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Thursday, November 16, 1939.
THE UNION anu.
PAGE FIVE,
PATTON BES |
Francis J. Cossitor of Patton, a
freshman at Franklin and Marshall
College, has been awarded a position
of fullback on the Freshman Football
team. Cossitor is the son of Mr. and
‘Mrs. Domenick Cossitor, Star Route,
Patton. He prepared for college at the
Patton high school, where he took a
part in athletics.
The regular meeting of the Tri-Hy-
Y club met at the home of Mary K.
Hoppel on Monday, November 6th
They finished the plans for the Tri-
Hi-Y dance and decided to hold it on
November 20th having it open to the
high school. Admission 15c¢. The fol-
lowning committees were selected:
General committee—Mary K. Hoppel,
June Rhue, Gertrude Jones and Patty
Green. Decoration Committee — Ann
Smith, Jeanette Conrad and Eleanor
McGonegal; Program Committee Janet
Ifert, Ann Smith, Mary L. Deschamps.
Margaret Lacue, Doris Bloom, Lenore
Thomas, Lois Rounsley, Gertrude
Jones, Jeanette Conrad, Mary K. Hop-
pel, June Rhue, Betty Weakland, Pat-
ty Green, Marcella Girard and Bar-
bara Weakland.
Earl Bearer and Ben Sperry, both
of Patton, are in the wilds of Clinton
county this week where they are on
a bear hunting expedition.
Don’t forget the annual raffle, bingo
and card party to be held next Tues-
day evening, November 21st, in the
Firemen’s hall, Patton, by Branch No.
980, Knights of St. George for the ben-
efit of St. Mary's Church and School.
No admission charge to the raffle.
Cards, 25¢. Bingo 25¢ for 35 games and
a prize each game. Raffle st:
o'clock P. M. Cards and bingo star
at 8:30. Raffle continues after cards
This is an annual event held by the
Knights of St. George, and the gener-
al public is cordially invited to come
Rebecca Young of 506 Fifth avenue
Patton, submitted poetry for a $50.00
prize contest sponsored to secure wor-
th while poetry for publication fin
1
“Christmas Lyrics of 1939”. This vol-
ume, published since 1836, conta
only timely and meritorious poetr
The author will be represented in this
forthcoming anthology by her poem:
“Dreams of Yesterday.”
Johnny Gibbons received injuries
to three fingers of his left hand re-
cently while operating an electric
steel cutter on a road job at Bedford.
A birthday party was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Daugh-
erty in honor of their daughter. Don-
na’s ninth birthday anniversary. The
party was held from 2 to 5 o'clock and
the youngsters enjoyed games, after
which a delicious lunch was served.
Those attending were: Eleanor Dunbar,
Barbara Leary, Louise Dobransky, Lo-
uise Trezza, Victor Scott, Telford Gill,
Marylin Cochran, Dewy Cochran, Joan
Cammaratta, Mary Catherine Young,
Clyde Sheehan, Billy Sheehan, Nancy
Little, Connie Sheehan, Jerry Dune-
gan, Doris Dunegan, Jerry Dietrick,
Sally Lee Dietrick, Roma Yahner, Rose
Mary Dietrick, Sally Lee Dietrick,
Jane and Sally Bloom, Dolly Betloy,
Ethel and Colleen Callahan.
Those from Patton who attended the
funeral of Paul Gearhart, whose fu-
neral was held Saturday in Akron, O.,
with burial in St. Paul's cemetery at
that place, were: Mr. and Mrs. Anth-
ony Niebauer, sons, Germaine and
Calestus, and daughter, Anastasia; Mr.
and Mrs. Cornelius Gearhart, Mrs.
Charles Kelly and Gertrude Gearhart.
The next bingo party sponsored by
the I. C. B. U. will be held on Monday
evening, November 27th in the Com-
munity hall. Cash each game, 35 games
for 25 cents. There will also be a door
prize. There will be no bingo party on
Monday, Nov. 20th.
Miss Hilda Swope, Mrs. Barth Young
and Miss Louise Young attended the |
First Annual Art Exhibit in the Clear-
field Trust Company building Satur-
day afternoon. About one hundred pic-
tures were exhibited.
Mrs. Nellie Shannon of Philadelphia
returned to her home on Tuesday af-
ter spending several days at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Max Shannon.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Palcho of |
Washington, D C., spent a fey days
last week with the former's mother,
Mrs. Agnes Palcho.
Because of the Thanksgiving holi- |
Deadeye Gomez
Home in New York from a hunt. |
ing trip to the New Brunswick
woods, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez, |
pitching ace for the Yankees, holds
the 60-pound bear cub he dropped |
with one shot. It should make a |
beautiful rug. |
Foolproof Jail Unable
NEWTON, MASS. —Con 1st
broke out when an inet priate
out of Newton's new jail.
True, the fugitive was cap
within a few minutes.
was in the fire. The love
ern jail was not !
police were embar:
spied
crawling
short fli
past the
DOOr C
Hear
desk off
No 1 ceil
rolmen on
the imbiber was
He
escape
De fondant Lost: Yodue
DALLAS, TEXAS.—The murder
trial of a Negro, charged with shoot-
ing a milk route driver in an argu-
ment over a bill, was very dull.
Testimony had been going on with-
out interruption for more than an
Suddenly Judge Henry King point-
ed to an empty chair before him and
said:
“Just a minute. Where's the de-
fendant?”’
Startled, the district attorney an-
swered: {
“Why, your honor, he’s been on
the witness stand for an hour and a
half.”
Sheepishly, the judge replied:
“So he has, so he has.”
again
QUASH PHONEY MINE OUTFIT
Washington.—Approval of a settle-
ment in the caseof the Williams Coal
Co., Mannington, Ky., in which the
company agreed to abolish completely
the Independent Miners’ Union, of
| Western Kentucky, District 1, has been
announced by the National Labor Re-
lations Board.
MONTH OF HOLIDAYS.
This November has been a month of
| holidays, at least for banks and liquor
| stores. Election day, Armistice Day and
| Thanksgiving day, and now in some
states they are planning to observe
Thanksgiving twice..
|
|
Help Crom the Sky
day, the Press Courier will be issued |
Tuesday of next week, and all adver-
tisers and corespondents are urged to |
have copy available for us one entire
day earlier than usual.
The Townsend Club will meet in the
Community hall at 7:30 on Thursday
evening of this week. All who are in-
terested are invited to come
Special Thanksgiving Services will | §
be conducted at the Hebron Lutheran
Church on Thanksgiving Day, Thurs-
day, November 23rd, at 7:30 P. M,, by |
Rev. J. J. Youngren, pastor. The Eng- |
lish language will be used, and all
who do not have their own services
at that time are cordially invited to f
attend.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines had one
of its railroad cars at Barnesboro the
last week end for use in the campaign ;
of instruction for employees of mines
in the fifteenth bituminous district, of |
which Dennis J. Keenan is state in-
spector.
The car, placed on a Barnesboro
railroad siding, was available for first
aid training purposes until Monday
of this week. Arrival of the car mark-
ed the first appearance of a car of
that type in Northern Cambria coun-
ty in nine years and the first time in
six years that the car has been placed
at the disposal of miners in the bitu-
minous iield. For the last six years the
car has been in service in the anthra-
cite field,
Trespass notices for sale at the Un-
ion Press Courier office
A “suicide squad” of women
achwvte jumpers to ofier first a.
wounded soldiers belind {rent
is advocated by Mariza McMii
New Yor k, holler of the wer'd’s
parachuie iumpine cerd {or wom:
py The se tezlion of
mercy’ will be eflered
said Miss McMilian,
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|CAMBRIA’S
To Held Tipsy Prisoner
Discovers He’ s on Stand |
hour. The jurors looked bored. |
Spectators openly yawned. |
Then he settled into his chair once |
HIGHWAY | last October by Shatrump Construc-
tion Company of Youngstown, Ohio.
The building, which is a one-story
structure, is of brick and concrete. The
Last Sridiy was movire dav’ tor ihe interior is lined with leathertex tile.
Cambria c unty unit of the State Hi- Te gitise 3 ftom > Me stucre Bs
; t OS 66.5 feet wide by 45.4 feet deep
ghway Department. Under the super- Immediately in the re: f th ta
vision of Thomas L. Altimus, superin- is the That ton oe rear of ¢ he office
tendent of maintenance, the depart- 61.7 foot. Two i £ ve wit 250 feet by
ment moved from the comparatively , ed : hil > which alse will
small building it occupied for many 3% use r storage and shop work,
years on East High Street, Ebensburg. adjoin the end of the main storage
to the modern $165,000 structure, con- foom. One wing is 605 feet by 81.1)
struction of which has just been com- Jot While the other is 6D feet by 913
pleted. The building is located on the get.
the William Penn Highway, one half The Cambria County unit of the
mile west of Ebensburg Borough It State Highway Department is said to
is on a tract of seven acres which was Pe the best equipped in the state for
donated by the county. fighting snow. Included in the equip-
The land is part of the Juvenile ment are four rotary plows, three 10-
PENT IS MOVED
TO THE NEW BUILPING
| Home tract. The design of the build- ton tractors plows and 28 other snow-
ing follows the standards used by the POWs.
State Highway Department for coun- Also used for fighting snow storms
ty maintenance units. for which the county is famous throu-
Work on the building was started ghout the state are 27 cindering trucks
and for construction work the Cam- CAMBRIA COUNTY TO SELL
bria County unit is equipped with two $300,000 WORTH OF ITS BONDS
concrete mixers, thre ten ton rollers - ram.
SIX power gracers and one gasoline! Bids for the sale of $300,000 worth
Shovel of county bonds will be opened by
The Cambria County Department is| county controller Henry L. Cannon at
at present placing snow fences throu-| 11 A. M. on November 27th. The pras
ghout the county. When all are placed ceeds of the sale will be used for op«
more than 110 miles of fence will be erating expenses. The bonds will mas
up to aid in keeping snow off the, ture in the amount of $60,000 each
highways. This is an increase of ap- | year beginning November 1£, 1940, ov
proximately 46,000 feet as compared a period of five years.
er er ol Be fn sy x
in erection of this type of 2uard oo 30le 1 00tain bidy sarRying 3 wan
QINTE SHOW. Stopes gud 48- | terest rate. In 1938 the county sold
= $207,000 in refunding bonds at an ime
Ee - terest rate of 2 per cent, replaci ise
Do You KNOW sues which had lod interest wi
That there is no ideal climate for | running from four and one-half to five
the treatment of tuberculosis is fair-| and one-half per cent. The present ig
| ly well established. Certain climates | sue is expected by Mr. Cannon to be
| are beneficial only to the extent that| sold at an interest rate below two per
they permit tuberculosis patients to | cent
spend a maximum of time out of doors. | po - brn
A regimen of regulated rest and ex- | Press Courier ads ring the results.
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