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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1901
Page
3
The notice details discounted annual subscriptions for The Republican and allied papers including The Weekly Press and Toledo Blade with advance payment. A five-subscribe club earns one year free of charge. The Practical Harrier 221 Agriculture Almanac included with a year’s advance at reduced price.
On easy terms the Bloomsburg Land Improvement Company advertises town lots for sale through J Sanderson Woods agent of N Y Funk secretary office Ent Building. Beginning January 1 1902 the Columbia and Gem Steam Laundry will operate on a strict rash basis. November 27.
M. 8 Williams receives an eight dollar per month penelon. George L Sloan from Baltimore visits his father C. P. Sloan. J B DeLong of Orangeville is named mercantile appraiser by the County Commissioners.
Miss Mary Grover a teacher in the Nanticoke public schools spent Sunday with her sister Mrs J K Lockard on Fifth Street near the city.
Miss Annie Kase daughter of tax collector L D Kase graduates from Scranton Business College with highest honors.
The local agent W. R. Whitney has received a visually appealing calendar issued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society for public display and distribution.
We go to press one day earlier this week to enable our employers to celebrate Christmas. We wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy New
The rejuvenated Ashland Record presents a historical sketch of Ashland with biographies of notable locals. The weekly Tribune is dropped from our club offer, replaced by the Tribune Farmer, valuable to every farmer in the county.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly January features a sketch of chief P M Arthur of the locomotive engineers. The Tustin Mansion foundation walls reach water tables and further work will pause until spring as planned.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Vandersiive and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Eyer depart for Los Angeles to spend the winter, establishing headquarters in Southern California.
Ray Yohe, a stenographer and typewriter in attorney M'Killip's office for the past year, will attend Pierce Business College in Philadelphia and enter the institution next month.
Two popular Bloomsburg young ladies, Miss Minnie Entard and Miss Edith Heist, who teach in Newark city schools, spend their holiday vacation at their respective homes in Bloomsburg.
January issue of McCluces Monthly offers varied articles appealing to diverse tastes. Readers will find entertaining analyses and instructive pieces showcasing a range of topics from arts to sciences.
The past week Green Consolidated Copper stock traded around thirty dollars per share though par value is ten dollars making the implied value three hundred dollars per one hundred dollar stock.
W Dickson and partners who sold much of the Brittain farm in West Berwick have bought the Mrs James P Freas farm spanning West Berwick and Briar Creek township. They plan to lay it out into lots for sale on the market.
Rupert Hotel hosted a Friday evening event for the Hobo Camping Club. A. C. Hidley organized the entertainment for his son Bruce home from Williamsport Business College on vacation.
Dr A K Aldinger director of the physical department at Bloomsbury State Normal School and Miss Emily Gertrude Stevenson of Trenton N J were married last Wednesday in Tren. The ceremony was performed by D D Studdeford and the couple will reside on Last Second Street this town.
Jacob Blasser died at his Sunbury residence on Friday evening after Bright's Disease. He formerly owned the Espy hotel and later operated a boarding house in Bloomsburg. He was born in Snyder County.
A Wise and ofid hister, is. William G. Herrola of Chapman, Snyder County, survives. Funeral services were held at his home Monday morning with interment at Al media.
The management of the Beaver Lake Copper Company expresses strong optimism about the mines. Veto errors traced at distances of five hundred yards grow thicker and now reveal four feet of copper bearing ore, with indications of near limitless copper deposits on lands controlled by the company.
William Penman son of Robert Penman and John Lanyon son of James Lanyon have returned from the Philippines after completing their terms of service. Both appear well and report soldiering as a healthy occupation. Penman achieved the rank of non commissioned officer in his company.
Hattie May daughter of Solomon Deaner and Charles E Lehr were married on Thursday November 19 at the bride’s parents home. Rev C J Muttonbler of the Reformed church officiated. The couple will reside in Sunbury where the groom works for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Rumor says the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the M E Church may shift from Shamokin next March due to smallpox in the borough. A later report notes a meeting of Presiding Elders at Sanbury decided to hold the Conference elsewhere.
Professors Dennis and Hartline will present moving picture exhibitions at the Evangelical Church on Thursday evening at 7 30. A silver collection will be taken. A general invitation is extended.
At Muncy Valley Bruce Rea’s small farm was completely destroyed as the creek carved a new channel through its center. Hayman Herr’s residence was torn from the store building and washed several feet away.
In Normal Gymnasium on Friday evening December 27 the Bloomsburg Wheelmen face Danville in a highly rivalrous game expected to be fast and closely contested. Tickets may sell out as demand outstrips supply with a 8 15 start.
On Monday George Summers the Mon tour township constable was sentenced to solitary confinement in the Eastern Penitentiary for one year and six months for voluntary manslaughter in the death of Wellington Hartman. Sassaman, convicted with him, did not appear and a bench warrant was issued. The punishment should warn reckless drivers on the Danville road and beyond.
At a Saturday meeting the Bloomsbury School Board read a Health Board communication on mandatory vaccination for public school pupils and teachers. It resolved to refuse admission to reopening schools to anyone not vaccinated, in line with the June 18 1895 Act.
Ruth Holloway wife of Hon W K Holloway died at home in Danville on Saturday morning at age 61 after years of frail health from paralysis. Born in Roaring Creek Columbia County in 1810 she was daughter of Jacob Yeager. Survived by husband two sons W D Holloway of Dinville and Dr Thomas B Holloway of Philadelphia and two daughters Mrs Clarette H Frick and Miss Mary Holloway. Private funeral held Tuesday at 2 PM.
Mrs Lydia Comstock, nearly eighty seven, died at her North Penn Street home Sunday night after a long life lived in New Jersey Orangeville Espy Philadelphia and Bloomsburg. She was a Lutheran and left two daughters and a brother Joshua aged ninety three surviving. Funeral services were held at her residence Tuesday at one o clock with interment at Orangeville.
After several delays the equity case between Bloomsburg and Catawissa Electric Railway and the Columbia and Montour Railway was called for hearing Wednesday before Judge Savidge, sitting for Littie, with extensive dispute preceding the session.
The case against a railway company over rights to Rupert road and Catawissa streets was postponed until January. Plaintiffs contend no chartered rights exist, while defendants claim prior rights and costly construction under their 1901 charter. Judge Savidge will issue a decision later.
The Herman Hassert plant’s foundry adds a traveling crane replacing fixed cupolas and core oven. The mobile hoist travels the floor on beams with a top carriage, needing three men to operate and pouring five ton loads. The upgrade promises lighter labors for moulders and faster casting production.
Col. Freeze acting solicitor for the County Commissioners investigates statutes to decide if Catawissa Creek is a public highway under acts of 1804 and 1815, potentially triggering state obligation to rebuild the washed away Mainville iron bridge and Long Hollow wood bridge. His report omits whether the covered stretches include these bridge sites.
A Shamokin dispatch reports Ex Councilman Thomas Edwards gravely ill with a broken back at his father's home. He went to the Klondike four and a half years ago, among the first to Nome after the gold discovery, staking a claim with partner Murphy. Despite enduring agony, he remains cheerful while sinking from his injuries.
Saturday morning a fire swept through the hotel of W. S. Troy and neighboring properties owned by Jacobs and Arnold. About $25,000 in goods were consumed. Stables and other outbuildings burned. W. S. Troy, confined to bed, survived but was carried to safety. Mrs. Troy and a child were rescued after nearly suffocating. The fire, started by a furnace defect, left the town’s only fully built block in ashes. The square lies at the east end of Centre Street near the D S & S station. The town had no fire apparatus and bucket brigades fought the blaze. All properties were insured.
C. Relce on Monday received at his meat market the finest black turkeys of the season. The lot includes three gobblers weighing 23, 28, and 26 pounds, five other birds, and two hens weighing 15 and 18 pounds. Turkeys raised by C O Crawford of Mount Pleasant.
John Pringle and Mrs Prindle aboard a Lewisburg railroad train as twenty State College students return home for Christmas. The party planned a kiss the bride stunt, but Mr Prindle intervened and drove the students into the smoking car until the couple reached Montandon.
In Wilkesbarre a bitter dispute over 1890 removal of Mrs. Lucinda Bond’s remains ended when Judge Lynch refused to order the defendants to relocate the body to the old grave. The court upheld the burial as resting where it was.
The 1902 Columbia Desk Calendar remains a fixture in offices and homes valued for its thorough memor andum features. The new edition is handsomely printed, mounted on a steel holder, and hung or angled on a desk. Copies cost ten cents postage to the American Bicycle Company Eastern Sales Department, New York City.
The First National Bank of Bloomsburg Pennsylvania reports a strong condition, with details provided elsewhere in the newspaper.
The store promotes early holiday shopping with a bright display of handkerchiefs from 3c to 3.50, umbrellas, coats, capes, dolls, toys, blankets, furs, and a broad range of gifts. Featured items include Pearl Handle pieces at 1.49, 25c to 50c hats, and stylish neckties, inviting customers to visit with family for Christmas purchases.
Whary's advertises dinner sets from 8.50, various wicker rockers, woolen blankets on special December sale at C. B. Furman and Co. Also German and French china patterns at L. E. Whary's, Bloomsburg. Paper mill wood paid to Pennsylvania Paper Mills in Catawissa. Contact Grant Herring or H. A. Meileip in Bloomsburg.
Our Furniture Department showcases over one hundred fancy rockers and Morris chairs plus fifty more styles of rocking chairs this week. A large assortment includes dining chairs tables bed room suits side boards couches china closets bookcases beds parlor tables and children's rockers all priced to sell. Come see what we are doing.
Public notice urges readers to buy an Equitable Life Assurance Policy through W. Whitney at 112 West Street Bloomsburg. The message promotes life insurance as best Christmas or New Year gift for dependents, stressing belief over doubts and urging immediate action.
The ad highlights low prices on assorted suiting fabrics including 65c mottled 50 inch, 48c 59c novelty, 76c granite suiting, and 54c other options with a final line noting 78 cents.
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