PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
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Hurrlsburg.—Plans for checking up
the issues of licenses for the sale of
oleomargarine have been outlined by
the state bureau of foods and agents
wlll be sent through districts where
there have been heavy registrations
in the last two years to see if the
state law 1s being obeyed,
Pottsville —Because freight
rates
cessfully shipped to Philadelphia,
Schuylkill. county farmers are hard
hit and potatoes are selling here as
dow as 75 cents & bushel and In a few
instances at 50 cents, Last year 35,-
000 bushels of potatoes were shipped
to Philadelphia.
Sharon.—Robbers drilled an 18-inch
hole in the vault
Savings Bank, Orangeville, 0.
cured registered bonds from
pro-
safety
escaped,
Hazleton -
hermit,
John
ed known as the
town almshouse, was recaptured
fey.
Altoona.— Attempting
Pennsylvania passenger
it moving, at
Culver, 30, weight
son coal mine, was thrown under the
wheels and both legs cut off.
Marietta.— Charles, 13-year-old
of Mrs, Matilda Houseal, struck a
match and attempted to heat a rail-
road cap. It went off with a terrific
explosion and tore his left hand
badly that he was rushed to the Co-
lumbia hospital, where amputation of
several fingers wus necessary.
Altoona.—Five months In jail was
the sentence imposed in the Blair
county court on Antonio Kallvastes,
former janitor of the bunkhouse at the
Pennsylvania railroad’s East Altoona
round house, who was charged with
taking a large number of first ald kits
used on locomotives and signal flags
from engives and trains in the local
yards,
York.--An
to board
train
Gallitzin,
boss at the Cres-
was
unusual accident case
was brought to attention at the West
Side ‘Sanitarium when 17-months-old
Margaret King, of New Freedom, was
brought in for treatgent of severe
burns of her lips and tongue. The
child had taken hold of the end of
& live electric light wire while some
‘repairs were being made at her home
{and had placed it in her mouth, the
Burns resulting. Her condition is not
‘regarded as serious.
Pottsville Charles F. Erb, victim
of several railroad accidents, was
killed on the Philadelphia & Reading
raliway at Cressona, while tending a
spring switch. He was kaocked down
by lever which rebounded after a
locomotive passed over it. Erb, aged
(D4, was the victim of a number of ac
icidents on the road, the first oceur-
ring in 1564, when his left leg was cut
off after he served only four days on
the road,
Pottgville—The first woman to held
public office in Schuylkill county un-
der the federal conStitutional amend-
ment efifranchising women will be Mrs.
Mary K. Rhinehart, of Rush township,
8he was appointed registry assessor by
the county commissioners,
Marietta. —Thomas Nelson, T1 years
old, Quarryville, who was stricken
with apoplexy as his brother Stephen
was being lowered in the grave, at
Bethesda Cemetery, died, surviving but
one day. He was a veterun of the civil
war and the last of three famous Nel
son brothers,
Freeland.-——Jehn Fisher,
man, was held in £300
charge of stealing 2874
Kirkousky, a liveryman.
Hazleton. — Trustees of the State
Hospital decided to ent out all passes
for visits after March 1, when per-
sons can see patients only in the reg-
ular visiting hours.
Salem.-
and Miss
u
a
ball
from
police-
on a
John
Stella” Sickler,
shinny, were severely injured .when
the steering gear of his automobile
broke and the machine {ruck a free,
Altoona. A higher rate of iy than
that treated by the United States ratl-
road labor board is promised Pennsy}-
vapia railroad shopmen in Altoona if
the plece-work system is ré-estahlished
in the shops, according to a bulletin
posted by Works Manager P, F, Smith,
dr. The company guarantees a rate
exceeding the present day rate plan.
Several departments are row working
on plece work, the employes having re-
quested the change.
York. ~Lientenant Harold H. Me
Clune, of this city, who returned home
after having been in service overseas
since April, 1017, broagac with hita u
German bride, formerly Fraulein Eaula
Meuser. After the signing of the ar-
mistice, Lieutenant McClune wus sta-
tioned at Coblenz.
Hazleton —Mayor
pended Michael Evanko, a patrolman,
for ten duys on a charge of violating
the rules,
Lancaster ~The elty tax rate is 11
mills, which will net $520,051,
Reading.~The Reading Rallway
company has suspended 300 additional
snen at its car shops In this city,
Wayne Junction, Port Richmond,
Port Reading, Rutherford and In the
wconl regions,
Hurrisburg.— State police In mining
regicos are to star: soor. enforcing the
daw requiring lights on .orse-drawn
webicles
of Shick-
han, pastor of 81. Pauls _Herormed
church, here, has been invited to the
pulpit of the Roscoe Congregational
chuich, New York. He has not yet
decided to accept.
Sunbury~—~lLeo P, Conuor suid the
Connor Hotel here to Charles A. Wine-
frod for $30,000.
Lebanon. —Franklin, 4-yearold son
of Frank Zerman, of this place, died
fron: Injuries suffered when he was
run down by a truck in front of his
home.
West Middlebury. —The Ella Furnace
here has cut wages 20 per cent.
Shamokin —Dr. L. BE. Shock has been
appointed chief of the child health
clinic here,
Harrisburg.—During 1920 the state
| highway department freed 067.8 miles
of toll road at a cost of F48.842.50.
York.—A trunk belonging to A. B.
Farquhar, a York rganufacturer, arriv-
{ ed here after having been astray for
eight years in Europe. Upon opening
it, the owner found everything intact.
“If that trunk could talk, he said, “1
do not doubt that it could tell an in-
teresting story.” The trunk was lost
in 1014, when the York nrn wae tray-
eling in Bulgaria. He
several
| its advemture included a
on the Black Sen.
shipwreck
He nad given up
arirved.
citizens were or will be
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JACK IS THANKFUL
NE night in the playroom all the
toys, sat looking at Teddy-Bear,
Dora Doll, Jumping Jack and Sack-
in-a-Box and several others who had
feet and legs,
Of course, Jack-In-a-Box had no feet
ar legs, and that was always a very
unpleasant subject for Jack to speak
about, for all the boys who had them
rather looked down on poor little Jack,
But tonight those who had feet und
legs sat in'a row by the wall while
the other toys looked at them and
listened to their tale of woe.
“It wns just terrible!” sald Dora
Doll. “There we were in that big,-
in Allegheny county during the
Keesport gas boom. They took
in a partnership company aad became
{| responsible for ite debts,
{ found,
i Urlontown.—When
Jamaica ginger was
& fruckload
wrecked on
of
the
on the scene and forcibly removed the
greater portion of the cargo, consist-
were said to have been
Uniontown merchant.
eral agents, who are investigating,
Is reported here that the plant of the
Unlentown. Chemieal company was
broken into and every bottle of Jamal-
ca ginger, numbering nearly 2000, tak.
en.
to the
weeks,
chemical plant within
the Colonial and the Penn, were sold
to the Gurney Hotel company, Nearly
$L00G,000 was Involved in the
of hotels along the Lincoln Highway.
ing picture show, Mrs. John M. Cald
well
merchant and a former resident of
failure and died shortly afterward,
Kittanning. —Police and postal
cials are searching for veggmen travel.
with
stamps,
£1900 cash and $1300 worth
The mien gained entrance hy
tom of the safe door sufficiently to set
a charge of explosive,
Washington—In recognition
services to his country, a wounded vet.
eran of the world war has been named
tipstaves In the
courts,
Pittsburgh. A wireless telephone, to
be used in the transaction of business,
has been installed hy the chamber of
commerce,
telephone, connecting with 300,000 op
erator? within an area of about 3,000.
000 square miles surrounding Pitts
burch, had been set up at the organi-
zation's offices, Members are invited
to make use of the instrument in the
transaction of business,
Monessen Five men suffered from
burns when a gas well being drilled on
the Hopkins farm, two miles from
Monessen, by the Hopkins Of] and Gas
comipany, struck a big pocket of gas
The gis ignited, causing an explosion.
The injured are: Cooney Noll, driller:
Elmer Sasey, assistant driller; Earl
Chambers assistant Arilier: Wateon
Sher ler, resident of an adjoining farm,
and Walter Hopkins, son of the owner
of the farm,
Pittsburgh.-—A resolution ealling for
to bring from France the body of
an unidentified American soldier for
reburial in Arlingtom emetery or some
other notable place, has been adopted
by the executive commitiee, Pittsbungh
Branch, Bring-Home-the Soldier-Dead
League, The resolution advocates the
return of all the known Jead, request.
«1 by the next of kin, before the unk
Jdentified body is brought back. The
graves registration bureau still is at
work, the resolution continues, and any
body listed as ubidentifiad and hurled
within the next few months be identi
fled later,
Mount Carmel.~~The Primitive Meth-
odists here, whose churen was badly
" damaged by fire the morning of Janu-
ary 17, will erect a new one,
Duneaneville~Hurled by a Penn.
sylvanin freight train against a pile
of ties, near his home, Cyril Woolridge,
of this place, was killed.
Greenwald, — Sergeant John B,
Shrum, of this place, has been award.
‘od the distinguished service cross by
the war department for extraordinary
herotem in France In 1918, !
Rhamokin~New York capitalists
have purchased the Buck Ridge wl
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a a
empty flower tub, where
{ mother had been playing house when
ft grew dark. That was bad enough,
i but when It began rain—oh, that
| was awful! My clothes were spoiled
| before 1 thought of danger, and then
, Bear began to fuss.”
“1 should think so!" said Teddy. “1
| was sitting In the water, which every
: minute was filling the tub, and I just
soaked 1t Info my body, so I knew |
should not float”
“It was worse for me.” said Jump-
Ing Jack. “I was flat on my back on
the bottom of the tub and the water
| was all over me first. Of course, I did
| float after a while, but I was so soft
and sticky that I knew I was a wreck
{and every
and arms to fall off.”
Poor Sailor Boy Doll looked very
| foriorn as he sat drying by the radi.
lato? and his blue-and-white suit
looked anything but neat. It was then
' that Jack-in-a-Box began to talk, and
our
to
ELL, 1 been deesa place, capital
Washington, fiva, scexa day
now and I dunno somating yet. Every
{ day I go geeva look ‘at da senate and
da congress and every time ees jusa
moocha talk and
WW
| satme-—100
| somating.
You know, weeth
gotia more speed ax da locomote on da
| raliroad. But weeth work ees da sams
shift as Halley's comet.
Other day my frien wot go een dat
place weeth me say one aan
gonna introduce da Bill.
i ting.
Now 1 dunno wot for my frien talka
da way weeth me. 1 feegure eef dat
man een 4a congress was gonna intro-
duce somebody he tella hees Inssa
name anyway. Eef HUI was no stranger
een dat place wotell's da use intro-
duce. You know, I am smarta guy, too.
I aska my frien one more time wot
was Bill's lasta name and he say 1
gm craze een da head. “Jusa walt ang
geeva look,” ha say.
So 1 waita tree, four hour een dat
plage for see wot Bill looka like. But
he no show up. Dat guy wot Introduce
heem starta maka da speech. He talka
too long and I getta deesgust,
I am preety mad so 1 leava dat
place and go home. And I tigk Bill
feela same way and go home, too. Dat
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getta acquaint heemself weethout in-
troduce.
Wot you tink?
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THE MILE.
HE Roman unit of long measu
wus 1,000 paces, called a “mill,”
Latin for 1,000, The distance was, of
course, only approximate, but the
word, shortened to “mile,” persisted
and all the modern units are derived
from it. One minute of Earth's equa-
tor was chosen as the geographical
mile. There are 10 recognized stand.
ard miles, varying from 1 to 6.64 times
our statute mile of 5,280 feet, whith
was defined In Queen Elizabeth's time.
_Somgete
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His Position,
_ "Then you don't gare for this
iat art? “No, let the people
future enjoy it
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HELEN LYNCH
manner In which he was made.
have feet and legs
I began to feel sure I was safe. Of
for It did pot blow at all, and there I
was salling around as dry as ever,
who were getting
wet, but you
is only just room In my box for me.”
spring rusted.” said Dora Doll; “you
you did not get wet.”
“I do feel a little stiff in my spring.”
{ admitted Jack, “but
{ do me no harm. It will soon wear off,
you who have feet and legs.”
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CEL LAE CECE PEE EEGECEAEE AEE L EGET
HOW DO YOU SAY IT?
By C. N. Lurie
Common Errors in English and
How to Avoid Them
SI STEIN
“I SEEN HIM”
REQUENTLY. we hear a person
F say, “1 seen him do it,” and it is
not always a person whe has not been
educated in the proper use of English.
In the language of the grammarian,
the speaker does not make proper dis-
tinction between “saw.”
{or past, form of the
verb “see”
i The principal parts of “see” are
follows: Present, “see”;
| imperfect participle,
| participle, “seen”.
| tence should have been worded,
| saw him do It.” not “I seen him do 11."
| We hear a person sny, “I have saw”
ior “I would have saw ;"
past,
“seeing:
in those cases,
“1 have seen,” “I would have
since “seen” 8 the participle Le
used after any form of the auxiliary
i or helping verb “have.”
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| SALADS AND BEAUTY
A made, salads are either fattening
tor thinning. They play a great part In
all menus for reduction, but in this
| cage they are eaten plain or with a
{special dressing.
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“lon, Eat Salads, Which Also Nourish
the Body.
grape, banana or nuts, with the fol.
owing dressing: Two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, a pinch of salt and paprika,
a quarter teaspagnful of dry mustard,
a teaspoonful of chopped chives or
parsley, and a teaspoonful of tomate
catsup or Worcestersliire sauce. The
bowl is rubbed inside with an onion,
and the ingredients are mixed together,
Sometimes a hard-boiled egg 1s
chopped In.
But if you wish to Increase your
weight, cat salads with plenty of olive
oll mayounnize, For this you take the
yoke of an egg. beat it, add a pinch of
sult, add olive ollalrop by drop, always
benting, with a few drops of lemon
Juice or vinegar to tMn it as it grows
too thick. After a time the oll may be
added in tablespoonful quantities. The
success of this most delicate of all
dressings is that the mixing bowl must
be quite cold, even being set In a dish
of cracked ice, and ut Hirst thd old and
| Vinegar must be added a few drops at
& Uwe. It must be heaten incessantly,
¥
Popular Helen Lynch, who has been
i seen in some of the excellent pictures,
{and who is a prime “movie” star, was
| born in Montana eighteen years ago.
| She is blonde and blue eyed, and pro.
| fesses to like “thrilly” stories. Her
| her appearance is that of a delightful
| ingenue.
sensors Pomme
Spred Required.
“Ma moonshine
whisky?”
“Certainly
you ever taste
not,” replied Uncle Bill
Jottietop. « "Anybody who can’t swal-
low fast enough to keep from tastin’ it
has no business tryin’ to drink it."
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A LINE 0’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
AS TO THE GALLERY.
I care not ff they say of me
I play unto the gallery,
For in those places up on high
Where wealth and fashion seldom
fy,
I find that many a fellow sits
With solid mind and nimble wits,
Who hath a soul as full of glow
As any sitting down below,
While 'mongst the more exclusive
oft
I've found a head
soft,
With naught for its location fit
Except the cash to pag for it
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that's mighty
of Praama a few decades
in honor
Ravages
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(©. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
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The main difference between pless-
ant and unpleasant people is mainly
that the latter demand consideration
and the former are quick to give IL
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WHAT TO EAT.
A good nourishing soup is always a
welcome QOish, especially during the
winter months,
Veal Soup. —
Cook a two-pound
knuckle of veal
glowly in water
till the meat falls
from the bones,
then remove the
bones, There
gbould be five or six cupfuls of stock
Add two cupfuls of diced potatoes and
Cook until soft; add the meat, one and
one-Liglf tablespoonfuls of catsup, one-
half teaspoonful of flour snd one
eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper.
Phicken slightly with one tablespoon
ful each of flour and fat cooked togeth-
jer. Pour over hard- ege
| and serve with thin slices of leinon on
top of each dish,
Onion Boup Rlice pix
sized and cook in
one ooked
medium-
Onions two table.
Oo small
Add tw
and two cupfuls of
iy, until light brown.
i cans of consowme
| bot water; cook gently for 15 minutes,
| Add three tablespoonfuls of parmesan
| cheese, one tablespooonful of kitchen
| bouquet, one-half teaspoonful of salt,
{ a few. grains of pepper, celery sait and
| paprika. Pour into a and
| buke 15 minutes. Beef stock or broth
| may be used in place of the consomme,
{| Stuffed Turnips—Pare half-pound
{ turpips, cut sees from the and
| Scoop out the Inside, leaving a half-inch
| rim, Cook both the sbelis and cover
| until half done (15 minutes) in saited
| water, then arrange them in a buttered
baking pan, filing with chopped season.
| ed meat, crumbs or rice. Cover with
| the tops and fasten each with a tooth-
| plek. Pour around them the water in
the furnips were cooked and
! bake until the turnips are well done.
+ Pour off the liquid and brown the tur
| nips. Serve with the hot sauce poured
! around them just before taking to the
| table. The portion scooped out may be
| used in various ways as soup or cooked
| and mashed as a vegetable.
Italian Eggs and Onions.—Cook two
cupfuls of small onions until tender;
drain, season with salt and butter.
i Put into a shallow baking dish, allow-
big space to break, and dispose four
eggs between the onlong, Cover with
| six tablespoonfuls of cheese and place
in a moderate oven until the eggs are
casserole
top
Peas, carrots and onions cooked 1o-
gether and served with bits of diced
salt pork browned in a hot frying pan
make a good vegetable dish, Add a
lttle milk and serve in Individual
dishes, seasoning well.
If you intend to be happy don’t be
foolish enough to walt for a just
Ruse
There's life alone In duty done,
And rest alone in striving. — Whittier,
WHAT TO HAVE FOR DINNER.
A tomato soup without mest is one
| of the good, hearty and easy soups to
{ prepare. In =»
good-sized sauce
pag place one
fweet pepper, one
onion, one carrot
and one turnip,
all medium sized
and finely minced,
Add a sprig of
parsiey, one stalk of celery, one plece
i of bay leaf, one leaf of cabbage and
two cloves. Add two quarts of toma:
| toes and one quart of water. If fresh
tomatoes are used, do not peel them.
Cover and simmer one hour, or until
the vegetables are tender, Season with
a tablespoonful of salt, one-quarter of
| a teaspoonful of pepper and two tes.
| spoonfuls of sugar; more may be add
ed sccording to taste, Strain all
| through & colander. Return the soup
| to the kettle and thicken with one ta
| blespoonful of flour and one table
spoonful of sweet fat. One may can
this soup and have it ready for-reheat-
ing for an emergency soup,
Rice With Chicken —Take a young
chicken, cut up for frying. Take one
tublespoonful each of lard and butter;
melt in an iron kettle. When hot, add
the chicken, two teaspoonfuls of salt,
one-eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper;
stir and cook until the chicken is
brown (this will take about fifteen
minutes). Then add two cloves of gar
lie, one small onion, chopped, and twe
cooked add one cupful of rice and twe
cupfuls of bolling water. When the
rice is nearly done 20d one cupful of
cooked peas and glx
Serve with strips of canned red
ald over the top for a garnish.
Apple Cake~Lihe 4 ple plate
with pastry, then oo ap