hon en PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS — Sharon.—One hundred and ten cases of vontagion were here, acvording to health authorities, Measles and mumps prodominate. Harrisburg.—J. M. Whitsett Mones. gen, was re-elected prisedent of the Pennsylvania Ice Producers’ Assocla- tion at the annual meeting here, Other officers elected were: J. H. Foreman, Harrisburg, and J. K. Rircher, Philadelphia ; gecretary- treasurer, Frank J. Duggan, Pitts. burgh. Harrisburg. —Vigorously wielding a hatpin, Mrs. Anne Zwickles, 27 trove off a man who attacked her on the street, Her assailant had thrown her down and stopped her mouth with mud when she brought the hatpin inte play. After wounds in Police are offender. Lancaster.—The will of Frank Jan. son, late iron manufacturer'of Colum. bia, admitted to probate, provides for establishment of a foundation managed by a board of eight members of Holy Trinity Catholic church, Co- lumbia, the Income of which Ig to for the of any person of the parish, as well men and needing It also provides for the maintenance of young men of parish desiring to become priests and for the support, maintenance and adu- cation of orphans of Columbia. The estate is approximated sat $200,000 Harrisburg. —Forty-seven different nationalities were represented In the 19.240 persons arrested by state police year.: Figures ! Yours, stab fled. the three ilant city for receiving the the the arm combing ass: the be used relief deserving as old women assistance, 3 hh ana the education announced at the headquarters here showed 8430 native white Americans total of any racial gro were: Poles, groes, 1159: Slavs, 248; Russians, 166; Lithuanians, Hebrews, 132; Hungarians, 132. There were three Canadians, two Dutch and two Egyptians, and one each of Chi. nese, Danes, gypsies, Norwegians, Si. berians, Tyroleans and Ukrainians. Danyile.~ A d:legation of twenty members of the Ku Klux Klan, in white robes, created a stir when they marched to the md attended mon by pastor. but they withont a thas the: collection, PPittshurgh.—-A tion In court wife being held or ing the liguor laws, charged with it was ail a last as the largest totals 1100; Austrians, 137; up Other 13685 « Italians, 716; ne- Evangelical service, Rev. 1. 1 helr visit was n the hearing a R. Shecuterly, <or- the nat nounced, marched to front seats word and it was noticeable tney contributed geaerougly 10 hushand’'s police resulied a enarge of violat. John Ternowsk!, making moonshine, sail mistinke, that it was and not he who was the shiner. The wife admitted that she made some whisky for the family use, Ternowski and wife his wife, moon. was discharged Was arrested. the State College. students, to cost # * (KX), is to be the Pennsvivania the 3 ’ ne campus ol "ot tran College built on t State generosity of the St 1 for the funds through Grange. ing of ate Plans were laf rais- the through the Necessary year more than in Pennsylvania that range organizations and it Is wil be expected constru started In the spring work ge fs 1924. The proposed gift largest ever made group. wilh he the to the Like t of the potato growers, the dormi tory will be Meluded as a the bullding campaign £2.000,000 way. The State Grange annual meeting decided buliding, and the special appointed to make the selection just completed its work here. Harrisburg.-—Aibert 0. Vorse., for three years chief of the information burean of the state department of for estry, has resigned, Seranton. Dominick Palant, alleged distributor of counterfeit money, was convicted here and sentenced to three vears In the federal prison, at Atlanta. Pittsburgh. Fourteen were Injured here when an elevator ip the Murdoch. Kerr & Co. building dropped from the third floor to the basement. Uniontown. — Without medical assist. ance for more than twelve hours after he had been shot in the breast. Jules Blascher is in the Uniontown Hospital In a serious condition and the author. ities are searching for John Kochon. West Plttston—Struck in the eye by n stone hurled through a window of n Lehigh Valley passenger train. An- drew €. Boyden, aged 43, of this place, may lose the sight of the eye. Altoona. Three storekeepérs, charg. ed with violating the Sunday blue law, were arrested and fined $84 and costs, Easton. Seized with an attack of neute indigestion, Harry M, Uberroth died shortly after the arrival of a physician, Dunbar.~Failing to see the ap. proach of an electric motor, which was enveloped in dense steam, Timothy Joy, aged 50 years, a laborer at the plant of the Semet-Solvay company here, was struck and Instantl® killed, Gettysburg. Robert 7 Miller has been appinted postmaster here, York.~~The. Central Pennsylvania collective the gif feature of college emergency for urder its now at to donate a has stitute of Architects met In the Lafay. ette Club house in this city. - Lancaster.—Levl Fisher, Jr, a farm. er residing near Intercourse, this coun. ty, has beey asleep almost continuous. ly for six weeks | a kettle of scalding water was thrown | by a participant, resulted in the death | of a man at Martin, near here. Two | women were burned serlously. King | Evans died In a Unlontown hospital. Belle Thomas and Arabelle Nelson were burned. According to the au- | thoritles, the sealding water was thrown by Benjamin Watkins, who Is now In jall, Connellsville. — Pleading in valn with the girl who had gpurned him to give him “another chance,” James Aldrich took his own life In a crowded restau- | rant here. Miss Mary Flora, the girl, { reported to the police that when Al- | drich proposed marriage to her a week { ago she informed him she did not love {| him. Aldrich persisted In his atten- tions, she sald, and when they met she | accepted an Invitation to dine with him. While eating, she declared, Al { drich proposed again, but she refused to listen and the enraged suitor drew a pistol and sent a bullet Into his brain. York.—Efforts of burglars to stea! money from a gas meter from a res. taurant in the basement of a negro rooming house at 460 Fast King street, nearly resulted disastrously for eleven men, women and children who were sleeping in the place. The timely awakening of Walter Hays, one of the occupants of the place, probably saved a number of for some had al- ready been overcome by fumes coming from the open gas pipes in the basement of the restaurant. Scranton.—Nine me in the vicini lives, the n whose homes of Lehighton and jury here on charges of and Lehighton ¥ blowing Pa ucy up witer and ckerton during the The indicted Hasler shopmen's st are Sar ' Kirk, John Bow man, Ra ler. Ac defendants Wilhelm lenjamin mond Flick and Harry th rd iee # Oraing to alleged are agest dams owned by the ley Railroad company ast September The +h one being the Beaver Run dam. from dams for engines and other purposes ethlehem, Fire to have been started hy gnawing nat matches, destroyed grocery store and gtock LaBarre, Free mansburg. will be sever thousand The fallure fire alarm at fire house to work, delayed the arrival of the firemen. There company used the water oe helleved mice the of Chester The «11 doll RS ars. of the siren the being no to cut a hole In the ice on the canal in order to get wmigh the fire water thr i engine Harrishurg The 31 superior court, Ir tr lew $ “ ' missed the appeal of the nia Gas company ¢ . if the publle rom i S6rvice commis affirmed the the complaint of the city * v8. the public service commis n, both cases involving The Jered by non were given in vs the gas gituation cisions were Affirmatio verdictg Wagner Erie other the court pleas the ns court Chases Ierharth, and Stafford New York tallroad company, Clearficil Altoona. —Work on the construction of the memorial hut for Foust Krumrine, Pa tn erected Pennsvivarnis Club, has started completed, the ann: ¥E Central iyron near Ingleby, by the heen club will be held there, with memorial addresses by some of the leading out door men of the Captain Hough, author of “The Con Wagon” i New Castile — Fifty - school eh country, Emersoy ered narrowly escaped being { Into the Shena when ar were riding left the 11 ngo river at the trolley +o in the con. bridge and 1cks hit the tore ! demned Gardner avenue the tn was stopped just as guard rafling. The cn | cnr was finally broyght to a stop, Altoona, the Anti-Cigarette the public and parochial schools of Altoona show that cigarette smoking by students is decreasing in this eit teading.- of Now Cinbhs formed Rochelle, N. Y. adjutant than four years, has heen assigned to Reading by the war department to organize a pew regiment, the 14th, of the seventy-ninth division, headquar. tors wi which will be established here. This regiment in the national organi- zation ‘will be formed exclusively In Reading and Berks. Captain Lauer will be the only. regular army officer in the line-up. Captain F. A. Muhlen- berg. of this city, a reserve officer. will be one of the staff. Allentown—Organizing to lead the drive for $1,000,000 for Muhlenberg College, Lehigh County Alumni gath- ered here to discuss plang for the campaign. The fund will be used for the erection of a new library, a selence building and gymnasium. The Alumni Association elected James ¥. Hennin- ger, president; Bruce McIntosh, ¢ice president, and Ralph H. Schatz, secre. tary "nnd treasurer. President Fans, of the college, was the principal speaker, : Shenandonh.— Robert Tosh, 50 yeary old, of South Fork. died while on a short visit to relntives here, Beavertown —Despondent, as a re sult of Hi-health, David F, Flohr, 31 yeary old, ended his life by sending a bullet into his brain, Fountain Springs.Leonard Wilkin- son, general foreman of the BE. R. Bas. trass Lumber company, Mt. Carmel, Is at’ the State Hospital here suffering from sleeping slekness, Mifllin~County Detective Frahk D. Groninger has placed his resignation in the hands of Disiriet Attorney Dur sin, i Ee a a ll 1 Excuse for Ovation. An old Boston Red Sox pitch- er says the poorest excuse for an ovation he ever witnessed wns at Boston ten or twelve years ago when he was with the Cubs, The Red Sox had straight games, and the seventeenth battle the score was a tie the last of the ninth. They had a funner on third with two out. ’ “Our batter hit the punkiest single you could ever imagine,” he said. “It was a weak effort, the ball taking a slow hop to one side of the shortstop as it struck a plece of gravel, and the man scored from third “The crowd, pouring out, grabbed the batter, holsted him on Its shoulders and carried him around the field, The ovation was laughable, but showed clearly enough how the crowd could be worked up after a los ing streak.” lost 16 in Says Baseball Player Must Keep in Condition, Home-Run King Has Been Doing Much Thinking During Winter and Has Made Up Mind to Sit Tight and Play Ball, ‘ ann “I've gotta make Ruth to the corres the journey to Hot Springs with him “And I'll make good or break a leg, “The only way make coming in do said Babe wondents who made good,” of Ret a ball sure to him himself condition, try his darnedest whatever he Is ex pected to do and make himself inde pendent of the game in a financial sense. He's gotta do the or he'll be at the owners’ mercy as long as he plays the “Now, don't Yankees have heen mighty good to me they will long I remain with the New York club player that can {a is to io ttor latter game, n - or T™h oe get Wrong. ie me he as But in a tough posi * they to take whatever I've been doing ines giving me. a lotta thinking along these up my mind that I'm going to Babs Ruth, if ever I have to threaten to ‘retire to the farm.""” To this end, the Babe Is making ex- tensive Improvements on the homestead, which when completed will make it one of the show places New England. He intends to get him four or five mules, a tractor and up- wards of a hundred head of thorough- bred dairy cattle, and make his ever. lasting fortune supplying the city of Boston with milk and butter. He Is also reading ap on chickens with the idea of using some of his 164 acres as a poultry ranch, “When | have my dairy and chicken projects in smooth working order and my 120 apple trees bearing, I'll be able to leave the old national pastime without regretting it,” Babe sald. old of AL AAA ABSA STATZ SAVES CUBS $10,000 Failure to Keep Up His Batting Aver. age in Last Few Games Proved to Be Profitable. ——— Fallure of Arnold Statz, star out- fielder of the Chicago Cubs, to keep up his batting In the last four games of the 1022 season, saved his club $10, 000. The Chicago club bad agreed to pay the Los Angelos club, of the Pacific Coast league, this amount, In addition to the ensh and players already given for Stats, If the star should finish the season with a batting average of 300 or better. Statz knew nothing of this agreement. Statz finlshed the season with an average of 297. Four days before the season closed the little outfield star was traveling along with a mark of B01. In his last four games he made only three hits in 16 times at bat. » N BR RG RR Al BR BRR ey The “Bay When,” Plloted by Floyd Brady and Edward Hesse, winner of the Commodore Pennant, in the first fce yachting races of the season, at Red Bank, N. J. Cameras enught it Just as the breeze brought it far up on one runner, going at breakneck speed, BAP GAA A Go el n et rt tS ————— foram INTERESTING SPORT NOTE will be up 1s to fight for a living x ck Dempsey against university's sight ga in lacrosse Bob Kinsey gaged to «¢ University tennis star, b ofich as been en the tennis men at of California. ® * . So continues long as professional Tyvsivman d « 1 * lucrative it will cost money to get one's plano moved. ® * » The sale St of Charles Shorten, utility out- to the Cincinnati Reds via the route fielder waiver «. so» Statistics show that 15 per cent of our population play golf. That is « per cent participate in it talk & mean game, . . * writers scarcity that there of good umpires, a fact or fans have been trying to upon the world for years, «+» Baseball in. n that bleact impress report Among new umpires named for the Eastern league staff by President Dan O'Neill, appears the name of vet- Mike Breslin of Wilkeshs » . . the eran RIre, Nick Altrock’'s successful debut this season in the role of basketball clown : Nick man- ages to stay out of national polities, -. * * The association Marlin team of the new is to be known the because the town represent. for its medicinal baths » . * ABR is famous The San the signing of Franciseo club George Green, announces * . The Cl 40 rr rd BA A A AA A ll NEW DISEASE FOUND A dejected looking World war ve eran applied for assistance aut the Pittsburgh chapter of the American fed Cross not long ago, saying he was {Il. “What does the doctor say is the he was asked, “I dunno just what it is.” replied the " Confession Fails. “In the interest of strict truth 1 de ] Boost Pete Donahue. Dona i p ; the Natio der Pet ren i op & oy Donahue | son.” to a thew iment young Donahoe hae been the gee of none too strong pitching stall. Wi him on ti mound the Reds have been h club to beat. The fine showing of Donahue the fea of the rather agratic play Reds the Cincinnati w tough tands oct a me of tures of the AAA A AA AA AAA AMR AAA Pat Mills Is Here. continues to hit he will get If Summa inst fis did place. he Season - * . thinks Arnold promising tennis The Provi- junior national Patterson Jones is the most player in this country. dence youngster Is champion, Gergld with his eyes, and his friends fear that, like his brother, Joe, he may have to quit boxing, - » . The signed contract of Second Base man J. F. Stewart has been by the Brooklyn Sub, Southern association * . » the recently from the Red Sox by the Yankees, are drafted players, came from the Dakota league and Hen- drick was snared from Nashville Goldie Rano Is Cantain, Manager Arthur Fletcher of the Philadelphia National League Base ball club, has appointed Goldie Rapp captain of the Phillies for the coming season. “Rapp ls a smart third base maf and has the necessary aggres.' siveness to make a good captain,” said Fletcher, " “ of Pat Mills, Australia, country. weight lightweight champion has: just arrived In Mills recently won the light- championship of the Orient, Hits That Look Like Cinches, Bays Cutshaw, George Cutshaw, now with Detroit, who has played second base more years than he cares to think about, gays that the hardest fielding chance He ex- infielder set for It looks “You see an a ball. He is in front of It. When you are set for a ball, the ball must bound true. If it takes a false bound, which many balls do, it is hard to shift suddenly. When you are in motion and the ball takes a funny hop it is much easier to switch and get anyway. When you are set yon have to go Into action and then adjust your self. That ig hard to do becanse it takes time. And the time you lose prevents you from making the play. Also, hard-hit grounders are easier to field than ‘soft’ ones. 1 don't know of any infielder who would not much rather have a hard one come at him than an easy one. Most errors are made on the chances that look like einches, but which are really the hard- ent fielding chances.™ MILEAGE OF LEAG It Will Cost Clubs In Heydisr Circuit Something Like $175,000 for + Transportation. President John Heydler figures that under the playing schadule adopted by Nations league teams will travel 877,711 miles this year. Reduced to dollars and ts it means something fike $178000 will be spent for trans. portation. The Pittsburgh club has the greatest mileage, 12080, tt et et se A A 80 1 told my youngster there Was Bo ” “And what did he gay?” “He looked at me pityingly and ssid he guessed I had been ore of those bad boys to whom Santa Claus did not pay attention.” Transcript. loston MINOR ROLE patroness at = one of the Pa . Tit for Tat made the mare go past, slate; fillies grad the make It aviate : has BE en But now And oney For roe iu fhe dough Proof, The dear young thing “John, slight me whimpered have begun te va love me? the five Della, what Don't 1 let yon got to ewine already you Are you gu exclaimed “Why. yub want? what I re 3 “Love you?” sTOOm. more do tell I've me tite The Carry-On. Medium-—Yes, Mr. Henpoek, yonr Henpeck-—Are you sure she is im Medium —Yes, there is me doubt Henpeck-—Well-—er--there ia going Test for Love “Before malling Letters ove letters your “What is that? “Try to imagine how they wenid were Meing read lawyer for the loud by a A Colonial Bargain. Preserved Penny—Aren’t the savages much you pay ton for that Goodman Fish—Perhaps; but ther { { i nually for the privilege of hunting on the land. Looking for His Opposite. Tom--They say people with opposite characteristics make the happiest mar riages, Tim—Yes: that's why for a girl with money. I'm looking GIVING A HINT Mr. Hardfax—! want no weman in my life. Women are a delusion. Miss Mancheser—And yet, I'm told men are fend of hugging delusions. What's Home Without 3 Car! Alas! they often have A family jar, Because he can't afford A family oar. The Thing That Costs. Hub—What, $100 for that hm? Why, there's nothing. but a £5 frame ahd a few dollars’ worth of trim mings, Wife-~And 880 worth of style, dean Flat Dwellers, “You know that family on the pest floor 1 sald we didn't. want to know’ “Yes, they have been very aloof” “So they have, the stuck-up I'm beginning to think they want to know us” ES Where the Kick Comes. Wife--The cook's given notice, dear. Hub What's the matter? Doesn't ke us? : ife—Yes, she's perfectly satisfied: but her family Joesn't approve of the quality of what she brings home, don’t bon gs Boom 0
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