Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-07-27
BRIEF nENTION.

Buy a road sprinkler.
Emporium schools commence August
2Sth.
The sewer up Chestnut street is COM
pleted.
Landlord Murphy is treating the Com
mercial Hotel to fresh coat of paint.
Fourteen men are now employed in
Emporium Machine Co.'s plant, at this
place.
Workmen have just finished painting
and otherwise repairing the residence
of Thos. Gallagher.
The Free Methodists held an open
air meeting at the corner of Broad and
Fourth streets on Saturday evening.
The section men on the b. & S., have
been give an increase of ten cents a
day in wages. The advance went into
effect on the 18th,
An eel, thirteen feet in length, was
caught III the Seneca lake recently.
Respectfully dedicated to the SHINE
mahOning Liars Club.
Howard & Co.'s mill shut down on
Tuesday afternoon in order to give
the men an opportunity to witness the
ball game between Remove and Empo-
rum.
We understand that, owing to the
outbreak of Small Pox in Clearfield
and other near by counties the State
law requiring all school children to be
vaccinated before they can attend
school, will be rigidly enforced this
year.
Attorney J. A. Ormerod, of Austin,
I,rs- IL, I
Southern Potter and Cameron counties
for an oil company, who will COM
mence operations Observation-Disclosures
Journal
Ex-County Commissioner Elihu
Housler, died at his residence on North
Creek, yesterday afternoon, aged 20
years. He leaves a widow and several
grown up children. We have not the
date of the funeral, as we go to press.
On Saturday the alarm of fire was
sounded and the fire located in the
ware room OF NJ @. Tulis' store. The
fire department responded promptly,
but The fire had been eXtinguished be-
fore they arrived. No damage was
done
At the biennial convention of the
Maccabees held at Port Huron, last
Wednesday, week. the following Off
GERS We're elected: Hon. P. d. Markey,
Com; G. I Siegel, Supreme Record
Keeper and DR., r. f. Ross, Medical
Examiner.
There has never been known q time
in Emporium when the sidewalks were
in such a deplorable condition. In
very many cases there can be no eX-
cuse offered, tor the property owners
are abundantly able to repair or re-
build. Where is the sidewalk com
mittee?
Gen. J. y. Gordon will lecture at this
place, before the Teachers Institute,
Oct, II, delivering his popular lecture
Last Days of the Confederacy." This,
in all probability, will be the last OPP
portunity the people of this section
will have to hear this we'll known
lecturer. Gen. Gordon is the last liV-
ing Confederate General of high rank.
Alden Deets, 27 years old, was per-
haps fatally injured while engaged in
dynamiting fish near Franklin, on
Saturday. He was IN a boat, and was
preparing to explode a stick of dyna-
mite in the water when it exploded in
his hand. The right hand was blown
off, one eye was blown out, and the
sight Of the other destroyed, and he
was terribly cut and bruised about the
head and limbs.
a great sensation has been caused in
Clearlield by the extraordinary revival
meetings of the Free Methodists. A
few days ago some sixty men and
women came to the park and formed q
camp meeting. They were from Nc
Kean, Elk, Clarion and Cameron
counties. They paraded the streets of
the town before each of their meetings,
singing hymns and exhorting the
/ crowd. At their meetings their re-
| ligious ecstacies recall the tales of the
revival of the last century. During a
heavy storm one woman lay for two
hours in trance, another ran up and
down in front of the platform until she
dropped exhausted to the ground.
Others watched nightly for the second
coming. Great crowds attended the
meetings. Watchman.