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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
SAN FRANCISCO PROMOTER WILL FORCE BOUT
BETWEEN WILLARD, MORRIS AND MORAN

of a real argument, and that was
almost seven years ago.
The JohnsCn-Jetfries battle at Reno
drew nearly $275,000, which was
record But 1t wasn't fought in war
times and it is highly probably that
no heavyweight will ever again be
given the inducements that were of
fered the principals in that battle.
Willard il he really wants to fight
again. should be satisfied with
purse of $4,000 to 5,000-depend.
ing altogether where the battle
might be held while Morris or any
of the other would-be champions
could be grabbed for 10000 to SIS
600. So twcEty-round battle for
Wizards title ought to cost less than
100000 and should draw around
S150,oOO Considering the fact that
these be war times these figures seem
conservative and this is the basis on
which the promoters are planning to
stage the next heavyweight title at
traction.
While waiting to line up a heavy
weight championship battle, Jack
/ kearns is busy with the promotion
of the Wladdek Zybszko. Stranger
Lewis heavyweight wrestling match
which is slated for San Francisco
June g. The winner of this match is
to be hooked up with Earl Caddock
for the worlds heavyweight cham
pionship, and the match is planned
for Frisco, July T.
The Golden West is waking up
again
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
BASEBALL A LOSS.
"pis Way Claims That He Got No
Benefit From Game,

Nelson NJ. Pie" Way, the former
Yale baseball and football player, Is
through with lea que baseball. major or
minor and has decided to accept q
business chance with the bethlehem
Steel company, Pie says some things
in his farewell to the national game
that should make college men ponder
before they 60 into professional base
ball
Il don't want to he in the position Of
attacking baseball--that IL. profession
al baseball" said Way. 1T is none OF
my business. and | haven't amounted
to enough in the game to stand as a
critic But | can say that / found it
loss, so far as / was concerned.
Il say this in spite Of the fact that
could sign at least two very satisfac-
tory contracts with good minor leagu
clubs. with the prospect, Of course, Of
working my way back to the biz
league But I don't want it.
Jack Coombs, late Of the Athletics.
put it correctly when he said that a
college man goes into the big lea que
with an education and comes out with
out one"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
OFFERS GARDEN PRIZES.
Brooklyn Park Chief Encourages Gull
tivaton OF House Lots.


tivation OF House Lots.
Park Commissioner Raymond V. In
gersoll of Brooklyn has announced
that his department will award this
year prizes aggregatlng 800 for the
best vegetable gardens developed In
private house lots in the borough.
Concerning the promotion of garden
Ing In Brooklyn the commissioner said:
In the spring of 1914 the first chill
dren's gardens were opened ON park
property In Brooklyn. These have
been extended each year until this sea.
son individual plots will be cultivated
and harvested by more than 1.Sn chill,
drcn. So many inquiries were made
at these gardens for advice about back
yard cultivation that last spring the
department opened four model back
yard gardens. This spring fifth
model garden will be started on the
Myrtle avenue plaza of Fort Greene
park.
AS result of last springs efforts
though no prizes were offered. 700
actual back yard gardens were plant
ed. This year Park Commissioner In
gersoll offers one prize of So. one Of
SIS. one Of $40 and ten of s. each In
the hope that general interest will he
further stimulated"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
PLAYERS WORKED
HARD IN OLD DAYS
Baltimore Orioles the Greatest
Team, Says Hughsy Jennings.
ALL HIT OVER 300 MARK

Would Spend Hours Daily Hitting Out
the 3sIl-Went to Work at In Morn
ing--Plsyer of Today Hates to Give
More Than Twenty Minutes to Bat
ting Practice.
Hughcy Jennings was talking Of
players Of today aud Of yesterday.
Naturally he spoke at length of the
greatest of all ball clubs of the past
the Baltimore Orioles Of the uiuet'cs,
the team If his playing days, the team
of McGraw. Keller. Kelly. Robinson
and Brodie "The 300 hitter is a rarity
now" said the Tiger leader. "Whcn
McGraw and myself played ban man
had to hit 800 TO he considered Of
much value to club. There were a
lot of 300 hitters in the old days. That
does not mean. though, that the pitch
ers We're not up to the present stand
ard.
when we played ball there were
not the high salaries that prevail to-
day; also there was not the tendency
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
For Factory Sites,

The Portland NIe) chamber of com
merce has worked out very com
prehensive plan for industrial develop
ment In Portland. says the Town De-
velopment Magazine. The chamber
has determined on the purchase of a
tract Of fifty-two acres lying on the
railroad and in Il particularly good
location for factory purposes. 1t is pro-
posed that the chamber form a stock
company with a capitalization of APP
proximately $4,000 to purchase and
develop the proposed factory site.
Two plans have been considered for
the disposition OF the land One pro-
vides for disposing OF portions of it by
sale to companies desiring factory loca-
tons, The other is for the chamber to
improve 1t with streets, sewers, pipe
lines and the like and then rent 1t on
ninety mine year leases TO manufac-
turers.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

among players to give as little time TO
the game at which they were making
their living as possible
"McGraw, Kelly, Robinson and my
self would spend hours practlcing bat,
ting. When we were playing we would
go to the park ut 8 In the morning
and stay there until after the game.
We were not ordered to do this We
did 1t because we loved 20 play ball
and wanted to make ourselves MS pro
fcient as possible That is why We
could hit 300 or better
The player Of today hates TO give
twenty minutes to batting practice.
After he hits few times he doesn't
care about missing his turn The
stars don't practice at all after the
season opens and they are In condition
to play.
j have nm old picture at home that
consider the most unusual baseball
photograph ever taken. 1t Is of Me
Graw, Kelly. Brodie, Robinson and
myself on the old Baltimore grounds
twenty-five years ago. The reason the
picture Is so unusual is that II was
taken after HE senson had closed and
we had won the pcnnant, Do you get
IT. II is a photograph of five Of the
champion Orioles ~ morning practice
after the National league race was
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
Tricks Of the Trade.

"'f one knows the few basic secret
II h not difficult to write poetry" cor
foSSed Tennyson ]. Daft. Having 81,
cured your primal plot, select YOU
rimes And II Is curious fact tina
similarity in the terminal Syllahles u
certain words tends to suggest concep
lions that harmonic both in con
sonancc and In sentiment. For oyDn,
PIE u friend Is seriously indlsposed
lou wish to cheer the poor inyali,
with an original poem Ills condition
provides the motif, ana the words III
pill aud 'bill' not only rhine beautiful
IT, but tell the whole story With adm
rable ANA commendabe conciseness.
Kansas city Star.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
New SWIMMING Mark,

Miss Olga Dorfner Of Philadelphia
established a new worlds record for
300 yards at the women's inier-city
swimming meet, covering the distance
In minutes ~ Is seconds better than
the record held 10y Frances Durack Of
Australia. Philadelphia team A won
the meet with score of 81 points.
philadelphia team u scored 13 points
aud the New York team 0 points. The
relay race was won BIZ PHILADELPHIA
team a. Miss Marble Keile Of Phla.
delpbia won the 100 yard national
breast stroke championship, new Il.
tie. covering the distance In 3 minutes
40 ID seconds.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
BY Jack Velock
international News Sports Editor
Copyright.

New York, May 2S-There will be
at least one big championship tistic
battle before summer is over if Jack
kearns has his way
The hustlng San Francisco pro
moter- youngest OF the istic impre
sarios is worhing on proposition
10 get Jess Willard in the ring for a
twentyround battle with Carl Nor
ris or some other heavyweight. and
be hopes to stage the affair at Reno
or Tia Juana.
At this writing Willard is on his
lazy tour with a circus, and Morris is
getting ready for his muss with
Frank Moran in New York But af-
ter the Morris Moran fight is over
there will be reason for the iistic
public to look forward to another bat
/ tie for the championship on American
soil, particularly if Morris wins And
/ TO say the least the time seems ripe
I for it,
A battle for the heavyweight crown
over the championship distance
would be welcomed by the boxing
fans. The last battle of champion
ship calibrc was the Johnson Flynn
lasco at Las Vegas, and it did not
amount to much The Johnson JEFF.
fries mill at Reno. then, was in
reality the last big battle between
heayyweights that had the earmarks
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
Nam,s Coined In Tho Navy,

I,udyard Kipling said in al article
he other day. The lower deck y
always has the proper names for
things" and how true that is we are
inclined to forget. "Dreadnaught" as
a noun Of multitude was a lower deck
coinage, and 30 was ''ironclad."
When these vessels were first con
structed they were variousy designat-
ed AS "irOn." steel or "armor plated
and even about plated" there was a
difference OF opinion, for 'cased."
clothed and sided served at various
times as Alternatives
In fact. these ships official designa-
tion until 1866 was Iron plated"
"Battleship" is n nautical curtailment
Of the official ''line Of battle ship"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

"Y0u need little more iron In your
blood, said the physician.
Gee. doc, is there iron in the blood p
asked the patient.
Eyes, TO be sure There il iron In
cvcrybody's blood
Il suppose the iron Is what makes
The nails grow, heyY Cleveland Pnin
Dealer
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

"Do you think shall be able to keep
weeds from growing on this landT' In.
Qulred the gentleman farmer.
Without any trouble at all replied
he plain ngriculturist, who had made
the sale. IF you can get even weeds
TO grow II will be more than was ever
able to accomplish. - Richmond Tlmce
Dispatch,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
A MOVIE FisNO,

I. Our records do not show that
Mr.. DooIan acted with Oustan Farm
UNI. 2. Il depends upon VINO wants
his photo. 3. HE is SORRY TO
SAY YES. 4. A long siege Of rheu-
matism has caused Mr. Dooan 10 car
ny cane.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

The New York American league club
announced the release 81 Shortstop
William Knaupp TO The Toledo club Of
the American association The Yam.
KEGS retain an option on the player,
GsspsSxvMl-
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
SPORTS
SCOOP

SPECIAL, SPECIAL.

We knew If any Of our local people
entered in the movies that our read
ers would be writin in TO inquire
about them. Bein' as how we don't
have any ASK Me department" for
our movie fans the city ed has re-
quested the conductor of this column
to publish and answer the request
Of the movie fans. Here they are:
:. How long has George Heltfrich
been with the moving picture Co.?
2. Is he married? 3. Is he Il carnor
copy of Douglas Fairbanks
AN ADniRER.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

BY halo Is meant the large circle on
parts Of circles about the sun or moon
A halo occurring after fine weather In
dlcatcs Il storm.
by corona are meant the small colored
circles frequently seen around the sun
or moon. A corona growing smaller
lnliSatqs rain, growing larger, fair
~Ahsss NJ bEi..
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
Yesterdays Results

Chicago al Cincinnati; rain.
No other games scheduled
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28

I. Mr.. HeIffrich is a lawyer, this is
his first appearance before the
camera man. 2 No. 3. Yes. he re-
scmbles Douglas Fairbanks.
Did Mr.. Doolan ever act with
Dustan Farnum ?. Would he send his
photo upon request, 3. Is he married?
T. Does he always carry cane7
A MOVIE FiEND
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
Games r cd

Batteries: ONcil Lambeth, Bag
w. WaIloIN. NaldMnll RnaErll. Love.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
NATIONAL l. LEAGUE.

New York at Philadelphia,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-28
STANDING OF CLUBS
Am ERlCAN LEAGUE.
Yesterdays Results.
At Chicano.


''"'i"' N''oC'o' AiH7
Wuth, Johnson
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
Moving Picture Show

Moving Picture Show
The College of Agriculture has been
operating a splendid moving picture
outfit over all parts Of Georgia, taking
the show out to the school houses in
the country and there putting on the
screen as clear picture as can be
seen in any city. The reels tell OF
better farming. They have been
shown free and have been attended
by a great many thousand people,
some Of whom have thus been provid"
ed their first view of the movies"
Boil Weevil Preparedness Clubs
Boil weevl preparedness clubs have
been formed. Certificates of member.
ship that embrace an agreement to
do certain things in varying farm
practices and to fight the weevil. They
form the basis Of cooperation neces'
sary to successfully hold the weevil
in check in a neighborhood. Members
Of this club are provided buttons as an
insignia of their agreement to do their
duty.
Business Men Campaign
Believing it important that bankers
and business men should have the best
information possible in readjusting,
their relations to the farmer so that
the farmer should suffer the least, the
College of Agriculture has conducted
campaign among business men, the
principal speakers being bankers and
farmers from boil weevil territory in
Louisiana, Mississippi, who have sue
cessfu1ly met the issue in their re-
spective territories.
Literature Distributed
Principally through the medium Of
the weekly press, the College of Agri-
culture has been disseminating boil
weevil, and crop diyersihcation infor-
nation so effectively that very few
farmers in the state have not been
reached in this way. Thus the week
ly papers have become very great
factor in the enterprise.
Posters have been issued, special
circulars, bulletins of various kinds,
all of which have been eagerly snatch
ed up by farmers Though larger and
larger issues of such publications have
been made, it has been impossible TO
supply the demand, the editions going
very quickly.
$1,000 Helpers Enlisted
Counting demonstrating farmers and
their wives, cooperating farmers, boys
and girls club members, travelling ex-
perts and the college staff, there are
Al, 900 Georgia people lined up TO do
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

They will come again from 800 to
1000 strong, and here prizes worth
So 900 await them. The seventh an
nual Georgia Corn Show will take
place on the Southeastern Fair
Grounds at Lakewood, October 13 to
20, inclusive; greatly reduced railroad
fares are offered, and all the usual
arrangements have been made for the
reception and entertainment Of the
hundreds of boys and girls who will
have their exhibits here.
Besides the boys corn clubs and
girls canning clubs, the boys pig
clubs and calf clubs and the boys and
girls poultry clubs will participate in
one Of the most extensive exhibitions
ever made by boys and girls in any
section of the country, illustrating the
splendidly progressive work that is be-
ing done in this state, under the d.
trection of ], Phil Campbell, stationed
at the State College of Agriculture in
Athens, Ga.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

Fifteen years ago If anyone had
made claim to the ability to hang
suspended by the teeth and fly
around at terrific pace in mid air,
that person would have been adj
judged insane, Physicians and
dentists would have declared such
a thing impossible.
But the demand of the amuse-
ment loving public for novelties
and daring freqenily develops con-
tradictioHs OF accepted ideas. This
is true of the Ella Webb troupe Of
aerial artists with the Sells, Floto
circus, which will be III Albany,
FRIDAY, OCT -.
These young women place q grip
between their teeth and are hauled
to the dome Of the canvas coliseum.
With specially arranged mechani-
cal devices they are spun around
slowly while going through steps Of
present day dances. Then they don
Towering skirts and do an aerial
butterfly dance that is marvellous
as well as beautiful. 10 finish the
act they again ascend and at sig
nal assistants working the appara-
tus on the ground throw them INTO
a series Of. whirling evclutions that
are astounding.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

Boys and girls who want informa-
tion about their exhibits and the fair
should write to General Manager R,
M. Striplin, Southeastern Fair, Allan
ia, Ga, and catalogue will be sent.
Extensive Exhibits
OF Women's Work.
In the women's department the
women of Georgia and the southeast
have an opportunity seldom offered.
There are $4,000 in prizes to be
awarded the women for the best show
ing in their many and varied arts
decorating, basketry, weaving, bead
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
GEORGIA WOMEN, BOYS and GIRLS,
Big PART in SOUTHEAST STERN FAIR
Southeastern Offers Canning
The Women's Department

When the first Georgia corn show
was held in Atlanta seven years ago,
it was an experiment. Out Of that ex-
pertinent, it may be said, has grown
the Southeastern Fair-destined to be
the greatest permanent fair in the
South.
Georgia Corn club boys and Georgia
Canning club girls may pride. them
selves upon the fact that they are, in
very large measures, responsible for
the Southeastern Fair It is their
fair.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
Scalds. Calls. Scratches.
Sores, Hurts, Screw
Worms.

To make the best cure for such trou-
bles, buy pint Of linseed oil, if you
prefer healing oil, or a pound of hog
lard or vaseline fyou want a salve and
add a SOC bottle OF Farris Healing REM
edy 1t simply can't be beat by any
salye or liniment made. And see what
you get-a full pint fornot overt 0cents.
Farris Heating Remedy is sold by us on
the money back. plan. For Sale by
Stovall and Woman.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
See Us for Job Printing.
500 Reward, 800

The readers OF this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at. least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing Its
work The proprietors have so much
faith in the curative powers of Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that II falls
to cure Send for list of testimonials.
Address r. J. CHENEY a Co. Toledo
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist, 75c.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
Everything Is Done Automatically
Come In And See Ii Work

There is no method Of posting ledgers
known which equals this Burroughs
Bookkeeping Machine in either accuracy
or time saving.
Come in and see our new Burroughs at
work in our accounting department.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

work, textile work, knitting, embroid-
.ering, crocheting, dressing dolls, MAX
ing fans, handkerchiefs and many 9th
er feminine articles; cooking of all
kinds, including preserves, pickles,
canned goods, jellies; drinks, bread
cakes, pies and other good things;
work done by the blind; exhibitions
IF plants AMI flowers, fine arts, libra
work, and then there are the "Bet-
.er Babies Contest" which always
.arouses great interest, and the model
country cottage illustrative of the de
lightful little home that can be built
n the country at a minimum cost.
It will be a display. the women of
Georgia and the southeast cannot at
ford to miss Women interested
should write Mrs. Samuel Lumpkin.
704 Piedmont avenue, or Mrs, Porter
King, III Peachtree- street, both of
Atlanta, Ga, who are in charge Of the
most extensive women's department
ever shown in a southern fair.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

Athens, Ga. Georgia is being stir
red from one end to the other and
through and through by campaigns
Of preparedness for the boil weevil.
Government experts who have been
following the weevil fight say that
Georgia is far better prepared for the
coming of the boll weevil than any
other state, by reason of the. cam
paigns which have been conducted
with such success and by the several
years work Of county agents and ex,
perts as directed from the College OF
Agriculture and in which the federal
forces have been cooperating.
All the work which has been done
by county agents both men and WON
en-, all the club work represented by
the corn clubs, canning clubs, poultry
clubs, pig clubs, four-crop clubs, calf
clubs, ETC., all the work done by
travelling experts, and all the work OF
farmers schools and institutes has
been preparing the farmers of the
state for the boil weeyil.
In the territory of the state where
the weevil has appeared or where it
is about to appear and do it's serious
damage to the cotton crop, special
campaigns have been conducted and
are still being conducted to help the
farmers who have not already done
so, make their sudden changes in agFi-
cultural activities.
County Agent Factor
In these campaigns the object has
been to get out into the rural neigh
borhoods where the farmers live. The
county agents have been holding field
or group meetings of farmers in fields
where crops and farm practices of a
new sort are being demonstrated. The
boil weeyil meetings have been held
at school houses in the country in
preference to county seats or towns.
Real Farmers Speakers
To inspire all the confidence posi-,
Bile among farmers who are not famil-
lar with the real service of college ex-
perts, farmers have been obtained from
Louisiana and Mississippi toz tell how
they have made success growing
cotton under boil weevil conditions.
Along with these are experts who
have just as definite and practical
knowledge on various crops that will
grow in place of cotton in Georgia,
and about livestock problems of Geor-
gia.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05

in the night on his way from Berlin
to his home nearby, and lay dead
in the road all night.
Mr.. Morse was unmarried and
the only son of widowed mother.
The funeral will be conducted
Tuesday morning.
His body was found BY J. R.
Youngblood who was passing along
the road this morning. Atlanta
Journal
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
Farmer Near Quitman Thrown
From His Horse And Instant
Iy Killed

Quitman Ga, Oct. | Herbert
Morse, ii young white farmer twen-
ty-fve years of age, was found dead
on the highway in the northern
part Of the county early this morn
ing. He had been thrown from
the horse which he was riding early
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
Boil WeeviI
Preparedness
Campaign

State Is Being Stirred AS No Other
State Has And Is Better Prepared
Than Any Other That The Weevll
Has lnvaded-Farmers Who Have
Raised Cotton Successfully In Boil
Weevil Territory Helping.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-10-05
travelling Schools

Week long schools are held in yari-
GUS parts of the state where farmers
turn students again and attend school
for a week to learn more about al
kinds of farming. Where such schools.
have been held there is always the
greatest demand for them again. They
have been the means Of creating new
interest, outlook and optimism on the
part of farmers.