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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Mrs. Greene-I hope you trust your hus- band implicitly?
 Mrs. Brown-oh, yes. indeed; but I
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Bloached and unbleached LINEN
 TABLE DAMASK, 54 inches wide,
 for Monday a yard .. .... ..29c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

50 dozen Fancy EMBROIDERED SEAMS, size 32x32 inches and
 Scarfs to match, size 16x54 inches,
 for Monday, each.. .. .. ... .49c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

TRIC0T TLANNELs, 34 inche. wide, all wool and in all colol S
 worth soc. yard for Monday 32C
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

50 dozen Ladies, ALL WOOL VESTS and PANTS, worth $2.oo a suit,
 for Monday $1.15 suit or ca. 50c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Ladies' OUTING GowNS-Assort-
 ed color stripes, nice quality, for
 Monday, each.. .... .. =. .49c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Mrs. Harry Smiths card party for Miss Gertrude Smith is another event for Tues day
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Infants woolen VESTS, worth soc,
 fo: Monday .. .... % ....30c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

100 dozen Ladies', Misses and Chil-
 dren's UNION SUITS, worth soc for Monday. .. .. .. =. .2Sc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Messrs Eugene and Joseph Bright have issued invitations for a card party for Tuesday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

25 dozen Ladies' wool UNION SUITS
 worth $1 30 each, for Monday 96c
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Among the coming events will be an afternoon tea January 14th to be given by Mrs. George Leatherbury, Jr. The tea will be followed by dance in Miss Corinne Orton's honor. --
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

5L WALKING sKIIRTs-Nicely trimmed, assorted colors, worth $2.5O, for Monday $1.49 and $1.6o
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27
House Furnishings.

500 white BED SPREADS, MarsefI-
 les pattern, extra fine quality and
 large size, for Monday 70 and csc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Monday evening Miss Ida Richardson will give a theatre party to the Prince of Pilsen."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27

Two moro budding bells are Miss Dorothy Donald and Miss Mary Lane who will receive at the Donald home Fri day from to 10 p. m.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
Relating to Rural Delivery

BY recent ruling of the post Office
de partment each rural mail carrier in
the United States will be required TO
take a careful census of his route and
copy the names in book provided
for the purpose. Slips are prepared
for the carriers and these will be LETT
with the families to be filed out, each
slip to contain the names of all parties
receiving mail at the house, even to
the servants. In this manner the
name Of every person slong the routes
Vs." be before the postmaster and he
will have no trouble forwarding mail.
Married ladies will be designated by
their own names instead of those of
their husband
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
BIT OF CHICAGO HISTORY.
Although Only Seventy Years ola.
as AN incorporated Town,
1t Is "a Century OLD.

Most Americans will have been sur
prised at the announcement of a Chi
cago centennial celebration to be held
in September of the present year, says
the Review Of Reviews. Chicago was
still very minute village when, in 1888,
it became incorporated and the Potta-
wattomie Indians OF the vicinity sold out
their lands to the government, but Fort
Dearborn dates from the year 1904, and
it seems that John Kinzie, the original
pioneer, had settled on the site of Chi
cago in the previous year, with several
associates. as Indian traders Thus. the
permanent settlement Of Chicago dates
properly from the year 1903, and a
centennial observance in the present
year Is appropriate. The celebration is
to be merely local affair, with pageants
and tournaments, rowing regattas, yacht
races sham battles, and the like. What
will be most instructive, however, to the
school children of Chicago will be the
reproduction on the lake front of old
Fort Dearborn, with an Indian village
inhabited by several hundred Ojibways,
Pottawattomles and Menominees, all
or whom 1t is proposed to bring to Chi
cago from Canada for the occasion. The
chicago committee would do well to
take some hints also from the recent
celebrations in New York
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
ANUS emslts.

Oriental Burlesquers-Iovers OF
high-class vaudeville and burlesque
should not fail to attend a perior =
nance of the Oriental Burlesquer 5
which will be the offering at tn G
Opera house, Monday evening
This show is not entirely new @
the playgoers Of this city, but it
comes this season with more novel
ties than ever before, and is far
above the average burlesque show.
Two bright and catchy extrava.
ganzas open and close the perfor-
nance. The first, ga Bogus King, "
is a traversty on the late trou bles in
Servia. "Krausmeyer Alley"
was written simply for laughing
purposes. In the vaudeville por-
tion of the bill are the following G
acts: Oracle and Reynolds, Irish
testers; T. IA Victoria, contortionist;
Lew Watson, parody singer; Nor
gan and Phillips, German aldermen,
and Lottie Lewis, soubrette.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
Death of a Patieu, Sufferer,

The death on Thursday last of
Mrs. Mahaia Buckalew Hess leaves
Capt. John NJ. Buckalew the only
survivor of his family. Mrs. Hess
died at the home Of her brother near
Jone town, of rheumatism after
many years of pain and suffering.
For yeats she was unable to walk
and only left her iuvalid's chair for
a change of clothing OF to be trans
ferred to her bed. Mrs. Hess was
a member of the Methodist church
and was one of The most patient
sufferers. Those who cared for her
through her years OF suffering were
impressed with the patience with
which she met years OF pain. Mrs.
Hess was also a sister of the late
Charles X. 1uckalew.
The funeral and burial was at St.
James church and cemetery on
Saturday afternoon. -Shickshinny
Erho.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
NEW BALLOT IS PREPARED.

The State Department has for some
time been engaged in the preparation
of ballo. IN accordance with the new
law passed by the last Legislature.
The matter was placed in the hands
OF Chief Clerk Thorn, and after thor
ough study of the law he has prepared
ballot which it is thought conforms
to every provision.
The new ballot contains all the
party names in the FIRST column, in
stead of at the top of ofseparate columns
as formerly. The Offices to be filled
follow in columns, the name of every
candidate for each Office to be voted
ior being under the head of that office.
a candidates name is on the ballot
5ut once, but the name OF every party
which nominated him is set opposite
hat one name. The circle is elimi-
lated, but a square answers the same
purpose, and there are no separate
-olInns for each party. 1t has the
.Gect Of shortening the ballot, and
he same candidate of more than one
party can occupy but one place on it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
MAN IS NO GOOD.
Club Woman Classes Him Below Cat,
Dog or Monkey ns IA Do
mestic Pet.

A leading club woman of the east,
who has had considerable experience
with mentor, not satisfied with one
trial, she has had three husbands-has
very poor opinion Of the sterner sex
Il weigh man moral carat on the scale
Of his personal habits" she says. "a
man, when he is perfectly nice and
clean, tastefully dressed and not noisy,
is bad enough. but a man who wears his
hair in his eyes and over his collar, mani
cures outside his own room, leans
around, sits with his feet higher than
his head and all that is unbearable. If
| married one Of the beasts inadvertent-
ly I'd break him to docency or I'd XIII
him with indigestion. What's the good
OF husband anyway? lie has never
been more or less than a pct or provider.
BY his own admission, female competi-
ton has destroyed his usefulness as a
proYider, That is all right; ii simply
makes him twice pet Now, having
reduced him to his lowest terms, since
1t was only a question OF a pet, why not
be satisfied with bird, a cat, a dog. a
monkey parrot-anything? Such
pets do not smoke. get drunk, nor bring
mud into the house. They never talk
pack' They come when they are called.
ana 'Aey 40 not try to run things"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
JOKE WAS ON LANDLORD.

On a recent sunny afternoon three
of Bloomsburg's bumiest buns sat
on three chairs in front of one Of
the leading hostelries, wondering
where they would get the next
drink. They were clothed "some
in rags, and all in jags, bnt none i'll
velvet gowns" ." Their jags were of
the large size, wholesale kind, The
kind that this same trio usually
carry around with them. Their
appearance was anything but orna-
mental to the hotel front their con-
versatior was not of highly intel
lectual and entertaining character,
and their room was far more desir-
able than their company.
The landlord therefore concluded
to entice. them away by a ruse, no
doubt thinking that if he got them
off the street they could more easily
be disposed of through side door
from the inside. So he instructed
the porter to go out and invite them
10 come in and have drink. The
porter was 70 go in ahead to the
bar room and then slip out of sight,
and when the trio arrived there
would be no one there to "set 'em
up" The bait was a sure one and
the three grabbed it without losing
a moment. The plan was carried
out all right until the porter had
disappeared, and just here it missed
connection, for the porter forgot to
tell the bartender Of the joke, and
here as in many other instances,
the hest laid plans of mice and
men aft gang aglee." The triplets
walked up to the bar and each ask
cd for a bottle Of beer which was
unsuspectiugly banded out, and in
stantly clutChed by the thirsty crew,
aud guzzled down post haste. When
pay was demanded they told the
bar tender they were having one on
the house, and before the landlord
appeared they had gore back to
their chairs i'll front, where they sat
and snoozed and dreamed OF their
good luck, and wondered why they
got drink so easy at bar where
it had so often before been refused,
even when they had the price.
Next time the landlord wants to get
rid OF undesirable guests he will
probably try some other way, or
else be on hand in time to see that
his plans are carried out.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1903.
DEMOCRATIC C0Nv ENTI0N.

The Democratic State Convention
met in Harrisburg yesterda y. The
delegates from this county were
George Hopes, Berwick; William
Bogert, Espy; Geo. B. Hummer,
Elk Grove; G. A. Small, Catawissa;
=. J. Flynn, Centralia. Others
who attended from here were ]. &,
Rutter Jr., w. B. Allen, and J G..
Harman. Mr.. Hummer was unable
to 90 on account of illness,
The following nominations were
made:
AUDITOR GENERAL.
Arthur G. Dewalt, of I.ehigh
>ounty.
STATE TREASURER
Joel G.. Hill, Of Wayne County
JUDGEs OF SUPERIOR COURT
John A. Ward, Of Philadelphia
Calvin Rayburn, Of Armstrong
County.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
The Army Canteen.

From almost every army post III
the country have come testimonies
Of the evils arising from the abo,i-
ton of the army canteeu, and petit
tions playing for its re.estabiish-
ment in the interest Of morality.
Men enlisting i'll the army, as a
rule, are more or less addicted TO
the use of liquor. 1t would be a
fine thing, OF course, if enlistment
removed from them all means Of
gratifying this taste, and taught
them that The body is healthier and
the mind more vigorous without
liquor. But this is impossible
under present conditions. The
men will indulge their cravings for
intoxicants, and they find means
to do so in the low dives that infest
the neighborhood of every post. 1t
was to counteract the vitaiting
effects of these vile resorts that The
canteen was instituted ; a place
where the men could meet under
Wholesome conditions, drink light
wines and beers of good quality Ill
moderation, and have the benefit of
the restraining influence and de-
corous example Of their officers
Recreation features were intro
duced, and the cauteen was made
the enlisted soldiers club, a pro-
tected circle into which no vice or
degradation could intrude. There
the soldier was provided with GER
tain privileges which proved a bull
wark against the temptations and
dangers that surrounded the post
in the saloons conducted by un-
scrupuleus civilians.
Well-meaning, but fanatical, folk
induced Congress 70 abolish the
canteen. The worst fears of those
who opposed this action have been
realized. The canteen was abolish
ed, but the degrading resorts out
side the post remained, and the SOL
dier, deprived of the means to spend
his leisure moments in harmless
recreation, fell an easy victim to
their allurements. Desertions have
become more frequent, and arrests
for drunkenness and oHenses of 4
similar nature more numerous.
The antl-canteen people should
be fully convinced by this time of
the mistake Of their policy, but to
emphasize the lesson and continue
the agitation which should result
in the restoration of the canteen,
attention is called t. what General
Fred D. Grant, commanding the
department of Texas, has to say
upon this subject in the annual re-
port which he has just sent to the
war department. mo argument, +"
says General Grant, can be too
earnest for the re, establishment OF
the canteen. To close the doors of
the soldiers garrison club and send
him ont into the haunts of iniquity
and vice run by moral vultures,
who, degraded themselves, set up
no standard of morality, but, break
ing down all barriers of restraint,
invite and induce soldiers to join in
all sorts of depravity and infamy
is wrong to the soldier as we'll as
a wrong to the community in which
the soldier is located. "-Er.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
Attempted Suicide.


Because her lover Tilted her and
married another girl Dora Owens
twice endeavored to commit suicide
in Sunbury. She waded out into
the river beyond her depth, but was
rescued by Attorney George w.
Deepen, who quickly went after her
in row boat. AS women were
taking her home she made another
break for the bank and plunged in
to the water. Again a row boat
saved her. The girls parents live
at North cumberland. She was en-
ployed as a domestic by Sunbury
family, who happened to be in Sha-
mokln at the time and were tele-
phoned for.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

- n ~ ~ O. T7 K "a,
Bears the II The Kind You Have Always Hosqh
signature q &XMAzIzza
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
DATES FOR DEMOCRATIC WORKERS
TO REMEMBER.

Last day for Registering voters,
Friday, Sept. 4th.
Last day for Paying taxes, Satur,
day, Oct. 3rd.
Last day for Filing Certificates
of Nomination Estate Offices) Tues,
day, Sept. 22nd.
Last day for Filing Nomination
Papers, Estate Offices) Tuesday,
Sept. 29th.
Last day for Filing Certificates
of Nomination, County Offices
Tuesday, Oct. 9th.
Last day for Filing Nomination
Papers, County Offices) Tuesday
Oct. 18th.
Election Day Tuesday, Nov. gre
1903.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
Dinner and Supper.

The A. NJ. T.. Church will serve
dinner and supper in the old Presby-
terian church on Market street,
Sept. 9TH. Chicken and wafRes
will be served for supper. We
want to raise our pastors salary.
Will you come and take a meal
with us for 2S cents1
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03

Within the past ten days two
Chicago doctors claim to have dis
oyered serum which will cure
ockjaw. Considerable comment
aas been made in the press of the
country over the wonderful discov-
ny but as matter of fact the thing
vas old. DR.. Biddle, Of the Miners
cspital used a serum to treat
William Laucks, a thirteen-year-
ID boy Of Ringtown, who was
lfferiug with tetanus, and who
tas pronounced cured some weeks
go
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-03
Stores Open Evenings.

The merchants of town who have
been observing the early closing
movement during the months OF
July and August, will keep their
stores open evenings from now on,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
Potato Plant Made to Bear Tomatoes

Potato Plant Made to Bear Tomatoes
1t has been asCertained recently, for
example, that by suitable grating the
potato plant can be made to bear toma-
toes above ground while producing its
own tubers beneath the soil
What a gain ii will be to farmers
if in the future they find it practicable
to raise crops of potatoes and toma-
toes ON the same areas of ground, one
above and the other below
Tho d'e magieans who play such
wonderful tricks with plants have re
Gently evolved a new kind of cherry
tree, which seems to be the cherry tree
of the future.
ta, ,ivi. -.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26

expense of a resuvey so that the
county may be founded and township
and section lines relocated,
During the last two weeks terrific,
sandstorms have swept over Hodges
man county, obliterating county lines
end public highways Coombs says
the county is wholly given up to the
cattlemen, and that there are no
fences to mark the sectional lines,
and that buffalo grass is the princi-
pal product on which thousands of
head of cattle feed. The public roads,
as well as much of the range, is coV-
cred with sand.
This latest feat of the Kansas wind
surpasses that given by Pension Com
missioner Ware in Poems by Iron
quill:
Once a Kansas zephyr strayed
Where a brass-eyed bull pup played,
And it gently took that pup
Turned him over wrong side up.
And calmly journeyed hence,
With a barn and string of fence.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
Washinqton's New Senator.

Levi Ankeny, senator elect from
Washington to succeed George Turner,
is a millionaire banker ard farmer
Mr. Ankeny is awkward and diiaden+.
so it is quite unlikely that he viii
take a prominent part in senatorial
deliberations. It is generally believed
that but for the active and dextercus
campaign conducted by his wife he
could not have been elected senator.
Mrs. Ankeny is daughter of ex-sena.
tor Nesmith.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
TYNER ASKED TO RESIGN.
Assistant Attorney General Relieved
Because OF et-Rich Quick Scandals.

Assistant Attorney General Relieved
Because Of Get-Rioh Quick Scandals.
Washington, Mayeh 2f.=ln eonse-
qnencc Of the charges against James
\. IHnor. assistant attorney general
G0r tne postoGice department. Post
MASTER General Payne, III a comnn-
Hieation from Cuba to Acting Post
master General WYnnc. today asked
fer a3e resignation of Cen. Tyner.
Mr. Tyner has net been at the de
@rJment for many months, being par
t,alIy paralyzed.
Lack Of discretion in dealing with
one of the ST. louis ~get-riehlquiek'
concerns is said To be the cause OF
the change No personal completely
IS alleged against Tyner, but because
Of his physical condition and the fur
thcr fact that he is related to H. J.
Barrett, attorney for the @get-Fieh-
quick" people, it is deemed best 10
make a change III the Office.
Gen Tyner is one of the oldest en-
pIoycs of the postal service, having
entered it forty years ago. He served
as clerk, inspector. assistant postmas-
ter. postmaster general and several
times as assistant attorney general
He has borne an excellent record. but
for long time has been physically in
capacitat ted for dTtV
The charges against the office are
the result of the barring from the
mails of certain "get-rich-quicl: bro
kers, notably of Arnold and Ran, the
st. Louis concerns.
Several years ago Tyner's nephew,
H. J. Barrett, served as a law clerk
in this office. He became familiar
with the laws governing frauds and
the power to bar alleged illegal con-
Germs from the mails. 1t is said that
he studied carefully the limitations
of these laws. and when he had be-
como expert as to how close to the
wind a business could be run with
out getting into the tolls, he resigned
from the department to practice law,
and became attorney for several of
the houses which had been under de-
partment SllrV Vcillance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
Lady CONSTANCE f.&e4eEtlz3i&.
R1aking Of Lucious Fruits

Instead of bearing fruit in the or
binary fashion, by twos and threes, it
clusters. SO that fifty or sixty cherries
sometimes grow in single bunch on
a twig The cherries. too are big and
of remarkably fine flavor
One of the most notable of recent
achievements in this line is the seed
les grape, which has at last been sue
cessfully produced in California.
There is an excellent commercial op-
portunity for it, inasmuch as many peo-
pie object to grapes on account of their
seeds apart from the fear of swallow
ing them, which has been mistakenly
caused by the appendicitis fad
Many of the finest yariati.t of
grapes, especially those Of the "meaty"
Sort, have very large seeds, which on
account of their size are really OBJ
iectionable
If they can be got rid of entirely
that will be highly satisfactory; and
one seedless grape having been sccur-
ed, ii may be confidently expected that
there will be others
The seedless grape was obtained
from the muscat of Alexandria (im-
ported from EgypD by selecting year
after year cutting from those vines
Which produced less than the normal
number of seeds.
This process was continued from
season to season until absolutely seed
le4sness was eventually achieved The
special object in view was to sci a rails
IN grape of large size. Everybody is
familiar with tue little dried grapes of
Corinth, which are commonly known
as cnuants; they are seedless. but
they have the disadvantage of small
size.
The new California grape. on the
other hand, will have flavor equal TO
that of the currant. While relatively a
giant
The secdless apple is also likely to
arrive in the near future.
The plant makers are working on
The problem patiently. Indeed that
kind of work pays well. inasmuch as
there is always Il fortune in any new
scedless fruit Fortunately. the ba.
mana is already seedlcss. and has been
so for centuries, though nobody knows
why.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
A Costly Pun.

Charles 7. Barney, president of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, has as
a companion and friend a blue-bl0oded
French bulldog with very handsome
brindled coat, which attracts the at
tention of all who know anything
about dogs, says the New York
Times.
Nice dog, eh? ?" remarked the bank
er the other day as stranger patted
the brute and commented on its beau
ty. Cost me $4,000, though" he
added.
Yes" he explained in reply to an
incredulous raising of eyebrows, q
sold piece of property for 100000
for a friend and got my commission
that pup"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26
AN ELECTRIC eve OPENER.
Southern Man Has Invented d Novel
Alarm Apparatus.

H'e:Hi HJ iISI dllS.
There is in Mobile gentleman
/ who in the pas1 has been in the habit
sof oversleeping in the morning hours
and as his business requires that he
come down st-eet early it is essen
tial that he should awaken at GER
tain hour, says tao Mobile Register.
Time after time he came late to his
business in spite of alarm clocks and
other appliances to get his eyes open
ed at the proper time. One morning
last week he came into the office on
time to the minute. The Others in the
Office expressed great surprise at this
unusual event and asked tne whyfore
Of it. He thus explained:
Il determined that this business OF
sleeping when l should be awake had
to stop, SO called in an electrician
and he fixed me mp q few things. |
have it so arranged that at the hour
set light flashes in my eyes. If this
is not successful aud [ do not get up
and throw the switch mosquito bar
and the frame falls on me. If | still
slumber and sleep a gong like the one
used on the patrol wagon goes Off
Should fail to notice all of these
things there is over my bed a bucket
filled with water having a small noz-
zle attached, and a rachel releases a
stop SO that a stream of water is
squirted into my face. When I sleep
through all these it will be time to
order my coffin
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-03-26

A pessimist is a man who is always
ooking for worms in chestnuts.