THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 35. # 112 ! ujiiiiw. |1 I * 1? I $ '(jl I DRESS GOODS. '6' Pretty, good and cheap. We can only extend to you W Jfk an invitation to come and see our goods. Printers' ink cannot tell the story. We will say this, however, if J3, you want good value for good money you should see our ft « assortment. ft V CORSETS. W Several good kinds here. We pay particular attention q I to our corset stock. We select those brands which in $ our opinion are the best. One thing is certain, no mean, miserable corsets are here and our prices are 1 jQ ft down to the lowest notch. « , GLOVES. j* 1 A new SI.OO glove. Here's good news for you. We've vr secured the very best,kid glove we have been able tow ft find, to retail at SI.OO. It's here awaiting your verdict. Won't you come and pass on it. n &" ! $ HOSIERY. Jvt, Some especially good-values. When a manufacturer U jn over-produces then he's pretty sure of loosing some W ft money. And incidently sombody is bound to profit by j <?<! j $ $ U it. You are invited to share in some lots of exception- * % 1 M ally good hosiery at exceedingly low prices j| C. B. HOWARD & COMPANY. $ £V m iS& i- * i* i 2 N: \ Hit Jfflfc iCSfc A!*jttt iik if II Great Clearance Me. I H_ _ N || COMMENCING || || Saturday, January 19,1901, || WE WILL CLOSE OUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF N If I* || Ladies and Misses Coats, Capes and || Is Jackets, || REGARDLESS OF COST. M N N It is not our custom to carry over Garments from sea- M H son to season, thus assuring our patrons of always getting n the latest and newest styles. We give our customers this N opportunity of securing these wonderful bargains. i! THESE GOODS MUST ILL BE SOLD. !! |M. C. TULIS-I lWr EASTMAN'S KODAK r i I Smoke It £ i fMi Jffl v&JL \ \ H3HIII 4UP l and smoke it. It will be a burning proof of the goodness /7fi> ra fpj *\<\\ jK2M||j l/sgy } and quality we sell here for little money. Years of business £// A J ® 3 ' ias convinced us of two things—that we can make the most 1 \ money by being perfectly honest, and that almost every smok- A V JES j ; J M•' | \ er I,as a different pipe taste. The pipes we have—well, there Jum M (jfjlj { are long pipes, short pipes and pipes so twisted that }it would take you a month to unravel them. Prices are varied 112 ' ir \w__ _y Sil II ) too—but there are none of them long—uone of them twisted. \/ Jd : ill Yol,ca ncarryitinyourhands,onyour shoul- > -z&ju ' u j lIJ tier, in your pocket or on yourbicyole. < TK fri] ffiJ-.JKSf 1 '"»• wni HARRY S. LLOYD. * 'fflj fn|ffi[i|n I) , ||, jgj|j "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 : 1901. Letters) from tlie People. [All communications under this head must be accompanied by the writer's name. Wewillnot be held responsible for any expression in this department. |— EDITOR. Cost of Electric Light. Editor Press:— No figures have been presented by Mr. Howard and only one statement by Mr. Catlin and that did not add up correetly. Why don't these people give us some facts and let each other alone. Now, suppose the Electric Light plant cost $7,000.00, how much would I j have to pay extra on my §300.00 prop ; erty valuation? The Council would perhaps levy a tax to pay: On account of the $7,000 bonds SBOO 00 per year luterest on $7,000 bonds, about :;C0 00 For coal or gas, about 350 00 " ; For Engineer 700 00 | For As.st Engineer, about 600 00 " i Man to repair wires and lights 000 00 " | For bookkeeper, 300 00 " Total, $3,350 00 I Less 200 lights at'2sc each 800 00 * 12.750 00 This leaves a balance of §2,750 to be : raised each year for twelve years, un til the bonds are paid. We are now paying each year:— A Borough tax of about. S9OO 00 I A Bond tax of about, 800 00 | A water tax of about, 1,300 00 A total of $3,000.00 and we want to | increase it $2,750.00 for light when we i can get good gas light for $400.00. Do j we? NOAH. t t Emporium, Pa., January 26, 1901. j Editor I x rcHß: DEAR SIR—If you will allow a little j space I would like to correct a few er rors which have appeared in the pa j pers. The light in front of the Court House | cost $4 25 for post and lamp and about | $3.00 more to set it up and attach gas pipe and fixtures and will cost $3.00 per year for gas with about $2.00 for mantle 3 to keep it in shape. We now have about 35 gas torches. We could have 60 of these new lights , at a total cost of $300.00 per year as long as we have natural gas. * am not opposed to Electric Light, . if I find we can afford it, and if any reliable Company will take the con j tract I will vote a ten years' agree ; ment to light the town at $600.00 per 1 year, while we only pay $400.00 now | for gas. I do not believe the estimates as pub- ' lished in the PRESS were made by re sponsible people as there is an error of $1,000.00 in the addition of the figures. I understand that Mr. Catlin reeeiv : ed a price on a gas engine and dynamo | from the Westinghouse Company— j the balance of the figures being made lup by Mr. Catlin, Mr. Metzger, and Mr. Hacket. I never voted on the question of taxes on the Iron Works, as the ques tion has not been before the Council since I became a member nor was I a . member of the committee that bought j the sewer pipe and piled it on Broad street. Now In regard to Electric Light, the Council has instructed their Secretary to write to about a dozen towns using electric light and we should all with hold our decisions until the report is published in full. The heavy tax-payer is generally the I first to paint his house and pay his j taxes without grumbling and promptly votes for all improvements he thinks ! he can afford. j Personally I have no objection to i Mr. Metzger putting up the wires and ; Mr. Catlin acting as engineer and i manager, but I do not think the town can stand the taxes necessary to run the plant. Respectfully, JOSIAH HOWARD. Killed Near Slzerville. Last Friday, Frank Bumgardner who was working in the woods on Goodyears' road, while assisting in loading logs onto a car was instantly killed by a log striking him. His re mains were taken to Austin and ship ped to his wife who resides in Lycom ing county, near White Pine. DEATH'S DOINGS. COYLE. JAMES COYLE, well known in Empo rium, died in Williamsport Hospital last Saturday and was buried by the Poor Masters on Monday. During the past two years he has made his home at Renovo. + + + + SHAFKR. FREDERICK N. SHAFFER, for many ! vears a resident of this county, died at his residence in this place last Fri day, aged 72 years. His funeral took place on Sunday, being conducted by his pastor, Rev. O. S. Metzler. Mr. Shaffer has been a great sufferer for several years and was patiently nursed by his faithful wife. + + LORD. ROBERT LORD, aged 72 years, died at Williamsport on Tuesday, Jan. 29th, 1901, after a long illness. Deceased was the father of Mrs. Jos. Kaye and grand-father of Mr. R. W. Robinson, of Emporium. Mr. and Mrs. Kaye were at the bedside of their father when Ihe passed to the other shore. The funeral will take place at Williamsport j to-morrow. A number of Emporium relatives will attend the funeral, in i eluding Mr. and Mrs. Kaye, R. W. Robinson and others. * * KELLER. | Daniel Keller, an old resident of Em porium died at the home of his daugh j ter, Mrs. Geo. M. Strine, at Milton, Pa., ! Tuesday, January 22, at the ripe old age of 80 years. Of late years Mr. Keller has been making his home among his children. I During the winter he lived with his j daughters at Milton and in the spring : would return to Emporium, where he ! spent the summer with his daughter, I Mrs. E. M. Leadbetter. The old : gentleman had been rapidly failing j the past year and his death was no j great surprise to his children, al | though his old acquaintances did not | think the end was'so near. Deceased i left Emporium last October. Ho is survived by two sons and three daugh ters, viz: Jeff Keller of Austin; John Keller of Johnstown; Mrs. E. M. Lead better of this place; Mrs. Geo. M. Strine and Mrs. John H. Foust of i Milton. Interment at Milton. Over an Embankment. Last Friday morning while driving ! to Emporium, Mr. Jos. Kissell met with ; an accident that might have been very serious. The road between Cameron i and Sterling Run is in a dangerous ! condition, especially along that portion 1 where lumbering was recently carried j on and the road slants to the steep [ embankment. At this point his team I and wagon slid over the steep bank, ' Mr. Kissell saving himself by jumping |in time. The embankment is almost ; perpendicular at this point for a dis tance of about one hundred feet and i had not the horses lodged against a | tree they would have been killed. As sistance camo from Sterling and Cam i eron and with the aid of ropes and | tackle pulled the iiorses from their ! perilous position, considerably bruised i but not seriously injured. This road has long been the most dangerous in j the county and the fortunate escape of { Mr. Kissell should prompt the proper : authorities to place guard rails along | the dangerous points at once. Mortgage Paid. The Baptist Society of Emporium have, after a long, hard struggle, paid the mortgage of SISOO against their church property. We are pleased to j note this fact and congratulate our j Baptist friends. flusical Treat. Don't forget the Mozart Symphony i Club at the Court House, Friday even | ing, Feb. Bth. Benefit Emporium | Firemen's Fund. ; We do not keep a variety store but I we have a large variety of goods in our ] line and everything nameable in the 1 clothing and gents furnishing business. N. SEGER. Our Town Schools. If there ia any one thing of which oar citizens can Justly be more proud than another, it is our excellent town schools. It is not too much to say that the educational advantages our chil dren and young people enjoy are not excelled, if indeed they are equaled, by any town the size of ours in the State. We would not be guilty of boasting, nor would we want to flatter those who are to be credited with the constant improvements .which our schools are making. But it is certainly well that we take note of the fact that we have most excellent schools, that we appre ciate them to their full value, and that we lend our board of directors and faithful corps of teachers the hearty support of our sentiment and cheer and encouragement. Our schools will be made better and still better by the cor dial and cheerful co-operation of the people of the town. A kind and en couraging word for our laborious teachers, when we think it deserved, can but bear good fruit. It will help our town in the minds of all outsiders to know that we have the very best of schools. People can think or talk their town either up or down, as they will. One of the principal se crets of the growth and development of any town or city is in the fact that the people believe most thoroughly in it, and make everybody else believe with them. The city of Chicago is a conspicuous example. Ido not say we should exaggerate the merit of any in stitution we have; but we should be familiar with its real merits in order that we may think and speak as well of each of our institutions as they de serve. We would give due credit to all our school directors—those now in office and those who have gone out of office, and to the individual citizens who have with liberal heart and hand, helped to make our schools better. And so we would fully recognize the excellent work ot the teachers, from principal down, who have gone to other fields of work, and those now so earnestly and busily engaged in making our schools so worthy of our pride and satisfaction. Our school patrons have learned, as our new teachers have been installed in their work, that our schools are not only holding their own, but are quietly making very important and encourag ing steps forward. Prof. Bastian is proving himself to be a capable, pains taking,wide-awake, up-to-date and suc cessful principal. He is a man of high and broad scholarship, having gradu ated at one of our thorough-going col leges. He is a man like,his predecessors, of irreproachable character and clean est habits, a man of excellent adminis trative ability, a natural-born teacher and an enthusiast in his work. With plenty of opportunity and the hearty backing and support of the community, we can confidently look forward to a constant succession of forward steps that will keep our schools abreast of v the very best in the land. It may not be generally known that already some very important steps forward have been taken. The prac tice of writing compositions in the High School and Grammar School; rhetorical exercises given by each class; the organization of debating and literary societies in the High School, are movements that will prove to be of the highest value to the pupils in these schools. To cultivate an easy, pleasing and exact style of expressing oneself, whether in conversation, in public ad dresses or in the written page, and to create an abiding interest and enthusi asm in the study of our best authors, are among the highest results of an ed ucational course. Another movement which Prof. Bas tian contemplates, and which should make every citizen of Emporium and of our surrounding towns and counties rejoice, is the organization of a Sum mer School for teachers and those pre paring to teach. Prof. Bastian has had a large experience in this work, and we predict for him a magnificent suc cess in this much needed project. Every friend of education should rally to the enthusiastic support of this worthy enterprise. PATRON. K; O. T. M. Notice. To all members of Good Will Tent, No. 46, K. O. T. M. You will please take notice that at the regular Review of Good Will Tent, No. 46, to be held at Soger's Hall, in Emporium, Pa., Friday evening, February Ist, 1901, at 7:30 o'clock, there will be elected one delegate and one alternate to represent the Tent at the District Convention to be held between the 20th and 30th of March, 1901. J. P. McNARNEY, Record Keeper. TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT. (Forecast by T. B. Lloyd.) FRIDAY, Snow Flurries. SATURDAY, Fair. SUNDAY. Fair. Appreciated Kindness. * We wish to return our sincere thanks to the many kind friends, who so ably administered to us in our late bereave ment. Our beloved had but just passed to the spirit land when from the Wesleyan parsonage, harried a comforter, to as sist and mingle her tears with ours. A little later, the beloved pastor of the deceased, was with us, not to chide us for our tears, but to point us to the true comforter by kindly words and eloquent prayer. To those Godfearing women, Mr a. Heilman, Mrs. Olmsted and Mrs. La- Bar, who, born of the spirit, braved the chilling blasts of the cold day, to bring offers of assistance and words of condolence, we would say, in our hearts you will ever be held in grateful remembrance. To the donors of those beautiful flow ers, that decked her casket on burial day, our grateful thanks are given. They were fit emblems of the pure spirit flown away. Such a radiant winter's morning ushered in her burial day, and as car riage after carriage unloaded its living freight of sad faced people, wo recog nized a large attendance of class-mates and her respected Sunday school teacher; also the beloved president and many members of her church band— ye, too, will be affectionately remem bered. To the quartette—as the beautiful strains—"sweeping through the gates," so softly, low, fell on our ear, the thought came quickly to us—can those voices be more sweetly attuned when they sing the songs of the redeemed in the Golden City? Gentlemen, when you so generously contribute your Qodgiven talent to the solace of the sorrowing, their thanks is a minor part of your reward. The beautiful thoughts and comfort ing words that fell from the lips of that gifted man of God, Rev. Metzler, was as balm to our sorelj- stricken hearts. To the bearers. When you so rev erently lifted the beautiful casket and bore it out of the little church where so often she worshiped, up to the home cemetery and consigned her to her last resting place, we were glad that you, her dear friends and neighbors, were delegated to this sad task, and not strangers. Last, not least, comes our gentle manly undertaker, not as a man of business, but as friend and brother, came he to us, and took upon himself all care and responsibility, and ably conducted the large funeral cortege of tho deceased. The right man in the right place, deserving the thanks we truly extend him. A. C. GOODWIN, FAMILY AND FRIENDS. P. S. The many inquirers asking for the particulars concerning our sis ters Lorinda and Susan's sickness and death we would say, next week, with the editor's permission, we will write a brief outline for his paper, being unable to reach all by letter; the task is too arduous. M. w. On Good Committees. Hon. F. X. Blumle has fared well at the hands of Speaker Marshall, having been assigned to the following com mittees: Accounts, corporations, labor and industry, manufacturers, and mines and mining. Mr. Blumle fared much better than many of the older demo cratic members. Important Notice. The Star Course Entertainment next Saturday evening will begin at 7:45 sharp. Preliminary to the lecture will be a brief musical program and patrons are urged to be in' their seats early to enjoy this feature. The lecture will be a humorous one and will be one of the most enjoyable numbers of the series thus far. Mr. Hawks will be greeted by the usual large and representative audience. Is The Press Responsible? Our young and energetic friend Don M. Larrabee, who is attending Univers ity of Pennsylvania Law Department, has assumed the business management of the American Law Register, the old est law publication in the country, be ing founded in 1852. While at Empo- J rium Mr. Larrabee makes the PRESS [ his headquarters, where he has aequir -1 ed a taste for literary work that will stick to him during life. Head Feels Like Bursting. i Maybe you were out late last night? j If you had taken a Krause's Headache ' Capsule before retiring your head would |be cool and clear this morning. Take ; one now and you will be all right in an I half hour. Price 25 cents. Sold by L. 1 Taggart. Jan NO. 49.
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