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OFFICERS!
t'. W.M. Low, President.
Jaint"? M.Staver, Vice President.
DIRECTORS;
Fames M. Stavtr,
Fred I keler,
8. C. Creasy.
Clinton Herring,
E. W. M. Low,
F. G. Ymks,
Louis Gloss,
M. E Stackhouse.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA) DEMOCRAT,
is: Aui.isi'F.n 1837. Consolidated 1869
i' lf.i.S:!E) Er.KV TllVRSDAV MoRNINO,
- BUi.imsburg, the County Sent ot
Columbia County , Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. ET.wr.LL. Editor.
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Democratic State Ticket.
Justice of the Supreme Court,
C. LaRUE MUNSON,
of Lycoming County.
Auditor General,
J. WOOD CLARK,
of Indiana County.
.State Treasurer,
GEORGE W. KIPP,
of Bradford County.
Democratic County Ticket.
Sheriff,
W. P. ZAHNER.
Jury Commissioner,
A. C. HIDLAY.
Coroner,
ROBERT BRENNEN.
Stii-ervisors Take Notice.
A good many people are com
plaining of the fact that certain
township road supervisors are not
obeying the law regarding the re
moval of loose stone from the
township roads.
Here's the act of July 2, 1901,
which amended the act of May 2,
1899:
Sec. 1. -Be it enacted etc., that
section one of an act entitled "An
act to provide for the improvements
of the main traveled roads" which
reads as follows: "From and after
the passage of this act the town
ship supervisors and road commis
sioners of the several townships
within this commonwealth annual
ly on the first Monday of April.
shall enter into a contract to take
away the loose stoues from the
matu traveled highway in such
townships at least once a month
during the month of April, May,
June, July, August, September and
October of each year" be and the
same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"That from and after the passage
of this act the supervisors and road
commissioners of the several town
ships within this commonwealth
shall by contract or otherwise re
move and take away the loose
stones from the traveled roads or
highways in su'.h township at least
once a mouth during the month of
May, June, August and October ia
each year."
Section 2 of the act of July 2,
1901, (quoted) provides the same
penalty, which shall not be more
than $10 for etch offence (neglect
to perform the duties prescribed)
Half of theTine imposed goes to the
iuformer or prosecutor and the
other half goes to the repairing of
roads. The fines are to be recover
ed by action of debt before any
justice or alderman with the costs
of the suit.
Not a Drop of AlcoSiofl
What is a "tonic"? A medicine that increases the strength
or tone of the whole system. What is an "alterative"?
A medicine that alters or changes unhealthy action to
healthy action. Name the best "tonic and alterative"?
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the only Sarsaparilla entirely free from
alcohol. Ask your own doctor all about it. Never take a
meuiune uuciurs cannot endorse. lrAuercn .
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Myron I. Low, Vice President.
Frank Ikeler, Cashier
Myron T. Low,
H". V.Hower,
Frank I keler.
THE AMENDMENTS.
Little interest is being taken in
the proposed amendments of the
State constitution and probably
they will not figure 111 the campaign
to any extent. No one appears to
be opposed to the elimination of
the February election. The amend
ments will no doubt be adopted by
a very large majority.
While there has been no seriou:.
complaint about the frequency of
the primaries and elections, the
voters will welco nethe change, es
pecially those of the country dis
torts who have a long way to go to
the polls. One primary and one
election will be done away witb.
State and national officers will be
elected in one year. There will be
two less campaigns to agitate the
citizens and the politicians. They
will take more interest in the re
maining campaigns and that should
mean an improvement all around.
The only objection urged against
the change is that the combination
of municipal and county elections
might detract from the attention
given to the election of municipal
officers, the couuty candidates tak
ing precedence. Br.t according to
the present arrangement the names
of the county candidates appear on
the same ballot with the State and
national candidates and the county
elections have not been overshad
owed by the other candidates. If
the ballot were changed doing away
with the party square, compelling
evpry voter to place a mark oppo
site the name of every candidate
for whom he wishes to vote, all
candidates would be on an equal
footing no matter whether they ran
for countv or State office. The cit
izen who desired to vote a straight
county ticket would not have the
opportunity to vote the straight
municipal ticket with a single mark.
It would be no easier to vote a
straight ticket than a "split" tick
et and independent voting would
not bz discouraged. It is to be
hoped that the commission author
ized to go over the election laws
will recommend a change in the
ballot that will eliminate the spec
ial privilege given to the lazy voter.
World's Navies Six Hundred Millions
Statistics published by the Brit
ish Admiralty show that the ag
gregate sum spent by Britaiu,
France, Russia, Germany, Italy,
Japan and the United States on na
vies in the past fiscal year, was in
lound numbers, $600,000,000.
Of this amount Great Britain
contributed $175,000,000; the Uni
ted States, $143,000,000; Germany.
$70,000,000; France, $70,000,000;
Japan, $36,000,000, and Italy $30,
000,000. Had the British Govern
ment yielded to the clamor of the
militarist party her contribution
would have exceeded $200,000,000.
Ballot Will be Immense.
George D. Thorn, chief clerk in
the state department, walked into
the office of Superintendent of Pub
lic Printing Pomeroy with some-
ming in his nand that looked like
ihe sail of a catboat. But it was
only a sample of the ballots which
win contront the voters in Novem
ber. With only the state ticket
and the constitutional amendments,
the ballot measures 26 bv 22 inches.
Samples are to be printed to be sent
to couuty commissioners.
Then you have
uunur aDuui Ayer nil tor constipation.
The Ago of a Rapid Pace.
The Locomotive, Automobile and Steamship,
telephone and Telegraph,
We are traveling at a rapid pace
these days, says an exchange, and
the speed we attain in traveling is
indie tive of the way we live. It
is an age in which distance is melt
ing like snow before a burning sun.
The air, the land and the water are
being utilized by man in the mad
dest race of all ages. In the air, on
the water and land, and under the
water weird inventions of man
pass at a nerve-wrecking pace.
One hundred and two years ago
Fulton started a steamboat up the
Hudson with the promise that it
would attain a speed of four miles
an hour. The jokesmiths were as
busy with Fultou and his steamboat
as they were a few years ago with
the Wrights and their promise to
navigate the rir. Fulton kept his
promise. He succeeded in pushing
his boat through the water at a
better speed tnan even the most
optimistic had expected. A centu
ry ago people opened their eyes in
wonder when they saw a little
steamboat navigating the Hudson
at a speed of four miL-s an hour.
What would those people say if
they could behold the steamers, the
air craft and steam locomotives of
today ? Last week a gigantic steam
er crossed the Atlantic ocean in 4
days, 14 hours and 38 minutes. On
Wednesday of last week three sub
marine boats raced over a two-mile
course. Thirty feet under water
thoy attained a speed of eight or
nine knots an hour.
On the first of October in the
Hudson-Fulton celebration in New
York will be assembled in New
York harbor the greatest fleet of
war vessels of all nations, and oceau
Leviathans ever known. Last week
an automobile covered a mile in 43
seconds. Two boys have just com
pleted a trip around the world in
41 days and 8 hours. The airship
has been sent'through the air at a
speed of nearly a mile a minute. A
whole fleet of airships is now gath
ered at Rheiuis, France, for ma
noeuvres, and Paulham drove his
airship two hours and fifty-three
minutes in the face of a storm, cov
ering a' distance of 83 miles and
only stopped for lack of fuel in the
tank. Recently an airship crossed
the English channel. The Zeppe
lin airship recently sailed over Soo
miles. The locomotive, automobile
and ocean steamsl ip, the telephone
and telegrapn, are annihilating dis
tance. It is a battle against time
and distance and man is utilizing
nature to defeat them.
Big Cave In at Scranton.
The most serious mine cave-in
that ever happ.-ned in Scranton,
doing thous nds of dollars' worth
of damage to property, occurred as
worshippers eutered their homes at
noon Sunday. It caused an area
of four acres of ground iu West
Scranton to settle five to eight feet,
making crocks in the surface, ten
feet wide and fifty feet deep. One
of the finest school buildings iu the
city, valued at $65,000. and three
residences, valued at $16,000, were
destroyed. Several ether buildings
are also partly damaged.
The settling started with a trem
bling shock, which shook slates
from the roofs to the ground, caus
ed plaster to drop from ceilings and
buildings to move off their founda
tions, as though a landslide had
taken place. Water and g s mains
broke and flooded houses, besides
enlarging the caving.
Several people were overcome by
the escaping gas and had to be car
ried to the street by police and fire
men called to the scene.
Rats by the thousand ran through
the fissures and scampered over t've
streets. Whisps of hay and straw
that have lain in the old workings
for 20 years were blown through
an unsealed opening on the river
bank by the force of the compres
sion of air resulting from the set
tling. The damage is supposed to be
caused by a squeeze in the work
ings of the old "Cork and Bottle"
mines, now being worked by the
Peoples' Coal Company.
Souvenir Post Cards are printed
at this office. Half tones supplied.
Railroad Accident Statistics.
The State Railroad Commission
has compiled statistics of the rail
road accidents in Pennsylvania dur
ing the six months ending June 30
last. There were in all sr far.il
and 5.427 non-fatal accidents. Of
the tatanties, 472 were on steam
railroads and 79 on electric roads.
There were ,6q7 persons in in red
on the steam roads and 1,748 on
the trolley roads. The total num-
Der killed on the steam roads was
m less than in the correspond i no-
period cf 1908, and the injured 956
less.
GENERAL NEWS.
Owing to the low water in the
Susquehanna between Harrisbtirg
and Sunbury there are a dozen
places in the bed of the stream
where one can easily walk across
the river without wetting the shoes.
Onnsby McIIa'g, Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor, has
handed his resignation to the Pres
ident, which has been accepted.
The resignation follows an attack
made by McIIargupon the forestry
policy of the government.
The wood preservation industry
of this country during the year
1908 called for the use of 56,000,
000 gallons of creosote, 19,000,000
pounds of zinc chloride, with small
quantities of corrosive sublimate,
crude oil and other chemicals.
An unusual departure at a base
ball game occurred at Minneapolis
on Sunday afternoon, when the
Rev. O. L. Morrill delivered a
short sermcn at the American As
sociation ball grounds, prior to the
game between Minneapolis and
K.msas City.
The Cunard liner Mauretania,
the record holder for the trans-Atlantic
passage, arrived at Queens
town, England, on Monday from
New York over the short course,
and made the passage in four days,
fourteen hours, and twenty-seven
minutes, beating her previous best
time by nearly three hours.
E. II. Harriuian, the railroad
magnate, sensational reports of
whose illness have caused serious
slumps in the stock market, issued
a statement on Monday, in which
he says that he is all right, and
needs only a rest to recover his
strength, which was weakened by
the medical treatment abroad.
That "it takes a thief to catch a
thief" is proven anew by the dis
covery of a shortage of $50,000 in
the accounts of the Riverside Peni
tentiary, Pittsburg, Pa., unearthed
by two bank officers who are ser
ving terms there, and who are over
hauling the books of the institu
tion. Ari York Evening Post.
A disastrous flood in the River
Santa Cataiiua, in Mexico, last Sat
urday left an appalling trail of de
stru:tiou behind it. The city of
Monterey was swept by the rushing
waters and fifteen thousand persons
were rendered homeless. The death
list has been estimated above one
thousand. Many Indian villages
in the river valley were destroyed.
The final coutest in Aviation
Week at Rheims, France, last Sat
urday, known as the Prix de la
Vitesse, was won by the American
aviator, Glenn II. Curtiss, who
now holds the world's record for
speed. He also captured the Inter
national Cup, giving the United
States the lion's share of the hon
ors at this meeting, which was at
tended by the foremost aviators of
Europe.
The great dirigible balloon of
Count Zeppelin, which sailed from
Friedrichshafen last Friday, arriv
ed in Berlin on Suuday after a voy
age of over four hundred miles,
having stopped at Bitterfeld for re
pairs on the way. Zeppelin was
greeted heartily by Kaiser Wilhelin.
Orville Wright, the American aero
planist, with hi sister, were guests
of the Emperor, who introduced
them to Count Zeppelin.
Government Orders Many Postals.
The contract for supplying 3,
487,000,000 postal cards to the
Post Office Department for the four
years beginning January 1, 1910,
was awarded Tuesday to the Gov
ernment Printing Office, which
submitted the lowest bid, $934,
717.95. There were two other bid
ders, one being the Oxford Paper
Company, of Rumford Falls, Me.,
which has furnished postal cards to
the Government for four years.
Fees of Justices.
According to the act'of April,
1909, the fees of the Justices of the
Peace in Pennsylvania were increas
ed in three instances. The cost of
docket entry is now 50 cents,
whereas it was 25 cents under the
old law. A subpoena is now 30
cents instead of 25. A hearing is
now 75 cents instead of 50 cents,
as formerly. This change in fees
affects only those Justices who were
elected in 1909.
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Here 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.
FWUE'T ADUQ sices, Commercial, Professional, Jnsnr.
h hilVihO ance. Baronial, Pay, Coin,
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All DulIu) Books. Plain Receipts, with or without stub, Note
Books, Scales Books, Order Books, Etc.
WAMT TMTTQ rinle' '" a,,y s'ze fro,n a small street
flnlll DlljljQ dodger, up to a full Sheet Poster.
BOOKS AND
PAMPHLETS
MISCELLANEOUS t
Our Stock Includes :
Cut Cards, all sizes, Shipping Tags
Round Corner Cards, Manila Tag Board,
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
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