Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-14
Notes and News.

years ago W udy.
THAT wave crest ware at Taggart's
is just the goods, young man, to make
your girl happy.
Four boy babies were born in En-
porium last week. That beats Cou-
dersport, neighbor Enterprise.
1t is not generally known that under
the new pension law half the pension
money may be set aside for the support
of the family, upon application of the
family of the pensiOner before justice
of the peace and the authorized court.
Factory Inspector James Campbell
reports 32S, 900 more persons at work
during the year ending Oct. 81, 1899,
than there were in 1896. Do the voters
of Cameron county wish to return to
those grand old Democratic days? We
guess not.
There has been plenty of gas in En-
porium line since last Friday until
Tuesday evening, when break in the
line near st. Marys cast gloom over
our town for several hours. The break
was soon repaired and we are all happy
again.
Clergymen are interested in the fact
that under new ruling of the general
passenger agents. association, a new
style of certificate is to be prepared for
them. 1t will cost $1.O0 and will en-
title them to half rate fares over 81
railroads in the United States.
The Baldwin locomotive works has
Just installed in its erecting shop q
crane which has an span of 15S feet. 1t
will lift a 1856, 900 pound locomotive
forty feet in the air, carry it over 1856
feet and set it down again in three
minutes and thirty-siX seconds.
An exchange tells of subscriber who
died and left fourteen years. subscrip-
ton unpaid. The editor of the paper
appeared just as the undertaken was
screwing down the coffin lid and put
in linen duster, a thermometer, a
palm leaf fan and a recipe for making
ice.
A quick -witted host made the follow
ing remark when colored servant
dropped turkey which he was carry
ing into the dining room: SIN this
calamity we see the downfall of Tur-
key, the upset of Greece, the destruc-
tion of China, and the humiliation of
Africa
Emporium is blessed with three drug
stores and during the past four and
half years the three stores have filled
about twenty-four thousand prescrip-
tions and the Old Reliable Drug Store
has filed a little over nine thousand of
them and in view of this fact don't you
think that this ''fresh, pure, COM
pounded drug" chestnut which has
cost you so much, should be dropped
l.. TAGGART.
There is hope for school boys, whether
| they are bright or dull. George Dewey
barely got through the Naval Academy
at the foot of his class, while Capt.
Oberlin Carter passed West Point with
the highest honors ever given to a
cadet Botha chieved distinction, but
in widely different directions. Dewey
! is an Admiral and the husband of a
millionairess. Carter succeeded in
embezzling about 81 800, 900 and is now
undergoing impris onment in the peni-
tentiary.
The story is told of Mercer county
mean man who worked the following
scheme to have his wife dig the po-
tatoes. He sailed forth with aspading
fork, and after digging around awhile
came in to wash the dirt off nickle
and a dime; he had struck it rich he
said. Back to the garden he went
whistling "Sweet Marie" Directly he
came in showing quarter, saying he
could afford to take nap, having made
enough for one day, anyhow. When
he awoke his wife had the whole plot
! dug up, but she hadn't found a nickle.
She hasn't found out yet the mine was
salted.
In Crawford county the present
board of County Commissioners, a
majority being Democrats, have APP
pointed their present clerk for term
of three years, he having resigned to
give them that opportunity. A major
ity of the incoming board are Republi-
cans and of course would have selected
a man of their political faith for that
position. In Potter county the present
Republican board of commissioners
have forestalled the probable action of
| the Democratic board recently elected,
| through the same tactics. They claim
to have power to do this under an act
of Assembly passed by the last Legis-
| lature.-Warren Mail.
Report of Truman School.
Third month ending Dec. 4, 1899. No. enrolled,
males Is; females 0. Total 2l. Average attend
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