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or to set its own one notch higher, and the company, 

 of course had no objection. The cut of the Lacka- 

 wanna Lumber Company reached its high-water mark 

 in January, 1906 ; during that month the sawmill came 

 to the front with a cut of 6,659,695 board feet, the lath 

 mill cut 2,254,300 pieces, and the planing-mill boasted 

 of 2,286,988 board feet planed and matched. 



A Busy Community 



Business unquestionably was active. The Lacka- 

 wanna store run by the Lackawanna Lumber Com- 

 pany did a larger trade than any other store 

 ill Potter county. Yet it had a lot of com- 

 petition, for Cross Fork also contained 'five groceries, 

 a dry-goods shop, a millinery shop, two clothing stores, 

 a shoe store, two drug stores, a hardware store, a 

 sporting goods store, and numerous other retail estab- 

 lishments. It had three doctors, a dentist, and two 

 undertakers. Its post-office was one of the few in- 

 ternational money order offices in the county, and 

 action by the President and the Senate of the United 

 States w^as necessary to appoint its postmaster. 



Seven hotels — one of them ranked high among the 

 best in Potter county and offered a welcome to the 

 traveler. Three restaurants, one of which advertised 

 to purvey anything that Delmonico's did, ministered 

 to the wants of the inner man. Licensed saloons 

 there were none, but each hotel had a bar, supplied 

 by the wdiolesale liquor store and there were unlicensed 



