LHE CAMERON COUNT\ A 'RESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 34.
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NEW STORE. MEW GOODS.
CRAMER'S
Popular Variety Store,
> Ladies' Shirt Waists,
} Ladies' Fancy Skirts,
IS Ladies' Wrappers,
\ Ladies' Suits,
!> Lace,
3 Embroideries.
I Ladies'' ■ Furnishing • Uooils.
I Tinware, Glassware,
t Silverware, Di.-lies, l»\* • ts,
c One hundred piece
< Dinner and Tea Sets,
r Crockery,
< Lamps, Lanterns,
r Clocks,
< Table Oilcloth,
i Clothes Wringers,
( Window Shades, Wall Paper,
< Sewing Machines,
We are closing out Men'sClotliing at cost.
I>. F. CRAMER,
Emporium, Pa.
GEO. J. LA BAR
IS OFFERING
SPECIAL °-°
~ Bargains
IN
II fiftli
Having purchased the largest and most
handsome line of those goods I shall
be compelled to cut close to the
cost in order not to carry
any over to another
season. Come quick
and get your
pick.
PARLOR SUITES, BED-ROOM SUITES,
EASY CHAIRS, . WINDOW CURTAINS,
SIDEBOARDS, HAT RACKS,
LOUNGES, DESKS,
EASELS. Etc..Etc
LUXURY
it is to recline|at ease on one of our
superb couches. Slumber comes un
sought under such delightful conditions.
Pieces of furniture like these are as
pleasant to look on as they are to lie on
and this fact makes them an irresistable
temptation to repose. Our entire stock
is packed full of temptations for that
matter, temptations in parlor and bed
room suits and in every kind of furni
ture, and unprecedented temptations
in prices. Some people are always
quoting from somebody, but our favor
ite quotations are figures like these:
Couches, $5, $6, SB. and $lO.
Best Furniture.
We have the largest line ever
exhibited in Cameron county.
Geo. J. La Bar.
| Lloyd's Long Range Forecast of the Weather,
I l f ; RIDAY, Probably fair and contin- ip.
•J ued warm. Looks art' so deceitful. .Many a nut's been cracked and found i'f
[ SATURDAY. Fair and cooler * £--f <r> fi 112 spurious. Looked all right outside. "Like unto golden hooks that j|
!| . <* t lOOKS. i from the foolish fish their baits do liide." The fishermen of this sec- [i
SUNDAY, 1* air weather. t ion look all right; he cracks many a fish nut, but they all not all ij,
j, 2jv^*ww»\/'v' , v'v , spurious with one accord they say. we are not catehing the trout this . I
, The confidence we have in the char- s f aK ,°"; «<*»»<lemen you are using hooks" that hide your bait. We sell you hooks that
aeter of the goods we sell, and the I '"' had hide, that wdl catch the trout, and will allow you to come home to famik and friends, with '|
II prices fixed for them, make us a basket fill lof the speckle beauties, that "looks" all right, and when the l, nut is cracked" will |l
,i eager at all times to take back any- be found delicious. ll
I thing that fails to please our 'J|
•I customers. rourtli Street. M. S. L,L,OYII.
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fair nor honorable between man and
man.
L'OCAL NOTICES.
LATEST fads in gent's hats at N.
Seger's.
THE ladies of the Presbyterian church
will serve one of their popular suppers
in the Odd Fellow's block, Thur. day,
June 15.
WE have just received a large invoice
of men's, youths' and boys' clothing
and have some rare bargains.
N. SEGER.
LAWN SOCIAL. —The Citizens Jlose
Company will hold a Lawn Social, on
Friday evening, June 15th. Full par
ticulars next week.
S. E. MURKY, Chairman.
PERSONS preparing for summer out
ings should visit N. Seger's store and
look over his stock of trunks, valises,
telescopes, suit cases, etc.
LOOK UP, LIFT UP. —The Epworth
League, Chapter 4,680 will serve ice
cream and cake every Saturday even
ing, in the room in Bosworth block,
two doors east of M. M.
store. The cream and cake will bo the
best that experienced hands can make.
STRAWBERRIES, HOME GHOWN.-
Mctzger & Bliss' home grown berries
will be on tiie market next week.
Every crate will be labled and the date
berries were picked plainly marked on
each label. See that you get genuine
home grown fruit. Look at label or.
each crate.
LADIES' SUMMER SLIRTB.—I have just
received a new and unusually nice line
of ladies'crash and linen skirts which
are for sale at low prices. Come and
see them.
A few hats left at July prices. A
new lot of stylish shirt waists will be
in next week.
MRS. E. O. BARDWELL.
WHICH IS CHEAPEST?— Berries that
have been shipped several hundred
miles, mashed, partly decayed, dirty
—have to throw away lots of them; or
nice, fresh, ripe, clean strawberries,
ripened on the vines with clean straw
under them, and picked fresh each day.
You can have this kind by ordering
Metzger <& Bliss' home grown straw
berries from your grocer. Look for
; label on each crate.
SAND is ail right in its place, but you
do not want it in your strawberries.
<!et Metzger & Bliss' home grown
; berries, and you will get clean, juicy,
ripe fruit, ripened on clean straw. You
can get them from your grocer; order
early. Look for label on each craic.
LADIES! clean your kid gloves with
Miller's Glovine, for sale only by
Balcom & Lloyd, headquarters for kid
gloves and the famous Dartmouth
gloves; all the latest shades. 5-ly
Church Wedding.
Invitations have been issued for
the marriage of Miss Jennie S.
Marry and Mr. liobt. Win. Robin
son, of this place, to take place on
Wednesday, June 14th, ISO 9, at
Emmanuel church, 11:00 o'clock
a. in. Miss Murray is a daughter
of our respected citizens, Mr. and
Mrs. David Murry, while Mr.
Robinson has been employed as
clerk by C. 1!. Howard & Company
for several years. Both are popu-
I lar young people and the PKKSS
extends its best wishes.
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."—WKßSTEß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 8,1899.
Left to Work Under A. Brady.
Edward S. White, clerk at Bird
Coleman furnaces, and Martin
Foster, night foreman at Colebrook
furnaces, left Monday evening for
Emporium, I 'a., to work under
Andrew Brady. About 25 friends
saw him off at the 1\ & R station,
where Rev. Harry E. Miller, pastor
of the I'. B. church, at West Leba
non. made a happy speech.—Leba-1
noil Daily News.
flighty Wind.
Last Thursday's wind storm was ,
a '"cracker jack'* and made things j
lively around town. Much dam
age was done —trees blown down,
windows broken, roofs torn away j
and general havoc played with all
loose things. The most serious
damage was sustained at the Clim
ax Powder works. At this place
the men ran for fear of their lives;
when the roofs commenced to raise.
It is not known whether Joshua j
Hair and llenrv Sassinan have
stopped running yet.
Modern Office.
l he Climax Powder Company,of
Emporium, whose business now
ranks with the leading explosive
lirms in the country,are rapidly in
creasing their factory facilities—
their extensive plant, near town,
now numbering over forty build
ings. is being still further enlarged.
To properly transact the increas
ing ollice business of this company,
they have purchased, from J. B.
Schriever, the land nearly oppo
site the opera house and have com
menced the erection of a modern
building, to lie 25x00* feet. The
building will lie fitted up in elegant
style and will be an ornament to
that portion of our town.
Farmers' Institutes.
The County Board of Farmers'
Institute Managers, will meet at
the County Commissioners' ollice
on the second Tuesday of June to
arrange for the place where Insti
tutes are to be held this season.
All of our people who desire Insti
tutes. ought to attend this meeting
and present their claims. This
Board is composed of the Local
Members of the State Board (if
Agriculture, and one representa
tive from each County Agricultural
Society, the Pomona. Grange and
County Alliance. If you find that
you cannot attend this meeting,
address a letter with jour request
to Chairman of Board of Institute
Managers, care of County Com
missioners.
A suitable hall for the meeting
ought to be provided, free of
charge, by the locality wishing (lie
Institute.
Religious Services.
The Weslcyan Methodist quar
terly meeting to be held at the
church in Rich Valley. June 24th
and 25th will be a little out of the
usual order. The services of Rev.
< L 11. Clark, of Levant, \. Y., a
returned missionary from Africa,
have been secured, who will give
some interesting talks on missions
from personal experience in the
lield. A cordial welcome is ex
tended to all.
*»*
Quarterly meeting services will
be held this week at the Free
Methodist Church, East Fifth
street, commencing on Friday
evening. Services as follows:
Preaching on Friday and Saturday
evenings at 7:.'iO. Love-feast on
Sabbath morning at 0:00. preach
ing at 11 and preaching again in
the evening at 7:30. Services
in charge of Presiding Elder, W.
It. Roupe and wife, of Bradford,
I'a. An invitation is extended to
all.
K. M. WILLIAMS, Pastor.
PRIZES r OR WELL KEPT YARDS.
Offered to Parties in Emporium Liv
ing in Rented houses and Paying
not More Than $lO a Honth.
Two Prizes in Each Ward.
Emporium is on the eve of a new j
period of business prosperity, i
This means new residents, more J
visitors, more people whose atten- i
tion will he challenged to our busy j
mountain town. There can he 110 ,
doubt that our success will be ma- 1
terially helped, if the borough iin- '
presses strangeis and visitors with
the trim and well kept appearance
of its streets and premises. A
visitor in a new place is always ;
keenly alive to such impre.- -ions. I
Dilapidated walks, weed-grown
st reel s. littered with paper and tin
cans, neglected front yards and :
hack yards filled with unsightly j
and unhealtliful accumulations of ;
rubbish, all combine to make up an I
appearance that is far from invit- |
iug. and causes the visitor to enter
tain an unfavorable opioion of the
spirit of the inhabitants.
Emporium enjoys a most pleas
ant and sightly situation among
the mountains, and she is justly
proud of her tree lined streets,
1) 't well kept premises are all too
few iu the borough. They are the
exception rather than the rule.
The fault has been due to a want
of a proper pervasive public senti
ment in the matter, a lack that has
been intensified by the hard times
and a dubious outlook for the fu
ture. When people have to work
hard to make ends meet, when
property is depreciating in value,
and when tenants are on the move,
there is little spirit and little
means for keeping up the most at
tractive appearances. Happily
these conditions are changing, and
with new lifcanda hopeful outlook,
we ought to set about at once to
make the appearance of our
hoi*<uigh improve as rapidly as our
prosperity increases.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
A clean, trim, well kept town,
where everyone feels a pride in do
ing his own part to make the
whole attractive, has taken an im
portant step towards realizing the
things that are pure and lovely
and of good report.
<>n Monday evening, a commit
tee. composed of one representative
each from the Methodist Episcopal,
Roman Catholic, Presbyterian,
Episcopal and Baptist Sunday
schools, met in the Heading Room,
and considered a plan for a modest
step in the direction of village im
provement. It was decided to
offer two prizes in each ward for
the best kept premises. As the
prize fund is limited, and as it
would be manifestly unfair in
many cases to permit property
owners to compete on equal terms
with tenants, the committee decid
ed to exclude the former from the
contest.
Following are the conditions and
rules governing the contest:
Two prizes to be given in each
ward: First prize, 85; second, 83.
Prizes to be awarded for the best
kept premises, including front and
back yards.
The contest to be limited to
parties living in rented houses, and
paying not more than 810 a month
rent.
The prizes to be awarded the
first of September. Parties wish
to compete for the prizes are re
quested to give their names to the
Committee not later than June
Three judges will be appointed
by the Committee for each ward.
The members of the Committee
are Mrs. M. M. Larrabee, Miss
Coyle, Miss Mary Robinson, Mr.
G. S. Allen and Sir. Clias. Felt.
Lovers of base ball should re
member the Austin game Saturday.
Base Ball.
The Emporium nine will play
! its first game at this place next
! Saturday, at '2:30 p.m., with the j
j Austin nine.
The Iron Works.
A large force of men are actively !
at work at the furnace and repairs '
, are being made as rapidly as pos- !
j sible. Supt. Brady expects the j
i furnace togo in blast about August 1
i Ist.
Prof. Stauffer Remains in Emporium.
The friends of education in this
| section of the state will be highly
gratified to learn that at the meet
! ing of the Emporium ,">iy)ol Hoard
j last Monday evening, I'rof. 11. F.
i Stauffer was unanimously re-elected |
i Principal of our schools for a term
I of three years, at a salary of 81,100 j
| ■" year. This makes Prof. Stauffer's j
i fourth term and his energetic, un- 1
' tiring and unselfish labors during !
the past; nine years has been duly j
appreciated by our citizens, as well •
as our school directors, and the j
action of both principal and
directors is very pleasing to our j
people, one and all of whom |
are greatly attached to this I
elegant gentleman as an edu- j
eational worker and public-spirited
citizen.
We feel sure the citizens of Em
porium, as well as the entire coun
ty, join the Pit ESS in rejoicing that
a gentleman recognized as a lead
ing light in educational matters is
to remain with us for three years
longer—and we hope many more
years.
Accidents.
Last Monday, Elmer, the seven
year-old son of Samuel Heed, while
playing with other children at the
tannery yard, caught his right leg
between a handcar, with which the
children w ere playing, and a freight
car. The little fellow's leg was
frightfully lacerated, the llesh
being torn from the bone from knee
to ankle. Fortunately no bones
were broken and the little sufferer
is resting comfortably and doing
well at present, under Dr. Hard
well's care, who expects to save
the leg.
During the severe windstorm on
Thursday last.one Michael Donnel,
employed on Allen Baldwin's job
on Salt Run, while hurrying out of
the woods for the camp, tripped
and fell upon a keen-edged, double
bitted axe, which lie was carrying,
and sustained a painful cut on
his left wrist, lie was placed in a
carriage and driven quickly to Dr.
Smith's office, at this place, where,
upon examination, it was found
that the hand was nearly severed
from the arm. Dr. Smith dressed
the wound.
Fatal Accident.
Alex. \Y. MeCormick. son of our
former townsman, Dan'l MeCorm
ick, met with a fatal accident near
Keating Summit on Tuesday, lie
was employed on B. »Sc S. Ry., as
brakenian, when a wreck occurred,
the train jumping the track and
smashing most of the cars into
kindling wood. It.was found that
young MeCormick's back was
broken and lie died soon after the
accident. 11 is remains were brought
to Emporium this afternoon and
interred in St. Mark's Cemetery in
the family plot. A delegation of
Austin Maccabees accompanied the
bereaved family and remains, the
B. & S. Ry. furnishing a car for
the accommodation of relatives and
friends. His remains were met
at the junction by a large number
of friends from Emporium and
other towns.
Ex-County Treasurer W. L. Thomas
; has taken a contract to furnish the iron
company with hewed pine timber. Ite
i has commenced operations.
The Emporium papers some weeks
I ago complained that their town is so
) i dull and is dying. That is strange.
How much has it been stated, asserted
j and proclaimed, that where liquor
licenses are granted "it makes lots of
' work and business." Main and other
j streets in Emporium are numerously
supplied with licensed hotels and beer
' saloons and the town should therefore
be well supplied with manufacturing
establishments. It should hum with
i industry and commercial activity.
Why is this not the case? "The money
■ [ is not sent out of the county," you
; know; it is spent in the grog-shops and
drinking-hells, and therefore every
, thing should thrive and flourish and
] ; everybody should be contented and
! ! happy!--Coudersport cor. Galeton Did
TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE.
patch. What crank has broken loose
this time? While Emporium has, no
doubt, more licenced places than our
needs demand, they all appear to florur
ish and never fail to contribute their
share of money, whether it be for the
support of our churches or encourage
the location of industries. Emporium
is well and healthy, thank you. We
have no pig's ears, thank the Lord, and
never have from fifty to one hundred
prosecutions for violation of the licence
law, as you Potter county denizenß
have for violations of your sweet-scent
ed prohibitory (?) law—at an expense
of thousands of dollars to the tax-pay
ers. Our town is right in the swim of
prosperity, our laborers are allat work',
with low taxes and good schools, ann
i! you desire to visit the handsomest,
cleanest and most hospitable class oi'
people just come over and see us. Wo
are not making much fuss r.t present,
but if brother Hayden will bring the
correspondent over here for a few
hours' visit he will go back minus his
leek hooks.
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; l*l. A. ROCKWELL |
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' The Sanitary |
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I liave recently purchased and placed
y in my Drug Store one of the popular and y
greatly endorsed Sanitary stills, maim- t
y I act 11 red by TUB 'T I'SEGRAPH CO., of y
''\ Chicago, ill. There is no process ot : i.
y alteration which will purify water. N'a- k
tare's process; of vaporizing water and 3?
> cooling it into refreshing showers of jiure ;■
rain water is repeated by the Sanitary 1
y Still in our stoic. We distill all water i
used in both our Prescription Depart- t
> mentand Soda Water Fountains. 2j»
PURE WATER. %
< PURE DRUGS.
' PURE SODA WATER. %
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y Purity is our Motto. ~
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M. A. ROCKWELL, \
y P. O. Building, Emporium, Pa. 'y_
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In our stock of Summer Skirts th.s
[n season, each stepjifc'narked by merit and rj
pJ prices that makes easy selling in this ul
«j department.
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11! summer, you will he wise to make a trip jjj
nj to our Skirt Counter before completing |fi
u| your outfit. All are stylish skirts, the fli
[Jj latest fabrics, made as nicely as it is pos. jjl
nj sible to make them, cut in the newest m
shapes and marked at prices within the "J
||j reach of all. j£j
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Pretty owl novel creation?, new and |u
'JJ ever changing styles. You should sec fjj
nj them. They were made to hell at high jjr
ui prices, but we bought to advantage and H
[jj you will pet them for that reason at a j£j
m great saving. If yon are- in doubt the jn
u] goods themselves will convince you: if [U
1 [}. you are ecnomical the j-rlec will he the [H
| nj clinching argument.
M. O. TULIS, H
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NO. 15.