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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-15
ANOTHER RECORD
AT LOUISVILLE
Ancient, a Favoritc, Equals Half
Mile Mark in Third
Race,

LOUISVILLE. May li-Dainty Dame
defeated -Colloquy by nose in the
handicap at Churchill Downs to-day.
tieing the track record of 1913 for six
furlongs. Ancient. favorite, also tied
the track record for half In the
third race. Weather clear and warm
track fast:
First race-four and one-half fur
longs-Waterlock GEO to - first.
Sabado 90 TO u second, Orlandot Il
to ID third. Time, so.
Second race-six furlongs, selling
Beatrice X. 90 to ID first. Alsono q
to u second Meridith Go to u third.
Time, 1:l4 20.
Third race-four Observation-Disclosures
(cven) first. Hester Fora GO to - Sc
cond. Geneva S. &c to - third. Time.
las.
Fourth race-free handicap, six fur
longs-Dainty Dame e TO u first,
Colloquy a to 81 second. Miss Alert
90 to ~ third. Time. 1913.
Fifth race-mile-Jacquin e to ~
first. Cablesram % to - second, Polly
Prim Go to ID third. Time. 40 2-5.
Sixth race-selling mile--Bottles 90
to y first. Clifton Forge C. to 81 Sc
cond, Foreigner C to y third. Time,
1.41 2-5.
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HIGH SCHOOL WINS
AND TAKES LEAD
Defeat of Richmond Academy
Team Gives Former Lead
for Honors.
BOTH SIDES PLAY WELL
But Chambers Is Stcadier and Re
ceives Better Support from His
teammates.

Richmond High School defeated
Richmond Academy yesterday by the
score of / to 2. This places Rich
mond High School in the lead for the
intcrscholastic championship.
Yesterdays game was the closest of
the championship series, and was the
only one in which there was anything
like steady playing on both sides
throughout.
with High School at bat. Ely walked
Payne. then Parsons hit and both
scored on a drive by Beverly, that was
two warm for Lewis to handle.
The eighth was u blank for both
schools In the ninth. High School did
as usual, and failed to score, while il!
the last half Chambers came out OF
a hole beautifully. The bases were full
School boy punched. one man and
caught q pop fly, which finished q
nice game to his credit.
High School secured eight clean
hits, against four for Academy, yet
seemed to be unable to use them, while
Academy used their five hits to best
possible advantage.
Ely and Chambers were both in the
game from the start, but Chambers
had considerably the best of the deal
in control and hitting, though not In
strike outs. Ely made seven bite, and
gave four bases and eight hits, against
Chambers's five strikeouts, three
bases and five hits.
In the opening round Academy bat
ted in a run. Their first man UP
punched, the next singled, the next
sacrificed. and one tally was scored
on a scratch hit. In the second. Cham
bers retired Academy one, two, three
though he needed assistance to do It.
The Academy settled down, and al
though High School got one nice hit,
nothing resulted.
The third and fourth innings told the
same story.
clean two-base hit with two on bases,
which settled the game.
bo in found ln1t' Chambers nib al, an unsoivable
- In the sixth Chambers got a clean
single stole second, and died while
Academy scored one lonesome run on
two wild throws with man on third
and one on second.
The seventh was the same story for
High School, while Academy scored
on an error of hot drive.
Richmond High School lineup
Pitcher. Chambers; Catcher, Russell;
First base, Beverly; Second base. Au-
f.ustine: Shortston Van Welt; Third
base. Payne. Right-field, Simpson,;
Centre field, Parsons; Left-field, Har-
The score by innings: +.
r.. H S.......2 0 0 o o u
Il. A......,......1 o o 0 o %
Time, two hours. Umpire. Mr..
Saunders.
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HAMPDEN- sIDNEY LOSES.
Great Pitching Of Cakes Response
BILE for Defeat of Visitors.
| Id MIC Tlmes-Dlspntch. ]

Especial to The Times Dlspatch.l
BLACKSTONE. VA, May 14.-The
Hoge Academy baseball team defeated
here this afternoon the lusty warriors from
Hampton Sidney College to the heart
breaking tune of to 3 in one OF the
prettest games aver seen on the home
diamond.
The stars were Beville, with the stick,
for Hoge, and pitching OF Oaks. for the
same aggregation. who did not allow the
visitors to reach first except in the sixth,
when they did their scoring on errors.
For Hampton Sidney. Sterritt at first
and Fleming, In left. played fast ball.
Batteries: Hampden- Sidney College
Dare and Jones; Hoge--Oaks and Beville.
Hts-Hoge. q errors, 2. HIts-Ha,tIp-
den Sidney, 2: errors, 8. Struck out
by Oaks, 4; by Dare, 8.
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Lowering clouds caused Umpire
OLoughin to start the game ten min
utes ahead of schedule time, but de-
spite this precaution only half an in
ming was played before the storm
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TRINITY GETS REVENGE.
North Carolinians Turn Tables on
Kentuckians.
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Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
DURHAM. N. c., May 14.-Trinity
reaped revenge on the Central Univcr-
sity of Kentucky this afternoon and
won the last game of the season from
thE strong team by II to 1. Yester-
days game was one-sided for Ken
lucky, and Trinity made it one-slded
for them to-day. The boys from the
Blue Grass region showed up we'll yes
tcrday. but were unable to play to-
gether this afternoon, and were rather
weak in the box, Trinity took advan-
tage of this and pounded the pitcher
Numerically for several innings, every
man up getting hit
The game to-day ended one of the
most successful seasons Trinity has
had during the past five years, 1t will
mark an era in the history OF the coll
lege. It is expected that she will be
rather handicapped next year In Sc
lccting {; team. Captain billy" j.
Smith, her star shortstop; Paul Webb
her star SALESMAN, and Wrenn, who
holds the catchers' average. retire
with the present aggregation, having
played out their five years She retires
with the championship of North Caro-
lima.
Score by innings: r. II; -
Trinity 30 o. 0 oil 16
u. OF K.,..o 0 90 10-1
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HICKS THE REAL
LEADER OF LEAGUE
Richmond Castoff Has Been
Pounding Leather for Aver
age OF SO

The pitchers in the Virginia League
are warming up TO midsummer form,
notwithstanding the hardness of warm
weather The last week has witnessed
some noteworthy declines In batting
by the leading hitters in the league.
and especially among the Richmond
players. ~ few are just getting their
eyes" on the ball, and have made
quite as notable advances In batting.
Mcmahon, of Norfolk, has fattened
his hitting average during the past
week from .9it to .3T5: kirkpatrick
from .239 to .2I0; Bentley, of Lynch
burg, from III to .24l; Dingle. of
Norfolk, from 1913 to .2S9, and War
rem, CT Portsmouth, from .165 to .222.
Nearly all the other batters have fall
len back or are about stationary in
their stick work. The decrease in bat
ting by the Richmond team is remark
able, the averages for the past week
being as follows: Hebron (four
games). .0ST; Titman, .167, Sharcr,
$50; ONeill, .222; Wallace, $50, Kirk
patrick, 1853; Reeve, 100; Long, $50;
Still. .333; Hinton, PA; Cowan. .0SS;
Cassidy and Eckstone, 600. fitzpatrick
did the hitting for the week, and
Hinton made probably the greatest
gain in stick word.
Butman, of Portsmouth, who has
been out of the games since the first
week OF the season, brought his stick
with him when he returned, and leads
the league, with an average of All.
McMahon, of Norfolk, fattencd his fig
ures from .34i to .375 within week,
his average for the week being .43S.
Hicks, of Norfolk, is really the lead
Ing hitter, with an average OF .37S
for the season and an average for the
week of BIG. BENTLEY, Lynchburg's
catcher, made one of the biggest gains
recorded, his average for the week be-
ing .4i2, while Dingle. of Norfolk. bat
tea at just the same average making
the same gain. Rcgsy, of Danvillc. hit
az ."4o clip for the week and jumped
his average from .27S last week to 3o5
for the season.
Following are the seasons averages
Tor those playing in five games or
tvyr
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MAJOR DELMAR SOLO
TO WILLIAM BRADLEY
The Great Trotter Bought fol
$12,ooo and George G. Goes
With Him.

CLEVELAND, o.. May 14.-At the
Faslg Upton Blue Ribbon sale to-
day. Major Delmar, the most conspi-
cuous of American trotting geldings
was sold to William Bradley, of New
York, for $4,000.
Black Lock went to William b.
Chisolm, of the Eldoune Stock Farm
Randall. o.. for $4,000. and George G.
brought $4,000 the purchaser OF the
latter being the same as the purchaser
of Major Demar. The two first
named were part of the Billings stable
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CLUB STANDINGS.

CHICAGO. May IA series of mis-
haps, commencing with the breaking
of the flagpole, and ending with a
furious wind and rainstorm married
the demonstration ut the raising of
the worlds championship baseball pen
nant at the American League Park
here to-day. Forty ball-players and
officials laid hold of the halyards to
haul the great thirty five-foot pennant
to the top of the staff. Their combined
effort was too much for the slender
staff. which snapped ut the cross trees.
Mayor Busse, August Herman, chair
man of the national baseball commits
sion and President ~Shnson, of the
American League, delivered their
was declared Officially" raised.
Preceding the exercises at the park.
the Chicago and Washington teams
We're escorted from the CITY Ran TO
the park i'll automobiles by all the uni
formed teams Of Chicago and vicinity.
Some 400 ball-players We're In the pa
rade. which consisted of four-score au-
tomobiles. horsemen from the stock
ward three brass bands, mounted po-
lice and 100 Indians from Wild West
show.
Lowering clouds caused Umpire
O'Loughlin to start the game ten min
utes ahead of schedule time. but de-
spite this precaution only half an in
ming was played before the stoiHi
broke.
HiEhian.lers Bunch Hits.
DETROIT, MICH. May 14.-Detroit
took the first game of the opening
series from New York to-day by
punching hits off Brockett in the ninth
inning.
Score by innings: X II; y;
Detroit ....o 90 % "a =
New York. % 90 0 l o o 0--3
Brocixett Keefe and Kleinow. Time,
els. Umpire, Connolly.
Tannehlll Hard Hit.
CLEVELAND, o.. May 14.-Cleveland
took the first of the series from Bos-
ron hitting Tannehill hard. He also
received poor support
Score by innings H. ~: ~,
Cleveland IL 0 0 2 - 10
BostoS ....1 0 0 o-'4 10 4
Batteries: Joss and Clark; Tame
hill Crlger and Hoey. Time, 1:40 UNI
nires Evans and Hurst
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SPIDERS ARRANGE
STRONG SCHEDULE

Manager II, II, George, Of the Rich
mond College football team, has arranged
la most attractive list OF games for this
years team, which Is expected to be the
strongest that has re \ scented the college
IN Il number Of seasons.
Besides the three championship games.
with Iiampden- Sidneyg Randolph-N1nron
ana william and Mary there are eight
other games on the schedule. which opens
mere "ith Woodberry Forest ON Septem-
per 2Sth. The Unyersity Of Virginia Will
be played at Charlottesville on Wodnes-
/ d4y, October - The season viii close
Wllh Tue championship contest with VIII
1 nam and Mtpy at Newport News on Mo-
5xeInbes 18th, Following is the complete
Surrender 2sth-Woodberry Forest.
October "a tWednesdayl-- University OF
I virginia Charlottesville.
:. October eth Maryland Agricultural
College. Richmond,
october 18th Agricultural and Mnchan-
,ea College of North Carolina, Rich
oaIoper -nandopn-Maeon. Rich
oetoner a5l1 Saturday. Agricultural
Noyembgr "a Saturday. Washington
and Loo lexington
November 9Th IltSnpdon- sidney Cham
ponHhlpl, Richmond
| .NoYember 18th tSpturday)v-Un
OF Nortll Carolina, Chapel Iinl,
| November 23d Rnndolph-AIacon (ohnm.
Ipiopshlpl Richmond
i To1ember aSth--WillInm and Mar,
Newport News.
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.KESW|CK SHOW
PROMISES MUCH
Twcnty-Onc Glasses in All-oak-
land, Pretty Maid and Others
VIII Perform.
SOCIETY IS ALL AGoa
Many Visitors Have Already Ar
rived on Grounds for To-Day's
Annual Affair.
SOCIETY is ALL Ago.
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Especial to The Times Dspatch1
kESW1Ck. VA, May 14.--The pros
poets for II brilliant show ut keswcs
Tomorrow are unparalleled. The classes
are well filled and tho weather prospects
ideal.
All told, there nrc twenty-one classes,
and In the free-for-all hunters twenty
four entries. n great summing up for a
one-day show. Tho great champion.
keswick. will be seen along with David
Gray. his stable mate. Mr.. Morris viii
also uncover for the first time his thor
oughbrcd saddle-horso OaklaD-S dis
tinctly Gooch tyre and an aspirant for
honors In the garden this fall. II |r.
Gooch Will persist in n thoroughbred for
a saddle horse he will be compelled to
wlcdge Oakland.
Murray Boocock, president of Keswick
Hunt club. has hung UP beautiful cup
ems on we brave"
Mrs. Potty also shows some new
ones. and you can look out for glory when
you see Pretty Maid perform. Besides
this she wei show Robin Grey son y
Arnon. and a good one. Some OF the old
stagers are Murray Boococks Granite,
Bernard Hornets st. Leonardine formerly
owned by Blair Johnson; Mrs. Joslin's
Princess and Jack Aliens great perform
er, Miss English
McComb and Walker Sanford. Society Is
agog and the neighborhood is full OF
visitors to see the events.
This show Is unique in one respect, that
no prizes are offered, q ribbon only going
to the winner. Despite THIS fact the
classes are always we'll filed and hotly
contested, and the day proves u sporty
end to the hunting season.
keswick opens the Virginia horse show
circuit, which. continuing throughout the
summer. ends with the Richmond show
in October.
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Norfolk.

Summary: Three base hits-McATahon,
Hooker Home runs-iIaas, Bentley and
Cummings Sacrifice hlts--Bowen and
Anthony stolen -McKenna, Seti2
and Jackson, First base on erv?rs--
I.ynchburk 6 Norfolk 3. Earned runs-
Lynchburg, | Norfolk, 2, Left on bases
-Lynchburg, Il Norfolk, 6. Double plays
Fschman. Bowen and Haas. Struck
out-by Carter, !; by Cummings A. Base
ON balls-off Cummings, 3 tMcKenna,
Bentley and Hooker. Passed balls
Bentley. Hit by pitched ball.-Anthony.
Attendance. Loo. Time Of game. l:4S.
Umpire Lally.
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DANVILLE LOSES
TO PORTSMOUTH
After PsoSirg a Puzzle for Five
Innings, Smith Weabens and
Home Team Wins Out.

NORFOLK, VA, MAJ 1i-After puz-
cling the Truckers for five innings.
subway Smith weakened in the sixth,
Portsmouth making three runs in that
inning. In the ninth, the visitors had
a chance to make run. hut a phe-
nomenal stop and fast double by Moss,
prevented them from scoring. In spite
of DanVille's poor playing, the game
proved very interesting,
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POOR OLD CREW
DEFEATED AGAIN
Especial to The Times Dispatch.

IYNCHBJRG, va, May I4.-IHe SHue-
makers defeated the Crew this afternoon
principally because the latter ialied 10
support Cummings, who pitched game
that he should have won.
The locals put up by far the best game
in the field. and hits came when needed.
Carter allowed the Crew to bunch hits
in the third, fousth and fifth, netting
four runs.
Seitz and Ruhleand carried off the
fielding honors for the Crew and Fisch-
man and the outtield together for the
locals The score
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE
r,t,,o poo,s.-LIttlo Rock-Atlanta;

AT Little Rock: Llttlo Rock Atianta'
no S! shreve hort Observation-Disclosures
ham; rain. Outcome q.
AT New Orleans: New or'ea''s' -
Montgomery. 2, No.hy,I,o.
AT Mcmphis; Mel''P'''s- ~
rain.
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BOSTON, May l4,-SupeTlor uas =,
running enabled Pittsburg to win to-
DAYS game by 6 to 3. Willis was
steady when hits meant runs;
Score by innings: II. II. ~;
Pittsburg IS o 0 0 Dol Q o. Q
Boston .l 0 0 u u . .
and Needham. Time, 2:O2. Umplres,
Carpenter and Emslie.
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nrookl,-n Neat ST. Louis 10 to 0,

DROOKLYN, May I4.--Hr0o KIV1 =
st Louis 10 to 0. Lumley's batting
was the feature. =,
Score by inninGs II; a.: ~.
st. Louis % 0 0 0 o Q o. .
Brooklyn - 0 l 0 o ~ ~
shall; Bell and Ritter. Time, 1857. Um-
pire, O'pay.
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Lynch's, 70; w. T. S., IS.

Especial to The Tlmes-p1s M "
ron Troininr school baseball team
crossed rTo bats with the Lynehs team on
Monday on the diamond or II th ne 1 20 n
resulting in score Of trh ~ r 10 o. w as
clean and devoid OF sensational plays
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cuIn STANDINGS.
Cubs Pound Ball.

PHILADELPHIA. May 14.-Chicago
took the second game from philadelphia
today by hitting Lush and Moran hard;
The home team had but three hits OH
overall. r r.
Chicago O 0 2 o 2 . % Is
Philadelphia o o 0 0 o o o % 3 I
Batteries: overall and King; Lush,
Moran and Doom. Time, 1870. um-
pires, Klein and tombstone.
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L., :, nent Reds.

NEW YoRk, May la . T T1,. Iocn,s to o1k
advantage of errors by the visiting
team e,,..o =. ,nn,nes. r. IT. T.,
Cincinnati 20 900 90 u !
New York. % 0 0 2 z ! gVV,o,. rov,o :
ana Bowcrman. Time. 1850 Umpire
Rigler.
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Delaplane Loses.

Especial TO The Times plspateh.l
Front ROYAL, VA, May ~ a CON- ~ :
cdy OF errors cost Deiapllnm ne Nv NJ ~ "a
game 10 Eastern College to-day ny " =
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By a. j. Chewing Company,
Real Estate Auctioncers.
EXEcUToNs AucrloN sALE


THAT LARGE AND SUBSTANTIAL.
FOUR STORY BRICK DWELLING.
NO. 232 NORTH TWENTIETH
STREET. NEXT TO CORNER OF
BROAD STREET, AND
THOSE TWO BRICK DWELLINGS,
NOS. 227 AND 22T IL NORTH TWEEN
TIETH STREET.
BY direction of 10 Lane Stems. ex-
ecutor of Louis +. Bossieux deceased,
we will sell by auction the above prop
critics. on
WEDNESDAY, MAY Is, 1907.
at 6 o'clock p NJ
1t Is not often that good brick mop
erty is put upon the market, and but
for the necessity of closing up an es-
tate. you would not have this oppor-
tnnity of securing this good invest
ment
TERMS: Liberal and announced at
time of sale.
a j. CHEWING co.
Auctioneers.
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Chatham z. l., I'd; P. and o. .

ISpcclal 10 The Tlmes-Dlspatch.
CHATHAM, VA, May IA very In
teresting game OF basketball was
played on the Chatham Episcopal In,
stitute ground by the Purple anL
Orange teams Saturday morning, In
which the former came out winner
~ to 22.
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To-DAY,s GAMES

CliCagO at PhlInueIpNIu.
Cincinnati at New YORK.
Pittsburg at Boston,
St Louis at Brooklyn
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Kirllpatrick's Home Run in tl'
Ninth Inning Ties the
Score.
WALLACE PUT OUT OF GAME
Afterwards Fined and Allowed to
Resume Play-ABatenan Also
Sent Bencllward.
YESTERDAYS RrslrLrs.

Roanoke, 5; Richmond, i.
Lynchburg, o; Norfolk, /
Portsmouth, 3; Danvillc o.
Tu-DAY'S GAMES.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
,s,,,,,,,n aEsIu,TS.

YTSTEItDAYS NTsN I1s'
New York, 3; Cincinnati, z.
Philadelphia. o; Chicago, ..
Boston. 5; Pittsburg. 6.
Brooklyn, 10; st, Louis, 0.
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.PENNANT RAISED
IN WINDY CITY
------
Young Cyclone Mars Celebration
of Worlds Baseball Cham
pionsllip.
GAME CALLED IN FIRST INNING
Detroit Beats the Highlandcrs.
Cleveland Wins-Cubs Too
Much for Phillies.
GAME CALLED IN FIRST INNING
AMERICAN LEAGUE

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Chicago Washington, rain.
81. Louis Philadelphia; rain.
cleveland, o; Boston, A.
Detroit, 8; New York, 4.
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TO-DAY's GAMES.
Washington at Chicago.
New York at Detroit.
Boston at Cleveland.
Philadelphia ut st. Louis.
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Richmond at Roanoke.
Norfolk at Lynchburg.
Danville at Portsmouth.
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SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE

Al Macon: Macon 3 Charleston. o.
At ,Jacksongil!e; Jacksonville, A;
Columbia, .
Al Savannah; Savannah, 4 Augusta,
J.
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Auction Sales This Day.
BY N. w. Bowe e son,
Real Estate Auctionecrs.

TWELVE ATTRACTIVE BUILDING
LOTS ON ASHLAND AND CLAf-
HORNE STREETS. B1ITWEIN RAN.
DOLPI AND WASIIN GTON
STREETS, by AUCTION.
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WEDNESDAY. MAY 18TH,

AS exccutrix OF the lnto Ann u.
Grant j will sell by public auction. on
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WEDN ESDAY. MAY 18TH,
Mt 6 O'clock r. NJ.
three hundred feet OF beautiful! land.
ono hundred OF which Is on the south
Side OF Ashland street. beginning ono
Washington Street; and ono hundred
feet on either side of Claiborne Street,
beginning one hundred and ninety
eight feet cast of Washington Street.
These lots, while smooth and level,
drain we'll and will make extremely
attractive building sites for modest
houses.
TERMS: One-third cash, and the bal
nnce at six and twelve months for
notes, with interest added, and secured
by n deed OF trust; or, all cash, at the
option Of the purchaser.
JULIA G.. MOORE,
Txecutrix.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-02-14
His Fathers Error.

what makes you so stiff in your
motions?" asked the man with the In.
growing curiosity.
You see," responded the man ad.
dressed, when / was a little child we
lived in a cabin in the woods every
summer, and / always got badly chew.
ed up with mosquitoes and chiggers
and broke out awfully with the heat"
"Yes?"
"And my mother always used the
standard remedy for that sort of thing
-bathed me In water with a strong
solution of soda. Well, one day she
went to battle me Us usual and found
at the last minute that she had for.
gotten the soda. Calling to my father
she asked him to run and get It for
her out of the cupboard, and he got
the laundry starch by mistake"