Waverly's Department Store | rE PP Pere IP OP FOS er bret bib red bP Ett bP Eb Pre bbb OR SP POP heib ir should Store. RPE rE REE Shhh bbbbdd HEAD OF ISTHMIAN COMMISSION RESIGNS POSITION. Goes fo Take More Lucrative Job as Chief of Gotham’s Traction Sys tem —Stevens in Full Control of Work. Washington Theodore P. Shonta, chairman of the Isthmian canal com ! mission. has resigned. to take effect off March 4, and his resignation has been accepted by President Roosevell Mr Shonts leaves the government em ploy to go iuto that of the Ryan Bel ah combination io the management the Interborough Street railway 100 he in New York He will have no successor In the government The entire of the building of the Panama cana! will be concentrated In the hands of John F. Stevens, the present chief engin- eer. He will be made chairman of the commission as long as that body lasts. but the commission itself Is W he abolished If congress follows the view nf the seuate committee, wh ts soon to make a report on the ect. with the complete approval ihe president control of | responsible head of sent of the canal, Stevens will have the technical detalls Mr. Shonts leaves his place without any trace of ill feeling on either side Om the contrary, by a pecullar com- hinatien of circumstances Chairman shonts wanted to go, President Roose it was willing he should go, and! the biz company lo New York desired | Mr. Shonts’ services, and was willing to pay fcr them Pan] Morton, president of the Equit- tle Assurance society, the civil govern and Chief Engineer entire control of came over 3 THEODORE P. SHONTS. {He Has Resigned Chairmanship of +4444 440400444 the Panama Canal Commission.) The Rev. H W. Crydenwise is in New York city today Miss Mabe! home from Wodburn Ithaca tomorrow THE NATIONAL BANK OF SAYRE. $50,000.00 is Miss Lena Whitley of Binghamton, is the guest of Mrs. Frank Shaw CAPITAL Holy City wil The Miss Adelaide Hemstreel ard and Sebring's office ii of How- is seriously A daughter WAS Sors on last to Mr. and Mrs Clark street Thursday Johu Scaniin of Mrs. George Griswold of Owego Is “he department of savings js a special feature of this Dank, and sil deposits, wheth- or large or small, draw the seme rate of interest Jisiting her son, in this place Mrs. F. I. Glazier of Medford, Mass | is visting her parents Mr and Mrs William Cardwell Clinton ue M. H. SAWTELLE, on aven- A .R Bunun is visiting his daugh- ter in Philadeiphia During his ab- sence his shoe store is being run by W. A. Page The Ladies’ Aid of the Baptist church served a supper in the church pariors last evening, and cleared the sun of $2000 J. H. MURRELLE, Proprietor. W. T. CAREY, Editor. Published every afternoon except Sunday at 203 West Lockhart Street, Pa. ~ Bubscription, $3.00 per 26¢ per mouth. Advertising rates reasonable, and made known oo application. ture departments ain bargains worth or year, The Rev. C. M. Surdam, the recently appointed presiding elder of the Owego district of the Wymoling conference of the M. E church will reside in Waverly at 471 Park avenue . Entered as second-class matter May 30, 1905, at the postoffice at Sayre. ; under the Act of Cougress of ‘March 3, 1879, Miss Soverhitl, who has been teach- | the commercial High School for the past resigned, and will to her home at Newark, N. J SATURDAY, APRIL 13, WAVERLY FRANK E WOOD, Representative. News and advertising matter may be left at Gregz's Racket Store, corner Broad Street and Park Avenue Shiite 13 aClock noon call the main So Sayre. Both phones. Curtis Morgan went to Binghamton 1807 mn the pOArs four has return | A new ection wick blue van a working moment of lighting ¢r's Department With i Ket wirated at pCO mets i This Is the Place, get your r cut, 16; sha ihe; mpoo, 15 hair singed. : % hiskers mmed§ 10c; sea fogfi, bc; Mosassage, 15% mus d, 20ec; halr dyed, $1.00 swite lies, i | Ler AN action Waverly—Sheriff Griffin of Bradford hieh Pa. aud Chtef of Police Walsh th of Savre, were in Waverly ing looking for Andrew stole his brother's horse at North To- wanda, and sold it to a man at Milan for $75. The brother was weak mind. ed, and not resposible for his acts, and it was sought to find him in order that the might He was in Waverly yesterday, but had left This morn- | e to make a formal the head of the New gvstem, we has become so anulleg Lecame man who wonld command of the President padevelt was sounded find ont hether he would feel that Mr. Shon! “ad deserted n th wee of the enemy If be Ne York to take the siarfirtse of thie Stole Horse and Sold IL. ably ba county it thik nliarnce it LECEESArY fo last even- Brady, who people 10 the government vont to a larger salary To Mr replied considered had nearly outlived its usefuly { that Mr sShonts’ services I% necessary After the the winter season bere The chairman of the Isthmian canal wommission has retained his place all along as president of the Clover Leaf railroad He sted that the of $20,000 a year allowed by the ernment was pot suficlent fo and he held on to his railroad position with the distinct understanding that it would not be permitted to interfer: with his labor for the canal This decision consid dissatisfaction In certain government circles as all cabinet officers and oth {er servantz of the government usually have cut from private Shouts” frivnd money be recovered noes! ont withou the that he con fu officers arived located in Jersey City when the ing he was would conclusion of -— tt — Things Soldiers Don't Use. A writer In the Philadelphia Rulle tin Informs an amazed public that soldlers never use umbrellas during wars Another pecullarity of the war rior is that he never uses a lorgnette, a bottle of smelling salts or a fan In a bayonet charge —Loulsville Courier. Journal ina FOV him Boy Saves a Morse. A little fellow of four years went to a blacksmith to see his father's created rable shoeing. The black smith began to pare the horse's hoof, | and, thinking this wrong, the little |, .. iments or boy sald: “My pa don’t want Bis, geqve commercial life horse made any smaller | Like Mr. Wallace, the = | gineer, who was so severely score 4 { by Secretary Taft for leaviog the gov ernment service to accept a high salary outside, Mr Shouts will money by leaving Washington understood his salary will he not loss ithan $50000 a year and it may | considerably more. Actual service on {the traction lines of Néw York and | Brooklyn surface, elevated. aud sub Good In Eight-Hour Day. way. has been of the Among the cigar makers 51 per description and the owners al cent. dled of tuberculosis prior to the | have realized that they could escape inauguration of the eight-hour work: {unfriendly logislation only by day. Seventeen years after the eight | in charge 8 man of re hour day took effect this percentage |tive ability They sought Chatrman ; had been reduced to 23 per cent Shonts because he had been appointed iby President Roogevelt 1d they !? Heved the people would accept Lb ! choice as a guarantee of an honest In { tention to better the service loose Advance In Price of Platinum. Most of the world’s supply of plat pum comes from the southern part of the Ural mountains In Russia. Ac cording to the report of the Russian | ministry of finance, the Increased de mand for the metal of late years has rafsed its price to nearly $500 a pound. in most " Money In Frog Skins. Quite a lucrative business, it seems. | is done in Japan in the exportation of | frog skins for purses. The works | controlled by a Tokio merchant have exported as many as 130,000 skins in | less than 8 year. { Fisherman at 87, On January 16 Capt. Theophiing W |B rackett, of Swalupscitt's oldest {citizens and its oldest fisherman, wil New York City “Kills.” | ve 87 years of age, says the Hoston Ia old Dutch times all of the rivers | { Globe about New York city were known as | Capt “kills,” meaning channel or bed of a {ing business just as he did when river. but sow all save one have lost | younger. [t matters not to him what thelr original name, and that one is | the weather 18. Hot or cold, he can x Kill vou Kull | seen every morning pushing off from the beach in his dory, to pull his trawls. He always goes one Brackett carries on his fish No Liquor in the Kitchen, Advertisement in the Chronicle: “Scullery mald; £16, annual rise; gold watch end of | ‘else. | five years; teetotaler preferred. Ad- | One-Sided, “No, tle's the fellow who Induced me buy that mining stock.” Ra Np { i i { | i i ‘Wye. 8 LEMMON. The man's eyes were open. but he could not see The room was dark It was nighttime and he had been dreaming. The Ghost stood close beside his bed and gazed at him steadily. “Well, | am here” sald the Ghost, The manu aroused himsell Prop ping his bead on one hand he gazed hard through the blackness He could see nothing so he laughed And. who are you? It is custom ary for strangers to have introduc tions before they converse” And he laughed again “You have seen me before” sald the Ghost “You need pot pretend ihat we are strangers” “Hut 1 do not know you” said the man We must obsarve the conven tonalities, whatever we do” and he auehed agaln, rather ldictically as he sfterwards admitted to himself ‘When you are as old and as tired as 1 am you will not worry aboul com ventionalitles” sald the Ghost “1 want to know how long You are golag to keep me tolling Don’t you think | have earned my release? Don’t served my time? The man sat upright in bed. He was wideawake now and the puplls of his eves were dilated. A feeling of horror and terror—almost of panlc— was sfealilng over hm “What do you mean “Who are vou’ sou’ “You know, you must know who | am sald the Ghost “You cannot pretend that vou have never seen or heard of me before’ But 1 do not pretend.” ** he gasped From whence came said the { i “Tell me, for God's sake, you and whence you came” “Very well. Listen, then, poor fool Out of the ndthermont the me again forever I might have known I might all hope, all maudlin, wan all But you, joy you, | ! drunken with your excesses, have oon demned me to eternal darkness, eter nal oblivion” The man's breathing could now be heard across the room But who, who are you?" he almost i i i i } “Very well, Since you cannot hear | or see, or understand, 1 will tell you 1 am the Spirit of your Youth. 1 am | the Ghost of Your Ideals And | de have been falth foving. | have an instant. But Why then ful, loyal, never deserted you for ahandoned keep me In captivity? Let me go thee! Release me! 1 have ge rved my time, | have a right to free- ave, even you have me The Ghost's volee broke. The upright in bed What do you mean” You speak In riddles Man he gasped 1 do not under Ah Naw have released we! | am free. Farewell” The Ghost's voice sounded faint and distant. The man's panic returned Lim sevenfold Increased You are leaving™' he cried Yes, | am going, never to return Your confession that you no longer understand any reference to the spirit of your youth, the ghost of your ideals me from all responsibility Go your way, | shall go mine” But stay' Please stay' [| did not understand. Now 1 know. Come back, come back!” The man stretched out “1 cannot come back! 1 cannot lve now vou fa absolves rose from his bed aud} his arms lmploringly vou go. Please, ear Ghost without you" let come back ) (7 See our new line of China. When cleaning house be sure to remember that we sell house-cleaning supplies. ny bh > AE | SA 0 R\! 0 HR APN 7 -, GREGG'S 3S RACKET STORE Cos. Broad St. and Park Ave., Waverly Maes, 5 a8 ROE Everythingin Furnitu The moving a housecleaning S¢ son is here,--- very time of ye when housekeepe needs are most parent. The lal est and most comprehensive line Furniture in this valley offers unpar leled opportunities for satisfying most exacting demands. You arc cal dially invited to visit our mammo showrooms and see for yourself the beauty and magni- tude of our lines. Uniform low prices rule here. | ~ Rogers & 5s & Miller, Both Phones. 227, 229, 231 ‘Main St. Athens. nothing except the to hie daliy vision. And he threw him self sobbing, face downward upon the { i Anti-Foot * Binding Society. “Direction of the antifoot-binding to the Shanghal ladies’ commit to Chinese tablished many antl-foot-binding cleties throughout this great empire” writes a Shanghal contributor to a Great was the sur detight at of the over sO yet greater the the Jecent annual meeting when it was v Chinese committee had been formed it #lso an executive committee with o Chines for forelgu for Chinese ne correspondence we and that several of | he gentlemen would attend the meet- A Story from Germany. to drink alcoholic Leverages tient replied: “But, doctor, you your self drink alcohol’ Yes, my good friend. but not as a doctor,” replied the man of medicine. “when 1 drink | ¢o so only as an ordinary man.” The pa WANTED. Woman wants work by aated—A small farm within Bille MERELY « FOR BALE, {like to r tool chest and [tools to sell oi I< 2 : ioe > eet ar RsaeeTNirs LM. Morton. #1} as i; madge block. 269-6* | lo—On ¢asy torg a) i . BE —] ‘lot 618 Clarkes | A. goad gin ffizer or at premises. Por Sale—A No. 1 rubber-ti abobl [REON 0 c Bargain for AQ quire gf 0 ; . Sayre. For Sale ~Fine driving gaurd. kind and fear! objects: Also, TOY gy, surrey, pori nesses, to qui ‘orblp, Athens, Pa. housekeeping. Peli] BL oy {women 3 r leu all, Mrs E Maynard, M. T Child's & |: At Waverly, N. Y., buliding Jolye { Four r uire of Ike | veniep ne. large €nou he {Samuels, Lo ler.-272 | double house or | particulps Pply at Waverly, N. Y. Two brick houses One on Maple n Wi : Sale—A fine residence owanda, splendid Joes minutesNgalk from Court minutes {rogg p ; A very de walnut, with al Splendid barn with poultry hou six hund sists of six ting one acgs Vill be d very cheap once oO ill trade for ty. erms to sult pur dp or call ¥, C. Bull ue. 7 rooms and | possession n VanSog Inquire of G. L. Valley phone M4 flected TONG, Owner lea 0 reat—A good how
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