PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
levy a 18.
Burnham.—Counell will
mill tax on all propérty.
Shippensburg.— Newton Agle was
nrrested on a charge of embezzling In
excess of £1200 from the Shippensburg
Lodge of Owls,
South Connellsville.—Married teach
ers are to be barred from the schools
here,
Harrisburg. —Governor Pinchot sign
ed nine bills, among them that of Rep
resentative Dunn, of Philadelphia,
proving enabling legislation for the
payment of a soldiers’ bonus to world
war veterans if the proposed bond
issue for $35,000,000 for this purpose
is approved by the voters, The Dunn
measure would place the payment of
the bonus with the adjutant general
Veterans of the state who had served
sixty days or longer would be eligible
to the bonus at the rate of £10 a
month for the time in
payments would be limited
The bill carries an appropriation o
$462,625 for expenses,
Pottsville.—A
ed the usual liberty of visitors
sacked the Geist Hotel at
stole money from six rooms. Even
Sunday school funds and trust funds
were seized. The stranger, who regis
tered under an assumed name, fled
with his booty, which included near
vy all the jewels in the hotel. It Is
believed he had confederates who ald-
ed his escape in an automobile
Harrisburg.
refused commutation of
Clarence Newson, colored, of Philadel
phia, sentenced to executed next
week for killing his common-law
Hattie Bailey, at the corner of Seven
teenth and Fitzwater streets, Phila
delphia, September 12, 1921.
Harrisburg. —State officers, with the
exception of the secretary of internal
affairs, state treasurer and attorney
general, went on a summer schedule
of working hours by beginning at 8
o'clock in the morning and quitting
at 4 in the afternoon. This schedule
adds an extra hour daylight
state employes after quitting time,
forees them to begin an hour
earlier, so that the number of working
hours remain the same. Auditor Gen
service, but
Sin
f
fo
grant
ran-
Heginsg and
guest who was
sentence to
he
of
but
remain from
Affairs
consult
hours in his office would
9 to 5. Secretary of Internal
James F. Woodward will
“mployes to find out
Pottsville. —The commission
ers have decided not to await the
legal suits against
his
thelr desires
county
the coal companies
£410,000,000
thelr lands, decided
once their to
This can be done by selling
of the
valuation
to at
enforce
increased
but have
power
on
nse col
lections
the personal
panies and lands on which taxes have
not been paid. Large land
at Minersville already have been turn
into the commissioners and proceed.
ings will be begun to sell as
well as others which will be reported
within apnether week. The county of
ficlals say the coal companies not only
are delinqueni on a whole year's taxes,
but they soon will
delinquency on a second year. It is
believed that before the can
be brought before the court an ad
justment will be reached.
Pittsbtirgh.-— The bulk of the £1,000,
000 estate of the late Henry Berg, a
Verona banker, will go to charity, it
developed when the will was admitted
to probate. After providing for the
construction of a memorial chapel for
the German Evangelical Protestant
church, Berg made bequests amonnt-
in gto 5,000 friends
and in Germany. The remainder was
divided into 100 parts and then ap-
portioned among many Protestant and
Catholic institutions. The chief bene
ficiary Is the German Protestant Or
phans’ Asylum of Pittsburgh, which
gets seventeen shares and the Mead-
ville theological school, of Meadville,
which gets four shares. Berg's only
surviving relative is his mother, who
is 983 yvears old. She is have the
use of the estate as long as she lives
Uniontown. — “There are far
many high-priced bootleggers getting
away, We will have stiffen the
bond somewhat in liquor cases,” were
the sentiments expressed by Judge
E. H. Reppert when Informed that
several men, convicted in Hguor cases,
had failed to make their appearance,
Judge Reppert’s statement came when
was informed that Harry Freud,
of Brownsville, was missing. Further
properties Com
tracts of
these
be penalized for
matter
to near here
fo
10
to
he
ily had departed for a tour of Europe,
and it is belleved that the man ac-
companied them. The court indicated
that in cases where the “hightoned”
bootlegger was arrested the bond
would be doubled.
Nazareth. Ag the result of a slight
cut on his foot, sustained ten days
ngo, John Pershal, 13 years old of
this place, died in the Bethlehem Hos.
pital,
Sunbury.-~While playing with her
baby, Mrs. Edward Specht, of this
place, fell over backward and suffered
three fractures of her left arm.
Shamokin Caught under a fall of
top at Mount Carmel colliery, Bani-
ecelo Comdercilo, of Kulpmont, died at
the State Hospital here,
Lancaster. Raiding a crap game at
the Union Stock Yards, state police
arrested ten men,
Columbia.—The Lancaster county
commissioners purchased the Colum-
hin and Chestnut Hill turnpike, be.
tween Columbia and Ironville, fof
£4000,
Pittsburgh.——An Information
taining nine counts and charging vio
Intign of the national prohibition act
against William C. Illig, of Erle, has
been ordered quashed by Federal
Judge Thomson. The court held that
the warrant wag fanity.
Berwick. — Merger of the Central
Pennsylvania and Susquehanna Syn-
ods of the Lutheran church was finally
approved by the Susquehanna Synod,
in annual session here. Independent
Lutheran charches in the territory of
the two synods but members of neither
Dr,
William
Daniel
were
of Montgomery, and
Jr., of Williamsport,
directors of the Susquehanna
The statistical report showed
nine churches with a
20.000 in the synod.
members
ship of
Former State
Thomas B
of Philadelphia, was elected president
by the Insurance Federation of Penn
sylvania Gustav R. Dette, of
Philadelphin, was re-elected secretary
and manager of
next meeting
Pittsburgh.
Sunhury
hroken rail
Pennsylvania
wreck The
press was doe
Reading.
Commissioner
here
the organization
will likely be
Timely
on the main line of the
railroad
uffalo-Washington ex
in another five minutes
until the damage could be re
Wilkes-Barre C1
harged
theft
of a truck, a touring car
and of
stock
Rept,
Pollock, both
held in £2500 bail
harges by a
pair were
ing
tires,
the
and entered
which
room
the tires
and
were
(3007
Were
H
The arrested
chase over the moun
and
mast
after an exciting
tains with
e close
detectives
behind
local
pol them of
way in a
Uniontown
charge
Thomas
was
high-powered car
Refused a new
Masontown
£1000 and
Solomon, a
merchant, fined sen
the fine
ninety days, a
at the expira-
workhouse, If
costs are pald within
be entered
sentence. Convicted of conspiracy in
connection
with the transportation of
Brownsville
Freud,
hetween
Uniontown, Henry
failed to
tence And his bond of 22000 was order
forfeited
ginger
and
appear for
nd
Norristown.—In paroling
Bridgeport, from
mths
where he served half of a two-mu«
lHquor, Judge
Attorney
Miller's
manufacturing
Miller directed District J
investigate story In
official to
f ’
publle purchase a still
use of hoth
Through the efforts of
John's Refor
church, HefTelfinger
teacher, returns to his school at
China, take
plant ent el
wire
school bullding
Philadeliphisz A
for protected electric
tries where
by presence
or
men
Milton the
when (Clarence
he will
suffi
and light
cowfn,
and
ndus
workmen
of
Was
are
the combustible
explosives adopted nt
monthly meeting of the
Meeker
Meeker stated
industry Commissioner
sided
that the new
of the first
appointed to
campaign of publicity to
manufacturer to the
hygienic conditions
pre
Commissioner
cole will not
class A
formulate plans
committee
io 8
the
proper
department
educate
need of
The
moving pleture industry in displaying
A picture the latest method
of improving factory health conditions
Irwin.
three checks on the First
Bank of Irwin, in Febrnary,
Green, colored, of this place
rested at Cleveland
Marysville.~This has its sec
ond woman school Mrs. Lau.
ra Snyder, appointed to fill a vacancy
Uniontown. Stricken with
Carl Busch, aged 71, a native
many, died at his home here
Hazleton School chikkren
ing given practical lessons in munlel-
pal government and are attending the
meetings of and court
hearings
Aundenried. — Nicholas Hillick,
23. a driver in the Audenried mines of
the lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal
company, died from Injuries received
by being kicked in the ahdomen by a
mule,
South Brownsville.—When his rain.
coat caught on a switch handle, W. M
Marshall, aged 27, a brakeman for the
M. R R., was dragged under the
wheels of a freight train and crushed
to death.
Altoona. ~-Arbutux was the choice of
the students in the public schools here
for state flower.
Altoona. ~The Rotary (Club is com-
piling a list of the crippled children
here with a view to having them treat.
ed.
Seranton. Edwin Mills, an electri
cian, was killed when he fell from a
crane in the Lackawanna rallroad
shops here,
Hazleton, ~The Elks have purchased
the home of Alvan Markle, Sr, for
about £100,000,
Unlontown.—With about 1000 mem.
bers, the Unlontown Motor Club was
crganized to take the place of the
Fayette County Automobile Club,
Willinmsport, George FF. Vincent,
aged 656 years, distriet circulation sup-
ervisor for a Philadelphia paper, was
found dead In bed in his room at »
hotel here,
showing
was ar
town
director,
of
are he
counctl police
*
CONNIE THINKS TRIS
GOOD AT FIRST BASE
If Cleveland Manager's Legs Go
Wrong He Would Do Well at
the Initial Sack.
e—
Connie Mack has & feeling that Tris
as a first-sacker,
When he read that Guisto
start ‘he season and Bower would suc
ceed him in case the Californian failed
to come up to expectations, Mack re-
marked:
fall
have
and Bower to
wouldn'g to
Have you ever watched Speak
Well, he pnts
first and
if Guisto
Speaker
“Even
deliver,
er plaving the infield?
a lot of around
very capably
center field calls for
If Speaker finds his lower
bothering him, I*can see no
he couldn't shift to first
He is a wonder on ground balls
left-hander, has a fine arm and is
'r has every asset
and It
out
time base,
“Playing
limbs are
reason why
is a
a sure catch, Spe
of a star
furprise
wouldn't
his en
first-sacker
me if he rounded
reer at that position”
There is much logic to Mack's obser
has practiced a
He is r
manager
at
great deal first base g
a bit of experience he could more than
It Is possible that Speaker may
joh In case
However, Speaker feels that Gulsto
will deliver and that in Brower he has
&n equally capable substitute
Diamond
Squibs
Reiger
with
The
caught
non
has
Ver
veteran Elmer
on again, this time
* * ’
The Salt Lake City club had a sur.
plus of fnd Bob Kinsella
was the one to he discarded
CI
outfielders
The goal of
ball
hits keep pace with
the average college hase
to make tl}
the
team sho he
error column
St hinw
The Joseph club
Bob Brown to
Molly Mq¢
. * =»
and Pitcher % to Sioux City
roit and New fight It
pennant,
York will
Americar
» opinion of Ty (
the league
‘obh
Nnager o
ve at least
accurate
The
nounced, will
Indianapolis
abandon
ining camp
next spring
» . »
Donnie Bush
manager, i=
of pep
plavers for the coming
* » -.
Washington's
expected to instill
his into his collection
sea Rnn
wh and Dan Howley
heads together and arranged for
a Joint training camp for the Detroit
and Toronto at Augusta,
next spring
have put
teams in
* . *
t} is
of
The
“old
the
Western
year is
the
Omaha team
man's home”
many from Manas
ger Ed Koney down
* * .
years’ experience,
Ricks, college first
trial with
baseman,
Atlanta in
Cappy
had a
hy the Scranton club of the New York
9 »
A fan explaining why a team would
get anywhere in its
that team had a weakness in its pitch.
weakness In ite outfield and
weakness in ite Infield
* + 0
Paul
versity
Oshorne, captain of the Uni
of Louisville baseball team,
and a big fellow who can do most
anything in athletics, will join the
Louisville Colonels when school closes,
- » »
Manager Jim Plerce of the Hamil
ton Mint team wanted no ex-mana-
gers hanging around, so he sold Ernest
Calbert, last season's leader of the
Hams, to the Decatur club of the
Three-1 league,
* . »
Pat Flaherty, left-handed pitcher fa-
mous in the old days for his quick re
turn delivery, later scout and minor
league manager, has been appointed
assistant coach of athletics at Prince.
ton university,
*. ee
Frank Chance Is the only manager
on record In baseball who deliberately
picked his own team to finish last.
Chance Is quoted in Boston newspa-
pers as saying the Red Sox positively
will finish in the American league
cellar,
* se
Tom Lukanovie, pitcher, ix back In
the Three league, the Terre Haute
club having obtalned him from Tulen.
He was with Peoria In 1019. Another
new Terre Haute pitcher is Paul
Stumb, who was with Decatur and
Moline last year.
| Al 1 let t——J ini
paid $75,000 ’
(HN)
Giants, The the baseball world
stars of the diamond.
i tr onneil,
In center is Willie Kann
Jack
eves of
Frrssssssssnsssssnnssnnns
Bentley Improves
Batting by Change
Said
tion
Juck Bentley when men
wis made
of the similarity
of his batting position to Ruth
“1 used take the long, hard
at ball Ruth takes, but
found myself stepping
much
kind
far
fo
out the
{On
that
out
have take
swing to hit them
Ruth but I found
out that if I wanted to strike out
You to
of a en
as does,
less and make more base hits I'd
have to tighten up and I did. It
seemed to me that by making the
change 1
the
was
ball «lub
playing more for
NE 4
Fressssssssssssansssssnssnannns
ARAL RBARRRRR RRR S RRs san nnd |
' Babe Ruth States He
Made Pruett Pitcher
RiNise of
had
Recently, when asked |
| Babe
| humor despite the
Ruth still retains a
poor season he
{ isl summer
iw hat pitchers in the American league {
were i
hardest to hit, he replied in all |
Answer
Pruett
I nd
4 v rd
foul off him
Ver even
| respectable First
I were total when he
tran
Browns
gers
¢
hed for the
ot a back
swinging
the pitel were
ers
say right on the
getting base hits
I AR
bird is deadly for me
Kinds
» or six kinds of
poison
three and
He
has of slow halls
dinky curves
gets a fellow's
“1 made nu
kid last
| view with
nerve
her out
of that
concinded the inter
great pite
season,’
Babe
| Bentley Valuable at
First or as Pitcher
Jack Bentley's batting and pitching
make it a |
| difficult matter for a manager to de |
whether the big fellow is more |
valuable as a first baseman and hitting
i them hard and often or as a pitch
{ing =tar. Thix has been quite a puzzle |
{to Jack Dunn, manager of the Balti |
| more Orioles
for last
Averages weaKOn
| « ide
lentley took part in 153 games last
season, during most of which he acted
ag first base guardian. He was 619 |
times at bat. scored 100 runs, made |
216 hits (of which were home runs),
for a 40 averages. He stole six bases
| and ranked third in the unofficial bat.
ting league averages compiled for the
| International league. As a pitcher he
turned in 13 victories and suffered only
one defeat: Rochester administered
this lone defeat
In 1921 Bentley ranked third in the
International league averages with
percentage of 871,
py
—
Catcher DeVormer
Catcher DeVormer, secured from the
New York Yankees, is proving to be a
tower of strength for Manager Frank
Chance of the Boston Rea Sox.
intro hed
wlio tHe worid s
the (
champion Glants
who cost hicago White Sox $100,-
are centered on these three high priced
Makes Graceful Leap
CR
Sporting Squibs
of All Kinds
heavyweight
Fulton
Raipl
Walter Cox fil train a stable
gusta,
ioht
int
r
y of
fe
f
Willie
and
handshaking
.
arm
$10 00x,
Hoppe is in-
he ordered
y JO suy
Early iIf-mile track meetings
through ¢ (
for the
ceived big lista
Yenuis
entry
ir earl josing «
- . *
Leonard |} held the
Benny
weight
as ght
champlonship crown since 1917
twen: old
He is 1-8OVPN YOArs
- - *
A. C. Wall, "24, West Orange has
been elected captain of the Princeton
1024
of
hockey team for
university
The Horse Review Futurity for foals
1922 with 888 entries, the
largest number received in five vears
- . »
closed
Young Stribling of Macon, Ga., wel.
terweight champion of the South, has
his mother for his manager and trainer
- - »
George T. Moeschen, veteran short
stop, who is now playing at third base,
was elected captain of the Columbia
university baseball team
. . »
Fred Enke, assistant coach at South
position of athletic director at Louis
ville university, Louisville, K¥
. *
The ringer score in golf is nothing
* - -
American ring titles are held as fol-
lows: Three hy Italians, three hy Irish
Americans, one by a Hebrew and one
by a man of American parentage
BARRA ARRAS RR SRR RRR Rn
Thinks Tigers May
Be Trouble Makers
Miller Huggins has cut the
Browns out of the pennant race.
In an Interview the manager of
the Yankees is quoted as fol
lows ;
“1 think it will be a fight all
the way between Detroit and
New York,” says he. “Just such
a fight as it was last year be
tween the Yankees and Browns,
I do not think St. Louis, Chicago
or Cleveland will have ‘roaft’
pitching capable of keeping
them in the swim.”
Vassar anssssssnnssssssand
(PSs asssss res RsRETRRRRRRTR ani
AT ARRALALRAAAATARLARB ARRAN RE.
J |
A HAPPY MAN
“Going to move this s
“NO.
“(iol
ny 1 re going
4 sleeping porch or somethin
en ’
«x0,
ig to decorate the
resume you
“Great Scott! Isn't
anything unpleasa
fortable
to do
this year?
Mary's Bright idea.
“It's no wonder you're such a sissy,”
“Your pa and
justice of the
declared the bad
i boy.
mas
pence.”
Well,’
the noise 1 1}
your house, your pa
were married by a
retorted ir dep ndent Mary,
coming from
na muset huve
ry of war.
“from
*
been reels
Pathfinder.
married by the ses
Myrtle hile was pl
I whist
Mrs
she
aying
with ! evening
what the trump was al least
times
Maude— Were
Myrtle-—]
You
not provoked?
! As 4%}
should say so
Scientific Salesmanship.
iger—Why did that customer
out without bus 3
Saleslady-—We didn’ what she
wanted
Manager
in
-Y on
what
are not
they
supposed
them them
want, Sell
#t we have,
Evidence Against Her.
“Don’t you thi Alice sings with a
of
Ne
deal feeling”
Can ay that | do If
”
she Bad
her
friends’
g she
ing would
“are
i pa
Bathing Enough in Summer.
He—And to th that yon have Bo
bath in the
She-— Well you
nx
house
stan
mths at the seaside every
- rer
« permil
Didn't Feel the Heat
Te
ou
may he no
A SERIOUS MATTER
Neverwed-—The good old mother
in-law joke seems about played out.
Longwed—The real motherdinlaw
never was a joke except to you guys
who were never up against one,
A Possibility.
Yhen you suffer fre
it go
here is a chance
Because you Keeg
Don't
at
Why the Pistol?
A Chicago man fainted when he saw
his new hat And
vomen insist using
husbands
wife's yet some
on revolvers on
their
Too Late for Congratulations
“Some one told me you had gem
May 1 congratulate
mar
ried you, if it
“Thanks,
week.”
but it is; | was
Tit-Bits
married
London
Qualified.
Have you
ax a Waiter?
Appiicant—1 carried
one tne in college,
had
i*‘roprietor any ex
I OTe
Six courses at
ogues,
Flubb—I never could make a speech.
Pubb-<That's too had.
Flubb—So I always say “Silence
in
golden
Emiiy~Helen and May
nothing but their diamonds.
Carrie—It must have been a brik
liant conversation. ‘
——
talked _of
Timely Advice,
The lady declared she was a indy.
Whereat the other lady sald: ‘Now,
listen. Every lady is a lady. Never
start an argument about an established
fact”
Kidder's Address to Fools.
“1 wonder if Professor Ridder meant
anything by it”
“By what?"
“He advertised a lecture on ‘Fools
and when I bought a ticket It was
marked ‘Admit One. “London Tit
Bits,
ntsalsim———————
Willing to Pay.
She-—A penny for your thoughts,
Stayiate—1 was thinking of going.
Her Father (from head of stairs)-
Give him a dollar, Margie—it's worth
t.