Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-01-03

              BM PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., JANUARY 3, 1906. NO. 31. VOL. XXXIII. Clearance Sale A REAL, GENUINE AT WEBER'S 6.50 10.00 9.00 8.00 7.50 .Men's $20.00 Suits $15.00 18.00 " 15.00 " 15.00 " 12.00 15.00 12.00 12.00 10.00 S.00 .Men's $20.00 Overcoats $ 1 .">.00 " 18.00 " 15.00 " .15.00 " 12.00 " 15.00 " 10.00 " 12.00 " 9.00 " 12.00 " 8.00 10.00 " 7.50 " 8.00 " 6.50 A. WEBER J. $8 and $7 suits, choice - $5.00. A big bargain. Sizes 6-35, 7-36, 13-37, 3-38, 1-39 and 2-40. A reductoin on overcoats. Store closes at 6 o'clock except Wed. and Sat. evenings. HEM UP SALE He wise, come early and pick out your presents and have them laid away until you want them. The wise shopper is buying Xmia presents now, avoiding the "Last Minute" rush and getting first pick in every line. FOR THE WOMEN FOR THE MEN Your Choice $6.98 Your Choice Men's Overcoats and Suits worth $8, $10, $12, $14, $15, $16, $17, $18, $20 and $22 "Buster Brown." Punxsutawney, Pa. Opposite the Pantall Hotel Feicht's Corner Drug Store Wo could odd many more items to this list, hut come yourself and see our line. We are sure you will find lust what you are looking for. Interesting Outline of the Work For the Current Year. V. M. O. A. PROSPECTS. Economical January of Clothin Clearance Sale The clothing we sell is as good as can he made. We handle none but high grade goods. Take advantage of this sale and get the Seasonable Goods you want at reduced prices. ■ • » I I It*?* LOT ONE Everybody knows that when we advertise a reduction sale it is bonafide. No honest merchant can sell goods all the time for less than cost, al-7 though there some that advertise doing so all the year around. We do not believe in i'ake sales and we think the public is entitled to honest uealing. We have just closed the largest season's business in the history of this store, and this leaves us with broken sizes and odd lots one and two suits of a kind. These we will offer during this sale at actually less than the cost of the material. It might pay to carry these over, for woolens have advanced 15 per cent, end this means higher prices for next season. Our stock must be fresh at the beginning of each season. Blues and blacks not included in this sale. These odd suits are divided into five lots. TWO LOT $20and5i18 suits, choice - - - $13.50 Tfc se suits arc pure worsted make and fit as well as the highest class merchant tailor's. Sizes 9-35, 13-36,1-37,3-38. $16 andj>15 suits, choice igl I.OO _ -c » «-< v ~* * These suits are pure wool worsted cheviots and the workmanship is correct in every detail. Sizes 8-35, 3-3(5, 9-37, 6-38 and 1-39. LOT FIVE LOT THREE and $12 suits, choice - - ™ / Every suit in this lot is pure wool and well made. Such values will move them quickly. Sizes 11-35, 13-36, 10-37,8-38, 2-39, 3-40. LOT FOUR $12 and $10 suits, choice - ... $7.50. These are all wool cheviots, and good values at former prices, don t fail to see them. Sizes 3-35, 12-36, 12-37, 8-38, 3-39 and 2-40. H. J. LOEB MEN'S AND BOYS' FURNISHER FARMER'S NATIONAL BANK BUILDING Store closes at 6 p. m. except Wed. and Sat. Alterations will be charged for during this sale Reduced prices in all other departments, shoes and furnishing goods at cut prices. Still sharper reductions in boys' and children's suits and overcoats. Christmas Gifts at! Feicht's Drug Store We have our Holiday Goods now on display, and to help you make a selection, offer the following list to assist you. Began Saturday, December 30, and lasts until Wednesday, January, 17,'06. The following is what we do, and this January is no exceptfon. Our rule to carry no stock from season to season, as yet has failed to effect the value of our goods. This year we again offer our entire remaining stock of Toilet Cases, Manicures, Brush and Comb Sets, Pocket Books, Opera Bags, Hand Painted China, Bric-a-Brac, Perfumes, Books, Japanese China, Post Card Albums, Albums, Papeteries, candy, etc. Military Sets, Brush Sets, Shaving Sets, Razors, Mugs, Books, Ink Stands, Novelties, Post Card Albums, Don Pieces, Pocket Books, Bill Rolls, Stationery, etc. ary, A. D., 1906, of three Supervisors; one for one year, one for two years and one for three years and annually thereafter, one for three years Sueprvlsors shall meet the first Monday of March, 1906, and yearly thereafter. They shall be sworn and then organize as a board by the election of one of their number as chairman and one as secretary, and shall appoint a treasurer who shall not be a member of the board; they shall levy a road tax not exceeding ten mills. This tax may be worked out as now, or it may under certain conditions be mado payable in cash. These conditions are that I the voters of the township at any I February general election by a majority vole adopt the system of paying taxes in cash. Such election may | be authorized by the Court of Quarter Sessions by petition of at least twenty-live of the taxpayers of any township. Thirty days notice of such) .'lection shall be given. If a town-, ship shall by vote abolish the work :.1 v and substitute the cash tax such; township shall annually receive from i :ie State fifteen per centum of the amount expended upon the roads by; said township for the preceding year. The Board of Supervisors shall di- I vide .the township into road districts of not les.s tiian five miles in each dis| u'kci;. the number and size of the I districts, subj« v i. to the limitation above referred to, is discretional';, hwlth the lioard. They shall em; ploy a road mater in each district, I whose duly it shall be to work upon the roads himself, over.ee the men cluployed, keep the time of i he emj-ploves and report to the board of Supervisors. The Spervisors may also i if they deem it advisable, let the j load ma king or repairing out by contract. The Supervisors fix the wages !<>f the road master and the wages to I be paid to laborers; they employ both 1 laborers and road master, purchase all tools, machinery and materials and make all contracts for the township. They meel once a month, I keep minutes, which shall be subject to inspection by taxpayers at any reasonable time, and generally do all business for the township. They rej ceive no compensation, but may be [allowed necessary expenses, including office rent, stationery, light and fuel to be paid out of township funds. Vacancies in the office of Supervisor are filled by appointment by the Court of Quarter Sessions. Supervisors may not be interested either directly or indirectly in any work done, purchase made or contract relating to roads or bridges or furnish any materials to the township. A violation of these provisions is made a misdemeanor punishable by not more than five hundred dollars fine or six months imprisonment. Two Supervisors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.The treasurer elected by the Board of Supervisors is the collector of road taxes. A duplicate is issued to him by the Supervisors. Within ten days after receiving the duplicate he shall give a written notice to all taxabio persons of the amount assessed against them. Any tax paver paying his tax before June first of each year shall be entitled to an abatement, of five per cent. On all road taxes paid between June first and November first of each year the taxpayer shall pay the full amount of tax levied. On all paid after November first, an additional five petcent. shall be collected. On November first in each year the treasurer shall make a list of delinquent taxpayers with the amount due from each and deliver the same to the tax collector of the township who shall immediately proceed to collect the same. The treasurer shall receive for his services such compensation as the road supervisors shall prescribe, not exceedng two per centum of the moneys received and disbursed. The funds of the township shall be paid out by the treasurer only on the written order of the township Supervisors. signed by the chairman and attested by the secretary thereof. Referring to the foregoing provisions of the law, A. M. Woodward, former district attorney of Clearfield County, says: "The changes made in the system, as will be seen are radical. The District Treasurer Act is affected and the District Treasurer will no longer be the custodian of the road funds. The Collector of Taxes is affected. He will hereafter, as to road taxes, be the collector of delinquent taxes only. It seems, also, that, the Town Clerk is affected, as his duties will be performed by the Secretary of the Board of Supervisors Thoso townships desiring to vote at tbS c jn'lng February election unon the q -est ton of cash or work tax should take steps to have such election ordered by the Court, as to make such election valid it must be advertised thirty days preceding the election."Please do not ask for suspenders with each suit during sale. The board of directors met last Thursday evening and organized by selecting J. H. Kennedy, sueprlntendent of the Punxsutawney Iron Works, president; W. H. Bloso, of the B., R. ft P. freight office force, recording secretary, and Frank O. Snyder, treasurer. New committees on religious work, finance, boys' work, education, rooms, athletics, social gatherings, membership, and information and relief, will be appointed within a week, and the Association will start the new year with new life and enthusiasm, having a greatly enlarged work In view. The finance committee expect to make their canvass for the necessary subscriptions to cover the budget for 1906 within the first two w« -ks of January. The budget. adopted calls for $2,06!> for current expenses for t.e year. This will provide only for janitor and general secretary on the paid force. The State "S-ereiarie.s who nave been ill the Held recently are urging the employment of .ri assistant secretary. Tills would add about $600 to the budget, Ini ..oti'd more than double the working power of the Association, Working with, the present force is much like a farmer trying to take care of a big farm because he canpol afford to hirvli<-H> -the crop liable to be w ds rather than potatoes. Warren- Pa., with a population of about 10,000 has an annual budget of $15,000. Other towns the size of Punxsutawney car- ry budgets five time as large as ours, and find that ii pays in dollars and cents to do so. It may he cheaper and easier to let a boy run the streets and grow into a loafer or criminal than to train hini into a useful and productive man, but it costs the community more in the end in money, to say noting of broken hearts and wrecked lives. A new stimulus has Wen given to boys' work in Pennsylvania by the addition to the state force of Mr. Crosby, the new Boys' Secretary. Pennsylvania is woefully in the rear in boys' work, but now has at the head of this important branch of the work one of the strongest experts to be found in America, and those interested in the boys' may look for a very decided improvement along this line. Mr. Crosby spent a part of Friday and all of Saturday in Punxsuta wney. While enthusiastic over the possibilities of this field, he is not very hopeful of results until the addition of an assistant secretary is made to the local working force. In towns of this size it is the usual plan to employ a man who can take charge of the physical work, giving half of his time to it and half to boys' work. It is for the men of Punxsutawney who have ooys or are interested in other peoples' boys, to say whether this shall be done or not. And in making up your mind what you are going to do about, it, bear in mind that the Y. M. C. A. will be just about what the people of Punxsuawney make it. The same is true, in a large measure, of the average boy. Mr. Williams, the new State Bible Study Secretary was also in town last week, and left, some new ideas and new enthusiasm in Bible work. It may surprise Punxsutawney people to learn that in the city of Cleveland street car men by the hundred got up a half hour earlier in the morning than usual in order to be at the barns that much earlier, that they may devote that much time to Bible study under Y. M. C. A. leadership. In fact, in the larger cities, Bible study is becoming so popular, especially among working men, that the one who doesn't know the Bible will soon be a back number. A small working force has already been developed in Punxsutawney which will be made the nucleus of a force that may do for our town what has been done for others. Here is an opportunity for young men to show true nobility and manhood by volunteering to help in this work. The men's meeting on Sunday afternoon came near to being an overflow. All the chairs in the hall and all in the rooms, as well as improvised seats of plank laid on chairs, were filled, and a number of men stood. Monroe's orchestra and the Cumberland male quartette furnished the special music gratis. The fact that men stood for an hour and a half and listened, not one leaving the hall, shows how well they did thefr part. Mr. Jenks sang an appropriate solo and the whole assemblage joined heartily in singing familiar hymns. The meeting next Sunday will be addressed by R«v. 8. t. Hlmes. The male quartette will sing. All men are invited. Mr. Stine's Bible class will meet next Monday evening at the M. E. Church at seven o'clock, preceding the union services which will open the week of prayer at that time and place. Every Sabbath school teacher in Punxsutawney should attend these meetings. The boys will meet tot military drill on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, instead of 1 in the evening as heretofore. NEW ROAD IiAW. Supervising and Caring for Highways 'Will be Revolutionised. The most prominent nnncninccmpftt of the season ia "Builcr Urown." h play built on Richard P. Outcault's famous plcturc.3 In the New York Herald. Thl3 magnificent production will be given at f-c .Te.terson Tlio'tro matinee and night on Thursday, January 4, by the well-known nnnassr. Melvillo ft. Raymond. who ha? cured for the title part, a c'.rvc- lltt'e comedian. The do*. Tige, will be played by a we"l known anima! impersonator. Wanamaker has costunc.l the entire organization in the latest nil most go-cr-ous Mahlrns. Matlncn prices: Children, 2". ten's, adults 50 cents. Night prices: 2T.c. 35 c, 50c, 76c and J1.00. No $1.5!) seats. Torrence Block, Punxsutawney, Pa. It is perhaps not generally known that a new road law, which was approved by the Governor April 12, 1905, becomes effective this spring, that will completely revolutionize the method of selecting road sueprrisora, the levying and collecting of taxes, repairing and maintaining of roadft, etc, In every township in the county. The new lair provides for the election on the titled Tuesday of Febru- WAHTEl)-MEN TO WORK ON REps'rs nf f<-el*tlt c»r»; npolv t» W. F. Gb#r>. General Fnremnn. Penniylvnnln Railroad Car Shop*. Altoona. Pit.—8tf WEL, Xj c •• i 1 •H S3 I I i II • 1 aJL :i;:i :d: i 1 S n n >A I I 8: g *:<: : % :: I ill ; SWT'S