THE PATTON COURIER THE PATTON COURIER Published Every Thursday. Thos. A. Owens, Editor & Prop. E. F. Bradley, Associate Editor Entered in the Post Office at Patton, Pa., as Second Class Mail Matter. Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in Advance. Single Copies 5 Cen RATE CARD-—Legal Notices, at 10c¢ per line. per insertion; Business Locals 10c per line; Business Cards, $10.00 per year; Display advertising, 30c per inch; Full position, 25 pct. extra; Minimum charge, $1.00. Cash must ac- company all orders for foreign adver- tising. All Advertising copy must reach this office ky noon Wednesday to in- sure insertion, Unsigned correspon- dence will be ignored at all times. The Patton Courier Has the Largest Paid-Up Circulation of Any Weekly Newspaper in Cambria County—Covers the Home Community like a blanket, and circulates far more extensively in north-eastern Cambria County than does any other newspaper, OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SIDELINES. —FOLKS, when you have a news item, let your home town paper know about. it. Be fair to us. We want every item you know about, and are mighty glad to get them * * * ” —THE STATE Highway Depatrment is to be congratulated in the eflicient manner in which their maintenace forces keep the roads in good condi- tion throughout this section of the state. - * * . —ROY EATON DECKER, for many years an editor of the Courier, now of the Curwensville Herald, in a letter written us the other day comments that “we are getting out a h--1 of a good paper.” Thanks, Roy, we compliment you in the same manner. * * * * —THE DROUTH may be responsible for an increase in food prices but after all is said and done, we wonder whether the greater part of the in- crease won't go into the coffers of a lot of profiteering middlemen, who usually can see and realize ‘material benefits from any disaster. * * * * —AUTOMOBILES have been coming out in new models, new designs and new colors so fast these last several months that we have lost passing indeptification of a great many of them. It appears, too, that folks will have to pay even less for really better cars this season. * * * * —MAYOR SAYLOR of Johnstown has announced that no carnivals will be permitted in the city as long as he is in office. Carnivals, at the best, don’t help a town any. Patton, should know that from past experience. Home town merchants don’t profit any by carnivals, and neither does the com- munity at large. * * * * —HUNTERS, beginning Wednesday of this week, are priviliged to train their dogs in the woods subject to the rules laid down by the State Game Commission. The recent rains will help the sportsmen a lot. Dry weather is not conductive to giving the dog a chance, and the forest fire hazard will not be so great either. * * * » —HAVE you ever noticed how a little paint improves things in general? Don’t you think that Patton might be bright- ened up quite a bit, if some of the property owners were to invest in this particular commodity? Appoint your- self a committee of one, Dear Reader, and look the town over. It won't take you long to pick out the sore spots. * * * * —GOOD REPUBLICANS must not pay much attention to matter contain- ed in the news and editorial columns of the Johnstown Democrat. Remem- ber, the Johnstown Democrat is funda- mentally a Democratic newspaper, and as such, seeks to cause consternation in Republican ranks. Propaganda from the “enemy’ ‘should be taken with a grain of salt. ’ * * * - —“ACCORDING to the recent cen- sus, Los Angeles shows the highest percentage of gain of any city in the country. It also shows an exodus from good towns like Curwensville or idicts, morons, followers of Aimee Semple Mc-~ Pherson, scabs and other damphools in a surprising number. The East may be effete, but thank God, it doesn’t boast of a town like Hollywood's Suburb.”"—Curwensville Herald. * * * * —IN LOOKING over the files of the Patton Courier from the first issue back in 1893, up until the present time, one gets a very detailed history of Patton from tha early days. Many things long since forgotten bob up in black and white. Many things well worth while are but, also there are things not so pleasing By the files of the home new: pape’ we = 00 vy a who i roy y + mm Al 1 |. 4 p | : | Jo as booming, and when it was mL |THE CAMBRIA * fair this season excel all fairs held at (a new residence for himself on Mellon | beginning September 1st. Irae Patt Jourier was a good news ’ n han vexhrifrie } ie may | avenue On Thursday i : hre , Fatton Courier was a good news COUNTY FAIR. Ebensburg heretofore, and that is say- enue, On Thursday morning at three o'- paper at times-—a% other times it was indifferent. The newspaper is a good | mirror of your town. { * 0% 0% A DOWN in Johnstown a thirteen | year old boy has sat in a tree for more than 800 hours, or considerably more than a month. Where is the honor in this? What joy does it bring his par- ents? Rains, cold weather, etc., are not going to do the health of the boy any good, and- neither is sitting in a tree. This foolishness is more serious than the general public realizes. Every boy is entitled to his health. Sitting in a tree surely isn’t good for an active boy. * * * * —AND NOW the time is at hand when the young folks must return to school. Vacation time is over. The orderly procedure of a good old Amer- ican education is again about to take place, here in Patton, and all over the land. And we'll again have High School notes in our paper, and the community will turn an ear and an eye to football, and basketball and school activities. There is no deeper interest in a community than its in- terest in its school affairs, May Patton High come up to every expectation of its well-wishers. * * * * —AFTER 25 years Kansas has re- pealed its law under which it is a crime to manufacture, sell or give away cigarettes. Pennsylvania has a law prohibiting the selling or furnish- ing of cigarettes to folks under 21 years of age, but for the past several years we can’t see anybody living up to the letter of the law. Surely not in North- ern’ Cambria county. The mania of a few fanatics to “judge their neighbor” is a national menace. They do not wait until the neighbor has broken a fun- damental law before trying to punish him; they must pass a new law which is almost certain to make him a law- breaker. — 0 ——— WHAT DOTH IT BENEFIT A NATION? Prohibition law enforcement agents swoop down on a town and “clean-up” a few alleged violators of the Volstead Law. Prohibition law enforcement agents once more, or perhaps several times more swoop down on a town and “clean-up” some more alleged violators of the Volstead law.Perhaps some of the original alleged offenders are again ‘cleaned -up.” But the town is not made an emblem of temperance by a long shot. Don’t kid yourself into thinking that anyone who wants a drink of prohibited spirits goes thirsty for a minute even though an attempt is made to cause the source of supply to be cut off. It's more or less like one trying to stop all the leaks in a sieve’ and only ten fingers to do it with. It ’'s the spirit of the law itself that makes its enforcement impossible. So long as there are customers—there will be goods for sale. Each and every customer is just as bad as the “merchant.” And this same condition seems to hold good all over our nation. And it is a condition that is fundamentally far worse than existed before Volsteadism was inaugurated. “What does it profit a nation?” —_—0 A STATEMENT IN JUSTICE TO PATTON. Down at Frugality, about a week ago, a costly fire occurred, and the citizens of that place naturally called upon out- side towns for help. The Patton Fire Company did not receive a call, nor did they know anything about the fire. However, in times of stress and excitement, such a fire causes, the word was passed around Frugality, that the Patton Fire Company had been called and that they refused, or did not, put in an appearance. The local firemen, happily, knew nothing about this. | In justice to the Patton Firemen, and to all concerned, the company that suffered the heaviest loss at Frugality has caused to be published in the pus blic press the fact that the Patton Fire Company NEVER received a call, inas- much, owing to the fire, telephone communication with Patton was cut off. Rumor travels fast, especially if it a. Sa | Miss Bertha Kilber of Hastings and clock the two-story iosuble frame ing a great deal. It is pretty hard to astings and | cloc 16 two-story, double rame 5 sole ’ ANY) Q a S { Mr. Edwin J. Dietrick of Altoona were | dwelling } e belonging James / Only a little more than a week re- imagine the dis 7 of c \) | Daly lk v ¢ ¢ dwelling house belonging to James A. K € display of much more ¢ 5 married in St. Bernard's church on MecCans, which stood near the Marks . | Wednesday morning at five o'clock by dam on Lang avenue, was consumed \n\ ¢ aS | the Rev. Father Innocent. by flames. Due to prompt action on | ro | [ mains until the annual Cambria Coun- | than has been there before. | ty Fair opens for a week's showing| Be a booster for the fair. Go there at Ebensburg, and this gigantic exhibi- some time during the week yourself. The Patton Fire Co. No. 1, and the |the part of the Patton Fire Company, Patton Silver Cornet Band accom- | Other nearby property was saved. TAKEN : FROM THE FILES Of panied by a large number of others The boiler, engine and other machin- THE PATTON COURIER, | went to Philipsburg Thursday morning | ery for the new Patton steam laundry, {In a special car to attend the Fire- owned by D. A. Buck, has arrived and will be placed and put in operation as Lightning struck a telephone pole in|soon as possible. Mr. Buck is going co-operation of all of the residents of — ri Cambria and adjoining counties by RECOVER STOLEN CAR their attendance. iid . tion can be a success only through the Tell your friends to go. | | IN SOUTHERN ¢ ATE | men’s Convention. Sponsored and financed to a great | TN TARE, TART I X73) . i — M0 J Poe rut: 1 sei lav p "AT ap F : 3 i extent by Charles’ M. Schwab, this| Homer C. George, Sheriff of Cam TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. iro! of the Residence of Joseph Karl- to a good deal of expense in putting mn ” 2 igh 3 e orge, »oineil 4 - — 5 mm x y y ino Mp : \ g rn heim on Tuesday evening when his in steam and expeets to trun out work d a POUL ror ~ ape | MUnication from ¢ 1 at Memp- : ; the East has been brought right to ou ST 1 auth I Friday, August 25, 1905, were on the porch. The former was | laundry. his, Tenn., that an au bile belong- rot : f all ¢ r exhibitions in bria County, Sg rday received a com= | @ y a ‘ : 0 y t : ; greatest of all county exhibitions in y, Saturday received a com [From the Files of The Courier of |two little children, Wilfred and Hilda! that will compete with any foreign | | | doors in order that we may learn and in. t, Howard Smith of South Fork, bate Sump as Shag at the time and was| here are more apples to be seen enjoy things. Every community in the and which had been reported stolen | A big picnic under the auspices of | hocked down, while the latter who ip the north of the county than in the nation would be glad t d in the some time ago, was recovered in that |St: Mary's church will be held in the i a ai oh Lowy southern townships, states the South manner We Have beell. city in the possession wo men, one | BTOVE on Labor Day. The usual at-)a1d stunnedby the stroke. Neither were | pork Record. There is an orchard cn custody, | tractions will be in evidence and din- if u 2 nich ang 00a regained their n high hill on the road between St. id Suit [fier and singer al 2 served in ad-|P0O'mal condition. Augustine and Patton that is loaded s Samue ght refreshments. " crs with an avrage crop of large, luscious Samuel A oveient is = foot to hu a| THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. apples, of which a will ss rolley line from toona to Patton — be 500 bushels; but elsewhere the crop via the Buckhorn to connect with the|From The Files of The Courier of | is below the average, and mining Northern Cambria Street Railway. Thursday, August 22, 1895. | generally, is small. Lacking less than a year of rounding ——— | Mr. and Mrs. James Mellon of Pat- out a century of life, Thomas Wi On Thursday, John Kelly, of West ton spent a few days at Cape May and HELD AT SALEM CHURCH Ar Cty Tena) he Dey Mam iene, gt with 2h forty. Orie: Shave poll daring © Suring te weet. i g , 5. | na acident while working at Pardee Rebecca Baker, of St. Augustine. | Coliiery, by being struck with a fall| WANTED:—The Fuller Brush Com- of whom, when take . "i ( tv fair. wit] i 4 y.. But the Cambria county fair, With | said that his name wa its gigantic plant and its host of fea-|The other man’s na: é tures annually, can not be a success|Marlin and he said he had been picked indefinitely unless the people support up bs Sum Inohicn . The two Hon * are being held in Memphis r > it one hundred per cent. We should |. oohe 1h d in M ls for the 1 Cambria County authorities. all be Fair Boosters. We should be ex- —_— hibitors. We should attend it. TENTH ANNUAL REUNION True, depressed industrial condition have not given the fair the attendanc : Notwiths ; : nt weather 1 ; : ap : 3 in late years that it really deserves. NS pa anding ne ny hi he Who wants a job as motorman or of coal. His collar hone was broken | pany can use man to handle built-up conditions which nndou Uy curtailed | street car conductor. Almost time to|and he received a concussion of the |route in Patton, Hastings, and sur- However, all of us who can go should | {} > attendance ¢ he Salem church re-|gs i plications : i i : ¥ / € ce at the S 1 €-1send in applications. spine besides being bruised on several | rounding territory. Good earnings to do so. For the money invested in the | union and home-comi of approxi- | Work on the trolley line in Patton |parts of his body |start; repeat busines assures steady price of admission there is no wherz mately 300 and the ¢ ises proved | borough will be started next week. I J.C. Patrick, a photogropher and | income, Write 430 Central Trust Bldg. else in the United States that you Diony ‘enjoyable. One « 1€ feature of | Mrs. Frank E. Farabaugh, who has| John C. Cibulka, a tailor, bath of Coal. | i t— : Ae will learn and see as much. I hs 1 a Ds boy Sumy ill of typhoid fever, is| po: , Were in Patton on Wednesday| PLYMOUTH ROCK broilers for sale i ; ) { alescing. n:orning and hav: rented rooms and at Luke Ryan’s. Leave orders at the AAA . Fv rig . > the Cambria county|time hymns. Matt Robinson has broken ground for | wil proceed to do business in our town 'Patton Drug Co. it’s a HIT! HERE’S no ballyhoo in the phrase “it’s a hit” when you apply it to Mobilgas. This newest gasoline has won thou- sands of enthusiastic friends since it came out a few months ago. They knew it must be good since it’s by the makers of Mobiloil. They knew that their modern motors needed a modern fuel. And Mobilgas is modern- ized by Vacuum’s process of distillation for the car you drive today. You'll call Mobilgas a “hit” too, if you switch for a week and let your car decide. Is rumor refllecting upon others. This is written “In order that our many ru- ral readers in the section of Frugality may know the truth of the matter. The Patton Fire Company never re- fuses aid to its neighbors and it never will. Neither does the Patton Fire Com- pany hesitate in soliciting outside aid if they have a conflagration in Patton that they feel is beyond their power to control. Fire Companies in Northern Cam- bria County have a system of helping one another out, and this fact and good feeling has been instrumental in saving thousands of dollars worth of can pick out the periods when Patton property. Start today. See what Mobilgas gives you i, in performance. It’s anti-knock, clean and economical. It doesn’t cost a red cent more than regular gasoline. > . INDEPENDENT OILCO. |. INC., OF PENNA. ou - = AND MOBILGAS ETHYL, TOO SHERIF By virt of « ri Fac 3, Ali ieri IMac , Lev Facias and Vend the Court of Co rected, there wil sale at the City Hall, Mark Select Council JOHNS Saturday, at 1:30 o'clock, time, the follow tate, to wit: CONDITI The purchase the time of sale 5, 1930, at 1 © the property wil tember 5, 1930, the Court Hous up and sold at thé persons to who in case of sale, shall make . FI. All the right, ton Fortuna an in and to all th land situate, the Thirteenth Johnstown, Coun of Pennsylvania as follc to wi Fronting twer three (3) inches of Iron Street, tween the lots « anias Lewis a (100) feet to ( same lot of gr sic et. ux. by | day of June, 1! office for the r for Cambria Cc 294, page 393, tuna and There wife, mortgagor Taken in exec Markun. Paul Cauffiel, rr Al} the rig Steve Uzelac ar of, in and to ground, with th ments thereon Borough of I: County, Pa., bo follow Begin son Street, (for corner of Lot N erly direction Street 2 2 fee line of id Ja easterly directi and corner of northerly direct lot No. fifteen : thence in a wes of said Sixth Lot No, 13; th tion along the tance of 227.7¢ and place of be and designated of lots of East by 'O. C. Harri ed a two and o ing house knoy and outbuilding ises which beca by virtue of a uch and Rosali August 1, 192 1927, in D. B, cepting and re minerals and n excepted and r Taken in ex A. North Co.. tion. Graham, Yos Plaintiff, VENBD. All the right C. Morris, of, i messuage or ‘pi the Borough of of Cambria an known and nun of said Boroug corded in the 1 wit: Lot No. Third Street an an alley runnii one hundred fi Street, said lot 150 feet in lel thereon a two- being the same which was con leries Co. to W of February, 19 Vol, 268, page Taken in exe Atlantic Refini tion. W. H. Burd, LEY All the righ John M. Mertle his wife, of, in lot or piece of being in the Bi merly Township of Cambria an further boundec lows: Beginning at nue, corner of I after mentioned along said Sun deg. 39 min. Ee No. 87 on the h of lots; thence north 20 degre hundred fifty ( feet in width, south 69 degre feet to corner oO along said Lot 21 minutes, Eas feet to Sunshine ginning, being numbered as Li Viewmont, as la and W. H. Sun: corded in the F bria County, P 1, page 194, Taken in exec M. Ogden, Trus Wm. C. Reed, 1 W. H Burd, FI, All the right, H. Berlin, (wit] gan, terre-tenan certain lot of la ing in the 3rd W town, County of sylvania, bound low Beginning at erly side of 1 point is distant tion 72 feet fro property lines of VN of y Northeasterly si Southeasterly di along lot now « by a line parall side of Jackson | direction, 44 fe easterly directio minia Beltz and parallel with Ma along line of the in a Southeas Main Stree Having thereon half story brick Taken in exec derson Bros. Co D. BE. Custer,
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