»” ojminlel=p Bishop MeCort turned the first shovelful of dirt In Lreaking ground for the $1,000,000 Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Altoona. The Keystone Hotel and an adjoin. fng building were destroyed by fire at Marlenville with 4 loss of $70,000. The Marienville fire department was alded by companies ‘rom Clarion and Kane when the flames threatened to spread through the business section. Twelve guests in the hotel escaped uninjured. Charged with Involuntary man- slaughter In connection with the death of two girls, who were killed when their motorcycle crashed Into his automobile, Anton Sparcle was acquitted. Th~ gecident occurred when Sparcie backed hls automoblle into the higtway from a side road. Mrs. Gladys Moon was shot and geriously wounded following an argu- ment with her husband, Wesley Moon, of McKeesport, on a street in Connellsville. Moon is bei, held pending the outcome of his wife’ in- Juries The couple, who have been separated for five months, have one son, Kenneth, aged 4, and the trouble sald to have started over which should have possession of the child. Rev. Charles H. Trusty, negro pas- tor of Grace Memorial Church, was elected moderator of the Pittsburgh Presbytery. It was the first time in the history of the preshytery that a negro was elevated to the position. Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster opened with an enroliment well beyond the 500 mark. C. A. Graff, postmaster and store- keeper at Churchtown, Lancaster county, committed suicide by shoot- ing. The Hazleton school board has de- cided to have 40 classrooms and an auditorium to seat 1200 In its new $600,000 Ligh school. Lackawanna county and Carbon- dale have been ordered to pay $60,200 damages awarded property owners in the elimination of a grade crossing of the Delaware & Hudson Company by the public service commission. Judge Balley, In Huntingdon, fined Wassel Cucu, convicted violating the liquor '~ws, 8500 and costs and gave him one to two years in the Western Penitentiary. was fined $200 and costs May Bell received six months in the county jail and $100 amd costs fine; Joe Deco, three months in the county jail and £100 costs and fine, and Joe Bailey, a fine of $200 and costs, and a year in the county prison. After deliberating for 175 hours the jury In th: case of Duff Shorts, an Erie rallroad detective, at Meadville, charged with the murder of Emmet Plummer, a negro trespasser, return- ed a vediet of not gulity. It was the longest any jury ever had deliberated in the Crawford county courts, Opening a closet door of an empty house in Philadelphia be had just purchased and was inspeectd before moving in, Edward Jones was startl- ed to discover a withered humpan arm and hand lying on a shelf. The house is located in the 1800 block of North Jouvier street.’ The human speci men may have been the property of a medical student taken from a dis- secting tab'e in one of the colleges and abandoned in the house, Five prizes were won at the Sover- eign Grand Lodge sessions in Jack- sonville, Fla., by Pottstown Odd Fel- who are known throughout Pennsylvaria for their high standard in degree work. More than 150 at. tended the sessions, The degree team of Exe~lg'or Encampment ecap- tured first prize of the Patriarchial, Golden Rule and Royal Purple de- grees, first prize for the encampment making the finest appearance in the parade and first for the encampment coming the longest distance. Canton No. 6, Patriarchs Militant, won first prize In the competitive drill and first prize for the canton making the finest appearance cne parade. The prizes for the degree work and for the drills were for $1000 each. Sherif W. G. Andrews and other officers continued to search In the vicinity of West Pittsburgh In Law- rence count; for the trace of the col- ored man who entered the home of Mrs. John Mills, near West Pitts- burgh, bound and gagged her, tied her to a bed, robbed the place and es- caped. Two small children were In the house at the time Mrs. Mills bat. tled against the jnan and after be- ing tiled, got loose, kicked a pane of glass from a window and shouted for help. Men came from a plant In the district, but the Intruder fled in. to the woods. Mrs. Mills, who Is about 20 years of age, Is suffering from the shock. Joseph Yuhcs, a Freelard school boy, fractured his right leg in a foot- ball scrimmage, Miss Arminta Herrold «ho died at Tamaqua, bequeathed $2000 to Cav- airy Eplscopal Church and $1000 §» the Coaldale State *ospital, Registration at the Bloomsburg is a from lows, with more than 600 students realy for classes. Bucknell University officially opened Its doors with the argest freshmen class {o its history. As Walter Doyle, of Minersville, stepped off the ralls of n mine rang: way to allow. a trip of cars to pass the cors Jumped the track and killed him, Joseph Hulrston, wio was conyicr- ed of murder tn the secohd degree .t Uniontown for killing Isanc Foskey by shooting, after Halrston had leen robbed and. attacked, was given from three to six years !n the Western Penitentiary, wand George Wiston, who used an axe to kill Emery Salls and was convicted of voluntary man- slaughter, waa sentenced to from six to 12 years. George M. Hisko, aged 28, wns killed on the state highway near Mauch Chunk when thrown from his machine after it left the highway and bounced over a rallway track, His brother was kllled in the same man- ner two weel's ago, While explaining a falry story to her two grandchildren, Mrs. Freder- ick C. Botterbusch, aged 63, of York, fell dead on the kitchen floor from apoplexy. Karl Frederick and Mil dred Louise Botterbusch were sitting ut her féet reading the fairy tale to her. Anna McHale, Byrnesville, near Mt. Carmel, while walking aloag a lonely path was attacked by three young men. She lay unconscious on the mountain all night. A passerby found her. Walter Hadesty, David. ford and Harold Long, Ashland youths, were charged with eriminal assault and Jalled at Bloomsburg. It it thought the girl will die. Driving along an unfrequented road near Shenandoah, Charles Cavick, driver of 4g motor truck, came to a suspiclous looking box. On examin. ing it he found a dozen palr of new gum boots and other merchandise amounting to several hundred dol lars, He 'oaded the box on the truck and turned it over to the police. Officials in the department of high- ways, at Harrisburg, warned motor- ists that although delivery of the 1025 license plates had bien started, they were illegal for use until Janu- ary 1 next. The department has sent out 46,000 sets ol the 1027 plates, All loan companies falling to coms. ply with requirements of the securi- ties act will be prosecuted, Peter G. Cameron, state secretary of banking, in Harrisburg, announced In a notice to “small loan " The at- tention of the department, the gecre- tary sald, has been ealled to the sale by small loan companies or associa. tions of common and preferred stock and other forms of indebtedness with- out having obtained registration un- der the securities act s Mrs. Thomas B., Nowlds, 68 years old, was fatally burned In her apart- ment in Hamilton Court, Philadel lHeensees, Presbyterian Hospital. The maid, who was at work Screams ed porter. enveloped In flames, which were ex- tinguished with difficulty. The new Barbadors Island electric generating station, near Norristown, of the Counties Gas and Electric Com- pany was formally opened. Members of the Rotary Club, several hundred citizens and borough, township and county officials were the company’s guests and witnessed the releasing of the full 68,666 horse power which it made avalable, Captain Gerhart, 2° the state po Hee, closed the Ortlieb brewery, at East Mauch Chunk, against which there had been a temporary Iinjune- tion. A truck load of beer by Andrew Wargo, of Lansford, was to leave the brewery. James flin township, when the by a Baltimore train at a crossing in Rankin, Pittsburgh. They were en route work when the accident occurred Rose Smith, who disappeared from her home two years ago and for whom a nation wide search was made without result, has returned to Dan- ville as Mrs. Murray Gould, wife of a New York man. She left the home of her father, Peter Smith, without telling her destination and when she falled to returr in two months the family informed the police, who sent photographs to newspapers through- out the ec-untry and circulars to the police of hundreds of cities and towns. Married nearly six years to a man who had another wife from whom he had not obtained a divorce, Mrs. Ruth Campbell Bryson, of Uniontown, was granted a decree from Roy W. Bry- gon, whose last known address was Pittsburgh. Mrs. Bryson testified that when she heard of the first mar riage her husband told her that he had been divorced, but ut the sugges- tion of her mother the records were searched and it was learned that there Lad_ been no decree, Louis Self, who escaped two weeks ago from the Dauphin county poor farm, near Harrisburg, where he had been transferred while serving a two- year sentence for manufacturing moonshine, returned and surrendered to the jail anthorities. He sald his health was poor apd he fled when he heard he was to be transferred back to prison. Elimination of two grade crossings on the Pottsville-SBunbury Highway, near Paxinos, was ordered by the publle service commisalon, Fifteen hundred mine workers em- ployed at the Butler colllery of the Pennsylvani Coal Company at Pitts. ton went on strike because of a grieve. ance over wages, William, Grabb, 58 years old, com- mitted sideide by hanging in his barn near Chestan® Level, William Isancs, 65 years old, living near Irwin, fell dead just after he had been :dmitted to the county home. were Was brothers, motoreycele & Ohlo fe NE Stiff Opposition Is Needed in Training Connie Mack, explaining the bad slump of his Philadelphia Athletics at the start of the sea son, says It was due to the lack of good practice games, He con- cludes that more Important than warm weather in the Southern training camps is stiff opposi- tion. In 1928 the Athletics were sent against major league teams in their spring practice games and the result was that Phila- delphin got a flying start and was right on the heels of the pace-making Yankees until mid- season, This year the Athletics’ practice games were mostly with high school teams and minor college nines, They start. ed the major league season un- prepared and fmmediately went on a long slump. rT I II TT TT TT TTI TI ITT TTT TTT YT YT YT YY yy yyy PITCHERS USE FEW CURVES IN DRILLS Most Ball Players See Only Straight Stuff as Rule. Baseball Is a different game from any other in the world. The batting practice indulged in by the players is proof of this, writes Tom Swope in the Cincinnati Post. Ideal batting practice pitching, in the opinion of all players with whom we have talked, is of a sort any novice should be able to hit. Blg leaguers without number have told me it is proper for the pitcher to fay the ball over the plate with noth- ing on It during batting practice. Any pitcher who tries to fool the batters during practice Immediately is called down. One player explains the policy of such batting practice in this way: “When we cnn step up there and hit the ball a mile In practice it gives us confidence. We can do this only against straight pitching. “And when we hit them solidly In practice the other team, seeing us do so, begins to worry. *To my mind that explanation doesn't explain. It states Lhe case from the ball player's point of view, should think that way. Ralph De Palma and John Bowers road race to be run near Los Angeles, and will drive himself. seen looking "em over. are seen training for the Thanksgiving Bowers, of movie fame, has entered Bib Falk Hitting Hard = A — SO solid in ‘nothing.’ raps he hits against practice Why, are it? “In nearly all things practice Is held to gain perfection. Why, should not ball players who are weak against curve balls hit at curve balls to correct this weakness?" Yanks Sign Another Star phe Monroe Swartz, pitcher of the At- lanta Crackers, who has just been pur- chased by the New York American league team for the sum of $10,000, port Notes Philadelphia, with a population of more than 2,000,000, hag only one pub- lie golf course. . Nearly 300,000 persons play golf on the public links in Washington anpu- ally. The new Qlympic record for the high jump is 6 feet 6 inches, estab lished by Harold Osbarne, Illinois AC * * . Fred Martin, an old Oberlin college gridiron star, has been appointed conch of the Wesleyan football squad this fall. , - * » Arne Borg established a world's rec ord for 1,000 yards freestyle swim- ming. He made the distance In 12:00 910. ® . . A $100,000 swimming pool with pa- villons, and club facilities for men and women, {8 to be constructed in City park, New Orleans, .- * » When you build a fight stadium be sure to Install a large entrange to It, the larger the better, Then you are always sure of a “big gete” - *. » The United States army polo team will visit England during the summer of 1026 for_a series of matches with the Hurlingham club of London. The English army four played in this coun- try last year, : Bib Falk, the temperamental left. handed outfielder of the Chicago | White Sox, continues to hit the ball | | hard and now ranks among the first | five leaders. Efforts were made this | spring to Induce Falk to pitch but he i refused, i ———— | Jump Finish Is Big Some sincere advisers have been | {rying to induce Charlies Paddock to | abolish his jump finish, They have it figured out that “on the ground” of a second that | himself over the i Paddock agree | He says the jump finish is an advan | tage to him. He points to several of | his important races, won lose fin | ighes In these he would have been | beaten, Paddock says, had he run finish line with them does not i v in « i ling over It. { seems to be the style for him to fol | low. He has done fairly well so far Opposite End of Boner Fred Merkle now knows how it feels to be on the opposite end of a bone | headed play. With Fred at bat and two out in a recent game against Bal. timore, a hit-and-run signal was wig- wagged and Griffin and Gonzales, who were on base, started with the pitch. Oriffin, hearing Merkie's bat come In contact with the ball, put on speed and passed Gonzales on the way to the plate. It so happened that Fred's smash, which went far over the fence was wasted, Rochester lost three runs and the game on the bone. Deadlock in 800-Meter The United States and England are now deadlocked in the matter of S00- meter victories In the Olympic games. Bach of the countries has won the race four times. Lightbody, Pligrim, Shepard and Ted Meredith have car ried the American shield to the fore, while the British victers have been Flask in 1806, Tyeo In 1900, Hill In 1020 and Lowe this year. Bike Race Around France A bleyele race around France Is held annually. Sixty of the 157 com- petitors in this year's contest finished, having started from Paris and cov- ered the 8,000 miles over mountains, valleys and plains. The winner was the Italian, Bottechia, whose time was 296 hours 18 minutes and 21 seconds. He led consistently throughout every stage of the long endurance test, Kentucky Derby History The ‘Kentucky Derby was first run in 1875 and it has been held annually at Churchill Downs ever since that year. The distance of the race Is one mile and a quarter and no horse hag broken the time record in which Old Rosebud won the classic In 1014. | TTT TTT TTT TTYTTYTTYTYTT Peck Sharpe Willing to Learn Card Trick One of the funniest characters in sport Is Peck Sharpe, who pinyed baseball back in the Dark anges. Beveral years ago Peck, Mike Cantillon, E. J. Archam- bault, well-known Milwaukeean, and Germany Schaefer went to Hot Springs together. The first night of their stay they started a card game, Cantillon Archambault playing ageinst Peck and Schaefer. Wishing to have a little sport with the comedians, Mike and Archie “framed” them, winning about £200. The next morning Can- tillon told Sharpe what they had done, at the same time ten dering him the money. “Keep the colin, but tell how did 1." was quick comeback and me you Peck's SB 8 8 8 A A A B BL BB 8 A A BA 8 & 8 8 8 BB 8 A BR 8 8 8 B BB 8 BA BB 8 8 8 8 8 NOTES Ken Douglas, left-hand pitcher, has . * + Eddie Harlow, Connecticut State Waterbury, *iicher Nelson Green of the Little Rock Travelers, hes been obtained by New Orleans - Infielder George Rhinehardt, pur | chased from Greenville of the Rally league, has joined Memphis, » » * Pitcher Sterling Stryker has been loaned to Springfield for the remain- der of the season by Bridgeport. * » . New Oriénns has purchased Infielder & for spring delivery. pssociation. He i . = 0» i Pittsburgh has signed D. W, Deaton, | a first baseman, who made a name for himself with Lenoir college last spring. - - - John Hollingsworth, New Orleans pitching ace, who was sold to Brook. Irn some time ago, has joined the Dodgers, San Francisco has purchased Bil Crockett, a pitcher, from Corsicana of the Texas association. He is twen- ty-four years old. - Mobile has obtained Ontfielder Dick Reichle from the Boston Red Sox to take the place of Denny Williams, whe has gone to the American league team. * - . » . Outfielder Joe Bratcher, recently ob- tained by the 8t. Louis Cardinals from Okmulgee of the Western association, has been turned over to Oakland of the Pacific Coast league. . »- . Catcher Earl Smith, who, since join. ing the Pirates, has been doing a great deal to keep the team in the race, is out of the game with a dislocated finger on his right hand. * - . Seattle has signed Ray Johnson an outfielder, who halls from Everett, Wash, where he has been starring is semi-pro ranks. He will be given a chance to fill Billy Lane’ place. * - » Pitcher Herbert Steed, late of the University of Alabama. has been signed by Mobile. Steed was a run. ning mate of Ernie Wingard of the St, Louis Browns during his college - - 4 A. Rankin Johneon, right-handed pitcher, who was with the Boston Red Sox ten years ago, and who has been managing the Temple team of the Texas association, has been signed by Vernon, -. - - Doe Newton, right-hand pitcher, signed as a free agent by Little Rock | in the spring, has been, given his um The time was 2:08 28, . conditional release by the Travelers. His home is in Birmingham. AAA bb bd bbb MAKING GOOD IN | A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls By MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN EE EEE EEE EE CD, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) TEACHING FOREIGN-BORN TO SPEAK “AMERICAN” HEN making good means mak- ing money, try teaching foreign- ers to speak the English language, Ambitious foreign born men, anxi ous to make good In business; foreign born mothers, whose children are growing away. from them with the adoption of a new tongue: foreigners who can't speak 1 word of English and foreigners who merely want to improve their speech——all these will be your prospective pupils. So says a girl who, after gradua-, tion from college, spent n- rly a year wondering “what on earth” she could do, since she didn't want *5 teach In the public schools, In her home town “The fact that there is a large ele ment of foreign born people in here gave me my idea,” she told me. “And I've made a good Income ever gince I started ‘on my own' to give these people private lessons in English.” Bince every small town is a part of the “melting pot” which Is Amer lea, no matter where a girl lives, she Is almost sure to find a good number of the foreign born who flock yearly to our shores. Here her pupils, As for desks, chairs, chalk, black- boards and other ry room accessories, she needs none of be “school ma’am™ In this kind of school, The lessons are all private ones, and may be given at the are custon y school- to The would-be teacher should adver To those ment, she who answer the may say that advertise the charge is three dol- i i Of course, she may vary the price to meet the local She should supply herself ! if she ob- tains, eventually, more pupils than However big her business grows, should never give group lessons for it is the The foreigner who has been backward In learning his before a class, He wants Even If the teacher should organize a class and persuade him to join, he will, In most cases soon drop out. There are very few towns where the foreign element in the populatia is negligible—and the girl who does happen to live in such a town should go into something else. Bot for the girl whose "Malin Street” has its for etgn sections, the risk is small, the possibilities great, THE “CIRCULATING STE- NOGRAPHER" ignorance HAD always wanted a business career,” sald the small-town girl whose mother was too feeble to be left entirely alone, “so 1 decided to be what | call a ‘circulating steno.’ Since This Ingenious “circulating steno” fitted herself for the work by means of a correspondence course, She vis its the different offices on her list— there are ten of them—and takes die tation at each place. She makes It a point to be at each office on sched- ule time, and, since her employers know she can be relied upon to do so, she Is seldom kept waiting: ber promptness conserves her own thue, as well as theirs, For the small-town girl who can not leave home all day; who knows, or is willing to learn, stenography, here is an opportunity. Business men who dag not have enough work to be done to justify their employing a full-time stenographer will welcome a part- time stenographer. If she does the housework before she starts to work each day, she will probably leave home in the mid-morn- ing and return in the mid-afternoon. She can type her letters at home, get- ting them done easily before six o'clock. She can sign and mall them in the evening. Should any one of her employers discover additional letters he wants sent out the same day, she can take his dictation over the tele phone. In her home “office,” she should keep supplies of stationery from each place of business she visits, “The way to begin Is to begin” simply calling on and applying to those business men whose work she thinks might justify their having some stenographic work done, but probably pot fulltime work. Some friend of the family may need a little steno graphic work done regularly; he may be able to suggest her name to other business men who would be gisd of her services She may enlarge her field, as more business men hear and approve her plan, by employing other girls to work under her, She would have them report each day at her headquarters, assigning them either to offices on the regular route, or to business men who may have telephoned to have a spe clai plece of work done. There Is a big future for the “circulating steno™ with ambition, on \
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