PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From Ail Sec
tions of the State.
GULLED FOB QUICK READING
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News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
James De Angelo died at the Oil
City hospital from starvation.
Efforts are in progress to reorganize
the Allentown chamber of commerce.
The Ridgway Firemen's Fund, which
just closed, netted the firemen $llOO.
Johnstown's three daily newspapers
will increase their price to two cents,
December 1.
Eugene Mowrey, of Briggsville, lost
his right hand climbing a fence with
a loaded gun.
Berwick Car Works will hereafter
use electrically driven locomotives,
supplanting mules.
Cutting corn on the cob, Stella
Reese, of Fredericksvllle, severed a
thumb with a hatchet.
The ten per cent wage increase by
the Standard Chain company benefits
1200 workers at York.
Six hundred employes returned to i
work at Mahanoy City colliery after
a week's button strike.
The nation's daylight savers are to
convene with the Pittsburgh chamber
of commerce, December 5.
Samuel D. Townsend, Hughesville.
has been reappointed a trustee cf the
State hospital at Danville.
The powder strike at the Highland
operations of C. B. Markle & Co. has
been won by the miners.
A total of 2770 hunting licences have
been issued at the office.of the Elk
county treasurer in Ridgway.
Deposits in Reading banks gained j
$4,500,000 in one year, and the total
deposits amount to $24,000,000.
• The guncotton plant of the Aetna
Explosives company at Warren closed
since August resumed operations.
Easton and Phillipsburg bakers will
increase the price of bread after De
cember 1 to six and twelve cents.
Thieves stole $26 from the home of j
Alderman Joseph Moody, Hazleton, '
while the family was out of town.
Dragged by a train she was trying j
to board, Miss Lorena Kilmore, Me
chanicsburg, was seriously injured.
Hazleton's American Red Cross So- ;
clety elected T. D. Jones president, |
and Mrs. C. J. Kirschner, secretary.;
The various collieries of the M. S. !
Kemmerer Coal company, near White j
Haven, will be operated by electricity.
West Fairview has raised the sum
needed to insure the location of a
shirt factory employing sixty persons.
Many Blair countians are cutting
out exchanges of Christmas gifts as a
needless addition to high cost of liv
ing.
Lloyd Blouch has been rearrested
at Lebanon, charged with deadly as
sault upon and robbery of E. E. Ar
nold.
Strausstown women boycotted milk
when it was increased two cents a
quart, and it soon went back to five |
cents.
The American Iron and Steel com
pany, Reading, will give its employes j
a bonus of five per cent on their earn
ings.
Ellis Kempfer, of Battery A, First j
Field Artillery, South Bethlehem, is ill
with pleurisy in a Kansas City hos
pital.
Too deaf to hear warnings, Jacob
Bottle, aged sixty, was run down by a
freight train at Union Furnace, and
killed.
Federal authorities have lodged a
detainer at Easton against Herman A.
Morton, charged with passing bogus
checks.
West Hazleton teachers who went
Joy riding during the recent institute
will be docked instead of being dis
charged.
A class in automobile operation and
control sharted in the night school at
AQtoona conducted by the board of
education.
It is announced that the Aetna Ex
plosives company of Huntingdon will
resume operations in full beginning
December 1.
Falling with a fifty-foot scaffold at
Carlisle, William E. Kitner clung to a
house cornice till a ladder was raised
to rescue him.
Commoners believe they will be able
to reduce the high cost of living in
Sharon. They have formed a club of
190 members.
Harry Bussenger, of East Youngs
town, the second victim of the scaf
fold collapse at the petroleum plant
in Sharon, died.
Drinking a bottle of liquid stove
polish, John, year-and-a-half-old son of
Kerr Sterrett, near Oakville, Is in a
critical condition.
Franklin county teachers passed
resolutions for prohibition, a teachers'
retirement fund and a minimum wage
of $6O a month.
Determined to break up booze par
ties on the "meadows in Pottstown,
Bxirgess Fritz gave five offenders sixty
days in jail each.
The state department of agriculture
estimates that the acreage sown to
wheat this fall is three per cent great
er than last year.
Gustave Wickenhagen, aged seventy
three, a civil war veteran and for
thirtv years a resident of Butler, wa?
found dead In bed.
Surgeons at Fountain Springs hoa
pital removed a sunflower seed from
the left ear of Mary Zelbon, whose
hearing was affected.
The Lehigh county Christian Endea-1
vor societies, meeting in Emaus Mo
ravian church, elected E. E. Oplinger,
Allentown, president.
I.ansford's population is oVer 10,000
—by I'ar the largest municipality In
Carbon county—and residents are ad
vocating city government.
Former Lieutenant Governor John
M. Reynolds is said to be favored for
public service commissioner over con
gressman Lafean, of York.
The Aetna Explosives company, of
Huntington, has posted notices that
thousands of men are needed for the
re-opening of their plants.
Disappointed in love, Mary Ritter, 1
aged thirty-two, jumped from Market
street bridge, Williamsport, and was
drowned in the Susquehanna.
Jacob Weaver, aged ninety-six, of
Washington, attended the golden wed
ding anniversary of his son and wile,
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Weaver.
Raymond Shore, aged fifty-two is
dead at Monessen after being found un
conscious on the Lafayette road as the
result of an automobile accident.
Alfred Gohn, of Warren, has depart-!
Ed for New York city, driving his car
with cheap kerosene as fuel, with a i
newly-invented kerosene carburator. ■
Joseph Moschsultas, Alexander j
Mantkus and Frank Washell were
critically injured in a premature dyna.
mite explosion at Shenandoah City col
liery.
Kidnapping her child from Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Stople, of Allentown, who
had legally adopted it, Mrs. Annie
Sepski, of Catasauqua, was committed
to Allentown jail, but later released
on bail.
William H. Williams died as hi*
home in Sharon as a result of injuries
sustained when he was hit by an auto
mobile driven by Dr. V. D. Viets, ol
Youngstown.
John Stein, aged thirty, was so badly
injured when an acetylene tank ex
ploded at the Erie shops at Meadville,
that he will probably lose the sight of
both eyes.
Caught under a mine locomotive
which jumped the track at No. 11
colliery, Jaseph Murphy, 'Tamaqua,
aged twenty, was so badly scalded hi*
death is expected.
Sustaining a frectured skull by leap
ing from an automobile when he
thought the machine was about to turn
over at Drifton, Ralph Nattress, of
Hazleton, has died.
Loring L. Gelbach, assistant cashier
in the First National bank, and Miss
Stella Fisher were married in Ellwood
City by the Rev. Clarence C. Fisher,
brother of the bride.
Supervisors of Rockefeller town
ship, Northumberland county, were
before Justice A. G. Shoener, at Tre
vorton, charged with neglect to keep
their highways in order.
Ellis Schneebeli, a Nazarene, visit
ing Allentown, awoke under a railroad
archway with the realization that twc
interesting young strangers had knock
ed him out and robbed him.
In a jitney-autobus collision at
Pittston, George Wells, aged twenty
four, sole support of a widowed
mother, was killed as he stood on the
running board of the jitney.
The Mahoning Supply company j
store which houses the Walston post
office near Punsxutawney was entered
by thieves and robbed of $l2OO in
money, stamps and merchandise.
Word was received at Latrobe of the
death of Rev. Father Vitus Kratzer,
which occurred In Pueblo, Col. He
was a member of the faculty of St.
Vincent's college for many years.*
Quick work on the part of Deputy
State Attorney General Horace Davis
prevented his daughter from being
fatally burned when her clothing
caught fire from a gas stove in Sharon.
More than 200 employes of the
Baker & Adamson chemical plant.
Easton, will receive a bonus ranging
from five to seventeen and a half per
cent of their wages, or an average of
; over $BO each.
For a splash of mud, the poison in
which cost her the sight of an eye,
Mrs. Mary E. Bruggeman was award
ed $2500 damages against the city of
York and her husband $lOO for the loss
of her services.
In co-operation with the postofflce
department, the Pennsylvania depart
ment of forestry has prepared a big
forest fire placard which will be placed
in every postofflce in Pennsylvania
in or near a forested area.
Former Councilman Peter S. Holl,
of Reading, while passing a school
house, was taken as Mr. Hughes, the
recent presidential candidate, and it
! took some explaining before the school
1 children would believe otherwise.
At the annual session of the Mont
gomery county farm bureau, at Nor
ristown, Isaiah T. Haldeman, Harleys
| ville, was elected president; Harvey
Murphy. Centre Square, vice presi
| dent; A. R. Kriebel. Worcester, secre
, tary. and Warren Schultz, East Green-
J ville, treasurer.
Rev. D. H. Frederick, a Mt. Airy
graduate, was installed as pastor of
St. Paul's Lutheran church, at Beavei
j Meadow, by Rev. Wilfred F. Heldt, ol
Conyngham, president of the Wilkes-
Barre conference of the Lutheran
ministerium, and Rev. Franklin Ester
ly, pastor of Christ Lutheran congre
gation, Hazleton.
Many independent iron and stee;
companies in the Shenango valley wil'
increase wages on December 15. it
was announced. The Sharon Steel
Hoop company, employing 1300 men
will grant an Increase of ten per cent
and all blast furnace workers at inde
• I pendent plants in Sharon, Farrel!
Sharpsville and West Middlesex, nun?
Bering about 2000, wil! be granted f
similar raise. It Is intimated tha :
' 5000 men outside of thos6 employed
by the steel corporation will be affect
ed in that vicinity.
BACK ON THE JOB.
—Lynch in Rocky Mountain News.
W. -*
For a Pinch
Of Snuff
By ESTHER VANDEVEER
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In 17(>—-Walter Watherspoon, a stu
dent at Kings (now Columbia) college,
was crossing the campus, situated in
the lower part of New York, not far
from the city hall, when he met Ger- j
trade Springstead, the daughter of a
China merchant, going to her home on
the Battery. The two were lovers and
expected to he married after young j
Watherspoon's graduation, which was
to occur in the following June. Before
seeing his fiancee coming \v> took his
snuffbox from a pocket in t!:e volumi
nous skirt of his coat and. phving a ;
pinch between his thumb and linger. ;
crammed it up first into one nostril,
then into another, snifing lustily.
"Oh. Walter." said the girl when j
they met, "if father know you snuff od
It.would be all up with us! lie detests |
the habit and would force me to break
with you."
"In that case, Mistress Gertrude," re
plied Walter, "I must not let him see
me snuffing."
"But suppose he hears that you
snuff?"
"You are right. 1 must drop the hab
it till at least after we are married."
Taking a lacquered box from his
pocket, he handed it to Gertrude, tell
ing her to keep it till after the wed
ding, at the same time promising her
that he would not buy another or more
snuff till they had been, man-led.
Now, Watherspoon was poor as a
church mouse and was obliged to work
his way through college, which he did
by giving so much of his time as he
could spare from his studies to a tal
low chandler. Gertrude, on the con
trary, was the only child and heiress
to what was then a large fortune. Nat
urally the young man was loth to lose
his sweetheart and did not relish losing
the fortune she would bring him.
Watherspoon worked hard all winter
both at his studies and pouring melted
tallow into caudle molds.. After a few
weeks he found that he could get on
very well without snuffing and assured
Gertrude that there would be no trou
ble for them on that score. He even
declared that taking tobacco Into one's
nose was a filthy habit, and he would
never resume it, which was. of course,
very pleasing to her.
A new convert is always an enthusi
astic convert. Walter, having thrown
off the shackles of a bad habit, called
the attention of his friends to its dis
agreeableness to others than the snuff
er. Why should one pause while chat
ting with another to cram a nasty pow
dered weed into his nose, making a dis
gusting noise through his nostrils and
leaving his nose smeared with tobacco?
His friends listened deferentially to
his protests, but paid little attention to
them, not infrequently taking out a
snuffbox, offering it to him, then tak
ing a pinch while he was speaking.
Walter kept his promise to his fian
cee, nobly refraining from the habit he
had eschewed. In due time he was
graduated from college, and his father
in-law to be had consented that he
should go into his counting room on the
street facing the East river and begin
preparation to take position as mana
ger of the business when Mr. Spring
stead retired. While learning the busi
ness Walter was to draw a nominal
salary.
Walter was the envy of all the young
men in town. Engaged to a lovely girl
and heir to a fine business. Surely
providence had favored him.
The wedding day opened bright and
beautiful. Walter, after breakfast
went to the Springstead home and was
placed in a front room which faced the
bay to await the hour for the cere
mony. The sun glittered on the wave
lets. The islands to the left, the right
and in the distance stood out clear and
green. Directly in the foreground was
the old fort about which the city had
grown and prospered. Walter was su
premely happy.
The door opened and Gertrude came
in bearing the snuffbox he had given
her months before.
"I can't leave this here," she said.
"After I have left mother will go
through my room, and it will be dis
covered."
"Give it to me," said Waiter. "I will
take it away with me and get rid of it
on our wedding trip."
Gertrude handed him the box and
hastened away to be robed in her wed
ding garments. Walter opened it and
held it under his nose. What a deli
cious fragrance! How pleasant it
would be to take just one pinch! Tak
ing a little of the snuff between his
thumb and finger, he held it near his
nostrils. Then he thought of the risk
he would take if he indulged and put
it back in the box. But he took an
other pinch, and again the aroma
greeted his nostils.
Mr. Springstead, passing through the
hall, heard a violent sneeze. Opening
the door of the room from which it
seemed to come, there was Walter with
an open snuffbox in one hand and his
handkerchief in the other. He greeted
his father-in-law to be with another
sneeze.
When, a couple of hours later, guests
arrived to witness the nuptials they
were informed that there would be n*>
nuptials. No reason was assigned. Mr.
Springstead put a veto on his daugh
ter's marriage, and the groom went t<>
his own quarters.
For a pinch of snuff he had given a
bride, a fortune and a splendid busi
ness.
Not long after his loss the Revolution
broke out. and he joined the continen
tal army. He was killed at the battle
of Long Island.
Strict on the Proprieties.
"Now that I have given you some
thing to eat," said the benevolent old
lady, "will you not saw some wood for
me?"
"I regret to say, madam," replied the
weary wayfarer, "that I cannot saw
wood without removing my coat, and
I trust I ap too much of a gentleman
to appear before a lady in my shirt
sleeves."—Philadelphia Record.
Danny—l'm doing my best to get
ahead. Dolly—Well, Danny, heaven
knows you need one. —Puck.
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'|i FaCtS Versus |
if ailacies • ;■
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FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar
cntlv renuine but really illoffical statement or ai yuyyicnt* 5
'
ONE of the many ridiculous charges made by the Prohibitionists
is that the saloon is the main cause of poverty. Ifthis were —' TTriirl I
true all the "drys" would be riding in automobiles and the wets IAL !, AL Y' |
■ -would not be able to afford mere carfare! ■ ——— }
THE "drys" assume that the liquor business is the result of the Th~CJtlliTl II .t
saloon. Reasoning from this false premise they say that if it y The USO Ol LIGUOI "•
were not for the saloon there would be no liquor business and v . !
therefore no place where the working man couid squander his hara- Ib I tie
i earned wages. The Prohibitionists are wrong twice in the same Js p n -r rpr t ir KS
place. They have put the art before the horcc. The saloon b the 1 * W
result, not the cause, of the demand for liquor. There are two men
|T| reS ponsible for the oaloor.—the man in front of the bar and the man 1 ' o,
'l3 behind it. Take the man in front of the bar away and the saloon
tH —. keeper will go out of business. Take the salcci away and the man
B | rji *in frcr.t of the bar will go behind the barn to £.«t a drink.
D jj ,ITIS no more a waste of money to buy beer than it : to ",uy jew- jr
Pi JI Workinompn / clr y« diamonds, perfumes, laces, candy, silhs and sat.r.s. It is |£
n Vj O JT J ust a3 f° o^sh to squander the money you need for necessities on p
Spend Less Ifl&Tl these things as it is to invest in liquid refreshment.
4 Cents a Da)' 1
v* POOR judgment causes people to spend money for luxuries that
for T iounr flfe* they need for other things, but liquor is not the luxury that has
iui the pocketbook of the working man. The Federal Bureau
\r „■■ r" of Labor Statistics shows that working men spend on an average
less than four cents a day for liquors. The "drys" ask you to believe
that four cents a day is the difference between poverty and riches
If they are right, Rockefeller could mahe all of us rich by giving us ,
back the wealth he does not need and cannot use. j , p£ DEP A L
THE main causes of poverty are poor wages and lack of employ- _ rrr>r , * 7 i
ment. The average amount paid to unskilled workers in the //,/} tiUK-LAu 1
United States is less than ?SCO a year. Instead of spending around '/4 \
Sl5 a year for liquor these men could save up for 30 years and juy a v/f of IjAdC/K.
Ford." They could then, if they were careful with the gasoline, run •
■' for a month on what they ccu!d save by not indulging in liquo Si_iTlJTltc j.
for a year! . p ' '&
! TT IS a FALLACY to say that indulgence in alcoholic beverage* fp ;j W
A makes for poverty, when FACTS, given by United States Laboi _ | j
. Statistics, show that work
jy cents a day for liquor!
Pennsylvania State Brewers' Associatis^i
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■ _"-IZ —^TffiiTTiM
Etching on Steel.
In the process of etching one's name
on steel nitric acid is used diluted with
four to six parts of water, according to
depth of etching desired. First cover
the steel to be etched with a ground
wax composed of equal parts asphal
tum, burgundy pitch and beeswax,
melted together and thoroughly incor
porated; warm steel and apply mixture
evenly. When cold, scratch desired
name or design through the coating on
the surface and touch with a camel's
hair brush dipped in the diluted acid.
In a few minutes dip in hot water to
wash off the acid, and clean off the
wax mixture with benzine.
Not a Born Forger.
The indorsement of checks is a very
simple thing; but, as the following
story will show, it also has its difficul
ties :
A woman went into a bank where
she had several limes presented checks
drawn to Mrs. Lucy B. Smith. This
time the check was made to the order
of Mrs. M. J. Smith. M. J. were her
husband's initials. She explained this
to the paying teller and asked what
she should do.
"Oh. that is all right," he said. "Just
indorse it as it is written there."
She took the check and after much
hesitation said, "I don't think I can
make an M like that."
Would Be a Help.
"Every cloud has a silver lining."
"It would he nice if they also had
arsenic deposits," said the farmer.
"Then the rain would spray our crops
as well as moisten them." —Louisville
Courier-Journal.
ivngnt oe worse.
"What do you know about Bill Hot
air?"
"Why, Bill travels for the same house
I do."
"I know that, but is he all right oth
erwise?"— Exchange.
n)niiiiim;tniiiiiii!iimt:i:iii:iiniittmg
LIFE'S OPPORTUNITY.
+* The man who in life the 3
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2 opportunity to express himself in g
the largest terms; who after as- 3
5 *1 • fi
5t certafhing what faculties he haa §
j* determines to develop them to 3 ,
f* the highest possible efficiency; g
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t* who is capable of seeing the JJ
sweetness and joy that lie all g
» about him; who, being proud, 3
JJ does not allow his body or mind £1
g to be defiled—he is the one who 2
H obtains the big rewards.—Oppen- g
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Gay Birds of the Olden Time.
Extravagance in dress prevailed in
the reign of Edward 111., who ascend
ed the English throne early in the year
1327.
Men then wore silk hoods, particol
ored coats with deep sleeves and nar
row waists, short hose, long pointed
shoes, bushy beards and tails of hair
at the back of their heads.
"The ladies," says a poet of that
period, "are like peacocks and mag
pies." They were attired in turbans
or lofty miters, with ribbons floating
from them like streamers, tunics half
of one color and half of another and
deeply emblazoned rones or belts from
the front of which daggers were sus
pended.
An Armsd Trues.
Mrs Knagg—Mr. Knagg and I have
been married seven years, and the
quarrel we had on our honeymoon is
the only one we've ever had. Mrs.
Ragg—l congratulate you. I suppose
you kissed and made up? Mrs. Knagg
—Not yet. Mr. Knagg hasn't yet ad
mitted that he was wrong.—New York
Globe.
Oh, That's Different.
"Who was that chap who just said
•Hello!' to you?"
"That's the man who does most of
my bill collecting."
"He wasn't very respectful, consider
ing that you are his boss."
"Who said I was his boss? That fel
low is employed by my creditors."—
Exchange.
Although she had been married hap
pily to another, a jury awarded Mrs.
Josephine Santa, or TJniontown, $4OO
heart balm lor being left waiting at
the church by Sigmund Rozorswsky,
on June 10, 1914. Five thousand dol
lars was asked.
Miss Katherine Pardee, (laughter
of Frank Pardee] the retired million
aire anthracite coal operator, has be
come Y. M. C. A. secretary at H:izle
ton, and keeps the same hours and
performs the selfsame duties as her
predecessor, Miss Emily Hill.
Fire which for a time threatened the
business district of Warren destroyed
a three story hrick building and dam
aged two other structures, causing a
loss of $lOO,OOO. Fireman John Reed
suffered a probable fracture of the
skull when he fell twenty feet-
Edwin Weyel, aged two, son of Wil
liam a butcher of Homestead,
was strangled to death when he fell
from his father's delivery wagon in a
stable in the rear of his home, his
head and neck becoming entangled in
a strap. The boy's mother found him
unconscious.