3k faatf Silkdm & JaLnuacry Clearance SeJe The Genuine Trice Leveling Event That Throngs of Econo mistsa Are lleveling in Each Day. To buy at less than worth goods that are needed is a con summation universally desired and made possible in a heretofore unrecorded measure through this sale. AVe have wrought a tremendous change in retail costs without an iota of reduction in quality, desirability or seasonableness of merchandise thus affected. Clean clearance a positive, complete selling of our winter stocks is the plain purpose of this event. Instead of storing merchandise away we prefer to place it in the homes of our patrons and implant in their memory the knowledge of great values gained. Cleevrervce of Winter Sviits. Oua entire stock comprising 185 garments goes on sale at the lowest level prices of the year, Going through our entire stock of Women's and Misses' Garments we find exactly 185 that will have the honor to par ticipate in our Annual January Clearance Sale. This January Clearance is an annual feature of this gar ment store. We consistently plan for it taking every indi vidual suit that has the least bit of winter flavor, and cutting the price to such an extent that it is a sure enough bargain for you to buy. With the scope and extent of this garment business we never figure to carry over a single garment. In fact, we posi tively will not do so, providing that any sort of price will move it. It is our aim to make the cut sufficiently deep in the first place, so that there can be no future cause for argument. Garments formerly $15 to $50 are now, $7.50, $10, $15 to $30. The Smart & Silberberq Co. OIL CITY. PA. Oil City Trust Company, Oil City, Pa. NEW YEARS Is the natural time for adjusting financial matters and improv ing your investments. Our Certificates of Deposit make a con venient investment for any amount, lurnishing absolute safety, together with an opportunity to convert into cash readily if desired, and pay you Four Per Cent. Not in a Trust. V Nol Wheel le the deep throat that will not choke up; Patent Square Steel Jointer and Standards, they never net out of line and never break. 1J Rnv Blillnn Sullrv Plows are Heater and stronger and easier to draw and handle than any other. Every Le Roy implement is sold on a strong guarantee to oo J V perfect wotk. To try them once is to buy them always. It will pay you to look them up. LE ROY PLOW CO, Le Roy, N. Y. S Active dealers sell them in all towns. If you cannot find LE ROY PLOWS. w please write us. J SOLD J. O. Bromley, TEACH THE BOY TO BOX Pittsburg Police Director Says It Would Lessen Bloodshed. Piltsbuig, Jan. 18. John I. Morln, director of the department of public safety of Pittsburg, has come out In f:ivor of teaching youngsters how to use their fists. Mr. Morln in an inter view says: "I wish the boys who will be the future men of Pittsburg would learn to box. There would be less blood shed, less maiming of human beings if the average man kimw how to use his fists in case of attark. A person who does not know how to defend himself wilh his hands Is likely to use the first thing he can lay his hands on when at tacked, and this often leads to murder. One who knows how to fight when he Iims tn wll'. nhvnvs be more cool than the fellow who doesn't. Hy all means let us teach our boys to use the H loves." OIL GUSHER IN MEXICO 1,000-Barrel Well at Topila Removes Necessity of Importing From the United States. Mexico City, via Galveston, Tex., Jan. IS. A new oil field has developed at Topila, twenty-seven miles from Tampico, on the Panuco river and within a few feet of the river bank. The company baa Just brought in a The "Famous" I Boy Plow were put on the market ten years auo by J one of the stronucst financial corpor- ations, "Not in a Truat." Built by mechanics with several genera- T tions of plow builders back of them. T By avoiding all weak points of other J makesof I'lowsandwithourEjrpert J Kxperience, we produced the Per- lect Easy drat! Le Roy Plows. No others so "easy to nolo" none so J easy to draw," none that 'wear lonier." adapted to all the hard con- ditions you have to encounter. T BY Tlonesta, l'a. well prcdiielrv; 1,000 barrels a day of high grade oil, and has started drill ing two new wells In the same field. The discovery is of great Import ance to Mexico, as the new field solves the native oil problem and removes the necessity of importing crude oil from the I'nlted States for refining. The Panuco river between the new field le navigable for barges carrying 1,5110 to 2,000 barrels of crude oil. ABOUT CALIFORNIA ORANGES Some Growers Say Frost Was a Bless ing In Disguise. Los Angeles, .Tan. 18. This year's orange crop haft been damaged ap proximately $1,000,000 by the heavy frosts of the last ten days, according to estimate made by reliable growers, Some believe this amount also will cover nursery stock and the coming year's crop, but others figure the total to be several millions. Compared with the $35,000,000 valu ation of the present crop this Is not a dlscouragingly large item. Several leading growers make the surprising statement that the cold weather brought them more benefit than harm. Navel organs? were un usually large just before the frost and began to color. The frosty weather came just in time to cheek the growth and hold them to normal size. There Is a discount of 50 cents a box on "Jumbo" fruit, hence the advantage. Valeucias did not suffer. 10 BE USED IN WM Dayton, 0., Man to Navigate Aer oplane For Insurgents. Shipped From Indianapolis Operator Hat been In Communication With Consul General at New Orleans and Has Received a Telegram From Provisional President Eestrada Say ing His Proposition Is Accepted. O. L. Bumbsngh, the aeronaut and flying machine builder of Indianapolis, and H. H. McOIll of Dayton, O., had a conference In Indianapolis on Sun day night over a proposed trip by Mr. McGill to Nicaragua, where he is to navigate an aeroplane In the Interests of the Insurgents. The craft that Is to go to the seat of war was carefully Inspected. It Is proposed to leave somo time this week in a pri vate car for New Orleans, and there McGill Is to meet representatives of the Insurgents and close the details of his employment. McGill declined to state who these representatives are or to say exactly at what time he would start from that city. He ndmitted, however, that the aeroplane Is ready for transportation. In proof of his statement that he Is employed by the revolutionists, he ex hibited a telegram from Provisional President Estrada In which he Is In formed that his proposition Is accept ed and was asked to leave at once. The telegram is dated at Colon, Dec. 12. From Intimations 'dropped by Mc Gill it Is believed that he has been In communication with the Nlcaraguan consul general at New Orleans through friends In that city and he expects to meet him and them on his arrival. He says that balloons and aeroplanes are not considered engines of war as yet and he does not believe the United States government will place any ob stacles In his way of leaving this coun try. He expects to enter the service of the Insurgents. INSURANCE MEN TO BE SUED Actions Will Be Brought by State te Recover Moneys For the Company. Attorney General O'Malley at Al bany said that the directors of the People's Mutual Life Insurance asso ciation of Syracuse would be prose cuted for a recovery of the money. The persons for whom summons and complaint have been prepared and who It U understood were served with papers, and the respective amounts of the Judgments aked In each complaint follows: W. M. Peck, 131,500; E. M. DeBarr, $13,500; E. K. Klnne, $25,000; Iram C. Reed, $15, 000; Charles F. Walte, $10,000; H. H. Mondon, J. E. B. Santee and Slater Laycock $5,000 each. The attorney general said: "These actions are brought to recover those moneys by the state for the benefit of the company and will be prosecuted vigorously." This was the only formal statement made In Albany regarding the Syra cuse Insurance deal In which Lieuten ant Governor Horace White has been brought into notice. UNFAVORABLE CONDITIONS Mortality Among Country Folks la Greater Than Among Poor In Cities. In spite of conditions in which they live the mortality among country folks Is greater than among poor living In the city, says Dr. Charles H. Howe, director of the division of communic able disease of the New York state department of health. He accounts for this condition by the fact that country people are not willing to spend money for Improving sanitary conditions. In cities people realize that the con gested centers promote disease and consequently spend a great deal of money for sanitary purposes. Dr. Howe thinks, however, that country folks are waking up and that there will be long strides in health lines In the future. GENERAL LEE'S BIRTHDAY Colector of Customs at Newport News Authorized to Close the Office on Jan. 19, For the first time, It is said, In his tory of the United States the govern ment has acknowledged the existence of one of the men who led the forces of the South in the civil war and has consented to the observance of his birthday In it least one of the cities so'.Uh of the Hue of Mason and Dixon. The treasury department announced that it had Issued orders to the col lector of customs at Newport News, Va., to close the custom house of that port on Jan. 19, the anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee, so far as the public business would permit. So far as Is known no similar order has ever been issusd by the government since the war. LAFFAN PROFESSORSHIP Offer of J. P. Morgan to Present $100, 000 to Yale Was Accepted. An offer from J. Pierpont Morgan of New York to present $100,000 to Yale for the establishment of the William M. Laffan professorship of Assyrlology and Babylonian literature was accepted. This endowment is particularly appreciated as, although Yale has been strong in Semitic lines, there has never been any provision for Instruction in the field covered by the new professorship. Child Burned to Death. Bradford, Pa., Jan. 18. A three year-old son of R. S. Langworthy of Kushequa, McKenn county, was burn ed to death In a fire that destroyed tho home. The child, one cf five, was 111 of pneumonia, and flames drove res- cuers from the burning structure. Girl Strikers Obdurate. Philadelphia, Jan. 18. Proposals of arbitration with the manufacturers were hooted ind jeered at by the Btriking girl shirtwaist makers at mass meeting held to consider the sub ject. BAIL IN LARGE AMOUNT GIVEN Warants For Important Men In Con nection With Councllmanio Grafting. The storm which has been threaten ing Pittsburg politically for more than a 'ir has burst Since the first ar rests of grafting councllmen Dec. 22, 1908, there have been rumblings about the "man higher up." On Friday war rants were Issued for five of the most Important men in Pittsburg as fol lows: Max G. Leslie, county delinquent tax collector and right hand man to State Senator William Fllnn, political boss of Pittsburg; charges conspiracy, per Jury and bribery. Fifteen thousand dollars bail was demanded and fur nished by Senator Fllnn. Edward M. Jennings, millionaire president of the Columbia National bank of Pittsburg, president of the Pure Oil company, president of the Colonial Trust company of Pittsburg and head of the E. M. Jennings Broth ers; charge conspiracy; released in $10,000 ball. Frank A. Griffin, former vice presi dent and cashier of the Columbia Na tional bank of Pittsburg, conspiracy, $10,000 ball furnished by brother of President Jennings: Frank F. Nicola, head of the mon ster Nicola Brothers' Interests, con sidered the biggest business men In Pittsburg and many time a millionaire, charge conspiracy. Nicola reached Pittsburg at midnight and gave ball In the morning. MAN HIGHER UP INDICTED Charges of Fraud Agclnst Secretary of American Sugar Company. Charles R. Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining company, who was for many years in confi dential relations with the late Henry O. Havemeyer, was Indicted by the federal grand Jury in New York city for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Mr. Heike Is the first executive officer of the trust against whom evidence of fraud was submitted to the grand Jury. The grand Jury finds that Secretary Heike, conspiring with Ernest W. Gerbrecht, general superintendent of the Havemeyer & Elder docks; James F. Bendernagel, cashier of the Have meyer & Elder refinery; Harry W. Walker, assistant dock superintendent, and Jean H. Voelker and James F. Halllgan, Jr., checkers, effected en tries to the custom house of false weights of sugar, and that Heike en dorsed several checks made out by the acting disbursing agent of the collector's office, checks which were a refund, supposedly to cover over weights, when as a matter of fact the checks represented the gain to the sugar trust in duties stolen by under weights. NO MARGIN FOR FARMERS Witnesses Testified That Cost of Milk Production Is 3 1-3 Cents Per Quart Referee Brown elicited from wit nesses at the s'ate Inquiry at Albany Into an alleged milk dealers' combine that the cost of production In the farming districts tributary to Norwich and Goshen averaged each farmer about 3 1-3 cents and that other ele ments of cost added to the total so as to bring the production price up to 34 cents. The average selling price is 3',4 cents, so that there Is no mar gin. It is declared, left the farmer. Usually the farmer gets 3 cents for milk except during the few winter months when his return Is 4 cents. Witnesses told the referee without exception that they believed there was a combine of milk dealers In New York. They declared the only market they had for milk was through the Consolidated Milk exchange and they must accept the price fixed by the ex change from month to month for milk or spill the milk on the ground, there being no other outlet. PALM GOES TO RUSSIA Surpasses the United States In Pro duction of Wheat The United States has lost to Russia Its place ae tbe greatest wheat produc lng country. Even though last year the total yield of wheat in the United States was the lnrgest In the history of American agriculture, save that of 1901, Russia last year produced 783 000,000 bushels, the largest crop ever harvested by any country, and 20,000, 000 bushels greater than that of the United States. Returns received by the department of agriculture from a dozen countries which In the preceding year produced over four-fifths of the world's wheat crop, exclusive of the midseason crops of India and the Southern hemisphere, fhow a net gain of 387,000,000 bushels or nearly 18 per cent over the yield of the same countries In 1908. This would indicate that the so-called world's production last year was ap proximately 2,150,000,000 bushels. FOR HOMESTEAD ENTRY Twenty Thousand Acre In Oregon to Be Thrown Open, Twenty thousand acres of land bor dering upou the Columbia river about 100 miles east of Portland, being the third unit of the Umatilla Irrigation project, will bb thrown open to home stead entry on Feb. 10 at 9 a. m. This announcement was made by the sec retary of the interior. Opportunity will be given to take up a farm varying in size from 10 to 40 acres, upon wh'fh the charge for the irrigation Eystew U $60 an acre, payable $18 per acre nt the time of making entry and $6 per acre annually therenfter Mrs. Kate Mindelsohn of Pittsburg, who had been In tt trance for 107 days, dies while still asleep. "Tex" Ricard makes formal an nouncement of arranging to hold the Jeffries-Johnson fight on Mormon church land in Salt Lake City. Rev. John Henry Jewett announces in Birmingham, England, that he has declined the call to the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in New York. The council of ministers has decided that the United States' proposal for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways Is not acceptable to the Rus elan government at present Education in Economy There is no better school for studying the value of economy than a savings bank account. Each interest period is a revelation of the won derful earning power of moneywhen deposited at 4 INTEREST compounded semi-annually Why not give yourself the pleasure of seeing your money grow. This bank pays 4 in terest and affords Safety and Security for savings. Capital and Surplus $680,000.00 Total Assets over $3,000,000.00 Che franklin 2rusfc (fompanw PKAN K L I N. PA. OFTIGIAN. Office ) 7X National Rank Building, Ullj Jl I I, i a. Eyes examined free. Kxnlunvelv optical. KEELEY CURE The cure that has tx-rn continuously successful for more Hum .( year is woith invrstigatinic. For the drug or drink habit. Writ for particular. Duly Krrlry Institute tn Wrstt-ra Feiina. 4246 Fifth At., Pituburih, Pa. ITHE BEST for anv kind of a Vt!t"V lamp or lantern is 1 . "Family Favorite nRnt f mm Pennsylvania Grade Oil the beat in the woria. n. .... lih all "mun" and trouble. Will not e'.iar wick or "froat" chimney. Burns round and full with a dear, white Usht clean and dry without readjuatment ot No mnra tank wason oil. Get "Family Fa vorite" out ot the original barrel from out reflneriea. Your dealer knows. l.L I. in. Waverly Oil Works Co. Independent rieunero Plttsourg, fa. Also makers of Waverly Special Oil and Waverlr Gasoline. ilAuto i Vaaaauaasl Thl great thing In big Rama rifles is sureness to work under all conditioner ffiaria rifle aro built with this idea foremost. Tha michanlam la almpi, strong, per fectly ndjustsd, quick and easy in operation. The TTtarin solid top and aide elector keep a protecins: wall of metnl between your head ana the cartridge, prevent powder and g-aa.a blowing back, throw the ehella ava.V from you and allow instant, accurate, effective repeat shots. The Speea Smokefo&a Steel barrels are hard and strong, specially made for high power cartridges and to resist the wear of Jacketed bullets. They are rifled deep on the Ballard aystem for greatest accuracy and killing power. Madeln Models TO and '95, calibres .25 to AS. and fully described ana Illustrated (with all other Jflartf re peaters) in our 196 page catalog. Free for 3 stamps postage. 7e77?ar'n firearms Co., 42 Willow Street, NEW HAVEN, CONN. CHICHESTER S PILLS W THK IIAMN1 II HANK. A IUAMOND l.ltANI) I'll. I.M. for 5 years known as Best, Safest. Always Keliil ls SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE ri..!...!.:.1. Colic. Cholera and tnamOeriain S Diarrhoea Remedy. Never fails. Buy it now. It may save life. 1 t 4 1 1 v4 a L Game mies V Hi7m - asaausjgg a -r I.sdlenl Amu your irruKfflnl lor A ('ti.pbr4.,ir' IliHinond I(rflntl I'llU in U' d ami UolU liu-t:WlicV j rc. ealm itb I'lne Kit-Urn. VY TaL no other. !(iy of rvu lfHrir.Nt. AskfnrC lll.f irKA.TFR A Scotch Zephyrs. These are ginghams, but becaufo of (he sheer character of the cloth as compared wilh tho Domoslio Ginghams, they're called I hat. You'll like these ginghams. Such handsome coloring, id clear and distinct. Such rich, rare combiufttion and blending of color. So origianl in concptioo aud design. These are exclusive in design and those women who appreciate the advantage of early selection should arrango to see them as early in the month as possible. i Limousine Batiste. Sheer cotton fabrio at 15o J Copiod from French Organdies. Io stripes also. One of the sea I sou's daintiest wash fabrics. Assortmeut of 35 pieces. WILLIAM B. JAMES. CABLON'S MEN'S $4 SHOES Yes, sir, you can have stylish, comfortable, good looking shoes and pay only $4 if you come here for them. We shoe a lot ot men with our Four Dollar Shoes And no one can distinguish them from shoes costing a dollar or two more. Don't yet it into your head, sir, that you can't get satislactory Four Dollar Shoes until you try ours. CARLON 11G Contro St., FOREST COUNTY TIONK8TA, CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, lime Deposits Solicited. A.. Watnb Cook, A. B. President. DIRECTORS A. Wayne Cook, G. W. Robinson, Win. Smoarbaugb, N. P. Wheeler, T. F. Rltchev. J. T. Dale. A. B. Kellv. Collections remitted for on day of pnyment at low rate". We promise our custom era all the benoUta consistent with conservative banking. Interest piid on time deposits. Your patronage respectfully solicited. A Feast for Five Hungry People There's a full meal for Ave hungry people in every pneknge of Beards ley's Shredded Codfish, A delicious meal you can have ready for the table in less tune than t takes to make coffee. , A breakfast or luncheon feast that will cost you only 10 cents. The finest kind of a meal any family ever had placed before them, BEARDS LEYS TRAD The Cholceat of Food The whole world knows that fish is one of the most nourishing and strengthening foods in existence. And, as we prepare it, it is also one of the choicest. And one of the easiest to cook. We use none but cod of superior quality. We get them from Northern waters. The fish which feed here attuin a super lative flavor. And of these select fish we pick only the plumpest and fattest. Kach fish js examined three times. FUE PACKAGE WITH THE RED BAND I.lnfd wlta wat-paprr. No ri-.rralv VBat.v.r. thr porr.t ad Bai-.t .tw-.alt. Alt sacked la tla t alalia. NOlf ft IT yard. Handsomo floral designs. OIL CITY, PA. & CO.'S, Oil City, Pa. NATIONAL BANK, PENNSYLVANIA. S5O.O0O. $100,000. Will jay Four Per Cent, per Annum Kkllt. Cashier. Wat. Smkakbauoh, Vice President Then we take only the best part of each fish the sweetest, most delicate meat. We remove nil the bones. Our wondcr Slireddtng Process makes the meat fine and flttflv and dainty. Thus ileardsley's Shredded Codfish is ready to cook the instant you open the package. Instead of Meat or Eggs Just to let your family learn how good it is, serve Ileardsley's Shredded Codfish tomorrow. Have it instead of meat or eggs. A package, costing only tU cents, will go farther than two or three pounds of meat, ()r a doac-i eggs. ..... Once your folks get a taste pf this food, they'll want you to have it often. There are dozens of delicious ways to prepare it. So no one ever tires oi it Free Book of Recipes With the first package you buy, your grocer will give you our book of tempting new recipes. There is other codfish in packages. But Beardsley's is the only Shredded Codfish. Our wonderful Shredding Process is patented. So please see that you get Beardsley's the package with the red band. ''ur tiut is the kind you will like. J. W. Beardsley's Sons 474-478 Greenwich St., New York"
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