PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Lancaster, The old Hoffman
House, for half a century a saloon and
prior to that a tavern, was formally
dedicated as the new h¢tne of the
Water Street Mission. It was pur-
chased for $24,000 and remodeled,
largely by public subscription. It will
house seventy unfortunates until they
are able to find employment.
Uniontown.—Local police are look-
ing for a man who wears a No. 10
shoe and who is believed to have brok-
en into the clothing store of Louls
Bremler and completely fitted himself
out with new clothing.
men are under Slase scrutiny.
Mahanoy City.—Fire caused
hy
stroyed the blacksmith,
Valley colliery,
ical equipment,
£25,000.
Harrisburg.—Complaint
Coalport Light,
together with mechan-
entailing a loss of
that
Heat and Power com-
he refused to permit the
men to trim trees
was filed with the public service
mission by John K. Gorman, of Coal-
port. The service was eut off Novem-
ber 24, and he asks that it be restored.
The commission called upon the
company for an answer,
Harrisburg. —Members
industrial board have
decree that all red
dered changed to
ter has heen ref
mittee, headed
for a report
For
has
of the
been asked to
exit lights be or-
and the mat-
erred to a special com-
by Cronin,
at the December meeting.
red have
designate fire-escapes,
green,
James CC,
years lights
heen
quir exits
and places,
and the suggestion now being made Is
that the red light
alarm, while
generally
in industry.
mitted to the board is that
danger signal and
the putlic mind
Phil
concent
wines
re-
ed to
places for leaving public
arouses feelings of
the green light is now
accepted as a
Another
color
sub-
red is a
fixed In
safety
argument
has been
as such.
Tablets alleged to be
Rhine and Museatel
discovered in the
of customs
from
adelphia.
rated
were parcel
post divisions
They
of the
the service
and
they repre.
have quite a
The boxes each contain
4 dozen tablets which
about the size of a small peanut and,
according to
readily In water a
become wine
some
the “con
country
hemical
come Germany,
of the
are
color wine
sent and are said
“Kick.”
a coanle of
to de
cigsive
are
the directions,
nd grape
ao It
time
dissolve
julee and
has been
ago letters
“real
learned that
describing centrated wines”
were sent to this
known manufactur.
ing concern. There was quite a heavy
and the tablets
thirsty
by a well-
German «
response, have heen
Americans
price
It is these cash orders that are
filled by post, presum
ahly for Chri They will
delivered, h but wil
ed or returned to the
Pittshur;g “The
leghe f Ohio
}
the fl
sent t who
sent th chase with their or-
ders,
being parcel
gtmnas. not he
OWever, 1 be des: roy-
sender,
Monongahela, Al-
rivers continued
stage
Iaborers were
up
and to
TO ede from
large
work
streets,
from
wel here and
put to
the North Side
were flooded. Reports
irces indicate that the
damage western Pennsylva-
nia, including sustained by
flroad and action lines, reached
vy £500.000.
Greenville
mer and
walker,
highwa
forces of
clearing
which
many soi
dor eo
losses
i
ull
Peter Bush, a Besse.
Lake Erie railroad track.
was shot to death and robbed
near here. The body
on a track, Wheve it
Mercer county authori-
1 state policemen are Search 18
the vicinity for unidentified ne.
who were seen leaving the place
the crime was dis-
ymen
wag thrown
found.
ties ane
two
=r “Sg
a short time before
covered
Pittsburgh. -
Ine as
ing as
“Three armed men, pos.
prohibition officers, entered the
home of Henry Oermann, a wholesale
liquor and, when Miss Minnle
Oermann tried to prevent them from
searching the house, they attacked
her, inflicting wounds on her head
with the butts of thelr pistols.” Miss
Oermann screamed, neighbors re.
sponded and the men escaped,
Harrisburg. —Receipts of the state
treasury ran nearly $£0.000.000 shead
of the agzregate for the last fiscal
year in the official twelve-month clos.
ing November 3, the total being £82.
T24685.58. Last year it was $73.871.-
203.97. In these figures are includ-
ed proceeds of bond issues, automobile
and other licenses devoted to specific
purposes and the general fund. The
income of the latter fund, from which
the state pays school and charitable
appropriations and general expenses,
was 847.575,288.40, which Is more than
$2,000,000 more than received by the
state for the same fund last year,
Shenandoah.—Anna Navitsky, 4
years old, fell into a tub of water here
and was fatally sealded.
Thieves broke Into an express car
standing near the Reading railway de.
pot at Reading, and got away with
£5000 worth of wearing apparel,
Bruce Knecht and William Smith,
of Berwick, escaped with bruises when
the truck they were driving plunged
over a 00-foot embankment and was
completely wrecked,
An exploding oll stove set fire to
the home of Mrs. Nora Gries, at
Bloomsburg, causing a loss of $500,
Lewistown. ~The congregation of
Trinity Reformed church here burned
the final note of $350 against their
edifice,
dealer,
Iron Bridge.-—Tevl M. Rearlch was
perhaps fatally Jnjured in a collision
between a” team and an automobile
here,
Unlontown,—Hunters attempting to
smoke out a squirrel in a dead tree
started a forest fire near Jumonville,
six miles from here,
Pittsburgh.-—The
trial commission,
United States,
Japanese Indus-
on a tour of the
visited Pittsburgh and
inspected a number of big steel and
electric plants In this district. The
commission also visited a window-
glass plant and were entertained at
luncheon by the Pittshurgh chamber
of commerce,
Hazleton.—The official call for the
tri-distriet convention of the United
Mine Workers of America to be held
was issued here. The object
wage scale and working conditions to
with the
pires March 31
that about 800
the convention.
operators, which ex-
next. It Is expected
delegates will attend
After the adoption of
the reconvened international conven-
February 14, for
approval, and then negotiations will
be started with the operators,
Harrisburg. —Reappointments of Dr.
Joseph R. Rothrock, West Chester,
Harrishurg hank-
of the state forest
were announced from the
office. Dr. Rothrock, who
as the “father of Pennsyl
forestry,” was the first
commissioner of forestry and created
the system of forest reserves. He
identified with the forestry
1895, serving nine years as
commissioner, and since that
a member of the commission.
has been a member of the
for years.
SfSunhury.—The kindness
pathy of Martha E
mel nurse, won for
$1000 from Clara M
whose will was
office of
orphans’ court
county.
The Jones & laughlin
of Pittshurgh,
quired a large block
proximately 14.000
county, Pa., it
purchase, which
one of the Jopes
subsidiaries, was
Coal
volve
er
ns members
commission
governor's
stnte
has
been |ery
ice ince
time
Balley
commission
As
and sym
Mt. Car
her a bequest of
Marks, of that
admitted to
Jolin L arr,
for Nor
Davis, a
place,
probate in
clerk of the
thumberland
Pittsburgh
%
the
Steel company, has ae
land,
neres, in
of conl ap
(ireene
nounced,
made through
& Mclaughlin
the
was an
wns
conl
Piedmont
in
from
company,” and was sald to
several million dollars
nlong Dunkard
readily accessible from Mononga-
hela river for transport to the
pany’'s coke ovens and mills in
burgh and Woodlawn The nearest
is Point Marion, on the opposite
the The coal, It
would opened at
wonld be held In
the future requirements of
company.
York.—Plans for a
for York,
manufacturers
merchandise prices
level probably I be
Mayor Hugentugler states
who commissioned
a price investigation to detern
advisability such a
that had York p
practically all
bread and
ts. 3
Creek, the
the
Pitts
town
side of river
added, not he
but
pres.
ent, reserve for
the
store suggested by
recently
promin
to
to a
ent
force
retail lower
wil
™H Tye
He may
Oy to conduct
was
of store, stated
he found rices
meat to compare favor.
with those of Philadelphia, Baltl-
Lancaster, Harrisburg, Allen.
town and Reading It is probable,
Mayor Hugentugler stated, that
eral manufacturers will buy coal,
and meat, to be gold to their employes
and that they will establish a
akery for the same purpose,
A 4000-mile race a
at its very start
15-year-old daughter of Mrs,
ine Guerrari, of this city. Mrs.
reri When other members of
the family realized the seriousness of
her condition, days ago, they
cabled the daughter In Italy to come
to the bedside. Word was received of
the daughter sailing from an Ital
port.
Altoona.- applications for
postmaster here have been filed nt
Washington, D. C. The applicants,
including Josiah D. Hicks, lawyer, for.
mer representative and eivil war vet.
eran; J. E. Elvin Brumbaugh, assist.
ant postmaster; Charles W. Hiney,
Sr.., and Elmer E. Hutehinson, travel-
ing salesman; A. Russell Aukerman
and David G, McCullough, Jr., postal
service men, and William Matt Esper,
electric railway storekeeper,
Harrisburg. —Three million seedling
trees will be avaliable for distribu
tion to private land owners through-
out Pennsylvania next year, and 100,
000 will he sent to the city of Phlia-
delphia for Falrmount Park, while
thousands more wiil go jo about fifty
boroughs throughout the state which
have asked state aid in reforestation,
The state will send trees to Philadel.
phia annually, The trees are now
being raised In the state's nurseries
and include white pine, Scotch pine,
Norway spruce, Japanese march, black
walnut, hard maples, black and honey
locust. Plans are being made for
what It is hoped to make one of the
most extensive reforestation programs
ever attempted.
West Hazleton — Bankers here form.
ed a clearing association to facilitate
handling of clerks and elected M. GQ.
Shenan president,
Seranton.—Michael J, Nealle, a vet.
eran rallrond man, died on his train
before medical ald could reach him.
Hamburg. City council repudiated
the new triennial assessment increas.
ing the valuation of property in the
city by about $15,000,000,
Connellsville~~In an effort to open
a torpedo found along the rallrond
tracks, Joe Karaf, aged 13, of this
place, lost his right hand in the ex-
nlosion which resulted.
foe,
ably
more,
at cost,
death was lost by a
died
several
-Reven
ol
comes to
of Welker
young balk
An Interesting anecdote
light in the early career
Cochran, the phenomenal
liner, who 1s now regarded by the dis-
eriminating in the billiard
world Inter to wear the
crown of the great Hoppe, at least a
portion of the time.
Young Tyro Had Brains.
When a boy of four-
teen, Welker migrated to Chicago from
the little town of Manson, Ia.
taking his first primary instruction
from the late Professor Lansing Per
kins. William P. Mussey, then re
garded as of the astute
judges of the game and
in the Windy City, was not only
siustic over the
ind natural aptitude
bRliardist, but was
pressed with the
jualifications of the young
Asked by the
manufac
dopesters
A8 Sooner or
freckle-faced
nnd was
one most
enthua-
opment
of the boy
promised devel
ns
also much im-
mental
tyro,
inl
PEEL
except
f one of th
presi i
if billiard
BAA A A AA AAA WW
Shakeup of Pirates.
A viole
Pirates |
around familiar
The de-
After
race
next season rr
faces il be missing
e of 1021 is the
ing the National
the greater part of
the team
and the Gia
winners,
baci Cruse
i
lead league
the
in the
rom
season
ch
1 home
faltered street
nts Pe
Bl A AA AAA
GB tt ties ie oe i
BAA AAA AAA AAA NY
America
Tom Be
The first ring fight in ns
between Jacob Hyer and
in 1516,
asley
* . .
in baseball
storming
Bamstorming
leads to brain
gets anywhere,
* * »
nnd
Exhibition baseball
by Tex
a financial
games
leaguers
frost,
. 0s 0»
as
Charley Graham's plans
bulld the San Franc
erally for next year,
. + a
isco team
gen.
Glonecester fishermen
to build a new schooner for the
national races next year.
Ld * *
ready sian
a I
inter
angi
San
is =ald to ing
An
John McGraw he
for a part ownership in the
tonlo, Texas, league club,
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One of the latest rumors floating
ahout i= that Barney Dresfuss is after
Heinle Groh for the Pirates .
- * *
wre hlow, There is a shortage of
3.000.000 bushels In the peanut crop.
-> - -
Rumor has {t that George M. Cohan,
former Broadway producer, will buy
the Brooklyn National League Base.
ball club,
BOvy
. * -
The complains that
some one i= driving Into him might
give himself the once over and see
if he Is slowing up the procession.
» - .
Boston Red Sox have drafted
("Zip") Rloan of Pitts.
Inst season for the
golfer who
The
Thomas J.
burgh, plteher
* * .
The appointment of Clarence Wana.
maker, conch of the Dartmouth,
hockey team last year, as the Yale
varsity conch for the season Is re.
ported,
* * -
The Omaha Western league club,
seeking a first baseman to succeed
Jack Lelivelt, is reported to have de-
clded on Junk Walters, who was with
the Moose Jaw team of the Western
Canada league,
» » *
Whether or not they change training
eamps the New York Yankees and
Brooklyn Dodgers, it iz stated, will
play a series of spring games again
next year, winding up with a road trip
on thelr waysnorth,
- . *»
G11 Doble, head conch of the Cornell
foothall squad, doesn't belleve In good.
nek charms. Doble's slogan is “Hold
‘om, fight 'em and beat ‘em, and don't
depend on apything but brawn and
determinetion when you're In an
pinch”
equipment if young Cochran “had any
brains,” Mussey replied in the affirma-
tive In unquestioned terms.
“I'm sorry,” quickly replied his
questioner, “as it will stand in the
way of his ever becoming a great bil
lard player”
Cochran's phenomenal rise from that
period, from fourteen to his
present * age of twenty-five, demon
of two things-—either the
ak en or veteran
had the boy.
Power of Perception.
Intimates Cochran, who
studied h
years
one
acturer was mist
Mussey
manuf
misjudged
of
outhful freckles have faded
and balk line
80 comparatively wm
that
of
while the 3
his stroke has
wrring, can testify
even in his very youthful period
manifested
the 3
asters of the
instruction, he POWers
ption and analysis of
ler n
Nosy
iB uncanny
rs,
Manager Otto Knabe of Kansas City
Team Claims Pitching and Field.
ing Are Upset
for
(to
That
the
Knabe, former major league
mnager of the
cinims that it
Kansas
i= not onl
but is ¢}
the manging
w best inf
good pitching
of fielding of all tt
1
“After piayers
have
fast
two or three
iflled by these lightning
bably
again,” Knabe
there I NO
facture of balls except that
will change back
said, “It Is <l
:
balls, pro they
aimed
the
the
1 that the
tighter
know
is
has beer hange In mang.
yam
Ov.
are
is of a better grade and
ers are stretched
We
fast
ana
smoothed all the
that i= danger
the in
the
faster, so
one on fleld,
“Many
had their best efforts upset
of have
is a
have
by at-
from
of
pitchers
and it
#5
siar
fact that inflel
of
the fast
fers
flelding
wable
their style
fleld halls
ng In front
tempting
the
them
to
side Instead of gett
They
the
be
dangerous
cannot
OH se
Manager Otto Knabe.
hop may finish an inflelder at any
time. What baseball needs 8 a re.
turn to the sensible ball, where good
pitching and good flelding show to
better advantage than the trust-to-luck
methods that are now used. Just
think of nine home runs being made
in a single game.”
SOCCER POPULAR IN ENGLAND
Aldershot Field Is Being Equipped
With Grandstand and Cinder
Running Path,
Soecer football Is popular among
British army troops. Each large sta.
tion has a central ground, The Alder.
shot fleld is being equipped with a
grandstand and cinder running path.
Eighty teams have entered for the
Army cup games, which are played
with France and Belgium each sea.
i
i
i
Ei on te a te i At at a a a
Drawbacks of Amateur,
Being an amateur champion is
expensive, The public little
realizes the sacrifices a man
must make,
Take tennis, for example. Bill
Tilden, the champ, Is on the go
all year round, either in matches
or In training. Summers In the
east, winters in California or
on eastern Indoor courts,
Which explains Bill's an-
nounced intention of quitting.
He's getting along in years and
wants to settle down to busi-
ness,
jusiness and amateur
plonships don't mix,
cham-
WAAR RAR AR BR
a ia
GOT HIS FIRST GOLF
CLUB FOR CHRISTMAS
Famous Amateur Player Tells of
Youthful Experiences.
Received His First
Introduction
to Ancient Game-—His First
Choice Was Cleeck,
1868, that
said
WHS a cleek
“It was on Christmas day,
I received my first
Chick Evans recently. “It
—-# gift from y fi oy
all
golf club
und
I was
surpri it eive gt
He
would
not
had
at
asked me
Chick k's
ike to have I am sure t he knew
without being told, but
hear from me Without b
said, ‘a golf club!” He 1}
what kind, im that 1
think about it
seek expert
wanted to
ation 1
slits
ue
exit
en asked
would
that 1
an
for if a fellow has
YArious
of
and I told 1}
would Was
important question,
iy one Clu
and
ftw adap tal
of the
ees chosen Ruse
lity. Theref asked all
if and as
big bove who
men golf who seemed
best for
could have one,
agreed that the gingle
golfer could have was a cles K,
was I wonder if the
would ©
Choice Dow
approachable as to the club
boy who but
best
a small
They all
club a
cleek it
group of indivi
the
“I was then eight yenrs old
autumn 1 had received my
introduction to golf. The family
out to Rogers Park, and
afterwards the order in
which I mention them, I had my
first golf ball, my first golf course, and
my first golf club, and it was not
many weeks more before 1 had got
through my first round of caddying. 1
had been mightily charmed by this
first glimpse of a new sport
“Before } received my club I had
already obtained a few golf balls, My
nearest approach to a golf stroke, how.
ever, was an attempt to push the ball
into a hole with a stick broken from
any handy tree. This makeshift was
ended by the gift of the club,
“1 spent that Christmas day prac-
ticing in the house, in the frozen gar-
den, In the street. 1 nearly wrecked
the place, and I suppose I was a peril
to life and limb in the street, but it
was a blissful day and lives in the
It foretold a won-
same nis ve So
mous in
and the
previous
first
had
shortly
moved
in
seen
“We wore long, white canvas pants
and we smeared thick grease on the
seat of them.” Effingham B. Morris,
president of the Girard Trust company
of Philadelphia, was speaking in con
nection with the opening of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania's new boat.
house along “Boathouse Row."
He told of the difference between
college rowing these days and years
ngo,
“There were no sliding seats in
those days” sald Mr. Morris, “so we
did the best we could. We greased
the sents of the boat, besides the seats
of our pants, Hip pockets made con-
venient grease cups.
“We were a sight as compared to
your modern crews, Besides the white
pants, we wore blue shirts and straw
hate, On the hats were long stream.
ere, which floated prettily In the
breeze when we got up speed.”
BEAUTY REIGNS,
“There was a stir In court when
the fair defendant got on the witness
stand.” :
“I suppose the gentlemen of the jury
slicked down thelr Ralr and fumbled
with thelr neckties?”
“Not only that, but
pered to another ballff that if he had
known such a queen was to be about
the premises he would have had his
trousers pressed for the first time in
seven years at the imminent risk of
making his wife suspect he was lead-
ing a double life.”
one baliff whis-
Non. Essential Problem.
“There are ays new,
alw SOME prob-
“I'm the old
“A man
working on
sticking to ones.” de-
who
prob-
well
cribe
.
“8.
bit of
for the fun of It might as
gets nto the ha
lems
statesmanship and subs
} checker
to the chess and magazin
THEIR
PROPER
PLACE
This paper
says that prohl.
bition has emp-
tied our jails.
Good, That
leaves plenty of
room for the
profiteers,
Qui te Othe
erwise,
about
Shifting Attention.
“Y¢ never m
old t
tated
your mind?
“No,” said
wise
has
chan
ention some of those
agi
changed
heories ch once
tha
yours whi
Have you
Retintor Sorghum. “A
that he
simply
admits
He
politician never
his mind.
subject.”
changed
ges the
The Contrary Sex.
Johnson—S8o dis little chile
little one
Parson
am hk gal
belong to de
Rastus—Yes, pa
Does yo’ udder
contrary sex?
hson, dat's
a gal
A Mean Slam,
“My my fortune,”
the girl,
“Well, it might make money for yop
in the comic films at that”
face is simpered
A GOOD
BARGAIN
Prosecutor e
Each juror
should put him
self in the place
of this woman's
husband. If the
prisoner had
beaten your wife
or yours, what
would you give
him?
Juror Henry
N. Peck—if he
did a good job
I'd give him a
dollar,
Dictatorial,
He married Miss Amanda.
Alas, the poor man's life!
Amanda she turned out to be
A mandatory wife.
Shock of His Life,
Suitor—Mr, Perkins, 1 have courted
your daughter for fifteen years.
Perkins—Well, what do you want? _
Suitor—To marry her,
Perkine—Well, I'll be hanged 1
thought you wanted a pension or
something,
Basis of Success.
Reporter—And what is your recipe
sir, for running a successful busi.
ness?
Head of Business Concern—Running
a successful business is a matter af hay.
Ing many friends; our enemies trade
with our Rumpetitora.
Safe Way.
“1 wish 1 could manage my wife
How do you go about It, Brown?"
“All you need is firmness. 1 usual
ly go into the parlor, lock the door ap”
manage her through the keyhole”