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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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MAKING GOOD IN |
A SMALL TOWN
Real Stories About Real Girls
By MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN
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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
\