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,. 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.
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STILL CONTINUES
BIGGER
WE HOVE IH
TO WW
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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.
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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
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" "
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
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JS1.50 Napkins for $1.25
1-75 " " 1.50
300 " 2.50
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