THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURO. PA THIS SPRING Wear Evans' Shoes and Oxfords You get style, you get comfort, you get both. TAH AND SWEDE OXFORDS AMD PUMPS are most popular. WOMEN'S MEN'S SI.OO to 82.00 to The Progressive Shoe Store CHAS. M. EVANS. Exclusive Sales Agency FOR REGAL SHOES. THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, FA. THUKSDAYi JULY 22, 1000. Knltrtt at tin rout Ojrtcr, nioomUmrg, ra. aecimlvla mailer, Uarrh 1.1M8S. Mrs. Oscar Alexander is sojourn ing at Jonestown for the benefit of her health. John Watson, the efficient clerk in the Prothonotary's office is spending the week at Jerseytown. Dr. J. J. Brown and Tostmaster J. C. Brown went to Blairstown, N. J., on Monday to spend a few days. S. R. Bidleinau's book store is be ing newly -papered and painted, and thereby much improved in appear ance. Prof. D. S. Ilartline is teaching at a summer school in the Adiron dacks. He will be there all the summer. Jonathan Loreman and his sou were visitors in town on Saturday. Mr. Loreman is one of the promi nent residents of Franklin township. The following letters are held at the Bloomsburg, Pa., postoffice: Mrs. Maud Burk, Gordon D. Geddes, Miss Emil Hulshizer, Miss Beatrice. Mr. and Mrs. N. Elwell Funk of Philadelphia arrived here on Tues day, and are visiting at the Funk homestead above town on the Espy road. W. II. Moore h is purchased the trooertv of Mrs. Frances Mather on Market street next to the Meth odist Parsonage. The deal was made through II. A. McKillip, Esq C. A. Small, Esq., iutends to erect a double house on a lot on the corner of Oyer end Ridge Ave nues. which he recently purchased from the heirs of Cyrus Fry, de ceased. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Keller, and little son Harry, and Miss Hender- shott of Washington, D. C. who was their guest, started for Wash ington on Tuesday in Mr. Keller's automobile. The home of Prof. L. P. Sterner on Third street has been beautified by a new coat of paint. It is in the colonial colors, the body of the house being yellow, the woodwork white, and the blinds green. . -i - Miss Mae House, of Normal Hill is spendinc a week with friends and relatives at Brooklyn, N. Y.. and Newark. N. T. Before returning home she will spend sev eral weeks at Philadelphia, Atlan tic City and Frostburg, Md. Max, young son of Albertus Welliver of Light Street, bad a bone in one of his ankles broken on Monday by falling under a heav ily loaded wagon which ran over him. While playing and running be fell under the wheels. Roughr on "Rats." Along with millinery and other extremes in women s dress, "rats on their heads also got a sound whack from Rev. B. T. Callen, of the First Methodist church, Potts town, on Sunday morning, when he went back 8oo years before Christ to talk of the idol King Ahaz, of Judah, set up for worship in the temple at Jerusalem alter he had thrown out the altar of the Lord. Dominie Callen referred to the "rats" as unsanitary and to the raiment of pome women as so daz zling and obnoxious that men in the street are attracted and at the same time disgusted. Pastor Callen's castigation of female toggery naturally caused a ripple among the women in the congregation some of wbtn think that he ought also pay his respects to the men whose idol is dress. 83. BO 6.00 HUNTINGTON VALLEY CAMP MEETING. Iluntincrton Vallev near Shickshinny opens Thursday evening, Aug. u, to continue ten days. The cottages are already filling up and the attendance prom ises to De large. Mrs. Grace Wei ser Davis, of Newark. N. T.. th female Moody, will have charge of tne evangelistic services. George rreston Smith, of Washington. N. J., will direct the music and in ad dition to the big chorus will have n orcnestra to add volume to the inspiring music. Rev. F. J. Ful ton, of Jersey Shore, will have charge of the Children's hour. Rev. W. P. Shriner of Lock Ha veu. and Geo. S. Womer. nf Dan ville will be the Sundav oreachers. The openiue dav of the camn. Fri day, August 13th, will be Young people saay when a strong program representiue Eoworth Leagues and Sunday schools has been arranged. l lie ooardinz ha l will onen on the I2tn tor tne entertainment of the guests. EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. On Thursday of last week Mrs. George Hassert, of Fourth and Catharine streets was eighty years ot age. bhe is one of our oldest residents, and a most estimable and highly respected lady. In recognition of the occasion her many friends remembered her by a surprise postal shower, and she re ceived 337 postal cards. She was also the recipient of eighty roses, carnations, and sweet peas. Dur ing the day she was visited by ma ny friends by whom she was hear ti!y congratulated. We wish her many happy returns of the day. Mrs. Hassert is the widow of the late George Hassert, of the firm of Harman & Hassert, and is in the possession of all her faculties and the enjoyment of good health, and possesses the esteem of a very wide circle of friends. Are Taking Precautions. Railroads Interested in Preventing Forest Fires Along Their Linei. With the forests in many sections as dry as tinder and a grave danger 01 disastrous fares should flames In the woods get a good headway, the Pennsylvania railroad has called upon its men to be especially alert in the matter of promptly report ing any sucn tires that may be eu countered. A notice has been post ed that calls the a ttention of all trainmen to the present danger from fires, as a resnlt of the long con tinued drought. This notice states that all trainmen when passing over the Eastern and Susquehanna di vision shall lose no time in making a report whenever a forest fire is encountered, in older to get out the trackmen to fight the flames and avert serious damage. "Famous Words of Famous People." The desire for a more thorough and complete education is often in spired by the habit of reading a reliable newspaper. Not all men can have a college education, but all can afford to read and none can afford to miss "The Famous Words of Famous People" every day in The Philadelphia Press, This is but one of the many exclusive fea tures of The Philadelphia Press which every day prints all the news while it is news. Order The JVess, Daily and Suu day, from your newsdealer. Northumberland's Boom. The Lewtsburg Journal says that Sunbury always took occasion to poke a lot of fun at its neighboring town, Northumberland, but condi tions have somewhat changed since "Nory" got the big new yards and eventually will have all the rail road shops and now expects to an nex Sunbury as a suburb. The millions of dollars that will be spent at Northumberland in the next ten years promise to give that town a prestige over all its neigh bors. I One Step Nearer to Jail Doors. Decree Against Pennsylvania Capitol Trim mer! Confirmed. Philadelphia, July t r. The con viction in the Dauphin county court of the men charged with conspiracy to defraud the state in the matter of the furnishing of the new state capitol at Harrisburg was affirmed by the superior court today, and unless an appeal to the supreme court prevails, former Auditor Gen eral William P. Snyder and former Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds J. M. Shumaker will have to serve their sentence of two years in the penitentiary. The court was unanimous in its decision, which applies also to John H. San derson, contractor, and to former State Treasurer William L. Ma- thues, but both have died since their conviction. Sanderson, Mathues, Snyder and Shumaker were convicted on March 15, 1908, jointly charged with con spiracy to cheat and defraud the commonwealth and with having defrauded the commonwealth of $'9,309.40. The trial was the re sult of sensational charges which were made during the last guber natorial campaign. William H. Berry, then candidate for state treasurer, in a speech at Blooms burg, declared the furnishings had exceeded in cost by $6,000,000 the amount appropriated for the pur pose. Judge Kunkle sentenced the four convicted men to the limit allowed by the act of i860 for the crime of conspiracy, sentencing each man to two years in prison and a fine of $500. The convicted men were liberated on $25,000 bail shortly after the sentence had been ltn posed, pending the decision of their appeal to the superior court. Bruin Turns Fisherman. Protectod by Law Himself, He Breaks the Trout Law. Like the Apostle Peter, Bre'r Bear is a fisherman, but unlike that holy man, he has no respect for the law and he won't play lair. Where fore some of the stream owners in Lycoming county are declaring that either Mr. Bear has got to observe the fish law, or somebody's going to forget to obey the bear law one of these fine days. Since he has been under the protection of the game law, Bruin has heen bold and bad in these parts, and his lat est crime is illegal fishing. The streams are low in the mount ains, lower than for many a day, and the panting trout that infest them, planted and cultured at con siderable expense, have little pro tection in the shallow waters against the lumbering bear, wno, in spite of his awkward appearance, can scoop up a trout with a lightning movement of his paw. Christian Schuler, of the Sugar Camp Run district, reports that for four years he has been husbanding a colony of trout until they were fit for a King s sport. He had them in a pond on his farm. During the past week the waters of the pond were low and bears visited the spot and had the time of their lives. Some of the fish were over 13 in ches long and hundreds were over ten inches long. The bears waded right into the pond, drove the fish into shallow water and scooped them up by dozens. Schuler esti mates that two-thirds of the whole number of trout were stolen. Disinfect and Fumigate. Good Suggestions About Keeping YourHou e Healthful During Hof Months, Antiseptics aud disinfectants are too seldom used in homes, perhaps, because their importance is under estimated. When disease comes and physicians advise us to use them, and tell us what to use, we follow their advice assiduously for a time -then forget all about it. But the day is surely coining when these things will be just as much a part of household routine as mak ing the beds every day. We are breathing all the time poisonous vapors that escape into the house through the drain pipes of the kitchen sink and the closet in the bathroom. It would be so easy to pour some dissolved copperas or boiling concentrated lye water down the pipes every few days, and thus be sure the slime that ac cumulates on all such pipes had disappeared for the time and the pipes thoroughly disinfected. Once a month through the summer burn a sulphur candle in the house, af ter closing all doors and windows (shutting yourself outside), thus fumigating the house and keeping it free from all insect life. And here's a warning: Disinfectants are poisons. Put them under lock and key, away from the children's cu rious le.ich. The Whitmire Murder. Mystery of Brutal Muncy Valley Crime Still Unsolved. Our renders will remember the brutal murder of Mrs. Sarah Whit mire in her lonely home in Muncy VaHey about four years ago. The mystery surrounding her killing remains unsolved. Recently a young man named James Spring died, and the report became gen eral that he had confessed to the crime. His family were indignant at the charge and immediately com municated with the minister to whom the confession was alleged to have been made. The reply sets at rest the false accusations against the young man. The minister says: "Your letter of June 21st, enclosing clipping from the Wil liamsport Sun, containing the sto ry of an alleged confession by some one concerning the murder of Mrs. Sarah Whitmire in 1905, was re ceived. I was very much surpris ed to hear your brother's name was in any way connected by people with the story. In reply to your question whether your brother, James, ever confessed that he was the murderer of Sarah Whitmire, of near Muncy Valley, I answer no. He never made any such confession to me, nor did he ever intimate to me by conversation or action or give me any reason to think that he had any such confession to make; nor was the subject of the murder of Mrs. Whitmire ever mentioned between us in the time I visited him during his sickness. And all sucn reports, purporting to come from or through me, are utterly without any foundation. 1 am very glad to be able to give you this statement, and give you liberty to use it in any maimer you think best, and hope it will set at rest the rumors connecting him with the crime. Visitine cards and Wedding invi tations at tne Columbian omce. Electric Railways. Will Before Long Penetrate Every Section of the State. The Shamokin Dispatch says Few people realize fully the great extent of trolley systems through out the state and what these systems have done and are doing to bring the people of towns in closer touch with each other as well as giving residents of country sections easy access to the outer world. For the past several weeks the metropolitan papers have been making much of the fact that one can trolley from Philadelphia to Delaware Water Gap, publishing maps showing the several routes. A study of these maps is'also of interest to people of this section, as it shows that one can travel from Philadelphia to Trevorton by trolley, with but a few miles missed where connections have not as yet been made. One can leave City Hall, Philadelphia on a trolley and go as far as Slat liigton. From Slatmgton to Le highton, a matter of but three or four miles, there is no trolley line but connections can be made via the Lehigh Valley road. fFrom Lehighton the trolley ride can be resumed to Tamaqua, but from Ta maqua to East Mahanoy Junction (Lakeside), the trolley link has not as yet been made. The Reading road, however, runs frequent trains between these points. From Lake side, one can take a Schuylkill Val ley line car and continue on through to Ashland. There the Mt Car mel Transit Company cars can be taken for Shamokin. Here the Trevorton branch of Edgewood line will convey the traveller to the Zerbe township town. Hill Predicts Prosperity. Railroad Magnate Say Good Timei Will Re turn. "As soon as the tariff is out ot the way," said James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, "this country will enjoy a prosperity which will at least equal if not surpass that which it knew under the McKin ley administration. "Last month 1 traveled exten sively through the West and I never saw such activity among the farmers. Everywhere I made in quiry I learned and saw that the crops were abundant and that the farmers were satisfied. Signs of the financial depression of 1907 are fast fading. "Freight cars will be at a pre mium within a few weeks. We of the railroad world judge the pros perity of the nation as much by the number of idle cars as anything else. Throughout the past year there have been thousands idle, but they will soon be rolling about the country filled with freight." Cblfdren Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R I A The State Debt' It Is now Less than Twenty Thousand Dollars. The net debt of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania is now $18,-237-5' fln(l within the next sixty days it will be obliterated complete ly, so far as the ledgers of the state treasury will show. The quarterly meeting of the sinking fur.d com mission was held Saturday; at the conclusion this statement of the 1 debt was exhibited by Slate Treas urer John O. Sheatz, Auditor Gen eral Robert K. Young and Secre tary of the Commonwealth Robert McAfee. Three months ago the net debt was $44 569.91. Interest on deposit during the interim amounted to $26,486.84. This in terest was turned into the sinking fund Saturday and reduced the net debt to $18,237.51. The total debt of the state is $2,684,617.02, j of which amount $2,033,500 is in interest-bearing bonds. The sink ing fund commission has on depos it in various banks, however, a to tal of $2,666,379.15, so that the entire debt could be wiped out at once with the exception of the odd $18,000. Interest on the deposits during the next three months will be approximately the same as dur ing the past quarter, $26,486,84. This means that in about two months the accumulated interest will counterbalance the present net debt of $18,237.51. In addition to the sinking fund commission the regular meetings of the board of revenue commissioners and the board of accounts were also held but only routine business was trans acted. Mother Gray't Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in tne Children s Home in New York, Cure Feverishness. Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate tlie Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. Ttey never fail. At an Liujiww, zu. ouTimie rice. 1 1 r. - - - i- 1 t? -1 dress, Allen 5. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y Pure Food Law Rot. Oysters Cannot be Packed in or Served With Ice Unless Marked Adulterated. The Agricultural Department, which has charge of the adminis tration of the Pure Food law, has ruled that ice packed in with raw oysters constitutes an adulteration. That is, the water which melts out of the ice is an adulterant addition to the oyster juice, within the meaning of the law. This decision, which has been officially conveyed by the department to the National Oyster Growers and Dealers' AssO' ciation, is soon to be followed by the active enforcement of the new regulations, which provide that raw oysters must be shipped in re Irigerated packages where the ice and the bivalves do not come in di rect contact. This latest and most curious government interpretation of "adulteration" will not only considerably increase the cost of oysters to the consumers, but will, it is said, drive out of business ma ny fitms which made a specialty of the packages in which oysters are now almost universally shipped to the interior of the country. Un der the new regulation it will be unlawful to serve raw oysters in cracked ice unless the sigu, "these oysters are adulterated," is stuck on the plate. It will be against the law, too, for a retailer, for ex ample, to send a dozen on the half shell on ice even to the nearest cus tomer, who may be waiting only next door. The big New York oyster dealers are protesting against the government's view on the sub ject of oyster "adulteration." It is just plain unadulterated "tom myrot," they say, particularly in view of the fact that the Agricul tural Department, in its secret in vestigation, admits it shipped oys ters from Biloxi, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico, to Denver, Col., where the bivalves, at the end of the long journey, stood all tests, gastromo uiic and chemical. Pennsylvania Railroad ATLANTIC CITY CAPE MAY ANGLESEA OCEAN CITY WILDW00D SEA ISLE CITY NEW JERSEY 1909 THURSDAYS 1909 SUNDAYS Augusts, 19 TICKETS GOOD $4.75 Round Trip Via Delaware River Bridge. FROM EAST BLOOMSBURG Stop-Over Allowed at Philadelphia. For full information concerning leaving time of trains, consult small hand bills or nearest Ticket Agent. J. R. WOOD. GEO. W. BOYD, Passenger Traffic Manager. 6-24-8t. General Passenger Agent WANTED Trustworthy man or woi an in each county to advertise, recei' orders and manage business for Ni York Mail Order House. fiS.oo week! position permanent; no investment) quired. Previous experience not es tial to engaging, bpare time valuab Enclose self addresed envelope for ft particulars. Addkkss, Clarke Ct Wholesale Dept., 103 Park Avr., Ni" YpRK. 5-13-iot. WANTED. Salesmen to represent in the sale of our Hi Grade Goods. Don't delay, apply t once. Steady employment; liberal tertr Experience not necessary. ALLEN NURSURY CO., ROCHESTER, 5-i3-4mos. Our Pianos i are the leaders. Our lines In- elude the following makes : Chas. M. Stieff, Henry F. Miller, Brewer & Pryor, Kohler h Campbell, and Radel. j IN ORGANS we handle the Estey, Miller.H. LeiiraCo.I and bowlby. This Store has the agency for SINGER HIGH ARM SE W ING MACHINES and VIC 2 OR TALKING MACHINES. WASH MACHINES Helby, 1900, Queen, Key- , stone, Majestic. j. salTtzer, Music Rooms No. 105 West Mam Street, Below Market. PL O OMSB UR G. PA FOR SALE! The fine residence pro erty of the late Judge El well is for sale. Location : "West Third Street between Jefferson and West Streets. Description: Two story and attic, brie and frame. 13 rooms. Lot about GG by 212 feet. FRAME BARNj AND COW STABLE, large garden, abundance of fruit trees. The house has a Steam Heating Plant, Bath Room, Stationary Range and Wash Tubs; Water, Electric Light, and Gas. Will be sold on easy terms. Apply to GEO. E. ELWELL, Attorney. Bloomsburg, Pa. HOLLY BEACH AVALON July 25, August 8, 22 FOR TEN DAYS. $4.50 Round Trip Via Market Street Wharf.
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