. VoL. 1 _NO. 62. PATTON, CAMBRIA Co. PA., THURSDAY, FEBRU ARY 7 Ps $1.00 PER YEAR. _ PLANT AN "AD IN THE “COURIE TR AN D GET RICH. $100 Given Away. HMNSGENE OF THE WAR CENT MONEY ORDER. each Dollars worth of goods Ww ritten by One of the “Cou- at thie we will give Five rier” Contributors. em “THE GREAT SCOUT. n the Confederate Lines. -A True Story of the Late War. [Continmed from ast week. | ‘No shot was fired on either side, but why the enemy did not fire 1 cannot explain. There were enough of them = Through Patton Pharmacy "to have given us several shots apiece, C. WwW. HODGKINS. and they could éasily have shot us as we iran. Our comrades halted in the wood to see what might become of us, expecting soon to share our fate. | When we joined them we looked back to see what the rebels were doing and saw them in the same position in which we left them. They seemed paralysed and we were not long getting out of their sight. Just as we crossed a friendly knoll I looked back; | deployed and were coming on a walk, Drug store in | Yankees near. ” : "| When we got behind the hill we halted a moment to consult our future ‘course. All but myself was in favor of -| keeping a straight course, hoping for some stroke of fortune to relieve us. I told them that such a course would be certain capture, and proposed to turn square off and, if possible, get | behind our pursuers. I then said, ‘‘all who are willing to adopt my plan fol- low me,” and darted off to the left and rear. We were not long going half a mile, and 1 fully believed that by using caution we were safe for the time. Everything now seemed tranquil around us and we turned upon our {course again, following a spring ran whish run through old worn out flelds. At length we came to a growth of nes, and Chemi- onery, Confec- “Honery, (igars and Tobacco. # Agency. for COLUMBIA & HICKORY Bicycles. age Med é This is the onl Patton where these be bad. Great Heaven] Sale At The on either side for about thirty feet, and so dense were they that not a ray of sunlight shone throagh. Here we de- Ey co nomy, Clothing and oy Goods House, | suers would hardly think of us remain- .}Ing 0 near where they had met ns. As “1 we were very much exhausted, we lay down, forming a small circle; with a guard in the centre and our feet close enough that in case of alarm he could awaken us without noise by running i Sergeant Bon- | soll took on himself to watch. Strange | as it may appear with all these dangers | menacing us we were soon fast asleep. | We had sleep but a short time when | 8 number of our pursuers came close Carrollitown, Pa. % Since the Holidays we have | decided to sell our entire stock | [sat gave the alarm and in a twinkling at gay at we were ready. We could distinctly 5 . on : | hear every word they said. They were | very much perplexed at our appear- {ance so far within their lines. After Ionn they had wandered and talked for ten | that he would never rest until he had | found us. They were soon gone, how- ever and we were left unmolested the BN Ii TITIES. . | rest of the day. consisting of Dry Goods, . Clothing, Hats, Caps, Ladies Sergeant Bonsall determined to send Coats, Boots and Shoes, Men's 'a messenger to our army for it was Furnishings Goods Etc. evident that the whole rebel force was ’ : | of vital importance for our command- ed Next to Bank, Cerrone. ers to know this as soon as possible. vA ea 'He requested several to go but HOTEL "| none were willing. They were all afraid of getting lost. He then BECK, 4 asked if ‘anyone would volunteer, | T waited until each one had given some H. C. BECK, Pro, icity eminem | and as they did so one of them swore fun that vue shumge of commanders Was as Bonsall seemed to be }is wise for every emergency, tireless ‘as a greyhound, alert and watchful as ‘a hawk, he won our ‘confidence at | reason for not going, and then offered ; my services, I had no sooner spoken ‘than three or four were ready to go ‘along. At first the Sergeant would not ‘allow me to, as he said I would be needed where [ was; but at last, when ‘no alternative presented itself, he gave : One of the Largest Hotels in * reluniiait consent. Northern Cambria; Conducted ‘in f MODERN STILE. Good Table and Bar Supplied with Choiest Brands of wong and we made our arrangements ! for a life and death race. A splendid rifle which I had I gave to one of the | party, laid off my side arms, buckled up my belt as tightly as I could, and He waited for darkness to make a _ I was agrosably disappointed when the party concluded we had bet- ter all go together. Having been dis- Liquors. covered, we could hardly penetrate farther into the enemy's lines, and The Popular | besides, we had obtained all the infor- . mation we were sent to get. i by | I took back re-adjusted HOUSE : side arms and Pe Dar ae rs jonliod our seuadl vol ts ace if we were of PATTON. = ready. Private Fraser was not to be found. That he had left us for some | they had | { evidently expecting a lsrge force of greenbriar and young trees, spread out | termined to stay till night. Our pur-. | to where we were and stopped. Bon- | minutes they mounted their horses - Every day of our march convinced { moving up the river, and it would be selected Serge:nt Diffenbach to go leaving a wife and’ three purpose an. been taken prisoner we | had not the least doubt, but couid he! CAMBRIA COUNTY KICKER ~ think of some story that would lead | our pursoers in the wrong direction? He did, as we learned on his return. | He told them he had become exbausted, | but the rest of the party had kept on. | He was asked how we came to be there and what we were doing. He told them | a. pisusible story to the effect that our regiment was in the late battle and had been cut to pieces; separated ns from our command; that when night came on in our efforts to get back we got lost, and had nothing to eat since. This story had been pre- ‘pared by us on the march, and if cap- tured, all were to tell the same tale. In was well for all of us that Frazer had sach a story on hand; for had they suc- oseded in capturing and finding out our mission, they would have hanged us as spies. We then turned our faces toward the Potomac and traveled all night, pass- ing close by where some Bn had camped. Nothing of importance transpired, and we toiled on until the gray dawn broke upon a country veiled in smoke of the Confederate army’s carmup-fires. When morning came the smoke of 80 many fires had settled down and hid everything from view, but the sounds that came to us convinced us that the whole surrounding country was swarm- ing with rebels. : We waited in the edge of the wood | for the smoke to disperse, which it soon did. We then saw that our route was impracticable, as a portion of the Confederate army bad bivouacked right in our path. By making a wide detour we got around this camp, bat still found stragglers swarming—in fact one-half of the entire rebel army must have traveled in this way. Still we kept the cover of the woods and. made some progress homeward. Night at last came and we got on well until nature demanded her rights and we ware obliged to take a short sleep. CANTEEN. [To be continged. | Tolletien for Maveh. The March number of the Toilettes han just been received. As our lady - readers are aware, this 1s the cheapest a8 well as the most relizble of zll the ‘fashion books published in America. The edition before us is in every respect up-to-date. The new spring styles, which are so faoltlesaly illustrated in its’ pages, include every variety of. dreuses and costumes for ladies, misses | amd children. Among the specialties that deserve mention are evening, hall and reception dresses of great elegance, coridges, capes, wraps, jackets, cloth suits, hats, There is a delightful bridal costume, by Worth, together with handsome tea- ‘gowns by Roufl’ and Sarah Mayer. The: designs are all new, and for va- riety and completeness this unmber, without doubt, reaches *‘the top notch" in the record of this excellent maga- zine. i “The Only” fr 1895. The COURIER is pleased to announce its clubbing arrangements with The Pittsburg Post, the great home news- paper of Pennsylvania, and to persons who want the best daily or semi-weekly paper published in the city, we recom- mend The Post. The Daily Post, a large eight-page paper, and The CoURIER one year each for §3.00. The price of The Post alone is $2.00. Send us your order at once and get seven papers a week for the price you formerly paid for one. The Sunday Post, twenty pages every Sunday, containing as much reading as any of the monthly maga- zines, and The COURIER one year each for only $2.25. The Semi-weekly Post and The Cou- RIER one year each for only $1.50. Just think of it, The Post twice a week, and your county paper for the price of one. Write us for sample copies. John H. Newell Dead. John H Newell, of Pittsburg,of whom mention was made in last week's CoURIER as being dangerously ill, died on Tuesday morning at one o'clock, children. He was aged 40 years. Anselm Weak-. land and his son Sam’l and daughter Amanda left on Wednesday morning to astend the funeral which will be cn Friday. Mr. Newell was largely interested in the Barnes, Safe and Lock company of Pittsburg. Coal For Sule. John Truman is prepared to furnish "his trade with the finest coal for gen- eral nse in this section. Call and leave your order. Terms cash. -53tf Ladies hats reduced in price at Alice that the Con- federates had made a charge which | lingerie and coiffures. | ‘Ventilates His 1 Ideas on Snow Drifted Highways. ‘A BILL IN THE HOUSE | At Parrishury Prevented by Our Reprvsen- tative, Hon, J. C. Stineman. CAMBRIA Co., Feb. 4, 18985, Eprror CoURIER:—Seeing by your last amber that you are in favor of giving the “Kicker’’ a chance to venti- late his ideas, I propose to give the first kick on one of the burning questions of the hour. In driving over the country at this time the traveler is met by drifted roads, which are not only inconvenient but dangerous. This is all the more strange when the remedy is so simple. In the first place, it seems to be very generally conceded that fences are not required by law, or in other words, a. man is not obliged to fence against his neighbor's cattle, bat admitting that he has, there is still no good reason why snow drifts should be tolerated. Own- ers of property claim, and very justly too, that if they place their fences on their own lands, if they leave the width of road required by law, they can bid defiance to the world. [ admit thie ight, but if the fence is the cause _. of an obstruction by causing snow to pile ap in the road, then it becomes a public nuisance and as soch can be abated by recourse to law. This rem- edy, while’ not advisable, pan in my humble judgement be successfully in- voked. But there is a much better remedy and that is to put up wire fences where- ever it is known that drifte accumula even ifa tax is to be laid to buy the wire. If the property owner will put it ap it would be a good investment. | have been shoveled out, there is a prob- | ability of their being closed again. It| lin very probable that before spring. they may be closed as much as four | times. This was the case last winter. | Now 1 propose that a township shall | purchase at least fifty dollars worth of wire each year, give it to farms where it is needed, until all the roads are wired, at least on one side. I hope to see the ‘Kickers’ become ‘so. numerous that this plan or some other equally feasible be adobted. . Next! IN NUCE The CoURIER wishes to state to the above writer that Hon. J. C. Stineman, representing this county at Harris burg, has a bill which fully covers the | subject and was reported favorably in | . the house one day last week. The bill | provides that if blockades can be pre- vented by the removal of board fences along highways and the sabstitution of | - wire ones, the wire to be without barbs, the supervisors are authorized to pay the owners a sum, not exceeding the first cost of the wire used for making | ‘the change. Crackers als Milk. A large number composing a sleigh- ing party of well Known Pattonites drove to St. Lawrence Saturday night with the intention of having a grand oyster supper. It appears that the party were to take oysters and crack- ers with them from this piace but the: man-in-charge being so devoted in other important “‘business’’ forgot the oysters. The COURIER representative has been informed that milk was sab- stituted, and suppose the mena for the evening was crackers and milk. - The Fate of » Non-Advertiser. Curwensville supports a man who was asked to sccompany a sleighing | party, and of course I did not reject. 56 land, Miss Rose Anna, Miss Mattie ‘arrived there much pleased with the : Jaeads is best renal’ vo ull his Rieula : may SEPARATE. ne me Tats bd he 7 HANES FAOM OXLAAOM Likely té Dissolve Pa hip, The Buffalo Express is authority for » the statement that a change is likely [he Cc, O. & G. Railroad to be made in the selling agency. of the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburg coal and iron company on May 1. The Bell, | GEO. S. GOOD Is THERE. lewis & Yates coal mining company | ‘has for some years had the control of the company’s output making that con- ‘cern one of Progressing Rapid] y. ulcen & Wide on + Wester Pony ta he Interest of Geo. 8. Good & Ce. the heaviest operators in 4g ig well-known in this section Geo. the Reynoldsville region This con- 'g (ood & Co., the railroad contractors, tract will expire May 1 and it is expect- are building 122 miles of railway in the ed that the company will then operate creat south west and consideresble its own mines. interest as to the progress and devel. A. G. Yates, who is now president of opement of the same is manifested by the B., R. & P. coal company, was one _ people in and around Patton. The ful- of the ‘active members of the Bell Lew- lowing article is olipped from an is & Yates company. He withdrew yue of the Oklahoma Times Journal, from that concern, however, some published at Oklahoma city, dated time ago and failed with the Warner pyigey evening, February 1st: company in Rochester. He is said to “George 8. Good, the chief con- be anxious to re-enter the coal bus | tractor of the Chocktaw,Okiahoma and . ness, in which he has spent a lifetime, ' Guif railroad, arrived in this city this and it is said that he will try to have morning via Dennison and Ft. Worth, the company operate ita own mines KH, will start Monday on horseback to and sell its product independeniiy un- retnrm to his headquarters on the South der the control of George E. Merchant, Cgnadian, reconnoitering the work president of the coal and iron com- now in progress all along the 122 miles pany, and assistant to President Yates .¢ road. on the railroad. : “Remariable progress ; It is understood that Mr. Bell and in the grading, ee opts aiie: Mr. Lewis, who are at the head of that fore accomplished on similar work, company, are anxious to get rid of the when fifty miles have been graded cares of business and are not averse to through a dificult region, covered with having the company operute is ows timber, and inhabited by aborginees, business. : : . necessitating the hauling of supplies Loretto Pablie Sehools. sixty miles, and the clearing of 700 to Below is given a report of the schol- 1,000 acre of timber in forty-five duys; ars who are entitled to honors at the the work having commenced about Loretto Public schools: December 15. It is confidently be- ‘Room No. 1.-—Lilly Bannan, Marie lieved that should the weather permit ‘Cooper, Della Bannan, Mary Pruner, the next sixty days will see the road | Hattie Pruner, Nellie Murphy, Maggie | | graded from McAlester to the ity of Eddie Callan, George Will, Leo Little, probably be completed ready for tee ‘Fred Will, Albert Biter, Andrew Lit in the next ten days.” ; 5, Muy Ents; ony. Bodkeoh. Patton Public Schooi Report Room —Maggie Little, Agnes yn, fo), is & report of the dif Bannan, Emma Flick, Loretto Mogil ferynt lowing es of the Patton len, Annie Callan, Mary Ivery, Augus-| yop! for the week ending February tine Bannan, Pri Kills Rasy Da Lm 1805: Namber enrolled in high | vis, Bernard Little, James Kittell, Har school, 42; average attemdamce, 37: ry Kittel, Edward Schwab, Walter ,,n.her enrciled in grammar school, Litsinger, Frances Malloy, Gertie Mc- | 59. average attendance, 51; number ‘Mullen, Ossie Malloy, Jennie Ecken- enrlled im intermediate department, rode, Frank Cooper, Maggie Callan. 55. verage attendance, 52; number en- A Sectal Trip. rolled in second primary, 61; average On Tuesday evening of last week [ attendance, 48; number enrolled in Best poiusasYs 59; average attendance, total enrollment for week, 278; average attendance, 243. Six were added to the school during the week. ‘Ome was admitted to the second pri- mary; foar to intermediate grade, and | one to grammar school. A special in- vitation is extended to the patrons and directors of Patton to visit the’ se and become acquainted with t in the different departments. ’ A Plensant Surprise. Charles Anna and family were agroe- ably surprised last Wednesday night when they learned that the fellowing sleigh load of friends had just arrived and was going to take charge of his home for a few hours: Ambrose Long, Simon Long and Oliver Shrift, Misses Lacy, Emma and Lizzie Long, of New Germany; Tillie Long, Annie Brindle We started from Patton and after go- ing up and down many hills and through the woods, around many short turns and over many dangerous places, we landed the following safe and sound | ‘at the quiet home of Mr, and Mrs. | Frank Durbin, of Clearfield township: ‘Miss Mary Lamburn, Miss Katie Lilly, Misa Maggie Wilt, Miss Emma Weak- +> ‘Anna, Mia Jennie Buck, Walter Weaklapd, Otta Anna, Pius Anna and | Harry Buck. After having a general {good time we started for home and. ride. Come again Plus we are ready to go. T. 8.8 Ten Miles From the Cook Gang. George Prendible, of this place, who is employed by Geo. S. Good & Co. on the large railroad contract in the south west, as quartermaster, has his camp built within but ten miles of the notor- | ious Cook gang’s camp. Thus far he has been troubled but very little by them. George will get along peaceably with ‘the ont-laws if any one does. In a letter from him to Dr. 8. W. Worrell he Albert Pfester, Maggie Yahner, Celia Strittmatter and Helena Pfester, of Carrolitown. The company passed s very enjoyabla ovening and departed ' for thelr homes the following morning” ; Building en Magee Avenne. E G. J. Fitspatrick lately parchased the . vacant lot east of the Cambria Flard- | ware company’s store, on Magee ave- Lamber Job Closed. believes that money paid for tres Curt Richards, the energetic lumber- | Dixon to erect a building thereon ing is thrown away. That man is no earthly use to a community. — Review. And we will venture the remark that he won't find a home at the end of the | ‘ aphernalia to his camp at this place. | patronage and the Courier hopes he narrow path. —Raftsman’'s Journal Nor even catch the faintest gleam of ‘mind where he will embark in busines ‘next. His many friends hope it will H. C. Beck, Abe Mirkin, Reuel Som- the golden gate. Spangler Sentinel May he rest in peace. — Hastings Tri- bune. Not much, unless it should be in a ‘‘piece’’ of Limberger. : : Bissell to Resign. The Washington correspondent of “7 | the Commercial Advertiser says: ean state with positiveness that not- withstanding many forms of denial, ‘ the statement that Postmaster General Bissell intends to resign soon after the adjournment of congress is true. The : president has been informed. of his in- tention. : Pe Church Notice. Pastor Chas. W. Wasson, of the “Methodist Episcopal church, will preach in this place next Sunday morning at 10:30. A cordial welcome to all. Keep Warm. Keep: warm by burning the best coal | in the market at James Mellon’s bank. | man, who has been lumbering a few | which will be used as a restaurant and. ' miles north of St. Lawrence, reports to | dwelling. The size of the building will the COURIER that his job is finished ' be 20 x 40 feet, two stories high. Mr. there and has moved his camping par- | Fitapatrick is a man deserving of Mr. Richards has not made up his | may be successfl tn his new venture. - Took Supper at Chest Spring... be close to Patton. No-Things in Patten. According to the report there are more big cancers and things cut out of | people up around Ansonville and Pat- ton than any other part of the State. You are right, Bro. Spirit, about the former, but the latter, ‘things’ —that must surely apply to Ansoanville. erville, Samuel Weakland, C. A. Rep- | sher, Miss Maggie Watson, Mine Lizuie McMahan, Miss Armanda Dunn, Mise Alice Lomire and Mrs. Ella Jacobs composed a lively slei ch load of people who drove to Chest £, .-ngs last Thurs | day night to participate in an oyster supper given by Dr. Somerville and T. |G. Cronover. They opaat having an 2,000,000 Tons for February. excellent time. A dispatch from New York dated ' Dress Making. January 29 says that the coal sales | Miss Libbie Bottorff, late of Phils agents agreed that the February pro- | delphia, is now prepared to do all duction should be 2,000,000 tons. No | | kinds of fashionable dress aking at han was made in prices East or|the home of Ruben McPherson, ou ' West Fifth avenue. 3804 J What is Said About it. Get 5 Valentine, The Pation COURIERS is rusniog &| C. W. Hodgkins the druggist. Ras very interesting war story written es- | just received the finest line of valen- A. Ashcroft's millinery store up-stairs | Leave order at Ste opponitd Palmer | pecially for that paper. Clearfield | tines ever you laid your eyes on. Dons in Good building. | house. -62¢2. | Monitor. | miss seeing them. and Clara Wess, of Johnstown; and ‘nue, and has engaged Contractor
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