Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-07-24
BRIEF nENTION.
Costello has a case of smallpox.

| SObucllt LIDS IL CilS6 OF SMALLPOX.
Ping pong is favorite midsummer
pastime with some of our young
people.
At LIE Roy, N. Y, a negro has turned
white. 1t is the second case of the kind
on record.
The famous Repasz band of Williams
port has been engaged by the Bradford
firemen for the State Convention in
in October.
The Oak Grove land association will
begin in a few days the erection of
twenty-five houses, with all modern
improvements.
The Kane band is making big prepa-
rations to attend the Firemen's conven-
ton at st. Marys in August and have
ordered new uniforms for the occasion.
| During a thunderstorm at Farmers
Valley on Monday, July, IA herd of
eighteen fine bred COWS belonging to
ID. @. Young, ofSmethport were killed
by lightning.
Glass No. 9 of the Presbyterian Sun
day School will serve ice cream, cake
and coffee on the lawn of Miss H. L.
Raymond Saturday evening, July 26
Come everybody.
Our Presbyterian friends are matur-
ing plans for the improvement of their
Church property. To what an extent
these will be carried, has not been dis
closed, but they will no doubt be thor
ugh. The churches of Emporium are
properlya matter of municipal pride
1t is conceded that this is the greatest
huckleberry season in years. Owing to
the strike in the coal regions thousands
of men, women and children turn out
to pick the fruit and it is estimated that
between 16 and IS tons are shipped
daily to New York from Mahanoy City.
Girardsville and surrounding stations.
The pickers are paid six cents per quart.
A Kentucky paper has this item: John
Filson, farmer, living seven miles
south of Eminence, is the proud father
of Al little chickens, but much of the
credit for the result is due to his wife.
Filson has been i'll with fever SO she
decided to utilize him as an incubator.
She borrowed the eggs and placed them
about his body. Only four failed to
produce chickens.
The new battleship Maine is evidently
wonder. She has already broken all
records for heavy war-craft other class
On the trial trip the other day, she made
maximum speed of 1895 knots, the
contract calling for 1S knots. The
Maine is magnificent ship in every
respect, and will be the best monument
that could be built to the brave men
who lost their lives by the destruction
of her ill-fated predecessor in Havana
harbor.
Neatness, says an exchange, is a good
thing for girl, and if she does not learn
it when she is young she never will 1t.
takes great deal more neatness to
make a girl look we'll than it does to
make a boy look passable. Not because
boy, to start with, is better looking
than girl but his clothes are of a
different sort, not 50 many colors in
them, and people do notexcept boy
to look so pretty as a girl A girl that
is not neatly dressed is called sloven,
and no one likes to look at her,
Judge Simonton, of the Dauphin
county court, has rendered two opin-
ions which are of Importance to every
county in the state. In interpreting
the act of 1895, under which the state
rebuilds county bridges destroyed by
fire or floods, Judge Simonton declares
that the state cannot be required to
erect bridges over streams that are not
navigable or on streams above the
point where they cease to be navigable
He also declares that where the dam.
age to a bridge consists merely in in
jury to the approaches thereto the state
cannot be required to build such bridge
The latest labor saving invention is a
brick laying machine; the invention of
Canadian: "The machine worked bv
two men and lad, will lay 400 to 500 |
bricks per hour. Door and window !
spaces cause only a slight delay The |.
machine is suited for all plain work. /
such as walls, sheds, factories, mills, J
rows of cottages, piers of bridges, etc. /
Considerable pressure is put on the
brick, and it is claimed that the work
is more firmly done than by hand. The
invention will do the work Of six or
seven skilled bricSlayers, and it is be.
lieved that machine adapted to build
a factory about 6Oxi0 feet could be put
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