PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Bloomsburg.-——For the tenth succes-
give year, Joseph Stiner was re-elected
president of the Bloomsburg Flremen’s
Relief! Association,
Altoona.—A large Industrial build-
fng erected hy the Altoona Factories
company, has been sold to George S.
Pomeroy, Jr, of Reading, for $75,000,
Pottsville—Power from the East
Pennsylvania Electric company’s new
generating plant at Mallton Is in use
here and will be Increased every day.
The plant, costing $3,000,000, is one
of the largest in the eastern part of
the state. It was located sixteen miles
west of this city in the center of a
district having 800,000,000 available
tons of anthracite coal.
Mt. Carmel.—After being unconsci-
ous nine days from inhaling carbon
monoxide, Leskie, 14-year-old son of
Josie Quick, of Fountalp Springs, died.
He was In a closed garage while the
engine of an automobile was running
to warm up before going out New
Year's day and was overcome by the
fumes of the exhaust and never re-
vived.
New Castle.—Girls In the Senior
Lodge at Westminster College were
routed from their beds by a fire which
started from an overheated furnace.
Miss Francelll Osborne and Rebecca
Gibson, sleeping on the first floor, were
women threw their belongings out the
window and fled scantily clad. The
damage was small.
State College.— Eighty young men
and women from farms in all parts of
opened at State Col-
lege. They are pursuing intensive
studies that will continue under
direction of School of Agriculture in-
structors for eighit weeks.
thirty ‘of the men are specializing in
a course in dairy manufacturing meth-
ods. They will get actual experience
in butter, cheese and Ice cream mak-
which has just
be fitted to undertake work in the
creameries of their communities.
others are studying general agricul-
tural methods,
Seranton.—Lying in a pool of blood
with her head crushed in by some
heavy instrument, Mrs,
at Olyphant. Police arrested her hus-
band on suspicion of having done the
killing. Detectives on the scene sald
that the woman had been attacked in
her bedroom and she tried to escap
down a stairway. The assailant ap-
parently cornered her at the top of
the stairs and there swung a pick
handle until she fell dead. Her skull
had been fractured. :
Hazleton.-—At the seventh annual
convention of the Anthracite Porest
Protective Association here, J M
Bloan, the secretary-treasurer, report-
ed that last year the losses from fire
amounted to $2823811,
al, the damage being the greatest in
any year of which there is a record.
The report showed that in 1923 there
were 9568 fires, which burned over an
area of 161,784 acres. Canses were
given as follows: Rallroads, 421, or
45 per cent ; transients, 228 or 23 per
cent; unknown, 146, or 15 per cent:
incendiary, 24, or 2 per cent; miscel-
laneous, 188, or 15 per cent: brush
burning, 28 or 2 per cent, and lumber-
ing, 6, or 1 per cent,
. Harrisburg. —The complete person-
nel of the committee to study farm
conditions provided by a resolution
of the last legislature was announced
as follows: Senators Schantz, Lehigh :
Culbertson, Mifflin, and Sones, Lycom-
ing, and Representatives W. Williams,
Tioga; Thomas, Chester: Haines,
Bucks; Rinn, Lehigh, and Stark, Wy-
oming.
Hazleton~~Reports filled by the
Cranberry Oreek Coal company with
the state department of mines show-
ed that not one fatal aceldent occur
red at its operation last year, dupll-
cating a similar good record for the
Harwood Coal company also hag had
no fatalities last year. Eleven hun-
dred men are employed ot the Cran-
berry and 400 at Harwood. *
Blooméburg. — Thomas PElmes, a
Franklin township farmer, was ap-
pointed receiver of the Farmers Un-
fon Telephone company, in the sult of
John E. Berninger, one of the stock
holders. The exchange has been elos-
ed some time and the stockholders
are in danger of losing considerable
money, the court was told. The com-
pany operated im Columbia, Montour
and Northumberiand eounties,
Sunbury, —¥Fire destroyed the Maus.
dale flouring mills, owned by W. K.
Savidge,. The loss Is $30,000 with
$20,000 insurance. The mill was built
in 1800 by Phillp Maus and was op-
erated almost continuously. The cause
of the blaze, which was discovered by
a train crew, has not been determin.
ed,
Cresson. —Francisco. Déneto, assist.
ant Pennsylvania rallroad track fore.
man, wal killed by a freight train.
Altoona ~~On the eve of his retire.
ment from office, City Treasurer Rich
ard Smith slipped on an ley sidewalk
and broke his left arm,
Carlisle.~—The appointment of Mrs,
Mary M. Basler as a member of the
Jumberland county mothers’ assist.
ance board was anhourced at the gov
ernor's office,
Sunbury ~Twenty-two applications
for wholesale Hauor licenses were filed
at the Northumberland county tourt,
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Pottsville.—WIith the remarkable
day from work on account of lliness
for fifty-seven years, Charles K, Mertz,
has been placed on the pension list of
the Reading railway. Beginning as a
car clerk, Mertz worked in every de-
partment of the railroad office here.
Wilkes-Barre—Five young bandits
entered the store of Jacoh Nowinskl,
aged 50, of Plymouth, and held his
hands and feét to a red-hot stove un-
til the torture forced him to give them
The bandits then
tied him hand and foot and left in an
automobile, He was found by a son
several hours later,
Wilkes-Barre.~—The death of*™ Paul
Keresbak, 9 years old, of Edwards
ville, may result .in a charge of
murder or anslaughter being pre-
ferred against Joseph Poluneczko, aged
45, a neighbor, who Is sald to have
cruelly beaten the youngster on Sep-
tember 11. The child is reported as
to have falled to recover from the
beating at the hands of the man, who
is sald to have chastised him for a
childish prank.
Harrisburg. — Fifty-four thousand,
one hundred and eight more accl-
dents were reported to the workmen's
compensation bureau In 1923 than In
1022, the annual report of the bureau
reveals. . There were 200,435 accl-
dents reported, compared with 146,255
in 1922. Since the law became effec.
tive, January 1, 1016, 1,482
dents have been reported to the bu-
reau. The report shows that since the
amendment to the compensation act,
providing compensation for the loss
of a thmob or finger, went into effect
last March, agreements have been
made In 1180 cases of this character
incurring awards totgling $307,000.
The report also reveals that £58,030
had been pald by the department of
labor and Industry in comp@hsable
Jured, the department having been
Seranton.—8ald » have brooded
a miner, committed suicide
where he lived
in a little
alone. Klavis
a tobacco can to the other end of the
cord. He then sat on a chair facing
level with his heart,
on the can which pulled the trigger.
The rifle ball literally blew the man's
away part of the
Hazleton. —Declaring that too many
boys of tender years are wandering
at late hours
Harvey
enforcement of the curfew law. Aec-
cording to the mayor, there has been
flagrant violation of this ordinance for
some time past,
Pittsburgh. “The pleture of Mra,
Sidney A. Stewart, a bride of three
months, In a morning paper with the
promise that the person who took her
wedding gown from her sedan Christ
mas eve while she was visiting a
friend could keep the other stolen
property If he would return the gown
brought the dress to its owner. In
the vestibule of Joseph C. Andrew's
home, at 1408 North® NePley avenue,
there reposed a cardboard box. It
was the same receptacle taken from
the Stewart machine, and In it An-
drews found Mrs. Stewart's wedding
gown, Pinned to It as a note of
had made a serious mistake and was
making restitution,
Harrisburg. Activities of the state
police, In their prohibition enforce.
ment campaign in the last half of De-
cember, resulted In the arrest of 250
persons for violations of the liquor
laws. They Included 208 bootleggers,
twenty-four moonshiners, and thirty
hotelmen and others.
Allentown.—Six families were made
homeless by a fire that destroyed an
apartment house at Lehigh Gap. The
loss Is ghbout $10,000. The blaze Is
belleved to have started in the apart-
ment of Willlam Frantz. Besides the
Frantz family, David Green, Charles
Berger, Edwin rger, William Jones
and Levi Gn lost all thelr house
hold effects,
Pittsburgh.-——Stephen Myers, form-
er postmaster at Glagsmere, was ar
résted on a charge of having embesz-
zled 32140 In postal funds, He was
held for the May term of federal
court. :
Pittsburgh, — The national banks
throughout the state will be affected
by the announcement of Attorney Gen-
eral Woodruff In a letter of James
Francis Burke, general counsel for the
Pittsburgh Clearing House Assocla-
tion, that no more efforts will be made
to escheat to the commonwealth mon
eys In bank the depositors of which
have not claimed it within fourteen
years. The decision of the United
States supreme court, which recently
declared a similar law In ‘California
unconstitutional, is taken as the gulde
the Pennsylvania authorities. Ap-
proximately $500,000 is sald to have
been paid Into the state treasury, but
the state authorities do not feel there
is any legal way for them to refund
the money.
Uniontown.—There were 1771 Fay-
ette county couples who obtained mar.
riage licenses during 1928, an Increase
of about 500 from the previous year,
Uniontown.-—As a result of a frac
tured skull and an Injury to his spine
sustained when he fell backward off
an hay wagon, Albert Stewart Cross.
land is in the Uniontown Hospital,
bullding operations In 1028, a total of
393 being erected.
Bloomsburg.—The triennial assess
ment for Columbia county will show
an increase of about: $300,000 ores last
year,
Spain, In the greatest
by a flying dive at the ball,
Luis Vincentini Here
No
TTR ETRE 37,
The new fistlie star to perform on
these shores—Luls Vincentinl, a light-
weight boxer from Santiago, Chile,
After his first two starts he attracted
the attention of the boxing impresqrio,
Tex Rickard, and the Chilean fistic
star is now under Rickard's manage
ment with the promise of a real
chance at Benny Leonard's title.
A State boxing comundssion is to be
formed in Georgla.
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According to history, sport fevivals
always follow war,
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Dues In a high-class golf club ard
epproximately $200 a year.
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Next year's baseball season opens
April 15. But the crocus Is a still
earlier sign of spring
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President Barnard of the Cleveland
Indians lost little time in denying a
report that Bill Wambsganss might be
to the Boston Red Sox for
George Burns,
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The final track and field trials for
the Olympic athletic team to repre
sent this country will he held at the
Harvard stadium in Cambridge, Mass,
on June 13 and 14,
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Nearly 000 clubs, gyms and socle-
ties are affiliated. There are no few-
er than 12000 licensed boxers Of
these 10,000 are amateurs and 2,000
are professional boxers.
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Ry Winder, owner and president of
the Joplin club of the Western associ
tion, has announced that Gabby Street
would not be retained as manager of
the Joplin team next year.
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Before a professional boxer is grant.
ed a license to fight In New Jersey,
copies of his birth certificate must be
presented along with his ring history
and a photograph of the contestant,
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The clubs that mpke up the big foot-
ball leagues In England are so scat
tered abont the country that the mem.
bers of the teams may spend more
time In traveling than In actual play-
ing,
Twenty-one nations have been In-
vited by the United States Lawn Ten-
nis association to compete for next
year's Davis cup. The list exceeds by
four countries the record field which
entered the contest this year,
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Most of the heavyweight boxing
titleholders have come from the west.
ern part of the United States. Demp-
sey came from Utah, Willard from
Kansas, Jolmson from Texas, and Jef-
fries and Corbett from California,
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Jack Pence, the Coe college, of Ce
dar Rapids (Jowa) quarter, who regis.
tered a 50-yard dropkick against Drake
university of Des Moines, at the latter
city November 10, will endeavor to
have the performance officially reo
ognized, ;
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fitfing on the bench and managing
a ball club—and spending the winter
in the open—have done wonders in a
way for Art Fletcher. The fans of
Philadelphia hardly wil recognize the
‘manager of the me they see
him In the spring. He's developed
AMERICA’S MILERS
ARE GREATEST EVER
Ray, Watson, Becker, Hahn
and Others Should
Draw Well.
Every indication points to the United
States sending the gi.atest string of
milérs that ever were assembled on
the same team after the 1500 meter
race at the Paris Glymple games next
summer. At least not since the team
won over 11 years ago with John Paul
Jones, Abel Kiviat, Norman Taber and
Louis Mariera on its roster has Uncle
Sam boasted of so many speedy eight.
furlong boys as wil grace the Paris
team.
There are three men on the Ameri
can tracks who gre capable of doing
%:17 or better under favorable con-
ditions—Jole Ray, Ray Baker and Ray
Watson. Another, Iioyd Hahn, of the
Boston A. A, will get under 4:20 next
year unless he disappoints signally.
Then there's Wharton, the Chicago A.
A. fiyer, who Is considered by mid
western track sharps as one of the
best mile prospects in the country.
Ernle Krogh, the former University of
Chicago athlete, should get into the
4:20 class also. He has done 4:22 this
season in spite of over-tralning a bit
during the early months of the outdoor
campaign.
Neither is the veteran Jimmy Con-
nolly, who will shortly don the colors
of the Newark Athletic club, to be
ignored in shaping up America’s line
up for the 1.500 meter race at Paris
Connolly has beaten 4:18 three times
during his career,
Oldest Caddy of All
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The oldest caddy of them all 1s
“Old Bill Luggen, eighty-two years old,
who In spite of his years declares that
he is the “youngest” caddie on any
golf course in the country and de-
clares he expects to make many trips
around the golf course at French Lick
Springs, Ind, where he has ecaddied
for many a prominent politician.
Radbourne Was Master of
- Detroit and Phillies
Charles (Old Hoss) Radbourne, with
a record of pitching 72 games and win-
ning 57 of them back In 1884 (and this
record is classed with the seven great-
est achievements In. baseball), was
complete master of several teams In
the National league during the days
when he was supreme,
Philadelphia came Into the National
league in 1888 and didn't win a game
from the “king” until the season of
1885 was well spent. A run of 18 con.
secutive victories was the record Rad:
bourne had before the Phillies solved
his delivery, A
Detroit had a ball team in the Na-
tional league those days, and that ag-
gregation, froin May,
gust, 1885, falled to win a game from
the “Old Hoss” losing 20 games dur
ing that stretcs before beating him,
a
Ly
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In spite of the fact that his foot.
ball career ended early last season
when his lmjured knee forced him to
hobble around on crutches, Ted Cox
has just been elected captain of the
University of Minnesota team for
1924. Handicapped by the badiy-hurt
joint, which made it necessary for him
to wear steel braces to protect it
which doctors sald would probably
cripple him for life, Cox, by bulldog |
determination, played In every confep- |
ence game ‘and has been heralded by
many us one of the best linesmen of
the Middle West.
| Large Hands Great Aid
- to College Basketeers
Back fifteen years ago the New York |
club of the American league had a
southpaw pitcher by the name of Harry
Abels who could grab a ball in his left
hand and completely envelop the same.
Abels was a pitching curiosity, Large
hands are supposed to be a decided
enable him to get a much better grip
on the ball A majority of the star
pitchers in the majors have big hands,
It falled to work in Abels’ case, how.
ever, as his stay in the majors was of
short duration. He had plenty of stuff,
but lacked control
For years “Horse” Haggerty, star
center ‘of the New York Celtics, has
been one of the curiosities of the bas-
ketball sport because of the way he
ean manipulate a basketball A big
pair of hands makes it possible for him
to do all kinds of peculiar stunts with
the ball to the embarrassmeik of the
opposition.
Now comes a rival for Haggerty In
the person of a college athlete, Charles
Bicking, a lanky freshman at Witten.
berg. With one hand Bicking can hold
a basketball at arm's length. If you
think it is easy, borrow a basketball
and try it
Shelton Lejeune Holds
Ball-Throwing Record
Long distance throwing of a base
bull is recorded to be 420 feet 04
inches, made by Sheldon J.ejeune at
Cincinnati, October 12, 1010. There is
a record in throwing a cricket ball 420
feet. The maker of this record was
a black iad whom they called Billy*
the Aboriginal, who possessed a won-
derful arm for throwing. It was noticed
by Englishmen who resided at Peak
Downs, South Africa, that Billy could
throw a ball in from the remote pans
of the large cricket grounds and do it
easily. Billy was Induced to throw
for a record. The previous record In
throwing a cricket ball was 301 feet,
on December 19, 1872. With conditions
correct? that is, no wind to help or re-
tard, this smoke took three throws,
all of which went over 400 feet, the
best one measuring 420 feet, This stood
as a record until Lejeune wiped it out.
England’s Everett Scott
James Sullivan, the Wigan
Rughy league's fullback, who
last season set a world's record
by scoring 850 points, recently
played his oné hundredth game
in Efgland, thus establishing
another record. He is twemy
years of age and has not missed
a game since joining the club In
1921. His total point score is'
638 during his career,
drift’
A With
Humor
OBLIGING
A clergyman anxious to introduce
some new hymn books, gave the clerk
a notice after the sermon. The clerk
had a notice of his own to give with
reference to baptism of infants. At
the clos¢ he’ announced: “All those
who have children they wish baptized,
please send In thelr names at once”
The clergyman, who was deaf, assum-
ing that the clerk was giving his no-
“And 1 want to
gay for the benefit of those who
haven't any, that they may be ob-
tained from me any day between three
and four o'clock, the ones with the red
backs at 25 cents and the ordinary
little ones at 15 cents.”"—Forbes Maga-
eine (N. W.).
NERVE OF SOME MEN
Wifie—It certainly seems that the
most {l-patured women get the best
aushands.
Hubby-—Nice of you to say so, my
dear-—what do you want?
Ask Dad,
His sister called him “Willie”
His mother called him “WIL”
But when he went to college,
To dad “twas Bill Bil BL
A Job for Uncle Sam.
A Dane who owned a farm In Kan-
“Are you satisfied with the general
conditions of the country?
Yas," drawled the Dane.
“Does the form of government sult
you?” gueried the judge. :
“Yeas, yas; only. 1 would like to see
more rain,” replied the farmer. —Every-
body's.
SAD FATE
Fly (vearsighted and suffering with
& cold)—Drat it; I can’t tell if it's soup
or red paint!
Artful Art
Art wins the heart, they often say,
These lipsticks, red cheeks, curls
Have brought so much art into play
I can’t resist the giris
irrepressible Flip,
Business Man (to applicant)~—~Can
you spell correctly?
Stenog—Yes, sir, I wish all the
other words were as easy as that one.
Fatal,"
She (coyly) Is it dangerous to drive
with one hand?
He (brutally)—You bet! More than
one fellow has run into a church doing
it—Judge.
Pa Looked for Trouble,
“A ploneer is one who starts some
thing, isn’t he, ma?"
“Yes; your father is the ploneer of
this family, my son."
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Judged by the Response.
Bellhop (after guest has rung for
ten minutes)-Did you ring, sir?
Guest—Oh, no! 1 was tolling. 1
thought you were dead!
ET
iy a
“why your da ter
in the dining room? i tng
B.~It's the only way to get the
guests to leave the ble Londen An
DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING!