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The Cordova daily times., 1915-08-26
IN BASE BALL
 WORLD

NEW YORK, Aug. 26-Baseball play in the major and minor leagues this season has been productive of a number of unuusal performances, some of which have established records or surplanted those existing for some years. They include almost every de- partment of the game and at the rate they are piling up, 1915 is likely to be remebered as the year of features.
 In the Pacific Coast league Jack Ness, first baseman of the Oakland team, batted safely in forty-one con- secutive games for total of seventy hits, breaking Ty Cobb's record of one or more hits in forty straight games, made in 1911. Previous to Cobbs ad- vent the record was held by Hal Chase, who in 1907 batted safely in twenty-seven consecutive. contests. The same year that Cobb was hitting so consistently, Otis Clymer was es- tablishing the minor league record of safe hitting in twenty-five straight games.
 Other extraordinary features include twenty bases on balls by pitcher Harry Harper, in a game between Minnea- polls and St. Paul of the American Association; the winning of two games in one day by pitcher Mellinger of Cedar Rapids team of the Centra Ass ociation, who allowed fifteen hits and two runs in twenty-four innings against Marshalltown; a twenty-two inning scoreless tie game between Burlington and Keobuk in the same association; George Cutshaw's two safe hits on one pitched ball, which Umpire Klem declared legal, in the Brooklyn-Chicago game of July 10 and left fielder Rube Oidrings failure to take the field with the rest of his teammates until several balls and strikes had been called upon the bat ter, due to an interesting conversation with Joe Sugden, in a recent Athletic Browns game at St. Louis.
 The possibilities of baseball are evinced in various ways. Freak plays are recorded in amatuer and professional games that would be con- sidered ridiculous if profounded at a flaming bee. In a recent game in the American league a player scored a run without base hit, pass or fielding error. His third strike was a wild pitchon which he reached second. A
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passed ball put him on third and an. other wild sent him home.
 A new Federal League recruit tells story of how four batters, whom he struck out in row while pitching for college team, scored, which Is unique in baseball annals. His catcher, as he tells the tale, was a little fellow who could not hold his fast ones and as he had nothing but speed the result was disastrous. The first four batters to face the amateur Rusie reached first safely when the catcher let the third strike go through. The first batter scored when the fourth landed on first and hit and error following, scored the next three.
 Cincinnati reports have 1t that the public schools of Garry Herrmannville are to provide course of instruction in the art of umpiring. Whether this is due to the plaints of Fielder Jones and John McGraw is not known but both have said that the decisions rem dered on baseball fields this year are the worst ever-and then some. Billy Hart and Billy Carpenter will be the professors in charge of classes and diplomas attesting eagle eye discern ment may be expected.
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- -------------- THE SPORTSMANS FUN

The best of hunting and brook trout fishing with launch and row boats in attendance. Good meals and beds. Rates $2. .OO per day.
 AT THE WALKERS
 Alaganik, Alaska.
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Co-Operatlon

Cooperation Is benefit to every individual who believes in helping themselves. The consumer gets the benefit when buying at our store. Cor dova Cooperative Trading Co. Phone
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Competition

Where there is competition in busi- ness the consumer is never over charged. Call or phone us your orders. Cordova Cooperative Trading Go. Phone 21.
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Furnished Cottage, Observation Knoll. Apply Alaska Transfer Go.
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Standing of Leaque Clubs.
National leauue.

The following is the standing of the big leagues up today:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
Final Motifs
From Hen

I Hen Weathersby prop of our general
store come rushin into the Bugle offs
jest as we was about to go to press
with this s,ishue of the Bugle and
thing of Within up the furnichure in
his store has got to stop right now.
Hen has complained before about the
boys Within UP things in his store
whilst they spend the evenings there
smokin 6 engagin in sosh1al discourse
on the current topicks of the day. Hen
says that he has no objeckshion to them
maxim his store headquarters in the
evenings being as he generally sells
few tobacko & seegars and gifts leetle
profit outen it in that way, so long as
they behave theirself and ackt decent,
but when. they begin within up things
that's a going too fur and must sease.
Last night Hen went to set down on
a cheer in the store and the cheer give
way under him and Hen come down on
the floor with a dull sikkening thud
that he thort at first damned his back
bone UP through his hat. When he
went to investigate why the cheer had
broke down on him he discovered that
the two front legs under it had been
whitfield off until they was both as thin
as pipestems and no wonder it broke.
Hen thinks it was Hold Quigley that
he seen settin on the cheer the mite be-
fore and that Hold is the fend in hui
ming form who went and whitfield the
legs of the cheer down to nothink and
that if it was Hold and if Hold had
single spark of manhood remaining in
buzzum he will come forrerd and admit
the truth and pay for that cheer.
This amt the only offenses in the
whiting line that has been committed
in Hens store neither. Somebuddy or
other whitfield hole in Hens flour bari
outen which he sells flour and on the
top of which a lid fits tite Well, when
the hole was whitfield into the bari the
flour run out and the mice run in.
Not only that but some culprit also cut
his inishials on the counter. The mi
shials was III. D." and Hen jumpt
on Hank Dewberry for a doin it. Hank
denide it-Hank said probably some
buddy else cut them inishials on the
counter jest for a joke on Hank, but
it pears that the joke is on Hen. Hen
says that if this within amt put
stop to right off, then the law must take
its course.
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Country Correspondence
CALAMITY CORNERS

Mrs Sam Hawkins is to give a
qLiltin bee soon. Mrs. Sam says that
she is away behind on her quiltin and
that she is a going to give a quiltin bee
and git this work did right off instid
of lettin it drag along emmy longer She
has sent out large number of invites
but we persoorn the attendance will be
slim being as the wirnmen folks here
abouts has been to Mrs Sans quiltin
bees before and all they ginerally git
for their hard days work is dried up
ginger cookies and some weak tea
Jasp Tarbell is thinkin some of KILN
a pig Jasp says the pig seems to be
sick and wont eat but he don't know
what ais it and he calkilates he'll kill
it afore it does of its own accord and
sell it out among his nabers for pork
Arioch Perkins went to Hardscrabble
tother day and laid in supply OF
chewin tobacko- Ariocfl bought a whole
plug which will last him almost wk
Arioch is saving the tags on the plugs and
when he gifts thousand saved he gifts
a prize.
Jabe Homans our Oldest inhabitant
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L0kaI Items

Miss Amelia Tucker our raining sos
siety queen and leader of the Bingville
soshia1 whirl had a sick headake one
afternoon from 3 to 5 last wk Amelia
says she thort to goodness her head
would burst on her it aked so and that
she hates a sick head worser she hates
a snake We should think, Ameliar,
that you would be glad to have sick
headake onct in a while being as that
simply shows that you've got somethink
inside your head like brains for instants
to axe.
Lem Brown Our expert carpenter put
a seat in a chair for Mrs. A-nassa Col
Inns recent and when Lem delivered the
chair to Mrs. Collins she was turrible
pleased with it and paid Lem the so
cts he charged for the job but 1st time
Mrs. Collins set down on the chair the
bottom busted right out again. She
TUX the chair back to Lem and wanted
her so cts back but Lem refused to give
it to her or to fix the chair agin for
that matter without another so cts paid
in advance Mrs. Collins weighs in the
naberhood of 400 lbs and Lem says it
amt no wonder she busted the bottom
outen the chair and that he diddent
garryntee the bottom of that chair to
hold up person as big as COW.
Harve Hines our barber and tonsori-
dl expert lCllS Us tldl Ills W1Ie has
saved up hair from different folkses
heads which has had their hair cut in
his shop until she has got almost enuff
to stuff the old parler sofy with the
hair in which has all come out We
shouldn't think Harve would want this
knowd by the publick. Now like as not
folks who get their hair cut at his shop
will take their own hair home with
EN- after its cut off sinst they know its
good to stuff parler sofys with.
There is several bad places in our
roads hereabouts which has been re-
ported to us lately The road sooper-
visor ort to do sometfl1nk about this at
onct or horse or somebuddy else is
liable to brake their leg and then the
town will have a damage suit on its
hands. That would be purity howdy-
doc wouldn't it?
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LANDS END

Bill Henshaw is paintin his barn and
has finished the job. Bill started in to
paint his barn red, but when he got it
about half painted he run outen red
paint, so he painted the rest of it with
WALLER paint which he had on hand.
Dad says he thinks it looks real purity
painted half red and half yaller. but
to us the yaller half of the barn looks
bilious.
Rufe Atkins says that the pesky po-
later bugs is gnawin off his Erly Rose
potaters clean down to the quick as
fast as they come outen the ground
and he calkilates he haft to give en-
dose of pizen or somethink.
Mrs. Hen Jordans baby swallered a
gum nippel often its feeding bottel
tother day. Mrs. Jordan says that the
fifth gum nippel that baby has swallerd
and that it takes all her loose change
to purchase gum nippels with.
News items is very skeerce in Lands
End this wk being as everybuddy is so
bizzy with their work that news items
don't have mulch chanst to happen.
With these few words we will close.
LUCIFER.
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Decoration Day Eddytoriul

Heretofore when ennybuddy has
happend to think about it Bing-
vile has most generally allus eel
ebrated Decorashion Day in our
midst which comes on May 80,
but this yr there wassent no eel
ebrashion and Amt goin to be OWN
to several causes too numerous to
mentchion. Not that it wassent
thunk of, you understands was
thunk of long beforehand and
plans was started to do somethink
about it in the way of a se1ebra-
shion, but all SIGH plans fell
through owing to causes which we
will hereinafter explain pervided
you can wait until we git to it and
| if you cant wait you can do the
next best thing whatever that is.
Dad Henderson one of Our most
respeclted citizens is the only
veteran of the Rebe1lyun which
Bingville has in our midst. Dad
fit and fled-we mean Dad fit and
bled-in the Sivil War and has a
wood leg to show for it. And this
amt the 1st wood leg Dad has had
neither-he has had duzzens of
wood legs sinst he come home from
the war 10 these menny yrs ago.
Dad says he calkilates he has went
through enuff wood legs sinst 1865
to make about two cords of fire
wood.
1t pears that one thing or an
other allus happens to Dads wood
legs. 1t Amt that he wears EN- out
far from it. Dad is purity absent
minded and sometimes when he is
a thinkin very deep he'll git out his
old barlow knife and without
t1linkin what hes dom will go to
work whittlin on his wood leg. In
this way Dad has whitfield quite
number of wood legs out from
under hisself as you might say.
Dad gifts a penshion and has for
menny yrs. Sometimes this pen
shion don't arrive very promt and
when its behint time Dad sets down
and writes the guvverment at
Warshington a purity sharp let
ter tellin EN- to send his penshion
along or take the consciousness.
AS a result Dad has the fellers
down to Washington scairt of
him and they don't skeercely ever
send him his penshion behinthand
emmy more. Praps we ort to say
in this conneckshion that Dad was
present at the Battle of Bull Run.
If what Dad says is true it pears
like during that battle he TUX the
bull by the horns and won glori-
Gus vicktry.
! When the questshion of cele-
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wether emmy warmer than it is this time
of the yr for quite number of yrs.
We persoom that it will be warmer
this next munth and the mrnth after.
Doc Livermore our expert horse
dockter & huming speshialist has been
very bizzy during the past wk billing out
different kinds of YARDS and maxim
medisins outem EN- for both man q
beast. Doc allus does this about this
same time every yr and makes up ahed
enuff medisin to last him all through
the winter no matter what the matter
with a person is.
Dame roomer says that there will be
a wedding in our midst before a great
while during which one of Our most
poplar citizens & bachelors will take
unto hisself one of our most poplar
s. handsome widders. More about this
matter non. If we said more about
it at the present writing we would be
pren1atoor.
Hester WHITLEY of Snake Bend was
the gest last wk of Mrs. Eph Higgins
wife of our accommodating P. M. and
returned home day afore yesterday
conscious of having spent most en-
joyable VISIT. Mrs. Higgins enter
tanned Hester by lettin her read all the
postcards which come through the
Bingville P. o. during her stay.
Mrs. Alb Skinner is doing washing
for quite number of her nabers this
summer being as Alb has been outen
work most of the time and Mrs. Skin
ner feels that she has to do somethink
to make both ends meet, but she wants
it DISTINCTLY understood that she diddent
allus haft to do warshing for a living
and that ennybuddy who looks down
on her jest becuz of that can do their
own warshing & she don't want their
paternage.
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COLTS TO


This is to notofy the genl pub
lick that l am a going to go into
the bizness of breaking colts
for living and l think if I can
make a good living at it. When
you have young colt and it gifts
to be about 2 yrs old you ort to
break it to saddle and harness so
as you can ride it or drive it. Well.
some folks don't like to break their
own colts becuz its risky bizness
being as the colt mite run off or
kick a hole through you or do
something like that for instants.
Let me break your colt for you and
thus take all the risk often vour
hands. will break your colt or
break its neck. Only last wk. 7
broke colt for Lem Ouigly. It
was a turrible vishish colt and full
of all kind of tricks. Every time
l would git on its back it would
try to bump me off. l told Lem
would break that colt or bust ano
| did mean / did bust. nearly
being as the colt throwd me clean
over stone fence and lit on INV
head and shoulders. At 1st thort
L was kid but thank goodness I
was mistaken. So you see Won
never can tell wot will happen to
you when you start in to break a
colt so you had better let it hap
pen to me. will charge you
for breakin a colt according to
how hard the colt is to break IF
it amt wont charge you mulch and If
it IS, will, but you can rest Assured
that Will charge you all it is worth be-
cause l would be a blamed fool 20
risk my life for nothink Therefore IL
you have colt you want broke let me
break it for you and | will garrvntee a
good job. Yours for breaking colts
HANK DEWBERRY.
bIngviile. Colt Breakfast,
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Drdl1nS DeCOraSh1On Lay was ISL
brung up down to Hen Weathers-
bys store Dad who was present said
that being as he was the only vet
eran in Bingville he desired to say
that on Decorashion Dey he per-
soomed he would constytoot the
whole entire parade hisself and
that he would march up and down
Main st carrying a flag while all
the inhabitants of the town would
stand along and cheer and holler as
he went past.
Lem Gool1ins told Dad that would
be a Sam Hill of. a parade with
only Dad hisself in it marcllin up
and down and that why didn't the
Bingville Horn Band lead the
parade with Dad marching along.
bel1int the band. Dad flew up and
said he'd be doggoned if he'd march
behint emmy band or ennybuddy and
that if he couldn't come LIST in the
parade he wouldn't march a tall
Dad said he wouldn't objeckt to the
band being in the parade so long
as the band boys marched behint
him.
Then Hank Dewberry spoke up
and said he thort he ort to be en-
titled to march in the parade being
as he was a veteran also. Dad
snorted and sneered at Hank and
askt him how he was a veteran and
Hank said he was a veteran becuz
he had serious thorts of aiming the
volunteers and going to fife for his
country when the Spanish War
broke out several yrs ago & would
of went, too, if he haddent slipt
and fell and sprained his ankel jest
as he had made up his mind to
jine.
Dad he storned around like ev-
erything for a spell at the very idee
of Hank marching in the parade
with hisself, but he finally consent
er perviding the order of march
should be as folders: Dad list
the Bingville Horn Band End
Hank Sd.
Jest when this was all settled
Lime Peterson spoke UP and said if
lIlCy WdS d gun W lCl I1dllk DCW-
berry march in the parade then he
calkilated he'd march in it too be-
ing as he thort he was jest mulch
of a veteran as Hank was and a
good cal more of a one for that
matter.
Then Dad he shuk his fists in
Lines Ease and asked him man to
man what battels he had ever fit
and Lime said to Dad that every
buddy in Bingvi11e would testify
to the fackt that not wk past that
he diddent have a turrible battel
with his wife and that he allus got
lickt and had to surrender. Lime
pinted to a black and blue welt
over his left eye which his wife
had give him only a few days pre-
vious With the floornop handel
and Lime said he considerd his
self jest as mulch of a war veteran
as Dad and that he was going to
march in the veterans parade or
bust.
Everybody present spoke upl
and said that they thort Lime was
right about it and that he ort to be
permitted to march in the parade
right alongside of Dad. When Dad
found that publick sentiment was
agin him he jurnpt up often his
stool and waved his cane above his
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Personal MentchiOn

Why don't you up and subscribe for
the Boogle before the summer gifts emmy
further advanced? Then you'll have it
often your mind and wont haft to
bother about it next fall before winter
sets in. We might add that if you do
subscribe we will take it very kindly
if you pay US for your subscripshion
stricl<ly in advance if you please
Hen Billings says he amt seen the
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head and said he'd be jiggerd if he'd
march a tall on Decorashion Day
if they was agoin to let a lot of
humbug veterans like Hank and
Lime into the parade. Then. Dad
clurnbt off home Madden a wet hen
and that's the last we've heerd of
the Decorashion Day parade.
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says he will be 1O3 yrs old next month.
We don't see how this can be becuz we
remember very distinck that on Jabes
last birthday yr ago he said he was
only a. Accordin to the way Jabe
fggers he is agin turrible fast.
VOX POPULI.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-26
". A. MILLER aICH IN SHOOT
Makes Perfect Score In Harrisburg
Sportsmen's Association
Beneft Event

w. A, Miller had the only perfect
score Saturday afternoon in the trap.
shoot of the Harrisburg Sportsmen' 8
Association at Second and Emerald
streets. There were several forty-nines.
The shoot was for the benefit of the
Polytechnic hospital and more than $l00
was realized. Merchandise prizes
were awarded as follows:
benson, 40, ton of coal; Heiges,
~, hashlight; Dinger, A, pipe; Eshen.
our, A; s. Reed, 45, picture; Hawkins,
professional, As; G. o. Sarvis, 40, um.
brella; Sommers, professional, AZ; Wise,
rs, fishing rod; Stoll, IL, box of writing
paper: J. Martin. 10, slippers; Worden.
"a, wine; Herrold, +S, Hat; Shoop, 40,
hand trap; Logue, ~, picture; Disney.
As. As cans tomatoes; Mrs. Boyer, SS,
six pairs mems hose; Kreidler, So, fish
net and reel; Henry, IS. safety razor;
Shaffer, ~, cuff links and tie pin; f.
Keys, Al, five pounds candy; Wilson.
80, nickel bibbs; C. Keys, IS, bathing
suit; Bowman. 80, shirt; Lutz, so, pair
pillow eases; G. Martin, so, fish net and
rod; Morrett, So, paper and envelopes;
Seahold, As, shooting jacket; G. Hoff-
man, ~, one'hail tun ol coal, ESheu+
our, SO; ". Quigley, A, wine; Hackett,
Al, ton of coal; Radie, 50, eox cigars;
5. Hoffman, a, shooting jacket: Keller,
AZ, meerschaum pipe; W. A. Miller, so,
leather chair; G, W. Miller, 81. ton of
coal; NJ. Steward, As, fishing rod;
Frank, 46, hand trap; Wells, as, box
cigars: Alan, Al, fishing rod valued at
s12; Hickok, IL, she'll bag; Schival,
S4; Essig 2S, wine; f. Hoffman, A,
pair trousers; Dewalt, 2S, bottle lilac
water; Millig, "a, box cigars; Cleek-
ner, S5, fishing rod; Benner, 40, B. v.
D.; Pomraning, As, cigars; R. Reed, A.,
five pounds candy; H. o. Miller, 80, ear
ton dog cakes.
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700 POUND GIRL HOLDS TRAIN
Delays Traffic in Transfer on Her Way
to Join Circus

Oil City, Pa, April 26.-Trafic on
the New York Central line was de-
layed twenty minutes when Anna Chel-
ton, Oil City's fat girl, weighing more
than zoo pounds, departed to join a
circus.
Half a dozen men transported her in
specially made wheel chair to the bag
gage ear, and when transfer was
made at Andover the car was detached
and shifted to the freight depot. Later
the baggage ear of the second train
was shifted to the depot and the 700
pounds of circus girl placed in it.
The train was held until the crew
made the transfer.
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AT 81 HAS FIRST AUTO RIDE
Rockland County Man Celebrates
Birthday With ) Mile Trip

Haverstraw, N. Y, April 26.-Rob.
ert c. English, of Pomona, Rockland
county, celebrating his ninety fourth
birthday yesterday, had his first auto
mobile ride. Charles Remsen. of Maho-
pae, his grandson, took him for a five
mile ride.
English in his early days was a loco.
motive engineer. His father, Ward
English, lived to be 80.
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40 POUND BASS FROM HUDSON
Professional Fisherman Takes Big
One With Seine

, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, April 26.-
George Demler, professional fisher
man, caught forty pound striped bass
in the Hudson river yesterday. 1t is
reported here as being the biggest fish
caught in the Hudson this year.
Demler made his catch on the Pier
mont fiat, on the west bank of the river
and opposite Dobbs Ferry, where the
water is shallow. He was fishing with
a seine. The big bass measures about
three feet and half in length.
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IHree-Dase hlts-UhaIIenger, 2; Eber-
ly, Sidler. Double play-Stewart wea-
yer and Leseure. Struck out-By Chal-
ienger, q; Sidler,~4; Lungren, l Glib
son, l. Bases on balls-Off Challenger,
4; Slider, 4; Lungren, 8. Sacrifice hit
-Bberly. Wild pitches Challenger.
1; Sidler, 8. Time-1.50. Umpires-
Traub and Wills.
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Louis Fink

The funeral of Louis Fink, who died
Friday evening at the Y. M. c. A. build
ing, was held yesterday afternoon at 2
o clock from his late home, 312 North
Second street. The services were in
charge of Rabbi Charles J. Feeund. In
terment was in the Jewish cemetery.
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Wllliamstown, Lykens, Elizabethville
and Tower City will form new league
to be known as the Dauphin-Schuylkill
circuit. The committee on organiza-
tion win report at meeting tomorrow
evening in Lykens.