Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-02-01
BRIEF nENTION.
Gold weather in dead earnest.

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This county will be tested again, in
the near future, for oil or gas.
Last Saturday Edward Read and
son were killed by a falling tree, near
Kane.
The famous Kinzua bridge will be
replaced this year by stronger and
heavier structure
The Mandolin club will give dance
Friday evening. An enjoyable time
assured all who attend.
The Odd Fellows of Bradford have
purchased the old oil exchange building
at that place for $50, 900.
The Republican Congressional Con
vention caucus will be held in the
counties of Cameron, Mexican, Warren
and Venango, on Saturday, April 7th.
F. B. Hackett, years ago a resident
of Emporium, was found dead at
Ulysses, last week, Monday. A mis-
spent life.
j. H. Day will have new story in
the PRESS every week, having made
contract to that effect for 1900. He is a
wide-awake merchant.
The net earnings Of the w. N. Y. &
P. railroad for the past year show an
increase of 26 per cent, or more than
$4,000 as compared with the same
period in 1898.
Bishop Tobias Mullen is again at st.
Vincent's hospital, but his condition
remains as usual. The hospital au-
thorities report that he is resting COM
fortably y.-Erie Dispatch.
The sage of the Boliver Breeze thus
sums up the short skirt question:
Woman, lovely woman-if you must
wear short skirt first be sure you are
neither bow-legged or pigeon-toed.
The Goebelites in Kentucky are de-
termined to GUST the Republican legis-
lators whose seats are contested and
they furthermore intend to GUST Gov.
Taylor and seat Goebel as Governor.
Nobody who has given the matter
any attention now doubts that adver-
tising which is kept running all the
time in live paper, changed frequent
ly and made bright and snappy, pays
abundantly.
VIM. Carter, who is employed at the
furnace, fell from one of the trestles.
last week, dislocating his left shoulder
and receiving other injuries that will
lay him up for awhile. DR.. Bardwell
is attending him.
The Methodist denomination has
planned the twentieth century move
ment campaign to raise 500, 900, 900 and
save 100000 souls within the next two
years, the money to be used to pay off
all church Indebtedness and as endow-
ments to the University and Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary.
The Raftsmen's Journal hits it about
right when it says: ga good paper
has genuine claim for the support of
the public. Prompt payment of sub
scriptions is the practical form of ap-
probation, and makes the subscriber an
everlasting friend of the publisher, and
the publisher firm friend of the sub
scriber."
An exchange says: "Call a girl
chick and she smiles; call woman a
hen and she howls. Call a young
woman witch, and she is pleased; call
an old woman witch and she is in
dignant. Call girl kitten, and she
rather likes it; call woman cat and
she'll hate you. Women are queer. If
you call man gay dog it will f1atter
him. Call him pup, hound or cur
and he'll alter the map of your face.
He don't mind being called bull or
bear, and yet he will object to being
mentioned as a calf or a cub. Men are
queer, too"
''The First Night of a Play
Through the Slums with Mrs. Baling-
ton Booth," "What it Means to be a
Librarian of Congress, and "The Pew
and the Man in It," by Ian Maclaren,
are among the February Ladies' Home |
Journal An American Mother answers
conclusively "Have Women Robbed |
Men of Their Religion?" and there is
an interesting article on Mile. Cham
made, the famous composer and pianist.
Another article describes Crank Stock
toms New Home in West Virginia"
The opening chapters of "The Parsons
Butterfly" new serial by Mrs Chas.
Terry Collins, are also presented.
Molly Donahue discusses a woman's
rights with Mr.. Dooley, and edith
and in Paris" "Her Boston Expert
ences," and "The Autobiography of a
Girl" continue with increasing
The pictorial feature, 'Tn
Honor of St Valentino ,, hv Alina !