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The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Ben Leonard and belmont
To Meet at St. Paul Dec. S

St Paul. Mimi. Nov. 22.-Benny
Leonard, New York. worlds light
weight champion, was today matched
to box Gene belmont at the Audito-
rum here December 5. The battle will
go ten rounds at 135 pounds weight at
o'clock the afternoon of the bout.
Leonard will come here from Denver,
where he meets Sailor Kirk on Novem-
Der Is. The stop here and at Denver
are his only stops. The match is ex-
pected to draw $4,000
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Cornell In Secret Drill.

Ithaca, N. Y, Nov. 22.-For the first
time this seasoncthe gates Of SchoeIl-
kopf Field today were closed to all
but persons directly connected with
the Cornell football team, and for
more than two hours the varsity
eleven worked in secret. The coaches
tried out a number of radically new
formations which might be sprung
against Pennsylvania.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Gunboat Smith Arrested.

New York, Nov. edward Gun
boat Smith, the pugilist, arrested at
Sheepshead Bay on a charge OF as
sault brought by his former manager.
James J. Buckley. was at liberty yes
terday on bail pending a hearing on
Thursday. The two men had an al
tercaion in front Of Smiths home and
a doctor is reported to have taken
seven stitches in Buckley's mouth.
and Smith broke their busi-
ness relations after a disagreement in
San Francisco. recently.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
A. AND N. ELEVEN TO
PLAY HILLTOP PREPS

The Army and Navy Props and
Georgetown Props will stage their
annual football combat this afternoon
on Friends Field to decide the prep
school championship of the district.
Both teams are confident of vic
tory, and the game should be hard
fought because the rivalry is de-
cidedly keen between the schools.
The officials had not been decided
upon last night. but an agreement
will probably be reached early today.
The game will start promptly at
8 p. m. The line-ups:
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Captures Capital Handicap johnson Stands Pal
BOWIE SELECTIONS.

First race-Ideai. Miss Peep. Mill
race.
second raee-Hickorynut. Frea,
Lady Gertrude.
Third race-Firins lime. zouavs.
Nigel.
Fourth race-Joek Scott. Celtic.
Incog.
Fifth race-ThornbIoom. Brook
lyn, Captain Ray.
Sixth race-Brother Jonathan.
Margaret L. Battle Abbey.
Seventh race-Crepuscule, widow
Bedotte. May w. -
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
May Lose Weston.

Word comes from Ann Arbor that
the Michigan team may be without
the services of Weston at quarter
back in the game with the Northwest
ern University of Saturday. 1t ap-
pears that Weston, by all odds the
star Of the team, and two or three
other first-string men, are hanging
on the brink~of the scholastic whirl-
pool and may fall in.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Barns Lansford and Wills.

The Toledo Boxing Commission has
made ruling barring Sam Langford
and Harry Wills. negro heavyweights.
from further participation in bouts in
Toledo ring. The two men appear
ed there a week ago and the COM
mission ruled that the bout was not
on the square.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
MaranYille in Football Tog,.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 22.-Rabbit
Maranville. shortstop OF the Boston
National League Baseball Club. and
now a yoeman in the United States
navy, came out for football practice
with the Boston Navy Yards eleven
on Soldiers Field today. He will try
quarter back, position he played be-
fore devoting his energies to base
ball
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Malone W. Levin.

Mike Collins, who Is now conducting
the boxing shows at the Minneapolis
Boxing Club, Of MINNEAPOLIS, MINI,
signed up Jock Malone, the promising
welter-weight Of St. Paul, to meet Ted
Lewis, the welter-weight champion.
for ten rounds at the clubs next
show on the night Of December 8.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
E. Bowen Wins.

Atlantic City, Nov. 22.-Dr. w. C.
Bowen, of New York, took all honors
in the weekly trapshooting tourna-
ment on the Million Dollar Pier end
ing yesterday. Mr.. Bowen averaged
4.7 out Of 1000 targets through the
week. He had eight straight scores
at Is.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Seston Team Wins.

In the playground soccer champion
ship game at the New York avenue
grounds yesterday the Sestou School
team defeated the eleven from the
Pierce School by to 0. The feature
Of the game was the dribbing OF
Charles Jones and the defensive play
ing of Lorenzo.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
LOBERT IS APPOINTED
COACH AT WEST POINT

New York, Nov. 22-John Hans)
Lobert, who recently received his un-
conditional release from the New
York National League club, has been
appointed baseball coach at the West
Point Military Academy. bobert sue
ceeds Sam Strang, also a former
Giant player. who now Is captain in
the army and said to be in France.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Herzos May Fly.

New York. Nov. 32.-Charles Lin
coin Herzog, second baseman Of the
Giants. may be In the aviation serv-
ice Of the United States by spring.
Herzog Is now at an army flying
camp near Salt Lake City, Utah.
II b believed that he is thinking
seriously Of abandoning baseball for
the air service of his country.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Preparing for Tigers

for the game in the Bowl on Saturday
between the freshman eleven and the
Tiger cubs from Princeton. Many
graduates are going back for sort Of
reunion and there will be q military
side ~ wen assa football side.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
No Game far M;dd;..

Annapolis. Nd, Nov. 22.--AlI homes
Of post season football game for the
midshipmen was abandoned here yes-
terday afternoon, when Georgia Tech.
declined to accept the date offered by
the midshipmen-
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Harvard Athletes Follow Fl...

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 22.-A census
Of Harvard athletes, made public last
night, disclosed that Of the seventy
three men who won "Hs" last year
only six are now ct the university.
All others are In wSf service
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
Pitt Has Some Record.

Pitt since its last defeat in 1914 has
piled up 713 points against its op-
ponents' 70. The Panthers have won
twenty-five games in a row.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23
MANUAL TRAINERS TO
BATTLE BUSINESS

Tech and Business will battle in the
last football game of the High School
series this afternoon IN the Central
Stadium starting at p. m. Accord
ing to the dope the Manual Trainers
should lead by four touchdowns or
more.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-23

Referee-Mr. Gibson. Michigan Agnes. Um-
pire-IIr. Cusack, Georgetown. Head linesman-
Mr.. Heco1.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
IOWA IN MEXICAN WAR.

The only Iowa company aside from
the Norman battalion, to see active
service in the Mexican War of seven
~ years ego was Company X, 10Th
United States Infantry according to
Mr.. Cyril B. Upham, who is the author
of a pamphlet recently published by
The State Historical Society of Iowa.
This company, commanded by Captain
Edwin S. Guthrie, was brought into
rendezvous at Fort Madison and i'm
mediately sent to the front. Together
with the rest of the Fifteenth Regi
ment, Company X was actively engag-
ed in service fro mthe time it landed
at Vera Cruz until the end of the war;
and became distinguished for its BRAY
cry. It's record was "of such a high
standard of excellence as to prove a
worthy example and aspiration to
each of the Iowa organizations which
followed it in succeeding wars" Most
of it's officers received both special
mention and breVet promotions. The
losses of the company were heavy,
amounting to forty per cent of the
aggregate number of members. Major
Mills and Captain Guthrie were among
those killed or mortallv wounded in
battle. Evidence of the appreciation
of their services remains IN the names
of two counties of Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
COAL IN EUROPE.

While the people of Iowa and the
United States are WTangling over the
price of coal, the people Of Europe
are compelled to stint themselves in
order to make the fuel hold out from
day to day and from week to week.
Coal for domestic purposes in Lon
don has been rationed and prices have
been fixed. The prices range from
S1O.37 for the best grade down to 1913
for poorer grades.
A weeks ration for 4 four room
house is two hundred weight, and for
five or six rooms three hurdredweight
for the winter six months with half
that quantity for summer. For the
winter six months a seven room house
gets a ton a month; eight rooms
twenty-three hundredweight; nine and
ten rooms twenty-seven hundred
weight; eleven and twelve rooms thir-
ty hundredweight; thirteen, fourteen
and fifteen rooms, two tons and over
i.Leen rooms, fifty hundredweight.
The summer allowance is half the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

forces arc first to land him. Mr..
Gates title will be Associate Sunday
Editor of all the Hearst newspapers,
which include the New York Ameri-
can. New York Journal, Boston
American, Chicago Examiner and
Chicago American, Los Angeles Ex-
aminer and San Francisco Examiner.
His headquarters will be in New
York. This is one of the most COW
eted posts in American journalism,
and calls for just the high ability, the
keen sense of sensational feature
news, and the knack of preparing it
in the form most palatable to the
readers of Sunday newspapers,whi
Mr.. Gates possesses. Mr.. Gates
still is a young man, and has a bril-
liant future ahead of him. He is
the author of several successful one
act plays, one musical comedy, and
numerous short stories. No doubt
much of his success is due to the
fact that he married an Oskaloosa
girl, Mrs. Gates being Ella Brown,
daughter of James Brown of this
cifU
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

four weeks ago $3.50; one year ago
$10.35; two years ago $685.; three
years ago $7.75; four years ago $3.50,
and five years ago $755.
Cattle were strong and 1Oc up from
Tuesday at the opening and closed
strong at same advance.
Sheep opened strong with Tuesday
and closed strong.
Estimated receipts for Thursday are
5000 cattle, $4,000 hogs and $4,000
sheep.
A total of 10000 hogs at the eleven
markets Tuesday showed 1000 de-
crease compared with a week ago,
$4,000 decrease compared with cores
pOnding Tuesday a year ago and &c.
600 decrease compared with two years
ago. The first two days of this week
eleven points received $4,000 less
than a year ago and 1873, 900 less than
two years ago.
Receipts today were $4,000 cattle,
$4,000 hogs and $4,000 sheep against
17,465 cattle, 1888 hogs and 23,8O5
sheep corresponding Wednesday a
year ago.
Average price of hogs at Chicago
Tuesday was $1710, against SIT on
Monday $17.G5 a week ago, 1888
year ago and $637 two years ago
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
WANTED: A NEW BREAD!

In these parlous times of suma-
rines, aeroplanes, and various other
scientifically designed agencies of
destruction, there is one fact that
stands out with glaring prominence
and that fact is that the world needs
more bread. Not many of us real
lied the supreme Importance of the
role played by the humble loaf of
wheat bread-until the price doubled,
and threatened to go even higher
Not only has the price gone up, but
now we are being urged by Govern
mental and other food-conserVation
organizations to have at least one
"wheatless" meal a day, and yards
of newspaper space are being devoted
to the demonstration of the value of
the dry crust that erstwhile found its
daily way into the garbage can. sta
tisticians are presenting amazing fig
ures to show how much flour would
be saved to help feed the European
Allies if every bread-eater in the
United States would save but a sim
gle slice of bread day. In fact, a
great many people seem to be busy
telling us how valuable is the loaf OF
bread, and how scarce it is going to
be, but very few apparently are CIV
ing any thought to improving condi-
lions by giving US practical suggest
ions as to how we may bake two
loaves of bread where but one was
baked before. The logical and prac-
teal way to meet the situation when
the demand for product exceeds
the supply is to increase the supply
To do this in the present instance
seems to be rather difficult. The
world in it's present state of belliger-
ency can not possibly double its
| production of wheat and rye, the
great bread-making grains, so to
double or materially increase the sup
ply of wheat or rye bread is out OF
the question. But there is an alter
native, viz, to double or multiply the
kinds of primary materials from
which to make bread. If we have
not enough wheat or rye flour from
which to make the bread needed,
make bread from corn, potato, bana-
ma. manioca, or some other flour that
will be "just as good"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
AS DANGEROUS As WAR.

Thirty-four persons lost their lives
through accidents by automobiles on
Iowa's highways during the month of
September, according to figures is
sued by the Iowa State Highway COM
mission.
The greatest number lost their lives
in the overturning of motor cars
nine being killed this way Seven
persons were run down and killed by
motorists.
Seven deaths resulted from trains
crashing into autos. One death re-
suited from a motorcycle crashing
into a train. This accident occurred
at Nevada, Sept. 10. Two persons
lost their lives near Muscatine Sept.
1 when their car rolled over an EN-
bankment into a creek. Another
death resulted from the same cause
at Monticello week later.
September was the first month in
many that no deaths occurred through
horse driven vehicles on the state
highways.
During the same month TAP per-
sons were injured in 666 accidents in
which no fatalities occurred. The
accidents were apportined as fol-
lows:
25 autos over embankment, SO per-
sons with broken bones.
50 autos over embankments, 100
narcOne ont and bruised
40 autos turned turtle, So persons
with broken bones.
70 autos turned turtle, 140 persons
cut and bruised.
IS auto collisions, "a persons with
broken bones.
1874 auto collision, 1873 persons cut
and bruised.
Al autos collide with buggies, As
persons injured.
s autos collide with motorcycles, 3
persons injured.
autos collide with street cars, 10
persons injured.
II autos collide with bicycles, 10
persons injured.
70 autos into obstruction in road,
47'persons injured.
81 people struck by autos. IS per-
sons injured.
Is autos struck by trains, Is per-
sons injured.
26 accidents with horse vehicles,
26 persons injured.
auto accidents where autos were
wrecked and no one hurt.
auto causes runaway and 5 per-
sons injured.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
CORN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
For Mshaska County WAS Captured
by Frank Ward of Cedar In the
State Contest.

Ames, Ia, Dec. 4.-Frank Ward, a
17-year-old boy from near Cedar, has
won the county corn club champion.
ship for 1917 with his acre yield of
1916 bushels, in the contest conducted
by ]. c. Berg in cooperation with the
agricultural extension department of
Iowa State College.
EARLY last spring we tested four
hundred ears of corn for our agricul-
ture lesson in school," explained young
Ward, when asked how he happened
to become interested in corn clubs.
This helped us to get goou seed for
our acre. l used ground which had
been in clover the year before, so the
corn grew fast. l had trouble with
weeds, but the corn was strong and
the rain came at just the right time"
For some reason Mahaska county
failed to provide prize for their
champion corn grower and as a re-
suit, he is missing the trip to the In
ternational Livestock Exposition in
Chicago this week. The other coun-
ty and state corn, pig, baby beef and
canning and gardening club winners
left Ames last Saturday in a special
car.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

ion of scientific knowledge and dis
covery to the business of the farmer
and the home life of country people.
In the present war he has been ready
to meet the emergency and to concen-
trate all rural forces and organiza-
tions in working out the great prob
lens of food production and food con-
servation. In recognition of his value
as local leader. Congress has pro-
vided funds for the immediate extern
sion of this system to every agricul'
tural county in the United States,
State and County Councils of Defense
and all rural organizations can do a
patriotic public service by assisting
the Government and the State in &C
complishing this end. ..-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

winter quantity in each case. Delivery
is restricted to two tons, followed by
a fortnightly ration.
Strict economy in the use of coal in
France is necessary this winter in or
der to avoid a shortage. This is being
accomplished by the issuance of coal
cards by which an amount is allotted
to each family with a limit of 264
pounds per month for family up to
,our persons.
Italy needs 100000 tons OF coal to
run it's railroads, munition factories,
and war industries. vitality no coal is
required for domestic purposes since
heating has been suppressed except in
public buildings. Cooking is done with
gas or charcoal, the latter native
product.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

the act the following taxes are as
sessed:
On bonds, debentures, or certificates
of Indebtedness, for each 500 or frac-
ton thereof, cents; surety bonds, so
cents; certificates of stock, on each
500 OF fraction thereof, 5 cents; on
transfers of stock, on each 500 Of
face value, 2 cents.
Drafts or checks payable otherwise
than at sight or on demand, prom
issory notes, except bank-notes issued
for circulation and for each renewal
of the same, for a sum not exceeding
500, 2 cents.
Deeds, when the consideration eX-
ceeds 500 and does not exceed $500,
so cents, and for each additional $500
or fraction thereof, so cents.
Entry Of any goods, wares, or mer-
chandise at any custom house, not
exceeding 500 in value, rs cents; eX-
ceeding 800 and not exceeding $500,
so cents; exceeding $500 in value, 81.
Entry for the withdrawal of any
goods or merchandise from customs
bonded warehouses, so cents.
~ Passage ticket, one way or round
trip, for each passenger, sold or issued
in the United States for passage to
a port or place not in the United
States, Canada, or Mexico, if costing
net exceeding $50, 81; costing more
than $50 and not exceeding $50, So;
costing more than $50, SIS. Passage
tickets costing less tran $40 shall be
exempt from taxation.
Upon every pack of playing cards
containing not more than fifty-four
cards, manufactured or imported, a
tax of cents per pack is imposed in
addition to the tax under the existing
law.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

The Tagliamento River whose
flooded banks served as d rampant for
the retreating Italians is a stream of
no value commercially. 1t is one of
many small rivers rising in the Carnic
Alps and flowing through the &ene-
tian plain into the Adriatic. Its head
quarters are near Mr. Clapsalon about
sixty-fye miles northwest of it's en-
trance into the Adriatic, but the
course of the stream is meandering,
flowing first to the east and then south
through marshy valley, thus ira
versing a distance of 100 miles.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

U. S. Yards, ILL.,, Dec. 5, 9 a. m.
HOGS-Market slow and steady to
higher than yesterdays average;
quality good; mixed and butchers,
$16750174O; good to choice heavy,
$171O@174O; rough heavy, $16.750
1896; light, $16.55@173O; Workers,
$1G9O01Z1O; bulk, $169OQ17.35;
pigs, $1275@160O.
CATTLE-Market strong and ten
higher; beeves, $71O@15.5O; COWS and
heifers, $61O@1OsO; Westerns, 1925
@135O; native calves, $750Q1425.
SHEEP-Market stead yto strong;
native sheep, $8.SO@12.3O; western
sheep, $OOO@12.90; yearlings, $11.75
@1425; native lambs, $12.5O@1700;
western lambs, $12.75@1700; ewes,
$7.75@11.50.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
the COUNTY AGENT.

David, Houston, Secretary of Agri.
culture in President Wilson's cabinet,
gives endorsement to the county agent
system in the following stirring letter
addressed to w. A. Lloyd OF Omaha,
Nebraska:
The county agent system as devel-
oped by the Federal Department of
Agriculture in cooperation with the
State Agricultural Colleges had dem
onstrated its great usefulness as a
means Of promoting the full develop
ment Of the agricultural resources of
the country.
Working in Intimate and sympathet,
lie relation with rural people the coun-
" agent Is able to secure the applica-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
CLIMBING THE LADDER.

In line with their policy of con-
stantly adding to the roster of gifted
editors, writer's and newspaper ex-
ecutiyes who are engaged in making
the different sections of the newspa-
pers in the Hearst organization, the
Hearst papers recently have added a
new name to the list of distinguished
writer's who are associated with the
Sunday department of that organiza-
ton. The newcomer TO the Hearst
forces is Mr.. Harry Leyford Gates,
widely known in the west as news
paper writer of exceptional punch
and vim Mr.. Gates, whose past af-
filiations have included the city edi-
torship of the Denver Post. San
Francisco, Portland. Seattle, Los An
geles and Kansas City papers. has
long been a valued contributor to
the Sunday sections of various met
ropolitan papers. Many offers have
been made him. 1t is understood, to
associate himself exclusively with
the Sunday departments of the big
New York daiIies. but the Hearst
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
pEcEM Der.

December-why, of course we grin
And bear it-shiverin' every min
ute,
Yet warm from time the month roiiI
in
Till it sixties out with Christmas
in it;
And so, for all its coolest truths
And chill, goose-pimpled imperfec-
lions,
II wads our lank old sacks with
Youths
Recollections.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
Almost Crowded Out

No necessity exists for riding bicycles
on the sidewalks, with the roads as
good as they are at the present time.
The policemen will get you one of
these fine days if you persist Eyes,
but, mister returns one little fellow,
where can we go?oThe blamed autos
are SO thick in the street, going and
coming that we can't ride there" And
re boy was more than half right.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
-Four Democrats end one Socialist

-Four Democrats end one Socialist
have entered the race for Boston's
mayoraIity. At the last State election
only few weeks past, the Democrat
ic plurality in Boston fell to a low
water mark comparable only with the
days of the Bryan candidacy - yet,
with the Democratic vote sure to be
split four ways on municipal election
day, no Republican seems to be dar-
ing enough to offer himself as the
man who can give good government
to a city which needs it.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06

Charles D. Jones of Toledo, who
after a long period of years leaves
the service of the Ulmann-Philpot Co.
printing inks, Cleveland, o., January
/, has accepted position as business
manager of the Jackson Sentinel, Ma
auoketa. Mr.. Jones will begin his work
at Maquoketa the first OF the new
year. He will be missed in Oskaloosa
and throughout Iowa, where he mas
been popular with the trade.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-06
Price Of Coal Fixed.

Des Moines, Dec. 3.-After weeks
of investigation members Of the local
coal commission in session at the city
hall yesterday unanimously agreed on
$5.15 ton as a just maximum price
for coal sold by retailers in Des
Moines, providing the freight rate does
not exceed 40 cents per ton.