Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-02-17

the late q. Il. Gould, in 1865, 1t was the |
only newspaper published between
Lock Haven and Warren, east and |
west of us also being the only paper
between Emporium and Olean, on the
north, and Brookville south. Our old
est neighbors were the Potter Journal
and Mexican Miner and Ridgway Ad-
vocate, the latter having been revived,
after suspension, by Jerome Powell.
Those were trying days for news
papers, yet many Of the older citizens
were proud of the fact that they had
paper and literally subscribed for an
nual subscriptions for their less fortu-
nate neighbors. The Independent was
established by 8. 8. Hacket about the
time the present editor of the PRESS
entered this Office as "devil." Times
have wonderfully changed since those
days and the style and manner of con-
Quoting a country weekly has kept
pace with the age ofprogress and clean
journalism, void of mud-slinging, per-
sonal abuse and slanderous statements.
1t has ever been our rule to absolutely
refuse space in our paper for aught
that would cause the blush of shame.
Our beloved predecessor, Cornelius
B. Gould, always laid down an iron
rule for our guidance, not to publish
line in the PRESS that the subscribers
should fear to hand the paper to their
children to read.
During our management of the
PRESS we shall ever keep the rule and
be content to give our readers all the
news, clean and wholesome. We want
to please all, yet at times that is al
| most impossible.
"We court criticism" We have
adopted this motto and really wish our
readers would tell us how to improve
our paper. We are here to serve you
and desire to give you the best in the
| larder.
When our Board of Health request
ed State aid in locating and controll-
ing the outbreak of typhoid fever, we
were very much impressed with the
bigness of the idea of being willing to
receive outside advice. So, send it
| along-we may not use it, or all of it,
but we not only want to give our peo-
| Pile good home paper, as we have al
ways labored and not stinted expense
to do, but we want to make it the
best, as it always has been, and If you
will criticise US enough, can hold the
goal.
| Do you want more politics?
Do you want more religion?
Do you want more abuse?
Do you want more good-cheer and
goodwill.
Do you? Do you?
Well, let US know.
Politically the PRESS has always been
reliably Republican and "points with
pride'' to its consistency, although at
times it seemed almost a hard pill to
swallow, yet principles above men"
has always been our motto, even when
the victors have gone out of their way
to put the knife into us. Those are
things that an editor can forgive, but
not forget.
We might write pages of stories COW
ering our years in the harness, giving
many interesting facts covering
'Things as We Saw Them" during our
forty-two years of active life in Gam
eron county. We may do so yet, when
the spirit moves rs.
But, we have wandered from the
subject. The PRESS of to-day is en-
, joying large patronage, in fact q
larger patronage than at any period in
, its existence. A rapidly increasing
circulation, covering the entire coun
ty-many being subscribers to-day
who placed their names upon our lis
In 1865, with its first issue. We aim tt
give the local news from every towr
and hamlet in our county and care il
taken to secure only reliable CORES
pondents. This department of itself il
of inestimable interest to every reader
especially old friends now residing il
> distant towns and States.
> Our printery is now one of the mos
: complete in this section, having al
abundance of the very latest faces il
types, borders, rules and machinery
: the very best workmen and large lint
Q of papers for every line of work. II
2 connection with our new building
none finer in this section of the coun
> try, we are vain enough to say we hav,
: one of the best appointed Print Shop
to be found in this section of the State
9 Drop in and see Us and judge for your
p self We are proud of it and thanl
you. We cannot close these rambling
remarks without devoutly thanking
our kind patrons for their generous pat
ronage bestowed upon US in the pas
and soliciting a continuance of tn
+ same in the future, remain,