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important Happenings in the Forty-
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Cable Condensations.
PEACE BULLETINS
In an effort to allay perturbation of
the public, Parliament and press re-
garding reports that he Is “wabbling”
over concessions to Germany, Premier i
Liyod George has taken the unusual |
step of posting a flat denial in the
lobby of the House of Commons,
The report in Chicago that evidenes
of a plot to terrorize Chicago and the
Middle West with bombs had been un-
covered. One bomb was intended for
Judge Landis, the advices said,
Alexander Totruch of New York city
was sentenced to two and a half years’
imprisonment for swindling victims
out of thousands of dollars by selling
shares in the Municipal Building, the
City Hall and the New York subway,
Attention Is called In the monthly
report of the Department of Labor to
the European corn borer, a new pest in
this country, which has been found In
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
York. .
A credit of $10,000,000 was advanced
to Italy by the United States,
M. L. Requa resigned as general di-
rector of the oll division of the fuel
administration,
Charles M. Schwab addressed con-
valescent soldiers at the Walter Reed
General Hospital In Washington,
Fifteen members of the house, 10
Republicans and 5 Democrats, were
appointed by Speal r Gillett to con-
duct five Investigations of war-time
Representative Graham, Republican,
of Illinois, was selected as general
chairman,
Alvin C. York of Pall Mall, Tenn,
Andrew Bonar Law, spokesman for
the British government, expressed in |
the House of Commons his opinion
that the United States Is within her
rights in holding the Interned Ger-
war hero, refuses offer of $1,000 a day
for 30 days to take part in a vaude-
ville performance with 35 girls. “I
don't look good in tights,” hé sald. He
will make a speaking tour, however,
man ships,
The Big Four heard Premier Pade-
rewski regarding upper Silesia, which
some of the allied delegates now advo- |
cate being retained by Germany in- |
stead of being gwarded to Poland, The |
premier also presented his version of |
continued fighting between the Poles |
and Ukrainians after his assurance |
that hostilities would cease,
George W. Wickersham, speaking be. |
fore the Academy of Political Science |
of the city of New York, finds much to |
commend in proposed scheme for in-|
ternational labor standards, |
The financial clause of the Austrian |
peace terms as completed, it is under-
Ftood, fixes no specific sum as repara- |
tion payment, The question is left to |
& commission which will examine the |
resources of Austria and determine the |
amount and method of payment, |
Frank A. Vanderlip before Mer-
chants’ Association says America must |
help Europe resume her industrial ac-
tivities, and at once,
Like the German government, the
Austrian government is said to be dis-
fled with the peace terms of the
gilied and associated powers, which |
are declared by one of the responsi- |
ble newspapers of Vienna to be un-
acceptable, Unlike the German popu- |
lace at large, however, the Austrian
people apparently are apathetic. i
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WASHINGTON
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Asgistant Secretary of the Treasury |
ERowe announced hefore the Pan- |
American Commercial Conference that |
President Wilson would the |
second Pan-American financial confer-
ence on January 12 next upon recom-
mwendation of Secretary Glass
» AMlany of the aliens now being caught i
& a . :
i
convene
the
last Monday |
municipal police
of the bomb outrages
Bight may be deported,
A. S. Burleson, postmaster general,
fssues order for the Immediate
to
as
return
their owners of the operation of the |
telegraph and telephone systems of the
country, but retains financial manage- |
ment of the companies. The order con- |
tinues the rates now in effect, Follow
ing the order 8. J. Konenkamp, presi
of the Commercial Telegraphers’ |
Union, called a strike of Western |
Union employees in 11 states,
The long battle for the submission
of the woman suffrage amendment was
won when the senate by a vote of 06
to 25 passed the resolution which
passed the house just two weeks ago.
The resolution now goes to the state
legislatures for ratification,
The biggest row since the disclo-
sures that in Washington are always
capitalized ns “the leak,” impends ‘n
Congress over the appearance of
copies of the peace treaty in the hands
of great financial firms of New York.
The senate is in a fury of indignation.
By unanimous vote the house of
representatives passed a resolution |
calling for a committee to Investigate |
war expenditures. There will be ten |
Republicans and five Democrats on |
the committee,
cent
Search In New York city for bomb
plotters reveals a revolution “school”
working openly.
Senator Borah says that unless the
treaty Is made public by the state de
partment he will read it in the senate,
Columbia University (New York)
graduates 1,925 young men and wom-
en at its one hundred and sixty-fifth
annual commencement,
Wesley Mcl.. Hague, who came from
ranks, stands No. 1 in the grad
uating class at the Annapolis Naval
Academy,
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SPORTING
= o
Kid Gleason, like Jack Coombs of the
Phillies, believes both major
leagues
from now till September engulfs the
campaign, Of course I can figure the
the winner in the American
League, declared the irrepressible Kid,
but it's going to be a bitter fight for us
all the way.
Dick Watts, 208
«JO,
Harvest
and Charlie Sweet, 2.10%
are being prepared for a trip
races by A. 8. Rodney at Goshen, N
enn,
to
If Lew McCarty could get up
speed on the
AR He loses
hits a year
beat out hard infleld smashes,
Jess Willard knocked out
Monahan, Monahan is a big man, but
sirmaply put him down
Lot cause ring followers (0 ex-
will make short work
Dempsey the pair
wether on afternoon of July 4
licates, that Willard Is
than most folk
any
to twenty-five
because he can't
because Jess
should
as
when come
the
however,
condition
Pitchers who ean hit? Why the
full of ‘em, to wit :—Ruth,
Keating, Johnson, Caldwell,
Tyler, Barnes, Pfeffer, Shocker, Rue
Home runs are getting to be a com-
mon thing nowadays in the American
league,
Grand Parade, at 33 1. bred by
Richard Croker, won the Victory
Derby, In the presence of the King and
Queen of England and a vast cos
mopolitan throng,
Miss Marantha Patten, a junior in
the Watertown High school of Boston,
is a coming champion, the critics
claim. It is said she hits a wonder
fully long ball from the tee and plays
her irons like a veteran.
A team of 48 of the leading soldier
athletes of the country sailed from
Hoboken to join the main contingent
of the United States athletic combina.
tion which will compete in the inter.
allied games at Joinville, France, June
22 to July 6. The party, which was
in charge of Colonel Joseph H. Thomp-
son, embarked after ceremonies much
in keeping with the departure of an
Olympic games team,
to
FOREIGN
GENERAL
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The vain search of New York city
laundries in an effort to identify the
laundry mark uséd by the criminal who
was annihilated while he was setting
& bomb at the home of Attorney Gen-
eral A. Mitchell Palmer In Washington,
The $£31,600000 agricultural appro-
priations bill was passed by the house
with only one dissenting vote.
Government plans for the appoint.
ment of a commission to study street
railway and other public utilities for
the purpose of putting them on a prof-
itabie basis have progressed to a point
where nearly all the members of the
commission have been named,
Eight independent packing houses in
$£165,000,000 merger,
National women suffrage leaders
start the fight for quick ratification of
the suffrage amendment,
Brooklyn Sunday School Union has
110,000 children in parade In honor
of Union's ninetiech anniversary.
A syndicate of New York and Bos
ton business men purchased a number
of prominent ofl and refining prop-
erties In Texas, Oklahoma and Loulsi-
ana,
Hiinols senate passed the bond bill
which will increase the bonding power
of Chicago to $27,500,000,
Imperial Bank of Germany gives its
gold holdings as of May 23, 1,521,581
marks,
British government ordered removal
of import taxes on icales, cutlery,
lnundry appliances and motors and
similar articles,
It Is understood that the financial
clause of the Austrian treaty has been
arranged, but that no sum has been
fixed for Austria to pay. This matter,
it Is #aid, is to be left to a commission
which will determine the amount and
the method of payment after an ex-
amination Into the resources of Aus.
trian,
Montreal is: the latest bidder for
the return match between Ted Lewis
and Jack Britton,
Sir Alfred Booth, Bart, chalrman of
the Cunard Steamship Company, de-
nied rumors current in New York that
the Cunard interests were the princi.
pal figures In the syndicate that pur
chased the British assets of the Inter.
national Mercantile Marine,
American members of the Economie
Counell in Paris hold that with the
harvest of the new crops need for food
control will cease and early end of
food control is planned,
A report from Lisbon says President
Cato y Castro presented his resigna.
tion. Congress voted to ask the Presh
“ot to reconsider his action,
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
Cleveland Beers, a New Jersey Cen-
tral railroad brakeman, was caught be-
tween two cars near White Haven,
while making a coupling, and was
madly Injured,
John T. Burns, of
Conception church, Connellsville, has
gone to the Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh,
where he may be compelled to under.
gO an operation,
An accidental death certificate has
been issued by Coroner ¥, R. Rausch
In the case of Miss Katies R, McFar-
lund, who was found burned to death
in the cellar of her home in Lehigh
Gap,
Reported last summer to have been
killed In action in France, Stanley
is allve, but suffering from wounds,
hospital.
er,
In a
ment for permission to build a bridge
at Falls, Wyoming county, for which
gf contract has been let. This Is due
to the fact that the Susquehanna
a navigable stream, under federal con-
trol.
Eleven-year-old
Thomas O'Donnell
f hero when he
enacted the role of
ed the life of amother boy, Alfred Lick.
owite, drowning in I~
high river near River Front Park, Al
lemtown, The Lickowitz boy went be.
yond his depth
for the third t
nell
bovs
SHV-
who was the
and was going down
when young O Done
him Both
were soon
nie
rescued
but
arrived and
were exhausted,
revived,
I#h gh
coming recep!
county will hold its home
for
when
ion and parade its
soldiers on Wednesday, June 20,
f general holiday will be declared
thro
Ing the demonstration there will
monster picnic on the Allentown
grounds, at which the county's
soldiers will be the
Some of the em
Jerses
uhik received ns hig
A total
Follow.
he a
falr
FANN
izhout the entire county
guests
loves of
New
road In Mauch
the
Central ra
as 21500 back
$72.00 was paid in
igh and Sus
New Jersey
of West
it he resigned
liree
week wo,
Preside:
I Fred Heed, for the time being
pid!
ceeded by
a sped
He ha
is Ova to
former
home of ] : ¥ . will prac.
tice law
Iogs are
tains
' monn.
three
iuse
* iV»
er, and the
ing far
A. summer
the expense
r The
will go in 1
George Mack,
of New (Castle,
vietim in He
two compan
was seized
ming in the Mah«
Was
hours
While bathing In a lam of
ber Water wompany. r
J. C
county young man, was drowned,
was seized with erampe and went
the bottom of before
could be rescued by companions,
The body has not been recovered, The
enter in the dam is not, used for do-
mestios purposes,
The vanguard of the regiment of
seventeen-year locusis or cicadas, has
arrived in Waynesboro, and persons
who have been in sections where there
is timber, have seen them in hordes
comtng out of the ground and shed
ding their sheira. Trees and shrab-
bery are now covered thickly by them,
The period during which the cicadas
will do damage to the trees by split.
ting the branches to deposit eggs will
not begin for ten days, say entomo-
togists of the department of agricul.
ture,
The Northumberland county treas-
ary showed the healthy balance of
$208804 73.
largest single balance ever carried
in the history of this hig anthracite
unit of the commonwealth, It ind
tates, according to Deputy Treagurer
William H. Deppen, that Northumbers
Iand, outside of the more densely pop-
ainted counties, is one of the richest
in the state,
The Mauch Cunhk school board has
cramps while
river. His body
not recovered for twenty-four
the'Wind.
Windsor,
Bedford
He
to
he
Lea
Sitombaugh, a former
the dam
his
of the town who were in the service
Inst year from paying faxes,
The Wallingford Water company
has filed notice with the public serv.
fee commission that it bas Increased
rates one-third, effective July 1.
The seminary clase of Moravian
Beminary and College for Women at
Bethlehem held its class day exer
clses on the eampus,
Ralph C. Spre was elected secre.
tary of the Pottstown board of health,
succeeding J. Howard Reigner, re
signed.
A section hand's truck on the Perk!
wits struck by a pas
and of the
men aboard the handear, Wil.
Hilbert, foreman of the gang,
wag seriously iojured,
three
Resolutions calling upon congress
passed at the closing sessions of the
forty-eighth annual meeting of the
Eastern Ohlo and Western Pennsyl-
churchek held in New Castle,
Word has reached Lewistown that
Lieutenant George Phillips, son of Mr,
and Mrs. George W, Phillips, of West
Market street, who has been on secret
work for the government at San An
tonio, "ad been injured by a fall from
his plane. Lieutenant Phillips was
cited Jor bravery ln France,
Jess Everly, of
Harry Moyer, of
fined £20 each and
a plea of guilty of having
in the Kishacoquillas creek.
At Alumni day normal
school of the located at
Mansfield, June 25, a memorial tablet
will be unveiled to the
who made the supreme sacrifice
Yeagertown, and
teeduvilie, were
COXI8 On entering
ried] dip
nels
of the state
fifth dis: riet,
RIX members
in the
Five hundred alumni and
students were in the
Frank loxt
the sight of an eye when a spall from
a4 piece f
Service,
Collins, of lewistown,
of steel he was
into shape struck him on the sight.
For the in the history of
Fayette county estate
hammering
first time
an
over to the United States
taken
left by
#
ive of Galicia,
was turned
government
This actior
£202
was when no heirs
Frank Biskup,
Austria, re
in the Uniontown hospital
10 the 005,
A nat who
cently died
appeared
Miss Amy Gilbert, of Chambersburg,
Daniel :
commissioner of
daughter of
Franklin
awarded the Univer
been at
where she (8
Pennsylvania, taking
post-graduate co Joseph
irse, the M
forious work.
The og
which
it two mile 1
AR Span
of
Crokses the ‘hemung
Tozer's
Sayre,
gone down
ning bank
and the sw
een
ghutment
bridge,
into the
and w
use the
cerned
one In
the exodus contd
Darby,
of North Bend.
was lost In
Jar iw
was f
ahout
Gans
creek
He
derably from
Os! onstant
in 8 serious condition
es Diehl, of Bald Top,
i ng a walk neas
i's Mest «
BE MOUNIY COM
missioners agreed
HAE engineers
Nave
to allow
expert
over their properties
of securing a pl
£1
his
go
for the purpose
yaioal valuation O
ACY
they will sit 2% a board
and fix the valuations
“a
purposes for the next
ee
¥ % & i .
has been done, ording to the
tomm
of tax
fi faxahle
i0T
three years
sRianers,
revision
fter having
served for more than
shier of Lemasters
bank, the Institution formed
to take the place of the bank wrecked
through the peculations of its cashier
three years ago, Dorie IX Ashway, of
Chambersburg, has resigned and will
enter the astomobile business His
resignation Is effective June 1, and he
was suclieeded by J. lL. Garland, of
Hancock, Md., former principal of the
Lemasters high school,
F. E. Colony, of Renovo, has sug.
gested the relocation of a portion of
state highway route No. 108, through
this borough. The idea of citizens of
the borough Js that Moron avenue
should be used Instead of Erie avenue.
railroad overhead
A Year as og the
National
laid out, are deciared dangerous, The
state highway department says it is
After having served for five years
ns probation officer of Franklin coun.
ty, Miss Elsie Kiepfer, of Chambers.
burg, has resigned the position. She
has gone to her home In Harrisburg
and will be married next month. Her
successor will be appointed by W,
Rush Gillan, president judge of the
Franklin county couris, :
A divorce has been granted to Arch
Hastie, of Pittston, who recently re.
turned from France with the 100th
field artillery.
Judge Henry, of Lebanon, presiding
nt Harr'eburg, raled that the effects
of the Hummelsiown Consolidated
Water company be sold,
The Western Salisbury congregation
celebrated the 100th anniversary of
the laying of the cornersione of thelr
church,
More than 200 eases, including three
homicides, nre scheduled for the Juno
orig of court, which opens at Union
Sewing Buttons.
order to Insure a good fastening. It
is a good plan to place a pin between
the button and the cloth, passing the
thread over the pin; then when the
thread is fastened remove the pin and
the button is sufficiently loose.
In ripping buttons off
ete, string them at once on a bit
strong thread and tie together.
You want a set of
will not have to pick them out from
several hundred others,
of
time
To Make Even Buttonholes.
In making buttonholes in sheer, soft
perfectly firm
edge may be made by even a povice
buttonholes if a fine cambric
needie i= run through the cut from one
end to the other, so
directly over the opening:
holing is done over the then
the needle is pulled out and inserted
the
worked over If,
nt
the needle Is not in place
Neat, Firm Buttonhole in Cloth.
Measure and mark the exact length
thread where
stitch quite «
in
yery
the
that the needle is
the buttom-
needle,
outside of work, and the
the
being made
7 +4
sia iittie
the ends
cut between the rows
way with
over-and-over
stiches nt each
{ Pd 3
passing the thread along the
Nome wWonen use
Plnce this wrapping twine
work
over it.
are
Buttonholes made in this way
very strong.
To Remove Threads After Ripping.
After a garment has been ripped it
is nn tedious job to pick the threads
from the seams. If you take a plece
of coarse cloth—such as a of
toweling—dampen it and rub it over
the seams, the threads come out reads
| fly.
plece
Thread Twisted and Knotted.
When thread twists and knots as you
sew, try stretching cotton before
beginning to use it Take
spool the usual needleful
| each end firmly
{ Ughtly as possible two or three U
the
from the
and
tir
nd, holding
stretch the cotton aw
SIN,
Buttons of Metal,
There is a big demand for small met-
al buttons
this season, manufscturers
i gttons are sells
or vestings for women and
ich
ery and
the appea of many materials, are
In large for
There are g
on
and the fancy
ing
the buttonx, wh
when made up take ev color
need kives COs,
and Jet
suite
used] for differ.
Capes,
KUits,
Ines
huttons used high-class
itton is
Glass buttons
from
thls
and
war came largely
made in
ent purposes,
previo thie
Austria, but
country.
fot
us to
ire now
Barred Crepe.
Have Apren Fronts,
the new tricoiettle
! gowns
have
The days when any old thing in the
way of a bathing suit would do, have
become a part of the dim past. Bath.
ing suits, swimming suits and beach
suits progressed rapidly and gayly.
through successive stages of develop
ment (some of them more startiing
than genteel) until they arrived at the
present season, Now they all appear
to have claims to atiractiveness, they
are modest and some of them, with the
addition of capes, are entitled to be
called graceful and picturesque. New
fabrics, various rubberized cloths that
are attractive in themselves and not
affected by water, sllow designers to
give free play to their fancies in a
field where traditions do no hamper
ing-but quite the reverse. Good ma-
terials are well handled In the new
suits by specialists that have gained
much by experience in designing. They
have presented mn great variety In
styles this season.
Two very good examples of these
new arrivals for beach wear and bath.
ing are pictured above. They are not
regulation swimming suits, but quite
equal to meeting all the requirements
of the average summer girl who goes
to the sex for pastime or health,
e girl at the left has on a sleeveless
rds of taffeta ch bangs straight
from the shoulders and is tied about
the waist with a silk cord. Frills, with.
a fancy or fringed edge, In three rows
decorate the bottom of the skirt and
are put on with the free edge uppers
most, This is tacked down at short
intervals, The round neck is finished
with a frill.
The simple cap worn with this dress
is a polka-dot rubber cloth with plain.
revers about the head and the shoes
are high. There are silk hose and
knickerbockers of taffeta,
The suit at the right appears to be
made of wool Jersey or a similar mate
rin. It has a plain short bodice with
short kimono sleeves and these are
faced with a contrasting color, split
over the arm and the points turned
back. Narrow brald Is used for trim.
ming in parailel rows about the hips.
and in short lengths acrass the front
of the waist, A rubber turban, siip-
pers with bands about instep snd
ankle and a striped parasol insure the
comfort of this very up-to-date bather,
It is no longer fashionable to acquire
a deep coat of tan, no one
objects to a little of it.