GRAF jure and Undertaking. Cor. $12,000.00 We solicit your Banking basi- nates, and will pay you three per cent. interest per an cam for money _Jaft on Uertifcate of Deposit or Savings Account. The department of savings Is a ~ special feature of this Bank, and all deposits, whether large or small, draw the soe mate of interest. BH. N. SAWTELLE, Cashier, — The V ley Record J. EH. MURRELL, Rublisher. : We. _UARKY, Rditor. ~ Published every aNdracon lr pt San- forse Marrelle's Printing Office, Ssyre, Subscription, $5.00 per year; 25 cents mouth. reasonable, nod made a et osun on paler sn seed clase mtr Ma; Frit righ at Sayre, Pa, 1 Act of Congress of March 8, *“All the news that's fit to print” TUBSDAY, JULY *4. 1908 TALE FROM A “I am 23 to-day. How tine fies! |t Beas yesterday that | war eight and oricd because Anton McFedries Bruce moved away. . Anton McFedries bruce was my frst “Jove. 1 was six then and | lisped. | re- member the lisp particularly, because Anton McFedries took exception to it . He mimicked me dreadfully. [ don't . Suppose the imitation was at all like the original, but he managed to make it un- ~ attractive and convincing, and my bhu- ~ millation was cowplete. | used to think . vaguely of retaliating, and cuce | quite . decided to—the day he had his two front removed. Hut he made so much of them In his pocket and dwelt with such eolor va bis bervic conduct under _ the ordeal of their extraction that my courage melted Lefore him Then, six months later, after | oad Sone through the same ordeal, he culu- manded me perewptorily tw look the other way whenever | found it necessary 10 open my wouth. I remember the birthday present An- ton McFedries gave me the year | was seven. His mother let him choose it ~ himself. It was a small wooden gun that shot corks with dreadful velocity ~ We played a good deal with the gun- that is, Auton McFedries shot the corks . at me. I think it wes my hose thal be almed at especially, und when be missed, which was always, 1 was quite - ready to ascribe his fallure to the ub- satisfactory proportions of the target, 8 sentiment which Anton McFedriea warmly seconded. © There was sn understanding between = us, of course. We were to live together + always, la a log cabin in a deep forest, . nd our domestic routine was to cousist for the most part of a series of heroic rescues, In which | was to be successive- Iy torn from the embraces of bears and the teeth of wolves. Anion McFedofls always figured muguificently in a haze of gunpowder and a glitter of steel. My only prerogative, aslile frum being res ened, was (0 make cookies. Antoun Mc- Fedries conceded the cookles because “be adored my mother's lemon suaps, and | assured him that | should make them just as good when | grew up [re member, too, that | was sternly denlec wallpaper and lace curtains lo the dec oration of our log cabin, and | had to make up my mind to the arraugement of sleeping wrapped up in a blanket on the floor. Aside from making the cookies, this was not the domestic picture which | "would have planned, but | feit my lisp and my other limitations and therefore the necessity of curbing my own (tag _ indtion. I shall never again be so hum “bly orsubserviently in love as | was with Anton McFedries. I was eight when he moved away He gave me his guinea pigs, three canceled postage stamps and a stick of gum at . parting. They were the only visible . signs of his emotion, but I frankly ex- pressed myself in tears Six motths ago he mio ved bac k again 3 called him Mr Bruce then I was greatly surprised to see how he Lad . «hanged. | think he was equally sur prised when he saw | was pot the sawe, I think he expected that my two front “geeth would still be missing and that wy lisp would De as prqpounced us ever, Neither of us had Mvyed up to those er 1 was still In je norunce pe for lemon snaps and he bad & CO. of Broad SL. aed Park Ave., Waverly. on a tenth fSoor somewhere without any thought of forests_amd log cabins and heruvic encounters, 1 asked him last night if he remem- bered the utilitarian connection lo which he used to view my nose That was al a moment when he was viewing it and me in a very different connection indeed, and | wanled to avert a catas. trophe. He only remarked, quite curt. ly, that he must have beet a young beast, This morniug the catastrophe arrived by the first mail. It wanted to know if 1 bad forgotten the old understanding and it asked If | would not please renew it It is quite a different understanding | that he suggests pow. There would be no question of lace curtains and wall- paper, and | would not be competed to sleep In a blanket on the floor i would be the center of attraction my- | self instead of a victim to my hushand's hervigms My nose would remain for- ever unmolested and 1 would bE per- | mitted activities beyond the manufac ! ture of lemon snaps It was a very | much more comfortable understanding Anton McFedries cerlainly has great ly changed. He no longer domineers or tvrannizes or lords jt over me He i would pot think of asking me to turn ia the opposite direction il the expression of my face did not sult him To-day when he remembered my birthday, it was with something very different fro a wooden gun with corks for ammun!- tion. Yet 1 much preferred the embryo hunter and potential hero who trod on my personality and stified my imagina- tion when | was eight. 1 was very much more ecstatic under the old arrange ment, which included vicious |mita- tions of my lisp and the elimination of all feminine preferences. | find that | cannot renew the understanding with Anton McFedries Bruck Love is a funny thing. —Chleago Dally News, BURNING OF THE KITTIE M. As Result of Fire on Launch One Man Is Dead aad Nine Injured. MIDDLETOWN, Coun, July 2°. —As 8 result of the burulug of the power lauach Kittle M. just above East Had dam, on the Conuecticut river, une man is believed to have been drowned, another is severely burned. and eight others, making up a party of ten, were more or less seriously hurued Ihe boat was prctienily rained and was abandoned. Nothing was kuotn of the caftnetro- phe until nine members of the party reached this city after walking from East Haddam and it to the The party stared down the river from Hartford, Intending to go to Saybrook. Asx the launch was near ing East Haddaw of the men threw a match which be had used to light a cigar junto the bottom of the Inunch, and as a result the gasoline, which supplied the motive pewer for the launch, was iguited. One of the party selted a pail and, dipplug up some walter out of the river, threw ft into the blaze lu an effort to yuench It This, however, ouly mnde matters worse, and the flames soou covered the whole boat and bursed the occupants mere or leas severely. One of the members of the party, Willlam Huyes of Burnside, in an endeavor to escape from: the flames jumped overboard This act his companions did mot no tice until his cries rose from the wa- ter. They could not locate them, how. ever, and after one or two cries noth: ing more wus heard from him. The boat was turped to the shore, and ax soon as It came dear ewough to the river bank the occupasmts jumped out and made for land The most se- riously burned of the nine rema members of the party ls Joseph Russell of Hartford. reported police ole PLANS HIS OWN PRISON. Teday Will Start te Dis tribute $4,000,000. CHICAGO, July .}-—-Louls A. Gour- dain, who has been vainly trying te have bimself put in the Illinois state prison, came back to Obicago from New York with several new ideas. [He sald he would start nt ouce building his ‘penitentiary anuex” at Joliet and have It sll ready in case the United States supreme court falle to grant his desires “Today 1 will start to give away $4. (00, to persons who have lost mon- ey Investing in my onterprise, which the government has held {legal 1 fg ure that [ have taken in from $800.000 to $1500.00 a month in the last five years. [I shall post notice to that ef fect In every postoffice fa the United States, That's the only way I can get A list of the names “While in New York [I engaged A warden and au assistant warden for my penitentiary annex They will leave Jobs In another prison. [U'll pay them double the salaries of those offi clals In the Jollet penitentiary. I bave bired six Chicago wen as guards. They will recelve double the salary of guards at Joliet “1 will have plans and specifications for my prison nunex today. Architect Camplell of Joliet Is preparing them The prison will be 40 by 40, a replica of the oue owned Ly the state “I will make shoes, shirts and coats and shovel coal fo my little peniten- Gourdals 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 198%. John M. Jolis went to Towanda th's marine Jesse W Green is in New York for a week's visit. The Tioga and Cayuta hose companies will drill this evening Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Iogham are spending the day in Towanda. Mrs Clara Frost Miller of Ath ens weit to Bunghamtoa this morn irg Miss Fay French is enj ying an outing with friends on Spercer lake. Miss Viva Baldwin of Washing- ton, D. C, 15 visiting Waverly fricnds. Dr-and Mrs S W. Thompsa: of Owego, were in Waverly yes- ‘erday i The Sunc<hine club met las eveing at the home of Mis F D Swarthout Mrs. Josie Beardsley of Ne York city, is visiting Miss Mame Finch of Cayuta street The Waverly baseball team will go to Ithaca tomorrow to play the independent team :ccently orgin- ized at that place Mrs. F M. Hic's of Rome, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank [H. Bingha, Howard street, returned home today. Miss Agaes Reynolds will return to her hou.e in Hornell today after a week's visit with her si-ter, Mrs, James Nolan, Spaulding street Chief Brooks received a tele- phone message frem E mira this morning stating that the safes of the cut flower store and in the Les high officc were blown open by burglars last night. Chief Brooks of this place will leave this afternoon on Erie train No. 1 for Niagara Falls to attend the State convention of Chicfs of Police. A special car will be at. tached to the above train and the chiets will go as guests of the Erie company Chiels Walsh of Sayre and Mulligan of Athens will accompany Chief Brook by special invitation. At Elmira they will be joined by Chief Cassady STRUCK BY CA - _Waverly—Melbro Squires, who lives on the Ed Walker fafm in North Waverly, drove to Sharpen stin-'s blacksmith shop on We:t Broad this morning, and had just started for home when his lumber wagon was struck by the South Waverly car. Mr. Squires was thrown out and dragged for some distance, bruising him and tearing his clothing. The lumber wagon and harness were badly wrecked. The horses were stopped without havipg JFeceived any injury. ~~ WAGONS COLLIDED oWaverly—Mrs John Limerick of South Waverly was driving up Broad street when her horse be- came frightened and collided with Walker's delivery wagon. Mrs, Limerick and a lady companion jumped to the pavement and were uninjured. Both horses were hrown to the pavement and the wagons overturned The wagon telonging to Mr. Limerick was badly smashed and the harness on both horses badly broken. BURELARIZED STORE Waverly—The grocery store of W. C Farley was entered by thieves last night and the cash register rifled The thieves ob. tained an entrance over the front door transom and with the aid of a box climbed out the, same way. About $300 in small change was taken and nothing else was dis- a TE Reliability Service and Accurat Waltham 18 Size A new system bf watch inspectio ‘bracing the following classification of new regulations. and en us especially favorable tarms as to prica n will be inaugurated on the Lehigh employes : ductors, Engineers, raph Operators, Signal Supervis- No, 162 21 Jewels Open Face Size 18 aad payments. 19 21 23 Jewels Waeltham IN Size Hampeden Hampden 3 Special euler 23 Jewels New Railway 21 and 23 Jewels 19 21 23 Jewels Vanguard P.W. TO WNER PREPARING FOR FAIR Waverly—Four members of the Manoca lodge of the Odd Fellows are soliciting today for their big fair to be held in September. Con- tractor L. F, Lord has been en- gaged to erect a building ;ox80 Johnson street, in which the fair will be held. One of the principal contests will be for a diamond ring valued at $150 00, between Frank of this place. TALIAN LOST Foor gang at Towanda had a foot taken off by the cars yesterday. A heavy shower came up and he crawled under a car to get out of the rain. An engine bumped into the car and a wheel passed over the ankle. He was brought to the Robert Packer hospital. The 1 O O F Lodge, No. 1090, assisted by Lady Willard Rebekah Lodge, No 131, will hold a picnic at Wildwood, next Saturday, July 28 All Odd Fellows and their familics come and enjoy your- selves as a good time is assured to all, 65-2t 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 bookkecp- ing and collecting is entirely out of proportion to the amount involv- ed in the transaction. Read The Record. Excursions ERIE RAILROAD, $1.25 to Keuka Lakq and return Sunday, July 29th. 8 good six days, on sale July 26h. $5.50 to Toronto, Ont. and rétarn July 26h. Tickets good eight days. G8 10 day excursion to Saratoga and Lake George, $5.00 from Waverly via Erie RR. July 14th and Aug 18th. 48 $3.50 to New York City and return Sat- urday night, Jaly 28th. Children hall fare. 14} 30 day excursion to Chautauqua July 6b, via Erie Railroad, $6.83 from from Waverly, 45 75¢ to Binghamton and return, Sunday, July 29, and each siternate y thereafter, Tickets good leav- og Waverly at 7.52 an0d 10:88am. 25 $3115 to Milwaukee Wis. and $1285 to S or to i | William's Carbolic Salve With! Amica and Witch Hazel | The best Salve in the world for Cuts, | Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tet- | tery Chapped Hands and all skin erup- | tions. [It is guaranteed to give satisfac- | tion, or money refunded. Price 25¢ by | druggists. illiams Mfg. Co. Prop's. | Cleveland, O. Bold by C, M. Driggs, druggist, A Charming Vacation Trip A most charming vacation trip has been prepared by the Erie Railroad at a very small expense to Saratoga Springs | | and Lake George on Saturday, July 14th. Tickets will be good for ten days, giving ample time to visit Saratoga and the most beautiful of all American lakes, Lake George, as well as the historic Lake Champlain. Elegant new vesti- | buled coaches will be used for this trip and run through to Sara Fare for | round trip from Waverly only $6.00. For information regarding trains, ete. eall J. H. Webster, Division Passenger Agent, Elmira, N, Y. 48ajl4 > Seaside, Lake, Mountain Resorts When considering your vacation trip remember that the Erie has excursion tickets on sale at reduced rates to all | attractive resorts. Our excellent train service will increase the pleasure of Jour trip. Alldesired information will given by Erie ticket agents, or J. H. Webster, Division Ageat, Elmira, N. Y. 86-dly-8-1 e———— Train | The Erie Railroad will have a person- ally conducted’ train to Minneapolis August 11th, account of G. A. R Na- tional Encampment, made up of day coaches, tourist and standard sleepers, train runnin z through without change. | For rates and other information, inquire of any Erie Ticket Agent, or write J. H. Webster, Division Ageat, Elmira, 03-19 $6.90 to Chautauqua, N. Y aad | return, account Lebigh Valley excur-| a a ers y . ret within iy) including date of sale, Tickets will not be ted on the Black Dia mond Express. r further particulars see Lehigh Valley ticket agents. 35 $1.35 to North Fair Haven and Return The Lehigh Valley Railroad will sell tickets Sunday, Jaly 1st and very San- day thereafter until Sept. Oth. ickete good going and retarniog on all trins on Week End Outings On Saturday and Sandays from June 30th to September 30th, the Lebigh Val- ley Railroad will sell excarsion tickets locally In New York state at low fares, which will provide over Banday outings at a minimum cost for railroad fares, Thia arrangement applies generally to points in New York state east of Geneva, Ask Lebigh ticket agents for full pas- ticulars, 40-¢f ————— $1.90 to Freeville, N. Y. and Re turn, via Lehigh Valley Railroad, se- count Central New York State Spiritual. ist Mestings, July 231 to Aug 20th, 1900. Tickets sold Jaly 21 to Aug. 10th, in- clusive, good on all regular trains. For further particulars see Lobigh Valley Ticket Agents. 51 i son $1.00 to Wilkes Barre and Re- tarn. The Lehigh Valley Railroad, July 20th. Special traln in both diresTions. Leave Lr at 7:10 a m,; retarning leave Wilkes-Barre 6:00 p. wm. Train will stop at Pittston in both directions. Tickets good guiag and returning on special traing on dato of lasue only, See Lehigh Valley Ticket Agents for further particulars, bb National Encampment G.A.R, Minneapolis On account of the above eveat, the dadyed train, . 4 Muslin Skirts and Night- gowns, One Third Off An Unusually Pretty Line of Paper Napkins and Lunch Sets Jelly Glasses and Fruit Cans of All Kinds Brooms for 15 Cents We have a line of Brooms not quite up to par. Sell them while they last : at 15c; were 25c. Gregg’s Racket Store, Cor. Broad St. and Park Ave. Waverly. NER Keules is Juatly cutifiod to the reputas tion it bears, that of belag the Set beautiful lake in New York state. . Wanted. Girl for dining room work, person at Kasper restaurant. Girl for week. 620 $1.25 to Sylvan Beach and Return The Lehigh Valley Railroad will sell tickets Sanday, daly 1st and every Sun- 3nY Shara f30¢ uk} Sept Yu | ckets returning on all traing on date of issue only. See Lehigh Tiok- ot Agents for further particulars. 40 Maynard, Maynard & Schrier Attorneys and Counselors. M.P. A. Block, Sayre, Pa. May- nard Block, Athens, Pa. Cards For Sale The V. ans} Recued has in stosk the Anply ia eral h rk, $250 Main stroet, Athena. Wanted -E il Bayre use Parnes Tota th fant ko lible remedy for catrrrh. 25 coats. Our agent will call on you, 64-40 Por Reat Furnished rooms, all BOY Stevenson street. Furnished room for gentleman or all modern improvements. West Lockhart street. 3
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