THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA- THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OFllkOOJIHHUKG, XTA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capital $100,000 Surplus SI5O.O0O. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, we solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Hanking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits O F F I V K. W. M . Low. 1' resident . James M .Sinvrv, Vice President. 1) I It KCTO Its : Iimx M. Stnver, Fp'.l I kt'h r, f. '. '. Cl't'MXV. 'lintoii r Irrrintr, K. AV. M. Low. F. (i. orks, TJoui(ir s, M. KiSjiickliouM'. THE COLUMRIAN. KsT..r.i.isii:i isc.h. TH COLUMBIA PEMGCRAT. pU'l.lMim K.VKRY Tl '-'.vI'W Mi'KMMI, A r.UvwHl-urj:. tin- l.'ountv Seal ! Columl.ir-Coui'.v. I'.'nnsylvnnia. r,i:o. k. r.i.w i.ii . r. puck. Gi.O. UOAN. 1-Vi-v.van. Tkk.: ln-' the .-lunty l.oo a year lualva.no; l.oif not ril !lI"rr' . u,-Uotli-c-.unty,l..-5.i ycar.HincUy in u vit.ee. A!! c.)am,.ri.ili'-v houM bcvl.'.re--C;! TT!i'. COt.VMPIAN. rioomsbnr,:, I'a. THUKSDAY, D IV MM UK II Hi. V-"" OLEO CROWDING OUT BUTTER. Substitute's Sales Increase Hundred Fold Latter' s Price Too High. Snys the New York limes: "The' continued rise in the price of but-1 ter, with no sign of a drop in the! near future, is causing the maim- j facturers and dealers in oleomargar-1 ine to rejoice. They say that all their product needs to win recogni- j tion by the public is a trial, and because of the present high prices j of butter the number of people who accept the substitnte is daily in-1 creasing. The state authorities are j receiving many applications for dealers to sell the product. It is retailed for 25 cents or less per pound, while the best butter now costs 40 cents. "The manager of the grocery department of a large department store said yesterday that its busi ness in oleomargarine has greatly increased in the last few weeks. In the last year, he said, the sales of oleo or butterine, as the oleomar garine is called, have increased a hundredfold. "Oleo must be labeled 'oleomar garine' in letters of a size large enough to be easily seen, audit must not be colored. An arrest wasj made in Brooklyn Friday for ped dling oleo as the 'best dairy but ter.' Frank Jones, who gave his address as Jersey City, was in charge of a wagon containing sev eral hundred pounds of the butter substitute. It is said that he tore off that part of the label containing the name oleomargarine before sell ing it. Jones was arraigned before Commissioner Benedict and held iu $1,000 bail for the grand jury." A Stringent Law. Justices of the peace are bearing in mind that under the provisions of an act of assembly, approved by Governor Stuart, May S, 1909, per sons making charges of threat and surety of the peace may be commit ted to jail in default of payment ol costs, if the magistrate finds upon hearing the evidence that th? com plainant is in no danger as to per son and property. The preamble sets forth that the practice of bring ing unwarranted actions has become so common as to burden the Com monwealth with unnecessary costs that the magistrates are enjoined to carefully hear the evidence and, if it be found that the complaint is without just grounds the costs may be imposed upon either of the par ties or divided between them in any proportion that the magistrate may think just, and in the event that payment is refused the delinquent may be committed. Aycr's Hair Vigor Ingredients : Sulphur. Glycerin. Qulnio. Sodium fhlorid. CdPMcurn. Sage. Alcohol. Waler. IVrluniu. Anything injurious here? Ask your doctor. Anything of merit here? Ask your doctor. Will it stop falling hair? Ask your doctor. Will it destroy dandruff? Ask your doctor. Docs nat Color the Hair .1. '. A TIT it .pMWs'V. Tnw.11 M.. " " K n S : Myron I. Low, Vice Pri'Hident. Frank I ke-lor, Cashier Mvron I. how, H". V.Howr, Frank I keler. , Navigating the Susquehanna. History nnd certain people :it Washington connected with Rivers and Harbors legislation declare the .Susquehanna a navigable stream. History has known this 12ft year-; how long Washington cflicials have be; 11 cognizant of the fact is not in (lic.-itid in the suggestion that the West Branch valley ought to have water transportation. In the Susquehanna w.s declared a "public high .viy," and as such was the means by which, many of the first settlers came into this region. Their boats were poled up the stream, against the same s'rong current for which the Sus quehanna is ii-itcd today. Then came boats of the barge type which carried thirty to thirty-five tons of freight. They were usually pro ' pelled with oars, though sometime were towed. There were several navigation companies on the Sus quehanna in the early part of the past century, and warehouses were erected at intervals along the river as far south as the Clu-sapeake bay. Grain was stored in these ware houses until it could be sent to mar ket. In 1805, sails were tried and in some parts of the river worked so well that they became largely used. Steamboat navigation was attempt ed in 18 1 6, when two boats were built, one at Philadelphia and tbe other at Baltimore, for the purpose of bringing iron down from the Karthaus lurnace iu Clearfield coun ty. These boats, the Susquehanna and Codorus, encountered many vicissitudes in their short career. The latter :eached Williamsport af ter the most trying voyage possible to conceive. Here it created a great sensation, and great possibilities were predicted for the new steam ship line. Then the Codorus steam ed down the river to Northumber land, and that was the last of her as far as Williamsport was concern ed. The Susquehanna tried to as cend the Nescopec rapids and her boiler blew up. Then came the canal. All this, of course is ancient hir-tory. Now, after a lapse of 83 years, during which time the rocks and rapids of the Susquehanna have not changed for the better in any ap preciable particular, the river is de clared navigable as far west as Clearfield. We hope it is true. We hope it will not be many years ere great floating palace come boom ing up from the ocean and hitch at the Market street whrrf where now lie only the gallant Sylvan Dell and her gasoline consort. There tn.iv be dynamite enough in the world to blow out a channel and build lo:ks and dams and spillways and what not. Probably there is, or the peo ple at vVashington never would have placed the Susquehanna on the list of navigable waters. We should like to have them come up and take a look at the Riffles at Sylvan Dell and some other places between Wil liamsport and Clearfield which could be as easily overcome as the Isthmus of Panama. Then if they want to fix up the old stream so that it will float something besides a sixteen-foot launch let them do their worst. Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, By the will of the late Charles II. Fannan, Jr., Yale University is bequeathed half a million dollars for buildings for the Sheffield Sci entific School. MI'4ST, I.OWI'll. MllMM. WASHINGTON From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, I). C.Dec. 14, 1909. Congress is again in session at the Capitol of the United States or rather it was in session until it ad journed. Seldom has there been a tamer opening of the National leg islative body. There was not a sug gestion of sensationalism. A little irony perhaps in the motion to print the Prcsident'sWinona speech the one in which he endorsed what has been characterized as the Can non and Aldrich fake tariff reform bill. And this was intensified when an amendment carried with it the printing of Cannon's speech in which lie read the Insurgents out 01 the party. The President's mes sage was the tamest received by Congress in eight years. Its read ing had the effect to empty many seats in the House and Senate. Only a few members and Senators remained to hear it through. The document while devoid of any new and startling proposals is a s u e and conservative state paper and quite up to the average of Presi dential messages to Congress. It is already given out that the President will soon send to Con gress important supple. uenlary messages a. d one relative to the Piuchot-Ballinger controvcrsey in which it is stated lhat the Cabinet Oilicer will be re-exonerated is ex pected in a iew days. There arc other Congresses in Washington which have before them work or enterprises of nation al importance The S.iuthern Con-j uress with representatives from 1 sixteen Southern states which has for its object the promotion of Southern trade and industry has! well attended meetings iu Willard's Hotel. The Senate and House of Representatives have adjourned from day to day in order that their members may be present at the de liberations of this Southern Con vention and also at the sessions of the Waterways improvement Con vention which is represented here by it is said four thousand dele gates. It is their wish to have Con gress issue half a billion in bonds at the rate of fifty millions a year for ten years but the President in his address before this body ex pressed his disapproval at this time of that scheme. The Southern Con gress has purchased ground on one of the most valuable comers in the city and will erect there a building costing more than one million of dollars to be used for offices and as a kind of club house for the promo tion of the objects of the Southern organization. This brings to mind another enterprise and a crying need in the city of Washington, a permanent hall or temple to be used by the hundreds of conven tions and visiting organizations that come to the national Capital for counsel and deli Deration. The city of Washington nas made more then one abortive effort to build a Convention Hall but a great por tion of the population of Washing ton is made up of Government clerks on small salaries and fully one third of the population is of ninety thousand of Africans, the most degenerate and physically and spiritually aenemic mob that can be found anywhere in the world. This is not exaggeration or mere assertion. It is a statement borne out by the census report and dem onstrable by charity, health office statistics and police court records. There are iu this city some wealthy residents, men who have made for tunes elsewhere who have retired to W ashington as a home. These subscribed liberally to the Conven tion Hall protect as did also the proprietors of the larger hotels but there was not sufficient in subscrip tion to carry out an enterprise re quiring at leas,t two millions of dollars. Secretary Root and other distinguished men have suggested a plan to raise the money by small subscriptions from all the people of the United States. A postage stamp from the ninety millions of people composing the population of the United States and territories it has been said would build iu Washing ton a convention temple of the states and furnish a home as it were, in this peculiarly national city, for the many visiting organi zations that come to Washington. , It is somewhat unusual for an other congress iu Washington to eciipse the regular Congress at the Capitol, but this is the actual situ ation at this writing. The Water way Congress or convention hold ing its sessions in the banqueting room on the eighth story of the Wil lard Hotel is looked upon as a gathering of pre-eminent nation il importance, and at the opening of its sessions yesterday, the Congress at the Capitol having adjourned, the President of the United States, foreign ambassadors, and many senators and representatives in Con gress were present. President Taft madethe opeuiug address and ex- GRANGERS' CONVENTION. Three Days' Program Arranged for Annual Meeting of State Organi zation. All the arrangements have been completed for the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Grange at State College, beginning Tues day. December 2t, and continuing three days. The indications arc that it will be the largest assem blage in the history of the organi zation. Thousands of persons rep resenting every county in the State are expected to attend, and the pro gram for each day's session will be replete with matters particularly interesting to those engaged in ag riculture, horticulture and kindred subjects. In connection with the meeting there will be held the third annual educational exhibit of the Depart ment of Horticulture. The display last year was probably the finest ever held in the State, and the prospects are gord for a better ex hi! it t his year. Orchard and gar den products of Pennsylvania will be shown, while the horticultural show ami the display f farm, gar den and dairy implements will be larger than ever. There is also to be a butter scot-1 ing contest. K ldi sample will be carefully judged by experts, who! will, besides giving the score-, also ; point out as far as possible, the l ea i sons for the defects and make stig- j gestions as to improving the quali- i tv. It is tne purpose ot the depart- j tnent to make the work entirely educational. Wednesday evening during the Grange session will be devoted to a public meeting to be opened with music. The p ogram will be ;js -follows: Address of welcome in j behalf of the Centre County Porno- j 11a Grange, No. 13, by I.eonaidj Rhone, past master of the Pennsyl vania State Grange; response, State Master W. T. C reay; dramatic rec itation, Miss Williams Anderson; address iu behalf of State College town; response by J. T. Ailman, State secretary; address in behalf of the State College, President Kd win IJ. Sparks; response, John A. McSpanan, secretary of the Legis lative Committee of the State Grange. The exhibition of agricultural products, electrical appliances and agricultural inventions will be open to the public during the entire week. The dairy building of State Col lege, which is one of the best equip ped of the kind in the United States will be cpen to members, who will have an opportunity of witnessing students at work making butter and cheese. There will also be an exhibition in one of the buildings of many ar ticles of interest to the farmer and the tanner's wife, particularly in machines that make the burden of housekeeping less irksome. Persons going to the State Grange will be transferred at Bellefonte to the B.-llefonte Central Railroad and taken by special train to State Col lege. - You All Know Them. An exchange truthfully remarks, "There are n few people in every place (and pretty nice people too) who will enter a grocery store, run their fingers into a br.rrel and lop up a couple of ounces of sugar, nib ble at the back of a herring, eat a handful of nuts, cut off a slice tof cheese, just to taste, then, as a matter of course must take a few crackers; and perhaps before thev make up their mind to buy a bar of soap they have eaten up the profits on 5, worth of groceries, and to win.l it all up- they have it charged, and the poor merchant perhaps realizes a profit of one cent. They leave the store munching a couple of apples. This is no dream nut a reality, except some times they don't buy any soap. But such is life." pressed himself iu favor of a na tional system of waterways, but advised against urging an immedi ate issue of 500,000,000 in bonds. President Taft has considerably improved as a speaker. lie speaks with ease, he talks with ease and without embarrassment. Perhaps the greatest fault in his style is an apparent lack of seriousness, an ap parent impression that a story or joke is necessary to ingratiate him self, and put him en rapport with his audience. This detracts from the diguity and seriousness of any subject upon which he may speak, and is in strong contrast with the earnest and convincing style of his predecessor. Any one will seek in vain in all the speeches of Roose velt for any desire or attempt to be tunny or nattering. It is dilhcult for one to believe that a man is thoroughly in earnest when he can turn aside to be funny. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA mmamammaaaammaammmmmmammamawamaaaammamatmmtmammmmmmm CHRISTMAS Shopping is Under Way! Foresighted people are doing; their Christmas shopping NOW before the rush begins and when the best selections are to be had. You will benefit by following their example. Make out your list TO DAYbring it here, and later on you'll be thankful that you acted on this suggestion. We are ready to solve each of your gift-problems with rare sat isfaction and economy. This store has become a veritable won derland of toys, dolls and beauti ful gift things for folk of all ages. Our Christmas displays this year surpass anything ever attempted in this city before. F. P. JBILOMSIBlLTR&, PA. An Irresistible Bargain. $1.75 Value for Only $1.15. AM. FOR ONLY $1.15 McCALL'S MAGAZINE Is a large, artistic, handsomely illustrated hundred-pap-e monthly magazine. It contains sixty new Fashion Designs in each issue, livery woman needs it for its up-to-date fashions, entertaining stories and complete information on all home and personal topics. Over one million subscrib ers. Acknowledged the best Home and Fashion Magazine Regular price, 5 cents a copy Worth double. McCall Patterns The Columbian a I So simple you cannot mis understand them. Absolute ly accurate. In style, irre proachable. You may select, free, any McCall Pattern you desire from the first number of the magazine which reach es you. Regular price, 15 cents. DON'T S THIS EXTRAORDINARY OFFER Call at our office or The Columbian, One Years Subscription for McCall's Magazine jAnv 15-Cent McCali Pattern you may select One Year's Subscription for 1 he Columbian. is the oldest newspaper in thecounty. It is not sen sational, and what it prints is reliable, and fit to be read by anybody. Regular price $1.00 per year. : MISS address your order to Bloomsburg, Pa
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