4 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURfl, PA. STRONGEST BANK Capital $100,000 Undivided Profits S30.00O First National Bank, 3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits OFFIUEK8: e. V. M. Low, President. J. M. Staver, Vice President. E. R Tustin, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier, ID I RECTORHi : W. M.Low. E.G. York, Frank Ikeler, U. Tustin, Fred Ikeler, Geo. 8. Uohbitm, J. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED tS66. THE COLUMBIA OEMCCSAT, vm.isuK.n 1837. CoNSOI IDAI tl) 1S69 u. i.imikd Every Tiiursdw Morning, Bloomshurg, tlic County Scat of Columliin County, Pennsylvania. (iEO. E. EEWEI.t., Editor. C.KU. C. KUAN, I'oklman. V ; .) : Insult the county 1.00 a year I a h-unce ; 41 1 . 50 i f not paid in a lvnncc. 1 Jii'side t Hi-county, $ 1. 25 .1 year, strictly in Nance, Ail communication? hould lie.vidressed THE COEVMBI N, Kloomsliurc, la. " TIICHSDA Y. APRIL '.':, 1!0S. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION Democratic State Committee Rooms Harrisburg, Pa., April 1, 1908. As directed by the Democratic State Central Committee at a spec ial meeting held in the Board of Trade rooms, in this city on Wed nesday, February 26th, 1908, no tice is hereby given that the Demo cratic State Convention will convene iu the Orpheum Theatre, at Har iiburg, WEDNESDAY. MAY 20th, 1908, at 11 o'clock a. m The business for which the convention will meet will be. To nominate one candidate for ' oerior Coutt Judge: Two candidates for Presidential .'.icctors-at-Large, To elect in the manner provided ' y the rules of the party: four Del tates and four Alternates-at-Large to the National Democratic Con vention; To certify the nomination of thirty-two Presidential Electors, as named by the delegates from the respective Congressional Districts of the State, And to act upon and determine such othe,r matters, relating to the welfare and success of the party within the State, as may be brought before it. P. Gray Meek, Secretary. Georgb M. Dimeling, Chairman. Ammerman Endorsed by Three Parties At the recent primary election Montour county registered unmis takable endorsement for local option when Hou. R. Scott Ammerman, capitol prober, Democratic and lo cal option candidate for the Legis lature, was not only chosen by his own party, but got a majority of the Republican votes over Charles W. Cook, beside being selected as the Prohibition candidate. The organized liquor forces in the coun ty had selected George Maiers, former sheriff, as the Democratic candidate for nomination. They took with them the entire Demo cratic machine and all the party workers, so that Ammerman did not have even a watcher at any of the polls except m the First ward, where he remained himself. The Republican candidate for the Leg islature, Charles W. Cook, had de clared against local option, so that the Republican local optionists nominated Ammerman on their ticket with stickers. He defeated Maiers by 101 and Cook by 77. ' Newspapers as Business Ventures. Considered as a manufacturing business, newspaper making is enormously hazardous and absurd ly unremunerative. With other manufacturing concerns, the rule is that if they don t make profits they quit, but that is not the rule with newspapers. They always have moral and political reasons for clinging to life long, long after there has ceased to be any pecuni ary warrant lor it. A newspaper in these days is about as likely to declare a dividend as a church is. Competition between papers is in tense, the price of nearly all of them is too low, the cost of white paper and manufacture too high, and they give a great deal too much for the one meager cent that most of them now sell for. IN THE COUNTY Surplus 8150,000. M. I. Low, Vice President. H. C. Creasy, U. V. Hower. M. K Htaekhoime. THE CAPITOL GRAFTERS. There is a constantly growing impression in the public mind to the effect that the convicted capitol grafters will never be sentenced. Tfio other day a hundred or mere reasons were filed for new trials and it is said that arguments on this point will not be begun for a month or more. No doubt these arguments when they do come will be prolonged as much as possible and by the time the questions in dispute are disposed of the people will have forgotten the graft and the prisoners will be allowed to dis appear into oblivion. There is a good deal of foundation for this gossip. We own to considerable surprise at the conviction of the grafters. It was never intended by the party managers that they should be con victed. Public sentiment forced that result, however.and it couldn't be checked in time. If the election of last fall had come six months sooner and with the same result, the plan of procedure would have been changed. The election of Sheatz inspired the machine mana gers with courage and courage is inventive. Some scheme Would have been discovered to secure im munity for the grafters if the man agers had had courage to think. Burd Cassell, whose trial is sched uled for next month, is a member of Congress but though the session is nearly over, he has not qualified. It is said that he is afraid to take the oath of office because some Dem ocrats have threatened to raise the question of bis competency and thus prejudice his case. It may be assumed, however, that the real de terrent influence is the desire to have the incident forgotten. Least said is soonest mended and those yet to be tried as well as those al ready convicted may escape through oblivion which is the only hope. Watchman. Carbondale has a Rod and Gun Club of 120 members, who think it worth while to restock the lakes of Wayne, Lackawanna and Susque hanna counties with the varieties of fish that Nature stocked them with originally. The club has al ready secured 100 cans of fish from the State, mostly from the hatchery at Pleasant Mount. More than 75,000 fish, including bass, perch, blue gills and cat fish, have been secured. The streams and ponds throughout this entire region, in cluding Wayne and Susquehanna counties, will be stocked and pa trolled by the club. The National Publicity Bill soci ety has petitioned congress to pass a law for publicity both before and after election of campaign contribu tions made to national committees to be used in influencing the ap proaching election of November 3, 1908. Pale, Thin, Nervous ? Then your blood must be in a very bad condition. You certainly know what to take, then take it Ayer's Sarsa rjarilla. If you doubt, then consult your doctor. We know what he will say about this grand old family medicine. Thl. li Mi flnt qa.itlon your doctor would aikt "At your bowalt regular?" H. knows that dally action of lha bowalt U absolutely antlal to rooorary. Kaap your Uvr acMva and your bowala ragular by taking UxalWa Uoaei of Ajrer'i fill.. X4t by O. Ays Oa., X.ewU, Kaaa, Ala anufatfwa of 9 hub vuvw W Vl O CMEBIT PECTOtAL. W ma a (Want I W nbllak ftka fWratalaa af all aur aadlalnaa. m ALL FOR KNOX. Washington, April 22,'(Special) That Senator Knox will have the 68 votes ot Pennsylvania solid in the Chicago convention was shown beyond any question when there turns were in from the primaries held on April ti. Sixty-four of these delegates were selected in the districts on that date and every one of them is a strong Knox supporter. Wherever an anti-Knox candidate was running for delegate he was beaten by a big majority. The Pennsylvania Republican state convention will be held at llarrisburg on April 29, when a resolution will be adopted pledging the support of the state to Knox and instructing the delegatcs-at-large to vote for him. Gov. Stuart, James Klverson, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Col. Charles A. Rook, publisher of the Pittsburg Dispatch, will be three of the "Hig Four" from this state. The fourth man has not yet been decided upon. These men will all be enthusiastic Knox boomers who will stand by him to the end. The report that Congressman John Dalzell had been defeated fnr national delegate from the Thirtieth distn.-t was found, upon a count of the ballots to be incorrect. Instead of being defeated. Mr. Dalzell led the ticket in that district. I'e says the entire delegation from Pennsyl vania will go to Chicago with a determination to secure the nomina tion of Knox and that there will not be a single vote missing. Some weeks ago Mr. Dalzell made some complimentary remarks at a Yale banquet 111 this city, concerning .Secretary Taft, which were twisted into nn endorsement of Taft. Mr. Dalzell emphatically denied the tatements attributed to him. hut the report has been spread by the Taft supporters. Mr. Dalzell will be one of the most prominent Knox Doomers at Uhicigo and doubtless will be the Pennsylvania memher of the committee on resolutions. No Self-Seeking. Grover Cleveland (0 Gineral Bragg, March, 1892. I cannot refrain from declaring to you that my experience in the great office of President of the United States has so impressed me with the solemnity of the trust and its awful responsibilities that I can not bring myself to regard a candi dacy for the place as something to oe won by personal strife and active selt-assertion. I have also an idea that the Presidency is pre-eminently the people's office, and I have been sincere in my constant advo cacy of the effective participation in politica affairs on the part of all our citizens. Consequently, I be lieve the people should be heard in the choice of their party candidates and that they themselves should make nominations as directly as is consistent with open, fair and full party organizations and methods I speak of these things solely for the purpose of advising you that my conception of the nature of the Presidential office, and my convic tion that the voters of our party should be free in their selection of their candidates, preclude the pos sibility of my leading and pushing a self-seeking canvass for the Pres idential nomination, even if I had a desire to be again a candidate. Better Pay for R. F. D. Men. Congressman John M. Reynolds, of the Nineteenth Pennsylvania district, has introduced in the House a bill increasing the salaries of ru ral mail carriers to $1,200 per year as the maximum. "The rural carriers are not given enough money for the work they perform," said Mr. Reynolds, in discussing jhe merits of the bill. "They are compelled to work at all seasons of the year, in summer, in winter, in rain, snow and under all conditions. The government takes no excuse from them. In addition to this they are compelled to fur nish their own horse and wagon and kesp both in proper repair The amount allowed them by the government, therefore, hardly en ables them to make both ends meet. "I think $1,200 a year is little enough when one takes into consid eration the duties performed by these servants of Uncle Sam. I am going to do everything in my pow er to have my bill favorably acted upon by this Congress." Coal Output. Over one-third of the anthracite coal mined in the United States was produced in Luzerne county last year, according to the reports of mine inspectors. There was also an increase of 14 per cent, in ton nage over the previous year. OJL0TOHXA. The Rashness of Taft'a Boomers. (From Leslie's Weekly.) Let Mr. Taft's boomers remem ber that fate has a feud with the Republican favorite of the moment who fails to carry off the candidacy on the first ballot. Seward in i860, Blaine in 1876, Grant in 1880, and Sherman in 18S8 had long leads at the outset in the conventions in those years, but in each case the nomination went to somebody else. Lincoln won the candidacy in i860, Hayes in 1876, Garfield iu 1880, and Harrison in 1S88. Harrison and Hayes were far down in the voting on the opening ballots in those conventions, while Garfield was not thought of by anybody in connection with the candidacy un til after a long contest between Grant, Blaine, Suermati, Kdmunds, and other aspirants. Blaine, in 1884, was the only Republican fa vorite who, failing to, carry the convention on the first ballot, won on a subsequent division. He led from the start, and got the nomi nation 011 the fourth ballot, and was beaten at the polls. All the omens, therefore, are against Mr. Taft He is hardly so much of a popular idol as Blaine was. and Blaine's fate when he reached the people was not one that any Presidential aspirant should anticipate with satisfaction Always Take a Receipt. There are occasions when the taking or giving of a receipt for a stun of money paid may seem to be unnecessary, yet it is wise to do so in every case. With the ni05t hon est and b'.-st meaning of people there is possibility of a failure to make proper credit for an amount paid, and unless memory serves there is likely to be ground for a serious misunderstanding. As soon as one receives a receipt or ac knowledgment he should file it away in a place of safe keeping, where it can be found should oc casion require. The saving of all receipts may mean the saving of a good many dollars in a period of years. National Guard Encampment Gettysburg has been selected as the site of the next division en campment of the National Guard by a committee of the high officers of the guard who spent a day at the battlefield.. The site will be on the scene of the third day's battle on the historic field, the infantry occupying the same sites as in 1904. The date will be selected later, but it is certain that the en campment will be held the latter part of July. Sports Sports Sports. Clean, crisp, accurate and relia ble is the verdict of the majority, who read the news of sports pub lished from day to day in 7 he Phil adelphia Press. If you desire to keep reliably in formed legarding the sport you are most interested in today, tomorrow, every day. The Press sporting page delivers the goods. For sale by newsdealers, carriers and boys nearly everywhere. Must Read English. The attorney general's depart ment has given opinions to the fac tory inspection department that children of aliens are required to be able to read and write English be fore being allowed to go to work when under the age of fourteen. The 1908 Baseball Guide. John J. McGraw's official base ball guide for 1908 just published is one of the most complete books of the kind ever issued. It contains everything that is of interest to the enthusiasts, and a special feature is a chapter on the famous spit ball, with illustrations showing how that wonderful curve can be mastered. The guide has many full page illus trations and contains instructions how to play every position on a nine, and a feature is made of the art of pitching a curved ball. It has all the official rules for the post season championship game., sched ule of the season's games, averages and standing of all the leagues. It is No. 18 of Fox's Athletic Library and will be sent to any address for 10 cents with 4 cents extra to pay postage. Address, Richard K. Fox, Franklin Square, New York City. 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 are buying as well as looking. They know the styles are correct. We have more than fifty different models, expressing in seventy five different blendings 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 of becomingly suited women, that's sure. Prices arc very accommodating $10.00, $12.00, $14.00, $15.00, $17.50, $iS.oo, Si 9.00. $20.00, $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 iu the very smartest spring models the most stylish spring fabrics. The new semi-fitting Cout 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. Pric-js 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, We Have Ten Styles of Envelopes and Paper to Match FOR Invitations, Acceptances, Regrets, Announcements, i&c. Full size Wedding with two Envelopes, down to Billet-doux size with Card to Fit. Twenty-Four Styles of TypeO FOR CARDS AND INVITATIONS. We Do All Kinds of Printing. Columbian Printing House, BLOOMSBURG, PA. Cut off that cough with layne'3 expectorant : and prevent pneumonia, tftftMsBtonthith and consumption. TTh3 trot-Id's Ctandud Threat and Lung Medietas for 75 yesra. Get h of yow dnst cad fcs? b thcp KyhC bam. PURSEL. - PENN'A.
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