ements ch edifice along the erience Fri- nent and the roduction— g to do is to Srelregrelnelreleeluelneluelaefuefueluefuelueiulaclaclacieels efuefuctuctuetefueieianectes with untried a setesteeteateatiale teats eteatesteates? SATS SEI teresa ee i PROSPECTOR WINS IN RACE FOR GOLD Dog Team Bests Motor Bus in Dash for Claim. Winnipeg, Man.—Probably there is no spectacle which will stir the emo- tional Linpulses of a community to'a greater extent than a race, and when the race is for gold the tension is heightened. That is why this city still is talking of the sensational race to file ownership on a gold claim on new ground at Slate lake, north of here, between Mickey Gilleran, an independ- ent prospector and William Todd, the representative of a wealthy mining company. IFollowing the strike Gilleran and Todd started for Winnipeg to obtain papers necessary to enable them to stake additional ground close to their claims. The race to the city was even and, the papers in their possession, the men retraced their steps for the final dash to the rich dirt. Both men got away from Winnipeg at the same time and on the same train, but Gilleran stopped off at a wayside station when the train stopped for a moment and telephoned ahead to have a dog team in readi- ness when the end of steel was reached. At this place Todd took passage on a motorbus which oper- ated for several miles, but Gllleran drove his dog team all night and passed the bus unnoticed In the dark- ness. When his dog team tired as a re- sult of belng pushed to the limit, Gil- leran halted 28 miles from his desti- nation and sent the team back. He covered the remaining distance on foot. On arrival at the site of the claims Gilleran staked them in his name and started back to Winnipeg to record them. On the return trip he met Todd and his party, who thought they had left him far behind. Disgusted at be- ing bested In a race he thought he had won by a wide margin, Todd con- cealed his chagrin and congratulated the winner. Finds Only 612 Are Luther Descendants Berlin. — Descendants of Martin Luther are by no means as numerous as it is generally believed. According to Rev. Otto Satorius of Dankmarshausen, in Thuringla, him- self an offspring of Luther, who after long and careful research has brought Nobbes _ “Genealogical Luther Alma- nac” up to date, there are 612 living descendants of the reformer. None of them, however, carry thelr great progenitor’s name. Of theologlans, who formerly con- | stituted the majority of the progeny, ty-six are business men, twelve farm- ers and nine engineers, The present-day descendants are scattered all over the world, one even being a resident of Japan and having a Japanese wife. All the children of this couple married Japanese. Woman Mayor Opposes Title of “Bull Cook” Seattle, Wash, — The time-honored peuGhclature of the logging and lum- ber camps of the Northwest appeared seriously threatened when Mayor Bertha K. Landes had before her for signature an ordinance creating the job of “bull cook” at the Skagit hy- dro-electric development project. “It seems,” declared the mayor, “that the council could have adopted a title suggesting some degree of dig- nity, if not culture.” She signed the ordinance, but de- clared such a name and others in gen- eral use should be made over. Bull cooks, chokermen, fallers, hookers, teeters, punks, buckers, and king rid-( ers are among the hard-boiled han- dles attached to timber workers and extant for years in the Northwest. Berlin Post Office Now Advertises on Letters Berlin.—The German post office hasn't adopted the system proposed and then abandoned in England of putting private advertising matter on letters in the form of postmarks, but it is now following the method long used in both England and America and doing a little advertising on its own account in this way. Letters canceled in the Berlin post offices now bear, beside the postmark, the familar legend prominently dls- played: “Don’t forget to address by street and house number.” HRERERELRLRRR ELE ELRHARRA Children Romp Under Healthful Violet Rays Paris. — An ultra-violet ray x sun that is never clouded shines x on an artificial sand beach in a x basement of Paris. Children, % wearing only a pair of trunks sk and smoked glasses, play there x on their way to health. bd This city sea beach is a part x % *% % * * x. NNN SN Ss a8 NN Ar NN XXX ERZTRXTLETXX of the Institute of Actinology, a clinic fighting tuberculosis. Edouard Herriot, minister of publie instruction, dedicated the beach at a little ceremony, while the young patients played in the sand. The beach is 40 feet square, 3 with tif walls covered with bright aluminum for reflection, x and the blindin~ mercury lamps jo i NNN KEXRITXLTLERELXXXEX LX EXXEXX above, x KX EEL REXELRRXRAXER RRA R HE TY Ye NN NN NN NNN NN A Np (PELICAN IS MENACE TO FISHING IN GULF Texas May Place Bounty on Picturesque Fowl. Austin, Texas.—Market fishermen on the guif coast of Texas are facing a pelican problem. They have brought it to the legislature in the hope that a law may be passed that will solve it. The question is a controversial one and revolves around the difference of opinion as to whether the pelicans really deplete the waters of the bays and gulf of marketable fish to any serious extent, The National Association of Audu- bon Societies has taken a hand in the dispute and is opposing any legislation that seeks to bring about the exter- mination of the pelican, asserting that it Is a harmless salt-water fowl. This organization cites the results of an Investigation made by the fed- eral food administration in 1919, which reported that there were in that year only 5,000 pelicans on the coast of Texas. The market fishermen ridicule this statement. They assert that 100,000 pelicans would be a low estimate of the number that constantly feed upon fish in the waters of ‘the gulf border- ing Texas, and that nearly 5000 of the fowls can be counted any time on Pelican island in Pass Caavallo, to say nothing of the thousands of oth- ers that make their home upon other islands and the mainland. Average for Each Pelican. An experiment conducted by Col. William G. Sterret, when he was state game commissioner, showed that each pelican catches’ an average of 1,060 pounds of marketable fish a year. If there are 100,000 pelicans, they con- sume a total of 106,000,000 pounds of fish annually, if Sterrett’s estimate was correct, it is pointed out. That means approximately 25 pounds of fish per capita of the people of Texas. When the bill of Representative H. W. Wells of Edna, providing for the payment of a bounty on pelicans and pelican eggs, came before the house, it provoked earnest and at times hu- morous discussion. The measure was passed by the house and, it is expected, it will meet with little opposition in the senate. It provides that the state shall pay 25 cents for each pelican killed and 5 cents for each pelican egg destroyed. ach bounty claim-shall be accompa- nied by a piece of the upper part of the pellcan’s bill, not less than four Inches long, as proof that the fowl was killed. No proof of the destrue- tion of the eggs is provided for. $2 for Each Porpoise Killed. The same bill contains a provision for the payment of a bounty of $2 F eac prpoise killed an hat the there are today only three, while thir- ; for each porpoise k d and t proof shall be four inches of the tail of each porpolse. It is clalmed that porpoises are also great enemies of the market fishing industry, as they eat many fish. Men who have made a study of the habits of the pelican declare that they gorge themselves and thelr young with fish, that the pouch which they load with fish is of enormous size, and that the fowls are as much of a pest to the fishing industry as the boll weevil is to the cotton industry. The views of these men, however, are centrary to the flndings of Dr. Hugh M. Smith, chief of the United States fish commission, who said that on a trip which he made to the gulf coast for the purpose of investigating the reported depredations of pelicans he collected pelicans all along the coast and the only fish he found in their pouches was the menhaden, a fish which is not used for human con- sumption. In Florida, in 1918, he ex- amined 3,428 specimens of the fish which were disgorged by pelicans and only 27 individual fish were of a kind ever sold in the markets for food. German Society Urges “Bath a Week” for All Berlin.—Reviving the slogan, “A bath a week for every German,” de- vised by Prof. Oscar Lassar in the days when Berlin had more beautiful fountains than bathtubs, the Society for Free Public Baths has begun a campaign for more swimming pools and bathing beaches. Even today, the society reports, there are millions of persons in Ger- many without modern home facilities for keeping clean. The well-rounded program started a quarter of a cen- tury ago by various states and cities to fill the need by establishing pub- lic bath houses was halted by the war and inflation period, and never has been fully revived. The soclety is now attempting to foster the body-cleanliness movement. Six additional bath establishments are finished or under construction in Berlin alone. Says Chinamen’s Eyes No Longer Oblique Tacoma, Wash,—Chinamen’'s eyes have ceased to be oblique, reports Clyde Moore, steamship representative, Just returned from Canton on the President Jackson, The orientals are standing around the camps of the ma- rines from America, Great Britain and France, wide open eyes appraising the equipment and uniforms of the foreign fighters. The martial music of the bands at once creates a riot among the natives, all trying to force their way close to the circle of musicians. Moore declares several thousand well- groomed soldiers from foreign powers might disrupt the revolution by stag- ing a dress parade, Sn mn: et mati Sp— ROBS NAVIGATION OF ITS TERRORS Formula Makes Sun Observa- tions Unnecessary. Washington, — Many stirring tales have been suggested by the terrors which beset shipwrecked seamen, un able to determine their position. Their plight has usually been due to Inability to observe the sun at noon, solar time. Now, however, naval au thorities in all parts of the world are showing great interest in a formula worked out by Rev. Alan S. IHawkes- worth of the Protestant Episcopal church, who served as a mathemati- clan In the navy’s bureau of ordnance during the World war. “By sextant observation on the two stars forming the pointer of the Great Bear, or the uprights of the Southern Cross,” he explains, “a navigator can tell his exact position at any moment during the night. And castaway sail- ors with no sextant or other instru- ment can approximately but definitely tell their position within ten or fif- teen miles, thus avoiding the horrors of aimless drifting. “In the northern hemisphere, for in- - stance, imagine a huge clock face around the Pole star, with twelve above and six below—in the usual fashion. Take as our hour hand upon this imaginary clock face the stars called the ‘pointers’ and the Great Bear or Dipper. “Read the hour indicated thereby, and add to it the number of months, and fractions of the month, elapsed since January 1. Double this sum, and subtract it from 25% or 2814 or 41, the test for which of these three con- stants we must use being that the re- mainder must be positive, yet less than 24. The result will be the true solar time—reckoned from midnight— with 12 to 24 for p. m. time.” Secret of Towers Is Revealed by Britain London.—Nine years after the ar- mistice the British admiralty has just now revealed for the first time the se- cret of the famous floating “mystery towers,” two of which were built dur- ing the war for use off the Straits eof Dover. These towers, 80 feet high and cost- ing $6,000,000 each, it is now stated, were intended to be the forerunners of a whole series of towers which were to be towed out to sea and strung in a line across the Dover straits. Each tower was to be heavily fortified, with powerful searchlights mounted on top. They were to be linked together at distances of a few hundred yards and between the towers was to be strung a curtain of massive steel netting reaching from a few inches below the level of the surface of the water to the bottom of the channel, In this way the admiralty expected to put an effective end to the subma- rine menace in the channel. The end of the war came, however, before the towers could be put into use. One was sold and broken up for salvage, The other is now anchored off Spit- head, where it has replaced the famous Nab light ship, off the eastern end of the Isle of Wight. Seeks Prehistoric Man in Danube Salt Mines Vienna, Austria.—Dr. Willlam Fred- eric Bade of Berkeley, Calif., is try- ing to wrest from the ancient salt mines of Hallstadt the story of the lively commerce which he believes was once carried op between early inhabl- tants of the Danube basin and peo- ples of Asia Minor. His research {s being conducted at the request of the prehistoric seétion of the Vienna Natural History mu- seum. He {8 assisted by Prof. Adolph Mahr of Vienna, Later, Doctor Mahr will accompany Doctor Badg to Pales- tine for archeological research. What's in a Name? Ink, Says Busltzingsloewen Laporte, Ind.—Lo¢al mathemati- clans are figuring ouf how much ink will be saved each year if the petition of Emil Bueltzingsloewen to have his styname changed to Buell is approved by Judge John O. Richter in Circuit ourt, As treasurer of a local factory Bueltzingsloewen has to sign his name #8Veral hundred times a day. HRA REET HRN HHH HY French Cafe Offers x Drinkers Good Advice : % * Paris.—The gentleman drinker has his code even in this land of light wines and beers, where, so some writers say, hard liquor is shunned and true temperance relgns. “Come here freely,” says a sign on a little cafe in the sub- urbs of Paris. “Drink moder- ately, pay honorably, leave am- It further enjoins its clien(s to recall that: * i ; x ; x icably, and go home quietly,” x x % “Four glasses make a quart, x two quarts a round, two rounds sk a discussion, and a discussion 3 one quarrel. 3 ; “One quarrel makes a battle, x one battle calls for two police- men. A justice of thé peace, a % court clerk and a bailiff equal a fine or a few days In jail, plus x coats. Hw “Keep this in mind,” the pla- x card concludes. ; eH 2 HH 3 3H 3K HHH 3H I ie THE PATTON COURIER . | New England Type of Common Brick Bungalow ’ TERA this exceptional common brick bunga- low of a type which is coming into in- creasing favor especially in New England where bitterly cold winters make good con- struction imperative. It used to be that Colonial homes were always far out in the lead in that territory, but lately there is a decided trend to bun- galows. This type of bunga- low can be built at approximately the same cost as in frame construction by the use of either the all- rolok hollow wall or the Economy solid wall in masonry con- struction. Of the two perhaps the Economy wall is the cheaper although the all-rolok wall should be the easier to keep heated. Ce is the predominant feature of For that matter, though, there are Economy wall houses by the dozen in the territory sur- rounding Guelph, Ontario, which in 50 years or more have never failed to resist success- rintors, which fully the cold of Canadian wit equals that of New En This bungalow is de The Com n Brick Mannfa on brick construc 1 sent upon request nd. THE CHICKASAW-—Design A525 ned to mect the re- quirements of a small family and the man of moderate means. design and construction yet so compactly arranged that there is not a foot of space wasted. The front porch, a distinctly bunga- low feature, is promising of a great deal of comfort in summer, just as the open grate It is simple both in in the living room leads one to look ahead in anticipation of long, comfortable winter evenings be- fore a crackling wood fire. The wide open archway to the din- ing room makes the two rooms virtually one, an ideal arrange- ment. In the center of the bungalow a small hall provides entrance to both rear bedrooms, the bath and the kitchen which is di- rectly back of the din- Off it also leads a stairway to the upper floor which may be finished if so de- sired to provide two additional bedrooms. It is in every respect very conveniently arranged and for a small home offers an unusual array of living room and attendant comfort. It is a type well suited to a wooded lot. A giation, Cleveland, Ohio, can furnish complete drawings for this design. Leaflet ONSISTENT ADVERTISING PAYS! 3 1 } 1 | | | | | | { | i 3 age eireles + oe Teeleate Was + 5 aefaees outeetorteofuetontestoatesfoctesfeetes! ) + ote ete oRe ete ee ete ete elects ofeote soto oleate ats of. eeseeteedeefectootestaatects clue stestonteots states a EI Ne Ne ee adselaetenlestaatedtestodds Be Cac Laodes 2 Sretestes] s 3 Ci J. EDWARD STEVENS FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER CARROLLTOWN, PENNA Phene Office and Residence Teeteedes Share 1 Teetesderticdentaalectectiitisdeetosteatastoetes 3 SET eegeeterteedeetots SH CORCE3 soe Tash 3 Too] boedoeteetoctortostesdectostes EIST II - + Leoteeleeleeteeleilortoidesd 0 SH | 1% is a book of songs. Every depositor who has one of those high- ly prized books in his possession can tell you that just to leaf it thru and see colum after column of dollars saved makes the heart sing with joy. A dollar starts a saving account and gets you one of these books of happiness. Every dollar sav- ed and entered in it will add another note to your hymn of happiness. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA &. E. Prindible, Pres. F. L. Brown, Cashier Total Resources Capital Paid Up .. re. $100,000.00 Surplus Earned ..........._..._. $100,000.00 A ROLL OF HONOR BANK The Book of Somg Perhaps you never realized that a Bank Book F. E. Farabaugh, V. Pres Reuel Somerville, V. Pres $2,000,000.00 OB FE RL OE ET ICE—ICE—Deliveries in Patton 4 days weekly, Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat.— Call or write Pete Miller, Hastings, Pa. H. & C. Phone. 4t. Won't Go. “This thing can’t go on!” exclaimed the shoe clerk, vainly trying lo get a number two shoe on a number four foot.—Boston Transcript. MONEY FOR FARMERS Long term mortgages on lower interest rates are afforded to farmers under the terms of the Farm Loan Act. We have $250,000.00 to apply to pur- chase of land—payment of debt or oth- er farm improvements. L, BE. KAYLOR, Secrogary-Treasurer, Bell Phone 183M, Kbensburg, Pa. FOR SALE—Jerscy Cow, fresh. IR- quire J. C. McGougn, Dysart, R. D. Pa. 3t. RFUEL SOMMERVILLE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in the Good Building. 666 is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Jilious Fever and Malaria. It kills the germs. i QI Yarnell, Cowher & Co. NU Beauty of line, proportion and finish —luxu- rious comfort for drivers and passengers. Performance that other cars strive to equal— Economy of operation; economy of up- keep—Buick provides every- thing a motor car can offer — in greater measure and at moderate cost. It is today the greatest value automobile dollars can buy. PATTON AUTO 0. PATTON, PA. Tn GEO. E. PRINDIBLE .... cesennen wines PRESIDENT LESTER LARIMER, ...V. PRES AND CASHIER JAMES WESTRICK DR. P, J. KELLY MYRON 8. LARIMER .... « VICE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT ASSISTANT CASHIER I m— THE GRANGE NATIONAL BANK PATTON, PA. 4 PCT. PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS 3 PCT. PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS » DIRECTORS JAMES WESTRICK T. M. SHEEHAN C. J. NOON BARTH YOUNG G. E. PRINDIBLE DR, P. J. KELLY : P. 0, STRITTMATTER B. J. OVERBERGER LESTER LARIMER B. BLANKFELD CIEE nnn
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