OF SAYRE. $50,000.00 $12,000.00 Publisher. . T. CARRY, Editor, every afternoon except San Maree Printing Office, Sayre, $3.00 per year; 15 cents rates reasonable, snd made Lo] . MURREL the Yomtoton matter 4 Congreas of March 8, A the news that's fit to print” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 1508. ‘RECORD 10 HAVE NEW HONE il Move on or About Novem- er 1st to New Building Is Being Erected on ‘Workmen today began the foun- “for a buildiag which is to future home of The Valley The Record's new home is be- ing erected by H. R. Talmadge on & vacant lot on Lockhart street it west of the Wheelock block, the contract calls for its com- on by the first day of Novem- next The Record has ene outgrown its present quar- and much more room than is provided is needed to hazdle increasing volume of business new building will meet this at, and at the same time ample room for the instal i of a modern type setting je and a fast newspaper press pugh The Record is less 8 months old, it is at the time enjoying an extensive ge which has now reached t where the present plant somewhat cramped quarters longer able to properly care it. Hence arrangements have made for new quarters and ‘machinery which, when as- , will make an equipment ‘will enable The Record to ly its patrons with a news- r that will in every respect be p up-to-date and worthy of which it is already During its short life Record has every reason to grateful to the business men citizens generally of this val- The patronage has exceeded anticipations of the and at this time he 10 return his most sincere realizing that it is this age which has made The an undoubted success, rord expects to greet its d patrons in its new home put the first day of Novem- Tits new quarters will be BANA i $ ATHENS. = Dana Fice was in Nichols today on business, John Heavener was fishing on the Susquehanna today. —————— DW. Ford and wile of Syra- cuse, are visiting at Perley Hol- T. R. Macafee of Towanda, was business, Miss Edoa Voorhis ol of Smith- field, was visiting friends in Athens yesterday. Mrs. John Newman went to her old home in Sheshequin this mom- ing to spend the day. ~ Perkins post will hold their regs ular monthly meeting Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Isaiah Potter will take a week off and go to Potterville tomorrow morning to visit old friends, Mrs Emeline French and Mrs. James Stone spent today at the home of M, E. Soper in Milan. Miss Mary R. Strong has been visiting friends in Athens and Sayre and returned to New Albany today. Miss Lizz? ¢ Gregory and mother, Mrs. Elmer Gregory, are visiting friends in New York city this week. Lyman Beers came from Ocwell yesterday afternoon to attend the meeting of the Union Veteran Legion. Miss Ada Morris of Horbrook, has been the guest of ber sister, Mrs. J. J. Morrison, and returned home this morning. F. E. Luckey and wile are in New York this weck. Mr Luckey is purchasing a large stock of goods forthe fall trade. A large number of Athenians went to Waverly last evening to attend the play of “The Man on the Box,” ard were delighted with it. Mr. and Mrs. M C. Wilson, Frederick street, returned home yesterday after a ten days’ visit at Groton, North Lansing and Ithaca, N.Y. Mrs LL.M. Berjimin and daugh- ter, #lazel, went to Durell this merning, where they will visit the former's mother, Mrs, HH. A Sickler. The Lehigh Valley company are putting in a switch at Morley's crossing to accommodate D. J. the new state road. Next Sunday will be commtiich and roll call at the Presbyterian church, and it is desired to have every member present or givea Tesponse to the church. Miss Lena Heniy has been obliged to take a vacation from her dutics at the Luckey store, on ac- count of illness, and has gone to Alba for a few months. Mrs. C. E. McKinney went to Ridgeway, Pa, this morning as a delegate to the state convention of the W.C.T. U Mrs. Sylvia B. Norrish accompanied her, District Deputy J. M. Molyneux of New Albany, installed the offi cers of Athens Lodgel 0.0, F, last evening, There was a large attendance and the exercises were of a most interesting character, Byron Chamberlin, a veteran of Company I, One Hundred and Forty-first Pennsylvania Volun- teers, now residing in Towanda, high school lecture course will be G. W. Gillian, the humorist in his lecture, “Sunshine aud Award. ness” Oct. jist, Tickets will be on sale one week before the lecture takes place. BE COT LOST Athens—Frank Little and Al Corby went hunting on Ovenshire hill yesterday and they started home on the mountain road. In some maaner Little got strayed away from his companion and Cor- by got confused and wandered up the mountain in the forest and completely lost himself, He at last came out of the woods on McKin- ney hill, three miles from home, and was slowly making his way to Athens, when a rescuing party with Little as a guide, were going to his assistance. Corby was born and brought up in Athens and the boys think it isa good joke on him to get lost. Wise Cow, The Cow was about to jump over the moon. “By the way,” sald the Cow, I'll wait a moment.” “What for?” asked the Little Dog. “Why, perhaps I can carry a sign on my back stating that | wear Jum- sem Bouncer’'s rubber heels.” Which goes to show that the wise Cow was imbued with the modern ideas of progressive advertising. —Chil- cago Daily News “I think Budden Loss of Faith, Dr. Pill (at medical meeting) —What's the matter with Dr. Physic to-night? He appears to be ina terribly bad humor —nothing but tmpatience, frascibility, nnd slurs every time the wonderful progress of medical science Is men- tioned. Dr. Powder—He has had rheumatism for six weeks, and all his brother physicians who were called In only made it worse—N. Y. Weekly. Behind the Scenes. Old Lady—My Loy, Is it your father who writes so many smart sayings of children? Small Boy— Yes, ma'am ‘I suppose he always encourages you to talk.” “No, ma'am. He threatens to thrash me If | even whisper when he is writing his smart things the children havesald.” —Cassell’'s Journal Generosity. “What made you refuse to answer guestions in that investigation?” “My dear sir,” answered Mr. Dustin Btax, “lI am of the people you read about whose time is worth several hundred dollars a minute, Isn't that a sufficient contribution to the ocea- sion without throwing In valuable in. formation ?”"—Washington Star. The Present Theory. “This bulldog,” sald the fancier, “is an ugly looking brute, but he can’t fight. While this one (Indicating No. 2) Is just the opposite.” “Give me the ugly looking one,” said the purchaser. “I want him for protee- tion, and this Is the age of bluff." —Da- troit Free Press. Reversed. Parent (who has received news of his son's death in the far west)—And how did poor William meet his death? Western Friend—He didn’t meet it at all, slr. The boys had ter chase him ten miles before they could catch him and put the rope round his neck, —Cassell’s Journal. Where Officers Congregate. Towne—I understand your new house is only a few doors from a saloon Browne—Yes, it's great! Towne—Great? | should think you'd object to that, Browne—Not at all. It'sa protection; it draws the police — Philadelphia Presa What a Pity. “Why is It that so many people do not care for Shakespeare?” “My dear sir,” answered Mr. Storm- ington Barnes, “it Is a physical impos- sibility for me to show everybody in the world just how Shakespears should ba ~aved. "Washington Star, McMahan's We have a large con- signment of ladies and children's coats and furs. These are bought by a larger department store and we can give you city prices for a limited time. D. E. McMAHAN, Lk O, 0. F. Bloat, Denver, Col—Wiiliam James Pal tersop, M. A, graduate of Rush and Washington medical schools, was ar- rested here the other day on a $20 forgery charge. Patterson lays the arrest to deep delving in criminology, and declared that he was glad he Was a criminal. His only regret he said, was that he had allowed the morphine habit te gain such a hold on him that he had not become the greatest criminal. of the age. Patterson's is a story of a long bat- tie by a man of high instincts against A degenerate tendency. Finally the bad in him won. Much of his downfall Patterson at- tributes 10 his long study of psychology of crime standard the world over against his Inherent desire to take what belonged to his fellow man be- cause of the disgrace that he feared his father, mother and other loved ones would suffer from his actions. When he met. woman of his cholce, for her sake aud for the sake of the children that were born to them, he continued to wage the unequal battle. It was he redity versus environment, he de- clares. Heredity finally won. That is the excuse which the once famed physician and Instructor gives for bis present condition. From a man of prominence and an heir to great wealth, Patterson's fall has been so complete that the police found him living in the most abject poverty in a dingy room in the lower part of the city “My one great regret In life is that habit and, the greatest criminal of the age,’ was the amazing statement Dr Patterson | made after his arrest “l glory In crime and am a crim- | inal because it is Impossible for me to be anything else. I have tried and falled, and am glad of it. The fight was unequal at best, and I am glad | thefts and burglary, have stolen into pure love of it “I did not need the money, did not | want the hooty that I took away after I got it, but there was a satisfaction too deep for words or self-satisfying for explanation. held her lover at arm's length, and, perhaps for the best of reasons, has refused to surrender to him for a long time, must feel much as I did when I committed my first theft. to notice. Yet it was the beginning of a career that I mapped out for myself after 1 fully realized that there was nothing in the world that could prevent me from being anything but a thief, “lI was In a fellow physician's of- fice. I saw a pocketbook lying on the table. He was busy with a patient I opened the wallet and found two dollars In It “lI then had plenty of money. The contents of the purse could do me lit tle good, but resist the desire to take the money I could not—did not 1 knew that the high character I bore would protect me from the possibiil. SE NL ty of exposure. The cunning that I have learned since, which 1 use lo protect me from being found out when 1 have succumbed to my desire to take posscssion of that which does not belong to me, was not necessary in that case. That was years ago— how many I do not know. It was the beginning. “The desire 16 commit crime Is sim ilar to the desire of a genius to de velop the talents which are his. It often is the strongest passion of his life, for which he will give up every- thing else just as an artist will strug gle along for years, go without the necessities that he might have In some other walk of life, that ho may devote the talent which he feels with. in himself. “1 have watched the development of the thieving instinct in myself from i the time that 1 was old enough to un- derstand the meaning of the feeling which took possession of me 1 never had the desire to kill, but 1 possessed a talent for scheming and outwitting others “My early youth was spent In Sa- lina, Kan. As my parents were | i file | EL i HE COULD NOT RESIST DE ZIRE TO STEAL THE | wealthy 1 was given every educational | advantag ©. As soon as | become old enough to read and understand what I read, 1 gloried in the achievements tof noted criminals, even murderers That was the kind of literature that I read when I could steal time from {my studies. 1 found the same kind jof Interest in that kind of romance as others found In love stories and | stuff of that kind “I was too Intelligent, though, not to understand to what instincts such jas I felt in myself led, and did not immediately succumb to my desire to become a criminal “I have never accomplished any- {thing worthy In the annals of crime {and probably never will. My offenses | have all been of the minor sort be cause, like men who have the tal jent but fall to become great writers {or Inventors, | became slave to habit, which was stronger than ambition, stronger than the impelling force that would have made my name a house. hold word as a eriminal If T had not fallen by the wayside, as so many { others have done before me LSU" TRS. Waukegan, 1IL.—The marriage of Henry Berninger, of Milwaukee, and Miss May Martin, of Chicago, at the THE BRIDE AND GROOM WRESTLED BACK AND FORTH. courthouse by Justice E. V. Orvis was followed the other day by an un- E. M. DUNHAM, ATTORNEY-AT-UAW, usual silence, when the bridegroom and bride wrestled before the officials over a kiss The bridegroom finally got It, much to the bride's apparent displeasure, Immediately after the words “I now pronounce you man wife,” Berninger turned to his bride and attempted to kiss her. “No, you don't,” said she, and coy- ered her face with her arms so he could not. “Why, what's the matter?” the astonished bridegroom. “I shan't let you kiss me here right in front of these people,” sald she, as if she meant it. "Well, { guess you will,” sald the husband with a rather disappoluted smile. Then he started for her again, a look of determination on his face. The witnesses and others in the courtroom chuckled as they saw the determined resistance the bride put asked Then the bride and bridegroom wrestled back and forth. It looked for a time as it the bride was to win Back and forth they wrestled, and at last there was heard a loud “smack,” whercupon the bridegroom, sweating and his white tie twisted, quit the struggle and sald: “There, I sald I would, and 1 414.” The bride, apparently much dis gusted, remarked: “Well, you think you're smart, don't you?’ and turned and walked out of the room. H. L. TOWNER, A.D. Speciaiies, aad of 1087 ot E = thal dent arn you» By et dive Co poms the eyes? Tos urine? If so Is will care ep Mg Will Cle Sold by 0. Bold by C, M. druggist. al Toe, Pro g- p's, Driggs, $675 to New York and Return Account popular autumn excursion, October ith, via Lehigh Valley Railroad. Tickets sold O tober 4th w.th final re- tarn limit of October 13th, good goin October 4th and returning within fina limit on all trains except the Black Dia- mond Express. For fartter particulars see Lehigh Valley Ticket Agents, 110 Very Low Rates Colonist tickets are now on rales via Erie Railroad to the Pacific Coast and other western points. Thess rates are extromely low, and will be in effect un- til Oct. 30th. All le desiring to got to the far west should take advantage Sf thin rates. Call on Erie Ticket ts, or J. H. Webster, Div. Baas. Alt. ira, N. Y. Sterling, Dockash, Happy Thought and Lehigh Stoves and Ranges From $10 to $75. We repair stoves and furnaces. BOLICH BROS., HARDWARE Bloodine Liver Pills. Cure chronic Constipation. : 25¢ a Box. Sold by C. M. Driggs, Sayre I ————— CEMENT SIDEWALKS When you want a cement side walk laid in a first-class, durable manner, call on Simeon Davis. You will get the benefit of yours ot | rac- cal experience. Mason kinds. Simeon Davis, Olive 8t., Notlcs. LEIGH AND SORANTON COAL Cn ha Yo ts the Erie Sqassy Both Phones; or 8 COLEMAN | NASSLER, R. H. DRISLANE, Contractor and Builder Plans and Estimates Faomished 210 Miller St. Eayra. Pe. I. L. BENJAMIN, chanical Effects, Scene. : Hear the Joshua Simpkins Orchestra. Best of Singing and Dane- ing Specialties, Watch for the BURLESQUE BAND PARADE. Prices Matinee, 15 a and 35. Evening, 25. 35 and 5c, Advance pale Thursday at Western Un- - ion office, Waverly, LAWS & WINLAGK, Attorneys and Counselors at Law. A GENERAL LAW BUSINESS TRANSACTED. LAWS’ BUILDING, 119 DESMOND ST, Valley Phone 180-A, Sayre, DR. A. 8. REES, M.D. 100 Lake Bt. West Sayre. OFFICE HOURS: 8 Lo 11:00 a. m., 2 to 4:30, 7:00 40 8:00. Gealto and chronio diseases na specialty. phones, Try The Record, WANT ADS * Rats :—Wanted, Lost, Found, For Bale, etc, | cent a word each insertion for first three times, | cent a word each insertion thercafter. None taken fop less than 25 cents. Situations wanted, free to paid-in-advance subseribers, For Sale. A nice Gem Dockash parlor stove for sale cheap, wood or coal. 181 Ioskbary A house and lot with three acres at hod pelts wil 1d { chou miles be so Apply to Mary J. Wanzer, A farm of 178 acres in Overton town- ship for sale or exchange for village property in Athens or Sayre. boildings and fruit on the aS Apply or address C, A, Heavener, RF, 0, 24, Athens, Pa. 128-1m* New 6-room house, all conveniences, $1000; six minutes walk from postoffics, Inquire A. J. Green, 5206 Stevenson Bt. pr 111-1 rtion of the Old RIE ” property in Bayre, M. Tay 1 Pa. Good house in Waverly, re im- Provenents; near trolley line Re le Beveral houses and lots for sale in de- sirable locations In town. Sei to suit purchasers. Inquire of W. GQ, Schrier, Maynard Block, Athens, 390 £ Wanted. ble girl for gemeral housework and sod pe i Soukin in a small No hesyy woul work to do. Gres Phe particulars. Address Mrs SB. B. Walker, 119 Main, Dansville, N. ¥. A competent for general house- work ; no Lo sn Apply | imme- diately at 304 roman Bt, ney. A practical nurse wants Smployint by the S37 ct week Inquire 100 Cross or 318 Chemung street. 123-9¢ Girl wanted for housework. Enquire at the Osborne House, a Two bright between 15 Joars of ages Tot ee ea had 28 f¥e Address Box H, Saget: First class reascoable DE ATO ae St pasate A girl for general housework, Nn Eo can eal ha 87 For Rent For reat, office rooms in the Wheelock Block, 0 Two ofices for rout Ju the ; Page bloek. : Bouts for route Rim EERE near hal ) house Tuts ne seasion,
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