THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURfi. PA. Q m THE COLUMBIAN. BI.OOMSHURO, FA. BHUKfrDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907 tillered al Ihr font Ojntf, Blootnttntrg, Pa. an necoiid claw mattrr, Marcn 1, lHHh. BUS1NESS LOCALS. Cheap Clubbing Offer- We have arranged to supply some excellent literature at a very low price. They are the following: Columbian and American Farmer ... $i.oo Regular price $1.50. Columbian and New York Thrice a Week World $1.50 Regular price $2.00. Columbian and Woman's Home Companion $1.50 Regular price $2.00. The latter is a splendid magazine with a circulation of 600,000. In form it is like the Ladies' Home Journal, and is fully equal to it in every respect. Take advantage of this unusual oiler now. Don t wait. tf. Caltndar pads for 1907 at the Columbian office. tf. Visiting cards and Wedding invi tations at the Columbian office, tf Supervisors' Blanks. We have printed a supply of blanks for Supervisors under tbe new law, and will keep tbem in stock. They include order books, tax notices, and daily rofid reports. Samples sent on application, tf. Souvenir Mst Cards are printed at this office. Half tones supplied. tf. Paper napkins and doilies at the Columbian office. tt. We are prepared to furnish the Woman's Home Companion for 50 cents a year wlien taken with ins Columbian. The two for ouly jpi.50. Serd in your name while the offer lasts. tt. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Phillips, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eyer of Philadelphia, are the parents of a daughter, recently arrived. Hon. Fred Ikeler was the guest of the Elm Street Methodist Church Bible Class of Scranton, at their reunion held at Hotel Jermyn on Tuesday night. It Keep th. Feet Warm and Dry. Ask today for Allen' Foot-Euae, a powder. H cures Chilblains, Swollen, sweating, Sore, Ach. Ing, Damp leeu At an urugffuua ana onoe Btares, 6c ' Mrs. J. D. Thomas met with an unfortunate accident last Friday by falling on an icy pavement on Third street and breaking her left arm. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Oviait have returned from a long wedding tour through the western states. They are residing with the parents of tbe latter, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. House. Peter Deitrick is in jail again in Danville, because he got drunk and his bail surrendered him. His case for killing Corkey Jones will be heard by the Supreme Court next mouth. 1 - To Mothers In This Town. children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get in. mediate rullnf rrom Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the fitomach, act on the liver, u.aktutf a elckly child stioi a and healthy. A oerta n cure for worms. Bold by all druitgUts, 26o. Suuple mailed FHKB. Asdress, Allen 8. Olmsted, Lo Koy, N. Y. S-Mt L. C. F. Ksh'nka of Albany, N. Y. died in that city last week. He was a brother of R. G. F. Kshinka of Briar Creek, and was an old and well known lawyer, and enjoyed a high reputation. J. Guy Sleppy has accepted a . position as stenographer and book keeper with Harman & Hassert. His place in the office of the Penn sylvania Railways Advertising Co. hasbeeen taken by Harry Hart man. The heaviest snow fall of the season occurred on Tuesday morn ing, when about a foot of snow came down. Traffic on the trolleys was delayed but little as the snow was easily removed from the tracks by the sweepers. EVANS' SHOE STORE, We are Headquarters for Useful X Mas Presents. Men's Christmas Slippers in alll leather and velvets, PRICE, 50 cts to $2.00. Women's Fur Trimmed Felt Slippers with flexible leather soles. PRICE, $1.00 to $1.50. Colors Black, Red and Drab. Full line of Children's slippers and shoes for Christinas. The Progressive Shoe Store Mrs. Anna Culp died at the home oi her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Lee, in Mt. Pleasant township, on Tues day morning, aged 86 years. She was a sister of Mrs. Isaiah Bower and Mrs. Frees Fowler of Berwick, and Mrs. Geo. Beam. A thrilling serial story appears in every issue of " The Daily Press" It is one of many good features. All tbe news and departments worth while are adequately treated in "The Press." Buy "The Press" every day. It insures your getting the best newspaper. -9- - Send Your Cattle and Horse Hides To the CHOSBY FRISIAN FUR COM ANY, Rochester, N. Y , and have them converted Into craw, robes, ruffo, gloves and mittens; belter and cheaper goods than you can buy. Never mind the distance, "Crosby pays tbe freight " Heeournew Illustrated catalogue page 18. If Intereited send for It. 1-17-4L The Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. has announced that it will abandon Harvey's Lake the coming sum mer, so far as running excursions there is concerned. This step is taken because of the burning of the big dancing pavilion and the additional reason that the runnimr of excursion trains to the lake has not been very profitable for two or three years past. It is said that the company will devote its efforts to boomiug Lake Carey, to which resort most of the excursions which have heretofore gone to Harvey's Lake will be run. The announce ment of the abandonment of Har vey's Lake came as a great blow to those who have money invested in buildings and amusement devices at the lake, as well as the hotel men and steamboat companies, as the excursions were the main source of revenue for these concerns Dallas Post, Farmer's Institutes. The farmers of this county will be nterested to learn that there will be held this r ear a series of Farmers' Institutes at Benton, Feb ruary 18 and 19; at Berwick Feb. 20 and 21; and at Roaringcreek, beb. 22 and 23. A number of instructors from other parts of the State will be present to jon with the farmers of this locality in the discussion of topics relative to agriculture. These meetings are free and open to all, and we have no doubt tbe farmers of this county will avail themselves of the advantages to be gained by attending these meetings. To the Voters of Bloomsburg. I am a candidate for a second term as School Director. I trust I have discharged my duties faithful ly, and of this I am willing that the teachers and patrons of the schools shall be the judges. If elected to succeed myself, I shall do my utmost to advance the cause of education in our schools. Feeling I have earned a second term, I respectfully solicit your votes. 2t Fred B. Hartman KELLOGG-HAINES SINGING PARTY The Kellog-Haines Singing Party appeared before nn audience of 700 at the Chicago Beach Hotel one evening last week, and last Saturday evening they gave a pri vate concert here. They gave such excellent satisfaction that they have been requested to appear again. Burlington, Wis., free Press. Normal Auditorium Feb. 8. Ad mission 50 cents. Danville Wants Firemen. Tbe Danville fire department will probably try to get the next Six- County Hremen's Convention. Dunmore is also alter the conven tion and it may be that one of the towns, either Shamokin or Sun- bury, will also try to get the con vention for 1908. Should tbe Dan ville delegation ail this year, an attempt will be made to get it next year. H.W. CHAMPLIN, M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. Particular attention to examining and treat ing children's ryes, ,: ct EuiU ng, . a 1, : 1 ;, . Origin of Valentines. Happy Cuitom Hat Been Traced to Rome. A fact in natural history, to wit, that bird9 in Southern Europe pair about the middle of February, i9 said to have inspired a custom of the ancient Roinnns to which the origin of the modern valentine can undoubtedly be traced. At the feast of theLupercali i, held in hon or of the great god Pan, the names of the virgin daughters of Rome were put in a box and drawn there from by the young men. Eaiu youth was bound to offer a gift to the maiden who fell to his lot, and to make her his partner during the tune of the feast. How this secular custom became allied to the name of a saint is alto gether a different matter, says The Housekeeper. St. Valentine was a Bishop of Rome during the third century. He is said to have been of very amiable nature and most eloquent of speech, wherefore he was very successful in convert ing the pagan Romans to Christian ity. Marcus Aurelius Has then Emperor, a relentless persecutor of the Christians, and by his order the Bishop was beheaded. The date of his death was February 14, 270 A. I). We find the statement in Archbishop Whtatley's "Illus trations of the Book of Common Prayer" that "St. Valentine was a man of admirable parts and so fa mous for his love and charity that the custom of choosing valentines upon his festival took its rise from thence." But probably the con nection of name is wholly due to a coincidence of date. When the saint's name was placed in the church calandar the day ot his death was made a festival to offset that of the Lupercalia, on the 15th. In Allen Butler's "Lives of the Saints" we read that the zealous Christian fathers tried to substitute the names ot saints for those of girls in the lottery game, but with out success. So the "valentine" custom spread from Rome through Europe to Great Britain, alwiys in high favor, and later, in the form of sending tender missives, came to America and down to the present time. OPINIONS HANDED DOWN. Judge Evans filed opinions in the following cases on Monday: Mary A. Turker vs. American Car & Foundry Co.. Verdict, $6000 for plaintiff. The following order was made: "Now, Feb. 4, 1907 upon and after due consideration the defen dant's motion for judgment non obs.ante veredicto is denied and judgment is directed to be entered on the verdict in favor of the plain- tin on payment of the fee Overseers of the Poor of Jordan township vs. Overseers of the Poor of Pine township, order of remova! affirmed. Petition of Clark Christian for private road in Madison township. Exception overruled and petit on for review dismissed, and the report of tbe viewers confirmed absolutely WHEELMEN WILL BANQUET. On February 22nd, the members of the Wheelmen Club will hold their second annual banquet at the Central Hotel. The committee having the matter in charge are Gerald Gross, Lewis Moyer and Louis Buckalew. Geo. E. Elwell has accepted an invitation to again act as toast master. The selection of speakers has not yet been fully completed. DEED FOR HOSPITAL. The heirs of Joseph Ratti have executed and delivered a deed for the Hospital property. The docu ment was received by F. G. Yorks Wednesday, and at once handed to A. Z. Schoch, President of the cor poration. The deed is dated Jan 31, 1907, and was executed by Richard F. Dwight, attorney in fact for Luigi and Teresa Ratti. Envelopes 75,000 Envelopes carried in stock at the Columbian Office. The line includes drug envelopes, pay, coin, baronial, commercial sizes, number 6, 64, 6, 9, 10 and ii, catalog, &c. Prices range from $1.50 per 1000 printed, up to $5.00. Largest stock in the coun ty to sele:t from. LIBRARY BENEFIT. Dou't forget the lunch at the Midway this Thursday evening. A plate of mixed sandwiches ham, onion or cheese or all of one kind will be served for five cents; beans, 5 cents; coffee, 5 cents; chocolatei 5 cents; also home-made pies. Bears tbs ttgutue uiu n:iu mu nave Always uougw Wireless For Moving Trains A Now Safeguard Against Collisions Seem! Assured. Ill a shirt time, if predictions bnsed on tests regarded as success ful, come true, limited express trains will be fast-moving wireless telegraph stations, says the St. Louis Post-Dispntch. Messages will flash back and forth between cities and trains traveling fifty and sixty miles an hour. Passengers being whirled from one city to an other, will le kept in coustant touch with both. The important news of the world will be hurled through the air across the prairies and bulletined in the trains, and the passengers will know what is go ng on almost the instant that it is known in the cities. The busi ness man will be able to know the opening market and stock quo tations only a few minutes la'.er than he would learn them from the ticker in his office. He will be able to receive private messages Irom his associates in business and give instructions to them by wire less telegraph almost as quickly us he could by telephone if he were at home. By the same wireless means the danger of collisions between trains, it is promised, will be re duced to a minimum. Ahead of each train will travel wi eless sig nals of its approach, giving warn ings to the engineer of other trains. No matter now fast the engine may leap over the rails, faster will leap ahead the wireless flashes, ringing danger signals in the cabs of other engines which will send back an swering signals telling of the proxi mity of danger. The promise of these things is contained in the re sults of tests being conducted by officials of a wireless tehgraph com pany, in co-operation with the offi cials o the Chicago and Alton Rail way Company. They have demonstrated, the in terested officials say, that the verti cal wireless towers can be dispensed with and horizontal receiving wires substituted; that messages can be sent from and received on trains traveling at maximum speed, and that the grounded circuit is efficient under those conditions. Aud these things are practically all that are necessary, the experts say, to in sure successful wireless comnium cation with trains all along the way from St. Louis to Chicago and successful operation of wireless warning signals ahead of flying lo comotives. In the first experiment the wire designed to catch the message and transmit it to the instrument in the drawing-room was stretched lengthwise along the roofs of the six cars constituting the tram That day there was nothing sent but signals. The wire caught them, and those working gained coufi dence. The next day the wire was stretched inside the cars along the bell rope. Messages sent from St. Louis and Chicago found their way into the train and were caught by the wire and transmitted to the re ceiving apparatus in the drawing: room, which ticked them off to the operator with perfect distinctness Not only was tbe arrangement of the wires experimental and in tbe nature of a make-shut, but the cur rent was grounded in the most crude manner, a wire being merely passed out through a window and attached to the track. Provision will be made for in stalling the service on a new train which is to be put into commission in July. A booth will be arranged in the rear car, the wires will be strung some distance above tbe top of the cars and a more perfect ground return will be obtaiued by probably using a sliding shoe on the rail. Range Cattle All Destroyed. Below Zero for Forty Dayi in Montana and North Dakota. The reports received from Montana and North Dakota show that the destruction of range cattle is complete. For more than forty days the thermometer has been be low zero over a large area, and this morning a fall ot from fifteen to twenty degrees was reported with a wind which blew from fifty to sixty miles an hour. Four davs ago cattlemen from that section of the country reported that 80 per cent, of the cattle had been destroy ed. The graver fear there is that the blizzard may be followed by a loss of life, as the section of the country where tbe cold is most severe and the wind the strongest is the same from which a fuel shortage is re ported. It is said at the Weather Bu reau that all records had been brok en for continuously low theomome trical readings for any section of country heretofore considered a vailable for husbaudry or cattle raising. Big Reductions ON COATS, SUITS, AND FURS You can make nice savings now. All goods must go. COME AND SEE THEM. THE CLARK STORE. V : Alexander Brothers & Co., 5 DEALERS in : Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Confec- : tionery and Nuts. O Pine Candies. 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But only a limited number will be sold at this price, there fore we advise every one to accept this offer without delay. When we have received a certain number we shall withdraw the offer. Cosmopolitan per year $1.00 I Qur The Columbian per year $1.00 Price Total per year $2.oo)$1.50 COSMOPOLITAN No matter bow many magazines you take, Cosmopolitan is the one you cannot aft'ord to do without. One feature in each issue is always of such overwhelming Importance and worldwide interest as to lead the magazine world for that month. "The bent, no mutter what it costs," seems to be the motto which has made Cosmopolitan resemble no other magazine but Cosmopolitan. For 11)07 the publishers of the Cosmopolitan announce contribu tion from such famous authors us O. Bernard 8haw, Jack London, W. W. Jacobs, Kdwln Markham, Joseph Conrad, II. O. 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