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The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-02

Lord Beresfords advice to British
workmen and employers may be sim
mered down to two words, get
busy"
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-02

1t was a foregone conclusion tha
both the army and navy would dc
well in the army and navy duel.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-02
Hogs.

Comparative receipts;
Month TO September 2Gth. ...... 5.471
Same period last year. .......... 6,sei
Decrease ,423
Year TO date. ...................G .G4.032
Same period last year 81. .l13
Decrease ,OS1
The following quotations represent
the prices paid ON this market;
Light and mixed packers. =. 81 .40dI-3J
Choice heavy. 73Ou7 40
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-02

Mont Pelee continues TO furnish
matter copiously for tho magazines.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-10-02
Butter.
Elgin higher .......
Eggs.

Eggs. strictly fresh candled.
with case. doz. 20
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
DESERVES A CELEBRATION.

In speaking of Bloomsbury S
Centennial Celebration. the Record
of Wilkes Barre, in its issue of
Saturday says:
Next week, continuing for two
days, the people of Bloomsbury,
Columbia County, will celebrate
the centennial Of that pretty country
town. For town that has existed
for a period of a hundred years
Bloomsbury is not large territori-
ally, nor yet populous, but it has a
Number of advantages which many
more pretentious towns do not
possess. 1t is a wholesome town,
is well supplied with churches and
other institutions which are the
recognized evidences of the Chris
tianity, the morality and the intel
ligence Of a community. 1t abounds
in business enterprises which speak
we'll for the prosperity Of the people,
and it teens with beautiful homes
which speak more loudly than
words of the comfort, happiness
and contentment of the population.
All things considered, Blooms
burg deserves a celebration of its
centennial anniversary, and no
doubt the enterprising people of the
town will make it an event worth
remembering and worthy of the
community that has in its day con-
tained such men as Charles r.
Buckalew, Judge Elwell and some
Others who gave Bloomsbury a
reputation which it might not other
wise have attained. No doubt visi-
tors in large numbers from up and
down the Susquehanna will flock
to Bloomsbury next week to parti-
cipate in the celebration of so i'm
portant an event as the hundredth
anniversary of the founding Of the
town"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
Are We Approaching Fifty Cent Dollar
Under the Gold Standard.

In late issue of the Philadelphia
"Pn6Hc Leagrr and TImeS," the
information was given out, that by
reason of The discovery OF exceedingly
large gold deposits and the ending of
the Beers War and by which the
resumption OF the Transvdal gold
mines were immediately possible, and
the improved machinery used IN min
ing gold, the output of gold bullion
would accumulate to a surplus, TO
such an extent that the value of gold
would deprecate SO per cent, in the
near future. From the above it
would seem that the money question
can never be settled by any political
party upon standard value Which is
not fluctuating. There is possibility
that the "honest dollar" will again be
brought in dsrepute under the gold
standard to satisfy the greed of the
money power.
We suggest that ton of coal be
made the unit of values by which to
measure the values of all other com
modties, gold included. Evidently
there is new money issue looming
up in the near future for campaign
purposes, since gold is SO rapidly fol-
lowing tie trail silver. The demoue
rIzaton of silver was like decree of
divorce between husband and wife,
and that neither alone, could long
fulfill, or accomplish the ends for
which they were created. If gold
should depreciate 50 per mt in value,
the $50 cent dollar cry" will be as
prominent as In the campaigns OF
1896 and 1900.
Wall Street would again be shaken
from centre to circumference to find
a scheme to rob the masses of their
honest earnings. A so cent gold
dollar would be just as wicked as a
SO cent silver dollar, and the poor
mllllonaires would be thrown into
another frenzy of financial craze. In
case of such event to which the Leu
ger alludes as probable, the people
may expect the most interesting
campaigns that have ever been wit
messed in this county. &c. W.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28

the state and they will have but
little patience with him. The fewer
Birdie Warrens and Penroses the
state has the better it will be for the
public good.
BY the way, where do the fine
gilt copies of Smull's Hand Book
that are being sent over the state
with Penrose's compliments come
from? There is no provision made
whereby United States Senators are
to be supplied with these books.
Are they 'swiped" from the num-
Der that should go to members of
the Legislature? The members are
supposed to be treated fairly in this
matter, and yet some of them in the
recent shipment for 1902 did not
receive a single copy in gilt nor
their full share in the cheaper bind
ing.
The writer knows that Birdie
Warren's book was on sale by some
OF the clerks at Harrisburg because
he bought five copies. Perhaps
Birdie will explain as he fits from
flower to flower how it is that so
many copies of his book we're sold
at 70 cents each, and how Mr.. Pen
rose manages to get fine gilt copies
of Smull to distribute all over the
state.
ANDREW J. PALM.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
he Sale of Towels and Kitche
+. r. PURSEL.
Calendars for 1908.

Orders for calendars are always
taken early. We have large and
beautiful line of samples on exhibition
at this Office, and we feel conhden,
thar anyone who proposes to use cal,
endars can save money by dealing
here. Ouf prices are lower than those
of travelling statesmen, for we have 70
expenses to pay for cariare etc. Call
and see sample. No obligation 10
buy if yoa do not find what you want.
If.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
A TREMENDOUS CLAIM.
Part OF Columbia County Involved in an
important Lana Suit

O. H. Wheeler, says the Ashland
Aa0oeafe, who lays claim to a pait OF
ownership of about 10000 acres of
land in Schuylkill, Columbia and
Northumberland Counties will try to
prove his claims to the land in the
U. S. District Courts, the case being
set for trial at Plttsburg in November.
Land in Columbia County now under
the ownership of the p. & r. Com
pany, is embraced in Wheeler's claim.
Orsemus II. Wheeler, the claimant
to several tracts of land in the coal
region, who aroused much interest
recently IN his case, has stated his
claim briefly as follows:
81 am confident of winning my
case this time" For thirty years |
have been collecting the evidence and
prosecuting the claim and at last the
end is in sight.
"To understand the case it is neces
sary to go back to 1898, when Robert
Morris, of Revolutionary fame, pur-
chased from the Commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania, twenty-five tracts OF
land at $50 tract. That land now
comprises 10000 acres of coal land
in Northumberland, Schuylkill and
Columbia counties, upon which a
dozen collleries are operated, and
upon which 10000 people live.
'In 1894 the land was transferred
to John Nicholson, in 1926 to will
liam P. Farrand, in 1886 to Henry K
Strong, in IS4S to Hannah Hoff anc
in IS49 to Stewart Newell. Newell
decided half the land to John B
Douty, who in 1872 transferred HI.
share to me for $4,000.
SIN 1850" continued Wheeler
"Franklin b. Gowen was buying tim
Der land and purchased the land from
a George Grant, who fraudulent,
claimed to be the owner. A few
years later coal was discovered on the
property and the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron Company hs.
since held possession of the land.
"For the purpose of bringing sui
to recover the land Newell and
organized the Robert Morris Lane
and Coal Company, and in 1877 anC
in 1899 the cases were carried int
the United States District Court a
Plttsburg.
"rhe cases pending include 81,
ejectment suits, bill in equity anc
three damage suits. Our claim is a
follows:
"For 10000 acres of land, $25,
900.
"For 5o,ooo,ooo tons of coal takel
from the land at 50 cents ton, $2s,
100000.
"For timber taken from the land
$Io,ooo,ooo.
"rotal, 500, 900, ,ooo."
| Wheeler is the only one of tn
original members of the Robert MOI
ris Land and Coal Company stiI
alive.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28

The present high price of beef is
drawing the attention of farmers to
the question whether it would not
pay them to go into cattle raising
again as was the practice many
years ago. Few farmers in Penn
sylvania any longer pay attention
to the raising of beef cattle. Cows
to replenish the dairy herds, must,
of course, be raised, but young
males are sent to the shambles as
calves, and farmers rarely think of
growing steers unless it be for their
own consumption during the year.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
OFFICIAL MINUTES OF O0NGRES
SlONAL CONFERENCE.

Laporte, Pa, August I4th, 1902.
The regularly appointed Congress
sional conference of the 10th Con
gressonal District Of Pennsylvania,
composed of the Counties of Colum-
bia, Montour, Northumberland
and Sullivan, met at Laporte, Pa. g,
on Thursday August I4th, 1902.
Pursuant 10 notice they assembled
at the Public House off Gallagher.
An organization was effected by the
election of J. F. Gibbons of North
umberland County as Chairman
and w. A. Sechler of Montour and
w. c. Johnson of Columbia, as
Secretaries.
On the calling of the roll the fol-
lowing conferrees were present and
responded: w. w. Black of Colum-
bia and w. c. Johnston of Colum-
bia; ]. F. Ellis and w. A. Sechler
of Montour; w. P. Stellmach and
J. F. Gibbons of Northumberland;
and Frank Magargel and D. F.
McCarty, of Sullivan.
Mr.. Ellis of Montour nominated
Hon. Charles H. Dickerman of
Milton, Pa. for the full regular
term for Congress for the 10th Con-
gressional District of Pa.
Mr.. Stellmach seconded the nomi-
nation.
w. c. Johnston of Columbia
nominated Hon. A. L. Fritz of
Bloomsbury, Pa.
Mr.. Black seconded the nomina-
ton.
1t was moved and seconded that
nominations close. Carried.
Mr.. Fritz then in a few well
chosen words stated that as the
people by their votes had already
indicated their choice; that as Mr..
Dickerman had carried Montour
County by close vote which practi-
cally decided the matter in his
favor, it was thought best by Mr..
Fritz's friends in the district in
cluding the leaders of the party in
Sullivan Co, not to carry on the
contest in that County. Therefore
Mr.. Fritz said as Mr.. Dickerman
had carried three Counties the
duties of the Conferees would not
be very arduous, and that he cheer
fully withdrew his name as candi-
date and instructed his conferees to
cast their vote for Mr.. Dickerman
remarking that the party with him
as its candidate has strong one
and a good man.
A motion was then made that Mr..
Dickerman be nominated by accla-
nation. Seconded. Carried. Mr..
Dickerman nominated by acclama-
ton.
Mr.. Dickerman being called upon,
in a very able manner expressed
his appreciation Of the honor con-
feired upon him, and spoke of the
courtesy with which the canvass
had been made, and discussed
briefly the political outlook.
Mr.. Sechler of Montour moved
that when the conference adjourned
that it adjourn subject to the call OF
the chairman. The motion was
seconded by Mr.. Stellmach. Car
ried.
After filling out the necessary
nomination papers, it was moved
and seconded that the conference
adjourn subject to the call of the
chairman. Carried. Conference
adjourned.
JOHN F. GIBBONS, President.
VI VIM. 4; {. sJo#ssT Jo#asTos Secretaries.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
able DamaSkS.

Bleached or Unbleached.
Every wanted grade, every want.
ed width, and prices cut to the
very narrowest profit. Look
ahead people will appreciate
this chance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
# p PURSEL-
SHEETS,
PILLOW
SLIPS.
HOUSE,
HOLD
LINENS.
| WAITE
|! BED
SPREADS.
The August Sale Begins This Week.

In buying Dry Goods as in buying anything else,
prudent people always consult what they believe to be
their truest economy.
In the sale of the above emphasized items we cater
your economy. These special linens now at their
best and this is the one chance of six months to re-
plensh the home with these needuls at lower prices
than you are in the habit Of paying; yes much lower
prices Kindly investigate
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
Silk tassels and pencils for pro-
grams for sale at this office. #
TAILOR MADE SUITS.

n. S. Tingley has accepted the
agency for Reinach, Ullman & Co.
OF Chicago, merchant taiors, and is
ready to supply made-to measure
clothing at prices lower than can he
obtained elsewhere. He has a LARGE
line OF samples to select from. His
place of business is the third floor Of
the COLUMBIAN building. at.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28

The annual Harvest Home SER
vices under the pastorate Of Rev. A.
Houtz will be held as follows;
Orangeville, Aug. 81 at 10: 80 A. M
St. James, Sept. 7 at 1918 A. M.
Zion, Sept. 7 at 2:3o P. M; and
Hidlay, Sept. IA at 1890 A. M,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
Bed Spreads.

We make this the bed spread
chance of the year. Can't al
ways divide profits with you
but we do it now.
I.25 bed spread at o5c.
2.75 " 2.3o
200 I.75
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28
First National Bank,
BICOrnSburg, Pa.

With 1000 National Banks doing business
in the United States this Bank stands 41st on the
Roll of Honor in the United States and 10th in
the State of Pennsylvania, making it the Strongest
Bank in the County.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-08-28

How IL red6cns the skin, itchos, oozes,
dries and scalesl
Some people call IL letter, milk crust or
salt rheum.
The suffering from It is sometimes In
tense; local applications arc resorted to-
they mitigate, but cannot cure.
u proceeds from humoIs Inherited or ac-
qured and persists until these have been
removed.
Moods GaESGpGTiieG
positively removes them, has radically
and permanently cured the worst cases, and
is without an equal FOR all cutanecus
cructlons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05

I left home in Lowndes county, Ala bama, April 15 1861, and was mustered into the service of the state at Mont gomery with Jomes M. Withers, as col onel, Remnant Lomax, lieutenant-colonel and Cullen A. Battle major of the Third Alabama. We were mustered into con federate service at Lynchburg, Va, and went to Norfolk, where for nearly a year we saw no hard service, but this was all changed when Norfolk was evacuated. We were under fire at Drewry's Bluff and at Seven Pines fell into an ambush and lost 3S killed, and 122 wounded, among those killed being Lomax, two captains and several other officers. At Malvern Hill the Third lost POT out of 945 engag- ed I was wounded at Charlottesville where the regiment lost 24 killed and 125 wounded.
 In the early morning of July l, 1S6o we were fourteen miles from Gettysburg and marching thither in the whitening heat, supported a battery which was soon disabled, the same fire killing Meadows and wounding others of my company. We charged through a wheat field against the enemy posted behind stone fence. and routed them. driving them through the town. A brigadier call ed for a sharpshooter, and Hooper Caf- fee, of Lowndes, in trying to get a horse to follow was killed. m the town many prisoners were captured. One of the Mobile cadets was killed by a pis- tol shot from a window, but before we could wreak vengeance on the slayer the bugle called us away. to the foot of Cemetery ridge, up which the flying enemy was struggling, throwing away blankets. knapsacks and ammunition in their efforts to escape.
 On that evening our sharpshooters could easily have taken the heights against which Lees whole army thunder ed in vain the two succeeding days. We fought later at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Second Cold Harbor, were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05
Cnst of Pniidlnn.

Building goes on apace in this dis trict, and yet the price of skilled la bor and of building material are 30 per cent higher. than they were five years ago. In large buildings, like the Woodward, the price of steel has been doubled Brick has been ad- yanced 50 per cent, and the advances in all grades of lumber range from 40 to GO per cent. Builders hard ware is higher by about 75 per cent When all articles are summed up it is seen that the cost of building has been increased just about 30 per cent A house tbat would have cost 5000 in 1897 cannot now be built at a cost below $500.
 The prices of structural steel are up in the sky. Six months ago such steel could have been purchased at 1% cents a pound; now it is worth AZ cents, and even at the latter price it is difficult to secure the filling of an order. These advances do not however, seem to lessen the amount of building in the prosperous cities of the land. There is nothing so pros- porous as prosperity. although there must come a time when either land lords or tenants will feel the burden of present prices.
 In this district rentals keep steady pace with construction costs, or rather 1t should be said that the cost of building is coming up to rentals created by scarsity of houses. After awhile there will be an adjustment all around, but the day of rentals like those of 1897 will never return, Iron will always be in demand, and when l the Warrior is opened this district
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05

down. to s11.49 seemed much cheaper than s11. 50.
 The superf1uous pennies were first given to the children for their banks, then saved for the family purse. Cheap car fares helped along the circulation with Scent fares. The west stolidly refused to lose it's reputation for open-handed lib- erality and general breadth, and the only compromise affected was to sell certain minor articles at two or three for a nickel. Even today San Francisco is but little affected by the penny except in the postoffice.
 In the earlier days before Uncle Sam played letter carrier for the Hawaiian islands two 2-cent stamps. accompanied by a nickel, would bring back a 1-cent stamp from the window in change. Now the law demands that monetary change be given, and the scantiness of the local supply caused a requisition to be issued to Washington. This has gradually scat tered. and another requisition Is now on the way in the shape of a sack of pen nies.
 These were issued principally from the window of the money order and registry department, and after short circuit come back to the stamp window again. Occasionally a few pennies are passed over the counters of local stores by cus- toners and are placed in the stamp drawer, to be taken later to the post office again. Some of them get lost ana others relieve the strain on the parent uncle and sisters beau who can respond to the appeal of 'give me nickel with greater alacrity if a lower coinage is deftly introduced Still others rattle with the assurance of silver into the collec- tion boxes and are only shamed by an open plate.
 None of tho stores has at present com menced introducing pennies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05

~ T IS UNFORTUNATE. indeed that
 a large number of miners Of the
 Birmingham district should be out Z on a strike at this time. If a seri= ous question was involved-if the miners were not receiving sufficient pay or were imposed upon, 1t would be different But in the case of the Birmingham strike there Is nothing involved but a question affecting the organization of the miners among themselves.
 It strikes me that the state board of the United Mine Workers of America did not exercise that degree of calm Judg- ment which the importance of it's pc sItion would make necessary The or ganization which this board represents made a contract in July with the ope- rators of the Birmingham district for year. They now ask something outside of this contract. It is not granted be- cause the operator in question felt that he had no right to grant the request
 I was trained up in a union shop setting type, and I believe in the principles as set forth in the typographical union, but I do not believe that an organization Of employers or workingmen have right to violate any contract which they make, or go outside the terms of a contract in their demands.
 This strike of the miners in Birming- ham will affect every interest in and about the Birmingham district. The miners have nothing to gain by the strike. They cannot aid their friends in the anthracite regions in Pennsylvania if they are drawing no wages. Therefore it strikes me that mistake has been made, and I hope that the gentlemen who compose the Alabama district board of the United Mine Workers will call this strike off. It is strike which the miners cannot hope to win because they ask the operators to do that which is il- legal. It may be that the operators, in some instances, have imposed upon them, but two wrongs do not make right
 Labor organizations are well, but you cannot maintain any organization npless such organization lives up under all cir cumstances to the letter of it's contracts.
 We have all been prosperous In the BIT mingham district-the miner and the op- orator have equally shared in 1t. 50 why nave a row now over a trivial matter2 Why not let IS all get together and work in harmony during these times of pros- perity when we are all doing well.
 Every good citizen of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SEVERAL MATTERS OF MATERIAL INTEREST TO BIRMINGHAM

eommenes the policy of the police court and Acting Judge zEccrosain for tha firm action adopted by tlis court Tn punishing those who carry coreeaied weapons. zIur- dere are of weekly occurrence in Birning ham: all due to tfe practice of carrying concealed weapons. If Judge Teagin and Acting Judgs Mecrossin will be firm in their established policy of imposing A fine of sto0 and thirty days in jail upon every one convicted of this offense. the practice will soon he broken up. Let the prominent citizen as well as the tough be punished. Make no discrimination. and in the course of a short time there Will be no pistol toters'' in Birmingham.
 It would be well, likewise, to adopt tho same city ordinance here that prevails in Washington City. That is. to require every merchant who sells a pistol to make q record Of the man to whom such pistol is sold and furnish lis name to the police department within twenty-four hours of the safe.
 The question of protecting grade cross- ings in Birmingham has finally been taken up by the people and the indica- tions are that in a short time Birming- ham will be transposed from a country town into a respectible city. where the lives of it's citizens will be duly protect ed.
 hope that the board of aldermen will, without delay. adopt a resolution re- quiring gates at every ordinary crossing in the city, and requiring a subway un- der the railway crossing at both Twen- tieth and Eighteenth streets. In other places where it is possible, bridges over the railroad tracks should be construct ed Human life is more valuable than money. The railroads are prosperous and the city is in good condition. and the two combined can amply afford to do that which is necessary to the protection of human life in this community.
 I regret to read the announcement that there is to be contest in favor of the Birmingham. Dispensaries are well for a town, but Birmingham has outgrown the small towns. It, is a cosmopolitan city. There might be a regulation like that which prevails in Washington city, limiting the number of saloons within the city and especially the number within any one block, but a dispensary for Bir-