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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-01-07
CHAPTER XIV.

Norton Makes a Discovery.
Perhaps the most amusing phase Of
the secret agents discontinue was the
fact that neither Jones nor Florence
had the least idea what had happened.
Florence regretted a hundred times
during the evening that she had not
gone out to the summer house. It
might really have been her father. Her
regret grew SO deep in her that Just
before going to bed she confessed to
Jones'
~You received letter Of that sort
and did not show 1t to me?" said
Jenes. astonished. q
"You warned me never to pay any
attention to them"
mo; warned you never to act
upon them without first consulting
me. And we might have made cap
ture! Ny child. always show me these
things. l win advise you whether to
tear them up or not"
Zones, believe you are going .
little too far" said Florence haughtily.
'1t might have been my father"
Newer in this world, Miss Florence.
san. ] beg your pardon for raising
my veiee. What I do and have done
10 only for yoar own sake. There are
twp things wish to Impress upon your
mind before I so.- This can be- made
q comedy or 4 terrible tragedy. You
have already had taste of the latter:
an each time you escaped because
God We good to NJ. But he 10 rarely
kind 10 thoughtless people. Thsy have
tosloek 6at for themselves. I am act
ing inder orders; always remember
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15
Success for Villa i'm First Day
of the Battle Near Celaya
and Vicinity
CARRANZA GENERAL
is SURROUNDED
1t Is Believed in Washington That the
Result of the Struggle Will Have an
Important Bearing on General Sit
uation in Mexico.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Gen Villa
appears to have gained the upper hand In
the first day of the battle with the forces
of Gen. Obregon near Celaya and vicin-
lty, according to consular advices to the
state department yesterday from San Luis
POtosi From other points as well it was
reported that in the struggle, in which
.offcials estimate 40 900 men are engaged,
the first fruits of victory are with the
army of Gen. Villa.
Gen. Obregon is declared to have been
surrounded and his retreat cut off from
all directions, according to one report. As
the firing line is extensive, detailed adj
vices have not reached Washington from
Gen. Villas headquarters, and the final
outcome of the fighting is still doubtful
Victory for Villa would mean resumption
Of communication by rail and wire between
Mexico City and the American border,
while success by Gen Obregon would di-
vide the Villa-Zapata forces and destroy
their communication between the northern
and southern sections of the country In
many quarters at Washington, it is be
heved, the result of the struggle will have
an important bearing on the general pohti
cal situation IN Mexico indicating which OF
the two minor factions is to dominate
The state department. advices were sum
married in the following statement =
The department is in receipt of advices
dated April IS from San Luis Potosi, stating
that heavy fighting around Celaya favors
| the Villa forces which have surrounded
| 0bregon and two of his subordinate com.
manders. The lines extend from Celaya
| through Queretaro to La Griega It is es
timated that 5000 troops are engaged
| Obregon's retreat is said to be cut off at
| La Griega by Gems. De Las and Argumedo
| The department is advised, in a report
dated the 18th from Laredo, that the bat
tie of Husachito on the 10Th resulted in
la severe defeat for the Villa forces AID
vices confirmed the published reports that
the Villa wounded were killed on the bat
tleheld and that prisoners were executed
The loss of the Nillistas is said to be 400
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15
DR.. ROLLER WILL
QUIT MAT JUNE l
Will Spend Summer at University of
Pennsylvania and Resume Medi-
cal Practice in Seattle.

DR. Ben F. Roller, the widely-known
physician wrestler and boxer, who came to
Brattleboro to meet George w Bailey
in a boxing bout Monday night, said to
a representative of this paper before
leaving town that he positively would re-
tire from the boxing and wrestling game
June / to resume the practice of medicine.
DIR. Roller, who graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1902, is
not yet 80 years Of age. He will spend
the summer at his alma mater catching up
in medicine and surgery, which he quit
FIVE years ago to build up his health. He
says he considers that his health is good
enough to last him for time in medical
practice and that this fall he will be set
tied once more in Seattle in the practice
of his profession
He stated that, aside from building up
his health and paying his way in the pro-
cess, he wanted to see the world, which
| he has done He has wrestled and boxed
| in every country of the civilized world
and has crossed the continent 80 times
/ in every conceivable direction in the
| past five years.
In reply to a suggestion that he would
occasionally be seen on the mat after he
quit the game he quickly said: mo, sir
One quit, always quit. | played football
II years and the last season had an ath-
letic club football eleven in Seattle that
met the best teams ON the coast Since
quit that game | have seen only two foot
ball games ! viii take exercise in the
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Sporting Notes.

Williams got an awful whaling from Co
lumbia yesterday, the score being 10 to !.
Some folks went fishing this morning,
but not all Of them enjoyed fish dinners
today
The Red Sox did not open the season
with any apparent intention of breaking
swatting records.
Each team in the big league has only
153 more games to be played before the
ball players can rest.
Pennock had two men out in the ninth
when Hooper of the Red Sox spoiled his
chance for a no-hit game.
Williams with only two hits and nine
errors was no match for Princeton yes
terday and lost, ) to y
Manager Robinson's Brooklyn team has
right to enter a charge of assault and
battery against the Giants.
No ball player has laid claim to having
been in Fords theater in Washington
when President Lincoln was shot
Beck of Columbia university has pitched
16 scoreless innings and is being saved
for the game with Yale next Wednesday.
Harvard completely outclassed Bowdoin
| yesterday, scoring eight runs and prevent
ing the Maine team from crossing the
| plate.
| Doyle, captain of the Giants. threatens
to come back as a hitter. He got only
two doubles and three singles yesterday in
five tries
Stallings never did believe in winning
the first game. Now that is out of the
way properly there is no reason why the
Braves should not start their winning
streak
Whitfield had a pretty good time in his
first game against his former teammates
with single and a double, run and SEN
sational fielding, to say nothing of the
presentation of a gift to him by his former
mates.
Cram of Brown university showed
pitching class against the Boston Braves
when he held the worlds champions to
four hits, even if the university team was
defeated by a score of to o. Darlington
got the only two hits made by Brown, one
a triple.
You can feel it coming. j. Franklin
Baker, who announced his retirement from
baseball, journeyed to Philadelphia and
was a spectator of the opening game OF
the season. 1t was travelling that Frank
said he did not like.
Not in the memory of the oldest mem
Der Of the high school track team has
there been day before when 26 candi-
dates were at work under the direction OF
the coach as was the case at the fair
grounds yesterday This looks as if the
boys really meant to make one grand try
for the permanent ownership of the cup
Capt Harlow and Coach Stolte were es
pecially pleased and have promises that
even more will turn out today.
The baseball schedule of the University
of Vermont has been announced. The
season opens with Syracuse univer
sity at Burlington on the 2Sth and closes
with Dartmouth at Hanover, n. H., june
-. The other games include Colgate al
Burlington April 80; Penn State at Bur
lington May 4; Yale at New Haven May
s; Massachusetts, Agricultural college a
Amherst May II; Wesleyan at Burlington
May 20; Massachusetts, Agricultural col
lege at Burlington May %, and Fordhan
at New York May 26.
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gymnasium, but wrestling and boxing
viii know me no more after June L =
The doctor said that he had been told
that George w Bailey had made the re-
mark that he would bring someone to
Brattleboro to defeat the physician IN the
boxing game, Bailey is a good sport, .
commented the doctor He acknowl-
edged to Jim Barnes that he got good
beating even if he had believed he could
whip me. Provided he can arrange bout
for sometime before June /, l win be glad
to come back here and give him chance
to make some money promoting a match,
There are plenty of big fellows around the
country who an give and take hard blows
even il they have not their names in big
headlines, and he could get hold of one
of them and furnish lot of entertain
ment here. You never can tell, but Bal
ley might get some satisfaction out of one
of them if he should put it all over me
I'm willing. but thet time | have set for
the finish of my work of that sort is
short.
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HOW WILLARD
became FIGHTER
Up to J0fi-JOhRS0n Mill He
Never Saw Battle.
HAS DRAWN COLOR LINE.
Photos by American Press Association.

Says He viii Not Meet Another Negro
scraPper--Vill Tackle Any White
Man Worth WhiIe-Has Had an In
teresting Career.
When ASKED recently how he hap.
pened to take up boxing Jess Willard,
the new champion and right now the
most talked about man in the world,
said:
Il first got ideas of taking up the
sport when | heard that Jim Jeffries,
the famous fighter, had been knocked
out by Jack Jackson, a colored man.
l got it into my head that on account
of my extraordinary size I would have
good chance to defeat the negro, pro
vided / made a careful study of the
game. Up to this time l had never
seen boxing match, let alone had a
pair of gloves on my hands. l moved
to Sapulpa, Okla, and saw Carl Nor
ris, an avowed white hope. box. and
as boxing didn't look very hard to me
l decided to start learning at once. l
spared with Norris, with the idea al.
ways in my mind of some day being
fit to meet Johnson.
We'll, I've done it, and I'm pretty
happy. Johnson is the first negro l
ever fought. and III never fight an
other. Yes; I'm going to draw the
color line. and draw it sharp. l think
it dangerous for white man and n
black to meet in any contest causing
such bitterness of feeling. Why, when
Jefrries was beaten in Reno, in the
riots following there were twenty-six
people killed in the United states"
Willard was never knocked down in
four and half years in the ring or in
training. He hopes to end his career
with the same record He's so well
put together that he doesn't look his
six feet six and a half inches He
has thin keen face, is dark in com.
pleXion, has gray eyes shaded by long
lashes, high forehead and wavy
black hair parted on the side. He has
sensitive mouth and a well turned
chin
He doesn't look like a prizefighter
he doesn't act one, nor are his instincts
those of fighter. In fact, his han
dlers complain it's hard to arouse hi,
fighting spirit; that he's too much in
clined to take things easy and not hur
the other fellow He has a common
school education, received in Kansas
with a year in high school. Then IL
punched cattle for a couple of years.
He was a good man at this ant
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

made enough money to marry and keep
his family comfortably. He has four
children, three girls and a boy, Jess
junior, four months old. The oldest
is seven years old. His wife and chill
dren now live in Los Angeles.
Willard is soft spekea and uses good,
plain English He thinks well and
forms his own opinions Distinctly he
is of a far higher type than the prize
ring usually produces. In mental
equipment only Corbett, to whom he
bears slight resemblance, is his equal
Those who like dope" can add this
fact to their store-the battle in which
the championship passed was the long
est heavyweight championship fight
since the ring passed under Marquis of
Queensberry rules It went twenty
six rounds. Corbett beat Sullivan in
twenty-one in 1892. Fitzsimmons beat
Corbett in fourteen in 1897, Jefries
beat Fitzsimmons in eleven in 1899
and johnson beat Jeffries in fifteen in
1910.
Sullivan was champion fourteen
years; Corbett lasted five, FitZ only
two. Jeffries stretched over eleven
Johnson held the crown five. That
! gives the average champion a seven
year term.
Willard ought to last as long. He
is young, a clean liver, ambitious
strong and is daily adding to his fight
ing equipment Willard hasn't any pol
tiles. His father was Republican, bu
he has independent political thought
which goes with his Kansas breeding.
/ He played some baseball and likes t.
see it played. Now his training give
him all the athletic amusements b,
needs, so he doesn't golf, but he i:
thinking of taking that up. He like
to read newspapers and magazines
That is his chief diversion, and h
doesn't insist upon reading only arti
| Giles about himself.
Altogether he is an unspoiled, wei
! behaved, clean living, outstanding, quie
hammered young countryman. He ism
the sort of fellow that looks as
Broadway could get him as it got JET
fries on his visits to New York an
some of the others He shows no mar
of the fight save cut lip and bruise
ear. He said Johnson's hardest blow
didn't hurt him, and they were might
blows.
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GOING INTO DRY DOCK.
Capt. Theirfelder Insists He Will Not
Intern His Ship

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April IS
Captain Theirfelder, of the German
converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm,
reiterated today that he would not in
tern the vessel voluntarily after news
papermen told him it generally was re
ported he would tie up his ship here
for the remainder of the war. 81, my
self, will not INTERN exclaimed the
commander.
A similar stand, it was said, was
taken by Captain Theirchens of the
Prinz Eitel Friedrich, until the Der
lin government ordered the Eitel :.
internment, deciding against a dash
through the Gordon of allied warship;
off the Virginia Capes.
Authorization to take the cruiser
into dry dock was given to Captain
Thierfelder by Collector Hamilton Til,
cruiser will be moved into dry docl
Friday
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
NAVY A GREAT INSTITUTION.
Howe's Film Review Remarkable :

The world tragedy of recent months
has impressed every thinking man and
woman with the fact that the navy is
the greatest institution a country pos
sesses. With a keen realization of this
fact has come q desire among Ameri-
cans as to the efficiency of our navy.
1t is therefore timely for Lyman II.
Howe to present at this time the most
important film review of the United
States navy today that has ever been
secured by any navy. 1t will be pre-
scented in the Opera House Saturday,
matinee and night, and will correct
the erroneous idea that the navy con
sists largely of uniforms, brass buttons
and gold lace,
The romance of industry as expressed
in the making of a National cash regis
ter constitutes another feature. Mr.
Howe selected this plant because it is
recognized the world over as the model
manufacturing plant.
The Philippines of today and yester-
day-the customs, costumes, dances
habits, etc, of a strange people -
forms another subject of absorbing in
terest, besides other features of rare
charm and entirely new animated car
toons.-Adv.
The first English field marshal was
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National League.
Games Today,

Philadelphia at Boston.
Brooklyn at New York.
Pittsburg at Cincinnati,
st. Louis at Chicago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

The Brown university team made a ninth
inning rally yesterday against the Univer-
sity Of Maine team and won ont by q
score of 8 to s. Brown hit wen, Capt
Johnston getting a triple and two shin
giles and Murray, the former Dean acad
envy star, a triple and three singles. Dixie
and Andrews both connected for safeties
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15
CALLED TO ANOTHER CHURCH
Rev. G. c. Wilson of Burlington Elect
ed to Massachusetts Passionate.

BURLINGTON, April 15.-Rev. C.
c. Wilson, for the past two years Gu
rate at st. PauI's church in this city,
has received word that he has been
elected rector of the Church Of Our
Savior at Roslndale, Mass, suburb
of Boston.
He is a graduate of the University
of Vermont, class of 1907, and was a
Rhodes scholarship student at Oxford.
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Waoner,s Future Assured.

baseball viii not be unrewarded.
THE grand old man" of the diamond
will not spend his last days with the
minors.
Barney Dreyfus. owner Of the Pr
rates, says Wagner is still good for
two or three years of active service,
and after that he will continue to draw
salary from the Pittsburgh club as
long as he lives.
HE will never be released to go to
any minor club" said Dreyfus. "He
will remain on the pay Toll OF my team
and when his active days are over
will use him as scout or as a coach
for the younger players on the team"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

? The first English field marshal was
created as long ago as 1876.
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Sporting NeWs
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
American League.
Games Today.

Boston at Philadelphia.
New York at Washington.
Cleveland at Detroit.
Chicago at st. Louis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

Next A. 3. C. Probably at Toledo.
Toledo will probably be awarded the
1915 American bowling congress tour
nament.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

Says He VIII Not Meet Another Negro
ScraPPer-Will Tackle Any White
Man Worth WhiIe--Has Had an In
teresting Career.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-15

Mitchell and o 'NeiH; Coveleskie Bo
land and Stanage, Baker.
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Vaughan and Archer; Sallee, Mich
ans and Snyder, Glenn.
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American League.

At ST. Louis-13 innings
Chicago, Is
st. Louis, 8 S /
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-04-29
DATE FIXED
FOR CLASS DAY

Yesterday the Seniors at the Bank
Street High School determined upon
the date of Glass Day, which will be
held in the big Casino Theatre build
ing, Tumbling Dam Park. The date
of The Glass Day will be Tuesday
night, June 18th.
The Commencement exercises at
the Criterion Theatre will be held on
Thursday night, June 18th.
The Seniors are also planning to
present a class play for the benefit of
the High School Athletic Association.
II proper play can be selected, the
cast of characters selected and re-
hearsals arranged for, the play will
be presented at the Criterion on the
Thursday preceding the commence
ment.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-04-29
is
RECOVERED
Mike Dingler a Supposed
Suicide.
DROWNED FRIDAY
Body Came to the Surface This
Morning at Wharf of
Ship Yard.

Body recovered p
The body of Mike Dingler, sail
maker, came floating to the surface of
the Cohansey river this morning at
the ship yard wharf at Greenwich
Piers. 1t is supposed the body has
been in the water since Friday night
last.
Dingler was a sail maker in the
employ of Joseph Low, at the Piers.
For some time he had been ill and
had been in the Bridgeton Hospital
for treatment. On Friday last the
man had recovered sufficiently to be
taken to his home, cabin along the
river front.
Saturday Dingler was missing. In
his cabin was found his coat, hat and
collar, each carefully arranged upon
chair. 1t was feared that the man
had in his weakness and depression,
decided upon self destruction, but his
body could not be found.
This morning the mystery of his
disappearance was cleared up by the
finding of the body.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-04-29
NOTES OF
B.A.A. meet

That the Track and Field Meet of
the Bridgeton Athletic Association
held on May 31st, at Tumbling Dam
Park, will be the occasion of the gath
ering of the best men in South Jersey
is now assured
This week applications for entry
blanks have been received from Port
Norris A. A. and from Swedesboro.
The B. A. A. chairman has been In.
Vineland and the High School and
Athletic Association are coming to the
county seat determined to repeat
their victories of last year.
That they will have hard work to
win from the local clubs is shown
from the fact that Woodside A. A.
have twenty men in training and B..
A. A. about the same number.
The management of the meet wish
es to inform the individual athlete
who is not attached to any club that
his entrance is welcomed and that he
has equal opportunity with all to win
not only first, second and third prizes
but also the fine prize given the high
individual scorer.
Name and address should be sent to
Francis D. Potter, chairman, Bridge
ton, n. J.
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-04-29
CAMP fire
GIRLS CLEAN UP

From the Lenni Lenape and Cohan-
zick Camp Fire Girls comes a report
to the Camp Fire Adviser of work
planned for Cleanup Week.
Instead of having their usual Fri
days meeting, the girls will go with
have contributed to the children
H. Mayer, and take pansy plants that
all have contributed to the children
of the Italian Industrial School and
teach them how to plant and care for
them.
The children are anxious to have
them and are delighted at the idea.
but have been directed to "clean up
first" More flower seeds or plants
could be used if some could be do
mated.
Who will be the next to report?
Where are the Junior room presi-
dents (who should be planning for
their members), the Boy Scouts, the
girls" who are always on the alert and
Boys Clubs and those Academy gym
who did SO much for the Red Cross
nurse?
Remember that there is always
somebody somewhere, either ill or un-
interested, who needs help in cleaning
up and planting flower and vegetable
gardens.
Look out for the moving picture
slides this week at the Criterion, The
atre. The civic talks on them will
tell Juniors and adults what to do
for Clean Up Week, how they can help
the street cleaner and how their
yards will look if everybody will
clean, plant and care for them after
wards.
The Guardians have put up clean
up and fly posters in English and
Italian
Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-04-29
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The Commercial League will have
membership of 800 for the year be-
ginning May 1st. That means a year
OF effective work and much should be
accomplished. 1t has been suggested
that the League could do vast work
in Bridgeton by taking care of what
we have, looking after the enterprise
already located here, as well to seek
FOR Bridgeton new enterprise. The
Commercial League is thoroughly rep
resentative. 1t is we'll organized. If
the organization would unite to pro-
vide plans for the development of the
city, 1t would bring about policy of
getting more for the tax payers mon
ey than has heretofore been accom-
plished. The suggestion is we'll worth
considering.