The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-18
THE STATE AT A GLANCE.


The War Department has an
nounced its apportionment of the
81 600, 900 appropriated by the
Dick bill for the better equipment
of the National Guard oil the differ
ent States. Pennsylvania gets
$b7,o73.
The Scranton Republican figures
out that the people of Scranton
drink Is, 500 quarts of milk day,
costing 81, 100, and 1850 quarts
of beer day, costing s., 1868.
"A notable nuptial event took
place in Trinity Episcopal church,
Williamsport, Thursday, when
William o. Hickok, of Harrisburg.
and Miss Avis Cochran, daughter
of Senator J. Henry Cochran, were
married. The preparations tor the
wedding were on very elaborate
scale.
George w. Coolbaugh, editor
and proprietor of the Telegram. a
real estate journal of Wilkes Barre,
dropped dead late Monday after
noon in the Office of the county
controller. The deceased was fifty
years of age. Death was due to
apoplexy.
-Willianisport is to have a new
industry called the Hopkins Hall
ed Cereal company. In addition
to hulling and preparing coin and
cereals for the trade, tomatoes,
pumpkins and other vegetables will
be canned and Saratoga chips will
be made.
The Girard estate is construct
ing a wall around the reservoir and
timber preserves on North Mahonoy
Mountain. The wall will be two
miles long, five feet high and be
made of stone laid dry. This plan,
it is believed will preserve the young
timber from forest fires and cattle
depredations and the timber pre-
served will insure better water
supply for the collieries.
The report of coal being found
on the Smith farm at Selinsgrove
are proving to be correct. A vein
of eight feet has been reached and
the coal burns we'll. An expert
who has looked over the property
says that he is confident first class
coal could be found by going deep
er. The veins will be proved thor
oughly ard breaker near Selins-
grove is among the possibilities.
The big meat packing houses
set out to corner the egg market
and loaded up with eggs last spring
at about an average cost to them of
fourteen cents. Interest and storage
charges ran the price up to about
seventeen cents, and they are now
unloading at ten cents. The old
hen is nard proposition to corner.
Everybody keeps her. The cold
storage egg belongs in the same
class with renovated butter. Old
eggs are harder to pass off as fresh
ones than old maids as young girls.
Acts passed by the last Legis-
lature relating to the education of
the children in Pennsylvania have
all been compiled and pamphlet has
made its appearance in the depart
ments. There are twenty acts
which affect the education laws of
the State and are of vital interest to
the trustees and teachers of schools.
Representative Snyder's bill regu-
tating the salary of school teachers,
and making the minimum salary
paid to any teacher by any district
receiving State aid SIS per month.
is on the eighth page of the pamph-
let, and while it is one of the short
est acts PASSED it is nevertheless the
most important to the teachers and
the State in general. Upon the
failure of any district to pay its
teachers the sum Of SIS month,
the appropriation from the State
shall be withdrawn for the length
Of time the act is violated.
The bill met with a Strong op-
position in both branches of the
Legislature, but it finally passed,
and was signed by the Governor on
April 9, less than ten days after it
left the halls of the Legislature
The other nineteen pills all bear
directly upoE the schools Of the
State.
DR.. S. S. Pond, Professor of
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