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New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
ARCHER HAS POOR SEASON.
Cubs Backstop One of Best Catchcrs
 in Some Time, Though

The fact that Jimmy Archer of the Cubs had IA passed balls last season out of the Is charged against the Cub catchers. and more than any other backstop in the National league calls to mind Archer's great work in past years. He was far from being at his best in 1915, as the record plainly shows, but in his prime he was one of the greatest throwing cat chers known to the game. Archer wes 8 real comeback, rare bird in the national pastime. Hughey Jennings. smart as he is, discarded him as of no use to a major league club and sent him to Buffalo. There Frank Chance saw him in an exhibition game and at once secured him for the Cubs where he did brilliant work for a number of seasons. q "a --- .... e.
 Archer when at his best, not only threw very accurately to second base, but he was an adept at picking run ners off first and third His squat pegging,' as the Chicago critics call ed it, was deadly in it's execution. Ar cher has the knack of throwing from every position by quick snap of his hurling wing. Catching the pitched ball while in a squatting position be- hind the bat he can shoot it on a line to first base greatly to the surprise of the base runner and often to his sudden discontinue. Few catchers have ever been able to make this play with any degree of accuracy, but Ar cher is an exception. His ability in this line shows the real merit of a think ing ball player in comparison with the ordinary mechanical man, who does nothing but the obvious at all times.
 Not many catchers are sure enough of themselves to try snappy and un- expected throws, but these plays can often turn the tide of victory in n close game. With runners on second and third, both of whom move up every time the ball is pitched. a smart and nervy backstop can very often pick off one of them by quick throw, but 1t is seldom done, mainly because the catcher is not sure enough of himself to try an unexpected play. A bluff to throw to second, followed by snap shot to third base, will fre- quently snare the runner off third, while bluff throw to third, follow ed by sudden throw to second, will almost invariably prove disastrous to the aggressive runner, but there are not many who ever attempt the lat ter play. It is catchers like King and Archer who have the nerve and the skill to go through with these plays that turn in many a victory for their team. for which the pitcher or the batter who makes a hit in the pinch gets the credit.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
TO DISCUSS soMERs' AFFAIRS.
American League Magnates Will
 Meet Wednesday at Cleveland.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-Another attempt to straighten out the affairs of the Cleveland American league baseball club will be made at special meet ing of league magnates at CIeye- land Wednesday. Announcement of the meeting was made yesterday at Chicago by B. B. Johnson, president of the league, who will leave Chicago for Cleveland tomorrow night.
 MT. Johnson. the individual club owners, Charles Somers. owner of the Cleveland club, and the Cleve- land bankers, will be at the meeting and the league president said he hoped that an arrangement could be made with the banks, in whose hands Somers' stock has been for somo time, whereby Somers could resume his place at the head of the cluh
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
IRISH VS. SWEDES.
Who's Who in Ranger Club Bowling
 Supremacy to Be Settled.

What promises to be the best bowl ing matches in this city will take place Tuesday evening, between two teams from the Ranger club known as the Irish and Swedes. The Irish team will have the following players to make the pins fly: Bailey, Clancy, (Capt.) Dunbar Haugh and Clark, while the Swedes will have: Bloom, Westman, Benson (Capt.) Sandberg. Berry or Hilander.
 The losing team will furnish a sup- per to the members of the club New Years Eve. Bill Holcombe. president of the club will referee.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
|k FOR NEXT
 ! ENCOURAGES
Expect to See Revival
 Interest of Olden Days

Dec. 27.--Raseball's out
 kt season is more encour-
 it has been since 1905,
 iants and Cubs were turn
 away from the POlo
 the memorable occasion
 Merkle failed to touch sec-
 This year, baseball will
 hew interest. During the
 ars of Federal League ac-
 public has become more
 Earied and many former
 kept away from the ball
 he three-league idea broke
 lent dual rivalry. When a I at his paper in the morn
 s toast and coffee too many and too many league stand
 him in the face.
 t legal aspect did harIn.
 nd courts tore baseball to rhe inner workings of the politics and the tricks were
 It was like going behind
 at tie theater. That was c with baseball last season. public wanted to see was the |thc diamond Sighting it out. k did see was this team or playing politics with little or kratio1 for the public which le gato. hentaily. baseball IS based o1l New York is enthusiastic tty pitches because Matty's alwavs Deen associated with $. ''"- New York public al p-. As'7 him because he lovai the cause of Me If AIatty had jumped to the earue, as many other players Gotham would have soon lterest. The baseball pub ason was bored by the play jumped their contracts and clubs in the lurch. After abid fan in the b1eachers cd sportsman on the field as he likes a good ball player. . is not a good sportsman. me knows this better than all fans. '
 of baseball next season low the signing of the peace The public is lick to forget the past, and t1ess take a new interest in , now that the outlaws are le way. What the public Is season is more baseball politics. The business men jor leagues sec this, and the
 been passed around for get into the game more for s sake. The game is thh the sooner the profession lis the better it will be for
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
MORAN ANXIOUS TO FIGHT

Moran, heavyweight prize fighter spent Christmas at his home in this city The first he heard of the pro posed substitution of himself for Fred Fulton in a championship battle with Jess Willard was in this mornings papers. "Ill fight Willard in New Or leans on March IT if they offer me the bout" he said. After trying all day to get in touch with his manager in New York, Moran left tonight for that city.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
;one Good Others Weak.

her American and National
 players now with the Federal
 varied considerably in their feness with the bat when their ecord is compared with that of Some show a remarkable iE- 1 in percentage and others failed up to the standard they at when wearing Organized Base Informs. The gain and loss in
 is about evenly divided. how as is shown by standing of tho ing players, selected at random, the Federal League records of
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
GRIFFITH AND sHAEFER DIFFER

Clark Griffith and Herman Schae5 fer, friends of years, have fallen ouq Griff let Schaefer go to enlist rl pleased his fancy and the GermafI joined the Feds. That was all rigltl so long as he got some of Sinciairi easy money, but the other day Scha fer told a story about Ainsmith q Gandil getting the worst of it Griffith and about how they
 going to jump to the Federal leat 1t made Griffith sore and the fw are friends no longer.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
deaf to the importunities of host of foreign Goliaths.
From saddle To Trenches.

Herbert Jones, King Georges lead ing jockey, has deserted. the saddle for the trenches. He recently en- rolled at an English recruiting station with the remark: T rode the Kings first winner and now I have ridden his last winner to date. Now I am go- ing to enlist and fight for him as hard as ever I rode for my King"
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

President Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who has said that he would not sign a Federal league players, now admits that he will do all he can to bolster up his club by grabbing some players from the outlaw league, but sticks to his statement that he will not take back the deserters.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
OLD FOOTBALL STAR DEAD.

Guy L. Bort, who was a star player on the University of Michigan foot ball eleven 10 years ago, dropped dead while reading newspaper in a Fur kish bath at Denver the other night. Physicians said heart failure was the cause. He is survived by mother father and sister in St. Joseph, Mich.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

If Captain Huston succeeds in get ting Lee Magee from the Feds he will certainly have to make room for Frank Mullen, who is very highly touted by Captain Johnny Evers of the Braves as the coming star second baseman of the American league
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

Rubber" Knapp, who once pitched for the Cleveland Indians and now a member of the Buffeds thinks that some club in organized baseball will land a star it if picks up Heine Schultz, the star southpaw of the Buffeds This young pitcher jumped the Yankees in 1914, coming from Savannah of the South Atlantic league, tempted by the big money offered by the outlaws He never had done any, thing startling in Yankee uniform and Frank Farrell, then owner, did not grieve particularly when he de- parted. It was not until the 1915 campaign was well advanced that Schultz found himself" according to Knapp, but once he learned to pitch he was one of the best men on the Federal league roster. His record for the season was twenty-one victories and fourteen defeats and he allowed 2.94 earned runs per game, working sos 2-3 innings.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
Baseball
 

Quinn does not deliver the goods, Manager McCreedie will demand a seasoned first baseman from the Cleveland Indians.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

Lees Hansen, star semi-pro pitcher hailing from Omaha, Neb., has received a Chicago Cub contract and is expected will accept the offer. Hansen has a record of a ten-inning one-hit game in which he struck out twenty-two men.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

Chicago, Dec., 27.--Packey McFar- land, the stockyards champion, who retired from the ring after his bout with Mike Gibbons at Brighton Beach last summer, recently announced he would re-enter the ring for more fame and money. Packey says he is
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

out to win the welterweight cham piOnship and would like nothing bet ter than to meet the winner of the Ritchie-Lewis battle in New York. Me
 Farland claims he feels better than he ever did and believes he can defeat any man of his weight in the world.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

The Cincinnati Reds have released King Lear, the former Princeton pitcher and the famous knuckleball expert, to the Louisville Colonels of the American association. Lear balks upon going to the Colonels, but if he does pitch next season it will not with any club but Louisville.
 Charley Weegham, probably coming owner of the Cubs Whales, the con- solidated Chicago National and Fed eral league clubs, has made bet with President Herman of the Cincin- natl Reds of a suit of clothes and a hat that the opening game at Chi cago will draw a bigger crowd than the similar affair at Redland field. The Cubs will open in Cincinnati on April 12, and the Reds will open the new Cub park the following week. Under the new ownership the Cubs are likely to play to as many people on opening day as they did in all their games in Chicago last season.
 It is said that Branch Hickey, the retiring manager of the Browns, will abandon the game and devote all his attention to law, going into the office of Judge Williams in St. Louis.
 R. c. (Dutch) Hoffman, for two years a player with the Jacksonville South Atlantic league team and part of last season with Richmond in the International league, has been named manager of the Durham team of the North Carolina league for next season, succeeding James s. Kelly. Hoffman is an Outfielder,
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27
SPORTS TERSELY WRITTEN

There is a rumor about the Univer- sity of Wisconsin campus that foot ball will soon be abolished. The Re- gents committee, which spent sev- eral days Investigating athletic con- ditions at Wisconsin, is reported to have decided that conditions are so bad athletically that the only way to cure the disease is to kill the pa tient. The committee is to report to the board of regents January IS, and the report is said to be so far formu- lated as to threaten seriously the cnd' of intercollegiate football, a move which is said to be ardently desired in faculty circles of some other "big nine" schools.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

When the Amateur Athletic Federa- tion stages it's annual wrestling cham pionships in Chicago next month sev- eral new rules will probably be in force The meth cd of deciding winners which formerly repended upon rolling falls. will be done away with and the pin fall will be substituted The wrist lock will he relegated to the scrap heap together with the hammerlock, strangle hold, toe hold and other ille- gal grips.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-27

Owen Quinn, the former New Lon don first baseman, who will receive a tryout with the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league, will have to fight it out for the first base job with Guisto of St. Mary's college. Quinn is prob ably a much better player than Guisto, but it is not known whether he will be able to hit as well in the Coast league as in the New York State. If
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
Secret Closely Kent.

Cologne's toilet water industry,
which Is being so seriously affected
by the war, was established in the
beginning of the seventeenth cen
fury. The inventors of toilet water
(eau-de-Cologne) were Paul Feminis
and Maria Clementine, Catholic
nun. They began on small scale,
with few persons employed, whom they
did not initiate into the secrets of the
whole process, the last and most i'm
portant mixture being made by the
inventors themselves. Paul Feminis
left the secret with the Farina fam
lily, while the nun bequeathed the Sc
cret to one Peter Schaeben, who had
been her assistant for many years.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
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Bible as a Divine Revelation
"Epochs and Dispensations'
"Purgatory Fire-Not Now. but Soon"
Apostles and Pseudo Apostles"
"Where Are the Dead?'
"Ancient Garden of Eden"
"Great Parable of Sheep and Goats"
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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
Thrift.

z Mayor Mitchell of New York, at the
conference of mayors in Philadelphia
said at luncheon:
"A city should be conducted as
thriftily as a Scotch household You
know, of course, the kind OF Scotch
household | mean--the kind where the
father, setting off on fortnight's bust
ness trip, says in the hall;
Good-by, all, and, Kathleen, dinna
forget to max lettle Dugald tax his
glasses AFT when he's ma lookin' al
naething"
On December IS the shipments o.
wheat from American Falls passed
the million-bushel mark and there
have been constant shipments since
that time, until the total will be near
ly 100000 bushels. A much a gel
acreage will be planted this spring
After a 40-mile chase in which al
automobile was pitted against horse
and buggy, and not until the fugitive
had reached Oregon sol, sheriff G W
Froman took into custody Oliver
Campbell, charged with issuing worth
less checks to two Caldgeii business
firms.
Thirty-nine carloads OF horses
bought by the French government lef
Caldwell last Sunday for Europe. The
horses in demand are what is desig
mated as middle class They must be
from fifteen to sixteen hands high
and must weigh from $50 to 1,4OC
pounds.
Peter Meth of Middleton is cutting
down his old apple orchard and viii
plant prune trees in its stead. Mr.
Meth is one of the most successful
ranchers in the valley and has made
money out of his orchard, but the
trees were getting old and have no.
been bearing heavily the past two
years.
Proposed advances in passenger
rates and a raise by the Salt Lake
Route on hogs shipped into southern
California, have resulted in decis
ion by the public utilities commission
to appear before the Interstate com,
merce commission in the interest OF
this state.
That Joseph Quay came to his
death on the night of February 10, by
the overturning Of an automobile near
Boise, was the verdict reached by tn,
coroner's jury. No blame was at
tached to anyone, the affair being
considered as purely an accident.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
NOTICE OF CONTEST

Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Boise, Idaho,
February 10. 1915.
To Heirs of Pat Bonner, deceased
Of Little Camas, Idaho, Contested:
You are hereby notified that Robert
c. McNeely, who gives Mountainhome,
Idaho, as his post-office address, did
on February 8, 1915, file in this office
his duly corroborated application to
contest and secure the cancellation
of your homestead Entry No. 09S15
and 012185, Serial Nos. 09815-O12185
made October 10, 1910 and July 80,
1912, for E1a NEA Section 25, Town
ship l, South, Range 8 East, Boise,
Meridian, and as grounds for his con-
lest he alleges that "Said land was
at the time of said filing and ever
since has been in the possession and
under the control of affiant, under
the belief that 1t was part of
atlantis homestead entry, and that
neither said entryman nor any one
for him have ever had possession of
any portion of said land. Also that
the said Pat Bonner died in August,
1918, and that Hector Beach was APP
pointed administrator OF his estate,
and that the said Beach nor anyone
for said estate has done anything
towards the cultivation of any of the
land of said entry, nor has any one
resided upon it since his DEATH"
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be
taken as confessed, and your said
entry will be cancelled without furth r
right to be heard, either before this
office or on appeal, if you fail to file
in this office within twenty days after
the FOURTH publication of this
notice, as shown below, your answer,
under oath, specifically responding
to these allegations of contest, to-
gether with due proof that you have
served a copy of your answer on
the said contestant either in person
or by registered mail.
You should state in your answer
the name of the post office to which
you desire future notices to be sent
to you.
FRANK S. HEIR, Register.
FRED V. TINKER, Receiver.
Date of first Pub. Feb. 81, 1915.
Date of second Pub. March 6, 1915.
Date of third Pub. March 10, 1915.
Date of fourth Pub. March 20, 1915.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
GEORGE JACOBSON, Publisher
WHEN WAS 1T ORGANIZED.

AT the meeting of the Development
League Tuesday evening, the question
of the boundary lines of the Noun
tain Home school district came up
for discussion, advocates for an i'm
dependent district maintaining that
Mountain Home school district had al.
ready been deprived of taxes ON sew
en- miles of railway by the withdraw
al of the Sunnyside district, while
those who oppose the formation of an
independent district at this time,
claim that the present boundary lines
of Mountain Home school district are
the same as those established by
the first board of county commission
ers I'm April 1889, two years after
the county of Gilmore had been created.
and to prove that Mr.. Howie was
correct when he stated that the
western boundary of Mountain Home
school district is the same as it was
II years ago when Mr.. Howie was
school trustee, other maps and charts
introduced Notwithstanding, we quote
the following from the proceedings of
the county commissioners at their
meeeing i'm April, 1889: Book 1, page
IL: Commencing at the southwest
corner of Cold Springs district ON
Snake river. continuing down channel
of Snake river to where Big Canyon
Creek intersects Snake river, thence
to a place ON the o. s. Line railway
known as and including Cleft station,
theace northerly to Mud Springs, con-
tinuing to lne of Pine Grove dis
trict, thence along line of Pine Grove
district to Cold Springs district,
thence along ON the Cold Springs
Lime to place of beginning.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-03-06
CONFESSION or SIN,
FORGIVENESS, VICTORY
/ Samuel 1871 Feb. rs.

Samuel 1871 FEB. rs.
Samuel, Prophet and Judee-His In
fuence For Good-lsrael Was Peni-
tent-Convention at Mount Mizpah.
The Watch Tower - Fasting and
Prayer-God's Favor Returned--Phi-
listines Rebuked-lsrael Blessed.
"Httherto hath The Lord helped ISL Sam
ueI liz
~ AMUEL the Prophet might serve
- Eli the Priest, but could not
~ become his successor because
not of the priestly family. 1t
is probable therefore that. as he reach
ed maturity, he found other service;
but there is blank In the record Of
twenty years at least Quite possibly
he engaged himself In instructing the
people respecting their wrong condi-
permission of idolatry
them, neglect Of God. etc.
Our lesson introduces him as the
leader of the hour, when the people
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