THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURfl, PA-
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STRONGEST BANK
Capital
8100,000
Undivided Profits
$30,000
First National Bank,
3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits
O F F I C K It 8 :
K. W. M. Low, President. J. M. Btaver, Vice President.
E. H. Tustln, Vice President. E. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
DIUECTOUS:
1 W. M.Low, F. G. Yorks, Frank Ikeler, Joseph Ilatti,
i. Tustln, Fred Ikeler, Geo. R. Robblns, 8. C. Creasy,
J.M 8taver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, II. V. Hower.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTAUUSMEP 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
CsTAHi.isur.n 1837. Consolidated 1S69
Pi'Bi.isiiF.n Every Tiu rsday Morning,
At Blo.imstmrg. the County Scat of
Columlnn County , Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. F.I.W KIJ., Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN.Fokeman.
Terms: Insul t the county $ 1.00 a year
ti alvance; $i.5oif not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $ 1.25 a year, strictly in
dva'icc.
All communications should Leaddressed
THE COLUMBIAN, I'.loomslmri;, Ta
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1908
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
CHRISTIAN A. SMALL,
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the rules ot the Dem
ocratic Party.
FOR CONGRESS
JOHN G. McHKNRY,
of Benton.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Tarty in the 16th Congress
ional District.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
of Catawissa.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
.ratic Party.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
(Second Term)
JERRY A. HESS
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Party.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
JOHN MOUREY
of Roariugcreek Township.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Patty.
FOR PROTHONOTARY
FREEZE QUICK
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
cratic Party.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
W. B. SNYDER
of Locust Township.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Party.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
A. C. CREASY,
of Center Township.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Party.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
(Second Term)
CHARLES L POHE
of Catawissa.
Subject to the rules oc the Dem
ocratic Party.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
W. P. ZEHNER
of Main Township.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocrttic Party.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER
(Second Term)
FRANK W. MILLER
of Bloomsburg.
Subject to the rules of the Dem
ocratic Party.
WILL LOSE YOTES BY MOVING.
All of the candidates for office
who are defeated at the general
primary election, which will be
Jield Saturday, April it, will be
able to have a good excuse to re
lieve the sting of defeat and a basis
upon which to explain if conditions
would have been different, how
they would have been elected.
As everyone knows, the big day
of early spring is the first of April.
moving day, when a general change
of residences annually occurs. As
the primaries follow just 10 days
later every voter who changes his
residence will not be able to vote.
This may make a big change in the
votes for different offices.
IN THE COUNTY
Surplus
8130,000.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
C. FRED LENIIART
of Berwick.
Subject to the rules of the Rcptv
blican party.
BOOST THE BOOSTER.
"Boost the booster." That is
the official slogan of a little town
out in Missouri that has double the
population now that it had nt the
census of 1900. These people hud
been quarreling among themselves
for years and standing still. If one
of their number was getting on in
the world, all the rest were jealous,
anJ at once began to put a sprag in
his wheel, and to retard his pro
gress. The merchants there would
not patronize each other. They
would send their money seven hun
dred and eighty-four miles away,
before they would carry it across
the street and pay it to a brother
merchant for goods that he sold and
they didn't. They were glad to get
the farmer's trade, but they didn't
want to bother to haudle the stuff
that the farmer had to sell. They
growled, they howled, and they all
tried to play sharp games with each
other. Finally some one proposed
a "Boost the Booster" club. The
idea took, and almost everybody
joined that club. To-day their main
street is paved with asphalt, in
place of the mud of eight years ago.
They have a number of nice, new
brick and cement block buildings.
The town is prosperous and boom
ing, and everybody is boosting the
boosters. There are other towns
than this one in Missouri where
."his could be put into practice with
very good results. Dushore Review.
GUFFEY IS FOR BRYAN.
James M. Guffey and State Treas
urer Berry had a lengthy confer
ence recently on politics, and as a
result there was burying of the
hatchet regarding Bryan, for whom
it is understood, there will be a sol
id Pennsylvania delegation to Den
ver. Guffey has consented to with
draw his bitter opposition to the
Nebraskan and will go along as an
evidence that everything is peace
ful. William J. Brennan, personal
representative of Guffey, asked for
a conference with Alderman John
A. Martin, who has been carrying
on a most aggressive Bryan cam
paign in GufTey's own district, and
the conference was held later in the
day. It is understood that Martin
was informed that GufTey's opposi
tion to the Bryan boom had been
withdrawn and that peace was now
desired above all things.
As matters appeared before this
conference, Brennan, who was a
candidate for national delegate
against Martin, was booked for de
feat. Does Your
Heart Beat
Yes. 100,000 times each day.
Does it send out good blood
or bad blood? You know, for
good blood is good health ;
bad blood, bad health. And
you know precisely what to
take for bad blood Ayer's
Sarsaparllla. Doctors have
endorsed it for 60 years.
On frequent eam of had blood in a aloirnlah
Hfer. Thii produces eouatlpatlnn. foiaouout
uhitincfi are then absorbed into the blood.
I Keep tbe bowels open with Ayer'a Fills.
Jk Made by . O. Ayer Co., towel U lUee.
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CHERRY PECTORAL.
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ill formula of all our matflalaaa.
FOR COUNTY
VOTE
JERRY A. HESS, OF
SUBJECT TO THE RULES OF
Primary Election, Saturday, Apiil
nnd 8 p. m.
I
Because of my duties ns county commissioner and my own business
taking up all my time, it will Ik impossible for me to see all of the vot
ers personally, although I woulJ like very much to do so. I am very
grateful for the support of the voters at mv first election, and if they
choose to support me again, I shall use my best efforts for the good of
the county. Very Respectfully,
THE STATE NEEDS HIM.
It is reported that an effort is be
ing made in Columbia county to de
feat Representative Win. T. Creasy
for reuoniination. This would be
a state wide misfortune were it to
succeed. Mr. Creasy is one of the
really strong men of the Pennsylva
nia legislature. His record is ex
ceptionally meritorious and he has
rendered the people of the whole
state most valuable service in fight
ing and in many cases defeating
legislation of the most shameless
character proposed in the interest
of political bandits and their corpo
ration principles.
Mr, Creasy has been in the house
for several years and he has come
to know the ropes as no new man
could hope to learn them without
at least an equal length of service
and an equal grasp of the funda
mentals of good government. The
Columbia farmer is a man of sterling
integrity, of courage and of deep
and abiding conviction. There is
no better Democrat in the state
than this big mau who commands
the respect as he has compelled the
wholesome fear of the corrupt gang
which has so long ruled at Harris
burg and which is now trying to
keep a number of its pets and re
tainers out of the penitentiary. To
lose his strength and his sagacity,
and his keen and ardent devotion
to the common good from the house
m order to make room for some one
who is looking for honors would be
little short of calamity. j
Of course Mr. Chrisman, the
gentleman who is said to be trying
to unhorse Mr. Creasy, is clearly
within his right. He is a Demo
crat and he may with propriety as
pire to serve his party. But has
he a right in pursuing his ambitions
to pull down or even to attempt to
pull down one who has stood so
bravely under such great stress and
for so long for all that is best in
Democracy and for everything that
has been for "the advancement of
good government? Ordinarily it
makes little difference who comes
and who goes in the legislature.
The practice of rotation in office
perhaps is an unimportant detail as
it affects the average case. But
when it strikes at such a figure as
that which Farmer Creasy has
made in the Pennsylvania legisla
ture it becomes pernicious; it is
more honored in the breach than in
the observance.
It is to be hoped therefore that
in the interest of the Demo
cratic party of the state as well as
in the interest of Pennsylvania,
whose faithful servant Mr. Creasy
has been, Mr. Chrisman will defer
hts ambition to serve the people of
Columbia at Harrisburg. We do
not imagine that Mr. Chrisman
would claim for himself that he is
better equipped than Mr. Creasy
for the work which so needs to be
done. He can hardly ask the Dem
ocrats of the state to look upon him
as a better Democrat or as one
more loyal to the best traditions of
the great party of the plain people.
Mr. Creasy is known far beyond
the borders of this commonwealth
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Thi Kind toi Haw Aiwa'
COMMISSIONER
FOR
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
1 1, between the hours of 2 o'clock
Vote Early.
as a man of progressive ideas. lie
is known as a Democrat of the
highest type and as a legislator
who brings to his task not only the
advantages of a large experience,
but also the qualities of mind and
heart which differentiate the states
man from the mere politician. He
is needed at Harrisburg. . The losj
of no other man would be so keenly
felt. And Columbia county will
make ft sad mistake if she shall al
low the state to lose his services.
Johnstown Democrat.
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THE PENNSY.
The Philadelphia Record said
editorially rc;ently: The gross
earnings of all lines directly oper
ated by the Pennsylvania railroad
in 1907 were $164,812,825. Before
the Civil War there was no year
when the ordinary revenue of the
United States government reached
half that sum. Even in 1863 the
revenues of the government, apart
from proceeds of loaus, was only
two-thirds the gross earniugs of the
Pennsylvania lines last year. There
is another comparison that shows
the vastness ot this railroad system.
In 1870 twenty-eight trunk-line
systems of railroads in the United
States had grossearnings only $10,
000,000 greater than those of the
Pennsylvania, and their operating
expenses were $5,000,000 less than
those of the Pennsylvania railroad
last year. For several years the
company has been spending euor
mous sums of money on extensions,
terminals and improvements. While
these are a part of the plant, and
their cost might not improperly
have been raised entirely from
capital, the company has pursued
the more prudent course of paying
moderate dividends and using much
of its income in increasing the
value of the property. For ex
ample, for construction, equipment
nnd real estate on the main liue be
tween New York and Pittsburg,
the company last year expended a
little less than $20,000,000, of which
less than half was charged to capi
tal, and more than a quarter each
to income and the extraordinary ex
penditure fund. Of the expendi
tures on the New York tunnel ex
tension nearly $40,000,000 has been
charged to capital and $30,000,000
to income and the profit and loss
account. The number of tons of
freight moved on the five grand
divisions east of Pittsburg and Erie
last year over the year before and
the number of passengers moved
increased 8.45 per cent, showed an
increase of thirty per cent. There
was a decrease in the gross and net
earnings per ton mile and a de
crease of uearly one-third in the
net earnings per passeuger than
mile, a part of which is attributed
to the 1 wo-cent tare law.
Get k
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EXCEPTIONALLY
Attractive Styles
IN
WOMEN'S READY TO WEAR SUITS.
The Invitation to This Early Exposition of
Tailor Made' Suits Suggests no
Obligation to Buy.
A great many women arc buying as well as looking.
They know the styles are correct.
We have more than fifty different models, expressing
in seventy five different Mendings of fabric, cut and trim
ming, the very latest ideas translated from Paris modes by
the best designers in this country.
With the great variety of styles and the great variety
of fabrics, it's going to be a Spring cf becomingly suited
women, that's sure.
Prices are very accommodating $t 0.00, $12.00, $14 00,
$15.00, $17.50, SiS.oo, $19.10, 2000, $22.50, $25.00, $30.00,
$32.00 and $35.00. Think what a variety that means.
SPRING STYLES FOR GIRLS.
This is a New Department in This Store.
Already there's an array of Suits in the very smartest
spring models the most stylish spring fabrics. The new
semi-fitting Coat Suits, pretty and girlish; the dashing new
Cutaways, with dip; the chic new Vested Suit then the
new Fabrics, what a variety, It's easy to imagine how
charming these Spring Suits will look flitting along the
streets or tripping away to school. Sizes 11 to 18 years.
Prices range from $10.00 to $23.00.
Separate SkirtsNew Styles.
Take a look at that rackful of the new Spring Walking
Skirts. It is a delightful study of beautiful materials;
lovely colorings, graceful styles. Panama, Serge and Voile
are here; old friends, but with new faces. The stripes, the
shadow stripes the soft color effects are so pleasing. New
ideas in trimming are worth seeing too. Be sure to see
them. We price them $3 98 to $15.00.
F, P.
BLOOMSBURG,
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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