THE PATTON COURIER
Published Every Thursday,
THOS. A. OWENS, Editor & Proprietor
Entered in the Post Office at Patton, Pa.,
as Second Class Mail Matter,
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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.
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have proved better
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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FOR SALE—Six room house, with
bath, heat and light. cellar, attic and
garage on lot. Located on south side
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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!
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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 //
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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. #
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New AC Oil Filter
New Heavy On
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New Windshie
Pillars (Narrow
: to provide perfe
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! New Bullet-Tyj
: Headlamps
i New Tire Carrier
ew Coincident
Lock (Combinati
Ignition and Sted
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New Remote Contr
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New Duco Colors
New Gasoline Gau
New Radiator
New Bodies by Fish
New Windshield «
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New and Improv
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