THE PATTON COURIER
ALTOONA BOOSTER
MERCHANTS SAY:
Trade in Your Home Stores
First, But Come To Booster
Stores for the Things Your Home
Merchants Cannot Supply.
Wednesday,
Dec. 17th
Will Be
CHRISTMAS
SUBURBAN
DAY
In Altoona
Booster Stores
A Good Day To
Buy Christmas Gifts!
Altoona Booster Stores were never
better prepared to supply Gift
Buyers Than at the Present Time.
No matter what Kind of Gifts are
wanted, you will find unlimited
variety from which to choose.
MERCHANDISE FOR
PRACTICAL GIFTS
AND FOR THE HOME
This year many people are giving
gifts that will be useful and Booster
Stores have made a special effort to
provide a large and varied assort-
ment of merchandise of this kind
from which you will have no diffi-
culty in making satisfactory selec-
tions, no matter how large or small
your Gift List may be.
CHRISTMAS
SUBURBAN DAY
Next Wednesday will be -a good time
to do Christmas Shopping as many
Booster Merchants will offer special
attractions of interest to Giit
Buyers.
SANTA CLAUS SAYS:
“Everybody Finds That Christ-
mas Shopping Is Easier, Quicker
and More Economical and Satis-
factory in Booster Stores.”
Santa Also Says That “He
Finds Present Prices In Booster
Stores Lower Than He Has
Known Them To Be For Many
Years.’ ’
FREE PARKING
On all Altoona streets with restric-
tions in certain districts.
PARKING UNDER POLICE PRO-
TECTION at the. Municipal Park-
ing Space, 10th Avenue between
11th and 12th Streets.
ENCLOSED PARKING :—The Wil-
liam F. Gable Co. Garage, Rear of
11th Avenue Building; Fleck’s Penn
Alto Garage, 1409 13th Avenue.
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., and
WOLF FURNITURE CO. provide
Free Parking Space For Their Cus-
tomers at Rear of Their Stores.
ALTOONA
BOOSTER
ASSOCIATION
WARNER THEATRE
ALTOONA, PENNA.
Starting Friday, Dec. 12th
James Oliver Curwood’s
Iver skn
With Charles Bickford,
What A Book It Was!
What A Picture It Is!
County Commissioners
And Highway Engineer
Discuss Work on Roads
Following a conference at Ebensburg
between the county commissioners, L.
R. Owens, county engineer, and A. M.
White, engineer for the state highway
department, the matter of accepting or
rejecting plans for the improvement
of four sections of highway in Cam-
bria county was held over until the
commissioners meet in regular session
Monday.
The improvements discussed at last
week’s conference include the reloca-
tion and reconstruction of about 6 miles
of the William Penn highway between
Ebensburg and Munday’s Corner; five
miles of the road between Ashville and
the Buckhorn; a two-mile stretch from
the end of the two-mile stretch from
the end of the present pavement north
of Hastings to the Clearfield county
line at Westover and a section of se-
veral hundred feet in Hastings and
Elder township.
fully overtaxed and the temporary wir-
found to be a hazard which should be
eliminated at once.
Emil C. Schwing of Johnstown, fore-
man, and R. B. Kinney, clerk of the
grand jury.
STATE POLICE PROBING
burg substation are investigating two
stolen, police learned, but the amount
Thursday morning when men reported
sum money concealed in the dwelling.
URGES MORE CARE
IN SUMMONING OF
COURT WITNESSES
Grand Jury Believes That
Expenses Should Be
Reduced
Holding that far too many witnesses
are subpoenaed to appear before the
grand jury and the trial courts, the
December grand jury, ni its report
handed up to the court last week, rec-
ommended that care be exercised in
the calling of witnesses in order to
reduce the costs to the defendants and
to the county.
“We would recommend,” the report
reads, “that the court instruct con-
stables that there are too many un-
necessary witnesses being subpoenaed
to appear before the grand jury and
before the courts—persons who know
nothing of the facts in the cases to
be head and considered. This condi-
tion creates unnecessary costs—some-
times placed upon the county, some-
times upon the prosecutor and fre-
quently upon the defendant and is a
the poorer classes are concerned. This
is not always the fault of the con-
stables, but, in a number of cases con-
sidered last week, it has been their
responsibility, and this should serve as
a warning to any one directing the
subpoenaeing of unnecessary witnesses.”
Institutions in Good Condition
Members of the grand jury made {
the usual tour of county institutions
and found the usual good conditions
prevaling at the county jail and the
children’s home. They recommended
a small appropriation to allow for
painting the interior walls at the lat-
ter institution.
Regarding the county home, the
grand jury found that conditions, while
somewhat disordered on account of the
building operations in progress there,
are, on the whole, satisfactory. The
report carried a recommendation that
the inmates of the home be classified
as to physical and mental condition
and certain groups segregated at the
earliest possible time.
The laundry equipment at the home
was found to be antiquated and woe-
I
c
ing arrangement at the bakery was
The report was signed by Alderman
ROBBERIES IN COUNTY
State police attached to the Ebens-
robberies, one apparently an attempt
at sabotage rather than theft and the
other a daring house burglary in which
the occupants of the house were held
up by masked and armed burglars
while their companions ransacked the
dwelling.
With sabotage as the apparent mo-
tive, a person or persons as yet uniden-
ified broke into the motor barn of the
South Fork Coal Co. at South Fork
last week and damaged a mine motor
to the extent of $500. A few small
tools and some wire may have been
taken represents only a small part of
the loss. The damage was discovered
for work and found the motor unfit
for service.
While one member of the group
STATE GR!
granted a
Johnstown until the March term
Since his arerst he has been at liberty
the time of his trial.
serious matter, especially insofar as|arl
of Johnstown to represent Arthur Cle- |
Murder Monday of last week of Scoit
Tomes, negro, in the wire mill of the ing a street in
Bethlehem Steel Corp., Johnstown.
cows fed well and properly ca
will return profits even under condi- | Memorial Hospital by his uncle, Mar-
NTED DELAY SEEK 30 PER CENT
IN TRIAL OF TONY LIMA | REDUCTION IN TAX
: Protest , Committee from Central Pennsylvania
shite fense Protes l .
Beshite Defen . : 2 i Coal Producers Meet
Continuance Until March Ordered
Despite protests on the part of de-
fense counsel, the court last week
commonwealth motion to The Tax Committee of the Central
continue the trial of Tony Lima of Pensylvania Coal Producers’ Associa-
of tion met with the Board of Cambria
, County Commissioners in the court-
house recently. to take up the question
of a 30 per cent reduction in the valua-
tion of coal lands. In addition to the
Commissioners, the County Engineer,
the County Solicitor and the three spe-
cial engineers appointed by the Com-
missioners, some time ago were attend-
ance.
Representatives from the following
coal companies were in attendance at
the meeting: The Munroe Coal Com-
pany, the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke
Corporation, the Wilmore Coal Min-
ing Company, the Berwind-White Coal
Company, the Clearfield Bituminous
Coal Corporation, the Argyle Coal
Company, the Ebensburg Coal Com-
pany, the Lorain Steel Company, the
Bethlehem Mines Corporation, the Lo-
gan Coal Company and the Sterling
Coal Company.
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criminal court.
Lima was indicted by the grand jury
Monday ve of
of last week on a charg
involuntary manslaughter in connec-
tion with the murder Oct. 31, 1928, of
George Cupp, Johnstown merchant,
who was shot and killed by a masked
assassin as he entered his home on
Messenger street in the early evening.
In opposing the continuance, defence
counsel intimated that the validity of
the indictment would be attacked on
the grounds of having been returned
after the statutory time had elapsed
but it is believed commonwealth o
cials will circumvent this move by con
tending that Lima was a fugitive and
could not be located prior to the time
the September, 1930, grand jury met.
ym bail, which will be continued until
PORTAGE BOY STRUCK BY
AUTO; RIGHT LEG BROKEN
ment, Johnstown negro indicted for the | etn
Struck by an automobile while cross-
portage one day last
{ week, John Hanniakan, aged 11, son of
YT Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hannakan, of
GIVE COWS GOOD CARE—Good | Portage, sustained a fracture of the
red for | right leg. The boy was removed to
The court last week announced the
appointment of Atty. Walter E. Glass
ions. Join the local cow testing asso-|tin Madiecan, and at the hospital it
iation so the ability of each cow mav |is stated that his general condition is
be determined. i fair.
CR CRRA FIA eS a]
A RRA CT,
Our Periodic
Inspection Service
BEATS TROUBLE
THERE'S only a small charge for this service—but
what a lot of worriment it lifts from your shoulders.
’
It not only keeps your car “on its toes” through
minor adjustments—but forestalls many serious re-
rs and replacements.
Drive in for information. Courteous / attention, Mo-
dern equipment, Complete stock of griine parts and
accessories. And a real desire to serve you.
Stoltz Motor Co.
Patton, Pa.
herded the occupants of the house into
one room, where he held them at bay
with a drawn revolver, his companion
ransacked the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Kelly of Ebensburg, last Wednes-
day night, escaping with several small
articles of jewelry and overlooking a
After searching the house, the masked
burglars bound Mr. and Mrs. Kelly and
a guest and gagged them by placing
strips of adhesive tape across their
mouths to prevent an outcry.
Although state police are probing
both robberies, they report that thus
far they have developed no clues which
would aid them in locating the per-
petrators.
WELFARE CONFERENCE
ADOPTS 10-YEAR PLAN
A ten-year program of work to help
the “under-privileged’ children of
Pennsylvania was adopted at Harris-
burg last week at the statewide con-
ference on child welfare.
The program included recommenda-
tions for legislative appropriation to
help 2,500 mothers now on the waiting
list of the mothers’ assistance fund;
for employment of trained welfare
workers by county poor boards; for
establishment of a state probation bu-
reau; for increasing the age limit in
juvenile court action to 18 years; and
for the concentration of activity on
the individual child and the preserva-
tion of the family unit.
It was reported that there were 125,-
000 handicapped, neglected, and delin-
quent children in the state.
EDWARD ECKENRODE
Edward Eckenrode, 46, of Gallitzin
died while at work as a trackman for
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
near Muleshoe. He had been employed
by the railroad company for the last
15 years and apparently. was in good
health when he left his home last
Thursday morning. A heart attack was
given as the cause of death.
He was a son of George and Cather-
ine (Ebig) Eckenrode and was born |
June 17, 1884, in Galiltzin. His father
pasesd away four year ago.
Funeral services were conducted Sat.
morning at 9 o'clock in St. Patrick's
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Valuable Premiums
WITH EVERY PURCHASE OF $1.00 AND WITH
EACH $1.00 PAID ON ACCOUNT, WE ARE GIVING
A FREE CHANCE ON THE FOLLOWING VALUA-
BLE ARTICLES TO BE GIVEN AWAY ON DECEM-
BER 31st, 1930, AT 9 P.M.
FIRST—RADIO, WITH BATTERIES AND TUBES.
SECOND—EIGHT DAY MANTEL CLOCK.
THIRD—STEVENS’ ..22 CAL, RIFLE,
FOURTH—DOVER ELECTRIC IRON.
FIFTH—SET KNIVES AND FORKS,
SIXTH—ENAMEL ALARM CLOCK,
Huher's Hardware
PATTON, PA.
Catholic Church at Gallitzin. Inter-
ment will be in the church cemetery.’ EEE Ey
ems roe collided near Highland Grove on wed- | in marriage. Rev. Chas. W. Wasson
8 |nesday night. The buggy was demo- | performed the ceremony.
|lished and the driver considerably One day last week a party of hun-
CWS 0 ans [shaken up. One of the horses also was | ters from Hastings and Et. Boniface
{badly bruised. The horseless vehicle killed a large black bear two miles
escaped injury as did also the chauf-|pelow Patton, near Thomas’ Mills.
wn th Y X
feur. J ‘ is rebuilding his house
\ C ad Frank E. Farabaugh has purchased | 2s. McCans is rebuilding his )
which was destroyed by fire a few
the Patton feed and buckwheat mill months ago desuroye y
TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF [of Gray and Felton and has taken | 2
THE PATTON COURIER, | possession of the same. It is under-|
I stood the purchase price was in the ERECTING AIR RADIO
EEE | neighborhood of 85.00. | TOWER NEAR CRESSON
| + Construction of a radio tower near
V \ : {ther Summit Country Club, along the
Prom the Files of The Courier of | Cresson and Gallitzin Highway, is
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Thursday, Dee. 12, 1895, | being made by the Trans-continental
The asessors of Patton have taken | Western Air, Inc., with headquarters
an accurate census of the town during! John S. Stough, son of John Stough, | j, Columbus, O. The radio station
the past few weeks and find that there |of Ebensburg, was instantly killed at|yi) pe used to provide airplane wea-
is a total of 3,859 people living within |Braddock on Sunday morning when he | ther service for al ships of the com-
the borough limits. fell in front of a train. | pany flying from Pittsburgh to eastern
Martin Woodley, one of Patton's| Messrs, Ward and McKelvey, the two points. Mail plane service will be in-
pioneer settlers, died last Wednesday |new tailors, of New Cumberland, W.| augurated in the near future.
at his home in Hastings, aged 80 years. |Va., are in town and have opened u®| The Western Air, Inc., recently ap-
Mrs. Peter Johnson, who resided near | for business in the Solomn Building, | plied to the Federal Radio Commission
the Pardee No. 3 mine, died Monday | opposite the Palmer House. |for permission to erect the station at
morning of paralysis, aged 47 years. On Last Thursday evening at the Cresson and received approval of the
William J. Reinne, son of Wm. and |home of Burgess Donnelly, John Ar-|request two weeks ago, work on the
Mrs. Isabelle Reinne, of this place, died | dell, a well known and highly respect- | station being started immediately. A
at the Altoona hospital on Tuesday |ed young man of Patton, and Miss radio operator will be employed to take
following an operation for appendicitis. | Minnine Brown, Ansonville ,weer united | charge of ‘the station.
The Northern Cambria Street Rail-
way Company expect to have their
trolley line in operation by the first
of February.
Joe Cole's automobile and a buggy
owned by Samuel Weakland, the livery-
man, and drawn by a team of horses,
From the Files of The Courier of
Friday, December 15 1905,
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Solve Your
Gift Problem
This Year
Every Christmas, for many
years, jewelry purchased at
our store has brought joy
to hundreds of recipients.
This year our collection of
gifts is more dazzling and
alluring than ever before.
Regardless of the type of
jewelry you may wish to in-
vest in, you will find it here
at a moderate price.
It Will Pay You to
Make Your Selections
Early.
Tozer Jewelry Co.
M. H. Gardner, Mgr.
PATTON, .. PENNA.
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Mr. Frank
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friends of 1
hunting trip
they returned
son and Mr.
a nice SIX pe
Visitol
A. S. Jackson
Mrs. Raymon
Mr. and Mrs.
Clair, Mardel!
mer, Mr. and
son Elwood of
Mrs. Matild
a daughter
home
Sunday.
Miss Ell
tor la
Ru 1 :
were Coalport
ing.
Many of th
of James McC:
of his 15 th B
The evening
game, at a lati
was served.
Ronald Adar
the Philipsbur
as improving.
The Roselar
held their reg:
the home of )
Cartney last T}
Mr. Albert I
spent Saturday
here.
Miss Caroline
was among the
day afternoon.
Mr. William |
caller in Soutl
afternoon of ti
Mr .and Mrs.
Center, were vi
Mr. and Mrs. H.
ly.
Miss Hattie Z
in Hastings, on
Mr. and Mrs.
nesbhoro, were I¢
Miss Theresa
public school of
Sunday at the hi
and Mrs. Georg
Miss Louise a
of Spangler ,we
Monday evening
Father Hckey
visitors in towr
Mr. and Mrs. (
ers in Ebensbur
Miss Ruby Wi
cent Spangler vi
Rev. Father C
among the calle
day morning.
Mr. Norman C
ited in town on
Miss Veronica
Cit N. Jd, is st
the home of her
John Stefanik, a
Mr. Simon Lan
in town on Mon
Mr. Louise Flo
ing in Carorlltow
Miss Rose Mar
town, was amon
on Sunday.
The New Scho
ed on Monday m
FEWER DOE
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For Sm
Although it wi
the «
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not come up to
30 0( .
special
estimatec
hunted witho
began wi
was resp
small bag.
the drives as
not covered as t
have been had
warmer.
While there wes
secutions, of cour
rule conducted
and there w
which pre
Most sportsmen Vv:
showed the right
for the purpos
deer. It is doubtf
censes were purcl
used.
Records of viola
ing the special se
completed. Howey
all counties b
tively light.
Game Protect
the collec n of
the board’
ing county, Game
Clarin also collect
tors killing illegal
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Autoists Delay
Plates |
Reports to Mot
sioner Benjamin (
up to Tuesday, D
70,000 fewer appli
ceived from 3
ceived
for 1930 S.
“In part,” Eynol
attributed to the i
the last two weel
sion is responsible
fall-off, of course.
>rastination enters
Ow
week of December
have done
ers are puttin
sioner
registration fees a
000—an amount 1
than for a similal