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The Washington times., 1918-07-08


Here is the way the pitchers got
their training before joining the Camp
Meigs team:
Charles w. Beaver halls from Get
tysburg. Pa. and pitched three sea
sons for the Gettysburg College
team. one season in New England
League of Lowell team, and one sea
son in the Tri-State League on the
Reading team. While at Gettysburg
Beaver led in batting with an aver
age OF -341 for the season.
Dave Rockford is from Philadel'
phia- Pa He pitched one season with
the WIndmore, Pa, Montgomery Coun-
~ League team: one season with MI
Airy in the Suburban League. ana
Manufacturing Company OF PhIla-
delphia. Rockford pitched six games
for the A T. Baker team. Rockford
is a left-handsr.
Vincent p. Niles. a recruit is from
Appleton, VIE. He pitched two sea
sons on the Appleton High school
team, one season on the Ask Victim
gel team and two seasons on the Fox
Valley team, Of the Fox Valley
League OF Wisconsin.
Earl c. Golding. another left-hand
pitcher. comes from Cleveland. Ohio.
He pitched one season on the Fort
Williams team OF the Northern
League OF Canada, one season with
the Astabula AL Stars of Asthabula,
Ohio; and one With UnionYille, Ohio.
HIS batting average while with
The Washington times., 1918-07-08

"Isbeu wrote to me that HoVlik
was about the best pitcher in the
league: that he had recovered from
his wildness, and could get the ball
over the plate whenever necessary.
So bought him
~waIdbsuer, the big fellow from
Richmond, has been pitching good
ball for Wichita and I'll keep him
around for possible development
While in the West he pitched mo-
hit-no-run game, and may be ready
for big league pitching before the
year ends.
VIII Spend Some Money.
believing I have a chance to win
the pennant, 1 stand ready to spend
some money, and wish you'd tell the
fans that I know that there are
mighty few capable men loose, but
I'm willing TO buy anyone that will
help my club.
Il need at least one more seasoned
pItcher. From what I am told. they
are scarce. The few minor leagues
in action are weaker than usual and
offer me little. But I'm still on the
hunt and may land the kind of a
uENns AsNA NdAhAg NLO ~ IL
Will not stop me"
Mr.. Griffith doesn't think Pitcher
Hovlik. who is to come here for a
trial. Is the same one the White Sox
used to have He thinks his purchase
is another member of the Hovlik
tribe. but he will not know for GER
tain until the twirler arrives.
brownies Seize It
Utter helplessness at the bat be-
fore the salivated spheroids served up
BY Allan Sothoron and headless base
running by Ray Morgan in the eighth
allowed the Brownies to win their
sixth straight victory in Washington
this season. The score was 3 to o
and means that the Mound City troupe
cannot be headed in the remainder of
the series this year, as but FIVE games
remain to be played.
Walter johnson came back with
two days of rest He did not look as
good as he might, though better luck
might have given him a chance. As
Il was, his mates could do nothing
with Mr.. Sothoron. and the onus is
not Walters. The Mound City finger
Was superexcellent
N the FIRST seven innings Just one hit
vas registered by the Griis. Schultz
nEyfng loose a bingle to left in the sec
ond session. II was all Sothoron TIL the
eighfh. when the Grihs had a wee
chance which Morgan threw away.
For a starter Morgan singled to cen
ter With one gone, bringing the cheering
fans to their feet. Val Picinich. who has
been going right good Of late, waited
around and took walk. One out and
two on placed Mr.. Sothoron in some
what Of q hole, and it was worse when
johnson collided with the pill for a
The Washington times., 1918-07-08
CRACK PITCHING STAFF
HELPS CAMP MEIGS MEN

Mg baseball players their record the diamond
this five fsclass pitchers Any the
hurers capable speed and the record of
the pitching has been
and two lefhanders in the
rsa work. Dave Rockford the crack
yesterday
He been unbeaten W. Meg
P Niles is and Theodore Lessard
is eamng with Rockford.
The Washington times., 1918-07-08
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

W Witt
Boston-...... q n SIS Chicago. 5 . %
Cleveland. - q SIS 81. Louis . y 80
New York. - 81 $50 Detroit. E9n "a
Wash too. 70 . SIS Philadelphia = q IN
Testerday's t!amea
81. Louis, ;: WashinEton. o
Wherr They Play To-day.
Detroit At Philadelphia.
Chicago At New York
Cleveland At BoStun-
The Washington times., 1918-07-08

NoTthern League was III; with Ash
tabula- 1857; with Unionville. .421.
Theodore G.. Lessard Is from Wor-
cester, Mass. He pitched with the
St Louis High School team OF Mon
treal, Canada, for three seasons: Mon
treal Business College for two sea-
sons. and with Denvers Hospital
team, OF Denvers. Mass. for one sea-
SON.
The Washington times., 1918-07-08

IGrif Thinks He Has Chance To
Win Pennant From Contendefs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
DEMOCRACY IN OPERATION

Perth Ambov is about TO resort to the first principles of democ-
racy. The city is to hold a town meeting, SO to speak, and get the
voice of public opinion in regard to a matter of public welfare. Mon
day night at City Hall the Board of Aldermen will seek to get the peo-
pies views regarding a largely increased appropriation for the Board
Of Health for next year. The aldermen propose to govern themselves
largely by the sentiment that is expressed.
Here is a real test of the faith the people place in a democratic
government. Strictly speaking, ours is a republican form of govern
ment rather than a pure democracy. Under our system the people elect
representatives to legilate for them rather than enact their laws
themselves, as would be done in a simon pure democracy. The repre-
sentatives are supposed to act according to their best Judgment for
the welfare of the greatest number.
Under such circumstances, the aldermen would be fully justified
in settling this question of the health board appropriation themselves
after due consideration as to what is best for the city as a whole. But
they have chosen differently. They have called a town meeting so
that the people themselves may express their views direct. 1t is for
the people, therefore, to turn out Monday night and make their ideas
known. Unless there is a large attendance and a free expression OF
opinion the city officials will be unable to judge the sentiment of the
community.
After having passed through what this city has so recently en-
dured, it cannot be that the citizens are not sufficiently interested in
health matters to be present Monday night. We have learned that
health is vitality important for our prosperity. We have been told
by men who ought to know that the condition of our city not only
made wide spread disease possible, but if they are not remedied, more
epidemics are likely to follow.
The subject is vitality important to the whole community. In a
thickly populated section like this W e all share the common danger.
There will be some interesting facts and figures brought out at
the meeting Monday night that every citizen having the welfare of
his own family at heart regardless of how he may feel about the city
as a whole, should hear.
III our boosted democracy is worth anything at all, il should be
shown Monday night by a great out7pourng of citizens. 1t is the
people S chance to have a direct voice in a matter of great Importance
to the future of the city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
BUSY GREEK PEASANT GIRL
Care Of Sheep and Goats, and House.
hold Duties, Leave Her Little
limo for DaliyIng.

To the Greek peasant girl Is COM
mitted the ARE of her fathers flock,
which she must lead every day to the
pasture and fold at night. The vosko-
poula, or shepherdess. Is u Of the
most prominent characters In rural
folk song. and many a charming idyl
has been composed In her honor. Z.
But she has little time for sylvan dali
lying. for the sheep and goats must be
MIXED, and the milk must be convert
ed into cheese and yiaourti. a delicious
and wholesome sour curd, which Is In
great demand In the towns. When the
sheep have been shorn, the wool is
bleached and spun. and then knitted
and wove into garments for the fam
lily or into cloth for sale. The cotton
or fax grown on the farm must also
be gathered In their seasons, and pre-
pared for use. The cotton pods are
put through a small hand machine
called the mangano. which turns two
rollers different ways. and separates
the fiber from the seed. The instru-
ment next used Is tho t~oxeyein. a large
bow made from a carved piece OF
wood five or more feet long, the two
ends of which are connected by a stout
string. The cotton is placed loosely
on the string. which is made to yibrats
by being struck with a stick, produc'
ing a not unmusical sound. This proc
ess detaches the particles Of cotton
and 1t is now ready to S as wad'
ding for the large quilts. which. with
a sheet tackled to the under side. form
all the winter bed covering used By
the lower orders Of natives Of ever
race. The mattresses are also usrally
stuffed with cotton. and the palliassei
with the husks of Indian corn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Today We Celebrate
Anniversary of William Dennison, War
Governor of Ohio.

Anniversary OF William DenniSon, Wa
Governor of Ohio.
Ohioans will today honor the men,
DRY of one of the most distinguished
of the governors Of the Buckeye
State, William Dennison, on the oc-
casion of the 103rd anniversary of his
birth. Dennison was one of the found
ers OF the Republican party, and was
the war governor" of Ohio. He was
born in Cincinnati, November 20. 1915.
He received his education at Miami
University, from which he graduated
in 1885, and five years later was adj
mitted to the Ohio bar.
Dennison began the practice of the
legal profession in Columbus. N
soon became eminent in his chosen
field. afterward adding to his fortune
by becoming a banker and railroad
president. His political career COM
menced in 1S48, when he was elected
to the Ohio Legislature. His sympa-
thies were with the opponents Of
portant part In uniting those factions
which Joined under the banner of the
Republican party.
Dennison was governor OF Ohio
from 1850 to 1852, and during that
period he performed most important
service IN putting Union troops into
the field. He was an ardent and ener-
getic supporter of the national gov
eminent. and his zeal sometimes led
, him to resort to heroic measures the
constitutionality of which were ques-
toned. One OF the first official acts
OF Dennison was his refusal to act
on the requisition of Governor Letch-
err of Virginia. for the arrest Of Owen
Brown and Francis Merriam. on the
| charge of participation in John
Browns raid on Harper's Ferry.
In 1854 Dnnison was a member OF
the cabinet, as Postmaster Generar,
but he withdrew from Johnson's on
cial family in 1866. He dieh in Colum
bus In 1882.
Two Ohio institutions of learning
will join In ~honoring Den4ison's mem
DRY today. These are Miami Univer'
sity at Oxford, where he was educated
and Dennison University at Granville
i of which he was a liberal benefactor
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Daily Ho, osc0be
The stars incline but do not compel

The stars incline but do not compef
Sunday November "A, 1918.
(Cupyright. 1918, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Astrologers read this as a doubtful
day. While Mercury rules strongly
for good. Uranus is adverse.
The power Of Uranus in evil place
Is believed to Increase the suggesti-
bility of the human mind to all that
is sinister, and for that reason warn
ing is given against the harboring OF
suspicious or unkind criticisms in re-
gard to public men.
During the sway that makes for
slender. gossip and angry discussions.
there may be riots.
While the planetary direction may
be conducive to much that adds to
/, the worlds problems unnecessarily.
the powers of good will triumph. the
seers declare.
. Warning Is given that vigilance
concerning speech and act Will be
imperative in the United States after
| the war. as secret forces may be at
work to arouse local dissensions In
cities and towns.
This day should be a fortunate one
| for writing. Letters are subject to
! the best Influences. unless they are
! love letters. and they are under q
sinister stare. {.
| There is a forecast OF q great book
| that will be written by an American.
| This will mark the beginning OF a
new era In literary achievement. II
Is prophesied.
The establishments of q national
| center of art. which viii include Q
| theatre. Is foreshadowed by b stars
Astroiogers read a warning to
| Americans who may be inclined to
boast too much. Humility after =
1 perb achievements will win more
than battles, the seers declare.
Women are now subject to plane
! tary government making for prob
ress and liberation from all old re.
! straints hat prevented them from OBJ.
| tanning their full share of achieve
ment in the worlds best work
1 Henceforth girls will be trained q
! trades and professions just as boy.
are trained. the stars presage.
Persons whose birthdate 1t Il
! should not travel or make changes
in the coming year. Success In bust
ness 10 indicated.
Children born on this day are hkell
to be talented and industrious. bu'
rather errafic and high strunl
These subjects OF 9ag1tfar1us oftez
have many dif1cnlties to surmouut
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Famous Women
Macdaleine de soudcrt.

Magdaleine de Souderi, who was
BORN at Hayre de Grace, Franc IN
1907, became the victim of one OF the
most curious cases that ever came be-
fore the French police. She was a
woman of the highest type and al
accomplished writer. While on a
journey with her brother she put up
at an inn late at night. They were
discussing a book in which they were
collaborating. the hero of which they
had called Prince Mazaro. What
shall we do with h Prince Mazaro?"
asked her brother rs II not better
that he die by poison than by the
sword %. "It is not time replied her
brother" for that business. We will
dispatch him as we please IN due
course. 1.-TWO merchants overheard
his conversation, and thinking that
a plot was being Matched. notified the
police. Magdaleine and her brother
were arrested and thrown into prison
= T. on'v secured their release after
much trouble and expense Magda-
leine died in 1907 at the age Of ninety
four.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

Every soldier who has just received
q gift wrist watch believes that there
Is no time like the present.
Leave Ii to the woman who hasn't
any to call your attention to the fact
that diamonds are vulgar and out OF
style.
We are cowardly about a lot OF
things. The engineer who gets killed
in a railroad collision is always
blamed for the wreck because he
can't deny 1t.
The other fellows peck of trouble
looks like a gill. But your peck of
trouble looks like ten bushels.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Fire Alarm Boxes

,2-Raritan Copper Works.
n Sheridan StreetA
Street and Central II. r.
and First Streets
Ave and Paterson st.
fS-High and Lewis StreefA
and High StreetEL
B6-NeW Brunswick Ave. and New St.
and State streets.
Iz-Atlanfic Terra Gotta Works
as-Bucksngham ave. and Hartford st
and Front Streets.
I6-State and Washington SITS.
t7-High and Washington Streets.
y4-State st. and Buckingham v
81 and Pulaski I've.
be-Han Ave. and Charles st.
67-State and Wayne Streeta
5s-Near United Lead WorkA
SEMaursr.
e2-Washington and First Streets.
6a-N4w Brunswick Ave. M Elm g.
Street snd Watson Ave.
sk-Commerce and State StreetA
72-Front and Smith Streets.
7s-Water and Gordon StreetR
7l-Kearny " ana Gordon Street
Sf-Brace and ans Avenuea
62ESmith and Herbert Streets.
se-Amboy Ava and Washington 81
t{-Lehfgh Ave and Stanford Street.
6S-Near City Hospital.
e8-C1eveland Ind Brace Avenues
91-Amboy and 8kn 4yenueA
13-Amboy Ave. and Insles Stree.
S5IaWrsncs ana Francis Streets.
and 5obnstone Streets
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Member on the Mend.

II understood you to say the other
day that your wife was III. but I sup
pose she is better. l sss her this
morning sitting by the window sew
ing" said n man to another. "Quite
right" replied the other. "As you
observed today she Is on the mend r.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Our Joe Miller Contest

Billy k. of Portsmouth. Ohio.
claims hat the oldest joke Is the one
about the cross-eyed man and the
other man who were walking toward
each other and bumped into each
other. Say" said the cross-eyed
man, why the HEX don't you look
where you are goingi" Say. your
SELF" replied the other man, why
the HEX don't you go where you are
looking!"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
Terms of Peace.

Terms OF Peace.
IL Kaiser Wilhelm came to me. and asked for terms or peace
Ia say. With you / do agree-this blamed old war should cease. But
II comes to making terms the blue prints that you ask, m
rusty rainpan sort o squrms and balks before the task. I'd like to
near from many lands from france, and Belgium. too, from Chill
dren who have PSI their hands. through orders sprung by you. I'd
like 70 hear from British towns. where sleeping babes e killed;
and the traveller who dro WINS, torpedoed, kaiserbined. Alas,
alas te dead can't speak, from out their martyr graves: and neither
can the sck and weak you drove away a $ slaves 1 cannot hear
from nj brave nurse Eel at your behesf: but Captain Fryatts
dying curse makes peace. bunk eem a jest. Before 1 make a plan
with you TO shelve the battle blade. Ia like TO hear a word or two
from Ebert Hubbardss shade. I'd like to have you walk with me. and
see the wreck OF France. before " e soak the snfckersnee. and give
away the lance. I'd have you read the daily list of brothers and of
son who die because OF you. I visit you and your vandal Huns. i
fear II we make peace today, Ia soon know I had sfnned: for you'd
start out again TO STAY, when You'd regained your wind
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
OH

You are suffering from brain rag
and ennui," announced the specialist.
You should take more interest In
your busine ss."
II would like to-" replied the pa
tent.
Then why don't your" demanded
the specialist.
'"The law won't let me-" replied the
patient. I'm a pawnbroker.'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Nextt

Now then. II there are any otner
fatheaded rulers who imagine that
we are too soft and too proud to nght.
let them speak up now while we nave
our sleeves rolled up. and we Will De
glad to accommodate them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Ouch!

She cannot walk. she has to STOP,
And groan and say, "Phee-you!'
And wonder how a large corn crop
Can grow in one small shoe.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
You Know Himi

This kind of man you've often met
He isn't worth two cents;
He tries to liquldate O debt
BY paying compliments.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

d hit tha Fighter. and

The Barkeep hit the Fighter. and
The Fighter fell, and said:
1--WE been in here too long, my land
Your punch went to my head"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Out-Croesusing Croesus

"Is he very wealthy" asked Brown.
wealthy exclaimed Jones. I'll
say he's wealthy! Why. he has eggs
for breakfast every morning.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

Some men never forget a KINDNESS
done" abserved the Sage.
mo" agreed the Fool. Mot If they
do 1t themselves
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

We find this in the New York Mar
ket Report:
Butter-Strong.
Eggs-Strong.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Hot

Hot
He's feeling hot.
Is Oswald Boal;
For he forgot
To lay in coal.
Luke McLuke.
He's hot Just now,
But, when you meet
Him next, I vow
He'll have cold feet.
Newark Advocate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

lfukc uACAltAhC Gays
Funny how a girl admires a mus
tache when she doesn't happen to be
raising it herself.
And you may have noticed that II
Is the fellow who a nothing to say
who takes so long to say II.
And what has become OF the Old
fashioned Chinaman who used to
wear a pigtati?
1t pays 70 be cheerful. A crouch
doesn't get~you anything and 1t i'm
pairs your digestion and wrecks your
nervous system.
1t II hard for a married man to be-
have himself. II he sticks around the
house every night he IL henpecked.
and IL he doesn't he Is a brute.
easy matter TO sell him stock IN OIL
less oil wells and ccpperiess copper
mines
There a few birds on every
jury who trst make up their mind
and then listen to the esfdenee.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Oh. Shuxi

You can find A. Peach In Dapviiie,
KY, but 1t isn't the kind of a peach
YOU are thinking of. He Ia a farmer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Honkf Honkl

Adam Ford and Will Rideout live
in Conemaugh, Penn. or course they
nay not be related, but IT is a cinch
that they should travel together.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Bits of Bu-Pldy

BY LUKE McLUkE
Copyright, 1918. the Cincinnati
Enquirer
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Things to Worry About
Names Is Names

Do you know that 0 inhaIe a gal
lon OF air per minute?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23

II Is A Whole Lot Easier To Fal
Down Than 1t Is To Get Up.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-23
Our Daily Special

U. S. Victory was born in Pittsburs
Penn. last week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

THAI" she whispered. Are you
chilly? Shall L help you pull your
wrap up about your shoulder"
Cynthia shook her head. "I am
all right" she murmured. For
give me for moving so suddenly. l
did not mean to do it. / had a lit
tie nervous chill-that's ALL"
She appeared calm, yet she was
telling herself that she could not
bear the state of affairs. Then she
realized that she must bear them,
and, leaning back in her chair, fixed
her eyes once more on the stage
in front of her.
1t would be interesting as we'll as
startling If one could read the
thoughts going on in the minds of
persons in a crowded auditorium
listening to music. Civilization and
breeding have taught them all to
gaze at the performers, or to cast
down their eyes and assume impas-
sive expressions. But in the brains
back of the steady eyes may be surg
ing thoughts and longings that must
not be expressed.
The owners of the unmoved coun-
tenances may be declaring wildly to
God and themselves that they can
not live another day-that they will
go mad if conditions do not change.
But they sit still and appeared COM
posed. So Cynthia Long, one of a
crowd of well-bred persons, sat pas
sively listening to the unusually de-
lightful performance of the always
excellent Philharmonic Orchestra
Ito BE COntinucd)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02

interrupted conversation in the tax
icab on the night of the accident,
when Milton astonished her by tell
ing her of his having seen her in
the hotel in Chicago, of his having
picked up letter she had dropped,
of her having spoken to him.
She had started impulsively to
reply to the reminiscence when the
cab collided with a truck and she
was stunned, recovering conscious
ness several minutes later in Mil
tons arms.
She wondered now just how much
she might have told him had the
accident not occurred. She knew
that she had begun to say that she
recollected seeing him in the hotel
on the night before she came east.
What she recalled most clearly about
that first meeting was the blue color
of Milton Van Saun's eyes.
A Nervous Chill
1t was this that she had noticed
especially when she met him again
in her uncle's house in New York.
What wonderful eyes he had!
Her heart beat fast, and she felt
the blood .throbbing in her cheeks.
These symptoms were caused by re-
Elections upon another girls be-
trothed, while she herself, Cynthia
Long, was engaged to be married to
another man!
Oh, it was dreadful! She sat up
straight and pressed her hands con-
vulsively together.
Her aunt looked at her question
ingly. What's the matter, Gym