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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
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make for
December II,
distinguished himself by striking nineteen
seVennnng hit
the American Association
1913 and again released Louisville
Louisville
when he
in 1915
finished second Alexander of the Fhe
leading pitcher Of the
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all baseball ptchersa nohit
he accomplished teammates Chicago
in which he by a of l to
athletics Are No,U City Cham pons
T1yEN Connie he
II
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and the squad
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23
h AMERICANS CANNOT
HAVE BALL GAMES THEY
ULL FIND FUN ELSEWHERE
Rxng Holds Center of Sports Stage in Philadelphia
Barring National Pastime- Motorcycle Races
at Point Breeze Attract Many
By ROBERT ". MAXWELL

NOW from the wop Secretary
~ Baker
xans to nnd other
shrcush the will find
ana already they are forming hazy plans for the future
There need which
bEeasue baseball the United
states has his opinion the subject
4 ~ every Followers
the AFTERNOON and sit there watching deserted diamond They must
discover something
the Americans versatile They will not weep over
spilled milk and wall they climb
get around instead Of bung through If baseball eliminated
then something else What shall be?
Boxing will and right the knights of the padded mt
boxing
excellent scheduled tonight shbe Park
addition another professional which rapidly gain
held thousands Manager Jack Roden
May Be Allowed to Finish Season
a Washington there is chance that the baseball players will be allowed
before employment
Il IL rather the last
Beginning Of the war and later restored " good ndn That wardden
for all kinds of the standing
professional stopped
70 get INTO the game es WI" 20 out ana take 'her own
watching others take them 1t will that
m1 n 1nr % .n amnrer ~ snsIs,ns's ,assrdar NJ Ca
independent authority
do not game
shipping goods all
country
would
soldiers and sailors playing baseball
day I ad
younger am oufing teams
baseball killed take from
me rather than be retarded"
nmates that the spectators will become
tennis will receive big boosts and school and college sports will be popular
An the fall
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Frank Beirns. Of the old Loyels bowlins
team. says he thinks he can still roll the
some Of these warm nights. II Doc loses
Beirns will try to sell him that white"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

II you don't see your favorite bowling
alleys advertisement In the EVENING Pun
Lie LEDGER, ask your bowling alley manager
why he doesn't advertise In the paper which
supports bowling.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Pennsylvania team In Section b has prac-
with a percentage Of .S76. which 10 close to
200 over their rivals the Terminal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Tonisht's "Duck-rin" League will find two
Of the strongest auintets who have eve'
namely. the Pitcairn and the Manestc. boti
with scores Of II won and lost.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Tonight on the Keystone Alleys the warm.
weather duck pinners'' will cndeavo to
wrench the top rung from the Pitcairn quin-
tet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Pstsy Wallace, the local hvweiaht. under
the manaEement Of Herman Hindin, In being
s sroonea arond nices oG % nis mana9He.. nan yer, mn, nm
Tuber. formerly under his managemcnt. and
IN shape and be ready for any nyweight in
the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

rike To meet either Eddie wasond Young
Toe Borre, or Patsy Frederick for the
ITALIAN lightweight championship Of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Announcements Of the National dou.
bles Championship have been sent out
by Nathaniel w. Niles. chairman of the
tournament commmittee of the Long.
wood Cricket Club, of Boston, where the
tournament will begin on August 12
Entries close on Friday. August 9, and
must be made with Richard Rishon sec.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Battling Leonard, the local bantam. claim,
that his broken hand will be better In
a bout ten days. and he wkl be ready to box
any man his weight In the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-23

Rillv Niskie. the st. Paul heavyweight.
claims that he will not box any negro
heavyweights as long as he Us in the fighting
business
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
Big Night for the Butler High School

Friday night Of last week was 4
big night for the Butler High School
The debating team, Clyde Borland
and Sherman Moore, went Nevada
rand defeated the Nevada team in a
debate held in the auditorium of the
Nevada high school. Miss Doris
Jones, coach, Prof. Alphonse Gorrel,
principal of the High school and Rev.
Moore accompanied the boys to Ne
vada. The subject for debate was
Resolved that a federal law provid-
ing for compulsory arbitration be.
tween employees and employers, IS
wise and feasible" The Butler boys
had the affirmative. The decision Of
the three judges was unanimous for
the Butler team.
Buffers next opponent will either
be Windsor or Clinton and the win
ners of the contest will in all prota-
bility go to Columbia where they will
contest for the state championships.
While the debating team was win
ming laurels the Basketball team were
at home trimming the team from
.Amoret. The girls won their game
by a score of 22 to 4, and the boys
took the visitors from the west fart III
the county i1'o camp by a score OF
55 to 9.
The boys team this year is perhaps
the strongest that ever represented
the school. SO far they have played
seven games, all of which they wor
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
MINERS STRONG FOR WAR
Expel I.'W. w. in Ranks and Favor
U. S. Control of Mines.

Indianapolis, Jan. 25.-Aftcr cx-
peling Industrial Workers of the
World from membership ir the organ.
ization, il there are any, the United
Mine Workers today Went on record
as tavoring the taking over of the
coal mines by the governml on con.
ditlun the :lniOn men had the ii 5ht t.
TTIJHC ttffJCtivv f7IT gIiHs. tt41ICy IskT1
M special rr,tl,c 3cS in the operation
OF the sclcctivc draft, opposed CON
scriptiol OF labor and adopted Il war
resolution" declaring the coal di5gers
to be i'll iu'l accord with President
WILSON, ; announcement to make the
world sale for denocrac, and de.
lnand'ng the unrestricted right of
Wnrk;n@mcn ard women to organize
and deal collectively with their en-
plnycr>
There WAS no cXpresse, opposition
to any ni the resolutions and they
were adopted in most instances by i
unanimous vote.
The delegates take great pride in
the service flag containing Io,aS6 stars
banging over their helds in the hall,
and some uf the resolutions brought
out the fact of the great number OF
mine workers now in the military
service
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

"A. c. Coberly, manager of the Lo-
gan Moore lumber yards. and Mrs
Coberly, returned the last Of the week
from tri ip to Leavenw, r.il, Kansas,
and Kansas City, where Mr.. Co erly
attended the luiub,r man convention.
Tuesday we received we'll written
account of a pleasant social event that
took place east OF the city Sunday.
but for the reason that it was not
signed, we cannot use it. We posi-
lively will mot print communications
unless we haze the name ol the writ
er.
J T. Zwahlei}, who travels in this
territory for tie Il. .. G. com nans
of St. Joseph. has ordered the address
on his paper c'angei from Butler to
Brool;iield, where &c will rcj"'e in
the future, having been transferred
to that territory ly III; house. Butler
regrets to lose Mir. Zwahlcn and his
estimablc family, bu: hopes t at the.
will like their new hom,, and some
day move back to Butler.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

The Rich Hill high school basket
ball team defeated the Adrian team
Friday night by the score Of 40 to SO.
John T. Pritchard, one of the first
settlers of Rich Hill, died at his home
, in that city, Saturday last. He has
been a resident OF Rich Hill since
1886.
Volney McFadden. Kansas City
attorney, spent few days the last
of the week at the home of his par
. ents, Judge and Mrs. ]. w. McFad-
den. at Virginia.
S. w. Davis, editor of the Demo-
Graf, spent a feM-days- the la last st of Of the
week in St. Louis, attending a meet
ing of the State Press Association, of
which he is an officer.
Mrs. Carl McCaughey, who has
been visiting at the home Of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stuffing. in
West Butler, has returned to her
home at Quapaf, Oklahoma.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
French Shoot Down Four German
Planes; Huns Bomb Hospitals.

Paris, Jan. .o-Fierce airplane bat
ties have broken the comparative
peace that has reigned over the west
front ior weeks.
In the past y hours French airmen
have shot down luur enemy planes in
sky cunbats.
French airmen threw down 5000
kilograms Of high explosives upon
thc German industrial cities of Lud-
wigshafen and Freiburg. Other ava-
tors attacked the German military
works and the railway at Thionville.
Observation planes have penetrated
nearly 20 miles behind the German
front while more than 800 photo
graphs were taken by French aerial
photographers.
German planes repeating former
rlthlessness. bombed the Red Cross
hospitals at Dunkirk and Calais. but
did little damage.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

Charles Gathright, for thirty year,
q druggist in Sheldon, died ill that
place Monday after an illness OF bu,
three days Of acute liver trouble. hc
fore going to Sheldon he was a res;
dent ot Montrose. Deceased was {.
brother OF Mrs. Peyton Parks. OF
Clinton.
The other day young Kansas
titan married girl who left him fiji
teen minutes after the ceremony was
performed. On investigating he dis
covered that he was her fourth hus-
band and they were all classed First
division, Class \" by the draft board
The young lady was evidently look
ing to the future.
II. O. Maxcy will deliver an address
at the Spruce Presbyterian church
Saturday night, under the auspices Of
the Bates County Council of Defense,
on the subject OF why the War"
Mr.. Maxey is a forceful speaker and
'as made a deep study Of his subject.
Everybody invited to come out and
learn the cause of the great war that
is now devastating Europe.
In the list OF names OF those who
had been recommended for commits
sion in the aviation corps of the army
published in the Kansas City papers
last week, was that of II. S. Wyatt,
of this city. Mr.. Wyatt took his cx-
animation some time ago and was the
only one from this county that passed
so far as we have learned. The ex
for commission in the avias
ton corps, is the hardest of any
branch of the service and Mr.. Wyatt
is to be congratulated on being able
to pass it.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

Carl NJ. Palmer. |, years old, Of
Suniield. Mich, is believed to be
Uncle Sans youngest soldier. Carl
enlisted last SIMMER, claiming his age
at IS. The boys sister disclosed his
age when she visited camp at Waco.
Tex, and upon hearing praise from
Captain liogarth. said. And to just
think. he only /, years old
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

We received directions last week to
change the address of A. L. Zwahlcn' S
paper from Chicago to Springfield l.,
Illinois. Mr.. Zwahlen, former
Bates county boy, has good posi-
tion with the Department of Pub
lie Welfare Of the state of Illinois.
and keeps up witt, Bates county
events by reading the Times.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

r. l.. Graves left Sunday for an ex-
tended visit through the east He
will first stop at indianapolis, In
diana, where he will spend some time
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Claude
Pollock. From there he will go to
Louisville. Kentucky. where he will
visit friends.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
Every Time You Lick a Stamp
You Help Win the War

Ask About the Thrift Stamps and Baby Bonds We Giving Away
$1,000 r$1ooode tor ubu will
Samp,w worh II nps the
they wMp in February n
bond
notice. 6 In ehp the ami W m
We havear i
deposit 9sO with
We
$1,000 $1,000
getou prices ands for
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

w. w. Morrison, editor of the
Waurika, (Oklahoma) News Demo
crat, is in the city visiting his moth
er, Mrs Margaret Morrison. Mr..
Morrison is native of this county,
and formerly lived in the Virginia
nei eighborhood.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31
Dismiss Army Officers for Neglect of
Duty

Washington, IAN. 26.-Further in
vestigation was ordered this after
noon by the war department follow
ing the conviction by court martial Of
two medical reserve officers for neg
lect of duty. The defendants, who
were ordered dismissed from the ser
vice by the court martial We're ieut
John G. Dwyer, Camp Funston, Kas i,
and First Lieut. William Cole, Camp
Bcaur%ard, La. Cole was charged
with improperly treating delirious
patient while DWycr was. CHARGED
With refusing to treat patient who
1ateF died,
Lieutenant Dryers arrest few
law ago at Camp Funston and the
placing Of a heavy guard over hiN,,
caused much comment among other
officers Of the Soth division, and al
though il was known in a general way
that he was charged with neglect o.
duty, tile real facts in the case were
not made public 1t is believed tie
further investigation oi the case was
ordered because of the source OF the
complaint against the accused officer,
who was in one of the rcgimcntal in
iirmarieS,
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Black
of Summit, Friday, January IS, ar
eight pound son.
Prof. and Mrs. c. M. Leedy, ot
| Rich Hill. spent Sunday in this city
at the home of their son, Osborne
Leedy.
Miss Dorothy Armstrong left Sat-
urday for Columbia, where she en-
rolled in the department of journal
ism of the University.
Kirkby Walker, who graduated
from the Butler High school in the
class of 1917 left the last of the week
tor Columbia, where he enrolled as a
student in the State University.
W. w. Henry, OF Henry's Garage,
left Sunday for Detroit. He will stop
in Chicago and attended the big auto
show and will be guest of the Dodge
company at luncheon at the Black
stone hotel.
The Times good friend, J. r.
Marshall, made this office pleasant
call Tuesday Mr.. Marshall says that
water is getting very scarce in his
neigllborhood. many of the farmers
hauling water for their cattle.
w. A. Baker, the Poland China hog
breeder OF southeast of town, left for
St. Joseph Monday, where he will at
tend big Poland China hog sale
and advertise his own sale which he
will hold in this city February IS.
!. B. Greer, a we'll known resident
OF the Ballard neighborhood, was a
business visitor to Butler Wednes-
day, and dropped around to The
Times office and had his name en-.
rolled for the best paper i'll the coun
ty.
| lloyd Graves. son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Graves. of this city. enlisted
about a month ago as radio operator
i'll the navy. and received, orders last
week to report at the Great axes
Training Station by Monday, Janu
2ry 2S. He left for his post Satur-
lay.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-31

Wednesday was Shovel Tay Dag
and i'll tic forenoon pupils from tile
grade schools were around with tags
which they were tying to coal SHOW
els. The tags called attention to the
need ior conserving coal and asked
the user TO try and save one shovel
OF coal daily.
sandy" White. colore,., who last
H.,cN Wa a,ijudsed insatie by the
| r""Hty court, was taken to St. Joseph
| Friday by Sheriff Baker and placed
in the state hospital for the insane.
Sandy seems to have two hallucina
tions. one that some one is going to
Kill him and the other that some one
has stolen his singers whatever
that may mean.
The body OF c. H. Arfman, who
died OF tuberculosis at kenosha Wis
consin, arrived i'll this city Thursday
morning of last week and was taken
to the Culver undertaking parlors
where funeral services, conducted by
Rev. !. W. Alexander, of the Baptist
church. were held that afternoon and
the remains laid to rest i'll the family
lot i'll Oak Hill cemetery. The de
ceased was brother OF Fred Arlman,
OF this city The brothers had not
'ne, ipr more than twenty years.
J. S. IIillman, Of the advertising de.
partment OF the Jones. store OF Kan
sas City, was Butler visitor Satur-
day. Mr.. Hillman was very favorably
with Butler and while here
purchased property and his parents
will move here about the first OF
March and expect to make this city
their future home. Before going in
to the advertising business Mr.. Hill
man was editor of a country news
paper and knows the trial and tribula-
tions of the country editor. He made
this office iraternal call
Miss May Wainwright, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wainwright
and Ray Harrison, OF Adair, Okla
homa, were united in marriage
forenoon at 1880 o'clock
at the home of the brides parents on
South Fulton street, Rev. J. W. Alex
,nder. of the Baptist church, oificiat-
ng. 1t was a quiet wedding, only
he relatives OF the contracting par
les being present. The happy couple
eft on the ITO train for Oklahoma,
where they will live-on the farm Of
he groom.
Mess Sergeant Sam Lemasters and
'rivate Ed Orcar came the last of the
week from Camp Doniphan on short
urloughs to visit home folks. They
ay that the Butler boys have been
cry fortunate, so far as sickness is
only two of them having
'een in the hospital, and they only
or . short time and for minor COM
'laints. They say that the stories
hat have been going around that the
eys in the hospitals lack care, is
lrgely ovtrdrawn as the boys that
re SO unfortunate as to be sent to
he hospitals get good care and at
rntion.
John A. Muhilenburg, who was ar
ested at his home near Rockville las;
'eeH and brought to Butler and
laced in jail charged with appropria,.
lg and selling 1900 bushels of corn
,at was under the control of the re-
eiver, was Wednesday taken before
nstiee B. F. Jeter. where he gave
ond for his appearance for prelim-
AIRY examination February IS. The
ond which was for $500 was signed
= J. E. Hook and Henry Dickbrad-
!. Young Muilhenburg was ordered
} report before the exemption board
Oseeola Tuesday for examination
is father. A. J. Muilhrnburg. who
as jointly charged with his son. has
} far not been captured.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-20
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Shakespeare's Birthday and His Missing Dramas.
"Societys" Goodness to Supreme Dramatist-"They
Order Things Better Broadway"-Latest
Moere Venture

TTIE birthday of the worlds greatest
y dramatist, which falls on next Tues
day. April 2S, will be celebrated in the
familiar Philadelphia fashion. william
Shakespeare will be convontionally
lauded and just as conventionally un-
played
Tis he alone" sang Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. ''who lives and reigns." In that
case this city is not Of his empire.
"Others abide our question: thou art
free" wrote Matthew Arnold. Local
statistics are contradictory. Shakespeare
In Philadelphia enjoys just about as
much freedom as the Car in Tobolsk.
The supreme bard is chained to our
bookshelves. to our library tables. The
life-giving atmosphere of our footlights
is fatuously denied him.
This season has marked the climax
OF neglect, Not a single Shakespearean
drama. not even an excerpt, has graced
the Philadelphia theatre. Last year
came the late Sir Herbert Tree with
the unrepresentative, perhaps even
spurious, Henry VIII" and one precious
act from the wholly authentic Richard
H." Grant him overrated If need be,
this English actor-impresario's artistic
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-20
DANCERS, BEWARE OF
GOLFING EXERCISES
Sprightly Ethel Ford Says 1t Makes
Them Flatfooted-Tennis
All Right

A Philadelphia girl who has made a
distinct success in "Oh Boy" at the Lyric
Theatre is Ethel Ford. She attended
local seminary and after graduation
took up dancing with the idea Of per-
fecting herself for the professional stage
On the opening night of "Oh Boy her
dancing attracted the favorable attention
OF all the reviewers here. In speaking
OF her work Miss Ford says. II have al
ways been Interested in dancing and even
while at school l used to practice the
new dance steps. After my graduation
took up stage dancing and found thas
II girl wants to succeed as profess
sional dancer, II means hard work. one
must use the greatest care In the exercise
taken. For instance, have always been
fond of golf, but my dancing teaches
made me cut this cut as he said II woula
have a tendency TO make me fiatfooted,
But he insisted that take up tennis ana
play several sets each day and even IN
the winter have to devote several hours
to tennis and indoor sports Then 90
a certain amount of swimming each DAY
and in the summer / go 20 some lake
but during the winter use the indoor
swimming pool. Two mornings each
week take a horseback ride. A dancer
must also give special attention 20 het
diet. 80 her life Is noe one entirely OF
ease and comfort"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-20
False Basis of
Dramatic Shortage

TN consequence, our local playhouse
u proprietors, whose functions are oc-
casionally akin to those of mere build
ing superintendents, are most uncom-
fortably situated. This year for ex-
ample. in mid-April, with a full six
weeks of good theatre weather in pros
peet, some of these managers are forced
either to shut up shop or take in the
movies as a last resource. The regular
season at one theatre closes a week from
today. Another is already presenting
filpns More are to follow suit.
Meanwhile Shakespeares natal day
Is upon US. There will be much talk Of
our ''precious heritage" and not the
slightest theatrical evidence Of it's ex.
istence. Mere jeremiads, however, are
poor remedial agents. A ray of hope
beams from Manhattan Island. With
eo+operative enterprise on the part of
both Philadelphia managers and their
public and less of the prevalent ovine
docilIty. perhaps here 1.-The provinces
We might bask in that invigorating light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-20
NiVacity That
Is Untranslatable

THE expected happened in the Coburn
l. Players production Of THE Imagin-
ary Invalid" disclosed here this week.
Much Of the snap and sparkle of Moliere
is vitiated n an English text. The play
in its current form is fairly amusing,
seldom brilliant. Rather uninspired,
though painstaking, acting contrib
utes to the mildness of it's appeal
Mr.. Bruning is the most accomplished
artist in the cast, but for so talented
a performer he is cast in a surprisingly
secondary role. Copeau's French COM
pany lately showed US how dazzling
a Mcliere masterpiece could be when
'L'Avare" was submitted at the Little
Theatre, But that is a much greater
play than THE Imaginary Invalid" and
even in English its original spirit would
be less elusive. II. 7. CRAVEN.