The Weekly Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 3

1 A I A 16. 1 9O4. fX YYThen placed in the Newspaper that thoroughly covers the territory whence busines comes. Connellsville merchants get business from Ohiopyle and Confluence, Pennsville and Scottdale, Dawson and Vanderbilt, Trotter and the Leisenrings and other villages in Dunbar, Tyrone and Bullskin townships, covers all these small towns and villages thoroughly. Advertisers are invited to come and verify this statement from our books.

We are making no statements about our circulation that we are not able and willing at any time to prove. We append a sworn 'statement of the circulation of The Daily Courier during last week: State of Pennsylvania, I Fayette County, Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, John B. Oooley, who "being sworn according to law, did depose and say: That he is employed as pressman in the office of The Daily Courier, and has supervision of the printing of said newspaper; that the number of copies printed and circu- lated during the past week was as follows February 8, 9, 1O, II, 12, 13, 2 7 2 5 2.7OO 2,050 2.650 2,650 And further deponent saith not. JOHN B. COOLEY.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of February, 1904. FRANK MILLER, Justice of the Peace. This is one-half more circulation than any other daily paper published in Connellsville and several hundred greater than any other daily published in Fayette county, and we intend to increase it still more. ADVERTISERS GET FULL VALUE FOR THEIR. MONEY HERE.

DAILY AND WEEKLY. WEST MAIN STREET, CONNELLSVILLE, FA. HISTORY OF COAL Its Mining Is of Comparatively Recent Origin In America. IT WAS FIRST DUD IN VIRGINIA. Total Production Since First Ton Was cenaua of 0 blalpr lhM coa Mined Is Estimated at 4,860,000,000 was mined in 19 counties of Illinois.

and that the year's production amount- Tons-Early Operations in the State ca culatc(1 a of Illinois. the total of the St.atp has amounted to nearly 412,000.000 tons. It Is interesting, in i connec In early colonial days, when every tlon, to remember that Father Henne- hllltop was covered with forests, fuel i noted In his journal in 1C79 the was plentiful enough above ground, existence of a coa! mine on the IH1- and there was no need to search i river, near the site of the preg- it In the bowels the earth. Coal ent Ottawa, mining in the United States Is, there- of i i coal la PennsjM Is estimated to have be-en rip pro.iiraate-ly l.S.ll.OOO.no rhort malcing the entire production of ro-i! in Pennsylvania approximately 2,805, OHIOPYLE. From Little Mountain aort Up the Yough.

Olilopyle, Feb. A. A Cor- DAWSOH BREVITIES. From Busy Town Down the Yough, Feb. Mm.

Fred WInton Irtstan. leadtr of the Luapuy of crtme up Sunday and relatives 000,000 short tons. The ne-rt ear'Iest statistics of coa, Ma a the day with minim; which we have are tor th-' -fho follow in? composed Uie friends. State of Illinois, it Is stated a M) rwl lcred stnsir.g "There's I Ray Bowden was In Unlontown coal was mined on the Big Nfi rrlen(( us ncM Monday. C.

J. MoGlll was a bus- priifcriii:) ouigii.K, i i i coal was mined on the Big MudiIy; rrlen(1 aie River In Jackson county to 1810, a sh( read lst Sajr ut th I 7. 9, 30; recitation by Delia Cor- 1838. when tho oi-tput was 119932 a tons. The census of 1810 and that of 1SCO tooK note of the production, but for the years between 1S40 and fore, of comparatively recent origin.

1V3r. Edward W. Parker, who has made a brief resume- of its history in his report on the Production of Coal In 1902. which is soon to be published by the United States Geological Survey no data are vallable. as part of its annual volume on Mln- records are fairly accurate.

The Tot-1 e-ral Resources, stales that the earliest'output of the State Is estimated to record of coal production in the somewhat o-vcr 338.250,000 anthraclto region of Pennsylvania Is tons The first year in which any production oT coal was recorded in Ohio wafl rlstan; ringing reading No. 1 by 1. F. 'Woodmancy, No 2 by Miss Bertha Chuck, No. 3 by i Bertha.

Taylor, ami No. 4 by Cy- rus Show; recitation, by Mrs. Fred Felly; duett by Mrs E. H. Divis and Mrs Fred Fclty.

reading by Mrs. D. Livingston, poem by MLss Nora Daniels, talk on KUhjec' "Real Friendship," by Prof. B. D.

Druner; singing, "Wha.t a Friend We Have In Jesue," League; benediction. Esteila 0e Haas, who was on to bo a.bout. W. B. Conway had a fine Frank C-arard of Uniontown haa been visiting at tho home of L.

Garard, Dawson JLousc. The funeral of John Fad occurred Saturday at 9 30 A M. from the Sacred Heart Church, services conducted by Father Gelbel. Th-e funeral was largo ly attended. was a -member of thc C.

M. A. Interment In r-rson Run cotuotery. Mrs. Joseph Bates of Lower Tyrone township died Monday at 2 P.

M. of rheumatism. She was about 50 yeara old and Is survived by her husband, one daughter. Mrs. Archie McGaU'an, of Jearneite, Pa.

and flvo sons, VANDERBILT. 'eraonal Chat From unbar Township's Big i a Feb. 1G Rev. R. Price, pastor of tho Cumberland Pres- bjtcrlan Church at tULa place, went Flatwoovls last Sunday and delivered a funeral address over the remains of John ShaneyfelLy.

Mi-ss Sarah Kelly, home Is at PoitnbvHle, visiting a.t the home of Mliw Dej-iio M-eans. Miss Bessie who hnn been in tho 'Mercy Hospital, for rom-e time, arrived home last Sunday oveninir. Miss Parkhill had been suffering froro blood nl we-nt thore to rocelv-e treat.men t. Under tlie akiliru! eyes of tho eff.cler.t pliy- who took groat interest In her cast 1 she to recover rapidly. Sunday she VITLH as bolnf: well.

Her friends at this place aro all pleased. In accordance the order of the master rural letter car-, riers permission to se-vo Kobrua-ry 22, 1901, Woshlnsrcn's Ti ro HIM a Keimort for it. K. Arrklucl, Fttt Kilt. Bank E.

E. uoaaia, AaKSTEOsa, L. WB-1T. MORRIS day clea-ning -the office windows at Thomas, Shyles, Bert, Charlie tbcm Bhlno. Thc pedestrian must once more brave thc vralks.

lns wtads and Icy side- Auction wliich we have Is that of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. Shipments from there begin in 1S20 and since that date the records have bBen care-fully preserved. In the SD years from 1S14 to 1902, Inclusive, the total production of anthracite in Pennsylvania hits amounted to approximately short tc-ns. no data fltatlon Ho sure ade also one son doad, WIHIam. Funeral bczn arranged for as vet Enter men will he made at the Bryan ynni Mr-- is a member of the Bryan Methodist Bplscoptl Church and was an active worker.

North Dawson as laid out by the I C-ompnay w'll experienced a bourn this spring, 03 meu for the year 1S14. That Is tho cbron- The -oaillest producors among the 1 As day Doc Shipley iole of 22 short tons of anthracite coal. States west oC tho Mississippi river lv to bG i ec tod. The most complete record of coal pro-Kero MlPsourl and Iowa. Thc real- a nd and glor ous lnK 'm-lnins industry began there about r0 ad i i i 1S40- The first coal Pacific was Washington in 1SS discovered on tne in the State of The first mine.

all the while Lha-t you can trust in its merits. the cold weather, Edward Jackson bravoj the chilling i yes- having been moved hero from McKee's TOS opened in Whatcom county in tc r( ing coa from PoU 'e. oal 1831. iCaliiornia has never tnken high I rank as a coal producing State, but It bank. Tht 1 car loading bogan In earnest ester( a There are nine cars of So far as is Known, the earliest pro- comes ncj.t in order In the history 0 be loadc(1 ln nexi ductlon of i i coal production, as an output oJ in tho Richmond basin of Virginia.

'0020 tons was reported in 18C1. Tnls About 54000 short tons were pro- incrcas.ei) stoidUy until 18-17, when duced in 1S22 and the amount grad-, maxim urn of 215,253 short tors ually increased until 1E32, when began to decline, and about the i ra atfiined. It began then to ly, and since 1870' the in, die the last century had almost dis- dustry bus been rather Irregular, tho appeared. About that time the dovH- production i upon many out- opment or tbe Piedmont region and for next 30 or -10 years, practically all of Virginia's production came from tho northern part of the State. Next to those oE the anthracite re- glen of Pennsylvania, the most authentic records we a of coal production In tho United States are the Ctimherl.and-Plodmont district of i tons.

Maryland and West Virginia. The built flrst openings were made in a a side influences The first coal production for Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and WachlngtCTi was ghen in the census of 1S70, but all these States produced befcro that. The tcnal coal production for the United States up to December 31. 1902. a-nfl shipments as eirly as 1S24.

It is practically certain that snme bituminous coal was produced In Penn- estimated at 4,880.000,000 short That means that a pyramid this imterllJ as hitrh as dajs. William Miller. Willlnm, Joseph and Irvin Shipley loaded a fine car of st'ck tlmlior for B. S. Jackson yesterday i Olotfelty has started in the canoe making Industry.

Mrs. John Harbangh and children of Salt Spring we; in town a at- i the Baptist Sunday School The i3. O. wreck train came from Conne'lsville yesterday to gather up the oalance of the cars which were wrecked by No. 5 at the tower here last week.

William Avery was in town yesterday on business. Pike's Peas. 14,108 feet, would have for Its base a rectangle 1.14 miles square. If the were spread out over the States of Khode Island and sylvania prior to 1840. but this Is Connecticut it would cover both earliest date on.

record. Tho total thorn a foot deop. Birthday, as a holiday. No delivcry of mail to pttrons or to i a offces shall be made by them on that day. The office at this place will be kept opcu tn arrival n-nd departure of mails.

Persons i i in country dlstricis c-in iret i mail by for same at the Tho i a child cf Mr. and Mrs. Morgan died last a evening. The ciitse of its death was whooping ccugb and pneumonia. Read the Daily Courier for all the lateft rcws or the day.

Ir. the col- urr.ns this paper yr-n will find he Jloclib have to a i i a i ia the county, State and and an there are no empty houses for rent they will have to build. An other smallpox has de- riortfc jr-lnsburj- X'rert, Bell Phone, 32. Opp. Opera House.

Tri-State, l-i-7. CHAS C. MITCHELL, Funerai Director and Bmbalmer. Ntir'-t alts at Office. J.

E. SIMS, Funeral Director and Embalnver. Store. Bell Phone 158; Tri-State, 245; residence, Bell Phone, ISOiTr mate, SM. The lots are in a most a i loc.a- veleped ir- Vanderbilt.

The latest vlc- tion, overlooking the new yards a i i i is daughter of Jos- view Tor two mileb down the river, -eph Mor.drell.a. and are offered on easy terms. Hurrah! for the Dally Courier. I A Miss Agnes "Walters and Miss Hie Boyd In Connellsvllle last Saturday shopping and visiting friends LOW RATES. GET INTO THE HABIT OI hixrinir an Architect draw up j-our Plans and Specifications, bee H.

JOHNS'lK, First. Nat. Bunk Bids. ConneHsviUe Two Weeks' Tour By Way of the sylvania Railroad, The second Pennsylvania r.all'oad tour of the season to allowing two woelw In Florida, will leave New York, Philadelphia, Balti- 3e ssTon Two Baltimore Ohio Regular Mid Winter Excursions. These delightful excursions afford plendld i i visit tie No i a Capital while Congross Is In more and Washington by special train on February 10.

Excursion ticket-, i i ra'lway transport ation, a accommodations (one berth), and meals en route in hotb directions a i on the special train, i be sold al the Never has tho skating iDeen so fine, following rates: New York, $5000; on Johnson's lake. 5 4 9 0 0 Philadelphia. Buy a Courier tomorrow night and Pl'tsburg. $5800; and at proportion- get full details of the Social Glee Club of Ohiopyle. Mr.

and Mrs. A. F. Potter, -who have been visiting relatives for several days at Monessen, returned to their home at this place yesterday. ate rates from other points.

tickets, itinearles. and other Information, apply to ticket agenrs or to Geo. W. dovd. General Passenger Agent, Broad street Station, Philadelphia.

A most complete and iilustrat guide to Washington may be pur chased from ageut at (10) pot- er-iv In accordance with Its tistial custom the DfiHiiuoro Ohio railroad will ron Popular Mid-Winter Exc.ur sions trora Conneilsvllle, to Wash ind Baltimore on January 21 and IS. 1904, at the very Inw rate of $7 35 for round trip tickets a for return ten days. In eluding date of sale. Solid vestibuled trains, standard coaches, Pullman parlor and sleeping EDW. O'BRIEN, CIVIL ANli MIKING Examinations of coa! fieldh and mmei and reportw m.ide.

Plans and bpocificaUonB made modern eiiterprises. City Engineer. E. B.OSS 206 Poach door above Baltimore House, ConnellsvLIie, Pa. NEW a i and sold 011 smalt margin Wtab OlGHsiDg, 60c, "rVnoh Spriajjx, 60o Wear ner's Clothing..