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(The ether w'it one Charlie Sampson entrusted some typewritten matter to this column. It landed In the print. Hence, be does It again. Thanks, ir.i Case Notes Out of Long Memory, With an Occasional Sniffle SUDDEN awareness of the glory of God, in the presence of double death in the hangman's house in a State Penitentiary, and a picture that shall never fade a Jesuit Father, Joe Ayd, S. walking to the scaffold with one of the doomed.

Frosty morning, steamy horse breath, pink coats and black coats, and the first fox viewed away, down a long, long hill. Green water meadows between Rehobolb end Lewei In Delaware, meadews that the settling Dutch called Zwaanen dale, the Valley tha swam. Gentlest mother in all memorya wire foxterrier, Haycliff Peggie, and a perfect pup of her first litter, who died like a gentleman in the Icy pit of a deep, deep country well. And Miss WHIcItafu hnnnriintr tn ft runawav DO YOU VISUALIZE (By 0. Do you visualize the day when we can cut lawns by pushing a'button I do.

(Ed, Note: Visualizing today because the whole column is taken up with memory stretching. We must have variety. madcap frolic at the lift of an eyelash, scattering her pups to right and left like so many discorded knucklebones. Big Pig. the Old Maid Airedale, who partook of a nasty adventure with Whiskers In the domain of a Moon Mullinsesque neighbor skunk.

Dirigible Akron over the moonlit Delmarva coast In the autumn of '32, so low one could see heads shading past her ports. The gentleman who loudly maintained, in a club one dim night, that the fly walks downside up on the ceiling by concentration, vacuum cups on his feet be And the same positive gentleman, falling thumpety bumpo upon his Saxon skull after by dint of heroic balancings by the gang upon a makeshift scoffold being placed feet topmost against the chandelier! Artist grandfattur, late Prussian major in the war against the Austrlans, painting his lire eating septuagenarian lace with white lead after a mishap at woodchopplng, fearful lest curious Americans think he'd been in a low fi.st fight! Yet the same grandfather, squaring oft like Mr. Pickwicks bellicoje cs bmun. sinking trolley conductor who'd gypped him, and crying. "I got no fraid von you!" The same doughty grandfather, dying miserably to the sound of rainy thunder in 1915, crying at the roar of it, "Now comes Von Kluck! Now it gives!" George Jessel, when he was an actor, singing the Kol Nidrei in the "Jazz Singer" Just before the autumn Jewish holidays, and not a dry eye in the house, Including the Irish.

Bal des Arts, and throwing flashlight bulbs at the cops who, disguised as friars, were trying vainly to police the place. Miss Nellie, the Beautiful Blonde Bootlegger, and those fifth at phoney Gordon "he used to five the newspaperboji free, for the return twelve empty fifths. Sweet and elderly lady who has run a place of ample entertainment upon the same southern corner for forty years, and who, each summer is she voyages abroad to Bad Nauheim, sends back bawdy picture cards Co taunt the police captain of her district. A celebrated, two fisted, Aitch raising judge who, having convicted a man and seen his conviction upheld by appellate court and seen the fellow go to prison, reversed himself one Saturday afternoon, sped to a newspaper office with his reversal, then drove to the jailhouse and. personally delivered hU victim.

These crab cakes said by an aaclent female in a black sun bonnet, tfee wharf In Annapalls, and the time these same cakes well nigh killed aa. Field mice scented in the davenport, and the rogue of a pup who lug right through the nest of things. The tears, the screams, of the ipimminfolk in the morning; ah, those screams, echoing still down the lusty vagabond years! Midnight, and the road from Washington into Virginia. Only one thing in sight, and that a shadow. "This the way to Alexandria?" 3hadow: "You talkin' to me?" "Who the you think I'm talkln' lo; myself?" Load of mules to Avonmouth; load of mules to Le Havre.

Galveston, ind blind baggage northward. The fireman who heaved coal at us, turned the water hose on us, is we rode blind baggage. Our first headline quoted in the Literary Digest Family Flees Flames Pound in Flue Flaw. The L. caption Fee Fi Fo Fummt Tom Marvel, now a wine expert, and staff man on the Paris Herald; a cub who cooked up potable things with canned grape juice.

Nelson Robins and his radiant, ringing, Tidewater "Good Mawn in" a Good MawnirV that comes to us out of memory every morning, good or bad; a Good Mawnin' that had, packed into it, all the courtesy and cheer that the Old Dominion ever batched. Colleague's housewarming; good, clean, rowdy fun; furniture out the window, and THE COPS! Snug harbor under a bed till the storm passes, but chuckling too soon, alas, after the flock had been loaded aboard the Maria. Lone beat cop, who'd stayed behind to sample the sandwiches. HOW HE PULLED US' OUT! Rewrite, for Mr. Hearst.

Rewrite, and how Love Slaves, Tiny Tots, Fine Old Southern Gentleman, They're Off at Old Hilltop. Knife Brides, Maniac Snipers, Axe Fiends, Billy Barton and the British Grand National, More Factories to Smell Up the Town and Make It The scallopine at Ralph Posillipo's in South Philadelphia. The cacciatore at Cippollone's. Reporters' Room, 819, in City Hall, manner of men are these?" "In the name of Heaven, what Six months on a sea beach, where the surf booms and crashes, and booms again, as though world's lazy end would never come. First and last poem "Stage Whispers on a Rubberneck Wagon." (I'd like to see the poem.) Leaping from a truck to land on our skull, middle of Market Square.

Thus, our Harrisburg debut. Voice test, WKBO, mike fever, WHP. And now, Auf Wiedersehen. AGAIN thanks! Jim Caldwell away out in Chicago, who on his transcontinental hegira learned to play chopsticks and run a ferry boat, complains about the WKBOddities (5:45 p. m.

tomorrow) in this column. Sorry, Jim. And here's hoping you click in arranging a ride in the locomotive. Geo. Hafer did it.

Yours truly, THE SEC. Ilr WHO CK1 iBE MAY PE QL.D im 1. What is the name for the science, of morality? 2. What is a machine fun? 3. Where is MePherson College? 4.

In Greek mythology, who was Mala? 5. What Is the name or the eighth book of the Old Testament, "Minor Prophets?" i. Who wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol?" 7. What la the plural of the word cheese? S. Which official of the post Office Department has supervision over rural mall? I.

Who was Giovanni Pattort? 10. In anatomy, what is the fauces? MOTORIST ARRESTED Manue Santos, 35, Wyeth street, near Calder, was arrested last night by City Patrolman John Holberger and Roy Keller upon information of Bowen Clark, 1014 North Seventh street, and Albert Grayson, 1014 North Seventh street, on a charge of violating the State Moter Code after his machine collided with two parked automobiles at Seventh and Herr streets. duty. fore Court Equity proceedings were started in Dauphin County Court by John W. Magoun, 418 Spruce street, Steelton, in a taxpayers' suit to test the legality of the County Authority Act of 1935, under which Dauphin County Commissioners seek to acquire the Market street and Clarks Perry bridges.

The suit is directed against the Dauphin County Authority, composed of Harry T. Neale, D. A. Ellas, A. G.

Knisely, John Craig and former Mayor George A. Hov erter, and against Van Dyke, State Secretary of Highways. The action is said to be amicable to test whether the Authority has the right to acquire the bridges while the State Is trying to obtain them by condemnation. 3 SLANTS Picnic reports, etc Sunflowers to Doc $5 for tjie biggest Cat's gone again Albert has the letter All gaxe on check Tramp! Tramp! Tnuaj)! AT LEAST a half dozen phoned to say that the Democratic picnic at Mount Gretna wasn't all the committee expected it to be. One Republican went so far as to say, "It was a flop so far as the crowd is concerned." He said that ten cars were assigned to Steelton only one filled.

Another said that the Harrisburg special was cancelled and the Har risburgers loaded in the one from Cumberland valley, which pulled in with fifteen coaches, six full and nine empty. A conductor at City Hall con firmed the rumors. He was one of the trainmen called out for special duty and sent home. No special Doc Loewen is in the sunflower business. His offer of $5 for the largest sunflower, grown in Harris burg, is bringing them in.

This morning up to 11.59 a. Mrs. Gertrude Abendroth, 1104 Plum street, held the edge. Her's measured nine inches across. It will have a place of honor on the Landon special, which pulls out for West Middlesex at 6.30 a.

m. Saturday. Doc's going to have the engine festooned with susflowers. The V. of F.

W. band will play, going, there and coming. The train will have twelve passenger coaches, air conditioned for all" Paul Lloyd); two diners and a baggage car. Baggage? Warren E. Lyme heads the white coat detail.

Lloyd said more than 800. He had just sold ticket No. 530. Keystonians' corn roast tonight at John C. Dight's country place.

R. Frank Shaffner, the huckleberry king, will be corn boiler in chief. Albert W. Hamer, the Mayor's secretary, has filed the FDR letter, saying the stop in Harrisburg was "ail to brief." Albert is a great saver upper. I Buch's drug store cat (coal black) is missing again.

She escaped Gob Williams, the patrolman, and headed uptown. The Wildwood Zoo got John Hertz' goat a real goat. A few days ago John saved, the says, the goat from a trip to the slaughter house. Since then the goat grazed in the pastures near the pipe line shop. The neighbors complained.

To the zoo, you must go, ruled John. To the zoo, Wilhelm (that's the goat's name) went. Object of much interest at City Hall: The Harrisburg Railway Company's check for $195,979.50, Suggestion: It should be put in a glass case for the edification of the taxpayers. Henderson Gilbert missed a chance for first page publicity by not handing the check over in person Picture! Hot but the city is thinking of winter snows. Storm doors were be ing attached to the Aberdeen street entrance today.

Kenneth Cassell got a bullidng permit ($1600) for alterations to his property at 1444 Regina street. City Hall will be open Saturday; also the courthouse. Current question: "Who'll be left behind in What a place to spend Saturday night I Republicans bound for West Mid dlesex, should take their walking shoes. The golf course where Alf will speak is IH miles from the town Tramp! Tramp I Tramp! The boys are marching. KEYSTONE QUARTET AT CLUB MEETING The Keystone Quartet, an organ! zation of Pennsylvania Railroad em 1 ployes, entertained with a group of songs at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Penn Harrisi Hotel today.

The meeting was an inter club affair, with Kiwanians and their wives present from most of the eleven clubs in the Middle East district. Members of the Rotary, Lions and Quota Clubs, of Harrisburg. and their wives also were in attendance. Sports Comics Financial HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Amusement Classified Features SECOND SECTION HARRISBURG, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1936 PAGE 13 SECOND SECTION AMICABLE ACTION IS FILED TO TEST BRIDGE PROGRAM County's Attempt to Get Toll Structures Be Marysville Residents Enjoy Annual Outing Telegraph newspapers photo Fifteen hundred residents of Marysville are attending the annual community outing today at Williams Grove Park. Too left, arrivinz at the park with the picnic lunch, are, left to right; Helen Dorman, Barbara Dorman, Mrs, A.

A. porman and Grover Dorman. Top right, a lineup iw cue oiiuc uwbvm Kin, uuee ouicia twu; biuic uut cat ice cam, are iKiie, neity ana Anns wine UOHQm rignt; vvUSOa uavis plays "horsy" with his sister, Carol Lee, 18 months old. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs.

Gilson Davis. SAIL FOR ITALY MR. and MRS. JOHN CIRILLO Mr. and Mrs.

John Cirillo, 226 Cresent street, who sailed today abroad the 8 8. Vulcania for Italy COUNTY FARMERS TO TOUR CHESTER FARMS AUGUST 27 Dairy Herds and Long wood Gardens to Be Seen A tour of several large Chester county farms and the famous du Pont Longwood Gardens at Ken nett Square, Thursday, August 27, was announced today by the Dauphin County Agricultural Extension Association and the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. Several hundred Dauphin county farmers and their families are expected to with the Sons of Italy tour of 41 ia tne aavs ouung, a. 5. days.

Mr. Cirillo, who is a brother of Frank P. and Dominick Cirillo of Harrisburg, will represent the local chapter, Sons of Italy. While in Italy Mr. Cirillo will visit his father Lorenzo Cirillo In Viesti.

The elder Mr. Cirillo is 86 and it will be the first meeting of father and son in 30 years. LEGION BAND WILL PLAY NEW MARCH AT STATE SESSION "Call of the Legion," a march with words, composed by Colonel N. V. W.

Deshanshin, of the United States Army Reserves, will be played and sung for the first time in public by the band and songsters of Harrisburg Post, No. 27, American Legion, at the State Legion convention at Johnstown, Friday and Saturday. The march was tried out by leading bands in Washington recently, and leaders were enthusiastic. Colonel Deshanshin is now located in cuuniy agent, ana miss Elizabeth Lofberg, home economics extension specialist, announced. Assembling in front of the Community Building at Hershey, the motor caravan will leave promptly at 8 a.

with the first stop at the Marshall Jones dairy farm at Westtown. There the tourists will see a large herd of Holstein cattle, a large acreage of potatoes, alfalfa and blue grass pastures. A picnic lunch at noon will be served at Hillgirt Farms, near Cos sart, where an outstanding herd of Guernseys, which has produced many champions, will be inspected. After lunch, the tourists will visit the beautiful Longwood Gardens. On the return trip, a number of the farmers will visit the Buck and Doe Run Farms.

There a herd of 300 Poland China hogs will be inspected. The farm is located along Route 82 leading into Coatesville; Mrs. Ida Bretz. 20, 1600 Green street, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital for cuts of the right arm suffered when glass broke as a door slammed at her home last night. 81 YEARS OLD JACOB MENTZER Newville, Aug.

20. Jacob Ment zer celebrated his eighty first birthday anniversary August 12. Relatives and friends showered him with gifts and cards. MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS Nicholas M. Matrsevac, 23, 41 Fourth street, Enhaut, and Anna J.

Vrbanac, 22, 226 Canal street, Steelton. Clair Clayton Miller, 41, and Ber netta E. Anderson, both of York. William B. Michael, 33, and Claire M.

Cullen, 31, both of Lebanon. 1 CAM WORK tjfCOOLD SHE HAVE 1: BOrS THUMB CUT Victor Mohn, 12, 117 Hanna street, was treated at the Harisburg Hospital for a cut of the right thumb suffered when he cut himself with a knife while eating watermelon at the Paxton Fire House last night. LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE: Dust Gets in Hi, Eye, HAVE GOT rSS UOCW1.9WM TWO ARE INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR GRANTVILLE Tire Blowout Is Blamed For Triple Crash A National Guardsman and another motorist were Injured last night In a triple collision in the Jonestown Road, three miles east of Grantville. A blowout was the cause of the accident. Sergeant Harold A.

Mayer, Washington, a member of Company 104th Quartermaster Regiment. 29th Division, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital for cuts of the right knee, bruises of forehead and possible fracture of the right hip. Mayer was a passenger in an automobile operated by Paul E. Blacklock, also of Washington. Leo Doyle, of Rahway, N.

whq gave his present address as the Fredericksburg Hotel, driver of a machine that, struck Blacklock's automobile, suffered a deep cut of the left elbow. He was treated at the office of Dr. P. Reis, a nearby physician. Highway Patrolmen said that the left front tire blew out on Black lock's automobile causing it to sideswipe a machine operated by Thomas J.

Schware, of A lien town, then crash head on Into Doyle's auto. Schware escaped injury. GETS $4200 POST Charles D. Mackey, Philadelphia, has been appointed director of publicity and public information of the highway department, at $4200 a year succeeding William J. Dougherty, Wilkes Barre who Is now on the staff of "we the people," publication of the Democratic State committee.

JIGGERS! QUICK. SANDY I'VE POT 'EM Back just as i Found 'em, and sprinkled DOST OH TH OLD BOOK THEY'RE IN SHH OCT TH' BACK WAY ill 11 I I LARGE FIREWORKS DISPLAY ASSURED FOR KIPONA NIGHT 200 Canoeists Register For Labor Day Fete There will be plenty of flreworka for the Kipona celebration on the night of Labor Day, Councilman Hans Frank announced today, adding: "We will have at least one and a half times as many as we had for the Fourth and the show will be put oft faster. There'll be no delays." The order has been placed. One of the pieces will spell out the name "KIPONA." "We promise plenty of action," said Frank. So far 200 canoeists have registered for the Kipona, the committee announced, The Pennsylvania Power, and Light Company has promised to install floodlights.

The committee will discuss additional details at a meeting in the Relst boathouse at 7 o'clock this evening. SONS TO ULTIMATELY SHARE $3200 ESTATE Two sons, John A Stroudt and Daniel E. Stroudt, are named ultimate heirs ki the $3200 estate of Jacob E. Stroudt, late of West Hanover township, according to the will filed for probate today in the office of Meade D. Detweiler, register.

The will directs the executors to isell the farm property in West Hanover township, and provides for the widow, Mrs. Alice M. Stroudt, to receive the interest from the estate during her life. The executors are H. S.

Plank and R. H. Gish. The $1630 estate of Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, late of Harrisburg, will be shared by a brother, John F. Fitzpatrick, 605 Cumberland street, a sister, Mrs.

Anna Bannon, 1119 Derry street, two nieces, Mra. Catherine Kllgore and Mrs. Helen Snyder, and a. nephew, Joseph Fitzgerald. BOYS STEP ON NAILS Two boys were treated at the Harrisburg Hospital last night for puncture wounds of the left foot, suffered when they tramped on nails at their homes.

They were John McAllister, 9, 1242 Bailey street, and Julius Fabiankovttz, IX, 370 Cameron street. TREASURY RECEIPTS Washington, Aug. 20. position of the Treasury August 18: receipts, expenditures, balance, $2, customs receipts for the month, $20,382,775.55. Receipts for the fiscal year fsince July 1), expenditures, $784,339,210.27, including $217,100,089.28 of emergency expenditures; excess of expenditures, gross debt, $33,407, 485,608.48, a decrease of $3,035,081.25 under the previous day; gold assets, $10,675,148,602.11.

THiTwEER WEATHER CONDITIONS Low oressure centerri vti Quebec has moved eastward out to sea and has been foUowed by high preaaurt with crest over western Ontario this mornlni. Low pressure centered over Utah covers the Platuu Htt Af tu. West. Showers have occurred ver ttie Lake region, turner Ohio vaiiv ami kfh. At lantic states in th Bast and over the northern Plains States in the West.

Cooler weather has overspread the en. tire northern Interior of the united states and southern Canada with th greatest fails In temseratup hin rivTtA Ontario. Canada. At Cochrane the tem iiEmure ieu 2 a degrees since yesterday morning and minima were below freeiing at both White Hirer and Cochrane. Id tne Southwest maxima again rescued 100 degrees or hlxher aulte seneraiiu tar day.

KTVKB BULLETIN aution. If tf s6 Bx Teet A Tenths Binghsmton ...14 13 0 1 51 Corning la n.fl 11 a Towanda tai 0.4 0.0 .04 wiues Barre ...23 1.1 0.1 Clearfield .10 0.0 0.1) 0' Renovo 0,0 0.0 0 Cedar Run .,..13 0.0 0.0 0 WHllamsport ...30 0.S 0,1 10 Sunbury 0.0 0.0 0 Huntingdon ...12 a. a ah a Newport 3.J 0.1 .1 Harrisburg 3.2 0.1 .20 (ai Yesterday's data. ANSWERS 1. Ethics.

2. A firearm of small calibre fitted with mechanlcsm by which tt may be tired successively with great rapidity. 3. McPherson, Kansas. 4.

The eldest daughter of Atlas and Plelone. 9. Habakkuk. Oscar wilde. 7.

Cheeses. a. The First Assistant Postmaster General. 9. Italian pslnter.

10. The hind part of the mouth, leading to the pharynx, she's out Somewhere good ah dostv just the wav i left it them mv secret is still safe from HER, THANK GOODNESS.

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