_
Sirein Is Not a Disrase
arises from mechanical de-
in the construction of the
of its controlling muscles,
jn sach cases can oanly be
application of wuit-
made to correctall
xin defects. 1 make a speeial
stady of
ht testing in all
$t correction wherever it exists.
Can assure a per-
1 Do Not Use Drops
fraction and muscles,
I Recommend Glasses
in the science of optics as
| make use of the latest and wost
the possible
errors of re-
promising good results.
Ido my charge fora
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF SAYRE.
_ Oapital $50,000.00
Surplus 3 12,000.00
SSS.
We solicit your Banking buai-
* pews, and will pay you three per
cent. interest per annum for money
Jeft on Certificate of Deposit or
Savings Account.
The department of savings is a
feature of this Bank, and
all deposits, whether large or
small, draw the same rate of
interest.
MB. N. SAWTELLE,
Cashier.
The Valley Record
J. H. MURRELLE, Publisher.
2 W. T. CAREY, Editor.
ERE
afternoon except Sun-
- Published every
day at Murrelle’s Printing Office, Sayre,
Pa.
month.
Pe averting rates reasonable, and made
known on application.
Ratered as second-class matter May
te the postofice at Sayre,
et Bh ear ol rarch
1870.
“All the news that's fit to print”
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 18C8.
a cts ace -
MISSING GIFTS.
SORROWS OF THE COMPLAINT
CLERK
It was days after tbe bolldays but
pomplaint clerk remained unbroken
“1 want to find out about some flow
8rs | sent to my best woman friend,
sald 8 woman when il came to ber
turn. “Every friend | sent things (0
wrote a note of ackpowgdgement She
basa't. I am afraid she didn’t get her
Sowers”
The clerk took the name and ad
dress. “Sit down a few minutes’ he
sald politely. “and I will trace them
for you.”
“Yesterday,” sald a tired girl, “he
told me to walt a few mioutes and |
walted three hours Then to the
clerk: “Have you found out about that
pottle of rum yet we ordered for the
punch? Everything else got there but
the rum. The punch was ruined
“We haven't been able to trace it
yet." replied the clerk politely “Rum
fs so easily lost during the holidays
Shall we pay you back the money’
“If we had wanted the money, re
plied the girl. stubbornly, “we wouldn't
have pald it for the rum What we
want is the rum. [t took me two hours
to await my turn to buy Jt. It was a
special brand.”
“If you will sit down for a few min-
utes” said the clerk politely, “we will
try to trace it agyln.’
“Another three hours’ sighed the
girl as she took a seat on a topply dry
goods bow nearby,
“They seem to get a litle angry
don’t they?’ sald the woman of the
flowers.
“They do.” acknowledged the com
plalat man. “but as for us. we've go!
to keep our tempers or lose our jobs
Still jt isn't so bad as it has been
_ There are 4.000 fewer complaints this
year than last.”
“] didn't get those &%-cent leggine
they bought me for a Christmas pres
ent” sald a short-skirted girl “Will
you exchapges them for S8-cent ones’?
“Yes” sald the clerk, ‘send them
back and we will send you the 38. cent
ones and collect the balance -
And vou won't send re the €5.cent
Regular $3.50 at $1.98.
back and’ colléet the balance
asked the little girl anxiously
No." sald the complaint clerk with
a “wouldn't that jar you“look toward
the woman of the Sowers
Then came a pale-faced, middle-aged
woman. “1 bought six pictures.” she
sald, “and ouly four of them came
Where are the other two?”
“We will try and find them for you,
madam What sort of pictures were
they? You will have to describe them
you know. =
“Well remarked the pale-faced
woman “the first four were pictures
of birds and Bowers for the dining
room and the ones that were lost"
“Yes.” urged the complaint clerk
mindful of the long row back of her
“the ones that were lost?”
“The ones that were lost”
the paledfaced woman.
were just pictures’
‘If we can't
ones
too?
frowned
“well. they
FRANK{E. WOOD, Representative
News and ‘advertising matter may be
left at Gregg's Racket Store, Waverly,
After 11 o'clock noon call the main
office at Sayre, Valley ‘phone 138X,
D. G. Stark went ta Scranton
today :
Miss Carnie Z gler is mm Elmira
today.
Mrs Edward E Ropp spent
yesterday at Elmira
is visit ng her cousin, Mrs. G M
Lego.
Mrs. Lulu Tuthill and Mrs. H
E
LOG SFE
Mrs. Charles W. Raub Died Yes:
terday Afternoon After Many
Months’ Illness
Waverly—Mrs. Charles W. Raub
‘died shortly after 6 o'clock last
evening. The cause of her death!
{was cancer, from which she had
saff-red for a long time, and her
death was not uncxpected.
Mrs. Raub’s maiden name was
'Adcline Redner and she was a
native of Tioga, Pa. She was 54
years old, and besides her husband |
morning
Mrs. George Smeaton of Towan-
da is visiting her husband's parents,
on Clark street
Yesterday W. B. Salisbury sold
his cigar store to Joha Murphy
Possession was given at once.
The pupils of Miss Evelyn Rath.
| bun will give a recital this evening
|at the home of Harry ]J. Morgan,
| Lincoln street .
| All kinds of up to date phctog~
| raphy at Coc & Webster's, 34
| Broad street, Waverly. Ping pongs
|a specialty; 28 for 25¢ 237 at
i
>
Hiram Kronk of Clark street,
C. of Elmira and Harry M. and |
Ray R of Waverly, three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Grace Farr and Mrs. S.C.
Cole of Waverly and Mrs. H C |
| Haskins of Athens. Five brothers
and one sister also survive her.
The funeral will be private and
will be held from the Hotel Sayder
| Friday afternoon at 2:30. Services
‘will be conducted by Rev. G. A.
| Briggs, and burial will be made at |
| Tioga Point cemetery.
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| -
A BAD DRUNK
| Waverly—Officer Gndley found |
|a man on Loder street last evening |
|who was so intoxicated that he
turn you the money?”
“1 don’t want the money.”
the pale faced woman 1 want the
pictures. It took me two hours to find
a clerk who had time to wait on me
and another hour to pick out
pictures, | want those pictures
“They seem to lose thelr temper oc-
easionally.” remarked the woman of
the flowers, as the pale-faced woman
rushed away The complaint clerk
nodded assent and beckoned with his
long lead pencil
“We have traced
yours, madam =~ said he with a win
ning smile We have found that they
were never sent out or received The
girl at the desk must have forgotten
them.”
The woman's face flushed “You
mean to say,” she cried, “that she took
my order and my card and my money
{and then didn’t send them?
| “I'm afraid so. madam
| “Do you mean to say,’ stormed the
{ Woman, “that all the other presents
| went to my other friends, and this, to
(the best friend | have in the world
{you neglected to send and sbe must
have known all the rest got presents
land she none”
I'm afraid so, madam.”
“You have lost me the
{friend | bave in the world”
‘an walled, and would have
{for the, fact that four
were looking at her
The complaint clerk poised his
{cil In midair. “Shall we return you
{ithe money, madam?’ he asked In a
ustomed phrase
Money.” she stormed
What good will the money do. I'd like
to know?® Give me an order for more
flowers quick. and let me take them to
those flowers of
very best
the wom-
wept but
dozen people
peti-
Money!
have lost for me, If | can”
The complaint clerk followed her
with an observing glance as she swept
out -
| Some of them do lose their temper
just a itie,” sald he quietly —N Y
Sun
Habit.
Elder Smithers—You didn’t seem to
like It because you were crowded out
of your pew last Sunday
Deacon Hardesty——] didn’t like It
a bit I've got so used to my regular
seat that | can’t sleep comfortably in
any other one —Chicago Tribune
i
Force of Heredity
Slum Worker—What a well-behaved
Burglar's Wife—And he comes by
it natural, mum His poor father al
ways got his sentence reduced owin’
bo good behavior! —Stray Stories
During the Stop.
Muffled Voice (under the machine) —
Say Bill back her up a little will yer?
Bill—What's the matter?
My face is caught in the works
Life
*
Sounds the Same
A Canadian «
James, who has been finding fault with
American common an dog
matist That's kinder than calling him
p curmudgeon
speech is
Don’t Repeat It
Don't keep your eyes on fhe raup you
have just heard something Lad about
gf your
oyth
Reg-
GRAF
& CO.
lat the Sayre metal works.
| WW. H. Hopkins “was engaged
| graphs for the play David Garrick,
{to be given by the Tioga hose
company, Feb 21 and 22
FARMERS” INSTITUTE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Waverly—A committee consist:
ling of George D. Genung, H. T
Harding and A. B. Ellis have
arranged for the following program
| for the Farmers’ Institute to be
| held here Friday and Saturday of
this week
Fripay, 10:30 pv.
Prayer, Rev. Dr. P. R. Ross
Welcome, President J. T. Tucker
Vocal solo, Miss Evelyn” Rath
bun
Opening address, by Conductor,
Growing Protein Crops,” Frank
D. Ward, Batavia
AFTERNOON SEssion, 2 O'cLock
(Question box
“Educational Problems in Rural
Community,” E B
Supenntendent Waverly Schools
“Modern Potato Culture,” C. M.
Day, Geneva.
Bass solo, Harry G. Morgan.
“The Farmer and the Public
Schools,” S J Preston, Educa-
tional Department, Albany
EVENING SESSION, 7:30° O'CLOCK.
Question box.
Male quartet.
“Small Fruits for Home Use,”
Mr. Day.
Bass solo; Rev. C. W. Smith
“The Essentials and Non Essen.
tials of Home Making," Mrs
Rufus Stanley, Elmira.
SATURDAY, IO A M
(Question box
Tenor solo, J. E Jolls
“Some Investigations Regarding
Nitro Culture,”
Harding, State Experiment Station,
(Geneva.
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2 O'CLOCK
(Qustion box.
“The Value of the Silo,” Mr
Ward.
Mr. Cook.
THE IOWA CLUB
The Iona club, a recently organ’
ized musical s=ciety, will hold its
regular weekly meeting tomorrow
Elizabeth Denslow on Waverly
| street. At the last regular meeting
| the following officers were elected:
President, Miss Lillian Barnum;
| vice president, Mrs. Merton Rey
nolds; secretary, Harold Skinner;
treasurer, Miss Elizabeth Denslow;
intoxicated man into it, placed him. |
| self between the shafts and drew
| him to the town hall. The follower
{
|of Bacchus was allowed to remain |
¢ lockup over night, and when
|given a hearing this morning he|
could not remember anything that
{had happened the night before
The justice thought that the ser-
(vices of the police department
|in playing horse were worth three
| dollars and fined the prisoner that
amount. The last report stated
| that the man is still in limbo await- |
ing some friend to pay his fine
—.—
ROOSTER SWALLOWS SNAKE
Remarkable Fowl Is Owned by a Col- |
orado Farmer Who Would
Not Tell a Fib.
| Lake City, Col —When it comes to
a fish story Cashier Jordan probably
| bas the town at his mercy, while Rev
| George tells a very good deer story, |
{ but when it comes to a snake story,
| Farmer Rigney takes the cake and |
| evervibing elise in the bakeshop Mr. |
| Rigney is the owner of as fine a lot]
| of thoroughbred poultry as can be |
found In this part of the state, and Is
| very jealous of his White Leghorn and i
| Plymouth Rock pets i
| So the other evening, as be was do- |
| 10g the chores, he became anxious
when he noticed one of his roosters
moping In a corner of the cellar. Leaw.
| ing his work, he went over and picked
the bird up, but dropped it quicker |
than a fellow could say “scat,” as be
noticed and felt about eight inches of |
snake hanging from the roosters)
mouth
Going at the job carefully, Mr Rig |
ney, by placing his foot on the tall |
| of the snake and lifting up Mr. |
| Rooster, caused the latter. to disgorge |
| over 20 inches of his snakeship that
be had swallowed before balking on |
the ten Inches that was left. The |
snake was dead, having been killed
by the rooster, and after the stomach
pump work conducted by Mr Rigoey |
the rooster rounded to form again
Arrests in New York. |
Of 42,260 persons arrested In New |
York in the second quarter of 1905, in- |
toxication was charged agalust 6918,
intoxication and disorderly conduct
| were jointly alleged against 2,024, while |
plain disorderly conduct was the com-
plaint in 10,938 cases. Every trade, busi-
Of the women |
fed, but
fed, |
the police station blotter
arrested nearly half were marr
were IDArr
of the men only 9.740
| while 22 961 were single
Raccoon Fishermen, |
While walking along the banks oY the |
| Little Lehigh river, John Bieber, of Sal- |
Isbury, Pa., saw LWO eROTMOus rRCCOOn |
| seated on the ice in front of a big alr- |
| hole, industriously fishing for trout with
their nimble, sharp-clawed paws
Bleber got his rifle and shot them. Rac- |
| coons had been devastating the trout |
| streams at a great rate. |
Bible from King. i
King Edward has offered an appro- |
priately bound and inscribed Bible to the |
| Protestant Episcopal church at Wil- |
| laimsburg, Va., the second oldest church |
| in the United States, in commemoration |
| the establishment of the Church of Vir- |
Feinia. |
i
1
| Quickest Route to Chicago, 17
Hours from Sayre
Leave Sayre this afternoon sad arrive
at Chicago at 8 o'clock tomorrow
ing. In time for connections for
al
SAYRE'S LEADING GROCERY!" ™"« rasmus =
: Foaminn our blore, under the pupervision of a competent lady MONDAY, FEBUARY 12,
demonstrator, will show you something of the merits of the celebrated Bix Nights. Six Matinecs.
Innerseal package crackers and cakes made by the National Biscuit Co : SE =
Come and try these excellent crackers. Demonstration one day only. Special bill matinee and night on
PACKEGES DAINTY ASSORTED Lincoln's Birthday (Monday.),
Chas. H. Rosskam
© ""“CAKES AND CRACKERS 216
At the
Presents the
Min GROCERIES A"... bICAGO STOCK (0.
We know that our prices are always lower than those of apy other
In Extraordinary Repertoire. Seven
store for the ssme grade of goods; but don’t take our word for it, go in-
*
ha
Big Vaudeville Features Be
tween the Acfs.
NIGHTS:
MONEY SAVING COMBINATIONS CT rik Priast,
re Cees Friday- Quo Vadis. *
i NO. 1¥ Ssturday The Scout's Revenge,
11 Ib Lowney's chocolate MATINEES:
Wednesday —The Little Minister,
Thursdey — The Mystery of Malvern,
Priday —Fanchon, the Cricket,
Saturday Cinderella.
Prices —10, 20 and 30c.
10 and 20c.
Sale of seats commences Friday at
9 a. m. at the W. U. Tel. Office.
* SHOES
Jam’ s Smith, the Athens Shoe Doctor,
604 Bouth Malin street, has just patina
fine lot of calf shoes and other up-to-
date varieties. Prices all right Re.
pairing continued ‘n the usual scientific
manner, 7 288-6*
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Offic*: ~ Rooms 4 and 5, Elmer Block,
NO,
1 pail maple butter
1 pkg Nu Life
40c
2¢
10¢
Se
fe
{11b English currants
{11b Melrose corn starch
i11b A. & H. scxda
1 pail maple hulter .35¢ i NO. V
101b sk P rsouius pancake TOCValue | 2 | 1h packages Tetley's famous |
flour 35c | for 859¢c : 50c
1 pkg Nu Life 10¢ 28c
25¢
NO. II
E
Matinee—
Japan teas .
{6 1b bag granulated sugar
1 bottle Hallock's vanilla
i : NO. V1
{1 1b pan Tetley's 60c teas
NO. HI
1 pkg fruit puddine
10¢
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’ W Li
300
i2e
25¢
ase |
1 qt beans. .
..10e
2 cans red salmon
{5 bars Wool soap
CANNED GOODS
Your last chance to lay in a winter's supply at the followiog prices,
Act quick;
This
Canned
12¢ can Geneva Telephone peas. ..§ 09 12¢ can Tender sweet creamery corn 10
Per dozen cans, 1 15
Bakers sweet creamless sugar corp,
per can es ; 8
Hoyt's home made tomatoes, in Mason
glass quart cans 15
Per dozen, 1 76
2 cans White Lily sagcotash
2 cans Honey Comb red beets,
10¢ cans pumpkin
Per dozen cans, 1 05
2 dozen case, 2 05
{The above is an extra large sweel pea)
10
a ——————— FURR Tr
12¢ can Tuxedo E. J, peas
Per dozen, 1 16
%
5
10¢ can Davon sweet garden peas
Per dozen, 85
81
oo
FRUITS ---EXCELLENT VALUES
tr
28¢ ean Herald peaches, sliced or halves, 25c can Melrose white cherries | |
per can 28 2 cans Melrose Bartlett pears.
25c can Island Beauty Pears
1 dozen cans Red Alaska salmon
Per can 12¢
X boxes Domestic oll sardines
7 boxes Domestic mustard sardines
3 milk bottles mustard
’, 3 3 i
. Mey dota, 3 73 Men wanted. to commence work on
20¢c ¢an Mel ose peaches , Febraary 14, thirty men
and three teams, to particioate In the
harvest of 4,000 tons of ice at my plant
= | at Millt 'wp, being the first movement
of my elevating and conveying
tus. PF J. Tillman t
Dressmaking done at your home, For
farther particulars inquire at 115 Hos-
pital place, Sayre, 8 year's experience.
J
* For Rent
Four rooms over Wilber's |
suitable for office Jaron, t rea
sonable, Inquireof B. A. Wilber, 285
Two offices for rent in the Maney &
Page block. ner
Two furnished rooms for gentlemen
only, in a central location, Athens. In-
quire at Valley Record office. 208-tf
19
25
20¢ can Melrose strawberries
26¢ can Herald pineapple
17
20
EXCELLENT GROCERY BARGAINS
Pare leaf lard, per 1b | 25¢ quart bottle Maple Syrup
| Pure maple sugar, I
cards fancy honey
IL finest peanut butter
Ib finest long thread, shredded cocoa-
out
8 quarts driedfpeas 25
| 8 quarts pea beans .. 2
2 | Fine juicy naval oranges, dozen 20
20
14
0
20
4 Ib Swift's Cottosuet. .....
8 bars Oak Leaf soap.
6 bars Fels Naptha soap
1 bu. best potatoes
8 I lomp laundry starch
3 pkg. Nu Life
26¢ pail Maple Butter
wor store
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“ny
2
In
5
We are always headquarters for the | Pillsbury’s Best bread flour, 50 Ih rik $1
Washburns lest bread flour 60 thsk 1
Schumacher's fanc teut 501
agents for Pillsbury and Washburn's Best Gold i a go 0 =® 1
flour,
iH
42
1b
1 4
30
bracds of flour, Exclusive
leading
Our prices are the lowest. 35¢ sack Personius pancake flour’
All goods fully guaranteed or your money cheerfully refunded:
We sell for CASH or to GOOD CREDIT customers. We Rive cash
rebate checks to cash customers. Checks in $6 50 lots good for 25c¢
cash; $25 lots, 81 in trade. It pays to buy for cash. Both ‘phones.
Prompt service
iy
Class pin “W. H. 8 '08", Pinder will
be rewarded by leaving same at Record
, 135-3t*
I. A. & C. R. WILLIAMS
Desmond Street, Sayre, Pa.
For Sale or Rent
The Old Reliable Piano and Music House—D. S. Andrus & Co.
HOW TO OBTAIN A
PIANO
That is a problem that has puzzled many a home.
is no longer a problem. D, S. Andrus & Co. has solved
it for you. Read this ad and you will be partially in-
formed, and then come to the store, and it will be fully =
expleined to.you. D. 8S, Andrus & Co. stand back of
every piano they sell, and, if sodesired, the piano will be
sold on one year's trial. If not as represented, the pizno will be returned to D, 8. *
Andrus & Co., without a cent of expense to thé purchaser. Honesty and reliability =
are their watchwords and thousands of patrons during the past forty-six years wii =
testify to the integrity and humane qualities of the firm of D. S. Andrus & Co. Then os
too, their easy payment system has enabled very many to obtain pianos, who could =
not otherwise afford to own a piano, and they don't have to pay intereat either. D. x »°
S. Andrus & Co., will help you. Ask about the plan. Oftentimes persons come in i» %
and ask us for good used pianos, preferring a good piano that has been tried and used
to an inferior piano that is cheap in price and nothing to back it up. Such persons
are justified, aid D. 8S. Andrus & Co., do not hesitate to tell them so. We have one
or two hargains which space foibids a detailed account, but they will be sold on a
See, the new pianos range in price from "
$165, $200, $225, $250, AND UPWARDS.
Free with each upright piano — a stool, scarf, music book, one year's tuning and all
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delivery charges.
PIANOS RENTED, TUNED AND
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