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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
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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
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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
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port Notes
The 1028 Olympic games will
slayed in Amsterdam, Holland,
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be
te sport with college students,
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A team of Chinese university foot
sall players has recently toured New
Zemland,
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The two main forms of sport popu-
iar In Australia are mountaineering
and football,
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The National Football league Is rep
resented by 20 clubs in many of the
large cities of the United States.
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America goes to extremes in tennis
with the Olympic champions hailing
from New York and California.
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Knute Rockne, foothall coach at
Notre Dame, has signed a contract to
remain at the college for ten yours,
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The National Football league Is rep-
resented by 20 clubs In many of the
large cities of the United States.
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Harry F. Sinclair, according to a
report, has just bought 20 yearlings
from Harry Payne Whitney for a sum
said to be $150,000,
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The United States, in track and field,
was triumphant for the eighth succes
give time since the modern revival of
the Olympic games,
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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,
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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.
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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
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DIAMIOND
\RICK-UPS /\
Charley
ing brilliantly,
has been sold to the
cans.
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Bob Fitzke all-around
of Idaho athlete, has been
a pitcher by the Cleveland Americans
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Monroe Mitchell, right-handed piteh-
er of the Memphis team, has
placed on the voluntary retired list be-
cause of a sore arm.
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Max Carey, center fielder of
Pirates, has been a member
team since 1911.
by his base stealing ability.
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the
Joubert Davenport,
pitcher, suffered a broken leg in Mil
wankee, when he went in to run for
Jay Kirke In a recent gaine. -
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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. ”
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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.
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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,