THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 36. Spring Announcement. Spring Dress Goods. We liave a very fine line of Dress Goods for this spring's trade, and the price is very low, considering the quality of the goods. It is neither wise nor eco nomical to buy cheap dress goods, for they always look cheap and won't stand much wear and tear. Shirt Waists. The freshness of the designs is very interesting and are admired by all who have seen then* They are well made and the latest style. Lace Curtains. Our Curtain stock is very large and our prices are very low. We have held the curtain trade of the town this spring and will continue to hold it if prices count for anything. I M. C. TULIS. j ;: I : & Dining Room. a U Up-to-date Sideboards, hand-carved. W Y r Dining Tables, polished tops and flutel legs. $ $ Dining Chairs. $ & BEST AND CHEAPEST. & Go-Carts. £ '?■ Every Baby in this town shoul down one of our lovely Go-Carts. Patent wheels, independent ac- A tion, neat, nice, safe and comfortable. # ¥ Gold Medal Refrigerators. g The best Refrigerator on the market, will be W U found on our floor and we hereby challenge compe- Q, w titors to produce an equal. & Couches and Rockers. & & These articles need no comment from us. Our Tf daily sales of them show plainly their superiority y ,0, over all others. Q & Al,l, GOODS GUARANTEED AND DELIVERED, $ Remember the place, next door to the ODD FELLOWS BLOCK. j* | EMPORiIiM FURNITURE CO., | U Furniture Uealcra. Funeral Directors. Q <+l Residence up stairs. Open all night. M <• BERNARD EGAN, Manager. ft & w, i-] |wlbj[^-Uj! —— )[^JU] r-.iwUgjjWUj[ngr^J'■gn^lafgijgfsUtimffllafnsl@@@S6iSfenS|6] n— ~ c^" 1 OP EASTMAN'S KODAK £ Stff; I I " A Do,,ar saved ' is a Dollar Earned." | [| We can save you lots of dollars by buying your | I Wall Paper, Curtains and Paints of us I iii - i IP'; 112 i ft, Youoan :arryit myourhaiids.ouyourshonl- > ¥""I CL V ¥ li 4 ~ 'lif. m your pocketor on yourbicyclc. < 1h« t>J o Ld \ P a , J[l if 1 . Yevi pre« the button and the Kodak will } * r : ! "J I the rest. I f,l j r 1 ■-? —■ i -~ r* 1 ' "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 9.1901. as By permission of Wellsboro Advocate. MR. AND MRS. EDWARD B. DEAN. Mr. Dean formerly resided in Emporium. The bride was Miss Jennie Howell of Scranton, whose brother recently tried to have her adjudged a lunatic for the purpose of managing her property and preventing her marriage. Commencement Tickets. The sale of Commencement seats will he open, .at H. S. Lloyd's book store, May 15th, at 0 a. m.— 25 cents to all parts of the house. A Good Scare. Last Sunday, about noon, an over heated gas stove caused quite an excitement in Mrs. E. M. Hurteau'S kitchen. A couple ot pails of water put out the lire. New County Bridge. Bridge contractor Buchanan, of Chambersburg, was consulting with our county commissioners on Tuesday, relative to the erection of a new bridge over Bennetts Branch at Driftwood. Officers of Children's Aid Society. Mrs. Larrabee, president; Mrs. Schmidt, vice-president; Mrs. Logan, secretary; Mrs Hockley, treasurer; Mrs. John E. Smith, Sterling Run, di rector; Mrs. John J. Hinkle, delegate. Prize Medal. W. G. Bair, the hustling Emporium artist, had on exhibition at Reading, April let, a cabinet of his work and it is gratifying to Mr. Bair to hear that he has been awarded a bronze medal, by the judges, now on exhibition in his window. Interesting Letter. The PRESS is in receipt of a business letter from Miss Minnie Baurgelt, who is spending somo months in Weiser, Idaho. We take the liberty of quoting j a part of the same, believing it will in terest many of Miss Baurgelt's Empo rium friends: "We are having delightful weather here in Idaho. Was reading in the papers of the heavy rains and snow [ you have been having in the East. I i can hardly realize it when the weather ■ is so line here. The fruit trees are all ; in bloom and everyone speaks of the abundance of fruit we will have You know this is a great fruit country, j They tell me the quince tree in our yard is one of the finest in Weiser, some of the fruit from it taken the prize at the World's Fair, at Chicago. Hope that Emporium is booming. Of course that will always be my homo and I have its interests at heart." DEATH'S DOINGS. COWLEY. MR. ZENAS C. COWLEY, was born in Delhi, Delaware county, N. Y., April 27th, 1802, and died at Arrow, Somerset county, April 30, 1901. He came to Sizerville in the fall of 1829, and finally settled at the mouth of Cowley Run, which run derives its name from him. His first wife was Mary Sizer. Four children survive him, one daughter living in Onida, South Dakota; a son ' in Wyoming, N. Y.; a son in Harvey, 111., and Mr. Leonard Cowley with whom he has lived for some years, and who brought his remains back to rest beside his wife. Mr. Cowley was noted for his prow- j ess in hunting, in fact he was a verit- I able nimrod. He was an active Methodist and I worked earnestly in the cause until old age denied him the ability. The funeral services took place from the house of the Misses Sizer last Fri day at 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. O. S. Metzler, of Emporium M E. Church. Railroad Changes. J. B. Hutchinson, general manager of the P. & E. R. It., has been promoted to the position of fifth vice president, and will enter upon his new duties July Ist. General Manager Hutchinson will be succeeded by George W. Creighton, superintendent of the Buffalo division. D. H. Lovell, of West Philadelphia, will succeed Mr. Creighton. It is rumored again that the Low | Grade division of the A. V. Ry. will be I placed under the management of Supt. ; Roberts, of the middle division of the | P. & E. road, and the western division ! will have a superintendent to control j it the same as before. The Climax Powder Co. has placed | an iron front of their property occupied by M. H. Terwilliger, on Spring street. Established Business For Sale. On account of the death of ono of the I firm the well-known hardware business of Walker, Howard & Company, at Emporium, Pa., is offered for sale, in cluding stock and building or to suit purchaser. Apply to WALKER, HOWARD & Co.. Btf. Emporium, Pa. Big Egg. Tax Collector Jessop brought to the PRESS ofilce the largest hen's egg of the season, measuring 9lx7J. Who can beat it? Found. A child's gold bracelet was found on Fourth street. Owner may have same by calling at the PRESS, proving prop erty and paying for this notice. Chamber of Commerce. There will be a meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce, Friday afternoon at three o'clock, in the City Hall. MRS. I. K. HOCKLEY, Sec'y. Waffle Supper. The ladies ofthe Presbyterian Church will servo their usual annual toothsome chicken and waffle supper, on Tuesday evening next, the 14th., in what is known as the Dr. DeLong residence, recently purchased by Rob't Dodson, next door to Dr. S. S. Smith, on Fourth street. Supper from 5 o'clock until all are served. Price 25ets. Come one, come all, and enjoy one good, round, square meal, and don't you forget it. A Bride is Never Nervous at the Altar. The humorous and unusual experi ences in the life of a metropolitan clergyman are told by the Rev. David M. Steele, ot New York City, who has just written about "Some People I Have Married," for The Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. Steele declares that the prospective bride is always nervous until the time fbr the marriage cere mony, when she is calm and collected. The groom is exactly the reverse, al ways cool until ho comes to face the clergyman, when his nerves invariably give way. Of Interest to /laccabees. R. G. Campbell, of Wilkinsburg, Great Finance Keeper, of the order in this State, is short in his accounts to the amount, it is said, eff §5,000. A meeting of the Great Camp will be held in Oil City at an early date to make an investigation of the condition ofthe finances in Mr. Campbell's hands. The alleged shortage was made public by the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph and is said to have been discovered by Grand Commander T. H. Lawry, of Oakdale, who was investigating what he considered inaccuracies in Mr. Campbell's accounts. As the office of Finance Keeper requires heavy bonds, the order will not suffer from the shortage. Teachers' Examinations. The Cameron County Teachers' Ex aminations for 1901 will be as follows: Sinnamahoning, May 15. Driftwood, May 16 Sterling Run, May 17 Emporium May 18 and June 29. Examinations will begin at 9:00 a. m. Applicants will provide themselves with pencil, paper and stamped en velope. The examinations will be held in the school houses ofthe respec tive places. Directors are invited to be present at the examinations. MATTIE M. COLLINS, 10-3t County Superintendent. TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT. (Forecast by T. B. Lloyd.) FRIDAY. Rain,clearing by night. SATURDAY, Fair. SUNDAY, Fair. EMPORIUM LUMBFR CO'S BIG MILL BURNED. The Well-Kuown Keating Summit Industry Destroyed. Austin Republican. On Wednesday night at about eight o'clock, a dispatch was received here stating that the large mill of tho Empo rium Lumber Company,at Forest House was burning. The Republican repre sentative mounted a wheel and after riding over eight miles of exceedingly rough road, arrived at the scene of the conflagration, but not until the mill was entirely consumed and the Haines un der control. The fire was discovered issuing from the lower part of the dry kiln at about 7:50 p.m., by one of the employees of the mill. The alarm was given and the company's fire apparatus was put to work. The fire protection con sisted of two large steam pumps and several hundred feet of three inch hoso, but when the pumps were put to work the pressure was so great that it burst the line of hose and before the mishap could be remedied the flames had gain ed such headway that they were utterly beyond control, and the dry kiln being filled with seasoned lumber caused it to burn fiercely. All hope of saving the mill being past, attention was turned to saving the enormous stock of lumber piled in the yard, which was accom plished after a hard fight by the hose and bucket brigades. Across the street leading to the mill was situated a row of tenement houses owned by the company, and to these the fire spread totally destroying three of them. These houses were occupied by the following mili employees: El den Corwin, Fred Wood and John Bliss, all of whom succeeded in saving nearly all of their household goods. The house occupied by John Laudeby, foreman of tho mill, and which is situ ated in the same row of buildings had a narrow escape from destruction and would have burned only for the heroic work of the bucket brigade, as at that time the mill had burned down and the pumps had stopped working. Besides the mill and houses, several thousand feet of dry lumber was de stroyed, together with one of the com pany's Lima switch engines and two cars loaded with lumber and ties which were standing on a switch near the mill. Another engine belonging to the com pany happened to be fired up and was run out of danger. The engine and boiler house of the mill is enclosed in a brick building, and to what extent the contents were injured was not learned but it is presumed that the engines and boilers are not seriously damaged. It was fortunate that no wind was blowing, else the contents of the lumber yard would have been lost and undoubt edly the little village of Forest House would have been wiped from the face of the earth. As it is, the loss to the company is tremendous, as the mill was one of the largest and finest in the State. But to the village the loss is comparatively greater, as the mill was nearly its entire sustaining industry and by its loss one hundred and fifty menare thrown out of employment, many of whom have families. How the fire started nobody seemed able to explain, but the opinion among the employees seems to be that it must have originated from the heatiug of a boxing on tho "hog" elevator which was situated near where the fire was discovered. What the company's loss will amount to wo are as yet unable to learn, as also, whether or not the mill will be re-built, but tho opinion seems to prevail that it will not be again built at Forest House, as that place is so far away from the timber of the company. The Emporium Lumber Company, of Forest House and Galeton, was incor porated in 1892, and its officers are as follows: W. L. Svkes, president; W.T. Turner, secretary and treasurer; Wm. Caflish, superintendent. Arrangements are now being made to saw up the stock of hardwood tim ber owned by the company at the Ly man mill at this place, and if these plans carry as expected, it will make considerable more work for our hard wood mill. Genera) Assembly News. The best news ot the Presbyterian Generall Assembly, which will be held in Philadelphia beginning May 16 and continuing about ten (lays, will appear from day today in the "Philadelphia Press." Rev. Dr. S. S. Gilson, of Pittsburg, will hav»< charge ol tho reports and the paper will be mailed to any address postpaid throughout tho assembly ses sions (from May 13 to May 25 inclusive) for 25 cents NO. 11.