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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
league is faster than the Eastern

It was announced by Referee Hill at Colonial hall last night that next
 week the Ribbons will start a series
 with Norwalk for the state champion
 ship. The first game will be played
 Monday night in Norwalk and the
 next night the teams will clash in this city. Norwalk has been playing in- dependent ball all season and has
 made a fine record. It is reported that the Norwalk manager is signing all the good players in sight with the expectation of defeating the Rib- ] bons.
 That strike by the Philadelphia | Athletics didn't amount to much.
 Bush, Strunk and Schang, declared they would hold out forever but the | first two came into the fold Monday and Schang signed the papers yester- day. 8F
 The report that George Sisler might be traded to the New York Americans by the St Louis Browns created
 sensation in St. Louis. The fans
 threatened to boycott the park if Sis Ter figured in a trade. Although he is considered one of the stars of the league, Sisler drew only $500 last season. This year he will get $S,- 500. % Chief Bender has learned that own
 ing an automobile has it's disadvan-
 tages. He has been sued for $15, 900
 by the widow of a man who was
 struck and killed by the pitchers au-
 to February IT. On top of that,
 Bender was released by the Phillies
 and is out of a job.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
CAPACITY
 CROWD AT BOXING
 CARNIVAL TONIGHT

It is expected the Park theatre will be crowded tonight with fans anxious to witness the boxing carnival to be held under the auspices of the Bridge port Sporting club The club match maker has arranged bill which he thinks will please everybody He has three state champions who will go into the ring to defend their titles so what
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
Hitting The High Spots

The American league magnateS are worried over Connie Mack's failure to build up a winner in Philadelphia and it is said that if he does not get going soon the league will step in and buy the franchise. The attendance has fallen off in the Quaker City to such an alarming extent that visiting clubs lost money every time they play there. The Philles have been get ting all the patronage lately.
 Mack thought he could get rid of all his high priced stars and gather a new club that would be among the leaders. He had made a strong az gregation out of minor leaguers in previous years but found on his last attempt that he was not able to make good in his prediction. So, Mack has been told he must show something this season.
 t Manager Danny Murphy of New Haven thinks he has a good start to- ward a winner for this year. Pitchers Donovan, Woodward and Weaver, all promising youngsters, will return.
 Gene McCann thinks he has a good catcher for his New London club in Wanamaker, the. old Dartmouth backstop. Wanamaker was tried by the Giants a few years ago, but has been drifting around the minors ever since. Harvey Russell will be the Planters first string catcher.
 The Uniontown basketball players who downed the N Blue RibboAs last night could take the measure of the Reading or the Jaspers of the Eastern league if one is to judge by the exhi- bition the three teams gave here. It looks as if the Pennsylvania State
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
He. then migrated to Ashtabula.

He, then migrated to Ashtabula, o., and thence to Dubois, Pa. Toward the close of the 1901 season he was sold to Pittsburg, but Barney Dreyfuss, to his lasting regret, dismissed him af- ter weeks trial. Terry then landed with Columbus, where he spent two seasons third basing, and then Colum- bus swapped him to Cleveland for two players and bundle, of cash.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

Having figured out on paper how they can save $25 a year, many peo- pie are now prepared to take advan- tage of their resolute economy and spend $500 year on an automobile.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

The people of the United States would almost be willing to go with out potatoes for six months if all those being held by spectators could rot on their hands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

Fouls called, Bridgeport IA; Union town IT Referee, Hill. Scorer, Joe Waters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28
Sporting Chatter

 "Huggins is Hopeful" says head line. Hugg thinks he can squeeze through. Connie Mack seems to have soured on the 'raw, raw'' boys. Most of 'em are too raw.
 St. Louis must have got its nick atne of Mound City, when it's moundsmen were better than they have been of late years. Some of the old time pugilists used to be as ruthless as U-boat, but most of the modern champs resemble houseboats.
 If the Reds fail to make good this year Christy Mathewson will have to give orders through a megaphone to be heard above the anvil chorus Having reduced the Poughkeepsie race to three miles, modified the Mar athon, prohibited boxing bouts to a finish, and debrutalized football, some thing should now be done to make checkers sa-er.
 War casualty lists show that sprint CTS get wounded as often as other ath- letes. A shell can do lot better than a hundred in ten flat.
 The worlds record of 1-5 seconds for the seventy yards indoor, was es- tablished by w. A. Schick of Harvard in New TorK rourreen years ago -z-t day. Jimmy Archer and R. Clough- en of the Irish American A. C., of New York were credited with equal ling the mark in 1910, and in 1912 Howard F. Drew, the California col ored yer, joined the seventy-yard rec ord holders. Drew has turned the trick several times since then.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

You may not be able to afford a s1,- 900 automobile, but if the price is going up to s1,200 soon, it is of course economy to buy 1t.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

The decline in the production of meat, corn, wheat, etc. ddi not wor- ry the girls any, but the effect of the shortage of sugar on candy produc- tlon must have caused some emotion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

If the Reds fail to make good this year Christy Mathewson will have to give orders through a megaphone to be heard above the anvil chorus.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

Many debtors now draw a long breath. and rejoice that Pay Up Week does not come again for another year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

Some of the old time pugilists used to be as ruthless as U-boat, but most of the modern champs resemble hOuseboats.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

It is perhaps natural that the bone dry law should make many people shiver to the marrow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

War casualty lists show that sprint CTS get wounded as often as other ath- letes. A shell can do lot better than a hundred in ten flat.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

St. Louis must have got its nick name of Mound City" when it's moundsmen were better than they have been of late years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-28

Connie Mack seems to have soured on the "raw, raw boys. Most of 'em are too raw.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
A TIMELY SUBJECT.

The November IL issue of the
Progressive Farmer, Birmingham,
Ala, will be special issue devoted
to hogs, sheep and horses. At this
time the articles in this special is :
cue should be of interest to every
farmer in the South. Subscribers
to The Chronicle who wish to take
advantage of our special offer with
this valuablefsrmj journal can have
their subscription started with this
special issue, by sending us their
order by Saturday of this week.
Sample copy can be had by calling
at our Office.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16

The State Anti-Saloon League,
cooperating with the National
League, is staging the greatest
systematic prohibition campaign
that has ever been attempted in
Tennessee. Speaking of this cam
paign DR.. j. D. McAlister, who, as
superintendent OF the Tennessee
Anti-Saloon League, says:
"There will be over two hundred
meetings in the interest of .prohi-
bition conducted throughout Ten
nessee within the next ten weeks
Beginning at Chattanooga on Sun
day, November IL, leading prohi,
bition speakers of America will
give to our people, in vigorous and
elnquent address, news of prohibi-
tion's mighty strides throughout
the country and the world and will
also unfold the latest plans for 6
dry United States y
The campaign has three defnate
purposes: ~ to put over total wal
time prohibition at the coming ses-
sion of Congress- (2) to secure dur
ing the early days of the Congress.
sionalsession, beginning December
6, the passage of the Constitutional
Prohibition Amendment and (39
to secure the complete protection
from drink and vice of our soldier
boys, both at home and in France.
The meeting at Camden at the
school house Monday, November
10, at 730 p. m. will be addressed
by Hon. Minor Wallace, Congress-
man from Arkansas for ten years
and among the foremost platform
men of the country. Camden is to
be congratulated on having the op-
portunity to hear this remarkable
man and bespeak for him a capaci-
ty house on next Monday night.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
CLAUD.

Fl. A. Phifer was at Big Sandy
Saturday.
Commodore Hartley of Way has
been visiting at Claud.
Charles Greene visited relatives
near Luterton Sunday.
Lafayette Phifer, jr., has been
visiting on Harmon Greek.
Albert Melton and j. Nj. Wilson
attended Conference at Murray
KY, last week.
Robert Corbitt and family OF
Harmon Greek visited here the
latter part of the week.
A young man void of under-
standing Proverbs vii 7. Young
reader, are you numbered among
those to whom the text refers? To
be void of understanding means to
act as one who is mad or insane,
to do violence to reason, to dispise
wisdom and to be reckless as to the
results of our conduct.
But reason is the glory of man.
1t is light within the soul, by
which he is exalted above brutes
that perish and are no more, end
yet God often charges men with
displaying less judgment than mere
animal creatures. Hence he says
"The OK knoweth his owner and
the ass his masters crib, but Israel
doth not know; my people doth not
consider. Isaiah i 3.
The birds of the air aud the fish
of the sea know their time, and,
guided by instinct, migrate at the
proper Seasons. But men often do
not know and will not consider.
Our text, however, relates TO one
class of mankind. That is. the
wise man is speaking of young men
who display this want of reason
and of sound mind, and of whom
he says II discevned among the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
TEACHERS MEETING.

Owing to the fact that no pro-
gram reached me from the program
committee, no program was pub
lished last week. The teachers
will meet on the regular date
Saturday, November IL.
Following is the program that
will be given on the date above
mentioned:
Song, America" by members Of
the organization.
Scriptural lesson and devotional
exercise, Chairman L. r. Watson
"To what extent should the war
situation be discussed in school?"
Frank Leslie and W. A. Woods.
"Some needed reforms in our
public school system," j w. Capps
and @. S. Brown.
Suggestions on discipline" B,
P. Smith and Arch Hollingsworth.
In addition to above numbers,
each teacher will be given oppor-
tunity to state condition of his or
her school, the progress made this
year and the chief obstacles, if any
to greater success.
The meeting will be in session
from 1 to~3 p. M
E. j. CLEMENT,
County Superintendent
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
New Regulations.
County Superintendent

Under new regulation offthe
United States Food Administration
in effect November1, retailers who
violate the Food Control Act by
charging excessive prices for nec-
essary food may have their supply
cut off.
While the smaller retailers Of
food are exempt from the licensing
provisions of the act, they are SUBJ
ject TO the provisions of section
four of the law which forbids ex-
cessive prices on necessaries, hoard
ing, destroying food or couspiring
to restrict production.
The Food Administration has
power to instruct Wholesale dealers
and other food-llandllng industries
under license pot to supply retail
ers who are violating the provisions
of the act. There is 10 intention
to disturb legitimate business and
the Food Administration will ini-
tiate measures against only those
who are taking advantage of war
conditions to exact unreasonahl
profits on staple nec-ssaries.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16

youths, a young man, void of un-
derstanding."
Reader, young or old, are you
spending life recklessly and fool
ishly? Are youjust passing along
.life's great highway Indifferent to
its great object?
What about those great oppor-
tunities-those God-given oppor-
tunities-which are intended for
your present and eternal welfare?
Are you spending life as one
void of understanding?
Be not as the foolish virgins
who provided no reserve resources;
took no oil in their vessels, and
when the great crisis of their ex-
istence came, they were shut out in
the darkness. They slept on their
opportunities. Be not as such
characters, but act as one who is
wise.
Go not in the worlds destructive
ways, and then when the great
crisis of your existence comes, you
! will not be found among those who
have acted as one void of under
standing.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
The Spirit That Sent
Them Must Not Die

Its influence in rationali1ing the
strange environment into which
this crisis has plunged our young
men has been and will be most
beneficial"
Secretary of Navy Daniels says:
"From every standpoint-military,
political, moral-it is our duty to
protect these youths, so we can say
to the mothers when the war is
over, I'VE return your sons as wor-
thy your family circle as when they
left it,"
General Pershing says: "The
greatest service America can i'm
mediately render France is to ex-
tend association work to the entire
French Army"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16
PATRIOTIC ECONOMY.

The necessity for patriotic econ
omy will be evident if we think of
finance in terms of labor instead of
in dollars. We have natural re-
sources and we have capital invest
ed in the tools of production, but
even with these facilities our pro-
ductive capacity is limited by the
supply of labor. BY labor we mean
the personal service, whether of
brain or of Drawn, of the forty mil
lion of us who are engagedin gain
full occupation.
To carry on the war we shall
spend at least twelve billion dollars
per year, or thirty-three million
dollars per day. This is as much
MS Great Britain is spending and
fifty per cent more than Germany
is spending, and the figures are SO
huge that few of US appreciate
what they really mean.
Europe is already so deeply in
debt that she may never be able to
pay, and we are on the road to the
same condition. Balance of trade
statistics indicate that we must have
made an extra profit from foreign
business since 1914 of five billion
dollars, or about two billion dollars
per year. The effect of this in en-
riching the country is suggestive
of the result of three years of i'm
poverishment at the rate of eight
billion dollars.
Our normal annual savings are
about four billion dollars, and not
only will our war expenditure alb
sorb all of these savings, but we
must find eight billion dollars in
addition. During the past three
years our present allies have ob.
tanned much assistance from us
but as there is no country to whom
we can turn we must carry our bur.
den alone.
Our savings go into public and
private improvements, including
the extension of business enterprise
These savings will not be available
for war until we stop federal, state
municipal and private Improvements
until we forbid all issue of securities
except under federal license, follow.
ing the example whereby England
reduced the issue of industrial Sc.
curities from S478,000,000 in the
first half of 1914 to S1l, 100000 in
the same period of 1917.
The danger of food famine has
been broughth home to us and We
are making a real effort to reduce
consumption, though our efforts te
increase production are being seri
ously handicapped by the high price
of labor.
Immediately after war was de-
clared the President warned the
country that everyone should pro
duce more and consume less. The
idea that business WAS shock tC
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16

business men and the cry business
as usul" was spread over the coun-
try and caused the Presidents ap-
peal to beforgotten. Not only are
people spending as usual, but many
consientiously believe it their duty
so to do.
Every dollar spent means the
consumption of labor We shall
not be far wrong if we say that
every four dollars spent consumes
a days labor, and that every twelve
hundred dollars spent consumes a
years labor. A war expenditure
of twelve billion dollars will con-
sumo the labor of ten million peo-
pie; twenty-five per cent of our to-
tai labor supply. This added de-
mand comes during the greatest
labor famine in our history, which
has increased commodity prices
eighty-fve per cent since 1914.
We have reached point where
the increasing demand reduces the
efficiency of labor and thereby re-
duces the supply, and we are fac
ing a further rise in commodity
prices perhaps to exceed present
conditions in England, where prices
are up one hundred and twenty pei
cent.
The most effective remedy is tc
decrease consumption, and-it is i'm.
perative that every one should make
a drastic reduction in personal ex.
penditures. The example must be
set by the rich, but every man, won.
an and child must be drawn into the
movement until patriotic economy
becomes the greatest fad the coun.
try has ever known.
Our young men who try to avoid
military service are "slackers.' ,
Every one of us who will not econ
omize to help the war is q "slack-
er." Who will fail to spend less
when he realizes that every four
dollars saved is q days labor con-
tributed ito the war? 1t is not 9
question whether your incoms jus
tifies an expenditure, but whether
the country can afford to let you
spend.
With two million men in canton.
ments or in tents there are house
enough for the rest of US. We car
reduce the famine in wool and cot.
ton by wearing our old clothes
We can stop the purchase of auto.
mobiles, so that the factories anC
their operativef may prodnce motor
trucks. aircraft and munitions
We can do away with the wasteful
ness. of charity entertainments il
we 60 less to the theatre and give
the money saved to charity.
The real horrows in Europe are
not on the firing line, but amongs
the civil population, who are pinch
led for the necessities of life and il
many cases dying of starvation
If each one of us is not willing tC
make sacrifices for the war, Ger
many was right when she charac
Iized us a "Nation of Slackers."
EVERETT MoRss
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16

There must be no break in the
first line of communication between
the camp and the home. Your
dellars will keep that line intact.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-11-16


of $35, 100000 to be used for the
successful prosecution of the great
work the association is doing for
the mental, social, physical and
religious welfare of our boys in
the army.
Benton County's share of this
great fund if $500. The campaign
for raising this money is now on,
and it should appeal strongly to-
the manhood and womanhood of
our county. Many of our brave
boys have already gone to the de-
tense of the Nation in her hour of
grave peril and others are to go.
We have been given an opportunity
to help provide for their welfare,
and it is our Christian duty to rally
at once to this call for help.
Members of the rallying COM
mittee, which will cooperate with
their nearest campaign committee
man, have been appointed as des-
ignated below.
First district-E. s. Byrd and
j. M. Henry.
Second district-W. j. Barnes
and j. A. Cain.
Third district-W. P. Saunders
and A. V. Hardin.
Fourth district-D. j. Allen and
j. j. Hicks.
Fifth district-A. N. Presson, j.
q. Hawley, G. Ell. Cowell and W.
L. Bomar.
Sixth district. L. Wright and
j. B. Bullock.
Seventh district-A. M. Melton
and Aaron Melton.
Eighth district-E. G. Flowers
and G. A. French.
Ninth district-O. G. Perkins
and r. FL. Clement.
Tenth district T. Fl. Farrar and
j. G.. Hollingsworth.
Eleventh district-H. w. Hatley
and J. l.. Hatley.
Twelfth district-W. G. Ballard
and Rev. l. N. Melton.
Thirteenth district-Joe McLin
and A. Odle.
Fourteenth district-Henry E.
Brown and j. I. Carey.
Fifteenth district-H. j.. Cain
and Augusta Pierce.
Sixteenth district Rev. Jesse
N. Farmer and G. Fl. Wheatley.
President Wilson, who has is
sued a general order giving Y. M.
C. A. work an official standing in
the army and navy, says:
MAY | not express the very high
value [ have attached to the work
accomplished by the Y. M. G. A.
and my sincere personal interest
in the large plans of the War
Work Council for the work still
ahead of the association"
Ex-President Taft says: "We
should feel proud of the Y. M. G.
A. work, which is directed so ably.
Are we going to be backward in
kgiving our men the nearest thing
they can get to Christian home
on the firing line?"
Ex-president Roosevelt says:
aWhat the Y. nj. G. A. has been
doing in Europe is really remarka-
BILE: and now our citizens should
aid them to do work OF the same
4vpe for our own troops"
"Secretary of War Baker says:
,uTbe Y. Nj. 9. As capacity for
rehabilitation on large scale and
the readiness with which it has
fitted itself to the needs OF the
troops make it an Indispensable
fsctor in any future military plans.
The Green Forest tribune., 1917-10-19
Missionary Baptist Asssoci-
 a:ion Holds 49 Meeting

Forty-ninth session of the Carroll County Association of Missionary Bap- lists was held with the church at Green Forest Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day of last week. The Introductory Sermon was preached by Ed. Sam Jackson and the Missionary Sermon by Dr. J. II. DeLano. Among the prom inent visitors attending this session were B. Hepler of Benton County and Mrs. J. G. Jackson of Little Rock. Mrs. Jackson is the Corresponding Secretary of the State Woman's Missopary So- ciety. Her address before the associa- tion was one of the ablest as we'll as one of the most pleasing features of the session.
 Eld. J. H. Spurlin was reelected Moderator and L. Jackson clerk The reports from the different churches in the county showed the work to be fair ly prospering.
 Mrs. Mary Ann Russell, the only liv- ing member of the Association when it was organized 49 years ago at Pales- tine Church then located near the Gus Callen farm, was present part of the time during the session.
 The usual committees were appoint ed and submitted reports. When the committee on memorials submitted it's report it showed that the following members had died during the year: J. w. Allen and Mrs. w. E. Penn, Penn Memorial Church; Miss Ruby Brown, Calvary, Mrs. Lutie Walker, Shady Grove; A. L. Alderson, Rocky Point. and w. J. Ledbetter, Berrysile. ! Among these were two of the most prominent Baptists in the county. Mrs. Penn .was the widow, of the late Major w. E. Penn and woman of note among the Baptist women of the state. w. J. Ledbetter has been one of the most prominent Baptist laymen in the Carroll county association for forty years never missing a meeting. Appropriate services out of respect to the memory of the dead was held.
 Appropriate resolutions were passed by the Association thanking the Green Forest Baptist Church and the people generally for the hospitable and cour- teous treatment given the messengers and visitors. The next session will be held with the Penn Memorial Church at Eureka Springa. when it is likely the 50th anniversary of the Association will be observed