he 1S- he er, ng 1at th éd ter until minutes WI con- 5 on the ter until hereafter less they ill eave 1057 pm 1100 “ 1023 * 11.23 [1 27 4 1032 1033 1034 *¢ 1044 10 46 10 48 ** 1050 “ 1038 1040 1042 + 1044 1050 * 1051 *¢ 1052 R. train PATTON COURIER. VOL. XIIL—NO. 24. PATTON, CAMBRIA CO., PA., FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1906. $1.00 PER YEAR INDEPENDENT NOT NEUTRAL — RUN BY THE PUBLISHER. WILL NAME CANDIDATES! The Miners are Tired of Be- ing Bamboozled. NEEDED LEGISLATION. IL Will be Secured by Electing Legislators Pledged to Secure What the Laboring People Want—Iuitiative Taken by This Sub-Distriot in Convention. The convention of the miners of this sub-district to discuss ways and means to secure fayorable legislation was held | 4n the court house at Ebensburg Wed- nesday behind closed doors. Almost every local union in the sub-district was represented and those that were not sent letters representing the views of their members. 1n opening the meeting it was stated to the delegates that notwithstanding the fact that committees representing ' the miners in Cambria county had gone to Harrisburg at different times to urge our legislators to become more active on behalf of the laboring man, all efforts in this direction had NEWS OF THE STRIKE. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS. 1 | | — Both Sides Stund Firm and no Settlement | Pithy, Pointed Pencilings ‘+ Pertaining to | is in Sight. | Peovle and Places. —Fred Gill, who has been making his home in Pittsburg for some time past, was in town Wednesday evening The Pennsylvania Coal & Coke com- | pany, of which the Beech Creek Coal & | Coke company is an affiliated corpor- ation, has secured from the state de- on his way to St. Lawrence to visit partment at Harrisburg commissions |relatives. He will leave New York for sixty coal and iron police. | Monday for the Isthmus of Panama, Whether the company intends to where he will help dig the big ditch, concentrate the sixty policemen at one | having secured a position with the or two of its plants for the protection | United States government as foreman of non-union miners and others who |of a blacksmith shop. are willing to work, or scatter them | _ patton isto have another Roman among the different mines merely to Catholic church. The Slavish residents guard the properties is not yet known, of the town of that denomination have and the officials of the company are gecured possession of the old St. Mary’s keeping their plans to themselves. R. C. church, which was used by that Representatives of ten of the princi- | congregation prior to the erection of pal coal and coke companies in this the present handsome structure, and district met in Philadelphia last Friday | will have a priest of their own who and mapped out a plan of campaign will minister to them in the language against the miners. | | The operators | of the fatherland. | were in session several hours and at the | The wholesale liquor establishment | conclusion of the meeting the following | of Weakland & Ryan, the first to be statement was made: ‘given a license in Patton, has been { ‘We will fight it out at whatever gold to Joseph Brendl, of Latrobe, for a | cost. There will be no settlement, and ' consideration said to be in the neigh- | we will not recede from our position, | borhood of $8,000. Weakland & Ryan | This is final and is the unanimous de- | retain the real estate. Mr. Brendl will | cision of the operators. been a failure. In each instance, itis| “We will insist upon an open shop said, the legislators informed the rep- | and the abolition of the check off sys- | There can be no other course for | resentatives of the miners that they | tem. were under obligations to support the jus to follow and it will be a finish! measures and policies of the party by | fight.” The operators are making prepara- which they were elected, 1 After the meeting was opened by | tions to try and open some of the mines President Irvine, of Hastings, the dele- | next week. George E. Scott, who was gates in attendance elected J. H. Dugan | secretary of the meeting and who is secretary of the meeting. After Mr. | connected with the Puritan Coal com- | Dugan’s election a general discussion | pany, declared that his company’s as to just what the new platform should | mines, as well as others, would be contain was engaged in. Each delegate | opened upon the open shop basis and came to the couvention partially in- structed. During the past six weeks the various locals throughout the county have had under consideration the scheme of adopting a general | without the check off system. The | operators claim that last year under | the check off system they collected { from the men $51,078, which they turn- ed over to the union for the payment platform and placing in nomination | of check off men on the tipples. This candidates for the legislature. money, they maintain, does not all go It is the intention of the delegates to | to the check off men, but much of it is select a committee within the next few days to which will be entrusted the work of drafting a platform. finished the instrument will be sub- mitted to each local union in the county for ratification. has been ratified by the local unions President Irvine will again call a eounty convention for the purpose of placing in nomination a set of candi- dates for the legislature. The miners have not as yet decided what the name of their party will be, nor have they decided to nominate eandidates for all of the county offices. There were no grangers present at the convention, although a general in- vitation had been issued to the several granges throughout the north of the county to send representatives to the convention. TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS. Dates and Places Where They Will be Held in North of County, County Superintendent Jones has announced the dates and places for the teachers’ examinations in the county. Those for this section are appended: June 14—Mountaindale for Reade township. June 16—Beaver Valley for White $ownship, June 16—Hastings for Patton, Chest Hownship and Hastings. June 23—Barnesboro for Spangler, Susquehanna township and Barnes- boro. June 26—Nicktown for Barr town- ship. June 27—Ashwille for Ashville, Dean township and Ashland. June 29—Cresson for Cresson Munster townships. June 30—Carrolltfown for fiownship and Carroiltown. July 11—8t." Augustine for Clearfield township. July 12—Loretto for Allegheny town- ship, Chest Springs and Loretto. August 17—Ebensburg, special exam- ination. and Carroll 2. MR. KERR'S LOSS. Manutacturing Plant in Clearfield Burned to the Ground and One Life Lost. The large manufacturing plant of the Clearfield Novelty Works, belong- ing to Hon. James Kerr, was destroyed by fire early Saturday morning and Night Watchman Alfred Carlson lost his life when making his hourly rounds between two and three o’clock. Carlson must have been seized with heart failure or met with an accident on the third floor, as he registered at the clock at 2:10 and a few minuates i retained for the purpose of fighting | the companies in strike times. When | The companies that participated in the conference represented, it is said, invested capital of more than $100,000, - After the platform | 000. (How much of that is watered stock deponeth sayeth not). They are: Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company, Rochester and Pittsburg Coal & Iron company, Morrisdale Coal company, Peale, Peacock & Kerr, Sterling Coal company, Beech Creek Coal & Coke company, Irish I! Bros.,, Puritan Coal coinpany, Crescent Coal company and Erie and West n Coal company. William McPherson, vice president of this district of the United Mine Workers, stopped over in Altoona for a short time Tuesday while en route to | Dudley, Huntingdon county, to look over the conditions in the Broad Top | field. The Tribune says that he talked on the mining situation as it exists to-day and said that there are between 8,000 and 10,000 miners working in the dis- trict along the main line between Al- toona and Johnstown, in the Philips- burg and Houtzdale, the Broad Top, the lower Clearfield and the Northern (ambria county districts. “The small operators have all signed | . . | take possession as soon as the license can be transferred. BOROUGH FATHERS MEET! nsereiting Session of the Lo- | cal Lawmakers. STREET 1S VACATED. Ordinance Passed tor That Purpose and Other Important Business Transacted— Preparing for Last Fall, the Paving Authorized All of the members of the borough council with the exception of Emigh were present at the regular meeting held Monday evening. Wm. Somer- ville and Frank Palsho were present representing a number of residents of West Magee avenue who thought their sewer assessment was exorbitant. They were referred to the borough so- licitor. John Gagliardi, who is excavating near St. Mary’s R. C. church, wanted the borough to remove the dirt for use on the streets and the matter was re- ferred to the street committee. James Mellon, the former borough treasurer, appeared and explained his connection with the borough order —An infant daughter of Mr. and | | Mrs. Matthew Nolan died last Thurs- | ‘day evening of a complication of dis- | eases. The little one was two months | old. The funeral was held at the resi- dence at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, conducted by Rev. Edwin Pierron, with interment in the Cassidy cemetery. —Edward J. McCaffery, of Oarroll { township, and Miss Catherine O’Brien, of Patton, were united in the holy of matrimony at St. Mary’s R. C. church Tuesday morning at 7 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. Edwin Pierron. The attendants were F. R. Mellon and Miss Mary Mitchell, both of this place. —Prof. B. I. Myers, of this place, Prof. M. 8. Bentz, of South Fork, and . Miss Carrie Daley, of Johnstown, com- pose the committee who will conduct the teachers’ «xamination for state permanent certificates at Ebensburg June 11th and 12th. —The Northern Cambria Street Rail- way company has been compelled to adopt a 40-minute schedule, instead of the half-hour one, on account of the strike. —Dr, W. A. Blair was in William- sport over Sunday and incidentally | attended the base ball game Saturday afternoon. —John R. Manion was in Johnstown this week and purchased a handsome | sorrel driving horse. Y. M. C. A. CONFERENCE. Delegates and Secretaries From Twenty-five Associations Will Meet at Winber. The bituminous department of the state Y. M. C. A. was organized a little over three years ago, with headquart- ers in Greensburg, and through the | aggressive policy of the department | committee 25 associations have been | organized and placed on a working | basis at different mining towns oyer {the regions, with rooms or buildings | equipped and the many helpful and up- lifting features of Young Men’s Christ- i Also alley the scale of 1903 and are all satisfied to ian Association effort in full operation. live up to its conditions. The big oper- | Ten of these associations employ ators are determined to fight the general secretaries. miners’ union and use the check off| Bituminons Department Secretary C. system for a basis of the battle. They |L. Fay has just completed arrange- don’t want to do business with the ments for a bituminous department union and refuse to collect the check conference, to be held at Windber Sep- off which the scale of 1903 calls for. The tember 13th and 14. This conference whole trouble centres around the check | will include delegates and secretaries off system and the miners will insist | from the 25 associations, and the con- that there be a checkweighman on | ference will be led by some of these most every tipple, as well as the operators expert in association work in this collecting the check off. In refusing | country, including such men as C. C. to collect the check off to pay the check- | Michener, New York city, and F. A. weighmen the operators hope to break Orosby and H. T. Williams, of Harris- up the union.” | burg. This conference will precede The coal operators in the Pittsburg | the fall and winter campaign and will district need men and need them badly. | mark an advanced step in the policy of | The sub-district will furnish transpor- | the bituminous department associa- tation to all union miners who wish to | tions. secure work in that district during | the strike in this district. The following | : : companies are after union miners: | The county board of the Ancient Or-| Pittsburg and Eastern Coal company. | der ot Hibernians, composed of the | Ellsworth Coal company. Fayette Coal Mining company. This is a great chance for all single men to get positions at good wages and to leave this district while the Faugh a Ballah. | each of the 14 divisions in the district, | will meet at Gallitzin to-night to arrange for the county convention to be held at | Ashville and to prepare the report of] that was alleged to have been paid without warrant. The order was to have been paid at the will of council and was for $1,000 and payable to L. L. Hoover. It was transferred later to Mr. Mellon and paid. The latter stated that he did not no- tice the clause fixing the time of pay- ment and supposed it was the same as any other order and to be liquidated any time the money was in the treas- ury. The borough auditors refused to pass the order, hence the difficulty. The matter was adjusted by a motion duly made, seconded and carried that | Mr. Mellon forgo the treasurers’ com- | mission of two per cent, give the bor- ough a check for $500 and in return re- ceive the Hoover order. He is also en- titled to a commission of $250.70 for B. KUSNER CLOTHING B. KUSNER We have the finest showing of Clothing in Northern Cambria. Call in and see our line, SHOES. For Men, Women and Children." Largest stock in town. Don’t put it off to-day. Come in and let us show you the finest in town. Trunks and Suit Cases. A Large Assortment. Ladies’ and Children’s Coats and Skirts. We still have a full line of the above in stock. Stein-Bloch Clothing. B. KUSNER, Next Door to Bank. PATTON, FPA. Zc 29 GIVE IT A WHIRL. SILVER TOP BEER is the Best 1o0-cent Bottled Beer on the market, as is evidenced by the way it is selling. A light creamy beer with an exquisite flavor peculiar to itself. For sale at all leading bars and will be delivered to your residence by the case. Now, as always, headquarters for the purest and best wines, liquors, cordials, beer and ale. We Will Close Every Evening at 8 O'Clock, Except Saturdays and Evenings services rendered. The following ordinance was read | and passed and the costs of publication | ordered paid by the Patton «Clay Mfg. | Co.: | . ORDINANCE NO. 91. vacating Ellsworth avenue from the west line of Fifth avenue to the borough line. Also va- cating alley from Terra Cotta avenue northwardly to Ellsworth avenue. | intersecting above stated alley and running parallel with Ells- | worth avenue. | Be in enacted and ordained by the | burgess and town council of Patton | borough, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by authority of the same: | That Ellsworth avenue, beginning at | west side of Fifth avenue and running | in a westerly direction to the borough line, be and is hereby vacated for all street or public purposes. Also that alley running from Terra Cotta avenue and connecting with Ellsworth avenue be and is hereby vacated as a public alley and from all public use for said purposes. Also that alley intersecting with aforesaid alley and running parallel with Ellsworth avenue be and is hereby vacated as a public alley and released from all use as a public alley. Enacted and ordained by the burgess and town council of the borough of Patton this, the 7th day of May, A. D. 1906. An ordinance H. S. LINGLE, President of Council. Attest: — ED. S. MOORE, Borough Secretary. Approved by the burgess of Patton borongh this, the 7th day of May, A. D. 1906. W. J. DONNELLY, Burgess ot Patton Borough. , The borough engineer was ordered to prepare plans and specifications for the street paving authorized and the street crossings needed and was also authorized to advertise for bids to con- struct the same, the bids to be opened on Monday, June 11, 1906, at 8 o’clock p. m. The secretary of the board of health | county officers and the president of | was authorized to secure notices to be sent to property owners along the line of main sewers who had not connected with same ordering them to do so at once. WIDOW JONE Preceding Holidays. ED. A. MELLON, PATTON, PA. Local "Phone. America’s Leader of rm mE — F 8 1 0012 blE & Clothing for Boys and Young Men. & 1906 New Spring and = Summer Clothing, Neckwear, Shirts, Etc, Etc, JUST RECEIVED. We are sole agents in Pat- ton for the celebrated RALSTON HEALTH SHOES. Look at the display in our WIDOW JONES SUIT . show window. MODEL |. UNIVERSITY STYLE. WOLF & THOMPSON. €f Shopping by Telephone.” If the Doctor leaves a prescription at your hou ‘phone us and will send for it, compound it and have it back to you in a surprisingly short time. You may want something in the line of sundries or toilet articles when it is not convenient for you to visit our |store in person, 'phone us, giving us an idea, as near as you can, of what you want and we will cheerfully send samples strike is on here. It will also put the union in a better position to carry on | If the | single men want to help the union they | the fight with the operators. should accept the cail to go to the Pittsburg district and they will have the county for the state convention to| The following bills were ordered be held in Altoona in August. The | paid, in addition to the street work | national convention is to be held at | amounting to §251.45: A. T. Cornelius, Syracuse in July and County President | 84.65; Reuel Somerville, $60; Patton |P. M. Kinney, of Hastings, has been | COURIER, $31; Patton Clay Mig. Co., elected delegate from this county. The | $24.48; Central Supply Co., §50.02; and prices to you so that you make your own selection. Our stock is complete, the quality the best. Try Telephonic Shopping. | county officers, P. M. Kinney, of Hast- | afterwards flames appeared on that floor, evidently starting from his lau-| tern. His charyod romains were found | in the ruins. "The Joss is about $50,000; | insurance 312.506 The plant | rebuilt. will be their railroad fare paid. iy i bil Joan FT Karas, of Johnstown; . 3h) Jian DTG i x iy in tas Usted Mle Workers Opera R ) Hi . \ o , ‘ ney, Carrvolltowi, and Rict a house for the vencfit of the striking °° at FOL: u0MWi, ant Binh aos wines Rion, ut Bpangier, together with of the division presidents, wili atfrod Whose piper are you reading ? , the Altoona meeting. Encch Short, .60; Thomas Bishop, $1.21; Thomas J. Graham, $42.60; C. F. Pitt, .55: Patton Water Co, $80; George S. Lua ght Cu, § #3: William Gill, $1: od. 5 NT 510; Ulimax H. Bar Waomer, § WS Moore, Co., $8.50. OF. WOLF, Druggist, PATTON, PA. aT
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