PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Halifax.—Professor Ira Hoffman, of this place, Dauphin county, has been elected principal of the Maytown Qioh school, Pittsburgh.—August Peterson, a farmer, shot and killed by his son, Eric, aged 20 years, at his home near Carnegie when the man attacked his wife, who Is ill, the police report- ed. The son was arrested pending an investigation. Peterson, a« the police, selzed his wife by throat and threatened to kiii her the boy shot him. The wife valescing after an operatio: Lancaster.—Fored by an Stoltzfus, 67 year Ntrasl was ording to the when Wis conl- Isane ving near » animal attacked the farm a herd the barn. He was saved trampled to death by hi drove the bull away with a Harrisburg.—The twelve received the highest the examination for scolarships State Forestry School at Mont were announced by Secretary of For- Waters Stuart. Those awarled gcholarships are: Goodrich, Edinboro; William B. Seagraves, Scranton: Ww. Eldredge, West Chester: PD. Y. Len- hart, New Cumberland; Roland Riebold, Hazleton; Donald W, Renovo: Thomas C. Williams, ville; Russell Carl Watson, Walton, Lane West Chester Stewartstown, of cows was being applicants grades In who % in the €s8ts and were Charles {haries meler, 4 ¢ GG: ng, Lewis{own 1 {harles lied at m scalds sustals el Works « HSKiIStin I Uniont township &0 that t! accommaods of education tultior mo oa). » fourth fr creased to $5 a month and and sixth grades In this way to keep out several hun- dred pupils who schools from Harrisburg. $0 38. It is the outlying districts. ~The close of June busi- ness the treasury balance of $24.470,561.80, Treasurer Snyder announced. the month payments were $4,443 068 balance of in state showed a were and . “he £3,877.084, the month closed with a the general fund, $£11.380504 motor fund, $3,534,127 in the bond road fund, 265,288 in the school 557.325 In fund and £381,700 in the Wilkes-Barre.— Wives toxicating liquor In side rooms husbands doing the same in made up the bulk of the charges be- fore relations here, Judge Woodward sent for police offi- cials of the communities from where the cases emanated and what in fund, the gasoline dog fund. feiss d aringing and domestic court asked the law, -'and arrests had been made, but that here, as In Lackawanna county, all jprobibitlon cases had been ignored by the grand jury. Harrisburg.—Pennsylvania's nation- al guard mustered 11,712 men at the close of June, Adjutant General Beary said, summarizing his report to the militia bureau of the war department showing the strength of the state's armed forces. These figures include 708 officers and 10,944 men, divided as follows: Infantry, 260 officers and 5465 men ; cavalry, 92 officers and 1281 men; coast artillery, 41 officers and 782 men; field artillery, 197 officers and 20615 men; medical corps, 88 offi cers and 764 men; quartermaster corps, 17 officers and 200 men: en- gineers, 34 officers and 526 men: ord- nance, three officers and 47 men; sig- inal corps, five officers and 58 men: staff, 28 officers and 22 men. Bellefonte —Marcus A. Newman, colored, of Allegheny county, was electrocuted at the Rockview Peniten- tiary. He was attended by Father William J. King, of Pittsburgh, as wpiritual adviser. Newman was con- victed of killing James L. McCullough, a railroad postal clerk, during a hold- up and robbery of a mall ear In the railroad yards at Pittsburgh in Feb Toary, 1921. Newman's relatives have asked for the body. Pittsburgh.—The action of the work- men's compensation commission In awarding compensation to Katherine {Michalie, a resident of Czecho-Slavo- Inia, for the death of her husband In 1918 while he was working for the Coalmont Mashannon Coal company was sustained in common pleas court here. The coal company denled lla- bilities. Hazleton. Council passed an ordin. ance issuing $120,000 in bonds to £4 nance extension of the sewer system in Hazleton Heights, Freeland—Edward, B-yeanold son of Peter Carey, of this place, died af. ter drinking a poisonous cleansing fluid In mistake for medicine. Upper Lehigh~~John Getz, while while cutting the tip of a dualin cap, lost a thumb and three fingers when the cartridge exploded. Red Lion.—-A memorial shaft in hon. or of the soldiers of the borough who lost their lives In the world war was “ mnvelled here. York.—Mrs. Edna Klock, 43 vears old, formerly a teacher at Shenandoah, killed herself with a shotgun at a health school near here, Pittshurgh.—Senator Reed retired as State police arrested Brown, 18, of Oak W. BR. Supplin, aged 20, of Lancaster, aged ill, and Ten gallons of liquor and were confiscated, Chester—Mrs. Mary Meredith died in the Chester Hospital from carbolle ieid swallowed at her home. She was when found In the bath- her children. It is the woman mistake, as a raain of by helieved one the filled with water was near the one that had contained the acid. } i. that {OOK poison hy glass of fifteen wo- men and children had narrow escapes from Bethlehem. —Twelve n asphyxiation when a evlinder at the alr plant at Hel exple chlorine engulfed the icinity. NM of reduction rtown wed the | ilies Noah by, Joseph Scerogoa, and Stephen Martin, lving the 4 cloud of were I were attracted hy explo greeted by a ga Consider where they stood, the vi« the company excitement reigned in ity as after lookers dropped, able another of The for physiclans many of recovering Harrisburg. —The Wis one On MW" § and Foot oh ly hose a4 short time those affected labor shorta Pennsylvania placed at approxi- 60,00 men and women bs artment of labor and Industry, T} official the ployment tuat in col ations against Andrew Maty this city the erection spasal of a I present at least, sewage «i man B Pottsville.—The Tidewater Line company, which an ant against J J. Bell in the Schuylkill county courts, appealed the case the supreme and county court Increased the bond from Pipe lost import- suit to court the This Beil pipe un- will from tearing 1 company's lines extending over his property tll the higher court acts In The company claims that the oil in states will be cut off if jell tears up the pipes. Bell, who is a lawyer, claims the company had ne legal right to place the lines on his lands in Union township. Scranton.—Samuel B. Crowell. Philadelphia, was elected president of the National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association at the sixth annual con- veution here to succeed Home D. Joseph E. O'Toole, »r Washington, D. C., was elected resident vice president, and Richard J. Wulf, of Brooklyn, N. Y., treasurer. Oil Is rapidly replacing coal as fuel in cities of the west and also is belng used freely for the same purpose in the east. E. J. Wallace, of St. Louis, told the convention. York—After a hearing before Al- derman Owen, on a charge of aggra- vated assault and battery made hy his wife, Harrison Lewis, of York Haven, was committed for examinati®: by doctors as to his mental condition. Mrs. Lewis said that on two occasions her husband made attempts to hang her In the cellar of her home, Reading.—By a colncidence Gover- nor Pluchot was in Reading while the state police raided some twenty sa- loons under the Pinchot dry law. No attempts were made to selze any wet goods. The officers simply walked into the saloons, read the warrants to the proprietors and requested them to post ball for hearings, All had ample bondsmen. Bethlehem. Struck on the head by a piece of pipe falling from a crane at the Bethlehem Steel Works, Andrew Woorset, aged 47, suffered in- Juries that resulted in his death. Altoona ~To protect life and limb here, a Citizens’ Safety Council has been organized. Hollidaysburg.—Blalr county farme ers are suffering from the most seri- ous shortage of labor in thelr history, Perryopolis—Left on the doorstep of Mrs. Allen Galley, here, two weeks ago, an unidentified infant died this week at the Children’s Home In Un fontown, Scranton. ~8ix hundred employes of the Scranton Railway company were granted an increase In wages from three cents an hour to a flat 7 per cent in an award handed down by the arbi. tration board. Conductors and motor- men received from three to five cents an hour more, while dispatchers and trackmen were included in the other advance, The new scale is retroactive to April 1 prevent ip the the case sup- ply seven of ——— has been threatening to come back agaln, has announced his Intention to This will be the former lightweight champlon’s first attempt. not exactly a success, nor was Stopped by Leonard, Ritchie was Benny Leonard in the final period of a bo scheduled to go eight re With but a few seconds to go the referee in. terfered while Ritchie was st feet, although In a decidedly condition. Although Ritchie put up a remarkable battle Leonard put up the stopped by nt ut unds 11 » ii of ETOERY his wins he reed to Connolly nsked he where going to get a of cream ; along and I'l buy you one” Invited Speaker. ‘1 didn't know you in dulged In cream,” observed Connelly, “Oh, 1 always to eat a dish before 1 go to bed : it cools me off," explained Speaker. “Then don’t you eat it during a game?" inquired Tom my. And there was nothing to say In reply, dish ice come ever ice Tide Iie why or Achieving Vernon club in the Pacific Coast professional ball players, and one whieh it will be difficult to beat. University of Illinois Star Is Heavy Slugger One of the most promising of the recruits In the big leagues this year Is Dick Reichle, the University of Il linois lad who has won a place on the Boston Red Sox. Reichle, who halls from Clinton, I. is not only one of the greatest diamond stars produced by the Illini In recent years but also holde the reputation of being a scintillating football performer, At Illinols Reichle had the advan. tage of working under both “G" Huff and Carl Lundgren, two of the best college baseball mentors in the ecoun- try. Ed Reulbach Shuts Out Dodgers Twice Edward Reulbach, former pitcher for the Chicago Nationals, is credited with being the only pitcher in organ ized baseball who pitched both eon- tests of a doubleheader and was able to blank the rival team each time, Reulbach beat Brooklyn twice Sep- tember 26, 1008, when the Cubs were making their great drive for the pen nant, At that time the Chicago pitch. ing staff was In poor condition and Reulbach volunteered for the double header. Accounts of that game say Reulbach was better in the second game than in the first. did not was Just he fought his career to win. Ritchie show any signs of age. He as good as he was the night in New York a few months after he had won the title from Ad Wolgast. In Good Condition, is only thirty-two, Ritchie and he hoanld n should not There is no reason why he ba able to The great to ght almost as well Ritchle fighter, altho in catch trouble Is, gh & action. He lu Wolgast wher WHS watch wnongh to Michigan Wildent He had no one to heat Fred Welsh an tare : iy i Squibs Flint ib has return i Oeschiger to the Pittsburgh The eOrge rates elt 3 * » * The Vernon club shipped Outflelder Perry O'Brien to Grand Rapids | Mint league of the Jtzke, the new Cleveland third { at the bat. . ® * Outfielder Fitzgerald, recruit the Chicago Cubs with the | team, Is playing bangup ball. . "0 from Decatur Pitcher Bill Rose, brought down by Shreveport from Milwaukee, has been ! turned adrift. He couldn't win i * * . { Rip Wade, | tors, has been sold $ i i club In the Southern associatic i | outfielder of the sena- to the IL. . » * The Oakland club sold the veteran | outfielder, Dennis Wiley, to the Little | Rock club of the Southern league - » - Dan Griner, veteran pitcher, who is managing the Fulton team in the Kitty league, Is an ace In that company. * * The world’s record for throwing a baseball is 881 feet 2% inches Top record for batting a ball is 854 feet 13% Inches. . » . John Campbell of Elnora, Ind, | pitcher on this year's team, has been | elected captain of the 1924 Purdue baseball team. * * * Cadet G. W. Bmythe, ‘24, of Norris town, Pa., has been elected captain of the United States Military academy baseball team for next season. » * » If anybody is hurt on the Mack team the betting 1s 8 to 5 that it ls | Sammy Hale. He doesn't seem to be able to play five straight games. -. * * Bome men were born years too SOON. Wonder, at present salary rates, what Hans Wagner and Napo- leon Lajole could command today? * * » Babe Ruth is making good the boast of critics, who predict he will over take “Cy” Williams of the Phillles for the home-run honors of the majors, . * » The thing that makes the Athletics, says a baseball observer, is that In his whole athletic population Manager Mack has nothing but star ball players. . 4% @ George Foster, who used to pitch for the Red Sox, har been given an opportunity to try a comeback with the Vernon club of the Pacific Coast league. * 9» Competition In major league base ball is keener right now than it has been at any time so far this season, and the edge is getting sharper In both leagues every day. *. * 9 « Charles “Babe” Adams, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is forty-one years old. He has been playing base ball 20 years, during which time he has won more than 130 games as a professional. «0 “Irish” Meusel of the Glants, by cracking out a brace of successive homers off Grover Alexander, accom plished a feat which no other player has ever been able to do during Alex's career in the National league, AAA AAAS PA EAA AAA, thlete Ralph Edmonds, a student in Ridgefield (Wash) school, 1s sald to be the athlete in the world, He stands 6 feet 3 Inches, weighs 220 pounds, snd is only fourteen years Edmonds plays a good game of football Biggest Boy high biggest oid for Long Period. but the roots deeper with the Take Nationals are ca In 1861 the Years, of th the cuse Do yO fled the * then existing * the National of the conflict tlerbsuer and or Brooklyn When [we ivan Olson, ican association “jumpers” dered back to their respective clubs. Although the Athletics had disbanded, the association rightfully laid claim to Blerbauer as one of thelr own, al- though the association had unwittingly neglected to reserve him. When Pittsburgh went after the player the association raised a howl The matter was submitted to a board of arbitration. This board upheld the action of Pittsburgh. The associa tion withdrew from the national agree ment, and the strife was on. “The American association then con- ferred the current nickname on the Pittsburgh club, It termed this club's signing of Blerbauer as “piratical™ Since that day—33 years ago—Pltts burgh has never been able to shake the sinister appellation “Pirates” Sport ng Squibs of All Kinds Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey, was at one time a boxer. LA * The weight of a jockey is usually between 85 and 125 pounds. . » * Horse racing is held Sundays and holiday afternoons in the Argentine. . . » Athletes from Turkey will be rep resented In the Olympic games in Paris next year, » . * There are no fewer than R50,000 members of golf clubs throughout the United States, - . * More than 5,000 horses take part In racing programs throughout the United States in a season, . * =» Of the 7.060 students enrolled at the Ohio State college 5,324 are entered in athletic competition, . - » Present-day pugilists employ experi enced chefs to prepare thelr food while training, but the old-timers were not so particular, LE Soccer players in England get $20 a week-—that's the top pay. And $50, 000 was paid recently to see the play. off In Wembly stadium, LE By running 100 yards In 11 185 see onds, Miss Katherine Steinmetz of Norfolk, Va, a member of the 1028 class at Bryn Mawr, now holds the world’s record for women sprinters DON'T WORRY THE COOK Mrs, Gad ture about off Ips 1 Rave the cook i stealing with a today. Wh made fine set 1 Bure tol chi other day, and it, too, Mrs, Sububs Mrs, Gadus Bet, How he took it you me Columb False Alarms, STRINGING HER BOW Guess Who, Friend—TI've tall man going every day for a week, e sitting for yon? seen your studio y h Impecunious Artist—No, he's laying A Gentle Reminder. Mrs. Benham—Do you remember mistle- a Jenham—I remember it every time Away Ahead of Him. Phelton—Did you ever try making Phogle—Yes, but it didn't work. I WELCOME STRANGER The Nurse—A little boy has just ar rived. The Father (who is an absent minded office manager)—Take his name and address and put him to work at once. We need help badly, Little of Both. “Jack is perfectly devoted to that blonde. His family thinks it is a case of hypnotism.” “Huh! Seems to me more like chem ical attraction.” Doing Well, A news item says that American women spent $150,000,000 last year on cosmetics. . “Her face is my fortune” says the manufacturer, Keeping Young. “Your account is getting old.” “All right. Suppose I put a little young blood into It by adding a few new purchases.” Signs of Wear. “What do you think of your new mamma, Elsie? “Well, papa, If you took her for new, I fink you got cheated.” ER —— Summer Motel, “This room is small and seems poor 2 furnished—one chalr and a folding “That, sir, is the telephone booth” A ———— A —— TRUE, IF UNPLEASANT | es, “I've heard you made a very un pleasant remark about my hair, and I want to tell you it's false!” “Well, then, my remark was af least true—if unpleasant,”
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