The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-09-21
BRIEF MENTION
About People You Know.

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| Miss Bertha Shoemaker is entertaining
her cousin Miss Myrtle, Of Nanticoke.
| Mr.. Hiram Brown, of Ii ght Street, was a
| caller at the COLUMBIAN Office on Friday.
Mrs. Joseph Turner and Mrs. Henry
DIETRICH, paid Dallas friends visit recently.
Mont Smith returned to Dickinson Col
lege, Carlisle, last week.
Mr.. Charles Keller visited Milton on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Leverett, of Wilkes
Barre are visiting relatives here this week.
DIR. Smith of Snyder county was Blooms.
burg visitor on Wednesday.
William Wilson is on duty again at Rish-
tons drug store after an illness Of five weeks.
William Lowenberg went to the city on
Tuesday to buy new goods for the store.
J. M. Gliding was in Scranton on Wed.
nesday, on business.
Mr. Charles Martin of Harrisburg, has
been visiting his mother during the past
week.
NJ. II. Culp, republican nominee for con
gress in this district was in town one day
last week.
II. K. Grimes Of Catawissa has been con-
fined to his bed for the past two weeks. His
speedy recovery is hoped for.
Hon. c. X. Buckaew and Rohr McHenry
were among passengers up the creek on Sat-
urday.
We are pleased to report that Mrs. ]. G.
Swank, who has been ailing for some time,
is now very much better.
w. II. Gilmore, OF Bloomsbury, attended
the Firemen's Annual Convention at Norris
town, Pa, on the 10Th inst.
Harold C. Dayton and John McChesney,
of New York city, spent several days in town
during the past week. MIR. Dayton is the
export agent of the Bloomsburg Car Co.
De Forest Hummer has won another
medal in the Boys and Girls o'clock
Club. 1t is a handsome solid silver button,
with engraved face.
Among arrivals on the B. & S. on Monday
morning were Prof. Welsh and wife, of the
Bloomsburg Normal, Rev. Houtz, of Orange
vile, the aged John Zaner, of Zaner's Sta.
tion, and Eli Weaver, of New Columbus.
w. F. Bodine, who was SO seriously in
jured some time ago, we are pleased to re-
port as up and about his work again. At
present writing he is painting for Judge
Millard at Willow Grove.
Mr.. T. d. Robbins of Lime Ridge, was
a caller at the COLUMBIAN office Friday.
Having recently returned from visit to
Niagara Falls he showed us very pretty
piece Of satin spar that he got in the cele-
brated Cave of the Winds.
Mr.. David Cam has been sick with
typhoid fever in Philadelphia for several
weeks, and had very narrow escape from
death. His many friends will be glad to
know of his recovery. He arrived here on
Tuesday morning, and is again at his post
at the Elevator Works.
A. Russell Smead, a representative of the
New York ''World," has been spending the
past week in town. His business is to write
up the town from an industrial point of view,
and publish it in the Sunday "World," pro-
vided sufficient sum can be raised among
the manufacturers and business men to pay
for it.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. l.. Chaplin, OF New Col
umbus, entertained few invited guests on
Saturday, the 18th, instant. Among ,those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Lot Search, of
Shickshinny, Mrs. Almira Kellam, of Eliza
beth City, n. j., Miss NJ. P. Stevens and
Mr.. and Mrs. I. J. Jamson, OF New Colum-
bus.
A cablegram to Mrs. Hanly, of Berwick,
on Monday announced the arrival Of her son
Woodin, at New Zealand on Sunday, after a
voyage of one hundred and twenty three
days, covering nearly IS, 900 miles. lie went
on a sailing vessel last spring, for the benefit
OF his health. This is the first time the
family have been able to hear from him
since his departure, as they touched at no
port.