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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURCk, PA.
STRONGEST BANK
Capital
$100,000.
Undivided Profits
$30,000.
First National Bank,
of nLucmsKuitG, pa.
MAKE NO MISTAKE BUT DEPOSITYOUR SAV
INGS IN THE STRONGEST BANK.
O F F I C E U H :
K. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President.
E. H. Tustln, Vice President. K. F. Carpenter, Cashier,
DIUKCTORH:
C W. M. Iiow, F. O. York,' Frank Ikeler, .ToHeph Itattl,
il. II, Tustln, Fred Ikeler, Gpo. H. Robblns, 8. C. Creasy,
J. M Ktaver, M. I. Low, Louis dross, II. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
estarlisiikd 1 8j7. consolidated 1869
Published Evkrv Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsliurg, the County Seat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. F.f.WKLL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Terms: Inside the county $ l.oo a year
In advance; $1,501! not paiil in a.lvance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
A Ivanue.
All communications should lieadJressed
THE COLOMBIAN, BloomshurR, Ta.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 11)07
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE,
W. W. BLACK,
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the decision of the
Democratic voters.
FOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE
CHARLES A. SHAFFER,
of Berwick.
Subject to the decision of the
Democratic voters.
NOTICE PRIMARY ELECTION
For the Spring Primary Election to Be Held
Saturday Juno 1st, Between the Hours
of 2 P. M. and 8 P. M.. 1907.
the Voters of Columbia County:
In accordance with Section
'1 it ree paragraph Four of the Uni
form Primary Election Law
notice is hereby given that the sev
eral political parties in the said
county will vote at the various
polling places in the said county on
Saturday Juue 1st, 1907, between
the hours of 2 p. M. and 8 p M. to
nominate candidates at the Spring
Primary election as follows, towit,-
One person for Associate Judge.
One person lor County Surveyor.
Two persons for delegates to the
Republican State Convention.
Four persons for delegates to the
Democratic State Convention.
Six persons for delegates to the
Prohibition State Convention.
One person for Republican Com
mitteeman in each election district.
One person for member of the
Democratic Staoding Committee in
each election district.
One person for Chairman of the
Prohibition party.
One person for Secretary of the
'Prohibition party.
One person for Treasurer of the
Prohibition party.
One person tor committeeman
from each election district for the
Prohibition party.
Jerry A. Hess County
C. L. Pohe Commis
E. Ringrose ) sioners.
Attest A. B. Black,
Commissioner's Clerk
THAT DOG.
We have often heard tbj argu
ment from different men that their
particular dog is a valuable piece
of property, that they pay taxes on
him and they have just as much
right to keep him as they would
have to keep a cow or a horse.
There is no gainsaying this argu
ment. Any man has a right to
keep a dog. We have known some
men to keep six, and we do not
know of any law that would pre
vent his keeping a hundred. We
are, however, under the impression
that a man is under the same obli
gation to restrain his dog as he
would be to restrain his cow. In
other words, he must not let his
dog run. If a man wants to keep
six dogs he should fence in a field
as big as he thinks he can afford,
with a fence that a dog can neither
jump over or crawl through, and
he should turn his half a dozen
dogs therein, and proceed to enjoy
tbetn. He certainly has no right
to turn tbem loose to live as best
they can on the neighbors and the
country. Ex-
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
$150,000.
Hunting for a Scape Goat.
That the conspirators in the capi
tol grafting operations have deter
ruintd to find a scape goat is prac
tically certain. Architect Huston,
in a recent interview, put the res
ponsibility on Governor Penny
packer while former Superintend
ent of Public Grounds and Build
ings Shumaker, with equal postive
t:ess lays the blame on Huston. He
was the Machiavelian, Mr. Shu
maker declares, who "pulled the
wool " ovtr l'eiinypacker's eyes and
marie that "bugologist" like a
chunk of soft putty in the hands of
the gang. Presumably some of the
others will give their interpreta
tions of the tnat'er, later on. Penny-
packer has declined to make a reply
to Huston, already, but he may
think better of it when he discovers
that it is necessary to"s ive his own
bacon."
Meantime the aggregate of graft
is growing to prodigious propor
tions though nothing has been re
vealed to indicate what became of
the money. It has been observed
that Sanderson is a very rich man
now, whereas betore the event he
was only moderately well off. But
nobody imagines that he got all the
rake off. It is an inflexible rule of
such men that participants :'u graft
ing operations shall 'understand
addition, division and silence."
Huston's fees amounted to upwards
of half a million dollars and the
chances are that he would have to
be satisfied with that sum. Cassell,
who furnished the metal cases, did
tolerably well but was hardly allow
ed more than a million of "velvet."
Assuming that Sanderson, Cassell
nd Huston divided three millions,
what became of the rest ?
The default of the Enterprise
National bank of Allegheny entail
ed an extraordinary demand for
funds on the machine but Treasur
er Berry states that he can discover
no sign that the rake-off was used
for the purpose of meeting this exi
gency. That being true the infer
ence is plain that somebody, other
than those named, must have par-
(tcipaiea in me loot. iNooody sus
pected until- the fact was brought
out in a judicial inquiry that Dur-
nara was getting a slice of the
enormous profits on the contracts
lor the Philadelphia filter plant.
Yet it is now an establishes and
even an admitted fact and why
might there not have been some
such silent partner or partners in
thecapitol graft. The alternative
is to assume that Pennypacker got
a share. Belief onte Watchman.
Souvenir Post Cards are nrinted
at this office. Half tones supplied.
tf.
The Columbia & Montour Elec
tric Railway Co. will erect more
buildings at Columbia Park. M.
H. Rhodes has the contract for the
building of a dining hall 18 by 30
feet, and for an addition to the
kitchen.
For the
Children
To succeed these days you
must have plenty of grit, cour
age, strength. How is it with
the children? Are they thin,
pale, delicate? Do not forget
Aver's Sarsaparllla. You
know it makes the blood pure
and rich, and builds up the
general health in every way.
Th ehllrtren cannot poiilMy havaanod health
mil.. III. imiwwi. .r. ill iiririicr cuuiiiiiuii,
rct Hit conatiitailnn by Klviiia -mall laxatwt.
doaaaof Ajar hllU. Alltigeubl.iugr-cuia.
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by J. O. Ayer Co., T.owall, Urn.
aVlao mDufaoturr of
flyer's
HAIR VIOOR.
AiUB CURE.
CHlikKY PECTORAL.
W hT bo orata I Wa pnblUh
tbm formula, of all ou madioinoa.
FORGERIES DISCOVERED.
Swindlers' Operations in This Section Run
into Thousands cf Dollars.
The banking business of Cet.tral
Pennsylvania bids fair to become
demoralized unless the swindler who
is flooding the country with bogus
checks is soon brought to earth.
Two forged checks totalling $024
were presented for payment at the
First National Bank of S
recently. The first was for $350
irom tne bank ol Wyoming near
Wilkes-Barre, bearing the forged
signature ot A. & J. Moeschlin,
and the second was for $575 from
Scranton, bearing the forged signa
ture of Blank & Gottshall.
The spurious checks which have
been accepted by outside banks and
presented in Sunbury Saturday for
payment in the last week amount
to $2634. The same man working
in Williamsnort passed a bopns
check for $210. Before all his deal
ings are unearthed the total will
doubtless -each into manv thou
sands of dollars.
So far as is known the actual
cash losses have been slight. But
the readiness with which the duped
firms accepted the bogus checks
has led to grave fears that before
long more serious losses will be
discovered. Meanwhile no bank
knows whether or not the checks
of its customers are good. Per
haps even now there mav be manv
checks charged to various accounts
and now filed a ny which are ab
solute forgeries and for whose pay
ment somebody must foot the bill
when thev are discovered. RanW.
ers from Williamsport to Scranton
are thoroughly alarmed and a gen
eral overhauling of all accounts is
the only thing which will allay
their uneasiness and restore their
confidence.
TO RIDE FREE.
Representative Smith, of Alle-
gheny, last week offered a bill nro-
viding that all members of the
legislature, all state officials and
their clerks, justices of the super
ior court and iudees of the courts
of common pleas shall be carried
on all railroads at all times free of
charge. When the pass system
was abolished the politicians affect
ed to leel a great deal of sympathy
for the poor newspaper men, who
would thus be deprived of their
railroad transportation. Not a
newspaper man has put up even a
little hit of a sciueal. Dozens of
them have expressed themselves as
well pleased with the new order of
things, whereby they get hard cash
from the railroads for advertising.
and pay their fare when they have
occasion to ride. They pronounce
it more satisfactory everv way, as
it allows tbem to do business on a
more self respectine basis. How
ever, it is the politicians themselves
that are wriggling and squealing
The introduction of this bill is an
attempt to saddle on the state the
expense of the transportation they
formerly received from the railroads
as a gift. The politician, after all
is said and done, is th rrentest
deadhead that ever lived. He nev
er pays for anything except with
promises, and he never keeps a
promise unless he can do so at some
other person's exoeu.se. Dushore
Review,
TO THE PUBLIC.
In this issue I announce my sell
as a candidate for the office of As
sociate Jud e of Columbia county.
nave always been a Democrat,
and I assure you if nominated and
elected to the office which I now
aspire to fill, I will be guided whol
ly by my best judgment, and en
deavor to do my duty as I see it,
and as I have done it in the past.
I promise, if elected, so far as with
in my power, a fair, honest and
impartial administration, with equal
and exact justice to all men and
special privileges to none.
I will endeavor to see all the
Democratic voters in thecoun'y be
fore the Primaries in June next,
and I will be content to abide their
decision at that time. Based upon
my pledges as herein stated I will
ask the voters to stand by me.
Sincerely yours,
tf. W. W. BLACK.
Here is an object lesson for town
ship road officials who neglect the
country highways: Mark Bream,
of Midway, has' recovered from
Conewago township, Adams county
$100 damages for injuries to a
horse, which bioke a leg by s.ep
ping into a chuck hole on the road
leading to Edgegrove, several
weeks ago. The animal had to be
killed,, and Mr. Bream entered suit
for damages before Justice of the
Peace George L. Rice, . of McSher-
rytown.
V. -
OABTOntA.
Bears the llh8 t(1U Hart 85'
TO DOUBLE TRACK SUNBURY DI
VISION. Following the tour of Superin
tendent T. W. Al'ibone and Assis
tant Engineer W. R. Thompson
over the Sunbury division on Sat
urday it htsbeeti announced, un
officially, that the entire Sunbury
division will be double tracked,
and that the work will be complet
ed this summer.
The need for a double track 011
this division has long been almost
a necessity ou account of the in
creasing traffic and the consequent
congestion all along the line The
officials of the Sunbury division
have for many years been working
with the ultimate object of having
the whole division double tracked,
and now it seems that they have
sufficiently interested the men high
in authority of the necessity of the
improvement.
Much of the roid is at present
double tracked. Between Danville
and Sunbury there are only four
m les where there is but one track.
0 1 the rest of th; division the
many sidings make almost a con
tinual double track to Wilkes-Barre.
It is the intention when the double
track is finally completed to insti
tute a number of improvements on
the line; curves will be straigh'en
ed out and new bridges will be
built. A new cement bridge is now
in course of erection at Roaring
Creek. This bridge, which was
started last week is to be for a
double track. The company is al
so making improvements on its
telegraph lines.
Another Shoemaker Burns Coal Ashes
Lock Haven Man Has Compound Like That ol
John Elmon, of Alloona.
Whether he has guessed the se
cret of John Elmon, the Altoona
cobbler who has found a way to
make coal ashes burn, or has dis
covered another and equally virtu
ous compound, it is a fact that
Peter C. Jobson, of Lock Haven,
also a shoemaker, is burning coal
ashes and getting excellent results.
Jobson, besides being a shoemak
er, does a small coal business. For
15 years he has been seeking apian
whereby ashes could be burned and
has experimented from time to
time with partial success. While
be was in bed a few nights ago,
meditating, the secret came to his
mind, and it so impressed him that
he could not sleep. Friday he
mixed his compound with coal ash
es and was astonished at the results.
His shop and house were better
heated that day than ever before,
and since he has been constantly
experimenting.
Saturday he burned a combina
tion ot four-fifths ashes and refuse
and one-fifth bituminous coal, and
with the aid of his compound, there
was a red hot fire all morning. In
the afternoon he used nothing but
ashes and refuse, and there was no
perceptible difference in the volume
of beat.
Jobson will not reveal the nature
of his compound. He will continue
to experiment from day to day, and
tny one doubting that he has real
thing will soon be convinced it they
call at his shop. The fire burns in
a circle about a cylinder of the
stove and does not burn a hole
through the centre, as is usual with
bituminous coal.
E. Beatram Sylvis, an engineer
at the Avis Cut-glass Wcrks, in
the lower end of Clinton county,
has also discovered a secret com
pound with which it is possible to
burn coal ashes. He has worked
on his secret for the past 1 1 years
and says that about 10 cents worth
of the compound will be all that is
needed for each ton of ashes con
sumed. Sylvis will erect a factory
at Avis and manufacture his com
pound. Aak for Allan's Foot East, A Powder.
Itniakns walklne eaar. cures Corns. Bun
ions, lDKrowlnjr Nulls, Swollen and Sweating
leei. At an uruKKisia ana rnioe sum, 100.
Don't aoceDt any nubUtut. HalUDlo FKKtt.
Add res-, Allen 8. Olmsted, LeKoy, N. Y. 4-4-1.
The new State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane was definitely lo
cated at Fairview, Wayne county,
on Saturday last by the State Com
mission, of which ex Speaker Hen
ry F. Walton, of Phila. is chair
man. The site is one of the finest
in the State, nearly the entire
county of Wayne, with its hundred
pretty lakes, its dairy farms and
- i t v :
sections 01 primitive loresi?, ueiug
visible from the ground upon which
the new institution is to be erected.
Before that cough turns into' a serious throat or lung trouble, stop it v.itti
Jomyities Expectforairat (ChSc-
It has proved its real value during- 75 years.
proved its
ITOWNSEN
We Are Not
Quite Ready to Move
Smoke Sale
Still Continues.
We have
our very nicest styles
Clothing. Don't wait for
warm weather, but come
in and get your Spring
Suit at off.
The Place to get good
Home Furnishings
Of course, that means this store. Why more so than
elsewhere? Because we have fresh new goods because
our stock is the largest and most varied and because our
prices are the lowest possible for merchandise of good
quality.
Only the more dependable sorts of Furniture are found
here Furniture that looks well and wears well.
But whether it be Furniture, Oil Cloths, Linoleums,
Window Draperies, Dishes, Lamps, or Kitchen Utensils
that you need to make your home complete-COME HERE!
SPLENDID
LACE CURTAINS
The greatest variety we
have shown in window
draperies including all that
is new and all priced to
please. We mention a few.
Nottingham Lace Our
tains in white, cream and
ecru from 3 to 3$ yds. in
length A wide range of
prices from 39c to $7 a pair.
Fish Net Curtains
Beautiful qualities in white
cream and ecru 3$ yds. in
length 2.50 to $5.00 a pair.
Arabian Net Curtains
very popular and the
choosing is best here 1. 9
to $7.75 the pair.
Irish Point Lace Cur
tains Beautiful patterns,
wide borders, 31 yds. long
$4 to $8.75 a pair.
Brussels Net Curtains
And curtains of Bobinet
the former from $5 to
$8.75 and the pretty Bobi
nets from 1.50 to $4.75 a
pair,
F, P
BLOOMSBURG,
real value during 75 years.
Ask your druggist for it
of Clothing
left some of
of
in
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS
AND LINOLEUMS
A large and varied line
of the very best in the land
We refer to POTTERS.
The Oil Cloth.
Yard wide 30 and 35c a yd.
ii" " 40 and 45c "
ii" " soc "
2 " " 60,65 and 75c "
2i " " 75 and 80c "
Printed Linoleums
Yard wide 50c a yard
ii 7Sc
2 " " 1.00 and 1,15 "
2i " ' 1.25 and 1.35 "
Inlaid Linoleums
2 yards wide 2.50 and 2.75
a running yard.
Granite Linoleums
2 yards wide 1.75 a running
yard.
Factory ends or remnants
of Linoleums 2 to 4 yards
in a piece 2 yards wide
75c the yd. Worth $1.00
PURSER..
PENN'A.
SEuWS