VOL 40,
BL O OASB UR Gt PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1905.
NO, 12
M. E. CONFERENCE
STARTS TODAY.
Berwick Extends Welcome to
Methodist Ministers. Noted
Speakers in Attendance
SHAWNEE PARK
CHANGES HANDS.
Delightful Summer Resort will
be Controlled In Future by
Trolley Co.
Bishop FitzGerald will Preside.
To day marks the beginning of
the thirty-seventh annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Kpiscopal
Church of Central Pennsylvania,
at Berwick. Bishop J. N. Fitz
Gerald, who will preside, arrived
in Berwick on Monday, after having
traveled all the way from Porto
Rico.
Our neighboring town extends a
cordial welcome to the hundreds of
visitors, and will do her very best
to make the sojourn of the ministers
pleasant and profitable.
To day will be taken up chiefly
by examinations, and the organiza
tion ot the Conference. In the
alteruoon the Rev. Dr. James Mor
row will make an address at the
Bible society anniversary. In the
evening the anniversary of the
Educational society and the Freed
men's Aid and Southern Education
society will be celebrated, and the
Rev. Dr. E. L- Eaton of Allegheny,
trill make an address. There will
be addresses by Rev. Dr. W. F.
Anderson and Rev. Dr. M. C. B.
Mason. The same evening the
Epworth league anniversary will be
celebrated in the Presbyterian
church. Rev. Dr. Stephen Herben,
editcr of the Epworth Herald, will
speak.
On Friday the Woman's Home
Missionary society will hold a meet
ing. Miss Bertha Fowler, of Phila
delphia, will speak at this meeting.
In the evening Rev. Dr. Thomas C.
Iliff will speak at the board of church
extension anniveisary. Saturday
will be laymen's day, while the
Woman's Foreign Missionary
society will have charge of the
evening meeting. Mrs. M. S. Bald
win, of New York city, a worker
in China, "-ill speak.
Bishop J. W. Fitzgerald, D. D.,
L,. L. IX, will preach the Sunday
morning sermon. Among the other
interesting services of the day will
be a memorial service at 3 in the
afternoon.
Or. Monday Revs. James Hunter
and B. F Stevens will deliver semi
centennial addresses. The Preach
er's Aid society and the conference
annuity fund will be the subjects of
the evening's meeting and ad
dresses. Tuesday and Wednesday
will be devoted to conference busi
ness.
The Opera Houbb Proposition.
The printed report that a stock
company had been formed, a suffi
cient amount of stock subscribed,
the site selected and ground pur
chased, for a new Opera House in
Bloomsbure is, perhaps without
any foundation whatever. The report
gained currency through an inter
view held between Geo. W. Sterner,
owner of the alleged site on north
Market Street and Dr. J. C. Rutter,
in which the former stated that
J. M. Robbius, one of the stated
promoters of the new opera nouse,
bad expressed a desire to gam poss
ession of the property for the pur
f pose ot building tenement houses on
it, and tli.it lie. sterner, uau 111
lormed him, that if he had any in
tention of buying, he had best act
without delay, as a thirty day op
tion had already been given a man,
who he understood, represented a
theatrical syndicate or stock com
pany, and whose purpose it was to
build an opera house. This inter
view passed trom one to anoiner,
each doubtless enlarging upon it
until it reached the ears of a re
porter, who seeing the possibilities
of a good newspaper story, and rec
ognizing the pandemic interest it
contained, gave it publicity.
It seems strange that the story,
with all its detail, in the way of
plans, proposed width, heighth,
depth and even the stage equipment,
size and seating capacity, should be
entirely lacking in truth, but so it
appears. Each and every one of the
alleged promoters, disclaim any
connection with the move, and
furthermore, say that they have
never had any idea of investing in
such an enterprise.
Later developments may prove
that the story is not all invention,
but just now, in so far at least as
the men said to be at the head of it
are concerned, it fails in fact.
Public Will be Benefited.
A deal was consummated yester
day whereby the Columbia & Mon
tour Electric Railway Company,
purchased from J. R. Fowler the
lease to Shawnee Park, together
with all the property, consisting of
dancing pavilhou, eating stands,
merry-go round, bowling alley,
shootiug gallery, and swings. The
company will at once start to make
such other improvements as will
place it among the finest pleasure
resorts along the river. The whole
park will be lighted by electricity,
as will also the walk, leading from
the trolley track to the Park.
The park is to be free to the
general public, but dances other
than those of a private nature.
which must in every instance be
arranged for in order that dates
may not conflict, will not be
tolerated.
The proposed improvements to
the park, include the erection of a
covered platform fifty or sixty feet
In length, which will serve as shel
ter to the patrons in case of storm.
The company has not yet fully de
cided about building a switch into
the park, but the probabilities are
that one will be built.
A. W. Duy Esq., representing
the Trolley Co. and J. R. Fowler,
weut to Selinsgrove today to see
Mr. Gemberling, owner of the Park
and have the transfer of the lease
ratified.
Among the Ball flayers,
The opening of the base ball sea
son is fast drawing nigh. Already
the great national sport is the all
absorbing theme of discussion
among the lovers of the game in
town, and thev are many. In this
connection it may be interesting to
know where the local players will
cast their lots during the season:
Boyd Shaffer, goes to Chester, Pa.
where he will cover second base for
the independent team of that city.
Mover Lewis, will play one of the
outfield positions on the Louacoming
Md. team.
Roy Beagle is slated for a place
on the Mt. Carmel team, but bis
position has not been assigned.
John Hummel, who during the
nas". two seasous made such an en
viable record will the Wilmington
team, will this year wear a Holyoke,
Mass., uniform. He will take with
him, Ralph Edgar. McCabe, an
ex Normal school twirler, will also
play with Holyoke.
Ralph Savidge, of Mifflinville,
who has been dubbed the "human
whipcord," was in town yesterday
He had signed and expected to play
with Pittsburg this season, but
Manager Boyer, of the Savannah,
Ga , team i n the South Atlantic
League, has purchased his release,
and he will play with that team.
W. II. Coffinan has not signed as
yet, he but rather expects to go to
Wilmington Del.
Presidont Roosevelt Accepts Invitation .
President Roosevelt on Saturday
cave his assurance that unless
something unforeseen happens iu
the meantime, he will be m Wilkes'
barre on August ioth. This pro
mise was given to a delegation of
miners, who went to Washington
for the purpose of inducing the
President to visit the coal regions
The national convention of the C
T. A. U. societies will bi held in
Wilkesbarre on August ioth, when
the President is expected to address
the delegates. An effort will now
be made to have him remain until
the following dav and make an ad
dress to a mass meeting of miners.
Some time ago President Roose
velt made a partial promise that he
would come to Wi'kesbarre in
August, but Saturday's answer
finally settles the matter.
COMPTRO LLKU'H CA I A..
ItKPOHT OF TIIK CONDITION nK THK
Iloomsburg Hational Banl
At the Close of Business March 14th, 1905.
RESOURCES. LIABII.ITES.
Loans and In veHtmonts, -1417,357.(10 Capital Stock, $1(0,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures. - 8,000.00 Surplus mid Profit, (Net) H2,0T,37
CttHh and Keerve, - - 107,15I.(JU Circulation. - - 5!,000,(Xf
Hunk Deposits, - - 15,100.20
1 iidi vidval l)i'onitn, - ,W,718.a
$.i32,484.29
A. Z. Schoch, President.
$')32, 484.2!)
Wm. II. IIidlay, Cashier.
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MISS1NU MAN POUND.
Charles Johnson of Catawissa,
who has been missing from his
home for more than three months
has been located at Hornellsville,
N. Y. It will be remembered that
Johnson walked out of his homo on
the seventeenth day of December
to come to Bloomsburg. He called
on Dr. J. S. John here the same
day, after which he suddenly dis
appeared, and all efforts to get even
a trace of him were fruitless.
Several apertures in the ice, which
thn covered the river, under the
P. & R. Railroad bridge, over which
he was obliged to coss in order to
reach his home, gave rise to the be
lief that he had fallen into the river
and had been drowned.
He has made no explanation and
his family can give no reason for
his strange absence.
Death of Mrs. Margaret Vannatta.
Mrs. Margaret Vannatta, relict
of the late Thomas Vannatta, a
highly respected old lady, passed
away in death at her home on Iron
street, early Friday morning, in
the seventy-seventh year of her age.
She had been in feeble health, due
to her advanced years, for some
months, but her illness was of short
duratiou. Mrs. Vannatta leaves to
mourn the loss of a good, kind
mother, the following children :
Mrs. R. N. Lewis, of Pittsburg ;
Mrs. John L Woods, of town ;
Sade T., Lillian A. and Sophia B.
and Wallace at home and John E-,
of Lewistown.
The funeral occurred Tuesday
afternoon. Services were conduct
ed by Rev. R. S. Nichols of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church.
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Will Leave Eor State College Monday-
W. II. Housel, formerly and for
many years, the efficient steward
at the Normal Sahool, has shipped
his goods and will leave on Mouday
for State College, where he will take
up his duties as caterer in the new
McAllister Dining Hall. The
Rev. F. V. Frisbie, ot Orangeville,
who has been elected by the Board
of Trustees to succeed Mr. Housel,
will assume his duties as steward
and superintendent of grounds at
at the beginning of the spring term
next week. He and his family
will reside in apartments in the
upper building.
Will Bold Daucos-
Stanley Schuck, son of W. B.
Shuck, proprietor of the Susque
hanna House, Catawissa, and Miss
Jennie Fox, of that town were
married in St. John's Lutheran
Church parsonage, Saturday after
noon, by the pastor; Rev. Altpeter.
They will reside at Sunbury, where
the groom holds a good position.
The entertainment committee of
the Wheelmen has decided to give
a series of five dances. The func
tions will be held in Joe Fest's new
building on East Fifth Street, and
music will be turnished by an
orchestra of at least five pieces.
The committee is composed of
Gerald Gross, Warren Lee, II. T.
Achenbach, William Calhoun and
Reber Mears. This is rather an
innovation for the Wheelmen, but
with a committee as above mention
ed at the head of it, all afterthought
of failure is dispelled.
St- Patrick Day In the Evening.
The birthdayof Ireland's Patron
Saint was celebrated in Bloomsburg
by a dinner which James Magee II
tendered to the Superintendents of
the various departments of his
industries. This is the 3rd year
that his assistants have gathered
around the table to discuss other
things than carpets and yarns, and
all agree it was the most success
ful. Covers were laid for 19 and at
7:20 the guests were seated about
the table. The table itself was
unique. It was iu the shape of a
harp, wkh the strings, as someone
remarked, under the table. The
cover was green trimmed with gold
cord around the edges and the
green velour which hung grace
fully around the side was likewise
trimmed in gold, two narrow ribbons
at the bottom relieving the green.
Deep red roses were carelessly ar
ranged over the table. From the
chandelier over the center green
bows and Irish flags carried out
the color scheme. In fact it was
green everywhere, including the
shamrock which every guest found
on his napkin.
After grace the following menu
was discussed and the unanimous
verdict was that it should be put
down.
White Grapes, Sugared Orangei,
Oyster Cocktail,
Bouillon. .
Sweetbreads on toast.
Grape Sherbet,
Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce,
Mashed Potatoes, Corn Cake,
Red Beets,
Olives, Pic!les, Radishes, Celery,
Salted Almonds,
lee Cream, Fancy Cakes,
Candy, Nuts and Raisons,
Crackers and c:hees--,
lilack ColTee.
Favors.
The dinner was entirely informal,
no toasts being drunk. Simply 3
hours of good lellowship without a
discordant note to mar the pleasure
of all.
Atter the dinner, progressive
flinch was started and the rubber
was won by Messrs Frank Carpen
ter, and A. F. McCullum.
There were present, F. Carpen
ter, W. R. Kocher; T. L. Painter,
Williauisport; Geo. M. Tustlu;
John W. Evans, Berwick; W. Law,
A. Naylor, John litel, r. Wood
head, W. Hill, O. Aust, L Smith,
W. Hoffman, A. F. McCullum, R.
Mover, A. Byratn and Miss C. E.
Kelly.
As the guests bade good-night
they were asked to take a small
box of tiny candy shamrocks to
their wives, with the compliments
of the host.
While ascending the stairs at her
home near Jerseytown, late Friday
night Mrs. John ICrebs, slipped,
causing a lamp which she was carry
ing to fall from her hand to the
floor below where it exploded, set
ting tire to the house The struc
ture with all its contents were de
stroyed, cdusiug a loss of nbout
$1500. The insurance will not
cover half the loss. It was with
difficulty that the children were
rescued from the burning building.
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