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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Summary of Iowa State
Bulletin on Use of Fertilizer

1. The crops of Iowa remove vast
amounts of fertility from the soil an
nually. Much of the fertility remov-
ed is not sold off the farm but a
large percentage of it remaining is
unnecessarily wasted.
2. One of the most valuable assets
of the farm is the manure produced
upon it. 1t represents the fertility
which has been drawn from the soil
by crops and must be returned to 1t
If productiveness is to be maintained.
1t not only returns plant food but
renders the native plant food of the
soil more available. 1t adds humus
condition, makes IL warmer. and en-
ables it to receive and retain more
moisture.
3. Manure should be hauled out
tervals whenever practicable, When
thus handled. the losses of valuable
constituents need not be very great,
but when the manure Is stored for q
considerable time, the difficulties OF
preservation are greatly increased
4. The rate of application of ma
nure must be determined by individual
circumstances. AS rule. it is better
than to apply a large amount at long
intervals. The effect of manure is
very lasting and is also cumulative.
Time to Spread Manure is When Fresh
The above extracts from the sum-
mary of the bulletin point to the
profit from the use of spreader. The
Iowa Station, as we'll as the rest of
experiment stations, will tell you that
the time to haul out manure and
spread it is when il is fresh. Manure
is never so valuable as then. Com
posting or rotting is not necessary
for general farm practice. In fact,
it is detrimental. Too much plant
food is liberated and as the plants
cannot use it fast enough, there is
much lost.
With a spreader. the handling can
be done with the least amount of loss.
BY saving labor. spreading can be fire.
uuent. If the manure dries out, 1t
stops fermenting. If Ii is rained up
on. it is leached into the soil where
ii belongs. Then. too, the spreader
makes the manure go practically
twice as far by spreading more
avenIy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
BASKETBALL
FOR SOLDIERS
1t Is the Popular Game at Mil
itary Camps, Where They
Play Even at Night

One of the outcomes of the world
war is the revival of athletics. In
stead of diminishing interest in
sports therefore, the great crisis
bids fair to have the whole world
exercising, so that there will be no
persons. Yesterday the Telegraph
! printed Washington dispatch to the
effect that our soldiers are all to be
taught swimming. This is sane no
ton, for many a Sammy would be
alive to-day had he been able to keep
aiioat when the Hun moccasin of the
sea did its dirty work. Moreover,
swimming is the most beneficial of
all summer sports, from the single
fact that while other exercise over
heats the blood, this one cools it off
and keeps it at normal pressure.
Following the introduction of
wholesale swimming in the Army it
is now designed to make basketball
In round figures, 11S,000 soldiers in
the military training camps partici-
pated in organized basketball alone
last season, according to compila-
tions made from the reports of camp
athletic directors to DR.. Joseph f.
Raycroft, member of the War De-
partment Commission on Training
Camp Activities in charge of camp
athletics. This figure, DIR. Raycroft
says, does not apply to the rank and
file who have played informally and
who would bring the number much
nearer 10000, which means that
lY,,r fol 81 t,1
petitive basketball this year than
ever before.
DR.. Raycroft has been struck by
the widespread popularity of basket
ball in the camps. "The choice of
educative and competitive games for
the soldiers in training" he declared,
''is based primarily on their rela-
tionship to military activities. This
idea is paramount, but it does not
necessarily minimize the recreational
qualities.
Basketball is such a game. AL
though limited in team organization,
this fact alone makes it exception
ally intensive. 1t is a game that re-
quires a keen coordination of the
physical and mental. Distance must
be gagged to a nicely and every eff
fort must be correctly timed. Such
a training enables a soldier to retain
and exercise his wits and inventive
ia cu1ties under the most trying cir
cumstances, and the consequent body
punishment he receives creates in
him a disregard for casual injuries.
In short. 1t is magnificent course
in hardening
Outside of these advantages, the
simple equipment required for
basketball makes it an ideal camp
game" DIR. Raycroft asserts. "as it
may be played in the open as well as
under cover. In certain camps" he
says. "the courts have been strung
with arc lights and matches played
outdoors at night"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30

Hal Chase is setting the pace for
all fast men in fast company. He
looks better this season than ever
before, a real phenomenon in the
national pastime.
Chase has toned down consider
ably since he became the Reds first
baseman. He has played magnifi-
Gently for Matty and is immensely
popular not only in Cincinnati, but
also in the other National League
cities. When the Yankees first
signed Chase more than ten years
ago he was a mere STRIPPING. His
head was turned by sudden popular
ity and, like other young players, he
was eager to hit the high spots.
Chase lost favor in New York be-
cause he once deserted the Yankees
and later was a dismal failure as
the successor of George Stallings.
Chase was traded to the White
Sox by Frank Chance because he
refused to take baseball seriously.
and he received another black mark
when he jumped Comiskey in the
summer of 1915 to accept a larger
salary from the Buffalo Feds. Chase
had narrow escape from banish-
ment when Organized Baseball set
tied the Federal League war, so that
when the Cincinnati club agreed to
engage him Prince Hal concluded
that it was high time to turn over
new leaf. Chase knows baseball
from top to bottom. He is more
than 80 years old, and has sown his
wild oats. There isn't a doubt that
If Hermann finds it necessary to ap-
point him manager of the Reds he
will be an able substitute for Big
six.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
TRENCHES WANT
MATHEWSON
Famous interchangeable
ed to Reconsider Decision
and Go to France

The world renowned Christopher
Mathewson is in a fierce dilemma.
The Y. NJ. c. A. want him to go over
and handle the American Army ball
clubs; put the men in fettle; ginger
'em up and in brief do what Glenn
Warner is expected to do for the air.
men. Matty thought he was nedeed
here with his own club and declined
but the public is after him again and
even the sporting pages request him
to help on the other side. One COM
ment summons:
Christy. Mathewson should recon
slider his declination of the honor of
generalissimo to baseball activity
among American soldiers abroad. If
Mathewson's hands are tied by con-
tractual obligations then the govern
ment of organized baseball should
see to it at once that the red tape
is cut.
1t does not sound like the great
Matty that we all have come to know
and to love, this refusal of an honor
which approaches the border land
of sacred duty. Our soldiers of the
trenches. war-worn but grim, are
crying for the bread of entertain
ment and diversion. Is it possible
that baseball's most cherished idol
of his own volition can coldly offer
them a stone instead?
1t is not for Mathewson to decide
where his presence can best serve
the cause of democracy and justice.
The soldiers in France have decided
that question for him. Mathewson
is favored among his fellows in that
he is a man of considerable wealth.
Dependents would suffer none from
his journey abroad.
If his is a case of modesty over
such signal honor, Matty should re-
member first that the petition
throug the Y M. c. A. is one the less
call to patriotism. Personal COM
forts and ambitions should give way
to the distress call of right.
Organized baseball. on the whole,
has done little enough in this hour
of worlds travail. Yet it has never
turned a deaf ear to a direct call for
help. We cannot conceive of one
so respected. SO honored, so esteem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
LETTER LIST

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post Office, at Harrisburg, Pa,
for the week ending April 27. 1918:
Women's List - Mrs. Roda Arenst,
Susie f. Ball, Mrs. Sarah r. Brenner.
Alice Bros, Mrs. Charles Cobourne,
Mrs. Harry Cunningham, Mrs. Annie
q. Davis, Mrs. Mary Eshelman. Mrs.
George X. Goodwin, Mrs. M. H Henry,
lose Maria Hermandes. Mrs. w. S.
Hover, Florence Jones, Katie Lantz
Mrs. Gertrude Meysenhelte. Hazel Mil
Ter, Isaiah Moor. Mrs. S. V. Phelps.
Mrs. Lizzie Pottieger, Miss H Price.
Mrs. Clarence Rouf, Mrs. Katherine
Seigle, Marie Smith, Ida NJ. Stewart
Mems List - G. Barker, H. r. Behr-
ems 90, James Bennett, DR.. A. c.
Blackburn. II. B: Bretz, John S. Ca
Harry c. Crawford, John DiveIfiss,
Charles Droneberger, Anthony Finelli.
Mike Fooke. Jas. Fortenbaugh, Charles
G.. Frantz. r. w. Gillette, j. II. Hale,
A. M. Harris, w. II. Hopkins. A. l..
Hozier. ID. E. Irwin, w. c. Johnson,
f. Mack, C. G. Martin Minterd Mohn,
s. w. Moore, Frank Meyer, John s.
Myers. John w. Mumper. G. H. Orth,
Geo. w. Pierce, w. G.. Riffert, Doc Fl.
c. Sarh. John Shearer, Irwin S. Shena-
man. Bruce Sheely, David Shirk, j.
w. +. Shutter, Clyde Wells.
Foreign-Dimitrui Popa Nicadra.
Persons should invariably have
their mail matter addressed to their
street and number, thereby insuring
prompt delivery by the carriers.
FFANK C. SITES,
Postmaster.
Use McNeirs Cold Tablets. - Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
BRITISH GIRL WAIF HAD
INCOME COVTRT EVNnC

London.-A peculiar case was
heard at Doncaster, when Edith
Burchall. an elderly woman of Cart
wright street. was summoned for
neglecting a girl aged 13 named Ivy
Garrett.
1t was stated that the defendant
was the greatzaunt OF the child, for
whose custody there appeared to
have been some competition. as up
on coming of age, the girl would be
entitled to some property.
The solicitor to the N. s. p. C. C.
said the child had been with defen-
dant since she was five. but she was
found to be in neglected condition,
and action was to be taken in the
Court of Chancery for the appoint
ment of a guardian.
The child was an orphan and her
brother had been Killed in France.
The magistrates were asked to order
her removal to a place of safety.
Arrangements are being made for
the girls admission to a boarding
school.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Polo Stick Used in
1911 International,
Is Sold For $500

The record price for a sporting
souvenir was paid recently for q
polo stick used N the interna-
tional polo match between Amer
lea and England in 1911 at Mea-
dow Brook, L. I. The stick was
auctioned at the Hippodrome.
Brighton, England, for the bene-
fit of the war hospital, and
brought the fine sum of $6,500.
Engraved on the handle of this
weapon of the game of kings"
were the names of four players,
headed by Captain Hardness
Lloyd. Another great long-hit-
ting player was Captain Molly"
Edwards, who played also in the
international of 1913.
The four players who failed to.
life the cup against the big
four" are now dead, each coming
to his end on the battlefield of
France.
The purchaser was John Chris
toforides, of Streatham.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
CHILD MOTHERS TEARS
WIN BABY IN COURT

TopekaA-Edith Waldron may be
able to keep the baby she abandoned
at the Union Pacific station here two
weeks. The mother is only seven
teen years old and has charged that
her own uncle was responsible for
her disgrace. She left her baby and
fed to Kansas City.
4 separation of the mother end
her seven -month-old daughter was
planned by the authorities, but the
mothers tears finally won the per-
mission of the district judge to keep
the child.
You're surely not going. to sepa-
rate me from my baby" the mother
pleaded with tears streaming down
her cheeks. "She's all l have, end
I'm free of that man now, and I've
suffered enough. Please let me have
my baby. I'm not a bad girl; I'm a
creature of circumstances. Let me
out of here with her and give me u
chance to show you that I'm q good
girl and willing to work. Other wo-
men take care of their babies alone.
and so can l."
The abandonment papers were dis
carded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Loan Reunites Couple
After Twenty Years

Chicago. - If Liberty Loan we'd
dings are in order permit the appli-
cation of Miss Alice Johnson of No.
4OS West Chicago Avenue, and
Adolph ]. Heldrick, No. 1926 North
State street, formerly sailor.
Miss Johnson is one of the Liber-
ty Loan boosters on the Northwest
Side, and Heldrick was one of the
first purchasers of bonds. Their
meeting in a patriotic gathering
brought them together again after
twenty years.
During the Spanish h-American
War Miss Johnson was attending
school in Newport, r. l., and there
met Heldrick. a jackie aboard the
u. S. S. Constellation. They saw
each other a great deal. but when
the sailor went to sea their acauain-
tance lapsed until a few days ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
AROUND THE BASES

ter the Dauphin-Perry League in
case that organization is reorgan-
lied, and in the event that the league
fails to materialize she will have an
independent team in the field.
At a recent meeting of the fans it
was decided that Newport should
send representatives to any meeting
that might be called of Dauphin-
Perry delegates. However. II was
also decided that Newport should
make overtures I'd have the Ieague
this year consist bf teams recruited
entirely from local material. with no
nonresident. professional or semi
professional players to be signed
and carried on the rosters of the
league teams. In case league repre-
sentatives fail to agree to hava such
a strictly amateur league. Newport
will not be represented in it ana will
play nothing but independent ball.
Teams of the men from the Har-
risburg Rifle Club and the Middle
town Aviators will hold a rifle con-
Saturday afternoon.
Harry A. Douglas. a captain, now
stationed at the Middletown bar
racks. as president of the Harris
burg club. will remain entirely neu-
trail in the affair. The contest will
be at 200, 800 and 500 yards. Depu-
ty Secretary Godcharles and C. A.
Dunn will be in charge Cf the ar
rangements for the shoot.
Regular championship games of
the National and American Leagues
will be played every Sunday hereaft-
er at the former Newark Federal
League grounds at Harrison, n. j.. it
was announced yesterday. week
day game scheduled at the Polo
Grounds, New York, or at Ebbets
Field. Brooklyn. will be transferred
to .the Harrison Park each Sunday.
President Tener. of the National
League, admitted last night that
both the National and American
League will make use of the Har-
rison Park on Sunday.
The Newark grounds are but a
short distance from New York City,
and on the main line of the Penn
sylvania railroad. Gotham fans will
be able to make the trip within a
short time, and it has long been felt
that large crowds would mark the
playing of games there.
Benny Kauff was on the rampage
yesterday, slamming out four hits
out of FIVE times to bat. The ter
rife hitting of the Giants was too
much for the Phiilies. 1t was
Moran's first real battle, for Boston
and Brooklyn were easy picking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30

There is a hot contest for berths
on the Steelton infield among Red"
Crane, kid" Stutz and Dick Neild.
Manager Cockill only announced yes
terday that he had secured Sam
(Red) Crane, who was a star in the
International League. Cranes base
ball experience has been followed
for several seasons with much inter-
est by local fans and he is we'll
known here. Crane has just been
turned loose by Cincinnati after Civ
ing Blackburn good run fos the
shortstop position. Crane vas tried
out by Washington In 1917 ard was
sent to Milwaukee, of the American
Association, where he finished the
season.
In the opening for this season, the
Duncannon High School nine lost a
hard-fought ten-inning battle to the
Halifax High School by the score of
to 6. The game continued tit for
tat throughout the nine innings and
at the end of the scheduled time the
score stood to .. In the extra
period the Halifax nine sent two men
safely across the plate, while the
Duncannonians staged a brilliant
finish. too.
The Eastern League has decided
to charge so cents admission for this
season. Owners are having good
luck signing up major league play
ers and this league eXrects sue
cessful year.
Carl Beck, the all-arcund athlete
of Tech High, will he the only rep
resentative of the Maroon and Gray
school at the Middle Atlantic States
Championship Meet, to be held at
Franklin Field on Saturday. May 4.
Professor Hill has decided that by
sending Beck instead of a team the
school will be better represented.
Beck. who has been practicing
hard for the last several days, is ex-
pected to give good credit of himself.
In the high school meets last year
he won his events with ease, but
this year. especially at Philadelphia,
he will have a harder time to win,
for he will meet all the star ath-
letes from the prep schools Of the
Middle Atlantic states.
All the events in which he will
take part will be held on Saturday
morning, beginning at 1880 o'clock.
He expects to participate in tho 120-
yard high hurdles. 220-yard low hur-
dies. broad jump. javelin throw, dis
Gus and shot put. In the latter at
Mercersburg he equaled the worlds
record for the eight-pound shot.
Newport. Pa, April 30.-Newport
is anxious for baseball during tho
coming season. She is willing to en-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Bethlehem Steel League
Gets Famous Players

Chambersburg. Pa. April so. -
be seen this year in this section Will
be played b yshop teams. The shops
in Waynesboro are organizing an in
dustrial league and independent
teams from various valley towns will
likely put up exhibitions. The Beth
lehem Steel League has taken many
of the old major league players, IN
cluding Eddie Plank, of Gettysburg,
and Mike Mowrey. of this place. The
Blue Ridge League is not expected
to materialiZe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
GIRL FIGHTS THIEVES;
RETAINS WAR TROPHIES

London.-A story of girls hero
ism was told to the magistrate at
Cork. when Martin Cory was charg-
Ell with raiding the house of John
Jagoe.
It was stated two armed and
masked men entered the house. Mrs
Jagoe tried to conceal a German
sword which her son had captured on
the Somme. They insisted on her
giving it up. She passed the weapon
to her daughter and the men strug-
gled with her.
While on the ground they threat
ened to shoot. but the girl eaid
Shoot away
They pointed revolver at her
and counted "one." two" but did
not fire. The struggle lasted twenty
minutes. but the girl retained the
sword.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
MOURNED AS DEAD, -. -.
RETURNS IN UNIFORM

Mount Carmel, Pa.-Mourned as
dead for more than seven years, Wal
ter Lucas returned and was surprised
to learn of the report of his death. A
friend had written from the West
that Lucas had been killed in a rail-
road accident.
He has been in the Regular Army
toned at Camp Lewis, Washington.
After delivering a contingent of re-
cruits to an Eastern camp Lewis
stopped off here to visit his parents
while returning to his far Western
post
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
BOY DESTROYS KAISER:
FINED by TEACHER

BostOn-Because 10-year-old John
Beckwith tore a picture of the Kai-
ser from two Biographies, Principal
Eugene Flood, of the Ballard school
Saugus. has ordered the boys moth
er to pay the town forty cents.
The woman, Mrs. John Beckwith
of No. 38 Chestnut street. SaIgus
who is widow with four children
has appealed for assistance to Mss
Elizabeth Gregg, head of the Neigh
borhood House, Lynn.
! The principal is said to have dis
covered the Beckwith boys act when
reprimanding another boy for some
slight infraction of rules. The cul-
prit then declared that others mad
acted worse than he, and gave Johr
Beckwith's name. Tt is said that ar
investigation of Mr.. Floods action
will be made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Veteran Under Il Is
Going Back to Front

San Bcrnazdino, Cal.-Not yet of
draft age, but already a veteran" in
service in France, Dewey NJ. Camp
bell, son of former Superior Judge
John l.. Campbell, is going back to
France. where he served under the
American flag.
Campbell was an ambulance driv-
er on the Chemin des Danes front
last year. His unit was decorated
by the French Government for brav-
cry. After serving out his enlist
ment he returned to the United
States, completed his semester at
college. and then again offered him
self for service. He has left for
orders and proceeds to Allentown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
HINDU LAYS LOSS OF
BRIDE TO TIGHT SHOES

Baltimore.-Seetal Ran, a Hindu
blames a ,tight-fitting pair of shoes
for the fact that "Laurine" is not his.
He says that while he stepped into a
shoe store to have the shoes stretched
to a point where they would be COM
Portable, Laurine, who was to wait
for him outside, and then accompany
him to the county clerks Office for a
marriage license, disappeared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
BOYS BURN MESSAGES
TO AVOID LONG WALKS

L,ondon.-Failure to deliver letters
and kilograms having occasioned
grave Inconvenience in Nottingham
lately, the authorities caused spe-
cial investigations to be made, and
these led to three telegraph boys be-
ing brought before the magistrates
charged with destroying messages.
One lad admitted he kept a tele-
gram and threw It on the fire when
he got home. and the other admit
ted tearing the wires up. The ex-
cuse put forward in each case was a
desire to avoid walking long dis
ances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
THREE STATE COLLEGE MEN
ON FACULTY THIRTY YEARS

state COIIegc.-After thirty years
of service on the teaching stan, three
prominent Pennsylvania State Col
lege faculty members were rendered
a reception at the University Club by
their associates. The men honored
were DR.. Fl. P. Armsby. director of
the institute of animal nutrition: DR..
William Frear. vice director OF the
experiment station. and DR.. G. G..
Pond. dean of the school of natural
science.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30

ed and so loved as Mathewson prov
ing a nations idol to have been set
up with feet of clay.
At least a more satisfactory ex-
planation than any which has been
forthcoming is due trusting pub
lie and its champions of the firing
line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
National League

Pittsburgh at Chicago.
st. Louis at Cincinnati.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Brooklyn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
Baseball Summary;
Where They Play Today
Yesterdays RESULTS
American League

NESTE1DAl , hESULIo
American League
Chicago, s; Cleveland, 4.
st. Louis, IL; Detroit, 3.
Washington Boston (wet grounds)
Philadelphia at New York (wet
grounds).
National League
New York, 6; Philadelphia, 0.
Cincinnati. 4; st. Louis, 8.
Chicago-Pittsburgh (cold wealth
err.
Brooklyn-B Boston (wet grounds).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
American League
National League
SCHEDULE FOR TO-DAY
american League

Detroit at st. Louis.
Chicago at Cleveland.
Washington at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-30

Newport. Pa, April 30.-Newport
is anxious for baseball during tho
coming season. She is willing to en-