Are You Trowied
Eye Strela is Not a Disrase
But arises from mechanical de-
fects in the construction of the
Hye or ita controlling muscles.
Relief in soch cases can only be
had through application of wuit-
able glasses made to correct all
existing defects. 1 make a speeial
study of ht testing in all
ita branches CAD ASSUre A per
fect correction wherever it exists.
1 Do Not Use Drops
With Eye Strain?
science of optics as
| make use of the latest and most
presence of diseas?, aod to
fraction and mascles
1 Recommend Glasses
measare accurately errors of re-
promising good results.
1do my charge fora
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF SAYRE.
Oapital . $50,000.00
Surplus - $12,000.00
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We solielt your Banking basi-
pees, and will pay you three per
cent. interest per annum for money
Joft on Certificate of Deposit or
Savings Account.
The department of savings is »
feature of this Bank, and
all deposits, whether large or
small, draw the same rate of
interest.
B. N. SAWTELLE,
Qashier.
TEER SEE EEE
The Valley Record
J. H. MURRBELLE, Publisher.
W. T. CAREY, Editor.
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mda he Ash f Congress of March 1
ER REE
““All the news that's fit to print”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1908.
HE HAD HIS CHANCE.
“Yes, sir” sald the druggist, as he
placed the box of panetelas on the
counter, “four years ago | could have
bought this corner lot for $4,000. Yes,
I could have then, but | didn't | had
the money, too, at that time Last
spring this same corner was assessed
for twenty thousand. Fupny how we
overlook opportunities, isn't it?”
“Well, it's peculiar, I'll admit,” sald
the patent lawyer when he had select.
od one of the long, dark weeds and bit
off the end, “but | wouldn't be so rash
as to say it is funny
“Now, as a boy, be continued
scratching one of the druggist's safety
matches on the box, “1 used to blame
my paternal grandfather for bis ab
surd lack of foresight He didn't
know that Chicago was going to grow
He came through here in the ‘30s with
a span of likely oxen and a Wagon
Somebody wanted his outfit and of-
fered him what Is now the First ward
for it. But the old gentleman couldn't
see any bargain in that The mud was
about seven feet deep and grandpa
Badn't a prophetic eye So he kept
on and anchored for life at Arlington
Heights”
“That's why you are in the patent
Yusiness pow?’ asked the druggist
“Probably. But | don’t blame grand-
sire so much as | used to I've over-
Jooked one or two good things myself
I might bave been a Pittsburg billion-
aire. Ever bear of the Mesaga iron
*
“1 might have owned half of that
~rt was the winter of the ‘big spow’
you've heard about—in the early "80s
continued the patent attorney ‘Snow
was six feet deep all over these parts
and I was in Ashland, Wis, up on
Lake Superior. Might as well have
been at the north pole [It was a case
of spow bound all right, but not in a
fecal sense. There was only ope
railroad into that town then and it
went out of commission early io the
Sea800. No steamers either lee
snow. wind, blizzards and lots »f them
“But plenty lo eal you KDow All
Kinds of venison and fresh whitefish,
asd an abundance of fuel There was
mAbing but woods in that region then
MaeGurrin and I split yp our own pine
siabs for the little Move in our Foom
in the boarding house
MacGurrin was & bully fellow
was a civil engineer. an expert on
mines and a prospector to boot He
was Scotch and a reformer in his own
way He had an eccentric ides that
there was too much liquor in Ashland
and so he started in to keep others
out of temptation. He was a booze
punisher and no mistake
“Ope evening Mac came up to the
| room all tanked up. 1 pulled off his
boots for him and got him into bed,
as | had done numerous times before
= +Jarvers,’ he sald ‘you're all right
1 like you. Jarvers. I'll make you a
rich man nex’ spring. You know the
Mesaga—' And he went to sleep
1 thought he would forget all about
it by morning. but | was wrong there.
| When he woke up at noon his bead
| was clear, and he remembered every
| word of his promise. He told me all
about the Mesaga range. He was dead
sure there were unlimited fortunes in
it. He was perfectly right, too. There
were millions in it then and there are
yet. He'd been out prospecting the
fall before and had found It himself
He was absolutely the first man who
ever knew about it He had gone over
e territory in a rough way, through
ke wilderness all alone Then the
early fall bad driven him back to Ash-
{tand. The next summer he had made
up bis mind he was going to make a
thorough job of it and to make his
fortune at the same time There Was
| me half the work and half the re
ward”
“Say.” said the druggist, “why don't
| 1 hear about your giving away public
{braries and universities and buying
up legislatures and a seat in the senate
[and titled sons-in-law? | kbow about
| that Mesaga range You ought to be
| doing stunts, like Rockefeller and Car-
| gegle and the rest of our national he
roes, you ought.”
“Yes.” said the patent attorney, “I
| ought, but you can see that 1 am not
| Well, what MacGurrin told me made
| my eyes stick out some. 1 was game
| For many a week there while Ashland
| was snowed In we talked over our
| plans
“You see, Mac was a bachelor and
rather a wild chap with no friends
anywhere. But long before the snow
had begun to melt in the big woods
the way was opened up to the south
and 1 made 3 bee line for a little town
in southern Wisconsin Yes there was
a woman in the case—my wife, and a
| couple of kids besides. Of course | ex-
pected and promised to return right
away. One thing and another, how-
ever. delayed me and before | could
get back—oh, pshaw' What's the use’
But poor old Mac!”
1 would infer from your tone of
voice.” sald the druggist, “that your
friend Mr MacGurrin was eaten up by
wolves or that he froze to death. Am
{ correct?”
‘Wrong. He went out and got what
he was after He was a rich man Dy
summer and a millionaire by fall”
“Huh'"” said the druggist. “1 can’t
see why he was ‘Poor old Mac’ He
wasn't poor Apd | guess you're sor-
ry now—'
Well, | can't say that | am You
see. Mac—well, he lasted about 18
months after that He couldn't stand
prosperity.”
“Could you?”
Sudden and great wealth, said the
patent attorney “with its insidious
trials and temptations, is one of the
dangers to which | have never been
subjected. But I'm still ready to take
some awful chances, provided | don't
pveriook ‘em "—Ohicago Dally News
Compasses for Cavalry
Magnetic compasses are to be sup-
plied in future to all British and native
cavalry regiments In India at the rate
of four a squadron
Excursions
ERIE RAILROAD.
$2.25 to Rochester and retarn’
Thursday, February 22d
234d.
all
op or befor March 15th.
Reg-
GRAF
Fursiture and Undertaking. Cor.
& CO.
WEY
A dance will be given Monday
evening at Stone's hall by the
Waverly Acrie of Eagles.
Mrs. Sara Fitch and Ruth Cor-
Clayton Smith of Fulton street.
(for men and women are always
(night. J. P. Falsey, 304 Broad street.
i Ld
| The Choral club will not hold
|any meeting next week on account
|of a member of their club taking
| part in “David Garrick.”
Goto J. P. Falsey's, 304 Broad
street, for your ladies’, gent's and
! children's shoes. Spring styles
now in at the lowest prices.
| All kinds of up to date photog-
{raphy at Coe & Webster's, 342
| Broad street, Waverly. Ping pongs
{a specialty; 28 for 25¢ 237-4t
Sunday, February 25, the minis~
ters of the various churches of this
place will observe civic Sunday and
will deliver appropriate addresses.
A delegation of the ladies of the
Waverly Eastern Star, Chapter No.
g, will attend the mecting of the
Loyal Chapter at Elmira next
Wednesday evening.
Harry Winters of Smithboro,
brother of Assemblyman Byron
Winters, was in attendance at the
farmers’ institute this morning and
made a short address.
Miss Margaret Tew and Grace
Wescott entertained a company of
their friends at a dancing party at
at the G. A. R. hall last evening
Mrs. Weller presided at the piano
The reserved seats for “Dawid
Garrick” which will be put on
UPSET A WEDDING
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NEST IN DEACON’S OLD BEAVER
CAUSES HAVOC
WAVERLY.
INSECTS BUSY WITH STINGS
| Bridegroom and Several Guests Re
ceive Reminders of the Occasion
Ceremony Continues After
Excitement Subsides
$6.50 Dinner Set for $4.98.
All 50c Tams for 25c.
Slab City, Vt—Deacon Jonathan
Ross inadventently contriboted to a
good deal of excitement at
ding of his grandson Ej
as he was taking to wife Miss
Betty Porter, a pretty young woman of
this village For a time it locked a
though the ceremony would have to bs J
postponed
The deacon lay: all t
his good spouse Martha who he d SS ———— a —————— EE
clares, insisted that be should wear
“funeral” beaver hat Iie
that the tile =
the trouble
suitable for funerals only, but M
Ross insisted that she had fre
seen In the newspapers pict 1
men wearing them to fashionable we
dings In Boston and that it 1 bie
highly improper for him to go in ©
rusty felt
So the hat was brought from the at
tic, where it md been reposing for up
#ard of three vears, the exterior was
brushed by his npear-sighted wife and
the pair set out for the home of the
bride. The deacon almost rebelled
after the third neighbor had salicitous
ly inquired as to whose funeral the:
were going, but he stuck
in due time arrived at thes Porter
homestead
The ceremony was to be performed
in the parlor, where chalrs were se
a semicircle, and as they were «
disorders and severe neuralgia can often
decayed or ulcerated teeth.
it aut
teeth.
Dangerous stomach
be traced to
relatives and as Mr= Ross could not sf
any distance with comfort they were
placed in the first row The dea
put his hat under his chalr and
began to enjoy proceedings immensely
The other ohalrs were soon fille
then, at the signal of the Ix
$ -
i ed,
ridge work, per tooth, $4.
iold fillings, $1 up. Plates, $5.00
t man the
cellence, as any dentist will tell
to $8.00.
you.
next Wednesday and Thursday
evening at the Loomis opera house
will be placed on sale Monday
morning
The Waverly mail carriers will
give a banquet this evening at the
home of Leon Canoll, to their
brother mail carriers from Sayre
and Athens, Great preparations
have beem made to give their
guests a good time
Rev. M. S. Godshall, pastor of
the Waverly Methodist church, will
deliver the association sermon next
Tuesday eveni g at the mid winter
session of the Owego district min-
isterial association, which will be
held in the Methodist church at
Newark Valley.
SOUTH WAVERLY S
BOROUGH ELECTION
Waverly—The election of the
South Waverly borough officers
will occur next Tuesday and it 1s
safe to say that there has never
been such interest taken in the
result of an election before. Stren-
uous work is being done by both
factions, and the feeling between
neighbors is far from friendly. A
prominent taxpayer said this morn-
ing that one party stood ready to
tax both telephone companies on
| their poles in the borough, but no
| tax would be imposed on the elec-
|that certain parties from the New
York state side had taken part in
the caucuses but that if they at-
tempted to interfere election day
‘they would be arrested. He further
| stated that many had been kept
| from voting at the caucuses but
| this could not be accomplished next
106 CENTER STREET.
GEiimieaam
. ATKI
SAYRE, PA.
Over Raymond & Haupt's Confectionery Store
THEIR FLIGHT
HYBTL
WAS MARKEL
ICAL SHOUTS
church organist struck up the
grin Wedding March
and the wedding party entered
The parscn had asks
questions and was about to ———— en csm—
the couple man and wife
groom emitted a sharp cry of pals
and clapped kis hand to his head Al
most instantly he yelled a second time
jabbed his eye and began to dance
hornpipe. The blushing
~~ TRY ME FORA SUIT
fldgeted in their chairs and the parsor
a | ade to Order
Just then the deacon leaped out of |
mn te me
1 the
pronoun — mr———
when the
hrid turned
riage irnea
his chalr and running his hand up hi
trousers leg to the top of his boot pir
quetted in a circle and losing his bal
ance came down fiat on the floor
“Wasps!” he shouted, withdrawing
his hand and holding up a crushed in
sect In his trembling finger
Every one was on his feet in an In:
stant. Women held thelr skirts
and fanned the air with their hand
kerchiefs. The bridegroom danced |
about in a circle tearing at his hair
and the bride gathered her veil closely
about her face. The wasps, about 2
in number, buzzed Irere and there |
their flight marked by hysterical
shouts from the feminin¢ guests
Then, circling slowly, they made a bee
line for the deacon’s beaver
Inside the hat, neatly glued to the
roof, was a small conical wasp's nest
and into it the insects finally crawled
one by one. When they had all got
home the deacon immersed the hat ir
a tub of water and the (nt
wedding went on At the reception
the bridegroom couldn't see out of his
left eye and several of the guests suf
fered in divers parts of their anasto
mies
| Bring vour suit to be pressed; it will cost you only 85¢c
A. Atkin, over Raymond & Haupt's
Confectionery Store
Keep looking well; I will help you by keeping your
clothes pressed, cleaned and repaired
for only 65¢c a suit
am here to stay, A. Atkin, the New York Merchant
Tailor, over Raymond & Haupt's
Confectionery Store
Come up and learn the styles for the coming Spring. 1
have the real thing in Men's Wear
You will come to see me sooner or later, as I have the
snappy styles in Suits to Order
A. ATKIN,
Over Raymond & Haupt's Confectionery Store, Sayre
rrupted
Er
tion would be a big surprise.
FARNERS' INSTITUTE
Waverly—The attendance at the
Farmers’ Institute was much larger
last evening and today, and the
discussions evoked by the question
box were entered into by a large
vestigations
Culture.
Pigeon Goes to Bank Dally
Mooresville, Ind —Everard H Had
ley, assistant cashier of the Farmers
last summer raised a beautifu
white pigeon, which 1s a
The pigeon began following him to the
bank every day going home w
to meals. If th» pigeon happens t ” ¢ at Law. Ronen ys 5 Vous
lat d misse: its owner, it flies to . or . 0.
A a ot wir [A GEUERAL LAW BUSINESS
LAWS & WINLACK, TOUHEY'S HOTEL
op wv
grea pat
rides into
South African Swindle
A new swindle is afoot Peopl
the Transvaal and elsewhere
ceiving letters offering to reven
them for a certain consideration, In
cluding, of course, a pledge of secre
where Kruger hid the gold he carried
gig gh Bole ge TRANSACTED. A E BAKER
watches for a patron to enter |
on the LAWS BUILDING, 219 DESMOND BT, |
the ban) Valley Phone 180-A. Sayre. Y Jaq ’
== Carpenter and Builder.
8 J. Kitchin, RL Pleasant St. Waverly, N. Y.
SAYRE'S LEADING JOHN ©. PECKALLY,
DRAYMAN.
Bepecial care and prompt at.
A Vand Excuse.
dy—Yes'm but I told him It
me worse's it 8d him-—N, ¥.
Bun.
ATHENS, PA.
AGENTS WANTED,
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ply at Osborne
207 North Lehigh avenue, Sayre,
done at your home. Fer
further particulars inquire at 115 Hoe-
pital place, Sayre. 8 year's
For Rent
Four rooms over Wilber's liguor store
suitable for office rod
sonable. Inquireof BE. A. Wilber, 235¢
The Dr. Judson pro on North
stre-t, Athens, Pa. Apply to'W. Howard
Allen, Farmera National Bank, Athens,
For Rent—The second Soor at No. 8519
Bead street, Wayeaty, Simon Zsusmer.
Two offices for reat In the Maney &
net
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