osfonte sfmfeoenforforforfonfoniioee PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS J J J J J J The Hazleton board of health has issued a warning to all persons not vaccinated fcr the past seven years to be immun'zed against smallpox, be- cause of the outbreak at several points in the hard coal fields. Professor H. M, Black, for the last few years principal of the Unlontown high schools, has been elected to a high school position in the South Side, ment made In Unlontown Mr, Black has not yet been assigned to a definite room by the Pittsburgh school board. Charged with luring away a 15-year. old Hazleton girl, Anthony Bottley, George Livingston and Sydney Gold- man, of New York, traveling photo- graphers, visiting various citles and towns of the anthr:cite coal flelds, were arrested at Sunbury by state troopers on complaint of the girl's parents. It took a gure peace a ings of the mandate of court to in- ireek Catholie church at Middieport, near Pottsville. Sheriff Robert Jenkins served & writ of In- jo~otion on Steve Komroy and Simon Neprada, restraining them from inter- fering with the work of the trustees. The court in its injunction especially restrained tho defendants from inter. fering with altar boys or the conduct of services. A spark from an Downingtown end Lancaster branch of the Pennsylvania raliroad is believ- ed to have caused the fire which de- stroyed the three-story feed ware- house of D. G. Weldman, at Cedar Lane, Lancaster. Lack of water ham- pered firemen from Blue Ball, New Holland and surrounding towns. The loss is estimated at $15,000. Trouble arose in the family of Ho- mer and La ra Whetsel, of Edenborn, near Unlontuwn, when she called him “a cross-eyed devil” and he insisted that she was bow-legged. This was brought out in open court when the divorce proceedings were alred before Judge E. H. Reppert. According to the testimony of Whetzel, he and his wife, who have been married for 20 years quarreled almost every day. P. J. Morrisey, identified with the Clarion ~iver hydroelectric project, gays the powerline se~vice from Piney dam to northwestern Pennsylvania cember 1. Corry, Erie Lines are being strung to Warren and other points, the longest distance being fifty-four miles. Eight miles of lines and poles are being put in each week. Caught beneath a fall of rock at the Laflin colllery of the Hudson Coal Company, John Chinosky was killed. One hundred and twenty under privileged and under-nourished boys and girls are In camp at Lake Grubb as the guests of the Lancaster Lions Club. Mrs. Bertha Lauber, of York, at- tempted suicide by inhaling Hiuminat- ing gas. She was found In the kitchen of her ho—e. She was in a hysterical condition a.d was quickly revived at the Yoik Hospital. Domestic worry Is said to have led her to the act. Four persons were injured at the Alaska mine of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, at Mt. Carmel, when the mechanism on the cages carrying 10 workmen each broke. Engineer Peter Dumnersbach promptly sensed danger acd looked at the cage Indicator. Wher he gaw it had stopped he shut off the power. One cage went to the bottom with a crash. The njured are James Kenley, inside foreman, leg Injured, seriously; John Ruths, miner, kneecap broken; Charles Coneghsn, probable broken back: ternal hurts. All live at Mt. Carmel. Officials sald that the engineer's prompt acticn saved 20 from death, While playing about the stable at the home of Clayton Bartholomew, near Sunbury, Rgbert Fetter, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fetter, was badly bitten in the neck hy a horse. The father rushed him to the home of Dr. J. K. Fisher, four miles away, and after herole t-eatment the doctor sue- ceeded In +aving the lad's life. Belleved to have been temporarily crazed by the intense heat, Enoch Cos- los, of Port Carbon, near Pottsville, set his own home on fire. The blaze was extinguished by the firemen after it dia considerable damage to the Coslos home and threatened nearby property. Coslos was arrested and sent to the county asylum, where his mental condition will be Investigated. Posses of officers and citizens at Parkedburg, necr West Chester, have been engaged for a week or more try- ing to capture a “ghost” which has been terroriziaz that (own at night by stalking about the streets clad In white and emitting frightful sounds, The “spirit” has confronted several automobile parties as well as late pedestrians, The Read Machinery company, of York, entertained about 200 bakers from all sections of the east, Ten thouran” Allentown children were the guests of General and Mrs. Harry C. Trexler at the annual Rom- per day. g When his automobile collided with a trolley car near Adamstown, Elwood Fritz, 23 years old, of Reamstown, was fatally injared, His back broken in an automobile accident a: Cresson, December 8 last, Francis W. Schoenfeldt, aged 30, rall- rond chopman, died n the Altoona Hospital An unknown motorist rulned the memorial plot to Cressona soldiers when his car dashed through it, ruin- Ing a large flower arden, and dis- appearing. ! Tabulation of the expenditures for state, county and township roads in the Hazleton district this year show that $1,000,000 is being spent for pav- ing of hig! y-ys. Mrs, Edward Zeaser and her son, John Zeaser, of West Catasauqua, are seriously ill from polsoning caused by eating toadstools in mistake for mush- rooms, They were gathered by a member of the family in a fleld near the Zeaser home, Sixteen persons were arrested in a campaign by the Lancaster police de- partment to stop reckless driving on the city strests, Approval o” the sale of the Altoona Gas, Light and Fuel Company to the People’s Natural Gas Company was announced by the publle service com- mission, Abram May is in the Columbia Hos pital with a cut foot, bruised head and black eye, sustained when he fell from the third-story window of his boarding cement pavement of Trinity Reformed church, Jail Warden Samuel M. Shue, of York, who has been eriticised by the press and officials for alleged fallure ty commissioners. The resignation Shue was the first war. den In charge of the York jail. The brought abort a storm of criticism of the jall management and the warden decided to quit. County Detective J. J. Allison made the crew of an Erle at dress In Jamestown, N. Y. The was shipped from 8t, Mary's, Pa. dress of the sender has found to be false. to threaten the rallroadeis with rest before they would obey his der to switch the car on to a siding also rallroad yards, of Pennsylvania, Is reported to heading a syndicate which Is sald tc be promoting the consolidation of in one management. It is stated in Seran ton financial ecircles that the has purchased or Is endeavoring t« the the the Leggetts East Company, Traders Company other small producers. Attacked by masked Company, and Ed bandits, county, was robbed of £200 in cash. celved word from Highway gloner Wright that the Danville Cha Inskey state road on the Harrisburg Wilkes-Barre trail will not be paved for possibly five years Falling 25 eet to well, Irene Hubbell, caped with a few bmises 8. Sunbury, She es rescted her, hospital. ment. a quarrel vincing, flatiron Louise, police said, on ‘sr husband's head. win, fA razor, hospital Then and the came the police, the doctors, sulcide by hanging, following a dis agreement (on thelr home at Wood lawn. A boarder at the Fronek home found the body of Mrs. Fronek In the living room. In the same room, hang: ing from a rope, was that of her hus band. by the automobile divigion of the de- partment of highways at Harrisburg The tag No. 1.000.000, was issued to Mrs. Paul D, Paul D. Wright, secretary of high ways. The division began its second series of passenger ear numbers, the letter “A” Tag "A-1” was issued to Dr. H. C. Madley, chief of the bu. reau of plant Industry, department of agriculture, Milton Artley, 70 years old, of Hughesville, was probably fatally in jured when he accidentally stepped in front of a motor car while on his way home from the undertaking parlor, where he had just made arrangements for the burial of his wife, The will of the late Margaret Ed wards Cobleigh, filled for probate In the Luzerne county court, at Wilkes Barre, provides for the distribution of an estate valued at approximately £2,000000. After certain bequests are made to churches, the balance fs placed in trust, half of rhe income to be pald to her daughter, Anna Cob leigh O'Boyle, and the other half to five grandchildren, After getting as far as Bolivar, near Altoona, 14-year-old Pansy McBride, of Harrisburg, who started to walk to Hollywood to become a movie star, Is on her way back home. A physiclan near Bolivar recognized the girl and notified hr» parents, Fred Derr, a Benton farmer, solved the mystery of the disappearance of his young turkeys when he killed a blacksnake that measured elght feet two Inches in length, Falling from the roof of a Pennsyl vanin railroad coach, Harry Forsythe, 8, car cleaner, at Altoona, fractured his skull, Nutional league to his opponents. Sport to major league boxmen and set a new strike Vance was with the developed a sore arm and tie nt g Be 8 & Chief Big Feet Is Caddy gr-r-rand auld Scottish game of golf if you don't believe t. nak Chief Big Feet, who totes a bag The chief Is not only of the best caddies at the ye won several caddy tournaments, He to be the only Indian in the world, except for the ———————————— ASA port Notes The 1028 Olympic games will slayed in Amsterdam, Holland, » * - be te sport with college students, . * » A team of Chinese university foot sall players has recently toured New Zemland, - * r The two main forms of sport popu- iar In Australia are mountaineering and football, * . ht The National Football league Is rep resented by 20 clubs in many of the large cities of the United States. ® * . America goes to extremes in tennis with the Olympic champions hailing from New York and California. . - » Knute Rockne, foothall coach at Notre Dame, has signed a contract to remain at the college for ten yours, + - - The National Football league Is rep- resented by 20 clubs In many of the large cities of the United States. . - » Harry F. Sinclair, according to a report, has just bought 20 yearlings from Harry Payne Whitney for a sum said to be $150,000, . - . The United States, in track and field, was triumphant for the eighth succes give time since the modern revival of the Olympic games, - » » Rughy football is the popular sport in New Zealand, The number of ac tive players in that country is 40,000, including 12,000 schoolboys, . - . Norman Dickson, twenty-one years old, Is the welterweight champion of the British army, navy and alr forces, He Is a ‘sallor on the Hood Ch Bill Johnston, the clever San Fran- cisco tennis player, has been made an honorary member of the Burlingame Country club of his native eity, . se The University of Illinois has won the track, golf and tennis champion: ships In the Western conference, It tied in football, basketball ‘and wrestling. . "0. A memorial Is to be erected at the Karihorst race course, near Berlin, Germany, for the 21 professional jock- eys and the 111 gentlemen riders who were killed In the World war, howe LACK OF FOOTBALL STARS AT HARVARD Blame on Alumni. Robert conch nat the Cambridge T. Fisher, football has recently bewalled ut fi of good material The "trouble with the Harvard al talk Harvard enough among so much of the alma no doubt ing they leave in the minds of college education and foot Harvard, It seems, is sadly In need lond and vigorous ballyhooing that Mr. Fisher i= that Yale has Har no doubt work of eleven last autumn, the her rowing eight this spring and the show. of some of her other teams, the old Ell Institution has been thor oughly ballyhooed In this broad and in recent years. gentle art Yule marvelous record of Considering the the football good land No conch can get out winning teams unless he has the material, says Mr. Harvard of kas not been the desired type and unless the alumni and sells Harvard on all the ancient rival of the school will agaln rise to the eminent getting letes sides From what the 1023-24 inter collegiate records show Yale is fairly Sports, “Selling” colleges and universities is the established custom of the age boy show any degree of ath dozen “salesmen” He will have a wide visit him. Never has there been such an In Yankee's New Fielder Horan, new outfielder of, the New York Yankees, just purchased from the Reading club, shows great prom- ise, and has been placed regularly In the lineup of the champion Yankees He is a good fielder and a hard hitter, Twirler Whiffs 24 Out of 29 Batters Jack Rogers, eighteen, of South Pittsburgh, Tenn, who enters Mercer university next fall, struck out 24 of 20 batters to face him in a game which his team, the Case-Fowlers, won from Hawkinsville, Ga, 10 to 0, Only two Hawkinsville players reached first. Rogers, who has only eye, dellvers the ball with his head turned toward first base, - Howard Kinsey of California sprang som when he defeated the veteran Wik jam M. Johnston in the finals annual Seabright tennis tourney victory him into consideration the AS = member of American ———— AAAI SN: DIAMIOND \RICK-UPS /\ Charley ing brilliantly, has been sold to the cans. * . . Bob Fitzke all-around of Idaho athlete, has been a pitcher by the Cleveland Americans - ® * Monroe Mitchell, right-handed piteh- er of the Memphis team, has placed on the voluntary retired list be- cause of a sore arm. * » * Max Carey, center fielder of Pirates, has been a member team since 1911. by his base stealing ability. * . . the Joubert Davenport, pitcher, suffered a broken leg in Mil wankee, when he went in to run for Jay Kirke In a recent gaine. - » - * Outfielder Joe Moore, who was with Atlanta in the spring, and Johnny Car lin, a semi-pro player from Maryland, have been signed by Little Rock. * » * Fletcher E. Hodge, giant right hand. er of the Rochester International club, has been turned over on option to Terre Haute of the Three-1 league. - * - “Connie” Mack, manager of the Phil adeiphia Athletics, is using “Doc” Bar rett, the former Williams college trainer, as a scout again this summer LE J * Omaha has obtained Pltcher Buddy Napier from St. Paul of the American association, The return of Clif Markle crowded Napler out of the pleture. . & » Russell Pence, Tulsa pitcher, who recently pitched a no-hit game, won a diamond ring which a jeweler had hung up for such a hurling achieve ment. . * » Jo Shaute, Cleveland hurler, bid. fair to turnin a winning season. Thus far the youngster has proved about the most dependable gunner on the Spenker staff. ” * & » ’ Tony Faeth, 8t. Paul pitcher, came within two feet of a no-hit game in Kansas City. As It was, a roller just out of Danny Boone's reach, spoiled his bid for fame. .- 8» Eddie Herr, Detrolt scout, is telling the world that Cleo Carlyle, the young Sally league outfielder recently pur chased by the Tigers is the man destined to take Ty Cobh's place In center. Carlyle has been playing a remarkable gnme for Charlotis and Is SHE KNEW DADDY A small child was having her first ride In a subway train, Buddenly the train passed over some points and the lights went out for a moment. When they went up again, the littie girl sald: “Did you do that, daddy?" Daddy denied it, “Well,” replied his small daughter, “it's Just the sort of thing you would do."—Rehoboth Sunday Herald Three in One. “I don't know whether to publish this testimonial,” sald the inventor of a | new halr restorer. “What does it say?’ asked a friend. | “Before I used your halr restorer 1 | had three bald patches on my | Now I have read the In | ventor with a smile. ~Wisconsin Agri { culturist, head only one!” could at a second-hand “What mude you | get your watch fixed | store, you gink?” “Well, only the | broke!” think you second-hand Pictures Missing | Of “words, words, words” spo let sad His friends in dees Remarked, "It really is to¢ He got no comic section!™ ke Ham- Asiartion jejection He Squeaks 1 didn't tight before.” “No?” “The other day he told me that he | had lost money through ments and find out he'd tried a gum slot machine thet dido't work.” | -Brown Jug. “Gosh, realize Jack was BONE invest come to A Test Rella—Do you have any difficulty i» | feeding your little dog? Donna—No. 1 always try my cook | Ing on my husband before I give I | to Fido. No Discrimination Tolerated Book Agent—Is the of | house In? | Cook—We're all ladles here, yes | fiat-faced omadhaun! If yez mane the | missus, say so! lady the Out of His Class Lucile (looking back)—Oh, Lewis, » belleve you ran over that groundhog! Lewis (unconcerned)—Serves hin righit for trying to be a road hog, too She Could Use It to Advantage The Bore (1 a. m.)—The other night | { heard a story that gave me such a start. Girl (very tired)--1 wish | knew it. A CHANGED MAN Cyc ua *He was such a poor talker—uset so few words™ “You haven't met him gince he ae quired a flivver, I see” Powder Her brow was like the snowdrifit When I made shift To have a look, I saw, gadeook, A heavy drift . Portage “Going on a canoe trip this year? “Nix. A walking tour is all right, but why carry a heavy canoe?” Elementary “Mrs. Jones joined one of those enn ce schools last winter.” “Indeed! What did she learn? “Well, she learned not to depend apon her husband te mall her corre spondence.” How It Sounded Policeman at court, describing = street singer's efforts<All 1 heard wag an occasional shout, Magistrate— What sort of shout? “An exelutaation as if hurt” hitting about 350,
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