Only a few days more left for to buy Christmas presents. You'll find the good things in every line. No matter if you're spend 25c or 25 dollars your welcome to come and look ever our stock of Clothing and Furnishings. Call and get a 1906 calendar, MANEY & PAGE, ATHENS. oT SPECIAL SALE NICKLE bar TOILET ROOM ARTICLES. Nickel Plated Toilet Pa- per Boxes 25¢, formerly 75¢ Nickel Towel formerly 75c. Nickel Plated Towel Bars 2h¢ formerly 79¢C. Toilet Paper and rolls 10c¢, GEO. L. ROBERTS GO. 216 Desmond St., Sayre. 322 §. Main St., Athens. If you don't trade with us we both lose money. “w= Toys, games, books, lamps, in fact every desirable gift at Athens racket store. Rings 25c, in packets 3 for 25c¢. 1 Everybody . | Is Buying | Presents Here The Christmas matinee at the Loomis will commence at three o'clock. On account of Christmas there will be no meeting of the local M. P. A. Monday evening. Perhaps we can please you. examine cur stock of Per- Kindly fumes, Leather goods, Toilet Ar- : ticles, Novelties, Ete. . M. Driggs Sayre, Pa. Call and inspect the largest line of holiday goods in the valley at the Athens racket store. The services at the M. E. church will be held tomorrow morning in Bank Building, the Sunday school room. Valley Record “All the news that's fit to print” No paper on Monday. Call and see the finest line of parlor lamps in the valley. Price always night at Athens racket store. A service of Christmas exercises —————————————————— | by the Sunday school will take the place of preaching at the Lutheran church Sunday evening. Whether you have little or much to spend for Christmas you can find gifts to please you at the Athens racket store. Dressed dolls from 10c to $3.50 in order to make prompt deliv- _|eries to their many holiday cus- tomers the Reeser, Kessler, Wie- land Co. found it necessary to put Refused to Leave Toms Y When, Ordered and Later Trouble George A. Seaman is a farmer | who lives near Lockwood, and yesterday accompanied by another | man of the rural persuasion came to Sayre to dispose of a load of small Christmas trees. He did al rushing business for a time and gathered in considerable coin of | the realm. He also gathered a jag | of wet goods and early in the after- | noon was told to get out of town | by Chief Walsh. Instead of obey | ing the officer he drove to Thom. as avenue and later entertained himself and companion by driving across the approaches on the cast side of the foot bridge. The atten- tion of the police was called to the | matter and the frolicsome farmer was placed under arrest. Justice Gay fined him five dol-| lars and the costs, amounting in| all to seven dollars. Seaman paid | the amount and when he was told | that if he didn't get out of town| instanter he lost no further time | HUNTER KILLED "UP NEAR VANETTEN. = prokeman and Freight Handler Fatally Injured and | Three Others Seriously Burned and Bruised [FORGE OF EXPLOSION HEARD MILES AWAY Boiler Hurled a Distance of 400 Feet, Bounding from One Track To Another —— Worst Similar Catastrophe That Has Oc- curred on the Lehigh in Years — Injured Brought to the Hospital at This Place-Two of the Victims the Were Sayre Men of Accident With a tremendous roar that| {could be heard for miles around {the boiler on the engine drawing The news of the explosion was |immediately telegraphed to Sayre |and the tool train and a caboose extra south-bound Lehigh Valley | was sent at once to the scene of the train No. 1161, exploded last might! disaster. Several officials of the! about five o'clock at “Swamp Sid | [_chigh and the company surgeon, ing," about one hall { Dr. H. S, Fish, were on board the relief train and when they arrived at the wreck the men were given | Mahon, who resides at South W AV | temporary surgical attendance and | erly, and Leon Denison, a freight | then hurried to the al 2 at thus | handler, of Auburn. Conductor | (place, arriving here about ; Martin Galliger of Sayre, Engineer | crowd numbering nearly foes hun- | F. D. Swartout of Waverly and | {dred persons gathered at the local | Fireman Irving V. Morse of West | station and the police were com. | Sayre, who were on board the ill | gelled to resort to strenuous meas fated engine, were severely injured. | res to keep the people back when Swartout’s injuries are of an exten- | the injured mer were taken from! sive nature, and his recovery is in Morse and Galliger, how- ever, are less seriously injured and although badly burned and bruised they will ultimately recover mile cast of | the Lehigh's main injuring Henry Mc-| The excitement at station was intense. as the] injured men were all well known here and have been employed by | | the company for many years. the caboose, the Was Climbing Through a Fence | |before § o'clock last night in the | When His Gun Exploded Tear- ket hospital and McMann ex- pired in the same institution this ing Away Left Side of Head morning at 2:15 o'clock. Both McMahon, who was 23 years old, | TU Ie SCHOOL) su, your wire Cabinet for Christmas. Notes From Sayre's Educa- ‘ed by the entire family. tional Institution Christmas exercises were held in| the grades Friday afternoon Miss Eunice C. Fitch of Athens a student at Syracuse, visited schools Thursday Alexander Winlack of Baltimore [ber of drawers for medical college is home for the | knives and forks, ¥tc Christmas vacation. President E. M. Thompson visited | the schools this week and was pres. | ent at chapel exercises. | Miss Elizabeth Loetzer, ‘oi, senior in Syracuse University, least money in the valley, our bin, utensil closet, mouldi: = vn Misses Bessie Shaver and Grace | Waldron of Mansfield normal, vis- ited our schools Friday morning Joseph Piollett, Chestnut Hill academy, Philadelphia, 1s {home for the Christmas vacation Wesley Delaney, class of ‘oo, a junior in electrical engineering at { Cornell, is home for the Christmas | vacation. Rev. J. F. Warner, Ph. D , pastor of the Sayre M. E. church, visited {the high school and the grades on | December 18 and conducted chapel $2.25 206, 27 or These are for Mail Subscribers, being Three Dollars, county seat news paper to give you reaches Athens nd Sayre ON. ‘0 5, the THE TOWANDA 8 cette es rt cin gets THe TOWANDA DAILY RRIEW smber Q ys" per §n on Review's “Barg: regular price of t It's a morning by first mail each PRINTING GU, I SL 2 Da MS Bose Robert Hayden, class of 03, and Harry VanGorder, ‘04, freshmen at State college, are visiting their parents and renewing high school = ve A329 SEES 5 | resided at South Waverly and had | 3¢quaintances. been employed by the Lehigh for The following teachers of the about two years. He is survived | Towanda public schools were visit- by his mother, five brothers and ing the various grades this week | you wi sh 1 lasting minediate attention, for your vour friend's happiness, fancy Arm Bands, a well as profit Edward Bardon, an employe of a grist mill, was instantly killed near his home at afternoon about o'clock. Bardon early in the morning sight- ed a fox in the fields adjoining his property. He borrowed a neigh- bor’s gun and started out after the animal. After hunting all day he started for home. When he reach ed the fence surrounding his gar- den he climbed through between the boards. The hammer of the gun caught in the fence and the gun exploded, a heavy charge of buckshot tearing the entire left side of his skull away. His wife heard the explosion and a moment later found her husband lying on the ground dead. DISASTROUS WRECK four Thirty-Eight Cars Reported De- railed and the Signal Tower Man Is Missing JB1, a symbol train, was wrecked on the Lehigh division at Cata- sauqua just after it had passed a signal tower. The details of the accident are meagre but it is { bodies have been removed to their respective homes The explosion occurred just after three sisters His funeral will] Waverly on Tuesday morning at 10 {the train, which is known as the 5'clock. “Old Road Local” had taken the siding in order to allow passenger Denison’ remains were removed ito J. W. Grumme's undertaking rooms and later shipped to his! home in Auburn. He had been in crew were on the engine with the | the employ of the company but a exception of Joseph McMahon, a short time and was about 24 years | brother to the dead fireman, and George Tims, a flagman The train had nicely cleared the main tracks and was about to come thorough inspection of the wreck- | to a standstill when suddenly there | ed engine which was almost ¢ was a roar of escaping steam and a | pletely demolished crash. The ponderous boiler rose | ypable to gain train No. ; to pass on the main tracks. All the members of the old and unmarried. He 1s survived | The officials of the road made a They were any information that | in the air for a distance of twenty | would reveal to a certainty the | feet and was then hurled end over | cause of the awful accident. end down the track ahead of the| tryin was running very slowly and | train to the EC. & N. tracks | 4s a consequence the cars back of which run parallel to the L. <high | the engine were not derailed. The Valley Tearing a great gap in spot where the explosion occurred | the EC. & N. tracks it then|is marked by a hole in the road veered, and after traversing (bed three feet in depth, six feet tance of 100 feet landed across) vide and fifteen feet long. The | the main tracks of the Lehigh at a| gemage to the E. C. & N. road bed point four hundred feet distant! ic considerable. The course the from the place where it started. | oiler took was peculiar. First, it The five men in the cab were gore headlong along the Lehigh {thrown every Conductor | main track “then it swerved to the Swartout landed forty feet from | | C & N. tracks where it tore up the siding in the The the tracks and ties, finally return- | others were hurled from the engine ing to the Lehigh tracks where it| and were found later lying along | came to a standstill. the tracks, burned, bruised and Tp catastrophe is the woust of a dis way. swamp : Hats and Caps. "9 Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, tent Misses Charity Hoag, Nora Ma- bloves. honey and Mary Hoag The civics class held an interest- Specia In give Question being, “Resolved, That|F Capital Punishment Should Be Abolished.” The negative won. Miss Bertha D. Morgan, former | | Latin teacher in Sayre high school, || | now holding the chair of Latin, Elmira Free Academy, was in| town resuming school friendships | last week. ——— A ee side Mufflers, White Vests, Shirts and Collars, | 4 MAY BE MAUDE HAYNES It is now believed that the body from her home in Susquehanna, | this state, ten days ago, 1s floating down the Susquehanna river. Two men at Wilkes Barre saw a body dressed in clothes answering the description of those worn by the girl when she left home, and they made an unsuccessful effort to res- cue it. The body is believed to be that of the missing girl. It Protects You in Sickness or Accident Pays Dividends Eich Five Years Haa the Largest Membership of Any Lo- cal Organization in Sayre Pald in Sayre During Five Years: For Disability $21,517.80 For Death 1,069.40 For Dividends 16,281.19 Assets Nov. 1 Benefits Paid ... $2,225,000 4,750,000 E. F. MERCEREAU, District Manager, Smoke Peer’s Straight Five, a fine fragrant cigar FULL LINE OF Carpet Sweg reported that 38 cars were derailed we are selling dolls at cost, at s Book Parlors. “The balance of those beautiful framed pictures at W. S. Wright's on another delivery wagon. An important business meeting of the members of the Baptist church will be held tomorrow fol- lowing the morning service, at which it is earnestly desired as many as possible will be present. and piled into an almost unrecog- nizable mass. The blame for the accident is said to be attached to the towerman. Some believe that he is under the wreck while others are of the opinion that he has run away. ' Both tracks are blocked and traffic is being considerably bleeding. Following the explosion | jis kind to occur on the Lehigh in a great white cloud of steam ascended heaveaward. Hundreds of people who heard the deafening explosion hurried to the scene and rendered aid to the injured. All were in a terrible condition, their clothing having almost been torn from their bodies. Their burned and mangled flesh was blackened years. The last explosion of im- portance was at Carmody's Tank, near Wyalusing, nine years ago. At that time a D. S. & S. engine which had been borrowed by the Lehigh blew up, killing Eugene Deegan, the fireman, and breaking engineer Daniel Georgia's leg TURKEYS |. Geese. SAYRE, PA. 1 12 Desmond Street VALLEY "Pu ae 114 Bring Your Job Printing to Murrelle’s Printing Office An excellent and appropriate program has been prepared for the morning service at the Baptist church tomorrow. The pastor has chosen for the subject of his morn- ing sermon, “The Christ of Proph- esy Realized.” One of the largest crowds of the | season boarded No. 4 at the local Lehigh station today. Many of |at them were townspeople who were going to visit friends during the holidays, while others were stu- dents from Cornell Uaiversity on their way to their homes. ‘Monday set is. is Christmas day : Bt I employes of |by cinders and dirt and their con delayed as a result of the wreck > {dition heart-rending. The injured men, groaning with pain, | removed to the caboose, which SENDING MONEY HOME | was turned into a temporary hospi- The money onder office atthe | tal, and every possible kind of Sayre postoffice is doing a rushing | {assistance rendered. business these days. During the DINNERS FOR THE POOR day group after group of short, | The Valley Shrine Association tawny complexioned men, line up| at the window. They are mostly | Italians who visit the local office | is distributing today onc hundred for the purpos¢ of sending money | Christmas dinners among the poor these dinners will find their way | Morning worship 10:30; Com-| 40g Jhout equally between Athe Evening worship 7:00. “Christ tion of these dinners is a most! ‘many a home will be gladdened to loved ones across the waters, and needy in Waverly, Sayre and | Athens, About thirty-four of CHURCH OF CHRIST \into the homes of Sayre people SS | and the remainder will be distnib- munion followed by sermon, “The! ..o _ 1 way erly. The distribu- World's Debt to Christianity.” mas Ee \ bid This explosion also occurred on Friday and a singular coincidence 1s that the old D.S & S. engine] which blew up at Carmody's Tank, | having since been repaired, drew the tool train to the accident which occurred last night. DANCE THIS EVENING The fifth of a series of subscrip- tion dances will be given by Harvey | Gray in Eighmey's hall this even- ing. Dancing will begin promptly | at 8:30 and continue until 11:45 | The Loomis opera house orchestra | will be in attendance Everett F. Hill of Renovo, Pa, gomery, Pa, were married Thurs-|can day evening at the home of Chas. McClosky, 121 Second street, by Rev. J. F. Warner. “The Satisfactory Place.” From four to eight skilled job printers and a new, up-to-date equipment are at your service. TURKEYS 22c Ib Other Poultry at Lowest Our patrons say we have the disposition to please. We keep our promises, Talmadge Building, Elmer Ave., Sayre, Valley Phone 142a. WE PRINT . ‘The Valley Record TOUHEY'S HOTEL piisidar : Thomas Ave, Bates §1.50 Market Prices. HOAG'S MARKET Packer Ave, Sayre. WHY PAY THE GROCER |25c for a two ounce bottle can get 4 ounces for the go. same money at the West Sayre store ? Tele- phone order. jd Up-to-Date, First mmodations, poalte L. V, Station, ay. Sayre, Tool Chests Carving Set Pocket Kniv¢ Shears, BOLICH P. HARDWAR Desmond St. ELMER A. 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