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VOL 40,
BLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUKE jg, IQ05.
NO, 26
ADDING M ACCOUNTS.
AT THE
Farmers National Bank.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $14O.O0O.
We are constantly adding new accounts and our business
is increasing at a very satisfactory rate. If you have not al
ready opened an account with us, we invite you to do so now.
In Point of Business Success and Financial
Strength this Bank Occupies Front Rank.
C. M. CHKVELING, Puks.
BRIDGE VIEWERS
MAKE REPORT
To be 1421 feet in Length, With
Paved Roadway of
20 Feet
Favor Overhead Crossing
The viewers appointed for the
river bridge at Mifllinville, finished
their work on Friday, and the fol
lowing day filed their report, which
is herewith appended iu full.
TO THIJ HONORABLE JUDGES OK
THE SAID COURT:
We, the undersigned viewers,
appointed by your honorable Court
on the 24th of May, A. D., 1905,
in the above relative to the rebuild
ing "f Ibe Mifflinville bridge, across
th'.- Susquehanna river at Mifflin
ville, in the townships of Center
and Mifflin, in the county of Col
umbia, and state of Pennsylvania,
commonly known as the MifTliu
ville bridge at a point where the
main road leading from the town of
Bloomsburg to Berwick near the
dwelling house of John C. Cryder
leads to Mifflinville in the township
of Mifflin do respectfully beg leave
to report as follows, to wit:
1. That after having been duly
sworn and qualified to perform our
duties according to law after having
given due aud public notice of the
time and place of meeting, we met
on Thursday June 22nd, 1905, on
thtjpretnises, all the viewers being
present, and thereupon we proceed
ed to view the site and location of
the bridge which was destroyed
while in the course of construction
by an ice flood on or about the 9th
day of February, 1904, and ad
journed to meet at the Commission
ers' office of Columbia County in
the town of Bloomsburg, on June
23rd, 1905, where we completed
our labors and made our report.
a. That the report of the view
ers by the Court of Quarter Sessions
of the Peace in and ior the County
of Columbia was filed on the 4th
day of February, 1901, in favor of
a county bridge across the Susque
hanna river, at the village of Mif
flinville, iu the townships of Mif
flin and Center, said county, which
report was on the 4th day of Febru
ary, 190 1, confirmed and approved
by the Grand Jury of the county of
Columbia, and on the 7th day of
July 1902, the said report was con
firmed absolutely by the said Court
and upon the same day, the Com
missioners of Columbia couuty ap
proved the same aud entered it as
a county bridge.
3. That the Susquehanna is a
navigable stream at the location of
the bridge and at this point is
more than oue thousand feet in
width where the proposed bridge is
located, which is the same as the
former location.
4. That on the 29th day of July,
1902, the board of Commissioners
of Columbia County, entered into
a contract with Charles II. Rei
mard for the erection and construct
ion of the said bridge at the con
tract price of ninety-three thousand
five hundred and eighty-five, $93,
585.00, dollars, and the said Charl
es H. Reimard, by and with the
consent of the Commissioners of
Columbia County, on the 12th day of
August, sublet the superstructure
thereof to the King Bridge Com
pany, of Cleveland, Ohio.
5. That before the said 9th day
of February, A. D., 1904, the time
of the destruction of the said bridge
as aforesaid the said contractors
bad furnished all the material for
the erection and construction of the
said bridge and the substructure of
the said bridge had been completed
and three ot the six spans required
for the superstructure had been
completed and placed in position.
M. MILLEISEN. Cashier.
6. That on or about the 9th day
of February, 1904, and before the
final completion of the said bridge
the portion already constructed and
completed as aforesaid, was destroy
ed and carried away by an ice
flood.
7. That the Commissioners of
Columbia Couuty had expended
upon the said bridge at the time of
its destruction, as aforesaid, the
sum of ninety-one thousand five
hundred and eighty-five, $91,585.-
00 dollars, being more than fifty
per centum of the contract price
thereoi, in the actual construction
and erection of said bridge.
8. That the stone used in the
superstructure in the piers is to a
large extent recoverable from the
river and this has been taken into
consideration of our estimate; that
the cost to rebuild this bridge;
also that the two abutments are iu
good and perfect condition.
9. That the plank so far as pre
served from said floods arc at the
southern approach of the said bridge
aud consist of about sixty thousaud,
60,000 feet of three and four inch
white oak plank, used for flooring
and hub-guards.
10. That the steel and iron used
or intended to be used in the con
struction of the said bridge was
saved and recovered from the ice
flood by the contractors and parties
in interest and was removed to the
King Bridge Company, at their
shops in Cleveland, Ohio, for re
pairs and preservation.
11. That an inventory of the
material on hand and procured for
the bridge intended for the con
struction of said bridge which was
destroyed is appended to the peti
tion for the appointment of viewers
in this case is made a part of this
retnrt.
12. That the unexpended mon
ey for the contract price of the
building of this bridge is two thous
and, $2,000.00, dollars.
And we further report:
1. That the said highway, in
the said townships of Mifflin and
Center leading to the Mifflinville
bridge, in the said county of Col
umbia, where the same crosses the
Susquehanna river are constantly
traveled and that it is necessary for
the accommodation of the general
public to maintain a public bridge
at this point.
2. That the said highways are
used by hundreds of workmen in
going to and from their work in
the public works at Berwick, Blooms
burg aud other points in the vicin
ity of this bridge, as well as by a
great number of inhabitants in the
southern end of Columbia and Lu
zerne counties.
3. We further find aud report
by reason of the destruction of the
bridge at this location, that the
said bridge be built one hundred
and tweuty-five feet longer on the
southern end of the said bridge
than the iormer bridge which was
twelve hundred and ninety-six,
1296, feet in length, makiug a to
tal length one thousand four hun
dred and twenty-one, 1421, feet iu
length, with a roadway twenty, 20,
feet wide said roadway to be paved
with brick, asphalt, Belgum blocks
or some other improved pavement,
with a foot walk on the eastern
side thereof, six, 6, feet wide, two
abutments, aud five piers, and we
further report that the southern
abutment be raised twenty-two, 22
feet above the tracks of the Penn
sylvania Railroad aud northern
abutment be raised six, 6, feet
above its preseut height, and that
the piers be built on the old foun
dations raised to correspond with
the abutments.
4. That we have takeu into con
sideration the material on hand,, the
unexpended money on the contract
price, and estimate the cost of the
bridge as aioresaid to be forty-five
thousand, 45,000.00 dollars.
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SPECIAL MEETING
TOWN COUNCIL.
Held to Considor Matter of
Constructing Fifth
Street Sewer.
NO ARGREEMENT REACHED.
That the recent proposition made
by the Bloomsburg Laud Improve
ment Company to the Town Council
touching the matter of the con
struction of the s:wer on Fifth
street failed to find favor with the
members of council, was shown
Monday night when at a meeting
especially called for the purpose
aud after the matter had been
thoroughly discussed both by mem
bers of the council and represent
atives of the Land Improvement
Company, no argreement was reach
ed. Every member of the council
was preseut. N. U. Funk Esq.,
aad O. W. Cherington represented
the Land Improvement Co.
President Yctter stated the
Council's position. He said the
coutribution from the Land Im
provement Company should be in
proportion to the benefits the com
pany would receive.
Mr. Magee stated that benefits to
the Company would be such that
they should be willing to contri
bute more than they had agreed to
in the proposition submitted. The
construction oi the sewer would in
his opinion iucrease the price of
each lot $50.
Mr. Fuuk, for the Company,
said the Town should be satisfied
with what they could get. Not un
til approached by President Yetter
and the Board of Directors of the
Hospital had the Company thought
of giving anything toward the con
struction ot the sewer, aud that
some of the stockholders had voiced
their objection to the proposition
already made, because they could
not see how the sewer wculd bene
fit the Company.
A general discussion followed in
the course of which Mr. Magee
asked Mr. Funk if the Company
would be willing to give the Town
three lots if the latter would lower
the sewer sufficiently to drain Fifth
and Sixth streets. This Mr. Funk
stated he was not in a position to
answer, but would bring it up be
fore the Board of Directors and re
port at the next meeting of Council
to be held July 10.
The proposition made by the
Company called for the acceptance
by the Town of Locust and Spruce
streets, which to repair would, in
the opinion of Council necessitate
an expenditure in excess of the
amount the Town would realize
from the sale of the two lots. It
was the consensus of opinion
among the Councilmen that the
Company should eliminate this pro
vision from their proposition.
A. W. Duy, Esq., for the Col
umbia & Montour Electric Rail
way Co., asked permission to con
struct and operate a siding on Main
Street, near Bartor Street, and
also to install a safety device on
Scott Town hill. Referred to Street
Committee.
Mr. Runyon offered an ordin
ance to regulate ditching and ex
cavating. It provides that permis
sion must be obtained from the
President of Council or some tnetu
ber of the street committee. That
so long as the same is kept open, it
must be protected by a railing
during the day, and by red lights
during the night. That all the
earth removed, must be put back
in the ditch, and the same tramped.
Violation of the ordinance to be
punished by a fine of $10.00. On
motion the ordinance was adopted.
Mr. Magee introduced an ordin
ance regulating hawking and ped-
Wm. II. IIidlay, Cashier.
Cau, and see our
Purity Enamel Ware,
MADE uy
Stransky & Co.,
Who have been Awarded the First
Prizes at the Following
Exhibitions ;
1872, Vienna, Austria.
1876, Puila. U. S. A.
1878, Paris, France.
1881, Leipzig. Saxony.
1882, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1886, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1887, Brussels, Belgium.
tSSS, Melbourne, Australia.
1891, London, England.
1892, Munich, Bavaria.
1893, Rome, Italy.
1893, Chicago, U. S. A.
1S94, Bomboy, India.
1895, Cairo Egypt.
1896, Nurnberg, Bavaria.
For Sale by
J. G. Wells.
dling and imposing a license for
thesame. It provided that hereafter
no person, firm or corporation
should hawk or peddle within the
limits of the Town of Bloomsburg
any goods, wares or merchandise,
except products of the soil raised
by the persons so hawking or ped
dling the same without a license
first had and obtained from the
President of the Council for that
purpose, the license to cost $100
per year or any fraction thereof,
and for violation of ordinance a fine
of $1.00 is to be imposed. On mo
tion the ordinauce was referred to a
special committee consisting of
Rhoades, Rnnyau and Magee to re
port on the same at the next meet
ing of Council.
The question of celebrating the
Fourth of July by the explosion ot
fire crackers etc., was discussed and
it was decided to enforce the Town
ordinance regulating the same. It
will however be permissible to fire
off crackers. The State law regu
lates what sort of fire works can be
used, and this will be enforced.
But Little Hope fur Recover
Rev. Amos S. Baldwin, Presid
ing Elder of the Danville District,
who has been very ill at his home
in Sunbury, has had recommended
to him a cancer specialist in Indian
apolis. Rev. Baldwin, if he is able
will leave for Indianapolis next
Monday, to place himself under
hospital treatment. Mrs. Baldwin
goes with her husband and will re
main with him for several weeks.
Mr. Baldwin has suffered greatly
for a year. Some time ago he con
sulted specialists in Philadelphia,
who pronounced his disease cancer,
advised against an operation and
gave but little hope. His many
friends earnestly hope that the hos
pital treatment may prove effective
in his case.
Celebrated Golden Wedding.
Joseph Patterson aud his wile,
who live on a farm iu the Catawissa
Valley near Ringtown, last week
celebrated their 50th wedding anni
versary. There were several gen
erations of the family at the cele
bration, which included a sumptu
ous feast. The happy couple who
have gone hand in hand for an
average lifetime were showered
with congratulations and presents
in keeping with the occasion. There
were present about fifty guests iu
attendance.
gen s,ddTn!
We have been asked by a
great many people to continue
our THREE FOR ONE sale an
other week. We will do so on
account of last week's rain.
3 FOR 1
TRADING STAMPS
THURSDAY,
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
The Last Time
This Season.
BEN CIDDING
Corner Main and Center Sts.
Come in and see us,
we'll treat you right.
Carpets Almost Given Away.
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Special June Carpet Sale.
Bring Size of room with you. ;
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Axministcrs, 1-7 en llSs j
Brussels, Qff Ingrains,
Velvets. Dollcir Squares.
Having bought the short lengths ;
and sample rolls of several Carpet
Mills, wc now oiler them to our custo
mers for 75c. on the Dollar. It will
pay you to buy for next year when you
can get such bargains as 7oc. all wool j
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heavy weight Ingrain for 55c., or a !
1.00 Velvet for 7oc. Don't miss i
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the sale.
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4TH AND MARKET STREETS.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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