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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1995.
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TIME OF HOLDING COURT.
Ist Monday of March | Ist Mondey of Sept.
ist Monday of June i. Ist Mondays of Iwe.
: OFFICERS.
Peesipest Jt oue Hon A.V. Barker.
Peroraoxorany--J, OC. iwmrby,
Becisrer ax RecoRper
Terasvree-F. H. Barker.
Sugniry—-D, WW. tanilter.
Derry SHERIFY Sync! Tan
ih » Mu orp ¥
Pfam «Ay, Liovd
DisTRICT ATT IRS EY
Cod sisioNpns 1°
Geo. M. Wertz, :
CoNMsisstoNens Crenr Juhin 0 Cutis,
AHURTY BUPERINTES ENT J. W. Lewes
COUNTY BUpvevor Henry Reanian
COUNTY Avprrans- Wien, J Jones, Wo
Berry, James Iaidiy.
JUuey CaMnisin HX ERS
Winn, Miller.
Conon pe Dr, George
Poor Dimrpcrops-— IL
orville, Raphiel Hile.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Binopss-W. Donnelly.
Lo torsoi—Linooln 8. Beil,
Wihisoni, H. ¢ Beek, BF Wise,
J. ¥. Bonner,
Be not, Buarye-4 (
H. Curfman, secretary;
urer; Dir. J.B Noonan,
Fdminston.
JUSTICE OF ™E Prace-
Mellon,
Treasrrer-W. H Sandford
CLERK ~Harvey Patterson.
CoLLecron—-Jus. Mellon.
Asspssonr-—J. R. Cornelius.
Avpitors—-F, HB. Kinkead, H.
Wiil L. Thompson,
Junge oy ELECTION — A. G. Abbot.
Ixapperor—Alrahar Byers
CHizr oF PoLios--Jas. MeMallen.
STREET CoMMBSIONER Samuel Addienun,
A resterns - Wesk bred,
Martin,
Moore, Jaroes oun
fireside Hi, ™ M.
P,P. Young,
ig
pipwedl, presi dent
W. H. Sandor, trons
H. Fo Barton, Sasol
Jesse EE. Ime, Jas,
i), Winslow,
Notice to Patrons.
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COMPANY STORES, a
The following is taken from the Feb-
ruary issue of the Colliery Enginecr
published at Scranton Pa:
As ususl a hill to prohibit mining
and manufacturing corporations or lim-
‘ited partnerships from engaging in the
mercantile business has been intro-
duced in the present Pennsylvania
Legislature, :
The bill is aimed at what are pop-
ularly called “pluck me'’ stores, but
it goes wide of the mark. While some
. so-called ‘‘company stores are, we
regret to say, conducted on the pluck
me system, all are not. The majority
that are conducted cn the “pluck me’’
system, are not owned by corporations
or limited partnerships, but by indi-
viduals or private firms. These the
Legisiature * cannot interfere with.
Maiiy of the stores owned by corpora-
- tions or limited partnerships, are, in-
stead of a burden on the employes, a
- positive benefit. Corporations and
limited partnerships know that they
are creatures of the State, and if from
no other cause but that of preventing
iierforquos on the part of the Legis-
are, they are careful to run their
are on lines that are equitable and
just.
mining corporations which furnish
their employes with fresher goods and
. goods of better quality than can be
purchased in the nearest town. We
have had opportunities to compare
prices and found them as low, if not
lower than were asked for inferior
goods in the town stores. :
. “On the other hand our attention
has been called to stores owned by in-
" dividuals and private firms that are
conducted on the ‘‘pluck me’ plan.
While we do not think it good policy
for a mining company whose mines are
located near large towns to run stores,
it is good policy and a benefit to the
employ es, if their mines are located, as
many are, several miles from town.”
| THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER,
From the excellent paper on “The
Press, Its Relation to the Public,” read
‘by Editor O. J. Sturgis, of the Union-
town Standard, before the G. A. R.
Post of that place, the. following ex-
tract is taken:
“The day of the business manager in
the country newspaper is coming also, .
and when it does come the local news- |
paper will occupy the place it long.
since earned—that of an independent
and profitable business enterprise. The
country newspaper has been crippled
- because the editor was a good natured,
obiging individual, who allowed him- |
"self to be handicapped by yielding to
‘the mistaken public notion that it was i
a part of his business to boost along
everybody's else business free
charge.
“When that time comes, the man
who wants a notice printed in the
newspaper for his personal benefit or
to advance his private interest, will
pay for it, just as he pays the merchant
for his gooda.
‘The boarding house keeper who
~ wants the paper to notify the public
that he has moved to another street,
~~ will be charged the regular rates for
. the notice, just as he charges his
19.8 Mefotigh,
“We know of many stores owned by
1 eopy regularly will no ect .
extra copies free occasionally
something rice has been published
‘about him, any more than he would
expect his milkman from whom be
buys a quart of milk each morning to
send him in half gallon of eream free of
charge every time le entertained his
friends at a select dinner.”
WHO WILL it befor mayor of Phil-
- adelphia— Pattison or Warwick?
TUPSDAY'# ELECTION will determine
whether we are to have an addition
built to our public school building
or not.
HE woo always speaks ill of his
neighbor mast wnrely have unpleasant
dreams, :
MORE THANX half the world's supply
of tin is mined in the Straits settie-
ment at the tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- The output in 1891 was 36,061 tons, out
of a total of 56,551 tons: 12.106 tons
came from the Dutch East Indies,
chiefly from the Island of Banka, leav-
ing only R384 tons for the rest of the
world.
ThE Philadelphia Record says that
from one ton of ordinary gas coal may
be produced 1,500 pounds of eoke, 20
gallons of ammonia water and 140
pounds of coal tar. By destructive dis-
tillation the coal
14 pounds of heavy oils, 9.5 pounds of
naphtha yellow, 6.4 pounds of nyph-
thaline, 4.75 pounds of naphthol, 2.25
pounds of solvent naphtha, 1.5 pounds
of phenol, 1.2 peunds of aurine, 1.1
pounds of benzine, 1.1 pounds of ana-
line, 0.77 of a pound of toludine, 0.46 of
a pound of anchracine and 0.9 of a
pound of tonlene. From the latter is
‘obtained the new substance known as
saccharine, which is 530 times as sweet
as the best cane sugar, one part of it
giving a very sweet taste to a thousand
parts of water.
FARMING NOTES
Of Intirest to the Farmers Whe Read the
AP alton fourier.’
Any attempt to change the form of
*.a tree after it commences to bear is al--
most certain to damage the tree se-
riously.
If extraordinary good cows can pro-
duce over 45 quarts of milk per day ‘as
has happened |, the farmer should not
be content until he comes as near as’
possible to that quantity with his herd. |
White clover is tne of the best foods
for sheep and it affords excellent past-
urage for cows. It is also a honey-pro-
‘ducing plant and the bees can work on
it although they cannot procure honey
from the red variety.
Horses are now being shipped from
this country to Europe, and onr ex-
ports of horses exceed in value those
imported. Formerly . we bought a:
great many horses from Europe for!
purposes of improvement, but Earope
is now drawing on us for horses for the
same purpose.
The light Brahmas, the largest aud
most popular fowls we have, are
often the most prodtable. The main
| profit, however, lies in the number of
chickens raised from eggs. They will
produce more weight at eight months
of age than any other breed. When
carefully selected they are among the
best of layers also.
Straw is not very highly relished by
stock, and sheep care but little for it.
The cattle, however, will sometimes
eat quite a proportion of straw, as it
affords them a change of food. Cut up
fine and mixed with other foods, with
ground grain added, it may be made to
do excellent service.
Seeding down to oats will be one of
the first duties in early spring, where
such a crop is desired. If the land is
in good condition, plenty of seed should
be used, nine pecks per acre not being
too much. If clover séed is sown on the |
oata, the oats shonld be harrowed in
and the clover seed then sown, running
the roller over the field. which will |
prevent destruction of the seed both
oats and clover by birds. :
: “The Only” for 1895. :
The COURIER is pleased to announce
its clubbing arrangements with The
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paper of Pennsylvania, and to persons
who want the best daily or semi-weekly
paper published in the city, we recom:
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and get seven papers a week for the
price you formerly paid for one,
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every Sunday, containing as much’
reading as any of the monthly maga-
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for only $2.25.
The Semi-weekly Post and The Cou-
i
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Write us for sample copies.
Mra. Emily Thorne, who resides at
Toledo, Washington, says that she has
never been able to procure any medi-
cine for rheumatism that relieves the
pain so quickly and effectually as’
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, and that she
has also used it for a lame back with
great sueopss. For sale by C. E. Belch- |
| er's City Drug Store.
$
(of oar
tar will yield 89.6
* pounds of pitch, 17 pounds of creasote,
or mc
increase
year, by reason of i Duin,
tion, it i an absolute necessity to pro-
vide additional school accommodations
for the Patton school districe
The school directors of the Borough
of Patton resolved by vote duly passed
the 15th day of January. A. 1). 1985
that the School Board of Pation sab
mit to the electors of Patton Boroogh
at the spring election to be Feld on
February 19th. 1865 the projosition
that the School Board of Patton be
authorized and empowered to borrew
five thousand dollars $5,000 on hands
of said school district: payable in thirty
years from date, redecma
district at a rate of interest not 4 ex-
ceed five per cent. per annum payable
semi-annually, clear of taxes: the said
loan to consist of ten cou pon bonds of
the denomination of five hundred dol-
lars $500 each, principal and interest
yvable at the First National Bank of
sation and numbered from one to ten
inclusive for the purpose of erecting
and furnishing an additional wing con-
taining four school rooms to present
building.
The last annual assessed valuation of
the Borough of Patton is $257,230; the
amount existing in ines
Patton Borough is $14, A: viz: Boroogh
Farposes, $4. 200; schoo! purposes, $10, -
he pro increase of indetted-
nese for the Porough of Patton for the
ay aforesaid is $5,000. The per-
centage «f the proposed increase on
the last preceeding anscaned valuation
is one and ninety-five one hundred
per cent. €.C. CrowELL, Pres.
W. H BAXDPORD,
H. E. BARTON,
Saw’ EpMisron,
J. B. Noowaxs,
Directors.
Attest: :
H. CURFPMAX, Sec.
Sn and subscribed before me
this 16th day of Jan 1865,
TP Dav, J P.
A
“THE 12437 OF THESES ~~
She had jitrle of nrihiy beauty:
Bhe had bows of earthly iore:
he climbed by s path so narrow,
Fach wearisome burdens bore!
And shes cxrne with bart a tremiling
To the warden at h¥iven's door
Ard said, * There were bh arts of heroes.
Bhe sinid © “There were bands of rl
I bad only uy tittle children:
That call to me day and night
1 ould amly setbe their sorrows,
Their childish hearts makes Jupht.”
And she Yersed her head in slopes,
And she hid her face in shame,
Yaen, cmt fron s base of glory,
A form majestic came,
‘And sweeter than +11 begvon’s mosis,
© Lax, some one called her name’
? Christian Herald
LET THE HUNTER OON GAY COLORS.
it Lessems the Oty of Susmebiody Tak-
tag » Shot at Him.
“You would naturally thitk that the
hunter out for game would wear clothes
«f soft, unobtrusive volors harmonizing
with the landscape,'’ said the veteran
sportsman. ‘Yet, stalking moose and
deer in the Maine woods, I sclect ap-
parel pronounced in hoe and often wear
& ved necktie or hatbund. This 1 do to
lessen the dsuger of being shot through
“Of the great army of hunters that
each fall range the woods of the Pine
Tree State there are few that will not
‘sometimes venture a shot into moving
tashes on the chances that the invisible
cijject that rusties them may be a deer.
The fool sportaman, who is largely in
evidence in the shooting season, will do
80 every time. If it be a man in the
bushes, any striking colors of his oos-
tume are apt to catch the eye of the one
jreparing to fire and prevent the shot
being fired. :
“The danger of alarilog game by
such costume’ That is not enough to
be taken into account. Everything strik-
ing in color is more likely than not to
excite their curiosity and draw them
| toward the bunter if he work with prop-
er slowness and caution. Besides that
ail the antlered game trust almost
wholly to their senses of hearing and
mnelling to warn them of the approach
of danger, and if you can baffle those
facuities you peed have little féar of
their taking alarm from the sight of
you ;
“‘But, speaking of costume,
wear black, else every nir ~y, and even
some experienced sportsman, seeing you
amnong the trees, would let drive at you,
believing he was going to bag a bear.’’
: =New York Sun.
Silvering Mirrors.
Mirrors are usually silvered by coat-
| ing the glass with amalgam. For this
purpose a large, perfectly flat stone is
provided, and upon it is evenly spread »
sheet of tin foil without crack or flaw.
This is covered to the depth of one
eighth of an inch with clean mercury.
The plate of glass perfectly cleaned
from all grease and impurity, is floated
' on to the mercury by sliding, so as to
exclude all air bubbles It is then
down by loading it with
weights, in order to press out all the
mercury which remains finid This is
received in a gutter arcund the stone
| After about 24 hours it is gently raised
upon ita edge, and in a féw weeks it is
ready to frame, — Family Joarnal.
; His Shirt.
“What do yon charge to wash a
shirt?’ inquired the man at the ooun-
ter in the laundry.
“What kind of ‘a shirt?" naked the
clerk, with his mind on outing shirts,
drens shirts, negligees and the varioas
other possibilities in that line
“A dirty shirt,”’ replied the man,
and the clerk fell in a faint — Detroit
Fre Press.
Lived | on » Water,
Old Lady—Foor man! So you've been
living on water for three days Here's
8 quarter.
Rollingstcne—Yes'm. [ was workin
me Way on a SARIN Opies (A 22 )
; People’s Choice.
ra |
i 3; plesent an i
attendance ne
sbie after seven
| years at the option of the said school
of -
‘that the bed got in there at all
went flat haunting
“don’t -
.an ash receiver
| ii» Preset Thar Tarned Ost to Bes
: White Elephant.
I know a send named Jack Barnes,
who was married one Thanksgiving
day, writes Howard Fielding in the
Boston Herald His wife had quite a
. pamber of rich relations. One of thes
was in the forniture business. His pres-
ent was undoubtedly the handsomest of
all It was a mahogany bedstead big
rooagh for a Mormon elder and carved
fn the highest style of the art
bappy ocuple were enraptured when
they saw it The exhibition ocvurred in
the stare of the fornitore man, for of
pours soch a thing couldn't be sent to
the bride's father's honse like 8 sugar
spoom in 8 bOX An expressman who
subsequently moved the bedstead told
me that it weighed nine toms bmt |
think be exaggerated Morcover, it was
certainly as massive a f farnitare
as ever | saw. On this soooant perhaps
the gerieroms donor had been unable to
oeil it acd had had it lumbering op bis
salesronm until be bad grown sick of
the sight of it
The bridegroom gave directions fox
ita removal to the Harlem fiat. He then
thanked his wife's oncle for this mag:
nifioent gift with tears in his eyes
. When; Mr. and Mrs. Barnes returned
from their wedding journey. they found
the mahogany bed already established
re fl
Fae
in their flat. They knew it was there,
becanse they were unable to open. the
parlor door. The bed was ibside, and
there was an alley a foot wide all the
way around it between it and the wall
This may seem improtable to 8 person
who dors not know much about New
York flats of the $30 a month grade,
but the sophisticated will only wons.er
I am
told that the men who set it op had to
climb out of a window afterward, bat
I think this i= an exaggeration, becanes
the tail, carved bedbuard entirely cov.
ered the two windows and thos cast a
gloom over the otherwise happy home
They found the farnitare which bad
. previonsiy been in the jarlor divided
between two bedromns and completely
filling them.
Housekeeping under theses circum
stances was not what this young womae
had been led to expect In 24 hours she
had demanded a larger fiat Mr. Barnes
The adivepigres of
the Wandering Jew are a mers trol)
compared to those of the fiat banter in
New York Jack was Jos king for a bed
room big encugh to hold the mahogany
bedstead. He toils ma that thi is plows of
furniture was #0 big that he consid bard
ly carry a meme lam of its dimen
sicms in his largest Overcoat pocket.
TAH
Retsonabie Request.
Mra Williams alwars asserted that
' whenever ber husband proffered a rea
somable request she complied with it ae
promptly as possible When asked on
one occasion what she meant by this
reservaticn, she said, with a langh:
“Well, once in awhile Mr. Williams
makes what | call an snreascmable re-
quest. For instance, he came home a
few days ago and said he had seen s .
woman on the street whos dress he ad-
mired, and he wished | would have ons
made just like it :
“* “Tell me bow it was made, and |
certainly will," | answered.
“* 'Oh, it is very simple,’ he twgan
“The color was—well, it was one of
those mixed goods, you kpow—brown,
I should say, or a sort of yellowish
gray, with a figure of sofhe sort, a spot
.or perhaps a. small stripe, or it might
bave been a check. It was made with a
skirt— just cone skirt, I think—and it
had a ruffing or a band or a—a—some-
thing to brighten it a little here and
there, more toward the bottom, I should
say than the top, though I think there
was a little ornamentation ‘of some sort
around the top toa
‘“ ‘And the waist or jacket, or what.
ever you choose to call it, that was per-
fectly plain, I think, except that there
were a few frills about it and a contriv-
ance of some sort abont the neck—
nothing elaborate at all, bor +51 what
wonld lock neat and a; ate,
wonder if you catch my | "he in-
quired as he .inished this lacid descrip
tion.
“Now, that was one of Mr. Williams’
requests which I found it really impos
sible to grant. '— Youth's Companion.
Regardless of Punctuation.
~The boy who selis the cheap song-
books in front of the variety theater is
a wonder in his way. He talks at light.
ning speed and mixes the titles beanti-
fully. Here is what you bear him say
as the crowd is pouring out: “Take ‘em
along the songbooks here the latest and
most popular songs the day all the sopgs
sung in the show her golden hair was
banging down her back the fatal wed-
ding Mollie Newell aud Maggie Mooney
I don’t want to play in your yard if you
won't be good to me O Mrs. O'Flaherty
you sat down upon me bat still the
dance goes on she's my sweetheart we
kept it up till Sunday morning they're
all the songs sung in the show words
and music remember and there a dime
10 cents still his whiskers grew hit "im
again they're 10 cents "'—Chicago Rec-
ord. : :
Weeks Versus Years.
He (five weeks after marr age)
have brought you a birthday present,
my angel--s diamond necklace, which,
however, will. pale before the ol i
of your eyes
He (five years after marriagei—I
have bronght you a birthday present—
Ske—But, my dear. I do not smoke
He—N-a, but if you have an ash re-
ceiver for me to put my cigar ashes in
it will save you the trouble of sweeping
them up, you know. —New York Week-
His View of It.
Teacher (to Bainbridge street boy)—
Now, if you have a meal at 13 o'clock,
what do you call it?
**Lack, '' said the
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The
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Dealer in i
‘Wines, Liquors.
Beer, Etc. 2
Phoenix BrewinG Co.'s Beer.
ks, Jugs, Etc..
HastingS, Penn’a.
COMMERCIAL,
S. A Wilson, Prop.
Flasks. (or
A Modern Hotel.
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['wenty-four sleeping rooms.
Tied
men
Mace ve.
NEAR R. RK. STATION.
PATTON. -.. i PENNA.
boy. —Phitadetphis (OOD BLOC K,
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ATTON SUPPLY Gd.
Flour , Feed and
ry Geonds,
“Salt by the Barrel.
Maple Syrup.
For
~ The
elobrated: “Peps " Flour.
We Oack
uarantee Every
For
Sewin
For £23.
The High Arm |
ng - Ciachine
Guarr rranteed for nve years.
We are Selling
Heating =- Stoves
Great Reduction.
We are headquarter for ever rvthig in Hard-
W are.
Come and See Us.
The Cambria
HARDWARE CO,
Patton, Pa.
Bargains are everything during the present stringency ;
in the Money Market.
YOU MUST LY
And live as cheap as possible, therefore bay your
Dry Goods, Groceries, A.
Flour, Feed, =r.
BED. S. 6000,
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