: corn will Bourish in only cer-
limited localities, is not, as we Ig-
ntly supposed, a crop that can be
ted on ia all the corn states. [lI-
stale furnishe®room material for
full half the world
# It was back in 1860 that Illinois be-
“8 very valuable crop, ose Col Cofern
i that year bringing from Tennessec
‘some broom corn seed and planting it
"Ou his farm in Douglas county. The
Aittle experiment was successful, and
melghboring farmers tried their lock
With broom corn. An article in the
Chronicle, which gives us
1Custry, tells something of the result
of the Introduction here of the broom
Orn seed:
+ “Within a few years Illinois Lecame
Known as the premier broom corn
Mate of the country. Slnce then Okla-
oo ———— a
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A BROOM MAKER
‘hotma has forged ahead, but [Illinois
still produces the finer quality. Within
a radius of 30 miles in Douglas county
‘Us grown the corn from which practi
<ally all the best brooms in the world
are made, and this district is still re
garded as the national source of sup
ply. A colony of Swedes took up the
cultivation of broom corn in Knox
county, after it bad been made a suc-
‘tess in Douglas and the Swedes in-
goed It later into Kansas From
Ansas the cultivation extended south
dato Oklahoma, and in the last five
[years the crop has increased in a re-
uparkable manner’
! Broom corn is spoken of as a “90-
‘day crop.” It develops much faster
‘than Indian corn, is planted in June
and July and harvested in early Sep-
tember. The cultivation is much the
‘same as that of the Indian corn. The
Illinois corn fields vary in size from 10
matic and Consular Service—May
Be Confidential Adviser to _
the President
Washington. — Mr. Loomis. who re
tired from the office of assistant secre
tary of state the other day, bas had an
| Active and varied experience In public
life and In diplomacy. After leaving
. college he entered - Journalism and
spent several instructive years in that
employment, leaving it for a time
{ about 1886 to become State librarian
of Ohlo and to prosecute certaln stud-
ies in which he was interested
In 1890 he entered the consular serv.
ice and in a short time his reports
upon business and commercial affairs,
upon industrial conditions and the la-
bor problem In Europe, attracted more
than ordinary attention and were fre
| quently commented upon for their
thoroughness and insight, both in this
country and abroad.
After Jeaving the consular service
Mr. Loomis was editor in chief of a
dally paper in Cincinnati In 1896
. he went to Canton to represent certain
newspaper enterprises and to assist
| Maj. McKinley, who was then a presi:
| dential capdidate, in the matter of his
! relations with the newspapers.
In 1857 he was sent as minister to
Venezuela by President McKinley for
the express purpose of trying to build
up a market for American goods In
that country and to point out to our
exporters the truth about the markets
of that country, real and potential
and to do what he could to Induce
Americans to take an interest In the
country which would cause American
interests there to be at jeast as po
tent as that exercised by citizens of
certain European countries who were
trying to dominate those markets to
the exclusion of American products
Mr. Loomis was publicly thanked in
a formal resolution by the National
Association of Manufacturers for the
assistance he gave that organization
and other American enterprises which
FRANCIS B LOOMIS
(Assistant Secretary of Stale Whe Has
Retired.)
were seeking to establish commercial
relations with Venezuela in a broad
way for the general interest and ben
egitimate cut prices on high grade goods did the busi-
A legitimate sale at reduced prices of fall and winter
Clothing at this season of the year is a hitherto unheard of
proposition, but Murphy & Blish, the Clothiers and Haber-
dashers of Sayre, have decided to make an innovation and
therefore Monday Nov. 13, will launch what will prove to be
without question the grandest and most giganti¢ sale of Men,
Boys and Childrens Clothing that has ever taken place in
Northern Pennsylvania or Southern New York. Every
garment in their select stock of Clothing will be marked from
40 to 50 per cent. Below Regular Selling prices
and in some instances the knife will be plunged even deeper.
You ask why ? Read this announcement and you will learn
the reason. Never before have the conditions so favored
a November sale of fall and winter clothing, and right in the
beginning, while you are interested in knowing the whys and
wherefores we are going to give you a reason that is not only
logical but which bears the indelible stamp of truth. In fact
you will wonder why you have not thought of it yourself.
The weather conditions in October were mild, and the cloth-
Early Buyers Will Find Choice Picking.
ing business was seriously retarded. In other lines normal
conditions prevailed, but people just wouldn't buy clothing.
They thought they didn't need it. Result: Manufacturers
are loaded to the gunwales. So are the retailers. We bought
heavily for the fall trade, and the stock must bs moved.
Hence we have inaugurated this sale w.th a cut in prices that
will eveatually result in the raajor portion of our vast stock _
finding its way into the hands of the public while we will
turn the money into new spring goods. Every garment in
the store will be included in this sale, nothing reserved.
The line of clothing which will be offered at this magnifi-
cent sale is manufactured by W. S, Peck & Co. of Syracuse,
N.Y. They employ union tailors and every garment bears
the union labal. It is the same line that we have been offer-
ing our castomers during the four years we have been in
business in Sayre. It is the identical line that we bought to
sapply or fall and winter trade, and is not a job lot of
“shoddy,” badly cut and made, secured for the express pur-
pose of swindling a gullible public.
Read Them Carefully.
Come to Our Store,
Men’s Suits
Overcoats for Old and Young Haberdashery Department
10 100 acres in area; the acrage ranges
from 30,000 to 50000. A great fleld is
very beautiful sight, the tall stalks
and Sowerlike blossoms en masse most
picturesque
- “Lopping” the corn is also a plctur-
esque sight, and the Swedish girls and
" boys down In Kansas make quite a fes-
tival of the work. In lilinois, too, lop-
ping time is a time of gayety, the work
: ot the day ending with a barn dance;
or, if the budding American be 10
~ pophisticated for that, or not sophisti-
~ cated enough, the town hall is called to
~ do duty for ball room.
In “lopping’* the workers begin at
the end of a field and work backward,
thelr task the bending of the bushy
tops of two rows of corn down until
they meet and overlap, “lop.” Broom
coh is lopped soon after it has
efit of American producers and manu-
facturers. .
In 1901 Mr. Loomis was appoloted
minister to Portugal and a year later
the foreign service he devoted special
attention to the consular work and to
a comparative study of the consular
systems of the leading foreign coun-
tries, and he has written and spoken
a great deal upon that topic,
He Is the first person that had prac
tical personal knowledge of the con-
sular business snd experience In both
consular and diplomatic work abroad
that has ever filled the office of assist.
ant secretary of state. That, natural
ly, as been a great advantage to him,
and has enabled him to deal quickly
and intelligently with the vast number
of questions which have come to the
bloomed and the seeds begun to fll
and left until it bas matured. This’
process depends on the weather. In!
cutting, the workers grasp big handfuls
and whack off the brush in lengths of
~ two and a half feet. The brush Is then
laid out to dry, sometimes in sheds.’
sometimes on rails on the ground, the
"layers piled in stacks and protected by
© canvas. Next the brush is seeded, an
. operator holding it within reach of a
revolving cylinder that removes the
‘seeds. Next it is tied into bundles and
“a baling machine packs it Now the
(corn is resdy to be sent to the fac-'
§ At Paris 111, is located the largest
‘broom factory in the world. This place
Bas a dally output of §000. At Evans |
‘ville, Ind., 6,000 are turned out daily.’
~The mext largest factory Is at Amster. |
‘dam, N. Y., and there is one at the
pentientiary at Jackson, Mich anolher
in the penal Imstitution at Lincoln
Neb. Broom making furnishes em-
ployment for many of our blind. It Is
sald that the United States consumes
all the good broonte made in the coun
fry. only the cheaper grades being ex-
ported.
The broom corn is soried after it
reaches the factory, divided regarding
* Jength and guality In building a broom
the ‘begins with a center. adda
wo equs] shoulders, puts on the cover
{and the “hurl” A winding machine
securely fastens each new handful or
Prush that is placed about the handle.’
“The embryo broom iw scraped, pressed
fist In a machine, then well sewed,
‘sometimes by hand, sometimes by a
machine: as a finishing toned It fis
rimmed straight. Handles must be of
light welght, about three-fourths of a
) ; they are made of white maple.’
pod and ash the maple is pre |
i In the making of a dozen
something like 28% pounds of
department of state from the 300 or
400 consular offices scajtered through-
out the world
Mr. Loomis has perhaps a larger ao
quaintance with public men abroad
than any other official in Washington,
and during his receat trip In Europe
bad Interesting interviews with ser.
eral of the leading statesmen of the
old world.
He has been the acting head of the
department of state perhaps more fre
quently than any of his predecessors
He was called upon to do a great deal
of diplomatic work of the most impor-
tant and significant character. His
knowledge of trade conditions and his
intimate acquaintance with the per:
coupled with his knowledge of Latin-
American affairs, made him extreme
iy useful to Mr. Hay, whose confidence
he always enjoyed and to whom he
always gave faithful and unswerving
loyalty and support.
Mr. Loomis is engaged In the manu
facture of agricultural implements in
Ohio, being the vice president of one
of the oldest Industrial enterprises of
that sort in the country. He Is also
engaged In ranching and mining in
Californias. One rumor says he will
be given another appointment under
It was reported
that he would retire to private life,
but it Is now said that he will be made
a confidential adviser to the secretary
of state and the president, taking the
place formerly filled by John A. Kas
son, who, with a salary of $10,000 a
year, enjoyed the title of special com.
missioner plenipotentiary under the
fariff act. Mr. Kasson, who is an
fowan and an expert in tariff mat
ters, was employed in the negotiation
of reciprocity treaties, but retired
when it was demonsfrated that con
gress would not approve the treaties
co on
——
“Now, Miss Elderberry, this last
boat apd we'll be ready
3 e me 8 hand 1
Every suit we show is well worth consideration. Every
new and snappy style, single and double breasted coats
with new collar, wide lapel, broad athletic shoulders and
shape retaining front, beaatifully tailored and finished
with careful attention to detail, made of Scotchy cheviots,
tweeds and worsteds, in the nobbiest patterns aod color-
ings the markets produce,
Single and double breasted sack suits for
men, in black and blue cheviots, thibets and
undressed worsted, former price 18.00, sale 12 fi?
price . . ®
Men's sack suits, single and double breasted
styles, made of excellent fabrics in handsome [1] Af
patterns that were 15.00, now .
$10.00 and 12.00 suits, sale price $7.98
Black and blue cheviots containing all the
fashion kinks and style chavges that expen- 3 80
sive clothing boasts . A .
Coats
Single coats for men in all sizes, in black
and gray, worth $4.00, sale price
2.25
3.15
6.90
91c
21c
Men's all wool reefers, were $35.75, now
Black Irish frieze, made with extra high col-
lar, double breasted, wool lined, $8.00, now
Heavy canvas coats in black and brown,
wool lined, were $1.50, now
10 dozen boys' vests, former price le, now
of business.
Overcoats, medium length for men, very popular and
beautifully lined throughout, made of meltons, i3 25
friezes and kerseys, $15.00 and 20.00, now .
Yong overcoats for men and young men,
young men, the season's dressiest style, cut
Men's smart overcoats that were formerly 5 00
$7, now ‘ . .
suits brimfull of all the character that the
$5.00 and 10,00 suits, sale price
$4.50
dressy styles which have many admirers, cut single
breasted with full skirt, fine velvet collar, broad shoulders,
handsomely tailored and lined, $12 and $15. | $9.50
Double breasted overcoats for men and
ong, loose and roomy, with or without belt, £ 15
$8 and $10, sale price %
Young men's single and double breasted
most particular young man could wish for, B 15
$12.00, 15.00 and 16.50, sale price 8
$6.26
$6.00 and 7.00 suits, sale price
Young Men’s Pants
Young men's pants $3.50 and 4.00, now
2.15
2.00
$1.35
$2.50 and $3.00 pants, now
$2.00 pants, now
Heavy flecced lined shirts and drawers, for-
mer price 30¢, now
100 mixed gray hose
76¢ and £1.00 dress shirts
Red and blue 10¢ handkerchiefs, now
35¢ suspenders, now
Boys’ knee pants, 50¢ and 75¢, now.
£1.50 black derby hats, fall and winter styles
Men's black sateen and black and white
shirts, 50¢, now
Heavy wool hose, 25c, now.
Boys’ Clothing
Boys’ suits sizes 3 to 17 years made of warm
serviceable fabrics, stardily tailored and very
smart styles, regular value 5.00, 0.00 and 6.50, 3 50
Sale price. . . s
$3.00 and 350 suits cot in mannish lines in 2 2
single and double breasted styles s
2.00 and 2.25 suits, containing every kink
and wrinkle that the most fastidious young | 2
boy can wish for, from $1.40 to . .
We have the finest line of
prepared to back up our guarantee which accompanies each
garment that you purchase.
Although mild weather conditions prevailed in October a
change must be expected. Winter-is approaching. You will
need suits, overcoats, and heavy underwear. We offer you
an opportunity to secure them at prices so ridiculously low
that there is no necessity for your going without.
we need the room for our other lines we intend to close out
the boy's clothing and in order to do so will smash the prices.
Again let us firmly impress upon your mind the. fact that
this sale is not planned for the purpose of fleecing you out of
your hard-earned money, but is a business necessity on our
part, arising from natural conditions over which we have no
control.
We had almost forgotten it.
The prices which we have placed on the
ext Door to
Postoffice.