Pennsylvania State News Lebanon's new $125,000 Home for Widows and Single Women was dedi- cated. Reading letter-carriers are organiz- ing a band, and C. W, Smith will be director. The local P. 0. 8. of A. Camp pre- sented flags to the Sixth ward and Logan street schools of Lewistown. George O. Runyon, aged 66, retired Reading coal dealer, ended his life by shooting at his home on North Tenth street. , For the third time in six months thieves climbed 30 feet to rob the Mt. Carmel American Legion rooms, ob- taining about $50. Bristol's Town Hall, one of many old landmarks of the pace, is under- going reconstruction that will give it a modern appearance, The Counties Gas & Electric Com- pany is laying a main along the De- Kalb street pike to supply the villages of Washington Square and Centre Square with gas. The Newbern Glass Company's plant at Royersford was sold at sheriff's sale for $34,600 to Harry I. Tiestand, &n attorney representing the Royers- ford Trust Company. Hamburg will have its own water plant as a result of the efforts of the Consumers’ League to bring about the purchase of the Windsor Water Com- pany's plant and the approval by the Public Service Commission. Sale of stored anthracite for con- sumers of the Hazleton district was discontinued at the Lattimer colliery of Pardee Brothers & Co. and the Highland mine of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Company. The only points where coal can be obtained now are at Cran- berry and Beaver Meadow and there only buckwheat is on hand. The Chester County Court has defi nitely settled a legal controversy growing out of certain internal dis turbances which threatened to dis rupt the Hungarian Reformed Church of Phoenixville. Judges Butler and Hause decided that the question of the removal of a pastor from a church is an ecclesiastical one and cannot be decided by the temporal courts, State boiler inspectors were ordered not to inspect bollers {in state institu- tions except on special request in a formal order issued January 22, ac- cording to testimony given before Coroner Kreider of Dauphin county in the inquest into the deaths of An- thony Smith and Solomon Cartwright, who were scalded to death in the Cap- itol power house on September 29, when a boiler exploded. Somerset county has had a very successful “Fish Day,” its streams be- ing restocked with 20,000 trout. The celebration was held recently at the Howard Peck nursery on the old Peck Meyersdale. Over 100 sportsmen from surrounding community attended the affair, which was also attended by government and state officials Villlam H. Baker, address unknown, was held for court at West Chester by Justice Smith of Berwyn on a charge of represesting himself as an official of the State Department of Health and selling books along the Main Line, where many residents contributed to him. Physicians became interested and his arrest was caused by Dr. Jo seph Scattergood of West Chester, a representative of the Health Depart. ment. Berks county has spent $650,000 on road improvements thus far this year. Milton Council decided to work for all-night protection of its raflroad crossings, Sunbury’s chief trophy of the World War, a 105-millimetre German Howit- zer, will be used to decorate the grounds of the Packer Hospital, It became known that sale of the old James L. Whitaker farm of 96 acres in Philadelphia, has made a popular Allentown young man a millionaire, Adams avenue and Tabor road, and was bought by George Schwinn for $962,000. “That means an all-winter strike” said members of several miners’ lo- cals after attending meetings at Pottsville at which the declaration of Chairman Warriner, of the operators’ committee, was discussed. “Mr. War- riner has introduced an altogether new issue into the strike,” sald the miners, Cornelius Connaghan, of Mount Car- mel, was agreeably surprised one day last week to veceive a check for $10 from a farther named Fetterman, whote mules Mr. Connaghan caught during a runaway. Mr. Fetterman's children were in the wagon and were probably saved from serious injuries by the quick work of the rescuer, Engineers have begun work on sur. veys and plans for a doubletrack rail road from Topton to Kutztown to Vir. ginsville and thence to Port Clinton, ever the route of the coal belt rail road projected by an independent company almost 75 years ago. Struck by a motor truck at Skip pack as she was returning from the Croamery school, Anna Wenhold, 6 years old, was killed, hor skull being fractured. V. D. Frank, of Pottstown, the driver, gave himself up to the po- lice, but was released after witnesses who saw the accident testified that the child walked in front of the truck, putting new roof on the war CURRENT EVENTS Walker's Election as Mayor of New York Is Big Tri- umph for Gov. Al Smith. By EDWARD W. PICKARD IN £HONAL interest In last week's AN elections centered mainly on New York city where “Jimmy” Walker, the Tammany-Smith candidate for mayor. ! was pitted against Frank D. man. millionaire Republican nominee. | Little doubt of Walker's victory had existed, but the size of the plurality— | more than 401,000—caused something | of a sensation. Actually it was a spee- | tacular triumph for Gov. Al Smith and | fixes him in his place as the foremost figure In the Democratic party. He says he will retire from polities at the end of his term, but if he wishes It he Is assured of the support of the East ern delegations for Presi- dential nomination the next Demo cratic national convention. That of course doesn't mean that he could be nominated, for the Southern and West. ern Democrats are still dry the | main. { In addition to putting over his gub- ernatorial candidate, Smith won a big victory In the state, for the four amendments to the state constitution which he warmly supported all carried, despite the fight on three made by the Republicans under the direction of Senator Wadsworth, Reg resentative Ogden Mills and State Chairman Morris. These leaders of | the G. O. P. In the state suffered con siderable loss of prestige, for they are accused of bungling the fight on the amendments. The only one the Repub- licans supported provides for a reform | of the judiciary. Democrats scored another victory in New Jersey, the clearly prohibition and thelr candidate for governor, A. Harry Moore, wet, de- | feated Arthur Whitney, dry, Repub- | lican and indorsed by the Anti-Saloon | league, by a plurality of about 40,000. Immediately after learning of his elec- | tion Mr. Moore announced that as soon as he was inaugurated he would begin a movement to have congress modify the Volstead law so as to permit the manufacture and sale of beers and light wines, Municipal elections In Indiana re sulted In victories for the Republicans ! in Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evans- | ville, Fort Wayre, Lafayette, Peru, | Elkhart, Crawfordsville, and several other cities; with the exception of | Indianapolis, all these had been gov- erned by the Democrats for four years. Among the Hoosler cities won by the | Democrats South Bend, Marion | and Richmond. In a nominally non-partisan election Boston, which has been controlled by | the Democrats for sixteen years, was captured by the Republicans, who elected Malcolm E. Nichols mayor. The Ku Klux Klan figured prom. inently In two elections, and broke even. It supported J. R. Duvall, who was elected mayor of Indianapolis; but Charles Bowles, its candidate for mayor of Detroit, was decisively beaten by John W. Smith, the present executive, “wet” the iil fry id of them where issue was were OL. WILLIAM MITCHELL'S court martial now promises to be a long drawn out affair. On Monday of last week the prosecution completed its presentation of proof that the colonel had sald the things he ls accused of saying, and the defense, In cross quos- tioning the witnesses, was in the main satisfied to elicit admissions from army officers that Mitchell's state ments had not caused (nsubordination or lack of discipline so far as they knew, Then the prosecution rested its case, and next day the defense asked and obtained adjournment to the following Monday in order that it might have opportunity to confer with the prosecution as to what witnesses the prosecution would agree that the defense might summon. General Howze, presiding, was indignant nt the delay and scored the prosecution for It, but could not deny the request for adjournment, Colonel Mitchell and Congressman Reid, his chief counsel, spent the re- list of charges and criticisms which mendously which he will attempt to sustain them. Mitehell wants to call 71 wit- including admirals, flyers, and members congress, the secretaries of war, und Maj. Eddie Colonel NERKeS, Benerais, technicians, agriculture, Arctic xplorer, Admiral Sims, and Mrs sald Mr. Reid Mitchell spoite “The whole defense,” be that Colonel eee 111 Wild intent. That It wus mditions which we shall uncover in letall. from our that all Mitchel! sald was and is true, and that more which he now Is going to say was and Is true.” COMMANDER position TATIONAL MOC- 3 presented to President Coolidge that organization's national leglsiative pro- which includes provision for a of all the country's man power and resources in time of The legislation asked would give the President control of transportation materials together with farm products thelr prices. It would provide that there would no siackers and no profiteers in case of another war, Other legislative recommendations include provision for medical treat. ment and adjusted compensation for cinsses of disabled men excluded under the law; the creation of a medical corps in the veterans’ bu and construction of 2.000 addi tional beds In veterans’ fireproof hos pitals, gram, universal draft War and be certain now reaug TALY'S debt funding mission arrived in Washington and at the first meet- with American commission Voilpl set forth his the ing Count Subcommittees are studying Italy's capacity to pay and agreement settlement of the $2,138 000,000 Is expected. Resumption of negotiations concern debt Premier Palnleve In a likely to be upset at any time because Socialist defection there Is some doubt about the debt matter. If the pew Painleve cabinet does not fall it Senntor Henri ceed where M. Calllaux failed. Painleve ministry obtained a vote of row margin of 221 to 188, the 103 So- supporting him only temporarily. RANCE'S troubles in Syria are In- creasing, for though the Druses ing more active. lakry republic, with himself as president, and is sald to be trying to capture the city of Homs In order to establish a provisional government which can ap jreal to the League of Nations, Damas- cus is full of French troops and guns and is thoroughly barricaded, and thou- sands of [ts residents are fleeing. Last week American Consul Knabenshue at American destroyers that were at Alexandria, although he said there was no there or in Damascus, IZA KHAN, who had been premier and dictator of Persia for two Years, now sits on the throne of that to the requests of leaders of all par- ties, big land owners and certain eo clesiastics. Thereupon the mejliss or parliament formally deposed Ahmed Mirza, the shah, and abolished the Kadjar dynasty, which had ruled over Persin since 1770. The crown was nde elective and Riza promised to cull a constitutional assembly to make the necessary changes in the baste law, His first acts were to liberate all po- litical prisoners and to grant amnesty to the dethroned shah and all mem- heirs of his family and his household. He also ordered the price of bread re duced through government subsidy. ncecession of Riza, and the crown 80 much Information is given In cen- dispatches from Teheran jut rom other sources it Is gathered that Riza's coup d'etat was Inspired by British Influence and that he forced the parliament to take the action de- tailed above, after the intors were compelled to flee for thelr ilves by Rliza's hired gunmen Shak Mirza, been spending of hig time In Paris, was In the of ¢ party In Persia that was touch with the Russian shevists, while Riza has been friendly the British. The whole affair is really a development of the struggle between Russia and England for con- the ofl fields of Persia and to the Far East new indorses “an which legis Aliumed who has most hands bol. with trol over he Ameri the routes the Millspan RYS from all parts of the coun. try gathered in Chicago for league, Warne BR. in his report “Prohit snforcement counsel, stance: raised sald In sub BCOres of pu problems We have helped solve them leak after ion dam. We leak In have blasted it have } 1 hib they created. adminis ng these things, decisions and the support of trative action in do fact that we have steadily. No ernment has ever similar policy of gov- shown a gain, sition of the wets is that the a dead letter. it is a red letter law” Mr. Wheeler on would One is placing more cone tinuous, constroctive “ps 44 _- The active opp law is Instead significant far from being testimony tlined which is increasing the penalties for or narcotic acts. tion were Andrew J. Volstead called attention to certaln provisions courts and enforcement fleets and smugglers. under which the conductors and tralnmen are working expire on December 31, and war time scale of wages, or an in- The grand lodge officers and general the men on Western roads already have approved such a demand, and those of the Eaxt- take the same action. ARIFF autonomy for China was accepted In principle by the in. Dr. (0 T. Wang for China fore that date, A committee of the is now framing Interim HE house committee on ways and means closed the hearings on tax re- law, One of the last witnesses heard was Gen, L. C, Andrews, assistant sec- retary of the treasury In charge of prohibition enforcement. He asked that the alcohol tax rate be cut In half to kill the illicit alcohol market, and that a special levy be Imposed on cereal beverages so that the enforce ment unit would have the right to supervise the breweries and stop the wholesale flood of {legal beer. The committee voted to Increase the exemption for single persons from $1,000 to $1,500, and that for heads of families from $2,500 to $3.5600, The 40 per cent surtax rate is to be cut to 20 per cent. / COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade an Market Reports. BALTIMORE. —Wheat—No. 2 red winter, spot, domestic, $1.62: No. 2 red winter, garlicky, spot, domestic, $1.58. Corn-—~No. 2 yellow corn (old), for domestic delivery, is quotable nom- inally at 98c per bushel in car lots. Oats—No. 2 white, 47% @48¢c; No. 8 white, 4624 @ 47. Hay-—~New hay, per ton, No. 2 timo- thy, $24.50@25; No. 3 timothy, $22@ 23; No. 1 light clover, mixed, $23.50Q@ 24; No. 2 light clover, mixed, $21@22; No. 2 clover, mixed, $23@23.50. Straw—No. 1 wheat, $11G12;: No. 1 ont, $12@12.50. City Mills Feed-—Spring wheat bran, Western, in 100-1b. sacks, per ton, $33; Western middling (brown), $36 Butter per 1b, 5Q Creamery, fancy 62¢; do, choice, 50@51; do, good, 4 49; do, prints, 53@ 564: do, blocks, 52G 53; do, ladles, 42¢ 43; Maryland and Pennsylvania rolls, 40@42; Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, dairy prints, 40G 42 Eggs—Maryland, nearby firsts, free cases @ 48¢c; firsts doz., 43Q 45; West Virginia firsts cases, per doz s5@47; firsts, free cases, per doz. Live Poultry-—Chickens and 4% pounds and over and poor 16: ug and per dozen, 47 Pennsylvania Western free cases, per free Southern 43045 i hens per 1b, 27@ 2 17G 18; large, sn medium, leghorus fowl, roosters, neers, fat, 27628; to © 28 Ducks, young, pounds and over Pigeons Iz Guinea fowl, you over, each, 708 80« and per 1b, old hens, 38@40. do, old small or ¢ you pounds and #, young, 2 d0@42; toms, 1% turkey do pounds over medium, 20922, aimomt troy 10@ 12c IBATRe to medium appers, per pound NEW No. 1 New York YORK Wheat--8pot firm spring, c. 1 f and rafl 31.71%: No f. 0. b., lake and rail No 2 mixed durum 1 Manitoba, do dark Northern lake do bond firm: No ‘ew York G81 4d. do “ NO higher 60c; creamery ex (52 81 44% 5% 48% ; Fresh gathered firals, fresh storage. exira @ 36¢c: Eggs 46@ 50c; do wg so athered 33% G35 poorer, ae glorage, 35% 42@ 45 de fresh gathered, seconds and 32640; 30@ 33; nearby hennery whites, closely lected, extras, 82@ 84 Cheege-~State, whole fancy fancy 27%c; do, average run, whole milk flats, held, fancy, 27@28; do. average run, 25% @ 26%. Live Poultry—Chickens, by freight and express, 2049 26¢c: fowls, by freight, 20@29; do, by express, 18G:31: roos ters, by freight, 17 firsts do, storage, RQ milk fats, gpecials, 26€ 25%; State, to PHILADELPHIA Wheat — No. 2 red winter, $154% G160: do. gar licky, $1.52% @ 1.60. Corn-No. 2 yellow, $T% G8 Ye, Butter—8olid packed. higher than extras, 51% @54%c, the latter for amall lots; extras, 92 score, 50%; 981 STIPENDOUS Amelig- Swear not by the Inconstant moon. i Augustus—Then what i by? “Swear by that which you hold In { valuable: something wh h in | to you than { You eannot moon, the shall | swear dearer all else : ng which live without | “Then, Amelia i It by my salary." Pearson's Weekiy | (London) , I love you! 1 swear " i i ——————— Necessity the Mother— i Mure Antony beheld Cleopatra float- | Ing toward him on | elad simply but be | green vell, | “Ah!” quoth | “Representing Venu her royal barge, ngly in a Nie Roman. Enchanting 1” “Venus, forsooth whispered the first lady-in-walting to the sec ond. “It's left. She's just pald her the ravished { wll she's got | Income tax.” Well? His wife began to 1s “You silly.” superstit] Why, we augh at hl. she said; “fa being years! the first time under a ladder, were sure something horrible would happen to you” “Well? 111" said be. —Tit-Bits ney after these 0 you remember We walk end you said you met? me another Dim Them Lamps Mary ACre Bo Mary So all Oh, call £8 the your cattle sands of brought ‘er ca the worid cou home. Dee; ves along id see Willing 1 mero you mind if | steal a ! kins? Waltress--Not in ing you don't | TORTeRRIVY the least, steal It (irocer provid from me — In Luck ! . an, 1 ain't get my Say, old n got wife l money enough to ack from { Florida” “Congratulations.™ : Or What Have You? lo] with all my heart. with all my mind, with all— She-—-Yes, 1 know; but that means little.~~London Mail. love you Progress “We live in remarkable times” “Yes, sir. The women seem to be able to learn to smoke cigarettes with- out getting sick.” Overheard on the Campus Elsie—~What a queer girl Kthel is I don’t belleve she's all there. Alice—What makes you think that? Elsie—Why, the poor simp actually %R score, 45; 87 score, 44%. 56 score, 44. Cheese—Fresh, New York whole cream, flats, 25% @ 26¢. Live Poultry-—Fowls. fancy, fat Plymouth Rocks, 5 pounds or over. 3 @32¢c; fair to good, 28G30: mixed breeds, best, 260258: spring chickens Piymouth Rocks, fancy, heavy, 2RQ 29; medium, 25@27: roosters 17@18 LIVE STOCK BALTIMORE. — Cattle Steers, choice to prime, $10.75@ 11.25: good to choice, $10@10.75; medium to good $8.25@9. Heifers, choice to prime, $8 @8.50; good to choice, $768. Bulls, good to choice, $5.75@6.25: fair to good, $4505.25. Cows, good to choice, §6.26@6; fair to good, ig 4.50, Sheep and Lambs—Sheep, $207; lambs, §5@16. Hogs—Lights, $12.80: heavy, $12.30 @12.60; medium, $12.70; pigs, $12.90; light pigs, $1250; roughs, so; Westerns, 5@10¢ higher. Calves—Calves, $5614. NEW CORK -~Cattlo-Stoers. eo 9.55; State bulls, $366; cows, 5160 5.00. Calves—Veals, common to prime, $8 @15.50; culls and little calves, $50 7.50; buttermilks and grhssers, $4G6; fod calves, $5509 7. LONGER WITHOUT OIL “If you want machines to run you've got to oll ‘em.” “That's true of sll except patiopal yolitical machines.” Luck and Pluck Luck and Pluck wr | up Life's hill In search of §¢ / and laughter Lueck fell down & ¢ broke his crows And Pluck came tumbling after. Disapproval “What makes these two women turn 1p their noses at each other so supe.» fliousiy 7 “Possibly,” replied Miss Cayenne, ‘each got a glimpse of the surrent wvel the other was reading.” ——————— The Situation i think most men are happily man “Well, 1 know very few will Haim they ain't,” responded the other wif of the sidewalk conversetian
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