dnote cfeleioieteleteioieiel i I} BRIEFS offrefofonlesinfofeloiulnlninininl Albert Woodward died at the Lew- fstown Hospital from injuries sustain- ed In a fall from a cherry tree at his home near Siglerville, Siashing his stomach with a razor, Frank B. Kilheffer, 71 years old, of Lancaster, died In St. Joseph's Hos- pital, that city. . Mrs. H. P. Swalls, of Lewistown, suffered painful burns when a wash boiler filled with scalding water was accidentally overturned. Thieves who robbed the store of A. C. Jones, at Rock Glen, af candy, cigars and novelties, the remminder of the stock. Five thousand dollars’ are asked by George DeOre, bar, near Uniontown, suit in behalf of his Joseph, against Angelo Spirro, Dunbar. It is alleged that as a sult of a dog bite the lad ed permanent injuries of a The resignation of twenty-seven members of the instructural, research and extension faculties of the Penn sylvania State College, representing the usual June turn-over, nounced. Fifteen others granted leavee of absence next college year. A number of new appointments are being made ik vacancies prior to the opening of col lege In September. ‘Fhe turn-over Is about the average in the faculty over 300 at Penn State. Fred Meyers, aged 268, of Valley, near Drifton, has the for being the victim of the oddest cident occurring im the coal mines many years. Meyers worked at the Drifton colliery of the Lehigh Valley company, 8 train of mine cars the opened, the dumping end struck in the face, sending him to the Hospital with a fracture of the side of the jaw. The girls of ruined of Dun- 12-year-old son- re leg. has been an have for the to Sandy ac Coal him Hazleton their brothers, fathers or beaux take them by machine ten miles from here to the daily elty from the mines, and for bathing. Beach dips. The streams around cannot be censorship on banks of the The young women wear mach over their outfits until reach the creek Three in vogue on the peck. intoshes they persons ! were arrested Pittshurgh following the death of Mrs Anna Mazklage from the effects drinking poisoned liquor, the statement of the the police attending physi cian gave Julius th In Those their names as Martha Michalski, owner of a store, and Wii Ail hig Cott em Schultz, liam Landau thway surface treatment early ghwayvs hs ers ated insthe spring by the departinent 1 8 eompliete tion to appiving than elary aying oll treatment to more 600 miles of dirt roads, Seer Wri announced The ment out in the early spring compl this work by July 1 instead of spreading over dus ght has wet to ote oll or ions the The only oiling oper. orists will be in resyr- roads depart- used more than 6.000.000 gallons in the olling has completed olling 2005 miles of highways. In April the partment announced it would endeav. finish 1500 miles, The 1623 program was largest ever by any the the YOTHLL eatlire summer which mot now wl Im in ations from ¢ on will newls weadam The ment of bitumi nous material CONRON and or to oiling undertaken Continuing “zun city-wide “frisking” raid At the “zero” left every police station in the and visited hundreds of saloons and other congregating places, and search- ed the occupants for weapons, Men on street corners were also searched, Arrests were made where either wen- pons or hip flasks were found J. 8. Fiske, president of the Paimer- ton board of education, has announe- ed that the board of directors of the New Jersey Zinc company, which op- erates two Immense plants, one at Hazard and the other at Miliport, a mile distant from Palmerton, had vot- ed to donate RI150000 towards the erection of a new school bullding at Palmerton. The school hoard has flouted a $150,000 bond issue, which, with the addition of the !heral! do- nation, will make possible the eree. tion of a very fine high school build. ing for Palmerton. Struck by the antomobile of ¥F. 8. Keifer, of Bloomsburg, while boarding fi trolley ear, Miss Grace Huntington, aged 21, was seriously hurt, Michael Ketcher, a 10-year-old Potisville boy, fell from a porch and Mt his tongue In half. The deposits of the First National Bank of Berwick have passed the two- "million mark, Charged with employing two gis in his restaurant sixty-three hours . week, Charles Gregory, of Connells ville, was fined $25 and costs, Falling in health, Mrs. John Kline, aged 55, of Shoemakerville, committed suicide by hanging in the cellar of her home, George F. Krause, former Lebanon ety councilman, was fined $100 and costs for violation of the city ord! nance prohibiting the sale of fire works, W. A. Campbell, thimble which he eivil war the state, campaign police against foters” Columbian, has a used during the August Peterson, a farmer, was 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 Pittsburgh police reported. The son was arrested pending an in- vestigatign, Peterson, according to the police, seized his wife by the throat and threatened to kill her when the boy shot him. The wife was con- vulescing after an operation, The highway department announced the following awards for construction: Erie county, Venango township, 24. 305 feet, to Meredith, McVaugh & Webb, Erie, $190,133; Bucks county, Middletown township, 21,878 feet, to James J. Barrett, Trenton, $77,223, Toddling to a table at the country estate of Howard W. Ambler, near Doylestown, Laynette, 21-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. An- derson, of Birmingham, Ala, who are visiting at the Ambler reached up and found a package containing strychnine tablets, Hhe child swal- lowed several of them and died an hour failing to respond to treatment. No one was in room at the time, but the mother in a moment after her baby swallowed the home, the came had De. J. R. band probably in fates, near the best Pennsylvania one oldest band point in the Unit. died at his home In Watson Milton, where for than half a century he was the leader of the Watsontown Band. He was 83 and served two enlistments civil war, man was killed and three oth- taken to Uniontown Hospital Housel, o: of leaders In of the service ie vd St the One iu ette county In the holiday period. Thomas Williams, of Cool Spring, was killed in a fight at that town. Williams, his brother, suffered a bul the sboulder and a knife chest. Posses are search- Juke Williams, Pobby, Simpson, George thrust in the for uncle, Mike of was shot wtole Nick in a tunnel near his home and 9. An unidentified person shot Franchetti, of Mount Sterling. Warrants are to be sworn arrest of 300 women of Meadow who have either failed or Tax Collector Nash long board of education, the women the distriet proceed nw Year. pre- delinquents which refused The was In them un list of to the {0 exonerate splicitor Yoters then against of der the new One mn killed and injured by mine of the Sunnyside at near Roukie, a miner, admitted hospital only slight hopes John Bennett. The men leading to some powder, and, thes in probably sion in a company, wis ttally an explo Coal Jessup, Seranton, being to a *hysl. have for man, a fuse other lit went back to examine {t. The explosion followed An aut valued truck Isaded with approximately to prohibition o being driven Li ind have been wire omobile at 000, Was according seized through John Cronin, alleged to in charge of ti ed Edward GI Pittsburgh, charged police trutks, as it vas *ittsburgh, Peter nden ie CARO, rrest bheon arrested in Pennsyis stea ing eight loaded with country the, raliroad selling the contents to hucksters, While Mrs Petrells the field en was by with ania 1ar ds KRliavroda sixteenth Reading WAS her son, embrace was artifery rouse to suddenly con who dropped out her, The mot sensation by erying: “My he is alive,” and collaps went to pasiatance through Tobyhanna, she of line to her my son, Women her from the her son was dead. mother received word that Stephen Petrelis, company C, sixteenth fleld artillery, and wax much concern. The Tamaqua school board will erect a ten-room building in the North ward at a cost approximating $80,000 Dr. C. H. LaClair was named med] cal Inspector of the Unlontown public schools, A total of 1771 marriage licenses, setting a record for three years, were issued at Pittsburgh during June. Despondent over the loss of a leg in a mine accident, Andrew Koval, aged 40, hanged himself from a Joist at his home In Swoyervilie, Automobile registrations In Penn sylvania on June 30 totaled 854.833, or 194.571 more than for the entire year of 1022, Secretary of Highways Wright announced. Total registra. tions to date are nearly 800.000. Com. mercial vehicle registrations for the first six months of the year were 67.- 179, compared with 56382 for 1022. Registration of tractors were 2613. compared with 2028 for 1922: motor. cycles, 16,122, compared with 15.764: motor vehicle dealers, 17.0582. com- pared with 13.214; pald drivers, 164.- 990, compared with 120027, and spe- Sai operators, 630, compared with 52d. Ten children from the poor districts of New York will be the guests of the Hazleton Kiwanis Club for two weeks in August. Three hundred and nineteen stu. dents from all sections of the state and a number of neighboring states enrolled at Dickinson College for the Methodist Summer School of Religioas Education, A ‘public beach along the Conestoga river will be opened by Lancaster officials, Appointment of David D. Davies ar a mercantile appraiser at Pittsburgh was anounced, % UNSUNG HERO OF Oe k <5 MANY REGATTAS A hero unsung of many regattas is Charles Evans, who for over 12' years hag kept the fragile Yale shells in shape and has also built a number. The shell, which only welghs 270 pounds, must support nine men, the total weight averaging around 1,600 pounds. The slightest troulle with the rigging or the shell itself would throw the entire crew out, Evans, be fore going to Yale, was connected with the Metropolitan Boat club of New York for many years. SR ’ {Would Be Late for Supper| No ball player ever liked his ! hits better than did Briscoe § Lord. One day Bris hit a ball against the center fleld fence, but the fielder, by a great run, get back and picked it off the wall, Lord was sore. Ax the two teams exchanged sides he sald to the man who had made the catch: “Why didn't side the park and be it? = stand done out- with you didn’t I™ the grim answer of the outfielder. “Yes,” came back Lord, “and some day you'll be late for sup per getting that far away from the plate.” “1 got it, was ——————_——_ his first #8 an Rowland, the dec] Clarence Fear in Serving American league umpire, ares that If all baseball managers and players were umpires playing their p®sitions there would be less of arguing He « before or of and more of bail playing inims players and managers and liable make mistakes, too, #0 he can't why they should always get “ps Southpaw First Basemen One of the great The Old first base were right Bronthers, of left-handed first basemen Timer says all the great of the ancient day throwers Anson, And then came the left-handed first The Arst of these, says the ©ld Timer, was Fred Tenney, a Brown college catcher, made over by Frank Salee, then manager of the Boston Nationale, Tenny had been tried out in the outfield, and was no sensation, But at first, his left arm permitted him to make plays on the infield that had never before heen attempted. Many have followed him-—Hal Chance, Jiggs Donohue, Jake Daubert and George Sisler, besides others The photographers and the baseball humorists may have some fun at the left-handed pitchers, but the left-hand. ed first basemen seem to have plenty of thinking ability. Purdue Arranging for Stellar Football Year Purdue Is making arrangements for a big football year, and It is reported that athletic council at the Lafayette institution has given ita O. K. to se curing proper assistants for Ceach James Phelan, former Missouri men- tor, who Is now head coach of the Boilermakers, Opening New York Games Now Largely Attended When the New York Yankees played their first game of baseball in New York city 20 years ago 18,000 fans at tended the game. Reventvfoar thou sand two hundred persons saw the opening game at the New Yankee sto dium this sesgon, Baseball Notes The French eyeball grafting expert is coming to America. Line up the umpires, somebody. - » - Ntrange as it may seem, the ancient hidden ball trick still bobs up occasion. ally In major league circles, *. ’ * Hervey McClellan inues ster up his sticking average. » - ® cont One resigaed a few pop bottles days ago because were thrown at him » * - Arthur with Syracuse university, has signed by the Boston Americans, . » * been lean 3 Flagstead has the same shelk cast of countenance possessed by Buck Herzog ® * - Ira Arabic that Connle latest structed, effort. Mack is well pleased by the he has of «on real baseball after muchine eight years is going is season, follow. Captain Billy Southworth fine for the Braves th boost the jo Phill Art Fletel est baseball J« he | gbout the toug ever tackled Griffith believe he has p ched Jae Fri 3 leigh of the SOUDE plicher In day need from i ague * * H Rox arm B PORReShRes Hooper Just a pov a 5 CRALH throw bia eee ever, so clubs ns runners will testify * . - fielder captain lege base M two H years, h of the IP ball teams for Palm aw Siar cenier been elected ennsyivania State onl next season . 8 0» ranks fielding and so far Grimm, not yet as one of the most remarkable first basemen of the game twenty-four Cauliflower Ear Missing The cauliflower ear, badge of the pugilistic profession, has not been worn by sny of our Queensbury heavyweight cham- pions. Jim Corbett and Jack Johmson were the only remark- ably clever defensive boxers on the ligt of title holders. Sulli- van, Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, Wii lard and Dempsey were not hard to hit, but they all man- aged to escape unpléasant dec- erations. None of the present set of champions has a caflil- flower ear, unless Johnny Dun- dee Is counted as a champlon, Lynch, Kilbane, Leonard, Walk- er, Wiison, McTigue and Demp- key ape free from blemish, so far as thelr ears are concerned. a on AE A PRESIDENT JOHNSON GIVES WOMEN CREDIT Increase in His League. i Wemen funs credit 1 | most pi meric deserve much of the or making this one of baseball's inson, after nearly POs Ban Joi ie president; sald endance figures for sSeuson, | an ied | adding att half the “The | en,” he ment to of added such baseball that it no longer pesis only tw a rough-and-tu i crowd, but te people that ranks with tend first the frequent said, attend “has ance mble those the class theaters upers baseball of curiosity. fal a game were there They asked fooll and had not even a | { what it was all about, i many men the | berguse they love the sport, | they love the dramas, | out-of-doors activities | The. mere presence of women in the stands has accomplished exactly what baseball fought hard for years to i has eliminated rowdyism Johnson recalled the days of iy two when the sped tors overwhelmed all when | not like with barrages of pe and commented: “The average "hs to make a are women Johnson said that “ia drawn greater crowds this season than sny ot the week In past years The first six weeks of stiracted sh ques { tions Today wi in Just the dance £0 «3 decades ago th they did ip bottles ard gay’ Is imeelf If spectacie of h near” hed parks day of dies’ day” to the her play this year, 37.000 more period of 1922, had persons than he said, § the same Havers Wins Title -. » - George Foster, one-time pitcher wit the Boston Hed Sox, thinks he can Coast league has gigned him for a » , ” Jim Jolly, a pitcher who looked like a major leaguer twe or three years ago, has been sent down by the Ver non club to Bloomington of the Three . * » Harry D. Lord of South Portland, Me, 8 member of the siate house of representatives, was a former captain and third baseman of the Chicago White Sox. * es 0 hil Carroll was released as man ager of the Greenville team of the Appalachian league and Harry Weir, who hails from Farmville, N. C., named as his successor, . * » Manager Rube Oldring telis the fans of Wilson that he now has his team shaped up to his liking and that he expects it to go to the front in the Virginia league race. ¢ . * » ! Joe Wood had such success coaching the freshman baseball team of Yale university this spring that it is report ed he will be put in charge of all base ball at Yale next year. ®. + » New Orleans runs strongly to pitch. ers whose names begin with “WwW. instance Walker and Whittaker, and now Winn, The latter is’ a new ar rival from the Cleveland Indians, - - - The Detroit elub has signed a right. handed pitching prospect named Tom Lenahan, who hails from an independ. ent team in Stockton, Cal. He is not to report for trial until next spring. .. 8 0» The lapse of centuries discussed by Egyptologists frequently falls to ime press people who are very much as tonished to learn that Dick Rudolph, the hero of 1914, Is still pitching for the Boston Braves, A. GG. Havers, professiona who won the British open goif title. {| Walter Hagen, American contender, | followed one stroke behind. The play Sporting Squibs of All Kinds The yellow peril is less menacing to the tennis world; Kumagae has quit. Tilinn William M. Johnston, American ten nix star, is defeating the best of them in Europe. * * » C. B. Bowles "4 of Springfield, Mass, has been elected captain of the Yale golf team for next year. . . » The velocity of a golf ball as it leaves the driver of a good player is computed to be 135 miles an hour. . ss » Leonard Goldwater, varsity track man of Michigan, keeps in condition by taking Jobe ns an ordinary seaman on ocean vessels, . * Frank J. Marshall of New York is the champion chess player of the United States, a title which he has held for fourteen years, *. & » Preliminary tennis competitions in the United States for the Davis enp will be played at Chicago Aug. 8 and ® and at Brookline Aug. 15.17, . In Germany a jorkey gets 10,000 marks a race, or about 50 cents In American money. He also gets 2 per cent of the purse If he wins the race. "ae George Chaney, thirteen years in the ring, age thirty, holds the record for knockouts, having put no fewer than i alvety opponents down for the count POOR PIANIST Mrs. K. L tuner writes B8t her and after he woman, who the b that she hom laundry working In asetent “You know that parlor?” “Yes, Annie.” “Well, I want to tell you one I no like to hear He rottes r." Boston Transcript. nm Patient Mr tell Has Also a Sugg Lirtlerest Do | Four sped Hessness, Doctor—-1 of the tot me Was Slop wir at tl trouble. origin Mr. Lit Well, tlorost You the you'll find baby don’t spank Tit-Bits, Only IN BOSTON TOWN Western Uncle—1 suppose bed with the chickens, Waldo? Waldo—1 presume, Uncle term in a purely n sense : of course, | go to to you tap! “heel” JOT early ’ jE fea! bed 10 roost, Spoke From Experience “*A burnt child read the teacher me wel but There a little er. A wales" A & .- areacs the fire “Now h¢ #0 give different in wording me thir for tence the so WHS siien meaning ig 2 while; then lease, Ce fellow piped washed dreads child 4 the It. Wili End Up te Same. nr son wi not Where the Rub Comes Thumbnail History. “1 don’t like Addie Adde: two-faced.” “She never im 1 always thought it face with a different makeup.” pressed n was th The Test, *Hub—] smend all my money on you. No man can do more than that. Pouting Wife-—If you really loved me you'd be willing to run into debt for me, A Run on the Bank. “Well, dad. 1 just ran up hello.” “Too late, son; your mother ren up to say good-by and pot all the change.” -Dartinouth Jack-o-Lantern. Defective Plumbing. “I've come to fix that old the kitchen.” “Oh, mamma ! see the cook!" to eay tab In Here's the doctor to Harvard Lampoon. What's the Next Day's Menu? Housewife (to beggar just furnished with a meal) Well, did It taste god? Beggar—Yes'm-—what are we going to have tomerrow? She Must Be Newly wed, Wife--Why, John, you promised te be up in time to go to church with me, Hub (turning over)--1 meant in time for evening service. Miss Pomp-- How much do you ove we? Mr. Ogford—With all my sole!
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