The Centre Democrat, pre - THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 1891. CHAS. R. KURTZ - RACKET STORE NEWS THE OVERFLOW, that is customers, we could not possibly wait on last Saturday, kept some of the pretentious stores of the town from looking deserted. WHY IS THIS THUS? The why of it is that our stock for just what U want is une- qualled in the county, and as for prices, “aye, there's the rub” If U want a Ladies’ Coat, a New Dress with late style trimming, Furs, Corsets, Stamped linens for embroidery, China siiks, all shades for fan- cy work, Ribbons, Hosiery, Cashmere gloves, Silk, Cash- mere and wool mittens, a Gloria Silk Umbrella, Underwear for Men, Women and Children, Shoes and Rubbers, Zephyr Saxony—Utopia Germantown, Stocking and German knitting yarns, Fancy and Useful bask ets, Lace Curtains and Curtin Poles. Anything under regu- lar price. Too much to talk about. KOM AND CGC EDITOR LOCAL DEPARTMENT. —Mr. James R. Alexander, Esq., of this place, has been quite ill of late with typhoid fever. Jartges, one of Spring citizens, —Mr. Daniel Mills representative town the past week and paid us a pleas. ant call. was in —Prof. Frank Rearick, the musician and publisher, of Spring Mills, came to Bellefonte on Saturday astride his bi. cycle. — Little ‘“‘ Mae,” son of W. C. Heinle, Esq., received a bad cut on his head last week from one of his playmates at school. —Miss Lambert, daughter of Col. Lambert, of Philadelphia, is being en- tertained at the residence of General Hastings. —Mr. John Conly, of near Centre Hall, was in town on Tuesday and paid us a visit. Mr. Conly is a prosperous farmer and an active democrat in that district. | present terminus of that road. ~We were pleased to see tLe Hon. John T. McCormick, of Ferguson twp. in town the other day. He had been on the sick list forseveral weeks but is able | to be about again. | —John Condo, the hustling commer- | cial tourist—commonly called a drum. | mer—was a pleasant caller recently. | John is a genuine democrat and always on hand on election day. —Harry C. Baney left a sample of fine toilet soap, manufactured by Yeck- er Bros., Lancaster, at this office. He has been selling their goods through this county for some time. -{), C. Dewitt, who for a number of years was an employee in the tailoring establishment of Montgomery & Co, left on Mouday morning for Cleveland, Ohio, at which place he will make his future residence. —A handsome roof is being put on the Centre county bank building. The building will also be painted and when completed will present a fine and impos- ing appearance. That institution is always in for improvements. —A farmers institute, under the di. rection of the State Board of Agricult. ure, will be held at Millheim some time during the coming winter. Meetings or no meetings in that section, the farmers in that vicinity are generally considered the best. They cau raise good crops when others fail. ~The old members of the Bellefonte band have been holding meetings dur- ing the past week and are getting in good shape. About ten new men will join the organization, and most of them have belonged to other bands and can handle a horn. The indications are that we will soon have a first class band. ~That was a great speech D. F, Fortney made in court last Thursday in the case of Henry M. Meek vs. Wm. Witmer, with nobody to listen but the Court, the opposing counsel and the reporter. Many of the best arguments and speeches made by our attorneys are made only tothe Court. When Fortney gets down to thoroughly go through a caso he Is never excelled In his argu. ments, ~=Last week one of our prominent at. torneys grew wrathy ot an article in the Gazette, written by Francis Speer. A libel suit was threatened and when the scribe attempted to interview the &n- raged barrister, he waxed more wrathy and ina very unceremonious manner ejected the poor scribe from the law office. A newspaper man’s life is noth. ing but a string of troubles, and we can heartily sympathize with Bro. Speer in * his misfortunes, A TRIP 10 HASTINGS, A BUSY COAL CENTRE IN CAMBRIA COUNTY. A Remarkable Growth in Three Years Large Cond Operations that are in their Infancy~The Country Developing-In. teresting Railroad War What Colonel Spangler is Doing There—Centre county Pluck and Enterprise Wins, For several years past, the citizens of this community have heard and read of a new and recently developed coal fields in Cambria county, Asa certain por- tion is owned and operated by a com- pany composed of some of the promi- nent men of Bellefonte, that region be- comes all the more interesting. For the purpose of taking a plasure trip, the writer concluded to accept an invitation to visit the town of Hastings, in the northern part of Cambria county, to see a real mining town in full bloom. To reach Hastings by rail, the trip was over the P. R. R. to Bellwood. There a change is made to Penna, & Northwestern railroad, or what former- ly was the Bell's Gap railroad, on which you travel as far as La Jose, from Bellwood for many miles climb up the heavy grade. The road hugs the mountain sides for iniles, cross. Is & ing intervening ravines, then back along the sides of an opposing hill, thus mak- ing numerable horse shoe curves several miles long and probably less than a quarter of a mile distant at the points, which are of different elevations. this means the train about until you are on the summit, many feet above the starting point, to La Jose is of little import. on the highlands of the mountains, to be the most fertile, this was cut sparsely settled and the people are either engaged in employed about the mines. winds The soil does not appear The timber of Years region ago, it 1s At La Jose you change cars for Has. tings, a seven mile branch of the Penna. (Clearfield and Cambria) railroad which takes you to your objective point, the As the town of Hastings did not exist three a dense forest covered with a heavy growth of hemlock and laurel, and having seen many mining towns in other parts of the state—composed chiefly of mere huts built on stumps for foundations— one would naturally expect to see the same at Hastings, HASTINGS IN VIEW, years ago, and the surface was After a ride of six hours from fonte, Hastings appeared to view, ing to the wretched windows, the passengers conld see noth. ing distinctly alighted. A Ow cars and dirty until they | surprise was in store; spread oul before you is a blooming town, fresh and new, with good buildings, regularly surveyed and graded streets, good boardwalks leading in every direction, several fine mining opera. the course of churches, hotels, stores, tions, new buildings in erection, and comprise all of which coversa large area a population of over 1700 people. Nearly all the dwelling houses are good size, two-story, frame structures, with solid masonry foundations. The majority of the buildings are handrome ly painted, and many would be ornamen. tal to any street in Bellefonte. There are no less than about twenty “ores here and many do a business that would fill some of our merchants with envy. They carry large lines of goods, sell strictly for cash and all appear to be on the highway to prosperity. The town is well supplied with hotels, there are at least ten of them here and every one has a liquor license. Several hotels are of a good size and are well furnished; while others appear to be in the business only for the purpose of selling rum and they also are successful, The principal streets of the place are nicely graded and stone crossings are in place at every corner, RELIGIOUS MATTERS, The people of this town have not for- gotten religious work, The first build. ing to attract attention, with ils lofty spire and gilded cross, is the large Cath. olie church located on the hill and can be seen from any part of the town. The priest's home, next to the church, isa neat and attractive residence. This church was completed last January and has the strongest membership. The Methodists have a handsome church building which was completed recently and dedicated about a month ago by Rev. Houck, of Bellefonte. Another church building is in the course of erec. tion and will be the house of worship for the Sweedish Lutheran congregation who hold services in their native lan. guage and have a fair sized congrega- tion. The members of the Presbyter. ian faith in that vicinity have organized a congregation and are also contemplat. ing the erection of a handsome house of worship. While the people in that vicinity are great beer drinkers and may be somewhat crude in their morali. ty, yet there is a firm conviction in some creed and a reverence for the Sabbath and a belief in a God, The town is an incorporation with active borough officials, who take an interest in the place. They have a large school building with four rooms. Only three are occupled, yet a fourth school may be started this season. A The ride | By | hundred | The trip You are | Allegheny | working small farms or are | Belle. | machine shop is being erected for re- pairing mining machinery. A brick yard is a recent addition, Many new buildings are being erected for dwell ings, stores and one particularly for a bank, which has been established (here for some time, The Hastings Tribune is the name of & sprightly, newsy and well edited wes kly paper published there and is a credit to the town. Mr. Kayler is the editor and publisher, formerly of Philadelphia, It is u fair sized paper, chuck full of home advertisements and local news and has a circulation of almost a thousand. The population of the town is about 1700, representing at least ten national ities. The native population of that section of country are German Catho- hes, who were brought to Cambria county many years ago by Prince Gal. litzin, + Russian nobleman and priest, who founded Gallitzin, Pa. These same people have a Catholic church at Car- rolltown, (7 miles from Hastings) with a congregation of over 3,000 members, There is established there the order of | St, Benedictine, a Monastary, and Sister house and they own over 2.000 acres of the very best coal Jands, There i8 no Protestant church at Carrolitown. CAMBRIA COAL FIELDS, | It is said that all of Cambria county | is underlaid with valuable coal beds of the There are at least three workable veins which bituminous coa finest range from two Lo six feet in thickness. As other portions of this state had coal fields this part of Cambria county re- y | I ntly, mained, until rec undeyeloped, Every farmer had several coal dnifts on {h's homestead which were asily worked to supply him with his winter's fuel and they thought no more of it, HE LOCATION OF HASTINGS, Colousel J. L | Spangler, one of our prominent attorneys of the Bellefonte bar | of the rich co of there old drifts foun In the summer of 1887, heard, by chance, il deposits in He made Cambria a trip sSO0On { Col. Spangler then {Gen. D. H. Hastings, his { friend; and Prof. Harvey, the geologist, made a care reported Isaac i . { region and located most desirable ) onl lands ltowork and in a ] few months 11.06%) options on over | | Pony also, The three gentleman which required additional capital and Robert H. Coleman, gf Lebanon, was made a partner and gave the financial assistance, They Huebaker Coa is known , with a capital stock formed what 1 Co ] AA 1 of 8500 000 i | Hastings, { the directors, tren Spangler and Coleman are 000 acres and are adding all they can tracts to about 10 buy. They also are leasing other operators for a royalty of cts. per ton. BEDBUGS AND FLEAS, In April 1885 Col. Spangler purchased a farm and timber tract of 175 acres for of a town to be called “Hastings.” At that timethere was but one house, within a half a mile of the town site and there they remained that summer until bedbugs and fleas com. the location a camp of theirown. The town site was soon lnmbered out began springing up. The Sterling Coal principally of the stochholders of the mins. J. L. Mitchel, of Tyrone, open. Then Campbell operating another tract. These opera. tions employed several hundred and the town began growing rapidly. CAPACITY OF THE MINES, The Sterling Coal company has 5 mines at Hastings with a capacity of 60 cars per day: they also own and oper. ate three large mines at Houtzdale, and own 500 coal cars. Mitchell's operations ship 25 cars of coke and 10 of coal per day. Campbell & Dunwiddee 156 cars per day. Sterling Co. employs over 400 miners, Mitchell about 300 and Campbell & Dunwiddee about 150, Along with other work there are over 1,000 men employed about Hastings. On last Saturday afternoon was the regular two week's pay day at the Ster. lingoffice. The writer saw Mr. J.C. Patterson, who is Nr. Spangler’s chief assistant, count #6.700 and pass it out the window in envelopes to the men who thronged and crowded about the office for several hours. Every man gets cash; there are no store order deductions made, It is estimated that no less than #30. 000 are paid out each month by the mine operations, Col, Spangler is located here and Is Supt. for Sterling Coal Co., Hastings Improvement Co., Supt. of the Blue. baker Coal Co., and last but not least of the Spangler Improvement Co. These different interests require his close at. tention. Gen. Hastings is manager for the Sterling Coal Co., and has his offices at 419 Walnut 8t., Philadelphia, and 22 Broadway, N. Y. city. The out. put of these mines is sold almost en. tirely at the seaboad for supplying steamers, RAILROAD DEVELOPMENTS, When these people began operating in the Hastings region there was no rail. road within seven miles, and when the P. R.R. officials at Philadelphia were first asked to build a line to Hastings, to carry away the product of the mines to be operated, one of the influntial di- rectors somewhat sarcastically remark. ed: “We will build vou a cow path; that will give you all the accommodations necessary.” They finally consented and and the road wis completed to Hastings, Another braneh | built from Crescent to Hastings which will be finished in the course of u few months, The Deech Creek road, owned by the New York Central is pushing its lines into this region and is a formidable rival to PP. R. R. The Pattons, MeGees, Langs, Ken t nd vary 11 and olher capitalists being own many thousand acres of conl lands ad. joining the Bluebaker Coal Co's proper- ty and they want to ship over the Beech Creek road providg it puts alinein Cambria Co. They have lines from Kermore to La Jose and the P RB KK. is locating lines there for the purpose of blocking their way to the Patton and other lands, by way of Chest. The B. C. R. R another scheme, They er line from Gazzim located also, creek. then played anoth- their present ter located minus, to Mahaffey, thence to Cherry Tree, and up the Susquehanna into these ugh Indianna county to West lands, then thir connect with the Pittsburg & thus giving the and the Philad line to Pittsbu which it is ch ern; shorten i than by th place then in coal fields. The ¢. R. R some of their very best 4 awake engineer railroad men at we in th have thel located at Cherry Tree and Joth companies are side by side, running parallel the head each trying to secure the lines up waters of the squehanna, right of way, this portion | intimate | survey of the ! secured acres of land. | {operations at Beaver was taken into the scheme, | realized | that a big undertaking was before them, | | of that coal region, Beaver is President. | hey purchased the 11. | follow. It | will be sold at polled them to get a tent and establish | and buildings | Co., composed . ot be | in the heart of Cambria Bluebaker Coal Co., began operating | Hastings, ed a large mine and built 150 coke ovens, | & | Dunwiddee began | {rations are of a large scope, and have en | become exceedingly valuable, in order to block the other. The engi, i neer corps often work side by side, u have lea | lors. 1'hey at once quietly went | "SPANGLER BOOMING, Col. Spangler seeing these railroad once purchased a farm along the Susquehanna four miles from Hastings and seven from Cherry Tree, which by its location is a central point | and is on the The P. R.R. repair shops these two great railroads, in yards and I'he coal terested in and about intend to put at this place. in- Spangler will be companies " baat . Sterling Coal Co., 3 operations wood Coal Co... Coal Co... 2 operall Carbon Walnut Run operations and others will ns, operation; Caal Co. acres of coal lands will be controlled and operated from this point. all these facts into « nsideration the new town of * Spangler’ promises to outstrip Hastings in a short time. The town plot has arrange. ments have been completed for street been laid out, gradings and a number of parties have made application for town lots, which auction, in a short time, field railroad from Crescent has its road there now, This short sketch will give our people {some idea of what is transpiring there Too | county. much credit can not be given to Gen. Col. Spangler and Gov. Beaver for their remarkable undertak. ing in this great coal field. Their ope- We often heard of Hastings, but a | visit there was necessary to convince us that it was far beyond our expectations. It is a booming country; plenty of cap- ital is Interested, and in the course of a very few years we predict it will be one of the largest and most important bitu. minous coal centers of Pennsylvania, Howard Yerger is located here and is prospering. He is a mining engineer. Scott Harris bas been located at Has tings for several years and holds a po. sition at Mitchell's mines. PLEASANTLY ENTERTAINED, The writer takes this opportunity of expressing his appreciation of the hospi. tality and entertainment extended while there by Col. Spangler and his estimable wife, who are at present living at the club house of the Sterling Coal Co., at Hastings. This is the finest building of the town; is large and of handsome de. sign, heated by steam and furnished in exquisite style. They here have all the comforts to be desired, and they con. sider it a pleasure to entertain friends from their home of Bellefonte. Our short trip to Hastings was, in short, very pleasant and exceedingly interest. ing. Thinking that a short sketch of the trip would be of interest to our readers we have described what was to be seen and enjoyed, OR, K. The Cleary murder case, at Lock Haven, is to be carried to the Supreme Court again by the lawyers for the de. fense, Messrs, MoCormick and Kress, =—The prices at Mingle's shoe store were always the most Good reliable stock that always sells on its merits. line of 18 estimated that fully 50.000 | Taking | on the ground | The Cambria & Clear. | LADIES AUXILIARY SOCIETIES Women in Every County to Ald the World's Falr Managers, Executive Commissioner Whitman of the board of World's fai; managers will establish u ladies auxiliary in every county of the state o co-operate with itd the committee on woman's work of the board in enlisting the interest and nec- tive effort of the ladies of Pennsylvania in the endeavor Lo secure aslarge an exhibit as practicable of the products of their sex at the Columbian exposition. These societies will be under the imme. diate direction of the which Mra. Harriet A. Lucas, of Phitadelphia, is chairman, The naming of the ladies has been left to the members of the board in the sev. eral immediate woman's work of counties which have representaties thereon, This county will be represented by the following ladies: Mrs. Henrietta Foster, Philip Mr«, L. H. Barnard, State College; ] Burnside, Howard: Mis. W. Mrs, Witmer Miss Alice Wilson Mrs, W. F. Reber, Belle- Cameron K. Alexander, Millheim: Wolf, Centre Hall Mary DBrockerhoff, (yertrude W. H. Dill Case Postponed In the United Monday at : was granted in case of W. H. Dill, pres. First Bank, of charged with attempts to 8 Court on last dens of the National Clearfield, defraud ponement, depositors, To secure post. Judge Orvis, counsel for the of Dr. Mrs, E. Clark, EX-MNA- accused, read the affidavits Shearer, Edith B. Lh deputy who arrested tor Wallace, der others, showing : Thos, Dill; Mitchell, J. F. Sny- that Dill’s ition was such that he could scar and mental cone strain of a protrateted nd Judge Orvi aid in his own Dill could not ng the case, t that assist him ited States Att ITTY sistance to the itinuance, whicn was me to the May term of 1862, * Wil be a very Long in Basiness We dare say that no one in this val. ley, not even in the county, can lay been in continuous business longer than Maj. J. B. Fisher, merchant at Penn Hall. We think we the mark when we set claim to having do not overshoot the period at 40 years, as per our recol. His been as large as has that of any store in the lection. trade in that time valley, and from the opening of business Glenn. | the village of Penn Hall. The Major is still as business ever, and it is rarely you find any one to con- attentive to as fine himself as closely to all the details | a8 has been his habit. Of course suc cess is natural to follow such persever. | ance, and the integrity that character. | ized all his dealings deservedly gained | him the implicit confidence of the people | and his patrons find him at the old post as regularly as a quarter of a century | ago, assisted now by one of his sons. — Reporter, MARRIAGE LICENRES Issned During the Past Week Taken From the Docket, | Grant A. Katen and Mary J. Richner, | both of Philipsburg, W. L. Shuey and E. J. Young, both | of Boalsburg. | James E. Stover and Annie E. ner, both of Potter twp. Wilson Flegal and Maime Campbell, both of Philipshurg. . : | Hor. | | ! | | A Mighty Hunter George Naugle, of Philipsburg, is a mighty hunter, indeed. Last Friday he strolled out of that town two or three miles and brought home a deer, and, not satisfied with that performance, he repeated the feat on Saturday. If the other hunters around that town want to bring down any game this year they bad better combine tosend Naugle out of the country for a while. A New Bank, It is said that & National Bank will soon be established in Philipsburg with the following officers in charge: Presi. dent, O. B. Schoonover; Vice-President, J. N. Cassanova; Cashier, W, E. Irwin. Such men at the head of affairs would insure its success from the start. Gone to Boston On Tuesday morning, Nov. 10, Mrs. John P, Harrls, and her daughter, Miss Edith, of this city, departed for Boston, Mass, Their purpose while there will be to attend the International Conven. tion of the Women's Christian Temper. ance Union, which meets in that city. Died at Beech Creek, Mrs, Sarah Ann Quay died at Beech Creek on the 9th inclant, aged seventy. six years. She leaves a husband, one son and three daughters, Mrs, was a sister of J. H, McClure, of Beile- fonte, and was a member of the M, E. church for some fifty years, «Going lively-~the new stock of over coats at the Philad, Branch, «The large stock and elegant assort. ment of goods always kept on hand by Mingle, the shoe dealer, is the reason so many people patronize that store. commitiee on | Pittsburg, a postponement | THE * ochester Clothing House! ON HAND. approac h of the Fall and Winter season "92 the famous Clothing House 1 Suppiv is many pa- An every- trons in this county. immense stock of thing in the line of cloth. nog 14 T Ng on inspection. t) wanteg oof csr 7 Ne Lhcwanis oi our customers, satisfied that we can more than please them we feel with and We our 3 . 2 nandsone E ods, SLO k store—remember that. our line of new have no old in RELIABLE GOODS. Our house has establish ed and retains the reputa- tion of handling nothing but reliable gonds. to-day from will be Juy us once. you J ome a permanent customer OUR PRICES. Every merchant or ¢loth- ing house advertises as be- ing the lowest in price. It is not necessary for us to do that—the public has learned that from dealing with us, COMPLETE. We have complete and full lines of everything and anything in the shape of Clothing or Gents Farnish- ing Goods. Don't fail to come and see our Fall and Winter stock. It is a fine show in itself,
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