cure imed your read-4 ad sag joney caine, s had urina- of the. ladder, re. It effects toms hips, nder one Jack- from win yler, eavy down pour of rain just before ~ accorded excellent support. PATTON COURIER. VOL. XIIL—NO. 35. PATTON, CAMBRIA CO., PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1906. $1.00 PER YEAR INDEPENDENT — NOT NEUTRAL — RUN BY THE PUBLISHER. IN INTER-STATE LEAGUE! Patton No More Playing In- dependent Ball. WON THE FIRST GAME. Deteated the Strong Bradford Team on Their Own Ground Yesterday—Have Se- cured the Hornell Franchise and Three of the Best Players. Baseballistically speaking, Patton is IT. The franchise of the Hornell team in the Inter-State league has been transferred to this place for a consid- eration of $250 and the locals are now playing league ball. The Hornell team was a good one, occupying fourth place in the race for the pennant, but was obliged to quit on account of poor patronage. Mana- "ger Gilliece had his pick of the Hornell team, but released all but three, feeling that the majority of his independent club were better than the leaguers. The first league game in which Pat- ton was scheduled was to have been pldyed here Monday and a large crowd rned-ott to witness the contest. A the time of the game blasted their hopes, however, and all they saw was the preliminary “warming up.” The players did not eyen go to the ground Tuesday, as the rain continued and the diamond was in such a condition that a game was impossible. The directors of the league met at the Bay State hotel in Bradford Wed- nesday afternoon. There was a full representation, one director for each of the teams. Those present were: President Rin- dernecht, Secretary L. L. Jacklin and these directors: Patton, J. M. Gilliece; Erie, Dan Koster; Olean, John F. Dailey; Bradford, Felix Steinberger; Kane, W. W. McDade; Oil City, John Lee; DuBois, B. B. McCreight; Punxsu- tawney, W. J. Brown. After a thorough discussion it was agreed to throw out the first of the games played at DuBois with Erie last Saturday, the two teams to play it over later. This was a game claimed by Erie as forfeited. Umpire Graves was discussed and it was decided to release him. The fine of $10 put on Larkin was remitted and ‘his two-day suspension lifted. Urbach’s $25 fine, imposed at Olean, was also remitted, and his ten- day suspension lifted. The Hornell franchise was formally turned over to Patton. . The geographical situation of this place made necessary some changes in the schedule in order that teams might spend less time on the read. The task of arranging the schedule was assigned to the following committee appointed by the chairman: Dan Koster, Erie; W. J. Brown, Punxsutawney; William McDade, Kane; J. H. Steinberg, Brad- ford. The committee is now at work and the revised schedule is to be ready so as to take effect Monday. Patton’s initial game in the league at Bradford yesterday was a hair raiser from start to finish. The score at the end of the eighth inning was a tie—1 to 1—but in the ninth the oil town was blanked, while the locals bunched their hits and made two runs, winning the contest by a score of 3 to 1. Flory, the old reliable, was in the box for Patton and pitched a splendid game, besides having one run, two hits, one put out and four assists, and was Verily, the old Patton independent eam was faster than the Hornell bunch, and Manager Gilliece showed rare foresight in getting rid of a lot of dead ones when he took the franchise, alleged sporting writers in Punxsu- tawney and elsewhere to the contrary notwithstanding. Here is how it was done: PATTON. =i McLean, 3b. Root, If. o If... Griffith, 2b... Backnac, 11 Flory, p Mack, ¢ Richardson, Marnin, c. Howard, rf... = 0 ht U3 0 0D co~oroco~oM omocomoroP OO rt i 0D Dh TOtalS....... cones wsirsssnnnrinisiinnd 3 627 9 1 * BRADFORD. © Demoss, 3b... Peterson, 1 Johnson, 1 — 1D bm 1 pt Ternhill 8 Foster, c.... Hazelton, p.. poe Totals......... - SCORE BY INNINGS. Patton....... .00100000 2-3 Bradford... wl) 0010000 0-1 DIAMOND DUST Wow! Who'd a thunk it. The Diggers defeated the Drillers. | The ‘“‘husky coal miner’ got there. | Is Patton on the map ? Well, rather. What a fall was that my country- men. There was glory enough to go around. Pity the sorrows of a poor old de- funet oil town. Even the oil derricks sobbed and sighed last night. Gilliece says we are going to win the rag and Murphy knows. Will the Bradford Era and Bradford Evening Star please be good. Flory, old boy, was there with the goods. Ditto the balance of the team. Kind Jupiter Pluvius saved Olean from two defeats at Athletic Park this week. Erie, the leader in the league, will be the first team to play at Athletic | Park. Punxs’y is playing better ball than any club in the league with the excep- tion of Patton. Patton is in fourth place and six points ahead of Punxs’y and umpty steen ahead of DuBois. The Bradford team is known as the Drillers. Very appropriate. It is the work of drillers to go down. There was gloom, deep, dark and gruesome in Bradford last night from Pig Island to Newell avenue. Bradford ought to use a little of its surplus oleaginous fluid and grease its team. It would run smoother. The Bradford Evening Star man will now be able to find Patton on the map without the aid of a microscope. Rumor has it that Tom Garvey may be wearing a Patton uniforn before many moons have waxed and waned. There are a large number of double headers to be played before the league season closes, which will necessitate an increased pitching staff. The metropolis of oil and the metro- polis of coal came together yesterday. The black diamond fellows won out by a very substantial majority. Don’t forget the base ball picnic Tuesday and Wednesday. You will have a good time if you attend, in ad- dition to aiding a worthy cause. The smile the COURIER man wore last night when the news came from Bradford had the one depicted in the Bradford Evening Star cartoon faded a mile. Encourage the boys by witnessing every game. Don’t go up Dead Head hill, but pay your quarter like a man. The team needs all the financial sup- port it can get. The Olean Times states that business is always suspended in Patton during a ball game. Not quite as bad as that, brother, but we do have a few enthu- siastic rooters here. Patton claims the base ball cham- pionship of Cambria county. If Johns- town is disposed to question it, a game can be arranged on some open date or after the Inter-State and Tri-State season closes. Griffith, the star second baseman of the Lewistown team has signed with Patton and played in the Bradford game. Griffith was formerly with the Olean club and is one of the best in the business. Yes, Brother Dennison, Patton, Pa., is in the lime light, electric light, gas light, kerosene light, calcium light, sun light, moon light and every other kind of light since the game with Tar- port’s suburb. Patton is the smallest town in the Inter-State league with a population of 8,960 according to the census recently taken by the borough assessors. Erie leads off] with a population of 52,733, Bradford has 15,029, Oil City 183,264, Olean 9,462, DuBois 9,375, Kane 5,296, Punxsutawney 4,375. These figures are from the federal census of 1900, but all of the towns named have largely increased their population since that time. / The Inter- State League is having a great deal of trouble with its umpires. Nearly every game that is played the umpire narrowly escapes being mob- bed. The players browbeat_and bull- doze him and the bleacherites berate and insult him. In all ways his life is made a burden. And he must endure all this for six dollars per game and pay his own railroad fare and hotel bills. An umpire could scarcely afford to be honest and competent on such meagre compensation. The way to settle the umpire question is to pay better salar- ies and accept only such as are known to be competent.—Punxs’y Spirit. Old papers for sale at this office for 6c a bundle. lot in Spangler, $800. Thomas, lot in Susquehanna township, $50. zinger, lot in St. Augustine, $60. acres and 155 perches in Clearfield BEECH CREEK SOLD AGAIN. | The Loeal Coal and Coke Company is in New Hands. { Clarence D. Simpson, senior partner in the firm of Simpson & Watkins, the coal operators of Scranton, Sunday night gave out complete details of the organization of an eight million dollar corporation known as the Pennsyl- vania, Beech Oreek and Eastern Coal and Coke company, which has acquired control of 44 western Pennsylvania soft coal mines and a number of coke interests and some light and water companies in a number of which the firm of Simpson & Watkins held a con- trolling interest. Mr. Simpson said that for some time negotiations have been pending with New York and Boston capitalists, who have been desirous of securing the properties for the purpose of invest- ment, and who requested Simpson & Watkins to retain some of their inter- ests in order that the new corporation may have the benefit of their exper- iences in the mining and coke indus- tries. It is possible that the firm will be the head of the new corporation. The firm acquired the control of the coal and coke interests now sold about eight years ago and their value has more than trebled in that time. They include the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, Beech Creek Coal and Coke company, Webster Coal and Coke company, North River Coal and Wharf company and a number of electric light and water companies. The new corporation will be a most powerful institution with immense re- sourses at its command, and will have its headquarters in New York. This is not the first company run- ning into the millions of dollars which has been organized by the Simpson & Watkins firm. Six years ago they sold their anthracite interests, which are now held by the Temple Iron company with a capital of $5,000,000. They afterwards organized the Illinois Tun- nel company, which in 1904 was ac- quired by the Chicago Subway com- pany with a capital of $6,000,000. They were also prime movers in the Alama- gordo coal and railroad interests, the companies having an aggregate capital of $14,000,000. FATHER AND SON KILLED. Run Down by a Fast Flying Passenger Train Near Cresson. ‘While crossing the Pennsylvania rail- road tracks, a short distance east of Cresson Monday forenoon, in a two- horse buggy, Vincent Smeal, aged 65 years, and his son, George Smeal, aged 2b, both residents of Irvona, where the elder conducted a livery stable, were run down by a fast passenger train and the younger Smeal was instantly killed and the father so badly injured that he died before medical assistance could be procured. The accident occurred shortly after 10 o’clock. The Smeals were approach- ing the grade crossing in the road lead- ing from Sankertown to Cresson, when No. 11, one of the fastest mail trains on the road, came thundering along. The horses attached to the light buggy, driven by the younger Smeal, had safely crossed the track when the en- gine hit the buggy, completely demol- ishing it. The younger man was thrown under the wheels of the cars and his body was literally ground to pieces. His head was nearly severed from his body. The older man was thrown a considerable distance and lay a bruised and bleed- ing heap when assistance arrived. He was unconscious and died five minutes later. The bodies of the dead men were placed on stretchers, put aboard the train and taken back to Cresson, where they were turned over to undertakers Buck & Glass. Relatives at Irvona were notified and arrangements were made for the removal of the remains to that place. The Smeals are old residents of Ir- vona and the accident came as a great TRANSACTIONS IN REALTY. Properties In This End of the County That Changed Hands Recently. Jacob Thomas et ux to Sarah Aber- nethy, lot in Elder township, $50. William J. Donnelly et al to Harry C. Fithian, lot in Patton, $1. Harry C. Fithian to William J. Don- nelly, lot in Patton, $1. Philip Bender et ux to John L., Wy- land, lot in Spangler, $563. John L, Wyland to Frank Helfrick, Thomas J. Byrne et ux to Joseph G. A. Walt et ux to Elizabeth Lit- Joseph Platt to Simon Litzinger, 27 THE FARMERS WERE HERE! Despite a Heavy Downpour of Rain. NO PICNIC WAS HELD. Grangers Met in Miners Hall and Listened to an Excellent Address by W. FF, Hill, Master of the State Grange—Opening of Grange National Bank. Lowering clouds and a heavy rain- fall prevented the grangers’ picnic at Firemen’s Park Wednesday on the oc- casion of the opening of the Grange National Bank of Patton. The tarmers were here in numbers, however, and even the fierce storm could not quell their enthusiasm. They inspected the bank, both inside and out, most of them made a deposit, and then went to the Miners Hall and listened to an address by W. F. Hill, the master of the state grange of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hill is an able and convincing talker and presented the idea of a grange bank in forcible and eloquent language, interspersed with consider- able good advice to the farmers. He told of the good work that had been done by the grange in the state in formulating legislative policies and said that the agitation for a two-cent tare on the railroad, the right of trolley companies to carry freight and other needed reforms had its inception in the grange. He was attentively listened to and his remarks were frequently in- terrupted by applause. John G. McHenry, the special repre- sentative of the state grange on bank- ing interests, was to have delivered an address, but he was detained at his home in Benton by the death of his father. At the bank all was hustle, bustle and business. President John A, Schwab, Cashier M. D. Bearer and As- sistant Cashier D. G. Dumm and Direc- tor Weakland were busy opening ac- counts, issuring stock certificates and bank books. The deposits for the day were most gratifying, but would have undoubtedly been larger had the weather been more propitious. The new bank starts out with every evidence of a successful career. The president, John A. Schwab, of Loretto, is a level headed business man of integ- rity and the father of Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate. Mr. Bearer, who resigned the position of deputy sheriff to become cashier of the new financial institution, is a man of wide acquaintance, personally popular and of excellent judgement. His assist- ant,D. G. Dumm, of Bradley Junction, is a keen, alert young man, who is at present president of the Oambria County Pomona grange. During the preliminary work of the bank, they were assisted by C. A. Pat- terson, the cashier of the Martinsburg National bank, and a man of pleasing personality, who will remain in Patton until the work is well under way. The Patton bank, which is the second one in the state to be instituted under grange auspices, is capitalized at $60,- 000, with a surplus of $12,000. The first bank was opened at Tioga, Tioga county, in April and proved a success at the start. Another grange bank was organized at Smethport, McKean county, on Tuesdaay with a capital stock of $100,000, while subscriptions are being taken in Clearfield and Hunt- ingdon counties for grange banks. It is hoped to ultimately establish similar financial institutions in every agricul- tural county in the state. HARD ON CARROLLTOWN. No More Games of Chance or Gambling at the County Fairs. The dead game sports who during the past twenty years have infested the county fairs with their games of chance will find no encouragement in the an- nouncement just made by Deputy Sec- retary of Agriculture Martin. All kinds of gambling, the secretary says, will be eliminated, and the department will see that the anti-gambling laws are enforced. Gambling, he says, will be done away with. No more will we see the sweat boards and the roulette gambling de- vices against which no living man can win, and which were the cause of so much robbery of people who attended the fairs for pleasure. “I think the worst exhibition of gambling ever seen, and the most shamless robberies take place at these county fairs. Men are held up and robbed in broad daylight right in front of the judges’ stand on the race track, and nobody makes a protest except the victims, and no attention is paid to them.”’ Well, well ! township, $1. Adyertise in this paper. (Good Values. Stein-Bloch Clothing a specialty. Fits and wears better than a tailor made suit and costs just half the price. Call in and try a coat on and bé convinced. Grips, Suit Cases and Valises. Handsome Suit Cases, fit to go anywhere with. Grips and Valises in large quantities. Trunks—round and square tops. . All selling at a low figure, ... SHOES... Just received our fall stock of Ladies’ and Men’s Footwear. largest stock in town. In Misses’ and Children’s Shoes we always carry a large stock. Caps and Hats. Fall and winter line is complete in Hats and Caps. The Don’t forget the store next door to Bank. B. KUSNER, Next Door to Bank. PATTON, PA. These Sweltering Days Nothing refreshes a man or woman so much or makes them better prepared to do good work as a glass of beer occasionally. OF COURSE, the beer wants to be pure, thoroughly aged and bottled with care. In fact, Duquesne or Piel possess all these requisites and are palatable as well. Order a case or keg in person or by 'phone and it will be delivered promptly. Now as Always Headquarters for High Grade Wines, Liquors and Cordials. : We Will Close Every Evening at 8 O'Clock, Except Saturdays and Evenings Preceding Holidays. ED. A. MELLON, Local 'Phone. PATTON, PA. T. J. SCHOLL Cashier, WM. H. SANDFORD, President. First National Bank OF PATTON, PA. Organized October 10, 1893. A. G. PALMER, Vice-President. Capital—fully paid - - $100,000 00 Surplus - - - - 40,000 00 Stockholders’ liability - - - 100,000 00 Total Assets - - - 850,000 00 DIRECTORS. Geo. 8. Good, James Kerr, A. G. Palmer, E. C. Brown, Chas. Anna, H. J. Patton, W. C. Lingle, Geo. E. Prindible, Wm, H. Sandford. A general Banking Business transacted. Interest paid on time deposits. Banking by mdils a specialty. ‘We pay four per cent per annum on deposits in our Savings Department, compounded semi-annually, Why send your money to institutions in dis- tant cities, strangers to you, when you can do fully as well at home? Call or write for full information. You should have one or more ef our Savings Banks in your home. teach practical lessons in economy. Saved wages become wage earners for the saver. “Not what you get, but what you hold, Eases life’s burdens when yow’re old.” WOLFF'S PHARMACY, PATTON, PA, It will Headquarters for Pure Drugs, Drug- gists’ Sundries and everything usually carried in a first-class drug store. Courteous Treatment and Right Prices. Hoffman's Celebrated Ice Cream by the Dish, Quart or Gallon.
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