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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
DIAMOND
NOTES

Rube Marauard, according 10 re-
ports, is travelling at a great clip this
spring.
Three reasons why a ball player
likes to 60 South-Breakfast, lunch,
dinner.
Ty Cobb's weakness has at last been
discovered. He has a great admira-
ton for Napoleon.
Nal Eason has been released as
National league umpire, but Stallings
and Johnny Evers are still left.
A ball players bean is enough to
make fans groan-sometimes it's emp
ty and sometimes it's solid bone.
y
There's always a something to be
thankful for. What if you were a
Mexican umpire in the Texas league?
George Kelly's high-class pitching
for the Giants has made the veterans
Of the McGraw squad sit up and take
q second look.
After announcing his retirement
from the game Pitcher George Davis
changed his mind and Joined his team,
the Boston Braves.
Manager Norman Elberfeld of the
Chattanooga team has stirred merry
storm by referring to Texas league
teams as "bushers."
Fred Clarke's old pirate machine has
just about gone to the discard, but
Honus Wagner is able to play the role
of ivy on the ruins.
Although Wilbur Robinson's Dodgers
possess the National league pennant,
the portly manager does not expect
to repeat this summer.
Branch Hickey is quoted as saying
that Scrappy Moore, the st. Louis
Browns collegian third baseman, is
second Kid Elberfeld."
Babe Myers, who will manage the
Richmond team q the Central league,
announces that he will get surplus
players from the Toledo club.
Terrific hitting has made "Baby
Doll' jacobson, a recruit outfieIder
with the st. Louis Americans, man
much to be feared by pitchers.
Speaking Of strikes, we never en-
Unused over any-eXcept the third one
called or the opposing clubs pinch hit
ter when the bases were filled.
Clark Griffith is authority for the
statement that Walter Johnson never
uses the spitball, although the big fell
low has q good delivery of that sort.
Bill Carrigan, former manager OF
the Red Sox, has branched out as
theatrical magnate at his home town,
Lewiston, Me. The show business Will
not interfere with his bank.
The veteran George Davis is now
coach of the Amherst college nine. Les
Mann of the Cubs coached the basket
ball team OF the same institution.
Fielder Jones, manager of the st.
Louis Americans, believes he has I'M
covered a star in George Hale, re-
cyuit catcher.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
Rodie and Wolter.

Some statistics have been furnished
on two comebacks to the major leagues
that are interesting They concern
Ping Bodie and Harry Wolter. This
shows that each player, in his major
league career, batted the same grand
total. .274. Wolter, however, has much
on Bodie in the way Of stealing bases
and scoring runs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
NEWSPAPER ETHICS IN PERU
Americans Astonished at Defense
Made by Paper for Printing Paid
German Stuff.

Lima, Peru.-Americans living here
are not so much astonished as amused
by the defense Of the newspaper Ell
Concrete, accused Of being in the pay
of Germany.
Ell. Concrete blandly admits the i'm
peachments and says its columns are
for sale to anybody, pro or anti Ger
man. Only the Germans, it adds,
proved interested in the proposition.
The articles and pictures attacking
the allies and the United States, Uncle
Sam being caricatured as a munition
hawker, were printed without any dis
tinguishing mark to show they were
paid advertising.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
cow WITH A WOODEN LEG
Texas Freak Is Good Mixer and
Breeder, But Not Much
for Speed.

Fort Worth, Tex.-Freaks of all
kinds have been sold and exhibited
on the Fort Worth live stock market
since it started, Ia years ago. The
greatest freak ever exhibited and sold
arrived recently with a load of cat
tie shipped by A. G. Chaffin OF Tenn
pie, Tex, a COW with wooden leg.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
Miniature Flags on Uniforms.

Ball clubs that plan to use NINA
ture flags on the sleeves of uniforms
may run up against the law which pro-
hibits use of the national colors for
advertising purposes. A ruling will
be asked from the government and 1t
is hoped that a concession will be
made in favor Of baseball.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

L; is a full-blooded Jersey, and we
raised on the Chaffin farm in Bell coun-
ty. She weighed 40 pounds. wooden
han. a Speculator on the yards, for
$3.50.
The left foreleg of Bessie" was cut
off at the knee joint in a cotton chop
per two years ago. and being a valu-
able milch COW. Chaffin had vet
erinarian amputate the leg and when
it healed 20 manufacture wooden
leg for ''Bossie."
Since the ampptation OF the leg
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
Early Rising Helps.

Newark, n. J.-Early rising is an
aid to welded bliss. For more than
fifty years J. f. Force has arisen at
3 a. m. to deliver milk. His wife was
also up at that hour to get breakfast.
They celebrated their sixty-sixth we'd
ding anniversary. And they're happy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

In the game in question, st.
Louis held a fairly good lead
until the seventh or eighth in
ming, when Chance decided to
employ some pinch hitting. 1t
was this which caused the con-
fusion and the protest that fol-
lowed.
Chance decided to go in
and hit for the pitcher, who
was the first man up in the
inning. He started a rally, and
before the Browns could real
ize it, the New Workers, who
had not appeared to have
chance, were evened up. Chance,
after batting for the pitcher,
took up the coaching at third
base. With three or four runs
across the plate and a couple
of men on the bases. one Of
the New York players yelled
from the bench, you're up
again, manager" Chance has
tened from the coaching lines
to the bench, got his bat and
sent a single through short,
scoring two runs and later
crossing the plate himself.
Now, when Chance took
his second turn at the bat,
Derrick, who was playing short
and hitting eighth, should have
been the batter. He was asleep
at the switch and never did bat
in this inning, in which New
York made seven runs and
went into the lead. Not until
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

Charles Romont, smallest human tar
get in Uncle Sans military service, be-
ing only GO inches tall, standing be-
side soldier Of average height.
Romont was accepted for service
only after telegraphic permission was
obtained from the war department at
Washington. Service regulations pro-
hibit the enlistment of any man under
five feet four inches tall, but RomOnt's
insistence that he be permitted to en-
list caused the recruiting officer at
San Francisco to wire to Washington
for waiver of this regulation. An
affirmative reply was returned.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
DIXIE
Moran Is Saving Wood.

Pat Moran is saying little this win
.or about winning a flag, but just the
come he has his eye on the big honor
next year If he can head Off the
Giants.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
Beroer In Three-i.

Rock Island has secured the serv-
ices Of Infielder Joe Berger, formerly
with the Chicago White Sox, Vernon
and Oakland teams.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
Military Training in Western.

The Western league has decided to
follow the American in the matter OF
military training. Prizes have been
offered for the best drilled team
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

IT begins to look as If the baseball
n1overs and managers won't have
enough fight left to last through the
season.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEMS

written Especially for This Paper the Famous
League Umpire)
figured play
St Louis and New
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

In spite of the fact that umpires
make mistakes ball players refuse to
believe they are human.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

and since 'Bossie" began wearing
her pegleg she has been the mother
of two calves. She has been giving
enough milk to supply the family Of
the hired hand with milk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

violent at practically every important
British port, except Southampton. Be
tween high and low tide in the Mer-
sey river at Liverpool is normal va
ration of about eighteen feet, while
the highest tide increases this varia-
ton to thirty-four feet. The mouth of
the Mersey is obstructed by great
sandbar, on which dredges are con-
stantly at work to keep the channel
open. Despite these difficulties, Liver
pool has been erected into the second
shipping center of the kingdom, sur
passed only by London in it's annual
tonnage.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03
A Cooperative Concern.

A Cooperative Concern.
Up and down the Mersey on both
sides extend eight miles of tremendous
sea walls. Originally these were built
of massive granite blocks brought
from Scotland, but in the modern era
of cement construction REINFORCED con-
crete has been chiefly employed. The
sea wall is at frequent intervals
pierced by inlets for dockage Of YES
sells; and mile after mile of elevators
and warehouses line the docks.
The Mersey Docks and Harbor cor
poration is sort of cooperative con-
Germ composed of the leaders in Liver
pool shipping affairs. There are 3S
members of the board of directors who
have complete control Of the harbor
except in the restricted areas that are
claimed by the admiralty for naval
purposes. The city of Liverpool has
no more municipal authority in the
dock region than the government at
Washington has over the municipal
concerns of Cornwall. There is, how
ever, one exception at this point: the
dock and harbor area is policed by the
officers of the city of Liverpool.
The Mersey corporation raises it's
money precisely as any other CONNER
cial company would do. Its revenue
is produced from tonnage and dockage
and warehouse charges, and is ample
to provide for all harbOr works.
We were taken on a tug up and
down the river, with permission to
land and inspect the warehouses and
elevators. The harbor master assured
us that it was a poor time to see Liv-
erpool shipping because there were
fewer vessels in port than usual. To
us, however, it looked as if about all
the boats in the world were trying to
get in or out of the Mersey, or were
in the docks receiving and diScharg-
ing cargo. In these war times, when
every hours detention of CONNER
cial vessel is highly undesirable, the
process of loading and unloading goes
on day and night in successive shifts.
Instead of having been driven from
the seas by submarine menace British
shipping is more concerned than ever
it was before to make its stay in port
just as brief as may be.
Submarine Treated as Joke.
We saw vessels from literally every
quarter of the globe coming and going,
bringing and taking every conceivable
sort of cargo. We were assured that
Liverpool had not known one case of
officer or sailor refusing to ship be-
cause of submarine or other danger.
With the sailors, indeed, the subma-
rine is humorously treated as a joke.
If it gets your ship, why, you row
around in the boats until you are
picked up and carried ashore, where
you promptly stand up for another
voyage in the next boat.
49, l.,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

The veteran George Davis is now
coach of the Amherst college nine. Les
Mann of the Cubs coached the basket
ball team Of the same institution.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-05-03

Bill Carrigan, former manager OF
the Red Sox, has branched out as a
theatrical magnate at his home town,
Lewiston, Me. The show business VIII
not interfere with his bank.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
HEALTHTEST IN
WHOLE STATE.
Pope County Leads in Illinois With
Death Rate of Only A
Per Thousand
Population.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Oct 15.-Ac-
cording to figures announced today
by the bureau of vital statistics of
the department of health, Pope
county is the healthiest county in
the state to live in.
The statistics, which are practical
ly complete, give the death rate per
thousand population in Pope county
as A The birth record in the same
county is 1873.
Winnebago county, according to
the statistics, had approxim ately
three times as many deaths as births
The birth record in the latter county
is At per thousand population and
the death record 11.5 per thousand.
Kankakee county, the statistics
show, is the prize baby producing
county of the state. One baby was
born in Kankakee county to every
thirty-two persons. according to the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
A NOTABLE CONTEST.

The president, two former presidents ana q
presidential candidate of some years ago, de-
sire the triumph of Mayor Mitchell, OF New
| York City, in his contest for reelection; ana
while the nations chief executive has not de-
cared this openly, being precluded from so do
ing by the position he holds the three other IL
lustrious citizens are doing everything IN their
power to make the clean and fearless young
MAYORS reelection assured.
Truly as has been said, the whole country Is
interested in the contest in the chief city OF the
nation There is no doubt that the voters OF
New York City who oppose the mayor are as a
whole the most undesirable citizens OF that
great community. Measured by whatever
standards, ethical, Intellectual, patriotic, they
are the least well fitted to exercise the franchise
wisely and for the general good. 1t is probably
well within the facts to say that the supporters
of Hylan Hillquit and Bennett include all th3
I'M American, undesirable imperfecty assl1nl-
ated elements in the voting population OF the
city; and that the sympathies of every danger
Gus alien are with some one of the three. There
is ground for the hope that this division of the
opposition into groups will make for the cleo
ton of the fusion candidate. In any event 1t
will determine whether the influences which
stand for civic righteousness and uncompro-
missing patriotism can control the city when put
to the test.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
War and Mems Fashions.

New York World: OF ways TO win
war, federal regulation of mems
fashions may seem the oldest, but
we shall presently make the acquaint-
ance of other devices now quite as
unexpected.
There is not in Europe warning
nation, perhaps not a neutral one,
that has not to some extent regulated
costume to save. material Great
Britain limits the heights of women'S
shoes to save leather, and it should
be done here. Public opinion has
everywhere been rallied for economy.
Germany controls all clothing, per-
mits it to be sold only on allowance
and expects each Deutsch civilian to
go barefoot during the summer.
Multiplied by millions, saving OF
any kind is no trife. The cloth used
in turn-up cuffs at trouser bottoms,
one pair for each adult American
male, would make a strip eighteen
inches wide from here to the Pacific
ocean; and some men have many
pairs. Norfolk pleats waste relatively
even more cloth. Most of all has
gone in needless duplication OF
special purpose garments.
Since there is not wool enough in
the world to go on in the old reck-
less way, men must of their own
accord economic in raiment or COM
pulsion may become a necessity. To
| borrow a phrase worthy of the sub
| iects, this goes for the ladies', too.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
A dogs brain has to be like man s. If he
does things like man, he's got to think like
man-Jack London.
FINANCING THE LOAN.

Were the American people aroused to the I'M
portance Of it, they could and would, if asked
to. buy six billion dollars worth Of government
bonds this month. They are rich enough to
take even greater loan than that and to pay
for it out of their earnings during the coming
year
For in this way and no other-out of earn
ings yet to be earned, out of savings yet to be
saved-1nust these bonds now bought be paid
for Mr.. Vanderlip, formerly president Of the
National City bank of New York City, than
whom there is no higher authority on financial
matters in our country, reiterates and rings
the changes on this whenever he speaks or
writes upon the subject. He explains that
whenever a citizen sells or mortgages property
in order to buy a bond, he prevents the man
from whom he gets the money from investing
it in the Liberty loan as he might have done
He makes it clear that this loan cannot be fl
nanced by making an exchange of investments.
1t cannot be financed by taking money out Of
the savings banks, or calling in money invested
in industries or farm lands. The only result of
this would be to upset business values and bring
distress upon the land. The only way in which
the people can buy these bonds is by saving
money; and the only way of saving money for a
given purpose is by refraining from using it for
anything else.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15

Circuit court of Hancock county
will convene Monday morning,
Oct Is. 1917, for the hearing of a
number of cases which have been
filed to this term of court, some cases
to be brought before the court that
have been of longer standing
The petit jury has been notified to
not appear for the first work OF
court. but are summoned to be pres
emf on the 22nd when the jury trials
will begin.
The grand jurors will convene on
Monday, Oct Is, and look into the
cases which have been brought be-
fore the states attorney for presen-
'tation to this body.
The grand jurors are: j. +. Brown
of Augusta, w. e. Cannon OF st.
Marys, Lawrence Willis of Hancock,
iC. A. Mcconnell of Fountain Green.
T. F. Hurdle of LaHarpe. e. L. Den
new of Chilli, E. P. Wright Of Har-
mony. c. +. Long of Carthage, Homer
Thompson of Pilot Grove, Suftield
Blender of Durham. S. D. Stillwell
of St. Adams, Emery Steffey of Bear
Creek, Earl w. Poland of Prairie,
VIM. Grifiths of Rock Creek, Lee
Jarvis of Dallas City, Lemuel VIE
brock of Walker, o. e. Bradley Of
Wythe. B. c. Crowder Of Montebello,
Ed. Brown of Sonora, William
Mackie, ST., Of Appanoose, James R.
Egbers of Rocky Run, Jacob Grone-
void of Wilcox, Charles Mulch Of
Nauvoo.
The case of Thomas M. Stevenson
ct al. VS.. John F. Stevenson ct al,
in partition proceedings, which has
been appealed to the supreme court,
will come up for hearing before that
honorable body next week, and as a
number Of prominent attorneys of
this city are interested in this suit,
it. was deemed necessary by the cir
cult Judge of Hancock county court,
to postpone jury trials, until the re-
turn of the attorneys in this case.
This case was brought in the cir
cult court at the October term, 1916.
and has been tried, or hearing had
thereon at each term of court since
that time.
The will of John Stevenson, who
died August 81, 1916, shows that his
heirs were Margaret Stevenson, his
widow, and Thomas M, and Ralph
w. Stevenson, Nettie Hancock, John
Franklin Stevenson and Emma Gun
ming; and Maggie A. Gable. Ellen NJ
Bell, Susie E. Patton and Eva j.
Gable, children of deceased daugh-
ter, Mary Gable, and John e. Bottens,
Ruby E. Head and Iva M. McVay,
children of Susanna Bottens. de-
ceased daughter, and that said five
children and seven grandchildren are
the sole heirs of said decedent.
Said John Stevenson died seized of
the following real estate: e. " Sc.
8: e. " of w. 90 of NE. 8: N. "
Of e. 1-3 of NE. g; e. " of e. u
of SW. 8; part w. " of Sc. 8; E.
u Of Sc. 9; Sc. SW. 5; w. " of
NE. %. and E. u Of w. II Of NE
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
kenYon,s Secret.

Sioux City Journal: What is the
secret of Senator Kenyon's popu-
larity? Panegyrists are not always
to be relied upon, but in Senator
Kenyon's case they have hit the right
key Kenyon is practically unbeat-
able for any honor he may aspire to
in Iowa because the people are con-
yinced that he is intelligent, cour-
ageous and square. There is no
r aason why even opponents OF Sena-
tor Kenyon, why even his opponents
of the opposite party should not adj
nit the truth of that sentiment. They
may demur at accepting the peoples
conclusion as correct. They may in
sist that the senator Is not as intel
iigent, as courageous or as square as
his friends think him to be. But it
is hardly worth while to contend that
the majority of Iowans do not think
so. or, that they can easily be con-
WINGED to the contrary
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
REVERE. MO.
. . - . . . . - = . . . 4

We are having some pretty cool
weather which makes us think winter
is near at hand.
Wash Christy is feeling quite poorly
He is one of our oldest gentleman set
tiers; we are hoping he will soon be
better
Lewis Kautz, carrier on route 2,
made flying trip to Oklahoma this
week
Mrs. Ed Courtney, east of town, has
been real poorly for the last two
weeks.
Baxter Culvert and family motored
over to Illinois to visit his sister last
Saturday returning Sunday.
Ben Best win have sale on his
farm north of Peaksyille, Oct. Is; old
Uncle Ben has rented his farm and he
and his good wife are going to take
life more easy.
w. NJ. Ehrhart and family have been
entertaining Mrs. Ehrhart's brother,
G. w. Ball Of Guthrie, Oklahoma; also
their mother
Hiram Druse and wife motored to
kirksville last week to visit their
daughter and sister, Mrs. Tom Whalen.
Mrs. Jesse Seward, who has been
quite sick for the past week is improy-
ing.
Dora Peacock OF Athens, Mo-, is
visiting Mrs. George Christy of this
place
We understand that our merchant,
r. w. Miller has sold his stock of gro
ceries to a gentleman of Green Top.
Mo. Roy has been in the mercantile
business for several years in our town.
John Kinkeade and wife and the
Misses Savage autoed to Canton Sun.
day and spent the day.
Van Johnson and family spent Sun
day with their nephew Lawrence John.
son and family, west OF Kahoka.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-15
KIDNEY TROUBLE OVERCOME;
PAIN IN BACK IS NOW GONE:
KEOKUK MAN PRAISES Tamil

Since taking Tanlac | feel a :.
deal better. <My kidneys don't Nm
me now and those pains in NV 4.
are gone y
Many stories like this are to,d ,A
Tanlac. 1t is a vegetable tonic Thu,
ands recommend it for headaches \
zy spells, indigestion, unsound ~.
backache, shortness Of breath we'
ness, nervousness, poor circuls,s
and other symptoms arising from |
ordered kidneys, stomach and rv.s
Tanlac is highly endorsed nv (,
kuk's most conservative druggists !
Wilkinson Drug Co., and by scors,
their customers who have tried Il !,
know from experience Just yba,
will do.-Adverttsement.