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TtLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY APRIL 30, 1908.
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ODD FELLOWS AT SHAMOKIN
Will M.l at Dinvill. Next Year.
The celebration of the 89th anni
versary of the foundation of the
first lodge of Odd Fellows in Amer
ica on Tuesday gave Shamokin the
biggest day in its history. 10,000
Odd Fellows, and many thousands
more of friends, wives, sweethearts
and ordinary sightseers, thronged
the streets so that in some places it
was with difficulty that people could
move.
A profusion of decorations of all
sorts added to the gala air. Even
the side streets were not neglected
in the matter of gay trimming, so
that wherever the visitor walked a
delightfully beautiful vista met the
eye.
The business meeting of the an
niversary association was held in
the Shamokin lodge room at 1 1 30
a. m. It was evident mat mere
would be a big fight on the choice
of place to hold the next meeting.
The favorites were Danville and
Tyrone, and both towns seemed to
be running about even. During the
morning large banners were made
and taken over the town on which
were the words, "Vote for Danville
in 1909." The individual members
also did a great deal of work in in
ducing the tide of sentiment to turn
in favor of Danville.
At the meeting the vote was a
close one, Danville receiving 27
votes, Tyronje 23 and Mt. Carmel
2. The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, April 27th, 1909.
The feature of the day was the
monster parade, in which it is esti
mated there were 8,oooOdd Fellows
in line. The Danville lodges had
the largest number of men in line
over 200.
There were 15 bands in the pa
rade and it took the column three
quarters of an hour to pass one
point. One of the most attractive
features of the parade were two
floats in which were the orphans
from the Odd Fellows' orphanage
at Weigh Scales.
At the business meeting the fol
lowing officers were elected: Pres
ident, W. II. Kiess; secretary, H.
B. Eberly; treasurer, Abe A. My
ers. Out of sixty-one lodges, etc.,
in the district filty-eight were rep
resented at the meeting.
CARET NEAL
The marriage of Miss Mabel,
daughter of C. W. Neal, of Blooms
burg, and Wright D. Carey, of
Wilkes-Barre, took place in the
Reformed church on Wednesday
afternoon, April 22nd, at 6 o'clock.
Rev. J. D. Thomas pe formed the
ceremony. The church was beau
tifully decorated with palms and
flowers. As the bridal party en
tered, Miss Grace Housel played
the wedding march from "Lohen
grin." With the ushers, Mr. Rob
ert Jacobs and Mr. Sutton, of Ilar
risburg, leading, followed by the
bridesmaids, Miss Anua Creasy, of
Bloomsburg, and Miss Belle Burr,
of Watson town; the maid of honor,
Miss Marie Funk, of Bloomsburg,
and the flower girl, Ruth Hutton,
the bride entered the church with
her father. C. W. Neal, who gave
her away in marriage. As the
bride reached the altar she was met
by the groom with the best man,
Ernest Carey, his brother.
During the impressive ceremony
Rubenstein's Melody in F was ren
dered by Miss Housel, who played
Mendelssohn's wedding march as
the party left the church.
After the ceremony a reception
was held for the relatives, the bri
dal party, and a few intimate
friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carey wUl
reside iu Wilkes-Barre, where he is
employed by the Gas Co.
CANDIDATES' EXPENSES.
Monday was the last day on
which candidates at the recent pri
mary election could file their ac
counts for expenses incurred in the
canvass. Those who spent less
than $50 are not obliged to itemize
their accounts.
On Saturday and Monday the
following accounts were filed in the
Prothonotary s office:
W. P. Zehner, Democratic can
didate for County Treasurer,
21 ; John Mourey, Democratic candi
date for County Treasurer, $178.80;
George Unangst, Democratic candi
date for County Commissioner,
$545-73; Jerry Hess, Democratic
candidate fcr County Commissioner,
$402.25; A. C. Creasy, Democratic
candidate for County Commissioner,
$140.57; C. Fred Lenbart, Repub
lican candidate for County Com
missioner, $1,019.44.
The following persons filed affi
davits stating that they did not ex
pend over $50: John G. McHenry,
Democratic candidate for Congress;
C. E. Kreisher, Republican candi
date for Legislature; C. A. Small,
Prohibition candidate for District
Attorney; Clyde C. Yetter. Henry
Traugh, John A. Fortner, Republi
can candidates for Committeemen;
A. J. George, E. M. Savidge and
J. H. Mensch, Democratic candi
dates for committeemen; Henry
Traugh, Republican candidate for
delegate to State Convention; Louis
Rieggel, candidate for Councilman
at Catawissa.
PAPER CHANGED HANDS.
In the Sullivan Jteview of April
23rd we read with regret that Fred
Newell has sold that establishment,
and has retired from the newspaper
business. For more than twenty
years he has published the best pa
per in Sullivan county, and one of
the brightest inland weeklies in the
state. The Jteview has been a wel
come visitor to our sanctum for
many years, and we shall miss
Brother Ne well's editorials, both
wise and humorous, as circum
stances required. Should he en
gage in other business we wish him
unbounded success. It is to be
presumed, however, that in twenty
years be has accumulated an ample
fortune in the newspaper business,
and can spend the balance of his
life in ease and pleasure. That is
what always happens to country
editors, we don't think.
Mr. L. R. Taylor, of White Ha
ven, is the new proprietor of the
Review. He is a young man of en
ergy and ability, and will no doubt
maintain the high standard attained
by Mr. Newell.
GOES TO DANVILLE CHURCH.
Bishop Shanahan has appointed
Rev. A. J. McCann, of Locust Gap
to succeed the late Rev. M. I.
O'Reilly as pastor of St. Joseph's
Catholic church at Danville.
Father McCatm was pastor of St.
Columba's church in this town for
thirteen years, and he has a host of
friends here among all denomina
tions. He is a bard working, con
scientious priest aud during his
pastorate here and at St. Joseph's
church, Locust Gap, endeared him
self to the people. The announce
ment of his removal Sunday caused
profound sorrow among his parish
ioners and, after hearing his fare
well address, many persons left the
church with tear-stained faces.
The church at Danville is to be
congratulated on securing such a
man as Father McCann, to fill the
place of the much beloved Father
O'Reilly.
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THE STARS.
I read with much interest an ar
ticle in last week's Columbian, on
the above subject. The starry
heavens, is truly, not only a beau
tiful midnight scenery, but a very
interesting subject to contemplate,
in meditative study. Of these
beautiful shining orbs, modern sci
ence has revealed much informa
tion, of which past generations
knew nothing at all. And at the
same time it is but little we know
about, or, that future people can
ever know about.
True, our solar system is within
reach of investigation, of very ac
curate and comprehensive theories,
so conclusive, that we accept them
as settled facts or theorems that
cannot be successfully disputed or
disproveu. The planetary system
is so interesting, and with all our
knowledge of it, yet how little do
we know about it. We know the
size and movements of them, their
distance from us and the sun, but
can we ever tell with a certainty or
will science ever demonstrate this:
That they are inhabited. Of course
interest centers so much on this
point. If we are not much acquaint
ed with our nearest planetary
neighbors, how is it possible to gain
any knowledge of the remote fixed
stars, systems ? I have an author
ity on Astronomy from which I
learn that the fixed stars range
from the first to the sixth magni
tude, and that the nearest fixed
stars are at least twenty trillion
miles distant, which might be con
sidered an incomprehension beyond
all human imagination or astronom
ical calculation. I have read arti
cles on astronomy in which the
writer computed the distance to the
North Star, and which no doubt
was as wide of the mark as any
other erroneous imagination might
be. But such articles are always
interesting to read because of the
fact that the exploring mind is in
search of discoveries and new ideas
in relation to what may be found
in illimitable space. But nearly
always the wandering mind becomes
lost in the depths of mystery be
yond the power of solution. But
bow is it possible to estimate with
any degree of certainty, the dis
tance to the North Star, when there
is no possible means to base any
measurements to calculate distance
when in fact, the whole of the
earth's orbit, 190 million miles in
diameter, as compared to the di
mensions of the North Star, is only
a mere speck, or as a straight line
drawn from the orbit to the North
Star. Hence it is quite possible that
the diameter of the North Star, as
a body, is greater in magnitude
than the diameter of the earth's or
bit. As the universe is beyond the
comprehension of finite mind in its
immensity, finite mind may pene
trate space beyond the light of the
sun and the North Star, and the
groups of stars around them, but
only to find itself iu the realms of
other starry spheres, way beyond,
in the remoteness of the shining
orbs that illumine our earth, and in
which we are so much interested,
but know comparatively so little
about.
John C. Wknner.
NEARS CENTURY MARK.
Eiehtv-nine vears aeo Sunday
the first American lodge of Odd
Fellows was organized in lialtimore
under the title of Washington
Lodge, No. 1. There were five
members of that lodge when it was
started and now, in round numbers,
the order in the United States com
prises about 1,700,000.
reHpect the PEOPLES' BANK, where all
A. Z. Schocii. President.
ANNALS OF FORT JENKINS, COL
UMBIA COUNTY.
Extract from Statement of Nathan Beach
"In the year 1760 my father re
moved with his family from the
State of New York, to the valley
ot Wyoming, now Luzerne county,
State of Pennsylvania, where he
continued to reside within the lim
its of the said county, until the 4th
day of July, 1778, the day after the
Wyoming massacre, so called.
When the inhabitants, to wit, all
those who had escaped the toma
hawk and scalping knife, fled in
every direction to places of security
about the first of August follow
ing I returned with my father and
Thomas Dodson, to secure our har
vest which we had left in the fields.
While we were engaged in securing
our harvest as aforesaid, I was taken
prisoner by the Indians and tories;
made my escape the day following.
In the tall of the same year, 1778,
my father and family went to live
at Fort Jenkins, (Columbia County,
Pa.) I was there employed, with
others of the citizens, and sent out
on scouting parties by Capt. Swee
ny, commander of the fort, and be
longing to Col. Hartley's regiment
of the Pennsylvania line, continued
at said fort until about the first of
June, 1779, during which time had
a number of skirmishes with the
Indians. In May, 1779, the Indians,
thirty-5 ve iu number, made an at
tack on some families that lived one
mile from the fort, and took three
families, twenty-two in number,
prisoners. Information having been
received at the fort, Ensign Thorn
bury was sent out by the captain in
pursuit of the Indians, with twenty
soldiers, myself and three others of
the citizens also went, making
twenty-four. We came up with
them at (near Columbia park) a
sharp engagement took place, which
lasted about thirty minutes, during
which time we bad four men killed
and five wounded out of the twenty-four.
As we were -compelled to
retreat to the fort, leaving our dead
on the ground, the Indians took
their scalps. During our engage
ment with the Indians the twenty
four prisoners before mentioned
made their escape and got safe to
the fort. The names of the heads
of those families taken prisoners as
aforesaid, were Bartlet Ramey,
Christopher Farrow and Joseph
Dewey; the first named, Bartlet
Ramey, was killed by the Indians.
Soon after the aforesaid engage
ment, in June I entered the boat
department. Boats having been
built at Middletown, Dauphin coun
ty called continental boats, made
for the purpose of transporting
the baggage, provisions, etc., of
Gen. Sullivan's army, which was
on its march to destroy the Indian
towns in the lake country, in the
State of New York. I steered one
ol those boats to Tioga Point, where
we discharged our loading and I
returned to Fort Jenkins in August,
where I found our family. The
Indians still continued to be trou
blesome; my father thought it ad
visable to leave the country and go
to a place of more safety; we left
the Susquehanna, crossed the moun
tains to Northampton county, in
the neighborhood of Bethlehem;
this being iu the fall of 1779. In
May, 1780, the Indians paid a visit
to that country, took and carried
away Benjamin Gilbert and family,
and several of his neighbors,
amounting to eighteen or twenty
in all. Said Gilbert was a public
friend, of the society called Quak
ers. It was then thought expedi
ent to raise a certain number of
militia men, and establish a line of
blockhouses north of the Blue
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PUMCE,
FM Just What You Are
looking: for in anything for Men,
Young Men and Children.
The Largest
THE SMALLEST PRICE
CORNER,
"THE CREATION."
This splendid musical composi
tion will be rendered in the Metho
dist Church on Tuesday evening,
May 1 2th by the Bloomsburg Chor
al Society under the direction of
Charles O. Skeer. It will be ac
companied by C. P. Elwell's or
chestra of about twenty pieces.
Rehearsals have been in progress
for some weeks, and the chorus
numbers eighty or more voices.
The former concerts of this society
are sufficient guaranty that this
production will be of a nigh musical
order. Haydn's "Creation" has
never been attempted in this section
before, and may never be again.
Only the cities aspire so high as
that, and Bloomsburg should take
pride in the fact that it has an or
ganization that not only is not
afraid to tackle such music, but
that it can succeed most admirably.
The prices of admission will be
low. The church ought to be fill
ed. Let everybody make arrange
ments to be there.
ABUSED A HORSE.
Lawrence Hill of Pine Summit
was arrested Monday for abusing a
horse belonging to Correll's livery,
and fined $10 by Squire Jacoby.
Hill has been employed ou Evaus
farm below town. He hired the
horse ou Saturday to go to Pine
Summit, but instead went to Mill
ville and Iola, driving the horse
until it was nearly exhausted.
It was necessary to go to Berwick
to find an officer of the Humane
Society to proceed in the matter. It
is a pity Bloomsburg can't have an
officer of this society. There would
be plenty for him to do.
STOLE BISHuFS DINNER.
Bishop Darlington made an offic
ial visit to St. John's church at
Bellefonte last Sunday, aud was
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. John
Hewitt at the Rectory. For the
Sunday dinner Mrs. Hewitt bad
prepared three nice chickens and
other good things, and placed them
in the refrigerator on Saturday
night. Thieves visited the place
during the night and stole every
thing in the refrigerator, and other
arrangements had to be made for
the Sunday dinner at the rectory.
Mr. Hewitt was a former rector of
St. Paul's, Bloomsburg.
Assortment.
COMMANDER! BALL.
The tournoi and ball given at
Caldwell Cathedral last Friday
night by Crusade Commandery,
Knights Templar, was a brilliant
function. About 150 couples were
in attendance, and the grand march
was participated in by uniformed
Knights only, and their ladies, Mr.
and Mrs. S. R. Bidleman leading.
The music was exceptionally fine,
the waltzes being played by C. P.
Elwell's orchestra, and the two
steps by the Citizens' Band.
Delicious refreshments were serv
ed by the members of St. Marga
ret's Guild.
Altogether.it was a delightful
occasion, and one of the most bril
liant social gatherings this town
has ever seen.
EYERLY RITTER.
The marriage of Paul R. Eyerly r
one of the proprietors of the Morn
ing Press, and Miss Amy Ritterr
took place in the Lutheran church
on Wednesday morning, April 29th,
at 9:30 o'clock, Rev. J. E. Byers
officiating. Only the families and
a few friends were present.
The bride and bridegroom were
unattended. Mrs. W. H. Brooke
presided at the organ. The church
was beautifully decorated.
After the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Ritter, on Normal Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. Eyerly have gone
on a tour in the south, aud wi.l be
at home after June 1st in their
newly furnished residence on Mar
ket street.
The bride is one of Bloomsburg' s
very estimable young ladies, aud
Mr. Eyerly is a hustler in the
newspaper business, having made
the Morning Press one of the best
inland dailies iu the state.
We extend our warmest congrat
ulations. Mrs. Elwell Funk spent last week
at the home of N. U. -Funk Esq,
and attended the Carey-Neal wed
ding. She returned to her home iu
Philadelphia on Monday.
The M. E. church will give a
lunch supper, Friday evening, May
8th, 5 to 10 o'clock. A good bill
of fare with cake aud cream extra.
Supper 15 cents.
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