a, i. Lk ¥ never as hard fo get as now. Wecan show you in a few minutes what is cor- rect at any price you want to pay between $6.00 and $20.00. For the old or middle aged man we have the three-quarter length coat in black or oxford —mixed meltons with med- ~ ium loose back, $10.00 to $15.00. The young men's stylish, tourist over- made by Rochester's Best Tailors, $10.00 to $20.00, We have no side lines, our business is Clothing, all our time is for the ‘benefit of our customers. Some special values in Suits. Come in and see. E] 8, 1905. MN J HS AFTERNOON Acetylene Gas Plant Blows Up, Worse Frightens at the Smoke Destroying Several Buildiogs—| From a Lehigh Valley Engine One Woman Seriously Injured! and a Mix-up Follows —Force of Explosion Heard! One of the most exciting runa- for Miles Around | ways that has been witnessed in | Sayre in many moons occurred With a tremendous roar which | | this afternoon at about 2 o'clock on could be heard for miles, the large | p, cy. avenue, Will Wagner, a acetylene gas tank that supplies | ge iveryman for Maroncy's grocery the entire village of Berkshire, N. | | store, was driving over the Packer Y., with light, exploded yesterday | 3 enue bridge when a black cloud afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. Every! US OF SMOKE Ow’ CURIOSITY BUT LITLE FRE CAUSED HER TROUBLE U. Ingham & Co, on Des | mond Street the Scene of a| Slight Biaze Last Night | Mail Defective electric wiring isgiven| Her curiosity to read other as the cause of an incipient blaze { people's letters is the cause of which originated in the grocery serious trauble for Miss Lottie store conducted by C. U. Ingham | | Marsh, assistant to Postmaster & Co., at No. 132 Desmond street | Young of Wellsburg. Miss Marsh last night at 8:30 o'clock, and has been held in the sum of £500 although the damage will be cov. | bail before the United States com® ing Opened Other People’s 3 218 Desmond St., Sayre. ATHENS. OUR STRONG POINT A SQUARE DEAL LET US SELL YOU YOUR COLD Weather Goods. Snow Shovels 25¢ to 45¢. Sidewalk Cleaners 25¢ to 35¢. Steel sleds 50c to $2.00. Flexib'e Flyer sleds $2 to $4. Boys’ Skates 50c to $3.90. A Hockey Stick Free with every pair Girl's Skates 75¢c to $3.00. 322 8. Main St., Athens. well as price. 138 Desmond Street. PERSONAL MENTION M. H. Sawtelle is in Towanda today transacting business. Attorney C. C. Yocum went to Towanda this morning to transact legal business. James Sullivan and wife are at Binghamton attending the funeral of his nephew. Mrs. Richard Hill and Mrs Henry Champion are in New York city visiting relatives. Chas. Biebach, Chas. Leonard, and Tony Roucher went yesterday to Lestershire to attend the open- ing of Fred Gasner's new hotel. Coroner Guy C. Holcomb of Ulster has gone to North Carolina where he expects to remain for six weeks or more in hopes of regain- ing his health. Mr. Holcomb has SAYRE, PA. ‘The Valley Record FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906. LOCAL BREVITIES The borough council will hold a meeting this evening. The new state bridge at Ulster is being inspected today. Wanted—An experienced groc- ery. deliveryman. Apply in writ- ing at this office. tf Four new eight wheel switch engines have been received by the Lehigh Valley. They are of the Pacific type. The small boys of the Sunday school will give a cake sale in Mrs. Wolcott's store at Milltown tomor- row afternoon. Advance sale for Simple Simon Simple will open tomorrow, Satur- day, morning at Driggs’ drug store, Sayre, Sanford’s drug store, Athens, and Western Union Telegraph office, Waverly. The members of Washington camp, No. 272, P. 0.5. of A, will attend divine services in a body at the Church of Christ in West Sayre on Sunday evening next. All members of the order are requested to meet at the hall promptly at 6:30. On tomorrow evening Harvey Gray will give the fourth of a series of dances in Eighmey's hall. The Loomis opera house orchestra will furnish the music. Indications are hat 4 Jace crowd will be present window in the town was shattered, and several” buildings were nearly | or quite demolished by the force of the explosién. Berkshire is situated a few miles north of Owego, and the tank was located in about the centre of the town on Main street. It apparent. ly was in sound condition, and no cause is given for its blowing up and had been considered safe. A building standing on one side taker’s shop, a hardware and furni- ture store, and by Spencer Sweet, a shoemaker, was badly damaged, the eatire rear portion being blown out. Mr. Sweet about the hands The residence of Dyke, colored, on the of the tank, was completely demolished. Mrs VanDyke was s*riously injured but not fatally The buildin gs across the damaged, the being blown in The force of the explosion was was badly cut Egbert Van- other side road front: distant, and caused no end of excitement ia Berkshire. The fact that no one was killed outright is regarded as a simgular picce of good fortune. not be replaced as the restdents of the town are terrified from the effects of the explosion and will not submit to another tank of the dangerous gas being placed in the town. The loss occasioned by the explosion is total as insurance poli cies do not cover losses from this cause. ——— A . DIED THIS MORNING Michael Daly, 49 years old, died this morning at 3:55 o'clock, at the home of his brother, James Daly, of No. 126 North Elmer avenue after a few days illness. The deceased, who has been a resident of Waverly for the past ten years, was stricken with apoplexy on Thanksgiving day while at his brother's home, and has since been in a critical condition. He was born in Limerick, Ire- land, and came to this country about twenty cars ago, since which time he has resided in this section of the country. He was at one time in the employ of the Lehigh Valley, but recently has given his attention to looking after his property interests here. He was unmarried and is sur- vived by two brothers, James of Sayre and John of Waverly. WARNINGS AGAINST FIRES The Philadelphia Fire Under- | writer's Association has issued its annual warming to the public| regarding the hanging of Christ | ing-the chances of fire. ing is particularly merchants, churches directed to and Inflammable hangings in show windows increase the hazard and | unless an insurance policy express | nating in these hangings would render the policy void. BLIZZARDS IN FEBRUARY The weather proguoiion say that the winter will be compara- tively mild until February; then! look out for blizzards, a decided | drop in the temperature and gener. { of smoke from the smoke pipe of a | Lehigh Valley engine underneath | frightened the horse. The animal reared and plunged for a moment {and then at a breakneck speed tore down the western approach of the bridge and out Packer avenue to Elmer avenue, where it turned to ‘the south. The driver pluckily {h=ld to the reins and turned the corner without overturning, but did not succeed in stopping the | tHoroughly frightened animal until he had almost reached Athens. Aside from the fact that a num- | ber of boxes containing groceries | were promiscuously distributed at | various points along the rofite of {the runaway there was no damage done, FLYING MATCH HEAD CMUSED A BLAZE ° Boerder Wanted to Know Time, Struck a Match, and a Small Fire Follows There was considerable cammo ition in the vicinity of the Wilbur , house this morning about 4 o'clock, | caused by a small blaze in room 57, | occupied by one of the regular It appears that the oc cupant of the room is an employee |of the Lehigh Valley shops and shortly after 4 o'clock this morning he arose from bed to ascertain the time. As the room was dark he struck a parlor match and the head of the lucifer landed on a table spread. The spread was made of light material and instantly there was a blaze. The boarder went to the window, opened the same and yelled fire. A Leligh engineer was passing along Packer ‘avenue and he notified the night clerk at the hotel. The latter hurried to the room, which by this time had filled with smoke. The blaze was extinguished with little difficulty, and before any great amount of damage was done. LOCAL MENTION J. B. Warner, of the National Bond Co., which recently absorbed the Anthracite Real Estate Co, is here today arranging with J. E. Rumsey for a loan. One of Mr. One of Mr. Rumsey's contracts matured in nine months. boarders. It is said that there are five thousand fewer postmasters in the United States than there were four years ago. This is not due to a | decrease i in the postoffice business {but is accounted for by the estab- | ishing of rural delivery routes. ~ | From other cities comes the welcome tidings that great crowds are nightly greeting John W. Vog- el’s big city minstrels, the business last week having been abnormally large, induced, perhaps, not alone because of this clever company's great following, but for the reason that many new and attractive nov- cities are announced. The com- pany will appear at the Loomis on | Thursday and will no doubt be | greeted by a crowded house. Mac Kilcoyne, the Alma Vassar of “Simple Simon Simple” plays | the athletic girl along the lines of the Gibson type and dresses the part as the well to do college girl, | Taking the Bryn Mawr college graduate as a model. Messrs, | Nixon & Zimmerman were fortu- nate in finding for this role such an accomplished athlete as Miss Kilcoyne who excels at bowling, golf and the lighter sports, cred by an insignificent sum, had the fire occurred at a later hour in the night a serious conflagration accompanied by the loss of many thousands ol dollars would have resulted. The store was closed for the cvening and pedestrians on the street noticed smoke issuing from the cellar windows. An alarm was | sent in and in the meantime a | crowd collected. Previous to the | arrival of the firemen and after the store was broken open. The inside was filled with smoke which came from a blaze that had burned of the counters. A tin box with a wooden bottom filled paper had been left with waste under, was ignited by telephone which had in some manner become crossed. Another theory advanced | is that a cigar or cigarette stump box and after smouldering for a time broke into a blaze A hole! the limes were making headway along the joists rapid | The | blaze was easily extinguished by | vate citizens and the firemen. loss which is small is covered by insurance. ——————— HOSPITAL NOTES Jasper Bixby of Windham Sum- mit was operatad upon at the hospital this forenoon. A glancing blow from a sledge in the hands of a fellow workman struck Horace L. Dann, a shop employe, in the forehead and caused a severe laceration. He —— tat WERE WELL PLEASED A fair sized audience witnessed The King of Tramps at the Loo pleased with the production. The play is a melo drama, with the usual sensational situations and climaxes, and possesses enough of the hair-raising element to satisfy the demand for that sort of stage entertainment. S—— A Qp— L. V. STATION BROKEN OPEN The Lehigh Valley station at Kendaia, a small station near Geneva, was broken open last night. The money drawer which contained a small quantity of change was rifled. The thieves are thought to be the same ones that have been operating along the Pennsylvania division during the past month, SOAP WRAPPERS REDEEMED Lantz Bros & Co. have o a premium office in open oe block, Fulton street, until December 21st Snow Boy Washing Powder fronts Special: for 100 wrappers. WILL GIVE SMOKER The regular meeting of Sayre encampment, No. 52, 1.0.0. F to 1I81—11 lowed by a smoker and a social] howr. A light lunch will be served | and the hour promises to be a most enjoyable one. All members of the order are carnestly requested to be present, missioners at Elmira on a charge jof opening letters that had been placed in the Wellsburg postoffice for delivery to various parts of the | country. Miss Marsh is said to be| twenty summers and has employed as assistagt postmaster {for some time. Recently there has |been considerable complaint of letters having been opened and the | investigation which resulted in the arrest of the young woman, in prison and a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. i SIMPLE SIMON SIMPLE | (son, “Simple Simon Simple” {be the attraction at the | Tuesd: ay Loomis un evening next Every man, woman and child has read of "Simple Simon in the old Mother Goose jingles, but in this case the |authors have gone several steps | farther and made Simon a thor oughly i modern boy, simple in |aspect to his townspeople, but in | reality as wise as a serpent on and Mose, his diminutive | colored companion, have got the burg of Simpleville by the ears by Sim | ures have been adopted to get him out of town. Simon is adamant to all entreaties, threats and blandish- ments until a country circus appears on the scene, The pro- prictor Sig Saute needs another all around performer, and Simon is at last enticed to leave home and mother. All goes well with the plotters until the moment of Sim- on’s debut with the circus when he fools them all by appearing in modern attire and announces that Simpleville is circus enough for him after all and that he had concluded to stay at home with “Paw” “Maw. “Simple Simon Simple” com- | bines all of the attractions of opera, pantomine, farce and vaudeville and drama by reason of its clever treatment. There is plenty of really good music for the musi- cians, fun for the fun lovers and dancing for the admirers of ballet and spectacle. EAGLES ELECT OFFICERS Ata regular meeting of the Sayre Aerie of Eagles held in their rooms last night, the following elected: Past and thy Pres, Hugh Lennon; Worthy Vice Pres, Geo. B. Kline; Worthy Chaplain, Simon Carmody; Worthy Secretary, H. L. Gillespie; Worth, Treasurer, I. W. Dorsett, Worthy Conductor, M. F. Mece; Insid Bennett; Outside Guard, John Bride; Worthy Physi- can, Dr. W. J. Higgins, Worthy Trustees, J. H. Murrelle, S. A. { Blish, T. P. Maney. The installation will occur at the first meeting in January. E—— a — SATISFACTORILY ADJUSTED The case of or Howard Elmer hose company against James Mar- tin, in which the latter was charged belonged to the company was ad- factory to all concerned. Mr. | Martin says that the funds which {he had in his possession he consid- | ered fair remuneration for work he had done for the company, and that he had no intention of wrong ing any onc by withholding them He also says that the statement {made that he Mas asked for rhe money several times was erroncous money. In response to this request he says that he agreed to arrange the matter in a few days, FOR SATURDAY, DEL. MEAT DEPARTMENT Porter House steak | Sirloin steak . Boned rump roast . P ork chops Pork steak . Pork loin roasts . Si le pork Home made sausage Swift's link sausage Por Lb. Swift's Frankfurters ) Round steak per pound . . ,09 3bsfor. . ... oop oe Kettle roasts . . «006,08 .10 Fancy YOUNG CHICKENS. .12% Sauer kraut 8c a qt, 25c a gallon. GROCERY DEPARTMENT Hobart's flour, purc buckwheat per sack... 5, 8 biscuit . . 10 | H. O. pancake flour, 3 pkgs .2% 3 pkgs Battle Axe oats . , 2% 7boxes sardines . . . . . 28 3 quartsbeans |. . . . .25 Tomatoes . . Corn . Peas String beans . Baked beans , Lima beans 4 Ibs ginger snaps . 3 1b 312 Ib oyster crackers . 6 pkgs corn starch 6 Ibs laundry starch . mitk crackers T.D. WOLOOTT & SON ATHENS, Pa. Take a Policy in the N.P.1L. You Do Not Have to Die to Win Pays Dividends Each Five Years Has the Largest Membership of Any cal Organization in Sayre Paid In Sayre During Five Years: For Disabllity........../.i0 For Death... .. For Dividends. ............... E. F. MERCEREAU, District Manager, SAYRE, PA. 112 Desmond Street VALIRY PHONE 114 It re noves all machine ink sud paint without | the hands. Price 10c. Cures Chapped Hands AN EXCELLENT SCOURING SUAP Attorney-at-Law Notary Public Speeial attention to Pension Papers. Vallay Phone 11 X, {12 Dammond Htreet, Advertis: in The Record, Bargains in Choi Building Lots £500 bays a Stedman St, lot, E0x140, $500 buys a Hopkins St. lot, SOx150. Lot corner Stevenson and Ste cheap, Lot on Allison St, central. $1500 buys new houss and lot silk mill, 21300 buys a house and los, River and Lookhart. £2100 takes naw house, modern { provements, Madison street, $2100 takes seven room house, N Elmer, $2000 buys modern improved, 1} house, Frederick St, Athens, Lot FJ. TAYLOR.
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