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ILOOMSIWRG, PA., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1009.
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DIRECTORS
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THE TOWN ELECTION.
Next Tuesday v will be electiou
day. At that time there will be se
lected a President of he Town
Council and six members, and up
on them will fall the duty of mak
ing the appointments of the several
officers under them, including a
solicitor, street commissioner, sec
retary, treasurer, &c.
This town is getting to be a
pretty large affair. It handles a
considerable sum of money each
year, and its business is such that
it ought to be done by men who
have shown some capacity for busi
ness. Both of the party caucuses have
made nominations for council, and
we are not informed of anything
detrimental to the personal char
acter of any of them. But it is gen
erally conceded that the full party
nominations for the office ought
not to be elected, because some of
the men have not shown any quali
fications for so important an office,
in a business way.
It would seem, then, that the
proper thing for the voters to do is
to vote in an independeut way, for
independent candidates, among
whom there are a number of good
men, and thus select a council that
is competent to govern our muni
cipal affairs in an intelligent and
business-like manner.
James H. Coleman has made an
excellent President of Council, and
should be reelected. James Magee,
and C. W. Runyon, independents,
and H. C Rulou on the Democrat
ic ticket should all be returned as
members. All of them have proven
themselves valuable men for the
place. Magee and Runyon are both
among our most prominent busi
ness men, and have been elected
as independents for several years
in succession. As long as they are
willing to sacrifice themselves for
the good of the town, they ought to
be retained.
With Coleman as President and
these three as councilmen, it mat
ters little who the other three
members are though Mr. Naylor
has made an efficient officer and
should be continued. With these
men in the council, the taxpayers
can rest assured that the town
government will be conducted sole
ly in the interest of all the people,
and the council will not be cwned
nor controlled by any one man nor
by any political clique.
Politics does'nt count iu our
municipal election. Vote for the
best men, regardless of party ties
ELKS BUY HARTMAN BUILDING.
At the trustee's sale of the real
estate of R. E. Hartman on Friday
last the store property was bought
by the Elks of this town, for $16,
525. F. D. Dentler did the bid
ding for the Elks.
They now own a fine property
at a very low price. It will be re
modelled, but their plans have not
yet been definitely decided upon.
The Hartman residence on Main
street, was bought by A. VV. Duy,
attorney, for E. B. Tustin, trust
ee for the second mortgage. The
price bid was $4,725.
DR. CRAFT'S LECTURE.
Word has been received that Dr.
Wilbur F. Crafts, secretary of the
International Reform Bureau, of
Washington, D. C, who wis to
kave lectured at a union mass meet
ing in the M. E. church on the 19th
of February, will be here a week
earlier and will deliver his lecture
on the 1 2th of February instead of
the 19th as had been planned, The
lunch in the M. E. church has been
postponed until the 19th.
WE ONCE SAW LINCOLN.
In his boyhood the editor of this
paper attended the college prepara
tory school of Prof. Geo. R. Bark-'
er, on Price street, Germantown,
a suburb of Philadelphia. It was
dnring the civil war, and at that
time an organization known as the
Sanitary Commission was engaged
in the work of raising funds for the
alleviation of suffering among the
Union soldiers on the field and in
the hospitals.
For this purpose they held a fair
in Philadelphia, in 1864. Logan
Square was used for the purpose,
and temporary buildings were erect
ed that nearly enclosed the entire
square.
During the fair the President of
the United States was present one
day, and it was our privilege to be
there on the same day. Mr. Lin
coln was accompanied by a body
guard of fine looking young men,
who never left him aloue. They
were arrayed in gorgeous uniforms,
and made a fine appearance. Our
companion for the day was the son
of the Surveyor of the Port of Phil
adelphia, and knowing that the
President was there, we made every
effort to get where we could see
him. The buildings were not of
the magnificent kind now seen at
the various expositions, but were
cheaply constructed, but one story
high for the most part, and there
was no large audience room. So
we wandered about as well as we
could in the dense crowds that
thronged every passage way, and
wero about to give up hope, when
we saw a squad of policemen com
ing in the corridor where we were,
and opening up a passage way.
They were followed by a squad of
soldiers which proved to be the
presidential body guard, and in the
center of them towered the tall
form of Abraham Lincoln.
His face was then as familiar as
it is to-day. There was no mis
taking him. Fortunately, we
found something to stand upon,
and so had a good view oi him, for
the first and last time.
In April, 1865, after the assassi
nation, we were still in school in
GermButown. The remains of the
martyred President were lying in
state in Independence Hall for
three days. On Sunday afternoon
with a party of young people, we
went into the city to see the re
mains if possible, taking our places
iu line, up Sixth street several
blocks from the State House.
Two lines were passing through the
windows on Chestnut street into
Congress Hall, where the body lay,
and out the back windows into In
dependence Square.
But for some reason our line
moved very slowly. In two hours
we had nearly reached Chestnut
street, and the line had begun to
go more rapidly, and we were led to
believe that we should soon be able
to pass through the Hall, when oue
of the young ladies in our party
was overcome by the heat and the
crowd, and fainted away. Of
course, there was nothing to do but
eet out of the crowd, which was
J done, and she revived in a short
I time, but by that time the hour for
closing the windows, had arrived,
and we were too late to get in. We
saw the catafalque on which the
casket was borne through the city,
and that was all. .
We have always been rather glad
that the one time we saw Abraham
Lincoln was as a living, breathing
man, the President of the United
States, and not as he lay in his
casket, the victim of a cowardly as-sassin.
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ST. VALENTINE'S DAY.
St. Valentine was a Romish
priest who befriended the martyrs
in the persecution of Claudius II,
and was in consequence arrested,
beaten with clubs, and finally be
headed, February 14, A. D. 270.
Pope Julius built a church iu his
honor, near Porte Mole, which gave
its name to the gate, Porta St.
Valentini, now called "Porta del
Popolo," and by the ancient Ro
mans "Porta Flaminia".
Observe 2 fie 151 February was
the Festival of Februta Juno (Juno
the Fructifyer). and the Roman
Catholic clergy substituted St. Val
entine for the heathen Goddess.
This makes quite an interesting
little history of the well known and
now well observed St. Valentine's
Day.
The amendment of the Roman
clergy shows the reason why the
day is now set apart to social
festivities and love making among
young people thus combining
somewhat the commemoration of
both the Christian martyr and the
Heathen Goddess.
These observances link together
the present and the past. They
teach us history in legend. They
keep alive the reasons for the his
tory of persons, places and things,
and the aihy and wherefore. The
fact is one thing, the reason why is
another, and helps to fix in the
mind this foundation fact.
NoTA Bene.
HARTMAN STORE TO CONTINUE.
The Elks have leased the first
and second floors of the Hartman
property to the R. E'. Hartman
store, and ic will te reopened after
the confirmation of the sale by the
court, with an entirely new stock
of goods. R. E. Hartman will be
the manager, and the public gener
ally will be pleased to know that
this old stand, the oldest in town
that has been continuously con
ducted by one family for so many
years, is not going out of existence.
The Hartman store has been
characterized by fair dealing, and
for Handling good merchandise at
reasonable prices, and the long ex
perience of Mr. Hartman will en
able him to command the same lib
eral patronage that it has always
enjoyed in the past. We wish him
abundant success under the new
arrangement.
FIREMEN AT CHURCH.
A fair representation of the mem
bers of the Bloomsburg Fire De
partment attended service at St.
Paul's Church on Sunday evening,
in accordance with their annual
custom. Rev. J. W. Diggles
preached an excellent sermon, his
subject being "Heaven."
SOME OLD PAPERS.
In a window at J. R. Schuyler's
Hardware Store are several copies
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, pub
lished in April 1865, at the time of
the assassination of President Lin
coln, and giving a full account of
that great crime.
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BISHOP'S VISIT.
Right Reverend James H. Dar
lington, Bishop of the Diocese of
Harrisburg, will administer the
rite of confirmation iu St. Paul's
Church next Sunday evening, and
preach. The Bishop is an eloquent
and interesting speaker.
LINCOLN DAY.
Will be Observed by Exercises at Normal,
and Public Meeting.
Mayor Coleman has issued the
following proclamation:
In commemoration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln, lawyer,
statesman and President of the
United States during the dark days
of the Civil War, oue of the great
est of Americans and ons of the
great men of all time, I, James H.
Coleman, Mayor of the Town of
Bloomsburg, do recommend that
the people of this city exhibit their
love and reverence for the memory
of this great American by joining
in the exercises to be held in this
city Friday, February 12, 1909.
That this celebration may be
marked in the most solemn manner,
I urge upon the citizens of Blooms
burg to testify by their attendance
in the schools and at the mass
meeings to be held in the Court
House, the love and honor in
which the memory of Abraham
Lincoln is enshrined in the hearts
of the people of the Parlor City of
Pennsylvania. As a further mark
of honor let the people hang out
their flags from every home and
place of business.
James H. Coleman,
President of Town Council.
A public meeting will be held iu
the Court House at 7:30 on Friday
evening. The Citizens Band will
furnish the music, and give a con
cert in front of the court house,
weather permitting.
The following program has been
arranged:
Singing, "Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp," by the audience, of by
Harry Barton; prayer, by the Rev.
W. R. Whitney; introductory re
marks, by E. E. Bittenbender,
chairman of committee; violin solo.
by J. O. Pace, of the Normal
School: recitation. "Tribute to
Lincoln," by. Catherine R. Rich
ardson; address, H. A. M'Killip;
singing, by audience, ".Tenting on
the Old Camp Grounds;" reading,
"Lincoln's address at Gettysburg"
by W. Brady Belig.
"Short Sayings of Lincoln," by
G. P. Landis, of the Normal
School; address, Dr D. J. Waller,
Jr. ; short talks by old sold iers, Sons
of Veterans, and others; singing,
'.America," by the audience; ben
ediction.
The G. A. R. requests that all
citizens decorate their homes and
places of business with flags.
BARN BURNED.
The barn on the farm of Harry
Evans, in Frosty Valley, was to
tally destroyed by fire of unknown
origin, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
Evans was iu Bloomsburg, and the
fire was discovered about 12.30 by
Geo. Jones, an employe. The
horses and the cattle, excepting
three calves were removed from the
building, also some cf the machin
ery. A new straw shed, wagon
shed, and pig pen were also burned.
All the clops in the barn were lost.
The losses a heavy one for Mr.
Evans.
J. W. Young has purchased the
property of Mr3. G. W. Mifflin, on
West Main street, the price paid
bsing $8,500. Mr. Young is a son-in-law
of the late Senator Geo. D.
Jackson, of Dushore, and a few
years ago came to Bloomsburg
with his wife, and engaged in the
insurance business.
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