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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
BELGlANS IN ALL ATHLETICS
Compete in Boxing Shows and Other
Events Behind Lines-Water
Sport Is Big Thing.

Those who have not paid much at
tention to foreign sports may be more
or less surprised at the number OF
Belgians reported as competing in box
ing shows and other events behind the
lines on the western front, but the
Belgians are by no means newcomers
In athletics.
Water sports are naturally the big
thing in country which has so many
rivers and so much sea coast in pro-
portion to it's size, and in proportion
to it's population Belgium probablysled
all countries in the number of its row.
ing clubs and the number of oarsmen
in training before the war began IN
1914. They took their rowing serious
ly, these Belgians, and developed great
crews and great single scullers.
The Henley regatta on the Thames
open to amateur Fights, and the high
est rowing honor in the world, was
won by the Club NautiQue Gand OF
Belgium IN 1906, '07 and 'O9. Harvard
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
ARMY CHAPLAIN is SOME FAN
Father Munster Rides Sixty Miles in
France to Secure Equipment
for Ball Game.

To obtain baseball supplies for the
soldiers in his brigade, the Rev. Fa-
Their William Munster of Pittsburgh
Pa, chaplain and athletic director of
an artillery regiment, rode 60 miles
on motorcycle at night recently.
A divisional baseball championship
was slated to be settled when Father
Munster discovered that the truck
containing the balls, bats and other
equipment was on the missing list.
AS the division was going to sec.
tor where it would be too busy for
any baseball games for while, Father
Munster was determined that the
championship should be settled. With.
cut saying word to any of the sol,
diers he jumped on the motorcycle and
rode to Knights Of Columbus club
60 miles away where he secured the
equipment for the game.
Before the war Father Munster was
at ST. Mary's of the Mount church
Pittsburgh.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

crossing
there's shutters set in
recognized the old VINO
building that
smiled one
old would have onered you
posies We cut them TO give
feel that hover mas
to
anything know the oocos
and don't know what we aborng men anu
blessed The Divine
mans and Sabbath"
silent
turned homewdby the woman
weather strips
would have that the
realism
saying:
The bbathw was man."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
YALE STAR PLEASED AT WAR
Jack kedzie, oId-Time Yale Baseball
Player, Finally Gets Excitement
He Craved.

Jack Kedzie, who caught for Yale's
baseball team in 1893, and could have
broken into the big leagues if he had
desired to, is at last getting the ex-
element his restless spirit always ask
ed-he is at the head of Y. M. G. A.
unit in France, and has been given
credit for his rescue of many French
children from a burning, shell-swept
village.
Kedzie's life would make quite ro-
nance. He was, as already remarked,
a great ball player at Yale, and had
to turn down major league offers on
account of his large business interests
at home-Evanston, Ill.
For more than 20 years he went
along in business track, always sigh
ing for adventure, never having the
least show to get any till the chance
"over there" was offered
Then the wealthy Mr.. Kedzie shut
up shop, FASTENED to France and at
the age of forty-seven is having glo-
rious time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

any straying drake. In the AFTERNOON
when the call is given ''all aboard"
you never saw such a scrambling and
falling into the water to get up that
gangway, for the last half-dozen &c.
a sound thrashing for being late, II
looked like crush at a theater fire.
A Flood at Vuchow.
We finally reached Vuchow, the "Big
Doc" and his charming wife, formerly
Of the blue grass, showed me the most
interesting ten days of my life. could
forget three-fourths Of it all and still
have enough left to write a boob. I
arrived in time to see what their city
is most famous for, flood. 1t rose As
feet, inundating great part Of the
city, driving the natives to the hills,
on to house tops, and few who were
able to pay 40 cents day, to house
boats.
OF course, we lost no time in seeing
that great missionary hospital of which
my brother is chief surgeon and super
intendent He had three Chinese men
and ten Chinese women nurses, trained
also as Bible students, and can accom-
modate about $50 patients. They have
every heinous disease and aff1iction
acknowledgement, typhus, Asiatic
cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, dengue
fever, opium smokers poison, and
plague. The first sight that struck my
eyes was woman who had just come
in with her throat cut wide open and
bleeding to death. The bleeding was
quickly stopped, and the Bible women
going to work at once, found that she
had suffered from guilty conscience
and cut her throat to let the evil spir-
it's out of her body.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
PROVEN SWAMP ROOT
AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS

The symptoms of kidney and bladder
troubles are often very distressing and
leave the system in rundown condition.
The kidneys seem to suffer most, as al
most every victim complains of lame back
and urinary troubles which should not be
neglected, as these danger signals often
lead to more dangerous kidney troubles.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root which, so
many people say, soon heals and strength
ems the kidneys, Is splendid kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, and, being
an herbal compound, has gentle heal
ing effect on the kidneys, which is al
most Immediately noticed in most cases
by those who use it.
A trial will convince anyone who may
be in need of it. Better get bottle from
your nearest drug store, and start treat
ment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample BOTTLE When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

AS the miners come out of the pit
thew hand their lamps to the girls
through little window in the lamp
room, receiving them again next day,
cleaned and filed, on their return 20
work.
Saving the timber into lengths for
pit-props to support the roof in the
mine is another branch of labor under
taken by women and girls.
Thus do the girls assist the miner
to fulfill his great task of supplying
the allied nations with the coal which
Marshal Foch assures us is 'the key
TO victory" Thus do they help to light
his way and to Keep him safe. Cupid
too, is busy at the pits today. Man.
knight of the Silver Badge returns
to find a bride among the bonnie
lassies on the pit-brow.-London Mail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

the pugilist goes a fatal once more to
the ring, the baseball player to the
bat, the prize racer to the track. The
better part Of glory to the champion
is in the discretion that dictates with
drawal without loss of laurels.
Horses Are Menaced.
"Of American thoroughbreds it has
for years been urged that they are
menaced and too frequently put out
of the game by excessive racing. They
start running earlier than foreign
horses. They are kept too constantly
in training. Great careers have so
been spoiled, as in the cases Of Her.
mis-, Irish Lad, Waterbury ard other
fine runners. Parole, winning IL races
in his eighth year, is a shining excep-
ton to a general rule of retirement at
five, six or seven years.
''There Is said to be no doubt that
Roamer could win more races, he
could win no greater fame. And there
is no need that he should carry away
more purses. He has earned the right
to kingly leisure, and to consideration
rather as good horse and good friend
than as gifted provider Of golden
! glory
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
chrysanthemum Is china,s.

There is a common belief that the
chrysanthemum originated in Japan,
but like many other good things, 1t
was really borrowed from the Chinese.
1t is, however, the royal flower OF
Japan, appears on the seal of the en-
peror, and on the postage stamps OF
the country, while it has been the priv
cipal feature of an annual fete for 9OO
years. Adopted though it was, the
Japanese have done so much with the
chrysanthemum that they feel they
have a right to call it their own.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
CAPTAIN LOST TO WILLIAMS
Francis Stewart Enters Officers Train
ing School for Infantry at
Camp Lee, Va.

Another Williams captain has de
parted to join the colors, Francis B.
Stewart of Ossining, N. Y, having en-.
tered the officers training school for
infantry at Camp Lee, Va. He served
as leader of the Purple track team last
spring. Stewart was a middle-distance
runner and had represented the Purple
In cross-country and relay, as well as
track, for three years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

II thousand-dolar bond, SIR
KINDNESS: 'tou
hundreddola
contradiction coored man openeu 'a ~
sacrifice she saw
caHoused ms
childish pride
her
the big thing Liberty bonds stand for
And IS patriotism
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

mend that no midshipman appointed
to the naval academy should receive
his commission under five years, ana
that, after passing the entrance ex-
animation, every appointee should go
to sea as a regularly enlisted man and
serve one year in the ranks before en-
tering Annapolis.
1t has been suggested as better
plan to afford future officers expert
ence as seamen, that the course at
Annapolis should be divided.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

street. heading TOT lne dVeHue' potd
toes were rolling out of the back OF
tbe truck. Some passer-by called to
Napoleon to come back and pick up
his "spuds."
But Napoleon was intent on speed.
Nearing G street, he had the gas
throttle wide open and before he
could stop a west-bound street car on
G street hit his truck. 1t swerved
around in front of an east-bound car
and was damned between the two
$500 1910 Mhon nYaminnd If WAS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Favored by Nature.

"How old is your baby brother|
asked Robert of a playmate.
'One year DID," replied Willie.
"Huh!" exclaimed Robert. ''Fve got
a dog a year cid, and he can wal
twice as we'll as that kid can."
swell, he ought to-" replied Willie.
"He's got twice as many legs"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

Of
Others
started to search the wreckage
but he was inside the street
He
of the moom platform.
atai where a
fright He said
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
plea for Tolerance.

The only atmosphere in which
strong, manly controversy, which is
one of the noblest activities of the
earth, can truly live and flourish is
the atmosphere of tolerance--an at
mosphere whose elements are respeci
for personal qualities and trust in tho
power os .ruth.-Phtllips Brooks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Ell in the West.

Within the middle West football
area five former Yale players are
coaching-Fred Murphy at Northwest
ern, Alonzo Stagg at Chicago, Doctor
williams at Minnesota, Herman Olcott
at Great Lakes and Howard Jones at
Iowa.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

bouts in the West. His first engage
ment was at Camp Grant, and his work
was so satisfactory there that the
commander of the Great Lakes naval
station had him oficiate in the bouts
that were contested at the station. In
all the bouts that he refereed his de-
cisions gave general satisfaction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

ant sights:
A man in overalls coating his roof
with brown paint. There is nothing
glamorous about overalls, and brown
paint is exceedingly everydayish, but
from Raphael to date no artist ever
daubed canvas more rapturously than
that overall man dasbsd tin.
Down another street man was
lacking weather strips on his front
windows. while his family looked on.
hro,1nd q corner woman was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Iiuht Reading.

"Wall, I'll declare" exclaimed old
Missus Prude. "The stories in some
of these current magazines are enough
to shock body" And so saying she
threw off her switch for the sake or
comfort and wired her eyes to the
page.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

The first
third being
the duties all other enlisted and mid
uatio
practical knowledge which
would give the the enlisted
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

won the famous cup in 1914, and the
Sydney (Australia) Rowing club won
IL in 1912. In other years English
crews hsve won since the big event
was first Instituted in 1905.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

HHdVHH SuhC NUII UtSII 10 t6II Iu6
about clearinghouse prunes. That
Joke is as old as the hills"
ooh, I don't mean that" said the
first war worker. II really mean it.
You see, 1 am from California, out
where we have all kinds of fruit, you
know. Of course, I lived in the city,
but thought / knew all about things
that grow.
"Prunes accepted as a matter of
fact, and never thought about them
one WAY or the other If uou had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Not That Branch.

"What stentorian voice he has,"
"No, think it is more like the Jones
side of the family"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

would have said they tree bushes
I thought that's ALL
things-and is!
looking
"Prune- dried fruit of the plum
a
abou
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Don't tritIe with a cold
its dangerous.
You can't afford to risk
Influenza.
Keep always at hand a
box of
x.LtS
eAscARA 81 oulNlNl
ssosSS

Standard cold remedy for 20 years-in tablet
form-safe. sure, no opiates-breaks up cold
hact ;f;t fe;,, THE genuine box has a Red top
with Mr.. Hills picture. At All Drug Stores.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Pleasant Sunday Sights Above Capitol HI

hill there streets that r Desonu
of unpreenous
Sunday morning you
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

Japan has a giycerin manufacturing
plant which has a capacity of about
300 tons a month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Analnst Wearing Black.

Against Wearing Black.
The woman's committee, council OF
national defense, advises against wear
ing black as mourning for deceased
soldiers-instead, black band.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
WzASHlNGTONk b
5[DFLcIGfIT5, = .
And That, If You Please, Is True Patriotism

stood her
w to thrilled
Stacker
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Should Midshipmen Serve a Years Enlistment?

is officials of the department that mid
sbnman should
neryened department officials to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

to stand back and defend her own In
terests with her drawn salary in her
hand. She was regular Yank, she'd
ding her dollars as the boys were
shedding their blood. That money
meant whole lot-a woman can find
so many uses for $50 these days
but, thank goodness, she had made
the sacrifice-
And the pride of it fairly dubbed
through brain and body, until-the
voice of an aged colored man who was
next in line stuck q pin in her soul.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Rowing Reaattas Over.
Cuba Race Season.

Collegiate rowing regattas are over
until after the war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29

Horse racing at Havana will begin
ON Thanksgiving day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
What Is a Prune? How About This Definition?

<tv to find out what
bomeword the protested the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Must Have Bumped His Ankle With His Head

uAPoEoN delivery down
o'clock
for Sunday Napoleon crossed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
II NAV Take Wings.

Bess-So Van Speederly has inherit
ed million? How long will it last
him?
Bob-That depends. If he blows IT,
ten year; if he invests it, about i've
Town Topics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-29
Imnortan. TO haothe.s

Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that 1t
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
HAVE A $4,000
+ DRY CLEAN PLANT
THE BAXTER LAUNDRY is
BRANCHING OUT WITH
ANOTHER NEW PLANT
TO Be OUR BOSOM FRIEND
New Building Back of Laundry
Proper Contains $4,OOO.O0
Worth of Dry Cleaning
Machinery.

Just to prove to the people of Bax-
ter Springs that the management OF
the Baxter Laundry thinks this town
is slated fol-, good one" 100000
dry cleaning plant--the latest the
business has produced, has been in
stalled in a new corrugated iron build
ing just to the rear Of the laundry
proper.
"Pretty heavy investment, isn't it,
for a side issue?" said the Citizen
man after looking over this modern
clothes cleaning plant. To which Mr..
Hunt replied mot for Baxter Springs.
We have a plant which absolutely
cleans any cloth, takes the stink out,
and generally makes the clothes look
like new without being injurious to the
wear. We know we have a big in
vestment and we are going to special
ize on this line of the business. We
are going to back up our plant with q
prompt service and a responsibility
for every garment that will get the
business not only in Baxter Springs
but the entire country round about"
The plant is something worth see
ing. 1t is the most extensive and
thorough set of machinery one could
wish to see. On account Of the in
surance laws the laundry was forced
to build n new building back of the
plant on the alley. The system is
known as the Bowser underground
system. Five gasoline tanks, which
are buried underground, contain 12O
gallons of gasoline each. Everything
is built on "safety first" basis. One
interesting piece of machinery is a
gasoline "still." This still purifys and
takes all sediment out of the gasoline
and keeps it clean. Washing machines,
extracters and pressing machines are
a part of the equipment. This article
is written in line with a policy of the
Daily Citizen to give mention to i'm
provements or new buildings in Bax-
ter Springs.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
ICQOE 4 SPECIAL
FIRE INSPECTOR
Raymond D. Cook Carries Com
mission from Governor
as Inspector for this
District.

Raymond d. Cook. of Baxter
Springs, son of Mr.. and Mrs. F. r.
Cook, who has been home from the
army since December, is able at this
time to make public his business here.
Mr.. Cook says several people have
questioned his business and some have
been disposed to think everything was
not regular, but he has been unable
until this time to make known his ap-
pOintment as special fire inspector for
fhs Baxter Springs mining district.
His appointment by the government
to this district was made through L.
7. HusseY, state ERE marshal and his
epnsalbsioh beads: 'RepOsing special
ftuSE and confidence in the integrity
and patriotism Of Raymond D. Cook,
ete.S
Along with this work Mr.. Cook also
has another commission from the gov
&ument which will not be made pub
ile at this time.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
OPPORTUNITY.
By ]. M. Smither

By ]. M. Smither.
If waddling ducks, and squawking
geese,
Can out of life get joy and peace,
Shall than they, less pleasure meet,
With opportunity replete?
If turtles live a thousand years,
And crockodiles are prone to tears,
Should ! decline maturity
- Or weep at opportunity?
When I admire the happy birds,
Or fain behold the placid herds,
/ wonder how 'twOuld be with me
If l met opportunity.
So circumscribed, and hedged about,
If should'ever find it out
As is prescribed to be their lot,
What could do but wall and pout?
Here l have hands to carve the pies,
A trade that / do not despise;
And limitless utility,
The hands give opportunity.
But birds and herds with tooth and
bill,
Must bite the earth to get their fill;
How sore 'twould make me to be
found,
Devouring viands from the ground.
And then to bed upon the earth,
Or in q tree to find my birth;
Would look like Gods stupidity,
Had vanquished opportunity.
But when l spread the wings Of thot
And count my blessings as ought,
/ try to raise to Deity
My thanks Of opportunity.
And It l find to be in mind,
For mind it takes to guide the hand,
And thus together they combine
To mark me from the fowl and kline.
So opportunity to win,
Look not without, but look within,
For there's the shop where God doth
And frans the character Of man.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
Facts and Fiction
Experiences Of Baxter Springs Citi-
Eens Are Easily Proven 10
be Facts

The most superficial investigation
will prove that the following state
ment from n resident Of Baxter
Springs is true. Read It and compare
evidence from Baxter Springs people
with testimony Of strangers living so
far away you cannot investigate the
facts Of the case. Many more citizens
Of Baxter Springs endorse Doan's
Kidney Pills.
Mrs. Anna Peak, River St., says:
II first used Doan's Kidney Pills six
years ago and they acted promptly in
strengthening my kidneys. ! have
always kept DOan's in the house since,
getting them from A. r. Kane's Drug
Store, and have a great deal of con-
fidence in them"
60c ut all dealers. Foster-M -Milburn
Co., Mrgfs., Buffalo. N. Y.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
MRS RIIRNS, LETTER

Here is a letter. that is certain to
prove Of interest to people in this vi
cinity, as cases of this sort occur in
almost every neighbOrhood, and peo-
pie shoulds know what 10 do in like
d.
Savannah, Mo-, Oct. II, 1916.-.
81 used q bottle Of Chamberlain's
Collie and DiarrhOea Remedy; about
nine years ago and it cured me Of
flux ldysentery). / had another at
tack of the same complaint some three
or four years ago and a few doses Of
this remedy cured me. | have recon-
mended Chamberlain's Colo and Diar-
rhoea REMEDY to dozens Of people
since / first used it"
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19

Fred Lemaster, SO, who was en-
ployed at the Blue Mound Mine near
Picher, fell forty feet from n scaf-
fold at the mineE Wednesday night
and was killed instantly. Lemasters
neck was broken. A fellow worker,
whose name was not learned, also fell
from the scaffold, but escaped ser
iOus injury. Lemaster leaves his par
ents, who live at Marionville, Mo-, his
wife and three young children. The
parents were TO arrive Thursday ut
Picher. The body will be buried at
Carterville, Mo. Mrs. Fred Lemaster,
had been. married previously Her
first husband, a bank cashier, was
slain by robbers several years ago.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19

Misses Leila Howard and Bertha
Dempsey of this city, entertained a
number of friends in honor of Mrs. w.
P. Howard at their home in this city
Friday evening. A two course lunch
con was served the guests. Those
present were Miss Hattie Skaggs and
Messrs. Prosser Chubb and Mervin
Welch of Joplin, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Fain, Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. How
ard and Ruth, Chas. and Leila Howard
of this city. At a late hour the guests
departed for their home, wishing Mrs.
Howard many happy returns of the
day.
Baxter Springs news., 1918-07-19
THE JOY OF LIVING

To enjoy life we must have good
health. No one can reasonably hope
to get much real pleasure out Of life
when his bowels are clogged q good
share of the time and the poisons that
should be expelled are absorbed into
the system, producing headache and
indigestion. A few doses Of Chamber
lain's Tablets will move the bowels,
strengthen the digestion and give you
a chance to realize the real joy Of liv-
ing. Try II.