THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
Dawson, T. 8. Harman,
Bouth Side, Pittsburgh,
broken right arm.
Apple trees in some sections of Fay-
23, of
sustained a
ond time this season.
Approximately H00 employes of the
Jeannette company resumed
work at Greensburg,
Burglars made a
wissa, visiting and
eaping with loot that willsrun into the
hundreds,
The forty-seventh annual reunion of
the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry As
sociation will be held at Alteona Octo.
ber 11
Entering the home of
chick, of Ranshaw,
Shamokin,
the man up at
forced him to
amounting to
chick is
Glass
even places
and 12.
Robert Mar
three miles east of
masked bandits
the point of a revolver,
turn over his
$200, and escaped
crippled by rheumatism
three held
savings,
Mar
at Ranshaw, where he eked out a liv
11g by the sale of novelties,
The 1odies of Matthew
60, and his wife, Mrs. “ulin
ler, found
each other's arms in a hotel room in
Pittsburgh. Both had been shot. The
police said that Miller had killed his
wife and then himself. According to
the police, the Millers had not been
living together, but there was nothing
in the papers found In the room to in-
dicate why they had gone to the hotel
or that would throw any ght on the
cause of te tragedy.
Jooel Bullock, 45 years 1d, of Un-
fon, Wayne county, separated from his
wife, attempted to shoot her and
daughter. Both fell unharmed,
believing he had shot them, he turned
the pistol on himself with fatal results.
Police of New Castle began a probe
into the death of Albert J. White, aged
18, who died In a local hospital . s
result of a bullet
mitted to the hospital White
state how the
other than it
ture of
most
flicted
Three men
burgh in cor
of J: P. Revelle,
at a roadhe
searching fo
Ray,
to a hospital
William
roadhouse, also w
with violat
The Bet}
which condu
Northampton
iller, aged
Ryan Mil
aged 05, were
his
wound.
When ad-
wound was
WHR A dental
i
the wound would make it al
impossible to have
were arrested in
thie
of Philadelphia,
County detectives are
nection with
use,
another man
shot which
buliet
wha, they
fired the “OTt
with a in his chest
proprietor of the
a8 arrested,
Woner act.
Taxpayers’
Donnelly,
charged
ing the
lehem League,
legal battl in the
county courts a few
years obtain a reduction of
property this city, has
begun a civil suit against the Bethle
hem school board to recover about £20,
000 in taxes alleged to
have been paid Ly the several hundred
members o fthe league.
So loud is the new Connellsville fire
alarm whistle that living 'n
the vicinity have complaint
with city cou acil, charging that the
whistle is a public nuisance. An ef
fort will be made to mum e the whistle
When their horse was scared by a
flock of birds and ran away and upset
their carriage, Joseph Hepler, a farm.
er of Pitman, near Mount Carmel, sus
tained a fractured skull and arm and
died at the Fountain Springs Hospital
His wife was badly bruised and their
B-year-old son, John, broke an arm.
Bhot down as she entered her home
to try and patch up a quarrel, Mrs
William Conner, of Middletown, near
arrisburg, was wounded, probably fa-
tally, by her husband, who then turn
ed the revolver on himself, dying with
fa bullet in the brain. Mrs. Conner
left home several days ago, following
A quarrel with her husband, and eame
to the home of her parents, in Harris
burg, but decided to return to him. At
the hospital it is said Mre. Conner has
a slight chapee to recover,
All records for murders in Fayette
country were broken last month, when,
according to the report of Coroner
Baum, seven killings were added to
the already long list. Forty-four vio
lent deaths included four automobile
accidents, three suicides, {wo drown
Ings, four mine accidents, five deaths
from powder explosion, two aceldental
shootings and one railroad aecident.
W. J. Stokinger, of Philadelphia,
was unanimously elected grand regent
of the state council, Royal Arcanum,
at the annual convention in Harris
burg. Others elected were: Walter S.
Bevin, Scranton, vice grand regent:
James 8, Blackburn, Pittsburgh, grand
orator: Wehster C, Welss, Bethlehem,
grand secretary: Jacob Weiner, Car.
Bele, grand treasurer: B. W. Sheffield,
Chester, grand chaplain: W. H. Nie
baum, Pittsburgh, grand guide: T. M.
Rose, Meadville, grand warden: Jobs
Culbert, Philadelphia, grand sentry,
Harrisburg was selected ns the place
for the 1922 convention.
W. McC. Craine, former city treas
urer of Allentown, has been named
receiver for the Leroy Hotel company,
of that city.
The first fall “run” of eels Is re
ported from the mountain creck dls
tricts of Clinton county.
Rev. J. Leonard Hynson, pastor of
Fourth Street Presbyterian church,
Lebanon, has received from Colorado
Btate University the degree of doctor
of divinity,
H. C. Waddell, of Delmont, has been
appointed prohibition enforcement of-
ficer for the Westmoreland county dis
trict.
ted a
Hage fo
assessments in
excess school
persons
filed a
Connellsville, has been named collect.
The state board of examiners for
licensure of engineers elected Richard
IL. Humphreys, of Philadelphia, chair-
man, : i
The American Association, Frientls
of the Irish Republic, in Carban,
with
Chty,
tri-county association
Guinan, of Mahanoy
formed a
Richard
chairman,
While enjoying a vacation at Timo-
Grove, of York, discovered a stolen au-
tomobile and arrested the driver Jack
The car was stolen from K.
Fourteen cases of tyrhold fever were
the health from the Fif-
rard, Pittsburgh, where for
June 1 122
There were
Jure, 26 In July, 73 in Au
thus far in September,
County Telephone
refused
Since
nnd 21
The Perry
WHS
an exchange in
Marysville, the protest of © ¢ Camber
Valley Telephone company being
the ground
complaint against the adequacy of the
service rendered by it withi
The Perry county con
subscribers in
establish
the bor
pany al
Marvs
ough
has eight
ville, but never has been
enter the borough
John A. Person, a
of Walnutport, near
placed under arrest by Deputy
States Marshal Peter Sheehan,
charge of tampering with, the
raral mail carrier
Allentown,
United
on a
mal,
Was
jall to await a hearirg before United
States Commissioner Turner.
from a
ture of the skull, Nicholas
Marion Heights, near Mount Carmel,
a dying condition, the result of
being beaten by thugs He
ticed away from Home 10.30 P.
by an unknown man, appearing to be
drunk and wanting
Falling 60 feet
Unconscious denressed frac.
is In
was en
assistance home
from a scaffolding
Merchant Shipbuile
corporation, Chester, Ralph Hem
of Philadelphia,
i
Hngway,
warkable escape fro
and head were
John
and
rs
in 1 mnvil
Pitteton
of a
home 1
{0 answe
ing three stores, es
up
within an hour before the pol
arrived
While fishing in the
near Selipsgrove, Henry E.
“strike” that
the slender rot out of grasp.
With the ald of his Merritt Fish-
er, the two played the big fish for ff.
minutes and when finally
landing net ‘inder it they found
they Susquehanna :almon that
weighed six pounds and was nearly 30
It was one of the largest
ever taken from stream here, old
fishermen sald.
Earl Hardy, a Dunbar,
was beaten and robbed by a negro who
Sit squehannn
Fish
I strony Heariy
his
|On,
teen hey
got the
had a
inches ong
the
miller at
vas hiding behind a pile of flour sacks
when Hardy entered the mill
Harrisburg and other pos of the
American legion plan a campaign to
have the state headquarters moved
from Philadelphia to the state capital.
Fire chiefs of many municipalities
will be invited to Harrisburg on Oe
C. M. Wilhelm,
fire protection.
Voicing many
weading Coal Dealers’
sent fo the state
of the state bureau of
public the
Association has
association a com-
plaint against the coal companies
which sent anthracite to the city of
Reading. It sets forth that large quan.
tities of pea coal are mixed with chest-
nut and that buckwheat size Is
similarly mixed with pea, while as
high as 80 pounds of coal dirt has
wen from one ton of coal
The association is
take up the matter with the coal com-
panies
Chicken thieves chased away sev.
eral weeks ago amid a volley of gun-
shots are believed to have been re
sponsible for a fire which destroyed
prote af,
size
soreened
state
near Marysville,
chickens were burned. The
approach $5000,
loss will
a Cranberry miner despondent
found hanging to a tree,
decided to list all
per cent of their actual value,
a record enrollment of 6500, .
Charles Murtzbaugh was buried alive
in a sand pit at Danville, but was
rescued by fellow-workmen after tn
minutes,
Edward F. Smith, 4.year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Smith, of
Conyngham, died from eating unripe
walnuts found under a tree near
which he was playing.
While chasing some boys who were
looting a choice peach tree, Mra. Bm-
ma Peters, of Northumberland, fell
and fractured her wrist,
Andro Bokliando, aged 16, of Coal
dale, was found dead in a woods, pre
John Gregon, of Wilkes-Barre, walk.
ing to Hazleton in search of work, was
robbed of $50 by two men masked with
handkerchiefs,
Katie Molnef, of 205 Quimby street,
Sharon, was arrested by Game War
den Dixon, charged with owning & dog.
She Is an alien, and Alderman Thome
as fined her $30 under a pew state
law,
fall,
ing the winter months,
football s«¢
The ;
time for the ason of 1922,
Two Score on Bunt.
A two-base bunt, 15 feet (rom
» plat that 1a wi ba
Rr) 1]
New York
geries at»
3. gH
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Baseball
Notes
The way t« tuth from hi
runs
baseman,
home
spring
the
Last
owners of
the earth.
the Red Sox has
Ing
Manuger Duffy of
Henry Fine, a y«¢
Mass,
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signed pitcher
of Cambridge,
Landis is one of those
who believe
contract,
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Judge
fashioned gentlemen
contract is a
will tell von,
gtrike, that the
umpires,
Any ball player
pecially after a third
game is full of private
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Bill Donovan, deposed f
the Philadelphia Nationals, will get
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“Red” Thomas center fielder for the
Western Association club,
sold to the Cubs,
*® - *
Henryelta
has been Chicago
Goldie Rapp is the hard luck cham
plon—traded to the Phillies and opers-
ted on for appendicitis——all in one
Ad . -
Some 300 hitters, idols of the game
for many years, have never learned
how to tie a four-inchand., The crude
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President Griffith announced the pur
chase of Pitcher Francis from the
the Pacific Coast
Francis is a southpaw,
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league.
Herb Murphy, manager of the Dan-
ville Piedmont league baseball team
since the opening of the season this
year, has been sold to High Point.
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Elmer Miller is doing well for the
Yankees both in hitting and figlding.
If that's his regular speed the team
is the worse off for not having landed
him sooner.
* * s
The 8t. Louis cardinals have signed
ft third baseman named Guiney, who
has been playing great ball with the
Pittsburgh Collegiang, the erack inde
pendent team of Western Pennsyl-
vania,
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Ty Cobb Is in no danger of being
forced out of baseball for several
years, although he has a small catar-
fict on one eye. When informed of
reports that he might not be able te
finish the season, Cobb said his sight
Is unimpaired,
Colmmnbus,
clure dur
+ tilote
i pete
The
in the spring
Sacker of McGraw's
Giants Is Back to Life in Making
Home Runs.
George Kelly,
ought to half as
as Babe Ruth will
In another year or
get
this
two,
year
after Babe
Kelly may sit on the swat throne
New York Clock Maker Has Invented
Time Piece That Will Pre.
vent All Arguments.
Capt. Charles J, Dieges, a time-piece
maker and jeweler in New York, has
invented a clock that would prevent
sympathetic counts over fallen fight
ers, .
The boxing clock keeps time for the
rounds, the intermissions between
rounds and counts when a fighter has
been floored hy pressing a starting but-
fon.
One of these devices would save ar
guments such as recentiy came out of
the Bryan Downey-Johnny Wilson
match.
And the Downey-Wilson affair is on.
ly one of dozens of other fights where
men have been saved from knockouts
by loug-counting referees,
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Britishers Waking Up.
England is coming back as a
world power In sports, The spirit
is reviving which makes any na.
tion a worthy leader, ‘The
change has been noted since the
war,
Her weakness has been her
own complacency. She has orig
inated games, taught them to
the world, and then sat back
satisfied to see other countries
develop the stars and cash in.
To be a winner In sport the
players mnst take it seriously.
That is what England bas not
done In the past,
Copying Schakk’s Style.
George lees, second string
catcher for the White Sox, has
made so close a study of Ray
Schalk's style behind the bat
that he looks like him.
He has even copled Schalk's
mannerisms,
He puts his hands on hig hips
lke Schalk. He loops kis arms
like Schalk, He jeaps in the
alr after high ones like Schalk,
He even kicks the
sionally like Schalk
He picked
greatest
for a
dust occa
oul
catchers of
one of the
the game
model,
Wilhoit and Lewis,
White Sox
American
Ace lg
League Ball Frisco
Seals—Satisfied With Present
Position,
for
Coast
league tried to stop ram
Juck Knight
Joe Wi
pages of
and holt and uffy Lewis of
Bees
was “Death
Frisco Seals
succeeded He
the
S20 Boe
Only ons
Jim Scott of
former White
Knight hed it zafely In
fared Scotty
twenty
games
Jim Scott.
back to the
making a
eX-Nox star sent him
bench four times without
iii,
record was one or
ils in twenty-five
Wilhoit's more
’ COR
blank
sixty-four hits
Ts per
utive gaines
Solty gave mn Aa cay.
Lewis bh led up
in thirty-two games
wo t
times
league
Cole
Lane Duffy had batted
SCOLyY in the
MANY
American
He didn’t ever
four trips
White Sox In mid
the year they won the
to enter
an officers’ training He was
ssjoned apt
camp.
Comm $iN
After the war he
He has
eague ball in the n
Seott is
the Frisco
Americal
Rince
ex-big
Const
oinedd
tched
nore
ever
different from most
the Pacific
ball livelihood,
The majority of the men drift back
to minor because they
have
But
for a
league haseball
slipped
Scott's arm is apparently a
He ix the Babe Adams
hasn't
cunning yet
two major
him,
Scott isn’t in the moving mood. He
can't see the East with a spy-glass
minors, He
pitching
Last year
league clubs
build internationalism of
own,
up an
of Wight, England.
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been named athletic director of Wil
mington college,
B. Bogue, resigned.
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Athletic officials of West Virginia
university are considering the advis-
ability of establishing the freshman
rule for athletic competition,
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Richard CC, Harlow, coach of the
Lehigh university football and base.
ball teams, has requested the Athletic
association to release him from his
contract,
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Capt. Eddie Ewen, end, aod Moore,
guard, of last year’s Naval academy
football team, are expected to join
Coach Bob Folwell's staff as assistants
for the coming season,
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According to | William Muldoon,
chairman of the New York state
athletic commission, there will be no
more championship matches allowed
in New York stale at catch weights
TOOK HIS BREATH AWAY.
It was chemistry class and
the
but
«sor who was
ight drinker, was doling
periment, which consist
VIigOTOusy
here Ug 1
when he
ines If
Getting Down to Realities,
p peaking to As an ex
#8 record
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WELL NAMED
“Blank’s wife's name is Crystal,
isn't it?"
“Yes; why?
“It suits her; she's always on the
watch”
Best Place, Anyhow
$ 4 #t o
¢ munt EES
I sléep un
Her Decision,
“So you've decided
him.”
“Yea”
“What's the reason?
“ey Enda
i over
ve thought it ali carefully,
that he
pan for whom |
nciusion
Net Enough for Two.
Hid you quit smoking?" asked
Nut “Since
fashionable my
do
cannot afford to syphort
smokers on my salary.”"—Cincin-
answered
become
smoking
wife decided she would have to
it too, and 1]
two
nati Enquirer,
The Exception.
“Are all the men in Crimson Gulch
x i.
good poker players?
“All but me”
“Tent
replied Cactus Joe,
your disastrous?
that gets crit)
ire assemblage for
fact
ignorance
m the feller
fpite of the
cards all wrong ™
SHERLOCK BUG
Bug Detective—Ah, a foul deed has
been done. I'll compare the finger
prints and capture the criminal.
ed
Didn't Start It
His wife reproved him sharply
When he his rasor cursed.
“Why don't you scold the blade?™ he
said,
“It lost ite temper first.”
Stops En Route,
“Have you allowed for the stops in
your contemplated toor?”
“Not all” replied Mr. Chugpins.
“We have a list of the hotels, but
there's no reliable way of figuring on
the station houses and repair shops.”
Like Amateur Farmers,
Ezra (with newspaper)--Says here,
“fine-edged tools lose thelr temper if
exposed to the light of the sun for a
considerable length of time”
Uriah--8'pose that's on account uy
them bein’ mostly city-made, heyd
Baffeio Express, :
Modern Housekeeping.
“Ie your wife a good cook?" asked
Smith,
“TH say she i=!" replied Jones.
“Gosh! You ought to taste her home
brew "Cincinnati Enquirer,