PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
York.—Disdaining all except a local
anesthetic, Sergeant Ross underwent
an operation at the York Hospital for
the removal of his appendix.
Pottstown.—As8 Maurice Bryan, aged
2 arose from a dentist's chalr after
having a molar extracted he called
out “My leg is broken,” and collapsed
on the floor. Both bones of the right
leg snapped between the ankle and
the knee. A doctor at the Homeo
pathic Hospital thinks the bones were
broken by muscular contraction,
Somerset. Bdward Bisbing, a blind
alesman, received letters patent from
Washington on a combination locknut
and holt His device is as simple as
the familiar cotterpin, but is more ef
fective and permits a much finer ad
justment of the nut than possible with
the old cotter-key. Bishing, thirty
years’ ago, Was a mason
trade and assisted quarrying
when sufficient quantities of stone
were delivered. A premature ex
plosion tore out his right eye and in
1918 he lost the sight of the other eve
He has developed a marvelous sense
of and with 1t
ance made a wooden model of his com
bination lock-nut and bolt
Pittsburgh. — Alexander
posed of
Mine Workers, who has been in
burgh for several mont!
ed on a serious charg:
Mrs. Inga Sorensen, of (Chica;
half of her 66-year-old son
Wolf, after listening to her
Howat say he
the
stone by
with
not
touch Very tle assist
Howat, de-
the Kansas United
leader
was
prefers od
hearing
cent and
prove It,
in court.
Howat w
confer with
for
Pottsvil
work In the history of the county re
marked
propert jes
and
at
told Howat he
was fixed at
prope pr
must Answer
Sail
to a police
as sent
his attorney
bail
largest single
le The day's
ent was
nsfers 110
sales, the majori
LK
corder’s
when the tr:
were filed. "I
which
This
}
the
feat
aepa
7
of
x fr
ty ©
were homes, totaled
is due to
re
rush of home buying
prosperity of the anthracite
gion and the ability of workers to own
thelr
Wilkes-Barre
attempt to blow
A. Whiteman
tablishment,
homes,
Failing in their first
a big safe in the H
wholesale stationery es
veggs returned a
of hours later and succeeded In
efforts, but i such an overcharge
of nitrogiveerine that they were fright
explosion
battery
annie
can
ther
use
ened away terrific
The
Cone ened
by the
set off by a
some
charge w
beh
AWAY e
a fence dis
tance huge door of the
was hlown through the second
of the building.
safe
windows we
and books and stationery
KEOreroom
within
’
« helleved the bu
rege
ie scene
made no attempt to enter the building
the safe was blown
Harrishurg
the bill of
after
Pinchot
RKRenator Jones, of
¥e
Ls
granted
{rovernor
toed
coming, whic
gole
and
where only
ed to
first
county
county funds are expend
county commissioners without
talni » %T
obtaining ap
department
way I Sysiem
the present does not deprive
(discretion In
SIO A :
“but
he governor said,
3 r
check
must
whereby both
be satisfied be
cepted and money is
2 Pr
principal of the Bloomsburg state nor
mal announced he had agcept
ed an offer
state
Wash.
Harrisburg
and
the
school,
normal school at Bellingham,
New types of
for
ammunition
213th
will be provided
the Pennsrivania
i-aireraflt regiment,
tour of field duty
14, Adjutant
The regi.
ment, composed of eastern Pennsylva
nia leave Philadelphia on
an army transport. It will have three
inch machine guns will try out
new of ammunition. General
Beary has received that the
sixth and sixteenth regiments of regu
lar fleld artillery will be at Mt. Gret.
na during the encampment of the
107th and 100th fleld artillery, from
July 21 to August 4
Latrobe. Miss Bertha Domes, of
New York, was killed and two other
women tourists were injured seriously
in an antomobile accident on the Ligo-
nler Mountain road. Miss Domes
sister, Mrs. Thelma Landisman, and
Miss Estella Welsherg suffered frac.
tured skulls. ‘They are in a hospital
here. Accompanied by two men, in
cluding Mrs, Landisman’s husband, the
party was en route to California. On
a sharp curve thelr machine collided
with a truck and overturned. The
men escaped unhurt,
Latrobe. —Willlam H. Schall, aged
78 years, of Latrobe, died as the re
silt of a sun stroke,
Mercer.-—~Mrs. Mary Gordon, aged
6% years, member of one of the best
known families here, was burned to
death when her dress caught fire from
a bonfire,
Wrightsville.-—~The sixtieth anniver.
gary of the Invasion of the Confeder-
¢ios here, will be celebrated June 28.
Pittsburgh. Several hundred or.
phan children, inmates of asylums and
homes were the guests of the Automo-
bile Club of Pittsburgh at their an-
oual outing
artill
guard
begins
national
when it
at Fortress Monroe, July
General
leary announced
units, will
and
types
word
Lancaster.—The board of education
increased the school tax rate from 10
to 14 mills.
Hazleton.—Mrs. Calvin Pardee do-
puted 85000 to the $100,000 hullding
fund of the Hazleton ¥. W. C, A,
Harrisburg. —Nineteen
kliled and forty-six injured In the
seventy-five grade crossing accidents
reported to the bureau of accidents for
the month of April, the public service
commission announced. In these accel
dents sixty-five automobiles were in-
volved. Compared with last year,
there were Increases of forty-four in
the number of accidents, fourteen In
number of killed and in the
persons were
ten
York.—That late
§
Charles
of the
Reilly,
Sandusky
the mother-in-law joke shown by
his will, probated here, in which $2000
to the mother of his first wife,
Effie Herrman, Peoria, ll, and
a like amount to the mother of his
second wife, Mrs. Mary Eckinger, Can
ton, Ohio,
Girardville.—8truck by
bile his here,
kunis, 8 years old, died
Mr. and
Grapevillie,
is
anfautomo
Walter Mar
an hour later
Greensburg Mrs. H A
Appel, of advised
that thelr son, Elmer, aged 19, 1 mem-
ber of the army, and killed
by a railroad officer at Marshall, Tex.,
when he resisted arrest on a
of The officer
leased on bond pending an inquest
Kinger
near home
were
was shot
charge
trespassing WAS re
Pittsburgh. Josephs was in
stantly killed and Isaac Goldberg, hix
father-in-law, was injured
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Washington
Pan Handle dix
automobile truck at
Bridgeville A
in the car escaped Injury
to Pittsh:
tnken
seriously
passenger train
Pa.
SIruckK
when in
from
on
to :
the ision,
their
crossing at
Goldberg
wis hrought
tral:
he
enough
Marie
irgh on another
fo 1
recovergd conscio
is resignation
isvivania work
ward, effective
is resignation
riinaries
the campaign
He
took th
WARS {4
SRO
they
A year
earned of hi action, opened
cumpalgn for
triet ttorney at
HATIPR
Pittsburgh
his fo
ination
Ney
ptember
Mrs. Mary Fledzik
patient In a }
imitted guicide by
stocking.
sunbury Will
Horace Tweed, of
served fifty years in
wens
ivermore
pita
and th
the Pennsy
railroad shops,
Bllimyer Site
of
Ted
[O
Direc]
on charges «
and
home
Joseph
inws possess i
ittsburgh.—A freight
contain pataloes,
with whisky wi
hibition agents opened
valued at R10,000, was consigned
It was
after several
remoy i in a tru
The Vhisky
with a top covering
a Penn avenue produce house
had been
wes
in barrels
Scranton, Miss Frances Maher
unanimously
of
was reelected
Catholic Daughters of America.
annual «
vention This is the fourth consecu-
term for Miss Maher to win the
highest honor of the organization. Oth
state officers Mrs
Mable Schnell, Meadville, secretary :
Mrs. Kate Donnelly, Latrobe,
Mrs. John Carrell.
Miss Anna
sixth i
elected were
{reas
Sayre, advo
Maschle, Tyrone,
monitor
Altoona
of service
After more than 50 years
with the Altoona Tribune,
A. D. Houck, vice president and gen
eral manager, severed his
with the paper,
Lancaster. Professor David J.
Keener, of this city, has been elected
principal of the Ephrata high school,
succeeding Professor H. E. Gehman.
for twentygix years supervisor of
schools.
Hazleton. — Almost
rheumatism, Cdrmoan
81, committed sulcide.
Altoona.—A branch of the Indiana
normal school's summer school will be
opened here June IS.
Sunbury. Mayor Drumheller Issued
an edict prohibiting policemen from
acting as delinquent tax collectors,
New Holland. The New Holland
store of the Shader Rilk company was
robbed of $1500 worth of silk from
the looms,
Bhade Gap.—Dennis Moore was kill-
ed when a car of ties jumped the
track and turned over.
Hazleton Counc! anticipated a de.
mand by organized labor by raising
the wages of street men ten conts an
hour,
Hazleton. Members of the Young
Women's Christian Association held a
big parade, opening a drive to raise
£100,000 for a new building
Northumberland. I'he Pennsylvania
raflroad is planning to spend £1.8060,-
000 on two four-track bridges across
the Susquehanna between here and
Bunbury.
relations
helpless from
Depierto, aged
OUIMET GETTING
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CEETIE TTT 2
VEEL)
This photograph, just received
record of any of the American players
Inman csnsssacasnanmamanneenwts
Boxer Eugene Criqui
Was in World War
Eugene Criqul, featherweight
France and of Eu
this hox
world's
champion of
in
Kilbane
rope, is country
for the
title Criquil Is
years
to
Johnny
featherweight
twenty-nine old weighs
, and has a sear along
| result of
suffered
f
iis Jaw, the
1 wound
ar. Part
wed and
plate
i
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The
Pitcher Wi
Nt
Eastern
Joss Alten
ftionals
nissioner of base
this office for the ¢
He
holds term «
Seven
1921.
Years was
» ® »
of Philadelphia
organized a baseball
How would you like to umpire
for them?
A number
fighters
team
have
» » ®
Dick Speer
the Detroit Tigers of some years ago,
fs a Nt
the southpaw pitcher of
Joseph Western league pitcher
this season
- - »
been relensed
tionals
by the Pittsburgh Na
to the Nashville club of the
Routhern association,
* » *
Harry C. Harper veteran left-handed |
pitcher, who joined the Brooklyn Na-
tionale ns nu free agent, has been given
his unconditional release,
*. 0»
Grover Cleveland Alexander, veteran
record stopped
and twothirds innings,
® - -
The Boston Red Sox announce the
nesocintion.
- LJ »
the Southern
Pitcher
Club.
Greenville has turned hack
Peck Williams to the Detroit
in the Cotton Btates league.
Hessssnsonnnnnannanesnnni
Odd Style of Catching
Some of the old-timers who
have seen Wid Matthews of the
Philadelphia Athletics go after
a fiy ball and cateh it say he re
minds them of the veteran Jimmy
Ryan, star outfieldér of twenty
years ago, in the way he efips
his hands and takes a fly close
to his body, somthing after the
style of Walter Maranvilie in
taking a popfly.
Neves snennssnesnnensssenes
fiemsnssanssansesnaasnnew
AR
LINE ON COURSE
of
shows Francis Ouimet
Culimet the
wis eliminated
Euglan
made best
ut Deal he
Detroit Tigers Always
Boasted Star
Nome
clu
in
tain positions
position af
for
major league bs are ex
ceodingly fortunate
of
Take the
the
In
nings’
{V1ears
developing
stars cer
xl ortstop on {
Detroit club, instance
Jen
Chariey
the early days of Hughey
ut Detroit
+ of the me
ague. Alw
yt
ploch, Cleary helped put
the m baseball
Done
KRIDR
? 1
one of
Bene
Buscl
For years
bri!
league at
ap in »
1 hen CHine just
O'Leary was [a out
Bush ranked ns
© most
d out of the
Popper Rigney entered Cobb
hings for Rigney
mude good
tf thir and
After
ited pres
han
majors he is regarded
regular, just on the
the
uneovered fn
Right
be
Rigney,
» name of Kerr
looks as good, If not iter
i
ey GIG BR yea
BE
Pitcher Ed Rommel
Ed Ror
Athletics,
getting his
{‘oninie
for |
twirler fo
is given credit
of the cellar. a
occupied for quite |
team out
they
w hile
INTERESTING
So far nobody has even suggested a |
golf endurance’ test
- - »
It is Stanford
rowing next
- - *
expected
to
university
year
Jay Gould has won the United States
court tennis title 16
years
consecutive
- » .
Athletie club
has a membership
The
of Los
of
Woman's
Cal.
1.400 women.
.
France has nearly 3000 association
#
000 members,
, . . »
Pennsylvania state wrestling squad
next fall will be captained by K. Naito,
a Japanese student,
LIE
Dealers In garden sheds, hoes, ete,
report the usaal brisk sale of niblicks,
mashies and drivers,
» . »
Oregon “Aggies” have booked a game
* 8 @
Washington and Jefferson college
has Introduced golf. Enthusiasts want
it added to varsity sports,
- - .
Baseball f= full of comic situations,
but is there anything funnier than a
squeeze play that doesn't go through?
. B®
Organized In 1874, the New Haven
Gun club in Connecticut is the oldest
in the United States. Five of the
charter members are still active
—————————————————————————————————
Errors on One Play
In the eighth inning of the
game ut St Louls on May 10 the
Athletics managed 10 make three
errors on one play.
opened the inning with a single
and then Willlams singled to
center. Matthews fumbled the
ball, Jacobson going to third and
Williams to second, Matthews
recovering the ball made a wild
throw to the infield.
scored and Williams
third, Galloway got
threw (t away over
and Willlams scored,
Jacobson
Jucobson
1»
ball,
went
the
third
hase
j{emenennennunanscennunnnennnn
DISCOVER SECRET OF
LONG GOLF DRIVING
Simply Suppress Muscles Which
Are Antagonistic.
The ret of long driving has been
and it
Then, again, long riving is
a
i8 Lo longer a
NS
not
tery.
un noe
select few,
omplishment for the
Anyone can do it,
A London doctor and a
that
IX 1nerely a
elimination of
of
secret
man
ian discovered the
IONE driving natter
OpPPOosInG Muscles,
The perfect shot is oblained by sup
pressing those groups of muscies an
agonist id 10
ated
» ut the bail
other gre
that
for aln
ps
are responsible
There, what could be simpier
Fd
”
is the
¢ ¢Xpinnation
the learned scientist
ther words
1 oan
he ball
Fish Fighting Greatest
Sport of Natives of Siam
Hugh M ited
Cr
commissioner of fAsheries hve
for
ir Smith, former
Slates
fore he
left Siam. t« follow-
ng interesting story in the
niry where he P ROVE Bs
;
Iw Smith
mith sald 1}
if ional sporis
SBD
a fish figt
of Michigan
Wrestling Coach
Barker,
athletics at
Yernon, lowa
University
Signs
Richard coach
present head
Cornell college,
has been engaged
coach at the University of
Michigan for next year
Wrestling will be started ag an inter
Michigan for the
colleginte sport at
tion of the new Yost field house will
furnish ample opportunity for the mat
game take with
golf,
varsity
Pole Vault Record
to its position along
minor sports
Harry Smith, nineteen year-old San
Diego high school student, startled
athletic experts by establishing a new
prep school world record for the pole
vault, with a height of 12 feet 11%
inches, Thit mark surpasses the fore
mer record by nearly four inches, the
former title being held by 8. Landesn
of Minneapolis,
ORGANIZED
Bam, the
team, saw lizard
]R tree lourished his
and very deft
ard's
with
horsefly
wenpon
colored driver
iittie
iy snapped
head, Further along
ekiiiful precision
off the fence
His skill as a
exhil
ited on a chipmus
head above the gr
finalls
f fat that 2
grinned
sul, boss:
’ ’
companion
fim, a crack ornet's
feed
nhs
and rep
no then fo
DISAPPOINTED IN HER
told me |
ing if 1m
Harmless Smoke
Ow Ww have ”
A Compromise in Kissing.
“She said 1 i 3
HT! ok “
“And
“No
which
Had Mim Guessing
1 “8 ey »
Pryde's house
home ¥
He
No Cause for Alarm.
{feebis
Question Put to “Bobby.”
“Don’t you get ‘ired of an
foolish questions y
“Vex replied the policeman
one iwents t
ANTIQUITY OF WISDOM
1 read where they mak:
ont of sawdust
Mabel---Well, 1 don't sthing
wonderful about that, Mother Eve
made a dress out of a fig leaf.
Grace
ing sugar
are
now
see nT
Can't Be Done.
I'm willing for my wife
To have her way.” sald Mister Day.
“The trouble in alas,
Khe never lets me have my way™
Misplaced Sympathy,
Mrs, Crabshaw-1 don't approve of
your going after trout. 1 can’t help
thinking of the poor fleh,
Crabshaw--1"m the poor fish,
dear. 1 1dnY get a bite all day.
Reported From Boston.
Visitor to Boston--One place T want
to see is your oll gmnite burMng
ground,
Friend—-Old granite burying ground?
Visitor—It sounded like that. but
perhaps it’s the old granny burying
ground. You must know about it.
my
T—————.
Describing Him,
“Very bald, is he not?
“Yee,” replied oll Gaunten Grimm,
“When his hat blows off and he drops
his eyeglasses he Is practically un
dressed.”