Punxsutawney Spirit, 1906-04-18

              son Wrestling Wliy J. X. lleyer ami Jolni Thomp- THIRTY VKAK8 AGO. Keafnu's of thr for Commencement Week* IW'nirninn Sunday, April 29. ksm^mc; ®Ije JJutixsufatimc!) Spirit. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., APRIL 18, 1006. VOL XXXIII. WEBER'S The Right Kind of Clothes At These suitB from $15 up to $25. Stein Bloch Suits from $15 up to $'25. Clothcraft Suits from $10 up to $18. Boys' Suits The line of suits we show at this price, must be seen to be appreciated. They are made altogether different from the usual run of suits at this price. They have hand button holes, hand collars, hair cloth fronts, in fact made just as well as you would pay your tailor twice the amount. In either single or double breasted sacks. 31 or 32 inch coats in blues, blacks and fancy cheviots, serges and worsteds. Ask to see our new Broadway Sack, it's the new cut for the young man. Two piece double breasted, also Norfolks, some with two pairs pants, straight and knickerbocker, stylishly made at prices which mean a saving to you. Boys' Sailor Blouse and Buster Brown. Spring footwear for men and boys. Our Keith Konqueror shoes at $3.50, the styles, workmanship and material! are as fine and as attractive on the foot as any -shoe you ever saw. Banister shoes $5.00. These are the highest standard of shoe making. V. M. V. A. Notes. Stylish Hats All the swell new shapes are here from $1.00 up to a Knox $5.00. Copyright 1906 by Hart Schaffner fj? Marx Monarch and Cluett brand shirts, latest fabric, cuffs attached or separate. Some in the popular coat shirt. Night Shirts 50c to $1.00. Pajamas, a big assortment from $1.00 to $3.00. To tin* Voters of l*iiii\stitmviicy. Store open till 8 o'clock. J. A. Weber ONE PRICE CLOTHIER prices are low. Col. Frank Kail. Sagamore Society. give your value. dressed in our Clothing. Sale Continued. GIVE YOUR CHILDREN FRESH AIR Medicine is a good thing to cure sick children,—but it's expensive. Instead, give them plenty of fresh outdoor air and exercise,—air cost nothing, and saves doctor bills. Nothing e<|ual to a Star Coaster Wagon for genuine, healthy sport and exercise. Made of thoroughly seasoned lumber, made for the hardest kind of service—and they'll last for years. Spokes can't come out of the wheels,— no king-pin to bend or break. Ball Bearing Axles, wheels can't wobble. Open Evenings for spring business. Until July 4, Will Our Store with new Goods. 1906. Torrence g J I I I | j I I Punxsutawney B,ock IalU DlI i Penna THE ONE PRICE CLOTHIER Not at all heavy, and a youngster of four or five can get a lot of fun out of a Star Coaster,—and build up lungs that consumption will never touch. Several different sizes in stock,— which we're selling at very reasonable prices, owing to a heavy purchase we made recently of these Outdoor Exercisers. Glad to show you the Star Coasters, and tell you our attractive prices. Come in and look Ihem over. Punxsutawney Hardware Company THE HOME OP RELIABLE HARDWARE CIX>SINO THr; SCHOOLS. NO. 46. $15 Men's Suits $15 The man who has been betrayed by ordinary "ready-made ' and the man who feels uncomfortable in his "tailor-made" are the ones who are satisfied with Hart, Schanner & Marx, because H. S. & M. clothes are absolutely perfect form, absolutely all wool, with no taint or suspicion of cotton, a statement which cannot be truthfully made about most clothes offered to you. Doctor Crawford Is a fine speaker, one whom everyone should hear, because he will bring ns inspiration for that which is high and noble—if yon hear him once you will want to hear him again. The Board and teachers join in bidding you welcome to all of our exercises. Remember the dates and places thus far given and watch next week's paper for the hour and place of the Grammar School exercises. A small admittance fee will be charged for the Wednesday and Thursday evening entertainments. GEO. K. W. MARK. Prln. Schools. The program for these exercises will at once indicate a very great change In the exercises as compared with former years, and it is hoped that the general public will attend. This will encourage our young people and the teachers, and we are sure will amply repay any one. We are introducing a few new features this year which will be Instructive and entertaining. The closing exercises of the Punxsutawney public schools will begin with the sermon to the graduating class on Sunday evening, April 2». The sermon will be preached In the Methodist Episcopal Caurch by the Rev. Kussell isiiowers, of the United Brethren Church. The public is cordiany Invited to attend the service. The graduating exercises of the Grammar School Department will be held on Tuesday evening, May 1. The hour and place will be announced later. The Junior contest will take place on Wednesday evening. May 2, in the JefTerson Theater, at eight o'clock. Senior Class Day Exercises will be held on Thursday morning. May 3, at ten o'clock, in the Jerferson Theatre. Commencement of the class of nineteen hundred six will be held In the Jefferson Theatre on Thursday evening. May 3, at eight o'clock. Dr. William H. Crawford, president of Allegheny College, will deliver the address to the class. Store open until 8 p. m. HI I OFR Men's and Boy's • Ul LULD Furnisher FARMERS' BANK BUILDING Both men acknowledged that at the close of the contest they were covered from head to foot with bruises and blisters and that neither one had wrestled or talked much about wrestling since. Mr. Thompson, who was accompanied by his wife, has sold out in Kansas and in a few days will leave for Los Angeles, California, where two of his sons reside and where he expects to spend the remainder of his life on a fruit farm. John Thompson, son of George Thompson, of near Georgeville, Indiana County, who has been a resident of Kansas the past 18 years, but who is now visiting friends In the East. was In Punsutawney recently. Mr. Thompson's first visit, after arriving in town, was to call upon J. M. Beyer, the druggist, whom he had not seen for 30 years, and present him a bill for vaseline. Mr. Beyer disclaimed owing any man on this globe such a bill until he recognized In Mr. Thompson a friend of his boyhood days, which were spent down on the farm in Indiana County. "The bill is all rlfcht and I will pay it," said Mr. Beyer, after they had exchanged greetings, "but I have one to offset it." "It was like this," continued Mr. Beyer. "Thirty years ago Mr. Thompson and I were considered the champion wrestlers of adjoining communities and after many a debate concerning the prowess of each a match, best out of three falls, was arranged by our friends. "The contest took place on a double planked barn floor and Thompson won the toss for the choice of holds for the first fall. That meant of course that he took the upper hold. "Well, at It we went and after about half an hour of the most violent exercise, during which both of us had been bumped against every foot of the surrounding walls and almost downed a hundred times, Thompson landed me on ray back." " 'Let him have that fall,' said I. Now Its my time to have the upper hold.' And we sailed in. "The second round lasted, if anything, longer than'the first, but I downed my man. "Now came the test and as It was Mr. Thompson's time to take the upper hold my friends feared for the worst. I never before or since spent such a strenuous hour and, although I won the third fall, I was so sore that I could not comfortably eat or sleep or attend properly to my duties as the teacher of our school, for three weeks." "1 was a coal digger at the time," broke in Mr. Thompson, "and I never struck pick again for a week and it was three weeks before I recovered completely." The first boys' meeting was a success. Probably not more than one hundred and fifty boys were present, but wnat was lacking in numbers was made up in interest and enthusiasm. and Mr. Morton, the speaker, was voted "out of sight." A boy who failed to get there heard about the meeting from his chums and growled, "Just my luctv." Mr. Horton presented the Gospel to boys in boys' language, saying among other things. "A Christian is Christ s chum." When the speaker asked that, boys who were willing to accept Christ as their friend and Savior should stand, boys rose by dozens, although urged by the speaker repeatedly not to do so unless they meant it; and when asked to separate themselves from the crowd and go to one side of the room, 7<> of these boys responded. Many of these signified a desire to unite with the churches of their choice at. once. There will be two more similar meetings held during the spring. Rev. Russell S. Showers will address the men's meeting on Sunday afternoon at the hall. Plana for camps are being pushed. On the in vital ion of the cadets, Rev. Clarke will preach a sermon for boys and voting men in the Presbyterian Church, Sunday evening. The two companies of cadets will attend this service in a body in uniform.Gentlemen: To correct a rumor that has been set afloat and given wide credence by the opponents of the school bond issue, "That the School Board woulu, in event, of the Bond Issue carrying, proceed to erect the building on the present site just as it has been started regardless of the wishes of the people," we wish to advise that if the bond issue is authorized at the election Thursday we will at once call a public meeting ol tne citizens to learn their pleasure as to location of new building, and further, that we will immediately thereafter proceed regularly as stated in our public announcement of April 4, which was published in our town papers. Signed. .1. B. EBERHART, Pres., CiEO. C BROWN, Secy., A. C. ROBINSON, M. H. SMITH, MeKEAN IIARL On Monday two constables from Rural Valley and Yatesboro were kept busy in keeping peace, but still some got. pretty boisterous, cutting and slashing as they went, but after all the nipper* were put on some of the rowdies and took before the Justice and a hearing was given. Mclaughlin was cut in a couple of places, one good gash on the calf of his leg, it required several stitches. After all he took his men. Good for you, William, that you came out on top.—"Lonely Jack" in Rural Valley Advance. Home Seekers' Kxcursions. On account of the bad weather last Saturday our special sale of box and pound package paper, tablets, envelopes, etc., will be continued Ihe coming Saturday, April 21. Oenulne bargains In regular high class goods. See display in window. J. G. Nolph & Co.. Winslow building. Mayor Geo. W. Guthrie, of Pittsburg. recently announced the names of the members of his cabinet which includes for the portfolio of Director of the Department of Public Safety the name of Colonel Frank Rldgeway, for ten years the local weather forecaster of the SmoKy City. Colonel Ridgeway's fall from the top of tne Farmers'National Bank Building into the Department of Public Safety came as a great shock to his many friends in this place where he holds the distinction of being the baby member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. That the official woodchuck of the Punxsutawney weatherworks would some day put Colonel Ridgeway out of business was often predicted, especially after he had mistaken one of Farmer Stoops' shoats for a groundhog last fall, but the most sanguine never dreamed that he would be knocked into a political cocked bat, as It were, by his Punxsutawney rival. What attraction will Pittsburg or the perpendicularity of the Farmers' Bank Building have for a member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club now that Colonel Ridgeway has forsaken his station in the blue etherial and his mysterious meterological instruments for mundane things? Elongated and evanescent shades of the American Woodchuck! What a fall was there, my clubmen! 11., It. & r. Ity. Kxurslon to Pitta- hurg. On the first, and third Tuesdays of each month the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route will sell Home-seekers' excursion tickets to various points in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Indian Territory, Kansas, I.>oulsiana, Old and New Mexico. Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming at. greatly reduced rates. Illustrated literature, and full Information furnished on application to Jno. R. James, Central Passenger Agent, 315 Bessemer Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa. —You never set anything before an Invited guest better and more wholesome than the famous "Purity" brand of butterlne. At Jefferson Butter Co.'s, Drummond block. —The Just Wright and Boydon Shoes for men at Corey ft Lyke's, Pan tall Hotel Block. Sunday, April 29, a special train will leave Punxsutawney at 7:20 a. m. Round trip tickets only $1.50. This will be the only excursion to Pittsburg before fall.—6t2 —Try Hotel Astor coffee. This is the coffee used exclusively at the Hotel Astor and Waldorf Astoria, New York. Nothirg finer In the coffee line grown. At the Astor Hotels It costs you 25 cents per pot of 1 1-2 cups. You can buy a pound of It from us for 38 cents. Davis' Big Variety Store. H Si 1