Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-09-21
Our Special Hicks Run Letter
Hicks Run, Sept 10th, 1905.

Thinking perhaps you would like to
hear something from Hicks Run and
the surrounding country, where your
| paper, the PRESS, has been household
word for more than a century, write
you few lines, telling you of our pros
poets, prosperity and inhabitants,
many of whom you were acquainted
with in the days of Auld Lang Syne.
Things move along smoothly with us,
we obey the laws, love our wives, rear
our children in the fear of the Lord,
till the soil when we can find any
and now and then go to Austin and
get drunk.
We have the usual amount of pros
perity that is vouchsafed to the inhabi-
tants of the country and our school
and educational privileges are good.
Longevity seems to be our inheri-
tance, in fact at the coming fall elec.
tion vote is to be taken by the peo-
pie in the district to determine who
shall be sacrificed to start our new
cemetery in order to keep up with the
progress of the times.
Our school opened last week with
full attendance. Prof. Bigger, who has
been principal for the past five years,
returned from his vacation which he
spent at Camp 81, fighting mosquitoes
and bathing his pedal extremities in
the limpid waters of North Creek.
The Prof. is a graduate from the
Sinnamahoning Seminary and worked
his way through college by peeling
barn and killing rattlesnakes. He is a
man of letters, scholarly and well read,
and is now, so to speak, resting on the
middle rung of his ladder of fame.
Our Star Course of lectures for the
winter is assured, the subscription list
being more than satisfactory. The
speakers secured for the course are
Vice President Fairbanks, John Wes.
ley and Victor Hugo.
| Prof. Leonard Stacks lectured before
the school last evening. His subjects:
| personal recoilections of Joan of Arc
and The Use of Axle Grease in the
Arts, "were interesting and instructive.
The Dauguscahonda Glee Club will
give an entertainment on Thanksgiv-
ing evening for the benefit of the
Young Ladies Guild. AS singers they
have lately come into prominence and
their music is rag time and sacred,
from the Old Apple Tree to the Holy
City.
The harvest is passed and the sum-
mer is ended with us and very few
have been gathered in, and as said
before we have been fairly prosperous
and have no kick coming.
Abner Carpenter picked from one
stalk in his buckwheat field, twenty
! five solid ripe buckwheat cakes and
wants to know if any one in the county
can beat it. The cakes were good,
first-class as your correspondent can
testify, having eaten ten of them bor-
dered with good pork gravy from a
piece of pork from hog killed on the
10th of last month by Eben Sewers,
which he had been fiattening since the
year of the Centennial.
Andrew Rhubottom of Vineland,
N. j., is visiting his son Peter. An.
drew is an old time resident here and
moved away years ago, his father
now living in New Hampshire, was
one of the men that grasped the prov
! of the boat and pulled it on shore, that
carried Washington across the Della
ware. His Uncle Abner, (his fathers
brother) who was at Yorktown when
Cornwallis surrendered, and got glor-
iously drunk on apple jack in logging
this fall in the Jersey Meadows for
Geo. Gould, the railroad magnate. He
Abner, was at one time engaged
to Lydia Pinkham, but broke the en-.
gagement, because she would not give
him the formula other celebrated medi
cine in a marriage settlement.
Elkana Peters, is visiting his nephew,
Hiram, proprietor of the Bark Peelers
Exchange. Elkana is an old soldier
and his "reminiscences are very inter
esting. He crossed the Alps with Ma
poleon and was in the battles of Austre-
litz and HOhenlinden and afterwards
at the burning of Moscow. He is a
well preserved man, jet black hair,
reads without glasses and has a per.
feet set of teeth. He amused the boys
in the Post Office Saturday evening by
biting three ears of corn in two at once.
Malvinia Hedges who has been teach
er in the primary department of our
school the past year was married on
Wednesday to Lysanter Becker. The
wedding was quite swell. Malvina
was dressed in a cheese cloth wrap
per and Il green glass breast pin aud
Lysanter wore tan colored suit he