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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Historical Society.

The meeting of those interested in
the formation of an Historical Society
was not so we'll attended on Washing
tons Birthday as it should have been,
owing to the meagre notice that had
been given. Col. ]. G. Freeze and c. G..
Barkley, Esq. of Bloomsburg, and
Capt John M. Buckalew, of Fishing
creek, were present. In the absence
of Mr.. Hill, of Hazleton, Col. Freeze
was chosen temporary chairman. The
business transacted was of an informal
nature generally, except that the report
OF the Committee on Constitution was
received and a Constitution adopted.
1t will be published in our next issue.
A meeting to further perfect the or
ganization, elect officers. etc, will be
held in the parlors of the Y. M. c. A.
building of this place at II a. m. on
Thursday, March 18TH Beracick In
dependent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
BENTON ITEMS.

Miss Clara Parker and Miss Wright
of Philadelphia are stopping at the
McHenry house. ..
The injunction that was served on
Dr. Colley did not hold good. He has
gone back to Lehman where he ex.
poets to move his family this week.
w. II. Smith of Milton, moved his
family here last week. He is having
a fine building erected near Rohr Nc
Henry's store for the printing Of the
Benton Argus. This will he great
addition to our town. The first issue
will be published about April rst.
Mr.. Lee Bellies expects to move
about the middle of March. He is
going where DR.. Colley's family now
resides. ....
Mrs. Everett attended the cantata
Of esther The Beautiful Queen" in
Bloomsbury last week.
II. T. Everett is on the sick list.
We expect to have a new plank
walk leading from Main street to the
School house. Mr. Brown is to over
see the work. 1t is much needed
Improvement.
Art Colley and Arden Hirleman
made a trip to Bloomsourg on Satur-
day. They visited Clyde Hirleman of
the Normal School.
The surprise party at Mrs. Dodsons'
on Friday night was a grand success,
about seventy-five persons were pres
ent. c. S. and c. q. McHenry opened
their hall for the accommodation of
the young people who had good time
playing their games.
Art Col,ey expects to attend the
Spring term of school at the Wyoming
Seminary.
Ira X McHenry the undertaken had
five funerals to attend on Sunday last.
KY. Z.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Tram J. Derr eldest son of Calvin
and Harriet Derr, and grand son of
Hon. Tram Derr, of Jackson, was born
Oct. 24th 1872, and died Feb. 24th.
1892 aged I9 years and 4 mos.
The above was an excellent young
man, highly respected and honored by
all who knew him and will be greatly
missed by the family and community.
The stroke is severe one to the
parents to whom he was ever kind,
respectful and obedient, and to whom
he was great help and comfort, as
also to his grandfather to whom
he was greatly endeared by his kind
and helpful ways both toward himself
and his wife. He was a model boy,
quite free from the vices and follies so
common to young boys generally.
The funeral was attended by large
concourse of friends and neighbors,
and took place on the Lordsday from
the Jackson Christian church. The
services being conducted by Rev. ID.
M. Kinter Of Scranton Pa, assisted by
Rev. VIM. Strickland of Jackson. The
bereaved have the sympathy Of the en-
tire community
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
EAST BENTON.

Our community has been shocked
by the report of several very sudden
deaths within its bounds for the last
week. Mrs. Alexander Campbell was
buried last Sunday, who the previous
Tuesday fell from her chair dead.
Bile Stevens, of New Columbus
after returning from his mothers
funeral last Thursday, died very sud
denly before medical aid could be OBJ
tanned. He died in the midst of his
friends at his deceased mothers home,
20 which they had returned for refresh
ments.
These are sad circumstances which
call forth the sympathy of the whole
community in behalf of the bereaved
friends. Mr.. Stevens was also buried
last Sunday. .H.|.,.
Several new cases Of grip are re-
ported. Here and there one whose
recovery from that disease seems
doubtful.
Ed Laubach who lost his left hand
some time ago is selling off his goods
at auction. We presume it is prepara
tory to filling up and refreshing with
new goods.
James McHenry of Cambria is sell
ing at cost this week and next week to
make room for new goods.
Miss May McHenry of Cambria is
also afflicted with grip
The protracted meeting at Hamlin
has closed. .....
Mrs. Benjamin Stevens whose death
we reported last week left six surviving
sisters instead of five as reported.
Mrs. Sallie Ashleman has been con-
fined to her room for couple of
weeks. How fortunate for our family
that her sickness did not occur several
weeks sooner. She is now convalesce-
ing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
THE GAR SHOPS.

j. X. Lockard and r. w. Oswald
went to New York on business on
Wednesday.
The shops at present have contracts
for $50 coal cars for the New York,
Susquehanna & Western X, r. Co.,
50 box cars for the same Company,
and the contract for all the iron work
Tor the coal schutes of Port Reading
docks, for the Philadelphia and Read
ing X, X. Co, besides numerous mis-
cellaneous orders for dump cars, mine
cars, wheels &c, and the rebuilding of
number of cars for the N. Y. Sus0ue-
hanna IL w. r, II. This road runs
rom Stroudsburg to New Yo.k.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

The amount of logs expected to be
floated into the Williamsport boom
this season is estimated to be about
ISo, ,ooo,o 900 feet, decrease of 83,-
600, 900 from the amount RATED out
last year. The boom at Lock Haven
has not yet been hung, the ice remain
ing in the Susquehanna river at that
point. All of the lumbermen antici-
pate an early opening, and it is likely
that the stock will be sawed unusually
early. The men who look after the
weather indications are fearful, too
that the full supply of logs will not
reach the market. There is no snow
in the woods and the floods in the
small streams may not be heavy enough
to float the logs to the river. 1t is
possible, therefore, that the output of
the year will not reach ISo,ooo,ooo
feet, and the supply of lumber is more
likely to be short than otherwise.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Mr.. w. NJ. Multer, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Y. NJ. G. A.
and formerly General Secretary of the
Berwick Y. M. c. A was married to
Miss Ida b. Walton at the brides
home in Plymouth on the a3rd ult.
The bride has for the last two years
been a missionary to Mexico, under
the auspices of the Presbyterian
Board of Missions, and returned home
only few weeks ago. They will re-
side in Philadelphia.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

In less than year people will be
travelling between Pottsville and Min
ersville on new electric railway On
Saturday charter was granted to the
Pottsville and Minersville Electric
Railway Company. The company
starts out with capital of SIoo, 900,
The parties interested are said to be
Ex-Congressman Charles N. Brumm,
John F Finney, ID. ID. Philips and
others, who are connected with the
Shenandoah, Ashland and Mahanoy
City Electric Railway Company.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

T.. N. Moyer and c. c. Peacock
talk of erecting three story brick
building on the corner of Main and
Market streets in the spring. 1t will
be a double building, and the first floor
will be occupied by S. F. Peacock &
Co., in its present location, and the
adjoining room by J.. Wesley Meyer
as stationery store.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

c. w. Kline, the Haz'eton lawyer
who had such narrow escape from
the burning ofthe Hotel Royal, recent
ly destroyed by fire in New York city,
has sent his check for $500 to the fire.
man who saved his life.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Bloomsburg people are said to be
much pleased with their new system
of water works. -Dushore Reyieao.
Bloomsbury has good water works.
but as the system has been in about
twelve years it is not very new.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

The Star Dramatic Company went
to Orangevllle last Saturday afternoon
with Fleckenstine's four horse team,
and gave an entertainment in the
evening.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

The Calliepian Society will give a
special entertainment in Normal Hall
on Saturday evening at 7:I5. The
programme will consist of music, de-
bate, tableaux, recitatlons, bayonet-drlll
and addresses.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

The stuff furnished for the columns
of the Sentinel by the fellow who lays
awake nights to study up deviltry for
that paper, is the merest twaddle, The
COLUMBIAN is for Cleveland first
and has always been for him. If it
favored some body else why shouldn't
it say so? We have never made a
practice of promising what we could
not deliver, nor of pretending to be for
particular person, and secretly work.
ing against him all in our power. That
style of politics is left to the owner of
the StmtineI and his western adjunct.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

A Supreme Court paper book is be
ing printed at the COLUMBIAN Office at
the rate of aS pages a day, which beats
the record. The fastest work ever
done in this county before was 20
pages a day, and that too was done at
this Office.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

During 1897 9,4I4 candidates were
inflated as knights of the Golden
Eagle in Pennsylvania. The Castles
of this State during 1891 paid benefits
to 5,I37 brothers and relieved 100
widowed families. The total amount
of relief paid by the Castles of Penn
sylvania in 1891 was $I2o,so2.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

There came very near being didn't
know it was loaded accident with an
old gun, at the Opera House during
the rehearsal for Queen Esther.
Never fool with any kind of gun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Hon. James Fritz and ]. w. Zim-
norman Of Nanticoke, were in town
on Saturday. Mr.. Zimmerman is a
contractor and builder, and his card
will be found in this paper. ~
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

People with delicate stomach find
Ayers Sarsaparilla agreeable to the
taste, and, therefore, prefer it as a
blood-purifer to any other. This is
one reason for its great popularity as
a spring and family medicine. Safe,
certain, and palatlble.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

One of the prisoners in the county
Jail stole pair of stockings from
another prisoner one day last week.
They were discovered in the possess
ion of the stealer. Occupants of Fort
Mourey should lock up their boudoirs
when they step out
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
An interesting time is expected i

An interesting time is expected in
Millville next week. The Valley
Grange, No. Sc, intend holding farm
ers' institute, commencing Thursday
evening, March 10, and to continue
during Friday and Friday evening. A
very interesting programme has been
prepared, and among the speakers from
other places will be DIR. Croft from
Bucknell University.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Ira Davenport, father-in-law Of Geo.
w. Sterner, had paralytic stroke at
his home in Plymouth one day last
week. He is 50 years of age.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Miss Annie Lockard received pair
of young alligators from Florida by ex-
press on Monday. She does not know
who sent them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

J. II. Maize Esq. is an applicant for
the position of Town Treasurer. His
Office Is centrally located, and he
would make popular officer,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

The town clock stopped on Tues.
day morning, but was soon started
again. The snow blocked the face on
the north side and stopped the hands.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

There will be special court to-day
Friday, for the argument of the Doty
case. Several Wilkesbarre attorneys
are concerned in the case.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown. Emperor William of Germany
is realizing this just now. The mobs
IN Berlin do not make him sleep any
better of nights.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

William Kramer has sold his double
house on East street to w. A. Hartzell
for $500. The deed was delivered
on tuesday. eE
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

"Uncle Rube' was pronounced to
be one Of the best shows that appear
ed at the Opera House this season.
The orchestra was also fine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

1t is said that Mrs William Cole
will move back to the old place above
Jamison City in the spring. The
house is.undergoing some repairs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

On Saturday last John S. Williams,
auctioneer, sold the house and lot of
Nj. +. Oil on Third street to c. w.
Runyon for $500. -
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Ira McHenry. the Benton under
taker, had charge Of five funerals ON
Sunday last. They were in Jackson
and Benton townships.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

March end was Ash-Wednesday.
the beginning of Lent. Services were
held in the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic churches.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

DIR. Lazarus and family will move
from Mt. Carmel to the Barton farm
below Bloomsburg, on April Ist.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

S. c. Creasys planning mill started
up on Monday. A new whistle has
been put on the boilers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

c. S. Duffy, The Photographer has
leased studio in Milton, and will con-
duct branch gallery there. ..
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

There was Leap Year ball given
in Grange Hall on Feb a6th. 1t was
a grand success.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

Mr.. Sherwood has rented G. W.
Sterner's brick house on Market street
and will move there the first OF April.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

March came in like lion. There
was a snow fall of several inches.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

There are only three prisoners in
the county Jail.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
Show the COLUMBIAN to your friends.

Sterner's Hotel is to hove inside
sliding blinds at the windows. ]. d.
Shaffer will put them in.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
TOWN TOPICS.

William II. Gilmore is fond of a
joke, and he is generally one of the
first to get on to any new gag or game
that is calculated to take somebody in,
in an inoffensve way. His latest in
vestment is in one of the new money
printing machines. You put in
blank piece of paper, turn a crank
and out comes nice, clean. crisp
bank note, apparently made to order.
or course, the bill has to be put in
beforehand, but to the unsuspecting,
the money appears to be made right
before his eyes. A few days ago he
exhibited the machine to one of our
townsmen, and turned out five dol
lar note which the latter, after careful
inspection, pronounced to be as good
as any genuine money. Then he want
ed to take it home to show his wife
how easy it is to make money. After
some persuasion Mr.. Gilmore sold him
a few slips of the blank paper that
comes with the machine for fifty cents,
and loaned him the apparatus.
The next morning our townsman re-
turned the machine, and said there
was something the matter with the
blamed thing; that he couldn't aston.
ish his wife worth a cent, because after
exciting her curiosity by telling her
that he could make five dollar bills by
turning the crank, he put in one of the
slips of paper and turned and turned,
and pretty soon the slip came out
blank, just as it went in, and then his
wife laughed at him and said she
guessed he was sold, and he said he
rather thought so too. Then Gilly
said "Oh, forgot to tell you that you
can't get any money out of it unless
you put some money in beforehand"
Then the victim called up the house,
and they all Smiled"
Another gentleman who saw the
machine, wanted to buy one. He said
he would pay twenty-five dollars for
tit but Gilly wouldn't sell. "Of course"
said the would be purchaser, 81 wouldn't
circulate counterfeit money, but l am
about to make a hoss deal with a
friend Of mine, and l would like to
have that machine just long e enough to
make sufficient money to beat him
out Of his hoss, though l would pay
him in good money after having some
fun with him."
Gilly wouldn't sell, but pulled a
handful of what appeared to be fresh
coins out Of his pocket and said,
"Here's good thing l can let you
have for ten cents on the dollar They
are just new, and no one can tell the
difference. His victim examined
the coins carefully. They looked
like quarters and ten cent pieces, and
had genuine ring to them, but he
soon saw they were not just like the
old coins so he declined to take any,
"You don't catch me handling coun-
terfeit money, and you had better be
careful or you will get jugged for a few
years" Then Gilly smiled aloud.
The coins were genuine silver money,
being of the new design, and he had
obtained them at the Philadelphia
Mint, for the purpose OF playing the
joke that worked so well. Now that
the boys have caught on, however, he
is not offering his coins at ten cents
on the dollar.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04

There are a great many people
afflicted with the grip in Bloomsburg,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-18

sands of trout fry. and has taken legal measures 10
see that there Is Illegal fishing OF Snoo'ns Vi s
II x reported that on account of the efforts oil the
club game has been more piehhiu uhS i"i '""ii
usual especially partridges ana wooucoc"'
The executive committee Of the Berkshire AGricuu
rI society held an important meeting IN III" once OF
secondary RolBn H. Cooke on Wednesday and made
arrangements for IN, next fair. Colonel Walter Cut
ting president Of the society came up from Ne"-1orh
cre,ioIy n attend tho meeting. Various committees
,r, opponed for the several apartments. including
o T. Benedict. OF this city. on cattle. W. {. prague
~ Dalton on poultry; :. W. Raymond. of llinsdalc
and H. F. Lucas Of this city, on exhibits In the nam
m. prcmum list will be somewhat changed from aS
year.
Mrs, Martha swan mothcrin-law Of John l.. kibo'l'
cashier Of the Ice National Bank, celebrated her looh
brthdny today Saturday Mr.. Kilbon's residence
, large number Of her relatives and friends caled
rpn her She IS bright and intelligent and i in very
s.,od health She not only remembers what took
Mace many years ago. but has kept abreast Of the
lines ard is we'll informed on matters Of the present
day She avs that she remembers when >he NiS
seven wear. old seeing wear crap" fer the diIn
~ Gn,rr. Washington. SAe born in the eastern
mari of the state where the city Of Lawrence 10"
stands December L. 1902. She Wa, married Wh'h
twenty years old 10 Dr. James swan dl1lihl Iat'
81. gives an Interesting account Of taking her wedding
trim from Boston to Philadelphia IN SiihiE N''H'
Her husband pactis'i medicine In IN" laii,r ,lN "r
some YEAR, when he returned Ia Sprfnehel1. h'T
husband died In l2t6. Sh" wa, !hr mother o, Hent
rblldr,u three e whom arr still living. Mrs. Martina
r. Brown Of Concord Mrs. John l.. kilbon, oil I|c
amI william D. swan. OF Phadhpha. Mrs. swan
Ins lived with her son-ln-law since l7O2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-18
A CHANGE THAT My NOR BE REFORM
PUTTING AZ rNTmED MAN At THE HEAD OF
The HARTFORD POLICE-ILECTEIC
H.ILEOAIS

Hartford. Dee. Il (>pccdlj.-1-,. Police COmmie
ei0ncr, treated the town to dccd sn-aion nj their
last meeting bv asking FOR the resignation # Chief
Iaclard and appointing Colonel .alcz l.. Woodbridge
clerk In the Trc1>urcr, Office in a." Capitol
his Succc~>cr. Chief Packard hrs record of nearly
foty year, service in c,nn elton with the larfIrl
Ir1co in capacity OF another. and there moth
ing t. b" said against his conduct. except that hc
might possibly have grown little old in the service
and consequently not mp 10 modem IDEAS. Ihor" has
been general impression that some day he would have
20 Co. but il had not been expected that he would be-
summoned 10 meet the hcad>man's without any
PREPARATION whatever IT done 80 quickly that
nearly upset the Old gcnlcman's nerves for frw
minutes. There Is great deal Of condemnation Of
the Of the Comm ->ioncr,, not Lrcau., q hi,
removal hut Of The unncCc,s inly brutal manner I'm
which it effected. The gentleman vhr succeeds
him ha, ncvcr had any experience di,cplinarian
In police matters. and knows nothing Of them what
ever lie "A colonel in the T"Sas militia during
tho Rebellion, and served in connection with the com
mis- department Of the Confederate AIIay was Is
sio,ant QuarcrmaSler General the staff Of Governor
Waller and has been connected with The Hartford
Telegram" and held vaou, cloTlshps at the Govern
ment envelope works when politics were I'm his favor
and at the Capitol. lie is one Of the fortunate men
who 20 have friends at the ric!t time Ills op-
rortunlty certainly vory great. TIC Commits oacr,
have been busy for the last Year Introducing new
ideas into the police force and IL Is possible that lac
may be able 10 them out. II had been expected
by the friends Of Captain Bill. who j. next In rank 10
Chief Packard, that he would be his successor, but the
COmmiss OncrS made the change In such hurry that
they must have overlooked his claim. In this con
neclon the project for new police headquarters will
mp before the next meeting Of TIE city glvcrn-
men and /. + expected that action will be taken
favorable 70 building upon the present site which Is
central and the criminal business Of the CITY
The building occupied hr city Hail. and is a
good specimen Of Oldmc building and architecture
but as it was never intended for police purposes 1t
has not been what the city ought TO have
There is slight breeze in tine Senatorial contest
this week because Of the letter Of W. &. Case for.
merly Speaker OF the Lower House and Influential
Republican. counsel for the party dmins tic recent