Centre Street at Elm, Our August Blanket Sale Started Monday, And Housekeepers Near and Far Will be Quick to Take Advantage of This Great Annual Blanket Event. August is the Buy-Ahead Time for Blankets. It is then that assortments are widest, and prices lower than at any other time of year. August is a dull month, you know, and to stimulate trade at such a time we inaugurated this wonderful an nual blanket event years ago. That's why at the very time when the question of bedding supplies comes up you are offered these extraordinary economies. Even the prudent women who have learned in the past to save substantially on blankets and comforts during this sale, will be astonished at the present values. Tnis week you are offered assortments in greater variety, values more worthy, and prices lower than ever before. Will you profit by them? High Grade $2.00 Cotton Blankets $1.39 In plaids, stripes, and bars, any number of distinctively attractive patterns. The blankets are good sized, warm, and fleecy, and will give you as much com fort and satisfaction as any $2.00 blanket you have ever seen. It's a lot that we bought especially for this sale. 10-4 Woolen Blankets $3.90 One of the very best blanket values we have ever been able to offer. Hand some plaid designs in a variety of good colors. 11-4 Wool Blankets $4.50 Strictly all wool, and worth considerably more than this August valuation. A wide choice of plaids and borders. 12-4 Wool Blankets $5.50 Extra large sized blankets, and extra comfy. Every thread wool. Borders and plaids in a most attractive assortment. DEPOSITORY for U. S. Postal Savings, U. S. District Court, State of Pennsylvania, County of Venango, City of Oil City, Thousands of others. Why Not Your Depository? Oil City Trust Company Oil City, Pa. THE MOST ACCURATE .22 CALIBER Repeating Rifle in the WORLD, Mado in two models! one for .22 Short K. F. car tridges the other for ,22 Lonir liUlU 11. 1' STEVENS "VISIBLE LOADING" RIFLE NO. 70. Handles 15 .29 LIST PRICE $8.00 Short find 12 .92 Ionic rifle cnrtridires. Send for handsomely illustrated KiHe Cata log nnd "How to Shoot Well". Order Stevens Rifles Pi s tols and Shotguns from your Dealer. . STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, P. O. Box S004, CniCOPEE FALLS. MASS. J. L. Hcplcr LIVERY Stable. Fiue carriages for all occasions, with first class equipment. We can fit you out at any time for either a pleasure or business trip, and always at reasonable rates. Prompt service and courteous treatment. Com') aud see us. Hear or Hotel Weaver TIOILTESTJL, IP.A-. Telephone No. 20. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cure Colds. Croup and Whooping Cougu. I fur x Oil City, Pa. .WAVER LY iSOLINE A good motor is worthy of the very best gasoline. The three famous Waverly Gasolines 76 -Special -Motor Give Power Without Carbon They are all refined, distilled and treated. They contain no "natural" gasolines, which are crude and un refined and which carry the maxi mum of carbon-producing elements. WAVERLY OIL WORKS CO. Indtiwndant Rentiers PITTSBURG, PA. Also mnkers of Waverly Spec ial Auto Oil and Family Favorite Oil. rnpp Siw pa. nk I INLL till, all ahout oil. and Manufacturing Opticians. .School children's eyes will be ex amiued free of coet when accompanied by a note from their teacber or family physician. The latest methods known to science are employed no drops arti hcial eyes in stock. Lences duplicated on short notice. Morck Optical Co., OIL CITY, PA. First National Bank Building. Iluth Phones. Chamberlain's ""keniHy. Never fails, lluy it tiuw. It may save life. Salvation Army Founder Passes into My ? tv Copyright by 'lk. GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH. DARN SOCKS FOR VOTES Suffragists at Minnesota Fair Adopt Needle at Emblem. In order to dissipate the Impression that women w ho yearn to vole at real elections do not know the first ele ments of housekeeping, suffragettes will maintain a booth at the Minne sota state fair where every man, whether married or single, may have his hose darned. This was decided by the women when the following war cry also w adopted: "Darn the government; darn the socks, That's the way to the ballot box. Patch the holes in hubby's hose, March to the polls and voice our woes." The organization has adopted the darning needle as its emblem. GLAD HE'S CAPTURED Flack Admlta He Has Embezzled More Than $75,003. John A. Flack, the defaulting cashier of the Abilene State bank of Abilene, Kan., was arrested in New York city. He admitted his identity and said that he would gladly go back and stand trial. The shortage, he admits, is more than $73,000. He has been missing since September, 1910. "I've been going under assumed names," he said, "until I am sick and tired of It. I want to be myself once more. I'm ready to go bnck to Kan sas and face the music. I have no ex cuses to offer. I did what I knew to be wrong. I lost my nerve at the wrong moment and now there Is nothing left for me but to take my medicine." PROSPERITY PROBLEM NOW Depression No Longer Holds Back Business, Says Dun's. Dun's Review of Trade says this week: "With cron nrosnects Increasingly brilliant, with the principal Industries working to full normal capacity, with trade distribution continuously ex nnnrilns nnd with business sentiment becoming daily more and more confi dent and buoyant, the whole situation hoth In fundamental conditions and 'n volume of transactions Is Setter man It hn heen for vears. "The nronlems now are not those ol depression, but becoming those of prosperity. It is no longer a Bhorta,;e of orders, but of capacity to supply demand. SUITOR REIMBURSED Demands and Gets Money Back For Trousseau and Expense. In a justice of the peace court at Irwin. Pa.. Anton Smalke. a miner recently come to this country, agreed to relinquish all claims to .lte hand of Mary Borish, provided her brother Michael would reimoiirse nun lor money paid for the wedding outfit a4 Incidentals. The former turned to John Cavath who had courted Mary so successfully that she broke her engagement with Smalke. and after a parley Cavatn counted out $25.25. Her brother counted out a like sum and with the full amount the rejected suitor de parted. Another Ohio Convict Walks Away, Hoten Boyer, serving fifteen yean lor cutting with intent to kill, walked away from the Ohio prison farm at Dayton. PITTSBURG MARKETS. Butter-rrlnts, 2"28; tubs, 2714 (R28; Pennsylvania and Ohio cream ery, 26V4W27. Eggs Selected, 24 25. Poultry (Live) Hens, 14 15 Cattle Choice, $!.25ffi 9.50; prime. $8.6519.10: good, $7.258.25; tidy butchers, $7fj 7.50; fair, $5.506.50; common, $.'5.50; common to good fat bulls, $:.50irJ 6.25; common to good fat cows, ISIS 6.25; heifers, $4(57.25; fresh cows and springers, $2565. Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers, $4.60(f?4.75; good mixed, $4.15(94.50; fair mixed, $3.50 4; culls and com mon, $1.50ffr2; lambs, $4.50(57.25; veal calves, $!0(fil0.50; heavy and thin calves, $GS7. Hogs Prime heavy, $8.95&'9; heavy mixed, $9.10(9)9.15; mediums, heavy Yorkers and light Yorkers, $9.25 ifi 9.50; pigs, $8.50(tT8.75; roughs, $7.50&7,90; stags. $6,60(f?7. BACK BR0KEJU-0RTY YEARS Owens Dies at Age of Sixty Remark able Recovery. That it is possible for a man to sur vive nmny years after having his back broken has heen proven In the life of George ft. Owens of Warren, Pa., who lived forty years after fracturing his apine. Mr. Owens died at the age of sixty ;ears. During the last years of his life he suffered greatly and physicians r.tated that It -was caused by his Injuries. M 1 PROFIT ON APPLES. Even the Grower Who Gets 1 Cent for a 5 Cent Apple Makes Money. "We talk more about apples and the money we make by raising them than about politics the.o dnys," said Ex Governor Miles Moore of the State of Washington. "We are never tired of advertising our apples," he continued, "and you lind tiiein In every city of the world. Of course, It Is regretted that they are .ilway call il Oregon apples. Our iblpments equal those of Oregon, and sir apples nre Jur.t as good. The fanners who raise the apples are milk ing money, of courso, but It might amazo you to know when you pay 6 and 8 cents for n single apple, that our home orchard man sold It for about one cent. I paid 15 cents for ;r.y apple at breakfast this morning. "I r!o not know how many people ..niH'.'.cd it before it got to the hotel, k;i the fanner at home got a mighty R iinll part of the price I paid. With :e ...nll price paid to the producer . -pics, It is amazing how much ... iill orchard will bring In. I know . c!koI teacher who bought ten acres -. !e trees, and out of the profits .. ti n ncres he was enabled to buy . .icr's. Now he has Just sold that l.aid for $150,000." Washington A Maine Deserted Village. .'::.( iir some of Maine's "deserted ... re-s" Is the old settlement at ..vr near the little pond on the .. c:u where now the trets are so r. p that nearly every trace of the .u ruins of cellars Is gone. There ..i.. at one time n settlement of some tv y families nnd a sehoolhouse with o...c sixty pupils. Strangest of all ;; Tact that the present settlement i t'. c valley below Is not an exten en or outgrowth from the plateau ''i:o".;ent of preclvll war days. The 1: bltnnts of the plateau simply died t or moved away nnd no one came . :o fill their places, new settlers .-vlrg into the valley farms. To-day few summer camps dot the little n! ?nld to be one of the most icturefque spots In Maine. Lewlston :urnal. Farmers Buy Motors. The number of automobiles owned y fr.rmers is growing rapidly. Out of .n thousand autos In Iowa, five thou. rd are owned by farmers. Kansas irniers spent $3,200,000 for automo-:ii-3 during 1909, and $2,750,00C In 'OS. In one Nebraska town of eight T.drcd population, forty autos were eld last year to farmers near the own an l ic-lired farmers In the town, "areful estimate of the number of au tomobiles owned by farmers In the entire United States is 76,000. Value of Corn. Corn trows in 120 days from its hnting time. Out In the great corn iclt, during 1909, the corn farmers ande the ground give up to them ? 15,000,000 every day of those 120. In ther words, every da; from the time he corn farmtrs put the seed In the ;roi:nd, $15,000,000 were poured into their laps until a grand total of $1,720, 100,000 was rolled up! All the gold ind filver In the whole United States 'orlny Isn't equal to thla corn crop of nst year. Travel Magazine. London Pavement Don't Stand Heat. It Is remarkable what destructive (Tcct the heat had upon the asphalt pavements of London. The asphalt .ompanles were at work In all direc tors making good the havoc, and rpe sums were Incurred by the county nnd borough councils in re pairs. And the damage has not been caused by heavy traffic Just by the melting of the mastic and the conse ;"nt diKintegratlcn of the com- os:;ion. Pnll Mall Gazette. Oregon Rose Trees. Estimate made by the Rose Soci ety here through ptmimerplal bodies of he State Indicate that more than "),000.000 rose trees have been planted n Oregon since the movement was itarted three years ago by the Rose Festival Association. More than a do:cn rose carnivals have been given b" various communities In Oregon re jcntly, and a P'.any iiiore are In pre paration. Lobster Three Feet Long. The Portland fishing steamer Carrie ind Mildred a few days ago brought n a lobster from outside that was the !argest taken off the Maine coast for x number of yenrb. The crtistarean . eiglied a strong seven pounds and wr.s nearly three feet in length. The :-gs wcrt nearly as large as the claws or an ordinary ji)tstgr( while the claws were huge affair's', Blood Thicker Than Some Water. "Blood Is thicker than water" though not rc-ich thicker and not so thick as sea water. The water of the ocean contains thirty-five parts of saline material a thousand, while the vital fluid pf the human body contains but seven pnrs a. fhpusand or one-fifth as much. In thp human (jnjiy each of IU myriads of cells n unthed with this seven-tenthB per cent, saline fluid. New Jersey Trapper's Catch. Isaac Brandriff, who traps musk rats In an extensive marsh territory between Hancock's Bridge and the Delaware River, having pulled his traps, moved his cabin goods to his cednrvlilo home by wagnn. The last season has been tt (food ope, he having caught 6,973 muskrats, vki'i brought lilui an average of 27 Vt pents pm'ri Stop For Shave Is Disastrous, Matthew Me.Mullen, wanted I'hiliJ delphla on a charge of murisring Catherine Dell, who, he alles; had lured him from his wife and children, stopped in his (light to gPt shaved. Pursuing officers capture him. Train Kills Deaf-Mute Woman. Miss Bessie Conway, aged thirty two, a resident of Sharpavllle, Pa., was killed Instantly at Sandy f.ake while crossing ihe tracks of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway, Miss Conway was a deaf mute. The Printz Co. Announce The complete readiness of the Made-to-Order Shirts and Made-to-Order Suits for the Fall and Winter 1912. An interesting feature that affords us considerable pride is the perfect price ranges that enables men of modest means to get exclusive fabrics and elegant tailoring with the usual high cost entirely eliminated. Made-to-Order Suits and Overcoats, $15.00 to $45.00 We guarantee no two persons can buy the same pattern suit, except blue serge. Made-to-Order Shirts, $2 and up to $6. T. A. P. Knox Hats Oil City, Pa. McKmiey Relative a Vagrant.' Thomas McKinley, fifty-one, of Canton, O., who says he Is a relative of former President McKinley, was ar rested In Pittsburg on a charge of vagrancy. Representing that he was deaf and dumb he entered a fire en gine house and handed to the firemen cards soliciting money. One of the firemen sounded the fire gong. The deaf nnd dumb" man Jumped. Taking a pencil he wrote on a card: "I heard that." Slate Fall Kills Two Miners. Caught In a fall of slate In the Colonial No. 4 mine at Unlontown, Pa., cue man was killed instantly and another was Injured so seriously that he died a short time afterward. The victims were: Nicholas Rolaee, aged thirty-six, head and body crushed, and Lawrence Malloy, aged thirty-Blx, fractured pelvis and Inter nally injured. Aged Woman Surprises Dentist. Great was the surprise of a Warren (Pa.) dentist when Mr Martha Blod- gett of Chandlers Valley, who is near ly eighty-five years of age, entered his office and requested him to extract ten teeth for her. She refused to ta!o gas and would not allow the dentist to put anything In the gums. The teeth were In a fairly good state of preservation. Parents Charged With Murder. John C. Phillips and his wife are under arrest at Woodlawn, Pa., charged with the murder of their daughter, Mary Latrllla, aged tliree weeks. The affair Is strangely mixed, the coroner's jury finding that the in fant met death from shock and peri tonitis caused by a poison admin istered by unknown persons. Farmer Kills Miner, Andrew Slrauh. aged twenty, n miner, was standing in the square at West Newton, Pa., when John Car- ran, aned twenty-one. a farmer, of near West Newton, stepped up to h!ni and is said to have fired a bullet Into Straub's body. Strauh fell to t!ie street and was dead when physicians arrived. Curran was arrested. Stone Leaves $1,000,000. The will of the late C. W. Stone of Warren. Pa., former lieutenant gover nor of Pennsylvania, was filed for pro bate. The entire estate, which Is esti mated at $1,000,000, was left to his widow during her life, after which It will pass to the children of which fhere are six. Dies After Eleven Operations. After undergoing eleven different operations in the hope of restoring his health, Clyde Willison, thirty-three years old, of Wlckboro, Pa., Is dead from annendlcitis. Mr. Willison was attacked with appendicitis In Novem ber, 1911. while in Kansas City, Mo. Made In presence of Customer. An enterprising Chicago dairymat has recently added to his list pf elec trlclty-drlven appliance a one and one half horsepower motor for driving a churn. His patrons buy cream of him, and for a small charge have 11 made Into butter on the spot. The method is not only an excellent ad vertisement for the tradesmnn, but Ii also Instructive for the children and gthers jn fhe neighborhood. Look for the Light. Learn to look for the light. Posi tively refuse to harbor shadows and blots, and the deformed, the disfig ured, the discordant. Hold to those things that give pleasure, that are helpful and inspiring, and you will changp ypup whole way of looking at hngs, l)l (transform ypur character In ft yf-Ty ahorf time. Orison Swett Mardeft, CHICHESTER S PILLS V-r- TIIK lIAMONI MtAMI. A r1li-t Aftk your hrurfflRi for i hl-rltcfl-trr'd lMumond If r Imndj III in U I ami liuM met ;i Hie' hoxrs. wale. I with Itlne Rihhon. TLe i other, liny of jonr v UruirtrM. Ask forC'll M 'IIKM-TFR IMAMONI i:ill I'll l.H, f ,r years knownas Hest, Safest. Always Kelial'l SOID BY DRUGGISTS VERY nhTRE Pnwnxiy obiw, or FEf "J?; TMI tOWIST. '"U muJi l, I"" ka fi j( lrt rwh HHi five t"tmt un inrtsMitoUIM. INFRINGEMENT lull oumluutod DWH0 Kit courn. I'atonn obtained lhroiiili . DVIN TilED and SOLD, fro. TRADE-MARKS, PEN SIONS and COPYRIGHTS quickly obtaluwj. Opposite U. S. Patent Office, WA8HINQTON, U. V. Mm m.-M M ready. Manhattan rrr AUGUST BLANKET SALE. Blankets both wool and cotton have been piling in on us since the first day of August, upward of 600 pairs of them, White Blankets, Grey Blan kets, Scarlet Blankets, Plaid Blankets. ItlHiiketM, IDc I iuli io $10.00 Tnlr. . "St. Marys," the best wool blanket made. Soft Downy Cotton Blankets rivaling wool in appearance and comfort. The assortment is so large that you can get just what you want now. Take advantage of the prices to be in force during this August Blanket Sale. Since these Blankets were bought, in the month of March, we have been advised many of the numbers have advanced in price. Both woolen and cotton manufacturers tell us there will be still further advances. We could not buy a single pair of these at the price paid for them last March. Two big Blanket windows. Note the prices: Single Crib Blankets 19c each Baby Bunting Cradle Blankets. . 39c Beacon Teddy Bear Blankets 60c 10-4 Tan and Grey Blankets 66c pair 10-4 Grey and White Blanket 76c pair Oakland White and Grey 64x76 Wool St. Marys 36x60 Cradle Blanket $2.76 pair St. Marys 42x60 Cradle Blanket $3.76 pair St. Marys 48x66 Cradle Blanket $6.60 pair 10-4 Saxon Plaid $3.86 pair St. Marys 60x80 White Wool Shall Your Future Make Paes of Business History jmplcHoiTof tC formal Uu.r$e Je. HfliuIifiej one to kadi for life. jttul t'vci profeff fiWl fUniinjlR. ail elVer fillet. i6 covers all expenses 3 aw looks.fcrr school year, for .those preparing to teach.. 1 13 weeks t3 r 1 ror Catalogues. Address Principal, Dr. James LAment, Indiana.Pa REPUBLICAN OFFICE for your next order for Job Printing. T. A. P. Shirts ready. Oil City, Ta. inch Blanket $1.00 12-4 Plain White and Grey Blanket $160 Eureka 10-4 Blankets $2.00 Urfert Bay State Blankets $2.60 11-4 Highland Plaid $3.60 KlnukflM. $4.60 pair St. Marys 68x80 Wayne Blanket $4.76 St. Marys 70x80 Buckland $6.00 Lexington, a 70x80 Blanket . $5.60 St. Marys Logan Blanket 70x80 $6.00 St. Marys Noble Plaids 70x80. $6.76 V if wnu-r- CcKierv&lo fy o( MmsU em braces Course covering all iut y&rlnenls in muiic - voice- "lJL instrument. Uro&iory otters a. course lliAfc fits tLraLufe .... Anv or ine US i .jiin" nil iv v i TRY TIIJ3
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