GRAF The department of savings Is a g feature of this Bank, and all deposits, whether large or small, draw the same rate of MN. B. SAWTELLE, Qashier. [he Valley Record W. T. CAREY, Editor. a ——— TT Published every afternoon except Sun- \y at Murrelle's Printing Office, Sayre, 00 : 35 cents Bubsoription, $3.00 per year; 25 cen dvastistng iaten sonable, snd made on : as second-class matter May IL Tpke Ps { the news that's fit to print” m— ES OPEN LETTER 1 THE BOARD OF HEALTH 3 (COMMUNICATED.) Editor Valley Re ord “It is the fashion to call public ‘Servants to account but the follow- is not undertakén in that spirit * Hundreds of fathers and mothers are exceedingly anxious about the continued spread of scarlet fever in this borough. The disease has been or less prevalent since De- cember, and instead of abating seems to be on the increase, while some recent cases have assumed a malignant form and several deaths have occurred. It] is assumed that ‘houses are quarantined aud fumi- when the quarantiae is raised. 1a the face of the increase of the fever it would not seem out of place | to inquire whether these precau- tions are rigidly enough carried out. Again the disease has devel- oped namely among school chil dren. What precautions are being taken in the school buildings ? We are told that chidren no longer use each others pencils and are sur- prised that it ever could have been possible. For the next two months, or until the disease is stamped out, no child should be allowed to take a book from the school building— for it is absolutely impossible to tell into what places they may be ~ taken. Better shorter lessons fora mark for life. ~ It would seem also no more than ordinary precaution that the floors gated at least as often as once a week. Village Asks That Appraisers Be Appointed to Determine Value of Plant Broad St. and Park Ave., Waverly. | Waverly—The petition of the village of Waverly, asking the Su~ 'dreme Court to appoint 2 commis- sion to appraise the Waverly water - works was argued before Judge FRANK E. WOOD, Representative 4 News and advertising matter may be Sewell at Ithaca yesterday. left at Gregg's Racket Store, Waverly. F. E Hawkes of this plic: aps After 12 o'clock noon call the main peared for the Water Co, Hon. | office at Sayre, Valley ‘phone 128X. | Frederick Collin of Elmira ap- peared for the bond holders, and J. Howard |g Floyd represented the interest lof G.H. Goff, who holds the ice Miss M. Martene Kenrick of | CORtract. Broad street went to Elmira today Attorney Charles | George Burns were in Owego yes- i terday. & CO. mr Pl. Lang and F. L. were in Owego yesterday. and Attorneys Horton and Tomp Avmabel and kins of Ithaca appeared for the vil lage of Waverly. rs | objection to the petition that it did Attorney F. I. Howard is con-| not show that the village had ob- (fined to his home by an attack of |tined from the State Board of the grip. { Water Commissioners, its consent Miss Bessie Williams of Wilkes Ito the acquisition of the plant bes ; re starting the proceecings as Barre is visiting her sister, Mrs P| : F. Flood. | required by the act of June 3, 1995 | The attorneys for the village Mrs. F. Bingham entertained a contended that the act in question few friends at her home on Waver- | did not apply to the present case ly street last evening. A | but only covered cases where new dist church will sing at the Metho- | where an old plant already in ex- dist church at Sayre this evening. | istence was was to be condemned The act itself provides for the The Berea class tock in over|egaplichment of the State Water $16 at the supper given in the | commission and then says that Baptist church parlors last cven corporation or ing. | other civic division of the state or any commission representing such No municipal SDS Rev. Father Leonard of Great] the Rev. Father O'Reilly of South |") POWer to acquire take or con- Waverly. |demn lands for new or E Clark Tobias, assistant super- | has first submitted the maps and intendent of the W. S. and A. ! profiles to said commission.” Traction company left for LosAn-| taken and geles, Cal, last evening on Erie the court directed the attorneys to train 3. Mr. Tobias received a| submit written Ana adjournment was mother was ill and not expected to at a later date live. Mrs. Tobias went to Califor- | wast swede (VEN SIXTY DAYS BUSINESS MEN MET | Waverly—James Catlin becam drunk and was raising a disturb —_————— Waverly—The Business Men's | 2¢¢ at the home of his sister on Association met last night at the | T10ga street last night and was He was charged with intoxication and The following officers were elected | Gridley. for the ensuing year: President, public given a Harry Knapp; vice president, Ed- | hearing this morning He putin ward Walker, secretary, E. O. fa plea of guilty, but didn't want to Decker: treasurer, E A Tilton, |BO 10 Owego and argued the mat The following directors were also | 167 at some length elected: G. 5. McGleno, F. A. Saw yer, F. W. Merriam, S. C. Hall, C.| C. Strong, O. H. Lawrence, F. E. Lyford. It was decided to hold a banquet, and a committee consist- ing of H.W. Knapp, G. D. Genung, C. W. Brooks, E. A. Tilton, B. D. Barnes and J. A. Ellis, was appoints ed and given power to act. AGED RESIDENT DEAD Waverly—Miss Rebecca M. Van Atta died at her home, 441 Penn- sylvania avenue, at an carly hour this morning. The cause of her The first stroke occurred a week ago and the second last Sunday. She was| aged 74 and was born in Barton, | and had lived in this section all] One brother, A. J. Van Atta survives. The funeral will be held Sunday at 10 a.m, from | the residence Judge Hoag land considerad that a job on the stone pile might help his case and gave him 60 days. ——— i CHARLES ICARTY AGAIN Waverly—A maa who gave his name as Charles McCarty and said that he lived in New York city, was arrested last night by Officer Gridley for being intoxicated in a public place. lle stated that he was going to Elmira and that he had been run out of Sayre yester- day by Chief Walsh. Justice Hoagland thought that it would be well to kecp him in motion, and so he ordered him to leave town in- side of fifteen minutes. tet — At PETITIONERS HUSTLING Waverly— The candidates nomi nated at the Union caucus are dren to school that sufficient pre- cautions are being taken safeguard their health. Fears would be allayed and con- fidence restored if there could be ‘an authoritative statement publish- to what is being done in the scools to keep disease from spreading. Citizen. Very Cheap Traveling April 6th, the Erie RK. will eolouist tickets to all Pacific Coast pumerons interior points : which will ber quoted and aft on given by calling on or any Erie tioket ord. B. 7.4, Rimi. N.Y, . ood GOP sms DIED YESTERDAY may be on the official ballot for the | Under the law it 1s] in the field, to file a petition signed by 100 qualified voters before the] ed me of something.” said a Washing: ton owner of race horses who recent {ly returped from a visit to New Or leans, to a Star reporter. “The story goes thal some years ago Mr. Ziegler, an Intimate friend of Mr. Longworth, took the fatter down to his Kentucky throughbred farm to show him Lis collection of fipe year lings. | unnamed. { T'longworll,’ sald Ziegler, as they | strolled about the stalls, ‘you'd betler | let me name one of these yearilngs after you. They're a swell bunch, and almost all of them are wollnigh {bound to do something Lig in the | world.” i “1 don't mind,’ was Mr. long | vorth's reply. ‘But i'd like to be sure { bf bestowing my cherished name on a | real good one. 1d hate to have a bad {one running in my name All the time about wy performances.’ “Well,” said pretty good Judge of a race Lorse | yourself. Now, here are two of my {cracks in these two stalls. [I'll have ‘em led out into my paddock by one i of the stable hands, and you can look them over and take your pick of them Whichever one you like the best I'll pame after you.’ ‘ “pone,” said Mr. Longworth, and the two yearlings were led inlo the | open | “They were both fine lookers, but Mr. Longworth liked the appearance of the larger one of the two the bel ter. ‘He's christened “Nick Long: worth,” then,” sald Mr. Ziegler, and the colt was duly named Nick Long worth and registered with the Jockey Club under that name “Now, the other coit of the pair from which Mr. Longworth made his selection was afterward named Her i mis. Sounds kind o'familiar to you, eh, that name, Hermis? Well, 1 should think it would sound familiar, seeing that, in the deliberate belief of many of the most astute horsemen in this country, Hermis was absolutely the finest race horse ever foaled in the Mr marvel, a bulldog who never Knew | When he was beaten, and an animal worthy to be ranked with the very | greatest race horses of all me in this or any other country So much for Hermis, the one that Mr. Lopgworth didn’t pick oul. As | for the oue that he did pick oul, aud {that was named Nick Longworth— | well, Nick was worth about nine dul- lars and seventy-five cents a ing proposition, and that's about all He could win a selling race ounce ln a while on Thursdays when the wind was sou'soueast by por, but he {couldn't get out of his own way lo frunniog with even falr handicap horses, and he lost about twenty | times to one win, and it really did come lo pass that Mr. Lougworth's i Clucinnati friends guycd him unmer {eifully about his namesake horse Mr | Longworth never, of course, told his | guying friends that he'd actually had | the chance to get so noble an animal {as Hermis named after him. He probably felt that the situation was bad enough as it was “All of which came to wy mind while | was down in New Orleans, attending the races there “There's a horse owner down Llhere, racing a small string at the old Fair Grounds track, who bas got into the habit of talking to himsell during re cent years. But be is not crazy, and his friends understand what ails him. Every little while he drills over an out-of-the-way corner, where Le thinks he is out of the range of ob servation, and gibbers to himself, and makes strange gestures with his hands, and, at the end, goes through queer motions with his legs as If at- tempting to kick himself. But, as | say, all his friends understand the reason why, and so they don’t dope him out as a candidate for the Looby hatch. “And the nub of it is this. When the mightly McChesney and Evelyn Byrd were yearlings and on the block for sale for a few hundred dollars it was a sale of supposedly cheap yearlings, and there weren't many bidders—Evelyn Byrd struck his owner's fancy as being a right tidy and trim little filly, while, to his view, McChesney looked lummoxy and gross and overgrown and clumsy. * ‘Nothiug to it as between these two,” he sald to himself, sizing up the pair. "Me for the filly,’ and he paid the price asked for Evelyn Byrd and led her away to his shed Then McChesney, the gross, lummoxy, unpromisinglook- {ug yearling that had been, pranced out and made himself a couqueriug and wellnigh isvincible king among | the thoroughbreds of his era. And 4 §ac was in her, proved herself to be noth ing but a poor little old selling plater a prairie cayuse. She won a few races from goat-horses, even after she went totally blind, as she did, but there was never a minute In her life when she had any more chance with Ee abel. Recital Absolutely F Friday Evening at 8 O'Clock. The people of Sayre and vicinity are cordially invited and tears is the way on. critic | describes “Beware of Men,” tlic play that will be produced by the Mur- ray & Mackey company Mond.y evening, March 12, at the Loom:s opera house. The company will present during the week an entire- {ly new repertoire of the latest ‘metropolitan successes. J. M. | Donavin and Florence J. Murray {head the company. High class {vaudeville will be presented by lartists who have been engaged es- i pecially for this part of the enter- {tainment. A limited number of {ladies 15¢ tickets will be sold for | Monday evening only. Co. music and piano store Friday evening at 8 o'clock. This will be a demonstration of the greatest home en- tertainer of the age. You can have .a minstrel show, a ands of selections at vonr command. Come in Friday evening and bring a friend. You are welcome. The re- cital is free. D. S. ANDRUS & CO, Established 1860. 128 Desmond St., Sayre Stores also at Elmira and Williamsport. LOCAL MENTION Rev. W. EE. Daw of Athens will hold a lenten service and will {preach a sermon this cvening at | 7:30 o'clock in the Church of the Reedemer. In the month of January there were 10 cases of scarlet fever re- ported to the board of health; and one of diphtheria. In February there were 15 cases of scarlet fever and also one of diphtheria. In March there were 4 cases and no diphthena. tres ee te—— iE Want ads inserted by persons not having a ledger account with The Record must be paid for when ordered printed. We positively cannot charge want ads indiscrim~ inately—the expense of bookkeep- ing and collecting is entirely out { of proportion to the amount involv- ed in the transaction BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY On of il health of owner, a long established mercan- in this valley 1s offered for quick sale at go per account tie business Address inquiries to Business Opportunity, sare Valley Record, Sayre, Pa. 203f “ent of stock inventory Try The Record. LOOMIS OPERA HOUSE 0..¢ Selid Week Com- mencing NONDAY, MARCH 12 MURRAY & MACKEY Big Comedy Company. Presenting J. M. Donavin and Flor- ence J. Murray And a carefully selected acting company. s—Big Vaudeville Acts—s35 Monday evening —'Beware of Men’ Matinces—Thursday and Friday. Prices—10, 20 and 30c. For Monday evening a limited number of ladies’ special 15¢ tick- cts will be sold, providing same are purchased betore 5 p. m. Mon- day. Reserve