PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Easton.—Anna Frey, ®7 years old,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F.
Frey, of Stewartsville, N. J, died In
the Easton Hospital from tetanus
Two weeks ago the child stepped on
a rusty rail. The wound healed
quickly, but later tetanus developed.
White Haven.—Deer are becoming
very tame in and around the White
Haven section, probably due to the
lack of food in the surrounding for-
ests, where the snow Is from three
to four feet deep, following recent
storms. A large buck paid a visit to
town and walked along Main street
without showing any traces of fear.
The animal took its time In going
through the town and disappeared in
the woods.
Pittshurgh.—A second marriage by
the same couple proved no more suc-
cessful than the first, it was revealed
when Mrs. Merie Turrell was recom-
mended a divorce from Clarence L.
Turrell in a master's report filled in
common pleas court. They were first
married In 1902 and dlvorced In 1907.
They were married again in 1917 and
lived together until 1921, when, the
wife alleged, Turrell deserted her.
Lewistown.—Rev. Dr. M. 8. Cress.
man, pastor of St. John's Lutheran
church, warned Lewistown residents
to be on the lookout for a group of
boys who are soliciting money and
selling articles under the pretense
that they have been sent out from
Trexler Orphans’ Home at Loysville,
Pa. The home never sends boys out
to solicit, he sald.
Meadville.—Albert Platt, aged
who was convicted of murdering Rob-
ert Ellis McGowan,
Corners, Pa., school teacher, on
morning of February 8, will dle In the
electric chair on a date to be set by
the governor of Pennsylvania, In ac-
cordance with a sentence imposed by
Judge Thomas J. Prather, of Craw-
ford county criminal court. Platt
was found guilty of causing McGow-
an's death when he struck McGowan
upon fie head several times with a
deuble-bitted ax.
Ee A seventeenth
mahogany clock brought 3275 at
auction of property of the late Edgar
Maxwell, of Bast Drumore township.
A Franklin stove brought $100.
Pittsburgh.—Carbon monoxide pols
oning caused the death of 12-year-old
Henry Jankowski and the critical ill
ness of his two brothers and sister,
in thelr home at Etna. Mrs. Jankow-
ski, mother of the children, discover.
ed the body of Henry when she went
to awaken him.
sister, sleeping In the same room were
unconscious.
Clifton Heights. —Harry Wright lost
his eye In an accident at the
branch of the Glen Riddle Mills,
ployed as a weaver, Wright was golng
about his dutles when a shuttle flew
out of a loom and
from its socket,
Sunbury.—John D. W
stuck to his work as a car repairman,
although his wife recently
£100,000 and a home, was struck in
the eye by a plece of steel while at
work and may lose his sight. Heim
repeatedly has declared that he would
not know what to do If he did not
work.
Altoona.—Padlocks were placed hy
the landlord on the doors of the build-
ing occupled by Court No. 1, Mystic
Order of Sphinx, a social club,
eral times raided by the police,
oo
HT
persons who officiated as stewards are
serving terms In the Blair county jail
for illegal liquor selling.
Uniontown.—J. Calvin Areford,
driver of the car, which overturned
on Mra Ida Goldstein and killed her,
near Smithfield, was held for court
by Alderman Darby in $4000 ball on
an Involuntary manslaughter charge
and In 21000 on a charge of operating
a motor vehicle while under the In-
fluence of liquor.
Wilkes-Barre —Striking a match to
gee how much gasoline was In the
tank of his automobile at a local gas
station, Elmer Stetler, aged 35, of
Parsons, was seriously burned by an
explosion which followed. Juhn Me-
Kenna, aged 18, a companion, also
was hurned.
Wilkes-Barre. —Of the 115 allens
appearing in naturalization eourt
here, approximately 25 measured up
to the requirements necessary for
them to pass. Judge Garman stood
firm on his previous rullng that allens
unable ts read the English language
would be denled citizenship.
Lewistown. —Goldstein Brothers, of
Portage, have purchased the Samuel
Hallem furniture store here,
Washington.—Injured when two
sleds collided, Harry Jones, aged 14,
died from a fractured skull,
Bloomsburg.—A meeting of all po-
tato growers of Columbia county to
form a permarent organization has
been called to meet at the court-
house,
Beaver Falls, ~~ Injured internally
when his sled ran into a pole, Ralph
Buhot died In the hospital here.
Greenbee.—8llas Pickell, 75 years
cid, died suddenly from a stroke while
conversing with his family.
Sunbury.~-~When James Samuels
sudednly swerved his car to save kill
ing a cat, his auto was upset and
gmashed, but he escaped with slight
injuries,
Hazleton. Alexander Vannaucker,
general agent of the Hazleton Heights
Land company, died suddenly from
heart trouble while seated in a chair
at his home.
Bethlehem. —Fourteen-year-old Bea-
trice Moser was badly burned when a
cloth she was using to clean a stove
became Ignited.
Wormleysburg, — A conscience
stricken thief mailed his loot back to
the woman whose home he robbed
two months ago. When the mall man
stopped at the home of Mrs. Dalsy
Nabal, he delivered a parcel that con-
tained a bearskin rug and a deer's
head, taken from her home. The send-
er signed himself: “Tony Mirock, Pal.
myra.”
Altoona. —Councll will issue 8300,
000 in bonds to resurface streets and
for emergencies,
Lewistown.—Dr. F. W. Black, chlef
surgeon at the Lewistown Hospital,
slipped on the ley pavement and frac-
tured the index finger of his left hand.
Altoona. —Golng to St, Mary's Cath-
ollie church, to attend mass, Michael
Beck, aged 68, retired Pennsylvania
railroad bollermaker, died suddenly
of heart disease.
Hazleton.—Three feet of snow, with
an ice tooping, on the lake at Hazle
Park forced canceilmtion of plans for
a big ice carnival near here, under
auspices of the publie schools and the
Y. MC A,
Bethlehem.—From the effects of In-
Juries suffered when she fell down
stairs at her home, Mrs. Catherine
Laner, aged 50, died. She was about
to answer a summons to the front
door to admit a son, and In endeavor
locate a push button on the
second floor, which would have turr-
ed on the light at the
stairs, she made a misstep and fell.
She was found by members of her
family with a fracture of the skull
Lemoyne.—lLemoyne's speed cop,
Harry N. Stone,
dreds of arrests of motorists,
horough. Of the borough's
fund balance of $£3494.08 for
$2766.60 was turned in by
Crow as fines and costs
war, it was announced. For
while 8570
to the state treasury. The
fils turned In more
1023 to Camp Hill. He Is employed
Jointly by both boroughs.
Hazleton.—Howard Goldsworthy, a
lineman of the
Light company,
liamsport hospital
he
traffic
died at
from burns
came in contact
after falling
recelv-
with a
thirty
from a
Pittshurgh
eel pole.
Released
hospital at
weeks ago
from a
Baltimore
when he
gov-
only
wns treated
France
Neeler
sat
the
killed
dining room
war, Oliver
wife
table with their
Neeler refused to
when taken to a police station,
the house
shot
at =
three
his as she
they
Virginia, a daughter,
bespattered
2-year-old her
get up.
Greensburg. —Two general stores
and a number of adjoining bulidings
were destroyed by fire in the mining
of Haydenville, near here,
ith a loss of 850000. The Hayden-
volunteer firemen made
telephone © lines, prostr
last week's sleet storm, were out of
Seranton.-—Aeting upon a
from Philadelphia,
marshals seized
ht car in the local yards of the
and Hudson raliroad eon.
taining fifty barrels of alcohol The
company, of Scranton,
from the Brooklyn
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Verde Hoover, stew-
Club, of this eity,
and
come
New (Castle.
of a rald on the
liquor was found.
Security Title
club In whieh
York.—The and
the Guaranty Title and
pany, making the latter one Hf the
strongest financlal institutions of the
city, with capital of 2425000 and a
surplus of $400,000,
the
and a dividend of £1.25,
Pittsburgh. —Albert Hufnagle,
10, was “killed,
Curley, aged
aged
16, was injured, when
the Middletown
Rocks. The girl
road, at
will
McKee's
recover. Huf-
injured internally.
Hazleton.—For the third time with-
in the last few months, a thief oper-
ated at the Hazleton Public Library,
getting 85 In cash and ransacking the
entire place, evidently in search for
money. Footprints outside of the
building are expected to give a good
clew,
Lincoin.—Mrs. David Keller is In a
critical condition as a result of burns
suffered while attempting to start a
fire with kerosene.
Shamokin~Mr, and Mrs. Jacob A.
Troxell died within a period of ten
hours at their home here, both being
stricken with pleuropneumonia about
a week ago.
Gilberton.— Steam shovels are at
work here filling In mine breaches on
the road to Malzeville,
Harrisburg. The annountment of
Mrs, 8. Ralph Zimmerman, of Lancas-
ter ns a trustee of the mothers’ assist.
ance fund was announced,
Lancaster—A plece of lumber fall.
ing from the top of a bulking here,
struck Frank Rohrer, an carpenter, of
Strasburg, severely injuring his left
arm,
Easton. Benjamin Slegfried, aged
67, while shoveling the leavy snow
In front of the Keystone Hotel, drop-
ped over dead.
A.A. U,
Left to right, Albert White, National
Charlie Fletcher,
MTL ALTE
The Vernon club has sold the vet- |
eran first baséman and outfielder Ham- |
iiton Hyatt, to the Galveston club of
Texas league,
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The Athletics
Strank to
for Gregg,
plus £60,000,
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traded Schang, Dush
logton December 17,
Chet Thomas and
Kepp,
Ira Thomas, president and manager
yf the Shreveport club, closed his deal |
wherehy acquires Shortstop Bill
irr from the Seattle club,
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he
games of the Naval
next year will be played in |
dium at Annapolis except |
the Military academy |
All football
academy
the new stn
those against
and Princeton,
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The
jecided,
wanive
Philadelphia Nationals finally |
on pleas from to |
Inflelder Walter Kimmick |
to Vernon as part pay-
ment for Jake May.
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‘Incinnati,
on
Talk of taking the bread out of poor |
men's mouths, how about that Florida |
governor who will not let Chuck Wig
sey fight in that state?
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Chief Bender, former pitcher of the
Athletics, won more
world's series games than any other
piayer—one in 1005, two in 1010, two
in 1911, and one In 1913.
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Takeo Harado, new tennis champion
will participate in United
States this spring and aay also com
pete in the Davis cup play as a repre.
mation.
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Del Gainer, first baseman and out- |
fielder, nfrer being reinstated by Com
missioner Landis and given his re
the St. Louis Nationals,
signed with Houston
ease
promptly
‘ub,
by
the
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Bill Roper has made »'fine record
at Princeton ‘since the
Of the ten games played with
Harvard and Yale during that period,
tied two, and
lost three,
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The New York Yankees have begun
to shed some of the minor league
*talent” taken on for accommodation.
For instance, Pitcher Benny Karr was
the Atlanta club of the
Southern league,
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Al Tyson, outfielder, who has been
with the outlawed Simmons
of Kenosha, Wis, for two or
is geing to return to or
team
three years,
Loulsville Colonels.
Yost Is Now ‘Professor
“Prof. Flelding H. Yost” 13 the way
Michigan's veteran football mentor
may get his mail hereafter, The board
of regents of the university made
“Hurry Up” a professor of the theory
and practice of athletic conching. The
action gives the director of athletics
INE NI HH A BENE HE J
full nendemic rank on the campus,
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Washingtons Landed
in Select Division
When Donie Bush, the
manager, brought Washington
into fourth place last season, he
turned a trick that the Nationals
have only accompli shed on six
other occasions. For In all the
years that the caphtal hamlet has
had a team In the American
league It has land®d (n the select
section but seven times. Three
seasons It has finished In fourth
place, two In third and two In
second. Like the Browns, Wash
ington has yet to annex its first
pennant,
mite
PW UH TNT TH WWW RY
Paris cations prediet that in
the near future Edounrd Muascart, the
featherwelght
will to “the
dollar” to engage Johnny
the world's championship
nals base thelr predictions on a cable
gram sent to the French Boxing fed
by Jim Johnston, Dundee's
to the . effect that Dundee
to meet Mascart at any
time. The major question, Paris four
nals say, Is where will the bout be
staged?
There is more
than in France,
publi
champion of Eu-
lind of the
Dundee for
The jour-
Come
manager,
money in
according to the
cart will meet Dundee, If at all,
United States. The
worried over the possible outcome of
the match Will Mascart follow the
footsteps of Criqul?
wants te know. The Paris
writers feel that Mascart is not a man
who should be underrated
they say that he has ability
at leas! make things as Interesting for
as he has ever known them
Kirkwood Finished Fifth
Joe Kirkwood, former Australian
California open championship last
year, finished fifth this year turning
in a card of 200 for 72 holes.
Stubby Mack Set Loose
With String Attached
Prank (“Stubby”) Mack war not
among those present when the White
Sox hurlers reported at Winter Haven,
Fla. The young hurler will spend next
season under Ira Thomas at Shreve
port, La. A string has been attached
to the player and he'll be recalled next
fall,
Mack was purchased in midseason
of 1022 from the Seattle club, the
price being £10,000. Due to various
ailments he showed only flashes of
form, so last spring he was farmed
out, first to Nashville, Tenn., and then
to Galveston, Tex,
PHils and Macks to Play
The Athletics and the Phillies will
have a real “city ehamplonship series"
next Aptil. They have agreed to play
seven games, beginning April 1. Four
will be played at 8hibe park and three
at the park of the Phillies and the
games will be run along from April 1
to 18, inclusive,
EXER XFXERN SAN RR RR
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Putting Automatie,
States One Golfer
When asked by 8 duffer “how
he knew just how hard to hit the
ball on the green,” a promigent
golfer replied ;
“I cannot lay down any rules
for the calculation of strength
and distance. Personally, I am
of opinion that such calculation
is automatic and instinetive, The
eye, when one is putting well,
‘takes In’ the distance, conveys
the Information through the
brain to the muscles, and an au-
tomatieally correct amount of
power is thence put into the
stroke,
“This theory may be all wrong
from a medical or scientific point
of view, but I give jt as an idea
of what I feel tak +s place in my
own individual case when 1 am
hitting my putts really well.”
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WILLS HAS CHANCE
TO DEFEAT LENGLEN
Over That of Last Year.
Wills ean raise her
is capable of she
has a splendid chance to defeat Su-
zanne Lenglen in the Olympic games in
Paris, says William C. Fuller, the na-
champion's adriger
If Helen
to the heights she
chief
Miss Wills will be nun
women's tennis tes
“1 saw sald Fuller,
as good now,
then
ver 1 ever saw,
» THiden.'
Lenglen in 1621,"
“and just
better, then she was
the most versatile pla
I would eall her a *
has everything, and any we
expects to defeat her must bh
she Is
Helen Wills,
That fs |
ust raise her game.
slie needs much
thing to give her in return
1 say Helen n
win but
provement.”
Fuller last
year predicted that
then champion, a prophecy she ful
sald Fuller,
when she
“Helen's game,”
much better than
from the Ea
ing court faster
has been one of her faults,
sense of anticipation Is keener.
volleving shows vast improvement.
fact playing a
gressive all around
“ler sery however, is
“
st last fall.
Klowness
great
In
she is
Rinne
ice, still
from what I want it to be
there are a couple that he doesn’t hold.
more years and more games than Ty
Cobb,
and runs than
was in the game
Wagner 2
Ty has played.
distance playing record with 22 years,
either
for
“ey
le
2.258 games,
2.341 In his 19 years
and this is the mark Ty still has to
shoot at,
mond for three years more
Georgia Jewel will surpass all the rec.
ords. As it stands Ty has made more
runs and hits than any other player |
and has a higher batting average.
The significant thing about the per.
formance of Cobb is that he has Im
proved his batting average since he
became thirty years of age. Before he
was thirty his lifetime average was
around 350, but now it is 37.
Sunday Baseball “Wanted
The annual effort to obtain passage
of a bill In the Massachusetts legisin
ture permitting cities and towns to de
elde for themselves whether or not
they shall allow haseball games on
Sundays is being made. All that ls
asked is that the eity or town be al
lowed to vote yes or no, but the fa
natics and others who rale in the leg
fslature don't seem disposed to grant
even that measure of government,
Olympics in New Stadium
After the winter sports at Chamon.
nix, France, the first of the Olymple
games will begin, with rughy football
May 38 to 19, followed hy soccer foot.
ball from May 15 to June 9. These
trinls will take place in the new Co
tombez stadium, which will seat 40,000
of the 00,000 it will accommodate.
THAT QUESTION OF AGE
A pretty sixteen-year-old flapper at-
tended a dance the other night and
while taking lunch afterward at a
cafe saw one of the leading citizens
of the town in the cafe,
“l never was so shocked
life,” ghe sald in recounting
“ag when 1 went
in my
the ex-
into the
of him being there at 1 o'clock in the
morning.”
Cheer.
man,” sald the
rest.”
Seasonal
“What you need,
tor, “is a complete
“What!” The busy patient
agitatedly,. “Why, I can’t
doctor; it Is impossible.”
“1 didn’t suggest it,” sald the
“What I sald is you need a com
plete rest. Send your family to Eu
rope, sell your car your goit
sticks.”
£0
medico
that
and burn
Restraint,
we were married yo
me an angel!”
“1 know it."
“And now
thing.”
“You
that
“Before
you don't call
be since
self-co
ought to
1 POEBess such
Life's Little Surprises,
“It surprise me that Ed
He hi £473 knew
“It would have
had ma
her.”
surprised
rried her,
ia
CA fe - Wi
“That me on the giate
but 1 haven't got
dealer has
yet
“Oh, you'll get it—slate and all!”
But Not Already.
Some day a paper scarcity
Will cause the world
The poor old paper mark
Of some slight value
to fret
may be
yet
Too Much Resemblance.
“Don't you think that young
maming 7
“I do not, my dear. He
much like your father when he
young man."-—Le Rire,
gang? Saga! Bang!
(to stranded
How'd you get the puncture?
Auntoist—Ran over a chicken =
feathers,
man
8 wv
looks too
WES 8
Farmer aute
ith
Doing It Up Right.
Mrs. Eskimo—Where have you been
six months?
Mr. Eskimo—1 was sitting up with
a sick friend all night.
. ©, Fudge.
Young Swain-—Are you really quite
happy with me, sweetie?
The Malden—Oh, yes
but your
WANTED SOMETHING NEW
Stewpan—Oh, say, Miss Tea Kettle,
can't you cut out that old stuff and
ig something up-to-date,
He Found out.
Why e¢all it Roaring River?
He wondered o'er and o'er
But when he came to pay his bill
You should have heard him roar
By These Presents.
“They say that love is a gift
marriage is a token. Then
divorce?”
“A souvenir, I suppose”
A ——— Ol AA AOA,
. Not Usual,
Lawyer~Why do you want a divores
from your husband?
Client-——He is one of those nonstog
drinkers,
and
what is
A Beggar's Advantage.
“Why Is & strong mah like yoo
found begging?
“Ah, madam, It Is the only profes
sion In which a gentleman can address
a beautiful lady without the formality
of an introduction”
Why He Hesitated!
“If you're not feeling well, w
don't you go to your doctor? Ca
you trust him?"
“Oh, Pes, 1 can trust him; the tab
ble 1s he is not altogether "willing w
trust we