RT CcRS gests > aide A SocomnmUitiaititi SENGCUZSRRSEENSIRNLEECRRELERGSS B Coo rcooecrnrneaadSd-tass ~ Bs Gv 4 Se u=T 8 c&F am Am Am p m pm Dm nin Am p m p m p m p Mm ves La Far- lley 7:21; oon len (ose (for ion fey lley t- Far- La- len Ose bell ent 360 ‘ay, Oil ins eek For Mt. and vith ren, 0N=- ter- (Su- y k- For on, and un, ton ‘om 10 p 2:20 nail i —- =1 E a B& Sor or Gr Or We 8 G8 EB idg- and nd, ith ock del- ile, ick- rge ors ons Co for ces ae VOL. IV.—NO. 41, FREE To the BOYS AND GIRL Any boy and any girl bringing the largest number of Cash Register Slips to my drug store on NEW YEARS DAY, 1898, will be presented with a handsome present. The boy will be presented with a bran new $10 Graphaphone. The girl will be presented with a ~ 510 DOLL VISIT L. W. COOK, LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS THE BEST OUT OF FIVE Patton Wins a Loosly Played Game from Johnstown on Saturday. The game of base ball played on Woodvale grounds at Johnstown on Saturday afternoon between Patton and the Athletic club resulted in a victory for our boys by a score of 15 to 13. Manager Replogle, of the Johnstown Athletic base ball club, can now use his crape for their own door. Patton has now won three games out of a possible five, and four out of the five were played on Johnstown’s own grounds. Being unable to get the Athletic club to play «i Patton, our boys willingly played on their own grounds and even allowed Mr. Horten to umpire. Mr. Tommins, who shut Huntingdon out 28 to 0, lasted,only four innings, when he was replaced by Sibley, who twirled a good game, although his support was not up to the standard. “Shorty,” the base ball ‘‘editor” (?) | of the Johnstown Democrat, is having {a hard time figuring out some excuse umpire, as he was chosen by that club ! especially for this game. Gleaned Here and There by, Succe PATTON, CAMBRIA CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1897. SsSor to COOK, SALMOND & COWDEN, CIRCUS COMING. nn Well-Known Rob Hunting Will Exhibit in Patton. The season brings no more attractive | feature than the visit of the circus. | The familiar smell of the sawdust, the sight of the time-honored ring, the glit- | ter of spangles and uniform, and the | blare of the brass bands act liké a tonic {upon the amusement seekers weary with theatricals and disgusted with farce. The circus is the place to renew {one’s lost youth, with its illusions, its {easily gratified tastes and eagerness to | be pleased. You will go this year and | next just the same, and enjoy it with | the same heartiness. | Hunting’s new Railroad Shows will | exhibit in Patton, Tuesday, September | 21. In previous seasons Hunting’s show | gave immense satisfaction and received | hight plaudits everywhere, but this | year’s efforts will eclipse all former | ones. There are no triple rings or | triple performances to distract the at- | tention, but all attractions will be pre- | sented in one ring and will comprise [the best talent and the most daring | acts. Heretofore circus and street parade have been synonymous terms, but the | management of this show have had the | onrage of their convictions, and the money a parade would cost they have (used in perfecting the features in the | at prices of admission so reasonable as | to be within the reach of all, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. From a Stectel Correspondent to the “ Courier.” PRESIDENT AT HOME. An Increase of Eight Xr Cent. in the U. S. Postoffices. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13th, 1897.— President icKinley returned to Washington today for the purpose of holding a Cabinet meeting, discussing Cuban matters with Consul General Lee, and disposing of some pressing public business, after which he will go away again, probably to New England, to remain until about the first of Octo- ber. The suit for an injunction to prevent the Postmaster General from reducing an employe of his department was argued before Judge Cox, of the Su- preme Court of the District of Colum- bia on Saturday. The Judge took the papers and stated that he would an- nounce his decision in a few days, It is believed that he will sustain the right of the head of a department to change or remove any of the employes at his discretion, by refusing the injunction | asked for. Whatever the decision, the ! case will be appealed and carried to the for defeat. He cannot lay it to the ring and presenting them to the public | United States Supreme Court. | According to the returns from thirty | of the largest postoffices, the business Now boys and girls get a Manager Dale is endeavoring to get| This year Mr. Hunting has reduced | of which has been regarded as a trust- hustle on and see who will re- | ome good games this fall, but we | the price of admission to his excellent Br ] ) ists want something harder to beat than show to the unprecedented prices of 10 | ness conditions of the country, things ceive the reward. BE=Call and ask for par-| ticulars. (. W. Hodgkins, Patton Pharmacy. Headquarters for Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Stationery, Confectionery, Cigars #8 Tobacco. Man works from Sun to Sun; Whoman’s work has long been done, An American Washer has been her oon, > She finishes her wash before it’s noon. Buy one of J. E. KIRK ’ HARDWARE CO. PAIGE. - $3.25 Wringers............... $1.40 & 2.75 .55 & 1.00 70 & 2.50 Wash Boards, Clothes Bask- - ets, Lines and Pins. Tin Cans, Doors, Fruit Jars, Sash, Jelly Glasses, Paints, Preserving Oils, Kettles, Agate, Ice Cream Tin, Freezers, Wooden, Churns, Willow, Miners’ Earthen and Supplies, Hardware. Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. Anything Everything in above lines I can supply you with. J: E. KIRK in such games, i Our boys played fair ball and were | strictly in the game at all times. Reilly caught a good game for Johns- | town, and Murphy caught a fine game | for us, his throwing being something | extraordinary. | Kinkead played his usual good game. Reilly and Sutch pitched very fine {article of ball and had the J. A. C. at | their mercy. : Harshberger hit the ball over the left | field fence with two men on bases. | Following is the score in detail: Johnstown HPO AE Mginhart, rf, 2b. 2 Kinkead, SL OID we ht et © et 0D 1D et pe Patton, 2. Two base Creight, Sibley, Neary, Harshberger. hits—Kinkead 3, Mec- Clymer. Home run— Sacrifice hits—Haws 2, Mec- Creight, essner, Murphy. Stolen bases— Mainbart, Kinkead McCreight, Clymer 2, Murphy, Sutch. Double plays—Suteh, ®. Dale and W, Dale. Bases on ba Is—Mainhart, Wessner, R. Reilly, W. Dale 2, Murphy, D. Dale. Struck out—Mainhart, R. Reilly, Bai- ley, Sibley, Tommins 2, Alt, W. Dale, Neary, Clymer, Murphy 2, D. Dale, M. Reilly 2, Suteh, Passed balls—R. Reilly 2, Murphy 8, Wild itches — Sibley 1. Time — 2:10, Umpire — orten. LATER—Shorty has found an excuse for defeat—blames it on the players from Somerset, Flint, Michigan, and other places. Now, how many players did you have from away ? You surely had Reilly, Patton’s catcher; Me- | Creight, 2d baseman for Somerset; | Sibley, pitcher from Indiana State Normal, and Haws from Somerset. Why don’t you take your defeat like true sports and not try to ‘crawfish’ out of it like little boys? Large Shipments. During the month of August the Patton Clay Manufacturing company shipped 115 cars of sewer pipe from their works in Patton, besides a con- siderable amount of other products manufactured at their plant. The works are running full time and the shipments for the month of September may exceed the above mentioned num- ber. The large stone quarry, which is located a short distance north of Pat- ton, and which is operated by Geo. S. Good & Co., railroad contractors, shipped, during the month of August, 125 cars of cut stone. Both these enterprises employ a large number of skilled men and the pay roll at the end of each month foots up a large amount of money, which i# naturally put into 2 1 0 Goff, m 3} R. Reilly, ¢, 111 Jailey, 1,. 17 Tommins, p, 1 10 Sibley, p,. 100 Totals.... u 24 10 10 Patton. HPO AE Alt, 3, S031 W. Dale, 0912 Neary, 1f 1 030 Clymer, m, 2610 Murphy, c,.. 0702 Harshberger, rf, cf. 101 D. Dale, 2, 1332 Gray, rf... 100 04 M. Reilly, If, 2.110 Sutch, ss, p. 2051 Totals.... 132717 9 Johnstown... 30225100 0-13 Patton...... w.0 4500 3380 x—15 SUMMARY: Earned runs—Johnstown, 2; i under twelve, 10 cents. | : 10 cents extra. Reserved seats, Attempted Suicide. { The Altoona Tribune of Tuesday | morning says : H. IL Fagan, of Carroll town, a man aged 25 years, made a | ludicrous attempt at self-destruction at the Bell house, Bellwood, Monday morning. Before going to bed Fagan instructed the proprietor to call him at 6:30 o’clock in the morning. When an attempt was made to do so he could not be aroused. The room was finally entered and the occupant was found to be seated at a table with a pen in his 2 hand. One letter, recently written, 2 was found to be addressed to his mother, (and a second, though unaddressd, was jevidently written to a lady friend. !Both contained maudlin statements that he was about to die by his own {hand. In the ceiling of the room it was [found that Fagan had placed a screw | eye and a rope with a noose in it lying nearby attested that he was about to choose this route over the range. School Notice. At a meeting of the Patton School Board held September 3rd the follow- ing rule was adopted to become a part of the Rules and Regulations govern- ing Teachers and Pupils in the Public Schools: “Pupils residing outside the district who desire to attend Patton Schools will be required to make application to the Board before being admitted, and | mediate departments, $1.00 per month; Joseph A. Baker, R. S. Reed, Lewis G. Dutton, C. F. Camp, M. W. Enyeart and John H. Shrite. The president is Samuel P. Langdon. liably informed that a movement is being made to organize a Rugby foot- ball team in Patton. will be perfected in about a week. It is expected that several games will be arranged with Altoona, Tyrone and Huntingdon the coming fall. if admitted will be required to pay tuition as follows: Primary and Inter- Grammar department, $1.50 per month; High School, $2.00 per month. No pupil will be admitted without paying tuition as above who cannot show legal residence within the School District. Harrisburg, Sept. 14.—A charter was issued this morning to the Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg and Eastern Railroad company, the line of which will be 60 miles long. It will connect with the Beech Creek railroad, with the right to construct branches to coal mines or other railroads. The capital is $1,600,000, and the incorporators are all Philadelphians: Samuel P. Lang- don, G. T. Simonton, S. B. McDowell, Rugby Football, The COURIER reporter has been re- Arrangements This worthy barometer of the general busi- Johnstown, as our people loose interest {and 20 cents—Adults 20 cents ; children j are getting a decided move on them {and the country has crossed the line { which separated it from prosperity. i The business of these thirty postoffices | { 1897, than it was in the same month | |last year. A comparison of 1897 with | 1896 shows, in January, a decrease of | 8.5 per cent. ; in February, a decrease | of 4.5 per cent. ; March, an increase of 2.2 per cent. ; April, an increase of 5 | per cent. ; May, an increase of 7 per cent; June, an increase of 5 per cent.and July, of 3 per cent. The jump to a clean 8 per cent increase in August is considered something extraordinary. Somewhat of a sensation in official circles followed the report telegraphed from Charleston, S. C. that a Spanish spy had been making sketches of the fortifications for the protection of | Charleston harbor and of other fortifi- | cations on the Southern coast, although {no official will discuss the matter for publication. Although Congress has provided that no outsiders shall be ad- mitted to any fortification belonging to the government, without a special per- mit from the officer in command of it, there are, according to Army officers, comparatively easy ways in which in- { formation may, from time to time, be obtained abou}! our fortifications. Con- gress invariably attaches to all appro- priations for fortifications; a stipulation that the work shall be done by contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bidder, and whenever any workls to be done upon any fortification, bids have to be asked for. Every man who expresses his intention to bid for the work, must see where the work is to be done, and must have access to all the plans and specifications. That is one of the easy ways of finding out about our fortifications, and there are others, too numerous to mention. Old Army officers regard it as impossible to keep such things secret in this country, when all the European countries have failed in their attempts to do the same thing. They say that our War department gets about all the information it wants about the fortifications in other coun- tries, and they assume that the other countries can do the same about ours. It is altogether likely that Spain, and other countries, are constantly repre- sented within our fortifications, by men seeking and getting informatien, but nobody need loose any sleep on account of the practice. The Treasury Department is work- ing through all of its agents in that section to keep Americans from ventur- ing into the Klondyke gold regions, until after travel opens next Spring, in order to save them from certain starva- tion that will await many of them who succeed in getting in this fall. Bicycle Races at Carrolltown. Besides the many attractions at the Carrolltown Fair next week will be a | was eight per cent, greater in August! ' THE PATTON COURIER. ALTOONA, $1.00 PER YEAR. PENNA. EBENSBURG LETTER. News “Gathered at Cambria County’s Capital, EBENSBURG, Pa., Sept. 13, 1897. A. E. Fyan, of Bedford, Bedford county, spent Saturday and Sunday in Ebensburg. John M. Topper, of New Baltimore, spent Thursday in our town. There were dances at Lake Rowena on Thursday and Friday evenings. Walter Shoemaker, of this place, is in Pittsburg attending the Exposition. Quite a number of Ebensburgers at- tended the State Fair in Johnstown on Thursday and Friday. Miss Maude Richardson, who has been in Braddock the past few months, returned to her home in this place on Saturday. Annie McBreen, of Ebensburg, entered the convent of St. Joseph in this place on Wednesday evening, Mrs. Groat, who shot Daniel Mec- Cawley, of Johnstown, some time ago, was sentenced on Saturday to serve 2 years and 8 months in the Western Penitentiary. . Jos. Henger left at 6 o'clock this morning on his wheel for Pittsburg. Ebensburg will have a general sew- age system. It was decided by special election held here on Tuesday last. Ed. H. Craver, who has been in at- tendgnce at the Sandusky City Busi- ness College the past summer, returned home on Saturday evening for a few weeks’ vacation. Richard E. Russell, of Philadelphia, and Miss Ada Peach, of this place, will | be married at 6 o'clock on Wednesday { morning. After a wedding breakfast at the home of the bride’s parents they will leave on the 7:35 train for Philadelphia and go immediately to their own house, which has already [been fitted for their occupancy. Important { Base Ball at Glen Hope, C. J. Keagy, of Glen Hope, has about as good a base ball ground as can be found within Clearfield county, and he has not been sparing of money in order to fit it up in fine shape for the coming games that are soon to be played in that place. On Friday he has arranged for two excellent games. In the forenoon at 10 o’clock the Patton club will play Morrisdale boys for a purse of $200, and in the afternoon at 2 o'clock Patton will measure bats with the Tyrone team for a purse of $400, The COURIER has been authorized to state that the money is in the hands of a stakeholder for both games, and all those who enjoy seeing first-class ball played should not fail to go to Glen Hope Friday. Township School in Patton. The school directors of Carroll town- ship have leased the Swegish church on West Magee avenue in Patton borough and will be fitted for the purpose of holding a township schoo! in the com- ing term, which commences about the first of October. It was deemed nec- essary by the board to have the school in the borough as it is more of a center for the pupils to attend than any other place in this portion of their district. It is quite probable that a new school building will be erected some where in the borough in the near future, as the lease of the church is only for this school term. Miss Dunegan has been selected as teacher. A Women Sentenced to the Pen, Probably the most important case at Ebensburg Court last week was that of Mrs. Nellie Groah, or Stewart, the woman from Allegheny who attempted to kill Dan McAuley of Woodvale, by shooting him in the right lung. She had entered a plea of guilty of felonious assault and battery earlier in the week and she was brought into court Satar- day forsentence. The Judge sentenced her to pay a fine of $100 and the costs and to serve two years and eight months in the Western penitentiary. Mrs. Groah is the first woman to be sent to the penitentiary from Cambria county in a number of years. Stage to Cherrytree. W. W. Lucas, a resident of this place, is making arrangements to run a hack or stage from Patton to Cherry- tree and return every day in the week except Sunday. The route laid out will be by way of Hastings, Spangler, Barnesboro and Garman’s Mills. This will be a good movement and will afford much better transportation to these points than we now have. No doubt traveling salesmen will hail the buyers. Closing Out to Quit Business. fail to come, HARDWARE CO. circulation in this immediate vicinity. Miss M. A. Simelsberger, the milliner, who has her store in the Hodgkins block on Fifth avenue, will sell her en- tire stock of millinery goods, notions, ete., at cost until Saturday noon, when an auction will be held in her store until Saturday night at 12 o'clock. Here is a chance for a bargain, don’t game furnishes great amusement and is quite exciting at times. It is hoped that the scheme will not fall through. "Toe Smashed. On Wednesday morning Daniel Peters, who is a driver at the Patton Clay Manufacturing company’s works, met with a painful accident by having the large toe on his left foot smashed. The injury was caused by a mine car accidently passing over it. i - bicycle race, 5 mile dash, for a purse of $25 divided as follows : $10, $7, $5 and $3. Entrance fee, five per cent. with five per cent. additional from winners. The Fair will also have a greased pig and the person catching and holding it shall be entitled to a purse of $2. The former is scheduled Thursday, and the latter for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. gma Ra DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, new venture with delight. Spirited Journalism, That enterprising county seat jour- nal, the Ebehisburg Mountaineer, last week published the entire address of Hon. Webster Davis, which was made by that distinguished gentleman at the Ebensburg fair on Friday, Septem- tember 3.¢ The paper also contained an elegant cut of Mr. Davis. This The famous little pills. shows enterprise manifested in the right spirit. ‘ Net to P. O., TEN THOUSAND NOW (0T. The Anthracite Coal Strike Rapidly Spreading. QUIETNESS © REIGNS. The State Malitia Has No Trouble With the Strikers. Hazleton, Pa., September 14.—De- spite a varity of alarming rumors and a morning movement by a body of miners which looked formidable, to-day passed off without serious disturbance in the strike region. Matters still wear such an uncertain aspect, however, that General Gobin declars that the re- moval of the troops or of any portion of them has not been contemplated. The strike itself is spreading with great rapidity. Exact estimates of the num- ber of men who have quit work are hard to obtain, but conservative figures place it at close to 10,000, with indica- tions that within a short time every colliery of importance in the region will be idle. Although some disposition has been shown by small bodies of strikers in the outlying districts to make demonstrations, they have been of a rather feeble character, and the great majority of the men are docile. These mines are now idle: Coxe Bros. & Co’s., Eckley, Beaver Meadow and Oneida, about 2,000 men ; Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal compe yyig, Honey Brook and Audenried mines, about 2,500, Frank Pardee’s, Cran- berry and Crystal Ridge, 1,100 ; Lehigh Valley Coal company’s, Hazle mines, Yorktown, Jeansville and Audenried, 3,000 ; Calvin Pardee & Co’s., Lattimer and Harwocd, 2,000. The twenty miners who were shot and killed by the Sheriff and deputies during the riot were buried on Tuesday after very touching ceremonies. All who were killed were foreigners—Poles, Hungarians and Slavish. To Squirrel Hunters. The . Johnstown Democrat says that under the old game law the season for hunting squirrels was from September 1 to December 31. The new law, enact- ed by the last general assembly, how- ever, makes an important change in the matter of time. Squirrels can now only be killed from October 15to De- cember 15. Some of omy gontemporar- ies are making the erroneous announy® ment that the squirrel shooting season opens September 1, having evidently failed to note the change under the new law. Hunters should be careful as to the difference in dates, otherwise it may prove a costly lesson. Under the new act the killing or having in one’s pos- session squirrels out of season is pun- ishable by a fine of $10 for each squirrel. For the Schools. Supt. T. L. Gibson has received about 250 copies of Smull’s Legislative Hand- book for distribution among the public schools, (excepting the primary grades) which he will place in the hands of the ~ teachers during his annual visit to the schools. The books are furnished by State in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the last Legislature.— Mountaineer. Over 400 Enrolled. Prof. T. J. Fulton informs the Covu- RIER that the Patton public schools have enrolled over 400 pupils since the opening, which was on Tuesday morn- ing of last week. The teachers are meeting with encouragement and much interest is manifested by all concerned. How close money mat- ters are with most people. We are prepared for close A good dresser is very particular about his clothes. He insists that they should fit him ex- actly and be of the very best material. So we in- vite you to call and inspect our goods and prices before placing your order, as we can show you the Largest Line ever seen in North Cambria and at prices that will suit you. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Dinsmore Bros., PATTON, PAH.
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