THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 35.
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our opinion are the best. One thing is certain, no
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secured the very best,kid glove we have been able tow
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find, to retail at SI.OO. It's here awaiting your verdict.
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fpj *\<\\ jK2M||j l/sgy } and quality we sell here for little money. Years of business £// A
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{ are long pipes, short pipes and pipes so twisted that
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II ) too—but there are none of them long—uone of them twisted. \/ Jd :
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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