PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Renovo.—The appointment of Miss
Teresa G. Burke as postmaster at Re-
novo, effective August 20, was an-
nounced at the postoffice department.
Miss Burke has been assistant post-
master at that place for seventeen
years. She Is one of the first women
in the state to be named as postmaster
at an office paying $2500 or more.
Allentown. —Clinton P. Selslove, for
forty. years prominent in Democratic
politics in Lehigh county, and wife
celebrated their golden wedding here.
Allentown.—Thieves cracked the Na-
tional Biscuit company's safe here and
got away with several hundred dollars
in cash and an equal amount in unin-
dorsed checks.
Bloomsbhurg.—The first prosecution
here, and one of the first in the entire
state under the law enacted by the
last legislature, prohibiting the killing
can, of Beaver township, was fined
£100 by Justice of the Peace Rutter.
The prosecution was brought by State
Game Prosecutor Miller, who had
learned that Plafcam had killed a
beaver. A search warrant located the
pelt, and Plafcan admitted his guilt
at the hearing, paying the fine.
Bethlehem.—Following an Inspection
the Bethlehem Steel Works, the twen-
ty-fourth annual convention of
League of Third Class Cities, In ses-
sion here, . gelection
adjourne a. The
of the place and time for next
The following officers
for the ensuing year:
President, the mayor of the 1924 con-
vention city; vice president, Ira W.
Stratton, Reading; secretary,
Gates, Wilkes-Barre; treasurer, W, R.
Ross Seaman, Harrisburg: tr
James M. Yakle,
Kinney, Erie, anc
Johnstown.
Pittsburgh.—A mother and a
and their dacvghter are in
McKeesport, the parents In a
condition, as the consequence
family quarrel. According
Walter X. Kruczek, in a fit of
Jealousy, shot his wife in the head. She
was holding the Theresa, at the
time, W hen the mother
also erashed to the
Jured. Kruczek
through the left
Hazleton.—A
which led to the
George Panco developed
State Game Wardens W
E. Sherman and M.
the house of Walt
alien, firearms 81 aosed to be on
the premises, but not ind bysthe of-
Mrs. Publinsky thought they
22000 roll of bills
i
tive committee.
were elected
ustees,
1 M.
Lee
father
of fn
lee,
baby,
fell,
floor
then shot
eye
court of Alderman
here when
W. Faust, N
Brown searched
er
for
ficers
were after a
her husband had gecreted ix » house,
resist.
weré ar-
ind bat-
not tr in banks, and she
irdens. They
persons,
injured
on the
shed to the tracks
the Pennsylvania railroad they
aveled from Greensburg to Braddock.
injured, it was stated at the
hospital, would recover, but
of them were suffering fron
cuts and brui they would
to leave the hospital for a
when
Turtle
as
Sraddock
A8 most
gevere
not be
week.
Scranton.—The death toll as a re.
sult of the collapse of a huge water
tank at Olyphant on a fleld where
thirty-five boys were playing base ball
mounted to three, when Philip Monte-
marano, P years old, died in a hospital
Two boys were killed Instantly when
steel portions of the tank struck them.
Pottsville —With a view of Increas
ing the output of coal from this dis
trict the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron company temporarily
abandoned the John Veith colliery,
four miles from this city, which is not
equipped with a breaker, and gave the
500 miners employed there work at
other collieries, where thelr output
will be much increased, as well as
thelr compensation.
Pittsburgh—Mrs. Frances Veltz was
held by a coroner's Jury for the death
of her husband, Anthony Veitz, who
was ghot while he was standing on the
front porch of their house In Taren-
tam early July 4. They were eelebrat-
ing the advent of Independence Day
and Mrs. Veitz had a pistol. She fired
once in the alr, and then, according to
the testimony, pointed it toward her
husband. She sald she thought there
wns only one charge in the pistol and
she had no Intention of pulling the
trigger the second time.
Philadelphia.—While : sightseeing In
the capitol at Harrisburg, Mrs. Annie
M. Wills, of Philadelphia, fell om the
marble stairway In the rotunda and
broke her right hip.
Bethlehem, — A falling window
struck Mrs. Laura Langen as she was
cleaning It and crushed her right arm
near the wrist,
Freeland—The first . bullding and
loan association here has been organ-
ized, with State Factory Inspector Wii-
liam R. Flad as president.
Hanover~Mrs. Abraham 1. Serf, In
fil health, committed sulelde by hang
ing herself In her heme,
Reading —Edward Albright, a her.
mit living for years In the Alsace hilis,
wag found in his squalid hovel half
starved and was taken to thd Berks
county home,
aes
able
Pittshurgh.—Six carloads of beer,
containing about 700 barrels, one cars
load of alcohol dnd three men were
captured by federal prohibition agents
in railroad yards. The beer was sent
here from some point at a distance
and efforts are being made to trace its
origin,
i Brownsville.—Shortly after W, A.
| Miller appealed to the police to search
for his 10-year-old daughter, Irene, the
authorities learned that the girl was
a patient in the Unlontdwn Hospital,
where she had been sent by the Fay-
ette County Red Cross. At the hos-
pital it was sald there were a number
of bruises on the girl's body. The
girl declared, according to the police,
that her stepmother left her in a Un-
fontown theatre nine days ago. Mrs,
Miller has been held pending an inves-
tigation,
White Haven.—Mr. and Mrs. Ray-
mond Rohrbach, of Drums, while an-
toing near Penn Lake, near here pass-
ed three young deer on the road.
Harrisburg.—Appointments of T. B
Wood, Chambersburg, to the board of
trustees of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’
Orphan School, Scotland, and Thomas
trustees of Nanticoke State Hospital,
were announced by Governor Pinchot.
Philadelphia. — Fourteen - year - old
| James Good, who, while driving a stol-
| en automobile, ran down and killed a
man on August 4 was committed to
prison by Coroner Knight on a charge
of manslaughter, following an Inquest
into the death of the victim, Paul New-
hoff. Ordinarily,
venile court and are placed In
house of detention, but under
| court ruling defendants under 18 must
| stand trial
| for offenses such as manslaughter
{| murder.
Altoona. — Attempting
i to
{ freight train,
a man Rupposed to he
| In front of an express
| Altoona.—Running In
i C. E. Robinson's automobile, John
| Wiedener, 5 years old, was struck and
perhaps fatally Injured
Pittsburgh. —Oscar Hels
Nagel, of Hamburg.
{| show cause in federal d
-
i
front
irich Lorenz
(Germany,
listrict court on
American cl
should declared null
and vold. The subpoena has been Is
sued by Judge Schoonmaker. The
piaint, as flied by W. M. Ragsdale,
examiner, declar-
iitted to citizen.
Iater he left
Ger
must
| November 17 why his
zenship not he
Nugel was adn
1013. Tw
Washington, Pa,
{ many, where
{ the exception of
{ when he
ed that
ship In 0 years
made
{ land
Norristown. Joseph Tornetta,
under 21000 ball to awalt
ola Petrone
i years old, Is
| injuries of a haby of Nich
It is ct that Torn affixed a
i Hghted firecracker to a balloon and
| that the explosive f<ll Into the ha!
{ coach The child's clothing
| and the littie tot was badly burned
ittsburgh.—Motoreycle Patrolman
J. P. O'Kane suffered lacerations of
{ the hands when a quart of ated
| liquor exploded at the Frankstown
He
| Hquor from the stat 3
age room when the went
| State police visited Pliteairn and raid.
{ ed eight
and seized a truck!
of
men were
ball each.
Altoona. "Min," the pet cat
car inspectors at the Pennsylvani
railroad station here, and
kittens held up a fast mail for
minutes a day or two ago. “Min”
leading her family across
tracks when the train
into the shed.
warged eta
y's
confise
1i¢ + drser $3
i + station was tran ™ tho
bottle
clubs, poolre Wome and
load of
gloros,
quor and a
gambling dev
arrested and in $1000
came
offspring. Lon Carl,
spectors,
bles, signaled the
which he did,
one of the
engineer to stop,
while “Min” and her lit.
nal to save forty-five lives—nine for
each of the five.
West Hazleton.
to increase the wages
ployes were dropped for lack of funds,
Huntingdon, —
Greenleaf, wife of a rallroad conduct-
or, who drowned herself, was found in
the Juniata river here, ©
Phoenixville~'S8quire Charles H.
Howell, who very seldom leaves town
the Phoenixville Industrial Association
This Is the first time that the 'squire
had remained away from home over
night since October, 1802,
went to Atlanta as a member of the
Phoenix Military Band.
York.—Accosted by a man who told
her that he knew a place where she
could sell lots of candy, Byrl Flinch-
baugh, a S-year-old girl, who was sell
ing sweets to employes of the Ameri
ean Chain company, was lured away
to a cornfield a short distance south-
west of the city and brutally assanlt-
ed. The child Is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emery Flinchbaugh and is under
the care of a physiclan. Ira Dise, 23
years old, was arrested by Plain
Clothes Officer Myers, charged with
the offense,
Hifleton. Musicians here will ree
vive the old Hazleton Symphony Or
chestra, which flourished for years.
Williamsport. — The Pennsylvania
Sheriffs’ Association, In session here,
deferred electing officers until a meet-
ing nt Scranton next winter,
years old, was killed when an automo.
bile driven by Samuel Printz, chain
store proprietor, of Youngstown, Ohio,
turned over near 8t. Mary's,
Tyrone.—~Edgar C. Robbins, a sig
nals maintainer’s helper, was killed by
a train on the Pennsyivania alia
near Bellwon”
Mlle. Viasto making a gallant try
for the ball during her unsuccess-
ful mateh with World Champion
Suzanne Lenglen at Wimbledon.
t
Working Hard to Win
Gen. Henry T. Allen,
cpmmander of the An
Army of Occupation, says
all countries of Europe
making great preparations to
beat the athletes of the United
States at the Ol) imes in
Paris, France, next
“France
former
ierican
that
are
Int ”
pie pig
year,
has already
1.0000, 060) 14
Champion Rifle Shot
Mrs. W
state rifle
state title
woman rifle shot.
tourney,
the
Machine
player
Proud of His
Connle Mack knows a ball
long
Ath-
been a
the
In his day—and it's
AR manager
has had 400 baseball
Three years ago it was
He
would have his scouts go around and
of
more thap half-way through their
teens.
Mack worked on the theory of catch
ing them young, treating them right
and telling them everything.
His perseverance has been rewarded,
and he now has a ball club which will
compare with any In the league.
And he grew it himself. He didnt
pay a million dollars for It
Triples More Difficult
Than Home Run Smashes
It's more difficult to get three-base
hits than it 1s home runs in both the
National and American leagues. In
fact, there are practically two home
runs to one triple. In many parks the
triple is indeed the big swat, for the
triple is always inside the grounds and
away from the fielders. Many home
runs are into the stands or over the
fence at distances which would be outs
tf the flelders had room to go get them,
Meek Baseball Players
Not Found in Colleges
An ivory hunter says he does not
£0 to the colleges any more looking for
the meek bassball players. The col
feginna are as rough, he says, ns Patsy
Tebeau used to be. Happenny, Illinois
player, with the White Sox, was chased
ont of the lot for using too much rough
fancunge to Umoire George Morlarity,
Diamond
Squibs
Galloway Is an ungainly jer and
makes all his chances look hard.
» * %
fleld
the Detroit
im is still the or
Yankees play the
£3
Sammy
Hattiesburg club
has been
Golf Club Is Oldest
America's oldest golf chub will
celebrate its thirty-fifth birth
day, next November,
The club is the Bt, Andrews,
a few miles hbove Yonkers, N.
¥.. where a six-hole course was
opened away back in 1807,
The first club house was a
table which sat at the first tee
and the furnishings comprised
two tubs of jce water. Later
on a tent wns used.
Nowadays no club Is satisfled
unless it has spacious lawns, a
big veranda, luxurious furnish-
ing and a couple of professionals
hanging around. It is safe to
say that the Initiation fee was
less then than it is now.
SLICING BIG FAULT
MANY FAIL TO MEND
Trouble Arises From Several Dif-
ferent Causes.
Slicing is the bane of golfing ex-
istence for thousands upon thousands
of golfers,
It is really surprising how large a
percentage never overcome the fault,
The harder they try, the worse many
of them gel
fault arises from several
ferent causes, Probably in the
jority of Instances it is
the habit of pulling In
as the ball Is struck. That, In turn,
is due to the fact that so man
leaning backward as they
plete thelr stroke,
Nine times out
not well
stro)
aif.
ma
from
the arms just
he
derived
€rs are
of 10 the
glanced at
"he chances are
backswing,
they
when they try
ina
League club,
. * RL
iret « 2
burgh National
Pick, an outfic
(Kas) ch
Edgar
league, has
Cincinnati Nationals,
- . -
White
C. Happenny,
has given
the first magnitude
* - -
by the
The C
fielder, J.
product,
a star of
hicago Sox new In
a 1923 col
promise of being
leg
lege
Harry Mullowney, southpaw pitcher,
last year captain of Boston college,
joined the White Sox the other day.
He is an enormously big fellow
» - *
Talk In Minneapolis 1s that the
price for Carl East, the veteran out-
fielder and former pitcher now with
the Millers,
- » *
Harry Gardner, Seattle pitcher, has
a “bonus” he is working his head off
to win this season, An admirer
promised him a bull pup If he wins
20 games.
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There are seven members of Connie
Mack's old champion Athletics still In
the big leagues—Mcinnis, Strunk,
Pennock, Schang, Shawkey, Eddie Cal-
ling and Joe Bush.
* * »
“Rube” Robertson, pitching ace of
the Little Rock Southern Association
club and one of the most effective left
handers In the circuit, has been pur
chased by New Orleans.
- * -
Charles “Wee” Rudolph, pitcher for
the Sioux City, Town, club In the West.
ern league and formerly with the San
Francisco club of the Pacific Coast
league, has been sold to Detroit.
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Contending that the rule which re-
tires a batter when a foul fly is caught
is unfair, Fred Mitchell, manager of
the Doston Braves, plans to have this
rule abolished at the winter meeting
of the major leagues.
& »
Among the leading major league
baseball players who have graduated
from college are: George Sisler, Harry
Hellmann, Frank Prisch, Bill Kopf,
howe Ryan, Jack Barry, “Dutch”
tt. the
Hh woman
lea
as it is strange
ot award a
re has
with
Fran
C it 1h&,
2.000 phy
a combined mer
and girl athletes 8.
- . -
Jess Willard denies that he quit in
the Firpo However, the fact
remains that he stopped suddenly,
. » *
bhattie
Sarazen, says a movie fan Is to
teach golf on the screen. However,
golf is not played on the screen, but
on the green.
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In the picture pages there is prac
tically no difference between a lady
tennis champion and an Inferior inter
pretative dancer.
. * *
The Playground and Recreation As-
sociation of America will hold its
tenth annual congress at Springfield,
IL, Oct. 8 to 12.
Witt Is Hard Hitter
“Whitey” Witt, the sensational cen
ter flolder of the New York Yanks,
who 38 hitting the dla pill square on
the nose quite often and is one of
the main factors In *eeping the Yanks
in tha lead
ONLY A DETAIL
Little Jackie was spending a
In the and was highis
by everything he saw In
and farmyard,
The old red ben's cack
that she had lald an eg ER
falling source of delight.
wanted someone to get the
diately,
One day he was a
lege of going all by
the treasure,
In a few minutes be ca:
back excitedly, but his
too great. He tripped
In a minute his bands and blouse
were smeargd with yellow as he
clutched bits of broken shell
But he came up smiling to
er.
“Oh, mummie,” he cried,
up the fragments, “I
holiday
country enters
th
aie
le to announce
WHE 8 never.
He always
egg mine
Hlowed the priv.
himself to fetch
running
CALPTHICNS WIS
and fell
his moth-
ag he held
fall, but
lose any-
had a
‘cause 1 didn't
thing only the juice!
AS WILLIE HEARD IT
v put
=
“Di sh. honored,
A Thing That t Rarely Palis
Mad -Then vou belles
ARO
ing for money?
Marie
u
there's
ive
A to}
“Turkwa
“Turk
‘his is
gla
Trial by Jury.
“Is the dist lawyer looking
up auth
“No,
inguisied
witless 7”
we have n
m to use
sense of h
mrked
on the ju
umor him
few
jokes
It Was Finally Finished,
Wife (on the way home from the
at I call a finished
sermon!
Her
know, 1
Husband—Yes, but do yon
thought it would never be.
¥
DOMESTIC
BLISS
Wifey—1 saw
the dearest little
hat today
Hubby That's
Just like you--al-
ways looking for
the dearest in.
stead of the mod.
erately priced
——————
You've Listened to Mer,
I have no use
For Missus Walkers;
8he is one of
Those nonstop talkers
Really Unpleasant,
Miss Wellalong—1 declare. 1 begin
to feel that I am growing old It's
really unpleasant,
Mr. Blunt—It must be. especially
for one who has been young so long.
C—O —————— A AS.
A Choice Assortment,
Wood 1 was surprised to learn that
Stone wont flat broke. thought he
had all kinds of money.
Steele- -He had many kinds, most
an marks, Austrian kronen fost}
Russlan rubles and a few thin dines.
A ————————
Careful Information.
“Exa.se we, sir, but could you tell
me If there is a man staying
In his
hotel with one eye named
Hardy?” Ane