THE PATTON COURIER Published Every Thursday, THOS. A. OWENS, Editor & Proprietor Entered in the Post Office at Patton, Pa., as Second Class Mail Matter, Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in Ad- vance. Single Copies 5 Cents, RATE CARD-—I inch fraction Thar I L L( B Care 1 ad ( De I Lr 1 y foreign 1 nu rea ( 1 1 1 de i t 1 nve n, Wing tale was gleaned: I'he said came to town Wednesday of last week, principally to visit a local physician, ard secure medicine for a sick daughter at home. I'his he did. The medicine was bulky, arce bottle to contain it, he placed it in oLner errarnc lich he drove nome. wvered quired t Investigation tle was taken by sumed thir 8 for the had nothing of it might hav bunch of dir Had it been have proved better wood ths men reach. IN DEATH STRUGGLE. Die-hards are ever th us. current species is as tougl the nation as any ment in the last « is the corrupt pc boss or healer, fighting, in deat truggl to have us repeal the direct ims With a presidential yea oming ahead in 1928, there are reasons en- ough why it would be advantageous to many of the old bosses to return to the convention system, in county, in state, in nation. Of course, this is too much for them to hops for, still it is a fact that fort to that made. Voters warned of the ermined ef end is this year being S a most « everywhere should be subtle and indirect that are hands the methods being used to take from their right to name their respective party candidates. The attack on the direct primary i being pressed by those forces that pre- fer a government by money—to one by popular opinion. The scandals with in the past year have put a new de. termination foes of the pri- mary. Bosses have learned that mon. into the ey, used too lavishly in a primary, de- feats its own ends. Under the conven- 1 I tion system, ye handle easily, atte Right now there are money can effectively—and aftracts- a ntion. ome very learned discussions bein ed by the pelitical-boss directed nre attempt to corrupt convention system of ation as the tem.” which palm off the old “indirect conventic In a nutshelk, it is a joke for advo- cates of the convention tem tn about the cost of the direct prim: t and compare it with the old con tion system. Just remember this. Every real progres in congress today comes primary strongholds—and ery or is a poor man. ate 1 vou will find that the drive agminst the direct primary is headed by pub- lic utility officials, old politi. school cians and corpor BILL BOARD DISGRACE. There are times when the Uaited States can sincerely regret that she is a young nation. When one is young one many times does many things un- thinkingly. So with the’ nation—and the day we permitted the start in be. smearing our beautiful landscapes al- ong our national highways, with huge, lurid bill boards and th of youth, which we wish we could undo. An attempt to landscapes with 3, is one of ose things, like the foll English billboards and si disfigure a la American, is meetine with opposition. Our sympathy is wit challengers a t this va ism. It is our i otest ve rural landscapes of England from such defacement. A. few successful protests by other nations may some day awake America and the public sentime force t re moval of all wayside billboard hiel deface and destroy onr 1 watuy al beauty. EDITORIAL QUIPS, Some women who think they are shining socially wat it was : i only their nose. 1 Looks like Volstead also cl ned] ' our standard measure scale. A quart of gin now means a peck of trouble. The poor fish who holds a soul mate in his arms and thinks he has found THE PATTON COURIER Whirl of the March Wind fr———r { Jing a delusion. If women’s skirts keep on getting shorter we for one are going to quit is ever being a pet- man should mar- He i8 correct. * field of invent- alibis. You Knov mventors ol tist sa “in twenty tele no drud- ex p termined and children fed on concentrated food th 1 tube I is a tip for am- bitious 1927 ool l co » gradu ates to get into the tube RW BY ARTHUR BR President Faces West. The Dinosaur Party. Studying Mummies. Men Will Dig. President Coolidge will” spend his n the West, He e in response to should drive in 1s City to vitations. to San Diego, } and there. He woul of Americans that like -him. dent Hindenburg his hope that this ad- ditional means of communication will promote mutual understanding anu good will between the two countries. And President most politely. Germany, rid of an ex- Hindenburg replied pensive fleet, expensive standing ar- and extremely ends to more rapidly in Europe. expensive Kaiser, business and ahead than any other country £06 a Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn en- tertained Natural friends at the Museum of History, in honor of the ty- rannosaurus, in Dinosaur Hall. That monster is 47 feet long his beak to the end of his tail, 18 feet high at the hips, 21 feet around the from waist, with bones that weigh more than two tons. He was a powerful animal, but couldn’t last because he didn’t have a brain big in proportion to the size of his body. Civilization has developed a more powerful creature, *h is the two- ible to control and legged billionaire { ¢ of 200,000,000 men command for one day. That bi lionaire_will soon » interesting question con- him will be, “What about hi 7” Will it be big ercugh to keep kX arned Dr. Sack of Heidel- ersity ,studying thousand of | ’ mummies, finds that high living killed off ric! gyptians as it kills o ‘ich Ameri ins now Fol eating, lack of exercise, es pecially lack of deep breathing, have through the centuries been skimming the scum off the boiling pot of civil- int iza . Mummies of the fifty dynasty show ISBANE fishing 1 see millions The biggest wars are séon forgot- ten 1 direct cable from the Un- ited ates to Germany, opened last week, President Coolidge wired Presi- { | | | | be numer- away the coin-bearing dist. The great : dome stood empty. of tuberculosis, fafecting the spine, and gout, swelling the joints. kok a1gn This country last year imported more than $80,000,000 worth of pre- cious stonas, $5,000,000 more than the year before. And those purchases were all made without the assistance of the extinct race of bartenders, to each of The Supreme Court decides unan- imously that Texas’ laws negroes to vote at Democratic primar- unconstitutional. It is a important forbidding most and not to the South only, fince it may mean feder- ies is decision which a large diamond was 43 necess- as a white apron. soko kok al control over local primaries. Hk kok Ary Where money is, men will dig. Tt was proved in Italy before architect M. Millet, French | tear down the honey bee’s reputation, had learned to make great domes like that on St. Peter’s hold built up by Maeterlinck, Lubbock and Aristotle. up as they rose in the air. was bilt and filled with earth to sup- The bee is a .du!!, mechanical crea- port it as it rose, until the sides met says Millet; it at the top. Putting in the earth would | that it polenizes plants, flowers and be much less expensive than taking it | blossoms, even know which flowers have honey, thinks only of scientist, would themselve One dome |many others back to ture, does not know does not out. So they mixed the earth beneatl | : the dome with small coins of a total |getting sugar. value much less than removing the! You can say the same of our hu- earth. When the dome was completed | man honey bees of industry. They the population was told it could bear! build up civilization, make wealth, le- OWN YOUR HOME WE CAN ASSIST YOU TO BUY OR BUILD A HOME. CONVENIENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS. COME IN AND TALK IT OVER. PATTON BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ALL NEXT THEATRES ALL WEEK STARTING MARCH 28, 1927 STRAND—*“Love of Sunya” with Gloria Swanson. Comedy, “Bron- And “Felix Collars the Button. Strand Ten Orchestra. EER cho Express.” Piece MISHLER—Monday, Tuesday and Wedne day, “The Big Parade.” High Class Vaudeville. STATE— (Starts Sat., Mar. 26) “Blind Alleys,” ghan. ORPEEUM CAPITOL Brother,” Harold Lloyd. OLYMPIC—Zane Gray’s “The Mysteriou Rider,” with Jack Holt. THIS FEATURE IS FURNISHED THE COU RIER each week by Feature Picture, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Usual with Thomas Mei- Last week of Red Mack’s Musical Show Company. “The Auctioneer” with George Sidney. and “The Kid asure and culture possible, but they don’t know it, or don’t care. They also are only “looking for sugar.” But like the bee they are doing the work for which the Lord created them and that’s sufficient. Executors’ Notice. In the estate of C. L. Forsberg, late of the Borough of Patton, County of Cambria, and State of Pennsylvania, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary in the estate of said decedent have been granted to the undersigned: All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make paymeng and those having claims or demands against said estate will make them known without delay to undersigned. C. WILLIAM FORSBERG, IDA E. FORSBERG, 307 Magee Ave., Patton, Pa. Executors. (the | at. t— FOR SALE—Six room house, with bath, heat and light. cellar, attic and garage on lot. Located on south side | | | of Magee avenue. Inquire L. T. Botts, | Patton ,Pa. WERE NEVER SATISFIED ——r By A. B. CHAPIN Sucks —wisH 1 Hap HIS Jos / PRETTY SOFT, I'D SAY = / OH DEAR ~WisH | HAD HIS JoB f NOTHIN’ T' T~ ALLDAY BUT Ripe AROUAID ON | LOON TIRES AND SELL AUTOMOBILES NO BRAIN FAG || PRETTY SOFT JoB, HE'S GOT / NOTHIN’ TO Do ALL DAY BUT RIDE ARounD IN A TRUCK DELIVERING GROCERIES == No BACK ACHE Fon HIM NO SorE FeeT, For HIM , NO TRIAL BALANCE HEAD ACHES Gosh — wise | wav HIS Jo / NOTHIN TT’ DO ALL DAY BUT JERI S0DAS AW’ LADLE ICE CREAM meee NO BAWLIN OUT FER HIM FE DEW’ LATE WITH AN ORDER, HE Don't HAF TA TRY T' PLEASE A LOT 0'FUSSY OL' DAMES / PURTY SOFT, I'LL Tew TH' WORLD! CROCER EC Ye Gops- wisk | Hap HIS JoB / NOTH To Do ALLDAY BUT SiT' | AROUND LOOKING WISE AN' RIGEERIN UP HIS DISCOUNT PROFITS — No WORRY ‘BouT BEING STU WITH USED CARS, NO BODY TO Take HS AGENCY AWAY FRoMm HiM PRETTY SOFT, ILL SAY // @)= —tn Gee — wis 1 #AD WIS Jos | NOTHIN' T' Do ALL DAY BUT SIT ON A SOFT CUSHION KEEPIN’ BOOKS NO SMELLY OL' SODA SUIT FER HIM, NO GOOEY HANDS OR SOPPY FEET — Goob NIGHT, PRETTY SOFT FER Him | 600p GRIEF — wish ( Hap HIS JoB i] THAT MAIL MAN DOESNT KNOW HE'S NE niLITY OF KEEPING THE INDUSTRIES OF THE COMMUNITY IN A FLOURISHING COMDITION — NO TREMENDOUS FINANCIAL WORRIES = WORST SLEET STORM IN FIFTEEN YEARS DAMAGES TELEPHONE LINES ALONG MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST the wind. In _cire the two cables of which gave ” Below—One of the 2000 poles on the wires can hs seen. “The worst sleab in fifteen years” is the hy 7, 1 hone engi- neers clagsified ha one which swept the middle Atl § doast recently. Although it se 110 worse than usual to most pedsops, it was in reality one of severe damage to the telephone service, Only about 8 percentyof all the tele- phones in the stowry avea were af- fected, but it kept the forces of the telephone company” “an the jump” for several days ingan effort to re- establish the lines of communication that had heen. demolished by the fury of the ice and wind, A total of 246,0004telephones were located in the pathof the storm, and of this number ahouts20,000 were out of service at the peak of the storm trouble. , Thus agiproximately one telephone in. very” 12 was affected. Telephone officialsgatate that one rea- son more were notidwsoubled was due of the storm outside Bridgeton, N. J. to having a exenmmber of the lines in cables which "are practically This big ocak way under the strain. felled by the heavy, ice-coated wires and high wind. “storm-proof.” A total of over 2,000 poles were leveled by the storm. Gangs of workmen from Central and Western Pennsylvania were im- ported to aid in the emergency work of stringing temporary wire and cable. Forty-four crews, in all, were borrowed from other territories and these, with about 46 crews from the area in which the storm trouble cen- tered, carried on the work of estab- lishing temporary communication and starting to rebuild the telephone plant disabled by the storm. The figures showing the amounts of material mobilized to care for the storm damage gives a picture of what equipment was necessary to handle the job. Nearly 14,250,000 feet of in- sulated wire was used, along with over 15,000,000 feet of bare copper wire and nearly 70,000 feet of 24 wire emergency cable, The amount of bare iron wire used was 4,030,000 feet, while 27,550 pounds of ‘“tie-wire” were needed to At top—A line of telephone poles near West Chester, Pa., leveled by the weight of the ice and the fury of tree snapped off and hung suspended on The thickness of the ice make the wires fast to the insulators on the cross-arms of the poles. Sixty tons of miscellaneous material were used, and the weight of all the mate- rial hauled was 600 tons. Twenty- one trucks had to be hired for hauling Purposes, and altogether there were 410 motor vehicles on the job. On the Sunday morning after the storm broke, thirty-six telephone cen- tral offices were completely isolated, none of them being able to get in touch with other offices through their telephone lines, By the following evening, however, only four offices re- mained in an isolated condition, and connections with them were shortly afterward re-established. The first work was concentrated on laying temporary wire on the ground 80 that the main arteries of com- munication between cities and towns could be used. Tangled wires and poles were cleared off the highways and left lying until the time when reconstruction could be carried on. # BRR RI GT LF JA bd DF ix 2 MY 13 3 h fs 13 |X] IL [2 34 For Cambria Co ser oP Song by th Reading of Reports of Appointmer General Bus Report of L Noon Reces AF Song by th Forward M Mrs. Matilda Ke “Should We Pennsylvania,” | “Have Mod by Mrs. George I Program b; Conferring Closing Cer BBIBRBIB] BE FF BRIXBIRBTIHE —a host of improvemen New AC Air Clean New AC Oil Filter New Heavy On i Piece Full-Crov Fenders New Windshie Pillars (Narrow : to provide perfe : clear vision) ! New Bullet-Tyj : Headlamps i New Tire Carrier ew Coincident Lock (Combinati Ignition and Sted ing Lock) New Remote Contr Door Handles New Duco Colors New Gasoline Gau New Radiator New Bodies by Fish New Windshield « Open Models New and Improv Transmission i New Brake ar | Clutch Pedal CI § sure (Preventis l excessive draft floor of car) | Chr Pa QUA
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