Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-02-12


in the east ward school building.
Mr.. Dixon, Supt., of St. Marys Gas
Co., was looking after business inter.
ests in town the first of this week.
Chas. Cummings left on Monday
morning for Williamsport to enter the
commercial college, where he will take
a business course.
Geo. Kenworthy, of Cameron, en-
ployed by Mr.. Brady as miner at
Bradytown was PRESS visitor yester-
day. He pushed the PRESS ahead
another year.
Danl Burton, formerly of Austin,
left last week for Lumberton, Miss, to
accept a position in saw mill. The
day he left this place the mill was
burned. His family is staying with
Mrs. John Montgomery at this place.
The Pennsylvania r. r. now have
5000 men work laying out new yards
at Enola, near Harrisburg.
Forty eight Indiana young ladies are
making preparations to go to North
Dakota to become wives of men they
have never seen. These men are said
to be industrious and each owns 160
acres of land, but then money does not
bring happiness. Part of those men
who want wives cannot talk English,
80 they say.
John P. Morgan drew a check the
other day for $22,5OO,OOO. There is
nothing wonderful in that People
with little or no artistic training can
draw one just as big. But the differ
ence between Morgan's check and one
drawn by the common herd, is that the
former was accepted by the cashier
Youngstown Telegram.
Editor Blackman, of Port Allegany
Argus has manifested good horse sense
in disseminating his semi weekly edi-
tion and hereafter confining the Argus
to one issue weekly. Better to have
one good issue than two hurried efforts.
The Argus is good paper and no
doubt Brother Blackman will continue
to improve the paper, now having a
better opportunity.
The lecture committee is to be con-
graduated upon having at last accom-
plished the astonishing feat of pleasing
everybody. 1t is rare to find COM
psny in which every member is star
in her line, and program every
number of which is superb. Miss Alex
ander's violin playing held the large
crowd breathless Jewell City, Kan
Opera House, February 16, in Star
Course.
The entertainment given in the AS
sembly Room of the Sawyer Sanitarium
by Myra Alice Casterline, of the Harroff
School of Expression, was one of the
most enjoyable and pleasing recitals
ever given here. She is reader of re-
markable versatility, and demonstrated
that she is eqally capable of handling
In most satisfactory manner both ser.
ious and light subjects. s.-Marion Daily
Mirror. Opera House February 16 in
Star Course.
Many Franklin people will remember
j. II. Sparks, who exhibited his show
in this city on different occasions, and
will be interested in the following dis
patch regarding his death, dated at
Raleigh, N. c.: 81. H. Sparks, the cir
Gus man, who was bitten on the arm
last week by one of the young lions he
was raising at Wade Mecum Springs,
died at the hospital in Winston this
morning of blood poison, caused by the
wounds. Mr.. Sparks has invested
several thousand dollars in the summer
resort at Wade Mecum Springs and he
had decided to make his home and
build residence at Winston His
brothers, who have managed his circus
for some time, will carry out the plans
outlined by him at the Springs" -
| Franklin News.
Common sense exercised in an ordi-
nary manner will cut in two the doc
| tors bill. Sickness generally results
from carelessness and negligence. A
man goes out doors without his coat on
bitter cold day and then wonders why
he gets cold A women coming from
warm room, stands bare-headed on a
porch and talks to a neighbor, and
wonders how she caught that bad cold
They should know better-they do
know better-but they are careless,
Nature Furnishes ignorance and care
lessness alike. That you break them
through ignorance is an argument for
better education; that you break them
through carelessness is an argument for
the exercise of common sense.-Shef-
field Observer.
The Galeton Leader printed the fol-
lowing: "The interesting rumor has
reached this Office that the Buffalo &
Suauuehauna has nurnhaaad tho lou,