Punxsutawney Spirit, 1897-12-15

              1 16 PAGES. CHRISTMAS NUMBER. NO. 28 John B, Baflr rf*c :fa>.r .1 A:.- s..$ THE HOLIDAYS i J. B. B. VOL. XXV. This Week will interest you, as it embraces all the bent lines of staple and fancy goods. You cannot invest youc5 money better, nor make it go as far, and please as many friends, as by making your entire purchases with us. Let us suggest a few articles that will make handsome presents, and our prices are always the lowest when quality is considered.ZE3Iolica.a,y Opening EBERHART'S JOHN B. BAIR. Very Respectfully, \"o\ ki.tv Dkess Goods 1'm>k i:\vr.\K Hknhkhson Coiiwkt SlIAF.U FOKKS Chatalain k Bacs I'l.AII) Bl.ANKKTH Fi.oou ltr<.s SII.K Koii Waists Sii.veu Spoons Pv.hkimks Se.wti.KT RI.ankktb Dooit Mats Mixkd CANDY Pol' COKN Clf.au Toy s Fkknch Chkams l'HAMTS LADIES' CAPES M i ns' Shoes ClUI.DKENs' SmI'PEBH Sta.mi'kd Doilies Xki k Tiks Fink IIosikky Sn AWLS of this Santa Glaus! See last Page Paper. DELIVERY IF DESIRED! Goods bought and paid for will be held until time specified, and delivered to any address free of charge. Slippers. Umbrellas, Cushions, Iiinen Sets, Furs, Dolls, Novelties Gloves, Purses, Sailor Ties. Capes, Jackets, Mice Dress Patterns, At the last moment you will be wondering what to buy. Come to our store, our stock is suggestive. are almost here and we will not have an opportunity of speaking to you again before you make your Holiday purchases, so we wish once more to remind you of thefact that our store is headquarters for Holiday presents of all kinds. Gloves Mittens Dkkss Flannels Knit Hoods Ckkam Honiions Mixed Nuts Taffv Caka meus LADIES' COATS Childkens' Coats Ladies' Shoes Fine Linens Handkerchiefs Sii.k Gabteks Facinatoks Black Dkess Goods U.MUUEI.LAS Nkjiit Gowns Silver Knives Toii.et Soai's White Biankets Dkugoets lUl'KlNS Boas' Our Klaff. Mipco l'ie, 1 Mum Pudding, VOIR- Pumpkin Pie, Fruit Cake, or Welsh Pudding. Snow Aurient Specimens of Repartee. Wellington :ind Napoleon. PlJNXSl'TAWMOV, PA. IMssolut Ion of Partnership. Company. The llocliester «V Pit t*hur£ Coal & Iron Sealed Proposals. A South African Sn:ik« Story Our Grocery department is supplied with fresh goods of all kinds. to stutr you need Any thing V Wild Gumo Turkey, H, Rabbit. Now in 1897 we have forty five stars arranged in alternate rows of eight and seven. The red tells us to be brave, the white tells us to be pure, and the blue tells us to be true.—American Primary Teacher. June fourteenth 1897, was our flag's one hundred and twentieth birthday. Every nation has its flag; but long ago when our country was first settled there was 110 flag for us to raise and for our men to rally about. At last in response to the demand of the people, Congress on June 14, 1777, resolved that "the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white iti a blue field." The people were delighted to think they should uow have a flag that would be their own and not like that of any other nation. George Washington took a pencil and paper and made a drawing of it. Then with two men, he took his drawing to a bright woman, Mrs. Ross, to ask her to make the first flag. Mrs. Ross kept a little upholstery store on Arch street, Philadelphia. Washington had drawn the stars with six points, like those 011 our coins,but Mr?. Ross folded a piece of cloth and with one little snip of her scissors made a five pointed star. Then Washington told her how to make the stripes of red and white and where to sew the square of blue. The flag was soon completed, and hoisted at once in Philadelphia and copied every where over the country as soon as the patriots heard of it. In 181S, there were twenty stars and thirteen stripes. It was then voted to add a new star whenever a state should be admitted, but the stripes should remain thirteen. J. B. EBERHART, lH '-We advertise facts only, and yell at the same price the same day to everybody. There is more than one way of fighting a snake. In Natal, South Africa, where lives the deadly matnba serpent, a party of fifty or sixty Kaffirs were building a road. In the course of their work they came to a huge stone, under which d velt a large black mamba, well known to ihe neighboring inhabitants as being very fierce and venomous. The superintendent anticipated trouble with the rock and so he offered a reward to the Kaffir that would bring him the snake's skin. For a time none of them dared make the attack, but a slim youth finally sauntered forward, and amid the jeers and protestations of the rest declared himself equal to the task. He took from his neck what looked like a bit of shriveled stick, chewed it, swallowed some of it, spat out the rest on his hands, and proceeded to rub his glistening brown body and limbs all over. Then, talcing up a stick and chanting a song of defiance, he advanced with great confidence and swagger to the boul der. There he roused up the mamba, who in great fury at being disturbed, bit him in the lip with great venom. The boy took no notice of the bite, but broke the snake's back with his stick and bringing him to his master asked for the reward, obtaining which, he went back to his work, and the bite of the reptde had ne effect on him whatever. No bribe, not even that of a cow (better than any gold in the eyes of a Kafjir,) would induce this native to disclose the secret of his antidote, which he said had been handed down in his family for generations. The snake was a very long one, and so old that it had a mane. It is a well known fact that certain of the /.olas have antidotes for the more deadly snake poisons, which they preserve as a secret within their own families.—Ex. Useful When You Select Get the Things of Most Service to Your Friends. Holidays, For The When you get goods in the line of Clothing, Shoes, Hats or Furnishing goods, you are on the right track. Means' Pharmacy vw//"tL Holiday Goods As is well known, the finest poem Kduiumj Waller ever wrote was liis panegyric of the Lord Protector Yet at the re storation the poet addressed another panegyric to Charles II. "Master Waller,"said the King to him 011 his coming to court, "those verses you wrote 011 Cromwell are, they tell me, far belter than those you have written on me." "Sire," was the apt and courtier-like reply, "poets always excel more iti fiction than in truth." Of the season. Wait and watch for them. His entire stock was closed out last season, and nothing but the very latest novelties will be offered you tliis year. We Give You a few Reminders. Ko< iik-tkk. N. V., December 15, 1897. Noti»<' is hereby driven that the annual meeting of tin* stockholder* of this Company for the election of a Hoard of Directors (or the ensuing year will h«* lx-ld at the Company's otllee. l'unimitawnrv, JelTermm countv, l'n., at 2 o'clock p. n»M Tuesday, Jan. 18,1898. tiKO. K. Mkhohant, 1'resident. 23 w 5 IIATS WINTER CAPS GLOVES and MITTENS UNDER WE All HOSIERY MACKINTOSHES SWEATERS ALL KINDS OF MENS' SHOES. NECKWEAR WHITE SHIRTS FLANNEL SHIKTS KII) GLQVES NIGHT ROBES INITIAL HANDK'R'FS COLLARS & CUFFS OVERCOATS REEFERS MENS' SUITS IiOYS SUITS CIIILDRENS SUITS CHILD11ENS OVERCOATS ULSTERS Notice is hereby Riven that the partnership heretofore subsisting between Daniel IIClark, George W. Kipp, K Floyd Kizer and Itichard J. Clark, under the lirm name of Clark. Kizer Kipp, wiiM (linsolveil on the 10th day of December, 1897. by mutual consent, Mr. Bichard J. Clark retiring from the said ttrm and business. All debts owing to said partnership are reeei vable by said Daniel II. Clark, George W. Kipp and E. Flovd Kizer, who will eontinue said business under the firm name of Clark, Kizer .V: Kipp, and to whom also all claims and demands against the same are to be presented for payment.One of the cleverest repartees was that of Lord Melbourne to Mr. lilack, who was editor of the Morning Chronicle. Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister and he and his Government were constantly and severely attacked in the Chronicle. One day Lord Melbourne and Mr. Black met in the Strand, when each inquired after the other's health. Mr. Black complained that he was suffering from a bad cold. "Ah, Mr. Black," said Lord Melbourne, "you have been lying 011 damp sheets." Dr. Johnson—True, sir, but you must remember that he only made it for Scotchmen, and for the matter of that, sir, comparisons are odious, but—God made hell ! Dr. Johnson—Why, sir, that it is a very vile country, to be sure. Scotchman (ill-pleased)—After all, sir- God made it. Scotchman—Well, sir, what did you think of my country ? A Tar-IIeel Evanglist at large. There are some interesting stories in the recently published reminiscences of Mr. Corbould, the drawing master to Queen Victoria's children. Here is one of them. "O11 reaching the palace one day the Prince of Wales showed me a drawing he had just finished. Napoleon was depicted 011 horseback leveling a pistol at the Duke of Wellington, who was advancing to cut down his great enemy. While I was looking at the drawing, who should come in but the Duke himself. 'Why, the very man who can best critici e my drawing!' cried the prince. 'Now, can you tell me who that is on the left?' he went 011, presenting the sketch to the Duke. 'Well,'replied the latter deliberately, 'judging from the waistcoat and the cocked hat, I should say it was meant for Napoleon ' 'Right,'said the prince. 'And who is the other figure?' 'By the cut of the jib,' returned tile Duke calmly, 'I should say it was myself.' 'Right again. Well, now is the drawing accurate? That's what I want to know.' The duke rose, put down the sketch and thus impressively addressed the Prince of Wales: 'My bov, I'm going to tell you something that the Knglish people don't seem to realize. I was sent out to keep Napoleon in check, but uever in my life have I set eyes on liim. Once, in the midst of a battle some one cried: '' Look! There's Napoleon!" Hut before I could get the glass to my eye the smoke from a field gun had enveloped him.—Ex. 28w6 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Daninr. II. Ci.akk, (i KO. W. KiPl*, K Flovd Ki/K», Hkiiakd J. OijAKK. Goal and Ikon Company Office of Jefferson and Clearfield Mr. Spurgeon was quick at repartees. After Mr. Charlesworth left the Congregational ists and joined the Baptists, some one said to him in Mr. Spurgeon's hearing: "So you have changed your views, Mr. Charlesworth?" "Oh, 110," said Mr. Spurgeon, "he has not; he has only cleaned his windows." Punxsiitawncy, Pa., Dec. 14, 1897.—28w3. T. M. KURT/., Burgnis. at less than par. Scaled proposals will be received by the under— signed until I >cc. 30, 1897. at 8:00 p. m., for 914,000 borough of PunxMutawuey, refunding, 4 i>ercent. coupon bonds. Bonds arc redeemable after flye years at pleasure of borough and payable within 80 years after their date, interest payable senii-» annually at the First National Hank of Punxsutawnev, free of State tax. Denomination, 20 of £->00 each, 40 of S:00 each. Issued under act of the 20th of April, 1874 Accrued interest will go to th<- borough. No bids entertained for bono* We will remind you. of the rest when you come in. Money refunded if goods are not satisfactory. HT T A LI L> Mens' and Boys' . J. I 'l * n. n FURNISHER, * PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Farm For Sale Near Indiana. 110 acres, 120 cleared. Balance timber. Two orchards, Soil good. L-house, SixtO: bank barn 45x6S. Water in ©very Held. Must be sold soon to settle cst ite. Address P, M% Allisoa, Indiana, Pa.-7t4. Hkvnoldsvili.b, Pa., Dec. Ill, 1897. Notice is hereby given that the regular annual meeting of the stock holders of the Jefferson and Cleartiuld Coal and Iron Company will be held at the Company's oftlee in Beynoldsville, Pa., on Tuesday, .Ian. 18, 1898, at 10 o'clock a in., for the purpose of electing a hoard of Directors for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting*Geo. E. Merchant, Attest— Jno. G. YVhitMoke, President. 28 w 5 Secretary. —Skates sold and sharpened, rubber hand stamps made, bicycles enameled in all fancy colors and decorated. Place open all winter. Get your wheel done over now, and pay for repairs when yon take it away in the spring Freas' Panx'y Cyclery. The Rev. T. H. Levitt, a North Carolina evanglist who is conducting a revival in Richmond, saw two young women smiling during service. Walking down the aisle to where they were he knelt and prayed that they would die immediately and go to hell. The Rev. S. C. Hatcher, who attended the revivals, straightway left the church. When he was asked his reason he was said to have replied: "I think it my duty to try to pray people out of hell, and not pray them in." [Knoxvilie Tribune.] '.'jk;:j:\V: s!p|!N /sMk : made from II selected m \RD SPRING WHEAT 'TsurE3:or*•> '• ' ■ " •.. • • '■■' BP wJW^IWWUinni '>■■■■"• »'"»n" w>I"■ '■ miwii'■ »■ i i iiinni 'wp^i.jj John B. XSair PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15,1897.