PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Franklin—Mystery in the disap- pearance of Mrs. Lena Owens Urm- gon from her home in this city the night of April 1 was cleared with the finding of her body .n the Allegheny river a mile north of Foxburg, Pa. The body of her 6-year-old son Don- ald was taken from the river near Kittanning May 16. Marital troubles and brooding over them for several years are held by relatives to be re sponsible for the woman's act. She and her son are thought to have leap- ed to death from a cliff overlooking French creek near the junction of the stream with the Allegheny river. Warren.—A still at the United Re- finery exp.oded, resulting in the death of Melvin Evans, who was caught under a shover of burning oil Uniontown. —8elzed with a dlzy spell as he rode on a motor track, Frank E. Springer, aged 56, fell head long to the street, sustaining a frac- tured skull which resulted In Instant death. Springer had complained of dizzy spell as a result of stomach trouble and one is believed to have preceded his fatal fall State College.—Advance enrollments of students “or the fifteenth summer session at the college, from July 7 to August 15, indleate that more than 2000 will attend. More than half that number already have registered, including more than 700 public school teachers and about 250 students from the Penn State regular winter Bes- sion. Sunbury.—That local veterans of the world war want thelr bonus de spite repeated assertions to the con- trary, was | Ueated when more than 1000 crowded int; American Legion Hall to get applicaticn blanks. Scenes were reminiscent of enlistment days and a battery of typewriters was kept busy filling in the blanks. Media.—The citizens voted favor. ably to Incr<ase the bonded indebt- edness of the borough $180.000, by 637. to 489. The money will be used Pitcher Connally Is Partial to Minors George Connally, a right-hand- ed pitcher who went to the White Sox from Galveston last fall, is somewhat of a curiosity. Connally doesn't give a rap whether he stays In the leagues or not, “I'd rather play in the minors, anyway,” he Insists, Connally happens to be a like- ly prospect, and Ed Walsh, who has him in charge, Is seeking to convince him that the big league isn't such a terrible place after all. But Connally likes to play where he knows people, “Shucks, I could walk up and down Michigan boulevard all day long, and not see anybody 1 know,” he laments. big BOSTON CLUB SHOWS MUCH IMPROVEMENT HAPPILY MARRIED They friends. “Do you see Emma often?” quired, “Oh, yes, quite frequently,” the oth er repiled. “Is she happily married?” “Is she? 1 should think she Ia Why, that girl is so happily married that she has to go to the theater for a good cry.” were talking about woIneD one in Significant Omissions “Do you know tow the Labor party Chester.—"hig city has been select- ed as the convention city for the an- nual meeting of the Grand Lodge, I'ra- ternal Order of Beavers, commencing August 18. Hazleton—Burglars who smashed the window at the jewelry store of Felix Blumer with a padded brick found only paper covered shelves Meadville—Dorothy Anthony, aged 9. of Geneva, and C. L. Reynolds, aged 47, a conductor on the Erle railroad, are dead, and damage to houses, barns and crops amounting to thous- ands of dollars followed the trall of the second terrific -vind storm in a week which covered the district last week, Six houses at Geneva were flattened, thenr occupants narrowly es- well known school girl basket ball caping death as they fled to the cel- . ple Z : player, suddenly became blind, and lars. A brick church in Union town- | it is believed that the blindness was ship was blown down and train between Chicagc 1 en ork | due to grieving over the fact that on Ia n Chicago and New 1OrK | aunt to, whom she was very devoted, was delayed seerval hours while the had just been removed to the Easton crew cut thelr way turough fallen | Hospital for an operation. Her fam- trees for a mile or more. : ily physician and an specialist Readng.-~1g a family quarrel, Will- | yop, poljeve that with care and prop- fam D. Walsh, aged 64, was shot un- | er attention the girl will regaln her der the right arm, the bullet causing | sight. a flesh wound, and his daughter, Mrs | Pittshurgh.—Judge John Haymaner Veronica Miraglla, aged . 31, was | sentenced Patrick Coyne.to ten to slashed across the face. Walsh was |... tv vears In the Western Peni arrested after treatment at a hos- | — pital. His daughter said that she shot | tentiory for the murder of his young | bride lust July. Mrs. Coyne was him after he attacke® her with a razor. | shot to death In the pair's home. Just Harrishurg.—A plea before the state | to build a sanitary sewer system in the borough. Electloneering for the loan was done by the councilmen and members of the Business Men's Asso. ciation. It is expedted that work on the new sewer system will begin within the next six weeks. West Chester—Three boys, Benny Feodecuo, hic brother, Joseph, and Earl Hoffman, all between the ages of 8 and 10 years, are locked up in the detention home as the authors ol several recent small fires and burg. laries and are being heid for the ac- tion of the Juvenile Court. They are sald to have confessed complicity In a number of recent affairs. Easton.—Nellle Fdlk, aged Quinn and Fohl Meeting With Great Success. epell thelr program?” asked an Eng- lishman at a social gathering. Then he spelled out the words “Labor pro- gram.” “Well, what inquired his hostess, “Why, you see it leaves out ‘u' and ‘me.’ "—Boston Transcript. Short Measure Jeechnut-—8ay, you buzz-bean Photograph of Blanche Balley, left, and Alice Roose, right, clearing the hazards with a vengeance, when they set a new national record for women's 100-yard low hurdle at the University of lowa meet. They robbed the old time of a full second, and left It at :14 6-10. University of Tennessee may drop baseball from Its sports calendar In 1023. The success that Bobby Quinn and with that? Lee Fohl are having with the Eos ton Red Sox is being watched with in- terest by all baseball followers of Is wrong WPT We We HH RRR HR RW RHR RRR AR Olympic Games Once Had but One Event Olympic games of ancient Greece consisted at first of only a foot race of 210 yards. Gradually the number of events was (ncreased until the program Included three fool races, wrestling, boxing, the pancratium, which was a sort of boxing and wrestling combined, usually running, jumping, throw. Ing the discus, throwing the javelin and wrestling, and final ly. as the program became more elaborate, various kinds of horse and chariot races, a» all the American association, because of the fact that they are products of this circuit, It was pointed out last winter when Quinn and several business men of Co lumbus, Ohio, purchased the Boston club that Quinn, with the ald of Fohl, whom he selected as manager, would budld up a team that would soon be In the running for the pennant. Quinn and Fohl are making good that propheey, as they now the Red Sox in a commanding position, Quinn was lumbus club when Rochester has farmed Jimmy Kelly, | the American a pitcher, Petersburg of the Vir. | ship three in a row | ginla league, via its Scranton farm, | 1008 and 1907. He was business man. eo | ager of the club, but really was the the | brains of the organization, as he of | handled all deals for players and db 1871 | rected the polley BHI { Clymer, manager of the club in those | pliot. He Hirem most gosh hanged ‘er heard tell of, Editor Poduck—How so? Hirem leechnut-—Wa'al, In last week's paper the department entitled “local Intelligence™ was only about two inches long! or the ? po | editor 1 George Block, the veteran catcher, has a winner at Dyersburg In the Kit- | ty league this year. * » . E. J. Ellingson, "25, captain of the baseball University of Wisconsin, ® * . 14, a Give Him a Chance Grandma—Who do you like best of all the here to see your sister? ~1 lke » doesn't } t hang key VERY SARCASTIC have wy has been elected team of the associated with the Co the Senators won association men who cone Bb . ¥ ~ the best, he- ines to } cause over eye his handkerchief RHR EEFEREEERRER EERE RN hole, BRN NRHN TREN NN x * * * *® * * * * * * * 3 * : i * The Professional first regularly baseball clubs, to 1875. association, organized league flourished from of the team Cyril Walker Wins { days. merely acted as fleld took his orders from Quinn i Quinn and Fohl are not entitied te all of the credit for the bang-up ball | the Red Sox are playing. however, for i { they assistants in the | | persons of Lefty Leifield, former Pitts | burgh pitcher, and Steve O'Nelll, the | catcher obtained from Cleveland. Lei | Seld and O'Neill have performed won | ders with the Red Sox pitchers whose work has been the of the major leagues, Aloysius Schmitt, former star pitch. | er of the Georgetown university base | | before the body was liscovered Coyne ball team, joins the Cleveland Indians ’ ; | was found with both legs cut off on a for a tryout. board of pardons for her brother's re- He showed emo ee : «> | railroad track. . lease from the Eastern Penitentiary, tion when sentenced. Warland Hicks, University of Iowa whers he is suffering from valvular | ppiontowr.—Charging before an al- baseball star and has heart trouble, was made by Mrs. derman that Mrs. George Creck had signed by Dubuque of the Mississipp! Grale O'Hara, of New York city, In ! 4514 neighbors “all scabs’ children Valley league. the case of Thomas Thompson, con- | should be poisoned,” Charles Patta, of Pa LA 9, victed of second degree murder In Hoover, cacsed the woman's arrest, Abe Hood, peppery little second | Northumberland county In 1017. alleging that she had poisoned his son sacker, whom Waterbury drafted last | GC ¥ Pe Thompson vas Hying at Milton, Pa, | pecause Patta worked In coal fall, has been farmed out to Scranton 5 ir s Ie , i 2 & - n at the time he killed his rival In a | pines during the receat strike. The by Kitty Bransfield, love affair. He 18 confined to the 4 : child dled on the way to a hospital di *. hospita. at the penitentiary. after drinking from a bottle found In Norristovyn.—A note written by Mrs. the Patta yard. Mrs. Creck, Patta, George Pfeiffer and »4dressed to her | jeclared 'n his Information, obtained | been signed to manage Lexington. He husband, abssived the latter from | she bottle and smashed it after the r iy! will hold down right blame for the death of the wife by | hoy became IL Je a so. on a revolver ~hot at their home In| Harrisburg—Governor Pinchot an Snr Pitcher Reynolds Kelly to Spring Mount. Pfeiffer was released | the state fiscal officers Invited ses Worcester by New Haven in exchange from jail after the note was placed i : no have two able captain, been Hopper—What's { Snalll talk ——————————— ts ' . Social Saurian A social "lzard's™ not so As is the predatory lad; Atl heart an alligator--yet Ambitious to t ome a pet the bad Brown Is Hard Hitter Jimmy Viox, former Pirate star ond recently released by Louisville, has He Breathked Easier Syhil—Father, nronoeed this m prog i HE} mot field the music master i 3 t Father—-What! tra Aen LT aneq three x lessons a week, for on has been ” Questions the Proverbs “Pa, n wife are one, aren't they ®™ “Yes, my son. “Then it doesn’t take two to guarrel, intr yy) and ' 1 his Christensen, make = does A Gifted Sportsman Mr. Splint—So you went hunting with Jinks? Mr. Yipe—Yes Mr. Spiint—Shoot anything? Mr. Yipe—~—Yes; Jinks. Browns met shot Implication Present “Are mine the only lips you have ever kissed?” “Yes” he sald; darling, and the nicest.”"--London Tit-Bits Incompetent Dora—Harold isn't the kind of » man a girl wants to take her out mo “yes, Ed Brown, hard-hitting fielder of Indianapolis, former Glant, who was | proposals noon July 22, {| for Outfielder Eddie Eayrs in the hands of the authorities. It | 215000000 highway bond Issue g JJ Ua star: for the Coal. Beavers. sins asked the husband's forgiveness “for | proved by the voters last November, joining them. my act.” | and will be known as Serles E, bear Cyril Walker, Englewood (N. J) ¢ +0 Natalle.—Sitting on the tracks and | ing 414 per cent Interest. The bonds pro, who Is Dew aatiobal open golf Harvey former Nash. unaware of the approach of a train, | will be dated May 1, this year, and | champion by virtue of fnishing in | ville utility man. who became a free | Elmer Venshure was struck by the | will be payable at the Philadelphia front of the 83 starters over the dif- | agent when the Travelers cut his sal. sagioe an his left leg was Bearly | National Banh in $3,000,000 lots 23 | gory Oakland Hills Country club. | ary 100 iron men, has gone to Wilson severed | follows: May 1, 1029; May 11032; vv i . Ing np amnion. | In the Virginis Hs sh Altoona, — Standing on her front | May 1. ors Sos 1. 1940; May 1 Baby Jones, 1a year's champion, | In t e¢ Virginia Jeague. porch in Juniata, Mrs. Clalr C. Bur- | 1048; May 1, 1047, and May 1, 1020 Giginsindgte Sonn _ i Scout Pat Mobaban of the ley saw that her son, Carl, aged 5, | The odd million will be payable Mas bate nk hot Hahan of h Fu was about to be run down by a coal | 1, 1033. | that he carries a radio : : a . truck, and turned awoy just as the | Pottsville —Affected by the heat, ay 0 BR | that he fuay be able to ot Prov gr Ind was crushed to death under the | John Chupick sat down on the Penn- | ball scores otit ot th : Bee. i vam wheels. The boy had been playing In | gylvania railroad and was killed by a : sho J i the street { train. Olympic maratho OF al . Lansford, was killed, and John Kas- | trol cleared Pennsylvania thorough . oe | postponements f . seing Sue 10 lindo, 28, seriously injured when their | fares of 162 reckless drivers during Rugby Is played In virtually no part | rain Buffalo me on account of motor car overturned on Broad Moun- | May, it was announceds The patrol | oe eho United States except Gulifornia.] the honvies ! n ew park shows tain near Hudsondale. | made a totai of 481 arrests and ob- re a "| 360.000 fest loss, its estimate being Harrisburg.—A consclence stricken | tained 460 convictions, of which 162 Tom Gibbons is the only fghter who ddd * oa hunter who shot a game bird out of | were for re-kless driving. Other ar-| (con lia 0 15 rounds before Dem F. A. Sm! season sent Secretary Gordon, of the | rests were: Elghty-two for defects or | Loo v : > oe y Smith of Auburn has been game commission, $25 for the con- | neglect tn 1 hting equipment; 53 for y. . se tewiad captain of the Rensuelner gclence fund. In a letter, postmarked Polytechnic Institute baseball team for Altoona, the writer sald: “Inclosed find £25 for a ring-neck pheasant 1 cooked that was shot out of season In 1921. The Lord has lald it on my heart to make it right withhold my name.” Coaldale.~John Evans, 38 of Bast Mauch “hunk, a miner, was Yilled and James Charles, 42, Nesquehoning, and Raymond Shoemaker, Lehighton, seriously burned by a gas explosion in the Nesquehoning colllery of the Lehigh Coal Company. It Is bellaved by witnesses of the accident that in earrying out a small blasting opera. tion the gas became ignited Bethlehem, — His skull fractured when he was struck by a trace that broke on a set of harness, Stanley E. Roth, of Nazareth, dled In Bt Luke's Hospital Allentown —Nearly 250 tents have been erected for the opening of the camp meeting of the Mennonite Breth- ren in Christ in Mizpah Grove, near here. Altoona. —Caught in a fall of rock and dirt ir excavating for the Young Men's Institute on June 3, Andrew Eckley, 60, dled at the Altoona Hos- pital of his Injuries, Reading~Leon Hullinger, § years old, was shot and killed by a play- mate, George Brunner, 8, while they were playing “cops and robbers.” Grant was handling a gun supposedly not loaded, Hazleton. —Willlam Bednar, a coal miner in the Jeddo No. 4 colliery of the Jeddo Highland “oal Company, was instantly 1illed under a fall of rock, operating with cut-out; 52 for pass ing standing trolley cars and the re- mainder for minor violations, Fines returned to the state treasury as the result of these arrests totaled $4718. Pottsville~The past master's de by state officials of the Knights of Malta. Bethlehem. — Charies Krozee, a Bthelehemr Steel Works employe, was killed by lightning in the storm here. He was carrying a pick and shovel at the time. George Novak and Mich. ael Knat, who were with him at the time, were badly shocked. Philadelphia. —An order for the pay- ment of $6000 as Peter's pence to Pope Plus XI from the $32,185 estate of Julian Hare, former Philadelphia artist, whe died at Blarritz, France, on December 22, 1022, was handed down In orphans’ court by Judge Henderson In an adjudication of the account of the administrator. Most of the property comprising the estate is in Philadelphia. Sunbury.~~hore than 900 delegates attended the annual Sunday scheol convention of the Danville Conference of the Evangelical Ministeriom, at Island Park. New Castle~~John Vets approached a woman on the street and asked her if he conld accompany her. He did, but the path led to the city lock-up. The woman was Mrs, McKibben, eity policewoman. Veto paid $25 ln police court. Lewistown —Raymond Flake res. cued Harry M. Gibbs, Jr, from drown. ing In the Rodgers mill pond at Me Veytown. . | Richard HL. Crane, Indianapolis, No. 8 on this year's Michigan tennis team, has been elected captain, » * . If, as report says, Carpentier Is worth a million, he must “get beat ap” just for the fun of it - . * The great revival of lawn tennis In England is sald to be cutting down the attendance at cricket matches, * » * Former dukes of York won the Eng- fish derby in 1816 and again in 1822 The winning horses were Prince Leo pold and Moses. . - . An Interscholastic walking race was an added feature of the Canadian in. terscholastic track and field champlon- ships this year. Tt was half a mile * . . Thomas Muirhead, famous Scottish international halfback soccer football player, late of the Glasgow Rangers, has signed with the Brooklyn team. . . » After 300 years, golf clubs have been standardized, says an advertise ment, but it will be 300 years hence before some of us learn to use them. - . » Bill Mallory has been voted the pest all-around athlete at Yale. He «aus captain of Yale's football team fast season and éatcher on the base hall team. * & » Out of 100 battles fought by Bill Brennan he has lost three by decision and three via the knockout route, Demperey knocked him out twice and ¥irpo once, ! next season, plays center fleld and pitcher. is a Ward Finally Stopped being Everett Scott, his teammate. { traded in for Johnny Jones and Oene Balley of the Brookiyn Nationals Brown is a hard hitter and should be a strong addition to the Erookiyn “Murderer’'s Row." Ray Schalk Will Retire as Every-Day Backstop Ray Schalk’'s days as an lron-map catcher are ended. The White Sox star who holds the major league record for consecutive games caught, does not plan to catch more than seventy or eighty games this season. Last year Schalk caught 121 games He is no longer a youngster, and the continuous service took much out of him, This year he will come close to di viding the burden with Clyde Crouse, who finished the season with the club Inst year. A newcomer, Joe Burns, from Shreveport, developed by Ira Thomas, is well thought of and will break inte a number of games back of the plate himself. Golfer Asks No Revenge There's a story told of a golfer landing the ball in the rough, wi the result that more time was taken up looking than was spent in actual play. At the end of this tiresome game he sald to his opponent, “Well, old man, what about another round to let me have my revenge?" “If that's all you want,” replied the other wear fly, “another round isn't necessary.” toring. Flora—Indeed. do? Dora—Drives, and nothing else but BROKEN CONSTITUTION Why, what does he American—Uncle Sam has the finest constitution of ‘em alll Britisher~But badly broken by amendments, doncher know. Conscientious Money Bald Uncle Bam, in accents cool, Our wealth in mighty sums is told fet's try to have the Golden Rule Bupported by the rule of gold” Renewed Every Day “I thought you sald last night that Jen's complexion was ruined.” “So 1 did” *But there she is over there look ing as beautiful as ever.” “1 referred to her last night's com plexion. Pocket Digging iy Ope Fie country is dry, isn't Bootlegger—Well, If yoy dig down
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