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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11
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WANTED:-To do washing Will call for and
1904 Elisha Ave.
FOR SALE:.-Flowers, Gladiolus and Dahlias. A
generous bouquet for 25 cents. a gorgeous one
for so cents. Indispensable to your Office desk
Ring 134-R
WEAVING done to order, carpets and rugs
Also rugs for sale. Rags must be we'll
sewed. Frank Klock, 2713 Ezekiel Ave-
FOR SALE: Cheap for cash. l bay horse
years DID, weight 1900 lbs; l big chest
nut horse IL years old, pavement sore, but
good worker, weight 1900 lbs.
&. j. Anderson, 981 Lebanon Ave
Phone 154-R.
FOR SALE: Seven-year old mare, and colt
one month DID, also colt one year old
Will take good cow in trade.
Thomas P. Allan, Lydia Ave-, Cole Sub
division, Zion City, Ill.
water and sink in kitchen, electric lights,
barn, and lots of fruit. 1915 Elisha Ave-,
Phone 182-R.
FOR RENT: Six room house, with base
ment; both well and cistern water on sink
electric lights. Apply 2917 Ezra Ave.
Phone 1861.
FOR RENT: room house. electric lights:
sink and water in house; lawn. w. C.
Clough, 1908 Ezekiel Ave.
Phone 205-W1
FOR RENT: 6 room house at 2619 Eliza
beth Ave Electric lights. Apply at 2721
Elm Ave-
FOR SALE: Red Carnaux pigeons 75c per
pair Carl Nickum, Zion Home, Zion City,
Illinois,
FOR RENT: room house; also for sale
electric washer and six dinng-room chairs.
Mrs J. I. Griffith, 28O3 Ezra Ave-
FOR RENT: Five room house, at 21O9
Ezekiel Ave, with electric light fruit trees,
and raspberry plants. Good barn in rear.
Rent $500 a month. Apply to c. R.
Wickens, 2116 Ezekiel Ave.
FOR RENT: 24OO Elisha Ave. apartment
second floor. Modern. Rent $1,000 per
month"; or would renovate for $4,000. See
evenings after five O'Clock.
FOR RENT: Two rooms, unfinished, for
light housekeeping. 1914 Elizabeth Ave. |
FOR RENT: Five room bungalow; fine base
ment, electric lights. Apply to H. r. !
Clough 21O9 Ezra Ave-
THE SCHOOLS IN ZION CITY
WILL OPEN MONDAY, SEPTEM-
Der IS, 1915
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11

| FOR SALE: Organ, large base burner and
dlnlng-room table. Mrs. Richert, BIB
| Ezekiel Ave.
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FOR SALE: Side-bOard, cost $4,000. Will
sell for $4,000. Call at zoos Enoch Ave.
for information.
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LOST: bunch of keys, between 28th and
Ezekiel Ave. and 9th and Gilboa Finder
please return to Zion Bank.
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FOR SALE: Holstein COW, with heifer calf
Cheap IL taken at once Douglas, 1912
Horeb Ave.
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FOR RENT Two rooms, first floor, with
modern conveniences $500 Film Ave
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FOR RENT: House with good well, base
ment, poultry house, and large garden.
Mrs. S. D. Thomas, Zion Home
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11

FOR RENT: Six room house, with base
ment; both we'll and cistern water on sink,
electric lights. Apply 2917 Ezra Ave-
Phone 1861.
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FOR SALE: Automobile, in good condition.
VIII sell cheap. M. NJ, 311O Ezekiel Ave-
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FOR RENT: Eight room house at 2S1O Eliz-
aDeth Ave. basement, furnace, good we'll
Apply to Mrs. c. Johns, 311O Ezra Ave.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11

FOR SALE: Cheap for cash. 1 bay horse
years old, weight 1900 lbs; big chest
nut horse II years old, pavement sore. but
good worker, weight 1900 lbs
G. J. Anderson, 981 Lebanon Ave-
Phone 154-R
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11

WEAVING done to order, carpets and rugs
Also rugs for sale. Rags must be well
sewed. Frank Klock 2713 Ezekiel Ave
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-09-11

FOR RENT: room house; good WE'LL soft
water and sink in kitchen, electric lights
barn. and lots of fruit. 1915 Elisha Ave.
Phone 1S2-R
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FOR RENT: Six room house, with basement;
partly furnished; electric lights. Will rent
Tor $500 per month during winter to care
tul tenants VIM. Chas. Dunno, 31O7
Gabriel Ave-
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FOR SALE: Seven-year old mare, and colt
one month old; also colt one year old
Will take good cow in trade
Thomas P. Allan, Lydia Ave, Cole SUBJ
division, Zion City, Ill.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
TWO BOUTS ARRANGED
FOR CHICAGO FIGHTER
Charlie White to Meet Eddie Moy
January ! and Sammy Robi-
deau January I8.

New York. Jan. Mate Lewis, man
aGer for Charlie White today signed
articles for two bouts for the Western
lightweight champion I'm Philadelphia.
Both will be for six rounds, which is the
standard distance in the Quaker City.
On Monday night, January II. at the
Olympia Athletic Club. White will take
on Eddie Moy. who recently gave Red
Watson a terrific licking in San Fran
cisco. On the following Saturday White
will clash with Sammy Robideau. Phila-
delphia's premier lightweight at the Ma
tionaI Athletic Club.
Whites party will leave New York
next Monday. going to Atlantic City,
where for a few days Charlie will loaf
on the Boardwalk. He will start train
ing next Wednesday for the Moy bout,
and after 1t will run back to the Jersey
coast resort and do Just enough work to
keep in trim for Robideau on anuary l6
After the Robideau fight Lewis will take
White back to Atlantic City for four
days, and they will return to New York
on January 20. six days before White and
Welsh have their second ten-round quar-
rel White has won so many friends
around New York that Manager James
Johnston, of the Garden Athletic Club, is
already looking for a second opponent
for him after he meets Welsh. Leach
Cross has been suggested. and Il is hinted
Johnston even hopes to get Willie Ritchie
to meet Charlie at Madison Square Gar
den.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
RULES
Committee Will
MAKE FEW LAWS
To Meet Early in February,
but Not Expected to Inter-
fere with Present Code.

The intercollegiate football rules COM
mittee will meet in New York early in
February the exact date not yet being
decided upon, and for the first time in
good many years this session promis IS
to consider the ethics of the game rather
than changes in the rules. Some changes
will be proposed in the playing rules, but.
for the most part. the gridiron solons are
well satisfied with the technical side OF
the game.
II is now certain that pressure will be
brought to bear upon the committee to
bring about two important reforms. One
is to prevent the abuse of the rules per-
mitting substitutions, to put an end to
the present practice of sending in sub
stitutes to carry instructions from the
coach to the quarter back or captain,
rather than to relieve exhausted or in
jured players. The rules of the game ex-
pressly prohibit side-line coaching, yet in
all the big games Of the 1914 season
coaches sent a procession of substitutes,
many of them for no other reason than
TO carry messages.
1t was suggested that coaches be COM
PEELED to remain on the bench or off the
field entirely during a game. That sug-
gestion was incorporated into the rules a
year ago and worked out satisfactorily
during the 1914 season. But the rules
committee, after closing one door to the
vioIators of this rule obligingly left wide
open another, which made side-line
coaching even easier than it was with
the coach on the side lines. The coaches
adopted the simple eXpedient of sending
in troops OF substitutes for no other rea-
son than to carry instructions to the field
general. This was done I'm virtually all
of the championship games. and the OFF,
cials were powerless to stop it. AS long
as a player is permitted to re-enter the
game after having once been taken out
a coach can take a great many chances
to send in messages, and, if he has plenty
of substitutes, as most of the big teams
have, can make a great many changes
without weakening his team.
II the fairness of this practice were put
squarely up to the average college coach
he would admit that it violated the spirit
OF the rules and was an unsportsmanlike
act. Since it is evident that the practice
cannot be stopped without legislation, the
rules ought to be amended so that this
evil can be eliminated.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
L00n1iS Performed Greatest
Athletic Feat of the Year
Three Victories in Ninety Min
utes in National Champion
ships Overshadow All.

SPTS-2-COL SLIDE-1-COL BANK
Tho performed the greatest athletic
feat in 1914?
Here, indeed. is a chance for a rare
argument pro and con. Joe Loomis, of
the chicago Athletic Association, is our
guess.
LOomis' performance at the national
championship meeting at Baltimore in
September when he won the 1O-yard
dash. running high jump. and 22O-yard
hurdle race within an hour and half
looms up as the most meritorious single
achievement of the year that has but
few more days to run.
The versatility of the I.oomis lad, to-
gether with the ~uPCrlative ease with
which h" performed and his freshness af-
ter It was all done stamps the strong
legged Young ChicasOan as one of the
greatest performers Uncle Sam has
boasted OF in many and many day.
LOomis could have added the 220-yard
dash t. his list handily had 1t not in
terfered with his other events He is
better at the furlong thai al 100 yards,
in which ne uutfCoteG some of the best
sprInters in the East with mucr to spare.
The athletic experts who saw Loomis
p srform at the national meet declare
that a finer all around perform in the
sprints- Jumps and hurdles has not been
seen since the days OF AVN hIdeilIlElii'
the fornlct University of Pennsylvania
athlete who was until recently coach to
the Germ - Olympic candidates Loomls
amazing syecQ. together with his great
sprirging power and his ability to repeat
again and again, make him aEEear as
champion ir thousand.
Homer Baker Of the New York A. c,
must be credited with one of the great
est cinderpath fcats of 1914 also. His win
ming of the British half-mile champion
ship in the marvellous time of l minute
u 2-5 seconds stands out as perform
ance in a thousand. It's wonderful
enough to do that time on a home path
without accomplishing it in race run
after more than 1900 miles of travelling.
Two great furlOng performances were
recorded this year, these being w. X
Applegarth's. and a similar performance
BY George Parker in California. Ted
Meredith did IS 2-5 for the quarter-mile,
and Dismond. of Chicago University.
stepped the distance just One-hfth OF
second slower Dave Caldwell, of Cor
nell. ran the fastest half-mile of the year
i. IS 3-5-at the intercollegiate games at
Cambridge on Memorial Day.
It would he unjust to rate the great
athletic performances of 1914 without a
mention of Howard P. Drew's 100 yards
in 93-5 seconds, done last March at
dual meeting between the University oil
Southern California and University OF
California freshman. This performance
is unuuestionable the first authentic nine
three done since 1902, when Arthur DUFF
few accomplished the feat at the inter
collegiate games.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
By BUCK HOWARD.

Just about the time the European
war broke out last Ugust, all the
leading countries were making plans
and looking forward to furnish the
United States more opposition in the
Olympic games which are scheduled TO
be held again in 1916.
Looking back over the summer of
1912 it will be remembered that the
American athletes easily outclasSed the
foreign men and won the great inter-
national affair without a great amount
of trouble.
England, Germany, and Sweden. the
countries which contributed most to the
games, had been granted large apprO-
priations to defray the necessary eX-
penses and Furthermore all hands We're
eNerting every possible effort to win
personal glory in the eyes of the huge
following.
William Armstrong. of Lacross, Wis,
is the authority for revised methods on
the part of the foreign countries in
r. placing their men in the Olympic
games. This is especially true with the
Germans. The TeutOnS are universally
conceded as the most intellectual of our
foreign friends and not being as far
advanced in athletics as the Americans,
they are to use the same tactics of the
younger country.
The foreign athletes are the greatest
hero wOrshippers in the world. Naturally
they have been under the impression
. that the more events they can win. the
greater their prowess. This method has
proved an absolute failure. The men
have been entering in SO many different
events that they have been unable to
do themselves justice in any one event
and for this reason have kept their va
nous countries down in the scoring.
1t is known that the leading runners OF
The United States do not enter in more
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
Kansas Soldier Comes Here
with Great Reputation to
Wrestle Local Italian.
Is FAITHFULLY TRAINING

The opening wrestling bout Of the new
year will be staged in the Majestic Thea
ter Wednesday night when Tony Ber-
nardO. the local Italian rniddle-weiGh,.
meets Soldier MCCarney. of Kansas
The management of the Majestic Thea
ter has found quite a little difficulty In
arranging for this bout, but after much
argument both of these star Erap9le-S
agreed to meet. Bernardo needs no in
PRODUCTION to the local followers. He has
shown on many occasions that nc is "a
close student of the game. and is clagsHd
as a star mat artist.
Bernardo won a preliminary boxing
bout against Jack Nelson. of New HaI"E.
Conn, at Ardmore on New Years DAY
by the knockout route, and in doing 50
received a good hand from the local fol
lowers of the sport.
Little is known of Soldier McCarney in
this vicinity, but he comes heralded with
a big reputation, and many press notices
which he has in his possession is enough
to warrant that a good bout will result
Bernardo is sure to be in good COndi-
ton as he has been training under Kid
Sperry. Four of the local men who have
been working in SpeTry's gymnasium took
part in the attraction at ArdmOre last
Friday, and three of these men returned
winners. Tommy Lowe. Bernardo and
Bert Greene were the men to take the
measure OF their opponents.
Each of the wrestIers has posted $50 to
expect the appearance of the men.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
Predictions of Dame
Rumor for 1915
-a Thomas win manage the Yanks.

Ira Thomas will manage the Yanks.
Weeghman will buy the Cubs.
Eddie Plank has been signed by the
Yankees.
Connie Mack will become president OF
the Athletics.
Connie Mack will quit baseball.
Hugh Jennings will be fined $1,000 for
some sort of breach of faith
Miller Higgins will be fired as man
ager Of the Cardinals and will manage
the Reds.
Waivers are to be asked on Jack Lapp
and Ira Thomas, of the Athletics.
Frank Baker will be sold or traded.
Larry Lajoie will be released.
The Feds will invade Cleveland Gin
cinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit. Washing
ton. Toronto. and possibly Belgium.
An International League team will be
placed in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Dodgers are to be sold.
Charlie Murphy will get back his old
job as president OF the Cubs.
Chief Bender will play with Cleveland.
Harry Davis will manage the Athletics.
Mike DOnIin will manage the Yankees.
Jack Dunn also will manage the Yam
KEGS.
If peace is declared Fielder Jones will
do the same thing.
Roger PeckinpauGh also will manage
the 1ankeeS.
John Camel surely will be the next
Yankee manager
The Baltimore Internationals will be
transferred to Richmond, Va.
Fred Clarke will not manage the
Yankees next year
The Cardinals will he sold.
Jim Gaffney will sell his Boston team
Gaffney will buy the Yankees.
All salaries in the big minor league
clubs will be cut % per cent.
The minor leagues will break loose
from organized baseball.
Hank O'Day will be canned.
Ditto for Joe Birmingham.
The same thing for Charley HerzoG.
Ping Bodie has jumped to the Feds.
Grover Alexander has jumped to the
Feds.
Wilbert Robinson will quit managing
the Dodgers and will manage a Federal
League club.
Willie Mitchell, OF the Maps, has jump
ed to the Feds.
Catcher Whaling. OF the Cubs. has
jumped to the Feds.
The Federal League will not resume
business at the old stand-or any other
stand-neXt season.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
BIRD SHOOTS
SPORT
ABROADLONG Ago
British Sports Over 100
Years Ago Enjoyed the
Pigeon Targets.

Pigeon shooting. the forerunner OF
modern trapshooting, was a popular
sport in England during the last CEN
| fury. 1t was mentioned in the Sporting
| Magazine, London. As early as 11S3, and
referred to as having already an estab-
| lishcd reputation. The old Hat"
| famous public house at Ealing. was for
many years a favorite rendezvous of
pigeon shooters. but later the Red House
at BatterSea took precedence because il
was more easily accessible to LondOners.
To those who feel anxious on the sub
ieCt Of pigeon shooting" the Sportsmen' S
Cyclopedia U.ondon. lS4S recommends
visit to the Red House, where the busi-
ness il pursued in the first style of cX-
ceIlcncC."
Lords and captains lent an air Of fash
ion to tho activities Of the place. and on
the establishment Of the birmingham
Club at Fulham the amusement was
raised higher than before in general Ia
Nor 1t has now been superseded by
trapShOOtinE. the name of which is OF
American origin. and inanimate targets,
the product Of American inventiveness,
have accordingly been substituted for
live birds.
OF course in all this history, there
have been intercstin stages. The traps
i'm Use at the old Hat were shallow
ID
eight or ten inches wide. sunk in the
ground level with the surface \ sliding
lid was operated by pulling string
this liberating the bird.
Among the famous pEeon-shOoterS OF
that city was Richard TOomcr, to whom
Mr. johnson referred in his cyclopedia:
.Th, exploits which r. ToOmer per
formed in shooting with such apparent
lease. soon convinced the persons who
saw them that they w"r" done methOdi-
Cally. and this was completely asCer-
taincd 10y his frequently suffering him
self to he blinded with a double hand
krr,hief ov-r his eyes. after having
taken his aim. and then 10 fire and hit
a small object
In 1851 piEeOn-shOOtinE was mentioned
m the records OF the Sportsmen's Club,
Cincinnati. and in the forties and a few
dec AIDES thereafter il flUurished in New
York and its vicinity. The invention
and adoption OF inanimate targets fol-
lowed, though the older pastime was
not at once abandoned. 4 Boston man.
Charles POrtlOck, originated the use of
the glass balls for target shooting about
ISNE.
\ Philadelphian. a few years later. in
vented a target consisting of a paste
board disc, Il few inches in diameter.
with the center cut out TO admit n small
rubber balloon. Punctured balloon,
dead bird Clay discs were the next
innovation, but because they were of un-
equal hardness and because the traps
were mechanically deficient, the sport
OF trap-shooting came near giving up
the ghost.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
MOTORCYCLE NOTES.

PEORIA H., h contemplating the addition q sew
eraI machines TO its motorcycle police slgad in
the spring.
New Orleans motorrgclists win stage a New
Years road race to Oracle and return.
Fully realizing the importance u the motor
cycle police squad. Columbus. Ohio, Is planning TO
purchase 4 nunber Of additional machines in the
spring.
February Is to % is the date set for the annual
motorcycle show At Omaha. Neh.
A motorcycle turkey hunt in the Menand country
Is being made By three riders Of San Angelo Tex.
bIl Morton. +. R. Kilpatriek. and II. Z. Harris.
About thirty riders are expecting To participate
in the fourth annual New Years Of the 1V-
runt0 Motorcycle Cub
new motorcycle club has been Organized at
Annistou Ala. with twenty-five charter members.
The organization will affiliate with the F. A. NJ.
The Argo Creamery Company. Of Atlanta. Ca,
has installed motorcycles delivery service for de-
lircring fresh milk special orders.
Il have ridden O.cDo miies my motorcycle
without any mechAnieal tr0ubIes.r says Flank Hav-
lichek ok Oxford Junction. Iowa
c A. Pete Of Des MoineS. Iowa, says be has
ridden his motorcycle ssco0 miles in tSO SoasOnA
And At q eoss q les than csnt mule.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
GOLFING HINTS.

Patient Practice-Nearly every
one who takes up the game Of golf
sooner or later reaches a stage
when he or she desires to improve
their game. On the other hand,
nearly every would-be golfer nat
urally prefers the sociability of
friendly matches every time he
gets the chance to visit the links.
Lucky is the man who, when he
reaches the first point of ambition.
decides to devote the greater part
of his time TO diligent practice, pre-
ferably under the guidance of a
professional instructor. His prog
ress will be faster and consequent
ly more satisfactory from every
standpoint.
One man / know, when he first
took up the game. devoted several
weeks to lessons before he played
a single round on the links, and
surprised himself and his friends by
scoring a round under, 80 on his
first effort. In less than two years
this man made rounds down in the
seventies.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
CYCLISTS AWAIT PISTOL.
sIx-day Bike Race In Buffalo Starts
on Monday.

Buffalo, Jan. 1.-The scene of cycling
activity shifts to this city Monday when
a siX-day race will commence. The race
will be an eight-hour-a-day affair, and
there will be the Berlin finish of an hours
sprinting at the conclusion OF the grind
II three or more teams are tied for the
leadership.
a sprint race card is to be put on this
evening as a forerunner for the six-day
event.
Ten teams are entered for the race as
follows: Francesca Verrf and Reggie Nc
Namara, Norman Hansen and Joe
Eopsky, Eddie Root and Iver Lawson.
Gus wohlrab and Gordon Walker, Clar-
ence Carman and Bobby Walthour,
George Cameron and Harry Kaiser,
Frank Cory and George Wiley. Marcel
Dupuy and Henri Linart. John and Menus
Bedell, and George Colombato and Julian
Provost.
The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
LEARNED ART OF SELF.
DEFENSE BY CHASING
STRAY LITTLE FIDOS

The manly art Of seif-defense is
not always taught in the gymna-
stun by an instructor of boxing.
Many and novel are the methods
afield. With the allies? Nope, in
the ring itself? Nope. Only fight
ers learn to handle their mits. Earl
Fisher, the Cincinnati boxer has just
tipped off the fans how he came by
his knowledge of the game.
Fisher frankly admits that he
learned it in a wild and warIike field.
With the allies? Nope. On the dog
Catcher's wagon. Always willing to
accept honest employment, Fisher,
lasso in hand, conducted the dog wag-
on for several weeks, and averaged
nineteen fights a day in the pursuit
of his duties and his prisoners
There is no field on earth" says
the lightweight, where a boxer can
get more practical experience in emer-
gency fighting than with the dog
wagon"