Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-08-18
BRIEF rIENTION.
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The best clothing at the lowest nrices
at N. seger's.
A charter has been granted to the
Driftwood Land Co., for the sale of
lots in Driftwood.
Ridgway is undergoing another
epidemlc of typhoid fever. 1t is said
'here are about 25 cases there at pres
ent.
Hargreave's circus has come and
gone. The management was about as
cheap lot of men as we have ever
met
Call on N. seger if you want clothes
that Will give you your moneys worth
in wear and be perfectly up to date
in style.
st. Marys is experiencing an oil
boom. There has been we'll struck
'hat produces twenty barrels per day
and is expected to do still better.
John L. Johnson, the proprietor of
the American House has men at work
clearing a forty acre piece on the
Portage. Another evidence of pros
perity i'll the east ward.
We have ascertained that the Demo-
cratic leaders approached Methuselah
with an offer of the vice-presidential
nomination before it was finally Offer
ed to Henry G. Davis.
The Presbyterian Sunday School will
picnic at Keystone Park tomorrow.
They invite their friends to Join them
In making the day one of delight to
all.
An official order has been posted by
the New York Central Company,
changing the name of Oak Grove. to
that of Aris. The name has been
selected in honor of Mrs. Orville
Hlckok, of Harrisburg, who was form
erly Miss Aris Cochran, eldest daughter
of Hon. j. Henry Cochran, of Will
Transport.
An Exchange says: A physician
gives direction in handling a splinter,
which are we'll worth remembering.
When splinter has been driven deep
ly into the hand it can be extracted
without pain by steam. Nearly fill a
wide mouth bottle with hot water,
place the injured part over the mouth
of the bottle and press tightly, and
in minute or two the steam will ex-
tract both the splinter and infiamma-
tion.
The editor of an exchange hits the
right spot when he says: "The sor-
riest fellow on earth is the fellow who
will sit around and cuss his own town.
If [ lived astride the north pole. 1
would call it home and be ready to
boost it up. If I could not say any
thing nice about it, | would say that
my ice bill didn't come high. I would
not stay in town I had to cuss-not
while the world is as big as it is now.n
One of the features of the Cameron
County Agricultural Association Fair
and Picnic to be held in Keystone
Park, Emporium, Pa, on Oct. 9th and
7th, will be the Baby contest. Prizes
to be silver cup for the prettiest baby,
a silver cup for the best appareled
baby, silver knife, fork and spoon for
the cutest baby, silver powder box
and puff for the fattest baby, and two
silver mugs for the most attractive
twins.
The Pennsylvania has decided to re-
number all its freight cars. There are
about 1876, 900 cars on the lines west of
Pittsburg and 115, 900 cars on the east
ern lines, and in additions are more
than $4,000 cars on the eastern lines, in
the company's fast freight line. The
Remembering of the cars will be an
enormous job, but when it is done the
accounting reports will be greatly sim
plified. 1t is proposed to have certain
blocks of numbers for each line in the
system, and each class of cars will have
separate block, so that the number
will show at glance the kind OF car.
the capacity, and the line to which it
belongs.