PENNSYLVANIA
| STATE ITEMS
Palmerton.-
ley, of this place, fractured three ribs
while packing household goods to
move to Hazleton.
Connellsville.—Falling down
steps of her home here a short
ago, Mrs. Mary Conway
as a result of her Injuries.
Highland.-——Edward Wachausk,
the
time
caught under a trip of cars at
Jeddo Highland Coal company.
Uniontown.
while taking a bath in the Fayette
Title and Trust company building here,
J. 8. Claster, aged 66, of Swissvale,
died an hour afterward in the
town Hospital.
Harrisburg.-——The
commission refused a
public convenience to
Haulage cc pany to conduct five
tor truck freight routes out
risburg, protests having been made by
railroads and trolley companies. ID.
C. Uffleman, sougat a similar
right for York county, was confined to
publie
certificate
who
ver.
Connellsville,
late dancing ard
ality from public
when an
providing that all
censed and
ed without a
The bill was drafte 5 a
Investigation by Women's
League,
Harrisburg
statement
g i inl
national
First to
eliminate immor-
were taken
introduced
halls 1 3
ue i
steps
{to
dances
ordinance was
dance
that none shall be operat-
per: from the
result
Civic
mayor,
of
Goverror Sproul,
praised the efforts of
and
local posts of the
finding
work.
over 700,000 veter
state organizations
American Legion
employment
‘he Legion
ment, and that : ’ them
real distress,
of the men
governor,
employers
tion to the
situation as much
ing I
other enter
work to t
courage
Harrisbu
struc
state
time
considera
relieving
ble, hy star
contemj improvements
hose
others
tion
road in Cumberiand ¢ i)
tween Plainfield nd Newville
awarded to the Development
struction company, of
$204,322.62 Cumberland
pay for nt
eye Constru
daltime
count
The
pany,
town, OQ,
for 57.665
ship,
township
Butler cour
state wil
Harrisville
Chester
ed between
Ridley
Flats, which is directly opposite
ter
caught in company
of Eddystone Flats,
the latter
exchanged
patrol
and
and
There no
Harrisburg
with
put
that
has
in of Eddystone
pike at
Eddystone
the scene
were
officers
the food
foll
Director Foust,
bureau have been
stale
under bond owing a request of
who
head of the
since 1907.
$500,000 to
licenses t
and collections fines and
Altoona Bishop MecCort,
toona diocese,
The bureau
L650.000 a
handles
2
Of
has obtained title
perties needed as a site
new
Sacrament
the five pre
the proposed
Blessed
business depression und the
new Catholic high s«
erected
work the
started until
meantime will
plans for the edific e, which will be 120
hools
and
cathedral will
next year, but
architect
Altoona
in
in
on i not
in
an
by 200 feet in size, and other prelim
inaries completed, The
will be £1,000,000
Pennsburg Holstein calves
with a combined weight of 100 pounds
were born on the diary farm of James
L. Wood, a Pennsburg milkman. Other
calves recently born on the same farm
weighed 126 and 166 pounds,
Harrisburg. Sproul _ap-
pointed A. W. Dosch, of Kittanning,
coroner of Armstrong county,
Hohrsburg.—From the effects of a
fall, Mrs, Clarissa McHenry, aged 84
years, of this place, died.
Hazleton Charles Smith. aged 17,
arrested here, confessed to robbing
poorboxes at the Tyrolean Catholic
and St. Paul's Methodist churches sev-
eral times,
Lewistown.—The annual exhibit of
the Lewistown Automobile Trades As.
sociation will be held March 20, 390, 31
and April 1, in Market Hall
Lewistown. —A, 8 Amspacker, of
this place, i« recoverlrp from an wt.
tack of hiccoughs that lasted eight and
one-Half days,
Pottsville.—~Immense flocks of wild
geese were noticed here flying north.
ward after a winter spent in the south,
Mt. Carmel.—While in the garden at
her home planting a flower bed, Mrs,
George E. Berner, wife of the cashier
of the Union National Bank, here,
¥ropped dead.
will be cost
Twin
Governor
tured skull sustained several weeks
ago when he and a companion went
over a 40-foot embankment while
coasting, Thomas irenpan, aged 6,
died here.
Dmnville.—The Danville Iron and
Steel company will add a night shift
on full time to get out export orders.
Lock Haver. —Byon, I7-year-old son
of Rev. Harry PF. Rector, was accl-
dentally shot In a leg by a target
rifle.
Nickel Mines —Clara Watson, aged
3 years, died from burns received
while playing with fire » ‘er home.
Northumberl. nd.—From the effects
Thelma,
11-year-old William B.
died.
State College.—A class of 125 young
men and women were received as
members of Penn State Grange.
Pittsburgh. — Lindsay Montgomery
was killed in a fight during a card
a house occupied by four
named Blair in the Hill dis-
Seven negroes have been arrest.
ed and are being held for a hearing In
connection with the eri
New Castle.—Two prisoners confin-
ed in the Koppel, Pa., lock-up, a small
town in the northern part of Beaver
county, near New Castle, had a nar-
row escape from death when fire broke
out in the building. young men,
returning to heard the
cries of the prisoners and fired several
Caughter of
Two
thelr homes,
shots from 8 revolver, awaken the
burgess, who rushed to the
ing
Jalil
release the
flames reached
Seranton Five
WO men
‘them.
year-old
Som sky,
received injuries
from
were hur
Somosky
but Polinsky's
Mercer,
station
Of
Coal
Nesqt
buried Louis
New Colun
made
ficials by L
the governmen
ints
inty,
Castle
scale by
5 per
the 1}
have settled
(Wo years, crafts
piaterers
O-Year i
the pia rer wt
of
The
|0me
0
¥
Samuel Devis and Dom!
113
ton colliery of the Lehigh
company for over half a century
among indefinitely
under the ecoromy
corpors
Valley
those
of
gang
program
O'Donnell drove
ways the pact forty years
of work must be done with
exactness
Uniontown.
tion.
the utmost
James M. Lohr, a weal
thy farmer se ving on a Jury here,
asked to be excused from further
duty, as he was ill. he request was
granted, and Lohr walked to the con.
trolier's office for his pay warrant,
While waiting for it to be made out,
he fell dead. Apoplexy was given as
the cause,
Danville.—The Montour county all,
after having had at least one “guest”
each day for the past three menths,
is again without a priso ie., its usual
condition for nine months out of every
year. Sheriff Schuyler is leaving the
doors open to prevent the locks from
rusting fast.
Airville—~Elmer Seachrist, 50 years
old, of this place, while eating supper
became ill and before a physician ar.
rived was dead.
Grove City ~Dr, A. A. Bashline, a
osteopath here, was fined $25 and
costs on a charge of practicing with:
out a license,
Pittsburgh.—Wines and liquors val.
ned at $10,000 were stolen from the
residence here of B. 8, Hamill, a coal
operator, who recently died in Flori
da.
Emporium, ~The sixtv-third county
to engage a county farm agent is
Cameron.
For the first
flinging for them this seasor
greatest staffs of boxmen ev.
Shawkey, ush and
1
shoe
On §
Jones, B Hoyt are
i
pulled on a spike
RETIRES FROM TRACK SPORT
Earl Eby, Champion Pennsylvania
Half Miler, Quits Game to
Enter Business World.
Earl Eby.
nent the
business, however,
further training
he retired
of His
will not permit of
for this reason
His home is In Chicago
HIGH JUMPERS’ NOVEL TRICK
Dick Landon Wears Meavy Clothing
and Shoes Before Attempting
to Lower Record.
possession cup
and
Dick Landon, the famous college
high jumper, snatched a page from the
hook of the heaving hitting
player who swings three bats before
taking his place at the plate in order
to make the one bat he fs allowed to
use seem lighter than It Is
Landon was able to jump to
heights he practiced for a long period,
clad In heavy clothing and wearing
heavy shoes. When Landon thought
he had arrived he discarded the heavy
clothing and shoes for a light track
sult and shoes and began to establish
records as a high jumper,
record
DIGGS SIGNED BY NATIONALS
Youngster Mailing From Clarendon,
Va, Is Expected to Develop Into
Star Hurler,
President Clark Griffith, of the Na.
tionals, has just signed a right-handed
pitcher in whom he thinks he may find
another Walter Johnson. The party in
question is Ed Diggs, a husky twenty-
five-year-old youngster, hailing from
Clarendon, Va. Diggs is a former Vir.
ginia Poly star and also pitched win
ning ball with the A, BE. I, as a mem
bar of tie American graves registra.
tion bureau.
JOE BLU ET rwtermatiome
ikees will have a real corps of pitchers
Miller Huggins should have one of the
by an American league club, In Mays
the best t-hit i
right-handers that ever
BOOST BARNYARD GOLF | |
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RR game
day ir
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Champion's Path Not
Always Bed of Roses
Glory of the champions is al
ways offset with much grief
Owning a title in anything makes
the owner a mark to shoot ut
Sometimes the sharpshooters
may be right. More often they
ure wrong.
Jack Dempeey was
carefree, happy-go-lucky boy rid
ing tralos and letting the world
#0 by. Today lawsuits follow In
his wake. Everybody seems to
take pleasure In “kicking his
dog around.”
Jock Hutchinson
golfers were
won England's
once a
imagined all
folk until he
trophy cup and
they shoved it dt him Hke a
spiteful child shares (ts bread
and butter with another
Babe Ruth never had a worry
until he proved that could
sock out about four times as
many home runs as other
man living,
Charles Paddock
records out on the Pacific
but the skeptical East
kid itself into bellev
the watches were
blink.
ig Bill Tiiden beat the
tennis and
hig best friends
he had
have
nLiice
he
any
broke a lot
of
CORN,
tried
that
the
to
ing slop
on
world
in
of
covered
You
1
then BOMme
can
ng
than a sup
SPT
GREAT SCARCITY OF
$3 UR
FARM CHEAP LAND
Why Western Canada Agricultu-
rists Are Smiling.
Low Overhead Expense and Bountiful
Crops Have Enabled Them to
Overcome Agricultural
Depression,
The recent
brought to the eyes
fact that one of its
wus likely to suffer a severe hlow
less steps were taken to secure a rem-
edy. Physician after
plied remedies, but
| rians and newspapers
to place thelr finger on the p
would respond. As it
| it was a spasmodic wave
| ebb and flow of the tide of readjust-
{| ment that bound to
| turbance as the
ggricultural depression
of the world the
basic industries
te
physician ap-
even pariiamenta-
were unable
Hine what
appears today,
due to the
gin
follow a
(:reat
WHHK
such War
Ciiuned
Psycholog
cally it was bound to
| change: there was certain to be a re-
| flex
| cultural
where they normall
movement that
onditions
Efficiency and sound busine
nent are needed more In
today than ever before
poriant to
COMPANY,
tior
The fam
Big Amount of Money.
Sam Crawford Comments on
Playing of Major Leagues
Thinks War Had Something
to Do With Situation.
7] mt SG
SPO
anal
ndemy
over ad
for the first basebal
iversity of Pennsylvania
nine athletes In the Illinois
relay carnival,
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Navy
Washington
swimmers meet with
and
ords at
in =a
Lee low ered
Annapolis,
. » @
three
OCR: rex
Hamliton and Reinharts
Pennsylvania's Pentathlon
carnival April 28 and 20
Legendre,
will enter
{in the relay
Jack Ogden, besides being concede
great as a minor league pitcher, als
ding some class as a basket ball coach
* * *
The ideal golf champion is one who
has a long drive, and one who can sink
his putts from the long distances on
the green,
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Pitcher Bob Clark has been traded
| by Cleveland American League base
ball club to Milwaukee for Pitcher
David Keefe
. * *
Baseball managers would no doubt
like to sign up those collegians who
claim they “took no money” for play-
ing professional ball.
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The Greenville Club of the Sally
League has sold Shortstop Johnny
Koval to the Winston-Salem Club of
the Piedmont League.
* * *
Kid (Ted) Lewis of England has
been signed for a match with Georges
Carpentier, the French champion to be
held at the Olympia on May 11.
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Rocky Kansas in his recent bout with
Benny Leonard failed to wrest the
championship, but he proved heyond
a doubt that Leonard is not invincible,
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Syracuse will play twenty-eight
games of baseball this year if its
schedule goes through, Cornell, after
an absence of twenty years, is back on
the schedule,
CI
Greenville and Charleston In the
South Atlantic League have exchanged
first basemen, Harry Swacia shifting
from Charlestown and I. V. Crouch
from Greenville,
Sam Crawford,
minor leaguer today than they used to
pay for an entire club. That would
not happen if they could get plenty of
good players,
“And they are hiring a lot of veter.
ang, There was a time when they did
not care go much for veterans because
there were good men coming up con-
stantly, but apparently there are not
many in sight now.”
STRONG GRID TEAM AT YALE
Apparently Has Brightest Prospects
of “Big Three” Teams for
Coming Season,
Yale, with all but =ix of the 1021
first string men who played against
Harvard available, has apparently the
brightest prospects of big three teams
for 1022. Conch Fisher of Harvard will
have to build a new line and find some
new backfield material while Princeton
will be without its greatest stars, Cap.
tain Malcolm Aldrich, halled as one of
the greatest captaing thar ever led the
blue, will be graduated In June, as will
Guernszey, the right guard, and Strum,
right end,
Then He Ought To.
mpkins—-Why is Trevor
up his affairs?
because
2 1
MHinkins—Oh,
{ tor told him
just
he is all run dowt
Long Sight,
are being hazarded at the
of u 1 vision,
gested as
wre have
ten distance
| Is within range from Mount Everest
| when you get there, Yet these com-
| putations deal only with horizons. Our
actual range of vision appears to be
limitless, extending to the farthest
star, which is big enough and bright
enough to make an impression on the
retina. The mileage of our vision runs
into many millions of miles, at an ex.
tremely modest estimate,
Guoesses
of
five miles has been st
Eeogray
times that
lengtt
Forts
3
8 good radius but
wnge
calculated that
Odd Experience.
One day 1 went skating. The creek
was about a mile away from home.
After I had been skating for some
time it began to snow very hard. I
thought 1 would skate down the
branch of the creek to a bridge just a
few steps from the house. 1 skated
and skated before finding 1 had pone
down the wrong branch and was about
three miles from home. It was a
strange experience, I must say.-—Ex.
change,
Nature Looks After That.
It has been estimated that at the
present rate of consumption the green
plants of the world would exhaust
the air of carbon dioxide In about
thirty years if it were not constantly
being replaced.
For Women Only,
The Baltimore woman who pushed
her obstreperous husband into a trunk,
and threw away the key has apparent.
ly solved the ancient problem—*How
ean 1 hold my husbanag?' Seattle
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