THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA THIS SPRING Wear Evans' Shoes and Oxfords You get style, you get comfort, yt u get both. TAN AND SWEDE OXFORDS AND POMPS are most popular. WOMEN'S MEN'S 81. OO to 82.00 to The Progressive Shoe Store CHAS. M. EVANS. Exclusive Sales Agency FOR REGAL SHOES. THE COLUMBIAN. Bl.OOMSBURG, FA. THURSDAY, JULY 2!), l!)0il. t ntrrett at the font Office, liloointhurg, I'a. an Hernial rlnmi matters March 1,1NW. JUDGE EVANS ON ROADS. The Danville News of Monday says : Judge Kvans while in this city Saturday, expressed his opinion of the public highway between this city and Bloonisburg, which opinion was by no means a favorable one. Both Monlour and Columbia count ies, it appears, are offenders, and by the employment of wrong meth ods in road repairs have succeeded in producing a stretch of highway so notoriously bad that his Honor hi driving backwards and forwards between the two towns finds it ex pedient to take altogs'.her another road, leading around through Frosty valley. It all comes from the practice of hauling broken limestone on the roads and by not supplying a top course of finer material as is requir ed in modern road making. livery summer at some point the same road is spoiled in this manner. The theory is that traffic will soon break tip the stones and wear the road way smooth, but as a matter of fact it doesn't work out in that way. All drivers avoid the stones, if possible. They drive over them, if necessary, with one wheel and the other wheel of the vehicle goes into the gutter. Thus, an otherwise good road is made notoriously bad and it remains so indefinitely. Judge Evans stated Saturday that they are beginning to make arrests for this very thing in Luz erne county, At intervals supervisors are re quired to pick the loose stones from the roadway. In view of this, Judge Evans remarked that it would be odd. to sav the least, if thev were justified in hauling stone upon the road and leaving them lie exposed. CREASY AND THE SENATORSHIP, The following interview with Hon. W. T. Creasy appeared in the Williamsport Sun; Representative V. T. Creasy, of Columbia county, who was the orator of the day at the Grangers' picnic at the Trout Ponds, near Hugherville, last Saturday, was asked by a Sun reporter after his address, this question: "In view of the announced re tirement of Senator Cochrau, have you aspirations in the direction of the State senate?" "What's Senator Cochran going to do anyway?" was Mr. Creasy's rejoinder. "He has announced that he will not be a candidate for reuomina- tion." "Really, I have thought nothing about the senatorship so far. It is a long way off yet. I ve been very busy. I'm a farmer, and when not at Harrisburg during the sessions of the legislature I am kept very busy at home. I have been build ing this year and I have really paid no attention whatever to poli tics. I do not know what is going on in that field." "If you were offtred the sena torial nomination would you accept it?" "Well, as I have already said I have thought nothing about the senatorship, I really haven't." "What do your people in Col umbia county say about it?" "I have not talked to any one about it. You are the first one who has mentioned it to me. I've been too busy with my farm work this summer to think of politics." Will Have New Home. The Towanda Printing Company, publisher of The Towanda Daily Review and The Weekly Reporter Journal, has purchased the Ontario Block, a business building in the central part of Towanda, and will remodel the grouud floor of the same for use as a publishing house. S3. BO 6.00 The Capitol Grafters. One year and four months to a day elapsed between the conviction of the capitol grafters and the affir mation yesterday of the judgment of the trial court by the superior court, beven mcnthsless four davs have passed since the convicts were sentenced to two years in the peni tentiary. Since then two ot them have died, but not one of them has been locked up. Their right of appeal is now ex hausted, unless the able lawyers who aeteiKled them are able to find that some constitutional question is involved, but probably no one will be much surprised to hear that some justice of the supreme court nas granted an allocatur that will take the case before the supreme court, involving another delay of several months at least. We do not imagine that any dis interested man, lawyer or layman, who read Judge kunkel's exhaust ive and lucid review of the case ds- nying the convicts a new trial, be lieves that they have any real ground for appeal. But men in such position as Snyder and Shu maker now are, always fight for delay in the hope that something may happen to their advantage. It is one of the great wrongs of our administration of the law, that men with money and influence can se cure almost interminable delays af ter conviction and sentence. The encouragement they receive from appellate courts is one of the chief causes of a lamentable loss of con fidence by the people in the impar tial administration of justice. With the cases of the ' capitol grafters fresh in mind are the voters of Pennsylvania going to elect to the supreme court a man selected by the boss of the machine which made the capitol grafting easy; the machine that ptotected and defend ed the thieves as long as protection and defense were possible ? Harrisburg Patriot. Without a Magistrate. Latawissa is without an acting Justice of the Peace. E. B. Guie, one 01 the Justices ot the peace, is on an extended visit in the west and will not be home for several weeks. The other, W. H. Bar- wick, is dead. It is likely that such a condition has never before existed in this section of the State. In fact, no one has ever heard of it. What can be done in the matter is a ques tion that is puzzling the wisest, and it is likely that an opinion will be asked of the District Attorney as to what should be done should occasion require it. Strange, Indeed! It is one of the things beyond human comprehension and under standing why industrious, promis ing men should be stricken down in the full vigor of a useful life, and so many vicious, drunken loafers are permitted to live to humiliate their friends and become a nuisance to the public. . . The work of changing the wires of the Bell Telephone Co. from overhead to underground in the business section is now going on A gang of twenty Italians is doing the digging. EL WELL'S CONCERT, THEATRE, AND DANCE ORCHESTRA. Any number of pieces furnished for any occasion. SEASON iyo8-oo. Columbia Theatre. Midway Dance Hall and Summer Garden Knight Templar Dance, Masonic Temple. Midway Club Dances. High School Commencement Week. Elks and Wheelmen Banquets. Store Openings, etc., etc. For terms address, CHAS. P. EL WELL, Manager and Director, Bloomsburg, Pa tf. A. C. to. P. Co's Stock. Big Advance Justified By Corporation's Proi parous Condition. The financial editor of the Phila delphia Pn.s gives the following regarding the advance of A. C. 1 and K Co's stock: There should be no surprise over the strength of i stocks like American Car and , Foundry. The orders for new i equipment being placed by the railroads very much exceed similar ! orders for nearly three years. Rail- j roads, since the middle of 1907, had placed scarcely any orders whatever for cars, rails and locomo tives until a few months ago. Now they are all in the market. It seems evident frcm the orders bing given for new cars that the official state ment that about 2,9, ooa freight cars in the United States are still idle is somewhat misleading. Among those idle cars must be a great number which will never go back into service for the good reason that they are the old and wornout, or nearly wornout cars. When the hard times came along and a railroad found it didn't need all its cars it weeded out the poor ones. Railroad people are authority for the statement that many of these so called idle cars should be stricken from the list entirely. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Keller re turned from their auto trip to W aslnngton, D. C. on Tuesday night. The run was over 700 miles without an accident. Senate May Lose Tillman. South Carolinan't Condition Such Alarm Friends. at to The shrill voice of Senator Ben jamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina, may never be heard in the Senate chamber again. Senator Tillman is ill at his farm home near Trenton, S. C, where he has been for three weeks, and friends say his condition is so bad that there is little likelihood that he will be strong enough to return to Washington to vote on the tariff bill. The rumor that he contem plates resigning his seat is revived, but Mr. Tillman refuses to confirm or deny the rumor. Senator Tillman has not fully recovered from the attack of partial paralysis which seized him last summer. Althcugh the paralysis has not returned, a general debility from nervousness has made his life unhappy for months. Thinks It Will Be Munson. Secretary Meek Believes Williamsport Will Land Supreme Court Nomination. Ex-Senator P. Gray Meek, of Bellefonte, secretary of the Demo cratic state committee, made the following statement at Harrisburg regarding the candidacy of C. La Rue Munson for justice of the su preme court: "I believe that C LaRue Munson, of Williamsport, will be nominated next month as the party's candidate for justice of the supreme court. The secreta ry made this statement in the course of a general discussion of the ap proaching convention and the cam paign. He explained this view by saying that inasmuch as Mr. Muu son is well qualified for the place and is the oulv avowed candidate all the chances favor his winning the place on the ticket. . A. Nevin Pomeroy, Superinten dent of the State Department of Public Printing ond Binding, and editor and publisher of The Frank lin Repository, at Chambersburg, has been elected oresident of the National Editorial Association, which has been in session at Seattle, Wash., during the past week. Mr. Pomeroy during the past year has been first vice president of the association and won his election simply through his personal popu larity. The attendance at the ses sions of the association is naturally made up of a large majority of Westerners, and prior to the taking of the vote it had been believed that a Western man would be elected. Mr. and Mrs. W. Fairchild of Bridgeport, Conn., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wirt. Deserted Her Child. The Hazleton Sentinel says: Mrs. Clifton Warr, who was de serted by her husband and who tried to abandon her child in this city, by leaving it with the family of Rev. Gingrich, is now wanted by the authorities on the charge of abandoning a child in Bloomsburg. Her husband having deserted her, she left her baby at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Warr, of that town. Mrs. Warr is under indictment in this county and is out on bail She gave her name as Mrs. Hartzel when sue wis arrested in this city. Food Wa Eat to be Analyzed. Five Hundred Samples Secured by the Pur Food Agents in Pennsylvania. For the purpose of making a thorough test ol the Murphy pure food law Commissioner James Foust of the dairy and food bureau, states that two of the special agents of the bureau have purchased over 500 samples of food, which will be submitted to State chemists for an alytical examination, all of them coming under the jurisdiction of the Murphy law. The majority of Ihe samples were purch sed from dealers in Western and Central Pennsylvania counties. They were delivered to Dr. William Frear, chemist, State College, and to Professor Charles II. La Wall and Professor James A. Evans, of ficial chemists, with the request that the reports should be filed with the bureau at the earliest pos sible date. Preliminary reports re ceived indicate that canned goods with hardly an exception, are found to be free from adulteration and chemical preservatives, show ing a gratifying percentage of abso lute purity. A number of samples of pickles and baking powders were also purchased by these agents for analysis and found to contain alum, which is contrary to the new law. As a result the parties who sold such illegal food products will be prosecuted. Immediately after the complete and official reports of Chemists Frear, La Wall and Evans are filed at the bureau prosecutions will be directed to be brought without de lay. Commissioner Foust has an nounced to the trade and public that it is his intention to enforce the new law in its entirety and fairly and impartially in order that the consumer may be properly pro tected. Among the samples of food pro ducts obtained by Agents Banzhoff and Seilcr, were the following: Baking powders, pickles, catsup, spices of different kinds, confec tions, flavoring extracts, honey, jelly, jams, mustard, prepared; evaporated milk, syrups, sugar, vinegar, oysters, olive oil, preserves, meat products, nutmegs, cocoa, ce real productions, chocolate, f.sh, canned fruits and vegetables, can ned meats, flour and, in general, nearly every article found in a gro cery store that conies within the provisions of the new law. The Season About Closed. This Year's Trout Fishing Was Not Up to Expectations. The trout fishing season is almost at an end, and on the whole it could not be considered a very successful one for the fisherman in this local ity. True it is. that quite a mini ber of trout were caught by those who had the patience and persis tence to put in day after day along the streams but there were uo record catches at any time during the season. Whether it is because the trout are becoming scarcer or more wily is hard to tell. It is a tact that the hrst halt ot the season was spciled by the hard rains and high water but these reasons could not be considered during the past month or so. The best fishing of the season was on the mountain streams, and as scores of fishermen were on these streams day after day it was only the lucky ones who made good catches. But the agony will be over after Saturday, July 31st, and after that fishermen will have to devote their time to angling for bass. A Method of Eradicating the Wild Onion. The Office of Farm Management. United States Department of Agri culture, has now readv for distrib ution a circular eivine a detailed discussion of the wild onion oroblem ana outlining a pian wncreuy ioe J . 1 - 1 1 1 A 1 Dest can be exterminated. I his circular will be sent free to any person requesting it. Miss May Sharpless, of town, has heen spending a few days with Mrs. Harman Wendall at Wayne, together with two other ladies. All four were classmates at the Normal School In the class of 1884. SLIGHT FIRE. In answer to an alarm lung lu from Box 21 yesterday morning at ten o'clock, the fire companies turned out to find a slight fire in a cabin telow the .Carpet Mill. A stream was turned on the blaze which was extinguished in a short time. Cbltdra Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA Ballot at Fall Eloctton. The Constitutional Amendments Each ol Ten to bo Marked Separately For or Against. " In an opinion furnished Secreta ry of the Commonwealth Robert McAfee, Attorney General Hamp ton Todd advises the State depart ment that the ten proposed amend ments to the constitution of 1873 shall be printed 011 the ballot in November merely in the form in which the sections shall appear as amended that both the preser.t for m ani the proposed form of each section need not be printed. The opinion also advises that the ten propositions shall be printed as sep arate questions and that the sched ule for carry ing the amendments into effect shall be printed as an additional question, the voters to vote "yes"' or "no" upon each pro posed amendment, and also upon the schedule. The opinion of the attorney gen eral was sought by McAfee because this is the first time in the history of the Commonwealth that a sched ule h?s accompanied amendments to the constitution, and the point decided was, therefore, never be- lore raised. Heretofore, a schedule has accompanied an entire new con stitution. Whenever an existing constitution has been amended it has been in such a way that no schedule has been necessary to car ry the amendments into effect. Be cause of somewhat conflicting con structions of the law under similar circumstances in the past, Secreta ry McAfee asked advice upon all four points mentioned. Attorney General Todd's decision regarding what has to be printed will shorten the amendments upon the ballot fifty per cent. As adopted by the legislatures of 1907 and 1909 and as advertised throughout the State last year, the amendments recite the present form of each of the sec tions, and each section so recited is followed by the language of that same section as it is proposed that it shall read if amended. Secretary McAfee asked specifically if it is necessray that the ballot contain both the section as it is proposed it shall read if amended. Attorney General Todd recites numerous pro visions of the election laws and the constitution itself in making his ruling. Under this opinion any one wishing to vote en the amend ments will have to make eleven crosses in addition to voting for candidates. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. Tiny never fail. At all Druggists. 25c. Sample Free. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Elliott's New Religion. Charles W. Elliot, president emeritus of Harvard, in an address before th Harvard summer school ol theology prophesied the advent of a new religion. "It will not be bound by dogma or creed," he said. "Its workings will be simple, but its field of ac tion limitless. Its discipline will be the training in the development of co-operative good will. It will attack all forms of evil. There will be no supernatural element; it will place no reliance on anything but the laws of nature. Prevention will be the watchword and the skilled surgeon one of its members." The coming religion, he thought, will be based on the two great com mandments, the love of God and the service of fellow men. "The new religion," he said, "will not be based upon authority; the future generation is to be led, not driven. In the new religion there will be no personification of natural objects; there will be no deification of remarkable human beings." I Pennsylvania Railroad ATLANTIC CITY CAPE MAY ANGLESEA OCEAN CITY WILDWOOD SEA ISLE CITY NEW JERSEY 1909 THURSDAYS August 6, 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 Trafhc Manager. 6-24-St. General Passenger Agent. WANTED Trustworthy man or wcn-- an in each county to advertise, recei' orders nnd mnnnte business for N York Mail Order House. $i8.ooweek. position permanent; 110 investment 1 quired, l'revious experience not esm tial to engaging. Spare time valuab Knclose self addrcsed envelope for f particulars. Aiikkss, Ci.arrr C Wholasalc Dept., 103 Park Avk., Vu York. 5-13-iot. WANTED. Salesmen to represent ; s in the sale of our Hij Grado Goods. Don't delay, apply once. Steady employment; liberal tern Experience not necessary. ALLEN NUR5URY CO., ROCHESTER, N. ' 5-l3-4mos. Our Pianos are the leaders. Our lines In clude the following makes : Chas. M. Stieff, Henry F. Miller, Brewer & Pryor, Kohler Campbell, and Radel. IN ORGANS we handle the i Estey, Miller, II. LehraCo. AND BOWLBY. 7547 Store has the agency for SINGER HIGH ARM SE Jf. ING MACHINES and VIC7 OR TALKING MA CHINES. WASH MACHINES Helby, 1900, Queen, Key- j stone, Majestic. ; J.SALTZEtf, Music Rooms No. 105 West Main Street, Below Market. EL O OMSH UR G. PA FOR SALE! The fine residence prop erty of the late Judge H well is for sale. Location: "West Third Street bctwecr Jefferson and West Streets. Description: Two story and attic, brici and frame. 13 rooms. Lot about 6G by 212 feet. FRAME BA'KN AND COW STABLE, large garden, abundance of fruit trees. The house has a Steam Heating Plant, Bath Boom, Stationary Bange 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 SUNDAYS August 8, 22 FOR TEN DAYS. $4.50 Round Trip Via Market Street Wharf.
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