THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURQ. PA.
STRONGEST BANK
CAPITAL
$100,000.
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OI?KIOOMSURa, PA.
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INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK.
OFFI U K H S :
K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Stawr, Vloe President.
K. It. TiiHtin, Vice President. K. V. Carpenter, CnHhler.
DIHKCTOItS:
K. W. M. Low. V. (. York, Frank IMer, Joseph Rattl,
E. B. Tustin, Fred Ikeler, (ieo. S. Bobbins, 8. C Creasy,
J. M. Staver, M. I. IiOW, Louis Gross, H. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Mornino,
At Bloomsburg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
Terms: Inside the county $1.00 a year
la advance: Si. (oil not paid in advance,
Outside thecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should le addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, lMoomslurR, Pa
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1905.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDf.K,
JOHN B. RAND,
fcf Westmoreland County.
FOR STATK TRKASURKR,
W. II. HURRY,
of Delaware County.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK
OK THE COURTS,
C. M. TURWILLIGUR
of Blootnsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
FRANK V. MILLER
of Centralia.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
CHAS. L. POHE,
of Catawissa.
TERRY A. HESS
of Bloom sburg.
P0R COUNTY TREASURER,
M. II. RHODES
ot Bloomsburg, Pa.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL
of Blootnsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITOR,
C. L. HIRLEMAN
HARRY B. CREASY.
.TO THE TAX-PAYEES and V0TER8 OF
COLUMBIA OOUHn
Several articles have recently ap
peared in tha county newspapers in
which are urged the expending of
large sums of money in bnilding
additions to the Court House.
If this should be done it would be
adding a heavy burden to the pre
sent high tax rate and large county
debt.
I feel therefore, that, as the reg
ular nominee of the Repblican Party
for the office of County Commis
sioner, and asking the suffage of
the people, I should give to the
voters and tax-payers of the couuty
a clear statement of the position I
shall take in the matter if elected
There is absolutely no necessity
for rebuilding or making additions
to the Court House.
I believe in taking the best care
of the property belonging to the
county, in keeping the buildings in
proper repair, and the bridges and
highways safe so that the people to
whom they belong shall be able to
use them in comfort or travel in
safety; but I do not believe in heap
ing upon the shoulders of the tax
payers of our county any increase of
indebtedness or taxation beyond
what is plainly necessary to the
proper preservation and care of the
property for the use and needs of
the people.
If the voters of the county shall
honor me by electing me as one of
the Board of Commissioners, 1
pledge myself to look carefully and
conscientiously after the interests of
every tax payer and the whole
people, and to exert every effort to
reduce the county debt and to lessen
the burden of tax on the people and
to conduct the office with out any
waste of public funds.
' E. Rinorosk
3t Berwick, R. F. D. No 3.
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus and Undivided Profits
8150,000.
Alfi 8HIP3 ANUTflE NORTH POLE.
For many years past fortunes
have been spent and many lives lost
m the effort to discover the north
pole. The subject has been dis
cussed in newspapers and by scien
tific societies for nearly a century,
but as yet no satisfactory reason has
been given as to the necessity of
discovering the extreme northern
end of the axis of the earth. Co
lumbus discovered America, and
Livingstone and Stanley opened the
wilds of Africa to the civilized
world, and thereby rendered inesti
mable service to humanity. But
what good the finding of the north
pole is going to be to the' wor)d is
not yet known. It would no doubt
be a comfortable place for a summer
hotel, but if after repeated attempts
and enormous expenditure, cover
ing many years, Commander Peary
has not been aule to arrive there
yet, it is not likely tint summer
boarders would flock there in pay-
tig quantities. Should Peary suc
ceed in his present attempt upon
which he entered last week, it
would give to an American the
honor of having accomplished what
no other man ever did, and wou'd
make a hero of the intrepid explor
er. What is to be done with the
north pole after it is found is an un
known problem.
Another thing upon which much
inventive genius is being overwork
ed is the attempt td navigate the
air. In this too a number of lives
have been sacrificed. Several air
ships have been mrde that sailed
around apparently at the will of the
operator, but all of these have end
ed in disaster, and most of them
have killed their man.
Here, too, the question may be
asked: What will we do with it?
Possibly some cue may invent a
machine that will fly long enough
to make it profitable as a novelty at
county tairs, but as a means of
travel or lor any other permanently
useful purpose, the timeaud money
that has been expended in this line
seems about as useless as the long
continued but thus far futile search
for the north pole. However the
two seem closely linked together,
for wheD the pole is finally located
there will probably be an Aerial
Navigation Company ready to trans
port tourists from all the inhabited
points of the earth by air line, thus
avoiding the perils of contact with
the northern ice bergs and the polar
bears. Equally as wonderful things
have happened. Who knows?
White Haven people are becom
ing much exercised on account of
the presence in that vicinity of so
many tuberculosis patients that a
movement is on foot to prohibit
cousumptives who are being treated
at the sanitariums from entering
the town. A number of local
physicians have declared that the
disease is contagious, and this has
excited the residents. They are
up iu arms and demand the removal
of the institution lrom the borders
of the town.
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The Scoring of Wall Street.
In his report on the Equitable
Life Assurance .Society, Slate Super
intendent Hendricks sounds one
warning which is of especial inter
est to the public, and which lias
broad and direct application to all
kinds of trusteeship where there is
danger of too close intimac? with
Wall street. Mr. Hendricks is en
tirely correct in his statement that
popular confidence in insurance com
panies cannot be restored until the
management of insurance affairs is
taken entirely out of Wall Street
The disclosures which have been
made in connection with the Eqtiit
able affairs have revealed the out
lines of a situation which spells cor
ruption in its most dangerous form,
The wonder is that so much money
actually does come into the street to
lubricate the wheels and keep them
going, l-.stimates as to the ed rock
cost of keeping the machinery of
Wall Street speculation in motion,
vary from $25,000,000 to $50,000,
000 annually, before a base line can
be reached from which the public
can hgure on getting an even break
tor its money.
These odds, great as they are, do
not represent all of the truth, for to
that tax must be added money illic
itly grabbed off in the handling of
the public's funds. This is where
the back-breaking drag comes iu.
It is this unseen and unidentified
tax which makes it almost impossi
ble to win in Wall Street.
The public has hit upon the pro
per method of beating Wall Street,
and that is to keep away from the
Stock Exchange, and to withstand
the temptations to engagj in the
game of speculation in that theatre
of hazardous activity. It has been
said that the only way to beat the
horses, the stock market and gamb-
ing table is to keep away from
them. This is the plan that has
been adopted by the great mass of
people, so far as relates to Wall
Street. The public distinctly is not
u the market, and the recent dis
closures of crookedness, and busi
ness immorality in high places fur
ther emphasize the popular deter
mination to stand aloof and watch
the play from a safe distance. Wall
Street is no place for th; public's
money.
And when it comes to that, the
undreds of thousands of small
capitalists of the nation can very
well spare Wall Street from their
programme. They have numerous
and diverse legitimate opportunities
tor the investment of their money
without seuding it to the stock ex
changes or boards of trade to be
jeopardized, and, four times out of
five, lost. True, the country is
growing up to the over distended
corporate capitalization, but there
is so much wind and water in exist
ing issues ot stocks and bonds that
only those who are in a position to
give close study of values can make
investments with safety on the big
exchanges. Even those who by
long experience, training and fami
liarity with the situation are best
qualified to act intelligently, lose
money more often than they win.
W. G. Nicholas, in Cent Per Cent
for August.
Rural Free Delivery Increasing Rapidly,
Great is the rural free delivery
service, and it is going to be great
er. According to a st tement from
the postoffice department, during
the past year nearly 49,000 applica
tions tor rural service were re
ceived. Up to the close of the fiscal
year 12,000 had been rejected,
mostly because the proposed routes
fell below the standard in probable
patronage, and 7,492 were granted.
A good number remains to be pass
ed upon even if the demand does
fall off, which will not occur for
some time to come. On July 1st
there were in actual service 32,058
rural routes, many in such fine
shape that the department is pre
paring to have the boxes numbered
so that mail may be addressed to
box numbers as is now permitted
in the case ol postoffice boxes. This
move in itself may not be a very im
portant improvement, but it is evi
dence that the authorities are bent
on making the service as nearly
perfect as may be, and as such it
will be welcomed. These thirty odd
thousand scouts of the postal ser
vice and incidentally of progress
and enlightenment, cost the tax
payers a prztty penny each year,
but they are worth all they cost.
The department was recently in
receipt of a communication from
Georgia that the telephone and the
rural delivery of mail have in
creased laud values lrom $io to
$100 per acre. Georgia is no excep
tion, for all over the land the farm
er is beginning to feel the. benefits
that accrue from his being brought
into closer touch with the world.
The W. C. T. U. will picnic
Columbia Park tomorrow.
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PREPARING FOR CONVENTION.
Democrats
n Large Numbers
at Harrisburg.
Will Convent
Democratic leaders from all parts
of the State are turning their atten
tion to the convention to be held at
Hamburg this month and there
aie prospects that it will be one of
the largest for some time though
it is merely a reconvened body.
SLite headquarters attaches are now
making the arrangements and will
have each seat in the Hoard of Trade
numbered so that everyone will get
a place. Hotel accommodations are
being secured and fiom the reserva
tions the attendance will be notable.
Boomers of Judge Stewart are
numerous throughout the State and
while they will not have any head
quarters at Harrisburg there will be
select bands of his friends among
the Democrats to urge his selection.
The date of the Democratic re
convened meeting will be almost
coincident with the Prohibition State
convention at Williamsport and
there is considerable interest to see
what will be done.
Want Advice from RocseTelt-
Coal Diggers Eipect Him to Talk t Strike
Situation.
Some of the large coal companies
in the vicinity of Wilkes Barre have
ordered their collieries closed for a
period including August 10, the
day when President Roosevelt will
be there to address the miners and
temperance workers, and all the
smaller companies are expected to
do the same.
The mine workers have express
ed their intention of attending the
great event, and the operators seem
desirous that they should hear the
advice that President Roosevelt is
expected to give them. Union
officials are to invite th? operators
to hear the address.
As President Roosevelt is fami
liar with conditions there, and abo
aware of the fact that the three-year j
agreement whioi he did so much
to gain for the miners, expires next
April, it has been expected ever
since he agreed to address the mine
workers that he would deem it his
duty to advise them in some way re
garding the coming crisis, when
they will appeal to the operators for
a renewal of the agreement and
further concessions. If he does not,
they will be greatly disappointed.
Fully 250,000 people are expect
ed there on that occasion, and the
miners have organised a thorough
staff, not only to direct the parade,
but to handle the crowd and act iu
a police capacity, in case ? uch ser
vices should be needed.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
Democratic Slate Committee Rooms.
Harrisburg. Pa., July 5, 1905.
To Democrats of Pennsylvania:
In obedience to the instructions
of the Democratic State Committee
and as required by Rule VI., of the
rules governing the Democratic
Organization of the State, notice is
hereby giveu that the Delegates to
the Democratic State Convention,
which a;et on the 24th day of May
last, will reconvene at Harrisburg,
at 12 o'clock noon, in the Board of
Trade rooms on
Wednesday, August 16, 1905,
for the purpose of placing in nom
ination One candidate for Judge of the
Supreme Court.
And to transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before
it, in the interest and welfare of
the Democratic Party.
P. G. Meek, J. K.P.Hals.,
Secretary. Chairman.
State's Telephone Business-
Three
Hundred
Use
Thousand 'Phones
In Pennsylvania.
are In
An idea of the telephone business
in Pennsylvania can be had from
the reports issued by the Depart
ment of Internal Affairs, as all tele
phone companies are required by
law to make these reports to the
state. From these reports it is
learned that there arc. in addition
to the Hell company, eighty-seven
independent companies operating in
the state. 1 he independents re
port a total of 83,533 telephones in
service, while tne JJell companies
report 216.017 'phones, making a
total of 2oy,540.
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A Chance Today at
More Wash Dress Stuffs.
25c. Dress Ginghams at 15c.
Mostly stripes, but a few plaids in the lot.
Some Scotch Zephyr among them.
25c. Organdies at 19c,
12J4c, Organdies at 8c.
Pretty as the flowers they are so fullc. They
make the daintiest of frocks, and at these
prices should move out in a jiffy.
20c. Mohair Lustre at 15c.
For Dresses and Waists, one of the best wool
stuffs -we've had all season.
25c. Silk Gauze at 18c.
15c. Silk Gauze at 12jc
We will have to give first place for coolness to
the flimsy stuff. Mighty pretty, too. Both
dotted and plain.
15c. Cotton Taffeta 12c.
15c. Mousaline 12c.
Both in cool, soft colors, the kind that are
serviceable. Plenty, if you come early.
25c. India Linens, 18c.
It is 30 inches wide and worth the 25c. we
usually get. It is, in fact, of extra quality.
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