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...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
Herbert P. Houghton, professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota, will be lecturer on Avestan for the first half of the academic year 1936-37. Professor Houghton is a recognized authority in the fields of Archaeology, Greek, and Sanskrit, and has taught at Princeton, Amherst, and Waynesburg where he was president from...
...Nittany Lions are expected to show Harvard a strong forward wall tomorrow, with their chief running threat in Sigel, a lightweight back. With Harvard scouts reporting that the Penn State team merely coasted through their recent game with Waynesburg, in spite of the fact that a last minute touchdown gave victory to the small college, it is likely that the first team will see considerably more action tomorrow than in its first two contests with the weak Buffalo and New Hampshire aggregations...
Today a dummy scrimmage will be put on against Penn State plays. According to latest reports, the Nittany Lions played under wraps last Saturday when beaten by Waynesburg, and only put on three different plays in the whole first half. Whenever the Penn State players attempted any new shifts, the stands would roar, "Save it for Harvard...
...Waynesburg, Pa., State Senator C. W. Parkinson's son Thomas, trying to drive his father's automobile out of the garage, fainted from lethal carbon monoxide gas. His head fell forward onto the pushbutton in the centre of the steering wheel, blew the horn until neighbors came...