solicit your Banking 1 and will pay you s special feature of this k, and all deposits, wheth- jarge or small, draw the same rate of Interest NM. BH. SAWTELLE, Cashier. The Valley Record H. MURRELLE, Publisher. W. T. CAREY, Editor Published every afternoon except Bundays at 203 West Lockhart street, Bars. Pa t $3.00 per year: 25e¢ th. per rates reasonable, and made known on application. second-class matter May the postoffice at Sayre, Act of Congress of 1907 Hon. R 8. Edmiston was in Athens yesterday calling upon his friends Mra Mary Fessenden went to To- today to visit with relatives Eimer Sherwood of Odessa, N. Y, ‘visited Dr. EB B. Joachim yesterday * BE. O Reanucke is having his drug tore remodeled and painted Inside ‘Mrs. J. B. Carlisle of Honeoye Falls '¥., is visiting her son In Athens Geo. H. Stimson went to Smithfieid, this morning for loads of sawdust to pack his ice In. : Conirade J. B. English of New Al- bany, was in Athens yesterday greet- ing his old friends Miss Eliza Halnes went to Burling- jm 6 visit her mother, Mrs. H. P Meade for a few days The Fransohlan Musicale meet at the Bome of Mra. von Tobe! this af- Chemung street. “Mrs. J. W. Schouten has been the ‘of Mrs. W. F. Voorhis the past F J. Cheney of Wilmington, Del formerly manager of the Athens , and Miss Mary Williams i, were married yesterday noon averly. ' Four of the high school students have entered the historical contest dch the D. A. R. have arranged for day evenlug at the Spalding Mus- Mrs. Henry Shirlock eotertained Pinochle ciub at fea yesterday afternoon. There was | good attendance and all enjoyed pw being a legal holiday the ns postofiice will only be open % to 10 a m. and from 4 to § “The carriers will make the nus- morning delivery only Remember the concert at High hall tonight {a for the benefit plano fund. It will be a good f and desérves a liberal patron- Get your tickets early W. C. T. U. meting will be at Mrs. J. F. Kingsley's, Walnut at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after- . A large attendance is desired program will be In charge of i ol to notice that Old Glory again Boat upon the flag stafl’s at the buildings. Our directors have thanks of every soldier for their to this matter. \Mlligan's dog "Don" return. afternoon after he found The Jeffersons have been famed for the excelience of the supporting cast in all of the productions, but It claimed that the company in support of Joseph & Willlam W._ Jefferson this season will excel by far even the ele- gant cast of last year. The new mod- ern comedy “Playing the Game" is the combined effort of Cleveland Hoffett and Hartley Davis, two names known for literary merit In the past Two inasmuch as reproductions of one of which is are exact rooms extant now, the famous artist's studio it Is sald, will be easily This production in ita en- tirety geen at the Loomis opera house on Monday evening, Feb- and when seen. recognized ied will be ruary 25 PLEADED GUILTY f ANNUL MARRIAGE. fo Admit Guilt and Thereby Save Cosls. Athens—Arthur Southwick is industrious mechanic who gets his dai- bread from the avails of his hard work at the Imperial Tool Works. He is a steady industrious man tends to his own business so well that there are but few persons acquainted with him. His father Willlam South- wick of Walton, N. Y., has béen here visiting him a few days, and yester- they took an outing by going down to “the point” to have a little fun fishing through the ice. They took with them a device known as “snatch hooks.” Just as they ready to fish Perry Nichols, the officious man that has “deputy game warden” dering after confronting them with an preme authority charged “them with the law by fishing with an device for game fish. At this they to shudder and when the official thought that he had them scared he told them that it would be best for them to go to Towanda with him and plead gulity before the jus- ticp there and he would let them off for twenty-five dollars, that if they stood out they Hable for a fin of fifty dollars and costs He had them eagy prey and hustled up through town and on the Lehigh train to Towanda where a complaint ssued before Esquire Meredith char- zing them with violation of the law in fishing with an illegal device game fish They plead guilty their fine and returned home thank- ing their lucky stars that they had got off so easily. After they returned and learned the tactics of the fish warden officials they to kick themselves for so easily and would iy day were alr of su- violatine illegal heawar were an was for pald about were ready being have when the) 4 guilty they all means for such action plea closed up MINERS TALK STRIKE. Lehigh Valley Employees Protest Against Cleaning Coal. Mahanoy City gitimatam Confronted with the of cleaning their losing their jobs, miners at of the Lehigh wwill meet to discuss the conditions and, if the feeling of the men prevails, of the 600 hands will follow To the conditions a dock boss now wscrutinizes every car mined Similar conditions prevall at other Lehigh collieries. At Morea, 600 men and boys have been three weeks for siml- the situation remains un- coal Primrose Yalley or colliery Coal Company new present a strike enforce new where on strike lar reasons changed In Jail to Answer Arson (Charge. Wilkes-Barre-John rested Monday morning by a squad of the State constabulary and was lodged In jall In default of $150 ball Hauk is charged with arson, Hauk was ar sound Mind on the Night of Wed- ding Raises New Question— Pa —Are Evelyn Nesbit Thaw husband and Pittsburg, and Harry Kendal wife? If Dr. Britton Evans, the allenist, is correct when he says Thaw was in- when he made his will, prominent at- here say the couple are not The law, not only in Pean- but all over the world, In- sists that a lunatic cannot be a party to the marriage contract Herman LL Heguer, former marriage icense clerk, bul now an attorney, sald recently When 1 come torneys married sylvania think about the I believe that Thay was not just when he took out the marriage I remember the circumstan- well, and I noticed at the Thaw was highly nervous, ind very much wrought up. He was kind of jerky In his manner From his manner and from what | learned I am convinced the time, he was suffering some delusion, and the will which I have seen printed, shows that delusion. 1 went to the home of Dr Icgwan, with the papers, and they filled out there, and then I wit- the made by the bride, ind came away. They were married the same day. [ issued the license, as shown by the return of the certifi of the minister Hev. Dr. William wsked If thought when he performed sald: — do not, or I wouldn't have them. He was naturally excited and nervous, but plenty of persons who get married, that He seemed to be ra- enough and I had no thought kind I Denniston Lyon, vice-president of Nationa! Bankk, who had of Thaw's will for says the will was up by Attorney johns McCleave. Mr. Lyon sald:— Thaw brought it to the bank about three years ago, sealed in an envelope and told me what it was and [ acted as its custodian. Before he married he came to the bank and asked me for it. saying that he wanted to make some changes, which he did. He used the scissors on the original document, cutting out parts of it that he did not want, Inserting parts which he had written himself. That is true. The letters and papers of Thaw's in the bank which the District Attor- ney desires to use in the trial, have not been mailed, sald Mr. Lyon. The to a5¢ right es Very that time have since that frou NET nessed will cals when insane marriage McEwan, Thaw was the ceremony No, 1 married mew hat are way the Union custodian three years drawn Swoyersville a short time ago Use a little KODOIL after your meals and :t will be found to afford a prompt and efficient relief. KODOL nearly approximates the digestive julces. It digests what you eat. It is sold on a guaranteed relief plan. Sold here by C. M. Driggs, Drugs. Pree! Pree! Mrs. A C. Trainor, Colchester Conn., writes that a free sample bot- tle of Bloodine helped her when she was all run down. Bloodine is » body bulider and system tonic of won- { papers will soon {be on their way There will be quite a number of documents but Mr. Lyon has nok counted them SAFE DOOR WIDE OPEN. Policeman Found Store Open at Night and Money in Rench. York—About 2:30 o'clock Monday morning Patrolman William Sweltzer found the door of the grocery store of Willlam A. Bosserman wide open. He eutered the store to find the door of the safe open. There was exposed to view where any thief could have helped himself to a bulging bag containing several hundred dollars in notes. Three cash registers were on the counter réady to tempt the till- tapper. The policenfan found a key in th fockk of the street door, dresses the Senate. NEVER HAD BUT ONE WIFE, BE SAYS Church of Latter Day Salnis Has Stepped Plural Marriages —« Sons of Liah Gave Their Lives For Our Fiag. WASHINGTON, Feb ¥IT — Senater Reed Smoot (Utah), apostie of the Mor- won church addressed the senate in his owu defense [I is the second speech Lie Las wade In the senate, tie first relating Ww the creation of a gnine preserve in northern Arizona, a sub ject in which President Roosevelt and the Moron senstor are much later ested. Mr Smoot said “First, | desire to state, us [| have repeatedly heretofore declined lo tae senate and to the country that | am aot and never have been a polygaaist I bave never had Lut vie wife, aud she is my present wife “The Mormon church has stopped plural marriages, and no polygamous relation assumed subsequent to 18M is with the permission sanction or ap proval of the church That is final and fixed. Every such violation of the iaw has the express condemuation of the church. The manifesto of 18580 was submitted to and approved by the con- ference of the church which weaus by the body of the members of the church, and it remaius the law of the church, binding upon every officer thervof, bowaver high. It cannot be repealed, modified or suspended except by the same power that enacted it “1 have no hesitation io declaring to the senate and to the American people that, in my opliplon, any man who has married 8 polygamous wife since the manifesto should be prosecuted and if couvicted should suffer the penalties of the law, and [ care not who the man might be or what position he might hold in the church, be should receive the punishment pronounced hy the law against his crime “Reference has heen made to an al leged treasouable obiigation which it fs sought to cinim is a part of the Mormon rent ceremonies. The senate will ulfferstand that these cere monies are of a =acred character to those participating in them and are therefore not divulged. They were in- stituted in the Mormon church by Jo- soph Smith some time prior to death and are vet given as part of the temple ceremonies “There does not exist in the endow- ment ceremonies of the Mormon church the remotest suggestion of has tility or of antagonism to the United States or to any other nation “The application in this respect, to the lovalty of the cau be brought home readily. We will pass by the incident of the Mormon exiles from Nauvoo furnishing a bat- tallon for the United States army in the war with Mexico, the action of the Utah ploneers ln mising the American flag in the Sait Lake valley when that was Mexican soll, the fidelity of Utah to the Union during the civil war, and come to the perkxl of the Spanish American war. “The state of Utah came Unlon eleven years ago two years had passed when there appenced in onr national the cloud of war with Spain shoul der to shoulder, with every other state in the Union, Utah faruished her full quota of American soldiers and offered more, “There was no question of religious distinction or dispute then | owe no allegiance to any church or other or- ganization which Th any way interferes with my supreme civil affairs to my country, allegiance which I freely, fully aud gladly give' his as Mormon people into the Scarce hor! Side 260 Liv =xlde allegiance in an Young Roosevelt Initiated BOSTON, Feb. In a dark closet on the top floor of the Porcellian club in Cambridge, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, attired In jockey's apparel sniffed the feet of a roast pig and then kissed the critter” at the bLeglaniog of his initia tion luto the club. A new stunt just as ludicrous will be performed each even ing In a darkened closet until Friday and Saturday night he will be permit ted to feast upon roast pig Tablet Not Artistic WASHINGTON, Feb The bronze tablet given by a New York showing Washiugton crossing the aware will be set in frout of the building for the New York custom house to be dedicated on George Wash ington's birtlulay A of pro tests have been recelved In” President Roosevelt agninst the use of the t ihilet it being asserted that it lacks artistic beauty. Enough citizen Del Hew number Engineer Blow to Pleces. HOUSTON, Tex, Fel A freight engine on the Southern Pacific blew up while taking water at Strung. Eup- gineer George Merchant was blown to pleces, and Firemnn Elliott was serl- ously Injured. The locomotive Is sald to be the same one which blew up on the Houston and Texas Central rail road three weeks ago and was making its frst trip out after belong repaired, Prominent Hufinloninan a Saicide. BUFFALO, Feh Josiah Ross, president of the Ross Manufacturing company, manufacturers of woodwork. ing machinery, shot himself tu his of fice, dying almost instantly. 1 health Is supposed to have been the cause Alleged Manslaughter In Elmira. ELMIRA, N. Y, Feb. * Harrison L. Cook is belng held by the police pending the making of a formal charge of manslaughter against him. Cook Is twenty-three years old Exposure Brings on Rheumatism. Painful in its mildest form, quickly stesmer Larclimont, which was sunk in Block island sound on the night of Feb 11, has wash] ashore here. Nan- tucket Is about seventy miles east of Block island. The wreckage Included six life preservers, marked “Steamer Larchmont” a large section of the burricane deck, the door of a state room uumbered 52 and a water cask. No bodies have Leen found here Naval officers and mariners geaeral iy fear that the ww. ecw of the steamer, lying three miles off Watch Fil, will prove a danger to navigation umless she Is soon broken up by the use of gun colton torpedoes. She is breaking ap slowly. By the use of torpedoes the fuxiles which are supposed to be con tained in the hull of the vessel may be released. The ves«el lies in nineteen atid a half fathoms of water, The two victhus of the disaster whose bexliea were washed ashore at No Man's laud were jdentified last might as Julius P. Wightman of Lebanon, N Y., and ¥F. H Moouey of 88 Summit street, East Providence, BR. 1 PROTEST FROM JAPANESE. Mawallan Subjects of ¥Mikade Cable te Roosevelt In Same of Liberty. HONOLULU, Feb 7 .-At 2a nas meeting of Japanese held here the fol- lowing cablegram was sent to Presi dent Roosevelt The Hawallan Japanese respectful iy protest In the name of humanity and civilization and also In the name of Hberty against the prehibition ef thelr Immigration to the United Ntates It easlaves permanently to Ha wallan capiialists The meeting also cabled to the Japa- nese foreign office ns follows “The Hawallan Japanese are unanl- mous in firm oppesition te the action of the American congress in prohibit ing them from emigrating to America, which is with the em- pire’'s dignity vis to Japanese in Energetic opposk i is incompatible and ring terests in Hawnll 1 b= regiiested Edward Has (onfab With Meyer. LONDON, Feb 2 Mr Meyer, for mer ambassador to Russia, had haif an her ation with the king, who was particularly interested in the for mer ambassador's experiences in Rus- sin. His majesty referred to the good relations existing between the United States and Great Britain, the coming peace conference at The Hague and the appointment of James Bryce as British ambassador to the United States He asked Mr. Meyer ta con his greetings to President Roose- Urs counvers ie) velt Kuulbars-Kuropatkin Dispute. ST. PETERSBULG, Feb of General tsttkin's history of the wir his causal The Kuro Russo Japanese publication abruad an great sensation here Fhe dispatches the subject were suppres==l, but long acco receiv oi] by mail are pristed in all the news papers The general's strictures have evoked much resentment in military circles and have revived the talk of the possibility of a duel between Gen- ernl Knulbars and General Kuropat Kin ul t ils FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. (losing Stock Quatations, Money on H st per cent; prime mercantile paper, 58,49 per cent exchanges, $35 30 Uo, balances, E90 .617,50 Closing prices Amal Copper Atchison Norf. & West B&O . 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Pac at N. ¥ 1s = 13g 125 a 1d =n ah © Central Pac Ry pf ity Hl, 173 o% 2% Facip Pacific New York Markets, FLOUR-Dull aud uarely steady, Min- nesota patents, HH I0y 4 &, winter straights, $l ud io; winter oxtras $28, winter patents Layis WHEAT Market jost iy pointing cables, heavy northwest receipts and weakness of outside markets, May BMA UN 1-1 July, M% UMN i TTER-Creamer extras per pound Side (Mercantile Exchange offic ial quotation, extras, Ic); Arst = seconds, TH thirds, ZU held tr n firsts, Zigd.; secunds, 3 thirds, J1QI state dalry, tubs finest BH dl Kul to prime ommaon to falr, 0 Ze CHEESE State, full September 135,04 wintes made, ave * light skims he + * : ¢ aki best, 10 al 10g part skims, prime un fair to gol TG common, 3 Gla full skims, 02 EGG® State, Pennsylvania and nearby, selected. prhite, Tandy, 343IC. ; choice > ™ brown and mixed extra, Ig3e firsts to extra firsts, MOC, western, we- jected, finest, Mi firsts, 2c. (official quotation mds, SUB, thirds BH dirties Mu checks 1TH refrigerators, Jud TALLOW Easy fies under Jdisap x resh, XD. Cream small fancy, 14% ; Bod ie I riage bes oa), wen 3 city, ARC. country, o% , shipping, Tos Kod to Steady Fasy, $1 23% WOO L~8te 9 domestic flee HOVS Stead state common to chajce 1%, 186 is Site Pact cast 14s. 12wl jing 11 LIVE POUL ny Juliet fowls, Ji old roosters. $1 Irie ducks 1#ike Keone, 104A 1K DHESSED POULTRY -®Steady and in fair demund, fowls choles, 130% do falr to good, 12%UC ; old roosters, 10c. nearby chickens, 144) 5 western, do, 19 flay turkeys, nearby holes to fancy 104] dao. western, 15817. falr to good. HE15e | ducke, nearby, 11glhe. . west. ern, do, 12914 Kt nearby. 10412 western, do, vale Live Sock Markets, CATTLE -Recelpts light: markat steady; choloe, 157006 prime \ LOS veal calves Bas lo MOGS- Receipts light. market steady. prime heavies, medioms and heavy York. ors, $71.80; EM Yorkers §1.35; pigs, ¥7. Supply roughs. $64 SHEEY aN 1 LAMBS Haht wethers a lamus, $07.78 market stead). prime Is ahd common $393 William's Carbolic Salve With Arniea and Witeh Hazel The best Balve In the world for Cuts, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tet- en marsov pea £2 31120. me. $1.50, red kidney, a but steady, , chickens ae We are and Saucers, Bon Sugars. ete. Alse a new Jot Cups and Saucers, Cor. Broad St. and KAULBARS HITS BACK. Says Karopatkin was te Blame Ves Mukden Jefeat. ODESSA, Feb General Kaul bars, governor general of Odessa, was interviewed here by a press correspond ent on the subject of the charges brought against him by General Kuro patkin in his book on the Husso Japa nese war, He sald “Although the book has not yet bean banded to me. I have had correspond ence with Kuropatkin on the subject, In which I repudiate the charges and prove by documentary evidence that they are entirely false On the eve of the battle of Feb. 22, 1004, the Russians were camped be tween the Sha river and Hun river. submitted to Kuropatkin a plan, sub sequently rejected, the Japanese from our strouyg entrench ments, the Japanese haviug none removing our left inadequate to repulse the my ed with 1580 guns for an dered me to oppose Nogi, his reserves, Le beaten ” who, could easily ne) — — » Marshall Again Helds Champlon. PHILADELPHIA, Feb + chess game between Dr. Emmanuel Lasker and Frauk Marshall, was adjourned Saturday ended in a draw resumed at the rooms of the club Marshall's last Saturday bas been sealed, that Lasker might pot have the advantuge in which to study his next move, Chess Memorial Serviee Fr Victims, NEW YORK, Fel More than 5.000) persons, representing every cir cumstance of life, crowded Carnegle Music hall while as many more were turned away on the occasion of the memorinl service held by the Salvation Army for the ten officers who lost thelr lives when the Joy line steamer Larch- mont went down off Block Island last Monday night. Commander Miss Booth presided. Only three bodies of Salva- tionists have been thus far recovered, those of Captaln Elin Lambert, Lieu. tenant John Molin and Cadet John Coderblom, und caskets coutalning these were boru up the center alsle to the platform of the ball, etch covered by the colors of the Salvation Army und the stars and stripes. Foundry Shops Ablaze at Haltimore. BALTIMORE, Feb ~A specticu. lar fire which it was for a tle feared would do immense damage broke out in the blacksmith shop of the South Haltimore Steel Car and Foundry com- pany, located at South Baltimore, on Curtis bay, about five miles frow this city. The origin of the bluze is pot kuown; loss, $30,000 Another Rody (Inimed. PROVIDENCE, BR. I, Feb, ‘J —~There was one new ldentification here yestor- day of the bly of a victhu of the wreck of the Larchmont. The body of Harry Razauski of Chelsea, Mass, was claimed last night W. P. Smeaton, UPHOLSTERING Repairing and Refinishing. ELIZABETH ST. “Waverly, * . N.Y. IMPORTED OLIVE OIL. Good for Medicine. $1.50 to $3.00 per gallon. Imported Macaroni be to 10¢ per pound JOHN PECKALLY, Elizabeth Street, Waverly. A.E.BAKER, today a very bon Dishes Plates, of German China worth lie. Speelal Park Ave., Waverly, You will require A GAS HEATER throuh the chilly morns- and eves of April. | Bar ane NOW i GAS LIGHT COMPANY, Waverly, N. Y. For Bale By C. M. Driggs, Druggist. CONTRACTING. J. Hl. Snell, Athens, Pa, Contractor find Bullder Also bulldings moved on short notice 241-3m* WANTED. Agents Wanted—To write sick and accident insurance. Liberal commis slon. Room 2, Maney & Page bulld- ing ’ 241-6° Wanted—A girl to learn dressmak- ing. Mrs. G. M. Legg, 370 Broad St, Waverly 241-6 Girl Wanted for general housework. Inquire 109 Packer avenue, Sayre, Pa. 209-¢ IIE FOR SALE. For Sale—Lot No. 9, "Highlands" West Lockhart street. Desirable lo- cation Price moderate. Inquire at 403 West Lockhart St, Sayre. 237-6* At Waverly, N. Y., building Jol, con- venient to car line, large enough for double house or 2 single houses. For particulars, Apply at 126 Chemung street, Waverly, N. Y. 226-1m Several houses and lots for sale In esirable locations in town. Terms to sult purchasers. Inquire of W. G. Schrier, Maynard Block, Athens. 39-f FOR RENT. No. 426 South Wilbur, at once. Mod- ern conveniences, gas and gas Tangs, $15.00 per month. Enquire ©. C. West nr Ten room brick house, modern im- provements. Inquire at this office. 1474 For Reut—S8ix good rooms at 410 South Keystone avenue. Enquire on premises. Mrs 8. J. Hyait 238-8°
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