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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
UNION PRINTERS PLAY BASEBALL
 AT|NDIANAP0L|S
Hundreds Gather for Ninth Annual Tournament in
 Mid, Western City.

Indianapolis, Aug. 5.-Hundreds of union printers arrived in Indianapo- lis to-day to attend the ninth annual Union Printers Baseball tournament which will be held during the ensu- ing week. The program for to-day included "get together" meeting at the hotel headquarters. President McGowan of Chicago delivered the address for the association. A. B. Hattery spoke for the local organiza- ton. Others on the program were Mayor Joseph E. Bell, and Charles A. Bookwalter.
 The first ball game will be played tomorrow. Pittsburgh will meet the Indianapolis team, and Chicago will play Boston. After those games the teams to take part will be decid- ed by a process of elimination, the winners have to play others each day until the championship is decided. Sunday night there will be musical entertainment for the women and men together,
 { Except for three ball games, be- ginning at 10:30 o'clock Monday morning that day is open with no definite program. Tuesday also will witness thre ames. The big even ing's entertaii. -nent for the men will come Tuesday night. The affair is to be in the nature of stag smok- CT. Jack Dillon and his sparring partner Gus Christie will box four rounds, to be followed by a teA ound bout between Pat McMahon In dianapolis, and Roy Hurst of New York Tommy Dillon and Std (vart Donnelly, an Indianapolis man, will then go for six rounds. Four rounds, between boxers who are not known so well will close the evenings enter tainment. While the men are at the smoker the women delegates will be, entertained at another affair.
 A twenty-five mile automobile race at the Speedway will be the at- traction Wednesday morning. Four well known race drivers will com pete. The rest of the day is to be used for a picnic. Thursday the ball games and a dance in the even ing are on the program. The cham pionship game will be played Friday afternoon. The prizes are the Gar ry Herman cup and Langston tro- phy. A business session Friday night, at which officers will be elected and the next tournament city selected will close the affair.
 More than 1000 districts where union printers are employed will Nbe represented at the tournament and 1,20O persons or more Is expected to attend before the end of the week. The present championship team is in St Louis. There are eleven base ball teams in the organization. They are: New York, Boston, Washington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis. --St. Louis. Cleveland, Chicago, St. Paul Phila- delphia and Pittsburgh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
HOW BIG WAS THE BABY?

I had heard great stories about the pyramids, but after seeing the stones at Baalbek those of the great ypra- mids looked like children's building blocks. In the quarry is a stone on whose upper surface | troop of cav airy could stand (if 1t, were small enough troop.) It is squared on five sides but is not yet detached from mother earth.
 The crude Arab story has it that a female giant was carrying it when ene heard her baby cry. She dropped it there and no one has moved it since. If that baby hadn't drawn its mothers attention from her work there would be today, in the walls of the temple, stone 70 feet long and IS feet square. It is a large stone, and will no doubt some time justify the amount of work that has been done on it. At present it helps six hotels, a dozen curio shops, score of muleteers and a station master
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
LYRlC

Next week at the Lyric theatre Nessrs. Bonville & Schoeneck present for the approval of Bridgeport play- goers that famous three-act musical comedy, Madam Sherry written by Otto Mauerbach. and music for which was composed by Carl Hoschna. The musical comedy to be produced by the Bonville & Schoeneck company of 40 people Is a revival of the play which had one of the greatest successes ever on boards in this country.
 The show will be put on in an elab- rate manner. nothing having been left undone by Mace Bonville, who is per- sonally directing the company in this city. to delight the large audiences en- toying a regime of musical comedy and comic opera at Bridgeport's pop ular playhouse.
 Tonight the last performance of 'cThe Mayor Tolio" will be given by Bonville & Schoeneck, and Judging from houses during the past few days the order will be "standing room only" The work of the principals, including John L. Kearney, the sing ing comedian. and William Sellery, who Is the mayor of the play, has aroused much favorable comment this week. Miss Yra Jeane Is starring as thep rima donna, while Dorothy Wright and effervescent Dave Mallen are proving as great hits as ever.
 Manager Isham stated today that motion pictures are not being shown at the Lyric. contrary to the belief of many. Bonville & schoeneck have one of the best musical comedy com panies playing stock in the country at the present time. Each of the prin- cipais Is a real star. while the large and beautiful chorus Is composed of many who have ripped the boards of Broadway. Prices for the shows are very popular with Bridseporters, and everything points to a successful sea- son for Bonville ( 6choeneck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

Australian government would uphold the British blacklist of certain firms under the trading with the enemy act.
 G. w. W. Hanger. of the United States Board of Mediation and Con- ciliation, left Washington for New York to discuss with representatives of the railroads and the Switchmen's Union of Northern America threat ened strike of yard employees on cer- tain eastern lines.
 Ed Spencer, catcher of the Vernon team of the Pacific Coast League, signed contract to play with the De- troit Americans
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
OF COURSE NOT.

That doctor claims to have dis covered an entirely new disease"
 T hope he won't publish the symp- tons of it."
 Why not?'
 People cannot have it if they do not know the symptoms, can they?"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
REAL PATRIOTISM IN CANADA

F. W. Baillie of Hamilton. Ont, as president of the Canadian Cartridge Company, has returned to the British treasury $750,000 of profits made le- ultimately and. properly out of the manufacture of ammunition for the British army. We may fairly as- sume that this is not mere individual generosity, and what was done and in by the directors and the of the company and that it is a shining example of Cana dian patriotism. In a colony which with 8,0O0,000 population, has sent 25s,00O men to the front, nobody need be surprised at the feeling that prompts the sacrifice of the Cartridge Company.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
THE FARMERS
 ADVERTISING SCHOOL,

All good advertising is aimed at the mind of the customer. Put yourself in. the customers place and try to see what he or she has in mind ard is trying to find.
 In advertising articles of women's wear, bear in mind these three ele- ments:
 Women want Style.
 Women want Service.
 Women want Economy.
 Men are indifferent to the semi-ar- nual waves of style that sweep through the merchandise world. To the ar tistic eye of women, these details have significance. They are part of either harmony or dissonance of color or de- sign. A style that is old seems ec- centric and makes person look shab- by and archaic.
 The dry goods advertiser notes carefully the details of the new styles and describes them specifically. They are interested and attracted to a place that seems SC up to date
 There are six elements that should be emphasized in all dry goods adver- Using;
 Price, Style, Materials, Workman ship. Liberal Stocks, Attractiveness of Exhibits.
 It is good idea to begin an adver- tisement with the lowest priced arti- cles, which sell the most readily. Later on you can work up to higher figures. If you can get people to come to the store to see low priced goods. 1t Is matter of good salesmanship to at- tract them to more substantial grades, sh owing how superior these are in dur ability, workmanship and style. But they would never have come there in the first place to see these higher grades.
 An advertisement that neglects to give prices fails to supply the most vital element of information.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

Seventy per cent. of the 45,o00 gar ment workers of New York, who have been on strike since April. have voted to return to work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

Masked bandits held up and robbed the bank messenger of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.,, at Detroit, es- caping with $37,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Mrs. Thomas Hammond. widow of the founder of Hammond, Ind, and one of the wealthiest women tin the state, is dead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

The wheat crop of the great North west, on both sides of the American Canadian line, was seriously damaged by hailstorms and tornadoes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

FUNERAL BOUQUETS
 AND DESIGNS, JOHN RICK & S0E
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

Right Rev. S. B. Ferguson, Bishop of Liberia, is dead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

Gus Flicker, of the Bronx, a patien in Fordham hospital. jumped from third floor window into the hospita court yard and was killed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

The exports of copper for the week ended Aug. were 6,071 tons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

l one of the wealthiest women in the state, is dead. l Masked bandits held up and robbed
 the bank messenger of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.,, at Detroit, es- caping with $37,000. Seventy per cent. of the 45,000 gar
 ment workers of New York, who have
 been on strike since April. have voted
 to return to work.
 The wheat crop of the great North west, on both sides of the American
 Canadian line, was seriously damaged by hailstorms and tornadoes. Gus Flicker, of the Bronx, a patient in Fordham hospital. jumped from a third floor window into the hospital court yard and was killed. For the second time in two weeks, Samuel B. Rodgers, 72, veteran of the Civil War, has disappeared from
 his home in Nutly, N. J. Police Sergeant George Thompson, assisted by Carl Asseman. saved the
 lives of Mrs. George Metcale and her four-year-ol son., John, who were drowning in the Railway River, N. J.
 A blooded Holstefn bull belonging to Isban Hass, wealthy Greene County, N. r., farmer, attacked him on his farm at South Durham, and before help could reach him gored him to death.
 President Wilson told delegation representing the National Association of Life Insurance Underwriters that he would try to address their national convention which is to be held in St. Louis, Sept. 19.
 The British Embassy protested to the State Department against the inn prisonment by the Carranza Govern ment of a British subject named Full i Ter, president of the Electric Light Co. of Mexico City.
 Charles G. Daws, treasurer of the 1 Chicago branch of the American re- lief committee for German widows and orphans. has forwarded $6,00O to John D. Crimmins, treasurer of the | general committee
 Secretary of State Lansing and Min ister Brun of Denmark in New York signed the treaty between the United States and Denmark under which this country purchases 'the Danish West Indies for $25,000,0O0.
 MT. Kennedy, United States Com mercial Attache at Melbourne, advised the Department of Commerce that the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

For the second time in two. weeks Samuel B. Rodgers, 72. a veteran O. the Civil War, has disappeared from his home in Nutly, N. J.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05

MT. Kennedy, United States Com mercial Attache at Melbourne, advised the Department of Commerce that the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-24
Narrow Escape.
tCenterville Outlook

NOcultENlllC OuilOOh.J
In attempting to ford Big Greek at
Sabula, on last Thursday about noon,
Louis Barton, the mail carrier bound
for Sabula with the mail and three
passengers, got into deep water and
the hack was upset and the pas
sengers, Mr.. H. R. Taylor of this
place, and Mrs. Everett Lester and
her five-year-o old daughter were pre-
cipitated into the rushing torrent of
water. When the hack started to
turn over they all got out the best
they could, Mr.. Barton and Mrs. Les
ter on the lower side of the hack and
Mr.. Taylor on the upper side with the
child clasped in his arms. Mr.. Bartou
being closer to the bank and some-
what out of the swiftest part of the
current rescued the mother more
easily than did Mr.. Taylor the little
child, he being in deeper and swifter
water and compelled to take down
the current to escape the horses who
had lost their footing and we're fast
being borne down upon him. He
finally got close enough to the bank
some distance below there to catch an
overhanging bush and passed the child
to Mr.. Barton and then with both
hands free he soon got out of the
water. The mother and child were
turned over to Mrs. Collins and daugh'
ter who provided them with dry cloth
ing. Of ourse no thought was giver
the team and they soon disappeared
from sight but as Don as Mrs Lester
and child we're rescued a search was
started for the team and they were
found nearly a quarter of a mile be-
low the ford in a drowning condition
and were gotten out. The hack wal
almost totally wrecked and the mai
lost, as was also Mrs. Lester's purse
| which contained several dollars, anc
her suitcase. Late that afternoon the
mail pouch from Centerville and Mrs
Lester's suitcase were found, but hel
purse and the Lesterville mail sacl
have not been found. Mr.. Taylor ant
Mr.. Barton both had on two heavy
overcoats and it appears almost like
a miracle that they all escaped will
their lives. They would have probably
crossed,in safety had it not been for thu
breaking of a hook on one of the
| singIetrees about the time the hach
reached the deepest part of the
| stream.
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accommodate with u present quar-
ters. With an increase OF from is to
IS students next year we would not
be able to accommodate all the stud
ents who will desire a High School
education. We are maintaining a first
class High School, but should our
small rooms for the four upper grades
become too much over crowded
the state superintendent of schools
will refuse to approve the work of
the High School and as q result the
Ironton schools would lose the State
aid that we are now receiving and also
We could no longer maintain the
Teachers Training Course which
means much to the young people of
Ironton and Iron county.
After the year 1918 all prospective
teachers will be compelled to secure
at least a High School education be-
fore they will be allowed to teach even
in the rural schools. The question
arises will. we be Iready to meet the
needs of the hour or shall we permit our
young people to be educated in the
High Schools of other towns? If this
happens there will be much less de-
mand for property and real estate
than we find to-day.
We can build a small building for
the High School at a very moderate
increase of taxes; perhaps not more
than twenty cents on the hundred
dollars assessed valuation would be
necessary and that would be needed
for a period of only Is or 20 years.
This, however, is a question which
concerns us all. Do we want to keep
the High School permanently in the
community? Some people have said
that the University has too much to
do with determining the courses of
study for the High Schools of Mis-
souri,. There is a move on foot to re-
move this control and allow the High
Schools to teach anything that is for
the best interests of the school. Will
we be ready for these changes when
they come? What plans will we have
for our local High School? Will we
be fully acquainted with the needs OF
the boys and girls Of Ironton, and will
we have a well.equipped building, such
as is necessary for a more practical
type of education? A STUDENT.
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financial matters is framed. He says:
"Let us have no patience with the
presumption that men who, mostly
from small beginnings, have fought
their way to the top after having pass
ed through the hard and searching test
and discipline of business, are to be
ignored or distrusted in the shaping
of the industrialan economic policies
OF the country, because of alleged in
capacity or unwillingness to take a
broad and patriotic view of national
questions directly or indirectly affect
ing their own interests. Let us lend
no c%ountenance to the presumption
that patriotism, virtue, and knowledge
reside primarily with those who have
been unsuccessful, those who have no
practical experience of business, nor
yet, be it said with all respect, with
those who are politicians or Office
holders"
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Says Government Should Handle
Railroads.

-
In an interesting article in the Feb
ruary number of the "World's Work.
on "The Government and the Rail-
roads" Otto II. Kahn, one of the
heads Of the big banking house of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., expresses some
striking and original views. Mr.. Kahn
takes the stand that government
regulation of the transportation lines
is preferable to government owner
ship, but declares the present system
faulty. He holds one nationalauthor-
ity should have sole charge of regu-
lating rates and other matters affect
ing interstate lines, and that neither
State Legislatures nor Commissions
should have any jurisdiction over such
carriers, excepting the exercise of
certain administrative, police or public
welfare powers within well defined
limits. The Interstate Commerce
Commission as at present constituted
is swamped with more work than any
seven men can possibly perform.
Mr.. Kahn enunciates the idea that
the national functions and character
of railroads are analogous to those of
national banks and that they should
be handled in the same manner. ''The
formula and principle of the banking
and currency legislation, viz, a strong,
effective and controlling central feder-
al board in Washington, relieved from
detail work and from certain essen
TALLY conflicting functions (Which
should be conferred upon a separate
body,) with regional boards according
to geographic groupings might prove
exactly suited to railroad legislation.
The same body which determines
earnings by fixing rates should be
charged with the responsibility of
hearing and determining wage dis
putes between railroads and their
employees, or, if that be not practic-
able, then at least with the duty OF
giving full weight and consideration
to all factors that go to enhance the
cost Of operating railroads, such as
legislative enactments like the Full
Grew Law, increased taxation, adj
vance in wages, etc.,
The hnancier also makes the point
that it should be the successful BUSH
ness man, and not the failure, whose
advice should be sought in govern
ment matters. Yet there is no coun-
try where the views Of Representatives
of business are so little needed and so
frequently rebuffed where legislation
affecting economic, industrial and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-24
Teachers Examination.

The next regular examination will
be held in the public school building,
Ironton, Friday and Saturday, March
Sd and 4th, 1915.
ORDER OF SUBJECTS-FIRST DAY.
Geography, s to $50 A. NJ.
Language, 8 to 1920 A. M.
Algebra, 10 to 11:30 A. NJ.
Orthography, HOO "A. NJ. to 1890 P,
NJ.
Grammar, 1880 to 8 P. NJ.
Arithmetic, 2:30 to 4 P. M.
Literature, 2:30 to 5 P. NJ.
Reading, 4:30 to 6 P. NJ.
SECOND DAY.
Civil Government, s to $50 A. NJ.
U. S. History, 9 to 1890 A. M.
Agriculture, 10 to 1880 A. NJ.
Adv. Science, IL A. M. to 1880 p. NJ.
Physiology, 1880 to 8 P. M.
Pedagogy, 2:3O to 4 P. NJ.
Adv. History, $3.50 to 6 P. NJ.
G. ". HANSON, Sup't.
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Should the High School be more
Practical?

There are many people who think
our public schools are not practical
enough, and l concur with them in
this opionion. Perhaps no n better
than the teachers themselves know
the faults OF the public school system.
The rapid revision of the courses of
study in the High Schools in Missouri
has been in many cases in direct OPP
position to public sentiment. Many
people who are saying that the schools
should be more practical are ready to
oppose any expenditure of money for
the purpose of making them more
practical.
Domestic Science and Manual
Training Departments require con-
siderable money for equipment, and
can only be installed in a building that
is adequate for such purposes.
The Ironton High School is making
an effort to be practical. The pupils
are taught bookkeeping, commercial
authentic, agriculture, American
History, Current Events, and Applied
English. The High School is con-
Educted in three small rooms; hence
the addition of Manual Training and
Domestic Science to the curriculum is
under our present conditions absolute
ly impossible. Many people In Iron
ton are beginning to feel the need Of a
separate building for the High School.
This is needed to furnish ample rooms
for Domestic Science, Manual Train
ing, and commercial courses; and also
an auditorium where all school enter
tainments could be held for both the
primary pupils and Bigh School stud
ents. With a good auditorium many
public programs, debates, etc, could
be held.
The High School is fast becoming
over-crowded. Four years ago last
September the enrolment was 20, for
the present year it is 10, more than
~ times the enrolment in 1912. w
now have all the students that we can
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-24

THE Army and Navy people are
extremely modest in their demands.
The Army board asks for a per-
manent expenditure gilmore than three
hundred millions per year and the
Navy board wants more than tWo hun
bred millions spent annually on the
navy-more than flee hundred millions
on the army and navy for each year!
Let them ask; but what fools the
people, who pay, would be to grant
their requests!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-24
VOLUME XIX. NUMBER SO.

WHATmore need for preparedness
now than last year, Or the year before
that, or in any preceding year of the
past century? If we manage to keep
the peace among ourselves, assault
from the outside is a possibility
negligible in its. remoteness.
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SURELY it is "gall" on the part OF
Republicans to criticise the Wilson
administration for lack of "prepar-
edness." We certainly have all the
''preparedness'' that almost fifty years
of continuous Republican rule provid'
ed for the country.
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THE lower house of Congress has
passed an act debarring from inter-
state commerce the products made in
whole or in part by children under
fourteen years in workshops and fac
tories, and under sixteen years in
mines and quarries. The intent of the
act is all right, perhaps; but why
make it a Federal law? Are not the
states, to which the right Of police be-
longs, possessed of sufficientrigheous-
ness to guard the welfare of the citizen
in domestic matters? I don't like it
that a professedly Democratic house
votes for a still further extension
of the already overgrown police
power assumed by the general gov
eminent. Unless a halt is called
in such legislation, we may prepare
for the abolition of State rule, the
Capitalization of all power at Wash
ington, and the Federal d%espotism that
is sure to follow. Old-time Jefferson
ian Democracy seems to be ready for
the scrap-pile, but 1 would prefer to
have Republicans, rather than Demo-
Gratis, cast it owe among the rubbish.