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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
FROM SMALL TOWNS
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF Dot
LARS TAKEN ANNUALLY.
THROUGH MAIL L-ORDER SYSTEM
Views of . Banker on the Situation
During the Recent Monetary
Strngency Well Worthy of
Consideration.

The president Of a bank at Mime
-apolis, during the recent financial
stringency. called attention TO one
source of financial drain upon the
country towns which should be taken
into consideration, and a remedy ap-
piled.
In this remarkable situation" he
said, when everybody is prosperous
and there Is not enough currency to
go round, 1t is important that every
dollar possible should be kept at home
until the banking business is again on
a cash basis. In the cities this is be-
ing done with good deal Of success,
and the clearinghouse certificates and
cashiers checks prevent a serious
embarrassment. But out in the coun-
try, where there are no clearing
houses, every dollar boarded or sent
away from home counts double.
AT this time the patronage of the
foreign catalogue houses is a factor
that ought to be considered seriously.
BY their own reports two Of these
catalogue houses, which deal in almost
every commodity of use to the home
or farm, do a business Of 100000, 900
a year This is 100000 for each of the
six business days of the week. This
money comes largely out OF the coun-
try towns. These catalogue houses do
not sell to people in the cities where
they are located. 1t is from the farm
ers and residents Of towns of less
than 5000 population that So per cent
of their business comes and at least a
third of it is from the northwest. And
remember, too, that there are other
catalogue houses, and that the com
bined business done by them is at
least 5000, 100000 annually.
Il am informed that all through the
state of Minnesota this competition of
the foreign catalogue houses has been
very seriously felt by the merchants
of small towns, to such an extent that
some have been driven out of business
entirely.
IF this has been the case during
the great prosperity of recent years,
when money was circulated freely,
what must the effect be now when the
currency is needed at home? Money
spent with the local merchant is dis
bursed in the locality, at least the
profits of his business are, but money
sent away is lost from local circula-
"tion.
Without going into the home-trade
question it seems plain to me that
those who buy from foreign cata:
logue house at this time are directly
injuring themselves, for this question
OF keeping money in home circulation
involves people of all conditions"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
HANDLING FARM PRODUCTS.
improved Methods Practiced in Many
Agricultural Towns.

Every farming community turns
trade to the town where best prices
are paid for the minor products which
the farmers have to dispose of. The
prices paid for butter and eggs, quite
often, decide the business life of
town. The general practice in many
places is for individual merchants to
take produce in exchange for goods.
The lowest market price is the rule in
these towns. Should one merchant
pay cent pound more for butter,
or cent more dozen for eggs, the
farmers conclude that the difference
is made up in the quality Of goods or
the quantity they receive in exchange.
To overcome the annoyances occa-
stoned through unwholesome competi-
tion in the buying of farmers prod
ucts, the business men of many agri-
cultural towns, during the past few
years, have undertaken the operation
Of cooperative produce establish
ments. These establishments general
ly consist of a commodious warehouse
with cold storage appliances. The
merchants of the town are the stock
holders in the concern. A manager Is
employed on salary and is intrusted
with the buying and marketing of all
produce. The storekeepers refer all
farmers who have produce for sale to
the produce house and the highest
market price is paid and due bills
given which are payable in goods at
the stores in the town.
This method has proved highly sat
isfactory everywhere it has been tried
Not alone have the merchants found
it advantageous, but the farmers as
well, Another feature worth consid-
Grafton is the fact that farmers are
not compelled to trade at any particu-
lar store, but can make their pur-
chases in any store in the town. Then
again much trade is saved to the COM
munity that might go to the mail-or-
der houses of the larger cities.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Durinu the Summer Months.

The summer time is the time the re-
tail merchant must keep things mov
ing at lively pace in his store. Gen
orally the warm weather season is
dull with retailers and the period from
June to September is generally regard
ed as time when there is little doing
Here is where the retail merchant
must not allow himself to take a
wrong view OF things. The fact that
this stretch of three months has been
generally regarded as period of in
activity is just the very reason why he
cannot afford to allow it to be one
There can be no periods of inactivity
for the merchant of to-day. He must
keep a full head of steam up all the
time, and it is even more important
that he should do this on the up grade,
when he is working against the forces
of gravitation than on the level, when
the business rushes almost of its own
momentum.
The live merchant will make up his
mind that there will be no periods of
inactivity in his store. He keeps
things moving all the time; there is
something doing every day and he
doesn't give people a chance to forget
for single day that he is selling the
best merchandise at the lowest pos
sible prices.
1t is these periods of inactivity on
the parts of retail merchants which
have given the retail mail order
houses their opportunity to make in.
roads on their trade. With the mail
order houses there are no periods of
inactivity, and during the summer
months they will hustle harder than
ever for trade, because they need the
money" The retail merchant must
prepare to meet aggressive competi-
tion on the part OF the catalogue mer.
chants and 1t is up to him to hustle
and see well to his local advertising.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
LEARNED A LESSON.
One Farmer Finds Out Something
Through Buying a MaiI-Orde; Jtove.

The Wayne (Neb) Herald recites
the story of a Wayne county farmer
who was caught by one of the cata-
logue houses. He learned the lesson
and paid dearly for it. Mr.. Farmer
had seen the stove picture in the cata-
logue and had sent on his good $29,
adding $3.50 for freight Then the
stove came to the depot. The farmer
came to town. loaded up the junk and
drove up onto the business street.
Then to some friends, he confided:
THAT stove cost me $29 and $3.50
freight, and I'll bet 1t is half sheet
iron. | have been waiting for 1t for
over two months and my wife is near
ly crazy about it. l could have done
better by buying Of the Wayne hard
ware dealers. The catalogue fellows
can go to hades in the future"
This is a lesson that people OF Ne
braska and other states are being
taught every day in the year and it Is
pleasure to know that they are get
ting their eye teeth cut in the most
artistic and approved style. They are
ordering from the catalogues and in
return they are getting miserable lot
of junk. paying much higher prices
than they would have to pay for first
class goods sold in the home stores.
The catalogue houses live and grow
fat off just such people as the man at
Wayne. These men are constantly
looking for the big end of the bargain.
The catalogue houses are doing the
same thing. 1t would look as though
it would be when Greek meets
Greek" but its nothing of the kind
The catalogue concerns have all the
advantage. They have gotten the
money of the individual and then they
send him out any kind of an old lot Of
junk, knowing that he has no recourse
These catalogue houses have been do.
ing this thing for years and find
plenty of suckers, for you know there
is something recorded about a sucker
being born every second. Perhaps
they do not get the same sucker a
second time, but they catch some that
came along in the new crop.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Manners,

Manners are not like clothes. It's
a bad thing to have two suits of them
one for best and one for everyday.
Wear your best manners all the time.
They suffer more by being put away
than by constant use. IF you keep your
best manners for company they will
fit you i'll, and your visitor will suspect
they were put on for him. Second best
clothes may be worn at home, but
not second best manners. To whom
is it worth while to be courteous if not
to the people you love best?-Hsme
Chat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Immense Food ReceptacIes.

At recent municipal celebration in
HCovina, Cal, in which barbecue was
given to mark the advent of an cleo
trio railway, coffee was served from
an urn holding $50 gallons, or 5000
cups; beans were cooked in a pot
holding 200 gallons.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
STROUDSBuRG.

STRoUDSBURG. - Wilson Busch
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed here by Dayton Osborne. Os-
borne and the wounded man were
warm friends. Busch called at Os-
borne's home. Osborne claims he did
not know who was trying to enter.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

NEW CASTLE.-A thousand homes
were shaken, 800 windows were shat
tered and a fireworks plant and two
dwelling houses were wrecked when
two tons of powder and enough fire
works for a half dozen celebrations
let go, throwing people from their feet
for three or four blocks and injuring a
dozen persons, three seriously.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

WASHlNGTON.-C. NJ. Carson OF
Washington and Fred NJ. Slater of
Bethany found huge blacksnake near
West Alexander, hanging from hole
in a hollow tree. When Carson
grasped the snakes tail to pull it out
the reptile wrapped itself about his
wrist and gradually pulled him from
the ground. Slater severed the
snakes body with a corn cutter to re-
lease his companion
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

ANNING.-Burgess +. T.
Hutchison of Wickboro cultivated 500
American Beauty roses for Childrens 5
day only to find that vandals had in
vaded his lawn and stolen them.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Heavy Imports of Foodstuffs.

In 1906 the imports of wheat and
wheat -four into the United Kingdom
were rs per cent. of the total supply.
In 1905 the imports were 35 per cent.
and in France three per cent. In the
United Kingdom in 1906 the imported
supplies of meat were AZ per cent
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
ALTooNA.-An endemic of measI

ALTOONA.-An epidemic of measles
in a most virulent form has made it's
appearance in this city, the mortality
per cent. The disease, which seems
to be most common among children
under 10 years of age, is a combina-
tion of measles, pneumonia and
mumpS.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

DUNkIRk.-All the mines from
Dunkirk to Acme in the Pigeon Creek
valley have resumed in full, after pro
tracted shut downs Fifteen hundred
men will receive employment.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
PITTSBURG.

P!TTSBURG. - The Tuberculosis
league of Pittsburg organized three
weeks ago by the consolidation of the
Pittsburg Sanatorium and the Pitts
burg Association for the Prevention
of tuberculosis, has begun active work
TO give Pittsburg the most modern
and one of the largest tuberculosis
hospitals in the United States.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

BOTlER.-A. J. Smathers, so years,
member of grocery firm at Evans
City and a Justice of the peace, was
instantly killed and Mrs. Smathers
was seriously injured at Mars, when
a southbound limited car on the Pitts
burg G. Butler trolley line struck a
buggy in which they were riding.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

GREENVlLLE.-Hundreds of men
returned to work on the Bessemer &
Lake Erie railroad when the ore
hauling season was inaugurated
Every locomotive owned by the COM
pany was put into service and the
forces in all departments greatly in
creased.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

BUTLER-Fires of mysterious orig
in destroyed the residences of Charles
Cranmer and James Y Taylor in diff
ferent sections of town. Both families
We're sitting on their porches and the
fires started in the attics.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

TSBURG.-While plowing on
his farm at Tunnelton, near here,
seven years ago Albert Donahey lost
a pocketbook containing SALT.
Charles Wissinger, gardener, found
the pocketbook and money recently.
Donahey divided with Wissinger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
GREENssURG.-John Cornelius, 40

GREENSBURG.-J Cornelius, 40
years, was probably fatally injured
and his 6-year-old son sustained a
fractured leg when a Pennsylvania
freight train at Larimer struck
vehicle in which the two were driving.
killing the horse and splintering the
buggy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

SBURG.-Reports from three
meat inspectors who have been work
ing in Philadelphia are said to indi,
cate unsanitary conditions in meat
shops and slaughter houses there.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

HARRlSBURG.-An unusual order
has just been issued from national
guard headquarters giving notice that
the commission of Second Lieut..
Lewis A. McDermott, Company d,
Ninth regiment, had been vacated be-
cause of his absence from his COM
mand without leave.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
kITTANNINe.-In the removal

kITTANNING.-In the removal of
the old Fox homestead in South Wa
ter street the borough is losing a
landmark. The building was erected
so years ago and much of the lumber
is in almost as good condition as when
new. 1t will be used in the erection
of a new house
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

GREENSBURG.-With their pro-
duct for the next two and one-half
years already sold the Stahl Glass
Co, employing $50 men and boys,
which was destroyed by fire in Janu-
airy, has resumed operations and will
run continuously during June
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
GREENSBU RG.-As a result

ENSBURG.-As a result of a
fight following a basketball game in
Greensburg, January s, 1907, Freder-
lex Kelly of Latrobe secured damages
of $275 from Jacob Welty, warden of
the county jail, for striking him in the
face.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

CARLISLE.-Capt. A. ]. Standing,
widely known as an Indian educator
and one of the founders of the Carlisle
Indian school, died at his home at
Dickinson, aged so years.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

TS8URG.-Struck by baseball
thrown by the shortstop to the second
baseman, who missed it, Roy Bowser,
aged 7, was almost instantly killed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

MISUNDERSTANDING to a
bulletin issued by the state depart
ment of agriculture there were 1,190,-
296 people at the fairs and exhibitions
held in Pennsylvania last year. This
number is about 100000 less than the
number attending the fairs of the
state in the previous year and is at
tributed to the business depression.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

BUTLER.-That grand jurors shall
not be compelled to ride three in a
seat on the tour of inspection of coun-
ty buildings was held by Judge James
NJ. Galbreath
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

UNiONT TOWN.-Lying beside the
West Penn street railway tracks near
Brownsville the body of John E. An
derson, aged 30, of Thompson No. 2,
was found with a bullet hole in his
skull
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
IINIONTOwN

UNIONTOWN.-Andy Mayosky was
fined $50 by Justice Bierer for killing
two robbins. The suit was brought
by Fish and Game Warden Maurice P.
Maitland.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

WiLKESBARRE.- Strach, a
giant in size and strength, was shot
and killed by his little and much
abused wife at their home in Pringle
Hill, near here, because he tried to
beat her.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

MEAOVlLLE.-John II. Greif, 81
years old, proprietor of the Hotel
Antler at Cambridge Springs, died
suddenly from sunstroke while camp
ing a few miles above his home with
a party of friends.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

ERIE.-Patrick Delacy of Scranton
was elected commander of the Penn
sylvania department, Grand Army of
the Republic, defeating John l.. Grim
of Philadelphia by a vote of 81 to
1873.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

ARRlSBURG.-The state depart
ment of fisheries will place a large
quantity of sunfish at the disposal of
the state department of health to
place in mosquito haunted streams
this summer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

kiTTANNlNG.--A broken shoulder,
broken nose and fractured skull were
sustained by James Conley of Ford
City when he jumped off a rapidly
moving trolley car.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
ALTooNA.-An unusual method of

W 'OOINN'-ttII uIU9UdI IHVIIIUu OF
suicide was adopted by Miss Ray Nc
Quillan, aged 20, of Tyrone, after she
learned her fance had died in a Phila-
dalphia hospital She smashed bot
tie and then swallowed the fragments.
She may recover.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

TOWN.-Leroy Weining. IA
years old, attempted to swim across
the Manatawny creek on a wager of 10
cents, but was drowned before half
way over.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

HARRiS8URG.-Dairy and Food
Commissioner Foust ordered the pros
ecution of "a persons for sale of oleo
in Allegheny county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
WAYNE ESBURG.-

WAYNES ESBURG.-A large wool and
grain house owned by Elmer Grinage
at Woodruff was burned. The loss is
S30,00e. The fire was incendiary.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

lENOPLE.-Charles Risner of
Butler, a laborer employed in the con-
struction of the Pittsburg, Butler &
New Castle trolley line, was caught
between the jointing machine and the
work train when they collided and
his right leg was cut on,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
WASHINGTON.-A dvna1

WASHINGTON.-A dynamite stor-
age building at Thomas Station, east
of here, was fired by a spark from a
Baltimore & Ohio locomotive The
building was burned. Exploding dyna-
mite did much damage.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

KITTANNiNG.-W the night
clerk and porter at the Alexander
hotel We're doing in parlor the office
safe was robbed of $50, a gold watch
and chain and valuable papers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

BELLEVERNON. After a shut
down of six months. during the
greater part of which time repairs OF
some kind were in progress, the Ma
omi mine of the United Coal Co. has
resumed operations.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

ERIE.-The greater portion of the
Erie foundry was destroyed by fire,
causing loss OF nearly 100000
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

TTSBuRG.-Charles S. Jenkins
pioneer railroad man, one of the asso.
ciates of Robert Pitcairn and Andrew
Carnegie in the days they rairoaded.
died in this city
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18
Picked Up in-,zst" st"+'
z+'N Pennsylvania

HESTER.-While bathing in an
ice-coA pond in stone quarry, Frank
IuDD took cramps and drowned.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

BEAVER FALLS.-According to the
annual report Of Secretary Sponcler
it cost $4,000 to run the public
schools of the borough last year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

FRANKLIN. - Leland Wareham,
aged 6, son of John Wareh fell
from hay loft and broke Ill., sck,
dying instantly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-18

WEST NEWTON.-After eating his
dinner in a small building in Markle
cemetery Jacob Gaffney a sexton, fell
dead
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-01-17
The palntina Jeffersons.

The Siege Of Belgrade a comic
opera by Cobb, was the first new pro
duction in New York In 1861. For
it Mr. Je6ferson's grandfather, Joseph
Jefferson LIST, painted the scenery, and
in It he played the character Of Leo
pold. Mr.. Jefferson's father, Joseph
Jefferson %, who, like his illusbious
son, was born In Philadelphia, was
more manager than actor and more
painter than either. AS a boy be
studied architecture and drawing, and
he was also pupil TO the scenic artist
Robert Coyle, m Englishmsn OF repute
at that period. Erancts Wilson in
Scribners.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-01-17
Two strenuous Lives.


Clovis Hughes che French Journalist.
poet and duelist, filed his arty-fye
years OF life with, sufficient excite
lnent to make him worthy Of special
mention. One of his claims to dlstinc.
ton was that he had engaged IN a
French duel which resulted fatally
for the other man. He was lem.
pestuous radical and was once sus
pended from the chamber Of deputies
for insulting remarks to the president.
which did not at all curb him. He
wrote number Of novels, poems and
plays in which he sought to spread
sociaiistic propaganda, and he wrote a
precautions FIVE act drama In verse
called lie Sommei dc Danton" ('The
Sleep Of Danton'0, which was produced
at the Opera Comique. His wife con
tributed her share of excitement BY
killing a public official In the palace
OF justice because OF an alleged insult
Before she was tried She wrote and
acted LA Vegeance de Nine. Clovis
Hughes The play depicted her sen.
satior2I act and represented her as
rilnphant!y eXonerated by the court
When her trial came the court did as
predicted - Springfield Republican