tid ddd dd ddd ddd KNAPP SONS Waverly’s Department Store TOWN CLOCK BLOCK New Spring Floor Coverings The largest showine of Floor Coverings ever offered outside the large cities. Seeing is be- Yisit this immense department and you'll enjoy making your selections from the enor- stocks, Rich Carpets In Velvels, Axministers, Brusssels and Ingralns. Prices 25c yard to $1.50 yard. AA AAA L aA AR dh dd dl AAA a AA As A NA AAA FPP PPT TTT TT TTT TTT EEE EEE TL . & a Ad Elegant Rugs For Parlor, Library, Hall, Dining Room, In Wilton Velvets, Axministers, Body Brussel, Smyrna, Tapestry, Brussels and Inerains, $5.00 to $50.00 cach. Mattings In plain and Carpet Patterns, 19¢ to 56¢c yard. : Linoleums In plain, figured, and matting patterns, printed-and Inlaid, 50c to $125 yar’ Lace Curtains Arabians and whites 89¢ to $12.00 pair. Novelty Curtains ’ Muslins and Nets 29¢ to $5.00 pair. Tapestry Curtains Plain colors and fancles, $3.50 to $12.00 palr. Shades All tolors and widths, 25¢ to $1.25. Arirb db dred Shh bee SPECIAL.--JUST RECEIVED New Spring Cloth and Silk Coats New Shirts Walsts, New Rain Coats In cloth and slik New Silk and Cloth Suits and Skirts The largest stock, the lowest prices. We Invite your attention. S444 444044 PPE tas tte rea teat as r- |’ Advertise in The Record OLD OFFENDER | Easter cards and books at Strong's. | Great results from Record Want Ads AGAIN IN JAIL {Josh Cooney Came to Waverly Yester. i in | a b Le» JNAL BANK Miss Mary vesterday Kinney was in Elmira Easter post cards at Strong's Charles Smithfield Roe spent yesterday day and Made All Kinds of Trouble solicit your Banking sad will pay you ‘per cent. interest per for money left on of Deposit or Sav- — Will Serve Six Months, Envelopes furnished with post cards at Strong's tinselled Cooney, than whom there is prob- no harder customer with whom the local police has to deal occasion- ally Waverly and ooking for bl Mrs. Edward Ellis ably this morning went to Owego came to last evening, department of savings | a special feature of this and all deposits, wheth- Jarge or small, draw the rate of interes. started Ray McEwen of the Waverly Free out on his usual guest, troyble | Press is on the sick list | He first went into O'Brien's bakery {and started a rumpus, he was bang- {ed up some before he got out of there {He was not satisfied, went tw Gately Edward Commings of Orange street has gone to New York city for a few Save however, | | ds and ~ MN. H. SAWTELLE, na Reser st ot re rnd ‘ved 2 ; loon on Broad street, where he also ‘ for a few days i ; —— : created a The last ! J place that he appeared was the Hotel - Valley Record Fulton. He was keeping up his ca- cde ee c——e reer of tribulation. Officer Corcoran 'MURRELLE, Publisher + W. T. CAREY, Editor. disturbance Edwin C. Burt, Patrician and La- France shoes [or women at cut priced at Williams & Sutton’s. was sent for, and he soon had the be- Mrs Ellen Caine has moved to El- ligerent one locked safely in a cell mira. where she will reside with ber] After being locked up Cooney pro- son. Dr. Willlam S. Calne {ceeded to demolish everything in the ! cell that was loose, and he was trans- ferred to another This morning he appeared Justice Hoagland, who sent him to Owego to spend the next six months When sentenced Cooney sald that f(t | was just what he expected Cooney every afternoon except Bt 203 West Lockhart street, $3.00 per year; 25¢ The term of the supreme court at Owego closed today, leaving several cases on the calendar untried pn on application as second-class matter May at the postofiice at Sayre, the Act of Congress of Mrs GCG. H. Goff left last evening, for Colorado Springs, where she will | stay for some time, and will then visit | i the man who organize . ta strike at the county jail about two relatives in Nebraska | | years ago and who has promised sev- i 5 o * a - returned to | era! times to annihilate the entire jo ce department of Waverly the mews that's fit to print.” Miss Fannie Freedman her home at Bethlehem today after visiting her cousin, Miss Minnie Freed- man of Park Palce for the past four weeks FRIDAY. MARCH 15, 1907 WAVERLY E Wood, Representative v and advertising matter ma) at Gregg’s Racket Store, Wa Created Disturbance, Waverly—James Ryan, whose os- fensible and avowed occupation is that of mending umbrellas, floated in- to Waverly yesterday, and last night took himself to Elizabeth street. That thoroughfare was peaceable until Mr Ryan honored the place with his pres- ence He evidently did not like the quiet aspect of the place, for he took the peace and tore it to threads, and scattered them to the winds of heaven While engaged In this pleasant and whiskers trimmed, 10c; sea foam, 5c; | absorbing pastime Officer McHenry ap- parsage, 15, moustache dyed, 26c¢; peared and at the suggestion of the halr dyed, $1.00; ladies’ hair switches, | Vficer he went to the lockup, and cheap, tdzors honed 26¢; shears Occupled a cell until morning He sharpened, 10c; scissors, be; pew sald, when giving a hearing that he handles on razors, 25c. If you have Would get out of town in five minutes sczemi call and get Lockerby's ecre- The justice gave him fifteen and he ma cure, G0c & bottle. Thousands departed. . of testimonials can be furnished. Bait T——" ta round. Locker: Peis Lice Tay Risers scatter FE Hawkes has spent the greater part of the week at Owego (trying cases before the supreme court. He appeared as counsel in two, and had three cases In which he was attorns noticed for trial o'clock moon call the main ! both phones per at Strong's. This Is the Place. To get your hair cut, 16; shave 10c; shampoo, 16¢; hair singed, 15¢; i ———————— for The Record. “paints at Strong's your name ou post cards t free at Strong's. aA A A 4d AAs AlLsblslbbild ed bdo. HE Ed dd retest rr stati abies . > Es = i - 3 Is Opposed to Extraordinary Peliey— ; Water Question Not the Issue of That Party. Waveriy—A representative of The Record called on F. E. Hawkes, Esq. last evening and obtained an inter- tview with him relative to the Issues of the coming municipal election ‘When asked concerning the purpose ‘of the Citizens ticket, hé replied that {the ticket had made no issue of any- thing in particular; that the ouly issue that had been raised was by the ‘opposing tUcket; that the Citizens’ ticket stood for the more economic management of the village affairs He sald that the present admigistration ‘had been characterized by gance; extrava- that actions had been insli- tuted that were suyfe to terminate dis aslerously to the village, leaving a large amount of court costs, and the expenses of litigatign for the taxpay- ers to settle, that the candidates on ithe Citizens tickel were men of good {judgment who would look after the best interests of the village and would not ipvolve it in a mass of use- less legal controversy | When asked what alternative there {was for thoze who held the offfes’o'h- er than carry out the wishes of the (taxpayers, expressed at the election ‘that was held for the purpose of de- ciding whether the village should ‘take over the water plant, Mr. Hawkes {replied. that while the preposition car- iried a good and substantial ma- jority, It was accomplished by mis- | representation of the situation He produced a letter signed "Citizens in ‘the Interest of the Village” in which it was stated that the sole ls in favor of the village ownership there can be no law sult because the ilaw is very plaio aud explicit govern- ling such cases Another clause in the dame letter was as follows By a condition of the franchise, the Water Co. knew their property was subject ‘to acquisition by the village” These letters explained Mr Hawkes were spread broadcast throughout the village at the time of the water elec by in case tion. ueariy and It was also given oul the took the plant there could be no remuneration to the Water Company for the (ran- {chise This, said Mr. Hawkes, was all un- {true, because subsequent events have {shown that there can be a law suit [He showed the reporter a copy of the franchise in which there is no clause whereby the village reserves the right With re- of non payment for He that decisions in nearly every state {in the union, New York included, that a corporation franchise could recover the value of the fran- | chise ! These communications iments were circulated by those who lare seeking in the water. matter by means of them, and it is by the same methods that they are now seeking to stay dn power In regard to the amount of cosis the ba forced if the award was more than the {$105,000 offersmd. Mr Hawkes stated {that {t would be o per cent of but that would amount to the sum of $5.25000 If settled now, and i that the water franchise the {company had been advised by compe- {tent engineers, worth at least { $300,000 Of course the costs would ibe considerably more than that | amount He referred Ithaca as in- istance where the award for the fran- chise was $175,000, and it was a very costly plant maintain, while In | waverly the Water Corhpany owned {the only available source of supply. every taxpayer receiving that waler ane lin case village | [to acquire the water works {gard to the matter ithe franchise stated there iwere owning a and stlate- now re-election {that village wonld to | pay the award as as was to an fo {and there was no cost of for pump- ling. and filteration as there is in [tha- A Correction. ® | Waverly—The statement appearing [in The Record yesterday that there {was a case of diphtheria in the Kel- Ivy block in South Waverly was an er- ror. There was a case of diphtheria, that resulted fatally on the south | side, but It was in 8 block on the op- {posite of the street from the Kelly block ST, LOUIS, March Frank Rockefeller. brother of J. D Rockefeller, to recover §165.000 ln- vested in a zinc mine In Missouri was distulssed in the circuit court on a de murrer by the defendant, Heury G. Ross, after all of Rockefeller's test) mony had been presented. Judge Rey- nolds uplbeld the demurrer on the | ground that uo fraud had been shown, 1 ’ {ns alleged 15. ~The suit of i Captain Hoyt, Oysterman, Dead. | SOUTH NORWICH, Conn, March {15 Captain William H. Hoyt, who was for fifty years engaged lo the oys- ter business in this place and who hullt many fine steamers for the use of the industry, selling out un couple of years ago to Asdrew Radel, Is dead st his bome Bb He was born in Norwalk entire State, will he held the first Saturday in June and is known as the Spring primary. In this the peo- people of all sections will be particu- larly interested At this election all candidates for an office to be filled at ithe general election In November, with the exceptions of those nomi nated by a State or National Conven- tion, will te nominated, as well as the officers of the various political parties The County Commissioners are reguired under the act to provide baliot boxes, official ballots for differ- ent political parties and_all oiner sup- The election wiil be conaucted the regular election officers and he polis will be open from I o'clock fn the afternoon until 8 in the even- ing, and from 1 in the afternoon until in the prvening all Heensed places fil! be He The election officers vill one-half pay for their | ervices, which is paid by the County ireasurer, who in turn receives the the State Treasurer. Jersons deziring to candi- for Congress and State offices must file petitions at least four weeks prior to lune 1. 199", and in all other cases at least three weeks before that date with the County Commissioners. The pelitions must signed by volers representing the party pro posed politically, and candidates for members of Judges of] State Senators, candidates for Hepresentatives, and for offices to be voted for by the entire county, fifty! juaiified electors piles Ly receive money from become ates be Congress, Courts One of the changes which goes into effect at the June primary is that no elector shall permitted to receive iny assistance in marking his balipt inless he shall first make an affidavit that he can aot read the names on the Ballot, or that by reason of physical disability he is unable mark his ballot Next year. on account of its the Presidential, this primary be held the second Saturdgy of be to Leing will April The Ice Man and His Prices. The annual campaign of excuses for | Keeping up the price of ice to con- summers has apparehtly begun This | information York, that from Seneca Falls, New i more than 15.000 tons of ed have been left at Cayuga. the ship- | with the state- | ment that the cause of this is fan:ine’ tat =ial ping ion. to melt,’ ‘a car | and the congested coudition | of the Auburn division of the New | York Central” “Car famine” and! congested condition of the railroads | 1ust have an scutely familiar sound | to the multitude of communities in| the Northwest who for weeks during ‘he worst weather of the season were feliberating left unzupplied with coal in the interest of somebody's piling ip of profits. "Local officials” of the | atiroads, at Cayuga, are said to be | the inaoility of their | roads to move the crop.” If past vears | give the rublic any data for forecast. ing the coming summer the public may make up its mind to preposterous | charges for ice again, with the cause | alleged that means of transportation failed to enable the ice companies to | bring the ice t is i worried over crop to the cities, since | impossible this season to make wssertion that the ice crop aforesaid | either InsuMcient inferior is or ini rpuality For the New Baby. She was thin, narrow, dark visaged | woman with on Specs ried a package of felts and she car-! and scattered broadcast imong the comers in the car, said Mr Watzon, the manager for | Hal Merritt, and His Poster Girls” | A man got on the train carrying a big | watermelon; truded a cork handed tracts” “leaf which she business out of his pocket pro-| flask with a The woman with the tracts one immediately to the last] pASSenEer “Thankee” he said; "Com- ! ie Almanac, hey? No sir,” sald thy woman firmly, in a high falsetto voice, it's to immortal glass nipper | Save your wine” and she pointed with a crook- | ed finger to the glass flask protrud- | ing from his pocket. Oh, | see, said | the man, smiling; but this bottle | alo’t for me ma'am: “Woe unto him | that giveth his neighbor drink,” quot- ed the woman flercely, as she waved a warning hand high above her head He ain't eggsactly my ther,” said the man, see, it's for the new neighbor ey- | gently, “You | baby, and wife | cal'lates to bring him up by hand; but the woman; with the tracts hur- riedly leff the car at the next station, followed by the smiles of the passen- gers “Hal Merritt and His Poster Girls,” comes to the Loomis house, Thursday, March 14th wpera Chitenn “Jack the Ripper” to Die. SANTIAGO. Chile, March 15.-The fentence of death passed upon Emilio Dubois has been confirmed by the su- | preme court. Dubols is » notorious | wurderer and Is known to have killed not less than five persons. He haw been ftenued the Chilean “Jack the Ripper.” Edward to Visit Alfonse, SAN SEBASTIAN, Spaip, March 15. ~1It has heen arranged for King Ed. i. % gi WINDOW SHADES —all colors. Felt tasssraiEsReEnAtainaiann by Plain Shades In seconds Plain Shades in firsts Fringed Shades ........ STATIONERY 10 to 25¢ a box. Unusual value at 10e. SHIRT WAISTS going fast at enly 98¢ & $135 WHITE SKIRTS, all prices. New lot. very pretty, only 89 and 98¢c, ! CORSET COVERS, 25 and 0c; good a values, EASTER NOVELTIES. All sorts of fancy little Candy Boxes and Baskets, Chickens, Roosters Hab- bits. etc, § and 10c, Wee Chicks and Transfers le. FULL LINE OF 5 and 10¢ GOODS, St. Patrick's Day Post Cards, 2 for Se. * eaatiinl Line of Faster Post Cards, 2 for Se. special fer Saturday and Monday: — Gray Enamel Ple Tios 10¢ Flue White Lined Enamel Tins 10¢ GREGG'S RACKET STORE Cor. Broad St. and Park Ave., Waverly 2 4 Sm = CAPITOL GRAFT ON PAPER. Stenographic Firm Will Get It All fu | i . Black and White. “aitol | vestign-| Readers of The Record, buy from Thursday awarded | {he merchants who have enough the contract for furnishing the #teno- | gumption to ask for your patronage graphic report of the public hearings | through the columns of your favorite daily newspaper—The Valley D. C. This firm | Record. proceedings of the an-| - strike Investigation, is] CONTRACTING. the testimony In the| J ji, Spell, Athens, Pa, Contractor Brownsville investigation before the | ang Ballder. Also bulldings moved Military Affays Committee 241-3m* United States Senate, aR Harrishifrg - The tion Commission of Washington reported the thracite coal taking on, of theo, short notice and has done! # WANTED. United | Girls at the shirt factory. Inquire . {at the factory in the Talmadge bulld- ing. Elmer avenue 258-67 Wanled—A coffee urn, at once. Ad- dress “G"” 206 N. Wilbur ave. 268-5 other departments of the H H. Pechin, of this firm, was here Thursday making arrangements to the work of taking testimosy next Monday morning, when the pub lic hearing will commence Copies of the testimony will be fur- Wanted A girl for general house work, small family, good wages. Ap- ply Unger & Ellis, Waverly = 258-3 A good girl or middle aged woman for general housework. Small fam- fly. Inquire at once at 201 Hayden street, Sayre, Pa nished daily to the Investization Com- This testitcony not be printed in the Legislative Record, but coples of it will be presented to the with the report of the Commission. T report only will be published in the Leg slative Record mission will Legislature, To buy a horse, delivery wagon, har- ness and counter scales. Inquire of John Grimley, 606 Lincoln street, Vak ley phone 399a. 267-8° Wanted—A good girl cr middle aged women, Small family, Address or call, Mrs. H L. Wolcott, No. 101, North street, Athens 251-tt Girl Wanted for general housework. Inquire 109 Packer avenues, Bayre, Pa. 209-8 J FOR RENT. For Rent—Lower flat, centrally lo- cated, near shops. Inquire 319 West Lockhart 26)-6* Rooms and a half house for small family. E J. Neaves, druggist, Wav- NY 259-6* | “Rooms for rent, suitable for house- keeping. 110 Corner of Packer and Elmer avenue 259-12¢ ———————————————— For Kenmt—Three rooms for light housekeeping. Inquire at 102 Miller street. 266-6* | For Kent—House with all the mod- ern improvements at €14 South Wi- bur avenue, corner Madison street rent $20 including water. Inguire of G. W. Morse, 129 North Elmira stroet, Athens or F. J. Taylor, Sayre. 2,66* FOR BALE. | For Sale—Cheap If sold at once, A Kasper Brothers Dining and Lunch small house and lot in a desirable lo- EES 4 J. C. PECKALLY Employment agency. Laborers and Foremen furnished In any quantity on short notice. No commission charged Bell phone 138 Elizabeth Street. Waverly, N. Y. 4 Upholstering and Refinishing. And general repairing of all kinds J. P. OTTARSON, Manager. Cor. Penn'a. and Broad Streets Waverly, N. Y erly, Apply to Mrs. Charles Claflin on It Is our endeavor to make you | the premises 261-8 y ER We soltcit For Sale—22 room house, all mod- ern improvements, two minutes walk from shops, on easy terms. Enquire No. 207 North Lehigh avenue. 260-8 For Sale—Four string base, a fine toned Instrument at 8 bargain. L J, Putnam, 229 Willow street, Athens, Pa. 266-6 For Sale—A No. 1 rubber-tired run- about wagon, In excellent condition. Bargain for an early purchaser. En- quire of Paul E Maynard, M. P. A, biork, Sayre KASPER BROTHERS, 110 and 226 Desmond St, Sayre, Pa Persons chopped in 3 Minutes by mira street, Athens, ten room house with all modern improvements. Two acres of ground, fruit ete. Inquires on premises i : 256-6 For Sale—Flue driving-horse, solid Ti k of the time bay, sound, kind and fearless of all. saved in themorn- ing! Anditchops everything che, also, Baves Time, Labour, Money. gy, surrey, portland cutter, thrée Bare nesses, robes and blankets. Bargain to quick purchaser. Both phones J. T. Corbin, Athens, Pa, 61-1 At Waverly, N. Y., bufldine lol. enn= venlent to car line, large enoush for double house or 2 single houses. Wor particulars. Apply at 126 Chemun street. Waverly, N. Y. a ; ; He
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