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.
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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.
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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.
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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.