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HLOOMSIWRG, PA., THURSDAY OCTORRR 21, 1000.
NO. 42
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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.
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THE
POOMSBURG NATIONAL;
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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
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BANK
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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.
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