PENNSYLVANIA
STATE ITEMS
Lewistown.—The Chamber of Com-
merce held its first baby show with
200 entrants,
Pittsburgh. — Twelve oll paintings,
imported rom Europe, were stolen
from the home of J. H. McCreery.
Philadelphia.—Robins and wood-
peckers are contraband even though
they have been denuded of feathers
and their bills cut off. This J. Roffo,
of this city, was made to realize when
he was brought before Magistrate
Blackburn, of Upper Darby, and flu.
ed $80 and costs. He was arrested by
township policemen along the state
road, and, despite his claim that he
had been killing blackbirds, was stood
up on a charge of shooting Insectivor-
ous birds out of season. Assessed §10
per bird, with costs, he paid and left,
promising to stay out of the district in
the future,
Pittsburgh. —Chris J. Halberstadt, of
Philadelphia, was re-elected president
and Philadelphia was chosen for the
1028 convention of the Pennsylvania
State Association of Letter Carriers
in biennia. session here. Other offi
cers elected are Harry J. Kinzer,
Pittsburgh, and Harry C. Young, Har-
risburg, vice presidents; Thomas J.
Carpenter, Harrisburg, seqretary, and
George W. Haines, Allentown, treas-
urer. Plans were discussed to launch
a campaign with the convening of con-
gress in December for an increased
wage for postal employes
Washingtoa.—En route home from
school, Wilbur Mackey, aged 12, son
of Frank Mcckey, of Clarksville, and
Charles Goff, aged 7, son of Mrs. Myr-
tle Goff, also of Clarksville, were at-
tacked and bitten by a copperhead
snake, the most poisonous found In
this section. The Mackey boy was
bitten twice. Robert Jchnson, of La-
conda, who arrived on the scene, kill-
ed the snake and rushed the boys to
the office of a physician for treatment.
Philadelphia.—The Inmates of the
Eastern Penitentiary and a number of
invited guests were treated to a con-
cert when Joan Phillip Sousa led the
Pen Band, composed of Inmates of the
institution. Following entertain-
ment, Alfred Fleisher, of the
of trustees, preseted Sousa, on behalf
of the band, with a hox cigars
unique cane up of more
20,000 pleces of paper, the handiwork
the
Loard
made nan
of the prisoners.
“Three persons
and 20 slightly Injured
while than 50 passengers we.e
shaken up when a north-bound pas-
senger train Phi'adelphla &
leading erashed head-on into a stall-
ed freight seven miles sorth of here,
Traffic was tled up the greater part
of a day. The most severely hurt were
the engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train and a woman passenger,
whose name rallroad officials withheld.
The crew was from Tamaqua.
Coraopolis. —A
were k others
an The
were Miss Nora Edwards, aged 88,
James, 2-year-old son of Roy Willard,
who were slightly hurt, as two
other children. Thomas MeCullough,
also riding in the machine, suffered
fractures of five ribs. The accident
occurredg when the automobile was
driven over an embankment to pre-
vent a collision with another machina.
Allentown.—Jack Williams, aged 24
years, wip gave New Ycrk as his
home, Is in jall here charged with
passing $50 counterfeit gold certifi
cates on loeal merchants He was
arrested when he entered a men's fur.
nishing store and tendered one of the
bogus bills In payment for goods.
West Chester.—A large box received
here by express caused much excite
ment at Market Street Station. It
was labeled “llve snakes” and had
been shipped from San Antonio, Tex.
to a showman here, but an odor caus
ed a call to police headquarters and
an investigation. When the box was
opened by a man wearing a wet towel
about his face it was found to con-
tajn five dead rattlesnakes.
Lancanster.—Calling to a pet dog
while lesning from a third-story win-
dow at her home, Mary, 44-year-old
daughter of John H. Wickersham, had
a mirdculous escape fron death when
she plunged to the yard. The child's
fall was broken by an arbored vine,
from which she bounced to a wire
fence. She sustained a fracture of
the left leg,
Philadeiphia.—Returning from work
for dinner, James Robinson, 1608
Wood street, discovered the lifeless
body of his wife, Elizabeth, 40 years
old, lying at the foot of the stalrs In
a pool of blood. The police were call-
ed and after an examination by a po-
lice surgeon, found that the woman
died from injuries sustalned by fall
ing down stairs.
Tewistown.-~Miss Jeanette Cooper
fell while roller skating aud broke her
left arm.
Harrisburg. —Appointment of John
A. Rice, of Shenandoah, as a trustee
of the Locust Mountain Memorial Hos-
pital was announced at the governor's
office,
Burnham.~—-Arthur Snook has been
named as successor to David Thomas
as a member of the torsugh council,
Lewlistown.—Amos G, Cole, council
man from the Second ward, resigned
on account of moving out of the bor
ough,
Conyngham.~A band of gypsies was
blamed for & robbery at the barber
ehop of John Best, who lost $70 and
Q0 watches, -
Jloomshurg.
severely hurt
Ware
more
on the
woman and
and five
automobile
"1
itied
wie}
accident.
were
Sharon.—Mayor W. E. Drumheller,
of Sunbury, was elected president of
the League of Third Class Citles of
Pennsylvania at the closing session
of the convention here.
Sunbury. —Lightning struck Shrin.
er's church, near Shamokin Dam, and
tore off half the roof. The church
was remodeled recently at much ex-
pensa, No one was inside ct the time,
Wilkes-Barre.—Charged with the
embezzlement of approximately $12.
000 from the Miners’ Bank, one of the
largest banking Institutions in this
section of the state, Willlam C, Klein-
schrodt, of Forty Fort, a teller In the
institution, entered a plea of guilty
and in default of bail he was commit.
ted to the Luzerne county prison,
Harrisburg.—An audit of the affairs
of the State Securities Bureau re
veals its affairs are In a healthy con-
dition, Auditor General lewis an-
nounced. The bureau maintained it-
gelf during its first year and accumu-
lated a balance of more than $01,000,
Gettysburg. —Four new professors
are to be added to the faculty of
Gettysburg College, this year, as heads
of several departments. Dr. R.
Salby will be the new professor of
economies and political science, and
Dr. John R. Zinn will succeed Dr.
Breidenbaugh as professor of chemis
try. Dr. Robert P. Marsh Is to be
come professor of hilology, while Dr
Warthen has been selected as
tant professor of English,
Oil City ~Two men were killed and
six Injured when the bottom fell from
a hugs gasol'ne tank at the
plant of the Atlantic Refining
pany, at Franklin, near here. The mis
hap caused an and a
that destroyed plant No. b.
Paul Witherup and a
Swartz, were employed
pany.
eral
Ls.
assis
Com
explosion
man
by Com
The fire spread rapidly to sev
oll stills Within a few min
the
a mass of ruins and the fire was eat
ing its way through the yards to
number of gasoline storage
ward a
After destroying
tanks,
under control.
Shepptown.~—~Theodore, 13-year-old
son of Mrs. Josephine Serafine, a wid
ow, dropped dead of
while playing tag in front of his
York.—For the eighteenth
tive year Mrs. Mayme G. Wetzell
elected president of the York county
w.C. PL
Harrisburg
volts of electricity
home
cCOnsecu
Sixty-nine hn
passed through the
’
bodies of three Ii ling one
and burnin other two
The men were emplo
g Light and
to locate trouble
seriously t
ves of the Harris
Power
th
out nat
+4
frye er}
gal
for a short time without electric
or power, Ira
Harry Bair and
burned when they grasped a high ten
sion line they supposed was dead
William
Welch at the Willlam Penn postofiic
wants to quit the Job, but a successor
eannot be found and he
on duty until a new
be secured. The
year,
Harrishurg jscovery of the
Smith was killed and
James Beecher wers
Conshohocken. ~—~Postmuaster
must remain
postmaster car
job pays
Mexi
Greens
pr. C
wirean of pl
of agriculture
be the
ean béetle In wo sl on and
counties was made ki
H. Hadley, head
industry, department
Finding of the
most destructive of all
ing beans, was reported by represen
tatives of the federal bureau of en
tomology.
Hazleton ~The
Lehigh
own by
of the t in
beetle, sald to
insects to grow
hueklsherry
in the coal
fields just
late, rainy and cold spring, which de
layed ripening of On ac
count of the general prosperity of ths
the crop
children wen® into the woods to gath
er the berries, which
higher price because of
Shamokin, — While
ghow how he would foil
the scarcity.
attempting
shot a companin through the lung
He thought the revolver was unloaded
Wilkes-Barre The Home
Friendless Children
under the will of the late General Ash.
er Miner. The estate was left to the
general's five ehildren.
Sunbury. —Elghty-two aliens
naturalized in the Northumberland
county court In less than three hours
Each was given a flag and a copy of
the constitution by members of the
G. AR
Harrisburg. Officials in the depart.
ment of highways announced the fol
lowing changes In the assignment of
highway department superintendents:
H. W. Orr, Mercer, succeeding F. H
Mason, transferred, Mercer-Lawrence
counties; W. M. High, Reading, soc
ceeding C. 0. Diffenderfer, Reading,
resigned, Berks county; Glen 8. My.
ers, Waynesburg, succeeding Robert
W. Scdhrack, Greensburg, resigned
Westmoreland county, and J. G. Mor
rison, Washington, succeeding Meyers,
Greene county.
Erie~Four workmen vere injured
seriously and a score of others had a
narrow escape In the collapse of a
wooden tabernacle undeg construction
here for a party of evangelists,
Selinsgrove. —Burglars looted the
Bonawitz garage of everything that
was loose In the way of parts and 18
truck tires,
Philadelphia, ~~ In an experiment
with flashlight powder, Willlam Xene
nelas, 17 rears old, was badly burned
and 1s now In the Hahnemann Hos
pital, The burst of flames covered his
face, shoulders and hands and he ls
reported by the doctors to he in »
serlous condition.
Lansdale Lewis Reckless, of this
place, was Instantly killed by a New
York Central passenger train at Wells
bare :
Star Backstops of
New York Yanks
2
AGE MELLOWS JOHN
McGRAW OF GIANTS
Manager Now Says It’s Fool-
ish to Protest Decision of
Umpire in a Game.
It is foolish to protest an umpire's
| Judgment, writes John McGraw. Age
| has certainly mellowed Jawn's temper,
though he will still do battle if any-
one calls him “"Muggsy.”
“Muggsy” to McGraw Is llke a red
| tablecloth to a bull. Mac has gone
up the social scale since the rough old
days In Baltimore, and he doesn't like
¥
Sefer feeb bee
Red Smith Resented
Warbling of Byron
“1 wonder,” mused Jimmy
Caveney of Reds the other day,
“how Red Smith and Umpire
Byron are getting along in the
Wonder If they
up and become
friends? They sure had a rich
battle on the coast a few
years ago, and all because By-
ron persisted In sioging. He
called some bad strikes on Red
one afternoon, and when Red
turned to protest, Byron began
to warble, whereupon Red
crowned him.
“Next afternoon. Byron came
out, advanced to the front of
the grandstand, doffed his eanp,
and spoke to the audience.
“ ‘Ladies and gentlemen.’ sald
he, ‘I wish eXpress my re
Coast league,
have made
§
10
gret for what happened yester-
day, and to give you my assur
ance that It will oot occur
agnin.’
“And
fore the
‘Ladies and
tarts
Hed Smith, arising be
bench, explained:
gentlemen, If Mr.
Sing any more,
all aver
lke
to
ing {4
again. 1 don"t
happen
his volce.'”
Daubert as Trapshooter
While Jake Daubert, the popular
{| Cincinnati Red was temporarily
| put out of the diamond a short
{ time back by an Injury received dur
ing a gnme, Is known far and wide |
as a ball player, not many fans
| are aware that in an expert
trapshooter. Daubert Is a wellknown
{ igure at the Cincinnati Gun
traps when the Reds are playing a
{| home series and Is a frequent visitor |
at the gun
who
Enme
80
he also
club
clubs.
Indiana’s New Coach
Photograph of Everett 8 Dean,
coach at Carleton college and former
all-conference basketball center, who
has been signed as head coach of bas
ketball and baseball at Indiana uni
versity to succeed Leslie Mann, Dean
is a former captain and star center
of the Indiana basketball team.
Mays Beat Athletics
In the nine seasons thet Carl Mays
pitched in the Amercan league, he
faced the Athletics 38 times in the
games that counted In the won and
lost columns for him. He came
through a victor In 380--a percentage
in games won of 021. There is no
record In baseball along this line that
equals this work.
Oddity in Baseball Game
During the gume of Sunday, May
4, between Sacramento and Portland,
the Portland team scored two runs in
one Inning ‘without having a man
charged with being at bat. The runs
were scored on a walk, a sacrifice, hit
batsman, two walks and a sacrifice fly,
Marston Is Scratch Man
Max Maron, national amateur
champion, heads the handicap lst of
the state of Pennsylvania. Marston
is placed at scratch and is the only
player thus honored. Bill Fownes,
Pittsburgh veteran, is a one-handicap
player, sharing the distinetion with D.
C. Cockrav.
Kremer Making Good
“Woz" Kremer,
burgh Pirates,
worth for
Thought to
West coast,
his the
surprise, begnn
others how to pitch
high standing
partly due to him.
the Pi
prow en
cher of
hins
ts
his
inying
aon
ngue
be no id man
and sald to
the
lack centrol,
Plirutes
to
purchase hy was a
sya pil >
until he
show
real gnmes
present of the
Clevelans
»
Schanze has resigned
the
augue club,
* @ » ®
Fred as bus!
ness mn
national |
rer of jaltimore
al decided
lengue has
payment of be
good behavior.
ed - »
to
muses
Southpaw Ray Moore, Iate of Min.
neapolis and Atlanta, bas been added
to the Beaumont pitching staff,
. » »
The Dodgers have an option on
lobby Murray, crack young
of the Nashville Southern league team.
* * -
Pitcher Cheeves of the Cleveland
club of the American league has been
obtained by the local American asso
ciation club,
infielder
- - -
Philadelphia Americans have aot
won an American league pennant
gince Connle Mack broke up his great
team In 1014
. » *
Fred Gunther, Lincoln Western
league Inflelder, has been turned back
to the Los Angeles Pacific Coast
league team,
* - -
Remorse is what you feel when you
renlize that you could have killed that
last pitch instead of letting it go by
for a third strike
. 0»
Pitcher Brett, a big right-hander,
has been released by the Cubs to the
Wichita Falls club of the Texas
league under option.
* » .
Sumpter Clarke, an outfielder re
leased by the Cleveland American
league team to Chattanooga early In
the season, has been recalled.
- - .
Max Flack, outfielder of the local
National league team, who was ob
tained from Chicago in May, 1022, has
been released to the Oakland eclup of
the Pacific Coast league.
. - -
The Brooklyn club has added an
other pitcher to itd weakened staff,
Germgr Wilson, left-handed pitcher
from Des Moines of the Western
league, Is the latest addition.
- . .
The Boston Red Sox announce the
purchase of two new pitchers, one of
them J. W, Keifer from Bay City and
the other C. D, Jameson from a sum.
mer school at Castle Heights, Ark.
. 5 »
The Cleveland American league
team has closed a deal with the Sag
naw (Mich) club for the purchase of
Third Baseman Yoter. a right-handed
batter who has hit 850 in the Michi
gan-Ontario league and stolen 27
bases this year,
| would just as soon bite the ear off
| an umpire as to drink a glass of pop.
i But for all that McGraw Is a great
fellow, He can't say no to anyone
| In need, and he probably gives away
(185000 to $6000 mn year In small
| “touches” to old-time friends, broken-
down sporting characters and plain
bums, who take advantage of his gen-
erosity.
As an baseball leader McGraw ranks
with the great managers of the game,
He fas uncanny
players, and though they may
three seasons to “arrive” they are usu-
ally stars when they finally
thelr prime.
with a player thinks
good, and Is willing to walt,
Last season,
pitchers started to erack,
dicted that unless he and
spent a fortune for hurlers the Giants
he will make
when his
it
went
veteran
was pre
out
i
this year. McGraw sald nothing, but
bided his time. Most of His time
Sarasota, Fla, this spring was spent
with his young flingers.
Today
the Giants to a pennant and they are
80 far out In front that they can’t be
seen with the naked
who was one of the
at
eye.
sourest lemons
of the "28 race, has come through and
in him, Virgil
Barnes has also developed Into a win
i ner after a three-year trial
“1 think
| sald at March, "and
{tend to work him regularly this
| son. 1 have
has justified Mac's falth
larpes Ig ready,”
Sarasota In I In
Ben
Manager John McGraw,
would be a winner when
seasoned.”
season,
He had the
and also figured Denny
make But a = arm and no
inclination to take baseball too lightly
cost Gearin a chance to get into the
world's geries McGraw Is a strict
taskmaster.
stand for any foolishness, as Denny
probably appreciates.
(ord Notes
College athletics do not exist in Fin
land.
same faith In
gow segs
Marquette and Wisconsin harriers
will race at Madison October 11
- * -
Fielding H. Yost became coach
the University of Michigan in 1901
. » -
Kt. Louis plans to spend $25,000,000
for improvements beneficial to mo
torists,
al
*
Quebec has repealed its mileage tax
on taxis and other vehicles used for
hire, except busses,
» *
Ruth, Dempeey, Carpentier and
Firpo are considered the greatest at
tractions In athletics.
* » .
fee hockey Is gaining more and more
ground each year and it is believed
the sport has a great future in the
United States,
-
Olymple games were revived by the
Greeks at Athens in 18006. Americans
started to win then and have been
winning ever since.
. 0»
Golf Is becoming exceedingly popu
lar with the rank and file of the Brit-
ish army. They are now allowed to
wear fatigue dress while playing,
»
Both the Annapolis midshipmen
and West Point cadets will have seat-
ing accommodations for 25000 spec
tators at thelr home grounds this
season. .
Cabinet
Western Newspaper Usion.)
w.
A vigorous temper is not alto-
gether an evil Men who sare as
easy as an old shoe are generally
of as little worth. —8purgeon,
vis,
SUBSTANTIAL FOODS
A salad may be something more
than a bit of green and dressing
though that Is often all
that is required A
hearty salad Is quite
enough for a maln dish,
Chopped hard-cooked
eges, served with celery,
or a little potato, green
pepper or chopped
cooked beets, with a
good bolled dressing,
makes a
Chopped cooked beets,
a bit of scraped onion and a cupful or
more of tender mised
EOO4 neds.
diced celery
with a8 mayonnaise which has been
pink, served on blanched let-
tuce, sprinkled with chopped or sheed-
Jellied Shrimp Baiad. {00k
quart of tomatoes with
and one-half
One
one cupfu
one tes
cloves,
of sugar
and «
minutes,
per, four
one ba)
poonful
mustard,
onion, fifteen
Strain and pot
gelatin which has been softened
mefourth of a cupful of iter.
Cool until it begins to stiffen and add
and one-half # shrimps
which have been well cleaned and cut
then
celery and one-fourth
cold we
cupful
add one-half cupful
of a
which
re-
halves,
of
cupful
diced
of
been parbolled ar
Pou
diced green pepper
skin
idunl molds
When ready
on beds of lettuce
or
the
moved into
il hardened
turn
garnish
§ VOT
youn
out
with bolled
Gressing
anise, as preferred
A CBD
and
ount of cooked
Salmon and Pea Salad. Take
if salmon, removi skin
bones, add an eq
with =
dressing
SPUEOn we serve
seasoned
a choppe 3
added hes
Serve on
plenty of good dressin
¥
Here
=
i*= 8 main dish
He
Take equal par
sweet
entirely satl
tite!
green peas ana
Dressed
i i
the kernels. chopped raisins and
and olive ofl
id,
with
ized with
oressed Into cups to Serve
y
i
ith a = prepared
wit sweet
girup nut
nade from ground Brazil nuts,
and Nut Salad—Remove
kins and seeds from one-half pound
ol Malaga Add an equa}
unt of walnut ments hroken into
BUCE
and
meal t
Fruit
BIN
with French dress
nests of lettuce
fied ch
¢
errieg cut into
words are things and a
i drop of ink, falling Hke dew
a thoug produces that
makes th is, perhaps
ons think .
nt
usan
WAYS WITH FOOD
be varied with
d seasoning sc
that one may
serve it often
and always have
a new one
Potato Salad.
Cut up cold
boiled potatoes
into small cubes
the smaller the
A potato salad may
as bits of potato are not easily pene
trated with dressing if too large. Mix
with a pint of potato cubes, one small,
finely chopped or diced onion, add
three tablespoonfuls of olive or vege
tuble oil and one tablespoonful of
vinegur: mix well, adding a half-tea-
few dashes of
cayenne. A half cupful of cooked
corn left from dinner may be bolled,
or the same amount of peas, or coarse
iy chopped peanuts, or a little peanut
butter may be added to the bolled or
mayonnaise dressing which is added
just before servimg.
Cabbage and Carrot Salad.—Take a
small, hard head of cabbage, cut into
half and put it through the meat grind.
er—using the coarse knife-——with three
or four small, well scraped carrots,
RBerve on lettuce nnd garnish with
small, yellow tomatoes, cut into quar
ters,
Prune and Lettuce Salad.-—Sonk a
pound of prunes in cold water over
night, after washing well; In the
morning simmer until the prunes are
tender, adding a little lemon julce.
Stone and arrange as whole as pos.
sible on heart leaves of lettuce. Serve
with a spoonful of French dressing and
a spoonful of mayonnaise at the side
of the salad. A bit of peanut butter
or & few minced peanuts may be used
for stuffing the prunes If desired, as
the two flavors are especially palatable.
Apricot Honey--Crush without par
ing very ripe apricots, cook with just
enough water to keep them from stick-
ing, until reduced to a pulp. Rub the
fruit through a fine sieve and to each
pint allow three-fourths of a pound
of sugar; cook the pulp five minutes,
then add the sugar, which shobid be
heated hot; cook until thick. stirring
Hot apple sauce with gingerbread Is
good with a cup of tea or cocor.