Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-26
City News in Brief

disclosed the fact that George II. Moore
or 19f7 South Twenty second street and
Miss Edna May Easy, OF 2O89 Moore street.
were married -four months ago at Norris
town, Pa. An aunt OF MIR Moore expressed
surprise that the honeymoon should take
place before the wedding. The bridegroom
laughed and after leaving the room APP
peared with the marriage certificate.
ALBERT "CURLEY" CARTER, ''bunco"
and confidence man, was sentenced yester-
day for conspiracy TO swlnde ]. Ellison
Hess, OF York. Pa, out of 81 5000. Judge
Carr. in the Quarter Sessions Court, i'm
posed a sentence OF not moro than twenty
four months nor less than twenty-three in
the Eastern Penitentary. A pleaf for Glenn
ency was ignored.
RUSSELL GoTsCHOLK. twenty-five
years old, Of 635 Creighton street. sustained
a fractured collar bone last night, when he
crashed into an automobile while riding a
motorcycle at Sixty-hrst and Collowhill
streets. The automobile was driven by D.
Lewis Hanley, Of 6o07 SAMSON street.
Gotscholk was taken to the West Phila-
de'phia Homeopathic Hospital
DEATH BY GAS was q means chosen
by David Joseph. timer. DAT jackson street.
today to escape the worry OF business re-
verses. But no was saved by physicians at
st Agnes's Hospital and after he came to
he announced that life is good even when
business is bad" He will never try II
again, he said. Joseph was found in his
tin shop at 1916 South Eleventh street
by a brother.
THE COMMISSION appointed to tnvesti-
gate the increase In the cost of anthracite in
Pennsylvania, of which Robert S. Gawthrop.
Of West Chester. is chairman, will sit at
Scranton tomorrow and Thursday. The
commission will sit at wllkes-Barre on
Friday.
GEORGE w. NORRIS, United States
Farm Loan Commissioner. returned to this
city last night from the West. Mr.. Norris
has been making a tour of the country with
the Farm Loan Board for the purpose of
studying conditions in the various districts
In which rural credit banks are to be estab-
lished by the Government. Upon his ar
rival in this city Mr.. Norris went direct
to his summer home in Penllyn. Mr.. Norris.
who was formerly Director of Wharves.
Docks and Ferries. was appointed ex-
ecutve head of the Farm and Loan Board
August Z.
A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. man or
woman. wearing a long black cloak and
black hood has caused much excitement in
Clifton Heights the past few evenings and
not few women az well as some OF the
men have become thoroughly frightened by
this mysterious creature now called
cloak man"
Philadelphia viii meet tomorrow morning.
| at IL o'clock, in the clubhouse. $50 South
Seventeenth street. AS this is the first
meeting since the granting OF the charter,
a large attendance Is expected for the dis
cussion Of important matters relative to the
future. The organization is entering it's Sec
ond year as a residential club for young
feminine artists and students in the arts.
The demands are far overreaching the
capacity of the house, and expansion will
be among the problems taken up tomorrow.
sCRUBBING FLOORS paid little Laur-
emma Shoemaker, of 1343 East Haines
street. Germantown. $50, which she gave
to the Emergency Aid headquarters to help
children recovering from infantile paral-
ysis. Eight children in Alden, Delaware
County, sent 81 that they saved from their
camping fund. The Pennsylvania Womon's
Division for National Preparedness con-
tributed $50. and a total Of $37s came in
from other sources.
THE PARENTS of the three West Phiia-
delpha boys who ran away from their
homes last Tuesday have been notified OF
their sons arrest in Pittsburgh The three
boys are Joseph Dearie, seventeen years
old, of $40 kershaw street; Charles Jones'
seventeen years old, of 5l13 Thompson
street, and Clement O'Donnell, sixteen years
old. of 1921 North Sixty-sixth street.
MISS ESTHER NEwBoLD, of PhiladeI-
phia, II is reported from Warren. Pa. is
much improved today. She became so un-
strung after the death Saturday Of her
mother. Mrs. Sarah Duncan Newbold. that
she wandered away and was lost In the
w
bolds' winter home is in this city at Fif-
teenth and Pine streets.
SHOCK MAY prove fatal. to Mrs. Mary
Young seyenty-seven years old, OF 1223
South Patton street, who was run down by
a Pennsylvania freight train while crossing
the tracks at Thirty-first street and Gray's
Ferry road last night. She is In the Poly
clinic Hospital, where II was said her in
jurles were trivial
contributions RECEIvED yesterday
by ths Pennsylvania women's Division for
National Preparedness OF the Red Cross
for equipment for the country branch OF the
Children's Hospltal. at wynneneld, were
from Miss Anna NJ. Hecltsher. OF Devon,
$50 Mrs. Edward Roberts. $40, and Mrs
Arthur Cook. $40. quantity OF wearing
apparel for the children and linen for the
institution was received from tho Milton
and Williamsport chapters and from the
DIR. JOHN CHALMERS DA COSTA, aolS
Walnut street has been appointed consult
ing surgeon to the Philadelpnln General
Hospital. which position was made vacant
recently by the death OF DIR. J. William
White. The appointment was made by
Director krusen. OF the Department OF
Public Health and Charities Doctor Da
Costa has been connected with the hospital
since fss5. when he was resident physician
A LARGE BARN on the grounds ef villa
nova College was destroyed by hre last
night For time sparks threatened the
college buildings but this danger was later
eliminated by change In the wind II is
estimated that the damage viii amount 20
3300oo. Two horses and two cows were
burned 70 death and Il IL also believed a
Holstein-Friesian bull. valued at 1880, was
| lost The origin OF the flames Is unknown.
LEWIS WILLIAMS. Js.. the sns-ysar- old
| son Of Mrs Cora Williams. OF 5725 Van
| Dyke street Frankford, was strsnEled 70