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purses exactly 46S00, and, in addition side bets and exhibitions
 Knocks Out Martin Canois.
 After my dscisive win over Spider Welsh, the California favorfte, Alex Greggains of the San Francisco Attn letic clnb offered me a match with Martin Canole, who had made good in San Francisco the previous year by his grand showing against the pet of -the golden west, Jimmy Britt. I was now to take the tough ones! immediately accepted and started for San Francisco in company with my manager, Teddy Murphy. whom I had hooked up with again On our arrival we signed articles of agreement, the fight to take place on the coast. I was anxious to make good showing and immediately adjourned to the train ing quarters at the Beach tavern and worked into the best possible shape for the battle. secured Frank New house, whom consider one of the ablest handlers of fighters in the world, to train me.
 On the night of the battle we ''shied our castors." 1" whatever that means, at Woodward's pavilion. Canole, with a long string of victories over classy fighters, was. of course, a heavy fa- vorite. the betting being 10 to 21s against yours truly. Despite this I started off to beat Canole. I met him in his own corner at the jump, but he feinted and swung left on my jaw, and, to my surprise, he dropped me flat on my back. I thought I had been hit by the Brooklyn bridge. This only served to trritate me, as I quickly re- covered, and it made me fight all the more.
 caneIe Was Very Clever.
 Canole so outclassed me in clever ness that in the third round such wise critics as Spider Kelly got up and went out and were followed by 100 more fight fans.
 What lemon this Hegewisch Dane isr' said Kelly.
 I knew was being badly outpoint- ed. Nevertheless l figured was out fighting Canole. I cracked him one on the liver, and in the seventh round Canole practically admitted defeat, as before he left his corner he rubbed his gloves in the rosin, expecting to cut me up by jabbing his gloves in my face. That is an old trick of fighters
 From that time on the tide of bat tie turned in favor of the Dane, who many had thought had been led to slaughter. and only the referee and Hmekeeper saved Canole from being knocked out long before it happened. On four or five different occasions when had him down and out the timekeeper rang the bell, ending the round as much as two minutes before tie stipulated time.
 In the eighteenth round hooked my hard left on Canole's jaw. and he drop ped as though hit with a baseball bat He lay limp as a rag and never stirred while being counted out.
 Gamble was. indeed, a very hard nut for me to crack at best. He was won- derfully clever, game as a tiger and carried with these virtues hard punch, excellent head and clever foot work
 Has His First Temptation.
 Right here I met the temptation of my life, and I overcame it. You can well imagine how gleeful I felt after beating one of the first class fighters, known all over the United States. ]
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The Montreal team of the Eastern league is due to arrive in New Britain
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29

go out in the town and enjoy myself. You can say what you please about boys or men caring nothing about the opinion of the public, but it is all rot. I wanted to hear what they all had to say. In other words, l felt just like bubbling over and taking in the town I had never taken a drink in my life, but this night I think l would have taken one if l hadn't fought off that temptation to -'go out with the boys"
 Something kept saying to me, and it was like the voice of my old mother in Hegewisch, "Now, Bat, because you are successful don't go out and make a fool of yourself" These words would keep coming to me. and I went back to the training quarters to think it over.
 Temptation Gets . Knockout.
 All this time had been reading the papers, and had read where many of the former champions had thrown them selves away while celebrating their victories. l was not yet a champion. but I was awful close to it. had fought my way all over the country, and felt as if the magic title was al- most in reach.
 '.No," I said to myself; Battling Nelson will stick it out right here. will do no celebrating and running around at nights until am comforta- bly, fixed.'
 It was hard tussIe, but fought that temptation until I knocked it out, and it went the way of the others whom I have defeated. Having won out in my mind, l went to bed and slept peacefully.
 As you can imagine, my victory over Canoie had made me the talk of San Francisco, and the managers were aft CT me. fought Canole at 133 pounds, and the packers of Eddie Hanlon, who was a great boy in his day. offered to fight me at 14O pounds, weigh in at 8 o'clock. They thought would have trouble fin making that weight, but I fooled them and grabbed at the chance. I could have fought at 12S pounds, but they didn't know 1t.
 Defeats Eddie HanIen.
 The fight was arranged to take place on July %, to go twenty rounds, at the same old spot, Woodward's pavilion
 Hanlon, game as A pebble and q shifty. hustling boy like Canole. went after me to gain the twenty round de-
 
 me like an escaped kitten during the early stages of the fight, but I soon solved his style and began wearing him down, fighting fiercely in the clinches. Game little fellow that he is, he met me at my own game.
 Slug? Why, that little fellow made me sit up and take notice. He did chug me several mean blows in the wind, and, to tell the truth, he had me wor- ried a little at the start. The kid, however, was not strong enough to keep up his dashing pace. and gradual ly saw him slowing down. Then I got busy. In the seventeenth round I started in to finish him, and by the time we reached the nineteenth round poor Eddie could barely stand, and toppled him over. winning amid tre- mendous applause.
 Want Him to Fight Herrera.
 Immediately after winning over Han lon the fight promoters made rush for me. One of them-then unknown Billy Nolan, matchmaker of the Butte Athletic club, wired my manager, Ted dy Murphy, already known as the ''boy manager" offering $1 900 purse for twenty round battle with Aurelia Herrera for Labor day, Sept D. Mur-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29
N May. 1854. really began my
 championship career. After beat ing Spider Welsh became a
STARTLING NELSON.

ing Spider Welsh l became a
 great drawing card. Fight clubs all over the country were after me- I was in a position now to have a say as to the terms regarding purses. etc. It, had been a hard climb, but l was near the top. You can imagine how happy it made me when wrote to my mother that was beginning to make money hand over fist. told her there would be no more tramping and riding on trucks for Battling Nelson, the little Dane who some years before had triumphed over the Swedes in Hegewtsch-
 Beginning un May 20, when fought Martin Canole, up to Nov. 20, when I knocked out Young Corbett, I did not lose a fight. Canole, Hanlon, Herrera and Corbett fell before my mitts in succession During this period of ex- actly six months I drew down in
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oSalA SAAL on my ankles and feet. The same, in a few days, was the case with my a r m s a n d scalp. I c ou l d hardly keep from scratching, which, l need h a r ly say, m a d @ i t " 0 r s e. Then large red patches appeared, W i t h l n f l a m m ation and s O re n e S s. fA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29
BRIDGEPORT MUST MIKE 3 POINTS Otherwise Local Y. M. (. A. Athletes
 Will Make Stamford Victorious.

The local Y. M. c. A. will compete with the Stamford Y. Nj. c. A. in dual athletic meet. Friday night this week Athletics at the local associa-
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on Thursday of this week. Manager Doe Vasey will have 26 men along with him, of which 15 will be held for the season. Of the cast offs it is prob able that Manager Hanna will get a number. Hanna has also received as- surances from Manager Duffy of the Providence Eastern 1eaguers and Man ager Murray of the Philadelphia Ma tiona1s that in case they have any players to dispose of to a. minor league club, that he will have the preferences of their services.
 Polo Grounds in New York paid visit to Lighthouse Point, outside of New Haven yesterday and selected a site for new baseball grounds for an amusement company at the point. It is the intention of the company to have big league teams visit the point during the summer.
 The players who have already signed to play with the Ho1yoke team are as follows: Catchers. Ahearn, Danahey, Trayner, Gray; pitchers. Hodge, Sind Ter, Rieger. Bosk, Duffy, Duggan, Hil- Her, Weafer. Bellieveau; first base, Massey, Bowers, Slack, Campbell; in fielders, Perkins. Baker, Campbell, Ruell, Kinney, Novack. Brandow. Me Cormack. Bell; outf1eIders. Dolan, Kel- ley, Kellogg, Burke, McCabe. The pitching corps may also include Krueg- CT, promised from the Brooklyn Ma tionals.
 Candy Lachance, formerly with New Haven and Waterbury and Jerry O'ConneIl, New Haven's outfieIder will this season run a semi-profeSsional in Winsted. Lachance will handle the team, but Jerry will play with the New Haven team.
 As was predicted in this paper some time ago, George Simmons, who played with the New Haven team last season will not hold down a job with the New York Giants. It now begins to look as if Sirnny will be farmed to the Rochester team. Simmons recently wrote to Bone, his former manager, but Bone does not care for his services, as he is too slow on the bases.
 EGGS.-White Wyandotte and White
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29
TED LEWIS AND
 EDDIE MENARD
 WITH THE WINNERS
Close of the Polo Season Some Inter. esting lncidents-Scrappy Finish - Jockeying of Players.
National Polo League Standing.

RESULTS SATURDAY NIGHT. Providence, 8; Brockton, 6. Fall River, 3; Pawtucket, 1 New Bedford, 8; Worcester. 3.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29
DIED.

DIED. CL4ARK.-In Danbury, March A,. Frank P. Clark, M. D., aged 56 years. AnLIS-At Riverside, March a, John Allis. in the 67th year of his age.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-29

EGGS.-White Wyandotte and White Leghorn s1 per setting. Thorough breds. R. J. Drew. 2992 Main St.
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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
A Fight on the Creamery.

Editor Herald am told that prior
TO the establishment of the Farmville
creamery no State inspector was ever
seen in this section examining into
the sanitary conditions prevailing on
our farms as to COWS and their keep,
and that since the creamery opened
for business sub inspections have
been confined to those farms from
which milk is being sent to the cream
cry. This would seem that the State
officials in this particular department
were only concerned with the product
of creameries and that the rest OF us
who drink milk and use butter coming
from other sources must look out for
ourselves. Comparatively few COWS
of this county and of adjoining
counties are giving down the milk
which is to be handled at the cream
CIV. and if they only are to be kept
clean and their surroundings sanitary
the work OF protection Is Dut pour
~ done. What about the COWS that
furnish milk for use in our public in
stitutions, at our hotels and in private
homes? Do the State authorities
Just guess the conditions are all Just
as they should be save and except
when the creamery is involved:
rejoice in the law which has been
framed in the interest of cleanliness
and health, but like Gods sun II
should shine for all alike Let there
be no friends to reward and no enc
mics TO punish. If the milk for the
creamery needs the watching care o.
the State and | agree that it does
there are others, for all other places
and persons need, and should com
mand like care.
Guard well the creamery but guaro
lust as well our homes, our hotels anC
our schools.
Consumer
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Natives OF Dixie.

Edouard d Oize, who will be seen
in superb production Of The Mer-
chant of Venice" at the Opera House
Tuesday evening, October Sth, is a
Southerner by birth and raising. He
was born in New Orleans in 1879, his
father, Lucien j. D'Oize, having been
an officer on General Bragg's staff in
the war between the states, was a ma
tive of Baltimore and Of French des-
cent. and his mother Of English and
Irish extraction, a native of North
Carolina.
Mr.. D'Oize manager, Mr. Guy f.
Gregg is from Virginia, and his adj
vance representative Mr. Edward NJ.
Roberts, is a native of Memphis, Tenn.
There are besides, in the support OF
the star, several actors whose names
are FAMILIAR in both the north and the
south
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Electric Light Material.

Editor Herald
With reference to the above sub
iect. and in reply to the article issued
in the Herald of last week, signed
Consumer will say presume it IS
the sense of the Council to make a
full and explicit reply however this
cannot be done at present, owing to
the absence of the clerk, who files all
of the towns bills, and it will be ne
cessary to refer to these bills in order
to get a perfect itemized account.
Upon instruction from those in author
itv. | will be pleased to advise the
public fully in the matter. In the
meanwhile, anyone interested may
inspect my books if they so desire.
| will take this occasion to call at
teation to your articles printed in the
Herald's edition of September nth
and referring to the examination Of
nv books as treasurer of the town.
This article reads. The auditor found
the books in good order except as TO
discrepancy of 7Sc. which was salts
factorily explained. - In order that
the public may understand please al
low me to report there was no dis
creplncy in the common acceptaton
of this word. The amount referred
to should read 75c. instead Of 7Sc. as
YOU printed, and is thus explained.
In checking over my accounts, Mr..
Davidson ran across a charge Of zoe.
which was on account of check
written in favor Of Mr. q. w. Buck
bOrO
Mr.. Buckboro has never cashed this
check. consequently Mr.. Davidson
could not report on it. However my
balance in the bank was 75c. in excess
of the balance reported on hand
which of course takes care OF the
outstanding check and relieves the
discrepancy referred to.
S. w. Paulett, Jr., Treas.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Our Electric Lights.

Editor Herald:-I beg to commend
vour earnest efforts in the interest OF
better electric light service for our
people. That the service is now
abominably bad all will agree. To
compel us to pay tribute to two mas
ters. Rockefeller and the Farmvllle
electric magnates is all wrong. The
oil lamp has to be called to our and
each morning of each returning day
and this is inconvenient and unne-
cessary burden.
The plant belongs to the people and
should contribute to their comfort In
other towns where the cost OF light
is not greater than with us the lights
are to be had day and night. If the
authorities will not do their duty In
this regard they should be made TO-
The right of petition belongs to al
free people and let us use it, or els'
in mass meeting make known our de
mands. which are reasonable an'
then insist upon them. ] simply asl
for common justice No more eatlnl
of our breakfasts by lamp light. In
LIGHT should be allowed us unit
a. m. until March lst, and from the
on to April lst to 9 a. m.
With the Herald's aid we can WI
the fight oulieIel'
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
A Query.

Editor Herald;-I am advised that
the electrician of Farmville draws a
monthly salary of $3.50, and yet the
town furnishes him the material with
which TO do extra work for which he
receives extra pay. This would seem
TO be a cinch. Few Of us make Sl5O
2 month and no extras thrown in.
The salary OF $3.50 month should
nav for all the time Of the average
mo-, Civic.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Clean Side Walks.

Editor Herald-You have had much
to say in your paper on the subject
of clean side walks but none too much.
In my opinion there is but one hope
Of relief and that is to be found in a
town ordinance requiring property
owners to keep the side walks in
front of their own holdings clean OF
dirt now, and then of snow when 1t
begins to fall again.
This would be the imposition OF no
hardship and would result in a clean
town so far as walks are concerned ?
Many of our people do this without an
ordinance on the subject but many
others do not and the contrast be-
tween clean and dirty walkway is not
pleasing to the eye. d.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Honor TO Whom Honor is DUE"

The Herald delights in saying a
well done Of its own and to repeat the
well done said by others One Of the
recent graduates of the Normal and
among the brightest Of them remarked
to MS that until she was brought under
the influence of Miss London as teach
er of arithmetic she had positive aver
sion to it as a study but that now
she had genuine pleasure in teaching
it to others.
Some teachers have the happy fac
ulty Of impartiag Inspiration along
with instruction and Miss London
seems to be Of the number. We re-
member our horror OF the same sub
iect Of study and regret that the lead
ings of our teacher simply added dense
ness to the natural darkness. The
fact is student life has been very
much frightened since we went to
school and were made to get les
cons -
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
Creamery Notes.

Mr.. VIM. Bailey, who lives near
Curdsville, made a trip to Amelia
county last week and purchased six
good COWS. He has also bought two
of Mr.. J. C. Hamlet, and now has
ten with which to start to furnish
cream,
Mr.. H. A. Stokes, one Of the most
successful tobacco raisers, intends to
soon begin with eight or ten COWS to
furnish cream. Mr.. Stokes neigh
bors. Messrs. French, Burroughs, Ben
ton and Morse are all preparing to get
more COWS. Messrs. }. w Overton
and Richard Lyon will get more cows
in the spring
Mr.. Schwagler, who lives on a part
of the old Mountain View" planta-
ton. has purchased of Mr..J. j. Gil
liam four fine cows and next week
will supply the creamery with milk
from six cows.
Mr.. c. A. Hunt has completed and
is now filling his silo.
Mr.. Lewis Crawley has begun work
on a silo, and Mr.. VIII Watkins has
his up and ready to fill.
Cream is now being shipped from
Burkeville to the Farnville creamery.
More orders than could be filled
were received last week for cream.
An order for butter from Newport
News also had to be turned down.
The market for first class butter,
and the Farmville creamery makes no
other kind is practically unlimited.
Norfolk market quotations are, coun-
try butter 10 to IS cents, creamery 81
TO 32 cents.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
The NURSERY AGAIN.
The WORK PROGRESSES FINELY
Virginia Soil Adapted to The Growth
Of Nursery Plants.

A representative of the Herald has
enjoyed another visit to the Grees
nursery plant and has been made glad
to know that the plant is taking on
new beauty and growth as the days
90 by. The effort to grow trees and
vines and nursery products in general
on Virginia soil is being crowned by
most gratifying success. Out Of the
many thousands Of different things
planted in our home nursery scarce a
missing hill is to be found and vigo-
rous life and growth are to be seen on
every hand. 1t required a man OF
capital to undertake this venture for
though the outlay has already been
great no returns are to be looked for
until a year hence.
In the fall of 1910 sales will begin
and between now and then the ex-
pense account will continue to grow.
On the fields where no plants are yet
being cultivated wise and thoughtful
preparation is being made to have the
soil in proper condition to receive
them. Rye and peas and clover are
to follow each other and when mother
earth has been well fed it will be con-
fidently relied on to feed back. And
the old mother is ever found true
to promise.
That field of corn to which we have
before referred, though only eleven
weeks old the sturdy stalks are not
satisfied With less than two well de-
yeloped ears to the st lk Peas on
some fields where no ounce Of fertili-
zer has been applied are growing
grandly. and these are to be plowed
under and to be followed by another
crop.
Visit the nursery and learn more
of the possibilities Of Southside Vir-
ginia lands.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
REV. THOMAS NEEDHAM
THE NEEDHAN MEETINGS.
WILL Be HELD IN THE ARMORY.
Will Begin On tuesday Evening Next

Rev. DR.. Needham, a cO-worker
Of Dr.. Chapman, the evangelist Of
world wide fame, will hold a series Of
meetings in Farmville beginning on
Tuesday evening of next week in the
armory. Representative laymen of
the different churches met at the Bap-
tist church on last Sunday afternoon.
DR.. Jarman vas called 10 the chair
Mr.. f. NJ. Bugg was chosen as secre-
tary and plans were discussed and
adopted looking to the successful con-
duct of the meetings Committees
were appointed on place Of meeting
music, finance Gee. There will be
another meeting at the same place,
and the same hour, AIS O'Clock on
next Sunday afternoon when plans Of
preparation will be further considered.
The people of Farmville are richly
blessed with regular and faithful and
scriptural preaching, but the preach
erS themselves endorse the coming
of DR.. Needham to aid in the good
work and the rest Of us are ready to
welcome him and to uphold his hands.
This man of God has been blessed
of God in other fields of labor and the
PRAYER of the church is that showers
Of blessing may follow his work in
Farnvile. The power is not OF man
but we will as a people simply use
this, another means of grace, with the
confident and comforting assurance
that in the use we will grow in grace
and the knowledge OF God
power and willingness to revive and
save
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01
2P. EdOuaFd D'0lZe.

Excepting perhaps Mr. Otis skinner
there is no actor today. who has essay
ed Shakespearean roles, whose reading
of the lines of the immortal bard equals
in intelligence and quality Of tone that
of the young actor, Mr.. Edouard
D'Oize. This rapidly rising young
artist has not alone accomplished the
proper Characterization Of Shakes
peare's stellar roles, but his strong
personality is particularly adaptable to
the roles of his especial study, In the
character of Shylock, the jew Of Ven
ice, Mr. D'Oize has triumphed over
actors Of even greater years, so well Is
he adapted to the impersonation. In
the master comedy, The Merchant Of
Venice, " Mr.. D'Oize has already made
an impression that is lasting, and one
which will remain in memory Of his
audiences. The actors voice and
physique. coupled with an almost novel
understanding and Interpretation OF
the character peculiarly fit him for
the demanding role. His production
of The Merchant this season IS
proving all that has been said OF it
a masterpiece of acting and stage en-
bellishment. Mr.. D'Oize will be seen
at the Opera House on the evening OF
FRIDAY. October Sth.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-01

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