Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-08-06
BRIEF nENTION.

L. K. Lyons has sold his draw busi-
ness to Robert Clark and exnecta to
leave town.
ABOUT one half the people you see
on the streets of our town buv their
clothing at N. segers.
FOR RENT-Furnished rooms with
path for rent. Also suitable for light
housekeeping. Apply at PRESS nffc
Why do you go so shabbily dressed
when you can get clothes so cheap .at
N. Seger's? Call and see his large
stock.
NO one would think of accusing the
Emporium Independent of having a
clerical ring, The Independent is a
wide awake paper, nevertheless.
Prof. Snyder who was assistant prin.
cipal of schools at this place last
winter and was also elected for this
term has rendered his resignation.
Bessie McCaslin's Sunday School
class will hold bread and cake sale,
in the room opposite r. g. Dodson,s
drug store Oh noxt Saturday morning.
All Smokers smoke the 'W. II.
Mayer" hand made cigar the best Ave
cent cigar on the market. Be sure you
ask Tor it 24-tf
The season for rock bass, black bass.
green or Oswego bass, waIl-eyed pike,
! plckerel, sunfish, muscallonge and
jack salmon opened June 10 and cIoges
February Is. There is no limit fixed
for the number of fish ono may catch.
There is truth in the bitter remark of
an exchange that curfew bell that
would call home at any time of the lay
or night those persons who go from
honse to house, from neighbor to
neighbor, carrying idle tales of gossip
besmirching the character of decent
people and injuring their credit, would
be, good thing.
July 4th claimed So victims ea that
day, 167 have died of lock jaw since,
and about 1000 were injured. Almost
all were boys between the ages of 6
and 16 years. Forty one deaths had
occurred from lock jaw in the state of
Pennsylvania. At that rate Pennsyl-
vania must have done more than her
share of celebrating.
Says the State entomologist of New
Jersey, 'If you consider that a
square foot of water surfa ce will easily
breed 5000 mosquitoes at one time,
and that there are 27,878, 4CO square
feet in mile, 10000 ,OO0,O0O specimens
is very conservative estimate as the
output of this area" Never mind the
billions and the millione. Six active
mosquitoe given favorable opportunity
can prove that life is not worth living.
Williamsport is agog over story to
the effect that the body of William
| Hummell murderer of his wife and
three children was recently dissected
in a Philadelphia medical school
where it was recognized bya Williams
port student. Hummell sold his oon-
fession to Williamsport newspaper to
get money for burial, and afterwards
sold his body to speculator. Later he
willed it to his spiritual adviser, who
got an injunction to get possession of
the body to bury it. He was hanged
three years ago, and the student says
the body was soon afterwards stolen
and shipped to the school.
Peanut jab'' is the suggestive name
of new game which is said to be high
ly successful source of merriment and
good fellowship. The game is played
on small card tables, and each pair of
guests is provided with dish of water
in which a dozen peanuts float To
each player is given hat-pin, and the
party is instructed to 'jab' the pea
nuts-that is, to transfix them with the
hat-pins, to the intent that they may
be landed without being touched with
the fingers. The game is played pro.
gressively, and the nuts which have
been landed take the place Of score
cards.
From the ranks of pensioners on tho
rolls OF the Western Pennsylvania dis.
tract, 1,s66, persons have died durirp
the year ended June 30th 1905. OF
these ! ,3ig were veterans Of the Civil
I War, ass widows Of veterans OF 1912,
IA veterans ard five widows Of seteE.
ans Of the Mexican war ond I've
I amnog Spanish war pensioners The
rolls gained 2,305 names. 1,5i7 Clsssed
under the Civil Mar, 402 under the
Spanish War, including 3O3 transferred
TO this district from Philadelphia rolls
and three widows OF veterans or the
MeXicaa war. Pensions paid dgrine
'he year from the Pittsbuta umce
amounted 90 II, ,4is,019 and the timber
of pensioners now on the rolls tf the
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