THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
V
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Capital
8100,000
Undivided Profits
S30.000
Surplus
8150,000.
First National Bank,
3 Per Cent. Interest Allowed on Savings Deposits
OFFICERS!
E. W. M. Low, President. J. M. ta ver, Vice President.
E. B. TuhUd, Vice President. M. I. Low, Vice Prccideut.
Frank Ikeler, CuHhier,
DIUECTOItS:
3 W.M.Low, F. O. Yorks, Frank Ikelur, 8. C. Creasy,
&. B, Tustln, Fred Ikeler, Geo. 8. Robbing, II. V. 1 lower.
J. M Staver, M. I. Low, Louis Gross, M. E Ktnckhnuse,
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1 866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
KSTAUI.ISIIKD 1837. CONSOI.IUAIEII 1869
Puni.tsintn Every Thpjuday Morning,
At Bloomsburg, the County Scat of
Columbia County , Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EIAVKLL, Editor.
GEO. C. ROAN, Foreman.
Tbhmm Insule the county .$ 1.00 a year
In a I trance ; S l . 50 i f not paid in advance.
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I I IK COL'JVBIAN, Moomsl.urR, Ta.
THtTWDVY, MAY 14, lflOS.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
Democratic State Committee Rooms
Harrisburg, Ta., 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
in the Orpheum Theatre, at Har
risburg, 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
'tperior Coutt Judge:
Two candidates for Presidential
.'.lectors-at-Large,
Co elect in the . manner provided
.: the rules of the party: four Del
egates 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 other matters, relating to the
welfare and success of the party
within the State, as may be brought
before it.
P. Gray Meek, Secretary.
George M. Dimeung, Chairman.
SENATOR KNOX.
Washington, May 12 (Special)
Representative Charles B. Landis
of Indiana, in a recent speech at
Pittsburg, spoke in the highest
terms of Senator P. C. Knox, Penn
sylvania's candidate for the presi
dency. Mr. Landis declared his
loyalty to Vice President Fairbanks,
the favorite son of his own state,
and said:
"Other states have their favorite
sons. But I want to say to you
heie and now that the Republicans
in Indiana have no quarrel with
you Republicans in Pennsylvania,
because you are loyal and enthusi
astic for the nomination of Philan
der C. Knox. We know as well as
you that he is of presidential size.
We know as well as you that no
man in public life in the same
length of time has made greater
strides in public esteem and confi
dence. He was introduced to the
country by William McKinley, and
I do not believe that any man has
to a greater degree the warm admi
ration of President Roosevelt. He
served with rare distinction in the
cabinets of two presidents. He
twice refused a nomination to the
highest judicial tribunal in the
world. No man in the nation is
better acquainted with its traditions.
His legal aim is unerring. He has
perforated . the swinging target of
complex and troublesome condi
tions aud problems more times wth
the projectiles of judgment and
logic and common sense than any
man who sits under the dome of
the capitol. He knows what is
right as between man and man, as
between . capital and labor, as be
tween the producer and consumer,
as between the combination and the
public, and I would be willing to
trust him in any place at any time.
I regard his acquaintance and
friendship as one of the chief est
treasures of my brief career."
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
The Majority Party Members Will be Unfot
tcrad by Platform Plndgni Schools
and Roads.
The indications are that the com
ing session of the legislature will be
an uncertain quantity. So far as
matters stand now it will have a free
land- The Wilkes-Barre Record
points out that so far as the con
vention platform is concerned it
commits the majority party to noth
ing. Before the session of 1907 a
large number of subjects for legis
lative action were specifically men
tioned in the platform and the most
important of them were enacted in
to law. It was a time of general
upheaval. We were in the midst
of the anti-corporation agitation,
aud besides, Pennsylvania was in
the midst of a political upheaval.
The Republican party endeavored
to measure up to the demands of
the times and the convention dele
gates did not hesitate to run with
the popular trend. The two cent
passenger fare law was advocated
and enacted, the creation of the
railroad commission was authorized,
a bill was passed giving electric
street railway companies the right
to carry freight, generous appro
priations for the public schools and
for good roads were made, and the
health department was enabled to
begjn a vigorous campaign for the
subjugation of tuberculosis. All
these and other acts of legislation
were the result of platform promis
es. The coming legislature will have
a free hand. The only mention in
the platform is in favor of liberal
appropriations for schools and roads,
but this is a work that was set on
foot last year and the legislature
could not very well abandon the
program. School appropriations
will have to be carried out on the
same scale, and the demand for
good roads everywhere is so large
that provision will have to be made
so far as the treasury will permit.
A subject which the legislature
must consider is the primary law.
A number of serious defects have
been found and they must be rem
edied. There is no doubt that if
the legislature were to give serious
attention to the general election
laws, they could be strengthened in
important particulars. The con
stant revelations of fraud show
looseness in details that should not
be permitted to exist.
A bill extending the civil service
to State, county and municipal of
fices was defeated in 1907 by a very
narrow vote. Presumably another
bill will be introduced at the next
session.
The Danville & Bloomsburg trol
ley line has discontinued the sale
of tickets. It costs five cents cash
every time now.
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The beat kind ot a testimonial
"Sold lor over sixty years."
SOLUTION OP A VEXED PROBLEM
The defalcation of the Cashier of
Quay's Pittsburg bank is announc
ed at an auspicious moment. The
Quay monument commission has
been) for some time searching for a
suitable place to put it and this in
cident points the way. It will
probably be the last heritage of
Quayism in the State. There have
been suicides, broken hearts and
fatled banks in great number as the
result of his political activities and
if he had lived there would proba
bly have been others. But he is
dead and with the burial of his
body opportunities for new iniqui
ties ceased. The defalcation of
"Monte " therefore, may be re
garded as an epoch.
Under the circumstances there
could be no more suitable place ro
put the Quay monument, with au
appropriate inscription, than 111
trout of the Allegheny National
Bunk of Pittsbnrg. "This effigy of
the Genius of Political Corruption
is Filly Krected at the Scene of the
Disgrace aud Exposure of His Last
Victim," would be an appropriate
inscKiption, and thus u-ed the mou
umeiit would piobably be worth all
it cost the State, not as a cleialca
tion of honorable achievement, but
as an ndmonitiou against crime in
public life. His other victims are
gone and forgotten but this crown
iug episode may be held in memory
tor years.
And yet Quay was 110 worse than
his party. A stream is precisely as
pure as its fountain. Quay was the
leader of his party becau.e his lead
ership suited his party, If his po
litical immoralities ha.l been abhor
rent to his political 'associates his
leadership would have been repudi
ated. But he held his throne uutil
his death and there has been no
improvement since. The remedy
is iu the defeat of the party and the
present citadel of its power in Con
gress. With the overthrow of the
Republican dominance in Congress
the political immorality will change
and in this district every voter
should support John G. McIIeury.
Looks Like Arrangement for Stampede
Young Mr. Beveridge ot Indiana
has been openly insulted by the
Republican national committee per
mitting the announcement to be
made that by some helter-skelter
style of voting it has displaced him
as temporary chairman of the Chi
cago convention and selected Sena
tor Dolliver, of Iowa. The reason
is spread that fear was entertained
that Beveridge in one of his peer
less keynotes would stampede the
convention to Roosevelt. This seems
to lack substance. When did this
committee choose Beveridge ? How
can a convention be stampeded into
a nomination before it is perma
nently organized ? Lodge is to be
permanent cnairman and there
would be a stampede for Roosevelt.
Beveridge is under binding instruc
tions for Fairbanks. He can still
start a stampede during a ballot by
casting some votes for Roosevelt.
This whole , gauzy story looks like
an arrangement for a stampede. It
comes from the Roosevelt corner.
Pittsburg Post.
Made by jr. a. Ayr Oo., Lowell, M..
7 SARSAPABIILA.
PILLS.
CHERRY PECTORAL.
yers
Postage Stamps.
The postage stamp singly is such
a customary and iusignificent little
thing that few people have- any
adequate idea what it aggregated.
The value of the postage stamps is
sued by the United States govern
ment was the subject of discustiou
at an uptown New York club re
cently, and in order to determine a
disputed point the following infor
mation was obtained through the
office of the third assistant post
master general. "For the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1907, the value
of 'stamped stock' issued to post
masters was $173,006,476.27. This
consisted of 9,331,919,055 pieces of
stamped paper and 17,686,800
stamp books. The value of the
postal cards for the year was $8,
233,119.90, and of the postage
stamps $125,310,349. Among the
large accounts were : Stamped
envelopes, $27,654,983.42, and
wrappers, $579.883-25-"
To Keep Roads Good.
An important feature for the
maintenance of good roads is men
tioned by the Charleroi Mail in
these words: "It may be stated as
an axion in road building that un
less sufficient means are adopted for
drainage and quickly carrying off
the water from rains the expendi
tures of money and time are wast
ed. It matters not if constructed
of macadam, Telford, bitulithic or
gravel they quickly become seamed
with ruts where the drainage is in
adequate.
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Bears ths
ITOBIA.
The Kind You Haw always
County Superintendent Evans.
At the Grassmerc Park six years
ago this coming fall, Superintend
ent Evans made an address, choos
ing as his theme, "Rural Kduca
tion," and outlining the course he
proposed to pursue at all hazards,
111 the face of all opposition that
might be met. His plan he had so
thoroughly studied out, which at
traded my attention to tuch a de
gree that I thought the whole
scheme "seemed theoretically more
plausible than practical," and be
yond the possibility of carrying it
out to a successful termination.
so expressed myself at the time in
an article 111 the Columbian.
never watched so closely a previ
ously announced scheme as I did
this scheme of Superintendent Ev
ans. While I had grave doubts of
its success, I said at the tune: et
if he is a persou of indomitable will
and untiring and persevering euer
gy he may reach the ideal at which
he aims. If he can withstand the
clamor and protests of all classes,
teachers, directors, pupils and pa
trons that may rise in opposition to
such a cours , be will accomulish a
very great work. But to fully suc
cted, it is necessary that the patrons
of the schools co-operate, by send
ing their children regularly to their
respective schools. We
shall expect that Mr. Evans will be
a power that will count 111 the pro
gress and development of 'Rural
Education 111 Columbia county.
I then also stated that "our rural
schools were in need of many re
forms and we hoped that these re
forms would be consuinated under
the administration of Superintend
ent Evans."
One of the needed reforms, and a
primary one, was the linbit of school
pupils in lots, or squads of halt a
dozen, more or less, to visit other
schools where they did not belong
at all, neither had a right to thus
trespass on the rights of other
schools. I found by experience,
the habit a vicious one, and I put
my foot upon it, aud did not allow
pupils from other schools to enter
my school, in the capacity of visi
tors, falsely so called. The new
Course of Study has rsmedied this
evil, with the whole train of ac
companying evils resulting from
the school tramp nuisance. I no
tice great improvement in the pro
gress of our schools by the numer
ous announcements of school com
mencements in which the graduates
manifest ability that every neigh
borhood and parent should pride
themselves for the accomplishments
their children have attained to dur
ing the short time of six years.
But, taking into consideration also,
the interference of the Board of
Health in attempting to enforce the
vaccination laws, and really ruined
our schools for a year or two, the
children of our schools have made
marvelous progress. And but for
the interference of the Board of
Health, the children would be very
much farther advanced. So much
for rottenness, tyrrany and interfer
ence in the people's business.
John C. WENNER.
Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Fills relieve pain.
Hopeful Signs of Prosperity.
Jasper in Leslie's Weekly.
I regird it as a most hopeful sign
that such eminent aud trusted cap
tains of industry and finance as Mr.
J. Ogden Armour and James B.
Gorgan, of Chicago, and many
others of equal prominence iu vari
ous sections of the country are see
ing good times ahead. The people
have been sobered by bitter experi
ence, and economy is the order of
the day. Proof of thu is found in
the decided decline in our impor
tations ot jewels aud luxuries of all
kinds. Dealers iu articles of adorn
ment and in highpriced luxuries for
the home and household, both fore-
igu and domestic, are still suffering
severely because of the sharp de
cline in their business. It is safe
to predict that there will be no such
extravagant expenditures by our
citizens in the foreign capitals of
the world this year as have been
usually charged against us. The
rich and poor alike are feeling the
necessity of living within their in
comes, widespread reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, there is
no great suffering among the mass
es, or this would be evidenced by
wholesale withdrawals of deposits
from our savings banks.
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A fine new line of Weddino- in.
vltations just received at this office. I
SUBSTANTIAL
lowering of Suit Prices!
Today we commence a period of Suit Selling- destined
to be the best in the department's history. To get quickly
to the bottom of the matter, these few facts arc told.
Within a very short time the space occupied by these suits
will be taken for advance summer garments. This low
price method is taken to get what Spring Suits remain out
in time to accommodate the new arrivals.
The following prices will prove interesting to the
woman who has yet to purchase her Spring Suit.
10.00 SUITS FOR 7.50.
Latest styles stripes and plain colors. Sale Price $7.50.
312.00 SUITS FOR $9.98.
Blue and brown, self striped Panama, Prince Chap Style.
Sale Price $9 98.
U.OO SUITS FOU 10.00.
Worsteds and self stripe Panama, Prince Chap and Cuta
way style. Sale Price 10.00.
17.50 SUITS FOR 15.50.
Excellent quality of ChilTon Panama, blues, browns ami
black. Jacket 27 inches, j fitting back with dip front, worth
$20.00. Sizes 14 to 40. Sale Price $15.50.
18.00 and 20.00 SUITS FOR 12.98.
Sizes 14 to 36 every suit a new creation.
22.50 and 23.00 SUITS FOR 16.00'
Elegant materials and tailorings blues, brown and
greens, Many of the best models. Sale Price $16.00.
25.00 SUITS FOR 17.50.
Excellent assortment, most all sizes in this lot. Best
styles included. High grade handsome materials.
32.00 and 35.00 SUITS FOR 25.00.
The newest creations. Some of them copies of fine im
ported models, fine quality of fabrics good color variety.
Sale Price $25.00.
F. P. PURSEL.
BLOOMSBURG, - PENN'A.
We Have Ten Styles of
Envelopes and Paper to Match
FOR
Invitations, Acceptances, Regrets,
Announcements, &c.
Full size Wedding with two Envelopes, down to
Billet-doux size with Card to Fit.
Twenty-Four Styles of Type
FOIt CAKDS AND INVITATIONS.
We Do All Kinds of Printing
Columbian Printing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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