ST Toe *. 5 estes! + Loateetsetaots. Cd . 5 Teefeeler Jesleedastes Jesfesieale oJestestestertocteoteetactes Peter. Laeteatosleeteitestest RIP f .. besdesteatss eo Feitectedoctectesd. hos oedeetesteodoeteotes Best. Bee +. feed *. ¥ ode teede ste! s feeds 03s ¢ 2. aca 2, os] Toole stesdesteod SY ‘ eSeadee booteodes! oy Jo bos 2 C36 ae] Joeeciooforterd Coo : esirfosind 2 s 20 eitostests Jeoteefeetestes] oSeetesles! PaaS Pa. ufeate sleet i: EVERY WEDNESDAY SUBURBAN DAY IN ALTOONA BOOSTER STORES Where You Can Supply Every Personal Need and All Fur- nishings for the Home. PLAN TO SHOP IN LTOONA ON SUBURBAN DAY AND SHARE IN THE GOOD VALUES In Seasonable and Dependable Merchandise Offered by STER STORES Store Hours: 8:30 A M. to 5:30 P.M until 2 P. M. CCAR NC 0) 20 Te Taos Te sto TesTe oe ool, afeedestedleseloaluoluleslailosleeloeoeloeles a eels Seegregeelasiesieianiscionaelaslanisfaiaiailnialeciod 1 STRAND THEATRE PROGRAM WEEK OF OCT. 10. JOHN BARRYMORE in “WHEN A MAN LOVES.” WEEK OF OCT. 17. RONALD COLMAN IN “BEAU GESTE” supporting cast of bie stars. BOO Saturday ENTIRE eight and a Pantin A Tristecs Satara Regular Admission Prices. esfesesdestorectortaclecfestonorectonlectorforfoelofuclustorlesforoele What to Do With Old Safety Razor Blades Boston. M. Durkee of Brook- line has Ived one of the world’s great problems: What to do with old safety razor blades. Seven years left him too weak to mower and the green 111 around. So he mounted an old cleaner on a flat ago illn push a grass grew the motor of axle connecting a couple of toy cart yugh holes he bored in the axle hafts about 4 inches long and of an inch in diameter. At the tops of these shafts he put pulleys and connect them by a sewing machine belt to the shaft of the motor. On the bottom « ie shafts he fastened thin br: d about 4 inches in diameter and finally bolted the razor blades he ends of these dises. A lor 1 p cord eonveyed power from a plug in the house to the handle of the mower and thence to the mo tor. The machine was light Durkee could push it ¢ ly while tle2 power whirled utt dises ‘and the ore i few Il around. Flics Chance Styles Bridson 1 | \ plague of worsetl hia ( i d styles here Dresses are lo with wide sleeves xd high n Woolen stockings ire popula I yi Q [| il LD) {NTA ¥ Parne H, Cow LL & Co. \ SNA] JIN NGI a = A EAR TART BA” MONEY Oi FARMERS Long term inortgages on lower interest rates are afforded to farmers under the terms of the Farm Loan Act. We have 250,000.00 te apply to pur- chase of payment of debt or oth- ar farm improve 3: B KA Bell Phone land ments. cretary-Treasurer, 183 M. Ebensburg, Pa REUEL SOMMERVILLE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in the Good Building. "66 is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It kills the germs. CIR) 00 0 te te eteeteste ste eeteo ee Teele olesfeedesfesdeilosiert Waateeteteeteiteateelected! 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Va.) & $B BBE SSD Oe Se Weelesdastantendectostastestootaniantirfecieoguootaosiesdroinntuninsieedy ATS IL ARISEN “l admire the leaders of the electrical industry” Says Williaf Green, President, - American Federation of Labor “With a business sagacity which chal- lenges our admiration, the leaders of the industry adopt and put into invention and discovery and ready for electrical force each new as sen as it is perfected And 1 is devoting so much time, market. am certain no other in dustry mon- ey and effort to the successful expan sion of its service and production.”* Do you recall the time just a companies, few years ago, when the only electrical service available was electric light—and it was a nov- elty? Under the sound business ad- ministration of these companies the cost of domestic current has been reduced since 1914 while There are sixty-eicht and a the cost of living has gone up half million people in the Uni- 68 per cent, In the hands of ted States living in electrically these companies the public is wired homes; thirty million el- assured a continuous expansion ectric horse power serving of electrical service to meet the American industry; three mil- needs of our national develop- lion investors owning the com- ment—and at decreasing rates panies furnishing electric paw- ag more current is sused. ev, heat and Huh, You who have helped to build the electrical age and who have The rapidity of this expansion € ¢ e al | profited from it in comfort, and the universal benefit it has conferred, have been due pri- convenience and happiness, can marily to the courage, initia safeguard its future growth tive, and prophetic-vision which by continued support of the American principle of individ- have inspired the operations of rican initiative, the country’s licht and power ual Complete text of Mr. Grenn’s address furnished on request. GAT & POWER CC dad Ka bl a Eel STO IRA i ETT AT Mr Rey eye) oo rs ANI EP A Novel Bom the Play by any ROBERTS RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOOD 1920, by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOQGD. THE BAT" COPYRIGHT, HIS greatest of thrilling mystery plays has been most skillfully resolved into a supetb novel. It maintains at high pitch all the qualities of mystery, comedy and romance so characteristic of the work of Mary Roberts Rinehart. | | Will appear as a Serial in THE PATTON COURIER-SOON THE PATTON COURIER Smoke Costs Billion Dollars Yearly | burned smoke, only AMAGE caused by smoke costs the 7 average American a $15.00 a year, ac- cording to tabula- tions ‘made public by the Bureau of Mines. The dam- age includes such items as the extra cleaning of rugs, carpets, curtains, household furniture, interior stocks of goods in warehouses and stores. smokiness.” The growth of many com- “Soft coal contains a large of volatile matter, which it not properly issues from the containing soot, and injurious gases. contaminates health, and exerts a depressing eff it also’ causes large economic losses. —Herbert Hoover. Herbert Hoover To this figure must be added | for information on oil heating the U. “an enormous but intangible loss to |S. Department of Agriculture has test. the community through the continual | ed a wide range of oil heating equip- |heating a comparatively new and im- and exterior decoration, laundry, wear | portant factor in the nation-wide cam- and tear on clothing and the effect on | paign against the smoke evil. proporticn chimney as tarry products This smoke not the air, injures in” in order to prevent the complete demoralization of markets for petroleum and its products. With a continuous oil fuel supply assured, there- fore, government experts and engineers see in the rapid rise of oil fuel for household In response to a general demand ment, and has prepared a booklet of New York City Under Smoke Pall During Coal Strike munities has been held back by the, smoke evil, it 1s shown, and for this | reason alone “the loss to these towns | is incalculable,” declares the National in oke Prevention Committee. yal is a difficult fuel to cope with, | from the viewpoint of smoke elimination. the evil is possible only through yatient cooperation and educational | nethods over a long period of time. successful | coal A moderation of | lation.” | information to assist the home owner in deciding what type of apparatus to install. to home owners,” says this report, be- | cause of the relief from furnace at- | tendance, dirt, the uncertainties of supply and the ease of heat regu- Any one of the standard types of oil heating equipment will prove satis- factory from the viewpoint of clean- It had long been anticipated bY | lines ss and convenience, if they are 1 nt, because it was thought that | ieering experts that the smoke | | properly installed and serviced. Such ion would become increasingly | |a furnace is free from smoke; it car- | ries no offensive odors; and its opera- use of soft coal for domestic PUI | tion is so automatic that the whole s would gradually extend as the | EppiY of natural gas decreased. But luring the past two years the rapid rrowth of efficient oil heating equip- ent, with its enormous advantages 1 convenience and comfort, has in- icated that the ideal “clean city” is y longer a visionary’s dream, but an mmediate possibility. The relation of domestic heating to | noke abatement is highly important. he smoke nuisance from factories nd large industrial plants can usual- vy be curbed by local legislation, but imber of houses and apartments 3 too great for constant inspection. tary Hoover points out, “do- ns ni \s Secre iestic or apartment house smoke, al-| ough a small proportion of the total, particularly is produced at low sidential sections.” For the first time, however, a really yracticable solution of the smoke nuisance problem has made its ap- )earance, according to engineers. {ing Coal is discovering that he must | iow share his throne with another reat source of fuel and power. Fol owing n oil production, oil has almost liter- to a matter of pressing a button objectionable because | levels and in| bo Wl | particles as small as 0.000008 inch in | | problem of heating a home is reduced Even the furnace room becomes a homelike addition to the architectural features of the house, and many homes now | use their cellar furnace-room as a lounge or den, as a radio or room, or for billiards and other enter- tainment. The general adoption of oil for domestic heating fuel, it is argued, wenld add many comforts and con- veniences to the life of the individual, just as it is helping to solve an im- portant community problem in the conquest of the smoke evil. In the examination of this dust a microscope was used which magnified the diameter of the particles 1000 times. With this one can count dust | diameter, lly flooded the petroleum fields of | he country and the problem now is | susceptibility to disease and especial: o prevent wastage. Today the production of petroleum Smoke is actually harmful. It diminishes the daylight and increases | Old bills for lighting. It is injurious to the people who breathe it, examina- tion of the lungs of persons who have resided for a long time in smoky cities the amnual cry of “Famine!” | having shown them to be blackened by the soot from the air. Physicians assert that soot and dust increases ly to pneumonia. The smoke abatement problem, as 5 nearly 250,000 barrels a day in ex-|it is reduced to terms of the average ss of immediate requirements. Nu- | lerous new oil areas are still await- | 1g de svelopment and a large number of | cleanly fuel than coal for heating | | home-dweller, resolves itself into the {use of some more roven oil-producing wells are “shut-| dwellings. DO YOU REMEMBER? Does This Recall Frozen Radiators and Cracked Cylinders? N an effort to cut down the huge an- * nual tribute paid by motorists to )ld Man Winter, the American Auto- 10bile Association is broadcasting the rst cold weather warnings. It is| timate? that every year several] wndred thousand car owners get an anti-freeze mixture anght witho in their rad He a ARE 500 till ULE ing damage runs far into the millions. Careful motorists already have be- gun to have glycerine put into their radiators as insurance against the first cold snap. If the garage man knows his job one servicing with radiator glycerine should last all win- ter because it does not boil away or ators and that the result- | evaporate. “Heating with oil fuel appeals | music | intelligent and | TO nen GEO. E, PRINDIBLRE LESTER LARIMER, .. JAMES WESTRICK DR. P. J. KELLY ....ccoue . PRESIDENT PRES AND CASHIER VICE PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT MYRON 8, LARIMER ... ASSISTANT CASHIER THE GRANGE NATIONAL BANK PATTON, PA. 4 PCT. PAID ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS 3 PCT. PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS DIRECTORS JAMES WESTRICK Tr. M. SHEEHAN 0. J. NOON B. J. OVERBERGER BARTH YOUNG LESTER LARIMER G. E. PRINDIBLE B. DR. P. J. KELLY P. OC. STRITTMATTER BLANKFELD AHR nam The Book of Somg Perhaps you never realized that a Bank Book 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 golamn 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 Movines®. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA 3. E. Prindible, Pres. F. E. Farabaugh, V. Pres F. L. Brown, Cashier Reuel Somerville, V. Pres Total Resources ........ . $2,000,000.00 | Capital Paid Up ....._..._.. $100,000.00 Surplus Earned ............___. $100,000.00 A BOLL OF HONOR BANK > wjecfeofertaiacirefectactoctoatuotontestestooteclortostaets fuctreactaetoalontonleleotectustootontocluoto soe oc Soufusonfesfonfeefeefocfoce E 3 J. EDWARD STEV ; 3 ARD TE ENS % E FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER + - gg . Canes Phone Office and Residence CARROLLTOWN, PENNA foe 2, Joe res . oleate ad 2 teetactestatantortitont riots det adtitsitulash Saito teitaitectiatest . Lo totaled etaeterteetuetantertatontostortertscdactontuclacieetontasteetuctestostetostosteatosoeoatesd eefaetestoedort wu Josferte Gergen | | i | | 777007 7 RATHOND D. BUCK FUNERAL DIRECTOR HE, Phone: Office and Residence. PATTON, PA. TYPHOID CONTAGION AT ( ) 4 Reports 3 | received last week from NANTY-GLO IS CHECKED | the is of samples of water show- | ed the water in the borough With no new cases of typhoid fever | Mains and the water of a spring used having been reported to the Nanty-|DV the families in which the case Glo health authorities in the last ten developed, is free from typhoid germs. days. it is believed that the contagion| The patients included William Wel is under control. Three cases were|sh, Sr., and two daughter of Mr. and reported within several days a fort- | Mrs. Samuel Adams. The condition night ago and a number of other per-|of Welsh is reported as god while sons who were il had been under sur-’the Adams girls are reported to be veillance as an epidemic was feared. slikhtly improved, :
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