PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Pen Argyl—While riding a log In
the swimming pool at Peona Park,
Wesley Reynolds, 9 years old, fell into
the water and was drowned.
I'niontown.-~Interfering in a fight
wliich started over a dispute between
two youths, Walter McMahan, a bail
piayer, was found guilty of
and battery.
Washington. —Coming in
with a high tension wire,
Curran, 78 years old, well-known con
tractor was Instantly killed here.
Harrisburg. Complaint against the
condition of certain bridges on state
highways In Lycoming and Somerset
assault
contact
Cornelius
of highways with the public service
commission, One complaint Is agalnst
the New York Central raliroad and al
the bridge in Porter township,
Lycoming county, carrying the single
track of rallroad about 1700
southeast of Jersey Shore, Is danger
ous and Inadequate The other
plaint is against the Baltimore
Ohio Raliroad company, and
that a steel trestle in Jenner township,
Somerset county, about three
east of Jennertown, is dangerous and
should be reconstructed.
Erie. — Four persons killed, one miss.
ing belleved to have drowned,
five seriously injured and eight others
hurt is the Sunday toll of automobile,
railroad and water accidents in
vieinity.
New (Castle. Mrs. Josephine Best, a
widow, was acquitted of murder
of Carl Dufford, a wealthy furniture
dealer, by a Jury, seven hours
of deliberation. District An Hl
debrand, in making the final argument
for the state, did not specify what
gree of murder was asked In
verdict of gullty was reached,
the Jury any verdict agreed
would be satisfactory Mrs. Best's
counsel asked for her acquittal on the
ground that Dufford was killed when
he attempted to wrest the
from her hands after the woman had
pointed It toward her head.
Audenried.-——~Even the ground
which old Yorktown No. 2 breaker of
the Lehigh Valley Coal company stood
ix be sent through a washery to
extract anthracite which off
cars during half a century of opera
tion The whole site is being scooped
futo cars and will
washery
Allentown,
senh Egan and R. J
of Six
leges
the feet
oom
and
alleges
miles
heen
this
the
after
orney
de
CUSe A
own
on
to
1 +}
fell Lhe
be run through the
W. Fegley, Jo
Goodman,
in
charged
Surgers
George
chiropractors arrested this
with
with
cliy nont is
yracticing ned
sOine 1R0,
ne and
The jury deliberated less than an hour
Ld
Of
le
Pend
sentence
the
1 1 i t
iustruction
bureau of leensure,
partinent
ing motions
was deferred
Scranton. —In order
pastor, Rev. W. H. MeGlanflin, a two
months’ vication, membars of the John
Ravmond Memorial church of i
city, have to «tose the church
during July and August. The church
Mill reopen for Sunday services in
Beptembér. .
»_Bunbury. Directions that Federal
Marshal John H. Glass, of Shamokin,
state
of nublle
for
new trials
this
voted
booze garnered In fourteen separate
Seranton and Wilkes-Barre and viein
ity, were made in United States court
here. The order was signed by Judge
Witmer, Sunbury, and Judge J. War
ren Davis, of Wilmington, Del. Unit
ed Btatea circuit judge, sitting Jointly
A total of 10,000 gallons of hooza of
Qifferent guglities is in the lot, the
oa } sald.
Norristown. While teaching Miss
Blanche Hammond, of Nerristown, te
swim In the Perkiomnea creek at Col:
legerille, Talmadge Port, of Worcester
township, was drowned. Seized with
cramps, he pushed Miss Hammond
away from him that he might vot drag
her to death with him and then went
beneath the water and wag beyond re-
suscitation when his body was recov.
ered. Port's sisters, Misses Ethel and
Alice Port, teachers in Norristown
schools, arranged the hathing party
and Invited their brother All had
been in the water bathing before the
fatality occurred One of the Port
sisters saved Miss Hammond from
drowning when Port pushed her away,
but they were unable to reach thelr
brother,
Pottsville. Officers of the Lytle
drift, near Minersville, discovered that
the electrical storm which passed over
this region apparently set fire to a
in the mine and caused
an explosion which did considerable
damage by knocking out timbers. A
Inrge number of alr batteries also
were hlown out. It helieved the
lightning traveled along a wire Into
the mine until it met the gas. Because
of the blast a number of men will be
Idle for n few days
Conyngham, There is such a scar.
city of labor that this borough has
been unable to get men to repair its
Tonin street,
Lewistown. Council has Increased
the salary of Chief of Police Yeaman
frown $100 to $125 a month, with in
structions to get after violations of
traffic lnws,
Lancaster. Yeates School, near
here, will be reopened in September
with a new headmaster,
Soudersburg. Struck by a milk
track In front of her home here, Mrs,
Augusta Taylor, 60 years old, was in-
stantly killed.
of KAR
body
Is
Chambershurg. Governor Pinchot,
In an address to the graduates of the
Orphans Industrial School,
ously. Other speakers were Lieuten
eral Beary. The fourteen graduates
estiate
of
real
haorough
Local
that the
State
estimate
Collece
on the college campus, Is experi
million-dollar bullding boom
in the history of the
Fifty private dwellings
of have
unprecedented
community.
are In process erection or
at from £5000 to £10,000
more ; three new fraternity houses are
being erected In the town, valued at
£20000 to $25,000 and a new
gar-
ice
in
or
each,
an
are
age, a store and office building,
cream plant and a gas station
Lancaster. Using
sleep, Garfield U. Lintner, a
ing painter of this
fleld near
ed
city,
ind
the police say
hix home was suffocat
by the fumes
was accustomed to use chloroform
induce sleep, but substituted the other
liquid His found
by a Wis of
chitldren
hody
the
instead was
£ON He father ten
Harrisburg.— The appointment of
Hollinger, former
New Era,
publications,
Charles B editor of
us editor of
the Lancaster
division of depart
of
the
men:
fmnounced
Detrich
rons
property and Was
hy
Hollinger
issued through
® ippiies
Director of Publications
will edit pablica
the division
State Announcement
¢
allege VAs
of r
Professor
and ad
He
veurs and
made the ation o
A.H
mission
esi!
Espenshade registrar
officer of the college
held thix office for fourteen
us
us
it is estimated that
proximately 55
studen
Former
Hoff
office
history of
Assistant Registrar
man has been appointed
Harrisburg A
of $20.06)
od to
he siate
8 Veu i2 expect.
the ifting of several
resuit 1
departments now housed
private property are to be moved to
i bureau of prison
Phil
ommission baild
the capitol, and *
’
labor is to be moved from wdeiphia
to the pub service
Ing hers {3
he
wr departments are to
Masoni
Buildis
moved from the
the Keystone
Park View
ries
Temple to
¢
'.
picked on
lands of the anthracite coal cor
in the
t been
from
nas
iit is
Lehigh Belds
here sent
eR the east and
thousands of
and
families earn considerable money
die west
ing them
ate gpring and dam
fires in many
withstanding the
aging forest secti
lenlers
Harrisburg. — Appointment of (
of Harrisburg, former fir
sar
state attorney genera
$
assistant to the United
general, was anagounced
Hull Is to be assigned to work
with t preparation of
¥
he
ited
nite
he U
adies
Altoona Officers of nited
Aux
Order of Ser
were the annual de
partment encampment. Ray I. Ties,
of Allentown, wus elected department
commander: Rev. T. George Baxter,
Allentown, senior vice commander: H
J. Schwartz, Altoona, Junlor vice com.
mander, and Rev. A W. Anderson.
Erie, department chaplain
suxiliary officers are: President, Mrs
Efe lewis, Carbondale. senior vice
the MMtary
elected at
and
deiphia : Junior vice president, Mrs
Rose Crissmen. Allentown, and chap
lain, Mrs. Cora Pitt, Pottaville
Lebanon,
made the trip here in twenty minutes
Io his gown airplane
subsequent take-off were
the Conutry Club fleld.
Lancaster. Mayor Musser dismiss.
sed the charges preferred against
made from
the
proprietor of a
appeared
Anderson, as a “frame-up to get
chief.” D. 1. Kirk,
hotel at Lexington,
his slot
The
the
slugs in
the
Anderson had used
machine to extract money
officers admitted having been in
hotel, but denied the charges
Pittston
entered the
Laurel Line railroad sta-
the ticket agent, and took 2400 from
the safe. Covering a watchman and
passenger who were In the station at
the time, the robbers effected their
getaway in an antomobile,
York. —While Thomas Ruby, former
policeman, peacefully slept, hurglars
secured 247 from his trousers,
Ing on the bedpost.
lewistown. lodge No. 063,
0. E. entertained 200 Kiddies
BFP
fair grounds.
Harrisburg. Extradition papers for
Elmer H., Russell, held at Media, and
ed hy Governor Pinchot,
Stroudsburg. With funds made
avaliable through the Sheppard Tow.
ner law, four baby health centers will
be opened next week In Monroe
county,
Pittsburgh. —8amuel CC. Todd, for
mer executive clerk for the secretary
of the commonwenith, has hevn ap-
pointed western represeptative of the
state chamber of commerce with head.
quarters here
Be
Grey Lag, Ace of Rancecas
While the gallant Exterminator Is
browsing in the salt breezes of the
peaceful Virginia tidewater, his place
in the thoroughbred racing sun
heen usurped by Grey Lag, ace of the
Rancocas stahle
This five-year-old son of Rtar Shoot
and Miss Minnie, raised at Walter Jef
fords’ breeding establishment in
land, and trained hy the astute Sam
Hildreth hetome Amer
est handicap horse
This was the title held by Extermin
until he Hasre de
recently turned out
has ca's great
went lame at
and
ator
Grace
for
was
two great
the
summer These
never mes! again
that if they do
Lag would be
the
horses may
| *hances are,
wonthful
Hkely 0
Exterminator Is
an age that a
never reach witl
I.ag I= three
coming
Record Proves Claim.
i ng for
but
tiie more
(irey more
win
eighth
of
now in his
year vast majority
rRCers their
form (Gres YOLrR young
er and on
the
to
races,
once bry
1922, and
nen rest
THe record of Gray last
two
handicap
he was
Exterminator on
by Sno His
claim
11
years proves his
i his
defented 13 wire
inst
ry ent i
May 10
more
rival, o
(sre
I.ag was
Diamond
Squibs
for
hag a
baseball
California
tion 1
college
Old Ran is still hitting them
Agnew
for San Francisco
» » -
bs
»
he
with Jeckey Ear! Sande Up.
GOOD TOOLS ARE BIG
Still Holds Good.
lumi
naries the baseball firmumen! are
thoroughly sold to the idea that good
tools are the most important thing
with all toilers, whether carpenters,
painters, ball players or bookkeepers
This idea ig more applicable in golf-
iag than any other sport, for no other
sport uses the variety of (0ols neces-
sary to successful golf. The motto, "A
club for euch shot.” has never Lroken
down in winning big events and paver
will Bome golfers make fair scores
with three or four clubs, but any time
you follow a semi-final or a finsl in a
big match you'll find each of the cad
dies carrying a bagful of goed clubs,
Not long since a golfer from (hi
cago wished to go over the River Crest
course at Fort Worth, He was with-
out clubs and Jack Burke, the pre
there, generously turned his bag ever
to the player. Just what this means
wil! be understood only by a golfer.
At any rite, when the golfer returned
to the clubhouse after 18 holes he
went te Burke and made him this
offer “il give you §200 cash for
eight clubs from bag.” This, ef
of
yous
racing when Exterminator |
the Aqueduct track. But :
went te the Saratoga
later In the summer Grey lag
| avenged himself impressively by win- |
ining a race of a mile and ene-quar-
{ter In which Exterminator finished
fant
The Rancocas star had a compara
| tively time last year hecause of
the dearth of good four-year-elds, hut
himself so impressively
not
Defeat by Snob
defeat by Snob
the result of this imported
having broken the track record for a
mile and one-sixteenth at Jamaica in
which Grey lag was forced to yield
pounds
That defeat was Incurred May
renewal of the Long Beach handl
Grey Tag came back on May 24
and won the Metropoiitan handicap
i at Belmont park over a mile This
fime he conceded Snob II 13 pounds
I'he Iatter in one af his tantrums
and ran last
They both
renews! of the
which
he gave Snob
distance
beat him at
{ when they all
ensy
he
{ that his fame
Avenges
Grey Lag's
ronducted
could be disputed
il.
In
racers
was
17
18 in
the
cap
WHY
came hack again in the
Rouburban handicap
lag won easily, nithough
IT 20 pounds, The lat
second by a length and a
(irey
ter finished
half
"Brown's Hard Hitter
ically are worth from $6.50 to $8 each,
Burke turned down offer
Golfers become weddad to ciubs and
use them too long. They canno! mnke
up their minds te get a new club or
have a new shaft put in and they
use the clubs long after thelr effective
ness ls gone after the shafts are al
most In a condition of rubber
“I've gone off my midiroa” is com-
heard around a locker roem.
Sometim this is true, but more often
the poor oid shaft has been hatiered
with shocks against hard it
ix of the resistance of a lead pipe
Yer sir: good are the win
asnnt of the golfer. and don’t any.
body fool you on that point
INTERESTING
the
monly
tar! until
tools
~t
A thoroughbred horse costs as much
as 2200000
* * *
the standard
women In
in
for
The 100.meter
long-distance
France
run
race
* - *
The Japanese are the mest sthietie
people in the Far Fast
- * -
Bleycliste’ league in the
T0000 members
. -. *
The General
Netherlands has
foothall wae
Willia
in
Ellis, In
originated
Webb
Rugby
ny
baseball
ing YOArs
.
oldest the twilight
The
game is probably the bat
. » *
player in
Gearge Torporcer of the
continues to be a bad man In the pinch,
. » *
Duteh Schliebner, the Browns' first
sacker. led the Routhern association in
hitting last year
* * *
Tem Quigley, hasebali umpire, will
football
game next November
* * *.
Nashville war a lucky cioh when it
ARYy pe
Mayiand K. Kicks of Breskiyn, Ta,
has been elected captain of the Town
baseball nine for next year.
» * .
Cincinnati has released Chester
(Boob) Fowler, infielder, to Oklahoma
| City of the Western league,
. - -
from
Oth
Some of the boys jump right
the college nine into the majors
ers are merely valedictorians,
. - .
Tony Hess, veteran catcher, is re
ported as recovering in a hospital In
Binghamton, N.Y. from nervous gros
: tration,
® * .
George Froliweln, who was a star
athlete at the University of Jowa, joins
the Rioux Falls team of the South Da-
kota league,
» » .
Bunny Brief, the homerun hitter of
the Kansas City Western league team,
will try to better last year's record of
40 clrealt smashes
* ® *
Day by day in every way Cobb
makes It more difficult for the present
| and future generation of players fo
equal his batting record,
. - -
Catcher Doe Nelderkorn, purchased
during the winter by Little Rock from
| Chattanooga. but! who broke a leg and
i hax been laid up, has finally recovered.
. - *
The eight National league clubs used
A748 baseballs last season, Figure
it up at £2 per. No wonder the club
owners are watching closely the stray
balls,
’ . sn
In an interclase baseball series in
Rochester, N. Y.. Luffman, a one
armed pitcher for the winning team,
was the individual star of one of the
games,
Kenneth Williams, outfielder of the |
Rt. Louis Brewns, Ia clouting the ball
| hard again this year sad Jn one of |
| the leaders in the American league In
home ron drives,
Manager Patsy Donevan
Is in Civilian Clothes
Patsy Denevan, Rpringfieid plier, is
the only Eastern league manager whe |
divects the activities of hin club In of
| vilian clothes. Domevan's plaring days |
are past.and he is strictly a bench man
ager. The other leaders all wear uni
forms, but emily four eof them, Bronkie |
of Waterbury, Wilsan eof Plitafleld
Eayrs of Worcester and Rodgers of
Albany, are players. Wid Bill Deno
van of New Haven, Paddy O'Conner
of Hartford and Gene McCann eof
Bridgeport, appear on the coaching |
lines and direct the defensive play |
from the bench.
Shortstop Everett Scott
May Equal Minor Record |
Everett Scott having passed the ree
ord in the major leagues for straight |
games played in, now Is going after |
| the minor record. held by Perry Lipe, |
veteran of the bushes, who is credited |
with having played In 1,126 games
without missing. [Lipe began his ree. |
ord on September 18, 1002, and ended
it on August 16, 1811. He might have
kept going, but iliness In his family
kept him away from his club for a
period, -
Intersectional Contests
Frowned on by Coach Yost
Coach Yost, of Michigan, frowns
upon intersectional contests. Even
games with thelr natural and closer
opponents, says Yost, take students
away from classes enough. Yost, after
"80 years with college athletics as
player and coach, is old-fashioned
enough to believe that athletics are
hut a contributing factor to the man
purpose of college work, that of fitting
the youth for the business of life.
Ed Kirby, mile collegiate champion
is heraided ax gnother John
Paul Jones
* * -
Oosach Percy Haughton will call Cal.
nmbis oniversity football practice Sep
tember 10
- ® *
Australia and the 'nited
cup the same num
ber of times seven each.
» * r
A major “YY” is awarded by Yale te
an ondergraduste golf or teanis piarer
* * *
The Yale Athletic association ls pay |
Jee Fegarty $12080 a year te
esach the baseball, football and basket |
all teams
- » -
Acoerding te the Nationa! Laws Ten
as the three grestest tennis
in this country
comters |
- * * |
New York state Sailr grounds at Syra- |
form, will add a cinder track inside |
day mvcing
» - *
The French Olymple committees has
received official notifleation from Nwe
resented in the Olympic games. to he
held next year
3
Clone;
for the
seaside
nave gly
riage with your
Colonel i not
My daug? aves alter hie
Fit-Bits,
His Way of Knowing
How
been married?
Fodson
{er
london
¥
Is $
IOs natiy
YE urs
Year
I vohison
Todson
We Wer
“Wark
draw de
Off Her Ma wis
It's
Ing vacation
Wedmore— It doesn’t
vost tells me when to go and my w
Singleton such a bother deeid
about
bother me. The
fe
Office Amenities.
look keeper—Coal and diamonds sre
made of the same =obhstance
Ntenographer—Well, I'l
don't care for
take
the
curb
opy
Then They'll Seem in Place.
Grumbling Artist (at
They always sky my pictures
Friend-—Well, then, why
paint flying machines?
exhibition) «
don’t yon
I ——————
FOUND WHAT HE WANTED
His Wife
my
Why de
clothes in
You
this
Want me
place? We
Ay
the
Pfogy Don't
window? It
the French
Fou sew the sign
“Aodiste"
“Modest ™
on SAYS
for
a —— A
Possibly.
fthell-<1l wonder why it Is he stays
Walter Higgins «. Columbia uni
versity, winner of the two-mile race
in 9:44 3.5 at the annual spring meet
of the New York Athletie club at
Travers Island, N. Y. This is the
third successive time Higgins has won
this event and the victory makes him
permanent possessor of the prized
John W. Overton cup.
Maybell—Perhaps because he ix a
Helpless Umbrella,
"Yon see that man walking over
there?”
“Yeu yo
“Do you know Why be carries an
nimbredla ¥™
“No.
“Because it can't walk.”
Ignorance,
The Poor Little Giri—-1 think
doll is a gooder doll than yours,
The Rich Little Glri—That shows
you don’t know a thing about eu
grolis
Way