4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUKa. STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,003. Undivided Profits $30,000. First National Bank, OF U&UOMBHUttG, 1A. MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSIT YOUR SAV INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK. O F F I C EHSi ,. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. K. B. Ttistin, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier. DIUECTOItS: r. V. M. Low. F. G. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Itattl, i". It, Tustin, Fred Ikeler, Geo. 8. ltobblus, K C. Creasy, J. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. Hower. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 Published Every Thursday Morning, At Blojmsburg, the County Seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI. WELL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman. Terms: Xnside the county $1.00 a year la advance; $ 1 .501 f not paid in advance. Outside the county, f 1.25 a year, strictly in Advance. All communications should beaddressed THE COLUMBIAN, UIoomsl.urR, Ta THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907 CREASY FAVORS A SCHOOL COMMISSION Democratic Floor Loader Bolieves Stale's Educational System Needs Revision Throughout and That the Standard Should Be Raised. The Philadelphia Press says: The public school system of Pennsylvania is receiving consider able attention from members ol the Legislature. The fact that the M :ystone State stands nineteenth i 1 educational standard is con r med by almost every legislator. V 1 i : declare it to bean outrage .... 1 have pride enough to urge 1... it it should stand first. Already ' several measures have been introduced to improve the school system, and there are many others to follow. However, it is believed that too many laws practi cally makes them all useless. To get at the very bottom of the mat ter, "Farmer" Creasy, of Columbia County, the Democratic floor leader of the House, who has given school matters considerable study, believes that he Legislature should provide a commission to go into the school system of the State and learn what is needed to raise the standard. The commission he would have composed of the most prominent educators of the State, and they should be given power to examine the systems which have placed other States in the van of Pennsyl vania. They would be required to report to the next Legislature with recommendations for laws to wipe out all existing school measures and reorganize the entire system. Representative John W. Carson, of Beaver Falls, is also an advocate of better school system. He has a measure providing for a uniform system of examination for appli cants for teachers' positions, which he will introduce later. The bill directs the Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction to prepare a uniform system of examination which shall be operative in every county of the State. Another bill along this line is be ing prepared by Representative M. H. Shannon, of Luzerne County. His measure will provide that the Courts shall have the power to ap point a board of commissioners to examine teachers. It is said that in many counties the school directors control the ac tions of the county superintendents in granting certificates, and rela tives of directors are given prefer ence and the examinations prepar ed' to suit their ability. It is also charged that many school directors in the State have grown rich selling teachers' certificates. This and the Carson bill would be aimed to break up this practice. A short bill has been introduced in the State Senate having for its object to limit the places wherein the sessions of the Superior court shall be held and placing Scranton and Williamsport outside the cir cuit of the court. The amendment in the bill provides that the court shall meet only in Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Harrisburg' once a year. There will be a vigorous opposition to the measure. IN THE COUNTY Surplus $150,000. REMINISCENCES. . A Glance at the Customs and Pleasures ol Former Days. As I am just emerging from n long and serious siege of Bright's disease, which rendered me un conscious, or delirious most of the time for nearly six weeks, and now, while in a state of convalescence, I feel in a mood to search the archives of memory for the simplicity of family life in my youth, as com pared with family life at the present day. This wasbefore the irresistible tide of progression and invention swept so forcibly over the whole country and rendered life so stren uous that the whole business world is on the verge of nervous prostra tion. Then the habitations of the peo ple were of the simplest and plain est kind, and ventilation was so spontaneous that the people never lacked f:r fresh air in their homes. Moft every home was blest with a large family of children and to feed and clothe them taxed every energy of the parents, as nearly all cloth ing was homespun and home made. The children were shod in the winter with heavy cowhide shoes, while in the summer it was the "barefoot boy" and barefoot girl. Most every family fattened from seven to eight porkers, weighing from two to three hundred each, and when butchering time came, they were killed aud salted down for the year's provision of meat, and the delicious sausage they made by the washtub f till, some of which was salted down, some hung up to dry, and some smoked. Ah ! when the good house wife bad her frying pan full of meat over the chimney fire, aud the griddle hanging from the crane, baking the delicious buckwheat cakes, and the coffee pot steaming with boiling coffee, all this in preparation, while the hungry children waited for the stack of buckwheat cakes and hog sop to be carried on the table with the steaming coffee, to satisfy their appetite which was intensified by the smell of the palatable viands, while roasting and frying. This was not the experience of one family only, but it was the rule of the day and the custom of the people. Now we will take a peep at the country cross-roads school. There did rot only come the little urchins of ten or twelve summers, but all the young men and women until the little school house was crammed with fifty and sixty scholars. Now be it remembered, the text books were also few and of the simplest kind, while the master usually bad not mastered all of these. Of course, the facilities for gaining knowledge were few and limited, the boys and girls could not make much progress under the circumstances, especially when the master was not very far in advance of them. Still another thought in considera tion is this : The health of the Why Refer to Doctors Because we make medicines for them. We tell them all about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and they prescribe it for coughs, colds, bronchitis, con sumption. They trust It. Then you can afford to trust It. Ask your own doctor. The beet kind, of a teatimonial "Sold ior over sixty year." A Had by J. a. Ayar Co., Lowell, Mmi. Alma unubotunn of f SARSAPARILU. yers PILLS, mm VIQOR. Wa hava no aeorata I Wa publlah tha formnlaa of all our medlolnaa. I Ayer's Pills greatly aid the Cherry Pectoral In breaking Lip a cold. people, oung and old, was far Miperior to that of the present day. Was not the simple and plain life and habits of the people more con ducive to henlUi than is the strenu ons life with increased comloits and luxuries which the people enjoy at the present da ? At ill it time, as I recollect it, thete were only three physicians from Oraugeville to ShicKsbmny and between the Knob and Isorth mountains, nnd these were Dr. Full tner of Benton, Dr. Barrett of Cam bra and a Dr. at Town Hill I remember calling Dr. Barrett on a professional visit when young man, and who came a dis tance of five miles, and when I asked : "What is the bill," he answered, "one dollar." At that day the flouring or grist mills were run by wooden cogged machinery and wooden shafting, then later by cast iron cog ma chinery whertas now they are run by belting. It may b" urged that the pecple in the time I refer to, by reason of incessant labor, necessitated by the clearing up ol the forests into beau tiful and productive farms, in addi tion to making provisions for the comfort and happiness of their fami lies through the preparation of the various fibers, through home manu factured cloth in sufficient quantity to clothe their families, all of which was accomplished by rude farm im plements and imperfect machinery, or machinery that only partially did the work for which it was in tended ; that by reason of all these inconveniences that the people were slaves, without any hope of ever gaining freedom. Ah! they only performed loving duties which were a pleasure, and not irksome, for the sake of the loved ones depending upon them for the comforts of life. But again it may be urged that the people, old and young, had no recreation nor social enjoyments. You should have seen the people of a neighbor hood make a bee, or spell of any kind, and without ex.eption they turned in and helped each other clear the land of stone and rubbish, or whatever job was to be done. But along with these things went the bottle to stimulate the weary and fatigued, and to renew them to further energy. But again, 111 those days there were hardly any, if any churches. The people of all denominations worshiped 111 school houses and strange to say, at every service the school houses were crowded to the wall. Manypirited revivals have I witnessed during protracted meet ing held therein. But for social enjoyment, the winter season afforded many oppor tunities which the farmers and their families improved to the utmost. During the seasons of good sleigh ing the farmers would hitch their horses to the big sleds, and with large strings of bells encircling the horses, several familes would crowd into the sleds and a happier uuu merrier set o: people could never be found in any age, and they would drive four and five miles to some friend's, and spend the night in the most social enjoy ment imaginable. The music of the sleieh bells could be heard on a still wintry night, in almost every direction for miles around. I really love to re flect upon these days of simplicity, honesty, and good will, among: the people, though rude and hard the way of mak-ng a living. J. C. Wenner. Tretpass Notices. Card siirns NoTresDassiner" for sale at this office. They are print ed in accordance with the late act of 1903. Price 5 cents each, tf Bill Affects Judges' Pay. Ten Dollars 1 Day lor Sitting In Other Districts When the judges' salarv bill was passed in the session of 1903 there was a provision that judges should receive no compensation, except traveling expenses, for holding court in other districts to which they might be called. Previous to that they got $10 a day for services in other districts, and one judge was known to draw from the State treasury nearly $2,oco a year for sitting in outside districts. Bv a bill introduced by Senator Langfitt, of Allegheny, the practice of pay ing itinerant judges is to be reviv ed. It authorizes the chief justice of the Supreme Court, at there quest of any court or bar associa tion, to designate a iudce to sit in court of a district other than his owu. The judge so assigned shall be entitled to receive in addition to his salary his actual expenses ttid $10 per day, which shall be paid out the State treasury. OASTOIIIA. Ban ,, llu Kind Vo-j Hn Wmir New Bills Introduced. Relating lo Public Schools, Barbers and Social Clubs. Senator Miller, of Bedford has' introduced a joint resolution in tin: j state senate lor the appointment by ; the Governor of a commission for and collecting the laws touching upon the public school and for the further purpose of suggesting new legislation for the welfare of the schools. The Governor is to ap point seven competent citizens, of whom the State hiiperintendent ot Public Instruction ex officio shall be oue. as commissioners. It will be the duty of commissioners to collate and reduce into one act all the acts and statutes relating to public schools and arrange the same systematically under proper titles, divisions and sections, to omit in such revisions all acts that have been repealed 01 supplied by sub sequent acts or which have expired and to prepare aud submit such bills to the next Legislature as they shall deem necessary to make the public schools more comprehensive, efficient and adapted to the needs of its citizens. Senator Kline, of Allegheny, be lieves that the Sate board of barber examiners should be es tablished, consisting of five skilled barbers, to be appointed by the Governor, who must have had ten years practical experience. With this cud in view, he has introduced a bill. Under its provisions no persons shall follow the occupation of barberiug without having ob tained a certificate of competency. A person engaged in the business three years or more shall be known as a practical barber, and less than three years shall be considered an apprentice. Kach applicant for registration and certificate of license is charged a fee not exceeding $5. The apprentice lee is fifty cents. The board shall have the power to evoke any certificate on account of conviction of a crime; habitual drunkenness for six months imme diately preceding the filing of a charge; gross incompetency and the unsanitary condition of the harber shop. II a bill introduced by Senator Herbst, of Berks County, become a law, every social club dispensing any alcoholic or malt liquors to its members shall before so doing take out a license from the Count- Treasurer, which shall be good for three months from its date of issu ance and no longer. For every such license there shall at the time of its issuance be paid to the County Tieasurer a sum equal to one-fourth of the retail liquor venders licensed by the Court of Quarter Sessions in the city, borough or township where the club is located. Any social club at which any such liquors are dispensed without such license iq full force at the time shall be deemed a public nui sance and abataole as such, and all persons concerned in its mainte ance or operation shall be liable to indictment for maintaining a public nuisance and upon conviction shall be subject to the same penalties as upon conviction for selling liquor without a license. No license obtained under the act shall authorize the dispensing or selling of any such liquors to persons not members of the social club licensed, nor to minors, nor to persotfs of intemperate habits or visibly (Effected by drink, but any person conc.rned in dispensing or selling such ljquors to any person of the classes aforesaid shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon indictment and conviction punish able in the same manner as for sell ing liquor without license. Wolverton Declines to Serve. Offered Position ot Senior Counsel lor Capi tol Investigation. Senator S. P. Wolverton, of Sun- bury, who was offered the position of senior counsel ior the capitol in vestigation committee, has declined to serve. Mr. Wolverton was in consulta tion with Governor Stuart on Fri day, and returned to bis home in Sunbury without accepting. On Saturday he communicated with the governor to the effect that he would not accept the appointment, stating that he was unable to leave his business to attend the bearings ot the committee. towm STILL CONTINUES BIGGER WE HOVE IH TO WW KB The February Our Annual Sale of Linen is now on. We promise you that there's enough linen here to stock a dozen ordina ry stores ; that we bought the bulk of it before the present high prices (for linens have jumped sky high); that we have not advanced our regular price, and that our regular Prices Are Slaughtered for This Sale THE BLEACHED Our 50 cent Mercerized Our 89 cent " Our 70 cent " Our Si " Regular 25 cent bleached linens reduced to 50 cent 60 cent 65 cent 75 cent 85 cent 1. 00 1.25 1.50 1- 75 2.25 2.50 2- 75 The Unbleached Table Linens are all proportionately. NAPKINS REDUCED. TOWELS and TOWELINGS. There are bargains ga lore in towels and toweling be here early. The 2 c kind 21c a pair. The 30c kind (extra large; 25c pair. The $1.00 kind for 78c a pair. F, P BLOOMSBURG, Cut off that cough .layne's t-xpecfoTTT and prevent ronCiHtU and COniumnrinn. ... . The world's 8tancW Thmm t m:v- u travutviub tur y 7 can. Get it of your druggist and keep h SALE BARGAINS TWO MONTHS. Linen Sale! TABLE LINENS. Damask reduced " ' " " to 45 cents 69 cents 59 cens 85 cents 19 cenls 39 cents 49 cents 52 cents 65 cents 72J cents 85 cents 1. 00 1.25 1.49 i-7S 2.00 2.25 reduced 11 1 1 11 11 ' 41 I !( II 1 JS1.50 Napkins for $1.25 1-75 " " 1.50 300 " 2.50 PURSEL. - PENNA. with nt Dneurrw "U"S tSwtj re!7 b the hou. SEND I
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