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know him as an indefatigable worker who is bound to bring things to pass, and it is confidently expected that he will make his mark. He has already made it, for his place is always astir with customers. It is impossible for anything to be dull where Emanuel Mock is the moving spirit. His aim is to meet the wants of the people. His store is on West Tenth street next to the Boecking Block.
J. J. WILMORE, CARRIAGE WORKS.
J. J. Wilmore has carried on the Wagon Making and Blacksmithing business for 32 years at the same stand, foot of Logan avenue, in a large two story frame building. He is prepared to meet all the demands of the people of the town and country, giving honest work at living prices.
HICKS & TROUTWINE, MEAT MARKETS.
Hicks & Troutwine furnish flesh to eat to a large part of the seven thousand people in the "Central City" and would supply them all, if necessary. Already they have their two markets, on Logan avenue near Fourteenth street and on Washington avenue, corner of Tenth. With the instinct of the old soldier that he is, (though a very young soldier indeed he was in 1865), Mr. Hicks about three years ago executed a flank movement upon his rivals in the trade by establishing a down town shop, and there as well as at the old stand, they dispense meat to the satisfaction of their customers. No need to tell what they have in store ; in quantity and kind it is limited only by production in the country and the demands of the season.
OTHER MEAT DEALERS.
Sprankle Brothers near Logan avenue on Tenth street, have a well supplied market which they have kept running for fifteen years and bid fair to continue for many years to come, having a steady and prosperous trade.
R. S. Minich & Son, on Pennsylvania avenue near the post office, are always ready to serve the public acceptably with every kind of fresh and cured meats. Their shop is well patronized, being located where they catch the passing crowd.
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J. Langenbacher & Son may be found on Pennsylvania avenue a few doors above the Empire House. The senior member of the firm is an old resident of Tyrone and has served its inhabitants with meat for many years.
Friedly & Kaup, above Twelfth street on Pennsylvania avenue, are always on hand, doing a brisk business and the fair thing by all who buy of them.
Wm. M. Snyder is the youngest of all in this line, and the youngsters of Tyrone all know him well, having had a wholesome dread of him before their eyes while he served as Chief of Police. Having turned his guns upon other than human carcases, he pursues his new vocation as politely and successfully as he served his summons in former days. His market at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street is never without plenty of meat and people who eat it.
JOHN D. COX, GUNSMITH.
Guns and explosives ; fishing tackle, wherewith the bung- ling angler, instead of landing fish, may "land" himself in the water ; razors and sharp knives, suggestive of sanguinary deeds ; clubs that might do damage to skulls ; and all the ac- coutrements of baseball and football and boxing. Hints of various shortcuts out of life !
But first impressions may be false. This is not a depot of destructive implements, but the Sporting Headquarters of Tyrone. Everything here sold has legitimate uses. There are commodities current among us more dangerous than Cox's powder and shot and cutlery. Let Nimrod gird himself for war and, with outfit secured at Cox's, hie himself afield, while the beasts and the fowl hide themselves from his fateful pres- ence. Let Piscator purchase here his poles and tackle, to decoy the peaceful fish out of the water into the fire. Let the youth train his muscles in all manly games. But let every man while human in his sports be humane as well, not need- lessly cruel either to beasts or boys. Let him not pursue pleasure as his end in life, but use it as the means whereby he may be stronger to do his part in swelling the sum of human happiness.
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But have we told it all ? No. Cox has instruments of music, keeps the best bicycles to sell and, when sold, keeps them in repair. More than that, he not only mends wheels but locks, and with bit and brace and various devices he can subdue the refractory metal and make it do its owner service.
MAHLON CRYDER, CLOTHIER.
You will easily find him in the fine new Blair County Bank Building. His store is clean and bright, his stock not less so ; and here appearances do not deceive. Nor will the merchant deceive you as to the quality of the fabrics which he offers. He sells you honest cloth, not shoddy; pattern of 1897, both in goods and making. There is nothing on his shelves or tables that will not bear the closest inspection. What more can we say ?
Well, this we say besides: the man who wears one of Cry- der's suits, as recommended by the proprietor, will bear in- spection by the side of the man whose clothes have just come out of the tailor's hands.
MOCK & BUCK, GROCERS.
Jacob I. Mock began in the grocery line here about three years ago. With his partner, Mr. David Buck, a respected citizen of Tyrone for many years, he is doing a lively busi- ness in the Smith Block on West Tenth street. The firm are very attentive to their customers and to their trade, and de- serve to succeed.
time WILSON & CO., GROCERS.
The other side of the Smith Block is the stand of this firm. J. F. Wilson is the veteran in this line, having passed the quarter century mark since he began to serve the people of Tyrone with groceries. No man is better known in town aad few have been more active in public life. Ripe experi- ence has given him taste and discrimination in the selection of stock, and the trade of this store is largely among the class of people who will take no other than the choicest goods. Those who buy of Wilson & Co. need never go elsewhere.
DANIEL D. WOOD.
H1
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OFFICE.
HOTEL MYRON.
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THE BEE HIVE STORE.
F. R. Cox began about three years ago as the "Store Box" merchant, but "No pent up Utica contracts his pow- ers," and we have seen him evolve himself from a box to a bee hive. He is still at it and today finds him adding another room to his store that he may accommodate growing trade. If this thing keeps on, what will the twentieth century see ? He sells for cash and delivers to all parts of town.
W. B. MURDOCK, GROCER.
This gentleman is well known in his line, having for- merly had a store on Pennsylvania avenue. For about a year he was out of business and most of the time out of town, but "couldn't stay away"' and now is here to stay. Mr. Murdock is experienced and reliable, a safe man to deal with. His- present location is in the Study Block on East Tenth street.
J. C. MCCONAHY'S SHOE STORE.
"Yon's a sensible man; he kens all about leather." This was the remark of a rough Glasgow cobbler about Ed- ward Irving, whose consecrated common sense had captured his heart. Sitting beside him on the bench the preacher dis- coursed about leather and thereby won a listener to his pulpit discourses.
The subject of Leather is one of importance to man as a biped, and J. C. McConahy at the uptown Shoe Store, corner of Logan avenue and Fourteenth street, is the man who "kens all about"' it. He not only understands fitting feet but fitting heads as well. He is prepared to suit the judgment or the fancy of the buyer. From stogey to ladies' fine footwear, shoes in every style and form may be found at McConahy's. His fifteen years of experience as a shoe merchant in Tyrone have made him master of the situation and his is, as he confidently claims, the Money Saving Shoe Store.
JONES FURNITURE COMPANY.
To write up a store in the dull season is to take an unfair advantage of the merchant. But Jones is never dull. Just now he seems to be resting on his oars a little, but soon he will
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be pulling away as lustily as ever. Who would expect a man (even though he be a born hustler) to rush things in these hot September days? But look out for what is coming. Keep your eyes open and you'll see it. Shut them and you may be knocked down and run over; the Fall stock will soon be here. Then the busy establishment by the Juniata will resume its wonted aspect. Loads of ranges and cooking conveniences ! Stacks of chairs and tables ! These things go into the base- ment. Cargoes of beds and bureaus and couches and side- boards ! But why try to mention all ? Name what you want and it is yours-for a consideration. Anything that goes into a house, to sit on, to eat on, to lie on, to walk on, to write on, to play on, to look on. Pictures well framed. Music for the million ! Organs and Pianos to interpret to the ear the sweet strains that are locked up in volumes and in sheets piled up ยท on shelves and tables.
This Jones, he never pays the freight. Cause why ? He has no time to wait. No slow-coach in his business He runs his trade by fast express.
"THE W. F. WISE CO., SCENIC ARTISTS, DECORATORS AND THEATRICAL ARCHITECTS.
The special business of this firm is to plan and execute decorations for the interior of buildings. In this department Mr. Wise is all that his name denotes, with the experience of a quarter of a century in this line to perfect his skill. He can tell you all about the construction of a theater from the laying of the corner stone to the opening night, and see that the work is rightly done in all particulars, or supply what may be needed from time to time in repairs and improvements. His work in churches speaks for itself to the eyes of Tyrone church-goers in the frescoed walls of our two largest church edifices, as also in the elegant building of the Second Presby- terian church of Altoona and in other towns of Pennsylvania. The work of this firm in private residences is no less commen- dable and they can serve their patrons more cheaply from not having the large expenses incident to business in a great city.
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND HARNESS - J. A. C. RIDER.
It is especially but not exclusively the farming popula- tion to which the establishment of Mr. Rider at 105-109 East Tenth street looks for support. Our country cousins need not hesitate to deal with him. From the beginning to the end of the season there is no employment of the husbandman that does not call for something in his line, and hence he has no day without calls from his customers. He sells the most mod- ern and approved line of Implements and haying and har- vesting machinery; wagons, buggies, sleighs; robes and blank- ets ; Harness, both machine made and his own manufacture ; and in particular, Pumps of all sorts. Those who have need of anything in his line will find at this store courteous treat- ment and all reasonable accommodation. Note the stand just by the Bridge.
BALD EAGLE CARRIAGE WORKS.
At his eligible location on Tenth street, opposite the Academy of Music, J. A. Hoffman builds and repairs wheeled vehicles, doing thorough work and using good material. He came to Tyrone from Huntingdon county in 1890 and is now well established among us.
E. P. IRVIN & CO., HARDWARE.
This firm, which succeeds that of H. C. Love, have not been in business long in Tyrone, but long enough to establish themselves and make many friends. Mr. Irvin, who has also a half interest in the firm of Daniel Irvin's Sons, Bellefonte, knows how to do business and to make business a pleasure to- those who deal with him, a progressive business man who aims to help others as well as himself. The company in the above caption is Hon. J. G. Love, President Judge of the Centre Judicial District.
Have you considered how much the Hardware Merchant has to do with our civilization ? The surveyor who lays out the town, the laborer who excavates the ground, the mason who lays the wall, the carpenter who puts on the timbers, the
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teamster who conveys the materials, the tinner and the plumber and the plasterer, all get their tools and supplies from him. Locks and latches and lanterns, ropes and chains and buckets, glass and oils, all cutting instruments and things innumerable of iron and steel and tin and zinc and brass, such are the hard wares which any one may get at Irvin & Co.'s store in Pruner building, just above the bridge.
FRANCISCUS HARDWARE COMPANY.
Splendidly located in the Conrad building adjoining the post office, is one of the largest hardware stores in Central Pennsylvania. The firm of Franciscus Hardware Company do a thriving business, both wholesale and retail. Their ample quarters are taxed to the utmost to contain the wares they handle. With all the fulness and variety of its contents, there is no dead stock in this store. The proprietors and clerks are live men and have the rare art of making heavy goods look bright and attractive. Their windows rival those of the dry goods and millinery stores for display of goods.
A dazzling array of lamps, both hanging and standing, their brass mountings relieving the sombre hues of the black metal which predominates in hardware goods; stoves for oil or gas, that may be picked up by the housekeeper and put down where she wants them; granite ware and pressed tin utensils for cooking, and monstrous copper kettles that shine like a picture; revolving churns that a child may work; tools for all sorts of labor; earthen pots, plain and bright colored; rolls of belting, both leather and rubber, reminding you that here they keep supplies for all kinds of machinery; a huge stock of wall paper; these are a few of the things that strike the eye in Franciscus' store, but what you want and don't see is there too, if it is anything that ought to be there, and only awaits your call. They are large shippers of Bituminous Coal in connection with their retail yard. They also job large quan- tities of refined and lubric oils, and have one of the most suc- cessful businesses in Central Pennsylvania.
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THE PRESS.
Tyrone has two newspapers. The precedence belongs to the Herald which, under its present management, has been issued regularly for thirty years, and for ten years has made daily visits to its subscribers, keeping them in touch with the great world without. The value of the local paper to the community is not recognized sufficiently. There is no institu- tion which might more truly subscribe itself "Your Humble Servant " to all in the community. It is the great promoter of every public enterprise and many a private one, but is sel- dom counted in when dividends are declared on the stock. A good newspaper is morally entitled to the benefit of a public tax, and certainly our own papers at their subscription price are worthy of a much larger circulation. It is said that the true journalist can always be distinguished by the matter he omits, rather than by what he prints. We are glad to say that we have two such papers in Tyrone, whose contents may safely be perused by the children in our homes.
THE TYRONE HERALD, DAILY AND WEEKLY.
To his fellow townsmen it is needless to say anything com- mendatory of the owner of the Herald, C. S. W. Jones. The Captain has no enemies that we know of ; it is hard to conceive of his having any. Though a veteran of the war and holding a commission in the P. N. G. he has no warlike propensities ; and the spirit of the proprietor seems to pervade the entire establishment. Here is one printing office we believe, that is not possessed of a devil. The force of printers of both sexes are models of decorum and diligence. We may venture to add that the junior member of the editorial staff, Claude Jones, whose eye overlooks these pages on their way to the press, is a worthy second to the owner, sharing the labors and respon- sibility of the entire business. The Herald building on Penn- sylvania avenue, separated from the Conrad Block by Herald street, is two stories high, 27 feet wide and 100 feet from front to rear. The printing office occupies all of the first floor and part of the second, comprising the several rooms needed for offices, composing, stereotyping, binding, presses and engine.
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Its Cottrell newspaper press, four job presses, stereotyping outfit, eutter, perforator and stapler, with a full assorted stock of type and other materials of the printer's art, enable it to turn out a large amount of job work. A twenty horse power boiler and an eight horse power horizontal engine run the presses. No amount of horse power can express the capacity of the Herald itself as a beneficent force in Tyrone and vicinity.
THE TYRONE TIMES.
The Times was established in 1880 by J. L. Holines and A. M. Wooden as a weekly newspaper and has, with several changes of owners, been continued ever since. Like the Her- ald it is Republican in politics and bright and clean in its make up. The proprietor and editor is H. A. Thompson, formerly of Mt. Union, who in about two years residence has made himself a good reputation in Tyrone and largely increased both the outfit and business of the establishment. Besides issuing the paper, a four page sheet, which stands right on all moral questions of the day, the Times has a job department which is constantly busy, its three job presses as well as the large cylinder newspaper press being operated by steam power. With all the needful equipment for work it is prepared to execute orders for all kinds of printing, books, bills, circulars, &c. The Times building is on Pennsylvania avenue, nearly opposite the Ward House.
MATT. L. ALLISON, JOB PRINTING.
This gentleman has for about three years carried on a job printing business in Tyrone, giving his undivided attention to this work and the wants of his customers. During this time he has established himself in the estimation of the peo- ple as a good citizen and an adept in his art. He has had experience in the government employ in Washington, D. C., and with his brother, Andrew C. Allison, is making every effort to do satisfactory work and build up a permanent busi- ness. His presses are run by steam and his supply of type of modern designs is ample, additions being constantly made to accommodate increased patronage. All kinds of commercial, catalogue and book printing is done and bookbinding and en-
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graving contracted for. The Bell Telephone puts him in com- munication with all business houses and others who desire orders quickly filled.
THE BANKS OF TYRONE.
The Blair County Bank began business in 1874 and has from the beginning commanded the confidence of the commu- nity. Its affairs have been ably managed, its capital and sur- plus amounting to $152,500, with individual liability. As an institution, while endeavoring to promote its own interests, it has been a liberal helper towards enterprises designed for the public good. Its large building, a cut of which appears in this volume, is an ornament to the town, and the gentlemen who do business within are genial and accommodating. The president, A. G. Morris, has been already alluded to in these pages as one of the leading manufacturers and one who has done a great deal for the benefit of the town where he resides. The other officers are: vice president, Lewis H. Eppley; cashier, T. J. Gates. r
The First National Bank, whose three story brick build- ing on Pennsylvania avenue and 10th street faces the one just mentioned, was established in 1890 and has a capital of $100,- 000 with a surplus of $30,000. In the short period of its his- tory it has gained a leading place among the financial institu- tions of this part of Pennsylvania. The president, J. K. Cass, is well known and honored in the business world, the directors are all active business men in Tyrone and the con- duct of its affairs has been such that it has gained steadily in public favor, being at the same time a useful factor in advanc- ing public interests. The directors are : I. P. Walton, vice president; D. S. Kloss, cashier; A. A. Stevens, Jacob H. Mattern, John A. Crawford, Adie D. Mingle.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
These are in fact co-operative banks through which per- sons of small meats may share in the advantages of the use of large capital. Practically they consist of two classes, the in- vestor and borrower. Out of the accumulations of the for- mer loans are made to the latter on the security of his real estate. This is the regular course of business in harmony
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with the specific object of these associations which is to aid working people in securing homes. It not infrequently hap- pens that they furnish loans to help business men, especially in towns where ordinary banking facilities are inadequate. A B. & L. Association, doing business as such, can never fail. In round numbers the three associations named be- low have assets of $300,000 and have loaned during last year $100,000 to about 250 persons, the stockholders being proba- ably over twice that number. The names and officers of each are as follows: Improvement B. & L. Asso .- President, A. M. Wooden; sec'y, H. B. Calderwood; treas., D. S. Kloss ; solicitors, Stevens, Owens & Pascoe. Citizens B. & L. Asso .- President, F. D. Beyer ; sec'y, W. T. Canan ; treas., T. J. Gates ; solicitor, W. L. Hicks. Central B. & L. Asso .- President, A. L. Koons ; sec'y, H. L. Hesser ; treas., T. J. Gates ; solicitors, Hicks & Templeton.
Since these chapters were placed in the hands of the printers, the energetic people of the town have been overturn- ing in their haste the carefully gathered statements which the types were publishing to the world. The limits we had set to ourselves, both of time and space, forbid the mention we should be glad to make of improvements going on, such as the addition to the Paper Mill Plant of a mammoth iron building; and those which are coming in sight, such as the probable establishment of a manufactory of Paving Brick. We should also like to record, as an exemplification of the manner in which the vexed question of Capital vs. Labor ought to be handled, the immense excursion of the employees of the Paper Mill with their families, crowding fourteen cars, to Mariposa Park, the Company bearing the entire expense and the day's wages not deducted.
They have been making history so fast that this Directory is already behind the times. The population which carries on the business of this growing town, including its immediate suburbs, may be safely put at 7500. The names obtained number more than 7100, not including the families of the oper- atives in the Ballast Quarry of A. G. Morris and the entire population which is clustered around the Limestone Quarry on the other side of the river.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
Of half a dozen stores which minister to the ailments of this mortal flesh among us, two are under one proprietor- the propriety of which might be questioned in these days of anti-monopoly agitation. It is enough to say that the claim- ant of a double portion in this instance is a SMITH.
Born in Blair county and brought up in Tyrone, J. S. Smith graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and for over sixteen years has been doing business in Tyrone. At 15 West Tenth street he occupies the stand where the first drug store was established in 1854 by S. Berlin. His uptown store, corner Logan avenue and Fourteenth street, was opened in 1890. Each of these stores is fully equipped with every convenience of the apothecary's art, and in each is a complete stock of the purest and freshest Drugs, Patent Medicines, Toilet Articles, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty; also Brushes of all kinds and Artists' Supplies. Especial attention is given to Physicians' Prescriptions. Obliging and competent clerks wait upon customers and supply them with medicines for every disorder affecting the physical economy from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot ; in proof of which we need only mention Smith's Instantaneous Headache Cure, and Smith's Corn Cure.
Capacity 20,000 Bus. A. W. BEYER ..
TYRONE GRAIN ELEVATOR.
TYRONE MILLING CO.,
Manfacturers of and dealers in.
FLOUR, FEED, MEAL, CHOP. GRAIN, HAY, &c
BEST BRANDS MINNESOTA FLOURS.
PORTER'S BEST AND BOSS FLOURS.
Fair treatment to dealers.
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The First National Bank
OF TYRONE.
Capital, $100,000.00. Surplus, $25,000.00.
A General Banking Business Transacted. Accounts Solicited. Discounts Daily.
JOS. K. CASS, President. I. P. WALTON, Vice Prest.
D. SHELLEY KLOSS, Cashier.
DIRECTORS .- Jos. K. CASS, JACOB H. MATTERN, ADIE D. MINGLE, A. A. STEVENS, JOHN A. CRAWFORD, D. SHELLEY KLOSS, I. P. WALTON.
Patrons of this bank are assured the most liberal treatment consistent with safe banking.
The Harris Grocery Co.,
Logan Avenue and Tenth Street. D. R. HARRIS, Manager.
CASH GROCERS.
A complete line of fancy and staple groceries at the LOWEST CASH PRICES.
OUR SPECIALTIES are : BULK COFFEES, SMOKED MEATS,
FANCY and STAPLE CRACKERS,
CAKES AND CHEESES.
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Best of Bread.
Oysters in every style
Edibles for hungry folks. Cakes and Coffee. Krackers and Candies.
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