PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Harrisburg. — Assistance Is
given 2450 families, with 9015 children,
through the methers’ pension system
in Pennsylvania, and there are 4500
families with 17,000 children, on the
waiting list, according to a statement
made at the office of the mothers’ as-
sistance bureau of the welfare depart-
ment, Fifty-four counties have or.
ganized such work, contributing in the
aggregate $1,000,000 to match what
the state appropriated last year.
Uniontown.—Fire did damage esti
mated at $115,000 in the business dis-
trict here. Originating in a building
occupied by the Uniontown Furniture
company, it gpread to the Titlow Ho-
tel on one side and a building occupied
by the Long Furniture company and
living apartments on the other side
Many guests the hotel were taken
down fire escapes by firemen, but none
was seriously injured. The origin of
the fire hag mot been determined.
in
Chester.—At the close of a big day's
business in his grocery store a strange
negro walked tae store of John
Foraker, poked a revolver in the face
of Foraker snd demanded his
Foraker reached
up man thought,
but instead he
butcher knife and sl!
across the face and throat. The man
fled from the place and was traced
two blocks by the trail of blood. The
police have notified all and
the police of nearby
Pottsville. —The
tinues. to diminish
even the
the best
into
money
the hold
the eash box,
forth a large
ashed the bandit
down, as
to get
brougl t
hospitals
cities,
water supply
in this section and
Pottsville Water company,
equipped corporation ip the
southern anthracite region, Issued a
warning that the danger point had
been reached. The company has pro.
hibited the washing of
Pottsville. Only one
the Girard, backed by
tate, has greater water
the anthracite region t
ville, which not
hut half a
number of coal
Hauling of
at work
an extensive
not be furnished
water
con
automobiles in
water company,
the Girard es.
in
han Potts
supplies the city
other and a
and rail
keep the
aken
relief can
capacity
the
only
dozen towns
Companies
roads. walter to
collieries be undert
On
48 no
is obtalnal wear hy [he
Schuylkill river water is unfit for
steam purposes hi muse of the
highly acid mine poured into
and relief cannot be obtained as read!
ly as for those collieries near tl
quehanna
Pottsville.
a long legal fight
annexation of 750
in Schuylkill township to
part of the area to be
a public park. The Phil
Reading Coal and Iron
most of the an
the annexation ir
of the
have to pay in the to
with t he »
re,
De
water
1* Nis.
Tamaqua borough won
the
coal
that
used as
and
own
tract,
court for
of rich
in
acres
ands
town,
idelphia
company,
ers
fou
of nexed
ght court
taxes
on ac
count increased it will
wn, as compared
township. The coal
red that
LEN
company
the desire fo get ind
land taxes pri
for the f Tam:
annex the new territory, and contend
ed that of a majority of
the property owners had not
cured to the The
was unable, io
its charges, and F
for the Reading,
to have the stricken off the
alle 5
ed
reason
‘reas
conl was the neipal
desire ua to
the consent
heen se
change company
fully prove
Whalen, at
agreed in
however,
John
tarney
court
list
Philadelphia.
trust companies
CASS
Suburban banks and
in Bucks and Mont
gomery counties, principally in the
suburban district north of Philadel.
phia, began to distribute about £1,250
000 In Christmas funds to more than
20,000 persons. The funds this year,
aceording to bankers, far in ex-
cess of the figures of any previous
year. The largest single community
distribution will at Jenkintown,
Are
be
company will mail checks for $138,000 ;
£132000 will be distributed
dale by the First National
Citizens’ National: Bristol
will have $78,000 from
in the Bristol Trust,
will get $67,000 from Telford National.
Swarthmore,—At the Thanksgiving
community church service President
Aydélotte, of Swarthmore College,
made the principal speech, In which
he urged greater participation in Eu-
ropean affairs by the United States.
“At a time when the world is suffer.
ing for want of leadership,” he said,
“a tariff wall waich shuts off the im-
portation of a neighbor's goods, the
highest ever made by any country, is
preventing the economic readjustment
of the world” President Aydelotte
closed his speech with an appeal “to
translate the best of our private
thought and feeling into public aet,
to forget our selfish safety and ma-
perial benefits, and dedicate ourselves
to the task of expressing the great.
ness and idealism that js inherent In
America”
Wilkes-Barre.-~Three masked men
held up George Alexander, proprietor
of a chain of candy stores here, and
relieved him of $150 and his watch.
Sunbury.—The Welfare Associaticn
elected Dr. J. B. Cressinger, president,
and D. N. Gardiner, treasurer,
Harrisburg. Governor Sproul has
appointed John A. Frick, Mountain
Hill, as a member of the state Wash-
fugton Crossing Park commission.
Bellevue.~A memoril tablet, bearing
the name of Walter Dutcher, one of
Bellevue's war heroes, has beer stolen
from the base of a tree in the borough
park.
and
their savings
Pittsburgh. Jacob Petry, convicted
year ago of pmcticing dentistry
without = lcerse, was flued $500. In
the trial, which was looked upon as
a test case, Petry was accused of
holding himself before the public as
a dentist, although he never had grad-
uated from a school of dentistry and
He was well
in active
of medical licensure.
Harrisburg. —Since 1917 nearly 100
dangerous grade crossings on main
thoroughfares have been eliminated,
the highway department announced.
These were on 44 steam or electric
and the total cost of the
elimination was $3,711,400. Of the
more than 11,000 grade crossings of
rallroads in Pennsylvanla approxi-
mately 8700 are unprotected. Among
the more dangerous of the crossings
eliminated were those on the Lacka-
wanna Trail, at Elmhurst ; on the Sun-
bury-Wilkes-Barre road, at Shickshin-
ny: on the Easton-Stroudsburg road,
at Martin's Creek Junction, and on
the Reading Philadelphia pike, at
Douglassville. The public service
commission has ordered the elimina
tion of
ings on state highway routes,
work has not yet
There are now pending
commission proceedings
template the elimination
additional crossings,
but
heen
before
which
of 59
Uniontown.—Fayette
liquor valued at
hands, ig face to face with
of Its Three rooms
the hasement courthouse
filled with all of booze
cated In the hundreds of liquor ralds
in various section of
keys to the valuable
held by the county detective,
assistant county detective.
that no knows just
iquor is in the
rumor has it that of the
hag “evaporated.” Jusig who
sponsible for this sevapoihtion”
known. To prevent
ralding the booge
county,
disposition
of the
sS0ris
the county.
storeroom
It
how
seems
one
booze
is re-
some
cellar, the place
the
the
jition,
during
In ad
ploys a guard
of the night.
Pittsburgh.
in a
police station
ence of W. A. Thalford, he
magistrate, Thalford lared
after being locked up on a charge of
Frank Cros
him of $8. Croskle was
with the wm of thirty
The night sergeant, who
“ooh.
man's purse
vices
county
still hours
To
cell
was
be robbed
as Central
the unusual
Avenue
experi.
pris mer
told
te that
drunkenness hig cel
robbed
£25
imate,
kie,
fined
days in jail
answered T
ber. ™
on
optic
Thalford's scre
sald he found the
Croskle
ams of
Pi {ttsburgh
Glassmore,
held coroner,
killing her husband.
rendered to the
Mrs
near
Joh
here,
Postuchs
of was being
for the harged with
/ after
police the
authorities that several
ago she left her husband
sald ghe told them
to gain entrance
when he tried
fired through a
striking him
the months
her hushand
to her house,
to break down the door
she panel, the bullet
in the stomach
Harrisburg
or fish
han
the
1 eo] racks
baskets operated (in the Susque
na basin under
sintle
pounds of eels
mae the department of fisheries
The season for such
spears, gigs,
river
yielded hig) 1
according to
ie to
devices,
snd
including
out-liney the like,
burr hocks and loops and
pow In season, and they cannot
after New ear's unless the app!
takes out a 1923 fahermas i's 1i-
conse ywadford county
have reported the largest
total of 52.000 pounds being aiready
while the Dauphin county
fishermen have reported over five
in the aggregate great
of fishermen have not yet
used
cant
of
tous
ma jority
reported
Although he suf
Edward Mil
The
Northumberland
fered much pain, ler,
a broken shoulder in a football
for thirty-six hours
Seranton. Frederick W
chief clerk In the office of
soliéitor here until a month ago,
he resigned, was arrested hy elty
tectives on a charge of ¢wbezziement
Nicholson, who is widely known, is
game
totaling $8000,
Easton. Intoxication of undergrad
uates and gradutaes will not be per.
tiong of Lafayette College, according
to an announcement made by the
Lafayette Student Council of Its inter.
pretation of its powers outlined in the
The resolu-
tion adopted by the council,
teen members of which pledge them.
selves to support the rule by personal
example, follows: “All undergraduates
appearing at a open or closed function
of the college In condition savoring of
intoxication, shall be requested to
leave the affair immediately. Any
undergraduate so requested shall be
summoned before the Student Council
and action relative to the gravity of
his affenseé shall be recommended to
the faculty.”
Catawissa.~~A Bible printed in Eng.
lish and published in Dublin, in 1768,
was used In a special service in St
Matthew's Lutheran church here,
Mt. Carmel Falling on her way
home from school, a crocheting needle
penetrated the body of Adnin Dekatap,
to a hospital
Harrisburg. Harrisburg Lodge of
Moose has announced it will bulld a
£150,000 home next spring.
Altoona, Frank G. Fisher, of this
place, was appointed Blair county's
first assistant district attorney at a
salary of $2000,
1 ttn el eto A el i A
We
Seppricht.
Sa TLR
Hcckey Is the early winter sport,
a puck and turn out.
park, Chicago.
DO rrr rr rasta eseseests 1) |
Extra Seats Needed.
I'he heavy
world's series baseball
attendance at the
games is
sometimes puzzling to those who
do not the situation
closely. They overlook the
tickets that may be
vear before the event
are the
ohserve
ited a
For in-
1.0083 fan
cout
stance, there
who were off
when Judge La
Babe Ruth the lu
to the 1,250 who
never go to
cause the suspension
baseball for life
ded
Added
indis suspen
st time
antic th
game
ll AAA AA A A AA
ey would
another be
WiK not se
enough, these insured
a heavy demand for box
They arrived at the
soon after the gates opened,
they found ahead of them
5000 disgusted patrons
jast year that
series was fixed Just be
these sat the 5000 others
argued the
fought
rious
“Pat K
who
they
swore knew
the
hind
who had
with them
war going
guestion
as they their
home on the cars
in the less expensive seals at
the first gnme
from
were JOMKK) fans
other big les
were
%iy sore
win pennants that
sald they
another
ball Ry
yes
funs
heaven
clubs did not
they
spend
would never
iar
attered
star Wer
who last
fo wi
the wo
regs
i was rat col
of | ivory-headed by ishers ¢
smbled, and
to strike the
yield
asked Provi
m dead if ever
The
thes
atten another game
Raturday Evening Post
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a sss
Britton Leos His Title
after the
season is over, Just get a club and
SPORT NOTES
dull. Miller
week
lusiness is Huggins
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1924 Olympics,
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Dartmouth and Pennsyivanin
Atlbntn Am
will play at
Kye
yrueus admli
« fre
# tuniversity tg boys une
der sixteen years
gaines
George Cuts! 10 he seen
hase for the Vernon Ti-
second
season
The race track boob won't
keep
3
this winter on the hot tips he
played last
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William H
pointed hockey mel
the fourtl
y of Boston was a
at
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Harvard for
BON
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rn .
Toronto the
Dem
Ken It
barred rataored Wi
[sey histicull i alm
uni
oR!
served on Jack
# man only 0
ye
uer,
¥ City tean
* next year
.
been
method
in the Western |
K
a
Sus
Fille nsured fo
as yet
pennant
pn has
R10) (xx) no
ben devised to insure a
. & ®
in L
aad
game
The Canadi Tennis associa
ho the
regulations and by
awn
has ix fi new oklet on
Inns of the
. 0»
¢ Dempsey who cant’
het
ind anybody
the who
ii
some
wand fighting
LL
ih
Ve itt]
bh
Jack
A
Britton, aged forty, the
surrendered his
weight champion
after 15 rounds of gruelling
Madison Square Garden.
crown ns
VACHE
Big Outfielder Bought by St. Louis
Browns Is Smart Ball Player, but
Ne Spring Chicken,
Commenting on Ernest Varhe, the |
outfielder with Charleston the past sen-
son and bought by the St. Louis Browns |
for a trial in the spring, a Charleston |
critic writes: "He is a pile driver at
bat: in the outfield fast for a big fel
low, smart and knows how to shift for
patters.” It doesn't seem that much
elze could be sald in favor of a ball
player, except that “he is young and
ambitious.” Vache may have the am-
bition, but he is no spring chicken,
DISCOVER NEW LIGHTWEIGHT
Battling Budd .of Georgia Mas Been
Traveling Along at Remarkably
Fast Pace,
in Georgia a new lightweight has
éprung up in the person of Battling
Budd, discovered by Walk Hiller, a
well-known sporting man of Atlanta.
Young Budd has been traveling along
at a fost pace and defeating all the
good boys of the South, It is evident
that he Is not a false alarm, for any-
one who enn hand a defent to Mel
Coogan and Joe Welling must have
I3 NO YOUNGSTER |
sonderable class,
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All athletic
versity
relations between
un the Case
of (les
indefis
and School of Ap
fence eiand have been
ed
The Intest revival announced in Chi
truction of a $1,
S100 000
will Involve con
tra
Derby
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FAX I
Ame:
ce Ls
ican every
The Women's 8
York city has
bers In the last
sobn need new quarters,
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Association football
the English government,
it received 8332.008 from five clubs In
“entertainment tax.”
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imm
gEsociation
x
ng
enrolled
fow
Albert leon’ Mamaux,
er for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is
doing a turn in vaudeville this winter
with Jimmy Rule, 5 song writer
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erstwhile
The Browns are cagefully nursing a
young prospect named Cedric Durst
California has a college of baseball
may hear that some one out there has
opened a swimming school for fish.
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Pancho Villa, the Fllipino boxer and
holder of the flywelght title, has shown
hat he Is one of
the speediest champs who ever pulled
on a glove,
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Pitcher Mike Pendergrast, former
Philly player, has been reinstated, Pen.
dergrast wns suspended for playing
with ineligibles. He will be returned
to the Philly reserve list,
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Walter Malls, the hig southpaw who
helped the Indigns win the American
lengue pennant and the world cham:
plonship In 1020, will not appear with
the tribe next season,
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They seem to be presuming in the
Eastern league that Chief Bender is
done with the Reading Internationals,
for he Is being mentioned as successor
to Billy Glibert at Waterbury,
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Baseball rumors may be. langhed at,
hut they often develop Into facts. Take,
for instance, the sale of Heine Groh to
the Glanta. For eight years that sale
was announced each winter-and was
laughed to sleep--but In the ninth
yews It happened, didn’t it?
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NOT LAST VERY LONG
Few Retain
in Succession
Jerome Travers Was
pion Tn 1912 and Again in 1913
No Other Player Has Ever
Beert Atle to Repeat
Retaining a national
ship is not the en
world Way
the
while a
Golf club in
his
year he
goif
siest
in 1911
youngsier
2 ~
Jack
learned
back
who
at
West
first open « hamp!
his game caddie the
Aronimink
won
I'he
that
¢
next
tine
repeated
no amateur
has been able to win and hold an open
champi
Miss
ond
Ma
national
Curtis won her
title in 1011 and
but it
Stirling
1916 a
ny other
her feat.
DD. Trax
in 1812
No
peat, al
and Chi 3
moe
repent
1012, was not until
woti her first ch
npn
td repea 8
teed
womna
ors
and
WAS
he
other player ha i
Amateur
Won sain
Bob
wor
the title twice
the nation
Guilford, Jin
Hollins J EREe NS
ur title he
Barr
lost in her first rou
Last year ns
Jesse
Marion
Ben
were
Miss
+h
irnes
Vet ser
amat ene
Miss
$e
Sarazen
Hollins
play
In golf, the
row to hoe from the
to qualify, for if he falls
the championship fight the
he is the
Then for a
he
succeeded ex while
nd of mate
champlios hard
has
has =a
He
to get
fact that
help him
week of 36
first
champion does not
slid holes g
has th pier and if he wins all
“wn.
posed to another player who also hs
gone through the tournament without
defeat. Ix it any wonder that a cham
pion, either in the national open, ama
ever retains the title?
Miss Hollins has just recovered from
an illness that kept her out of tourmns-
ment play and while she is in fine
physical condition her lack of practice
resulted in an easy victory for Mrs
Feitner, better known as Lilllan Hyde,
the former metropolitan champion and
one of the longest drivers playing
These two have played In many
matches in the metropolitan and pa
tional championships and in only one
of them was Miss Holling successful
WALTER HAGEN IS UNDER 72
Won British Open, Finished in First
Four at Skokie and Lost te
George: Duncan,
in the rounds he has played this
year, Walter Hagen has averaged less
than 72. He won the British open,
finished in the first four at Skokie, lost
to George Duncan in the New York
state championship and was beaten In
his T2-hole mateh with Sarazen aut Oak-
mont and Westchester-Blitmore. The
baseball fan would put his average at
200,
John B. Pettis sued the Washington
baseball club for $10,000, after being
struck by a batted ball, Justice Hite
of the Distriet of Columbia Supreme
court dismissed the case, saying the
baseball fan is assuming the risk io be
ing Lit at a ball park,
Just
INTENSIVE FARMING
“How are you making out with
abandoned farm bought v°
“Fine! 1 sold quarry rights to
one and rented surface to
another as a golf course, Now if | ran
lease the sir to wireless com
pany I'll have about everything under
cultivation, Who says intensive farm
ing doesn’t yay?
that
you
thie
crowd, the
some
Told With Regrets.
Jack was over
night and 1
reputation he
the
iimatedly)
Miae-
other
what a
devil among
Mary (a
up to it?
Mane—No, he
{ perfect boob and
: £
Miehig
to see me the
kegt telling hb
had for being a
women
And 4i4 he live
im
tiere like a
denying n
just sat
Lg t
kept
an Gargoyle.
Terrible,
Mabel is
that
Grace sorry now that she
foreiy }
mm nobieman
Why? How do
i you
| Did she tell 3
{| married
Gwen know?
sv8 that he talks in
Close Communion,
“en
you say the 14s grippin
It was Ther sre WH
in the firs
'
t and in the last act the hero
clinches
4 >
the second
ne spent
ririry
pproxima
i Arins
1 the hero's
friend
and
iy one
Pp
on
you
get
A FIRE FLINGER
Salesman—A smoking jacket? This
way, madam. Would you like a smok
ing jacket in half wool?
Customer—Haven't you one in as
bestos? My husband is learning to
roll his own.tlgareties.
No Time to Whistle
Let poets Bing t
Of the n
Give
sir ditt
en they
A Pe fect Foil.
of invit
the like
he
her wa
or two”
She getx plenty
irtios and
an
ouse nD
“Ses, she Is
i giri
and spend
®0 mely that evers
who sees nis her te ene
8 wees
Tiresome,
id ¥ nha
ask him hov
“Why
| “Well, if you
expect listen to the
do you av
'
vou to details
May Comes to That.
“1 don’t
“Shut
this barefoot
Fred. Fir
have to do
aancing.”
thing
‘om socially”
like
umn, st
we'll
Point of View.
“Now, Mr. Smith.”
fessor. “will you please tell the class
what welght you would give to circum
stantial eidences &
“1 will, * said the student, “if yon
will tell me lather 1 am supposed to
be prosecuting attorney or counsel! for
the defendant”
Only Engaged.
She-—1 hope you like my new hat. I
bought it on your account.
Fiance—On my account? Net ret,
my dear; this is still on your dad.
said the law pro
Trained for It
Visitor--1 don't understand how
these chorus girls have the courage to
appear so negligee,
Stage Manager—The prodocer
makes them work in a laundry for six
months. By that time they hate the
sight of clothes Dartmouth Jack o'
Lantern.
A Small Capacity.
“Do you know what | think?" said
Goslin to Gazram,
“No,” replied Gazzam, “but | have
five minutes to spare. Tell me sll”
Qualified.
The County Commissioner—I"d like
to recommend you for the joh of su.
perintendent of the poorhouse, but
what experience have you had}
Mr. Longsuffer—Ever since [ve
been married I've run a stuall poor.
house for the benefit of my wife's re
lations,
The Plain Truth,
“So that yoang fool wants to marry
you, does he?! What does he expoct to
live on?"
“You, 1 think, father.”
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