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PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
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Pittsburgh. {ssues
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communities of Allegheny county
the November election.
Pittsburgh.—If Edwin Killian mar-
ries within a year and does not touch
lHquor for two vears, he will collect
one-fifth of $51,000. Such provisions
are contained in his father's will, filed
for probate hera "a event Killlan
falls to carry ott the provisions, his
share of the will held in
trust until he 10 years old, Four
other enildren siven thelr share
of estate outright.
Bloomsburg. —The Bloomshurg
per company's plant, two
here, hurned. The origin
it not known, The loss will
£75,000, and twenty men
thrown out of employment.
Ch Within few after
his had called at head-
quarters and pleaded for help in find
ing him the naked body of Korsinger
Bar ki, aged 30, of 38325 Trainer
street, found floating in a
lake near the congoleum plant at Mar
cus Hook. Barzaski disappeared from
his boarding house on the night of
October 12,
Chester,
1
adopted a
intendent
estate be
is
were
the
Pa-
miles from
of the fire
be about
1
wi be
ester, hours
a
sister police
small
Wis
Council unanimously
ion offered by Super-
White,
ing an official request made by Major
Ramsey that ment return
to the city the silver service presented
to
years ago
ped an
th
$
lut
reso
of Finance support-
the gov
the scout cruiser Chester several
TI
d the city officials believe that
the silver be placed in
the court house on Market street
in the Keeping of the Delaware County
Historical The
taken mutter up with
man Butler and Secretary of the Navy
Denby. the
the cruiser, then a new
silver
1¢ cruiser is to be scerap-
service could
1
old
Society mayor has
the Congress
Following launching
of
tyne
ey F4 ty
ang Ci Lie service
sented in recognition of the honor con-
ferred government in naming
for Chester,
Robert Hartley,
ground
Lewistown who
1 wl the
in Miff
tA
iasiage
champion
lin county season
the
who
and. te
Milro
step belt
Ross Snook, of
to
tured
¥. ap
} pigs
Dogin
and Ste
phen Gautan
when a slush chute
cust Mountain colliery,
I culm. They were dug out
time by fellow-workmen,
Il were dangerously hurt
Pitt riiza Clark,
negress of Edri, Indiana A
from a bullet
at her
covering
in
of
sburgh. 18-year
old county
died here
woun
hospital
She was
mining
the girl, an
at a
3 home
village. Clark,
1 Lo T. Williams,
t the Clark home, b
They
held fer the
men
shot
the
aby #
£0
a
rou
% tal »
hospital were ar-
ng In-
The
i
the accid
shooting
ont
0 the police, the
Ww
her,
them tl
shot
Washington
gre, of
eran, was
town.
by a heavy blow
Matski
with
Ams, e girl's
The body of John
Bentleyvill ar
road nea
Ar
v
ea world w vet.
fin
ind
on a that
“een
on the sid
His spleen had ruptured
© George
is being held In onnection
Cave
The
were
schools of Western
Easton
of diphtheria
the boar:
of
closed
had
1 of health
Hala
HeLa
fter three cases
*1 reported to
The
meeting
Easton board
and a quar
1
health }
I residents from the neigh-
a
fintine
boring
of the
on a
borough, to prevent a spread
disease In this Is being
A
o {oi » 3 4
authorizing the president of t
and t
city
resolution was adopted
i
1 boar
ake g
}
!
he city health officer to t
steps d
ith its
the t
Po
héa reside this
Tionesta The F Proper oll well
brought in recently, is producing about
150 barrels a day.
half a
from
1 of eity
of
mile across the Allegheny river
the Tidioute fleld
Harrisburg.—The Industrial
Issued a notice calling attention to
employers to a ruling on the chiid I1a-
bor act, especially in regard to
tificates of age.
In April, 1921, ix as follows *
secure better administration
That
of
the
quired that minors over 16 years of
age, on applying fog a position In any
establishment, or in any
in this commonwealth, shall
an age certificate authorized by the
attendance bureau of the department
of public instruction, and issued and
signed by the proper officer of the lo
cal school district. Buch
occupation
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Darlington. —Inslng his halanee and
falling Into au stone crusher, Edward
King, aged 10, of this place, was
ground to a pulp,
Juniata.—David A. Little, aged 64,
foreman of painters at the Pennsyl-
vania raliroad's shops here, died fol.
lowing an operation for acute appen-
dicitis,
New Castle~—Burled under a load
of rock,® Fred Market, aged 30, was
killed at the plant of the
Crescent Portland Cement company,
near here,
Bleomsburg.—The school hoard has
decided to hold special institutes for
the town teachers on six Saturdays
Sich year,
York. -—While George Frederick, a
former Yorker, who has been visiting
his brother, Jacob Frederick, In this
city, was on a motor trip, he was
robbed of $1400 In eash, which he had
left under lock in a trunk in his broth.
er's home. Report of the theft was
made to the police. An examination
failed to disclose that the house had
been forced.
Pittsburgh.
ball teams «
Members of two foot
-
laws of
H. H. Rowand. They defied
10t to play on Sunday, Rowand sald,
One of the defendants is
Flood, chief of the Bridgeville police
and manager of one of the teams.
Pittsburgh.
dred men and women were admitted
t the
States
to citize:
of the
here,
iship i
United
September
district
Lewistown.—Levl Berkey, 57
old, died at the Lewistown
from Injuries sustained ten days ago
when he fell from a lumber truck.
Mount Carmel.—After keeping thelr
wedding secret more.than a vear,
d'roth of Miss
Link announced
married in
27. 101.
Harrisburg. —The public
cominission has approved applications
for eight new electric light
in York, Lehigh,
counties
years
seph
Nellie
been
this place, and
that they
i companies
to operate
and Potter
merger of
Beaver county
West Hazleton,
McKelvey has
earth
and approved a
companies chartered for
Detective DD. T
to un-
ian of
Men
f
been
retaine
robbery ped
are given Nooch
cal
bed
rob-
while
fi
watch
gold h.
Pittshurgl
gt
appling
combed
Avalon for the
body of a robber Samuel
Miller, no home, appeared central
3
tiked
5h 1
and
police station,
and
Avalon
The
he
u
rgeant
down at
myself
to rob
man,
river,
se |0i¢
man,
yim,
and re
80
Jutler—One thousand
men, who voted In 1020 41
ter for th
neg
ng
© November ele¢
offi
neteenth
tion,
The
dment
| to registration iis
first
wns
re. This
1248 woe
amer
voted he
shows
men
Harrisburg. —The fact that
four cases of typhoid fever have
in
n days
four
peared rural setior
te yf
month
Mart
us
in
rotected =
Pottsvill !
hunters
and k
Cressona
OW?
cornered
as =»
illed by Fil
It
has killed ha
Miller
showed fight
was
R
believed
Is of
im
is the big
abbits as well
hort ¢
the cat.
cnt
andre r
other game within a
treed but
even after two
had been sent }
cat”
A
part
s body.
is seldom seen in this
Pennsylvania £1
although numerous
ther west
Nesquehonis While entering the
Saturday night, John
mysteriously shot In a
knee. the shadow
Ig.
rear of his home
was
below ft
ond
he He saw
!
his deceazed father's workshep,
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his hand In his hip pocket to get the
Pi &
the Coaldale
condition remains
fired the shot
over fences and escaping.
Is that the man who did the shooting
intended rob the work shop, which
to where
The
Hospital,
critical. man
Heving that Bond saw him and reach-
for a revolver to shoot, fired to
ture, Said certificate shall remain on
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or's term of employment, to he return.
ed to the minor when the term
employment ceases,
Sunbury.—City council floated a
£16,000 bond Issue to meet outstanding
indebtedness,
Altoona.—Deputies from the Altoona
office of the Internal revenue bureau
will investigate 180 returns from in.
come tax paycrg for 1921.
Uniontown.—Run down by a Balti.
more and Ohlo train neat Atchison,
Alexander Clarks dled shortly after.
ward in a hospital here,
Tniontown.~Fifteen-year-old Pearl
Bennétt died In her mother's afm
after she was struck by a Baltimore
and Ohio freight train at Evans, this
eoupty.
Williamsport. —The
claim for damages 4&8 the result of
road work in the county was made
C. L. Thomas, a farmer of
lnrgest single
the result of the new concrete high
way from Muncy to Montgomery pass.
ing through his farm. Three acres of
Thomas’ land were taken by the road.
The county commissioners maintain
that the road had benefited rather than
proved a detriment to the farm along
the route,
Shenandoah, XJames . Gregory and
William Mador were seriously injured
when a motoreyclie they rode crashed
into a house.
Beaver, — Schools, ( ¢atres and
churches of Georgetown, this county,
hive been crdered closad by state
health authorities because of three
cases of smallpox. .
Coleraine. David BE. Yearsiey, 77
years old, of this township, died sud-
denly while feeding his pigs.
Pittsburgh. ~Blection of a bishop for
the Pittsbusgh dioctse of the Episco-
pal church will take place here No-
vember 8.
finest teams ever constructed at
last season, turned out for early
fron and sports
shows Eddie Fischer, star tackle of
through line bucking drill, by u of
gives him a few pointers,
Mir
SL
.
UMPIRE RIGHT WHEN
NO ONE MAKES HOWL
Tom MeNamara
darkest bushes for
and every once in a while comes
up with funny
seen in hinterlands
ball, in the Mint
saw umpire call
the
Pirates,
|KCOUrs
the
he has
of
league
a balk
fl one
the
Up
lie an
with nobody on base,
“Say, man,” Tom to the
umpire after the gi “don't
you read the rules? and
referred to the miseanlled balk
“It must been right,
suld the be: umpire, “no
one made a squawk."”
base-
said
Ane,
ever
hinve
ighited
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Ra eh
WALTER HAGEN HOLDS
ENE NER NS
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Winner of Every Title in This
Country and Abroad.
Walter Hagen hb
Important golf title
He t tl
British open championship
sional
western open title,
won every
i158 Dow
ahroad holds a 8 time the
the Profes
n tit!
the New York
const Florida
for
f¢
Golfers’ spssocintic e,
state
title, the of Utle
west
and is back looking
Ut
coming
ited ie,
tes open titl
x ¥ ssi f
an oil,
envious record in g
thirty
Hage t
and all at the age of
His career on the links is short and
He began in
that Francis Ouimet
Kk
1913 nt the
sweat
the
sume
to
Walter Hagen.
the front in his great victory over
¥Yardon and Ray.
Walter, an unknown
at that
battle on the links for the
open title that made golf history for
two nations,
He finished only three strokes he.
hind the trio thet tied for the honors.
The next year he won the champion.
ship at Chicago, and in the following
year he captured the Pan-American
title at San Francisco and $1.000, the
Inrgest purse ever offered in uny tour
nament, to that time,
Hagen has also won in hig day the
, Massachusetts champlomship, the North
and South championship, the Eastern
open or Shawnee Shield umd the Met.
ropolitan title, three times.
Carries Winning Record.
Sweet Dottie Day. the consistent
little trotting mare in Lon McDone
nid's stable, and a big favorite with
owner Tom Taggart, Jr, now carries
a winning record of 2:00%, made at
Byracuse,
Columbia uni-
{11 develop Into one of the
York coll Ten “C" letter
Oliege,
ul
Ww
New n
rihle
ant Columbia’ new grid-
tid. The photograph
nan eleven,
Head Cos
Baker field,
{ being, put
machine, while wh O'Neill
of All Kinds
Couch Jones of
Otte,
»
star end In
. »
Conversation is taboo In a if game
ina Hes tournament,
.
— eX Pt
Pennsylvan college ha
ed nh golf course.
for the
gpecta-
’ ey
stacium
The Pari
1924 games G6, 000
Dempsey has called
ad will
Jack
sod
off his pro-
trip to Edrope an do some
IH
™ x me
more yYaudeviiie
» w *
fies
players lost to the
A ir Hed Rig
The
Meadowbrook
supreme
igo Georges Car
N¢
Coupl
Ww
the Kenyon col
¢ football eleven hs to
Like Center
leg is turned
a fo feu 4 4
SRCcessiul season
. .
Ernie All-A
Michigan VERT,
indidates for Ce
»
prayer for
-
ne
Vick
fast
an center at
i% drilling the cen.
Yost,
Tie
moh
. ®
to Bill Tilden
the Eng-
i# the zero of pustimes
heat
Fier §
ng to swim
of George dam-
Risler
hat an ambitious young man
may 1 even though he is a south
. *
ck is one of the most
j owing
fact that nobody knows what it Is
abou
football to
the
There coaches at
tional Insti for col-
4) that the he
he
*
vd ron st coach
the other cond g
* hd
when the base
anis
ame as the great
These are the ©
ball scribe heging fo smile w
days
when
anyone refers to the g
American pastime
. *
There may be some arguments about
the of but
who'll that the
all?
.
tennis
Tilden
ranking
JHAYETS,
claim i= not
master of them
*
in his
Peoria
William
resignation
hands
of the
Jackson
manager
R.
as
ger of the Peorin layout.
*. sw
Almost any football coach tell
you the only obstacle to his tehm is
month of November, go
will
Some
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Cleveland seems to have picked up
some good youpg pitchers this fall.
On trial the kids brought home vie
tories, which is a mighty good indica-
ed
Willie Kamm is insured for £125.000,
but if he could be insured against
value,
Lo
Harry Harper, the Hackensack
(N. J.) southpaw, will attempt a come.
back as a major leaguer with Uncle
Robbie's Brooklyn Dodgers next
spring.
- .
To supplant Carlisle Smith, who
incans to retire from baseball at the
end of the season, the Vernon club has
purchased Edson Hemingway from the
Sioux City club,
* . ®
Willinm T. Tilden, II. national
tennis champion, and William M.
Johnson, San Francisco, runserap in
this year's national singles champion
ship, plan to invade Europe in 1024.
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When Ty Cobb made a hit in the
game of September 18 it marked the
eighth season of his career in which
he had made a record of 200 hits
Also Cobh will a year have made a
record of batting®.300 or better in 17
searons, which is another record.
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SOUTHPAW BACKSTOP
BROUGHT INTO GAME
Shortage of backstop material
has brought the left-handed
catcher back Into the game, Re
cently in a St, Paul-Minneapolls
game Umpire Joho Bullen
cleaned all the St, Paul players
off the bench. Then Nick Allen
split a finger and there was no
body to go behind the bat but
Bruno Haus, left-handed center
fielder, who came in and did a
good job of work. In a Texas
lengue game a few days before
that Manager Joe Mathes had
no one to do his catching so he
sent Stump Edington, left-hand.
ed outfielder, behind bat,
and, Hke Haas, he also got away
with It,
the
Bunssssnnssnessannenesenes
Winner of Amateur Champion-
ship Began Career at
St. Louis.
Attention of Veteran Players Attracted
by His Sensational "Playing on
Normandie Club Course—He
Defeated Evans,
Jesse Sweetser, won the na
tional amateur « hampionship at Brook
Muss
final
in
who
| line by defeat * Evans
early golf
He played the
Norn course as a young boy
in fashion that he
attracted the attention of veteran play
ers,
Sweetser made an attempt to intro
f into the High School Athle
league while a studen
but
recognized as a
ng “Chick
in the received his
training Louis
indie
such sen
: " 3
| duce gol tie
Nehool, failed t
0 have it officially
major sport.
ISA NN
ay not remember
Jesse Sweetser,
the Es
period
moved
shortly be
the
family to
fore the
name was subsequently
family
War
rit
wanged from
Schweitzer to Sweetser
{ been sensa
This has
Jesse's rise to
ame
tional, but steady withal
his greatest year
Metropo
He
in the
has beer
heen
by winning the
one of the most
country today
victory 1 well received,
| despite the fact he
“Chick” Evans, undoubtedly
| ship this spring i®
popular golfers
and his
that defeated
the most
{ the game in the United States,
———— a———
| Most Efficient Enemy to Mole, Which
Does So Much Harm to Greens—
Reptile Is Harmless.
Blacksnakes are being offered ever;
inducement to make a comfortable
! home on the links of the Coatesville
(Pa) Country club, Champions of
the reptile declare that it is the most
efficient enemy of the mwolet which does
go much damage to golf greens, and
the club officials have started a cam.
| paign to protect and foster the growth
of the blacksnake. Along the sides
of the course the underbrush has been
allowed to grow thick, and tempting
rock piles with full southern exposures
have been placed to lure the snake
| from nearby lands, Not only "does the
| snake go right inte the mole's boring,
but it is alleged that it kills off rat
tlers and copperheads, It is harmless,
snd ig not likely to disconcert a golfer
by appearing silently, for the snake
#does its work at night,
om ——
STROKES OF TENNIS PLAYERS
Tilden's Favorite Is Backhand Shot,
While Johnston Favors Fore
hand Drive,
The favorite shots and strokes
whieh are most’ useful to crack lawn
tennis players include: Tilden back
Chand shot, Richards shoulder-high vol
ley, Johnston forehand drive, Wallace
Johnson forehand slice to opponent's
backhand, Patterson, the service ace:
O'Hara Wood, offensive volley : Barot-
ra, angled high volleys near net,
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WISE OLD SHIPS
Believed to Guard the Safety of
Crews at Sea.
—
That Vessels Are Possessed of Good
and Evil Spirits, is Belief
of Ancient Mariners.
“It is not wise to seoff or to laugh
in One's sleeve at such notions as that
of the ‘knowingness’ KAYE
a writer in the Nautical Magazine, the
of the mercangile marine offi
quoted by the London Dally
of ships”
“Men and
it they
in vessels
BEWeRring
have sailed
come ashore
“There are which
unfortunate ;
ships
they se
ible on thelr ows
often in finding
f
succeed
‘But there
not
cuss these
are
belHeve, little as
matters, :
bued with a ‘somethin
sentient
n }
is Conrad
answer
gave on
that
been «
one
“And on particular one, had
+}
irse nange intended
would have run ten
into
from
# de
fionting a
“As It
menace a bisc
and
was, she slid by
it’s throw from
then answered her helm as
i
“I have In mind 8 very popular
+l
the western
“Captain and officers cherish a real
for her and
OCenn.
passengers are
“There
slde of the Atlantic.
wag a cyclone on the east
A French boat arrived at Ie Havre
dam
blown
and
superstructure and boats
and
after
18
wireless antennae
away,
for
running before
hours,
Higsen
wind
sen
“Another
An
buffeted an
ger
Plymont}
battered
vessel from
erica arrived In
sound
1 1
1 ronnrtine tha
i rep ing that
Fy sorte n
rou
wenther had her
3 4 a day A toht «
i, raday and a night. =»
to
caused consider
ved
wireless messages tell
ticipated course
of the
“Of
storm
course he
+
did.
other
But so
two
full
aia
ships :
the
yet
of it
y from
of the
thes
“It m
encountered
be that
the force
ust our ship the
craft that
of
look
»
mall
*
ol nai
that
themselves”
Ars occaslo
know
¥ eI
ships how to
The writer denies that
but
grades are
saflors are
that all ranks
superstitious and fa-
admits
adds, “no
one shall
to "any
say
is harmful man that
superstitions
in
There
after
be BOmMe.
ane gets
mas
thing them all, for
Hairs Help Unravel
In ti
i
Mysteries.
we consideration of many police
such as mysterious
» Tie
murgers
there is often present evidence in the
ne
little
knowledge
Heretofore there
of this for
concerning it.
has been made
the lack of
like
and he has made a very thorough
2
investigation into the characts ristics
animals. He has hundreds. of speci
mens, many of which have been exam
characteristics noted. Rabbit hair on
hatchet with which a murder has
been done was the means of tracing
the crime to a man who owned the
implement and who had used it to
kill a rabbit with shortly before the
Whales on English Farm.
Farm hands digging celery on a farm
came upon the skeletons of two
whales, dating back, it is supposed, 10,.
000 to 12.000 years. The whules were
lying side by side under the peat, and
just embedded in the clay. “It is con.
Jectured that many thousand years ago
these whales, and perhaps others,
swam up a creek, when the wash came
further inland, and got caught at the
top of a spring tide in a place where
they were unable to turn. Another
theory has been advanced, though it is
rather far-fetched: Some years ago
a prehistoric boat was dug ap in the
same field, and the suggestion has
been made that the crew of the boat
was hunting the whales at that par.
ticular period.
So ————
Longer Experience.
“Now, Jooky yur, Glorioss 1 grambled
old man Dodder to Fiddle Creek.
“Don't you be sending for young Doc
Prattle to come and see me. He can't
do me no good.”
“Oh, yes; he can, Gram'paw !” re
turned the invalids youibdal relative
"He's been practicing medicine for
‘most two years now, and-- *
"Well, I've been In this ‘ere fix for
mighty nigh ten years, and I reckon 1
know more about It then he does =
Kansas City Star,