the sevénties, clambered to th z
the ice-tovered steel roof and fought
the fierce Bames for an hour. Unald-
ed except by those who attached buck-
sts of wafer to the rope he lowered, |
he extinguished the fre. “1 am my |
‘own fire department,’ says the old!
man, gualatly
Lightuing struck
One Solid Wek Core
mencing
MONDAY, MARCH 12
FRANK E WOOD, Representative
News and "advertising matter may be
left at Gregg's Racket Store, Waverly.
After 12 o'clock noon call the main
office at Sayre, Valley ‘phone 128X,
es SUDDEN
' Died This Afternoon While Seat.
Prices Right. Large
New Goods.
C r Suites.
Assortment.
his house and
GRAF
& CO.
We solicit your Banking busi-
meus, and will pay you three per
interest per annum for money
on Curtificate of Deposit or
The department of savings is a
feature of this Bank, and
deposits, whether large or
small, draw the same rate of
N. N. SAWTELLE,
The 2 Valley R Record
Ww. T. CARREY, Editor.
—
every afternoon except Bun-
Murralle's Printing Office, Sayre,
$3.00 per year; 25 cents
rates reasonable, and made
88 second-class matter May
Teh A wf Congress of March &
—
= Jewel of a Wife,
The minister's wife had an unwel-
visitor in a very talkative scan
onger, 50 the minister went out
a stroll. Returning half an hour
* he called out “That old cat
ne, 1 suppose?”
“Yes,” sald his wife,
‘her guest falking to her
§ In & basket, my dear,
who had still
I sent It
this morn
What do you think of that for pres
oe of mind and abséule oi
Christian Life.
ey
Tails to Spare.
~ Cats with uise lives and cats with-
t talls have always been plentiful in
Wapakoneta, O, but cats with two of
talls were never seen (here De
. That town is the proud pos
‘sefsor of three Kittens with even
% two have two talis each,
one has only one common tail
The extra talls grow out of tae kit
tens’ backs along the backbone, are
“folly developed, and almost as loDg
“#8 the natura! tails
Brazilian Servants
18 Brazil servants will not sleep in
the house, as a rule, but expect to
Jeave al seven at night and not re
turn until seven or eight the next
day. As a resull, many bouses bave
. ® pane of glass in one of the windows
“taken out, through which the baker
"and the milkman pass their goods on
their early rounds, without troubling
5 member of the family to get up and
the door.
Has Too Much Work.
‘Semalor Knox, of Pennsylvania, In
conversation with a friend the other
day, laughingly observed that if he
Bad any \dea as to the amount of
‘work he would have to perform he
would uever have taken a Job as a
member of the United States scnate
He ls compelled to answer ou au av
erige, of 125 letters a day
Gen. Sherman's Daughter
Old Tecumseh Sherman's favorite
davghter, Mra. Alexsoder M Thack
ara, wife of the United States con
sul geoeral at Berlin, Is the leader of
American life In the kaiser's capital
Her bome I= in that part of Berlin
knows as the “District of Columbia,’
‘Because 80 many Americans are clus
tered lu the vicinity
Animal Antipathles.
Many animals are born with an in
herfted antipathy for other animals
The excessive fear shown by young
rabbits which for the first time smell
ferret, and of young turkeys which
Bear the shrill cry of a hawk they
BAve Rever sesn or heard before, are
proved examples of the strength of
these Instinctive antipathies
Head-Ou Collision.
- Claude Dooley and Herbert Pulver
were skating in opposite directions ob
Long's pond at Douglass, relates the
Kansas City Journal Ome or the
other misread bis orders and Lolh met
“OB the same siding. Young Pulver got
S Jar on the top of his head that
. ERIE near telescoping bis eck The
part of Claude's Dose Was
Wp Into his perspective facul
an
-
JOWA MAN BEARS
A CHARMED LIFt
‘HAS SURVIVED TWO-SCORE SE-
RIOUS ACCIDENTS.
STILL ACTIVE AT AGE OF 77
Henry Walker, of Johnson County,
Has Had Bones Broken Several
Times—His Highly Event-
ful Life
knocked him
unmarked
The country home
upconsclous—recovered
which so nearly
is typical
bulit the three-storied
himself, and manufactured the brick
froma which it wes constructed. For
this purpose he Lulit kllus his
farm
Many a time When, in gathering Lis
stock after a spring freshet that flood-
ed the flelds adja ent to the lowa riv-
er, Mr. Walker plunged Into the
ou
aced by fire; legs, arms and ribs frac-
tured repeatedly by falls and runa-|
ways; ‘life imperilled through somnam-
bulism; kicked by refractory horses
and stubborn mules;
furiated steers,
snd Indians,
the victim of 50 more or leas grave ac
|
{
peace and former supervisor of John-
son county, lowa, to-day lives to tell |
the tale
He could-be described as bale and
hearty were he nol just recovered
persous would have Leen
plunge down a song flight of stairs
fracturing bis skull After this accl-
dent, which was due to a sompambu-
Hatlc attack, Mr. Walker was “picked
uf for dead,” but that experience has
been his for (wo score times and he
speaks jestingly of his latest near ap-
proach to death, as he does of dozens
of others.
Mr. Walker enjoys the novel distine-
tion of being the most frequently In
a fatal
HE PLUNGED HEADLONG DOWN
STAIRS
jured man in all lowa He Is now al-
most 77 years of age, and his misfor-
tunes began about t6 years ago, when
he came here, a boy of 11, from his
birthplace in Portage county, Ohlo
Despite the manifold accidents his
ite has been energetic and fruitful
and to this day he is as bright and
“chipper '—when not in the surgeon's
hands—as a man 40 years his junior
During his long #nd busy life he has
amassed 3 fortune in lowa farms and
now occupies and constantly cares for
his 1,100 acres along the shores of the
fowa river in Johnson and Washing
ton counties
Mr Walker's recent disastrous tus
sle with somnambulism caused him
become reminiscent, and he
some of the mwny mishaps of
eventful life
following
Attack of black erysipelas
one eye lost
Engaged In w.estling
broken near shoulder
Fell out of haymow—Dbroke several
ribs
Slipped while carrying walter
eral ribs broken
Trampled by herd of 44 maddened,
stampading steers
Three horses attached to a
dragged him through a hay field
kle passed completely him re
peatediy —cut and brulsed
Mules attached
dragged him over a long fleld
broken at thigh; this bone he set and
dressed himself
Lightning struck and killed cattle
snd other stock "ear where he was
working In a field and hed him
senseless RAMONE bodies
sight of |
match — arm |
a
sickle |
over
to a hay rake
wound he
Stret
their dead
recovered unhuraesd
While on a journey on foot, driving
060 cattle to a po.nt 26 miles from his
home u deep snow drifts
found unconscious, revived with diffi-
culty; flugers frozen off: part of one
ear ditto, nose frozen
A
him — both
Lroken
In a somnanibulistic
plunged down a long
fractured on top and at the base, nose
broken
Besides these cuumerated accidents
Mr Walker recallr a score of runa
was lost
colt
bones of Lis right
leg
slate
temporarily imperiled, but out of
which be came unscathed. Many times
he was thrown, kicked and dragged by
fractious horses, and yet suffered no
broken bones and no injuries of last-
{
Age has never Im-
paired Lis ability as a swimmer.
As a pedestrian he proved hi= prow-
ess many years ogo, when he walked
to the government offices In lowa
stake his claims. This meant a tramp
to Dnbugue, a distance of 120 miles
Such a jourfey was but child's play,
however, to the man who, at the age
of 20, when Inspired Ly the “goid fe-
ver," had walked over death-bearing
plains to California. As “Forty-
be covered that distance on
arriving in the
gold fields with one yoke of oxen. He
started with seven
-
{ing fellows made the journey trebly |
dangerous, and made walking, waking
and watchfuluess, night and day, pref- |
Mr. Walker Is a total abstainer, both |
| Were It pot for his extraordinary |
{ series of accidents he would have been |
under the doctor's care but rarely in|
throughout the years of Us run, and |
never stopped his work to “shake it |
On one memorable occasion his
his knowledge The doctor diagnosed
hi= illness as pneumonia and drove
him to bed
Next day the physician called and
found the old man waist deep In wa-
ter, at the bottoni of a 40-footl well,
at work, where no other man would
go. The doctor left no prescription
Mr. Walker 1s a warm-hearted man
and is the foster parent of half
whom
a
His wife, who has made his home
happy for 25 years, was chosen with
that qualntness which characterized
hie whole life One day, while plant-
ing corn during the busiest season, Mr
Walker stopped bitched his horses to
a near-by tree and proceded to the
home of an estimable spinster, who
had lived not far away To her he
had never spokea a word of love, but
he proposed on Lhe spot,
gimilarly and lo eu hour was wed
wedding dinner 48 hours
nounced his warriage to his
relatives
was accepted
Al
fater an-
surprised
BEAR is UNWELCOME
CUEST OF LUMBERMEN.
this morning.
was in town over Sunday.
FE.
street greenhouse is in Owego.
Mrs. Anabel E
Park avenue is int Elmira today.
J. A. Ellis, the Lincoln street]
grocer, is in Owego on business to
day
eg A pene
Sunday with his parents in South |
Waverly.
Thomas Smeaton, Clark |
of pleurisy.
————— A ——————.
are in Owego today to be present
Mrs. Thompson of Owego has
lin club as instructor,
A. IL. Howard is again able to
resume his duties at his offic+, being
iil for the past few days
Miss Frances Wakely of Geneva
N.Y
Swartout, Waverly street.
crt
Cudahy packing company has gone
to Omaha, Ncb, oa a business
- cp
N. ¥,
day
South Waverly.
snte——— i ———
town hall over night.
er —
Mrs. S. E. Ellis went to New
York city this morning. She will
Animal Crawls Down Cbimney and
Makes Feast of Lunch of Hun-
gry Laborers
Lawrenceburg, loud —James T. Mar-
tin, a sawmill owner, whose plant Is
located on South Hogan Creek, was |
tuken the other day when
be and his men returned to the [oR |
house for dinner A small brown
cipnamon bear bad climbed down the
stone chimney after sceuting the |
The unwelcome
intruder had upset several buckets
«nd baskets, and was engaged In de- |
vouring the contents when he was un- |
ceremoniously attacked by the hungry |
lumbermen |
Fhe bear at frst resented the at-
tempts make it desist, but was;
driven frum the hut into the]
near by Several! guns and
unawares
to
MARTIN WAB KNOCKED DOWN
revolvers were oblulned, and the bear's
life was speedily snuffed out
Martin was knocked
fiesh badly lacera‘ed by the animal's
laws He would have probably been
killed had ring iu Its nose
caught on a stout sapling and pre-
vented it from biting him A leath-
er collar around the neck of the bear
had a small metal plate, on which |
vere some letters in a forelgu lan-
Fuage
A bout
gypsies,
ponies camped over night
woods near the sawmill
that the bear escaped from these wan-
cerers
not a
four months ago a party of |
Iu
In Training
“How 1s Josh doin’ in his studies?”
asked Farmer Corntoasel.
“Nol very well,” answered the profes-
por. “He Is regular in attendance, but
he never Answers any of Wy questions’
“Well, mebbe it's a pied d Sia Se
J turn oul 6-he'a
a hrfftr
Mrs. Dearborn, William strect,
returned home from Olean
where she went to attend the
Fred © Slawson and wife o
Ithaca spent Sunday with Mr
|Slawson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A
E. Slawson, Cheng street.
— re
The Roworth League will hold
a social at the Mcthodist church
next Wednesday evening. The
male chorus will render several
s=lections
E. A Tilton returned from
Ithaca last evening, where Le
spent the last three days in the
interest of the Central New York
State Volunteer Firemen's Associ-
ation
The Farther Lights society of
the B.ptist church will give a igh
comedy entitled “Sun Bonnets,”
the church next Friday night.
admission will be 15c.
entertainment tea will be
free.
scrved
re — A Mi
| be presented to the Waverly camp, |
|S. of V. this evening. P. L. Lang
will make the presentation speech |
and an enjoyable entertainment has |
‘been provided. The doors will
I not be open to the public, as has
| Sons of Veterans in this vicinity.
ed in a Chair in His
Office
| few minutes.
| uted to heart failure.
{fitted up a fine suite of offices i
| verly Steck,
TOLD To DEPART
Waverly—A
village line.
FUNERAL YESTERDAY
| largely attended. The Rev.
vrs
Woman Centenarian.
Hatvey, of Marvel,
died recently.
ye ars oid
of Weilliugton
Mrs Isle
She wns
Natural Weathercocks.
Bitds, when perched on trees
bushes are natural weathercocks,
they invariably roost with their heads
the wind
Loyalty’ s Value.
There [2 one
ts weight
ty
nesses
--
Woman's Distinction.
Miss Margaret Putpam,
fleld, Mass
state out of a mixed class of 235
On Tap.
suggested the caller
“It isn't necessary,”
colonel's daughter
it in the house.''-—Houston Post.
replied
Writer of Famous Hymn.
Mrs. Jemima Luke, who wrote
hymn, “1 Think When 1
Sweet Story of O14,"
isle of Wight, in her ninety-first year,
At the Hotel.
apartments confections?
suites, —Baltimore Athericaii
New Books for Boys.
ol
or
ns
Lo
|
The Always Welcome
Big Comedy Company.
Presenting
J. M. Donavin and Flor-
ence J. Murray
And a carefully selected acting
company.
5—Big Vaudeville Acts—;3
Matinces—Thursday and Friday.
Prices—10, 20 and joc.
For Monday evening a limited
number of ladies’ special 15¢ tick- |
ets will be sold, providing same |
are purchased belore 5 p. m. Mon-
day.
Reserve scat sale opens Friday.
We Stand on the Quality
of Our Work.
Try us fora Suit. A large num-
ber of stylish designs of high
grade material to se~
lect from.
Prices Moderate.
Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing,
S. J. NASADOWSK]I,
McCarthy Block, Broadway and
Clark Sts, Waverly.
care
Best of Everything
Lockhart St.
Sayre.
FISH, FISH,
We will have them every day during
Lent. Also a good line of meat at popu-
lar prices. S.J. BELLIS, Elizabeth
street,
Valley Phone 66x. Bell Phone 138w
THE DOCTORS
OF THE
Electro Medical Institute
will be at the Tioga Hotel, Waverly,
March 14 to 18. Consultation free
and private
A.E.BAKER
Carpenter and Builder.
17 Pleasant St. Waverly, N.Y.
Wm. B. McDonald, D.D. §.
All modern methods for the scien-
tific performance of painless opera-
tions on the mouth and teeth.
104 South Elmer Ave,
OVER THE GLOBE STORE.
R. H. DRISLANE,
Contractor and Builder
Plans and Estimates Furnished.
103 Lincoln St Sayre. Pa
Specialties
Diseases of Women and of the Rectum,
" will be an appropriate title for
OFFICE—-SAMUELS BLOCK.
Bverytning New aad Up-to:Date. First
Accommodations.
AGENTS WANTED.
House to rent, Athens, Pa, corner of
Elmira and Bri street. Apply to 8,
O. Decker, West per street, 255-8¢
A seven room house, 202 Tyler street,
Athens. Inquire at the house orof B,
F. Lager, 228 Main St., shoe shop. 353-8*
The Dr. Judson property on North
street, Athens, Pa. Apply to W. Howard
Allen, Farmers National Bank, Athens,
Pa. 0-1
Double brick store, suitable for a gro-
cery or grocery and meat market, cor-
ner of Hugh street and Pennsylvania
avenue, Athens, Pa. Will be *Btted up
to suit the renter, new and in Arst-class
order. James 8. Parks, Athens, 2538%
A suit of rooms for light b housekeepiog
on the second floor in Shaw's block, Ath-
ens, Pa. All the modern improvements.
W. H Shaw,
Two offices for reat in the Maney &
Page block. Nef
Third floor of the Glaser block. Eleo-
tric light, bath room and all modern im-
provements. Enquire at Glaser's Loan
office, Lockhart street. 1768
For Sale.
1905 Automobile, two or four passen-
ger, convertible, prime condition, ine
spection invited. Particulars on ree
quest. Address Lock Box 8, Aton, Vy
"Five plece parlor suit. Inquire 444
Pennsylvania avenoe, Waverly, 254-8t*
Residence lot on North Wilbur avenue.
Inquire 513 Stevenson street. 2154-11¢
Houses for sale in Wayely. ay
located, from $1,000 u
Dubos, 438 3 438 Warorry Rosy Bt,
Inquire of A. G.
For Sale or Rent
Waverly, N.Y.
House, barn and 12 acres of land in
Lockwood. Enquirs of D, C, m,
Lockwood, or owner, A. V. C. Vall, Itha-
ca.
The Robinson house, eorner Malin and
Barry dtusets, Athens, Pa. Possesion at
J.T. Corbin, Athens. ft
Situation Wanted
Widow wishes position as housekeep
er. Inquire at 302 Stevenson Bt. 7-8
Political Announcement
. the te Rapublioas Voters of Bradford
i Lues y announce myself asa candi.
presentative to the P
vania Legislature from Bradford coun
Subject to the rules of the Republican
rty. Dr. C. L, Stevens,
March 10, 1908, 2nd Ward, Athens.