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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
B. II. S. Girls Lose
to Port Chester Team

The B. H. S girls basketball team
slumped badly yesterday and met de-
feat at the hands of the Port Chester
N Y, High girls, by % to II. The
game was played in the local school
gymnasium and was witnessed by
large crowd. Miss Coops and Miss
Allen starred for the local girls while
Miss Burns and Miss Mertz were the
best of the visitors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
TIM MURNANE, SPORTS
WRITER, DIES SUDDENLY

Boston, Feb. S-Timothy H. Muir
name, former president of the New
England and Eastefn Baseball
leagues, vice president Of the National
Board Of Professional Baseball Clubs
and baseball editor Of the Boston
Globe for 80 years, dropped dead at a
theatre last night. He was SIS years
Of age.
Murnane was a professional play
er for s years before he began writ
ting on the game. He was one Of
the most widely known baseball re-
porters in the country.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.

Centenary of the death of Francis
Horner, British statesman and as
sayist, and one of the founders of the
Edinburgh Review. His face was SO
Smith wrote 1T often told him
there was not a crime he might not
commit with impunity, as no judge or
jury who saw him would ever give
the smallest degree of credit to any
evidence against him. Boy Scouts
of America incorporated seven .-ears
ago today. Peter the Great, founder
Of modern Russia, died in 1725.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
MIKE MURPHY TROPHY
OFFERED BIZ PENN In
MEMORY OF OLD COACH

Philadelphia, Feb. 8--A solid sill
yer challenge cup has been donated
by an alumnus of the University Of
Pennsylvania to be placed in compe-
tition at the annual relay carnival in
the one mile relay championship Of
America. The trophy will be known
as the mike Murphy Cup in mem
DRY of Pennsylvania late track cuv,
but will become the property of the
college whose athletes win it five
times.
Harvard, Missouri, Chicago, Penn
sylvania, Princeton and Dartmouth
already have entered teams in this
event
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

Gold coin to the amount of $780,
900 was withdrawn from the sub
treasury for shipment to South Amer
lea.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

Bob Folwel1 has triumphed over
the influential alumni in Pennsylva-
mia who sought to remove him as foot
ball coach. The charges against Fol
we'll were so trivial that they did not
deserve consideration. The quick dis
play of sentiment in favor of Folwell
by students and alumni all over the
country proved to the football COM
mittee that it would not be wise to
depose the crack coach.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
HAS FAITH IN KAUFF.

Manager John McGraw Of the
Giants has great faith in the ability
of Benny Kauff to become slugger
in the National league next season
He says the former Bridgeport out
fielder learned a lots about inside
baseball LAST year and will be able
to put his knowledge to good use.
Kauff was so puffed up over his
triumphs in the Federal league that
he expected to rip the National league
right open last season. He quickly
realized he was up against different
pitching and in the early weeks Of
the campaign was unable to do much.
He continued to follow his own ideas
in spite Of McGraw's objections until
finally he saw he was wrong He
followed McGraws advice not to hit
always at the first ball and to stop
trying to kill wide ones. In the lat
ter part of the season Kauff showed
great Improvement and his batting
average at the finish was .264.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

the Australian mitt singer, intends
to take out naturalization papers in
this country
The baseball players continue to
send in their contracts and the threat
of war will probably make them more
anxious to get into the fold. Pitcher
Pennock and Outfielder Jenkins of
the Boston Red Sox have signod and
Outfielder Without of the Braves has
also put his signature to the papers.
Bill Roper has resigned as coach at
Swarthmore college and will become
assistant to Speedy Rush at Prince
ton. Roper is an old time Princeton
player and was head coach of the
Tiger squad a few years ago.
The Army and Navy are having
great competition in their search for
college football stars who can be in
duced to J enter the government
schools. Bill Stobbs, the Washington
& jefferson quarterback, will take
the limitations for West Point, and
Taggert, another player from the
Pennsylvania college, has been offer
ed an appointment to Annapolis.
The Boston Braves would like to
get Outfielder Vincent Campbell to
help break the threatened strike.
Campbell quit the game3 after the
Federal league disbanded. Manager
Stallings hopes to induce him to get
into the pastime again.
Cactus Cravath, the veteran out
fielder Of the Phillies, may not be
able to spend his declining years in
the Pacific Coast league as he desires.
The Phillies have been unable to get
waivers on him and Manager Moran
may retain the veteran as pinch
hitter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

There is a report that Les Darcy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

There was some fear that Hagger-
ty, the giant center of the Reading,
Pa, five, might accept offers from
New Jersey teams but it is said that
Haggerty has decided not to jump.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08
Hitting The High Spots

the Australian mitt singer, intends
to take out naturalization papers in
this country.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
BOUQUETS
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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
BOUQUETS
JOHN RECK & SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-08

ADVERTISE IN-THE FARMER
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
NO 81

plain while in chaine we fought
to free white men-from Lexington to
Carrizal-and returned again to our
chains. No Negro has ever insulted
the flag. No Negro ever struck down
a President of these United States.
No Negro ever sold military map
or secret to a foreign government.
No Negro ever ran under fire or lost
an opportunity to serve, to fight, to
bleed and die in the republics cause.
Accuse us of what you will, justly and
wrongly, no man can point to a single
instance of our disloyalty."
The editor of the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal, commenting on this par
ticular speech, said: These words
should spread blush of shame on the
Caucasian skins of some who are con-
spicuous in the eyes of the nation just
now. When men of superior learning
and yanuted super-race connections,
entrusted with the solemn duty of
serving and protecting their country's
destiny, join with foreign tyrant cut
throats to heap contumely upon the
nations head and tie his hands
stretched out to protect the lives and
rights of Americans; when sniyeling
white pacificists join with all the
traitor-slacker crew to invite national
disgrace and ruin, well may this men,
ber of an inferior race boast We are
thankful that we have friends on the
other side who have the vision and
strength of character to call spade
a spade, regardless of the fact that
it is intended to dig their own grave.
Doubtless there are thousands who
think as these two men think, one
white, the other black, but lack the
courage of their convictions. Let us
have more light. ht."-Chicago Defender.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
Homer's Soldiers.

The Greek killed troops, the Eu-
zones, bear a variant of u name which
was given to troops in the days of an
cient Greece. EuZonoi, meaning we'll
girdled and so girtup for. exercise as
killed men are, were light troops or
even the heavily-armed hoplitai, but
without their weighty shields. AT first
however, the term, as in Homer, was
used only regarding women, the zone"
being the lower girdle worn by them
about the waist, but by an easy and
natural transition this came to mean
mans belt. Then, as the belt support
ed the short skirts, Killed men were
called weil-belted.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
SOCIALIST ASSAILS
RACE PREJUDICES

Philadelphia, Pa. Charles Ed
ward Russell, author and Social
ist, praises France because "the
narrow, blind hatred of race pre-
judice is unknown there" Mr..
Russell spoke on Race Preju-
dices" in the Broad Street The
atre under the auspices of the
Socialist Literary Society.
The speaker declared race pre-
judices were rampant in this
country and decried the tendency
of the white race to consider it
self superior to other races of the
world.
This country, he said, was con-
stantly bungling the Negro prob
lem. He denounced the lynch
ings in the Southern States, and
added:
"Unless race prejudices are
eliminated in this country the
crust of the volcano on which we
are sitting will give way very
soon. France" continued Mr..
Russell, has given the Negro
true citizenship. In France lib
erty, equality and fraternity are
not hollow mockeries and empty
dreams. In the Chamber of De-
puties black men sit side by side
with whites. France has never
deigned to draw a color line.
''The Negroes rallied to
Frances colors when she was
threatened. But what if we had
a war here and needed our Ne
gro citizens? What if, when we
called for them, they answered
truthfully enough: You have
oppressed us; you have killed our
men and women and children;
you have shown us no justice in
your courts; you have trampled
us down. We will not fight for
you'll Would not the Negro be
justified? But we know the Ne
gro in his loyalty will fight for us
despite our great injustice to him.
There is no national safety for
this county except in strict ad-
herence to liberty, equality and
fraternity. ,"
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
BOULDER NOTES.

A high day was had at Allen Chapel
last Sunday in the second quarterly
meeting. Presiding Elder Pope de-
livered soul stirring sermons. All re-
ports were tip top.
Revs. R. L. Pope and A. w. Ward
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P.
Wilson at their ranch home on Mon
day. Things were in great shape.
The sick list of the week includes
Mrs Nellie Clay, Mrs. Jennie James,
Mrs. Alexander and Charlene Whar-
ton.
Mrs Fred A. Gibson is expected
home from California in a few days.
Mr.. Winfield, brother-in-law of W.
w. Bryant, spent few days in Den
yer this week.
Mrs. Jennie Johnson has just re-
turned from an extended trip to To-
peka, Kan, and other points. She
reports a most excellent time.
The mother of Mrs. Lenore Rucker
is now making her home here.
The choir of Allen Chapel gives its
Easter cantata on Good Friday even
ing. The cantata is The Seven Last
Words of Christ" by Dubois. Special
interest attaches to the cantata be-
cause the pastor has been preaching
a series of sermons on these sayings
of Christ upon the cross.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
POURING OIL ON
TROUBLED WATERS

"HE SPEAKS, YET HE SAYS
NOTHING" could never be applied
to Roscoe Conklin Simmons, for he
has the happy faculty of saying the
right thing at the right time, all of
the time, as those who have fol
lowed his writings or his speeches can
attest. OF late he has been especially
active in work which has tended to
better the conditions of the people he
is identified with. Some newspapers
deem it necessary to refer to him as
the nephew of Booker T. Washing
ton, but Mr.. Simmons needs no re-
Elected light to make him shine. The
following extract from one of his re-
cent speeches will serve to show the
trend of his thoughts. ~.
1--WE have a record to defend. but no
treason, thank God, to atone or ex-
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
AMERICAN NEGRO is
REWARDED in FRANCE

According to Paris dispatch
to the Philadelphia Bulletin,
Francis Kane, a powerful six
foot Negro, formerly a soldier in
the Twenty-fourth United States
Infantry, but now fighting in the
French Army, and whose home
is in Chicago, has arrived in
Paris after many stirring exper-
fences. He has been wounded
five times, but is still undaunted.
His adventures started imme-
diately he left America, when he
caught spy with three valises
loaded with explosives with
which the man was about to
blow up the steamship. For this
Kane received the red, white and
blue salvage medal
Enlisting in the French Army
in August, 1914, he was in a bat
tie four miles from Rheims when
German rifle bullet traversed
his leg. He received another leg
wound at Rheigs in March, 1915;
when exhausted and cold he
spent eighteen hours on the
ground with nothing to eat. At
ter being sent to Algeria for con-
valescence he next took part in
the Dardanelles expedition under
General Gouraud.
The French advanced more
than four miles to Sedul Bahr,
where they were forced to en-
trench. Here he was twice
wounded the fifth time before
Monasir, and once by shell frag-
ment in the leg. He was attend
ed by English doctors and his
skull trepanned.
Kane was visited in the hospi-
tai at Saloniki by General Sarrall
and was proposed for the mill
tary medal. He has three colon
ial medals for bravery and dis
tinguished conduct.
While fighting in the trenches
in France, Kane's captain told
him to take two men, cross mo
Mans Land" and bring back
prisoner, as certain information
was needed. Kane went alone
at night, and covered by straw
he lay quiet each time an illumi-
mating rocket exploded. He ad-
vanced slowly until he finally
jumped into the German trench,
grabbed the first Teuton he saw
and rushed back. Kane who was
born in Baton Rouge, La, and is
about to return to Salonika, says:
81 am seeking only to do my
duty"
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
DENVER, COLORADO. SATURDAY, MARCH 81 1917
THE COMING SCHOOL ELECTION.


F there a time in our educational system and
l government of public schools when the electors of
l. of this city should specially interested it now,
clearly shown that if politics must dominate the lever
of education in Denver will not only be assaied with
criticisms which will be merited but reduction
of status in the educated world would necessarily fol
possible retardng of the of the children
Former Laxity Must Be Abandoned.
mothers fathers and the general body of cleo
tors who hitherto looked upon school elections
kind special only require the interest and at
of few representative people of the community
give up that idea and their laxity which has
been very prominent elections their disinter
great has helped such actions what
we experiencing present school board trou
The public school system of Denver being great
dertakng its management placed in the hands of
persons would govern with the principles that
make for successful and profitable business and unless
thorough study of the character and competency OF in
dvidua who forward represent the people in this
particular important position is made the proper
training of the children is bound to suffer
Politics Must Be Absent
This feature should be absent in its entirety,
pose successfully that will be to the advantage
of teachers and pupils had lot of political fuss
fury the disposition f school lands and the
appropriation of revenue derived thererom have tried
to enact laws to of school funds that
moneys the credit of the schools not remain dle
used this agency and that agency III the admins
tration of our state city affairs with all the political
Influence ntrgues etc. command to satisfy the self
is ambitions of few do say with all earnestness
and mplore the powers that be KEEP THE SCHOOL
BOARD OUT OF POLITICS AND POLITICS OUT OF
THE SCHOOL BOARD, and the only way this will be done
electors the they have In the recall
and unseat members the welfare OF our
SYSTEM and voting for and eectng men whose
principles compel them to place higher value upon the
benefits achieved by majority in preference OF
minority be the creators of the greatest
obstrucons carry out their selfish ends
Selection of School Staff.
Civic Association when it Speclflcal
w. we believe that and competency should be the
standards of school staff scientific meth
ods being as valuable school work other en-
deavor also that comprehensive plan for the construction
of new buildings and the reconstruction of DID, where
economically possible should be immediately lnaugurated
and that of such plan should be the COL
lection of all pertinent information cannot help from
this serious consideration as
men who are determined to carry out such a program
should merit our support and early in the month OF May
when the election round there should be re-
large at regular municipal election
proving our interest ability exercising the franchise
in this as any other particular period in the history
of schools.
.sLet us then be up and doing ETC.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31

Asheville, N. C.-Asheville
Negroes at mass meeting sub
scribed funds sufficient to
adopt" fifty Belgian babies.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31

Mansfield, La, March ~
The shortest sentence for murder
on record is that served by E.
L. Calhoun, a white man convict
ed of the murder of a Colored
man named Green Columbus,
who is alleged to have made i'm
proper advances to Calhoun's
daughter. The murderer spent
thirty minutes in a cell and was
discharged.
Boston, Mass. The loyalty Of
colored Americans to the country
and flag was editorially comment
ed on by the Boston Post in its
issue of March 10, which, under
the captain "a Weird Nation, -
says: .If the German Govern
ment had not thought and done
so many strange things in the
course of the great war, it would
be impossible to give moments
credit to the New York Herald's
assertion that one of the plans
considered feasible by Berlin was
the fomenting of an uprising of
the Negroes of the United States
against their government. But
as it is, the story is fairly believ-
able. Apparently Germany
thinks our colored citizens are
still nursing resentment at the
slavery of their ancestors. But
how can she fail to know that the
Negro is as good and as loyal an
American as exists to-day?
Their is no half hearted. allegiance
to the flag with him, not the
slightest suspicion that he would
fail to do his whole duty, and
perhaps more, in time of the
country's need. AS the New
York Herald itself well says, the
patriotism of the American Ne
gro is 100 per cent. American. "
The news comes from the little
Republic San Domingo that the
people are still defying the Uni
ted States. They are more than
suspicious of the brand of justice
offered under any kind of ar
rangement with this country.
They are defendants of the great
general, Toussant L'Overture,
who did not hesitate to lead his
soldiers against the "Legions of
France" under Napoleon, and
who was only conquered through
treachery. The spirit of their
great leader still flows in their
veins and they demand freedom
in it's highest sence. They point
with scorn to the so-called JUS
tice accorded the other Colored
citizens of the great United States
and say the great republic had
better learn how to treat the 10y
al Colored men of their own land
before they seek to add more
Colored men to their so-called
The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

burden. So say we ll.-Phila-
delphia Tribune.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

Every man should have his city and
community at heart. Every man owes
it to himself and family to take an in
terest in city, state. and national af-
fairs. Every man must sacrifice a
portion of his time to the community
in which he lives. Sometimes the man:
misunderstands the community and
sometimes the community misunder-
stands the man.
For the past four years I have had
the honor of being your executive.
The highest honor that the city can.
bestow upon a man and I thank our
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

inhabitants, or more, and why they
the railroads from the pro-
Of the workingmen's compen-
sation act, the League bosses will be
sitting in a luxuriously furnished
room and chuckling. And they surely
have a chuckleS coming.
No /. W. w. legislation will be en-
acted at this session. The farmers
want it, but the League bosses will
not permit it. It is pretty hard to be
lieve that the lower house, made up
almost entirely Of farmers, would re-
fuse to enact Legislation that would
protect the farmer and his property
and also the honest laboring man. Yet
such is the case. The laws proposed
were not in the least drastic and would
hamper no laboring man in seeking
a job. Those belonging to the lawless
element would be the only one affect
ed. And the laws would have been a
positive safeguard to the farmer and
his property. The farmers wanted
these laws, but the I. w. W. sympath-
isers in control of the League didn't.
And no laws of the kind will be pass
ed What does it prove? Simply
that the League has two numerically
unequal factions at Bismarck at pres
emit: The Big Five, who are dominent
and about seventy-five League leg
islators who are ~subservient.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

v. ]. Thompson, Of Page, this state,
was in the city Monday on his way
home from Edmore, where he spent
q few days looking after his large
farming interest near that place. Mr..
Thompson owns and operates several
thousand acres of land near Page and
has about 1000 acres near Gilmore.
He says that he has launched into the
blooded stock business, making a spec
ialty Of Aberdeen Angus cattle and
now has a herd of about seyenty-fve
registered ones. As a real farmer,
Mr.. Thompson has no superiors and
few equals.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

At the boiling alleys at the Elks Club
Monday evening there vas q match
game Of ten pins between a team Of
Elks and d team from the Glerum al
leys. It was a most interesting game
and although the score was not a big
one the teams were evenly matched
and until the finish of the three games
it was hard to tell just which team
would win out. The Elks were de-
feated by the visitors by about 70
pins. There will. be a return game at
the Glerum alleys in a few days.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

Rolla Chapman has rented the Bren-
q building north of the New York
store on Kelly Ave-, and is having the
same put in shape and will open a
barber shop there in a few days. Nj.
Chapman is one Of the we'll knownb bar
bers Of this city and has many friends
who will be pleased to know that he
is going into business again in the
city. He was burned out last fall
when the Bangs block burned.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

Word comes from Modesto, Cal, that
Chas. Thwing, formerly with the Bank
at Webster, VIM. sFalgaeer' and H. G.
Mlgliidtl.dlauughh and others are about to
start the National Bank of California
in that city. Messrs Thwing and
Falger moved there with their fannil-
les last fall andNMr. .Middaugh is
there to spend the winter and help in
getting this bank in operation. Vi
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

land bill in the idaho sanate yester-
day, a bill was introduced today to
prohibit the marriage Of white per-
sons and Mongolians." Application.
of a japanese for license to marry a
white woman at Twin Falls caused
the introduction of the bill.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-03-01

Mrs. o. w. Ohnstad writes from
Urbana, Iowa, that her mother, Mrs.
Burrell passed away Sunday Of this
week and the funeral was held Tues
day. MI. and Mrs. Ohnstad are ex-
pected to arrive home the latter part
of the week.