THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA, 5 Mr THE COLUMBIAN. JJI.UOMSHUKU, fa. TJIUKHDAY, SSKl'T. lit litOT if ,; ) '(? at the l'ot Oflrr, tllimjimliurg, 'a. 3m micmrt ciik mattrr, iltirch 1, INMh. A daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs. A. K. AUlimjer, of New York city, recently. Klwcll's orchestra played at Har ry Kinkcr's last Saturday evening. Many people enjoyed the fine mu sic. The Lutheran church choir will pive a 15 cent supper on Friday evening, September 20th. Klwcll's orchestra" will furnish music. ANY MAN who has ever sold nursery stock will learn something to his advantage by Addressing BOX not, WATKKLOO, K. Y. 9 ij-4t. O. A. Stonge has made some ex tensive improvements at his Gro vania hotel recently, in the way of i:cv bmUlings and repainting. The Baptiht congregation tender ti! a reception to the new students c the: Normal School on Monday 1 veiling. It was a very pleasant .-uTair. W. S. Reed treated the Men's J'i'ole Union to a watermelon feast at Columbia P;uk last Thursday n'ght. The attendance was large, and music was furnished by C. P. F.lwell's band. Mrs. Karhart has paid her fine of $500, which will go to the Col umbia County Law Library. This was part of her sentence for keep ing a bawdy house. She is in jail for 90 days as the balance of her penalty. II. M. Johnson will sell at public sale on the premises, one and one half miles from Jersey town, on Wednesday, October 30th, 1907, a lot of personal property, consisting of horses, cattle, fanning imple ments, and household goods, ts. t1 A TIT MTQ Money in small in In 1 Li IN 1 ventions as well ns lare. Send for free booklet. Milo 8. Stgtnt & Co., 884 14th St.. Washington, D. C. Branches: Chicago, Cleveland, De troit Estab. 1864. H9-4t. Miss Kdna Welliver, a popular clerk in Pursel's store was married on Wednesday morning at 7:15 o'clock at her home on Leonard street, to Barton Former of Cata wissa. Only the families were pres ent. Dr. Hemingway performed the ceremony. The young couple left at noon for a wedding journey. The following letters are held at the Bloonisburg, Pa. pest office: Mr. W. W. Conant, (2) Mr. Geo. W. Stewart, Mr. Frank Watts, Mr. Harvey N. Wedbani, Miss Rose Williams, Pop Watkins. Cards: Mr. Clyde Appleuiau, Mrs. Millie Conner. Miss Mable Tones, Miss Anna Patterson, Master Charlie Peterson. Miss Mary Rhawu died at the Joseph Ratti Hospital on Tuesday evening. She was admitted there five weeks ago with typhoid fever. She was a daughter of George luiawn of Catawissa, and Her age was 22 years. The funeral will be held on Friday. lwo otlier inemocrs ot tlie same f..mily have the same disease. ... . . - An inventor has discovered that Jul grades of paper can be manu factured from the stalks of the cotton plant which have hereto fore been a waste product. In addi tion to paper, alcohol and smoke less powder can also be obtained m it is said. This will mean one hundred millions of dollars annual ly to the cotton r ising states of this country providing it is all true. The Masons held their last meet ing in their old rooms in the Wirt Building on Monday night. The rooms have been rented by Moore & Achenbach who will conduct a poul and billiard room. On Tuesday evening the windows were thrown open and the room l'ghled up. It was an unusual sight and probably the first time it was ever seen since the erection of the building.? TJSSX EVANS' SHOE STORE FALL SHOES. The assortment of K VANS' Shoes provides a shoe for every need, a style lor every taste, a fit for every foot. Until you have seen these new mod els, or better yet, enjoyed the luxury of wearing one of them, you ean not real ize what shoe perfection means. You are cordially invited to come in aud see these new fashions. Tho Progrossivo Shoo Storo CHAS. M. EVANS. ROUGII-BOMBOY. Miss Geraldine, the accomplish ed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Homlmy. was united in matrimony to Mr. Frank K. Rough of Ber wick on Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock, at the home of the bride on West Main street. Rev. J. K. Hyers performed the ceremony, a very pretty ring service being used. The bride and groom were unattended, the bride was attired in a very becoming travelling suit of blue broadcloth with hat to match. During the ceremony Miss Ruth Homboy, sister of the bride played "Hearts and Flowers" on the piano, and the effect was beautiful nd impressive. Only members of .he two families were present. After an elegant wedding dinner .he bridal couple left on the Penn sylvania railroad for Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Hoth of these young ieople are popular in thtir reactive towns, and have ho.sts uf friends who wish them a long life of unalloyed happi ness. Mr. Rough is successfully engaged in the meat business in Lerwick, wheie they will reside. Tax Collector's Job Goes a Begging. Columbia County Commissioners Cannot Oft Any One to Take lob in Centralia. It isn't often the case that a tax collector's job goes a begging, but such is the case at the present time in Centralia. Nobody will take the job and the County Commissioners, as well as Solicitor Rhawu, are in a quandary as to how to get the tax es collected. Because of the inability to secure taxes from the foreigners and from the floating population of a mining town, no man can be secured who will give bond for the amount of the tax duplicate which amounts to about $1500 county taxes and $5500 town taxes. The result is that but a little over half of the taxes are collected. At the present time Kdward Min nidi is acting as a receiver of taxes, but he will give no bond to collect any taxes. He will only receive what are paid to him there. The result of the county's effort to get a collector will be watched with much interest, and it is doubt ful if a man will be secured who will undertake the job. Bloorasburg Fair. The Fifty-third annual Fair of the Columbia County Agricultural Society will be held October 8th oth, 10th and 11th, 1907. The grounds have been greatly improved by the addition of five acres of land purchased this season and new buildings erected for the accommodation of horses and cattle New and interesting attractions have bem secured, the exhibits will, from present indications, sur- prss anything of the past. The races will be for the 2:18 pace, 2:27 trot and 2:25 pace on Wednesday; 2:12 pace, 2:16 trot and 2:21 pace Thursday and Free for All; 2:20 trot and 2:15 pace Friday. The purses being $400, $500 and $600 will attract the best horses in the circuits. The Bloomsburg Fair is a Great Home Week. You will meet all yovr old frinds there. Competition onen to all. Premium Lists mailed on application. Harder-Crist Frank M. Harder, son of Geo. W. Harder, was married at half past seven o'clock yesterday to Miss Anna R. Crist at the bride's home in Williamsport, Rev. W. C. Hogg of the First Presbvterian church of Williamsport, officiating. Clyde Kemp, of Bloomsburg, and Miss Nell J. Crist, sister of the bride, were the attending couple. Mr. and Mrs. Harder will reside iu one of the Titman flats on their return from a wedding trip. H. W. CrtAttPLIN M. D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND 1HR0AT. reticular attention to examining uud treat ing child. en's eyes. Eut lUilldlny Bloomsburg, Y WILL FIGHT TIIK NEW PRIMARY ELECTION LAW. The County Commissioners' Convomion De clares Against II and Lackawanna Coun ty Will Not Hold No More Unloss Ihe Stale Pays the Bill. One of the results of the County Commissioners' convention, held 111 York during the past week, will h: a fight against the uniform prinn- ries law. The Commissioners adopt ed resolutions condemning 11 aim the County Coniinissionei s of Lack awanna county have announced that there will be no more uniform primaries in that county unless the Slate agrees to meet the expense of conducting them. In an interview County Commis sioner Durkin, of Scranton, stated that this is the stand the Commis sioners have taken. "The fact is," Mr. Durkin ex plained, "a number of counties in the state re I used to recognize the law unless the state agreed to meet the expense. We decided to go ahead and to conduct them with the expectation that the state would reimburse. But this the state re fused to do for the reason that there was no opinion as yet from the at torney general as to the constitu tionality of the act. 1 here is no way to compel us to conduct the pnmaries and unless the state pays the bills as we think it should un der the law there is no reason why the county should be required to pay." Another thing which the County Commissioners will refuse to pay as the result ot action taKen at tne convention is the increase given by an act of the recent legislature to county assessors. Their pay was increased from two dollars to two and one-half per day. It was de cided not to pay this for the reason that there is a constitutional prohi bition against increasing or reduc ing a person's pay during his term of office. Neither will any of the registrars of vital statistics in the county be paid unless they force action by su ing the Commissioners. CONYNGHAM DIRECTORS OUSTED AGAIN. Conyngham School District has its trouble. It seems impossible to find six men down there who can agree upon the manner of con ducting the schools. The present board had failed to elect a corps of teachers, hence the petition to oust them. The petition for removal was heard by the court last Saturday, and after hearing testimony the board was turned out, and the fol lowing appointed in their places : George Weller, James Corrigan, William Fennell, Charles Wedi man, Thomas McHale aud George Hinckley. The evidence disclosed attempts at bribery to secure votes for cer tain teachers, aud it may be the eud is not yet. Bought Ammerman Property. J. M. Ammerman has sold his store property and dwelling at Forks to W. H. Derr, of Derr, Bros. Possession will be delivered January 1st. Mr. Derr will remodel the house, and enlarge it, and will make a summer resort out of it. That vi cinity is rapidly growing popular for summer visitors, aud a number of Bloomsburg people have cottages there. It is a beautiful spot, along the banks of Fishing Creek, and affords abundant opportunity for fishing and bathing. Mr. Derr is an experienced ca terer and will enjoy a large patron age. Mr. Ammerman and family will move to Bloomsburg. EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. The Columbia County Educa tional Association will begin its fall sessions 011 Saturday next, i.i the Court House. The meeting will be an interesting one, and all teachers, especially the new ones, are urged to be present. Addresses will be made by Dr. Waller at the morning session, and by Prof. O. H. Bakeless in the af ternoon. Officers will be elected, pud plans formed for the year's work. Elected Superintendent. Douglas Ford has been elected superintendent of the Irondalc Elec tric Light Company, and has en tered upon his duties. He formerly held the same position, but resign ed to accept another position out of town. JERSEYS Combination and Go'den Lad FOR SALR 2 Cows, 3 Heifers and 12 Bulls. S. E. NIVIN, Undenburg, Pa. 5-33-iy "Necessity the Mothor of Invention." The pioneer home of sixty or seventy or more years ago ot tins community may be described as be ginning 111 the woods; clearing the lot wnere the house was built, with plenty of territory for an ideal farm, covered thickly with heavy timber and a thick growth of tin- lerbrtish, and some parts well spat tered with stones, all of which had to be cleared away before the sou could he tilled. Ad 01 tins requir ed bone and muscle as no machin ery could in any wise do this work. The "Arm Strong aud horse pow er were the onlv available moans then in vogue to prepare the land for cultivation. Now then, the pi oneer felled his trees, cut his logs, built him an house and bam with out caqKMiter or mason, often not even flatten his logs, but put them up in the round, and often to thatch the roofs with straw. We remem ber seeing straw roofs 011 barns and sheds, as manv had no shingle tim ber, they used straw. We have seen many barns covered with slabs of wood. After building a large chimney as an appendage to the log house of one or two rooms, and a few splint bottom chairs and sev eral benches, the outfit for .sitting was complete. The floors, upper and lower, in a story and half build ing, were the only means of divid ing the upper and lower apartments and the upper was reached by winding stairs, or ladders, as the upicr apartment was only an attic at best. There were no plastered ceilings as so few of them were plastered at all. 1 he joists were asually hewed square, but we often saw them in the round. A few beds equipped with feather ticks, straw ticks, bol sters and pillows were the comfort able protection against the wintry blasts and piercing cold. Trundle beds were much Used for children to sleep in. These were low beds 011 rollers, that would be pushed tinder the bed at day and drawn out from under the bed when children retired for the night. A bureau, and few cutlery articles, iron pots and griddle were an essential ne cessity. And as the people had no carpets, and of necessity the floors had to be resrularlv scrubbed and rubbed once or twice each week Water was thrown over the floor, then sand scattered over it, then scrubbed and rubbed with splint hickory brooms, after which it was mopped up with a housecloth. The houses were thus aired, cleansed and sweetened by this terrible back breaking ordeal of the faithful and dutiful housewife. Now then the tobacco chewer again had a nice, clean place to squirt his filthy to bacco juice. During fly time the people did not have screen doors, mosquito bar nor other house-fly preventives to keep these pests out. But they had their fly traps, such as a pair of boards conveniently joiued to- gether as to stand apart, the inside of which was thinly spread with molasses, and suspended trom a ioist by a string. As soon as these boards were black with flies some oue would step up aud bang these boards together when thousands ot these flies would be mashed by striking together these boards. Another trap was contrived in this manner. A glass vessel was partly filled with soap suds, and a piece of breac', spread on the tinder side in which was a small hole cut, and this bread was placed over the ves sel containing the suds with the spread side underneath, and when the flies crawled in to sip the mo lasses, some one would strike the bread a gentle blow and the flies would drop into the vessel contain ing the suds. Then again, think of plowing the ground with wooden boards and wooden plows with a mere itou shire. The furrows did not slickeu down as they now do with our modern chilled plows' There is too much to be told of primeval life that we scarcely know where to begin. But occasionally I will try to give glimpses of it Corn brooms were a thing unknown and hickory splint brooms were used for sweeping by everybody. J. C. Wknnkr. Visiting cards and Wedding invi tations at the Columbian office, tf CHIMNEY SWALLOWS. Chimney swallows have return ed, and every night it is quite a sight to nee hundreds of them fly ing about and finally settling in the tower of the Methodist church. Years ago they used to roost in the chimney of the William Mc Kelvy mansion, now the First National Bank building, by the thousands, returning year after year, but for some time they have net been seen. OA3TOT1.IA. CLEARANCE SALE of lots of dependable merchandise at reduced prices. WHITE DRESSES $ 6.50 SuiLs now $ 4.75 17.50 " " 12.50 10.00 " " 7.00 LAWN WAISTS. 1.25 pri de now 79 cents Others in proportion at 1.00, 1.50, 1.80. SPIDKR SILKS. Handsome patterns, ehoice printings. Regular 50c. pieces now 39 cents. THE CLARK STORE. 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The only reason we are making it to the people of this vicinity is because the magazine finds they have not as many sub scribers as they desire in this particular locality. 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 )our The Columbian per year $1.00 (Price Total per year $2.00 $1.00 COSMOPOLITAN N'o mutter Vow ninny magazines you take, ('(ismojwlitn is the one you cannot nflonl to do without. One IWtturo in each issue is alwuvH of Hiicli overwhelming importance nnd worldwide interest as to leud the limyadne world for thut montli. "The heot, no matter w hat it cofUw," aeein to he the motto w hich has martu ('i".i olitan resemble no other nrngHzine hut Cosmopolitan. For 1007 the publishers of the Cosmopolitan announce contribu tions from ouch fiimou nuthors as O. Jieiuuid tihaw, Jui-k London, V. V. 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