PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Austin.—Picking up
empty revolver here, Robert Keene
killed his 13-year-old brother, Ray-
mond, while playing “Wild West.”
Bethlehem, Reappointment
Thomas J. Lynch, of this place, as a
member of the state water supply
a
nor Sproul.
Trexlertown.~Horace Lichten
ner, aged D6 years, a farmer of this
place, was found dead in his pig sta-
ble, having expired from heart
sease.
Youngwood.—Dr. A. H. Cavin,
this place, was killed l.istantly when
the Uniontown express on the Penn-
sylvania railroad struck his automo-
bile at a grade crossing.
York.-—Heirs of the late Mrs. Mary
Bell, whose will disposed of
estate of $75,000, have instituted a
contest, Mrs. Bell, who left gnost of
her money to local Catholic churches,
was 8) years old when she died.
Harrisburg.—Amicable liquidation
proceedings were instituted in the
Dauphin county court by Insurance
Commissioner Donaldson against the
Independent Order of Seals, a secret
beneficial orgahization, with offices in
Scranton, on the ground that the or
ganization is insolvent. The commis-
sioner was given full authority to pro
ceed with the liquidation, as represen-
tatives of the order agreed to a de-
cree to that effect.
Pittsburgh.—Frank R. N. Cunning-
ham, former cashier of the Broad Top
National Bank at Hopewell, Bedford
county, pleaded guilty to misappropri-
ation of $40,974.01 and was sentenced
In federal court here to serve eight
months in the county jail. A state
ment wag made to the cour
of this amount had
the bank.
Harrisburg.—Philadelphia
counties gasoline tax for
sales, its payments to the
ury being $30,750.33, while
was next with $27.214.64
$7,731.24; Erie, 8507486:
$8157.97; Montgomery
caster, $4497.80, and
$6201.80, and York,
Harrisburg. —Premium
pensation will
average
ing
department,
A,
that some
been returned to
led all
in
in
October
State treas-
Allegheny
Berks paid
Lazer
8§T7260,11: Lar
Westmoreland
T0.84.
254
rates
insurance he en
10 O
who
annual review of rates. T
will apply to all
on January 1.
compet
The rate
cut 10 per cent almost ever
the
on
efforts
the start of compensation,
ued
ence
reduction being
ind stematic
ry for prevention of
based
the sy in-
accidents, It
Is estimated $15,000,000 of annual pre
ust
miumg for compensation
affected by these rates,
according to the acci-
dents the separate A
few classes have been increased. Penn-
syivania experience ig used exclusively
nsurance
which differ
of work }
are
Cost
in industries
In the calculations, a simple system of
classification Is employed and
experience noted. The
per £100 of payroll has
$1.01; 1920, $1.02; 1921,
67c., estimated, and 1923
mated,
Pottsville,
284 appeals
the tax
which boosted
the companies K500.000.000
recent
average rate
1919,
1 EFF
dif
been :
~~ .
io, |
, Bl«¢ , esti
Judge
of
assessment
Koch was
companies
of
+} ¥
the total
given
Fo
coal rom
this county,
of
valuation f
The
companies have declared they will file
the biggest series of in
history of the county and this action
Indicates they are making good their
declaration. One suit of charac-
ter, the Thompson case, occupied the
court for eighteen months, and Judge
Koch sald he did not know when the
court get through hearing 284
cases, as all must be heard separately
They bid fair to rival hundreds
of suits for damages from culm wash-
cand
lawsuits the
this
will
the
ing along streams, which clogged the
courts for years
Harrisburg.
ties have notified district foresters fo
be ready to assist timberland owners
in of trees to he cut
Christmas. The department #Ay8 an
selection
grow into a merchantable timber tree,
Uniontown —Distriet Attorney Mil-
ler, of Fayette county, launched an
injunction drive against violators of
the Womer law by beginning injunction
proceedings against a brewery and
five restaurants. Four ¢f the restau-
rants were closed Immediately, and he
sald the other restaurant and the
brewery would be shut down. The
court order directed the defendants
to show cause why their places of
business should not be closed because
of alleged violation of the Woner det.
A gtate policeman, who confiscated
beer from the brewery, sald the man-
ager of the plant offered him $100 if
he permitted gubstitution of near-beer
for the beverage seized.
McKeesport. — William Howser died
in a hospital Here from burns receiv.
el 'n a powder explosion November
28, whep two other miners were killed.
Erie.~The Model Bakery has taken
bankruptey proceedings with $13,424
assests and only $9868 Habilities.
New Derry.—Mrs. Irene Henderson,
postmaster here, is under £3000 bail
because $0636 is said to have disap.
peared from her office, r
Lauraytown.—Inmates at the Laury
town almshouse enjoyed a dance
through the kindness of Mr, and Mrs,
Samuel Gangwer, steward and ma-
ron,
commitments for one month ar the
Fayette county jall were broken dur.
Ing November, The total was more
than 400 for the men's department
alone. More than the usual number
also was admitted to the women's
and boys’ department. The record
the men's department up until
month was 334. On one day
week there were O00 men commiited.
Conditions In the county jall are such
that the prison soon will have to put
Uniontown. —On thelr way from Un-
Salem, members of the state police
A searcn re-
a dozen bottles of beer und a
quart of wine in the car. Flve deputy
erry,
Einore,
the
and
and committed
George
were
Sanders George
arrested io
ing,
Harrisburg.—An abutting pfoperty
owner cannot remove coal or any oth-
it adjacent to
ner to cause the surface »f
road to sink or be otherwise injured,
because the highway entitled t
support that it will keep It in place
both lateral and vertical. If the re-
moval of the coal at the surface
as the
is 0
way it may not be done. This rullng
sloner W. Hunter Deputy
Attorney General J W, in the
case of a road in Susquehanna fown-
ship, Cambria county, and the super-
visors of the township are advised to
Joseph by
irown
road to be restored.
a number of citations
cannot be removed
frown In giv
*nys the
disturb
80 As to
owner's right
the public to use the
encroachment Hlegal
sion of public rights
highway.
is and an
Lewistown.—Henry
gaid to be the
the Thdependent Order of Red Men in
t
the state, wag the guest of Ongpatonga
Years
’
af
High, MM
oldest member
Tribe at a hanqguet given
He wag initiated at Bel
and ig a close contestant
Joseph J 1a
High
tribe whe
ithorn, of
place. became the ward
local
Sears
to
Red
event
the
Mes :
:
hood
Harrisburg
is nopoun
moti {
Sunbury
Grant 1
per
Frank
Klis
hanger,
Starr's hotel
A report
man's ston
WHS
found
that
Was no
vider
evidence
obtained the gin in Starr's
H. Deppen, the }
he had given him 1
tin near beer
Harrisburg. «Expense
after violators of the %
at Ss Of
council
George
keenis
1 odstead act
caused Steelton
consider an ordinance
caught
Iaw
operating
now operates,
force of
and
gets n
Predi
will
does a lot
stills
the bill a»
Harrisbh
gt
Haas
homes
there ough tra
the
Ls on
trained teachers to meet
Pennsylvania standard for teachers
are made by the
instru
department of i
that x)
¢
5
ihii
tion in announcig
are enrolled in eaching
the normal in
“In
gradrates
or stu lenis
with an equivalent training have been
admitted to Pennsylvania
schools past years, while in
1010 many students were enrolled for
academic work and special
this increase in attendance Is very re.
markable, ' A further evidence of how
interest in higher education has heen
stimulated during the past few sears
Ir found in tle enrollment at tle
colleges and universities In the si;
which carry educational courses. The
total number of students now regls-
tered at these Institutions is 53,500, an
increase of 7500 over the figures for
1019.
Pittsburgh.—A coroner's Jury return.
ed a verdict of justifiable homicide in
the case of Mrs. Antonia Postucha.
The woman said she killed her hus
band after he had threatened her.
They had been living apart for sev.
eral months,
Connellsville While taking off his
coat in his boarding house, CO, W. Fair-
schools, an
crease of 2000, the statement says:
in
of the fact that only
schools
normal
the
two
Courses,
here, was stricken with heart disease
and died, :
fa community chest,
erg raided the barroom of Frank Hou-
ser here and seized seventy gallons
of wine and some whisky,
Huntingdon.—Louis R. Leister sold
the Leister House here to J. G0. Stew-
art and David H. Hagan, of Tyrone,
for $80,000,
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for 1022,
{ champion rifle shot of the world,
SEASON'S BONE PLAY
GOES TO DICKINSON
Is Given Credit.
After Recovering a Fumble He Loses
Sense of Direction and Starts for
Opponents’ Goal and Is
Tackled by Them,
What was the prize bonehead play
of the yeur in baseball?
The the
pulled
of seasons,
Meusel,
a hit
easy
next }
that ave tied up the
was a thing of beauty
There scores of others |
major
Yankees world
gh
in series
enou to last
lob when Le failed to
which
run
would have
to
IW With a home
out on
he
been safe, have
folld
would hb
ORY
batter
that
first prize,
concede the
cer of
Sent
at Philade
r field
The
would
second
For
Course,
he pa Ne A
of a hom
only a single
What abou
ball?
That title goe
gers college
In a game
West Virginia
ering = i
rection
goal.
Then
Howard
completed
ling him
go on his
BLOOMINGTON AFTER WILSON
; It is reported that the first choice to
| manage the Bloomington team of the
Three] league was Jimmy Hamilton,
but now that Hamilton has cgst his
lot with Nashville the Bloomington
fans are interested In Art Wilson, vet.
eran catcher, who had notable success
as a manager in the Kitty league the
past season, ¢
WHEN WILHELM TWIRLED
| Former Manager of Phililes Pitched
41 Games for Boston Braves—
Salary Limit $2,400,
Manager Wilhelm, formerly with the
Phillies, points out that in 1904, when
he was a member of the Boston
Braves, he, together with Vie Willis
and Charley Pittinger, pitched 102 of
the 154.game schedule,
| Wills pitched 4% games, Wilhelm
41 and Pittinger 80, galary Hmit
| was $2,400,
'
¢
i
Youth Asked Howard
for Job as Fighter
Howard, boss of the
gymnasium
Kid
cade in Chic
the door
a
WHE near
recently
of his j
WH
110
ttle chap
welghl about
popped
“Well,
asked Howard
“A job” answered the lad,
“What kind of a
“Fighting.”
*It nearly
feet,”
ig pounds
in.
what do you w ant?”
Job?
knocked me off my
afterwards
fellows
up
scometh
first
ne
said Howard
“I've heard about ask
leaning or rub
ng else,
time
for a
BOs
y and
fig
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Cagreovrssrrrrsrsssvevesgessl
Kind
of All
There are 70 new
10 trotters ti
British En
3 it 1 great exing
in 18924
AE -
Neale, conact
Jefferson
of
ie “"Greasy™
Washington and
team, is twenty-nine years
® .
AE
pentier to Russia
salesm
kind
&
But as a
may the right
“punch.”
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Harvard Is, considering
foothull
Yale,
limiting its
Its
coOniests to
games with
be safer,
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Georgetown university's rifle team
the University
marksmen for a
1923.
-
the
chess
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Probably
woman
Mora of
leskow
most celebrated
experts are
and Mme,
of Stockholm,
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Senorita
Cuba Katerina
Criminal instincts found in an an
thor In Nev: York are attributed to
1 fall from a horse. Maybe this ex-
cuses a lot of race track jockeys.
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A Nebraska cigar store owner is so
tired of the fans leaning on the coun:
ter that he plans to Install bleachers
and by so doing give them plenty of
space for argument.
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Otto Miller, who has caught for the
Brooklyn Natipnals since 1010, has
been given his unconditional release
as a part of the move to gain new
blood for the Dodgers,
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Without his middie finger, there are
probably a lot of tennis players whom
Tilden can beat. In fact, according
to the surgeons, the loss of part of his
finger likely won't injure his master
stroke,
.
Bobby Jones of Atlanta, now a stu
dent at Harvard, won the Harvard
Golf association title by defeating
Clarke Hodder, Massachusetts junior
champion, over the Woodland course
at Cambridge, Mass, 8 and 2,
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Appalachian league probably boasts
the only ball player who is son of the
governor of the state In which he
plays, He Is Dave Taylor, star catch.
er of the Appalachian circalt, who ix
un son of Gov. Alfred A. Taylor of
i
{
ke 2 AIRE
rifle team of that city, who
The inset shows Walter R. Stokes,
| Hard-Hitting First Baseraan ls Traded
for Tex Covington—i ed League
in Batting,
Jay
Loulsville wio
‘a world's ord for hits ma
re
tion season, heg been traded
i Ameri
receive
Ind anapolis ciub of the
jon
Covington, first
Can associat
Tex
ianapolis team, In
Kirke
since joining the Colonels seven
Colonels
baseman of
exchange
pever has batted under 300
years
with
Axl season
ast year he | ieague
aN, v
WHITEY NEA' E IS “FIND”
When
football team,
left
3 man to fill the
the to
he hed
p find,
Ww hitey
space injury
O'Hearne
the
| Fortunately,
| Neale,
halfback, sear
school I
he
brother to Greasy Nea ©
&
player, an
came
wmch
basehall
over that
could shoes
most as well ¢ he Yale halfback hi
Neale P
men ever to play for ole
shows Whitey Neale
| self himself one of
ron od
atest
¢
!
Fhe tograph
The initial holdout for 1023, least
at
Walter Ruether of the Brooklyn club,
He got $8000 the past season and has
asked President Ebbets for $12.000 for
The Brooklyn president an-
i
a bonus of $1,000 at the end of the
it.
President and Manager of St. Louis
Cardinals Pay Visit to Braden.
ton, Fla.
President 8am Breadon and Manager
Branch Rickey of the Cardinals re-
cently went to Bradenton, Fla, to look
over the prospective training camp for
the Cardinals next spring. Manager
Rickey will have some 40 or 50 players
in camp In the spring and it is neces
sary that arrangements be made with
Bradenton hotels to accommodate the
mob,
JIM AUSTIN INDISPENSABLE
St. Louis Browns Have Tried Out
Many Prospects at Third Base,
but Veteran Holds On,
The Browns apparently cannot get
along without the services of James
Austin, Year in and year out the man.
agement tries out some new prospect
nt third, yet the pinch seems inevitably
to arise wherein this veteran, at an
age when most players have been ten
Teunessed
years retired, is injected into the fray.
THE SILVER LINING
“Has anyone seen* my b-b-blanket?”
demanded a shivering buck on one of
those typically sunny French mornings.
Nobody had—for purposes of publi
cation, anyway.
“Has anyone seen my b-b-blouse?
Nope,
“Well,” said the buck, after a mo-
ment’'s deliberation, “I'm g-gglad I've
EExgot on a nice warm b-b-belt, at any
rute."—American Legion Weekly.
AUNTIE DIDN'T SMILE
“The Bible says they went
the ark two by two, doesn’t
Auntie?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Well, who went in with you?”
into
it,
Musings of a Motor Cop.
1 signaled to Hortense 10 pause,
: witli a pout,
had to stop because
st Eg of jt! ’
gon Blar.
The Smashup,
10 the eliut
hie did so
- Washi
£
3
¢ other
iden by stick-
ne has just
ue ex-
Just Beginning. 3
M Do you collect pennies?
Teer » "ge : fe
re two for your
iy
how many have you?
”
Hardly Fair,
kiss must not ia
feet’
“A
than 15
“Aw,
00
of bliss”
movie st more
i's mean to give a poor her
oine feet of trouble and only 18
feet
Truthful Farmer.
“Are these eggs fresh?”
“Yes, ma'am. They wouldn't have
been Inid tomorrow if I hadn't
made a mistake and torn an extrs leaf
off the calendar.”
eit
ii
In Constant Touch.
“Since you have becom: rich 1 sup
pose you are out of touch with your
old friends?” r
“Not at ail
every day.”
Some of "em touch me
LICKED
“He's the cream of the pugilistic
profession.”
“He wilk be whipped cream before
A Bachelor's Complaint,
I'd like to be a farmer
And live among the trees,
I'd sit beneath a peach tree
With peaches on my Kkness
Maybe Me Would,
Wife (indignantly)—If I were that
young man down front I'd bug that
girl outside the theater.
Hubby-80 would L
%
W
Fatal,
“What became of the terror of Nose
paint Gulch?
“He's gone.”
“Natural demise?”
“Liver complaint.”
“Heh?”
“Had a white liver”
¥
A Ray of Hope.
Would-Be Contrib—Do you think
there is any chance of my
ats Tino nat
enry oe
shan't live forever. ¥ Hm be :
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