DERS AND PREPAY FREIGHT OR EX- PRESS ON PUR- CHASES OF $5.00 OR OVER. SAYRE, PA. Severe storms and fierce frosts right along and you need not consult the weather bureau to know it's so. Even the Ice Man is feeling good over this and its possible continuance. rah ! We contribute to your comfort, Fur offerings pass out any piece in our store at surprisingly PY ARO \ES ON Siete Se wit Nothing reserved ; all go on sale at clearance prices. Some well tailored suits, lined, snappy styles and thor- oughly new, at less than the making would cost. If you are in need of a he, 4 “r ai ha \CS)/ NES Ng! Suits, $7.87 up Coats, 3.75 up a For Monday O cessful and comments 80 fave WSN ag N NT § fl Tabard Inn News We will open new sub- scriptions from now until February 25, making you a member for §115 which entitles you to ownership of * nly NS ac) 3% | yrable that we re- iy WE shirts, our 98¢ leader - R One lot, all colors, Boy's Sweaters; regular $1 value - a regular $1.50 copyrighted book and cover, which makes books exchangeable at any Tabard lon Library in the 75¢ | United States. Pineapple Knit 89% Notion Department Booth's best assorted chocolates. Sold every- where at 65c; special to close, 43c. N Offerings in Flanneletta pn and Night Gowns, all at fact Third-Floor Special For Tuesday One case Heavy Crocketed Bleached Bed Quilts on sale for one day only. Regular price $125; Tuesday only - - - 98¢c See display Elmer Avenue Window wlucts were never ry cost, and Jess. Misses’ and Boy's ues 50c, 50c values 35¢, 25¢ 5S NER \CTA \SSI/2 NCS \ EIR ET TR Headgear Special Closeouts On odds and ends of Belts. 25¢ values 17¢, 50c values 35¢, $1.00 values 59¢ ~ SINGLE \Sh = \ 7) NN 2) SRB OTOG! values 17¢ AN) NE S a — Bring Your Job Printing to Murrelle's Printing Office “The Satisfactory Place.” 5 RIAN X82 bev, service. say we have the please. We keep Talmadge Building, Elmer Ave., Sayre, Valley Phone 1281. WE PRINT The Valley Record W. T. CAREY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Offices Maney & Page Block, Rooms formerly occupied by the iste Joba R. Murray, Office hours: —# to 10 a. m.; 6:30 to8p,m. At other times daring day at Valley Record oflice, 1 BLACKSMITHING HORSESHOEING AND GENER- ERAL REPAIRING. Have had over thirty years' ex- arisnts in 1 horseshosing Ags wolicited. Thio Kast Wav- eet WEST INDIES SHOCKED. i SH. What Was Wanted, Many Island Cable Lines Cut Of by The first performance of thes play Earthquakes. ‘had reached the middie of the second | NEW YORK, Feb, 19. — Dispatches act when the audience began to howl | from Roseay, Island of Dominica, say | “What does the public want, any- | that two prolonged and severe earth- | way?" queried the author, in a tone | quakes were experienced there at 32 redolent with sarcasm. | minutes after 1 o'clock. the direction | “In this particular case.” replied the | belng etist hy south to west by north. disgusted manager, “it seems to want | The duration of the first shock was ! its money back.—Chicago News. | datnlged the walls of houses. | At Castries, Island of St Lucla, a | very severe €Arthquake was felt at 33 | minutes after 1 o'clock, and another isevere shock was cxperiencel at § | minutel before 3 o'clock. Nearly all | the wall and buildings were damaged. | Following the earlier earthquakes, {8 p. w., abd Joud detonstions and slight | shocks continued until 8 o'clock lu the { morning The inhabitants are tu a very | disturbed state of mind, and business [Is suspended. Bome of the large resl- | dences have been badly dawaged, und thelr occupants bave sought shelter elsewheré, Many private houses and stores sustRined serfous losses Cable communication with the |ls- {lands of St. Viacent and Barbados bas | been severéd by the earthquakes Pointe-a-Pitre and Basse Terre, Is. | land of Guadeloupe, experienced slight { earth shocks | At Fort de France, Martinique, a se | vere shock of eartbquake was felt at | $0 minutes after 1 o'clock, which was f followed by three slighter disturb iances, The undulations cracked the | walls of buildings | quiet. | At Bt. George, Island of Grepada, | two prolonged, though slight, shocks of | earthquake, corresponding fn tire with | those feit in the island of St. Lucia, | were experienced. There were fre ‘quent detondtions beard during the olight | A dispatch from Quito says that sev oral slight earth shocks were felt there Mout Pelee Is Clésed Her Face. “What did you say to that woman { book agent? “I didnt sy anything; | just closed the door io her face.” “Did she Reep It closed 7"—Houston Poot. A Biter Left “How dosa your grandmother get along wow that she has lost her teeth ™ “Oh, all right. You know she has a biting tongue.”—Judge What She Escaped. “Don’t ybu think she is awfully fool- ish to marry a blind man?” “Oh, 1 don't know" she probably didn’t wish to spend the balance of her life alone. —Huston Post. i am——— 85d he are related by mar- - “So you Hapl Seeing Things. | “Sentry,” sald the newly-fladged Heutenant, halting before a sentinel and seeking to propound a query | which would cause the man embarrass | ment, “what would you do if you saw |» battleship moving across the parade- | ground and approaching your heat? | "I'd stop drinking, sir,” replied the soldier shortly. —Judge. Thoughtless Man, There was a rieh fellow {no Nashua, Who gave every cent of his cashua, Now Ne has 10 eschew His terrapin stew And bas trouble tucking his hashua —~Houston Post. DINING OUT. Customer—I thought I told youn to get me a wing—and on Do account a leg. Walter—Yessir; | gave your mes | sage to the cook an’ ‘e ses, "My com- | pliments to the gen’leman, an’ tell {im as ‘ow the fowls in this ‘ere es- | tablishment as ter walk as well as fly."—~The Tatler. : . Doubtful. "Do you believe that knowledge is power? asked Mr. Wiggs. “1 used to think #0,” answered Mr. Wages, “but | bave observed that some of our most powerful financiers are distinguished by what they don't know on the witness stand. "—Waeah- ington Star Harry Jenner of Troy was in town today, —— Edwin F, Loomis was in Troy over Sunday. Fred Vandermark went to New York last evening. Mrs. Wianifred Park spent the day with Ulster friends, Harry Wells was transacting business at the_ county seat today. G L. VaaScoten is serving on the jury at the county seat this week. John Grippen has been granted an increase of pension to $24 per month. The mea of the Presbyterian church will give a supper Friday Qening, -~ T7 Hon. L. T, Hoyt, Justice John~ son, and O. L. Haverly were in Towanda today. E B. Carner has installed an electric coffee grinder and meat cutter in his store, Nathan Thornton is very ill at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. D. Brown, Ferry street. ES the home of Miss Anna Elsbree, Wednesday evening. = Misc Mary Hunsiker has been spending two weeks with friends ia Geneva, N. Y,, and returned home today. Will Vosburg has purchased the A. Sinsabaugh house and lot in East Athens and will. move there April 1. - Miss Marguerite Lewis spent Sunday with the Misses Bonney and returned to Towanda this morning. James McCauley and wife were visiting at the A. P, Palmer home over Sunday and returned to Ulster this morning, Rev. F. L. Allen of the Baptist chu ch preached a patriotic sermon Sunday morning. The P.O. S of A. attended in a body. Mrs. B, F. Custer aud grand- daughter, Namoi Custer, were visit- ing Mrs. Geo. Swan over Sunday and returned to Laceyville today, —— Daniel S. Boardman of Rome came to Athens Saturday evening and stayed over Sunday with his adopted daughter, Mrs. Jennie Bed- ford, resuming his journey to To~ wanda this moming. Several of our citizens this morn. ing received a copy of the Yellow Jacket, a stinging paper printed in North Carolina, and they are ata loss to know what kind of an affliction is in store for them. Perkins post, G A R, will dedi: cate their burial plot in Tioga Poiat exercises in conjunction with their usual annual memorial exercises. The trustees of the post will have it in charge. The G. A. R. are appointing as- sistant. patriotic instructors in every post this year, in order to more effectually interest all the schools in the observance of flag day and to inaugurate a system of patriotic instruction. DOWN 1200 FEET Athens—The oil ~well is down 1200 feet. Geoeral Allen went over with Charles Ostrander about 11 o'clock last night and while there Allen struck a match to light his pipe and the gas -expioded and cast up a stream toa great height They tried to put it out with wet blankets but it burned through them and they were finally. obliged to pack a heavy bank of clay on it before they succeeded in putting it out. There was danger to the machinery for a time. the funeral. recently was a teacher in Athens high school. 81a FIRE AT RUTLAND, VT, B Business Bloek Burned-Fifty Familie les Rendered Momeless. RUTLAND; Vt; Feb 19.— 4A fire broke out lu the center of thé business section of this city at 4 o'clock In morning, and up to noon when it thought to have been brought control the total loss was estima about $700,000. Five brick bulldings extending half a Center street and nearly so square on Merchants row wete stroyed. The firemen were badly pared by frosen hydrants, An appédl for dstistangs was sent other cities, Whitehall, N. X., aad lington responding promptly. - Besides the business firms that were bursed out about fifty families having apart- ments lo the Mead building were ren- dered Lomeless. That the fire was oon- fined to the area burned over was due to the heavy snow which covered the roofs of the.bulldings in the neighbor- bood and prevented a further spread of the flames, The following is a partial list of the concerns burned out: The Tuttle Print- ing company, the Abraham Cigar com- pany, A. L. Miner Drug company, the Marble Baviogs bank, Combimation Cash Store company, Kissane & Ceo, Hopkins & Howley Clothing company, Boston Candy store, D. B. Twigg & Co, and the Young Men's Christian as- sociation. BERLIN, Feb. 19—Prince vou Bu- low, the imperial chancellor, has sent to the reichstag a bill for the extension to the United States of the tariffs given by Germany under reciprocal treaties to certain European states; The meas- ure simply empowers the bundesrath to grant to the United States the rates stipulated in the conventions signed by Germany with Rusala, Auatris-Hun- gary, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Roumania. Bulgatis, with which coun- try s treaty bas bees arranged, but not yot ratified, is not mentioned in the bill. Procidont Falliores Takes Ofiee. PARIS, Feb. 10~Clament Armand Fallieres bas assumed the duties of president of the republic, while former President Loubet passes into private The cersmony of tbe transmis- office took place in the Elysee while the crowds that were in the surrcusding streets “Long live the president!” and “Long live Fallieres! and every mil. that while he is not attempting to die tate the terminology of the raliroad rate bill his preference is that the gub- stance of the Hepburn bill:should be kept. He has taken occasion to say that he cares very little for the form of the blll If the “essence” is Weptl. : ———— ONC - Four Yeare Ia Military Frisen. BURLINGTON, Vt, Feb. 10.—Four years iif the military prison at Govern: ors island la the sentence imposed’ by the court martial held at Fort Etkan Allen on Harry J. Mergan, formerly of Palmer, Mass., quartermaster sergeant of the Fifteenth United Btates cavalry, convicted on the ‘chirge of conduct prejudicial to goodserder and military discipline. Geld Mime Iu Dewmegnl, 8 New: Styles = i oh = PROGRESS {/Is the order of the | day. Asa city, we [ will inevitably have ‘anew Town Hall ‘system and fine much. Ask us about it. DO IT NOW. Both "Phosss. Elmer Ave. A. H. MURRAY, M.D. SPECIALTIES Discases of the War, Nose and a adi nmi Ne Wh oder | a ue i LE LL L. B. DENISON, N. D. : Office, Rooms 3 and 4 : Talmadge Building, Eimer Ave Valley Phone at office and residence. -at-Law Notary Public i Special attention to Pension Papers. Valley Phone 11 X, 11 Deassoad Brest, Bayre. Try an ad in The Record. Ea - ds )
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