The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-02-01

Diaries for 1900 at Mercer S
Drug and Book Store.
The Eagle Hotel, well-known
hostelry, of Shamokin, is now
heap of ruins, as the result of a fire
early Sunday morning. Eighteen
guests were rescued i'll a thrilling
manner from second story windows.
An automobile, the chief feature
of which will be more speed and
less weight than the ones in use at
present, is to be placed on the mar
ket in the spring by c. S. Schmick,
OF Catawissa. The propelling power
is to be steam.
One of Our exchanges tells about
4 woman who fell into a mill dam,
and when she was rescued a ten
pound catfish was found entangled
in her wire hustle. Her husband
wanted to set her again, but she
would not consent.
Isn't it queer, how many people
perfectly familiar with the great
number of fatalities that are con-
tinually resulting from it, will per-
sist in trespassing on the railroad
tracks, often taking the track in
preference to a we'll beaten path.
A representative of large Phil
ipsburg Iron Company was in town
on Monday looking for laborers.
He was particularly desirous of
securing moulders, for which he
offered $3.50 per day. Work in
the shops of that place appears to
! be very plentiful.
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! Fortune has smiled upon Jerry
Coates, who for the past eight years
has been an inmate of the Scranton
poor house. BY the death of a sis
ter, at Troy, New York, he is now
the possessor of all estate worth
| from $40, 900 to $4,000. He was
resident of Danville about a score
of years ago,
| The committee appointed by the
Episcopal Diocesan Convention of
Central Pennsylvania, to report
| lines for the division of the diocese,
| held meeting at Williamsport on
TUESDAY and decided to report six
| lines of division to the Diocesan
Convention to be held at Scranton,
May 18th.
Hon. F. w. Gunster, senior ad-
dition law judge of Lackawanna
County died at his residence in
Scranton Tuesday afternoon. He
was born in Prussia and came to
America when only a child. He
was the first district attorney of
Lackawanna County. He is sur
vived by wife and six children.
Monday, January 22nd was the
one -hundredth anniversary of the
creation of Adams County, and in
recognition ofthe event, the Gettys-
burg Compiler grew to twice its
usual size. The extra pages, or
E supplement, contained all extended
E account of the early settlers of the
County together with much other
interesting reading matter.
The work of laying the track on
the electric railway running be-
tween Centralia and Ashland, is
now going on, and as soon as COM
pleted, the road will be balanced up.
1t is now fully expected that the
line will BE in operation by the first
of April. The power for the line
will be supplied from the station of
the Shamokin-Mt. Carmel Rail
way Company at Greenridge.
"What is home without news
paper" asks an exchange. We are
; compelled to give the same answer
, as the Sullivan County Re0iey.
Don't know. We never saw one
to our certain knowledge. They
are we believe pretty scarce in Col
umbia County. If anyone will send
us the address Of a family in this
county, who do not receive one
newspaper we will attempt to do a
little missionary work.
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Farm journal is the oldest farm
monthly published. But it is not
old and moss grown; it is bristling