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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
PORSCH MANAGED
NOW BY BROTHER

, Walter Porsch, we'll known
3 to local fight fans, who {:
, comes from Roy, where he
> is engaged in the cigar and
, confectionery business, is Z
, now being managed by his q
D brother, Fred Porsch. He has
D been under the wing of J. Z
Boscoe almost since the time &
when he first started into the q
D fight game. One of the boys Z
D who is often seen in Porsch's Z
B corner is Clarence Sullivan, Z
, who entered the ring with
B Porsch last night as a substi- q
D tute for Eddie Crawford, and 4
) entertained the fans in 9
, unique manner for four Z
rounds. 9
D Walter will again enter z
, the ring at the Dupont smok- Q
, er tonight. Both he and his Q
} manager are predicting . vic Q
, tory at tonight's show at .
} Powdertown. .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Introducing Charles McCourt,
the new three-cushion billiard
champion of the world.
A player of the old order, yet
one Of the youngest in the game,
McCourt, depends upon brilliant
play to win matches instead Of
playing 'em safe and trying to
keep the other fellow from maxi
ing them.
McCourt is known TO billiard
lists as the most brilliant player of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
Want ZanloCh

OAKLAND, Feb. 16.-Oakland
and Salt Lake are both after the
services of Carl Zamloch, the slug
cling Northwestern league first
sacker. The Seals offered 81 1000
for him, but Nick Williams, man
ager of the Spokane team, which
owns Zamloch, rejected the offer
because it did not provide immedi-
ate payment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

When Frank Mcintyre was
playing on the stage in his great
success, 1.-THE Travelling Sales
man." he had a few clever re-
marks to make concerning fat
man and a Pullman sleeping car.
But when the Famous Players
concern decided to star the famous
comedian in an adaptation of the
play, he was informed, to his dis
may, that he would have to play
the scenes in the sleeper instead
of talk about them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

which worried the challenger.
In the next two rounds Nc
Courts wizardy over the balls re-
turned and he recovered lost
ground and won handily.
McCourt plays rapidly, some
thing unusual in a three-cushion
player, and often dazzles and I'M
nerves his opponents by the ra-
pidity and brilliance of his play.
"McCourt is the greatest shot
maker | have ever SEEM George
Moore exclaimed after the cham
pionship match.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
Skaters Race

One of the most interesting roll
err skate races of the season will
be staged at the Glide tonight
when Roy Craig and Kerosene"
Ellie, who hold the distinction OF
being Tacoma's best skaters, will
stage five mile race.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
Harmon Sold
To COlumbuS

NEW YORK, Feb. 16. - Joe
Tinker announced today he has
purchased Bob Harmon of the
Pittsburg Pirates for his Column
bus American association team.
Harmon is the last of the st.
Louis players who went to the
Pirates in a big deal few years
ago, to be disposed of by Pitts
burg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
BASKETBALL
Results of All the Latest
Games in Tacoma and
Elsewhere.

Maintaining a safe lead all the
way, the Bellingham Normal
school team defeated he College
of Puget Sound quintet on the Y.
M. c. A. floor last night, 80 to
IA. The Normal boys appeared
heavier and better trained than
the Tacomans. Good advice by
Coach Robbins between halves
caused the c. p. s. boys to show
a clever rally in the latter part
of the game, running up nine
points in a rush. The rally did
not last long enough to make any
change in the reuslts. Void,
Rocky, Kenneth, White, Daven-
port, Ford and Anstett were the
visiting players. Miller. Curtis,
Huntington, Hanawalt and Woody
c. P. S.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
OPEN TANKS TO
SCHOOL CHILDREN

Grammar school boys and
girls will have their first
chance to plunge into the
crystal waters of Stadium
high schools new tanks to-
morrow morning.
The big pools will be form
ally opened to the grammar
school children at 8 o'clock.
They have been open for the
past two weeks, but only to
Stadium pupils.
Grammar classes will be
held every Saturday here
after, under direction of two
experts, w. T. Duggan and
Miss Nell Stringfellow.
} 9 8 q o q q g q Is q q, q Is a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Beutel Business college and Lin
coin Park high school will meet
on Lincoln floor tonight. Beutel
has good team this season, and
promises to give the high school
boys a run for their money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
-FOUR BOUTS

Results at the Sodality A. C.'s
smoker last night in st. Leo's
gym: Joe Richmond No. 2 had a
shade over DOC" Monaghan; Ed
Crawford had an edge on Paul
Heniger; Eddie Quinn and Eddie
Herpasen boxed an exhibition;
Young LaPlante defeated Kid
Mason.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
CONNERS WILL MEET
JOE HILL AT DUPONT

For the benefit of Tacoma fans,
He'll has arranged for three auto
stages to leave the Central Bus
station at 6:15 sharp, this even
ing. The show begins at 7:30.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Another victory was won by the
South End Midgets yesterday aft
ernoon when they trimmed the
Oriole A. c., IS to 6. A. Wads-
worth of the Midgets made 20
points.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
e, Pyramids VS.. Watch

Earl Brooks, who has played ann
teur, semi-pro and professional
ball in this city for many sea-
sons, will coach the Mckinley
Hill team in 1917.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
Earl Brooks, catcher on the Clear
By BILLY CAIRNS

Carl Brooks, catcher on the Clear
water & Burkepile's Ideals base
ball team last season as well as
for the coming season, an
nounces that the Mckinley
Dancing club will give a PA
triotic Dance" at Campbell's
hall next Friday night. Brooks
says he has been fortunate in
securing the services of the pop
ular Crows orchestra to furn-
ish the music for the occasion.
During the summer months
Earl plays ball, and in winter
he is instructor at the dancing
academy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
COMMISSION STEPS
ON PLAYERS FRAT
Omitted Press Leased Wire.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16-The National commission
yesterday ratified the resolution of the National abrogatng
the with the baseball players This
formally recognized the Frat and its right be represented in
body before organized baseball
This action following the President Fultz'
strike call yesterday,
social
aboring union powers
Commission members their 20.
the National action defines the position all
ball
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Bob Fitzsimmons, champion
of champions" and Bobby, jr.,
who is TO become q champion, ac-
cording to his enthusiastic father.
They are headlining the bill at
Pantages this week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Chronic and Nervous dis
eases readily respond to my
thorough and exhaustive
methods of treatment. 1t Is
an error NOT to consult a
specialist who has had years
of successful experience in
the treatment of your pa,tic-
ular ailments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

The Seattle bowlers will meet
Jimmy Radonich's Old Tacoma
Fishermen on the Old Tacoma
alleys Sunday in a return game.
The game is scheduled to start
at 2 p. m. and should be classy
contest, as these teams repre-
sent the cream of Tacoma and
Seattle's pin-smashers. After
the big game a special match
will be rolled between Vitiach
and Radonich, of Tacoma. and
Perry and Robb, of Seattle.
Roy Elkins, one of the city's best
smoke BALI artists, will devote
most of his time to umpiring
this season, he says. He likes
to make the other fellow get
'em over. Furthermore he'll
get revenge on some of the fell
lows who failed to give him the
corners last season.
Ono way of winning a golf game
is to report at a certain time
at the links, not telling anyone
that you are going to be there,
then claim the game, because
some one was not there to play
with you. This was what a GER
tain scribe staff did last Sum
day. Some nerve!!lI
Bowling on the Shaw q SouIe al
leys tonight consists of three
scheduled league games: Com
mercial league, Postoffice W..
Stone-Fisher; p. o. league,
White sox VS.. Red Sox; Minor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16
Don't Stay Away
On Account Of
Money Matters

hOu Soh P"y psS "pap' NhSh
benefited, in weekly or
monthly installments. My
prices are within the reach oi
every mGn.
My advice and consultation
are free to the afflicted
whether treatment is taken
or not. am always glad to
explain my methods and give.
friendly advice to all who
call. Hours, o a. m. to 3 pr
m. daily. Evenings, 2 to 4
o'clock. Sundays, 10 to IA
only.
No mail applications con
sidered. A personal call
necessary in every case.
J. J. KEEFE, PHI. a., NJ. D.
e521k Pacific Ave, CoE.-taa
Street, aTN9Qy,....s III
Private ;..sss a:
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Hnssess 20 = 80 =
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-16

Read 1.-THE Story of Julia
Page" 1t will be published in
The Times beginning Monday.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
The Jealous Colonel.

We've always had a sneaking sort OF
notion that he who would farm success
fully must attend to his farm business
and not putter with other anairs-such
as editorial writing, for instance-and
now we know 1t. Here's a concrete ex-
ample: On Saturday. when potatoes
were selling in Caribou, Me, at $50 the
barrel, and in Portland at 81 per peek,
Chad, of the kenebec journal: naui i',.
into Augusta, on a handsled from MS
ranch in Farmingdale. five bushels. plus.
of very healthy spuds, for which he re-
'ceived the munificent sum OF slo'eo. More-
over. that easy-going MISUNDERSTANDING
even boasted of having received $50 much
money for "such little mess" OF po-
tatoes: and he used the ten-eighty-three
10 stock I'D with axle-grease and other
provisions, and toddled back with his
bobsled to Farmngdale, as happy as II
Caribou. 0. Houlton! o, Pressure Isle!
such iconoclastic debasement of the sa-
cred Observation-Disclosures Union.
Now we understand why Secretary
Daniels d emanded censorship. No
state secrets are safe from the prying
nose and babblng-er-pencll or such
as Colonel Condor and some others OF
the p. p. p. One cannot buck the
produce trust for humanity's sake, or
sneak a potato into the contribution
box for the good of the church. with
out being heralded as a philanthropist.
With such Argus-eyed betrayers OF
the joys of little acts of kindness al
ways shopping around, our right hand
is naturally bound to discover what
orr left hand doeth Henceforth we're
with Joepiffieus for suppression OF
list of photographers which we shall
prepare and add to as offenses ne
cessitate. We had about decided to
donate a cabbage to each of the Maine
colleges as an endowment for chalr
of paragraphy, but we are going to do
as Pats and Knocks Owens hens did,
rpcant
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
A Question Of Personal Honor.

II a doubt fingers today in the mind
Of any member Of the Legislature as 10
his duty in voting on the equal SUI
frase amendment, let him remember
that all the suffragists ask Is fair play
Both parties are pledged to suffrage
and IL party platforms are to stand for
anything before the people. the men
who are elected on those platforms
should act in accordance with those
pledges.
Citizens. both male and female, OF
this State have asked for an expression
Of the voters as 10 whether the Con-
stitution shall he so amended as To
grant equal franchise rights between
the sexes. The Republican party S
wisest leaders long ago saw the justice
Of that demand and urged it's accept
ance. The sentiment mas grown unit,
every citizen of voting age in the
state is familiar with the question.
Political parties have officially recoS-
nized the public desire.
Now. if "A few members of the Re
publican party. elected on a suffrage
platform, accomplish further delay by
standing between the voters and their
rights. what excuse shall that party
make to the people?
AS a newspaper standing for Repub-
nt.fn nj I'D Al &c
best for Repll lican candidates pledged
10 the Larty platform. We urge every
Republican member of both houses to
redeem that platform. We cannot be-
lieve that any member can square his
conscience on any other ground.
Al this stage II is not matter of
personal preference on the suffrage
question; IL is a question Of whether a
member is 10 stand behind the party s
pledges and help to make them a sacred
contract to be respected and honored
by all citizens; or, whether member
will. by putting personal prejudices
ahead of LOYALTY to his party's honor
defeat the party's honest purpose.
The personal preference of a mem
Der comes when he goes into the voting
booth. but up to that time he is obi
gated to carry cut the party's pledges
by reason of his acceptance of the
platform and election on those prin.
ciples.
IL IL not q matter only # Justice +,
the suffrage faction of our citizenship
but Of party honesty. We sincerely
nope that no Republican member will
register blot of insinoerity agains,
his party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
VIM. DRISCOLL, Sec
MILITARY AFFAIRS.

The committee on military affairs will
give public hearing in It's room at the
State House, in Augusta,
TUESDAY, Feb. q, 1917 at P. NJ.
Act relating to the decoration of vet
Grams (soldiers and sailors) graves.
Resolve appropriating money for the
care and maintenance of FIT. William
Henry in the town of Bristol.
Resolve for memorial in honor OF
Major General Hiram G. Berry.
Resolve appropriating money for the
mory for the use Of the National Guard
in the city of Bangor
Resolve in favor Of an appropriation
Tor necessary repairs on the State ar
mory at Portland.
Resolve in favor Of appropriation to
purchase steel lockers for National
Guard armories.
An Act to amend Sections 81 and SO OF
Chapter of the Revised Statutes, relat-
ing to the payment by the State of the
burial expenses of honorably discharged
soldiers and sailors.
Resolve in favor of an appropriation to
complete the historical record of Maine
men serving in the United States
Navy during the war for the suppression
OF the Rebellion, 1916
Resolve for extra pay to the Maine
Volunteers in the war with Spain.
Resolution of Newcastle and Damari3-
Gotta Board Of Trade favoring universal
military service.
Joint resolution in favor of universal
military training under the federal gov
eminent.
SHERMAN l.. BERRY. Sec.
Continued on Page 7, Column a
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sign up farmers, for varying
amounts. to meet the contract. Farm
ers would as willingly sell to house
wives leagues as to crop spectators.
They contract to furnish so much corn
or beans or other product to the can
ners, why not to consumers organiza-
tons?
If consumers pay 16 cents a pound
for common" onions, do they for
moment suppose the producers get
more than smell of the real prof1t
which somebody pockets?
Maine farmers sold their apples at
$50 to $3.50 a Dbl, last fall, and the
same apples are retailing now for Sc to
IS a barrel, and in small lots at 81
peck, no farther away than Boston.
Maine farmers are selling fancy
yeals at IL to IA cents a pound and
round hogs at II to Is cents pound,
what are city consumers paying? And
where does the major portion of the
price go?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
Editors Letter Box


Editor kennebec Journal:
What l, and doubtless MANY hum
dreds of other farmer readers of the
kennebec Journal must feel, Is a sense
of gratitude and thanks for your able
explanation in Tuesdays issue regard
ing the share the farmer gets for his
produce, and potatoes in particular.
1t is about time that this blame for the
cost of many necessaries is placed
where it belongs, and that is certainly
not on the shoulders of the man who
grows the stuff. There never has been
and apparently never will be, anything
really approaching to a Farmers
Trust" simply because it seems an ut
ter impossibility to organize the farmer
as it Is every other branch of trade or
occupation, the result is that he is the
dupe of many and the scapegoat who
rarely seems in a position to defend
himself against his accusers. What
you said concerning potatoes is per-
fectly true, and much more could be
said concerning those and other things.
The general impression that farmers
as a whole are getting much from these
high prices is mostly bosh. AS a Ken
nebec farmer I think ] am quite within
the mark in saying that most of the
potatoes grown locally were sold last
fall for from so cents to a dollar a
bushel and 1t Is now and has been for
some little time almost an impossibility
to find 20 bushels for sale within sew
eral miles of where | live. and what Is
true here is probably true all over the
State excepting of course Aroostook
and even from there the stories one
hears are only concerning the lucky
few. Nothing is said concerning the
hundreds who went bankrupt there last
year and other years or the hundreds
even this year who have only just come
out even. Little is also heard concern
ing the fact that at digging time last
fan, it was found in addition to the
tubers being very small in size, that
from Is to so per cent and even more
in some cases were useless through dry
rot, and another 10 or Is per cent has
since rotted in the cellar. and yet this
percentage all cost good money and
labor, that was dead loss.
Again, your statement Of 40 to so
dollars per ton for fertilizer was not
high enough when one considers last
wears analysis of the fertilizer sold
then. Reckoning this analysis from so
70 80 dollars per ton would be nearer
its cost. 1t is both cowardly and I'M
lust for the storekeeper to tell his GUS
toners that the farmer is responsible
for the present state of things. These
gentlemen will take advantage of the
farmer times out of 10 in buying his
produce. not only with potatoes, but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
CLAIMS.

The committee on claims viii give a
public hearing in its room, No. GO, at the
State House, in Augusta,
FRIDAY, Feb. %. 1917, at P. NJ
Resolve in favor Of the town of Bristol
to reimburse said town for bills paid on
account of George Huey.
Resolve in favor of Ernest f. GRAHAM
of Poland, Maine.
Resolve reimbursing the town of Orne-
willie for expenses incurred in the care
and nursing of a State pauper
THURSDAY, March 1, 1917, p. NJ
Resolve in favor of the town of Ches-
ter
Resolve in favor of Joseph H. Under
wood of Fayette, Maine.
Resolve in favor of Thomas Michaud.
Resolve in favor of the town of King
man.
Resolve reimbursing the city of Auburn
for money expended for the support of
certain State paupers.
Resolve in favor Of Benjamin F. Towne
of Waterville. in the county of Kenne-
bee and State of Maine
Resolve compensating John II. Rice for
damages to an automobile caused by a
collision with an automobile owned by
the State.
Resolve in favor Of the town OF Phillips
Resolve in favor of Justin w. Brooks
of Eliot.
CARLTON NJ. HOLT, Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
STATE LANDS AND FOREST PRE-.
SERVATION.

The committee on State lands and for
est preservation will give a public hear
ing in its room at the State House, in
Augusta,
WEDNESDAY. Feb. q, 1917, at p. NJ.
Senate No 81. An Act for the preser-
walton and perpetuation and increase Of
the forests of the State of anime,
WEDNESDAY. Feb. %, 1917, at p. NJ
Resolve authorizing the land agent r.,
convey the states interest in small
island situated in Great Pond in Planta.
ton Number SO, Hancock county.
Resolve authorizing the land agent IN
convey a certain lot or parcel of land tO
the Great Pond Cemetery Association.
An Act to amend Chapter 124 of tho
Private and Special Laws Of 1915 for Tho
protection of forests on the island of Nj
Desert.
Resolve in favor of Highland Planta-
title to certain lands therein.
Resolve providing for the comn1e+ior
Of the book of plans of Waldo countv
and appropriating money therefor
An Act to enable the chief engineer ~
the State highway commission to conve1.
certain lot or parcel of land owned hy
the state Of Maine to the Euronean an :
North American Railroad. @
Resolve in favor of the land agar.
1SAIE c. DAIGJE Sac
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21

with everything. Apples retalled at 80
cents the peck they rarely pay more
than Is cents for. by the barrel. Iur-
nips they charge cents or more the
mound they expect for 40 cents the
bushel or about 125 per cent profit to
them and so on.
The retailers argument that the cost
of delivery and capital invested is no
argument at all. Does not the average
farmer have from 1000 to 10000 dol
lars invested? and does he not deliver
anywhere from 2 to II or 10 miles
from where he lives? and to take a
weekly journey of over seven or eight
miles each way to dispose of a few
pounds of butter and a few dozen eggs
is no soft snap with our Maine Win
tiers. We can't all afford fur coats
either for the journey. Most of those
who do possesses one, it is an anti
diluvian affair that has been handed
down from generation to generation al
most, and about as open in places as
board fence Eggs have been expen-
sive this winter from the consumers
point of view but l think practical
poultry keepers will bear me out when
l say that the cost of keeping hens has
been such that a man who has flock
of hens to winter can take one Of two
courses, either feed them light and
keep them at a dead loss or feed all
they will eat of expensive foods, and
get enough eggs to just barely cover
the cost of their keep, without getting
anything for his labor and investment
at all.
Butter sells 10 or IS per cent higher
this winter than usual and grain to
produce that butter costs from SO to
100 per cent more than usual.
Is it any wonder that the intelligent
boys and girls do not want to stay on
the farm? And until some legislation
is made or something done that the
farmer and not the middleman gets the
result of his labor. living will continue
to be high, but the farmer is suffering
through this as much as anybody.
FAIRPLAY.
Winthrop, Me, Feb. 10.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-21
We'll, Why Not2

Hoping to strike the first blow at the
middleman and retailers who hold the
cost Of living to record heights, 10000
city employees are just perfecting
plans to procure all their food and sup
plies by an arrangement direct through
to the producers. writes a New York
correspondent. As stockholders in a
million dollar trading concern. these
representatives OF some $4,000 house,
holds all over town will have their
foodstuffs bought and delivered
straight from the farm. mill or whole
sale plant at a saving of many cents
over the retail market prices. If this
gigantic consumers combination can
deal hard blows to the food trust, it Is
hoped that Its example may be fol-
lowed by every housewives league, to
register a knockout to present prices.
II Housewives leagues" or other or
ganisations can guarantee to take a
certain amount of product it ought to
bs. nnmpAEatixAlx easx matter To