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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
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EntRusiasm reigns among the big audiences which: have seen the bill for the nrst ihelf Of the week at the Poll theatr $The unwritten Law" with Beatrtz Michelena. Maggie Taylor Waitress, the new close to nature comedy, are leading attractions. but <he| na&ri0ktc Apirit iss aroused by the p6e-fe>L of actual preparedness taken
 eThe stars and stripes in Mexico'' pfoved to be the real thing having been taken at El Paso and in Mexico itself As Old Glory is Aeen floating above the thousands of, troops massed upon the border the applause is deaf lenin8 This picture Eiyes the first real 'idea Nofgs Mexico, it's people and the methods Of the United States army lin camp. Cavalry, infantry, artillery, lcpmrnissary and all branches of the Iservice, including air scouts in action are seena Today win be the last ap- pearance of this distinctiyely Ameri- can picture. e4 Hs 7 t < Miss llichelena in ,s4The Unwritten Law enaets the part to supreme per- fectton. Throughout the entire seven rnasterly photogra aphed reels the theme, a vital one. is handled in such man 'ner as to be Wh holesome and inspire womanhood
 diss Jean Adair, who has created the role of ArMaggie Taylor in the John B. Hymer comedy drama, has made a distinct hit and the playlet should be- seen by all.
 Other prominent acts on the big vaudeville, and picture bill are "Roe- l4er's Invention an act complying great skiils strength and art; Cassn & Earle, who come direct from New York to offer the latest in song and Amusement from the Rialto: Moore, Gardner q Rose, three boys who with the aid of sa piano offer novel and 3unique rspertoire, and Visions D'Art,'' 2 q wonderfully colored display of the most famous paintings humanized by real life and the mechanical electrical means that have been perfected by tM Mile. Blancheete s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
PLAZA

Those who were unfortunate enough to miss the P1aza's bin on Monday or yesterday should connive some means of securing admission to some performance during the day for 1t is really too good to miss under any circumstances.
 The Phantom,'' the latest accom- plishment of the Triangle corpora ton with Frank Keenan, the noted actor. in the leading role, and with pretty Enid Markey in support. is one ! of the many splendid attractions. story of more than usual brilliancy and somewhat on the order of the type of story that made A. Conan Doyle famous. There is plot and counter plot, romance and counter-rdmance and it is all inter- woven 50 cleverly that one is carried through the five parts of the play with rapidity and absorption.
 Louis J. Winsch and Company hold the headline card on the vaudeville program with deIightfuIly con- structed musical comedy in miniature entitled My Neighbours Garden. ? There are eight in the, cast, six of them girls of pretty face and form and the comedy end has been we'll provided for. The act is in two boun- tiful scenes and is a real treat.
 Joyce, Sienna and West have little dfmculty in registering complete triumph in their skillfully arranged singing, plano and novalty dancing faltahye that has much that is orig fnal. One of the trio is a pianist of unuspai gifts and the other two dancers of remarkable gracefulness. The act is . hit at every performance.
 The Club Trio, one of the best slnging organizations of it's kind that
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
BEALS BECKER
 A LUCKY GUY

Although he was given his uncondi- tiona1 release by the Phillies before the opening of the present season, Beals Becker hasn't any reason to complain of the brevity of his experi- ence under the big top. Beals figured in the distribution of worlds series loot with the Giants in 1911 and 1912, and last year with the Phillies he got another juicy cut out of the big base ball melon. The Kansas outfielder is certainly entitled to member in the Order of Lucky Guys, for lots of better players have never come within smell ing distance of even one wad of the series kale. i- A Ft
 Becker was born just thirty years ago today in Eldorado, Kan.,S and the name of his native town may account for his good fortune. He first donned the spangles in 1905. and for four years he played with Wichita and Lit tie Rock. Boston got him from the Arkansas capital in 1908, although the Pirates had previously given him a trial The Kansas played regularly in the outer garden for the Braves in 1909, but the following years he land ed with the Giants. McGraw got him in trade for Herzog. Becker wore the uniform of the big village for three seasons. in two of which the Giants won pennants. In the winter of 1912-1913 he was turned over to Cincinnati in a. deal, and he remained with the Reds until June of 1913. when he was swapped with the Phillies for Dodge, third baseman
 Becker made his minor league repu- tatfon mainly on the basis of stick work, swatting the pill over 300 with Wichita and Little Rock He didn't do so well with the Braves and Giants. but in 1913, when he Joined the Phil lies, he hung up an average of .316, and fattened this to 1925 the following year. Last season he batted .246. His weakness against southpaw twirlers alone prevented him from becoming one of the great sluggers of the big show.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
Campi After the
 Featherweight Title

Little Edward de Campus, who is known to ring followers as Eddie Campi, is French-Irish-Ameri by blood, but a simon pure American by birth, for he made his mundane de- but on the Fourth of July twenty -three years ago in that most American of states. California. Eddie halls from San Francisco. where he was born and reared, but since the unfeeling legis- lators of the\ Golden State outlawed the practice of his profession he has been favoring other. sections with ex- hibitions of his prowess. For years Eddie pursued the bantamwegiht title, and, at times, seemed on the point of attaining the. goal. Having taken on weight he is now on the trail of the featherweight championship, and there are many besides his manager who be- lieye that the little Californian can deliver the goods. Three years ago Campi tried td get a match with John ny Kilbane, and a Los Angeles promo ter offered. $5,000 for the bout, but Johnny couldn't see it.
 Eddie began his professional career when he was only fifteen and he has been fighting industriously ever since. His first twenty-round battle was staged in Los Angeles early in 1913, when he fought Kid Williams. Charlie Eyton gave the decision to the Balti- more boy, but it was very close and in the first ten rounds Campi easily outpointed the Dane. They fought against at Vernon a year later, when Eddie was knocked out in the twelfth round, although the fight had been practically even up to that time. Later in 1914 Campi lost the decision to Pete Herman in a twenty-round affair in New Orleans. Against these few defeats are to be placed scores of vic- tories over good boys in which Campi has shown championship class.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
HAVE MOVIES
 OUSTED NOVELS?

Librarians are much given to la nAenting the fact that the demand for their wares is confined so largely to fiction, to the exclusion of serious works. Let lem cheer up. Ten or twenty years hence the demand for ''best sellers will have ceased and the only patrons of the public libra ries will be bespectacled young men and grizzly gray-beards ofssombre as- pect and serious intent. The movies are going to make the novel writing trade look like the proverbial thirty cents. This, at least, is the opinion expressed a few months ago by the eminent southern novelist, Will N
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
FIRST TABULATED
 BASEBALL SCORE

Baseball didn't get much publicity in the early days. and the first game which was pignified by mention in print was played in 1853. In that year the New York Sunday Mercury and the New York Clipper began to sit up and take notice that there was such a pastime. Itswas just sixty three years ago today, July B.. 1853. that thd Knickerbockers and the Gothams of New York played a game whichNwas reported in the Clipper with tabu- lated score giving the number of runs scored by each player. This was the daddy of the box score of today, al- though it omitted most of the details now necessary to the adequate enlight- enment of the fan. The Knicker-. lockers won 21 to 12,g every member of the victorious club scoring at least one tally, while .Brotherson and Dick each made four runs, and Adams three. Half of the twelve runs made by the Gothams were scored by two players. Vail and Pipckney.l who got three each. Three of the Gothamites failed to make the circuit. The Knicker- lockers and the Gothams were the leading baseball clubs of America at that pegiod. In 1854 they figured in the-first of the diamonds drawn bat ties. playing twelve innings with g final score of 12 to 12. In those days the first club to score twenty-oner runs was the victor. and if the nine-inning system had been in vogue the Knicker- bockers would have won II to g., It was not until some time after the Clip per and other weekly publications had set the example that the, daily press began to pay any attention to base ball. While the game could not now exist without the newspapers to keep the interest alive, it is probably equally true that the paper which cut out Baseball wouldn't last long.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

July ', was the date. set for the opening of the first public kitchen to feed the populace of Berlin. This is one of the first results of the decision to organize communal feeding ofs the German capital, following the appoint ment of Adolph Tortilovitz von Batocki as flood dictator" of the German em- pire. It is the duty of Won Batocki, who has won fame as an administra- tor, to distribute the food supply of Germany equitably among the people.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

has played the Plaza in many moon is proving popular with its harmony and comedy while. Florence and In gersoii, a pair of strikingly pretty girls in songs and dances of unusual daihtiness display 3 wardrobe of won derful beauty and elaborateness
 5 .aThe Two. O'Clock Train." a two part. Keystone. completes the bill.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

President Wilson signed the Hay resolution to. provide for bringing members of the National Guard into the regular army service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

Y Greeted by cheering throngs all along the line of march, the 23rd In- fantry Regiment of Brooklyn, left New York for the border
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

2 Metal trade workers employees on the Panama Canal protested against an order charging rent for the use of government quarters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Production of the Ford Motor Go for the year ending July 31 will run we'll over 500,000 cars. ao
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

-' Annie Valoska died in a hospital at Yonkers after being struck by an ex- ploding automobile tire which flew from a passing car.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

Nathaniel Garrett, Quartermaster Sergeant of the 14th Regiment of Brooklyn, stationed at Mission, Tex, died of heart disease.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

Prices of both of Atlanta's after noon papers, the Journal and the Georgian, were raised from two to three cents a copy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

We carry in great variety one of the most staple lines of Memorandum and Blank Books. Old Hampshire Bond in Commercial and Social from Bankers Cases Wallets Tourist Writing Cases Greeting Cards for all occasions and marvellous assortment magazines and periodicals
 POST OFFICE NEWS STORE
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05

FUNERAL BOUQUETS
 AND DESIGNS. JOHN RICK & SON.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12
Roseburg School Notes

JULIA RECTOR, Editor
The lst, End and 3rd grades are learn
ing the poem, "Wynkum, Blynkum and
Nod"
The school room is prettily decorated
with thornapple beads, made by the
lst, End and third grades.
The small grades have sewing cards
for busy work.
John Staley is a new pupil in the
primer class.
We had our picture taken last week.
One of all the pupils, one of the school
building and one of Miss Wood
alone.
Musicians this week are Marie Well
man, Bernice Bailey and Mary Dafoe.
The third graders have mastered the
2s and 3's and are on the As.
Ednai Rector, Wilfori Gingrich and
Herbert Gingrich we're absent this
week.
The seventh grade has begun can
collation..
We have so many tardy people. If
parents would only cooperate with the
teacher along this line and start the
children to school fiye minutes earlier.
Ruth Menzies will receive pupils in
piano instruction and voice culture.
Call at house or phone 81.
A cold wave struck this section Mon.
day and many donned their Oyercoats
to keep out the chilly blasts.
Jas. +. Chisholm and wife, of Peck,
John Leitch and wife, of near Laurel,
visited Mrs. e. ). Brown today.
Emerson Cooper and wife were at
CrOswell this week to see Herman
Doelle who is in very bad health.
Under Sheriff Windsor was up from
Port Huron Tuesday night and We'd
nesday morning calling on friends.
Mrs. II. B. Brown returned the latter
part of last week from two weeks
visit with her son Dave at Pontiac.
4. Ii. Drake, Chas. Cavanagh and
wife and Mrs. David Welch autoed to
Flint Saturday and spent over Sunday
with relatives.
Word from relatives as to Rev. l..
Clarks condition is that he is very
weak and sleeps most of the time and
takes no nourishment.
Mrs. Grant Holden, Rex, Leta and
Bernice motored to Almont Friday
last and from there on to Detroit; re-
turning home Monday.
VIM. III. Little has opened a stock
of general merchandise at Roseburg
and is prepared to furnish anything in
this line at reasonable prices. Call and
visit his store and look over his stock.
Workmen are busy laying the cement
floor in Barr's entertainment hall. The
roof has been covered with the best of
asbestos roofing. 1t is expected to have
the building in readiness the latter part
of this month.
A special demonstration and sale of
King Clermont all fuel base heater was
held on the cement walk in front of
John Hutton's hardware Wednesday
and Thursday. A beautiful Axmin-
ster rug was given with each sale.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

NJ. p. CHURCH
Class meeting, morning, 9:30
Preaching 1000
Sunday School ll;l5
Sunday evening. 200
Everyone welcome.
+. J.. Crandall, Pastor
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Preaching service at 1000 a. m.
Sabbath school al llaW a. m.
Preaching service 100 p. m.
Mid week service Thursday evenings
at o'clock.
Waldren Geach. Pastor
AVOCA NJ Z, CHURCH
There will be preaching in the M. i.
church SUNDAY morning commencing
at llN0 o'clock.
Sunday school at 10 O'clock.
Rev. VandOren, Pastor.
FREE METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School at 1000 IA. m.
Class meeting at ll:m a. m.
Preaching at 7:W p. m.
Midweek service, prayer meeting at
7:30 Wednesday evening.
LaVern &. Morgan, pastor
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. j. h. Rheingans, of PinnebOg,
will preach in the First Presbyterian
church, Yale, both morning and eye
ming next sunday. lie comes as a
candidate for the pastorate and all
members aud attendants of the church
are urged To hear him. i he highest
testimonials are given him as minis
ter of the gospel, citizen and a bust
ness man. DO not fail to hear him
Sunday, either morning or evening or
both.
MECHANIC ST. CHURCH OF CHRIST
Sunday, Oct. Is
Morning service, 1890, local time,
Ed Mccall will have charge of the
service.
Sunday school, ll:30.
Prayer service, ZOO local time.
All welcome.
Eldred Charles, Minister.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
General Joffre's Prediction

General Joffre's utterances since
the beginning of the war have differed
from those of numerous other COM
manders in that while they never
admitted the possibility of defeat for
the Allies they were not designed to
belittle the power of the enemy or to
deceive those to whom they were ad-
dressed as to the magnitude of the
task lying before them. Confident in
tone, these addresses were not tainted
with boastfulness. and consequently
they have inspired a belief in Joffre's
sincerity and truthfulness> among all
who have followed his course.
1t is this quality of the French gen.
eralissimo that gives weight and i'm
portance to his declarations that the
tide Of success has begun to flow
strongly for the Allies and that
their triumph is approaching. From
other lips such opinions would COM
mand only passing attention; a po-
litical purpose, the necessity of
heartening hard pressed soldiers,
reinsurance for the civil population,
would be suspected as motives for
their publication. But Joffre, like
Kitchener, has never minimized the
labors or the danger that must be
overcome to win ultimate victory;
he has never underestimate the re-
sources, courage or skill of the enc
my. and in consequence of his ha-
bitual caution his present sanguine
expectations cannot fail to make a
deep impression.-N. Y. Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

When a Mans a Man: BY Harold
Bell Wright, = famous author who
illustrates his own book. Book Supply
Company, 231-225 West Monroe street,
Chicago. Price, S1.35.
When a Mans a Man is the sew
enth best seller" from Mr.. Wright's
versatile pen. With the appearance Of
his first book. That Printer of Udells,"
the novelist was heralded as Coming"
When his delightfully."- sweet story, The
Shepherd of the Hills" followed a few
years later it was said that he had
arrived" But it was something new
in the publishing world for an author
full books, and The Calling of Dan
Matthews" true to the four corners
of the EARTH" came as a genuine sur
prise.
When best sellers" continued to
come from his pen in THE Winning of
barbara Worth" followed by, Their
Yesterdays" and in turn by The Eyes
of the World" the question was
asked. what manner of man is this
who writes "best sellers" only?
Harold Bell Wright has been called
the apostle of the wholesome" and in
his new story, when a Mans a Man"
"a story of manhood-he has nobly
sustained the characterization. He has
never written q cleaner, better story,
nor one that IS more uplifting. 1t COM
bines those qualities that make THE
Winning of Barbara Worth" big and
viriIe novel with the qualities that
make The Shepherd of the Hills" a
sweet and simple story.
When a Mans a Man" is a story Of
the real heart of the life of the un-
fenced land of ranch and range in
Northern Arizona. The spirit and mo-
tive of the story is best expressed, per-
haps, in the familiar lines of that
plowboy poet so dear to the great
heart of the world. "A mans man
for a that"
While the pages are crowded with
the thrilling incidents that belong to
the adventurous life depicted. one
feels. always, beneath the surface of
the stirring scenes the great primitive
and enduring life forces that the men
and women of this story portray, and
we are made to feel and understand
that there come to everyone those
times when in spite of all, above all
and at any cost. @ man must be man.
The illustrations and decorations
about fifty in all--are made by the
author from sketches drawn on the
scenes of the story.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
TIE GRANGE AGAIN

TOHN A. McSPARREN, master of
the State Grange, ought to be
repudiated by every farmer who
has any interest in good roads. At
Bloomsbury the other day, before a
large gathering OF farmers, NIcSpar-
rem said that the Grange will go
on record against the loan by which
it is proposed to create a system of
good roads from one end of the Com
monwealth to the other.
The State Grange has been manipu-
lated so repeatedly for political pur-
poses in. recent years that it is not
surprising at this time to hear McSpar-
rem speaking for the whole of its
membership and telling the people in
advance Of the submission of the
question to the Grange. as a body,
that the Grange is going to be against
the road loan. For long time it has
been the custom Of the Grange officers
to assume supreme dictatory powers
and to force their own selfish views
upon thousands of farmers whenever
possible.
But in this case the Grange master
will find himself opposed by a mighty
public sentiment. The farmers of this
State are its greatest good roads ad-
vocates. They know that the State
can never build an adequate system
of highways without loan and they
know, too, that it will be the corpora
tions and not the farmers who will
have TO pay the taxes on the good
roads loan. They realize that every
dollar row spent on the roads by the
State is being Well spent and they
cannot be fooled by any such twadd!e
as the Grange officers put out for
farm consumption when the loan was
up before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
SAFETY LIGHTS

FRoM out the deeper shadows
Z of the broad susouehanna basin
these evenings. tiny red lights
beam a warning to wandering
eanoeist or mctorboatman to lay
his course to port or starboard;
the little d" lighthouses mark
the presence OF sand-pump. or
sucker" steamer or barge of the
Harrisburg Light and Power company
that the lanterns on the river fash
back to their brighter companions
along the front steps" is of triple
significance. incidentally the basic
code is safety first"
OF primary signifcance, of course,
is the fact that a perpleXing problem
for the canoeist and motorhoatman
is we'll on the way toward solution
through the enterprise of the public
utility corporation. as the electric COM
pany is the pioneer in the movement
to protect the smaller craft from the
bulkier boat at night; secondly, there
is the rare feeling of relief with which
the boatman may paddle or chug about
the river "basin"-at least so far as
the largest fleet on the river is con-
cerned; finally. there is the one mess
age that will mean so much to the
ever-growing membership of the
Greater Harrisburg Navy"-the ac-
tual demonstration of the inner mean
ing of the waving bar on the Navy
keystone-co-operation and protection
of the followers of the river. Pro-
lection of this kind has been one of
the chief problems that has confronted
the Navy" Many OF the officials of
the light company are on the Navy"
roster. They planned and carried into
effect the one scheme which other
river fleet officers should follow. The
red lanterns on the Susquehanna basin
already light the way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-12
AFTER THE WAR

TN the new German Union of Techni-
I cal and Economic Associations,
with its $4,000 members, there has
been organized the greatest industrial
body in any country in the world.
The members include architects, en-
gineers. electro-technical experts, ma
rine engineers, coal and iron men and
chemists.
Planned many years ago. the COM
pletion of the organization has been
hastened by the war, since one of its
main purposes is to prepare for the
great commercial battle which will
begin as soon as the military fighting
is at an end.
This German Union proposes to
work in close relations with similar
bodies in Austria and Hungary, the
ultimate aim being to incorporate
them all into a Great Central Euro
pean body of enormous extent and
power. 1t is argued that such a force
will make itself heard in the settle
ment of the great industrial problems
which will come up after the war and
the governments will be forced to pay
attention to the commercial interests.
And it is also asserted that the mill
tary interests of the State will benefit
also from such a powerful organiza-
ton as the technical sciences and
chemistry are all the time becoming
more important for the army and
navy and the general defense of the
country.
And yet our Democratic friends
twiddle their fingers at Washington
and tell US that the tariff is not a cam
paign issue. There is just one way to
entrench this country adequately
against such foreign competition as is
forecasted by the German union-and
that is behind a protective tariff wall.