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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
SAYS BEN HuR WAS JUSTIFIED.
Master in chancery Reports to Court
Rate Increase Was Proper.

Local members of the Tribe of Ben
Hur will recall with some interest
state meeting of insurgents OF the
lodge who met here in March 1913 to
protest against an increase of insur-
ance rates that had been made by the
lodge Since then legal proceedings
were taken in Ohio, and in connection
with these proceedings the United
States court at indianapolis appointed
Edward Daniels. as master in cham
very. to investigate the rates institute
ed and report to the court.
This report has been but recently
filed in the court. In it the master in
made for the good of the order" The
report of the master in chancery. in
the main approves of the action of the
officers of the lodge in increasing the
rates.
The report states the masters find
ing of facts and conclusions of law in
an action brought by six hundred
members against the Tribe, it's officers
and executive committee. The action
resulted from a new classification OF
insurance being established for the
organization, the home Office OF which
is in Crawfordville In the three con-
illusions of law Of the master it was
held as follows:
Il. The members of Glass B classifi-
cation of insurance adopted in 1908, of
the insurance department of the SUI
preme Tribe OF Ben Hur who thans-
ferred from Class classification of
insurance existing prior to 190S) by
| such act of transfer relinquished any
right or interest which they had i'm
mediately before the transfer. as
! Glass A member in the emergency
fund and they have no right to de-
many any part of said emergency fund
shall be taken from the emergency
fund and placed in the mortuary fund
+. of Glass b; and that the defendant
/ (tne supreme tribe, it's officers and ex-
ecutive committee) have no power to
make any such change of any part of
the emergency fund to the mortuary
! fund of Class r and the plaintiffs arc
entitled to a decree enjoining the de-
PENDANTS from making or giving out
| that they intend to make any such
change.
"2. The defense of laches set up in
the answer of the supreme tribe is not
sustained
90. All other equities involved in
the case are worth the defendants and
plaintiffs are not entitled to any de-
! cree regarding such issues.
| In the masters findings II was said
| that the insurance classification
adopted by the Tribe of Ben Hur in
1908 was the only practicable known
method of relieving the organiza ton
from existing financial embarrass-
ment."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27

gardens He possesses one OF the
greatest throwing arms. according to
reports, ever seen in the northern as
ISOLATION, and Is an extra base hitter
His batting average for the season of
1914 was $50.
Martini. altho only a youngster. has
shown wonderful batting ability in the
Canadian organization. 112 games last
year he hit. 327. He also possesses
wonderful ewing" being credited
with twenty-s six assists during last
season.
Manager Richards is today meeting
with managers of the Bi-State league
in the hope Of disposing Of some OF
the men now under reserve who are
not expected to be used here this year.
Some Of these men must be disposed
Of because of the four-man rule. One
deal in prospect provides for the trad
ing of Harvey for young catcher.
Catcher Sugrue, a member of the
Ansons for short time late last sea-
son, has been given his release.
Pitcher Maui is now appearing in the
role of hold-out, demanding more
money than his contract provided for.
Maui, like all other players in this
league. knows the salary restrictions
and the impossibility of the manage
ment to enlarge his wage. His failure
to report would debar him from partici-
patton in organized baseball.
Manager Richards today announces
that his lineup on May will be as
follows:
Pitchers, Richardson, Slattery, Har-
ter Beard and Maui; catchers. Ham
merschmidt, Ryan and Unger; First
base, Richards; second base, Ryan;
third base. DIETRICH and Anderson;
shortstop Wright and Hillman: out
field, Seibert. Martini, Boyd and
Chapel
Little change is expected from this
lineup. Unless real star in the MAX
ing is uncovered and providing the
present hold-outs report, the team will
take the field for the opening game as
named above.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
vaneleve Items.

The Misses Blanche and Altise Cor
der returned to their schools, after a
few days spent at the home or tnelr
parents Miss Blanche went to ,. y. l.
hospital at Iowa City. and Miss Abuse
to Marshalltown. She is enrolled as a
student in a business college.
Mrs. j. H. Miller received word or
the death of her brother at Mechanics
vile.
Mr.. Clyde Willard is here visiting ms
brother law. Ernest Ragsdalie.
Miss Elsie Hurtel, of Marshalltown,
spent Sunday at the home of her par
ents.
A. A. Cook returned Monday from a
business trip to Marshalitown.
Mr. Glenn Ruby, principal or the
school, is here and has taken up ms
work, also Miss Nj. c. Guicr, the do
nestle science teacher.
Miss Ona Damien spent Sunday with
friends in town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
"MiLEsToNEs" THURSDAY NIGHT
Most Notable Play of Generation

Most Notable Play Of Generation
Comes to Odeon Theater Tomorrow.
"Milestones." the most notable play
of a generation, the sensational hit Of
England and America. comes to the
Odeon Theater tomorrow evening, her
aided by the critics of two nations with
superlative praise. This play by Arnold
Bennett. novelist, and Edward Knob
LAUGH, the author of "Kismet." is per-
haps the first attempt to compress into
a single nights entertainment the
| spectacle of mans whole existence. The
, action Of the piece spreads over more
than half century, from 1860 to 1912,
| and three of the characters go thru all
! the vicissitudes of the fifty-two years
The play is designed to provoke laugh
ter just as much as tears, and hundreds
Of thousands have laughed and cried
over the joys and the sorrows of these
intensely human characters. Mile
stones" will be presented with a com
pany of distinguished actors who have
won superlative praise. everywhere fol
tie remarkable interpretations of the
difficult roles Odeon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
CANADIAN PLAYERS SIGNED.

Richards Secures Fast lnfieIder and
siugeins outfsIder For Ansons.
Manager Richards has added two
more men to his list Of prospective
members of the local team for the sea-
son OF 1915, when he secured con-
tracts with two fast men from the
Medicine Hat, Canada. club. who he
has been endeavoring to get for some
time. These men, Hillman, fast In
| fielder, and Martini, a smuggling out
! fielder, are considered great prospects
and are expected to strengthen Rich
ards squad materially.
/ Hillman was leading short stop In
the Canadian League in 1919, aTid is
also an excellent man in the outer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
Local Weather Record.

Thirty above and 4 below We're the
extremes of temperature Tuesday COM
pared with above and l below, the
range Monday and SO and II above the
extremes a year ago Tuesday. At !
O'Clock this morning the temperature
was below zero, ten degrees colder
than at the same hour Tuesday morn
ing. The snowfall during the night
was .O5 of an inch measured as pre-
cipitation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
DAILY vtcTRoLA CONCERTS.
Nickel Furniture Company to Play
Records For February. Rest Of Week,

Records For February. Rest Of Week.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday
we will give special concerts from 10
a. m. to p. M, featuring the new
Victor records for February AS this
list is large and includes so many ex-
cellent numbers this will give everyone
an opportunity to hear them and make
selections.
The list includes twelve new popu-
lar songs. ten new dance records which
include new ten-inch record of Cecile
and Millicent waltz hesitations.
The list of singers include Murphy
Mccormack, Werrenrath, Farrar;
Gluck. Homer and Witherspoon. We
are certain you will find in this list the
kind of records you like. Nickel Furni-
ture Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
Notice.

To the members of lodge Number 11S
A. o. u w. you are requested to meet In
the odd fellows hall on Jan. %. In
stallation of officers. Come. Oyster
supper. A w. Weaver, Master
WUodmen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
Stationery Cleanup 10 Cont Box

A box of Pilgrim pharmacy special
stationery" which sold for 25 cents as
a special Saturday Is now on sale at ~
cents a box in order to clean up. Each
box contains fifty envelopes and nifty
sheets of paper.
Examine this value this evening sure.
Pilgrim Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27
A GRATEFUL MOTHER

my baby was very sick with bad
cold and would cough all night. Father
Johns Medicine cured him." (Signed)
Mrs. Phoebe Gregoire, II Phillips
Street, Central Falls, r. l.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27

: Mrs. II. A. Colt returned Tuesday
evening from Peoria, where she has
been visiting with relatives and friends
for a few days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-27

Mrs. c. Z. Reed and daughter were
in the city Tuesday evening en- route
from Ames to Gilman.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03

Sam Rogers of this place and
Miss Eva Cooper of Taylor sur
prised their many friends Mon
day by getting married, the
event taking place at Holbrook.
The contracting parties were
reared in this section and conse-
uuently are we'll known to all
in this part of the county. The
couple arrived in Snowflake
Monday afternoon to announce
the ''glad tidings, +" leaving in
the evening for st. Joseph,
where the groom is temporarily
employed. The HERALD joins
with their hosts of friends in
wishing them happy and pros
porous married life.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Farmers Meet

Since the appointment of a
Farm Advisor our agriculturists
are getting busy and coming
alive. - A meeting of the far
mers of this place was held for
the purpose of organizing a Farm
Improvement Association last
Monday night. The organiza-
ton was as follows.
President, Alof Larson.
First Vice President, C. H.
Ballard.
Second Vice President, Lewis
Hunt.
Secretary, Don C. Smith.
Councilman, M. R. Tanner.
Alternate Councilman. w. ].
Flake, Jr.
1t was proposed to hold meet
ing Monday night, Dec. 6, for
the purpose of reading and
adopting the proposed constitu-
ton and bylaws; also to con-
slider a name for the organiza-
tion and other business that may
come before the meeting.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Woodruff

Born, Nov. 26th, to Mr.. and
MB. E. L. Gardner, a son. All
parties doing we'll.
Sheriff Newman was here
Monday looking for jurymen,
but failed to find any that he
wanted in town. Nearly all
the male population are off at
work.
Some of our freighters have
cone in and some of them have
gone again. Albert Hatch has
gone to Alpine, Apache county,
and H. A. Hatch has started
for Fort Apache.
On last Saturday Mr.. William
Smith, the principal of the st.
Joseph school, with a good rep
sSentation of his pupils, came
up to visit US and a most inter-
eung game of basketball was
played with the boys of this
place. The Woodruff team sue
ceeded in making the greater
lumber of baskets. They all
seemed to enjoy the game. We
ay, come again, st. Joseph.
Saturday evening a reception
vas glved to several members
the Stake Board of the Sun
Jay school who came down to
,Slt US and attend the Sunday
NnOOl Conference which was
Ded Sunday forenoon. I h e
sgeakerS at the conference were
v u. and John Flake, Charles
sVage, A. Bushman and Miss
Ada Flake. Timely advice and
Structions were given to en-
'Olrage the work of the Sunday
school,.
At the regular services in the
%'ernOOn the Flake brothers
ach gave an excellent discourse
'gOn the principals of the Lat
VI DAY Work, which was great
appreciated, and we said that
V would be pleased to have
inference come quite often.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Baseball in Winter
Taylor VS.. Snowflake

What proved to be very in
teresting and well-played game
of baseball was pulled off at the
Snowflake Academy campus last
Friday between Taylor and
Snowflake teams. The day was
ideal for baseball notwithstand-
ing the fact that it was played
on NOVEMBER 26th-the day
after Thanksgiving. The holi-
day spirit was still in the air
and there was a goodfy crowd
of spectators to witness the
game. After the third inning
the Taylor boys got off to a good
start and made two runs in their
half of the fourth inning only to
be tied by the Snowflake team
in their half of the inning. The
score renamed a tie until Cne
fifth when the Snowflake aggre-
cation netted one run, thus
giving them the lead by one run.
Then the Taylor boys were
goose-egged in their half of the
fifth and our boys widened their
lead by scoring two more
runs. At this stage and consid-
ering how closely the boys were
playing it was thought that the
result would be in favor of
Snowflake. However, the Tay-
lor bows were not dismayed and
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Pinedale

Gorge Bailey made a busi-
,sss trip to HolbrO0k the first OF
he week in his car !.
y. Osborne, dentist from Chi
80 was in town last week
iaiY iaing business in his line.
Misses Retta and lone Hall
! Victoria Brimhall were here
sr lor the dance last Thursday.
i, Thanksgiving dance was
,i;rpu Thursday evening and was
ssttpnded : by a large crowd from
tbs ranches far and near.
Mrs. Dalton and son, Willie,
.bo have been sick with typhoid
aver for several weeks, are re-
.o,tpd to be on the improve.
Charley Bryant, thinking a
.bsnge of climate would be good
ior his health, has gone to Phoe-
nix to spend the winter months.
The school entertainment given
br our district school Friday
rss grand success and greatly
enjoyed by the parents and
children.
Our townspeople who attended
tbe state fair and teachers instl-
Hte in Phoenix have all returned
and report having enjoyed a
sne time in the land of fruit
and flowers.
Nov. % the home of E. j.
Brewer was burned down. The
ause of the fire is not exactly
EnOwn, as none of the family
vas near the house at the time
d the confagration. All of their
household goods were burned.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
News Items From Our Correspondents

Chas. O. Reidhead of Showlow
was a business visitor here Tues
day.
Ira Wakefield and John Hatch,
Jr., of Taylor, spent Wednesday
in town.
William Gibson and son Bern
were in town from Snowflake
Monday.
Atty. Thorwald Larson made a
trip to st. Johns Monday on
professional business.
DR.. ]. w. Bazell left Saturday
for Los Angeles where he ex-
poets to remain two or three
weeks.
j. H. Richards, justice of the
peace of ST. Joseph, was busi-
ness visitor at the county seat
Monday.
The st. Johns Academy gave
a concsrt recital Friday evening
to fair-sized audience, followed
by a dance.
A car load of galvanized cul-
verts was unloaded here the first
of the week for use on the state
highway east of town.
Elmer Mineer, manager of the
Holbrook garage, motored over
to st. Johns Friday. While there
he was taken sick and is now
confined with typhoid fever.
While picking gum from the
top story of a pine tree Sunday
at Walker Farm young Jack
Smith fell and broke his left
arm. He was brought to Hol-
brook by his father and Mrs.
Bryant, with Jess Tenney as
guide for the Ford, to have the
fracture reduced.
The "old" ladies of the town
motored out to the Cassidy ranch
Wednesday afternoon on a pleas
ure junket. Mesdames Larson,
Boyer, Brown. Close, Cousins,
Flanagan, Garrison, Morse and
DIR. Smith composed the party.
They were accompanied by Mis-
ses Rosa Scorse and May Nc
Clanihan and Geo. Morse and
James Scorse as chaperones.
The biggest crowd that ever
participated in a dance at Hol-
brook met Saturday night at
Babbitt Bros. new warehouse
and tripped the light fantastic
to their hearts content. The
building is 150x40 feet and large
enough to accommodate all the
dancers for miles around. They
came from all directions and as
far as Winslow and St. Johns.
Those who could not dance came
to eat and as everything was
free all had a good time.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
NAVAJO COUNTY AT
The STATE FAIR

Navajo won fourth place for
best individual county exhibit.
For best and largest display of
dry farm products by one grower,
F. j. Willis. The following far
mers of this section received
prizes:
Soft wheat, R. A. Willis, 1st
prize; hard wheat, F J. Willis.
first. White hullies barley, ].
Clark Owens, second. MilIet,
Don Smith. first. Milling wheat
F. j. Willis, first. Russet Bur-
bank potatoes, F. ]. Willis, first.
Blue Victor potatoes, j. L. Brew
er, third. Largest pumpkin.
Heber Roundy, first. Flat Dutch
cabbage, F. j. Willis, fourth.
W. l.. Thornton received prizes
for the following: White radish,
Sd; Globe turnips, Sd; Mexican
beans, 1st; Quality squash, I'd.
Lon Merrill. Quality squash, 1st.
F. ]. Willis got away with the
following all in a bunch: cauli-1
flower. 1st;; 10 stalks sorghum.
1st; sheaf hard wheat, 1st; sheaf
white oats, I'd; Astice beans, 1st;s
Indian beans, 1st; pink beans.
I'd; pinto beans, I'd; white beans,
I'd; quart sorghum, Sd; native
walnuts, I'd; yellow dent corn,
1st; red rice popcorn. 2. Sweet
corn, j. HI. Frost, 1st. Yellow
flint corn, John Bushman, 1st.l
Yellow Danver onions, l. White
flint corn, Icano Cordoba, Sd.
APPLES
Lone Petersen, Northwestern
Greening, 1st; Jonathan, I'd.
Willard Whipple. crab apples,
first.
w. G. Shumway, Ben Davis, Sd.
J. H. Allen, white winter
pearmain, 4th.
Wesley Palmer, Pewaukie, Sd.
F. ]. Willis first prize special
class No. 263 for best exhibit
of vegetables grown from Cur
ney Seed & Nursery company,
Yankton, South Dakota, at N.
A. Fair.
]. L. Brewer, late pink pota-
toes, 1st.
Ed Malone, largest squash, I'd.
This was not the first time
Navajo has had an exhibit at the
state fair, as was stated in last
weeks Holbrook items. but it
was the first time that the coun-
ty ever came anywhere near
the top of the list.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Snowflake News Notes of Interest

Real home grown fresh eggs
are now 40 cents per dozen in
this market.
Owen Freeman and Porter
Adair made a trip to Walker the
first of the week.
Mrs. John Turley of st. Joseph
is visiting here this week with
her mother, Mrs. Westover.
Mrs. R. l.. Grissom and baby
returned Wednesday from few
days visit with relatives at st.
Joseph.
"Badg" Ramsay was among
the lucky hunters Thanksgiving
day, at which time he brought
down a buck deer.
Elvin Nicholson returned yes
terday morning from Holbrook
where he spent several days
doing cement work.
A fine line of Christmas cards
has been received at the post
office store, and Postmaster Muir
ray says they are for sale.
A. P. Larson and wife left last
Saturday for an extended visit
with relatives in Utah. They
went in their Ford car and ex-
pect to be gone month or more.
Wonder if any of our young
men have discovered that Leap
Year is fastly approaching? Of
course the young ladies haven't
forgotten the great coming event.
Misses Bertha, Cliffie and Row.
ana Ellsworth and Miss Florence
Reidhead took advantage of the
S. S. A. Thanksgiving vacation
and visited relatives at their
home in ShowIow.
Frantz Westover accompanied
the st. Johns Academy concert
company to Holbrook last Friday
and assisted them in making
music with his clarinet for the
dance that night at the Pastime
theatre.
We are in receipt of an invita-
tion to attend a double wedding
at Social Hall on the night of
Dec. 8. The guilty" parties
are Noble Rogers and Miss Louie
Flake and Bern Gibson and Miss
Grace Flake.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Flake and
twin daughters returned the first
of the week from Thatcher. Mr..
Flake went down several days
ago to attend the funeral of his
brother-in-law, being accompan-
led by Alof Larson. They made
the trip in Mr.. Flakes car in 174
hours, which is some record.
Mrs. Flake and children had
been visiting relations at That
cher since September.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03
Fancy Work Sale

Anyone wishing to purchase
handmade articles for Christ
mas gifts call on Mrs. Rosa B.
Veach, at the home of o. P.
Veach, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, December Is, 16
and IL.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Morgan,
newlyweds, are visiting in town
this week. This is Mats first
visit is st. Johns since his ven-
ture on the sea of matrimony
and his friends are glad to see
him once moro. st. Johns Her
aid.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03

We are informed that David
K. Udall, Sr., of St. Johns, as
sumed the whole management
of the mail carrying contract of
the Holbrook- Heber line on the
first day of the month.
The Snowflake herald., 1915-12-03

Hldue rev wise changes IN
their battery which enabled
them to hold Snowflake down
without scoring for the re-
mainder of the game while they
managed to run in three tallies
in the fatal seventh, giving
them a lead of one run and the
game by a score of 6 to 5. The
| lucky hit which brought in the
last two runs for Taylor was a
grounder which is supposed to
have gone right over the third
base line and which the umpire
1 chose to call it Fair Ball." al
though great many of the
spectators and players thought
that the umpire should have
called it Foul Ball." 1t was so
close that no one can swear to
the fact that it was or was not
a Fair Ball."
/ The boys of both teams played
real well considering the fact
that they had had no previous
practice and that baseball is
played so seldom that it's a
wonder the game is not alto
Egether forgotten.
/ A. G. McCloskey, who has had
considerable experience in play
ling baseball and managing a
team, is of the opinion that if
there is anything that will EN-
LIvEN A TOWN AND PUT 1T ON
THE MAP" is to have a first-class
ball team which will play con-
sistent baseball not only in its
own town but in the adjoining
country towns as well as the
neighboring railroad towns.
This will do great deal in
boosting the town by advertising
lit. especially if we develop such
a good team as to enable US to
win the majority Of the games
played and also by having we'll
behaved and gentlemanly ball
team. We have first-class ma
terial; all that is needed is to de-
velop it.
With this in view it is pro-
posed to get busy" on this
proposition; held a meeting; Or
ganize good ball team; elect
a captain and a manager; decide
on means to raise money to buy
baseball suits, bats, balls, etc.
This can be done by giving a
benefit dance or produce play
in the Social Hall in the near
future, and by having anyone
who has the interests of Snow
flake at heart to buy a ticket
WHETHER THEY ARE ABLE TO AT
TEND OR NOT. The individual
ball players will be given the
opportunity to sell as many tick
cts as they can dispose of just
as soon as they are printed.
When the money is raised for
the above expenditures and with
good systematic practice on the
part of anyone who is anxious
to get on the team we will then
be in a position to send chal-
lenges to the following teams:
Snowflake Academy, Taylor,
Pinedale, Holbrook, st. Johns
Academy and town team, Wins
low, and probably Flagstaff Nor
NAL and Flagstaff town team.
Let's all get together on the
proposition and let every busi-
ness man in town be consistently
behind us in this proposition
which will do much in boosting
Snowflake. If other small towns
have profitted by having a first
class ball team, why not Snow
flake?
Mr.. and Mrs. Mat Morgan,
newlyweds, are visiting in town