THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. 5 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, FA. THURSDAY, .SKI'T. l!M)7 'n': yfit at the fort Qf.ee, lilt.miittntry, "r. an recant clant nuttier, March 1, 1HH8, buckwheat flour is in the market P.. L. Lemons of Forks shipped 104 hogs to New York city last Saturday. A fine new line of Weddinp in vitations just received at tliisoujce. r ... t. V. V. Robhins has been again ck-cled tax collector for the town by the council. All of the college students who have been home for the summer, have returned to their respective institutions. ANY MAN who lins ever sold nursery stock w'.V. Vim something to his advantage by addressing BOX 1105, WATliHLOO. N. Y. 9 19. tt. Lafayette Keeler, of Benton, who hs.. been a render of this paper for nearly thirty years, was in towu on Tuesday. Miss Sara Milkisen returned yes terday to La.sall Seminary, at Au burndale, Mass., to enter upon her third year. The concert at Columbia Park last Sunday by the Citueus Dand, was well attended, and those who heard it speak highly of the music. Fred Edgar, son of II. D. F.dgar, was married Wednesday to Miss Ksther Williams, of Miners Mills, at Binghamton, N. Y. On their return home they will reside in rooms over Tooley's store. There was a drop in temperature Wednesday night, the thermometer stx'idmg at 50 at ten o clock. This morning at 7 o'clock it had drop ped to 40. Straw hats have disap peared, and overcoats are now be ing put to work. H. M. Johnson will sell at public sale on the premises, one and one half miles from Jerseytown, on Wednesday, October 30th, 1907, a lot of personal property, consisting, of horses, cattle, farming imple ments, and household goods, ts. Daniel Stiner was seriously in jured by a cave-in while digging a trench for sewer on Jefferson street. He was caught up to the waist, part of the surface being made of cinder He was taken to his home where Dr. Montgomery treated him. With this issue of this paper the editor completes thirty-two years of work iu the editorial harness in this office. At each annual recur rence of these anniversaries, now coming all too frequently, we some times feel like asking, " Has it paid ?" Boys who wilfully destroy flower beds are of evil disposition, and if discovered they ought to be pun ished to an extent that will deter them from such practices. The pretty flower beds at the D. L. & W. station were tramped ou Mon day night, and their beauty sadly niarred. P A TIT MTC Mo.-uy in small in r 1 LjVi 1J volitions as well as lai-Re. Send for free booklet Mllo B. 8teven & Co., 884 14th St., Wellington, 0. C. Branches: Chicago, Cleveland, De troit Estab. 1864. 9-19-41. Warren Turner has been elected President of the senior class at Le-land-Stamford University, Califor nia. This is considered a great honor. He is a son of the late F. M. Turner, and brother of Miss Ruth Turner. The college paier thus speaks of him: "Turner has been an active man in college ever since he entered in the fall of 1904. He was coxswain of the Champion 1908 Freshman crew, the 1908 Var sity four and the 1907 Varsity eight. Last year be was president of the Boat Club, chairman of the Plug Ugly Committee aud manager of the Chaparral Board. He be tongs to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity." EVANS' SHOE STORE FALL SHOES. The assortment of EVANS' Shoes fnovidcs .1 shoe for every need, a style or 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 can not real ize what shoe perfection means. You are cordially invited to come in aud see these new fashions. The Progressive Shoo Store CH AS. M. EVANS. Most Count All Mail Matter. Local Pott Offlco Employes Will Hav Big lob From Oct. 12 to 19. An order has been received by Post Master Brown, from the de partment at Washington, that every piece of mail that passes through the local office during the week of October 12th to 19th must be count ed and reported to headquarters. This order is far reaching, in eluding every class and sub-class of mail matter, and will mean an enormous amount of extra work for the post master and his assist ants. The first, second and third class matter, as will as all frank and penalty stuff must be repotted separately. A report of the stamps canceled must also be kept and the amount of postage collectee from tbe publishers of newspapers is to be tallied. The same order will go into eilect in every post office in the country at the same time. At present there is an annual de ficit in the post office department and this order is the result of an idea of one of the new officials of the department, who wishes to gather data to improve the busi ness methods. He states that the post office department can be put on a paying basis in a very short time. Crops Good and Prices Higher Than Since the Civil War. Adverting to high prices of all products of the farm, the Reading Jtmes says: This has been a farm er's year. Not only have the crops, as a rule, been good, but the prices of everything the farmer has to sell have been higher, perhaps, than at any time since the civil war. All spring and summer long the price of eggs has been 20 cents and over; butter has leen anywhere from 25 and 35 cents per pound: wild ber ries, that need only to be gathered, have been selling at from 11 to 15 cents per quart; corn and oats have not been so high in years, notwith standing the excellent crops of last year; wheat is also up, and may go still higher; poultry was never higher in this market than during the present season, and yet it costs no more to raise chickens, huckle berries, blackberiies and eggs than before." Bloomsburg Fair. The Fifty-third annual Fair of the Columbia County Agricultural Society will be held October 8th, 9th, 10th aud nth, 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 been secured, the exhibits will, from present indications, su pass anything of the past. The races will be for the 2 18 pace, 2:27 trot and 2:25 ppce on Wednesday; 2:12 pace, 2:16 t ot 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 bes. horses in the circuits. The Bloonisburg Fair is a Great Home Week. You will meet all yovr old frinds there. Competition open to all. Premium Lists mailed on application. - ' Hotel for Sale. W. W. Crawford will offer his Jerseytown hotel property at public sale on October 4th at 1 p. m. This is a fine stand, and has enjoyed a high reputation for many years. It is the old A. K. Smith stand, but has been remodeled. It is a good opportunity for any one wishing to go in the business. 9-9-& . Creasy & Wells gave the em ployees at their lumber yard a chicken and waffle supper at Col umbia Park last Saturday evening. H. W. CHAMPLIN M.D. EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. Particular attention to examining and treat;. ing children's eyes. Ent Build In Bloomsburg, Pa TROLLEY DEAL. Tha Ml. Carmel and Shamokin Railway Pur- chased by a Syndicate and Will be Operated at Ones. The Mount Carmel aud Shamo kin Railway, which has for the past three mouths been tied up by a strike, has been purchased by a syndicate headed by W. I'.. Har rington, who on September 1st re signed as general manager of the hastern Pennsylvania Street Rail way Company. Monroe and Gil bert Kulp, of Shamokin, are asso ciated with Mr. Harrington. The names of the other members of the syndicate are not made public- It is understood that for a time at least Mr. Harrington will take up on himself the active management of the company. An Appeal for the farm. (Governor Hughes, of New York, In Leslie's Weekly.) v hen you get out where a man has a little elbow room and a chance to develop, he has thoughts of his own. His thinking is not supplied to him every night and every mom ing, and he is less of a machine and more of a man, so that I do not think that the farmers need to te looked upon, or want to be looked upon, as dependents of the State. They do not come to the State gov eminent asking alms. 1 uey are self-reliant, they are intelligent What we want in connection with agriculture is what we want in con nection with every other field of noble effort. We want training, we want intelligence, we want scienti he method, we want direction, we want the way shown, and then the man can walk in it. There is no reason why the same care and in tention and skill and scientific con sideration should not be devoted to agriculture as to industry and the technical trades. The men who are running away from the farms too frequently make a mistake, and some day in New York aud the day is rapidly approaching our young men, in larger numbers, will wake up to the fact that they have a pretty good chance on the farm and that they may be to a greater degree independent and happy in life if they stay where their happy lots were cast in connection with their fathers' farm or another which they may be able to procure. An Effect of Idleness. With the coming of the apart ment hotel has come a problem Its injurious enect upon women who occupy it is alarming. They become mentally, morally and phy sically flabby. The principal rea son for the development of the apartment hotel is that life, daily life, everyday life, might be made easy for the mistress of the home. It has been. In the apartment hotel she has absolutely nothing to do, and we all know who provides mischief for idle hands and idle minds, says the Delineator. The number of women thus liberated from the "degrading drudgery" of homely plain duties is constantly and steadily increas ing. The result of the freedom is a vast crowd of women, over developed as to hips and busts, who spend their days iu dressing, in speeding at a mad pace in motor cars, in gambling at the bridge table, or any other exciting .di vertissement which causes false stimulation. With many of these women dogs take the place of child ren. Even in an apartment-hotel there must be something to cuddle, to fondle, to pet and for which to care. A bull pup is "less trouble" than a baby. It is the idleness of these women which often leads to the divorce courts. Visiting cards and Wedding invi tations at the Columbian office, tf Do You Shave? The Philadelphia Press offers the daily edition of that splendid publi cation one full year with an excel lent razor made from best Sheffield Steel, fully guaranteed for $3.50. The price of The Daily Press alone one year is $3.00. The razor you get retails in the best stores (the only place the manufacturer will permit it placed on sale) for $2 00, thus creating a splendid worth of Five Dollars for $3.50. The Press handles no job lots, every premium offered by them is purchased direct of the manufacturers, the saving is their subscribers . Order today and the paper aud razor will be mailed to you tomorrow. JERSEYS Combination and Golden Lad FOR SAUS 2 Cows, 3 Heifers and 12 Bulls. 8. E. NIVIN, Undenburg, Pa. S--3-iy RURAL DELIVERY. Over Thirly-sovcn thousand Oporatlon. Roulot In A statement issued by the avsist- 1 (it postmaster general shows that there are now 37,000 rural delivery routes in the United States. The irgcst number in any common wealth is credited to Illinois, which has 2,775. Closely following the eader are Ohio with 2,402, Iowa with 2,303 aud Indiana with 2,130. Pennsylvania is the only other state with more than 2,000. If to the central western states mentioned there are added the showing of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri, the total of routes is more than 17,500. Figures indica ting the amount of business hand led seem to show an increasing popularity. Thus there are report ed to be forty-six routes ou which more than 15,000 pieces of mail are handled every mouth, ten of these having a record of over 20,000 pieces. Taking the country over, the average number of pieces of mail handled 011 a rural route each month is 4,415, again of twenty per cent, over the showing of a year ago, when the number was 3.6S8. What is more encouraging is that few routes ihow any falling off, the gain being general. The Merry Opera of "The Toymakers" Those who want to laugh and forget "dull care" have a treat in store for them iu the new comic opera which like the book, is called "The Toymakers," and will soon be a delightful attraction in this city at the Opera House, and from all advance information, those who like to be amused will be sure to want to see this musical absurdity. The date of the production of "The Toymakers" is Thursday, Novem ber 21 and it will be for one night only, so that seats should be re served early. The author of the book and play is Charles Felton Pidgin Chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statis tics, who wrote "Quincy Adams Sawyer," which was read and talk ed about all over the country and called "the best New England story ever written." and now he has written another bright, witty book in "The Toymakers" which is just as amusing and full of interest as his first book. Dry statistics must be good daily food, for Mr. Pidgin simply bubbles over with merri meut in all his books and plays. The music was written by Charles D. Blake and John A. Bennett and has twenty-six bright and catchy numbers which are really new and tuneful and they just fit the story. It is fantastic bit of comedy, show ing the peculiar situations that arise from the invention by "John Sen ior Stubbs of a beautiful mechan ical doll which he brings to life by the use of electricity, and it is easy to imagine the amusing comphca tions that arise from such a combi nation of antique and modern in ventions. lhat famous company of merry comedians, singers and dancers, "The Jollities," will pro duce this opera, and they carry their own scenery, painted especial ly for "The Toymakers" repre senting an old English inn and the interior of the toyshop. Their cos tumes are rich and artistic. AltO' gether it would be difficult to spend a more entertaining evening than to hear "The Toymakers." Paper napkins and doilies at the Columbian office. tf. Milton's Big Fair. Dverything Points to a Good Fair and a Large Attendance. The Milton fair, which will be held on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October this year, never had a brighter prospect for a good fair and a large attendance. The man agement of the Milton fair has es tablished a reputation for square dealing with its exhibitors and for giving the public the best enter tainment of any fair iu Central Pennsylvania It takes every pre caution to protect its patrons and tierniits no gamblers or disreputa ble characters on the grounds. These features have won the confi dence and respect of the public, and the Milton fair lives and pros pers while many other fairs have either quit business or are dragging along on the ragged edge. The heads of the several departments report that the indications are for a large increase in exhibits. The racing this year will be better than ever. The midway will be a pop ular feature aud will be free from anything immoral or objectionable, and the attractions are the best that money can procure. Excur sion rates ou all the railroads. OASTOXlIAi n.th. -lha Kind You Have Always ytm miiu iuu nam mwja Signature of CLEARANCE SALE of lots o! dependable merchandise at reduced prices.' WHITE DRESSES $ 6.50 Suits now $ 4.75 17.50 " " 12.50 10.00 " " 7.00 LAWN WAISTS. 1.25 grade now 79 cents Others in proportion at 1.00, 1.50, 1.80. .SPIDER SILKS. Handsome patterns, choice printings. Regular 50c. pieces now 39 cents. THE CLARK STORE. V Alexander Brothers & Co., " DEALERS IN : Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Confec- tionery and Nuts. Fine Candles. Fresh Evory Week. 2extit-- Goods .a. SrEcinjrsrl " SOLE AGENTS FOR 5 JUPITER, KING OSCAR, WRITTEN GUARANTEE, 8 COLUMBIAN, ETC. Also F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tcdacco. I ALEXANDER BROS. & CO., Jiloomsbur,?, Pa. 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