thought over and
talked over on many occasions, by
some with regret, and without re
sults, because no way of overcoming
the difficulty was possible or feasi
ble. The only suggestion that
seemed to have life in it, was to se
cure a suitable room within easy dis
tance of the Court House for a Law
yers' Club House and fit it up with
furniture, pictures and books, that
it would afford just such a place as
is needed for a n hour's recreation
and legal gossip, with just shop
enough to keep up professional in
terest, and news and literature
etiongh to stimulate a proper human
anxiety iu the doings of the world
of men aud women.
The man who can give these sug
gestions life and a local habitation
will be a real benefactor to persons
who need such a place for a quiet
talk, for an earnest talk, for a joke
full of innocent laughter, and for
awakening and keeping alive the
personal respect and professional
courtesy without which life will
grow more and more dreary.
A Matrimonial banger-
An Allegheny man who married
an athletic wife acquired a jag, went
home, tried to lick her, got licked
by her, was tied to a chair and
made a spectacle of for thj amuse
ment of the neighbors who were
called in by the busy little wife.
And then, because he yelled a few
when she was tying him, she had
him arrested for disorderly conduct
not because he tried to beat her,
understand, but because he was
noisy in defeat.
This should be a warning to
young men who in the spring will
inevitably let their fancy lightly
turn to thoughts of love and will of
a certainty contemplate matrimony.
Let us warn them right now that it
is the feminine fad to be athletic.
The fad won't last long, but think
of its harrowing consequences.
Suppose you get married to HER
and you and your jag try to whip
her, and both you and the jag are
put out of business by a few temi
nine punches on the jaw, and a
ladylike swing to the neck, and a
womanly slam in the solar plexus
that makes the jag lose confidence
in us staying powers, wouldn t
you hate like the dickens to be tied
to a chair? Is man's inalienable
right to get drunk and beat his
wife to be destroyed by a disturb
ing combination of pulchritude and
cross-counters, and muliebrity aud
straight leads. Woman is at all
times distracting enough, but the
man who marries the athletic girl
will not always be able to tell his
head from his heels. Ex.
Bill Against Pigeon Shooting.
The Philadelphia advocates of
the passage by the Legislature of
the bill prohibiting pigeon shooting,
are very active in offsetting the op
position to the measure. They are
flooding the state, especially, the
districts where the most opposition
exists, with literature pointing out
the brutality of maiming and killing
the birds for mere sport. The pro
moters of the bill believe if the com
mittee act favorably upon it that it
will pass the Assembly and Seuate.
IN THECOUNTY
ARGUMENT COURT-
Considerable Business Transacted at Mon
day's Session.
All the judges were present at
the March Session of Argument
Court, held on Monday. There was
110 audience. The lawyers inter
ested in the various cases, and the
newspaper reporters, constituted
the attendance.
The business transacted was as
follows :
Petition for appointment of a
guardian of Bessie Grimes, the
court appointed Wm. M. Grimes
guardian, bond being given in the
sum of $ 1 coo.
Petition of Wm. M. Grimes,
guardian of Bessie, to join in the
sale of real estate of Jos. Grimes,
dee'd. Granted. ,
In petition of Dora Ward, Re
becca Ward, John Ward. Maggie
Ward and Roy Ward, minor child
ren of John Ward, deceased. Jose
phine Ward was appointed guar
dian and the bond approved.
Petition of Josephine Ward,
guardian, to join in making deed,
etc. Granted.
In re-estate of C. C. Sharpless,
dee'd, report of sale confirmed nisi.
In petition of Locust Mt. Coal
and Iron Company, petition to
make roads, etc., granted by the
Court.
In re-estate of H. F. Ritteuhouse.
demurrer to petition of receiver to
vacate and set aside writs of execu
tion, etc , filed.
Venire was ordered for 24 grand
jurors aud 48 petit jurors for the
hrst week of May term, 1905, and
36 traverse jurors for the second
week of May term, 1905.
In re-estate of Emma II. Neal,
deceased, petition of trustee to bor
row money, granted by the Court.
Bradley W. Hess appointed
guardian of John W. Hess, minor
child of F. C. and A. L. Hess.
In case of John E. Gallagher vs.
John Sellers, petition for rule to
show cause why Seller shall not
bring action of ejectment within
90 days for lot described, the Court
made absolute the rule no answer
having been filed.
In petition for rule to show cause
why Sellers shall not bring action
of ejectmeut within 90 days for lot
described iu action of Wm. McCul
lough, et al., vs. Sellers, rule was
made absolute, no answer having
been filed.
In petition for rule to show cause
why actiou of ejectment shall not
be brought in action of E. S.
Reichart vs. Perry D. Hess, the
Court granted the rule.
Citation was awarded by the
Court and rule grauted to show
cause as prayed for iu estate of
Agnes Brown, late of Fishing
Creek.
Iu divorce proceedings of Sus
anna Pursel vs. Geo. W. Pursel,
alias subpoena was awarded and
the sheriff was directed to make
publication.
The Court appointed Michael
Murtrey guardian on petition of
John Murtrey.
The Court granted the rule to
show cause, etc., on petition of
Michael and Francis Murtrey to
file application for liquor license.
New Swindling Boheme.
Raised Money Orders t h e Uleit Plan 0 1
Operation,
The postoffice department h as
sent out warning to hotelkeepers,
merchants and others to beware of
purchasing money orders, as swind
lers are operating with them exten
sively. The scheme is to purchase
an order for $6 or $8 and then raise
it to $60 or $80. With the increas
ing order they pay hotel bills or pur
chaae merchandise for small a
mounts aud get $50 or $60, as the
case may be, ja change. When the
order is presented at the postoffice
it does not agree with the advice,
and by that time the swindler has
departed.
Ayers
We know what all good doc
tors think of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. Ask your own doc
tor and find out. He will tell
Cherry
Pectoral
you how It quiets the tickling
throat, heals the Inflamed
lungs, and controls the
hardest of coughs.
'.' Ayer'i Churrv Pectoral Is w.ll known In
our family. Vft think It Is th. best iudielu
Iu the world for courIii ntid coldi."
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One of Ayer's Pills at bedtime will
hasten recovery. Cently laxative
I1I0ES FOR MAKUll.
Rev. Ira Hicks, the weather
prophet, who foretold the January
and February bliz.ards, makes the
following predictions for March:
The 5th to the 17th will bring a
marked storm period, culminating
in rising temperature and general
storm conditions, ending iu wide
areas of rain and snow. Another
high barometer and March cold
wave may suddenly slip in from
the northwest from about the I7th
to the 19th, but it will give way
as suddenly as it came, aud the
most general and violent storm
conditions of the month will appear
during the storm period im
mediately following.
The storm period is from the
19th to the 24th, being at its center
on the 2 1 st. This is a storm period
that every student reasonably fa
miliar with our forecasts will watch
with much interest. The indica
tions are that tropical storms and
hurricanes will reach the extreme
parts of our south country about
the 19th to 22d, notably on aud
touching the 21st, and that rain
and high winds turning to snow
and very cold for the season, will
meet the tropical, equatorial storms
from the northwest. A severe
March blizzard over much of the
country northward is among the
probabilities at this period.
A reactionary storm period will
be central on the 27th, 28th and
29th. At this ime the temperature
will rise decidedly and general
storms of rain and wind, turning to
snow in the north, will pass east
ward across the country, all fol
lowed by another decided rise of
the barometer, northwesterly winds
and much colder.
The public should keep iu mind
the possibility of disastrous floods
during the month of March. Frozen
streams and rivers that do not break
up iu February will bring absolute
dauger to all localities not entirely
above the reach of such danger.
The month will not bring a maxi
mum of cold, but much precipita
tion in the form of rain, sleet or
snow will occur, with disagreeable
fluctuations of temperature, an un
steady state of the barometer and
some furious storms.
Lied Like the Devil.
In Criminal Court before Judge
Hart at Williamsport on Tuesday,
W. C. Currin, counsel for James L
McCloskey, denounced h i s client
and then threw up the case.
McCloskey, who had once before
been convicted, was on trial for wife
desertion and endeavoring to marry
a girl. Evidence was overwhelm
ing against the prisoner, who o n
ths stand endeavored to defend him
self by declaring that he was "only
fooling.
At this Lawyer Currin, address'
ing the Court, said "I have supreme
contempt for a man who will em
ploy a lawyer t o delend him and
then he like the devil to him.
leave this man aud his case in the
hands of the Courf "
There w a s a burst of applause
trom the spectators. The jury con
victed McCloskey without leaving
tne box.
. W. C. Currin, Esq. is a son of
Kev. Currin, former pastor of the
Evangelical Cburcb in Bloomsburg
Days are Growing Longer
The days are again growing long'
er. The period from sunrise to sun
set is lengthening, and it is possible
again to work indoors until 6
o'clock without calling into requisi
tion artificial light. The afternoons
have lengthened more rapidly than
the mornings because the sun has
been changing from "sun fast" to
"sun slow," occasioned by the elip
tical form of the earth's orbit, and
the varying route of the earth's
motion in its orbit.
Proof of Burial Necessary.
r
Governor Pennypacker on Fri
day signed the House bill requir
ing proof of the burial of the car
casses of sheep killed by dogs be
foie damages may be received.
The governor also signed the joint
resolution creating a commission to
co-operate with the New Jersey
authorities for the propagation of
sturgeon, shad, bass, perch or other
fish and the adoption of concurrent
laws relating to both states.
.
$12,000,000 for Publio Schools-
In the State Senate a bill was in
troduced appropriating $12,000,000
for the suppirt of the public schools
for the two years beginning June 1
1905; $2,000,000 for the encourage
ment and support of township high
schools, to be apportioned by the
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion in accordance with the provis
ions 01 existing laws.
Dears the . 1
K.ii J Viiii ll'i'.fl Always Uooia
TownsendTs
they'll wear out. The first kind
brings the customer back, the
other brings a big profitonce.
Our customers seem to keep
coming back. Whenever you see
a boy's suit that comes up smil
ing under all sorts of hard knocks
you're safe in guessing his clothes
came from here.
Boys' Strong Suits
From $2.00 to $6.00.
TOOT
A Peep At The
New Dress Stuffs
We show for the first, today, the new
Spring Dress Goods. And what a show
ing it is. The prettiest stuffs that France,
England, Germany and America have
woven are gathered here for you to
choose from. The highest designs and
weaver's art are here. It is a show of
Dress Goods that every woman should and
will be interested in. Big in scope and
accurate to a hair as to color and fabrics
that you should wear in gown and suit.
Come see the exhibit, when it is at
its best.
F. P.
BLOOMSBURG,
Build up
with Jayne's Tonic Vermifog'e
The great Invigorator for WOMEN. CWLpuf N ; gH My:N
BOYS'
CLOTHES
are made in two
vvays--one is so
they'll wear and
the other so that
PURSEL.
- PENNA.
your Health
and Strength