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   Chester Times (Newspaper) - December 15, 1926, Chester, Pennsylvania                             IWU AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR NOVEMBER 19255 15604 IMPROVEMENTS TO JAIL KILLS FARM COLONY IDEA Commissioners Rescind Resolution on Aston Township Site Grand Jury tions End Wrangle As the result ot the December Grand Jurys recommendation that Improvements be made to tho present county Jail the county commission ers yesterday rescinded a resolution which had been passed by them on October 26 calling for the of a farm in Aston ship on which it was planned to es a farm colony prison The December Grand Jury in ren dering a report yesterday outlined improvements which will enlarge the capacity of the present jail and which will entail an expenditure of more than The county commissioners in re their former resolution con purchase of the farm site pointed out that it would be inad make such an expenditure ind also purchase a site In the county tor a new jail The resolution In conclusion declared that the petition presented to the county courts to approve the purchase o the Aston township farm be withdrawn The action of the county commis in rescinding the resolution to buy the farm kills the prison farm colony project which the commis a group citizens and mem bers of the prison board were Inter ested By the action taken by the com missioners it is meant that George S Idell who prepared the tentative plans for improvements asked for the county jail by the prison tors will prepare plans for the re modeling pi present I u lid ing of an to the rear of the jail to contain The question the county should build a new jail at Media or build an addition to the present one o or go out into the country and estab lish a prison farm colony has been n problem of more than eight years FIRAL EDITION i MI v With All Latest and News of the Day Leased Wire Reports or United Press UP and the International News Service ISS CHESTER PA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15 EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS TEXAS standing The county commissioners for MORE CASH FOR Returns Coming in From Various Manufacturing Plants REBECCA BRADLEY This is the first picture to reath he north of Miss Bradley of Aus n who is charged with holding up ho Farmers National Bank at Buda Texas was telephoned 10 New York and rushed to the Chester Times by NKA Service Miss Bradley who is only seven ecu years old was employed as a stenographer in the of Dan Moody attorney general and After her arrest brought about by identification ot tho in which she escaped with ler derisively charac Contributions continue to be re at iho office of the Welfare federation Returns now ure be ginning to como in from the various manufacturing plants A number of the residential districts ot Chester also are yielding to the persuasive efforts of members of the teams in the womans division of the cam Additional subscriptions re are Realty Men Lewis and Hopkins 5 5000 J Irvin Taylor 2500 Charles A Cummins 1000 Barle F t 500 Gertrude Curcy 500 T C Teague 2000 Industrial Del Co Trust Co 25500 1st National Bank 3075 Employes Cambridge Trust Chester National 4200 Merchants Trust and Delaware County Na tional Dont Try toBe So Funny Council Tells Burgess Buse Ridley Park Officials Resent Quips About Pig in the Parlor and Fire Alarm Saying They Have Serious Matters to Attend to 11 P Barlow Employes of H I the biink as saps 11200 2500 2000 Employes of H H Ward Employes Scott Paper Co 66300 9580 months have been trying to solve problem After hearing much evidence In favor of the prison farm project an option was secured on L farm on the road near Sleighton Farms The site was ideal for a prison farm buti Dr Ellen Pot ter secretary of welfare vetoed the farm because it was too close to the Farm school The next move on the part of the commissioners was to secure an op iion land adjoining the pres ent jail A resolution the property which was approved by Dr the prison farm colony arid proceedings were started Tho proceedings were ended the rescinded the resolu lion to buy this site in lieu of an option on a in Aston latter site was also approved by Dr commissioners passed a resolution to purchase the ian e and it was submitted to tho for approval It is this resolution which was rescinded bj the commissioners yesterday In the midst of the efforts of the commissioners to solve the jail prob lem prisoners started a not in the county jail It was probably this riot which caused the present results produced by the action of the grand jury A few following the outbreak at the jail the commissioners through the prison board were told that they were responsible for the trouble In the jail The prison board demanded that immediate im be made to the county jail with a threat that mandamus would be brought if failed to comply with demand This letter was followed by an answer on the part ot the commis who denied that they were responsible for the condition in the jail but that it was rather the lack of discipline by allowing prisoners to get possession of iron pipe with which they broke down cell doors The commissioners at the same time informed the inspectors that they had secured an option on the land in Aston for a prison farm colony The inspectors a few days later received another letter from the in in which they sharply de that the commissioners remedy the conditions at the jail and letter was also answered by the commissioners It letters many believe which caused a wide breach between the commissioners nnd the and it resulted in Judges Frone and calling the two together in At that conference the jail situation was frone over but there was lack of harmony The inspectors at that meeting asked thai something bo lone immediately at the re the present overcrowded con ditions and to Improve the unsanitary condition of the jail The commissioners In this confer ence informed the inspectors that for not preventing the robbery MOUNTED OFFICER NABS SHOPLIFTER A sprinting match between an al woman shoplifter and a mounted officer furnished some ex in the vicinity of Sixth street and Edgmont avenue yester day afternoon The horst guided by Patrolman Starr was the winner and after a ehise of more than a block the woman Naomi Laws Negro of Fayette street was over taken and sent to the City Hall where she was given a hearing In police court today ind upon guilty was committed for thirty days According to the manager of a store on avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets a group of Negro women have been robbing tho store Block ings underwear and other goods for the past two weeks Yesterday the manager says he caught the woman in the act of getting the store with a number of pairs of silk stock ings and when he attempted to stop her she took o her Starr was at Sixth street and the avenue when the woman hold ing up her skirts and running at full speed turned avenue into Sixth Street gave The sprint ended in Wall street near Welsh The articles she later admitted stealing were re covered and she was sent to head quarters Employes Wm Provost Jr 3170 Plush Co Miscellaneous J E Green 0000 Trinity M E church Chester Chapter No 79 A 11 E P A Sinclair Refining Co 25000 Mrs Mary C Dabney 200 Frank Cone 1000 SONS HONORED BY ROTARY CLUB Guests of Their Fathers at Banquet Companionship Stressed Continued On Page Three EPWORTH LEAGUE OFFICERS ASSEMBLE An institute for officers of Leagues oC Methodist Episcopal churches In this city and vicinity was held last night In the Madison Street Methodist Episcopal with seventy young people in attend ance The object of the gathering Vias to discuss various phases of league work and especially to study plans oC organization within the in dividual societies A business meeting of the Madison Street League preceded the main ses sions of the institute C W Mc Dowell of Ridley Park head of the south district league work was the principal speaker of the evening Other brief talks were given by Her bert Carter president of the Mad ison Street League and other mem bers of the various league cabinets Discussion on the subject Organ was led by Herbert W Car A resolution was passed by tho Ridley Park borough council last requesting Burgess 11 W Buse to his facetious ness and newspaper cuppings much ns a largo volume of business confronted tho councilman Tho motion was offered by X 1 several quips that the chief made In communications to council Mr Mitchells ire was after tho burgess had gotten oft several sallies concerning tho Irishman who tossed the brick and remarked Its up to you and a further in which he burgess in comment Ing on a recent decision of ilia United States supreme court stated Some things aro all right in their places hut not all right In other places like tho pig in the parlor Burgess Buse In a letter to coun cil advised that a change bo In tha tire alarm system of tho bor ough He advised that cither a siren bo obtained or else the rope In the lire house which is pulled to an a fire b transferred to the chief polices bed room so that when fire should break out he might simply pull the chain and notify The burgess sent another com to council to tho effect that arrangements had been made for tin magistrates to lake alternate turns in disposing of cases in the borough Councilman Thorn im mediately obtained floor stating that the arrangement was Illegal and moved that the communication be received and filed The motion was passed A further motion passed that the office of borough engineer bo de clared vacant after December ii vious meeting the of borough vacant was recon lust By a tie volo tho original motion was retained Another letter was received by council from the that lie hud no jurisdiction over High Constable J William Futility Ho suggested that tho hiph constable bo given access to the boxes burgess WIIR notified by council that the matter will bo left lo his llon The burgess requested that coun cil in having the Balti more and Ohio Railroad Company change tho ot the elation in tho borough from Ridley to Ridley Park Tho clerk was advised to send a letter to the officials asking that the change be made Two letters from the Welfare Committee asked that wuter sewer and connec tions bo matlo and that the pave ments bo repaired The tions were held for further considera tion and referred to the highway committee 1 Rober offered to coun cil at a nominal sum a lot on the end of street Tho bor ough lerk advised to notify Mr that his offer will bo con A letter referred to the high way committee from B C district engineer regarding the water pours down Morton ave Chester utter a rain The auditors Charles 8 and O W Smith read a report of the books of the library board tor the William Weir oC streets for the pawl 25 years Un dored his last night ask LOTTAS HEIR The resolution passed at it pre ing that it take effect Dec 31 LIBRARY PROTEST IS STUDIED West End Directors to Take Up Matter With School Board TO BURY SECOND DROWNING VICTIM The funeral of little Lawrence Cebring of SI 7 East Fourteenth street one of the two tois who were Monday morning n a quarry hole Fourteenth and Crosby streets will be held this afternoon at 1 oclock from Uie home of the childs parents at St Michaels cemetery The child in company ard Shore son of Mr and Mrs Sam uel Shore of nue was drowned when ICe Upon which the pair were sliding broke through Leonard burled yester day nt 2 in the Jewish cem etery at Tho funeral riles were heId at his late The mothers of both children were pros yesterday but had somewhat recovered today Mrs Shore able to attend the funeral yesterday The child is survived by his par ents and two brothers Morris and David students at the Pennsylvania State College ter of Chester John Herr of be Of Wawa Miss Myrtle McCallin of West Chester and Miss Boris Mack of Philadelphia POLICE ASK SHOPPERS TO LOCK THEIR AUTOS The police department is making an appeal to owners of automobiles who make a practice daily or nightly or even a few times a week park ing their cars in the business zones while they make purchases in nearby stores to lock their cars and also remove all packages of value as a means of thwarting the activities of thieves particularly the day season During recent weeks an organized gang of thieves has been operating In this city and in addition to numerous cars being stolen from parking spaces principally at night many car owners have reported the thefts of articles that had betn left in cars CONDITION IMPROVED TOKIO Dec con dition of of Japan critically ill of pneumonia was re ported today American Ambassador Charles Mnc called at the Imperial Pain ce nt nnd inquired about the Emperors condition JUDGE RULES MAN HAS RIGHT TO GET DRUNK TOnONTO Dec 15 It is right drunk when and ns often MEXICAN FAMILIES DISTRESSED MEXICO Dec VP The families of nearly 500 public school teachers are destitute ing to the Catholic Episcopate be cause of the governments dismissal of teachers who refused to sign an acceptance of the religious laws CORSET MANS ESTATE Mass Dec i The late David Hnle Fan ning who claimed to be the nations oldest active business executive left an valued at 52700000 according to estimates here as he pleases in this province the Appellate Division o the Ontario Supreme Couri ruled yesterday Dismissing nn action for brought by Mrs Victoria Lang sh sought to prove cruelty with th that her husband was con That is not cruelty Justice Wil liam said A man may ge drunk every dny of his life A man in this country under certain clr has a right to get drunk RIDLEY STATION CASE UP Judge Broom all Hears Testimony in the Suit Brought by Citizens The monthly meeting of the board of directors of the West End Free Fourth and Jeffrey streets was held last night was onu of the inost interesting held in years The meeting was interesting due to that have been made against the buildings being used by the pu pils of tho schools Car reference work during the hours the library is to tht The directors of the institution were besieged with requests to rem edy conditions at the by pa trons who complained that duo to the presence of tho children they were unable at ln go there and read aa had been their custom for years The was dis cussed pro and con with the result a committee was appointed to take the matter up with the school board members andreport their find ings at a special meeting which will be called in a few weeks As was in a from John Stainton president of the li brary board of directors a few day ago the children from the schools use the library a few hours a week for reference material supplemental to the fundamental The school maintains a librarian there during these hours and Instructs the pupils how to select in the easiest fashion It is not used aa a classroom school authorities Hay and library state that the school board appropriates yearly for the privilege until such time as a library can be built for the schools The city appropriates 500 a yeru towards tho maintenance ot the Tenth ward library COUNTY MAN MISSING 5000 FUND IS GONE Police searching for fumes 1C Fowler of supervisor in tin supply at tho Philadel phia Yard who disappeared a wenk MSO leaving unaccounted for a Christmas fund of which had boon in his care a captain in the Third Regiment Pennsylvania if he wants to He suggested Mrs i Guard lias been employed at thr should have exercised more Yard 17 years He owns hls discretion in selecting her husband HITS ENGINE INJURED SUNBURY Pa Dec flXS KINGS SPEECH IS READ IN PARLIAMENT Dec Britain hix for the greater part oC the year in the shadow of tbe most pro and ruinous industrial con in its history and now the nation must set its steadfastly on the future said King George In his speech proroguing Parliament to ready and willing to make Gimberling chief of police iny improvements necessary in the for Selinsgrove Pa was in a jail They sent George S Well an hospital today suffering critical in expert architect on jail building to when he drove his visit the inspectors and get from automobile into the side of a loco hcm their ideas as to the needs of the county Jail It was then that Mr went to Jail met the inspectors and pre pared ns referred to In the jurys report and on which the grand Jury made its John M 3d heard testimony today In the civil action Ira J Smith who la the of land where erection of a gasoline has been blurted on the northeast corner of Sellers avenue and Cheater pike Kid ley Park The in JoYm W Pollock Frank C Wallace Wil liam 7 Boston Audrey Fletcher E I Daniel B of of the proposed The Issue of ur at Smith to brought by tho property to lh of whether or not a gasoline Is u violation off building tions nm whether it constitutes a The other charges In substance aro admitted by and the court will be asked whether tin proposed Hnc station is a nuisance The of Park a plaintiff with Uie property own ers Henry W Buse burgess was in court with Senator Albert Dutton borough The other property owners are represented by Tuylor Chad wickand Weeks with E Wallace Chad wick In per Thc members nf tho Club last their sons at a mid sons at tho Chester Club A o tho nnd their sons was present Harry chairman of tho boys night committee had charge of tho affair The for the occasion was Alexander of the boys work of tho Philadelphia notary Club and mun of tho boys council oC Phili Mr the Importance of of the father and son as the chief fac tor In the boys life In his speech Mr said Companionship oC a father with his son is the best thing that u father can offer for his offspring Up until a age It is the mother that controls the but beyond that age It Is certainly the father If there was n companion ship between father and son Iho so colled wave In this country would bo diminished Homo Is the solution of the prob lem Companionship should bo eis and engendered in the home In the companionship field is work for nil of us We might oil courage tho spirit between boy and man Tho problem boy Is to gain his confidence ami him feel that you are Interested In him Mr urged tha members of local Club to iui ac tive In the of tho boys UK does the Philadelphia Rotary Club In lu said If once you gel Into boy work It will get such a hold on you that youll never get out of it you fire dealing with ho boy you aro Ing with tho most valuable raw God has ever created You will bo justified meas ure for anything you do In this Mr Tlum mel Fish I urn director ot music ut the Chester High School for his mu sical program und ho also the boys of Die local high school for their entertainment Mr suggested lo tho Ho tury Unit nt tho mooting oC that club wock ench buddy to one of boys ill tho Glen Mills who no father nt tho next meeting the mcm beri draw lots for Uio boys they will have will to boys uid y Invite thorn to their home for din TWO IN CRASH WANTED TO FIGHT Victim Eighth Ward Col Testifies Against Pair in Court ner A quartet com posed oC of A shire in of the late Lotta it Bought by Mrs Cock burn of Calif At the hearing In ton on attempt to break will Annie of Arli the decedents niece recent That also a neice of Lotta Crabtree is the batli of Mri suit EXPECT AT CROZER FUNERAL who were with him In n business way others who knew him for Ills philanthropies ami all or tho residents of will attend the ot John Crozer of Upland this afternoon Tho rites fnr the member of JL family which bun figured In nf the borough for longer than Threatened with bodily harm by two young men after an In which they were riding collided itud caused considerable to his car at and streets last night was tho charge preferred by Munch ot Post road Marcus Hook against Gordon Olsen of East street and Harry Lyons of Tenth and Crosby streets when they were arraigned for preliminary hearing before Berry In police court this Munch testified that he was driv ing west on Fifth street and ac Pen nell a car oC the sedan typo bear Ing Pennsylvania operated by Olsen sped out a short street at the rear ot and crashed car When b Questioned the occupants Munch said they invited him to fight Somo of the telephoned ta police headquarters and Captain and officers went to the place and Lyons wero placed under arrest and taken to the of Dr 11 C city physician following an ot that ho had bert drinking At iho hearing today Ol Ktn by Magistrate admitted he hud been Tho cuso was to next Tucs dny pending arrangements mudo by to Ui Muncha car Kegro ot and Union arrested by Pa trolman McKinney at Seventh street and avenue and charged with rockless driving and driving without a license was 10 and costs on the latter charge W A Shultz of by Patrolmen and Talbot mt bird street and Morton avenue and nines Bulger of Seventh street lOrtOn avenue arrested by Patrol and at Second nd Market discharged ho was and but NATOR WM HOTH htlf will bo held at ri nul Glee Club who played and sang A urker Todd La wren co Jack Hend Jck Peter AV right Joseph oclock from Iho Baptist Church on Main founded In 1852 the little years mainly by the ROBBED OF SAVINGS BANK rt oC 1822 West Second was the victim of a pickpocket l r i yesterday to a report by him with the department in Yeadon Lato yesterday hlf culled on officials at the Navy Yard and offered to help find her husband Mrs Fowler said she fears he Is a victim of amnesia or that I he has met i Continued on Page Eight PLOT FOILED TO KILL ALFONSO SPANISH KING LONDON was shot and killed while trying to escape and 13 others were arrested when the police frustrated a new plot to assassinate General Derivera and King Alfonso accord ing to dispatch published today by the Daily Express its Barce lona correspondent BISHOP TO BE INSTALLED SCRANTON Pa Dec Right Rev A J Brennan who be installed as Bishop of the See of Richmond W Va tomorrow here today in a special train for that city on a crossing here CHRISTMAS Help finish the against day The king did not attend ment personally but members of both Houses assembled in the House of Lords and hoard the speech read Most of the Kings speech was de voted to domestic affairs stressing chiefly the situation created by the coal strike SURPRISED ROBBERS KILL CHICAGO OFFICER CHICAGO Dec Julian Bonfield surprising two bandits robbing 1 store was phot nnd killed by one ot the robbers to dny The murder followed two between policemen and ban dits in which ont bandit was prob ably fatally shot and a policeman wounded Shortly after the officers killing two up two messengers on their way to a bank kidnaping MARINE CAUGHT AFTER RIFLING U S MAILS CLEVELAND Ohio Dec 15 INK Private W the first marine caught rilling the mails which he was supposed lo guard will not got off n Marino corps court It was made here today by U K Attorney A E ar rested last and to havo about worth of registered mail in his possession will be tried in Federal Court paid Following the testimony of John Green Chester photographer the identified three pictures of the site Mr Smith to the station the plaintiffs called John H Parsons building Inspector of the borough Mr Parsons testified that ho was shown a sot of plans and that here to approve them until specifications lie said that he believed it the next day that were commenced and that when nuked to he shown a building permit he was told that one had been received from lift said lhat ho those In charge that it would be necessary lo procure a permit from the borough Following hlB direct testimony court recessed for the noon hour WHAT NO SO MISS TALLEY QUITS NEW N Y Dec Talley the Kansas City singer who made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company last season walked olt on an iull of 1000 here last night without singing With the auditorium well filled and tho audience awaiting for open Ing number E C Coppicus the young opera stars manager ap and salJ he was sorry hut there would bo no concert Puzzled the walked out hut they learned the reason later In i he evening It was reported that the sponsors of a series of concerts in New had pay Miss Talley 3000 in advance In drafts on New York banks Per sonal checks totalling were re T V uti near Third und Flower about o clock yesterday afternoon and to the his intention send tho lo rela tives In tho While n writing rl oC Ills tholi poets to rth Tho Dr G of Theological liio B Pollard IHO a o flic soin faculty tho Kov Sumuel K pastor gf the church of which Mr Crozer was a and years will fu neral Horvlcelntho church a private wl II bo heId ut Iho Crozer homo on Main Upland service wOl bo only by the of the friends Interment which will bo private will take In the family plot adjoining the church For live from to 205 thn elevators In tho building will not bi on crUed tho brief of is in for Mr rl by Cwo Negroes one Of whom en gaged him In conversation nnd his writing he the din Co very that his had from his coat pocket and he talked n with him ho out to loate him and liis companion Falling to FIVE LOCAL VETERANS SENT TO HOSPITALS Tho horrors t tho Great War aro felt among the veterans ac to Home Sec tion ot Chosui Red Cross which announced today that five mon wero to WHAT MRS CHAPLIN NEEDS WICHITA Kan Dec minutes in a woodshed would prove beneficial to her receiving help from the business end of a This was the comment yesterday of Robert E McMurray father of the wife of the famous movie after reading latest in the cas of Chaplin vs Chaplin COMEDY STAR DIVORCED LONG ISLAND CITY L L Dec Skeet musical comedy star was them and escaped with 17500 in cash Ranted n Hnal by Supreme Court Justice Lewis yester day against his accused wife Mrs Irene Gallagher DAMROSCH QUITS NEW YORK Dec Damrosch yesterday resigned as conductor of the New York Sym phony Orchestra a position he had filled for fortytwo years his resig nation to take at the close of this named Xo successor lias been SNOW 14 INCHES IN BOSTON BOSTON Dec more than 14 It wasnt temperament at all It was just good business wae Miss Marion Talleys explanation Mr Coppicus my manager had told the people we would have to have in advance she said and when they failed to money of wo couldnt carry our part ot the bargain CHESTER DETECTIVES ARE COMMENDED Earle D deputy attorney central of Delaware in a communi cation to Chief of Police Vance to day commended Detectives Cosgrove Eaynes and Farraday for courtesy extended by them to Detective D D Wharton of Dover following the rest by them of Edward Green Ne gro charged with homicide in this city Monday The official expressed the appreciation ef the Delaware au for the cooperation of the more Know was for Chester police and stated they would rn New England by the Weather 1 re ready lo reciprocate at any time today In the IS ILL OF INFLUENZA DOORN Dec Hohenzollern former Kaiser of Ger many was confined to his bed with Influenza today The Illness began with a cold The former Buffered a brief but acute illness last nnd It was reported at one time that nvm bers of his family would be sum to bedside He is years the east and south two weeks The men of tuberculosis or and Bent to fol lowing hospitals General Menta Sanatorium at N C Genera fa Island Navi lard and the at Johnson City Term The sent so far this month Is old 5907000 POUNDS OF TURKEY IN STORAGE WASHINGTON Dec P There will bo of every family this Christmas accord ing to the Agricultural Department The stock of live birds Is about the same ns last year and 5307000 pounds of turkeys nrn in cold storage Apples also will ho plentiful as 4543000 barrels are In cold storage INTRUDER SCARED AWAY Mrs John F Baum of 600 Twelfth street telephoned to City Hall last night that sho had dis covered a Negro acting suspiciously on the front porch ot her home and that when pho opened the door IIP ran through the yard and disappeared back of a An officer was sent to the and searched the locality but found no trace of the man AVERTS SHIPS BLAST KIEL Germany Dec disastrous explosion aboard the German battleship steln was narrowly averted today when members the crew captured i officer attempt ing to Ret fire to powder birrel In tho magazine 5 HURT IN COLLISION were Injured in Philadelphia today when a truck collided with a street cir William 15 a city fireman was the BOOTHWYN BARN AND GARAGE IS DESTROYED Fire of origin las night destroyed a barn nn an automobile on thA property of on road The flames were discovered shortly after 10 oclock and r Senator William L ll oC Philadelphia died In he Chelsea Hotel here today ot kidney trouble The Pennsylvania Senator was son of lhu Senator James I prominent in Philadel phia Republican He In to fill Urin and hi 1320 He came to this cttv to con following 51 recent car schedule hai been moved two Cars now leave Uvo m In u tea before ths time they left their terminals arc run n I nu tea from Park Place and High ami avenue in the early morning and evening hours During the day they aro scheduled to run at intervals oC 15 minutes Topics of Times the ind Boothwyn flro companies responded The dam age will io about MRS W IRWIN CHEYNEY HURT Mrs W Irwin of Valley Medla president of the board of directors of the poor in Del aware county Is confined to her home suffering with sus when sho down a flight of steps in tho Pennsylvania Hotel New York City several days ago Mrs and Miss Hannah of Media worn visiting In New York and were stopping at a hotel Shortly after arriving at the hotel and while descending a flight of Mrs Cheyney slipped and till Injuring her knee and ankle She Is under the care ot a physician Teachers at Smedley Junior High school have formed a harmon ica band Thats to blow about But In musical in one lias to use his head A Delaware murderer was caught here yesterday Didnt he know that we already have too many of our own cold wave was supposed to striKo here this morning Instead ot tonight whim lots ot sheiks are accustomed to getting one Members of the Good Will frire Company will enjoy a venison this evening one can get a dear dinner In any cafe A local nerve specialist says is fit to an automobile But some of them can do wonders from the back seat J ft Parson Brown says bobbed isnt n sin Agreed But the way some of the girls have it done Its a crime Dumb Dora oC Upland writes in and wants to know how she can have a fine complexion Offhand we could mention a dozen plaits where she could buy one but that would bt free advertising Fights will be started here again on Christmas day But wait until fc after Christmas and they will e staged in many homes throughout he city Guns boomed when Canadian Parliament opened Jt would rje a custom in Washington ws could trust the gunners not to aim at anybody A dispatch says tho jPrince of Wales has bought an Alsatian Maybe so he wont have so far to fall e A couple in Sun Village claim their son can Jump two ts natural The parents pedes Harry tho Sheik who has a stable of is laid up vitli a sore der One of the mules kicked him AUTO LICENSE REVOKED E G Eynon registrar of State mo tor vehicles notified Chief yesterday that the name of Branny of West Third street had been placed on the blacklist and his privileges to operate a motor ve hicle had been revoked for one year as s result of his convicted of the charge of operating an bile while under the influence oC liquor MR ROUBERT PASSES CRISIS Harry A Roubert Market Jeweler who has been seriously ill with double pneumonia for the past work passed through the crisis last night and his condition this morn VUI LUIS Jill t mg was announced improved The Weather WASHINGTON for Snow this ami tonight tomorrow Continued tonight and Thursday TODAYS CALENDAR Sun rises 715 a m Sets 435 p m High water 1035 a m and 1101 p rn Low water 521 am and p m Hourly 30 S a m Hi 1 2 3 a ni 4 m 5 m a SO 9 a mt 3010 m Nf 30 11 a m 29 Noon 1 pm 2 p m   

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