to 1 10 . 1 10 . ... 1 10 I At Market Prices. I „•*>• Blue Grass, I R.C. DODSON, , —the 112 13rdc|c|ist, emi'OßiiiM, PA. (5 LOCATED IH THE CORNER STORE. At Fourth and Chestnut Sts.. fezls) 'ffci/ Only the purest drugs are good for sick people. They can't afford to ex periment. You may safely trust your prescriptions with us. We make a specialty of this work and are proud of the success we have achieved. Doctors appreciate the care and ac curacy with which their prescriptions are compounded and that accounts for our large trade. r. c. non.soN. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. PERSONAL GOSSIP. Contribution* invited. That which you would tike to nee in this department,let ut know by poa a card, or letter, personally. Mrs. Leonard Evans was quite ill last week with pneumonia. W. R. Sizer, the popular Sizerville merchant, was in Emporium last Fri day. Henry Robinson, one of Emporium's old and esteemed citizens, called to see the PRESS 011 Monday. Dr. Smith was called to Weedville last Saturday to attend Mrs. Brown, mother of Mrs. J. M. Gillan, who is very ill. Misses Anna and Theresa Blumle, and Mrs. Tlieo. Newton and daughter Ella visited Johnsonburg friends last week, returning home on Saturday. John Norris came down from Portage on Monday and transacted business at the PRESS office. He has purchased the D. D. Colcord property on First Fork. Miss Agnes McCoy will goto Kane to-morrow where she will sing at an entertainment given by the Chamber Music Club of Buffalo.—Smethport Miner. Henry J. Olmsted and wife, of Coud ersport, were guests of H. C. Olnasted and family last Friday, having return ed from visiting that wonderful grand child at Harrisburg. E. M. Moody, of Buffalo, engineer on Lehigh Valley R. R., arrived in Empo rium on Monday, and is guest of Will iam McDonald. Of course "Billy" will give him a few days sport in the woods. The PRESS neglected to mention the fact that our young townsman Herbert M. Olmsted, has been appointed book keeper at the Star Tannery at Tyrone, under the Elk Tanning Company. Our young friend is to be congratulated on his advancement and high standing with his employers. Our old friend W. A. McClellan, of Arden, N. Y., who is spending a few days in this county with relatives was a PRESS caller last Friday. We regret we were absent from home, for we are always pleased to meet old friends, es pecially such elegant gentlemen as Mr. McClellan. William Gibson, of Turtle Point, but formerly a resident of Mason Hill, this county, has been visiting his old friends in this section. He was a PRESS caller on Monday and orders the paper sent to his address for ono year. Mr. Gib son informs us he is employed as a pumper in the oil country. R. B. Thompson, of this place, who registered as law student at Emporium a year or two ago, is completing his studies in the office of W. W. Barbour, Esq., in Ridgway. He thinks of going west after he is admitted to the bar Cameron county, our little neighbor on the east, is the smallest county in the State in population, being but 7,048 people in the county. They better con solidate with Elk county—our poor house is big enough for both. Their three hundred Republican majority would be a nice thing to have here • some j'ears.—Ridgway Advocate. ...oved his family avenue. .man is slowly recover j«vere attack of pneumonia. F. B. Hoag, of Sterling Run, flopping in Emporium 011 Wednes ay. B. W. Green left on Monday for a trip in the eastern part of the State on business. Rev. McCaslin, of the Presbyterian Church, of this place, exchanged pul pits with Rev. Graybeil, of St. Marys, last Sunday. Geo. Beattie and Miss Clara Harbot are witnessing the foot hall game at Port Allegany to-day, between the team at that place and Emporium. Commissioner Alex. Mason and ex- Comniissioner John E. Smith, of Sterl ing Run, were in Emporium yesterday and favored the PRESS with a call. The Misses Delia and Nellie Clare, of Cameron, accompanied by their brother Patsy, did shopping in town yesterday. Miss Nellie and Patsy leave next week for Boston, Mass., where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lynch and son and sister Miss ' Mame Clare. Dr. Susan P. Rose, of Meadville, As sistant Supreme Medical Examiner of the L. O. T. M., made the local Hiv.e a fraternal visit the 22d, and gave the members many interesting points, es pecially on the medical part of the order. The Dr. is very popular and made many friends while here. BRIEF fIENTION. Goto the opera house this (Thurs day) evening and enjoy the A. O. H. dance and supper. Nearly ten per cent, of all the people in the United States reside in the State of New York. The total population of the country is 76,295,220. That of New York State is 7,268,009. An automobile hearse leading a fun eral procession in Chicago, the other day, ran away and arrived at the cem tery ten minutes ahead of the mourners, with the officiating clergyman a good third.—Pittsburg News. A Washington, D. C., dispatch says: "Representative and Mrs. Sibley and Miss Sibley have arrived here from Franklin and are at the Shoreham. During the coming week they expect to resume possession of their home on Vermont avenue. The Port Allegany high school foot ball team will line up against the Em porium eleven at the fair grounds next Thursday, a game having been arrang ed for that date. The admission will be twentv-five cents. The boys will be around with tickets to-morrow and you should encourage and help them out.— Port Allegany Reporter. Mr. Sibley's great speech, "A Demo crat Who Flopped; Why Did He Flop?" was one of the great hits of the cam paign, and was directly instrumental in turning to McKinley the votes of many Democrats who hated Bryan and Bry anism, and who otherwise would not have voted at all. So says the Ameri can Economist, a weekly publication 01 New York. A Wilkesbarre woman woke up the other night just in time to see a thief run from her hen house with a bag of fowls. She found the next morning that she was five chickens short, but at the same time discovered on the floor of the henhouse §3OO in bills, wrapped in a handkerchief, which the thief must have lost in his haste to be off.—Ex. Telling what they would do, if they had their lives to live over again, is one of the favorite pastimes of many men, some of whom are not yet too old to score a touchdown and kick a goal, were they to devote more of their time to action and less to coagitation. And another pastime of many men is giving the younger ones an abundance of ad vise, much of which they could, were they so inclined, utilize to good advan tage themselves. Several married ladies were compar ing the smart traits of their respective offsprings the other day. One said her little girl talked when she was a year old, another that her little boy could say "papa" and "mama" when he was 10 months old. An old bachelor who was in the next room trying to read then gracefully "chipped in' ; and said that wasn't anything very wonderful. He had read in the Bible that Job cursed the day he was born. That set tled it and the ladies adjourned.—Ex. The most extensive retail advertiser in central lowa is E. L. Tiede, who has been interviewed at length for Printers' Ink. As a result of long experience that merchant says: "Advertising is an investment; and it rests with the ad vertiser whether it shall pay. I have tried about all ways of advertising and lind the newspaper to be far the best and cheapest where the returns are considered. The big merchants in the cities are everlastingly advertising not from love of the newspaper publishers, j but because it brings trade. To succeed S a merchant in this day is bound to ad -1 vertise in the newspapers unceasingly. There is no alternative." HAVE You SEEN IT?— That elegant | line of "real French ebony," with gen uine silver mountings, engraved free. ; finest bristles, warranted solid backs, | They are the "correct" thing. 40-4t METZGER'S. „MERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900. Handsome New Offices. Any change in location made by a well-known professional man is an event of general interest, both to his clients and to the public at large, and in this connection it is pertinent to call atteution to the fact that Mr. Jay Paul Felt, a prominent member of the Phila delphia Bar, is now located in the Real j Estate Trust Building, corner of Broad I and Chestnut Ste., where he occupies a j handsome suite of offices, comprising | rooms 826 and 828. He was for some years located at 1112 Girard Trust Building, with the Hon. James M. Beck as his first assistant in his private prac tice, but the change he has made is one for the better. He is to be compliment ed upon his wisdom in selecting such an eligible location for his new offices, which are in close proximity to the Public Buildings and the various courts and his clients will be certain to appre ciate the increased facilities and advan tages now at his disposal. Mr. Felt is one of the well-known attorneys prac ticing at the local bar and enjoys a high reputation in legal and business circles. He has already achieved distinction as an able advocate by reason of his thor ough knowledge of modern law in its various phases, and his quick percep tion enables him to see a point on the instant and turn it to the advantage of his client. His large and growing * entele is an evidence that his ability is appreciated by the general public.— Philadelphia Journal of Commerce. To England in Two Days. "Fast electrict ships crossing the ocean at more than a mile a minute, will go from New York to Liverpool in two days," writes John Elfreth Wat kins, Jr., of "What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years," in the Decem ber Ladies' Home Journal. "The bod ies of these ships will be built above the waves. They will be supported upon runners, somewhat like those of the sleigh. These runners will be very buoyant. Upon their under sides will j be apertures expelling jets of air. In this way a film of air will be kept be tween them and the water's surface. This film, together with the small sur face of the runners, will reduce friction against the waves to the smallest pos sible degree. Propellers turned by electricity will screw themselves through both the water beneath and the air above. Ships with cabins arti ficially cooled will be entirely fire-proof. In storm they will dive below the water and there await fair weather." Rich Valley. Editor Press: Plenty of mud these days. Don t think Rich \ alley is dead since election. We were never more alive. Mr. Frank Lewis lias his house finish ed, which is one of the best in the valley. Mrs. F. Lockwood lost some valuable chickens a short time ago. Mr. Date Ensign wiil soon move in his new house on Cook's llun. The parsonage which the Wesleyan Methodists are buildinu is moving alon<* slowly. Eiias Barr and family have moved on Lewis Run to cut logs lbr Frank Lock wood. Mr. John Lingle, who lost his wife a short time ago is bieaking up housekeep ing togo and live with his son Joseph. We hear talk of a revival meeting going to be started soon, but fail to see a move line. Wonder if it is all talk. STRAYED. Sterling Run. EHLilor Press The flood is over and we arc glad of it. Schools were closed the day of the flood. Arthur Wylie, who has been spending the summer in the West came home to spend Thanksgiving with his mother. A. W. Mason went to Emporium yes terday on business. Miss Laura Lynch made a short visit to her home last week. Mrs. John liousler who has been ill the last few days is improving. Miss Jennie Ebersole returned home from Mußois last week on account of her mother's illness. Gregory Frauk of Coudersport is visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Frank, at this place. Wm. Gibson, a former resident of this place, was circulating among friends the past week. x Mr. Gentry is recovering from a three weeks' illness. Miss Mary Summerson went to Ridg way to spend Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs. Fred Hewitt. Miss R. L. Brink stopped in town last Thursday, en route to Kane where she is engaged as telegrapher. Mortimer Dininney returned home last Friday. Mrs. Margaret Mason went to Renovo last week to visit Mrs. Reid. Grugan Mason went to Westport where he is engaged as a teamster. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Devling were in Emporium yesterday on business. C. C. Craven is attending to business in Driftwood. A SPECIAL INVITATION —Is extended to the public to inspect our line of Christmas goods now coming in every day. The nicest line of fine goods ever shown in this town. Our prices can not be beaten by anyone, for good goods. METZGER'S. 40-41 TRANSFORriATION. Twas just before ThankHgiving Day, And little Willie White Was sound asleep, all tucked away, AH usual, for the night; And he had swum a charming race In apricots and cream, When through his vision rushed apace This most atrocious dream: It was a monstrous turkey cock Who stood unon the spread; His eyes were like the courtrhouse clock And dreadflil turkey-red! He had a sharp and wicked bill, His neck wan wet with gore And thus to frighten little Will He spoke these words—no more: "Behold. I am the wrath of him Who dies a death uniust; For greedy boys, torn limb from limb, That they may eat to bust! Oh Willie Whith, beware! Ere yet Another night you see, *Tls written down so don't forgot— That you shall change wiih me!" Then Willie shrieked amid his Fleep, And tremblingly awoke; But when his flesh had ceased to creep He deemed it all a joke. Alas! the words indeed were truth, For ere the morrow night The turkey had become the youth— A gobbler Willie White. ~E. L. Babin in N. Y. Sun. Uncle Sam Has Plenty of Land, An impression pretty generally pre vails through the country that most of the public lands have been taken up, but the annual report of the commis sioner of the general land office shows that 917,13.5,880 acres of Uncle Sam's farms still remains open to settlement, which is 179,477,702 acres more than have been taken up since the begining of the government. Besides this, 154,- 745,782 acres have been withdrawn from settlement and reserved as a park for the cultivation of forestry and for other purposes. There now remains unsurveyed 662,554,915 acres. The big gest part of this is in Alaska, where 30,000,000 acres are open to settlement. —EI Reno Democrat. New Postage Stamps. Designs for the postage stamps to be issued and sold during the year 1901 in commemoration of the Pan-American Exposition, to be held at Buffalo, have been decided on by the postofflce De partment. There are to be six denom inations of these stamps —one, two,four, five, eight and ten cents—each contain ing a central figure, printed in black, with suitable ornamental surroundings in colors. The one cent stamp will have a green border; the two cent stamp a red one; the four cent stamp will be light brown; the five cent stamp will be dark blue; the eight cent stamp will be maroon, and the ten cent stamp will be dark brown. These colors correspond with the col ors of ordinary stamps of like denomi nation now in use. The central pictures will be a largo lake steamer, represent ing fast lake transportation; a train of cars representing fast railroad trans portation; an automobile, representing the newest form of transportation, the great canal at Sault Sainte Marie, with vessels going through; Niagara Falls, with the Suspension Bridge in the fore ground, and an ocean steamer repre senting fast ocean transportation. The stamps are all somewhat larger than the ordinary stamps, and are very artistic and beautiful. SHAW'S PURE MALT.—The sick and delicate need a gentle tonic-stimu lant. It is often a matter of life and death with them. The ideal nutriment and restorative is SHAW'S PURE MALT. Sold by P. X. Blumle, Emporium, Pa. n2-yl You are now all studying what to buy your friends for Christmas. Well, one dozen nice cabinet photographs will help you out wonderfully on the gift question. Your friends would all like to have a photo of you. Ask them and see. We make nothing but the best, at Schriever's Art Gallery, 39 W. G. BAIR, Prop. You ARE INVITED— To inspect the finest display of cut glass ever shown in this section. These goods are the finest made, things to be proud of, goods that you would not be ashamed of when Mrs. McKinley visits you. Don't buy trashy stuff. You can get the good kind just as well, elegant patterns, deep cutting, and diamond finish. 40-4t At Metzger's, of course. The ladies of Cameron county are informed that McCall's Magazine is the handsomest home and fashion maga zine in existence. This celebrated magazine offers beautiful premiums to all who raise clubs, and illustrates the famous McCall Bazar Patterns. The premiums offered are the handsomest in the world. It contains stories, lit erary articles and handsome colored fashion plates. The publishers wish one representative in every locality, and will send instructions and free prize offers to any lady who will men tion this paper and send her name and address to The McCall Company, 144 West 14th Street, New York City. SLAYTON'S JUBILEE SINGERS.— This organization is represented on nearly all the leading Star Courses of the country and their appearance every where awakens the liveliest anticipa tions of pleasure. In the Ashland Citizens' Course last season the capacity of the large opera house was taxed and the reception accorded the singers was enthusiastic in the extreme. There are nine people in the company. They not only sing plantation melodies but in troduce modern popular airs and do specialty work that takes exceedingly weli. This is the third number in the People's Star Course and all indications point to a crowded house. The chart opens at Lloyd's book store, Friday morning, Dec. 7, at 9 o'clock The concert occurs Wednesday evening, Dec. 12. Holders of course tickets are advised to check their seats early. s?sabasdsas^ - (n vi" xo HATE I COMMERCIAL PRINTING § AND m ffl rU A.X THIN OFFICE. Ijl £ m.m ** just mm not mm m- **> ** *ji** *st ***** n ** r*. * II !! Thanksgiving Groceries. |« &!» At all t,nles ot tfce y ear . M ? i we endeavor to please our ** patrons and give them the M "2* /2 r> verv best service of the town fc/j but at this the beginning- of £3 s(j holida y season, we are £3 K mak ing extra preparations ./OfejwgC'l y'C##'''*" or y onr P leasure and con- Ik* / ven ience, and yon will find M *5 • • __ y to y° ur advantage to visit P* "> our store and pick from our ** KPDO, 'VVA/XW varied stock of high grade || edibles, what you require to &gj make up your Thanksgiving £3 feast. We have them and will take pleasure in serving £3 £3 you. ' ** , M »< IWE OFFER SPECIAL THIS WEEK. n ——' || || SWEET POTATOES. NEW GRENOBLE WALNUTS. .lust received an invoice Invoice just arrived. Quil £s Southern sweets, which we ity fine, per lb. 17c.| iN ** offer at 25c per peck; 80 bu; NFW PRIIMTQ M $$ 52.00 bbl. NEW PRUNES. BALDWIN APPLES Extra choice Santa Clara jl Prumes, smallsize, but dark, v* From Empire state. Good tender, juicy fruit, lie lb.: 5 £2 stock. We offer twenty bbl. | lbs. 25r. 55 Pf at 2.50 bbl. ** fei i Laundry Bluing, qt. bottles fcg Lion Coffee per ll>. I:sc. 8 cents. ; ' Ik. jM H Your Thanksgiving breakfast and dinner will not be M £3 complete without our |s "ROYAL" BLEND JAVA AND MOCHA, Si !j; Tl ie Queen of blended coffee, 35c lb.; 3 lbs. SI.OO. M N WANTED. GOOD, FRESH EGGS || For which I will pay a good price, in cash or exchange for the most ecnomical groceries, because the best. Now is the time to look after the hens and make them 3Mjj M lay. One of the best means to this end is to feed Pratt's §| Poultry Food, a known egg producer. You get the genu feij ine at Day's. 5*2 JSST'Leave Thanksgiving orders early. Store open until ten o'clock Thanksgiving day. I J. H. DAY, I ii £3 'telephone 6. Fourth street, Emporium, Pa. K Sj FIRST CS-HR.EJj&.T m ANNIVERSARY SALE j | One Year Ago, 1 Ijf When we first entered this business field as HONEST, 11 !s up-to-date, "PRICE LOWERING HUSTLERS" for the 11 | people's patronage, we were met with the cold and most bit- ||| ? ter enmity of the high-priced profit-grasping monopoly, who w jl fought us, "tooth and nail," both in the open and in the ||jj dark. But we drove, rough shod, over these 100% autocrats M I and right from the start victory perched on our lowlpriced | banner. ' |J|j !This month we shall celebrate our signal mercantile (P victory aud First Birthday by giving the public, who stood iff by us so nobly and aided us by their most liberal patronage If and personal support, the greatest lay out of Gigantic Bar- |fsj| gains ever offered in auy town on earth. j# For months we have persistently planned for this event, [f|| and now have the finest and largest line of W ijl Holiday Furniture in this County. f| Come one! Come all ! and join in this first GREAT H II ANNIVERSARY BARGAIN JUBILEE. p F| AN ENDLESS LINE OF BEAUTIFUL CHAIRS. J|J iMAIL receive prompt and conscientious attention |)l WE GUARANTEE TO PLEASE YOU. GIVE US A CALL. B (tti Eill! FBI Dlil|!!§ 111 (FCQC FINE BROADCLOTH CASKET, FUNERAL CAR (HQC ILL P OOU. - - - AND SERVICES, - - - 3)00. || Hj RESIDENCE UP STAIRS. OPEN ALL NIGIIT. |H' Remember the place, next door to the ftp ODD FELLOWS BLOCK J jl Will HIE WHS BERNARD EG-AN, Manager, - - - 5
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