WEDDING OF SIXTY COUPLES. Centre Street at A Varied Display of Midsummer Hats. If there is one feature on which this store prides itself above all others, it is that of always being the first to show the new styles, and to show them in broadest assortment. Take our showing of hot weather millinery, for instance. Right on the heels of the busiest, most successful Spring season we've ever known comes this lavish dis play of every style of hat suitable for hot weather wear. There are any number of tailored shapes of ratine, the very latest and most attractive of the new fashions for strict wear. New shapes of felt, in white and gray, and soft, delicate shades of tan, Alice, and rose, are here in dozens of different styles. You'll want to see the pretty models of pique, linen, and corduroy, plain or daintily trimmed with embroidery. Finally, there are the dress hats-cool, dainty, exquisite creations, as beautiful in conception and fine in execution as the most skillful artists of the country can make them. Will you not let us make you acquainted with these charming representations of the late midsummer modes? Still Further Reductions in the Price of Ready-Made Window Awnings. A special sale of awnings, made of blue and white, green and white, and brown and white heavy duck, mounted on iron folding frames. Complete with all neces sary fittings and ropes, ready to hang at door or window. $2.60 Awning complete, 30 inches wide, at $1.67 3.00 Awning complete, 30 inches wide, at 2 00 3.35 Awning complete, 30 inches wide, at 2.24 2.76 Awning complete, 38 inches wide, at 1-84 3.26 Awning complete, 36 inches wide, at 2.17 3.60 Awning complete, 36 inches wide, at 2.34 3.00 Awning complete, 42 inches wide, at 2.00 3.60 Awning complete, 42 inches wide, at 2-34 3.75 Awning complete, 42 inches wide, at 2.60 3.75 Awning complete, 48 inches wide, at 2.60 4.00 Awning complete, 48 inches wide, at 2.67 No Awnings returned or exchanged at above prices. Your Account. No account is too small to be welcomed and receive our best at tention. No account is too large for our facilities. financial and trust Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. POPULAR ONE-DAY EXCURSION TO Warren, Olean Sunday, June 16, 1912. SPECIAL Fare to Fare to Olean Train Leave?. Warreu or Brail lord and return, and return. Titusvllle. 7.40 am $1 00 $1 60 Kouseville 8.05 " 1 00 1 50 Oil City 8.25 " 1 01) 1 50 Tioueata... 9.02 " 1 00 1 50 Returning Spicial Train will leave Olean 10.00 p. ni. Tickets will be accepted lor on ortLiAL i KAia on nay oi &xoursion. Haggage will not oecuecked. Children, between 6 and 12 years of age, half fare. Pennsylvania Railroad. IN HIS LINE "I'm surprised that you should be io Interested In watching those Billy dudes." "Force of habit, I guess. I'm presl Sent of a real estate improvement compnay." "Well?" ' "Well, thev'r a vacant. Int." Elm, Oil City, Pa. We solicit your business. and Bradford TRAIN Fare to Fare to Olean Train Leaven. Warren or Bradford and return, aud return. W. Hickorv 0.13 ' 1 00 I 50 Tidioute 0.20 am 75 1 25 Olean Ar.12.10 pm Bradford Ar.12.10 " 8.00 n. m.. Bradford 8.00 n. m.. Warren parage GOING aud RETURNING only The Gloomy Poeta. In the course of a week a large lumber of poems reach this office most of them written by persons with little experience in verse making, says the Kansas City Star. The striking thing about the output, however, Is not that so many persons who have never written poetry should be exper imenting with it, but that nine-tenths if them should be so melancholy. The great majority of poems submitted for publication reflect a spirit of gentle gloom. "What are the wild waves saying?" inquire the poets with one accord nd why do they say it? Why should i sense of woe weigh us down? Why ire the autumn winds so meluncholy? SVhy is anything, anyhow? A careful reading of several hun Ired poems of this type does not- eave the impression that the writers ire such a gloomy lot as they might ippear. One comes to believe that nost of them are normally cheerful, ut that somehow they have been led e suppose that sadness belongs to loetry. The Shape Counts. A dlvlnK queen, I'pnn the stnge, Would not, If lean, Be such a rage. Celebration of a French Festival a Old as the Revolution. Reims, the centre of the champagne disturbances, tins Just been celebrat- nc an Interesting event, the golden weddings of sixty old couples. We are not told whether they all came from Helms, although the celebration may have been limited to the depart ment. Tlie fete is as old as tho Revolution, when it first seems to have begun. In the time of the Directory there were two fetes, the fete of the old people and the fete of the golden wedding. This seems to have been a very pretty affair, to Judge from the account In the "Oebats". There was a procession of oxen, with their horns crowned with flowers, followed by children crowned with vloleta, by young men wreathed with myrtle, and old men with garlands of olives and girls dressed as vestal virgins. At Paris In August, 1797, there was a great festival in honor of the old men, who were all given seats at th Opera, when "a gracious Hebe crown ed their white locks with garlands of roses." and the soldiers presented arms. The Idea of the fete was th encouragement of the family circle The old man, who was a happy grand father, was feied as an encouragement the younger generation to follow tn his foostjps. The same Idea Is to bi lound In our curious observance of tht Dummow Flitch, but we have no fete of the golden wedding corresponding to that held at Reims. Westininsiei Review. Making Fuel of Sudd. rile sudd of the White Nile, wh'ch Is to be manufactured into fuel con Blsts mainly of papyrus and "gum soof" reed, w ith masses of earth cllng'.rK 'f the roots. It accumulates In great blocks twenty feet thick, over which man can walk. The effect of these blocks upon the river may be Illustrated by the faot that when clenrnnce operations were carried out after the fall cf the Khalifa the removal of one block alone brought the level cf the river above down by five feet in four days. When another burst the Moating vegetable matter took thirty-six hours to pass a given point. One block removed later was seven miles long. It was found Im possible to blow up the sudd, which was too elastic, so that the explosive only made large holes in it. The method was to burn the surface mat ter, dig great trenches in the remain der and then tUL with a steamer. London Chronicle. An Early Bird: the Window Cleaner. "I had read in the want advertise ments," said a householder, "calls for window cleaners to apply at 6 o'clock A. M. and I wondered why they Bhould want window cleaners to come around at that hour of the day; but we had one come to our house this morning at a quarter past 7 o'clock, and that was some early, we thought; and then with t'aat to set us thinking we figured out why they wrfnt cleaners to report at 6 o'clock. "They start out the first of them on store and office windows. There's work that's to be done, or that ought to be done, before customers and people begin to get around; and to do this they have to get an early start. Hence the call for window cleaners at 6 A. M." New York Sun. Meredith's Day of Penury. The City Council is to be asked, and no doubt it. will consent, to place memorial tablets on the house once occupied by William Morris, Burne Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossettl at 17 Red Lion Square, W. C. George Meredith In the days of hi extremest penury joined with those other three young men in their 1 - helor establishment. The state of his boots, we are told by one of the biographers, at length aroused the solicitude of his fellow tenants, who one night stealthily replaced them by a new pair. But Meredith was so much piqued by what was meant In all kindness that he withdrew from the fellowship the next day. London Daily News. Hooked an Eight Foot Halibut. A gigantic halibut was delivered on the Grlmsbec Market recently. It measured over eight feet In length and drew the scales at 24 stones. When caught on an ordinary line It gave no trouble until drawn to the surface, and then it played with the fishermen for a long time until with several great hooks under its gills and powerful lines attached it was drawn on board by the steam winch. The monster was sold at auction for 5, which Is almost a record. Westmin ster Gazette. Cuban Railway Building. The Cuban Railroad Company is soon to begin work on a new road from Manlcaragua to Fomenro, In Santa Clara province, which will open up transportation facilities to the cano growers in that country. The fran chise for building the road has re. cently been granted by the Govern ment an J the terms stipulate that the work must begin within two years. A Grandfather at Thirty-five. V. H. Bryson of Spencer, it is be lieved, holds the record as the young est grandfather in the State, his age being only 33 years. He was married when 14 years of age, his wife being only 13. His oldest son was married at the age of 17 and at the age of 18 presented to the elder Bryson a grand son. Wafkins Chronicle. Too Muoh Crunching. "Why did Jimpson give up his room In the Tinaeled Arms?" "His next-door neighbor ate an apple every night before going to bed and the noise finally got on Jlmpson'i nervea." A Fit Mood. "I asked old Captain Popper If h croaked so because he had so many frogs on his coat." "What did he say to such Impudent flippancy?" "He got bopping mad." NOISE RESTRICTS MOTORISTS. Owner of Automobiles Invite Law Which They do not Relish. Onwers of automobiles throughout tho country are rapidly bringing upon themselves some rigid restrictions which they will not enjoy. Reform legislation is always slow in coming, and for that reason generally goes further than Is necessary. It seems to be a case of the breaking loose of pent up waters. The annoyances re ferred to are the unecessary use of loms, whistles and exhaust. Many Irivcrs seem to have a mania for mak ng all the noise they can in a mov ne car. The smoke nuisance is equal- y unnecessary and offensive, and that t also can be prevented is aemon- trued In nearly all European cities, le e heavy fines are imposed for lol.it Ion. The result is a smoking n is feldom seen, for other drivers .nrrdlatcly cnll the attention of the ffender to hla car. The motorcycle is even more often ve In Its noise making. This, too, is '.milly unnecessary. The motorcycles i Fnghnd make no more noise than sewing machine. The public has 'tout reached Its limit of endurance f these disturbances of the peace, and O.'ss the offenders promptly reform !ic!iisclve3 city ordinances should and ill be nassed and enforced without esird to who the offender may be. 'his is an instance of where a 10 or :'0 fine will work a prompt and per- -nrent cure. Popular Mechanics. Amount of Rest Workers Need. Persons who may be unwilling to cccpt the Sabbath as a day of rest rercribed by the Infinite may heed lie observi tlons recently made in be- nlf of the German army. Germans as people long have been regarded as fen to convincing, scientific observa- 1 ns and deductions. In drilling, marching and manoeuvr- 13 its troops the German Government as discovered that in long marches peclally no commissary will supply troops the waste of carbohydrates Knout rest Intervals. In this con tction army experts more than cuble the period in the Scriptural In unction and have decided that after very three days marching the inrchers should have a full day's est for recuperation. To keep an rmy column longer In heavy mareh- ng order is to weaken the physical 'orces of the soldiery. Chicago rribune. Bald Eagle Goes Fishing. One Snndav afternoon a fine speci men of the bald eagle visited the lake it the water nlant and after circling around for some time he made a r.woop and came up with a bass In his talons. D. J. W. Barlow was near the lake and v.as an Interested spectator cf the incident. After the eagle had made his catch he circled about for some time and the doctor noticed that 'he eagle was having some trouble with his prey. Finally the fish wriggled from the talons of the eagles and fell a short distance from the spot where the doctor was standing. It was a fine specimen cf black bass, and as It was o injured that it could not live the iootor took it home where he nlaced it on the scales, which registered a pound and seven ounces. Greenville Record. Grosbeaks in Pennsylvania. For some time past Warren has been visited by a small flock of eve ning grosbeaks, a bird rarely appear ing east of tho Mississippi River. In fact only once before has its presence been recorded in Pennsylvania. In 1S0O several of the northwestern counties, including Warren county, reported their presence during the previous December and remained until April 12; in one case a few remained till May 11, paired and apparently In- ended to remain all summer, when they were driven away by gunners, who killed or wounded several. The home of the birds is In the far North west,' from the Canadian Rockies east to Lake Superior, and at rare Intervals still further east. Philadelphia Record. Idle Cars Decrease. The announcement that few empty cars remain on the sidings along the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1j further evidence that rail road prosperity is on the Increase. The last car on the siding near Dun cannon, which held many stored cars for months, was moved recently. On the Philadelphia Division the cars are disappearing rapidly. Reasons for the demand for cars are that the coal shipments are increasing, and that the freight business in general Is showing Improvement. One Basket Eight Years. County Treasurer Glenn E. Murdock has on exhibition In his office -here what Is claimed to be the largest sun basket ever made in California. Murdock purchased the basket from a Lake county Indian woman, who had been at work on this one basket for the last eight years. It is twenty. two Inches In diameter, and Is woven with the feathers from the heads of woodpeckers. Vainglorious Hen Ostrich. W. F. Williams, a resident of Wild wood, complained to Chief of Police Likins that his family has been re duced to a state of nervous collapse by tie incessant cackling of a hen ostrich which laid an egg the day before and had been making a nois and vainglorious exhibition of herse ver alnce. Los Angeles Times. Beyond Power to Injure, The tyrant will bind what? The leg. He will take away what? The head. What, then, can he not bind and not take away? The will. And hence that precept of the ancients. "Know Thyself." Eplctetus. Tobaoco In China. The tobacco consumption of China Is very large and mostly home-grown. The finer grade of leaf comes from the Philippines, but the whole situa tion is controlled by the tobacco trust. Underneath Ovir Purpose Of trying to get your business there is a deeper and more important desire to give you better value than we ever speak of. M you could spend some of your time with us when we are buying our stocks you would find out that we are hard, dose buyers. We never allow price to influence our choosing, but rather are we sticklers for quality. We are known as a hard concera to sell to. But the good makers don't have much trouble. Come in some day and get better acquainted. P. S.The Flannel Pants season is with us. We have the flannels. $4.00, $6.00, S6.00, $7.00 and $8.60. Oil City, Ta. UNCONVENTIONALrTIES Yes, I've got a V, but not to lend to you, old chap." Jones, where did you get these cigar ? They're the worst I ever smoked." "Walter, you needn't be bo painstak ing and obsequious; you're not going to get any tip." I'll sell you those shoes It you in sist, madam, but they're two alsei mailer than your feet." You musn't mind my yawning, Mrs. Kawler. I'm a little bored, that's all." I knew you were going to give me thta goldheaded cane, gentleman, and I have my speech all ready?" We offer these goods cheap be cause they're all out of style." "I must be going. Mrs. Smith; your house smells of boiled cabbage." The Skyward Pilot Bewildered Stranarer (wandering About on seventh floor) I with to find the office of the Allegheny Mountain club. Nineteenth DeDutv Assistant Sub- Janitor Go to the second bank of ele vators and take the third car; change at the tenth floor for tho through ex press; change at the fiftieth floor for the local and aet off at the fifty-third; follow the main corridor left to sec ond, turn right to the eighth door on you left, No. 63,664. Judge. How He Saved Her Life. "Will you meet me In hearen, dear?" 'Well. I wouldn't han around the gate waiting for me If I were you, be cause I may not be alone wnen l ar. rlvo." "What do you meant' "I'm sort of thinking I mar marry again, dear. You see " You brute! Hand me my clothes at once I" Disclaimed Partnership. '1 was raised In Mississippi,' ob- served the self-made man. 'We raise stock, but we rear chil dren," said Mrs. Flbblt, with an air of correction. 'Madam," replied the self-made man, with a twinkle in his eye, 'we' do noth ing of the sort" VANITY. Jlmmle the Terror I'll Just follow this cop and make people think I have done romethlng desperate. The Active Aeroplane. It bests the motor car, 'tis said, which balks and bids ui frown. For If It won't go straight ahead 11 rapidly cornea down. Why He Talked Back. "A well-known specialist talked back to a woman for half an hour yesterday." "He la a very brave man." "Not so much ao as you seem to think. The woman had spinal trouble." Too Willing. Hostess Miss Robinson has no part ner for this waits. Would you mind dancing with her Instead of with me? Hawkward On the contrary, I shall be only too delighted. Then she caught him dead. Tit-Bits. When the Unexpected Happens. Luise Mademoiselle, if mother of fers you some wine at dinner today do say yes. Governess Why, my child? "Because I want to see her face when you do." Flegenda Blaetter. , Shop Here At Our Expense. TIOM.ST V 1WTKOXN 810.00 Purchases. On $15.00 i:IHMYOIl 1MTIIOXH are allowed Car Fare one way on $10.00 Purchases. On $JO.0O Purchases Round Trip Car Fare. ; ; That blingB this 850,000 00 stock of Dry Ciaoda, Millinery, Cloaks !! and Suits to your very door and enables you to shop here with ! ! as great economy a) though you actually lived right here in ! ! oil city. : : The Kinter Co. jj Oil City, Pa. JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY Admire beauty, but don't worship it. Thoze who hnv never acheeved suck oess are nhvus the most reddy tew tell others how tew do It. One ov the fussyest scenes I ever listened lo was two old maids waiting on one sick bachelor. Thare iz quite a difference between a luminous and a voluminous writer, altho menny authors konfound the two. If yu wish tew retain the friendship, or even luv, ov others, yu must keep them In yure hnnds, and not git into theirs. Yn mite bt. well undertake tew drown a knot-hole out, bl pouring wa ter Into It, as tew outtalk sum wun mln I know ov. It Iz kind ov phunny that while modesty Iz the gratest evidence ov merit, It seems tew be the poorest guarantee ov suckcess. I am satisfied that the two gratest bores in the world are the- llooslck tunnel and the nuthor who Iz hunting up a publisher for hlz fust book. Cunning men are sure tew git kaught at last; and when they are kaught, they are like a fox In a trap the silliest looking fox yu ever see. In Hlble times, when Nnlem's ass spoke, It waz a nilrakle; but the daze ov mirakles are over, and the gratest asses we hav in theze times are the gratest talkers New York Weekly. WHY A BACHELOR Illnton I've a mind to get married. Henpeck If you had a mind you wouldn't think of such a thins. T. A. P. Oil City, Pa. are allowed Car Fare one way on t Purchases Hound Trip Car Fare J THE GENTLE CYNIC Always do your best, but never your best friend. The one particular brand of lovo that Isn't blind is self love. The penalty of a stolen kiss is fre quently a life sentence at hard labor. All locksmiths are not bnchelors, in spite of the fact that love laughs at them. Kver notice that the wolf generally comes to the door disguised aa a bill collector? A man seldom knows who his friends are, but li is enemies are more considerate. It requires almoBt as much force of character to be a book agent as tc turn one down. Many a girl would promsle to marry a mini if she thought he wouldn't bo so Billy as to expect her to live up to her promise. No woman Is competent to advise a young girl In her love affairs unless the aforesaid woman has been mar ried at least four times. HIS SECURITY WAS ASSURED Man With Wooden Leg Had Mo Fear of Slipping on Polished Floor. One of New York's leading actors has an elegant country home out in Long Island, and he has spent a great deal of money in fitting H up with costly decorations and exquisite finish ings. The library was recently refur nished with a most expensive floor of beautiful parquetry, In which tho owner felt a great degree of pride and of which he was scrupulously careful. A few days ago an old friend of tho good old road days lenrned how well he was prospering and went out to call on him. He had met with re verses financially, and also with tho physical misfortune of an amputated leg, in place of which he wore a wood en one. When the servunt announced him in the library the boat went In and wus horrified to see the man stumplnj; about the floor with the wooden leg, in a tour of inspection of its gorgeous fittings. Speechless at first, he was finally able to breathe a gentle hint, to his friend: "I say, Henry, old fellow, hadn't you better keep well In on the rug? I'm so deucedly afraid you might slip and get a fall." "Oh, no! That's all right," assured the guost. "Don't you worry about me. I'm all right, thanks. There is a couple of nails in the end of the old !'cg, you know." Judge's Library.
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