THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866.
VOL. 41.
Business Cards.
J. C. JOHNSON. J, P. MCNARNEY
JOHNSON & McNAKNEY,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
EMPOBIIM, PA.
Will give prompt attention to all business en
trusted to them. 16-ly.
MICHAEL BRENNAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Collections promptly attended to. Real estate
ami pension claim agent,
35-ly. Emporium, Pa.
JAY P. FELT.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Corner Fourth and Broad streets,
Emporium, Pa.
All business relating to estate.collections, real
estate, Orphan's Courtand general law business
will receive prompt attention. 11-25-ly.
AMERICAN HOUSE,
East Emporium, Pa..
JOHN L. JOHNSON, Prop'r.
Having resumed proprietorship of this old and
well established House I invite the patronage of
the public. House newly furnished aud thor
oughly renovated. 48ly
THE NOVELTY RESTAURAN T,
(Opposite Post Office,)
Emporium, Pa.
WILLIAM MCDONALD, Proprietor.
I take pleasure in informing the public that I
have purchased the old and popular Novelty
Restaurant, located on Fourth street. It will be
my endeavor to serve the public in a manner
that shall meet with their approbation. Give me
a call. Meals and luncheon served at all hours.
n027-lyr Wm. MCDONALD.
MAY GOULD,
PIANO, HARMONY AND THEORY,
Also dealer in all the Popular Sheet Music,
Emporium, Pa.
Scholars taught either at my home on Sixth
streetor atthenomes of the pupils. Outoftowu
scholars will be given dates at my roomsinthis
place.
DR. LEON REX FELT,
DENTIST.
Rockwell Block, Emporium, Pa
DR. H. W. MITCHELL,
DENTIST,
(Successor to Dr. A. B. Mead.J
Office over A. F. Vogt's Shoe Store,
Emporium, Pa. 121y
No Room for Drunks.
The demand for total abstinence from
the use of intoxicating liquors among
persons holding important positions of
employment ia increasing, and our
great corporations are taking a lead in
this matter. Commenting on this the
Towanda Daily Review sayß: "The
Lehigh Valley railroad has served
notice on its employees that they must
be total abstainers from alcoholic
drinks or leave the service of the com
pany, and it is quite likely that all of
the other lines in the United States will
adopt the same rule. It is only cumu
lative evidence that there are enough
sober men in the world to do the
world's work. The conviction is gain
ing weight everywhere that the tem
perance question is not only moral,
but economic, and corporations are
now one with the churches in the effort
to suppress this great national vice."
School Opens Sept. 9th.
On account of repairs being made to
the East Ward School Building, the
opening of the schools has been post
poned to September 9th.
Pupils will please take their report ]
cards to the rooms to which they have !
been assigned.
The Seventh Grade will be accom
modated in the East Ward building
this year. Tbe Grammar school room
will be used for the Eighth Grade and
the Freshman class of the High school.
Parents having children to attend
school for the first time in Emporium
will please see to it that they have
their vaccination certificates to pres
ent to the teachers on the first day of
school. Pupils who have moved here
from other places should meet the
principal at his office on Thursday
previous to the opening of the schools.
There will be a meeting of teachers
and directors on Friday evening, Sept.
6th. The place and hour will be an
nounced later.
C. E. PLASTERER, Principal.
Emporiumite to Help Entertain
Royalty.
Mr. A. D. Ericsson is an invited
guest to the banquet and reception to
be tendered the Swedish Prince at New
York City, Aug. 30th. Friend Erics
son is strictly in it. He will do honor
to his countrymen living in this
country.
Latest Popular Music.
Miss May Gould, teacher of piano
forte has received a full line of the lat
est and most popular sheet music. All
the popular airs. Popular and class
ical music. Prices reasonable.
44-tf.
For Sale.
A good six room house, with gas and
water; centrally located. On easy
terms. Apply to
52-tf. W. H. HOWARD.
Warning.
All persons are heroby forbidden from
trespassing upon the property of this
Company without a permit from this
office, or the Superintendant at the
works.
KEYSTONE POWDER MFG. CO.
Emporium, Pa., August Ist, 1003
24-tf.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
Washington, Aug. 24th, 1907.
The news that Secretary of State,
Eliliu Root, is at William Muldoon's
Sanitarium, near New York, has given
rise to a number of wholly unfounded
reports to the effect that Mr. Root has
suffered a nervous breakdown, has
quarrelled with the President, con
templates resigning from the cabinet,
etc., all of which your correspondent
is in a position emphatically to deny.
Mr. Root has had no quarrel with the
President, and he has no thought of
resigning from the cabinet, on the
contrary, he expects to start next
month for Mexico where ho will be the
guest of Presidet Diaz for a short time.
Neither is Mr. Root a nervous wreck,
although it is a fact that he is worn out
with the heavy responsibilities of his
high position, and the great amount of
detail work which devolves upon him
because he has not been given com
petent assistants.
There is another reason, however,
why Mr. Root deemed it wise to spend
the few remaining weeks of his vaca
tion at Muldoon's, and that is that de
spite the fact that he went to his sum
mer home at Clinton, N. Y., with the
hope of securing complete rest, hardly
a day lias passed on which one or more
visitors has not arrived from New
York. As Mr. Root's place is quite
distance from the station, it was neces
sary to keep mo«t of these over night,
and the Secretary has set far into the
night, evening after evening, talking
politics, finances, etc., with his New
York friends, many of whom were his
clients when he practiced his profes
sion in New York, and whom he was
bound to treat with the utmost cour
tesy. Finding his vacation speeding
to its close without his having enjoyed
the complete rest which he so sorely
needed, he determined to retire to
Muldoon's and now no friend can get
at him without first encountering Mul
doon, and even now the ex-prizefighter
would not be a pleasant gentleman to
tackle. Mr. Root spends much'time in
the saddle, practically all his walking
hours in the open air, and is thus able
to sleep from ten to twelve hours out
of the twenty-four. He writes his
friends in Washington that he expects
to return to Washington rested and re
juvenated and ready for the hard
winter's work that is ahead of him.
Secretary Taft's western trip and the
speeches in which he is announcing
the platform on which he asks the
presidential nomination continue to at
tract the attention of the politicians in
Washington, and while the Secretary
has not made any effort to capture his
audiences by bursts of oratory or flights
of fancy, and while his speeches have
been as free from anything savoring of
demxigoguery as is the man himself, it
is generally conceeded that he is daily
becoming better known and a more
difficult candidate for the anti-Roose
velt faction to defeat. Mr. Taft has
amply demonstrated his adherence to
that body of political and economic
propositions which are known as the
Roosevelt policies; he has also display
ed a judicial temperament and a re
spect for the constitution which are
very attractive to some Republicans
who have, unwarrantably, no doubt,
feared that President Roosevelt was
going too far in his efforts to correct
all evils through the federal govern
ment.
It is generally agreed amoug the
politicians that the loyalty of the peo
ple to Roosevelt and the desire of
many that he should accept a third
term are preventing that enthusiasm
for other candidates which would be
certain if it were accepted as a fact
that the President would not accept
anotherjnomination. For Mr. Taft the
situation has many advantages. For
other candidates it is a detriment to
their ambitions. It is a safe prediction,
however, that when the proper time
comes, probably about the end of this
year. President Roosevelt will make
a final and unequivocal statement com
pletely and absolutely eliminating him
self from consideration, and when he
does so he will contrive in sonn* man
ner to let the voters know that he re
gards Mr. Taft aa the man most in
sympathy with, most loyal to, and most
capable of carrying the Roosevelt
policies to a successful issue.
Shropshire Rams.
At Little Rocky Farm, from imported
prize winning stock. Covered from
nose to toes with fine clean wool. If
you want one to head your flock be
quick about it, as they go fast. Won
ten first, one second on eleven enteries
at County Fair, fall 1906. Write or
call.
E. W. WILCOX,
28-2t. Newerf, Pa.
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."—WEßSTEß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907.
A Popular School.
The forty-fourth school year in the
Rochester Business Institute will open
Tuesday, September 3rd. The year just
closing has been a phenomenal one,
both in the number of students enroll
ed and in the demand for graduates
from the school. More than 1400 calls
have been received during the year for
young men and women to fill exellent
positions.
Stabbing Affray.
Dominic Pretrazieo, an Italian in the
employ of the Emporium Powder Com
pany, got into an altercation with an
other employee, named Howard Pen
nington, last Monday morning, about
seven o'clock, tbe Italian cutting Pen
nington ou the forehead with a knife,
and made his escape. We understand
Pennington had been told by foreman
Haley "to let that Italian alone," fear
ing that what did happen would take
place.
An Appeal.
Editor PTCM:
I would like to say through your
good paper to its readers, that we have
commenced the erection of the Castle
Garden church and there is
much to be done and help is needed—
both workers and money. This is a
good opportunity for those desiring to
do somethihg for the Lord. If you
connot assist us with your hands you
can send money. "Give and it shall
be given unto you," good measure,
pressed down and shaken together,
and running over; not grudgingly or
of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful
giver. We are poor and must look for
help from those whom God has pros
pered. All who have pledged to give
are requested to send the amount in,
as soon as possible, to Mr. J. O. Brook
bank, or to myself, and the same will
be duly ackowledged. Thanking you
all in advance, I am,
Yours for the Upbuilding of the
Church,
J. M. ENGLISH. j
Driftwood, Pa., Aug. 26th, 1907.
"The Seminary Girl."
Ben Mulvey, the clever young singer
who appears at the Emporium Opera
House in"The Seminary Girl" next
Wednesday, Sept. 4th, is a boy and
has been very successful on the stage.
He tells the following rather good one
on himself. He was playing some one
night stands out west and was invited
to a lawn party one afternoon. As he
approached the house in question, he
espied three little girls, the oldest not
over nine, selling lemonade from a big
wast tub outside the fence which sepa
ated the lawn from the street. As he
approached the three children began
to clamor: "Buy a glass of lemonade,
only five cents," "only five cents a
glass, please buy a glass, only "five
cents." As Mr. Mulvey was on the
"water wagon" high and dry—the
lemonade game appealed to him—as
he fished out a nickle drank the lemon
ade and went into the lawn party the
children's thanks ringing in his ears.
Returning from the lawn party an hour
later he was again accosted by the
children with: "Lemonade, only one
cent a glass. Please buy another.
Reduced prices, only one cent a glass."
More to please the children than any
thing else, he fished out three pennies
and drank three glasses one after the
other. Just as he was going he turned
to the oldest child and said: I don't
understand the reduction in price, my
child. How is it you charged me five
cents a glass a little while ago when I
went in and now on my return it is
only one cent a glass?" "Well, sir,"
said the child, "we don't think the
lemonade is quite as good as it was.
You see, just after you went away a
dog fell in it!" Prices, f1.50, SI.OO, 75c
and 25c.
Notice to Automobilists.
Chief of Police Mundy notifies all
automobilists that the speed limit must
be obeyed or he shall be obliged to en
force the law. Please do not force me
to make arrests. I also warn all dis
turbers of the peace that I shall
promptly make arrests and lock up
until fines are paid.
PRANK MUNDY,
Chief of Police.
County Medical Inspector.
Dr. H. S. Falk, of Emporium, has
been appointed County Medical In
spector, under the Pennsylvania State
Health Department. It is a good ap
pointment and meets with the appro
bation of our people.
Big bargains in ladies and gents
shoes. THOS. W. WELSH.
Wanted.
A good girl for general housework.
Apply to MRS. JOHN GLEASON, Drift
wood, Pa. 26-tf..
NOTES OF INTEREST.
Mr. Belasco has engaged some of the
best obtainable talent for the special
companies which he will send to tour
the country next season in some of his
most noted plays, including "The Rose
of the Rancho," "The Girl of the
Golden West," "Sweet Kitty Bellairs,"
and"The Darling of the Gods." All
these attractions will appear in this
city during the season.
A married couple were coming out
of the house, he dressed to kill and she
with a hairpin in her mouth and doing
her best to pull on a pair of refactory
gloves. "Why don't you dress in the
house!" he growled. "I would as soon
see a woman put on her stockings in
the street as her gloves." "Most men
would," she said sweetly, and then the
silence was so intense that you could
hear a chocolate drop as they hurried
to catch the train. —Commoner and
Glassworker.
We clip the following from a Niaga
ra Falls paper, which refers to Thos.
Cummings an Emporium boy who is
playing ball at that place: "The Oak
dales won the championship of Niaga
ra Falls by defeating the Crescents for
the third time this season by the score
of 6to 1. The feature of the game was
the pitching of Cummings for the Oak
dales, allowing only one hit in nine in
nings and only one base on balls. He
had ten strike-outs.
"Turn the wrapper the other side
out," said a lady to a dry goods store
clerk the other day as he was putting
her purchase in a printed wrapping pa
per. "I don't want to be a walking ad
vertisement to your store. I read the
papers as all intelligent people ought
to do, and I think in them is the place
to advertise your business. Instead of
asking your customers, to carry your
sign around with every purchase of
goods, go and tell the people through
the.papers what you have to sell and
how you sell it."—Towanda Reporter
r ournal.
It is getting so that there are but
few people who pay any attention to
newspaper bills. They seem to think
that the sending out of bills is a sort of
a health exercise that the publisher
goes through, and not because he needs
the money. There are some subscrib
ers who never allow their subscriptions
to run behind, and there are others who
never think of paying until they have
"been seen." The publisher appre
ciates the subscriber who pays up
promptly and never waits for a bill to
be rendered, and the prompt paying
subscriber is the person who enjoys the
paper.—Wellsboro Gazette.
A number of typhoid fever cases
have been reported in Reading re
cently, and the Reading Telegrams, re
ferring to the matter given an oft-re
psated advice by urging all to boil
their drinking water, an advice which
should be heeded by all in every city
or town where typhoid fever which
is too often spurned with indifference
The telegram says: "Boiling water
is fatal to the typhus bacilli. The
worst infected water becomes safe
after a thorough boiling. To be sure,
boiling makes the water taste a bit in
sipid, although you won't notice this
much if you cool the water after boil
ing. But better an insipid taste than
a house full of typhoid patients, with
risk of death."
There is a Dußois man who is just
too mean for anything. For some un
accountable reason he has been labor
ing under the impression that he is
"henpecked," and in ordsr to get a
little better usage at the hands of his
better half he developed a beautiful
plan that worked all right. The fel
low hired six or eight boys to stand
along the walk where he was going to
take his wife for a walk the other
night, and when he went past, the
boys all tipped their hats and said:
"Good evening, Mr. Henpeck." It
cost him ten cents a piece for the
boys, but he says it worked like a
charm and the equal rights question
is not being discussed in his home any
more. Perhaps his wife felt sorry for
him.—Dußois Courier.
Notice to Contractors.
We wish to correspond with log job
bers in Pennsylvania, that can stock to
railroad, from one million to three mil
lion feet in a job. When job is com
pleted, will give new job so jobber will
have work from year to year. We
have the stocking of the timber on 87,-
000 acres and pay the best prices. Our
work is worth investigating.
Q. W. HUNTLEY & SON,
23-tf. Shryock, W. Va.
Call at Chas. Djehl's old stand and
see what bargaids we offer in ladies
and gents shoes. THOS. W. WELSH.
Local news on every page.
Accidently Shoots His Playmate.
Last Sunday afternoon, about 3:30
o'clock, a number of boyn were playing
in Plank Road Hollow, near the home
of John Rutz, when a young lad nam
ed Albert Zwald, aged 12 years, came
among the boys to exhibit his new 22
calibre rifle. Of course all the boys
crowded around him to see the gun.
Albert was proud of his rifle and was
exhibiting its mechanism when he ac
cidently discharged it, the ball enter
ing young Jacob Rutz, aged eight
years, the ball striking his right breast
and passed downward towards his
stomach. The unfortuuate lad is deaf
and dumb and it was not until Dr. De
Long arrived upon the scene that the
parents knew how seriously he was in
jured. The injured boy is in a very
serious condition and up to this (Tues
day) evening it is hard to tell what
the outcome will be. The poor lad
who made the awful mistake and
wounded, possibly fatally, his little
friend, is grief-stricken and deeply de
plores the accident.
This accident should be another
warning to parents who purchase, or
allow their children to own or play
with fire arms. Hardly a day passes
that we do not read of like accidents.
LATER. —Dr. H. S. Falk, who has
charge of the injured boy, informs the
PRESS that, unless something unfor
seen sets in, his patient will possibly
recover.
List of Teachers.
The following is the list of teachers !
of Emporium Public School for term
of 1907-1008.
EAST WARD.
Marion Larrabee, First Grade; Alvira
Farr, Second Grade; Flora Schlecht,
Third Grade; Anna Cleary, Fourth
Grade; Maine Cleary, Fifth Grade;
Caroline Lechner, Fifth Grade; Marg
aret Nickler, Sixth Grade; Estella Hoff
man, Seventh Grade; Cora Barker,
Sixth and Seventh Grades.
WEST WARD.
Nina Bryan, First Grade; Olive Mal
loy, Second Grade; Lena Bair, TLird
Grade, Rose Gayney, Fourth Grade;
Gertrude Germond, Eigth Grade; Cor
delia Gray, Second Assistant; Laura
McQnay, First Assistant; C. E. Plast
erer, Principal; Bessie McQuay, Supply
Teacher.
Base Ball.
The Citizens base ball team of the
East Ward defeated the Driftwood
team on the East Ward grounds yester
day by the score 11 to 2.
The game of ball played at this place
last Saturday between Emporium and
Ridgway was an exciting contest from
start to finish. It required eleven in
nings to decide the game, Emporium
winning 5 to 4.
The game played here on Tuesday
between Emporium and Jobnsonburg
was the last game of the season in tri
county league, and was without any
exceptions, the worst exhibition of the
game ever witnessed here. The score
wits 16 to 0 in favor of the visitors.
Emporium has one game to play with
Jobnsonburg yet at that place. The
Emporium team will finish in fourth
place.
Drawing the Jurors for Murder
Trial.
Jury Commissioner John A. Wykoff,
of Grove, came up yesterday to draw
the jury for October court. The Jury
Commissioners, Messrs. John A. Wy
koff and Hon. N. P. Minard, Sheriff
Swope and their attorney met at the
courthouse yesterday and commenced
the work. The jurors drawn at this
time will try the murderer O'Dell and
the utmost care is being exercised
to have no mistake take piace. Mr.
Wykoff favored the PRESS office with a
visit and renewed his paper as he has
done for many years. Mr. Wykoff is
one of Cameron county's most sub
stantial and reliable citizens and has a
host of friends in all sections of the
county. We were pleased to meet our
old friend.
For Sale.
Sterling House, opposite depot Sterl
ing Run, Pa. Inquire at my residence
opposite Catholic church, Emporium.
11-tf MRS. MAHONY.
Why Not?
A lady who thinks that our grand
old hills ought to have distinctive
names, suggests that a party be organ
ized to christen them.
Piles get quick and certain relief from
Dr. Shoop's Magic Ointment. Please
note it is made alone for Piles, and its
action is positive and certain. Itching,
painful, protruding or blind piles dis
appear like magic by its use. Large
nickel-capped glass jars 50 cents
Sold by all dealers.
You can get all kinds of good cedar
shingles at C. B Howard & Co..
TERMS : $2. 00 —$1.501 N ADVANCE.
THE WEATHER.
FRIDAY, Fair.
SATURDAY, Showers.
SUNDAY, Fair.
ASSETS
First National Bank,
EMPORIUM, PA.
At the close of business Aug. 28tb 1907.
$844,849.75
YOU PAID.
The fact that you pay your bills by giving
checks 011 this Bank not only helps to build up
your credit bnt also avoids trouble over disputed
payments.
INTEREST PAID ON CERTIFICATES OF
DEPOSIT.
A Blatant Demagogue at it Again.
Bellefonte Gazette.
August 7th, at Whitenight's Grove,
in Columbia county, Treasurer Berry
made a speech from which we quote as
follows:
"If you want to have the politics of
the State grow better just continue to
keep a Democrat in the game. The
people of this State have been buncoed
to the queen's taste. I have had quite
a job on my hands. I have been busy
at Harrisburg, I had to be with that
kind of a crowd They have had your
confidence. You have believed that
what they Paid to you was the law and
gospel and knowing they had your
confidence they have done many things
they would not have done under other
conditions.
"Governor Pennypacker is a good
old fellow. He is honest, and I don't
believe he has a nickel of the money of
which they robbed the State. He be
lieved that the worst thing that could
happen was the defeat of the Republi
can party and so he allowed every
thing to be smoothed over.
"Governor Stuart and those with
him have the same disease. I am a
member of the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings: lam the only mech
anic on the board and yet when it
came to a point the subcommittee and
the heads of the various departments
bearing the mechanics, I did not even
get a look in. The gang did the work.
They named the people who should fill
these offices and they are the ones who
were appointed. They are men with
out exception who know nothing of the
offices they All. All this is going on
under the present administration and
its doing its duty in the Capitol steal
because it must. With this exception
the some old methods are in vogue at
Harrisburg. If it had not been for the
opening of the lid and the discovery
of these facts the Republican party
would not have had a candidate for
Governor such as Governor Stuart."
So far as the fact stated that a fraud
was perpetrated in the furnishing of
the new Capitol, there seems to he but
little doubt. The report of the investi
gating Committee in its report shows
who were the persons guilty of wrong
doing.
Berry claims for himself all the honor
for "lifting the lid."
Let us see.
Mr. Berry went into office in May
1906. He admits, he discovered that
the State was being defrauded in the
furnishing of the Capitol. As a Mem
ber of the Board of Public Grounds
and Buildings, he, notwithstanding his
admitted knowledge of the wrong
being done the state, did approve bills,
and paid out as Treasurer, large sums
of money therefor. He never pretend
ed to protest until he started his fog
horn, about the forepart of October, in
a most extraordinary and sensational
manner—purely tor partisan political
effect. Had he been honest in what he
believed to be a fraud committed
against the State, why did he not have
the honesty and manhood to publicly
protest at once? But he was more de
sirous to make political capital that
might aid in winning a partisan vic
tory. As a political demagogue, he
was willing to be a silent partner to
the fraud that was being committed
under his eyes, and was willing to let
the fraudulent action goon it by so
doing he could use it to a political ad
vantage. He cared more for his party
and its success than he did for his in
terests of the State and the people.
This "Brick-yard-Berry," when prat
ling about the short-comings of.otbers
and proclaiming his own honesty,
ought to be honest enough to explain,
to the people why the State deposits
were increased in a certain bank several
hundred thoimind dollars, and whether
I said increase of deposits had anything
to do with said bank going upon his
bond as Treasurer at what was consid
ered as "a mere nominal charge,"
He might also explain to his hearers,
why said bank became the trustees in
a certain mortgage for $60,000 on Mr.
Berry's old, dilapidated brick plant,
stated at that time to be worth from
$12,000 to $14,000. Let him tell the
truth as to these matters before he
boasts so much of his self righteousness
and pharissical honesty.
Before plucking the mote out of his
brother's eye, let him take the beam
out of his own eye.
To Rent.
Office or store. Best location in
town. Inquire at this office.
NO. 2 8.