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The Washington times., 1917-06-11
Minors Falling Down on Job
No Classy Youngsters Are Being Developed To
Take Places of Veterans Ending
Bright Careers.

What is going become of the big league teams if the
minors continue to fail their duty of developing youngsters
George Mcbride and DOME Bush slowing up as might be
expected after their of service but capable shortops
are now in sight to fill their places When Connie Mack has to
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
BOB THAYER'S GOSSIP
ON SPORTING MATTERS

Hank Is going to stay among his old
friends. They need him.
It's "Muggsy" McGraw again. Fol-
several years now MeGraw has tried
to kill that nickname he earned back
i in the hurlyburly days, when he
played third base for the Baltimore
Orioles. No New York writer would
pen the word that brought whitening
criticism from the Giants manager
Gradually writers in other cities for.
got 1t. But again It rises to the fore
and again It Is ''Muggsy" McGraw. ter.
ror OF all umpires and rider" OF all
opposing players. John K. Tener
should do something radical with
'Muggsy." Maybe, in that way, he
might make him Johnny once more,
instead of ''Muggsy.
Ted Lewis and Jack Britton have
been matched for a ten-round bout
in New York. This will be their
twelfth bout, their eleventh taking
place at st. Louis last week. Lewis
gave his opponent a fine lacing, II
Mound City reports are to be believed.
It'n probably be Britton's turn to ad-
minister the punishment when they
meet at the st. Nicholas Rink Thurs
day night.
It is most unsportsmanlike for golf
ers to enter a tournament and -hen
default without any previous warn
ing. The patriotic tourney ended here
Saturday was ruined by no fewer
than seventy-three such defaults the
first day. More than ninety defaults
occurred during the entire tourna-
ment. 1t is no excuse for a golfer to
say that he paid his fee going 10 the
Red Cross. For the good OF the
game. he should also put in an sp-
pearance.
The big Nine" made up Of the
most prominent colleges in the middle
West, has voted unanimously 20 con-
tinue all branches OF athletics ~ spite
Of war conditions, thus carrying out
President Wilson's expressed wishes
in this matter. II Harvard and Yale
insist on canceling all athletic SEIZED
ules. they will be setting a mighty
poor example for the rest of the
country.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Paul Musser. once Grihman. pitch
ed funny game May IS. Working
for Des Moines. Musser famed seven
teen batters. and his team barely
won, to g.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
ROSEDALE.

This weeks schedule:
June 11-General Baking Company
vs.. Printers.
June 12-Maroons VS.. General Bak-
ing Company.
June 13-Maroons Va. CoIumbIas.
June 14-Printers VS.. Columbia
June 15-GeneraI Baking Company
vs.. Maroons.
June 16-Open.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

The Griffmen are to get no rest at
all After the White Sox leave town
the Cleveland Indians will arrive, fol-
lowed by the Detroit Tigers
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Umpire Nallin is sharing with
''Bonehead Barry" Mccormick the
title OF being the worst umpire in the
American League.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

After getting his face in the way Of
q. ball at Shibe Park. Frank Baker
collected eight singles. two doubles
and two passes in FIVE games.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Charlie Pick. tried out by Clark
Grifhth here before going to the
--sckmen, is hitting like a fiend for
San Francisco in the Pacific Coast
League, and owns the town.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Joe Dugan. crack shortstop for
Holy Cross. will report TO Connie
Mack in a week
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Tom Hughes. once a pitching hero
IN Washington, is still performing on
the slab. He is with the Salt Lake
club, and taking his turn in the box.
His sore arm has become strong
again.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
DIAMOND GOSSIP.

George Du Mont is now known as
the Griffs' best pitcher.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
CAPITAL CITY.
This weeks schedule:

June II, Truxton VS.. westover;
June IL, Takoma VS.. Franklin; June
10, Westover VS.. Franklin; June Il,
Truxton VS.. Takoma; June Is, Frank
lin vs.. Westover.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Town and Country Golf Club play
ers will be selected to meet a team
from the Baltimore Suburban Club
next Sunday in competition for the
silver cup that has been put up for
competition between the clubs. The
match will be played over eighteen
holes here, the remaining eighteen
being played at Baltimore June "a.
The Baltimore men have won two
legs on the cup and need q third for
permanent possession. Jimmie Spen-
ser will select the team for compe-
tition.
An event for women Is contem-
plated during July and a match with
Richmond Is also under advisement.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
ENTER PRO TOURNAMENT
AT WHTTEAIARSH VALLEY
Fred Mcleod and Jack Burgess to
Take Flyer With Other Golf Cracks.

Fred Mcleod and Jack Burgess, golf
professionals here. will journey up
to the Whitemarsh Valley Club to
take part in the open professional
tournament to be held June % and "a.
Mcleod is going great guns at
present. and has always been able
to stack up with the best pros in
the country. Mcleod recently ne
gotiated the Columbia course in ~,
showing how well he is playing.
Both players are expecting to re-
turn for the match scheduled for
June "a when five local profess
SIGNALS get together at Bannockburn
for a match for the benefit OF the
Red Cross.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11
NATIONAL.
Where They Play.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.

Americas League.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

National League.
The Washington times., 1917-06-11

Hank Is going to stay among his OLD
friends. They need him.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
PATRONZE

hopeless tract of land which, by cour-
farm. There were but two in the fam
lily. however, and they succeeded in
inducing the reluctant soil to yield
more than they needed. Being a
philanthropic couple, they decided to
adopt a child from the poor farm.
They actually adopted two children, a
boy named John W. Steele, and his
sister,
At about this time the farmers along
certain of the streams in Venango
county discovered that an oily sub
stance foated on the water. They
were largely an ignorant and a su-
perstitious people. When the streams
settled into little pools the people Sc
cured the oil by spreading blankets
or wooden cloths over the water
There were wrung out, bottling the
oil and using it for medicine One
day there came into the neighborhood
of the "oil springs" a man who could
see farther than the others His name
was Edwin L. Drake. Obtaining
some financial support, and persuad-
ing Mrs. McClintock. then alone, to
let him drill in a corner of her farm,
he soon had derricks erected all over
the place, was pumping oil, and was
paying the owner of the farm SIS for
every other barrel oil produced Mrs
McClintock took in money so fast that
she found it necessary to buy safe
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21

in which to keep it. Her husband had
named the adopted son in his will.
She confirmed this Neither, how
ever, took the precaution to protect
the adopted daughter.
The heir waited impatiently for his
majority. By this time a great for
tune had piled up. When he came in
to it one Of his first acts was to burn
some So bills as lighters" A So bill
was the smallest unit of currency he
would recognize. He paid So for a
shoeshine, for shave, for a newspa-
per. He bought suits of clothes for
his friends. He pinned 500 bills on
his clothes and paraded through the
oil towns. He was displeased with
his treatment in a hotel, bought il,
and put in his own manager He at
tended negro minstrel performance
and presented one of the lend men"
with magnificent diamond Was it
Duprez and Benedict's, or Skiff and
Gaylords Ministries whom he financed
for a whole season? 1t was one OF
them, and he got his recompense by
marching in procession with the
troupe through the streets of the
towns in which it performed. Ready
money, or money from the regular
revenue of the oil wells on the Nc
Clintock farm was not coming in as
he could use it, so he sold the property
for round s1,000,000 in cash This
he squandered right and left with a
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
Goal Oil Johnny"

Contrary to an impression quite
general in this generation, the get
rich-quick" period in American his
tory did not begin yesterday. It was
on with great vigor in 40, when men,
in California and Nevada, went to bed
paupers and got up millionaires; it
was on the days when Western farms
and swamps were being metamor-
phosed overnight, into crowded cities
it was on with immense force in gold
boosting and misunderstanding days
on Wall street; it fairly dubbed and
gushed when the plain people of Ven
ango county, Pennsylvania, began to
strike" oil. and to realize upon their
strikes. Rockefeller, Payne, Arch
bold, Rogers, and the rest had not
appeared in the petroleum field. 1t
was too early for combination or mon
oply. Refneries must yet be con-
structed. railroads must be brought in
to line, there must be q systematic
method of 'crowding out the little
fellow" before the big fellow could
come into control.
William McClintock and his wife, in
1857, owned and occupied a rather
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21

prodigality that eclipsed his previous
efforts. One of his caprices was the
giving of cabs to hackmen.
He went to New York and spent
$4,000 a day on Broadway for sixty
days. He was surrounded and fol-
lowed by people who flattered him and
preyed upon his generosity. He mar
ried before his fortune came Later
he neglected his wife. When he be-
came penniless she forgave him. The
last phase in thes tory of Coal Oil
Johnny" was told recently by the Kan
sas City Star, and is, perhaps, the
strangest of all: 1t is certainly the
most satisfying. He went west when
busted and drove stage in Nebras-
ka at S25 dollars month. Later he
was employed by his own son, rail
road station agent in that state, to
wheel trunks and other baggage. La
ter still, it was rumored that con-
siderable sum of money which he over
looked, had been saved for him. With
his wife, at all events, he returned
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
He Wasn't "Jinn" Riley,

An ane"dote of James Whitcomb
Riley told by Booth Harrington in
Golfers Weekly a
He would sing an old time darky
song to the guitar and finish it by
dancing an intricate little step; be
would cut all manner of droll capers in
nlmlcry; he was the very liveliest
soul ever known and the neighbor-
lest. But those who understood him
BEST never called him Jim unless they
were related to him or knew them
selves part Of his most intimate life"
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is one of the foremost trial lawyers in
New England and a particularly bril-
liant cross examiner. He holds the dis
tinction of having received the largest
fee ever paid a lawyer in Massachu-
sets, 100000, for his work in the Bay
State Gas company receivership>case.
A native of New Hampshire, fifty
five years old, he was educated at Yale
and was graduated in the law from
that university in 1884. He began prac-
tice in his native state, but removed
to Boston in 1886. Known as an in
dependent Democrat, Mr.. Whipple new
CT took an active part in Massachusetts
politics until 1911, when he was nOmi-
mated by the Democratic organization
for the senate, but was defeated by
Senator Lodge after close fight.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
Muscle Soreness Relieved.

Unusual work, bending and lifting
or strenuous exercise is a strain on
the muscles, they become sore and
stiff, you are crippled and in pain
Sloan's Liniment brings you quick re-
lief, easy to apply, it penetrates with
out rubbing and drives out the sore
mess. A clear liquid cleaner than
mussy plasters or 'ointments, it does
not stain the skin or clog the pores
Always have a bottle handy for the
pains aches of rheumatism, govt, lum-
bago, grippe, bruises, stiffness, back
druggist, Csc. 3
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to Pennsylvania, and settled down
quietly and happily on a farm
Christian Science Monitor.
Coal oil Johnny many years ago Wis
tied Watertown with a Theatrical or
musical troupe.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21

The production of copper in the
United States in 1916 surpassed all
previous records, according to the
United States Geological Survey. The
total output was valued at $520,OO0,-
600 more than double the value of the
metal produced during 1915.
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do Unto Others"
Counsel For House
Leak" Investigators

Sherman L. Whipple, who was Sc
lected by the house rules committee
as counsel and inquisitor in the inves-
tigation of the alleged peace note leak.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
Wrond Font.

"She married a printer. Now she
wants a divorce"
"Ah. | see-she made a typograph-
zeal error!'-Florida Times-Union
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Watertown Weekly Leaders Buy-at-Home Department
These firms have united ina give the public reliable information Trading

will exchange any article I buy from
him which is unsatisfactory.
Ninth spend my money with my
nome merchant in preference to some
mail order house in. distant city be
cause the local merchants help to sup
port the public schools where | send
my children the churches and the de-
pendent poor in my vicinity
Tenth. i pHtronize the local mer-
chant because M does not try to trick
NE into buying cheap" goods. which
because of their effectiveness prove
to be expensive. and. further. because
should i'll luck or bereavement come
my way my local dealer would not
only prove chat ne was d neighbor
and Il friend. but il man. with Il mans
heart and a mans inclination TO dc
good: not SOulleSS corporation like
the mail order system. whose only in
Stinct is greed and further desire for
gain.
"Do Unto Others"
Let all citizens follow this creed
and they will be blessed with happy
homes and Z happy life, They will
prosper financially and at the same
time improve their moral standard Do
for your neighbOr what you wOr Id like
him to do for You; then you are doing
your full duty to yourself and to all
mankind
Moral Buy and sell at home.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
HABIT.

Habit, if wisely and skiIIfuIIy
formed, becomes truly a second
nature, but unskiIlfuIly and un-
nethodicaIIy directed il will be
the ape of nature, which initiates
nothing to the life, but only
cIumsiIy and awkwardly-Ba-
con. q
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21
OTTO BAYER
MEAT MARKET

Dealer in Fresh, Salt and Smoked
Meats. Poultry and Game in season
Homemade Sausage a speciality.
Phone No. 35. 20S w. Main ST.
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IA nnnnnnnnuuuuuuuu
. SPORTING :


/. - . !
At a meeting of the Waukesha
Chamber of Commerce Thursday eve
ming attended by 100 persons, the
question of baseball team was taken
up. George Rankin of Fort Atkinson
urged the chamber to stand back of
prospective baseball team to be or
gained this spring, claiming that the
great national sport is of particular
interest to the laborer who puts III his
eight and ten hours six days week.
Representatives from Watertown, and
the district attorney of Jefferson coun-
ty spoke upon the same subject. John
G. Gredler, the presiding officer, ap-
pointed Hawley Wilbur, B. A Demp-
sey, r. l.. Holt, j. G. Laing and Wyn
Gillian members of a committee in
with authority to act in the name of
| the Chamber of Commerce.
The eighteenth annual Wisconsin
Trapshooters' association tournament
will be held in Wausau from July %
! to July "a The Wisconsin Overland
! trophy will be awarded to the state
champion five man team, and the
Time Insurance company of Milwau-
| kee trophy will be awarded to the state
champion two man team. Many trO-
phies and prizes have been provided
! for the lady shooters. Amateur shoot
ers in the state who pay an entrance
I fnn Of IL NII |. a.,
state championship or any of the in
terstate trophies.
The following skat scores were made
at the tourney held at S. Molzahn's
place Monday evening:
Charles H. Miller, won 20, lost 5,
net Is.
Fred Wendt, 400 points.
G. Ripe, club solo against 5, 402
points.
! Edward Schmutzler, won IS. lost 6
net II.
H. Winkler, 354 points.
| Edward Tessmann, high play 90.
| Edward Bittner, heart tourne
against 5.
The High Life and Lange Colts
! bowling teams attended the American
! bowling congress now being held at
Grand Rapids, Mich The High Lifes
made a five man score of 1928 and
Lange's Colts rolled $3.50. These scores
may possibly be in the money, but il
will be a tight race In the single
the bowlers did better, Art Kruger
rolling a score of 629.
There is a probability that Paddy
Ryan may be named manager of the
Beaver Dam baseball team The fans
up there are anxious to have him try
the team out in the new tri-county
league and it is possible that he may
accept as he intends remaining in Wa
tertown and Beaver Dam during the
| coming summer. He will have a man
ager in his new store in La Crosse
WatertOWn High school basketball
team easily defeated Beaver Dam Fri
day evening at the high school gym "a
to g.
! Lincoln school defeated Webster
Friday evening 10 to 3.
/ Waterloo high school basketball
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IRAN NO. ~ arrives from MilWau-
kee at 2:55 p. m. Saturday and Sun
day only
Train No. "A leaves WATERFOWL for
the east at 4:50 p. m. Saturday and
Sunday only.
Train No. 33 arrives from Milwau-
kee and departs for Madison at S:19
a. m. except Sunday.
Train No. 40 arrives from Madison
at 1920 a. m, except Sunday.
Train No. 7 arrives from Chicago
and departs for Madison at 3:11 D. m.
daily except Sunday.
Train No. % arrives from Chicago
and departs for Madison at 6:38 D. M.
except Sunday.
Train No. 81 arrives from Chicago
daily at 1925 p. m. and goes no fur
Their.
Train No. 80 arrives from the east
at 1850 p. I'll. daily
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at 1905 a. m. and goes
through to Madison, returning at 5:45
p. m.
*These trains stop at Watertown
junction only.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES,
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
South.

Chicago passenger--------5 SIT a. m.
*Chicago ger--------11:0 5 a. m.
~Cnlcago paSSenger--------1 l: 80 D. M.
GAINESVILLE passenger-------7 :15 p. IN.
5:17 a. M. train makes close con-
nections for the west at Jefferson
Junction and also for Milwaukee.
eBoth HOS a. m. and tbs p. m.
trains make close connections at JEFF
ferson Junction for Madison and all
points west.
North.
Screen Bay passenger a. m.
Green Bay, Sundays only---S:1O a. IN,
Screen Bay passenger :43 D. M.
Northern Michigan 1925 u. m.
Rockford passenger arrives at Wa
tertown at $40 a. m. and goes no
farther.
The 1855 a. m. train makes connec-
ton at Clyman Junction for trains
east.
A train goes west from Clyman
Junction at 500 p. m.
*These trains leave daily except
Sunday.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-21

Founded on Facts and Should Be Lived
Up to by the American People-No OF
Religious Creed-People of North,
South. East and West Can Unite For
Good.
Copyrighted. 1914, by Thomas ]. Sullivan
Every failure is a step TO success;
every detection of what is false directs
us to what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error.
Not only so. but scarcely any attempt
is entirely a failure; scarcely any thee
ry. the result of steady thought. is al
together false. No tempting form OF
error is without some latent charm de
rived from truth With these thoughts
in mind | have prepared what | call
the consumers creed.
A Gate to the City.
1t is not religious creed. If it were
| would not be writing it. lis i aim
afraid | might get my metaphors
crossed This is business creed
something like the people of New Eng
land uncOnsciously adopted when Lord
North undertook to tax them. Thereto
fore they had always been accustomed
to divide on points. d 1t so happened,
fortunately, that their opposition to
Lord North was Il point on which they
were all united 1t was a business
point.
| have written a creed upon which
the people of the north, south. east
and west can all unite for their own
good.
A good creed is a gate to the city
which has golden foundations; mis-
leading creed may be road to de-
struction, or if both misleading and
alluring it may become what Shake
speare calls a primrose path to the
eternal bonfire.
Perhaps my creed is nothing more
than a set Of principles which it would
be well for every consumer to practice
Read them and then adopt them as
your very own:
A Business Greed.
First do not patrOniZe the mail
order system because it is selfish and
greedy and for the reason that | buy
at home, where my interests are,
Second.-If this community is good
enough for my family and | to live in
it ought to be good enough for my fam
lily and L to buy our necessarieS in.
Third will not take the word Of
the mail order house for its goods, as
| want to see what am buying, and
want to get what l pay for.
FOURTH do not patronize the mail
order houses because they demand
cash in advance, and when | am
broke" and sick and need supplies my
home dealer is willing to carry" me-
Fifth patrOniZe the home dealer
because he stands back of his goods
and in case of error is willing to rec
tify
Sixth.-I patronize the home mer-
chant because | believe man ought to
spend his money in the community in
which he earns it.
y "
Seveuth.-I patronize the hoine mer-
chant because | believe the man who
sells what he produces and buys what
be needs at home cannot be injured
by deceptive catalogue pictures or al
legged bargains.
y y
Eighth do not patronize the mail
order houses because they frequently
sell damaged and inferior goods. which
it avails a man nothing to attempt to
exchange. But the man | patronize-
the home merchant, the man who helps
to pay she town. county and state tax
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koh1S & Knaak

Unde t. kers Em ba liners and
uneTal Directors
unde' taking rooms 6O7-609 Main street
Res. phtnes 1851. l65 y Store ph0nl
l50-x. Nighr cuils promptly attended g.
Chapel ana adN resistant.
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Powers of the Fireside.
Wife-The policeman called on the
cook last night Husband-Ah! A CON
ference OF the powers. Baltimore Sun,
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Watertown High school basketball
team easily defeated Beaver Dam Fri
day evening at the high school gym "a
to 9.
Lincoln school defeated Webster
Friday evening 10 to g.
Waterloo high school basketball
team defeated Watertown high second
team at Waterloo Friday % to 10.
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When you are in need of PAINTS,
OILS, BRUSHES, WALL PAPER,
GLASS, WINDOW SHADES, PICTURE
FRAMES OR PICTURES OF ALL
KINDS think OF the
]. b. MURPHY COMPANY
Ill West Main st. Phone 236-x
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will exchange any article | buy from
him which is unsatisfactory.
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CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.