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New Britain herald., 1917-03-23
ARE READY TO
 HEAR E R PLAY. 3! II {. BALL. !
Fine Weather Puts Edge on FoE
 lowers of National Game

With the axes beginning to swing in training camps throughout the coun- try, fans are today able to, set a tiny glimpse at what may. be. expected ! when the National and American leagues plunge into their annual flag
 chases. There is little change rom the preseason dope that emanated from the state league
 In the American league, Boston. Chicago, Detroit and New York stand out as the best bal.nced teams. Many experts are favoring Chicago to
 win pennant this year. They bank
 on the come-backs of the Comiskey
 hurling corps. Jim Scott Is said to be !, showing better than he has for several
 years and Reb Russell. 1t is persist
 ently declared, is having success in his efforts to iron the kinks out of
 his left, fiipper.
 It has been. positively satated there will be no experimentlIig with Chi- ! cago's south side team this year. Veterans tried and true. will be found filling all the holes There apparent 1 ly are two holes-good sized ones 1 on that club-one at first base and ono
 at shortstop.
 1 Chick Gandill may fool the multi
 tude and prove himself to be just the
 man the White Sox have been looking
 for, < Jack Ness will nqka,pe among
 those present. when the son opens lThrahaS several saekers tanl lbnS Eae sS6x who bie t0 do something. The presence 6s Terry at short looks rather bad for the Sox. Buck Weaver will be at third base. l Detroit will start the season in the
 same fix as formerly-a lack of adeouate hurling sta6. Boston's chances lies in Jack Barry and his ability to keep the old machine from trusting. He will got the same start as was given Bill Carrigan Q year ago New York. a young team. may prove the dark horse of the race. Bill Donovan has assembled . fine outlay
 of men for the Yankees and is bound
 to cut a big figure in the American ] league.
 Connie Mack is sending out optamis- tic signals from his Florida training camp. He hos some excellent mater ] ial from which to build.
 The National league seems to be all New York, with . remarkable tnfleld defense and slugging outfleld. Mo- Graw's hurlers are not the best in tho league. but his hitters will spoil many 1 a. dinner for the other pitchers. | The Braves appear to be the most dangerous opponents of the Giants, I with the Phillies and Dodgers running | in the order named.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

aSSOc10IlOn tnlS year, because more than a hundred clubs had failed to turn in the handicaps of their leading |sp3ayers. The Princeton and Rutgers gym .nastic teams gave a joint exhibition last night in Rutgers gym. Schwa- packer of Princeton, intercollegiate club swinging champion, gave an able demonstration of his skill. Bleecker of Rutgers. who is in line for inter collegiate tunnbling honors, also gave a superb exhibition.
 Buck Wheat, one, of the Dodger holdouts, yesterday came to terms with Ebbets and signed . contract. { Neither Wheat nor Ebbets would say what the terms were. but Ebbets made
 8 statement in which he said that Wheat's contract calls for certain salary and a bonus. the bonus to be given Wheat provided he hits 300 or better. The bonus also is con- l tingent upon the financial condition of the club at the end of the season.
 Roth. however, appeared greatly sat- isfed now that it is all over. The signing of Wheat leaves Casey Stengel | III the rOlo or a man without a l country" The Dodgers great sun
 fielder is still at Hot Springs and will undoubtedly follow in the footsteps | of his fellow Missourian.
 !
 i According to present plans there will be a post-season swimming meet to decide the intercollegiate cham pionship between Columbia and Yale ii, the Princeton tank. Yale tied Co.,
 lGmbia when. the Ellis trounced the
 Morningside Heights swimmers at New Haven Wednesday. The deciding
 meet will, take place on Monday or Tuesday of next week.
 Fred Blackwell. Pittsburgh Ma tional League catcher, who was re- e ntly released to the Jacksonville
 club of the South Atlantic League, vii. refuse to report to that club, ac-
 cording to word received yesterday
 from the Pittsburgh training camp at
 Columbus. Ga. It is understood
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

placed with some good minor league team, left for his home in Brooklyn last night. Outfielder Candy, who was drafted from Portsmouth of the Virginia League, and Lefty Craig. . semi-pro pitcher picked up. last fall in the west, will be sent to New .Lon- don, but Moran. will have g string to them and they very likely will re- turn to the PhiIlies in the fall. Pitch- CT Carmichael. secured in the draft from the Paris, Tex. team; Pitcher I.utz, the young Canadian. and Catch CT Rathkamp go, to the Elmira club of the New York state League. The two. Cubans, Rodes and Gonzales. have impressed Mooran with their work. The more skilful of the two is Outfelder Rodes, who is the. fast est player in the squad.
 |. re tat r ' E
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23
SPARkLERS

President John K. Tener an- Aesnced yesterday that he would at te41d the opening of the baseball sea- son at Cincinnati. where the Reds will play, the St. Louis Cardinals. All the seats in the park have been sold for the opening game on April 12. Press ident Tener said that there was no truth in the report that the, National League would come to the financial cid of the new St. Louis owners if they failed to raise $350.00O within sixty days. as the terms of their op- ton requires. The National League president stated that all the clubs in .he league were owned independently and that no change would be made in. this policy. He stated that most encouraging reports had been re- ceived from the new organization. which has appointed Branch .Rtckey. former business manager of the St. Louis Browns. as it's president.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

Any baseball team not over 13 year of age and weighing 90 pounds and under. who have aspirations for honors. at the great national pastime. cn be accommodated on April 21 by the "Invincibles'' under the leadership of Edward F. Delaney of 90 Bassett street. This team is reported to be what their monicker implies, and with any kind of luck in retaining their bats and gloves for the remainder of the year, should have a very success full season. Some malicious thief robbed the club of a valuable baseball recently but the players are hopeful that the loss will be made up soon.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

All candidates for the Spartans baseball team for the coming season are requested to report to the man. agement at Bannins's field Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23
PEERLESS BOWLERS
 DEFEAT ELECTRlCS
Jin1 Still Continues in Wake of
 U. E. L. < ". Co. Quintet

The United Electric Light and Water Co. bowlers still remain in the slump which has pursued them all season. and another defeat was chalked up against the West Main street boys last evening on the Aetna alleys. when the Peerless team took three straight games.
 Captain Frank Klett's team of the city engineering department scored another victory over Captain Ed Mo- Carthy's quartet last evening, winning two out of three games rolled. The scores:
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

A combination of boxing skill that hasn't been seen since the palmy days Of Young Griffo and Q terrific right hand punch enabled Benny Leonard Of Harlem Mto give Packy Hommey such lacing that the little Italians manager wisely refused to allow Hom- mey to come to scratch for the ninth round in their bout at the Fairmont A. c. A wiser any more humane action would have been for Referee Billy Joh to have stopped the bout as early as the seventh round. At that stare Leonard had Hommeys hopelessly beaten and there was no reason for his being subjected to another round of needless and dangerous punish rlcnt. At no stage of his ca arcer has Leonard shown such a marvellous mastery of boxing lore as he did last evening, and no one recognized it any clearer than Champion Freddy Welsh, Who meets Leonard at the Manhat- tan A. c. next Wednesday night and who sat in a ringside box and viewed Benny's massacre of Hommey.
 The Boston Nationals, playing in midseason form. defeated the Phil- adelphia Americans. g to 4, at Miami, Fla, yesterday in the first of a three game exhibition series. Each team used three pitchers.
 Pat Moran hasl been yielding his pruning knife on the surplus material in the Phillies' camp. Tom Hagxer- ty, the young infielder who went down to St. Petersburg, Fla, at his own expense to show Manager Moran his ability. with the, hope of being
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

Miss Molla Bjurstedt, national ten- his champion. and Miss Eleanor Sears of Boston were defeated by Mrs. Louise R. Williams and Mrs. B. O. Bruce in the second round of an in- vitation tennis tournament yesterday at Long Beach. Cal. The score was 6--3. 6-2 In the women's singles Miss Florence Sutton won from Miss Sears. 6-1, GO, and Miss Mary Browne defeated Miss Sutton. 6-3. 6-2.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

eltcr Sporting News on Pages Four teen and Sixtecn).
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

The first round of the Silver Polls
 thirty-six hole championship tourna- r1ent was played at Pinehurst yester-
 day. Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd
 of Pittsburgh led the large field with an 8l on course 1. She had a 45 out
 and 39 coming in. Mrs. R. H. Bar
 low of Philadelphia finished in Il, 44-85. Miss Mildred Caverly of Philadelphia, Mrs. c. B. Hollings- worth of Pittsburgh and Mrs. M. J. scammell of Pittsburgh are tied for third place at S1.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-23

Crafts w. Higgins assistant secre- tary of the Western Golf association, fast night announced that there would be no handicap list published by the association this year. because more than a hundred clubs had failed to turn in the handicaps of their leading players.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
Want METRIC SYSTEM
Uncle Sans Commercial At
taches Urge New Standards.
Action Made Necessary, It Is Declared,
Because Of Changing Character
Of American Exports.

There is growing demand among
Uncle Sans consular officers and COM
mercial attaches that the United States
abandon its standards of measure in
favor of the metric system. In the last
decade or two the character Of Ameri-
can exports has changed. Formerly
our exports were of raw materials. But
where formerly we sold lumber, now
we gre selling chairs, tables and desks.
Where we used to sell pig iron, we are
selling knives, plows and machinery.
"Our changing foreign trade de-
mands change in our customary
measures" says w. G. Wells, chief
statistician of the Pan-American union.
$50 long as we cling to our inches,
yards, pounds and gallons, we carry q
weight, Il useless weight.
1.-THE importance of the metric scale
In foreign commerce even now presses
hard upon us. We must adopt the met
rio scale, because nearly all the rest
IF the world, save England and Russia,
have adopted 1t.
Furthermore, we should adopt It
because Of its inherent merits, it's vast
superiority, even for domestic use, over
our present system. While any intel
ligent child can learn the metric sys-
tenn in three lessons, and any adult
master it in one hour or less of serious
study, no man ever has, and probably
no man ever will, master the United
States system of weights and measures.
"Take the case of bushels and bar
rels, measures on which millions on
millions in values Of products are
bought and sold; there IRE scores and
scores Of different barrels, customary,
standard and legal, in use in the Unit
ed States.
'The metric system is simplicity it.
self. 1t has many merits in nomencla-
ture, In the interchangeability from
lengths to weights and to volumes, but
the chief merit is that it has the same
base ratio throughout. Measures
should have the same base ratio. That
they have not is one of the principal
inherent weaknesses of our English
system as compared with the metric
system.
1--WE cannot help ourselves in the
foreign trade, for there we must come
to the metric system. 1t is, of course,
quite possible to have two systems.
such as in fact exist in England today,
md even in this country to lesser de-
gree. The United States Great Britain
and Russia are now almost the only
countries outside the fold of the met
ric system"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19

Uncle Sans army surgeons examine
applicants for enlistment carefully to
detect fatfoot or other foot troubles
which would unfit the wouId.be soldier
for active duty in the field. The pic
ture shows an applicant undergoing
this test, which is very severe.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
Business Directory:
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE
SAFE

Default having been made in the terms
or that certain mortgage (Which contains
and q sss & Hrod BY Harry ys
Morlgagors 10 the Fergus Fails. National
Bank, corporation. Mortgage. dated De-
ccmber 1s 1912 and nfed Tor record in
for Richland County, North Dakota at ii::o
O'Clock A. NJ, on December 81, 1912, and
thereafter duly recorded in Book Is OF
Mortgages on pages 235 and 1916, in that the
nient OF $500 due under the terms there
Of on January I, 1916, and another INSTALL
ment of $1,000 due under the terms thereof
FAILED to Day an insiaiment Of interest tai in
the sum OF $4,000 due under prior mort
gage on January I, 1916. and another in
stailment OF interest in the sum or si65OO
I, 1917; and the undersigned mortgage, in
order to protect the lien hereby foreclosed.
andpursuant to the terms thereof, having
n it has elected TO, and hereby
does, declare the whole sum secured BY
the mortgage hereby foreclosed, together
with the installmen.s due under said ~rior
and owing;
Notice is therefore given that the above
des sc1 m, m,ortgage will be rorec!osed by
AFTER described, at the front door s''a Of the
Court House. in the City of Wahpeton.
County Of Richland and State Of North Da-
kOta, al the nOllr or ten O'Clock in the
forenoon. on the 2stl day of July, 1917. 10
! satisfy the amount due on said mortgage.
including the interest paid on said prior
! mortgage, on the day of sale, together with
the a costs n! expenses, of sale.
There Will be on said mortgage debt. in
Guiding the interest paid on said prior
mortgage, on the day of sale the sum OF
-Four Hundred Dollars and Twenty six
Gents (si00.26l. together With the costs
and expenses of sale, including legal at
tOrney'S fees.
The premises described in said mort
gage. and which will be sold to satisfy the
same; are situate. lying and being in The
County Of Rchland and State OF North
Dakota and are described as follows. TO-
Wit: The Southeast Quarter (SEh) of Sec
lion one ~. in Township one hundred
thirty n30'. North. of Range forty eight
Nsl. west OF the Fifth Principal Meridian
The Undersigned MORTGAGE has cXecut-
cd and delivered 10 C. j. Kachelhofrer,
an attorney. residing and practicine at
Wahpeton. N. H.. a Power OF Attorney FOR
the foreclosure of said mortgage which
has been duly filed in the Office of the
Rer.af"r OF Deeds aforesaid
Dated June ~. 1911.
FERGUS FALLS NaTI1VN n\NE,
=. " MOrtgagec.
Attorney for MOrteagee,
WahpetOn, North Dakota.
6-2i st.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
PARKS ARE OPENED TO STOCK
National Fairgrounds to Be Used for
Grazing Purposes to Increase
country's Food Supply.

Yosemite National park has been
thrown open to cattle grazing by an or
der Of the National Park service.
Sequoia and Lassen parks were pre.
viously opened to the same purpose.
About 100000 acres of land are avail
able for grazing in Yosemite. This &C.
ton was taken in line with Secretary
Lanes policies to increase the national
food supplies.
officials Of the national park serv-
ice say that grazing will not be al.
lowed to interfere with or annoy tour
lists In the parks.
The grazing possibilities of the for
est reservations are to be taxed to the
utmost to increase meat production
during the war, and sections hereto
fore reserved for campers are to be
used as pastures. More than 10000
head of cattle end $4,000 head of sheep
were added to the herds on the resey.
vations In two weeks.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
June ai-6t.
SUMMONS


State of North Dakota,
County Of Richland.
In District Court,
Fourth Judicial District.
Annie korkowski, Plaintiff
Stanley Korkowski, Defendant
Tho State Of North Dakota to the Above
named Defendants:
You are hereby Summoned to answer the
complaint In this action which is filed in
the office of the Clerk Of the District
Court in and for the County of Richland
and estate. Of North Dakota at his
Office, in the City of Wahpeton. in said
county and state, and to serve copy OF
your answer ia. SAID complaint upon the
subscriber. at his office. in the City of
Wahpeton, In said county and state, with.
n thirty 800 days after the service OF
this summons upon you. exclusive Of the
day OF service; and, in case Of your fail
ure to appear or answer. Judgment will be
taken against you. by default, for the re-
lief demanded In the complaint.
W. E. PURCELL,
Attorney for Plaintiff. Post Office Ad-
dress: Wahpeton, Richland County,
North Dakota
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
Safer Near the Ground,

One evening, in thee rdroom of q
certain club, a man was caught cheat.
ing, and exposed before the whole com.
pany, whereupon the indignant Nom.
bers rose in body and kicked him
from the top of the stairs to the bot.
tom. Rising painfully and full of
wrath, he hobbled away to the resi-.
dence Of the president Of the club, and
there complained Of the treatment he
had received.
"What would you do in my place ~
he asked.
SWELL" said the president, II should
play on the ground floor in future
it's safer"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
SUMMONS

SUMMONS
State Of North Dakota.
County of Richland
In District Court
Fourth Judicial District
C. II. Johnson, Plaintiff
William H. weston vs. the unknown
heirs of William II. Weston, deceas-
ed; and all other persons unknown
claiming any interest or estate in,
sa descrbed ia the e6na dhs
herein and their unknown heirs
Defendants
THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE
Above named Defendants:
plasntiT in the above entitled action AM,
TO serve a copy OF YOUR answer upon the
subscribers within thirty 800 days after
exclusive OF the day OF such service; and
in case of your failure to appear or answer
Judgment Will be taken against you by de-
fault 1aalt for the relief demanded in the com
the Office OF the Clerk of the District Court
of Richland County, North Dakota.
Dated at Wahpeton, ~ D., June 9th. 1917.
WOLFE 4 SCHNELLER.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Post office and Office Address: Wahpe
10 the above named Defendants:
You VII VIII please take notice that the
mine adverse claims and quiet title to
Lots Five (5) and Six (6l, in Block 'A".
Of Fargo Addition, Wahpeton. North Da-
kota, according to the map or plat there
OF on file in the Office of the Register of
Deeds in and for Richland County, In the
State Of North Dakota, and that no person
81 claim is made therein against any de-
Dated June 9th. 1917.
WOLFE 4 sCHNELLER.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
extend PHONE LINES
Companies Enlarge Systems to
Aid Uncle San's War Work.
Government Can Now Command In.
stantly About 100000 Miles Of
Wire Covering Country.

The right arm of successful military
operations is ability to communicate
rapidly and maintain that cominunic,,-
ton. That is vitality necessary in
preparation, no less than during nc.
tual operations. To that end Uncle
Sans council of national defense has
been cooperating with the various tel
ephone and telegraph companies. 1t
has received very hearty assistance,
and Il statement just made by the conn
mittee on communications of the nd-
visory commission of the council of
national defense gives an idea of the
extent of this help.
At the inception of the war in Eu-
rope there We're some outlying places
not connected by long lines capable Of
commercial transmission of telephone
messages. Since then the telephone
companies have extended their lines
across the continent and so improved
transmission that it is now possible
to communicate by long-distance tele-
phone with any section of the United
States. AS an instance may be cited
the new line down the East coast to
Key West, Fla, which will probably
not be commercially self-sustaining for
many years, If then, but it was done
In anticipation of the needs of the
government, and the strategic impor-
lance of having not only the whole At.
lantic coast, but the entire country in
speaking distance of Washington.
All government messages and bust
ness are being handled ON q preferen-
tial basis, with right of way over COM
mercial messages. This enables the
government to instantly command up.
proximately 2O,OOO,00O miles of cx-
change and toll lines which connect
over 100n.n00 telephone. stations.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
Applied Mathematics.

"Chtldren, Children" exclaimed the
fond hen mamma, cackling loudly in
Joy. "Gather about quickly and see
the bee-yew-tiful, long worm / have
Just found. Isn't it a dream? Now
the problem is, how will we divide it?"
Mother, allow me to suggest" said
the tiniest chick, who was destined to
become large, heavy-set rooster,
"that the problem might be solved By
long division"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19

These ihclude the private branch ex-
changes of all great utility, industrial,
and transportation companies; all tho
great commercial and financial estab-
lishments of the United States. Thus
the government officials have almost
instantaneous access to every center Of
activity. These toll and long-distance
wires reach every town, hamlet, and
crossroads of any Importance.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
WATKINS REMEDIES

have the agency for the Wat
kin's liniments. spices. extracts
and toilet articles for the south
half Of Richland county. includ-
ing the city Of Wahpeton.
A full line Of the above arti-
cles is kept at 81 Second street
south.
Phone 368L M. D. Keeney. Agent
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19
Business Booming.

Druggists friend-I hear your cash
register ringing lot. You must be
doing a fine business?
Druggist-Im doing splendidly. l
don't know how many nickels' worth
<f nannies I've sold this morning"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19

The KnOcker is Agin improvements,
Agin Taxes, Agin Progress, Agin the
Weather, Agin everything except HIM
self. He is the original Grape Hanger
and never says Anything Good about
anyone. Fortunately for all of us, the
knocker lives over in the Next Town.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-07-19

Every monument that leaves our
shop is true example of consun-
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excellence in QUALITY GRAN
TIE or MARBLE.
This establishment has an excel
lent stock of finished monuments
for your examination, can show
you mnay OF its monuments erected
hereabouts, and, Of course, has
full complete line of superb
samples to select from.
Grant us the favor of quoting
prices, etc.
WAHPETON
MARBLE and GRANITE WORKS
Il. J. koRF, Proprietor
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