Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-04-07

was over from Hunters Rest and after getting
in good talking order loudly proclaimed socialism
and advised to down the Stars and Stripes and
raise the Red flag of Socialism and Liberty:
Fulton Brothers painting the shell house
for the Cameron Powder Co. this week.
Council Brothers still adding new stock TO
their store, which keeps them pretty busy.
Geo. p. shafer is advertising for u merry-go-
round and intends to put it up near his hotel.
The Grove Supervisors met Monday to attend
to the duties of the township.
Mace Drum, train dispatcher on the B. & S.
r. R., was in town on Sunday shaking hands
with his many friends.
]. H. Drum is improving his residence this
spring. Lem Logue is doing the work.
j. F. Berfeld, of Hicks Run, attended band
practice, Tuesday ming.
The masquerade party at the rink was well at
tend and all had good time. John Shafer took
the first prize for the finest uniform.
The town hall building company have not
n owed away, but will heard from in the near fu-
ture.
Jim Batchelder painted his house ed and it
was so bright it hurt the eyesight of some of the
passers-by. S. r. is going to paint it over again
this week just to accommodate
wild duck was seen in the stream one day
last week. four boys left school, two left their
work, and about a dozon others took after the
poor duck after shooting about lat times at the
bird, it was captured by win Smith.
Fred Caldwell, of First Fork, would like to get
the pattern of a one-man stretcher to carry his
bears out ofthe woods, as he is meditating &C
ing into the trapping business next fall
John Hicks took home a yoke of oxen last
Saturday to do his farming and to haul his new
patent bear pens out into the woods for next
seasons bear hunting.
Fred Williams says that some of the mighty
trappers on the First Fork can put the Grand
Annasias of Punking Center clean in the shade
when it comes to telling about trapping,
Fred Caldwell caught the last mink on the
First Fork. 1t was the same mink that c. E.
Logue, Henry BerfieId Wescott Burlingame and
Will Calwell have been afer all winter. Its feet
were all sore and the fur most all rubbed off
lodging traps and trappers all winter but it
a mink.
Trout season will soon be here but
trout will not be very plenty as those that come
out of the in the fall killed by the poi
sons in the main stream soon as they reached
there. The offall from the powder plants
have driven all water snakes up the little runs
and they are living on the little trout now. Wy
kof Run will soon get its dose of poison
The forest fires are burning very hard in Cooks
and Montours Runs this week. 1t is birnng
over a large tract of fine young timber also de-
stroying fine feeding ground for lot of deer
that were staying there. The forestry officers
are doing their best to keep the fires under con-
troll but it is hard work to do so for when they
are in one place fires start in another. Some
fires are startediby locomotives of the trains and
some by other causes. 1t is too bad to destroy
the young timber and our legislature should
take some steps to prevent it if 1t can be done.
N.P.L. No. 1922 held their election of officers
the last meeting night in March, when the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, H. B.
Lightner; Vice-President, Arthur Bailey; Com
Maggie Floyd; P. p, A. e. Fulton; Chaplain