PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Aitoona.—Dr. George R. Donahoe, state librarian, was elected president of the Pennsylvania*Library Associa- | tion at the closing session of its con- vention here, Harrisburg.—The contract for the construction of 11,237 feet of road In Richmond township, Berks county, was awarded the highway department to the Juniata company, of Phlladel- phin, at*$75,904.67. The road will ex- tend from the William Penn Highway to th Th he 4786 feet by line, contract in Bangor Brothers, In each the e Fleetwood for awarded 10 at county pay Wilkes-Barre. in in against the Murders of sensa was Neumyer of Bethlehem, £62 315.10. instance the will cost Police session chiefs Pennsylvania this took a of deadly weapons tional nature, occupying the public at tention, referred to by Major Lynn Adams, of the state police, who prepared the way for a general reso lution « to devise stand open sale were ft] upon the law-makers by which tl tion of firearms cah } speaking for the state police, Adams offered the help of his in policemen cities work and Harrisburg. wh = distribu Also Major force means 1 st wall we controlled ‘ ntroiied of training es in solution. the sta + the of crime detection A shortage of common Commissioner in the Pitts labor Connelley says and ie bt trial state was reported by ig "serious act irgh district and |i operators on laws tion » of reign to advance I traehriroh Pittsburgh at 30.006) ~ gho “IHK) “eo Thomas vieted murflerer lara Belle Lefinox, school girl, was electro at Rockview Penitentiary Two contacts ma and Dr. Robs pronounced the man dead Auditor le were ot Campbell Harrisharg General R9R5 1017 or 101%, ER30.68500.15 engine while nt His lef and had to be amg er, John, aged crew fo get him wheels Scores of able to get picking it al Harrisburg nounced pay ety ong ments had to her broken amon ng SUN ob. y : ‘ +1 cluded payments n The was September, County 64.005 08 the first 1 ye a) (reer is A SOUNZ from has of buck, wh game taken up Michael The h evidently strayed ar Li preserve nea the oy gonter his abode on the farm Iscrupe in the Ligonier valley buck in the pasture with the | cows during the day and seems per- | foctly with When COWS brought to the | barn at night buck comes along | and is so tame that he will eat food | out of Mr. Iscrupe’'s hand. | Harrisburg Typhoid fever out breaks were reported as under inves. tigation by the state health depart ment’ In Lancaster, Lebanon and Washington counties, the most serious being at Columbia, where sixteen cases and two deaths had been report. ed and people advised to boil all drinking water until the source of in fection is found. The Lebafion cases are at Annville, where seven have been found, The Washington cases were among members of a foot ball team and Ms friends, who drank from a well belleved to have béen infected at Clayshurg. Milton. —~Caught in a belt while at work alone in his cider mill, Lewis Keyser, of near here, was killed. Drums.-~Falling from his bicycle, Byron Polk, aged 12, of Conyngham valley, was run over by a truck and killed here, Wampum.—S8amue!l Brady, aged 43, of this place, was Instantly killed when hig automobile was struck by a train. Palo Alto~—Ten days ago Mrs. Wil ma Megahon, of this place, walked out of her home to visit a neighbor. She never returned and her fate Ig stays content the : i his new home. | Are the unknowr Unlontown,—In an effort to grasp a the reservoir of the Oliver & Snyder company at Oliver No. 1, John Wang, aged 10 years, lost his balance As he nor any of his playmates could swim, the lad drowned before assistance could be summoned. John was playing in the outfield, and when the ball was knocked into the water he jumped over the reservolr fence the home plate. When the waters engulfed the ance. The body was recovered later. J. C. Wright, director of the federa bard of vocational ed ucation, in addressing the state ference on foreman training here, sald Pennsylvania had been a pioneer and in developing educational and that many other states Harrisburg. con- a leader schools, of different bhp to home economics and In the five years in vocational educa scl perfection types schools set meet the needs 'n agriculture, and national industries growth st alded 10018 eent. aualied, federally 300 tion, ate have Increased per growth in Pennsylvania has if not excelled the national growth. taken of the federal avallagle, and used them in connection idvantage with stiafe and loeal funds to debelop its vocational education program ames which were rapidly de- at way 1i8 house his boarding making to the nnd: his trunk and ; s +} | story tossed into t turned to regain t wl over a chaly burned to death, Fireman allie was Injured while fight i a loss of Ai con or her ex. nt home the the quar started. His survive depart- casting way hraad aroaa polife adlo ire and every w he oiling Saturday r $ i sent out The Lehig &« aperating its frog ity rail shops here from the plant State with electric gine Harrishurg sanitary engin- eers investigating a typhold outbreak in Northeast, Erie county, have Ashmore en- terminal Hazleton ~ mine foremen's certificates, Sunbury. The county commissioners have been collector for West Zerbe township Greensburg.—Rev. Dr. George here. Carlisle.~—The new concrete was opened with appropriate erercises, Tamaqua.—Members of the Tawa qua Lodge of Masons are corsidering plans for the erection of a modern temple, Anville.~This place hag been select. od as the site for a forge compény plant. : Exchange. John Chmielewski, aged 42, of this place, died from injuries sustained a week ago when eaught under a fall of coal in the mines. Allentown Although concealed he. hind a shelter. John Squarisch, aged 20, was struck on the back by » heavy rock loosened by a blast in the guarry of the Coplay Cement comnany, at Coplay, and instantly killed. Millersville~~Lieutenant Governor Edward E. Beldelman delivered the honorary address at the sixty-fifth an. niversary of the Normal Literary So clety, of the Millersville state normal school. ; 4 Rowing Losing Grip Something has cooled the ar- dor of the athletic element at Cornell, Only a few days ago the Ithacans were bewailing the sloth of the students In sign ing up for the athletic associa. tion, Now they are complaining of the lack of Interest In crew. Where a year ago the first call for oarsmen at Cornell brought out 207 men, this year the open- ing summons was answered by n mere 154. ee - GOPHER SUBSTITUTE KNEW HAUSER'S PLAY Greatest Tackle Doc Williams Ever Had on His Team. as He Downed Maroon Behind His Line for Five.Yard Loss— Played Opposite Star. One fall, during a Minnesota-Chlea- football game at field, authorities sent up a couple of subs to Stagg the help the seribes get the names of the players correct Among them husky sub, clad in his football togs, exes for the zame in front of him delivered a talk that went like this: “Watch tackle, wis a Gopher | } and all something | Hauser he's Dao " that big un wonder. the Willams had Minnesots greatest tackle ever team Halfback Agar of ed an end run, and behind ainda the Maroons start & brought down wa ig his own line “There did mage A patch “You auked nodded “What position de you cos SAY you One “left tackle I play ser.” RII FLYING TO SPOIL “Tv” Rauber, captain of D. C., In the act of the part of eluded the tackle the Gene tar on as he 8 grasp seloms— ——————— A ——————_ —— i + Give me the Sporting Squibs of All Kinds 1 ve IOC will in JEN] COCR Chicago Athletic Club Let Champion Swimmer Get Away Because He Wasn't Speedy. Athlet or of has JOC } ag 1 B YPAr ago son nship possibilit in rushed him Welssmt form “5 4 4 sh T Chicago A tic club for trial a jut ler wasn't fast enough let go A to Bill Weissmul for short time them and they later his aim he was taken Everett he Seott rable finished the Yankees, O88 consectilive games Johnny Weisamuliler, Bachrach, coach at the Illinois Ath. letic club, who Immediately saw pos sibilities in the chap. Under Bachrach's instructions John. ny three months later won his first district championship, after which his rise was rapid. # CHAMPIONS NOT ACCIDENTAL Past Season Demenstrates That Golf ers Whe Captured Titular Events Wen en Merit Though golf is fraught with uncer tainty, the past season In a way has demonstrated that a number of those who did win titular events were no accidental champions. Cases In point are Gene Sarazan, who captured the national open and the Professional Golfers’ association titles; Jesse Sweetser, successful in the national and metropolitan amateur meeting, band lastly, Marty O'Loughlin, leading the list in the New Jersey and metro. politan opens. For any one to keep on winning nowadays against the keen competition means good golf ali the time, A few slips and he's gone, Peter the Great, 2 074 Id, surprises Hill seven the Laurel pearance TORS « farm by » * * Any O00 many thout h baseball con young men go to aving learned the ba infielding . » Kiki, sic prin » the It is sald that Senega liquor . - \d eliminated in the stadium at Cham S800 spectators Stairways will be University of Illinois paign It will meat Glenn Myatt, sent to Milwaukee by Connie Mack In the Joe Hauser deal, has proved a harder hitter in the As sociation than Hauser was, * * » Stairways will be eliminated in the University of Illinois stadium = Champaign. It will seat 585000 spec tators and cost a million and a half dollars, . * * Mr. Kent, 2:00%, driven by Walter Cox, fell In the first heat of his Hart ford race about fifty yards from the wire, but went on and won the next two heats, . - ¥. L. Kramer, world's greatest bleycle rider, who retired recently, has been appointed temporary chair man of the board of control of the National Cycling association. . ¥ Merle Sweitzer, star mile runner at the University of Minnesota for the {ast three years, has joined the ranks of the professionals in the role of cross-country coach for the Gophers, Le » John McGraw and Charles Stone ham. who have made miMions In vari ous ways are sild to be in for more rich picking through the development of oil lands they (mvested In some where in Texas, : ¥ a PERFECT TACKLE gh Bchool of Washington, ght have been a perfect tackle The photograph shows Rauber team ie, just GRID EVILS BLAMED TO JAZZ BY BROOKE | says Syricopation Has Knocked Football for a Goal To Be Man Must Classy Automobiles Shake Wicked Foot. Winner With Ladies Young Have Plenty of Money, and Thes ‘re blan | #1 Celera, {| the mattis there are some agrees with They point bave wary every. EVERETT SCOTT NEARS GOAL Shortstop Within 14 Games 1.000 Consecutive Contests Breaks All Records. Yankee of Ex Americ: erett S shortstop season thi his gonl 106% ov His msecutive league contests streak of S04 #ovan § evs siraight gil records, E verett Scott, started June 20, 1916, with Boston, He was with the Red Sox until traded to New York last winter The record nearest to Scott's is 577 games, made in 1885 to 1800, in the old American association and National league by George B. Pinckney of the Brooklyn team. Fred Duders of the Philadelphia Nationals holds the mod ern National league record, 528 games, played between 1016 and 1910. Money Earning Bexer. Accorling to Scotty Monteith, the man who discovered Johnny Dundee, he has earned over $400,000 in the ring. In all, Dundee has fought 10 20round battles, his hardest being with Joe Rivers in Los Angeles. It was the last 20round bout in Cal fornia, Dundee getting tha decision WOMAN MOVED TO PROTEST Voices Objection te Multiplicity of Proverbs That Show Malice Toward Her Sex. “I'm fed up with women,” declared “Thoroughly fed up. “Take any language you like” went on, “in every one of them you'll find some proverb or other jeerl women, some plece of bitin thelr expense, words that centrated venom into the eyes of every woman who reads them, pros Helin Priscilla fiercely, pli or £ ma squirt cone “Proverbs are sald to be crystal common ized wen Ke I may that most i i i i BOT RE gpite “Proverbs when they are not anout bese Sass ad : ought to be | “But * Od arture i century Liquid Oxygen, A kind of extiosive that Jen gal restrictions ing wives ply to and transi is The in the fact iw eX anid to in liquid oxygen its safely expla iz found quality the after. a through a paper coartri cartridge saturated with the oxygen The flame of dhe fuse converts the cartridge into carbonic acid and water vapor. The cartridge keeps its ex- plogive character then only for about twenty-five minutes, after which time all the oxygen required for chemical reaction becomes vaporized Such an explosive will find its great. ext usefulness in problems of forestry, clearing lands road construction; but other uses will undoubtedly be found for this form of power, Shark Skin for Cold Feet Sole leather made of shark skin is the latest cure of cold feet for traffie officers on Seattle's street intersec. tions. Many traffic men, complaining during raing weather that rubber and ordinary leather caused cold feet, have experimented in various ways to gem- edy the condition. Some tried moose hide, wairos skin and wooden shoes of the Orient, but the use of shark's leather proved sue cessful, With this waterproof mato rial, comfortable light shoes are made, which, excluding dampness, possess an element conserving the natural body heat within the shoe so fitted. —— given fuse has bee die ige and Sugar From Dahlias, Levuloge, a sugar made from the tober of the dahlia, Is exceptionally sweet and is sald to be harmless to diabetics. The American Dahlia so. clety and the Bureau of Standards are co-operating In the development of its possibilities. Scientific American,
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