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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
BEING UP-To-DATE.
Live Business Men the Ones Who
Make the Greatest Success.

The man in business is out to win
or he wouldn't be in business. There
are many little details that must ee
looked after. must be studied and
which are essential to success. Many
merchants. particularly in small
towns, are kept so busy wrapping up
bits of ginghams, weighing out sugar
and doing the hundred and three 9th.
er things, that they think they have
no time to give all these little essen
tials attention. These days the mer-
chant is really up against a hard
game, unless he keeps right in line
and to the front. Statistics show that
so per cent of those who engage In
the retail trade fail.
People must buy necessities. The
average mortal wants the best he can
get for the least money. Merchant
Jones can't sell at any higher prices
than Brown on the opposite side of
the street sells like goods for, and
Browns method is pretty good.
Brown has captured a good trade,
and on some lines gets sitter prices.
How does he do 1t? Look at the ar
rangcment of his goods. He has
place for everything, and everything
properly in its place, and displayed to
the greatest advantage. He hasn't
his potatoes and his apples mixed in
a heap and his tomatoes and other
canned goods of the vegetable class
mixed with his jellies and his jams;
neither are the labels SO covered with
dust that the goods look as If they
were held in stock for years You can
just bet Brown is up-to-date, his goods
are 50 arranged that people find a
pleasure in stopping in front of the
store and looking at the show win
dows, and go through the door and
see the harmony and order in all the
arrangement of his stock. Brown
himself is no slouch, his attire is plain
but neat. no gaudy display and his
temper is always even, and smile
is for every customer, and all his
clerks are required to keep them
selves neat and show the greatest
courtesy to everyone who enters the
store. Then, again, he sees that goods
are delivered promptly, no ueldy III
getting your sugar, your butter and
all that you order from Brown, for he
is always Johnny-on-the-spot. Then
again, he keeps all his customers feel
ing well; he always believes in an
era of good feeling; he is sympathetic.
Then Brown is a man who doesn't
believe in keeping set of books for
the purpose of charging up poor ac-
counts. He has a knack of collecting
his bills so his customers feel they
are under obligations to him, and
while he is stickler for making cash
sales, sometimes good responsible
customers want a little credit, and
get it. Merchants like Brown are the
kind that build up the home town.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
GO OUT FOR TRADE
MERCHANT SHOULD BE AN EX-
PERT IN HIS LINE.
WISE USE OF PRINTERS INK
How Advertising by Specialist Was
Turned to Profit by a Wide
Awake Country Store
keeper.

One of the latest deals OF the town.
to-town man is the working up of sales
for some local merchant. He enters
the town and contracts with some
storekeeper to hold a weeks sale.
What goods the merchant cannot sup
ply he will have shipped in to add to
the stock on hand. He is worker for
the percentage on the gross sales, and
stands the advertising bills. He is
postmaster in the art of country town
advertising. He knows how to get out
an attractive poster and how to reach
the town people and the farmers as
well. He covers the front of the store
with signs calling attention to the
sale. He has a force of specially
trained clerks. He makes business
fairly hum, unless he bucks up
against another merchant in the town
who knows a few things about getting
business himself
Not long ago in one of the small
western cities one of the experts"
opened up a sale for merchant who
had a considerable stock of stale
goods, particularly boots and shoes,
on hand. The front of the store build
ing was covered with attractive signs,
thousands Of posters and handbills
were sent throughout the city and
country, and the advertising began to
show results. There was one live
merchant in the town who saw a
chance to reap a benefit from the ef-
forts of the expert" The sale had
20 fy1N 1n
dealer-up-to-date commenced placard-
ing his store in the same block. He
was not slow in the advertising line.
When the sale manipulation hung out
his sign, Finest shoes in the town,
s1.50 per pair" the up-to-date man met
it with: These shoes don't look like
kid, they are not paper, but they will
wear better than anything you can
get for twice the money-only $1.05."
Other signs called attention to hon
est values; that there was no special
sale on hand; it was regular business
and regular prices-but prices were
right, the goods were right and honest
values, and invited comparison with
ANY other stock in town." and the
people were interested.
Farmers understand the bargain
sale deal, and at the end of the first
day the up-to-date man had sold 139
pairs of shoes and rubbers. He didn't
have to cut prices. He gathered up
all his odds and ends of stock placard-
ed them so as to tell the people they
were little out of style, but honest
bargains, and he did business in vol
umes as great as the expert bargain
man, and convinced his customers
that not alone on one day could they
get full value for their money, but on
any day
1t is well for the merchant in the
small city to do judicious advertising.
This will bring as good results, and
save the percentage paid the expert"
In fact if the merchant would take the
amount that would be paid out to the
expert and use it in advertising in his
home paper he would be the winner in
the end. Then, again, the expert" is
out to make sales, and he makes them.
sometimes in such way as to turn
away the trade of those who were
good customers of the merchant.
D. NJ. CARR.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

OIL CITY.-The Petroleum bridge,
the first structure to span the Alleghe-
ny river at this point, connecting the
north and south sides of the city, has
been condemned and closed to vehi-
cles and street car traffic.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

lANCASTER.-Born the same year,
80 years ago, John Burnite, a farmer
of ColerSin township, and wife died
within few hours of each other of
the same disease, pneumonia, and were
laid away together at the same time
in the same cemetery.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
HARRISBuE

HARRISBURG. - The first arrests
made by fish department attaches this
year for catching bass out of season
were made near Coatesville. Two men
had ten bass and must pay 500 or
spend so days in Jail.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
REAnING Tb

READING. - The body of Henry
Stroll, wholesale tobacco dealer,
aged SO, who came here from Lancas-
ter nine years ago, was found in a
public road three miles west of Read
ing. Near was a bottle which had con-
tanned carbolic acid and which had
been drained of it's contents.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

BRADFORD. - Gerald Fesenmeyer,
aged 10 years, is at the Bradford hos.
pital with a fractured skull, and is
probably fatally injured as the result
of an accident. The boy was watch
ing the work Of razing an old build
ing by some workmen when a brick
or some other heavy object fell and
struck him on the head
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
Observation-Disclosures Fo,

sCRANToN.-Frederick Foster, &c
years old, of Dunmore is dying at the
State hospital with a bullet in his
head. The wound was inflicted by Pa
trolman Oliver Cromwell, from whom
Foster attempted to escape, after he
had been placed under arrest
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

YORk.-Seven horses and mules, IA
cows and 20 hogs perished in fire
which destroyed the large barn and
several buildings on the farm of Mar
tin Baer, near Manges Mills. The
loss is over $4,000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

TTANNlNG.-New scales pur-
chased by the borough having been in
stalled, every load of straw, hay or
coal hauled into the town for sale
must be weighed on them in accord
ance with a recent ordinance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
BLOOMSBURY IT
Nfimnville

BLOOMSBURG.- - The Miffinville
bridge, now in course of construction,
was the scene of another accident that
will probably result in the death of
Jacob Johnson or this town He was
struck across the back by an iron ca
Bile which broke when one of the der
ricks fell.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

HARRISRURG.-Over 200 samples
bought in groceries outside of Phila-
delphia and Allegheny counties have
been sent to chemists for analysis as
to their quality. The sampling was
ordered by Commissioner Foust.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

NoRRlSTo ToWN.-Thomas G. Can.
nell, the former tax collector of Potts
town, convicted of embeZzlement, was
sentenced to serve six months in the
county prison and pay fine of $1,000
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WILk kES BARRE.

WlLkESBARRE.- - News was re-
ceived in Plymouth that Mrs. Carrie
Emmons, 6S years old, who left re-
Gently saying she was going to visit
friends in Scranton, went instead to
Dover N. j., and was there married
on March q to John P. Johnson, 73
years old
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

POTTSVILLE.-Another sign of an
industrial boom in this part of the
anthracite region is the starting of
work on a new colliery to be opened
near Brockville, in the Schuylkill val
ley.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
PHILADELPHIA.

PHTLADELPHTA. = George EeIs,
aged 60 years, sho. arlt killed Mrs.
Address, neighbor, in the lower sec
ton of the city and probably fatally
injured Ella Paschall his alleged COM
mon law wife, and Kate Jewel, a niece
of Mrs. Address.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
HARRISBURG. Since

HARRISBURG. - Since the COM
mencement of the fiscal year of the
auditor generals department in No
vember, the state has collected $685.
279.70, an excess over the correspond
ing period of last year amounting to
S213.66S31
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

STATE COLLEGE.-Eighteen stu.
dents narrowly escaped death and the
$40, 900 chemistry building was saved
from destruction by prompt work OF
the student fire brigade.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

MONONGAHELA.-During a brawl
among 10 men George Slawischy, a
Pole, was slashed twice across the
face, the sight of both eyes being de-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

BUTLER.-A well was struck on
the O'Brien farm by Geyer & Co The
production started off at six barrels
an hour, with indications of staying
qualities.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

HARRISBURG. - State Zoologist
Surface has issued a warning to all
owners of orchards to spray for eradi
cation of San Jose scale within ten
days.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

NORTH WALES.-The E. X. Freed
Milling Co., which has operated
srist mill here for the past fifty-one
years, will go out of business April l.
The mill is to be dismantled and the
building sold.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
PITTS BURG

PiTTSBURG.-John Dell, 80 years
old, said to have been the last surviv-
ing veteran in Allegheny county of
the Mexican war, is dead at his home
in North Versailles township. He also
served throughout the Civil war.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
HARRIsRlJRe-Tba maat

HARRlSBURG.-The meat hygienic
inspectors appear to have pretty
thoroughly broken up the trade in i'm
mature veal, which had grown to
large proportions in northeastern
Pennsylvania
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

BUTLER.-Samuel Taylor, aged So
years, residing near North Washing
ton, was kicked by horse and in
stantly killed. He was unmarried.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
MIDDLETOWN.-This

MIDDLETOWN.-This place has
been considerably aroused over the
arrival in town of several travelling
evangelists, who are holding services
in an unoccupied store room and who
claim to have the gift of tongues"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

TOWN.-Homer B. Cupper,
81 years old, an engineer on the Lew
istown division of the p. & E., was
crushed beneath an empty cage while
coaling his engine at the shops here
recently.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
HARRISBURG. Auditor Gea..a'

Young has announced the appoint
ment of E. c. Dewey of Clearfield to
be chief of the bureau of accounts
and Fred f. Beach of Tioga to be
warrant clerk in place of the late Jas
c. Jeffers of Philadelphia.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

WASHINGTON.-During the tempo
rary absence of his mother, Joseph,
the 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Bellsaire, of Cokeburg fell in
to a tub of boiling water and died
few minutes later.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

ON.-Locked in their home
at Hughestown, near here, while their
mother, Mrs. Dominick Jimitio, went
to the butcher shop, the house caught
fire and three children were burned to
death.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a ST,

JoHNSToWN.-Believing a strange
Italians stories of riches. pretty dress
es and promises of beautiful presents,
13-year-old Katie Sposit has been
lured from her home in Windber. Eff
forts to locate her have been vain.
She disappeared March 16.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
BEAVER FALS.-Amon

BEAVER FALS.-Among 700 per-
sons who attended farm sale held by
A. V. Britain in Chippewa township
were SO of the 3S candidates for vari-
Gus county Offices. Letters of regret
were received from the five others.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WASHINGTON.-The f

churchyard weeping willow which
stood in the plot surrounding st. Pc
ter's Roman Catholic church at
Brownsville has fallen, recent storm
having uprooted it. The tree shaded
the graves of the father mother and
sister of James G. Blaine
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

VANDERGRlFT.- the sheet
floors blooming and bar mills and one
half of the open-hearth steel depart
ments of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Co. here have been put in opera
ton.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

RlSBURG.-State Health Com
missioner DiXon's well organized sys-
TEN of free distribution of diphtheria
antitoXin among the poor saved over
fifteen hundred lives in Pennsylvania
during the year 1907.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

HARRISBURG. - A charter was
granted to the Ellwood City and Wur-
temburg Electric Railway Co. to con
struct a three-mile line in Lawrence
county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

Observation-Disclosures and min
ers of the Central Pennsylvania soft
coal field, in joint conference here,
re-adopted the present wage scale for
another year from April l
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
HARRISBURG. - Calling for he

and trying vainly to grasp the ex-
tended hand of a little companion,
Roy Smith, the 5-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Smith, of Heckton
was swept away to his death in the
swiftly running Susquehanna
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

HAM5URG.-While in transit be-
tween Fleetwood and this place, a
Reading railway freight car, contain
Ing furniture, etc, of Rev. Stephen
Buntz, was entered by robbers. About
$50 worth was taken
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

PHILADELPHIA.-After vainly try
ing to induce his wife to join him
in suicide pact, Henry Blair com.
mitted suicide at Cynwyd, a suburb,
by drowning.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

WiLLlAMSPORT.-Former County
Commissioner Leroy Robinson and
Philip Farenbach, a we'll known
farmer, were drowned in swollen
streams near here while attempting
to ford Smuncy Creek.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
BEAVER FALLS-F

BEAVER FALLS.-Falling into a
deep pool into which gas was escap-
ing Mr. and Mrs. r. NJ. Lowney were
badly burned by an explosion which
followed and were penned in by flames
until men arrived and rescued them
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
Picked Up in t'tss
Pennsylvania

BEAVER FALLS.-Mr. and Mrs. R.
NJ. Lowney were injured and seriously
burned by an explosion resulting from
a fall here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WlLLIAMsPoRT.-The disco,

the woods near here of the bodies
of Frank Roberts and Mrs. Gustine
Brizet, disclosed a double tragedy.
When found both had bullet holes in
their heads, and close by Roberts was
a revolver with two chambers empty.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

GREENSBURG.-In a fire which
destroyed A. F. Immel's coal tipple
and building, causing 81 $500 damage,
watchdog was burned to death.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

WASHlNGT TON.-Lafayette G.. Call,
a business man of Waynesburg, shot
and killed himself in room at the
rear of his place of business in. the
Sayers building
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09

WASHiNGToN.-A poker game and
all-night carousal at house 154, West
land, resulted in the murder of Lee
Oliver.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
MIDDLETON.-George,

LETON.-George, the IL
year-old son of William Fritz of this
place ate what he thought was a fine
large artichoke. 1t wasn't an arti-
choke and the boy almost died from
vegetable poisoning as a result.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
WILLIAM SPORT

LLIAMSPORT.-In Coalesburg,
Potter county, there was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Button their 25th
child. Each of the "a other children
is well and happy.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-11-12
A Real Cake Walk.

Today, J. V. Leisening, the dem.
onstrator, who is at Smith q Carr's
hardware store this week dem onstrating
the great Majestic Malleable and Char
coal iron range, gave the Alma public
the treat of real cake walk. He bak-
ed big cake in the Majestic range 20
by 20 inches and six inches high Then
he placed a big plank across the cake
and had dozen Alma ladies stand on
the plank The cake was hattened out,
but the minute the load was removed
it rose to its original size and was cut
up and eaten.
The cake was baked in a No .
Majestic These ranges give a maximum
of service at minimum of labor The
oven is air tight and very little fire is
required in the fire pot to heat it to a
baking point. Mr.. Leisening is an ex-
cellent demonstrators, pleasing to meet
and, if you have not done 50. yet, you
should go in and let him show you one
of these ranges.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-11-12
The Devil Was Here.

The Devil was played in Alma last
Friday night at the opera house before
rather slim audience. Perhaps it was
because the play was so highly recon-
mended, but, whatever it was, those who
went were bit disappointed. The
moral of the play is good one IN that
it presents forcibly to all the constant
lurking menace in entertaining evil
thought. The chief character that of
of DR.. Miller or 'the devil WAS we'll
portrayed by Mr.. Ross though he has a
slight tendency to overdue His part
presents wildly the picture of evil thou
ght combating good, often overcoming
it by apparent logic, and yet in crisis
often being put aside by the better des-
ire, Taken as a whole the play raises
a number of conflicting emotions and
thoughts. The disappointing feature
lay chiefly i'll the wide difference be-
tween Mr. Ross and his supporting COM
pany. He was so far above them in his
work as to make the contrast doubly no
ticeable.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-11-12
WAS A RARE TREAT
Doctors MCCIlntOn and BraInerd Give Talk
on The Pathology of tuberculosis

The second of the series of free lect-
ures on Tuberculosis was held at the NJ
K. Church last Friday night under the
auspices of the nti-tnberculosis society.
Dr. N. F. McChnton read paper on the
Pathology of tuberculosis He took
sp the anatomical changes which occur
in the body as a result of tubercule lodge
ment He described how this tubercule
gets out of the regular blood channels
and, finding Judgement, creates cheesy.
nutmeg like substance. Following DIR.
McClinton, DIR. l. N. Brainerd led in the
discussion, taking mp the various forms
of tuberculosis as it appears in the lungs,
bowels, bones and skin of the body, but
showing that II all originates from the
same source, the tubercule or germ The
lectures were very interesting and those
who remained away missed rare treat.
At the next lecture, Prof. Warthin, M
d., the well known Ann Arbor expert,
will deliver an illustrated lecture on the
Pathology of Tuberculosis'. This will
be well worth hearing.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-11-12
ITHACA CITIZENS RAID ALMA.
Try To Garry Off Sheriff Elect F. l. COnvis and
His Good Wife.

Last Friday evening a party of rs
all residents of Ithaca village. made a
raid on Alma, They came for purpose
and attempted to execute it, when they
called in body on Sheriff elect Frank
l.. Convis and his wife and tried, or at
least threatened, to remove them by
force, if necersary, TO Ithaca. Finding
they could not leave all congratulated
MIR. Convis on his election and urged
him to take up his residence in Ithaca
soon. Mr.. Convis was much pleas ed
with such a demonstration from his
friends in Ithaca and promised that, by
Jan. /, he would accede to their request
and come to Ithaca to live The entire
number wore Convis cards in their hats.
They made it known to all that they
we're Convis men. IL was noticeable
fact that Republicans. as well Demo
crate, made up the party. They all re-
turned on the 10 o'clock train after
spending pleasant evening. 1t was a
splendid demonstration of the regar DIS
of the Ithaca people for Mr.. Convis.