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HLOOMSIWRG, PA., THURSDAY MARCH 7, tgo7.
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ADDING NEW ACCOUNTS
AT THE
Farmers National Bank.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $150,000.
We 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 Business Success and Financial
Strength this Bank Occupies Front Rank.
C. M. C REVELING, Pres. M. MILLEISEN. Cashier.
MbHENRY sworn in.
Hit Family Will Not Mve to Washington.
Congressman -elect John G. Mc
Henry went to Washington on
Monday to be sworn into office as a
member of tbc house of representa
tives. On Monday all newly elected
congressmen were sworn into office.
Congress then adjourned for this
session, and the new members will
accordingly not take their seat"
until the next session in December,
unless a special session should be
called before that time.
It is not the inteniion of Mr. Mc
Hcnry's family to go to Washing
ton to reside when congress opens
next winter. While many of the
congressmen and senators take their
families to the national capital and
make their residence there Mrs.
McIIenry and son will remain at
their home in Benton, preferring
not to make the change to Wash
ington. COUNTY BONDS.
On Saturday the county commis
sioners amended their former reso
lution providing for the issue of
$30,000 in bonds, to pay off other
bonds now due, and the floating
indebtedness, and reduced the issue
to $21,700.
The bouds were sold at auction
at the court house on Saturday, to
the following pcrsous, at prices
named :
9 bonds numbered from 1 to 9
each $200.00 due March 1, 1909.
One bond sold to Catherine House
for $101.19; three bonds sold to
Fred Ikeler lor $101.19 each.
The rate quoted for bouds of over
$100,00 is the price per hundred
dollars.
1 1 bonds numbered 10 to 21, each
$200.00 due March i, 1910.
Lot sold to Fred Ikeler for $toi.oo
each $100.00.
11 bonds numbered 22 to 32,
each $200.00 due March 1, 191 1 .
Lot sold to C F. Girton lor
$101.11 each.
13 bonds numbered lrom 32 to
45, each $200.00 due March 1, 1912.
Lot sold to M. McIIenry & Son
for $101.00 each.
12 bonds numbered 46 to 57, each
$200.00 due March 1, 1913.
Lot sold to Charles Mendenhall
for $101. oc each.
4 bonds numbered 58 to 61 , each
200.00 due March 1. igu-
Lot sold to Fred Ikeler for '$ 1 o 1 . So
each.
3 bonds numbered 62 to 64, each
$500, due March 1, 1814.
Lot sold to M. McIIewy & Son
for $iot.oo each.
5 bonds numbered 65 to 69 each
$500, due March 2, 1915.
Lot sold to Kugeue Carpenter for
$101.25 each.
5 bouds numbered 70 to 74 each
$500, due March 1, 1916.
Lot sold to A. Z. Schoch tor
$101.25 each.
3 bonds numbered 75 to 77, each
$1000, due March 1, 1 91 7.
Lot sold to B. F. Redline for
$101.30 each.
DISINFECTANT NEEDED.
When the sewer backed up into
the cellar of the Dentler building a
force of men was put at work by
the town pumping the water out.
It was thrown out on the surface cf
the old Philips lot. The town au
thorities do not want to lose sight
of the fact that a disinfectant should
be liberally used just as soon as the
weather shows any sigrs of growing
warmer. If this is not done the
sewerage lying on the surface, ex
posed to the sun's rays, is liable to
spread all kinds of disease.
THE "HIGHER LAW."
In a sensational criminal trial at
Culj.eper, Va., the presiding Judge
one Harrison, made a statement of
his interpretation of the unwritten
or "higher law" which must have
made the Virginians gasp who,
with other people in this recent
time, havvi no doubt been hearing
so much about various kinds of
laws not in the statutes that they
have come to accept them.
The brothers Strother forced one
Bywaters to marry their sister, and
then when Bywaters was on the
point of leaving the house after the
ceremony the brothers, deeming
Bywaters to he negligent or indif
ferent, shot him to death. The
hypothetical question asked by
counsel for the defense embodied,
of course, an "emotional insanity"
clause, and in addition made a ref
erence to the "unwritten law."
"Whit's that?" asked the Judge,
"The unwritten law?' It is not
used in this court." The Judge's
further remarks should be circula
ted: "I cannot let the occasion pass
without saying emphatically that
no such law is known to the courts
of this Commonwealth, if by such
law it is ineaut that a person can
take the law in his own hand and
right his wrong, however great the
wrong suffered by him may be.
"Provocation, however great,
cannot justify or excuse homicide
by a responsible person. It can
only be considered in mitigation of
the offense. Under certain circum
stances, it will reduce murder to
manslaughter, but never justify an
acquittal.
"Every rational person must
seek redress for wrong through the
law and leave his vengeance to his
God."
The Judge ought to have a
monument erected to bis common
sense. This unwritten and all
forms of the higher law are the ex
cuses for lawlessness and lynch
law. The framers of the higher
law are the harebrained persons
who lortn mobs; those who admin
ister and execute the processes are
people who have some criminal or
illegal intent; and the judges tn
this jurisdictiou are the mooustruct
or irresponsible elements in every
community who are not amenable
to the law of the land and of com
mon sense. Phila. Record.
ABOUT THE SEWERS.
There is entirely too much care
lessness among householders in per
mitting things to go in the sewers
that ought not to be there. The
sewer is not intended to be a gener
al drainage system for the town.
Unfortunately the main on Main
street is not half as large as it
ought to be, but it would answer
for a time yet, if it were not per
mitted to be blocked by foreign
substances.
The time is not far distant when
larger mains will have to be laid.
"gone westT
Arthur W. Sharpless, J. II. Cole
man, W. L. Demaree and Lloyd
B. Skeer left on Tuesday for Cali
fornia on a business and pleasure
trip. Tbey will visit the Gold
Crater mining property at Souora,
and also the Yucca mines in Ari
zona. .
PANAMA ILLUSTRATED-
The last lecture in the Normal
School Course will be given by Dr.
Kdward Burton McDowell, on
March urh. It is profusely illus
trated by motion pictures and lan
tern slides. It is highly spoken of
ry the press. Tickets 50 cents.
COMPTROLLER'S CALL.
REPORT OK THE CONDITION OF
0e Qi5foom06urg (Uanonaf ffanft
At the Close of Business January 26th, 1907.
. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Loans and Invest- Capital Stock, - $100,000.00
meets . 221.28 Surplus and Profits 41.761. 12
Circulation - - 100,000.00
8,000.00 I.ank Deposits - n."99'7
78,564.26 Individual Deposits 368,227.25
Furnitureand Fix
tures Cash and Reserve
$621,787.54
$621,-87.54
Wm. II. Hidlay, Cashier.
A. Z. Sciiocii, President.
COMMISSIONS AND GRAtT.
Ours is an ideal government,
and was so modeled and designed
by our lathers, who created it, and
consecrated it with their blood, that
their prosterity might have peace,
liberty and prosperity, with equal
rights to all the Iruits of thei - pro
duction. But passing years have
changed the principles cf men, and
the customs of former times. The
garb of integrity has been laid asid.e
and deceit and intrigue seem to
clothe so large a portion ot both
public and private business.
It seems that the people bow the
knee to the gods of corruption and
thus corruption reigns supreme in
public life. But if the principles
of truth and honesty were as scru
piously observed and practiced by
public officials and corporations, as
the principles of rascality anil cor
ruption are sought after, and delib
er itely practiced, our statute books
would be tilled with a code of laws
over which the people of our state
would rejoice with thanksgiving
and gladness. "A square deal with
every person" would iethe inevi
table results.
The people would not petition
the legislature against passing ob
noxious and corrupt measures,
which, continually press for prece
dence, nor petition for the repeal of
already existing obnoxious laws
that menace th peace and prosper
ity of our people.
The whole body politic has be
come leprous with parasites, scabs,
sores, ulcers and cancers tbat eat
out the rights, liberties and sub
stance of our p;ople. But these are
the natural fruits of corruption
which hauut every remaining trace
of civic righteousness, with the ob
ject of overwhelming all good, with
degeneracy ultimately.
The rank and file of the people
irrespective of party, hunger and
thirst after civic righteouuess, in
every department of governmental
affairs, but corporate greed, theft
and graft among leading bosses
have become so engrossed in their
scheming ior plunder, that they
have lost all regard for the people's
interests, that they violate every
ptinciple of justice that affects the
welfare of the people.
If the political leprous body
loathed its disease of leprosy, it
could easily b: cured of its leprosy
by dipping seven times in the re
form river. One dipping does no
good as that has been tried. It
needs seven dippings and terrible
washings besides, to thoroughly
cleanse it.
Our State government, as origi
nally organized was presided over
by a governor, whose function it
was to simply enforce the laws.
There was no bureaus in which to
lock up the rights and liberties of
the oeoplt-. i hts political leprous
body has created a fanatical bureau
cracy, granting authority that
equals the tyranny of the Czar of
Russia. The Health Commission
is clothed with authority that ex
ceeds constitutional bounds aud
powers that the people caunot en
dorse, or it usurps authority de
structive to personal liberty. This
Commission proposes to saddle our
public schools with burdens wholly
foreign to the principles and object
to the founders of our public school
system. And if this commission
is permitted to execute its designs,
as outlined by Dr. Dixon, bis reme
dies and cures for stamping out all
thv causes of disease, will be a hun
dred fold worse than the diseases.
And it is a noteworthy fact that
the more Dr. Dixon perscribes
remidical legislation, the greater is
the death rate, and the greater in
roads diseases make into the health
of the people. Dr. Dixon cannot
OUR PROGRESS.
The advance made in this coun
try during the pst thirty-six years
is almost beyond comprehension.
Farm lands have increased in value
from nine billion dollars to twenty
six and a hah' billions. During the
same period the value of farm pro
ducts has jumped from two billion
dollars a year in round numbers to
seven billions. The railroad mile
age has increased from fifty-two
thousand miles in 1870 to two-hundred
atu! twenty three thousand
miles in 1906. The iron industry
has increased from 3,835,000 tons
to 25,000,000 tons, and steel from
1,247,000 tons to 2o.023.0oc3 tons.
Coal fro:;i -jt, 000,000 tons to 425,
000,000 tons. The industrial
growth of the country has been phe
nominal. In 1870 there were 252.
000 establishments employing 2.
053,000 hands with a capital of
two billion dollars and a total pro
duct of $1,232,000,000. Last year
over six million hands were em
ployed, fourteeq .billion dollars of
capital invested and a total product
of sevetiteeu billiou dollars. The
national banking capital has doub
led since iSSo, the bankiug assets
have trebled in the same time. Tin
savings banks deposits are four
times as great as they were twenty
five years ago. The uumber of
savings bank depositors has increas
ed from 2,335.000 to 7,696,000 and
the bank clearings have jumped
from fifty.-eight billions in 1880 to
one hundred and fcrty-two billions
in 1905. Ex.
Treasurer's Statement for February.
The following is the statement of
County Treasurer M. II. Rhodes,
for the month of February:
To cash on hand Feb 1st fl9S7 12
Amt. ree'd during month 521)7 5;t
Total fTL'84 65
CR.
By amt. paid solicitor f 25 00
" assessors 227 21
" United Uiw Co 58 82
For Coal 61 32
" County Sunt 200 00
" Constables Feb. Term 117 42
" Int. on bonds and coupons 245 45
' Bonds redeemed t00 00
County auditors 1907 220 20
Auditor's clerk 60 00
Soldier's burials 145 00
" Water Co 81 08
" Sheriff Knt 95 25
" Huntingdon Reformatory 102 20
" Jurors. February term.... 556 90
" Tubbs bridge contract 76 65
" Klwell Feb eleo tick etc.. 139 00
' Court crier 22 50
" Kt't'ilei' bridgu settlement 271 50
" Stmt oil & unseated laud tax 61 13
" February election 1017 29
" Lin ville stenographer 80 00
' Sundry persons iiiisct'l.... Vi'M 7S
" Cash on band 265 26
Total $7284 65
head off death, nor disease by legis
lation or otherwise.
The Game aud Fish Commission
is another scab upon the body poli
tic that is a nuisance at public ex
pense, a parasite that seeks to sap
the substauce of the farmers by
making them pay a dollar license
for the privilege ol hunting on their
own land. Might as well make
them take out a license for the pri
vilege of eating at their own tables,
or sleeping in their own beds O,
fanaticism, where is thy bounds!
The Commission on Public
Grounds and Buildings have just
lately exemplified to the people
what' all these commissions are
created for. Their very existance
is a sign of graft, theft and plunder.
A tree is known by its fruits. From
none of those commissions will the
people reap a single benefit, no
more than "men gather figs from
thorns," or ' grapes from bramb-i
les."
J. C Wennbr.
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BEN GIDDIi
New Advance Styles in
Soft and Stiff Hats
FOR SPRING.
and Colors are in.
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Clothier, Hatter and Haberdasher.
Exchange Hotel, Bloomsburg.
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we'll treat you right.
HAVE YOU SEEN
OUR NEW FURNITURE?
Our assortment of Furniture is so wide
that we can hardly fail to please any taste,
and we can please many tastes not otherwise
pleased because of the dependable quality of
our goods. The surest way1 to verify our as
sertion is to come to the store in person. , ' '."
Drop Side Steel Couches ,
Complete with mattress ami "pillows, best
steel frame and springs Complete $8.00
and 8.75. - V ; .. .,'' ..."'. ' '..M'
RUGS ! RUGS !
We are showing an unusual line of kuge
floor Hugs. It does not need special expe-'
rience to appreciate the values. "We'd like'
to have you see them. You will not be sat
isfied until you have one of the Kugs in your
home. t ,t
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