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| STATE ITEMS
Nesquehoning. —State police raided
the hotel of George Kochmun here and
seized much liquor in bottles, jugs and
gegs.,
Hagzleton.—A class of 128 candidates
recelved the third degree at a meeting
of the local council of the Knights of
Columbus.
Columbia.—~W. M. Gehman, of
Churchtown, was elected president of
Lancaster county P, O. 8. of A. at the
annual meeting at Columbia.
Charles Vane;s, of Bellefonte, is In
the Lewistown jail awaiting a hearing
on a charge of passing a worthless
check upon 8S. M. Anders,
Pottsville—~Richard Kear, of Min-
ersville, has been ousted as a member
of the borough council of that town
by his fellow-councilmen, who claim
that he has not attended three suc-
cessive meetings. The law seldom has
been ihvoked In this section.
Pottstown. —A new jymnasiom will
be constructed by the local YX. M. J. A,
Reading. —The Philharmonic Band,
of Reading, and the Pottstown Band
held a joint plenic and concert at Yel
low House.
Norristown.—Overcome ty the heat
while carrying boiling water up a
flight of steps, Mrs. George Griffith
was badly scalg~d.
Harleyville.—The Harleys held thelr
eighth reunion ot the meeting house
near here, which they purchased a
year ago from fhe Brethren congre-
gation for thelr annual gatherings.
West Casster.—Workmen for the
state highway department cutting
grass along the Lincoln Highway be-
tween Whitford and Downingtown dis-
covered four quarts of pre-war whisky
in the grass. * It is believed the liquor
was thrown into the zrass from a car,
the occupant: fearing detection by
officers.
Bethlehem. Sixty-two persons were
injured or badly shaken up when the
Easton limited troller car from Allen-
town crashed into a 'oaded coal truck
of the Rosemont Coal company at
Thirteenth aveuue and West Broad
street. The most se-iously hurt was
Herbert Schoedler, iriver of the truck,
who sustained a broken arm and nuin-
ereus truises. A number of passen-
gers on the car were lacerated by
flying glass.
Meadville.~—J. H. Hotchkiss, garage
proprietor et Conneaut Lake Park,
had been held for criminal court here
on a charge of murder as a result of
the death of Mrs. A. H. Terrill, of
Conneaut Lake, who, it is declared,
was run down by a car driven by him.
Pottsyville—The manner in which
Nelson Waters, of St. Clair was killed
and several others injured when an
automobile ren into a group of yourg
men, was revealed when a motorist
named Waters ~.ve himself up to the
state police and sald he was the cause
of the trouble. Weters told a straight.
forward story of being blinded by the
glaring headlights and the police re-
frainéd from arresting him unless the
coroner's ‘ary so orders,
Port Carbon.—When a truck loaded
with building bricks broke through a
bridge here and fell twenty feet into
the Schuylkill river the driver, Walter
Zimmerman, emerged not in the least
injured.
Bloomsburg —Three Berwick young
men escapel with bruises and lacera-
tions when thelr automobile upset and
rolled over three times on a steep
hil two miles from here. They were
Frank Clem ns, Martin McKernon and
Floyd tout.
Altoona. —After going about for two
days with a fractured skrll, John O,
Houtz, aged 28, Pennsylvania railroad
ghopman, was admitted to the Altoona
Hospitel for treatment. Houtz, his
wife and daughter, Margeret, aged 7.
were Injured when thelr automobile
left the road at Warriors Mark, Mrs.
Houtz's right stoulderblade was frac-
tured,
Telford.—Ambrose Stauffer, of this
place, has asked the police to asist In
locating his 17-year-old son, Titus, who
has disappeared from home,
Quakertown.—Peter Moyer has re-
signed ns organist of the Richland-
own Refurmed church.
Quakertown.—Calvin Kernechel, 15
years old, while cleaning his revolver
accidentally shct himself In the right
side,
Morrisville —Justice of the Peace
Kunsman charged F. L. Mixon, of
Kansas City, $10 for telling Officer
Cooper he was “one of those smart
cops,
Rosedale.—Jacob Kirby was elected
presiden* of the Rosedale campmeet-
ing.
Bethlehem.—Mother Buperior Sera
fica, head of Holy Infancy Convent
here for six years, has been notified
that she soon will be transferred to
a new field,
Pottstown.—Caught by some copper
weather stripping whea a kitchen dour
was blown shut by a storm, Mary
Ethel, a little daughter of John K.
Binder, suffered the almost complete
severing of a toe
Reading~Johin H. Keppelman, aged
71, president and general manager of
the Consumer's Gas company, died
suddenly after telephoning his son, At-
torney John Arthur Keppelman, that
he wos feeling Il. Death came on the
second anniversary of the death of his
wife. He was a former city clerk and
councilman and active In Democratic
polities
health, Henry Christian Norris took
his life by hanging.
Harrisburg, — Seventeen recruits
have been added to the state police
and sent to the training school at
Hershey,
Lewistown, —Tag day for the bene-
fit of the Dickson Field playgrounds
netted approximately $140,
Mount Joy.—A skeleton of a hu-
man being was unearthed while work-
men ewere excavating for a founda-
tion. " hy
Stroudsburg.—The members of the
Labar family In reunion here, de-
cided ‘0 erect a monument to the
memory of George Labar, who died in
1876, at the age of 112
Lancaster.—Miss Cora Frey, for
several years supervisor of drawing
in the Lancaster schools, has been
elected assistant supervisor of draw-
ing at the Millersville Normal School,
Shenandoah Buried beneath sever.
al tons of brick and mortar, Theodore
Bolich had a parrow escape from
death when he was knocked from a
scaffolding when a brick wall col
lapsed.
Strassburg.—Henry Weaver suffer
ed a fractured spine and other In-
juries whea the wheels of a cultiva-
tor passed ovér him,
Contesville~—~Found with a 10-gallon
still in full operation at their home in
South Coatesville, Mr. snd Mrs. Paul
Baseak were held for the grand Jury,
in $500 ball each. A large quantity of
mash and liquor was confiscatéd,
Coaldale.~Joseph Kindex, aged 18,
was drowned while swimming at a
dam near here. .
Marion Heights.—John Dolan slip
ped and fell while lifting a man over
his head and fractured his left leg.
Altoona.—Jones Ritchey, a farmer,
was electrocuted when he attempted
to repair wires blown down by a
storm.
Lebanon.—Neumeyer Brothers, of
Bethlehem, were awarded the contract
for paving Lehman street from Fourth
street to Jincoln avenue.
Wilkes-Barre ~The Luzerne county
commissioners have refused all appli
cations for permits to erect gasoline
filling stations along county roads.
Shamokin. —Borough council agreed
to submit to the people st the Novem-
ber election a proposed loan of $250.
000 to be used for sewers, paving and
the more efficient equipment of the
fire department. Shamokin's loans
now total but 257.000, the smallest
for any borough Its size in America
State College.—Two weeks of inten
give training in all branches of dalry
manufacturing Is the program for a
special dairy salesmen’s course which
will open at State College August 18
Hazleton.—Mrs, Mary Molitz, aged
41, mother of six children, committed
suicide,
Pittsburgh.—Two deaths from small.
pox, making the total 15 since the first
of the year, were reported here,
Harrisburg --Pardons were granted
to Paul Mickridge and John Kraley,
ff Lackawanna county, convicted of
a statutory offense,
Burnham.—G. Howard Lewis, su-
perintendent of the Standard Steel
Works, has been elected president of
the borough council.
Pittston.~—The body of Jacob Stuck,
aged 40, was found along the Lehigh
Valley tracks near the station at
Pittston Junction, 3
Pittsburgh Missing from home for
several weeks, Spurgeon Macquarrie,
aged 18, son on an attorney, ' was
found at Ann Arbor, Mich.
Harrisburg. —Appointments of Mau-
rice W. Dembenspeck, Avalon, and
Benjamin G. Goshnauer, Elizabeth-
town, as justices of the peace were
announced,
Lebanon. —Lebanon county farmers
and members of their famliiles to the
number of 8000 participated In thelr
annual plenic on the Lebanon fair
grounds.
Lewistown. —Rohert George Myers,
7 years old, was drowned while wad-
ing in the Juniata river near Kistler.
The lad dropped into a deep hole and
disappeared, although his companions,
all about his own age, made heroic ef-
forts to rescue him.
Pittsburgh. — Four trucks, loaded
with moonshine, stills and mash, con-
stituted the prize of state police from
the Greensburg barracks, when they
raided a number of houses in Brad
dock. They seized 400 barrels of
mash, 125 gallons of moonshine, three
50-gallon stills and 4000 pounds of
sugar,
Harrisburg. —Countles whose pris
oners have been transferred from the
Eastern Penitentiary to other county
prisons are liable for their mainte.
nance, Deputy Attorney General
Campbell said In an opinion to Solici-
tor Danner, of Northampton county.
The opini 1 was asked when certain
counties, whose prisoners had been
transferred from the penitentiary to
the Northampton gounty jail, refused
to pay maintenance costs.
Pittsburg! .—Julius Slegialis, a mill
worker, shot his wife at thelr home
after she had threatened to tell the
police unless he ceased manufacturing
moonshine, then killed’ himself. A 6
year-old daughter witnessed the shoot-
ing.
Harrigburg—A contract was award-
ed by the highway department for
construction of 22214 feet of high-
way in Union and Huntingdon town-
ships, Luzerne county, to Caradox
Reese, of Nanticoke, for $210.840,
Harrishurg~—A eampaiga to enforce
the use of non-glaring motor vehicle
head lamps will be started September
2. officials in the tighway department
announced, Members of the highway
motor patrol have been instructed to
stop every motorist whose headlights
do not conform to the law and advise
him to have corrections made immedi:
ately.
Stengel’s Wise Crack
Held Hecklers Back
Casey Stengel gets off a wise
ernck once In a while which
holds the hecklers down. When
the Braves were playing In
Pittsburgh the other day, the
fans got after Casey while he
was on his way to the bench, It
s0 happened that the Braves
were lending by the score of 6
to 2, with little chance of the
Pirates catching up.
With a great sweep of his
arms for silence the little group
which had been razzing Stengel,
calling him grandpa, New York
cast-off, ete, was brought to an
immediate silence.
“Yes, folks, I'm growling old,
and my ‘eves are going back on
me,” sald Casey, “I can scarce.
ly see the score board. Now,
won't some kind person up
there tell me what the score 18."
They had more respect for the
outfielder after that,
FFF FREER ERR RRR REE
SISLER SAYS HIS
Hopes Impaired Vision Will
Become Normal.
George IH. Sisler
Browns and the hope is now
tained that eventually his
vision will become normal,
of the
St,
season, Sisler was stricken with influ
dition was aggravated by sinus trouble
and tonsilitis, resulting in impaired
vision which caused hig retirement
from the game for the 1023 season.
For a time It was feared that his base
ball days were over, but Sigler gave
With the opening of the
son Sisler assumed his regular posi
tion at first base in ada fie to man-
aging the Browns, He
the defect in his vislon has not entire
ly disappeared, but with
stantly improving he is optimistic that
1924 ea-
ie eyes con
hd nt
Manager George Sisler,
mal. The defect, he declares, hampers
him in batting, but its effect upon his
fielding Is negligible.
Although Bisler has been batting this
season below his usual average he at-
tributes this to periodical slumps
which all ball players experience.
Sport Notes
Washington will be the scene of a
military polo tournament in September,
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It will soon be a question of get-
ting in the first story about the foot.
ball prospects.
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As many world records were broken
at the Olympic games as at an average
swithming meet,
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Alfred M. Wilson, of Minneapolis,
has been elected captain of the Yale
crew for next season.
* . .
Perkins, a one-armed member of the
Indian Hill Golf club of lilinvis, has a
hole-in-one to his credit.
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If our athletes are not careful other
nations will lose interest and fall to
send competitors to the Olympic games.
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If the principal object of a vacation
is change, it's a wonder some of our
incurable golfers don’t work on holi
days.
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You get another idea of what higher
education means from the fact that a
good varsity foothall conch recelves
a bigger salary than the president of
the university.
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Georges Carpentier, the FPrench
heavyweight, has boxed In every coun-
try in the world where the sport of
boxing thrives. It is sald that he has
set n record in gate receipts that has
never been equaled by any other
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Mike O'Neill Worried
Over His Easy Money
Leo Browne, the formgr um-
pire, tells a story on Mike
O'Neill, manager of Byracuse,
then In the New York State
jlengue. It had become a custom
on the part of the management
of a large industrial plant in a
small city to have two of the
league teams play a regular
game once or twice a month at
the factory that the employees
might have a treat. Syracuse
was one of the teams chosen for
the game and O'Neill collected
a check for 8500 for his team's
end of the exhibition,
The opposing team by the end
of the second Inning had piled
up a score of 14 to 0, O'Neill
went along, forgetting to
change pitchers, when some one
finally asked him what the heck
he was trying to do.
“Oh, I'm not worrying about
the game,” answered Mike, “It's
or not this check 1s
good that's botherin' me”
even
whether
Violent Outbursts
Violent outbursts the
on
of course, writes Harry
Smith in the San Francisco Chronicle
the least condoning the riot,
tain amount of fghting spirit is cer
tainly needed, Baseball fans
other thoughts than the payday at the
first of the month.
Outhursts of this sort
give that impression,
And for that reason I'm inclined to
that while order must be pre
occasional dash of spirit
to do baseball any great
certainly do
isn't
harm,
Perhaps that Isn't consistent with
the general idea that baseball must
be conducted as a gentleman's sport,
but it's the way 1 feel nevertheless,
Baseball can’t altogether be 8 nam-
by-pamby sport. It couldn't be and
still have secured a strong grip on
the populace as is the case,
going
Pirates Sign Pfeffer
Pitcher Jeff Pfeffer, shown in the
photograph, has been released by the
Cardinals to Pittsburgh, and Catcher
Vick to Louisville of the American as-
sociation, Pfeffer goes to the Pirates
on walvers, while Vick is let out to
the Colonels on option.
Will Coach Princeton
Beattie Ramsey, defense player on
the Canadian Olympic hockey team
which won the world's amateur
championship at Chamonix, France,
in Jebruary, and coach of the Uni
versity of Toronto teams for two
years, has accepted a position as head
coach at Princeton university for
1024-25. He will begin his duties in
November, While at Princeton, Ram-
sey may also take a post-graduate
course ln engineering.
Finland’s Great Runner
ag et
Pasvo Nurmi of Finland came
| through as expected and outraced #
fine field to win the final of the 1.500
meter run in the Olympic track and
fleid and established a new
Olympic record of 8 53 885. Nurmi had
no difficulty in winning.
DIAMOND
PICK-UPS
One should pity the blind, but It Is
games
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Joe Sugden, conch of 8t. Louis pitch-
ers, has been playing baseball for Bl
years,
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Mike File, Yormer Vernon and Los
Angeles pitcher, has been signed by
Wichita,
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Bill McKenty has been obtained by
Rochester from New Haven of the
Eastern league,
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Rube Ehrehardt, the new Dodger
pitcher, comes from Lakeland of the
Florida State league.
» * .
This is the season when the pho-
netic spellers should advance the wis
dom of making It razzberry.
» . .
Tulsa has signed Pitcher Wheat,
late of the Bristow team of the now
defunct Oklahoma State league,
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Casey Stengel says comedy doesn’t
pay on the ball field. Maybe that's
why the Cardinals draw so poorly.
Ld . .
An old-timer Is a man who can re
member when small towns produced
great leaders instead of great hitters,
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Catcher Sam Agnew of San Fran
cisco likely will be ont of the game
for the remainder of the season as the
result of an appendicitis operation.
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Foxy Taylor, a pitcher halling from
Hammond, Ind, has been signed by
Danville of the Three-l league. In his
first out he twirled a splendid game.
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Dave McMullen, shortstop from the
Danville, Va. club of the Piedmont
league, has been added to the roster
of the Philadelphia American league
team.
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Charlie Wolfe, sent to Portland by
Connle Mack, has again crossed the
country to join Bridgeport. Wolfe
formerly pitched for the House of
David team.
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Gabby Street's Muskogee Athletes
made a great start toward the cham:
plonship of the league In the last half
when they hung up 11 straight vic
tories before they met a reverse,
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Hartford and Albany have tromped
up a trade whereby Teddy Hauk, the
hard-hitting third baseman, and Catch
er Hager are to go to Albany In ex:
change for nfieldar Eddie Kenna,
.
President Mac Moore of Reading
hastens to dispute the report that
Hack Mueller, his star second base:
man, is on the market, and
ings were made to give Mueller
sey Clty for Jinury Walsh.
BIG BUSINESS
A real estate man was plainly wor.
ried, and his wife usked him to tell
her about the deal. It seems that he
had fixed It up to sell a man a loft
building, a marble yard, with dock
privileges, a factory site, and a suip-
mer garden, and to take In phrt pay-
ment 8 bloek of frame tenements, «4
small subdivision, an abandoned lime
kiln and a farm.
“He assumes a $20,000 mortgage on
the loft bullding” explained the real
estate man, “and 1 take over a second
mortgage on the subdivision. Get me!”
“l guess I get you,” responded his
wife. “But what is the hitch about?”
“Well, I want $4 In cash.”—Pilts
burgh Sun.
His Number
When we're little and spend our
days at home a shift of furniture is a
real event. So small Polly was keenly
alert when mother brought to the din.
ing room from the attic an armchalr
which she placed at one end of the
table.
“Oh, mom,” queried
the big chair for?
“It's for the head of the family.
“But,” the little girl exclaimed, “you
put it In the place where daddy sits”
— Country Gentleman.
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Polly, “what's
”
Surplus
evidently and
up.
worry,”
Bor wi to
worried
cheer him
Hubby was
wifey was trying to
“Cheer up, John, and don't
she sald. “It doesn’t do any
borrow trouble™
“Borrow her hus
band. “Great Cnesar's ghost! 1 ain't
borrowing trouble; I've got It to lend.”
--{lilcago News,
trouble,” echoed
NOT THE SAME
Hubby-—You used to iike to he™s nf
kiss you.
Wifey—But your kisses are not up
to samples furnished then.
A Radio Thought
Bobby-halired Betty
Iz a radio slave,
Bhe hopes they'll broadcast
A permanent wave,
Not So Easy
The Magician—Now, then, young
man, let me have your watch, First
I will make it disappear, and then I
will bring it back to you agsin.
The Victim—It disappeared three
months ago, professor, so all you need
to do is to make it come back. 4
Nothing to Worry About
Fortune Teller—Beware of a tall,
dark man with a scar over the right
eye.
The Client—-Him? Don’t you worry
about him, dearie—be's my old man,
and I gave him the scar.
Height, Not Money
Mrs. Countershop (with an injured
alr)-—~You told me before we were
married thst you were the highest sal-
aried clerk In the factory.
Mr. Countershop (equally Injured)
80.1 am. I'm two inches and a half
taller than any other salaried clerk In
the establishment.
Sis
ANIMAL AIDS
“He employs the tactics of the fox.”
“And also makes use of a little bull”
Not So Dumb
My sweetie's not so handsome.
Nor is he very wise;
The reason why I like him is
He never wears wash ties
weAmerican Legion Weekly.
A Learned Girl
“You have a beart of stone”
*I¢ you Intend that as denoting the
limit In hardness,” stated the girl, “you