'HI P 'Hi roz, 4-3. HLOOMSIWRG, PA., THURSDAY OCTORRR 21, 1000. NO. 42 WHEN YOU WANT TO Open a bank Account Have a Check Cashed Borrow Money, or Make an Investment CALL ON TIIK OLD RELIABLE - The Farmers National Bank OF BLOOMSBURG Capital, SCO. OOO Surplus $100,000 0 M. CUKV MLlN'(r, Puks. M. MILLKISKX. Casiiikk. DIRECTORS J. L. Moykr N. V. l'i-NK C. M. Cki:vi:i.in; C. A. Klkim W. L. Wuitk C. V. Run yon Dr. J. J. Urown M. Mim.kiskn 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. A COMPLETE PLANT. The Fred Fear Match Company is one of the best of its kind in the United States. CONTINUALLY IMPROVING. The general public is debarred from the plant of the Fred Tear Match Company, owing to its in flainable product, and because of the disturbance that many visitors would cause it. Is likely that few people in Bloomsburg realize now complete, well equipped, and inter esting is this newest local industry. A reporter was admitted yester day, and was courteously shown through the various departments by Mr. Fear. He was surprised at the extent of the plant, and ad mired its completeness; he was in terested in the wonderful machines, and would have tarried many min utes before each one, had not Mr. Fear, who kindly gave him a half an hour of his time, been busy in planning improvements, and led him on to explain the complicated workings of the next machine. The match makers start with lumber sawed at the plant, make the matches of it, and pack and ship them in boxes made there. The rough boards, taken from the dry-house to the thoroughly equip ped saw mill are cut into blocks and slid into bins, whence they are automatically transferred to the match-making machines. To these same machines the inflammable ma terial for the tips is brought in liquid form from the chemical de partment which is filled with all sorts of mixers that look like big freezers filled with many hued kinds of ice cream. The match making machines are probably the most interesting in the plant; huge queer looking arrangements, twenty-five or thirty feet long and some fifteen or twen ty feet high. Into these are fed blocks of wood, and from thcni are taken matches at the rate of over eight thousand a minute, which are dried, sorted, and packed, ready for shipment. In another department the boxes are made in machines which per form many operations; some on the lids, othv rs on the boxes. Into them a'e fed a strip of card board from a large roll, which is cut. glued, and folded in proper shape, the completed boxes falling rapidly into receptacles. The lids are like wise cut, printed, sanded, glued, and folded into complete shape from the cardboard rolls. One of the most admirable feat ures of the plant is that the machin ery is manufactured there in the machine shop. At present there are additional match-making ma chines in course of erection. Several kinds of matches, of dif ferent sizes and grades, are being made, and they will burn! Blooms burgers, need not fear that they will have the same experience as they did with the product of the match factory which was run for o short time some years ago in what is novv the hosiery mill. A large force of men and girls are at the factory now, but more are needed. As fast as more hands cau be secured the output will be iucreased. It is now ten million matches a day. . "When we get thoroughly set tled," said Mr. Fear, "we will have as well equipped a match fac tory as there is in the world, and certainly one of the very best in the United States." Of all this, Bloomsburg may feel justly proud that it numbers among its industries the Fted Fear Match Factory, and among its citizens so progressive a mau as Mr. Fred Fear. Harvey vv. hess. Alter a long struggle against dis ease, Harvey W. Hess of Mifilin ville died on Monday at noon, aged 49 years. He was a son of Aaron Hess of Mifiliuville, and a brother of Dr. M. J. Hess, and George W. Hess of Bloomsburg, and Mrs. A. V. Snyder of Mifiliuville. Mr. Hess had been treated at the Jefferson Hospital. Philadelphia, where a transfusion of blood from the veins of his wife seemed to ben efit him. He was removed here to the Joseph Ratti Hospital, where he remained for some weeks, and was then taken to his home, where he finally Miccutnhcd. As a young man he learned the jeweler's trade, and was later em ployed by the Kngle Engraving Ma chine Co. as salesman. Later he was employed as head salesman by J. C. Bright &. Co. of Hazleton in the retail oil business. After leaving them he engaged in the lumber business, and also es tablished a fine stock farm near Mifiliuville, in both of which he met with success. For some years past he had been a director of the B'.oomsburg National Bank. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and was one of the most respected and highly esteemed citizens of Mifflinville. Besides his father and brothers and sister mentioned, he is survived bv his wife. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and was largely attended TALKED TO TEACHERS. Superintendent Lose of Williams- port made a very instructive ad dress at the meeting of the Colum bia County Teachers' Association, 111 the Court House last Saturday afternoon. The nicctiusr was well attended, there being about 125 teachers present trom various points in the comity. His subject was "The Daily Program." Among matters discussed at tin meeting were the High School de bates, and the spelling contests. Superintendent Kvans was author ized to appoint a committee of three teachers to select judges for the debates. As to the spelling contests ?upt. Kvans announced that he had con cluded that only seventh and eighth grades may compete. The whole grade must compete, Each school has two contents one at home and one in another school. These con tests are to decide which scluol has the best spellers as a whole. Then there is to be held a third or town ship contest composed of the 3 or 4 best spellers of each school to find the champion spellers of the town ship. At the County Directors' Association in March a county con test is to be conducted to decide who is the champion speller of the county. DONATION DAY AT HOSPITAL. Tu sday, November 2, will be donation day at the Joseph Ratti Hospital. Gifts are acceptable at all times of course, but this day particularly Ins bjen set apart on which donations of all kinds wid be received from aU those who have the interests of the institution at heart. livery Bloomsburger well knows of the good work that has beeu dons at the hospital since its beginning, and a great number of people throughout the county also have reason to feel grateful for the benefits they have derived from it. It is a worthy object, and it is to be hoped the donation day will bring forth many gifts, large and small, from the people of this neighborhood. hp)) rttf. J & mi "I am t!e cf lh pink of ccurtcry, lirply- f &? Y' ' Ing perfection founded up"n ' kA . V yf'j".' rsspxt and satisfaction, Is tre W TsM . 1 r r 1 C . 1 7 i ' study cl evsry succciiu. Ln y 5.j nief.il: Courtesy here Is insisted upon fejt ' if Y ...R,.U... have contributed .mU'VK OK Tin-; INTSTlTi:- .sZjrg we i.iy j in ii.ui. THE POOMSBURG NATIONAL; BIOOMSBUBC DEER RAVAGING THE CROPS Farmers Rnge Helplessly, and Dare Not Shoot the Intruders. NO WAY TO CHECK THEM. The State Game Commission will have. a knotty question to settle before long, but one that is of vital importance to farmers whose do mains are next to woods in which deer stay. From three different points in Lycoming county reports have been received that crops have been practically ruined by the ravages of deer. The presence of so many deer is attributed to the protection accorded does by the present game law, which malces doe immune from killing, and the boldness of the animals is remark able. Jonas Wilson, who owns a small farm near the head of Sugar Camp run, north of Warrensville, estimates that he suffered $400 loss duriug the past season because of the visitation of deer to his place. His farm is practically surrounded by wild lauds, he having hewn a place out of the wilderness. His fields upon all sides are skirted by woods, and in at least two direc tions these woods run for 15 miles without a reak. Last spring, or early summer, when oats began to get thrifty, showed Wilson that a new pest, and a terribly destructive one, had suddenly coma upon his place. On; day he found five deer in his oat fields, and when he lud chased them out he discovered they had ruined at least a third of the en tire patch. Of the five, only one was s buck. He did not dare set the dogs after them because that is against the State law, but he was under the impression that he did have a legal right to chase animals if they were again found in his fields destroying his crops. He was advis.'d to take counsel upon the matter trom the State Game Coin mission, and learned from it that under no circumstances is he per mitted to shoot a deer out of season, and then he must not. for any reason, kill a female deer. This ruling left him the victim of the ravaging auimals, and before the summer had passed deer had ruined not only his oats crop, but also his 'om and buck-wheat crop. A report received trom the Loy alsuck region, and another from the Trout Run sec ion, are of almost similar experience to that cf the Sugar Camp man, and the back woods farmers are determined that thay must he relieved from such an oppressive condition else they will be compelled to sell their land at a great sacrifice and move out of the deer belt. The Trout Run man re ports that his entire buckwheat field was ruined in three nights, and by the tracks in the field it was guessed that there must have been as many as 10 deer in the drove. A condition which eloquently shows the increase in tli2 number of deer in the woods of Central Pennsylvania, due to the working of the present protection given the does, comes from Cammal. There Is in that section what is known as the "salt springs"-a series of small mountain springs, the" water from which has a distinctively salty taste. Before the time of the lum bermen and the cuttiug of timber, the residents of that section of the courrtsy.' Wf largely to the uii unit uv.- BANK PENNA THE BEN GREET PLAYERS. An effort is being made by the Normal School to have the Ben Greet company of English players come to Bloomsburg some time this winter to present one of their Shakesperean plays. This compa ny is well known both in England and throughout the United S;ates, where it has played not only in the larger cities, but at nearly all of the colleges and universities. To those who are not acquainted with the Ben Greet players, a word of explanation may be in order. They play the Shakesperean dram as, as well as those of several of the old English dramatists, using the original texts, and presenting them in the manner in which theatrical companies did three centuries ago in England. No scenery is used and the curtain does not fall from beginning to end of the drama. Aside from being entertaining and well acted, the Greet productions are highly educational, giving an insight into the methods of the early Euglish stage. The writer has had the good for tune of seeing this company pre sent Shakesperean plays in the beautiful grounds of Mrs. Charles Dudley W arner, in Hartford, Con necticut, and has personally met Mr. Greet several times. Mr. Greet is a cultured English gentleman, somewhat past the mid dle age, and his charming person ality is reflected 111 his acting. In order to secure this company, those iu charge at the Normal must have two hundred scats disposed of at one dollar each before they cm close the contract. These will be the best seats in the auditorium, the rest selling for fifty cents. It is to be hoped that the lovers of the legitimate drama in Blooms burg will be eager to grasp the chance to see this Ben Greet com pany, which is both entertaining and educational. LIGHT HOUSE FINISHED. The iron light house that has b.'en in course of construction by the Richard Manufacturing Co. is completed, and has been approved by the government inspector. It will soon be shipped to the Atlan tic coast where it will be erected for the government. BAPTISED IN RIVER. Two persons were baptized in the river above the East Bloomsburg bridge last Saturday afternoon, by Rev. II . G. Trumbauer, pastor of the Peutecostal Church on Eighth street. A large uutub-'r of persons witnessed the ceremony. State always knew the neighbor hood of the "salt springs" to be choice deer country, because of the attractiveness of the water for the animals. The coming of the Woods men, however, drove the deer out. Four years ago the last stick of timber was cut off that section, and the wilds are just as lonely as ever. And with the loiuliness came the deer agaiu, only more plentiful than ever. A man who visited that section within the past month re ports having seen 1 1 deer in the neighborhood of the "salt springs," while the soft soil for many rods around show a perfectly tramped condition where the deer have roamed around. The wilds in that section, because of their isolated and ideal conditions, have become virtually a nursery for the deer tribe. r I I TQWKSEND Adler's Gloves. Cluett Shirts. Arrow Collars. Luzerne Underwear. Stetson Hats. Cooper Union Suits. SNE1L1LENII5UIK& Philadelphia Clothing I,. BL.ACK. CD. Rochester Clothing. MEHtCIHHBlUK(R C0. Rochester Clothing. KINCAie & C0. Utica Clothing. International Tailoring Co. Made to Measure Clothing. All High Class Merchandise. TOWN CORNER CLOTHING STORE, BLOOMSBURG, PA. H.a. SEIWS B
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