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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-11-22

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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-11-22
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
JAPANESE RAIL TEAM TO VISIT THIS COUNTRY
 AND PLAY COLLEGIANS


 The baseball team of Waseda Uni sversity of Tokio, Japan, which will visit this country during the coming spring at the invitation of the Univer- sfty of Chicago, leaves for the United States within the next week Reports from the Orient are to the, effect that the Japanese players are already In training and expect to demonstrate the strides that baseball has made in Japan in recent years by winning number of games from the college hines of the Pacific coast and middle west
 It is thought that the waseda team will play it's first game in this country late in April or early in May. The details of the itinerary are now be- ing arranged by P. R. Des Jardien, former au-American football center and star pitcher of the University of Chicago Des Jardien will meet the Japanese players on their arrival at San Francisco and accompany them eastward on the trip which will end at Chicago, where a final series will be played with the University of Chi cago team early in June
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
The Uncertainty
 of Modern Trade.

Formerly merchants used to make customers for a lifetime Trade was handed down from father to son. IT your parents had always patronized a certain store; you kept on buying there If a merchant had always dealt fairly you were as slow to go elsewhere as to discharge a faithful family doctor People hated to change trade rela- tions
 Whatever can be said in favor of that point of view, it has gone by now People like to change around from store to store. They like to test out various merchants, and patronize the one that for the moment seems to have landed the best bargains. The fact that they bought goods of A to-
 proves that they will buy there to-
 Hence it becomes necessary for mer- chants to keep up a constant campaign
 of solicitation. In order to get bus mess, they do not as formerly have to work against fixed trading habits It is not difficult to get new business The person who bought of the other fellow yester day, will come your way to-mor- row if you make a little effort to prove to him that it's worth while.
 You may admire the loyalty of the family that used to stick to one store and buy nothing elsewhere. But there was a danger that the merchant would come to feel that he owned that trade. It would be human nature to make little less effort to please since he was sure of Keeping it.
 No one store has any monopoly of bargains. Sometimes one will make a strike. sometimes another. The only way to find out where you can buy to best advantage is to read the news
 papers carefully. Time is too pre- cious for people to tramp all over the stores and personally examine and compare everything. Those who do it usually go through the woods and pick up crooked stick at last. There is economy of time, effort, and money in seeing what the merchants say through the newspape The
 man with a. real bargain doesn't keep still about it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Trachoma is the menace of the mountains. blighting curse of the hills. But it is slowly retreating be- fore the surgeons knife and sanitary education.
 The Hindman settlement School, on the banks of Troublesome Creek which until two years ago was the only school of the sort within DO miles, found in it's yearly clinics that tras- chona was a growing menace in that vicinity! The sufferers called every thing of the sort by the indiscriminate title of sssore-eyes'' or tcat-tracks, With a primitive sort of fatalisn, they were resigned to seeing friends or fam fly become stricken and blind.
 Burden for the State.
 From the school, a realization of the seriousness of the disease was com 11unicated to the local health authori- ties and eventually to the state off, cials Though ostensibly a burden for the state to shoulder. it had assumed such proportions that the state au-' ,thorities decided that only federal fla cilities could deal with it effectively
 To this end, Passed Assistant Sur geon McMulIen of the U. s. Public Health Service made a pilgrimage to- six of the counties in eastern Ken lucky, which resulted in the opening of the government hospital at Hind man.
 Perched on a bank. a little above the main road, the hospital is. a one floor dwelling built like the majority of mountain homes, with rooms on either side of the "dog-trot," or hall, in the middle.y It differs from the av- craze mountain home in, one great re- spect-it is spotlessly clean.
 But within those four walls, the ven- ture met with such instantaneous sue cess that Dr. McMu1len took irnme- diate steps to have like hospitals or gantzed in other mountain districts, one in Hyden, Leslie County; and an- other in Jackson of Bloody Breat- hitt.'
 The aim of the government work CTS is of course twofold: Cure and prevention. Dealing with actual cases, not too far advanced in the dis ease, is a comparatively easy matter. In earlier stages, the inside of the eye lid through constant inflammation, is covered with granulations, which in time irritate the cornea to such an ex- tent that scars are formed there, lead ing to eventual blindness. The treat ment requires the operating-room; and although the majority of those aff1ict- ed come willingly enough, others need a special invitation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
INDOOR TRAINING WAS
 HELP TO YALE CREW
 CLAIMS COACH. .NIGEkALLS

r The rowing season at Yale has opened full of life and vigor, says Coach Nicka1ls. in the Yale Alumni Weekly. Our defeat by Columbia last fall has had an excellent effect on the recruiting, as more candidates than. ever have come forward deter mined. at least so far as numbers are concerned, that there will be plenty of material from which the coaches can form crews of sufficient merit to place Yale oarsmanship for a second year in succession absolutely at the head of affairs as regards the cham pfonship of American colleges, and this once again beyond dispute.
 Perhaps the ice and snow which made our debut on the river so late this season has really been a@blessing in disguise, for if anything is guaran- teed to discourage a doubtful man it the dreary monotony of rowing on ma chimes day after day and week after week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
SLIM LOVE DOES FINE PITCHING tR
 HIS HOME TOWN

Memphis. Tenn, March S1--Tn1S jkas sr-a Love day in Memphis. Tenn, ss-.-- the Yankees celebrated by licking the local Chicks, g to A. All of Sims brothers, sisters, cousins and pals from fhis corner of Tennessee. as well as from the nearby Love station, Miss, took possession of one corner of the local grand stand and let all the world k1ow they were for Elmer Houghton Love first, last and al the times-
 One sunburned Tennessee fan, with pondercus limbs, insisted on calling lhe feet 2 1-2 inch fmember of the Yankee pitching tribe .'Kid," and re- peatedly beloved from his cayernous lungs Come on, Kid; show 'em what you got.'
 Love may have had bad heof. but he did not have a bad left arm Slim surely tried to show the old folks what he had in stock and he didn't pitch a slow ball for, five innings. In, that lime he buzzed in the ball like d sec and Rube WaddeH and struck out half a dozen of Dolly Stark's Chickens Love has as much speed as any young ster we saw break into the game since JohnsOn's time, and that is 9 strong statement-
 Dolly Stark, the old Ebbets hireling. has collected a team of major league dlscardss in the Bluff City, but his team doesnst look like a bluff. The boys are wee bit slow, but look like the best 6utflt the Yanks have encountered during their sightseeing tour around the Southern association
 Frank Baker had his best day since joining the Donovan forces. The Maryland mauIer slapped but two sin gles and double, scored one run and drove in three and stoIesa a base. Gill hooley Magee and Gedeon were other useful Yankees in the offense sGil's zoe la ankle did not prevent him from car rying home three runs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
BRIDGEPORT

with the spartan-lilxe courage that dts- tinguishes the mountaineer.
 The strongest ally of trachonna in the mountains is the family towel One flaps in the doorway of every mountain cabin, and when child with sore eyes and three with sound eyes have been using it indiscriminately for g weeks or more, the result is not hard to foreteIl. By the well there is us- ualIysa a hollowed-out stone basin filled with stagnant, unchanged water, where the family, sick and we'll, per- form their ablutions.
 On the beds, built for three or four, are dirty blankets on which sore eyes are wiped. Let a patient, cured on the operating table at hospital, go back to such surroundings and it will not be long before he is again riding up to the clinic
 It is hopeful sign to see the stan dard of living in town houses near the school and the hospital. in conn parison with those of the outlying dis tricts. The force of example and the campaign of sanitary educatious are every day widening the circle. The insistence of the 'furriners'' on sep-l arate towels. is not regarded as sol nysteriously "fotchedon' as it was in the early days. There was a time when an old woman, visiting the tsset- tlement'' for the first time, made as her only comment;
 'sGee-ohI You-'uns must hev a moughty big old towel for all them children!'
 Such is a part of that great move rnent for conservation in our country.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

] Two or three days a week the doc tors ride out on their searching visits, combing the length and breadth of Knott county for suspects. Behind them is the moral backing of law and the very actual presence of the county sheriff, who is as quick to answer a call as he is on the trigger. Few will fully resist under these circumstances when actually caught, but it often hap pens that the suspect is 'fnot at home, " when the physicians arrive.
 E There is one telephone line in Hind man now, which stretches for a few miles through the valley. and which has caused the doctors a great deal of annoyance. For a while advance information seemed to travel faster than usual, but the wire was not sus- pected until pr. Duke caught noun taineer in the act. He did not hear the doctor come in as he was passing the word Paul Revere route of warning:
 ..You-alI better watch out. The doctors is airnin' to ride up Lef' Hand Fork"
 It is only fair to the great majority of mountaineers to assert strongly that such cases are few in number As a community, the inhabitants are deep ly grateful for the medical aid, which they often regard nothing short of miracle. Those who shring from it do so 1n the1r SuperSI1tlOuS H1SnO- rance, born of century-long isolation within mountain barriers
 Ride along any trai! in tt.is region and you may see on all sides visible signs of the scourge. You will see men in the prime of life with hats pulled over hideously tortured eyes; old people shuffling along with the uneertain steps of blindness; a moth CT, her eyes b1ood-shot and running, bending over the baby at her breast; and little children hiding beneath the furniture in squalid huts, afraid to bear the pain of being in the sun.
 Saturday Morning Pilgrimage.
 On Saturday mornings, the forerun- ners of the pilgrimage begin to arrive at the hospitals as early as six or sew en. Whole families come in jolt wag- ons, the women in calico and home spun and the huge black silk sun-bon- nets without which no mountain wo- man is we'll dressed. Sometimes one of these sun-bonneted figures appears on horse or muleback, perched on a meal sack behind her lord and mas ter. It is no uncommon sight to see a man and two children on a mule, the little girl always seated decorously be- hind. Whatever comes they take
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
1869 MAIN STREET.

soon discovered that in Murphy he was up against the toughest proposi- tfons he had ever faced. Frank was clever and game. but Ike had the shade in the early rounds. After the 4oth Ike began to slow down, while Murphy seemed as strong as ever, and the crowd began to demand that the referee stop the contest and call it a draw. The official refused, and the fight went on. Then men grew slower and slower, and with occasional spurts, each trying to land a knock out, the fight dragged on. At day light the officers arrived and stopped the bout, as the tired and battered boys were facing each other in the SOth round. It was planned to re- sune the contest later, but the project fell through, and Weir and Murphy never met in the ring again.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
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ELLIS LIKELY TO REPEAT AS 3 CUSHION CHAMPION.

With a month left to play out the
 cIaeduIe of the Interstate Three Cushion Billiard League games, it begins to look very much as though Charles Ellis, who represents liar ry Davis of Pittsburg, and the worlds champion at his style of game. will repeat his winning the Championship amonOg the players of that orga nization.
 Last season Ellis, and 4kieckhefer played off for the honor, each of these two players represented diff ferent cities then, Ellis for CIeve- land and Kieckhefer for Milwau- lSee, and 1t took three extra games to decide the championship. The champion has practically been in the lead all season, and with only a few games yet to play on his sched- uIe, it is going to take some hard work to dethFone him, unless he goes to pieces, which is hardly like ly.
 The success of the league has been phenomenal this year, and with only few changes in the cir cult, Cincinnati giving up one of it's franchises, President Cooler of In- tIianapolis taking it over. One of the two franchises at Milwaukee was transferred to Peoria. while enc Chicago room gave sp its fran chfse only to be taken oyer by an- other. These are the only rooms that made a change. Several play CTS were changed, Stone in New York for SIosson, Jones of Phila- deIphia for Danlxleman, ScanIin at Cleveland for GiIlissde, Cannefa- at St.. Louis foT. Benson, Cation and then Casper at Indianapolis for I1ss- nothe of Cincinnati which trans ferred it's franchise to the Indiana City.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
FEDERAL AND STATE LIQUOR
 REVENUES ARE $s25. .OOO, 900


 The total annual federal and state liquor revenues amount to about SS25,- 0O0,0O0, according to the 1916 number of the Prohibition Manual, issued by the Publicity Departmenb of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association of America. The publica- tion's statistics are compiled from of- ficial state and government figures for the year ending June 80, 1914, in the case of federal income and for the year 1913 where state revenue is con- cerned.
 The federal income, internal reve- nue, amounted to $22b,179, 689-76i federal incomes from duties. $19. .671,- 315.05; and incomes from states from licenses, $79,547,S6S. The SIS, ,671.- s15.O5 received in duties was uaGs up of $1,915, 6Oe.11 for malt fquo-s. $10,7S0, ,O58.27 for distilled spfrrrs. S6.- 509, 9,45O.13 for wines and $466,19T.5A for other beverages. The total inter nal revenue for the year ending June 30, 1914, was $S8O, The liquor industry tops the list with s226.- 179, ,6S9.76. The tobacco industry paid $79,986 639.6S; oleomargarine, $1, 825,- 219.13;. miscellaneous, $1,1S6, ,O7O.66; corporation excise tax. S1O,671, 1,O7T.221 corporation income taZs $S2, 4b6s- 662.67, and individual income tax, $28,253, ,5S4.S5.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

the Maroon nine last year the teams. of Chicago and Waseda met in a. se ries of seven games all of which were won by the Chicago collegians A majority of the contests were hard fought, however, and the American players were forced to play high-class ball in order to defeat their Oriental opponents.
 During the series Chicago scored 80 runs to Waseda's seven, shutting out the laps in four of the seven games. Because of these shutouts, Chicagos average of 4 2-7 runs per game against Waseda's one run per game. gave the series a one-sided appearance which was not borne out in the play.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
BASEBALL BITS

Infielder Eddie Mcdonald, last sea- l son with Atlanta, and made a free
 agent. has been signed by the Bir-
 mingham Club. Ie The Salt Lake Club, to which Bill l Kenworthy reverts under the Peace ! Agreement, may protest the signing of
 this ex-outIaw by Oakland. l The Topeka Western League club 1 has given releases to Bill Rapps, the veteran catcher, and Izzy Bostick, the 1 shortstop who was sent West by Con-
 nie Mack.
 Al Darney, a Pittsburg semi-pro who had a trial with the Pirates last 1 spring, has been signed by Manager l Tommy Leach for his Rochester team. Darney is an outfeIder.
 The veteran Roy Patterson former ly with the White Sox and later with 1 the Minneapolis Millers, has been signed by the St. Joseph Club of the l Western League. Last year he was in the Northern League.
 Sheldon Lejeune, having announced his annual retirement from baseball, has, as is his regular custom, chang l ed his mind and signed his contract with the Sioux City Western League tclub-
 i Only five players who were on the Portland Coast League team lasf<year are found in the ranks this spring as the team starts practice They are Lush, Figgfnbotham, Speas, Fish CT and Stumpf.
 Pitcher Til1er 1Pug) cavet. formerly of Detroit, who drew an uncondition-
 al release from San Francisco re- gently, has caught on with the Mo bile. Southern League team. It was from Mobile that he went to Nthe Tf- gers. .r
 The Dayton Club of the Central League is building up aa high class team. It has secured Catcher Otto la cobs from Rockford of the Three-I and Judging from his showing last year he should be salable material in the fall.
 George (Buck) Doyle, who played first base for Peoria under Izzy1 Hoff- man last year, has been signed by Quincy of the same league. Boyle was one of the few live ones that Hofs-
 man brought West out of the Tri- State League
 Walter Lonergan, judged the best shortstop in the New England League last year, has signed to play with Buffalo of the International League. He played with Portland last year CTS in exchange. ; Tine new grand stand of the Waco,l Texas League club has been complet- ed at a cost of S3.5o0 and was put in 1 use last week with exhibition game. | The cost of the improvement was borne by public subscription among Waco fans.
 Down in Dallas they call the local Texas League entry the Giants How 1 ever, since most of the team gather ed by Harry WelchonceY consists of Pennsylvania seni-pros the fans are suggesting that the name be changed and Quakers be used instead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

18ss-Tke Weir and Frank Murphy fought s0-round draw at Koutz, Ind.
 Those who saw this battle will proba- bly, babble about it with their dying breath. Although the worlds feath- erweight championship was at stake. only about a hundred dead game ones were let into the secret. The contest was staged in the little town hall, and did not commence till after midnight. Murphy was the champion of Eng land, while Weir, a native of Ireland, held the American title. The Spider
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
PIRATES WIN CONTEST
 FROM BOSTON RED SOX

Hot Springs, Ark, March S1-The Pittsburgh Nationals defeated the Boston Americans here yesterday. 9 to I Johnston's home run and a rum hing catch by Baird at centre were the features. The score:
 R. HE tsosfo11 2. 0, Pittsburgh 2 B O Batteries Mays, Shore and Agnew, Cady; Miller. Moran, KantIehner and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Two Socialists. charged with melt ing munition workers to strike, were arrested in Glasgow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31
DRIVING TRACHOMA OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS Government Fighting to Save Eyesight From the ScOurge of the Family Towel.
 By DOROTHY H. STILES
Countx sherifr on Call.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

The veteran Roy Patterson former ly with the White Sox and later with the Minnea polls Millers, has been signed by the St. Joseph Club of the Western League. Last year he was in the Northern League.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Al Darney, a Pittsburg semi-pro who had a trial with the Pirates last spring, has been signed by Manage Tommy Leach for his Rochester team. Darney is an QutheIder.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Sheldon Lejeune, having announced his annual retirement from baseball, has, as is his regular custom, chang ed his mind and signed his contract with the Sioux City Western League club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

George (Buck) Doyle, who played first base for Peoria under Izzy Hoff- man last year, has been signed by Quincy of the same league. Boyle was one of the few live ones that Hofs- man brought West out of the Tri- State League,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

Only five players who were on the Portland Coast League team lasfyear are found in the ranks this spring as the team starts practice. They are Lush. Higgfnbot bothan, Speas, Fish CT and Stumpf.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

The Topeka Western League club has given releases to Bill Rapps, the veteran catcher, and Izzy Bostick, the shortstop who was sent West by Con nie Mack