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THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. llA-
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
UP UX.U03IHIII7Kt, lA.
THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST.
Capital SIOO,000
With the Largest Capit.il and Surplus in the County, a
Strong Directorate. Competent Officers and Every Mod
ern Facility, we solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and
Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with
Sound Hanking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW
QUARTERS.
3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits
OFFICERS!
F..W.M. Low, President.
James M. Slaver, Vice President. .
DIIlECTOllS:
James M. Staver,
Fred Ikeler,
8. C. I'rensy,
Clinton Herring,
K.W.M.Low,
F.O. Yorks,
Louis (Jross,
M. K StackSinune.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTAIlLISMF.D iSfih.
THEJJOIUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
KsrAHHsiiFn 1837, C"Nsoi ipai rn 1869
'PI.'.SHED KEKV Tlll'RSDAY MoKMNO,
A' B'o.imsliurg, tlie County Peat ni
Columtii a County . Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. F.TAVKI.L. EniTOR.
GEO. C. ROAN, Forkm an.
Tkhms: XnsiH c the county l.oo a year
f advance; !f 1 . 501 f not pan! in aivnnce.
iu ilt: thecounty, f 1.45 a year, strictly in
lvi- ce.
Al :ommunications should l enlilrefiseH
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Governor Stuart Signs .Yew Laws.
The Legislative Record Abolished $5000
Fine and Imprisonment for False State
ments About Finantial Institutions
Many Other Important Measures.
Governor Edwin S. Stuart has
signed forty senate and house bills,
including the bill abolishing the
"Legislative Record" and the bill
making it a misdemeanor punisha
ble by a 6ne of $5,000 and impris
onment of not more than five years
to utter any false .statement dero
gatory to the financial condition of
any financial institution in the C-m-
ton wealth.
The Keister bill regulating the
of aldermen, justices of the
ace and other magistrates, which
i one of the Dauphin county
: ensures, was also approved.
Other important bills approved
were: To quiet the title of real es
tate and to enable citizens of the
United States and corporations
chartered under the laws of this
Commonwealth and puthorized to
hold -eal estate therein, to hold and
convey the title to real estate which
has been formerly held by corpora
tions not authorized by law to hold
real estate in Pennsylvania.
Making it a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by a fine of from $10 to $25
or imprisonment for from five to
sixty days, to destroy, remove or
deface any sign erected on or near
by a highway for the guidance of
the public.
Extending the provisions of the
dog' and sheep act, of May 25,
1893, to courties having from 150,
000 to 250,000 inhabitants. .
Providing tbat banking corpora
tions of this State which have not
commenced busiuess within two
years from date of their letters
patent or which have failed to ex
ercise their corporate privileges for
two years after liquidation shall be
proceeded against by the attorney
general at the instance of the bank
ing commissioner to have their
charter rights declared null and
void.
Making it a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by a fine of from $50 to
$200 to use the word "bone" in
connection with the mine of any
commercial fertilizer unless the
phosphoric acid contained in such
fertilizer shall be the product of
pure animal bone.
Enabling city, county, poor.
ward, school, boroueh and town.
ship tax ollectors to collect taxes
for the payment of which they shall
during 1909 become personally lia.
ble without having collected the
same Dy the expiration of the m.
thority of their respective warrants
or terms of office and to extend the
item for the collection of the same
two years from the passage of this
act.
' . Validatiag notarial acts htn
fore performed by notaries within
three months after the expiration
ui mcir commissions.
Requiring supervisors to main.
tain foot bridges across streams
wnere public toads cross such
streams.
An :
n.uuwi--g mueage 10 assessors
ana assistant assessors whose dii
ties pertain to assessments fur Stat
and county taxes when traveling
to or from county seats. '
Amending the defeasance act of
. June 8, i83i, by prescribing the
Surplus $150,000.
Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikolcr, Cashier
Mvron L Low,
H'. V. Hower,
Frank Ikeler.
method of signing and delivering
such defeasance.
Providing that opinions on relig
ious matters shall not affect the
credibility of witnesses.
Prescribing stricter methods of
disbursing and accounting for de
partmental appropriations in the
State government.
Providing for the use of borough
and township lockups and city
prisons for the detention of persons
arrested by shetifls, constables,
State police or other ofiicers.
Providing that the offices of jus
tice of the ptace and notary public
shall not be incompatible.
Requiring all petitions laying out
or vacating public roads to fix defi
nitely the points of beginning and
ending and requiring certification
of the report ol a jury of view to
the State highway department.
Fixing fees of constables.
Providing that soldiers, sailors
or marines of the war with Spain
or any preceding war who die with
out sufficient means to defray their
burial expenses shall I e buried at
the expense of the county, such
expense not to exceed 50.
Providing that borough councils
may fix by ordinance the salary of
the burgees, such saiary not to ex
ceed $100 per 1,000 for the first
5,000 population and $5 for each
additional i.coo or majority frac
tion thereof.
Relating to acknowlcgemeuts of
deeds.
Permitting independent school
l.-tncts to share in the distribution
f appropriations to borough high
schools.
Making it a felonv to receive
stolen goods and providing for the
mposition upon a person so coll
ided of felony of the same penal
ties now by law imposed upon the
person who shall have stolen the
goods.
Providing that all classes of pa-
leuts, except those suffering from
contagious disease, may be admit
ted, to the Fountain Spring State
hospital for injured persons.
Providing that when a receiver
f a corporation is appointed in any
court on motion of the attornev
general at the instance of either the
banking commissioner or the insur
ance commissioner such receiver
hall supersede any leceiver previ-
usiy appointed by decree of any
court and also supercede any as
signee or trustee previously ap
pointed by such corporation.
Ivmpowenng second class town
ship supervisors upon petition of a
majority ot the real estate owners
to levy and collect an electric light
or other lighting tax.
Making it a misdemeanor, pun
ishable by a fine of from $500 to
$5,000 and imprisonment for from
six months to five years, for any
person connected with any financial
institution to misapply the funds
of such institution.
Rural Mailbox Order.
Rural mail carriers, thrustinir
their arms through spoke wheels,
ciimoing steep lulls and crossing
dangerous ravines in order to col-
ect the mails from the boxes alon-r
their routes, ofte
mcir jives, is aiscontenanced in an
order issued by the Postoffice De
partment.
It has been decreed that rural
lettei boxes perched high upon the
uujbiues, otners almost on the
ground, and still others in similar
inaccessible places, must be remov
ed and relocated in more conveni
ieut places.
This will be done to expedite the
collection and delivery of rural
mail, and at the same time, enable
carriers to cover their routes with
greater celerity. Postmasters have
been directed to take a census of all
inaccessible rural mail boxes with
a view to instituting the proposed
change.
OA.a'1'oniA.
U 0 1'w MM im Have Always
Kind Viiii Have Alwaye
Mtut
State Free ol Cattle Plague.
End ol Successful Fight by Stat md National
Authorities.
Announcement that the quaran
tine restrictions had been lilted" by
bo'h the United States and Penn
sylvania authorities from all parts
of this State for foot and mouth
disease bring? to an end what cat
tle men and state officials consider
to have been the best campaigns
ever waged against the cattle
plague.
It has cost the Stte and Nation
al government possibly $300,000 to
eradicate the disease, but the histo
ry of the plague shows th.it never
before in so short time has its
spread been stopped. The disease
was traced to Buffalo and eight
shipments from that city caused it
to spread into twenty counties, in
cluding most of those in the south
eastern part of the State, and a
number on the Susquehanna valley.
Because of it the cattle yards of
Philadelphia and Lancaster were
placed under restrictions and ship
ments virtually ceased lor a time.
The first case was noted on No
vember 6 in Moir.Mir county, and
within ;wo weeks the whole State
was in federal quarantine. So vig
orous was this action of State Vet
erinarian Pearson and his staff, act
ing in conjunction with the nation
al authorities, howevtr, that 2000
head of cattle ol vat ions kinds were
found to be suffering from the dis
ease and slaughtered before the
middle of December.
Then, when the disease had been
checked and 110 new cases found
for some time, Iwo were discovered
to have been suppressed in Lancas
ter county, and it was only by the
hardest work on the part of State
authorities that the Ktderai officials
would modify the quarantine.
The tate is now free of restric
tions because of the disease, and
only tht farms where diseased cat
tle were killed and new ones
brought are under observation.
Tin's will last but a few weeks long
er.
CATTLE EMBARGO LIFTED.
Satisfied that the foot and mouth
disease in cattle, sheep and swine
has been completely eradicated
from the United States, Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson issued an or
der, effective April 24, releasing
the entire country from the Federal
quarantine.
Four States were quarantined be
cause of the epidemic, New York,
Michigan, Maryland and Pennsyl
vania. The latter State was the
last to have the embargo lilted.
Crops to the Front.
The High Prices Will Encourr.go Farmers to
Plant More.
Th? high prices of all cereals will
encourage farmers to plant or seed
more wheat, oats, corn and barley
than ever before, and while the
season is backward, the ground has
been in such condition due to an
open winter, that it could be
ploughed and made ready for seed
ing, and now favorable weather
has Arrived the entire agricultural
area is more or less occupied with
efforts to plant.
Ihe Wall Street Journal says
advices from most of the spring
wheat territory in the northwest
show that there are good prospects
of completing a large part of the
seeding by May. The grain crops
of Canada alone will this year fall
little short of 20,000,000 acres.
Another feature of the crop out
look at this stage is the gradual
improvement of conditions in the
southwest. The dry area in Texas
is steadily being narrowed and the
degree of drought reduced. Seed
ing and planting have not general
ly awaited rains, but were done in
anticipation of the requisite moist
ure'. Another feature of the farm op
erations at this dat: is the enlarged
provision made for oats, already
sown over a large portion of the
winter wheat territory. Last year
the country had an area of 42,344,-
000 acres. Corn acreage is likewise
certain to be greatly enlarged. The
combined area of oats and corn
1 1 .
lasiyearwas 134,132,000 acres in
the United States. The gradual
increase in the area devoted to
these two crops is indicated in the
United States.
Impossible
It Is impossible to be well,
bowels are constipated. You must pay attention to the
laws' of nature, or suffer the consequences. Undigested
material, waste products, poisonous substances, must be
removed from the body at least once each day, or there
will be trouble. A sluggish liver is responsible for an
immense amount of suffering and serious disease. Ask
your doctor about Ayer's Pills. He knows why they act
directly on the liver. Trust him. ICAyerConwHlTMT.
Governor Wants No Mistakes.
He Will Know All About Each Appropriation
That He Approves.
'According to the almanac I nm
given thirty days after the legisla
ture adjourns to consider the bills
it passes and leaves with me within
ten days prior to adjournment, but
as a matter c.f la:t after the work
of tabulating these bills and class
ifying them, and going over them
carefully is done, I really have but
fifteen days." So spoke Governor
Stuart sitting in his workshop at
the capitol, knowing that he had
714 01 tis 10 consiuer, wnicu wnen
placed on a heap made a volume
over four feet in thickness. And
that is what the governor will have
to tackle in a very short time.
Being a man of business, he relies
solely upon hitnselt to see that
there are no mistakes made and
before he approves an appropria
tion he will know all about it.
Chairman James F. Woodward,
1 of the house appropriations com
mittee?, returned to Harrisburg
from Washington to finish up the
work of tabulating the appropria
tion bills for the governor. Out
side of this tabulation Executive
Clerk Lynch will also arrange a
table of appropriation bills, and
these will be compared with the
original bills by the governor, to
that a mis ake is safeguarded
against at three p;ints. Chairman
Woodward is not at all pleased with
'he wiy the senate raised the ap
propriation Dills alter they were
passed by the house, and after his
committee had given them the most
careful considerations. Before
leaving with Secret try Lukens Mr
woouwaru nied tlie expense ac
count of the appropriations com
mittee, which was given $10,000
with which to work.
A Flood of Bills.
The Legislature sent to the Gov
ernor 79S bills and 51 resolutions
as the product of its labors on about
forty working days. Of course the
session covered more than forty
days, but the working time, except
as relates to committees, did not.
Nearly every measure sent to the
Governor was passed in violation
of the Constitution, a fact which
nobody can disprove. But that is a
matter of no importance, for in
Pennsylvania the Constitution has
been a dead letter for the last thirty
years. Bills were passed at "high
pressure" in order that they might
be Jammed through without giving
members an opportunity to study
them and protest against their
enactment, or to ascertain whether
or not any snakes were hidden in
them.
With the exception of the char
itable and penal appropriations,
some of which could have teen
dispensed with, many of these new
laws were unnecessary. Among
legislators there is a passion for
making laws, and it has been well
developed in Pennsylvania. It is
better to pass wisely a few neces
sary laws than to pass unwisely
many that are not necessary. That
does not appeal to the average leg
islative body, however, and the
more bills it passes the more it is
praised for a "working body" and
a business seasiou." It will
always be so. The average human
being loves to pass laws for the
government of somebody else.
Harrisburg Star-Independent.
INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC.
Chas. P. Elwell announces that
he will be pleased to receive all
former pupils on violin and piano
forte, as well as new ones. Latest
and best methods.
Terms strictly cash by the lesson
or month. Address Hotel Hidlay,
Bloomsburg, or call up on Bell
'phone any afternoon betweeu 1
and 2. tf
Royal Arcanum.
The quarterly meeting of the As
sociated Councils of the Susque
hanna Valley Royal Arcanum was
held at Jersey Shore last Friday,
and a large number of representa
tives of the organization were in at
tendance. Prof. G. E. Wilbur rep
resented the local council. The
following councils are in this dis
trict: Sunbury, Danville, Blooms
burg, Berwick, Milton, Lewisburg,
Muucy, Montgomery, William
sport, Lock Haven, Rejovo, Belle
fonte and Jersey Shore.
to be VVeSI
simply impossible, if the
New Spring Suits!
Spring Suit9 have arrived!
There's magic in that simple an
nutincement for where 's the
woman who is not all eyes to see
the new garment fashions
The Hew Spring Suits Are Low Priced.
A most remarkable feature about
these handsome new models is
their extremely low prices. Your
spring outfit will give you a bet
ter service a much finer appear
ance and yet cost you a small
price. Catering to every taste we've
gathered an assortment cf choicest
correct styles. Prices $10 to $35.
Spring Suits (
Regularly $2000 J) I 7. sO
Suits of hard twisted serge and
striped worsted in black, blue,
green, tan and gray. 36 inch hip
less coats; slashed back, natch
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pockets.' self button trimming, full satin lined; satin collar
and cuffs; Skirt is Demi-Princess with self covered buttons
down the front. All sizes up to 42.
SUIT at $12 7; Of shadow stripe chiffon pan. una in
navy blue, elect blue, green, tan, ashes of roses and gray.
Coat 40 inches long, semi-fitting hiploss cutaway front
forming points on the sides, new small sleeves, lined
throughout with satin; gorsd llare skirt with trimming of
straps and self covered buttons.
SUIT al $26.50 A 4 button cutaway coat 40 inches
long of striped worsted, slashed back and sides, inlaid
bengaline silk collar; large flap pockets, trimmed with but
tons, lined with taffeta silk; plain 1 1 gore demi-Princess
skirt.
.At $6.00 to $14.00 Junior Suits for the little Misses in
sizes 11, 13, 15 and 17 years. Made of shadow stripe pan
ama and fine serge in navy blue, gray and green,' semi
fitting hipless coats, gored and pleated skirt.
SUIT at $27.00 A strictly tailored suit of French
Serge; 4 button cutaway; single breasted (just a slight cut
away effect;) lined with taffnta silk; new small sleeves;
Demi Princess Skirt with inverted plait at sides.
SUITS at $20.00 Of chiffon panama in blue, green
and black; graceful semi-fitting hipless coat 36 inches long,
single breasted, new small sleeves and trimmed with satin
piping; gored flounce skirt.
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Hera is a list of some of the printed goods and blank stock
that can be obtained at the
Columbian Printing House
Perhaps it may remind you of something you need.
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fill V CiilUr fjt auce, Baronial, Pay, Coin, (
HEADINGS
CARDS
CARD SIGNS
IN BOOKS
Books, Scales Books, Order Books, Etc.
WAN ft TT T T 0 tinted in any size from a small strett
iiriWU PUjIjO dodger, up to a full Sheet Poster.
BOOKS AND
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PAMPHLETS
MISCELLANEOUS:
Our Stock Includes :
Cut Cards, all sizes, Shipping Tags
Round Corner Cards, Manila Tag Hoard,
Card Board in Sheets. Bond Papers,
white and colors, Ledger Papers,
Name Cards for all Cover Papers,
Secret Societies, Book Papers.'
Window Cards.
Folders for Programs, Menus, Dances, Societies and all
special events.
Lithographed Bonds and Stock Certificates Supplied.
Wedding Invitations and Announcements, Printed or
Engraved.
Visitors are Always Welcome. No Obligation to Purchase.
We Do All Kinds of Printing
Columbian Printing House,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
PURSEL.
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Letter Heads. Note Jeads, Mill Aunts, State
ments, in many grades and sizes.
Business, l'isiting, Announcement, Admission,
Ball Tickets, Etc.
No Admittance, For Rent, For Sale, Post
No Bills, Trespass Notices, &c.
Administrator's, Executor's, Treasurer's Receipt
Books. Plain Receipts, with or without stub, Note
WILL BE PLEASED TO SIIO W
SAMPLES OF THESE AND
ALL OP OUR WORK.