jf2$ ft W ? VOL 43. BLOOMSBURG, PA.. THURSDAY NOVEMBER U, ii)o7. NO. 44. 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. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. In Point of Business Success and Financial Strength this Bank Occupies Front Rank. C M. CIIEVKMNU Pres. COUNCIL ME&TINQ. The monthly meeting of the town council was held on Monday even- O. R. Iyiwis presented a petition for an arc liit at the corner of Pine and Fair streets. II. Mont. Smith Esq., presented a petition akiiiK fur the straight ening and widening of Lightstreet road. C. V. Miller E. suggested that the claim of Clara A. Vanderslice could be settled for $11.00. Her buggy was injured while driving over the new Irondale road which it is alleged was in an unsafe con dition. W. O. DeWitt reported that he had examined the fire alarm sys tem, and that it could he made as good as when first rut in for $300. The bill of M.ick Mfg. Co. for paving brick, amounting to $1122.42 was ordered paid. Mr. Rulon presented a resolu tion approving the bond of J. R. Fowler, Gehrad .Snyder, O. B. Mellick and William Fowler in the sum of $t, 000 conditioned for the maintenance of paving for two years. This bond is in addition to the bond of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. in the sum of $2,000, the solicitor having approved the same as to legality. That the paving on Market Square and all other paving not heretofore accepter!, be accepted, and that the President and Secretary are hereby authorized to pay the contractors the amount due them. On motion being duly made and seconded the resolution was passed unanimously. A communication was received from A. W. Duy, Esq., stating that he represented Mrs. Sarah Sterner, widow of Danil Sterner, who met his death while employed by the Town in laying a sewer on Jefferson street. The Street Commissioner stated that there was plenty of cribbing on hand and he had told Sterner that if it needed cribbing he should do so before he went in. Sterner replied there was no need of it. That he wasn't afraid to go in. Street Commissioner said that he told him to take no chances. The matter was referred to the Town Solicitor. The secretary reported that he had received bids for supplying coal for the use of the town, J. S. Kdward-i being the lowest. It was awarded him, provided he will de liver it in quantities as the town needs it. W. V. Robbins stated that he had appointed Frank Deiterich as a deputy collector for the taxes of 1905, 1906 and 1907, which he de sired ratified by the Council On motion the deputation of? Frank Deiterich was approved. The opening of Light Street road was discussed. William Hutton, whose wife owns part of the land that would be taken, was present, and said that the straightening of ' the street would practically ruiu all of their lots, as it would cut oil the Main street frontage, and make the lots front diagonally on Light Street road. The matter was referred to a committee, and Kashuer, Zeigler and Runyou were appointed said committee, to report at a special meeting on November 25th. Some other minor matters were attended to, and the meeting ad journed. PHILO REUNION. The Philologian Society of the Normal School will hold its annual reunion on Thanksgiving night, November 28th. This is always an interesting event, and many old members come back each year for the reunion. An excellent program Is being arranged for the event. M. MILLEISEN. Cashier. THE MIFFLIN VOTE. On Thursday last (J. C. Yetter Ksq. presented a petition to the court asking that the vote of Mifflin township be thrown out for the reason that Witt Hess had acted as Judge of Klection in place of O. E. Johnson who was elected last spring. Johnson was present and demand ed to be sworn in, but the board refused to swear him. Nothing was done in the matter, and on Saturday Mr. Yetter again called it up, and asked the court to make an order excluding the vote. This Judge Kvans refused to do, as there was nothing alleged in the peti tion to warrant such action. The Court said that the two judges on Thursday were sitting as a returning board and not as a Court of Common Pleas and had no authority to receive any petitions. They were there to compute the vote as returned, and that the re turns were all regular on their face. There was no fraud alleged. Judge Evans said that if Mr. Yetter wanted to raise the question there was a regular way to proceed as set forth in the Act of Assembly: that the vote of a township could not be thrown out upon an ex parte affidavit. There was nothing what ever before the Court. The Court said that he would al low the petition presented on Thurs day to be marked "filed," but would make no other order. Mr. Yetter desired the Court to have entered on the records the fact that a petition was presented by him on Thursday and that the Court took no action upon it. The Court re plied that there was nothing before them for argument. " There is nothing before the Court excepting the bare fact that we have allowed the petition presented oa Thursday to be marked 'filed.' " Mr. Yetter desired the Court to make an order that the petition represented that the Judge of Elec tion of Mifflin township was one O. E. Johnson j that he was pre sent at the polling place on the day of election, was not allowed to serve, and that the returns from this election district show that they were signed by Witt Hess as judge of the election. This the Court re fused to do. He said the petition did not allege fraud, or that the fact of Witt Hess acting as Judge of Election had changed the result. Court said further that if Mr. Yet ter could show that the fact ot Witt Hess having served as Judge of the Election in Mifflin township had disfranchised any elector, or was the cause of fraud in the election, then a petition of that kind would have some force. After some further discourse the Court made the following entry on the petition: "Aud now Novem ber 9th, 1907, the prayer of the pe tition to exclude the vote of Mfflin township from the official count is refused." Judge Krickbaura received his certificate of election on Thursday, November 7th, aud the whole thing is now probably a closed event. 1 m THE MONUMENT. Bloomsburgers are busy locating Mi unldiers monument to be erect- led at the county seat by the county commissioners.. As it is 10 oe paia for by the entire county why should not the outsiders have something to say as to the location 1Catawis. sa JVtws Item. There is no reason in the world why outsiders should not express their views on the subject, and we will be glad to print them. If any one can suggest a better place for the monument than Market Square Bloomsburgers will be pleased to learn where it is, but it will take a strong argument to convince them. On The Careful and Conservative Management 0e QSfoom06urg (JWtonaf QSanft Invites Your Business. 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits Wm. II. IIidlay, Cashier. TOWN HELP FOR LIBRARY. On Monday night Col. J. G. Freeze, John R. Townsend and C. W. Miller presented a petition to the town council, signed by about 150 citizens, asking for assistance from the town towards the main tenance of the free library. The petition claims that it is a matter of public interest and should be maintained by the Town the same as the water, light, etc. It asks that one half of one mill of the taxes for the year 1907, be set aside and paid monthly to the treasurer of the Public Library. The peti tion was presented by C. W. Miller, Esq., who explained the financial condition of the library and that it had been kept alive only by house to house canvass by certain of its members. According to the finan cial statement for the last year there appeared to be a deficit of about $74.74. The Civic Club which had been one of the princi pal supporters of the library had disbanded, and hence this source of income will be cut off. If the Town would appropriate a certain amount of the taxes as the petition requests, everybody could contri bute proportionately to the library. Mr. Townsend also spoke in favor of the matter aud said he was satis fied that if the Council would show an interest in the matter an outside party would erect a suitable build ing which would be an honor to the town, for the home of the library. The matter was discussed at length by Council. In reply to a question, the Secretary said that it would amount to about $1,400. It was finally decided to take up the matter at the special meeting on the 25th of November. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. The County Teachers' Institute will be held during the first week in December. The program is now being prepared by Superintendent Evans, aud will be a strong one. The instructors will be Dupety State Superintendent Tietrick ; Charles Calvert Ellis, who will give a series of popular lectures on the history of education ; Dr. W. W. of Washington. D. C. whose sub ject will be English throughout the common ana mgu scuooi graues ; rrof. Alva Agee of State College, who will give a talk of special inter est to the teachers in mixed schools; Prof. O. H. Yetter will have charge of the music. Miss Grace Housel will be the pianist. The lecture course consists of : Monday, The Katherine Ridgway Co.; Tuesday, Dr. S. Parks Cad man, whose subject is, "The Puri tan in Two Worlds"; Wednesday, Royal Gipsy Concert Co. ; Thurs day, Dr. Edw. Amherst Ott, whose lecture i3 entitled "The Haunted House." OTHER PLACES HAVE IT, TOO. Lewisburg has had its war with the milkmen and has come off vic torious. November 1st the dairy men advanced the price of milk from 6 to 8 cents. The move caus ed disapprobation. Consumers at once reduced the quantity of their purchases, and the milkmen found that their supply of milk greatly exceeded thedemaud. Some bought condeused milk, and in many ways showed dissatisfaction. A number of firms ananged to deliver milk to the larger consum ers at 6 cents aud the milkmen found that their trade was rapidly slipping away. On November 8th they annouueed that old prices would be restored. Basis of A. Z. Schoch, President. THE CURFEW LAW. An Ordinance to bo Adopted. On Saturday afternoon a petition was put in circulation asking the town council to pass an ordinance requiring nil children under a cer tain age to be off the street by nine o'clock at night. The movement was started by the Women's Chris tian Temperance Union, and the petition was in charge of Mrs. L. E. Whary and Mrs. Geo. Harder. A large number of signers were secured, very few, if any to whom the paper was presented refusing to sign. The number of young children ou the streets late at night aud the language and conduct of many of them proves conelusively that they ought to be at home, and if par ents have not sufficient control over them to keep them there at late hours, it is time for the town au thorities to take a hand. On Monday evening at the regu lar session of the council Rev. W. R. Whitney appeared and present ed a resolution passed by the clergy of the town indorsing the curfew law. J. J. Robinson presented the petition of the' W. C. T. U. After some discussion, ou motion of Mr. Rulon, seconded by Mr. Kashuer, the Solicitor was instruct ed to prepare an ordinance estab lishing curfew law. It was sug gested that the age of the children aud the time the curfew should ring, should be ascertained from neighboring towns and that the or dinance should be prepared in con formity with them. DEEDS RECORDED Following are the deeds recently recorded by Register and Recorder Frank Miller: Wallace Slusser and wife to Josi ah H. Giger for land in Blooms burg. Jackson Robbins to Clark Eyer for land in Greenwood township. Jackson Robbins to Lewis J. Robbins and George W. Robbins, for land in Greenwood township. Duval Dixon to Robert J. Force, for laud in Briarcreek township. Mary L. A. Swayze, et al. to Louisa Kreamer, for land in Green wood township. John M. Fairchild and wife to Margaret Shannon, for land in Bor ough of Berwick. J. Allen Stephens to Margaret A. Shannon, for land in Berwick. C. A. Fenstermacher and wife to Mary E. Mears, for land in West Berwick. Shepard R. Boone et al. to J. Edward Boone, for laud in Scott township. J. Edward Boone to Mary C. Pague, for land in Scott township. John S. Housenick to Michael Stepulaitis, for land in Berwick. George Haydt to Francis Crouse for land in Beaver township. Martha and Dorothy Brown to William H. Brower, for land in Bloomsburg. C. A. Fenstermacher and wife to Paul W. Mayer, for land in West Berwick. Henry A. Miller to M. B. Hock, for land in Madison township. Duval Dixon and wife to Robert J. Force, for laud in Briarcreek township. O. D. Seward to Emma J. Force, for land in West Berwick. Josiah Ralston and wife to Alva B. Byrem, tor land in Bloonihburg. For four weeks before Christmas Tub Columbian will go into every home in Bloomsburg, and lor that reason will be au excellent adver tising medium. It will be made specially attractive during that time. A Chance Like This Does not often happen at this season of the year. On account of backwardness of business, we will put Our Entire Stock on Sale AT 20 DISCOUNT Commencing Thursday, Nov. 1 4 and continuing FK TIEN BAYS. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. BEN CIDDINC Clothier, Hatter and Haberdasher. Exchange Hotel, Bloomsburg. o Come in and see us, we'll treat you right. CORONER'S INQUESTS. When Not Necessary to be Held. Judge Evans has handed down an opinion in Montour county de clining to approve or order the county to pay the costs of holding the inquest on the dead body of Joseph E. Birks, who lost his life by drinking carbolic acid by mis take at the Germania brewery last summer. The approval of this in quisition was resisted by the Mon tour county commissioners. Citing an opinion of Judge Furst in a similar case the court holds that when a coroner, or, in his ab sence, a justice, is called upon to view a dead body he should make some reasonable inquiry into the circumstances of the death before proceeding to summon a jury and hold an inquest. Where the sur rounding facts do not show viol ence and there is no reason for sup posing a felonious destruction of the person, there is no necessity for an inquest. But when the con trary appears or death is involved in mystery it is a proper case for an inquest. When it is quite evi dent that deatu lias been caused Dy disease or other natural causes, suicide, pure accident, or neglig ence of the deceased no inquest will be needed aud, if held, no fees should be allowed therefor. The above opinion should prove very valuable to justices of the peace when called upon as acting coroners to decide whether or not an inquest is necessary. Care, how ever, should be taken not to mis construe any of the points ad vanced and err on the side of too great a caution thus permitting cases of sudden death to pass in which there is an element of mys tery and in which there would seem to be necessity for an inquest in order to show that the authorities are vigilant in their effort to block crime. Harry Beckley, sou of W. D. Beckley, of Catawissa, was married to Miss Lottie Shuinan, daughter of P. H. Shuman, of the same place, last Monday morning. 'miiiiPHMiikMgmMiu,aja)uuaBzg. MRS. HENRY RUCH. Mrs. Henry Ruch, grandmother of Mrs. Fred T. Ikeler, of this town, died at her home in Berwick Friday morning at 2 o'clock after au illness of six months, from slow paralysis. Mrs. Ruch was aged seventy nine years, and was a well known resident of Berwick, where she was highly respected. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. Emma McMichael, Reuben, Har vey, Gilbert and Frank, all of Ber wick, and Chas. of Saginaw, MLh. A sister is also living at Jersey shore. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon. Banquet to Judge Evans. President Judge Charles C. Ev ans will be banqueted by the Col umbia County Bar, ou the evening of December 31st. A meeting of the Bar Association was held in the office of H. Mont. Smith, Esq., on Tuesday evening, when the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that the Bar Associa tion hold a banquet on the evening of December 31st next in honor of Judge Evans. This banquet to be the first of a series of annual ban quets to be given by the said Asso ciation." The president, Col. J, G. Freeze, appointed the following committees: Banquet, A. W. Duy, Esq., Hon. John G. Harman and John M. Clark, Esq.; Invitation, II. Mout. Smith, Esq., W. H. Rhawn, Esq,, and W. E. Elmes, Esq.; Program, Hon. Fred T. Ikeler, H. A. M' Killip, Esq., and Geo. E. Elwell, Esq. The place has not yet been chos en. The banquet was first decided upon at a meeting of the members of the Bar, on November 4th. Christmas Dance. A Christmas Dance on an elabor ate scale is being planned by the Craftsman Club, to be held in Cald well Cathedral on the evening of December 27th.
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