i 1 ffl 1 ' iff 'IfiiMf fifflfi MlfM vol 40. DLO OMSB UR G, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, IQ05. NO, 28 mm NEW ACCOUNTS Why You Should do Business With j 1 0e (gfoomeBurg (Uaftonaf Q&mft Ben i f ;1 'i It k.i if ':! 'I it i.i AT THE Farmers National Bank. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $140,000. Wc 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 usiness Success and Financial Strength this ank Occupies Front Rank. C. M. CKEVEUNG, Pukh. M. MIL LEI SEX. Casiiikk. WILL RUSH 1 TROLLEY WORK. Recent Action of Town Council Will Not in the Least Deter the Officials. 150 LABORERS EMPLOYED. The belief created by the recent action of the Bloonisburg Town Council declaring null atid void the ordinance granting to the Millville trolley line, the right to use cer tain streets of the town, that the work of construction of the line would be held up for an indefinite period, was dispelled on Tuesday, when one of the officials stated that not for an instant would the work of construction be halted. The company he said proposes to move right along. There are one hund red and fifty men working in the vicinity of Mordansville, to which point the operations have been moved, and this number will be augmented from time to time until the line is completed. The revocation of the ordinance by Council was occasioned by the Trolley Company's failure to begin the construction of the line within the time specified, which was with in one year from the day the re script was granted. Opinions, however, are greatly at variance in regard to what act ually constitutes the beginning of a trolley road's construction, and the probabilities are that the matter will be thoroughly ventilated be fore it is settled. W&GOS SMASHED IN EUNAWAY. The wild behavior of a spirited bay horse, owned by V. S. Morgain, proprietor of the Woolsey bakery, and used in the delivery wagon, created the greatest kind-of excite ment, on several streets Monday morning. The D. L. & W. station was the starting point of the ani mals wild run. What frightened it is not known, but it was seized with a sudden terror, and it "was entirely beyond the power of the driver William (juick to hold it back. He did manage to keep in the middle ot the road, until a point, near the corner of Center and Kighth was reached, when the ani mal made a sudden turn, upsetting the wagon, and throwing its con tents, a lot of freshly baked bread and buns all over the road. Quick was hurled out from the front of the wagon, and escaped with only a lacerated left hand and a few bruises. The horse was captured by William Rbodomoyer, who was working near the scene of the spill. The wagon was a wreck, but the horse was not noticeably injured. - LUMBERMAN'S 00NVESTI0N. A large gathering of the mem bers of the Lumberman's Associa tion met in Woomsburg on 'Wednes day in annual convention. The pro gram as published last week was fully carried out. The arrange ments, which were made mostly by S. C. Creasy and F. 13. Hartman, were perfect, and the visitors ex pressed themselves as greatly pleased with Bloonisburg . and the hospitality of her citizens. Many business places and residences were decorated in red and white, the Lumberman's colors, and the store windows of Clark & Son, Town send, Pursel, Hartman and Gidding were beautifully displayed in these colors. An excursion to Grasmere Park went up this morning, and a banqnet was given the visitors. COUNCIL HAD LONG SESSION. Perplexing Propositions Wore Wrestled With Until Nearly Midnight. SEWER STILL HANGS. J. P. Conway of Scranton shook hands with his many friends in town on Tuesday. Unless the Bloonisburg Land Im provement Company whose prop erty the construction of the proposed Fifth street sewer will greatly bene fit and improve comes forward and agrees to bear its share of the re quisite expense, the long desired and much needed drain will prob ably not be built for some time "to come. This sewer has for months been the all absorbing theme at the Council meetings. It was hoped Monday that the above mentioned company would submit . definite answer so that the matter could be settled, but not so. The subject as at the pieceding meetings, was dis cussed, but aside from that no definite action was taken and the sewer is apparently as far away as ever. Building inspector Samuel Shaffer reported that the Ilenson building on Iron street was unsafe and in a dangerous condition. A discussion developed the facithat the property belongs to F. P. Pursel, and the secretary was instructed to notify Mr. Pursel to remove the building. The committee appointed at a previous meeting to consider the advisability of a'lowing the Co lumbia ei. Montour Klectric Rail way Co., to put in a turn out switch at Jiarton street, ana a derailing switch, near the B. x S. Railroad, reported that they could see no ob jection to the switches, and alter Mr. Duy, who represented the com pany, explained the merits of the derailing switch, permission to do the work was granted. An ordin ance will be drawn and submitted at the next meeting and the ex penses incident to the same are to be paid by the C. & M. Co. Bruce Yost, appeared and made a request for a sewer on Jefferson street. Referred to committee on sewers. At this juncture all the members indulged in a lively and lengthy discussion regarding the manner of transacting the business of Council. That is, whether or not persons hav ing special matters for the council to cousider should be heard before the regular order of business is taken up. 1 he conclusion reached was that all propositions here after must be submitted in the form of a written petition. A. J. Robbins asked permission to use two feet of Murray Alley on which together with another foot he would give, to lay a three foot pavement along seven houses he lias erected there. There was some opposition expressed to granting the request, and it was given over to the committee on highways for investigation and to the solicitor for an opinion as to the legality of the same. Mr. Magee called Council's at tention to a mistake on the part of the assessors, by which the valua tion of the Webbing plant on Mar ket Street had been raised. It was formerly assessed at $1000, and the assessors, without giving him any notice, as required by law, had in creased it to $3000. This year the assessors, he said, admitted that an error had been made, and re duced it to $2000. He has paid this year's taxes and was ready ana willing to pay last year's on a $2000 valuation, but would not pay on the extra $1000. The matter, Mr. Magee stated, was brought up by him at this time for the reason that he was going away It is a strong, careful, safe, liberal and successful institution. It is a growing, active, progressive and accommodating bank. It appreciates the confidence of its patrons, and their interests are always carelully considered. Its officers and directors are men of high standing and integrity, chosen for their demonstrated ability in financial matters. Wc do not believe you can get better treatment than this bank wil give you, and we therefore invite yof to call upon us when in need of Banking- Privileges. A. Z. Sciiocit, President. Wm. II. Hidlay, Cashier. and would not be present at the next meeting. lie further stated that he did not care to be in the meeting when the matter was discussed. William Sechrist was authorized to clean up the street after each curb-stone market, he to collect five cents from each stand for re compense. The committee appointed 00 hawking and peddling on the streets, informed council that the report would be ready by the next meet iug. It seems that the town auditors in passing on the accounts of W. B. Allen, during his term as treas urer of the town, made a mistake. They charged him with a certain amount when he should have been credited with it. As a result there is still due Allen something like S47.00, which amount Mrs. Allen wishes to apply on her taxes. The matter was plain, but inasmuch as the money is cue Mr. Allen, the council decided that the allowance would not be made without an or der from him. Tl'.e recent change in the owner ship of the Bloonisburg Artificial Ice Co. plant, and the defective condition of the walk running along side of it, was talked over, and the secretary was instructed to notify the new owner to lay a pavement within twenty days or the town would do the work and add twenty per cent to the cost. In view of th? fact that several parties have ignored the notices to 1; y pavements it was the s"iis: of Council that the I own should go ahead with the work, and thus show the people that the notices are authoritative and mean business. After complaint made by Me. Magee regarding the pavement in front of Harvey Reiinatd's prop el ty on West Fifth street which he said was higher on the outside than on the inside, and prevented the surface water from tunning off, the street commissioner was instructed to look after it. Council was made acquainted with the fact that the sewer on Fast Third street is finished, but it seems that the Town Jriiginecr has not made his report. An soon as this is filed, which was ordered to be done, and the same shows that the sewer has been constructed accord ing to specifications the secretary will draw au order for the amount due. Mr. Magee called Council's at tention to the fact that on various places of different streets the limbs of the trees extended down so low that umbrellas cannot be used in passing under them. It was there fore decided that all property own ers having trees along the pave ments shall trim the same so that there is a cleat ance of at least eight feet. This work must be done within ten days, or the Town will do it and add the penalty. Regarding the Town bonds Mr. Magee stated that bonds amounting to $6,500 bearing four per cent, in terest would be due in August and he thought the same could be re funded at three and a half per cent. The matter was given into the bands of the finance committee. Up to this point everything per taining to thecouncilmanic machin ery had moved along smoothly and evenly. But the even tenor which characterized the long drawn out sesssion suddenly gave way to a spell of disputation and wrangle. To a person 011 the outside it was amusing, but there was but a few there to enjoy it. One spectator says it made the recent Wheelmen's minstrel version of a council meet ing look like stage money, and for humor, though perhaps the partici pants, he said, didn't see or couldn't appreciate it, it surpassed Grave's contribution to "The Chamber maid's Own." This will suffice to Cau. and si-; 15 our Purity Enamel Ware, MADU nv Stransky & Co., Who have been Awarded the First Prizes at the Following Exhibitions : 1872, Vienna, Austria. 1876, Phila., U. S. A. 1878, Pari: . France. 188 1 , Leipzig. Saxony. 1882, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1886, Edinburgh, Scot'and. 1887, Brussels, Belgium. 18S8, Melbourne, Australia 1 89 1, London, Kngland. iSo2, Munich, Bavaria. 1893, Rome, Italy. 1893, Chicago, U. S. A. 1894, Bomboy, India. 1895, Cairo Egypt. 1896, Nurnberg, Bavaria. For Sale by J. Q. Wells. convey an idea of how it happened. Chief of the fire department made his report and concluded by recom mending the purchase of five hun creel leet ot new hose. A repres entative of a hose manufacturing Lo., he said was present who would exhibit and explain the merits of his hose to Council. Here the Council divided and things got lively. Magee though in sympathy with the fire companies but slightly incensed against them lor ignoring a renuest for represen tation on the Fire Board, stoutly opposed the purchase of hose or any other supplies. Messrs Gig er and Rhodes were in favor of purchasing the hose be cause they said it was needed Then came a discussion. . Rhoads said the agent should be heard, but Magee said there was no use in it, as he would only say that his hose was the best 111 the world. Besid that he didn't think it good business to buy without first getting prices from other parties. In this he was supported by Ruuyon. Then Magee ca'lcd for a vote. Deily, Giger and Rhoads voted to buy the hose and Runyon and Magee voted against it. Miltlin didn t vote. Magee took another resource ahd moved for adjournment, but before it was seconded Rhoads and Deily moved that the agentjbe allowed to speak. The matter was finally settled by a motion to refer it to the Fire Committee. A resolution was introduced that immediate action be taken to pave Centre street, from Main street, to Pine Alley in accordance with the agreement as filed by property own ers at a previous meeting. Bids for the same to be advertised and open ed at a meeting to be held July 27th at 8 o'clock, p. tn. Giger and Rhoades moved that the resolutiou be adopted. This Mr. Magee oppos ed saying that the town did not have $500 to spare in paving a side street, and called for the ayes and nays. The vote resulted as follows: Ayes, Deily, Giger, Mifflin, Rhoades and Runyon, uay, Magee. Ordinance providing for the same was read. Mr. Magee claim ed that the ordinance was defective inasmuch as it did not contain the provisions under which the paving was being done and demanded an aye and nay vote on its adoption. The vote being called Deily, Giger, Rhoades and Mifflin voted aye, Magee and Runyon, uo. Mr. Magee insisted that the President's name be called and he voted aye. The matter of the sewer on Rail road street from Main to Fifth street was discussed and refered to the Town Engineer for an estimate of the cost. SPECIAL THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY 1 A OFF On All Summer Suits. BEN CIDOINC Corner Main and Center Sts. Come in and see us, we'll treat you right. SPECIAL JULY SALE OF SHIRT WAISTS AND SHIRT WAIST SUITS They will help solve the poblem of what to wear in hot weather. Prices a decided inducement. rHE LEADER STORE CO., LTD. 4TH AND MARKET STREETS. BLOOMSBURG, PA. 1 1 1 i TVtJT .!&' fc-
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