Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-23
Notes and News.

Notes and News.
The corn supper at DR.. Heilman's
last Saturday evening was great sue
cess.
DIR. Smith has purchased fine driv-
horse. He says he couldn't stand it
any longer without horse. 1t is
nice stopper.
The sacial department ofthe Epworth
League will give an entertainment in
the lecture room of the M. E. Church
tomorrow evening 7:30. Everybody
invited.
Look out for the Emporium shirt
waist man. He is soon due. The
chemise man has come in advance of
the shirt waist man. He is striped and
looks like an escaped convict at a dist
ance.
AS proof that a thin woman is not
80 much effected by the warm weather
as her more plump sister, one has only
to note that the former doesn't don
those catching open work yokes as often
as the latter.-Ex.
The coaches used on the w. N Y. &
P. and the Allegheny Valley railroads
are being shipped to eastern points.
They will be repainted and re-lettered
and will be made to conform to the p.
R. r. system.
Some newspaper rises to sensibly re-
mark: "There is but one job open to
the youth who smokes cigarettes, and
that is to kill potato bugs with his
breath. Few people want a cigarette
fiend any closer than the potato patch"
Sol Bloom, Chicago music publish
er, brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Union restaurant and hotel
for refusing to serve him while he was
clad in a shirt waist and minus a coat.
This is said to be the first time the shirt
waist question has been brought before
a court.
A young man in this town, says the
Canonsburg Notes, gives the following
advice: ''There is nothing that tends
to shorten the lives of old people and
to injure their health 80 mach as the
practice of sitting up late evenings,
especially if their is a grown-up
daughter in the family.
Last week w. B. Thompson's little
daughter Dorothy, while playing at the
top of the stairs, fell through the ban
listers to the floor, a distance often feet,
striking on its head. 1t was feared for
some time that she sustained fatal in
juries. We are pleased to state that
the injuries are not dangerous and the
little one is almost recovered.
The editor of the Venango Spectator
a Democratic anti.Sibley paper has re
fused to put Mr.. Emery's name as can
didate for Congressman at the head o.
his columns unless he declares himself
for Bryan for President. Mr.. Emery
will have to make his platform little
more explicit before he gets the undi
vided support of the Democracy. An6
in case he comes out for Bryan, will the
"Insurgents'' support him?-McKear
Miner.
The trouble with the majority o
young men is the fact that they have
learned to squander more money eacl
week before they arrive at their ma or
ity than they can we'll earn. They ar,
ashamed to be supposed to exercise
economy. They must smoke, chew
drink and get in some way or othe
everything they see anyone else having
When they get ready to start hom'
for themselves they find their stock il
trade is bundle of expensive habit
and an empty pocketbook.-New Beth
lehem Vindicator.
The Bradford Era says: "Try a
they will the Emery people cannot ex
plain to the public in satisfactor,
manner why they assisted in nomina
ting Hon. j. G. Sibley for Congress ol
the straight Republican ticket at tn
spring primary election and why the,
are now SO strenuously opposing him
The average Pennsylvania is a stick
Ter for fair play. He certainly canno
be favorably impressed by the kind q
double-dealing which the Emery con
tingent has been playing during tn,
Dresent po1itinaI caoSon ,,
Zinc and orindino double the wear.