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The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting of the Stockholders of
The wilson Wetterhold Grinding Mach
inc Company Will be held on Monday.
January 18th. 1919. at the hour of elev-
en- o'clock A. NJ. at the office Of the
Company at Lamar. Prowers County.
Colorado. for the purpose of electing
Directors for the ensuing year. and for
the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the meet
ing.
. r. L. NYE.
Secretary.
First Pub. Dec. 4. 1913.
Last Pub. Jan. l. 1919.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
Notice of Adjustment Day.

Estate OF Loran B. Fenimore. deceas-
No. 1876.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to pre-
sent them for adjustment to the County
Court of Prowers County. Colorado. on
the 18th day OF January. A. d. 1919.
A FENIMORE.
Administrator of the Estate of
Lorsn Il. Fenimore. Deceased.
First Pub. Dec. IS. 1918.
Inst Pub. Jan. s. 1919.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
EsrnAY ADVERTISEMENT

Notice is hereby given to whom il
may concern that the following describ-
ed estray animal was taken up near
Lamar. Prowers County. Colorado. on or
about December =. 1918, to-wit: One
red COW weight about SO0 pounds, age
unknown. branded -
Said animal being unknown to this
Board. unless claimed by owner on
before January 6. 1919. said estray will
be sold by this Board for the benefit
of the owner when found.
STATE BOARD OF STOCK INSPEC-
TION COMMISSIONERS.
Denver. Colorado.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
He Wanted TO oet aank

Little Boy (who has a fear of being
buried alive): Mamma, II ! should
Ole please put me in vault and put
nickel In my pocket. so II I come to
ufe / can get home on n street car"
The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
81 NINiONs


County of Prowors
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
Alice W. Atkinson and
John %. Atkinson
Thomas q. Mofrett. Trustee.)
The Farmers Loan and TrusD
Company. IA Corporation. AID
bert Il. King. and other perl
son or persons whose names)
are unknown to Plaintiffs.
Dcfendants.D
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO.
TO Thomas o. Monett. Trustee, The
Corporation. Albert Il. King. and other
person or persons whose names are un-
known to Plainti1fs, the Defendants
above named. GREETING:
You are hereby required To appear
in an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiffs in the Dis
trict Court Of frowcrs County. state
Of Colorado. and answer the complaint
therein within twenty days after the
county: or. II served out Of this County.
or by publication. within thirty days
after the service hereof, exclusive Of
the day of service; or Judgment by de-
rault viii be taken against you ne
cordinE To the prayer OF the complaint.
And II a copy Of the complaint in the
above entitled action be not served
with this summons. or IL the service
hereof he made out OF this State. then
l'u uhys hnuitlohhl 10 the Time herein
before specified for appearance and
answer VIII he allowed before the tax
ing. of judgment by default as aforc-
said.
The said action Is brought to obtain
a decree quieting title for plaintiffs to
the following described real property
situate in Prowers County:
The Northeast Quarter tNEL)
OF Section 22. Township 23 South.
Range a. West OF the sixth Prin-
cipal Meridian. together with the
apurtenanccs theTeunto belonging
and for plaintiffs costs Of suit as
viii more fully appear from the
complaint In said action to which
reference Is here made:
Aud you are hereby notified that IL
you fail to appear. and to answer the
said complaint as above required. the
said plaintiffs viii take Judgment
against you by default for the relief
prayed in said complaint
GIVEN under my hand and seal In the
District Court OF Prowers County. at
Lamar. in said County. this I2th DAY
of November \. u. 1918.
\. T. DOwNER.
Clerk OF the District
Court.
tsEAL)
First Pub. Dec. IL. 1918.
Last Pub. Jan. :. 1919.
The Lamar register., 1918-12-25
Notice of Adjustment Day.

Notice of Adjustment Day.
Estate of Ernest W Martin. Deceas-
ed. -.
No. 1875.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to pre-
sent them for adjustment to the Couniy
Court of Prowers County. Colorado. NJ
the 27th day of January A. d. 1919.
CHARLES +. BLAIR.
Administrator.
First Pub. Dec. is. 1918.
LAST Pub. Jan. Is. 1919.
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tSEALJ
First Pub. Dec. IL. 1918.
Last Pub, Jan S. 1913.
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First Pub. Dec. II. 1918.
Last Pub. Jan. 4, 1919.
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County OF Prowers.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
c. c. Goodale
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STATE OF COLORADO. }
)ss.
County Of Prowers
IN THE DISTRICT COURT.
Frank Bigler
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
SOLDIERS STAGE BALL CAME WITH CRUDE EQUIPMENT American Youths Play Hot Contest With Rock-Center Ball and Flannel
 Shirt Mits

Baseball as played behind the lines by American soldiers is not always up to the standards of the game at home, but it is baseball nevertheless. The para phernalia is not always up-to-date and the diamond may be lacking in the per feet finish found on the better fields of the big cities, but these are mere de tails when the soldiers make up their minds to play baseball. This can be seen from description of contest staged not so long ago in France.
 The ball was a fearful and wonder fpl thing, absolutely guiltless of any Infringement of the American patents. A round stone. picked up on the beach, formed its core. Around this unyielding missile were wrapped some rags and over this tire tape. Surrounding all was as piece of canvas, roughly stitched. It was the hardest and the "deadest' ball ever used in competition. A giant couldn't have hit it over 100 feet with telegraph pole, and it took a good lick to drive it even as far as the pitcher Still it was a ball
 The heroes who volunteered to act as catchers in this strange contest re- fused to face the camouflaged boulder without some protectlLn, so they made themselves a glove. A couple of old flannel shirts served as the foundation for this protector, An old shoe provided leather for the face of the glove, and this was sewn on by the same genius who put the canvas cover on the ball. The contrivance had no fingers, but was held in place on the hand with twine.
 The infielders and outfielders used their bare hands and the first baseman, who had to handle swift throws without pro- lection, had badly bruised hands at the close of the game.
 For bats these ingenius soldiers cut down some saplings and hewed them into the desired lengths shaping the handles with jack knives Every time the ball was hit with one of these green sticks the wood flew in sewers all over the infield, and the sap deluged the fielders. There was one ex-leaguer in this queer game, a player who used to be so fastidious about his bats that he had to have them made to order. His admirers in the bleachers would have had sonnet rouble in recognizing him as the young man who picked up the first sapling that came handy and threw out his chest when he succeeded in hitting the ball all the way to the shortstop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14


 Mrs. L. c. Voge1 of Detroit, Mich, has held the wornen's trapshooting champion ship so many years that when some other fair Diana wrests the title from her it is quite unexpected. Mrs. D. J. Dalton of Warsaw Ind, garnered the title in 1g16 at St. Louis, and Mrs. Harold Aln7ert of Chicago will be recognized the com ing year as the leading shot of the fair sex.
 For years and years Mrs. vogel has been going along winning about every thing woman could win in the way of prizes at trapshooting tournaments Only in late years has she had any diff ficult competition from her own sex. For upward of 20 years Mrs. Vogel has been recognized as the best amateur woman shot This year in the Grand American handicap she was far from being at her best and retired.
 In the Grand American Mrs. Almert broke S9 targets from r yards. Miss Emma Wettleaf of Nichols, la. broke the same number of targets. On the shootoff Mrs Almert proved victorious. This is Mrs. Almert's third year of shoot ing. She won the wonan's trapshoot- ing championship of Illinois before she had been shooting three months.
 Last year she averaged S3 per cent and this year until the Grand American tour nament, hadn't done any better Lester German, the professional shot, noticed Mrs. Almert's shooting in one of the events and suggested a change that would improve her shooting. Mrs. Almert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14


 Moley after reading the figures in said contract, shook his head and promptly refused to accept the sup posed to-be broken down Whiteman. Boston needing a utility man, took him on, and owing to the shortage of men he managed to stick around with the Red Sox all year, doing odd jobs and playing the sun field when Babe" Ruth drew the pitching assignment. His season average, in about half of the games, was .250. and his fielding nothing extraordinary.
 With some apprehension Manager Ed Barrow sent Whiteman out to left field on the opening day of the big series, planning to rush Ruth back into the game as soon as his hurl- ing duty was completed, but Babe was never called upon as Whiteman distinguished himself by driving out two hits in this game and made five put-outs several of sensational va riety. From then on 1t was one con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Red Sox Veterans Raise
 Average Age Of Players

Average age of the players in the 1918
 world series is figured out by some statis-
 tician to be 2s years, not including the pitchers, whose records of birth might
 lower the figure year or two. If anyone has complaint to make that it is an old mans series, let him put the blame
 on the Boston Red Sox, where it belongs. 1 There are some seasoned men with the Cubs, but with the Red Sox it is a case of seasoning almost from top to bot tom.
 Not only are the majority of the Red SoX old enough to have wisdom, but they also are mostly normal-that is most of them do things right-handed, though there are exceptions, like Babe Ruth, for instance. Normal goes, however, for everything and anything except being truthful about date of birth if it was pre- vious to 1880. No ball player in the game today will admit he was born before 1880
 and the Red SoX, champions though they
 may be. are but ball players George Whiteman knows who this shot is direct
 ed toward. But that is neither here nor
 there. Here IS some dope on the American
 league champions that goes with the re-
 marks above:
 Joe Bush, Pitcher--Age, 25; weight TIT; height, 5 feet Il inches; bats and throws
 right-handed; married; home town, Phila- delphia.
 Sam P. Jones, Pitcher-Age, 26; weight, ITO; height, feet Il inches; bats and
 throws right-handed; married; home
 town, Woodfield, o.
 Carl w. Mays, Pitcher-Age, 26; weight, POO; height, feet; bats left-handed and heaves right; single; home town, Mans field, O..
 George H. Ruth, Pitcher-Age, 24; weight, 2o4; height feet inches; bats
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

supply, he said, must be kept up by new explorations and new development.
 As 4 substitute for the war excess profits on oil lands, MT. Covington sug- gested a tax of 20 on actual sales. the er- feet of which, he said, would be to permit the explorer and coverer to reap a fair return and would start anew the trans fer and exchange of properties to the most complete beneficial use He also suggested the appointment of commfs- sion to study the petroleum situation. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania an- nounced he would ask that the fuel ad- ministraticn officials be called to explain the oil shortage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

 Why is it that the so-called "fledgling' managers in big league baseball have been able during the past half dozen years to beat out the veterans in the battles for pennant honors? And why is it that after the "fledgling'' has once won q pennant winner he becomes jinxed as do the veterans and from then on is un- able to repeat?
 Looking back to 1914 one finds George Stallings piloting the Boston Braves to the first championship which that team has won in nearly two decades. Eight men successively tried 10 lead the Braves to penant heights-and each one failed. George Stallings took charge of the wholly impossible team in 1913 and one year later lifted them to the baseball championship of the world But, having accomplished that Stallings never since has been able to duplicate his perform ance.
 The Phillies entered the National league in 1883. From that time on until the end of the 1914 season 10 different baseball
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

and throws left-handed; married, home l town. Baltimore. o.
 I Sam l.. Agnew, Catcher-Age. 2s;
 weight. 1855; height, feet 10 inches; bat. and throws right-handed; home town. | Doe Run, Mo.
 1 Walter Mayer, Catcher-Age, 29; weight, lSo; height. feet Il inches; bats and throws right-handed; single; home town, l Cincinnati. O.
 Everett Scott, Shortstop-Age, 25; weight l2o; height. ,, feet inches; bats and throws right-handed married; home town, Auburn, Ind l Dave Shean, Second Baseman-Ape. 33.
 weight, 125; height, 5 feet inches; bats and throws right-handed; married; home town. Arlington, Mass | Jean Dubus, Pitcher-Age, 2g; weight. 175; bats and throws right-handed; single; home city. Montreal, Quebec | Jack Coffey, Third Baseman--Age s1: weight, 1S0; height. 5 feet II inches; bats and throws right-handed married, home. l New York city Walter schang, Catcher-Age, 2s; weight 1S0; height, feet inches: bats either right or left-handed and throws right-handed; married; home town, Phila- delphia
 John McInnis First Baseman-Age. 27; weight, 160; height, 5 feet g inches; bats and throws right-handed; married: home town, Manchester, Mass. Harry Hooper, Right Fielder-Age, 3l; weight, 175: height 5 feet 10 inches; bats | left-handed and heaves right; married: home town, Capitola, Cal. | Amos Strunk. Center Fielder-Age, 2s: weight, ITO; height, 5 feet Il inches; bats and throws left-handed; married; home town, Philadelphia
 | George Whiteman, Left Fielder-Age. S2; weight l65 height, feet ' inches; bats and throws right. handed; home town, Houston, Tex
 | Laurence Miller. Left Fielder-Age, 24: weight, 1SO; height, feet 10 inches; bats and throws right-handed; married home town, Oakland, Cal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

, tinual round of success for the little fellow, each days contest being fea-
 tureG by his startling catches or time-
 ly hitting.
 To cap the climax, Whiteman made somersault catch in Boston toward
 the latter part of the final game, but injured his shoulder in the fall and was taken out in the eighth frame.
 recess of two minutes was held
 while the loyal Red Sox rooters gave
 him one of the greatest ovations ever accorded worlds series hero Of Whiteman's work in the worlds series. Fullerton says the following: T have no desire to bunk the fans of Peoria, Toronto, or other way points, but Whiteman in this series has been greater than Ty Cobb and luckier than c. Webb Murphy. He has been the
 active principal in all four of the Red Sox' victories, has been on base more than any other player and in more ways than any other player of either team and his line smash, made after two men were out in the final game, was muffed by Flack and sent home Boston's two runs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Corbett's s Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
By JAMES T. CoRBETr

Is SORbEII , geniuses vainly tried to pilot them to pennant heigtts. But each one failed. And many were great leaders, and each got number of trials. Then came Pat
 Moran in 1915 and in his very first year
 as big league manager he accomplished the seemingly impossible. But that seems 1 to have finished Pat, because never since has he been able to duplicate. Wilbert Robinson took charge of the Brooklyn team in 1914. The team was a hopeless tailender. It had been for many years. Before the advent of Robinson
 the best the Dodgers could do for nearly
 b years was to land fifth in eight-club
 races. Robinson fell heir to joke ball
 club. but within two years he made it
 Into pennant winner.
 Alter disappointments in 1914, 1916 ana isl6. John McGraw came through with
 another pennant in 1917. Practically,
 every baseball expert in America felt confident at the outset of the 1918 sea son that McGraw and his Giants would repeat The team got away to a flying start ana opened up a tremendous gap uurlng the early weeks of the campaign.
 - -~SNNed AiNS st WdlhdWdy. AnQ then tho
 Jinx that has pursued National league
 leaders with repeating ambitions got busy. The Giants slumped, their lead was cut to nothing anu eventually they dropped into second place. and stayed there. Ever since Frank Chance and his fa- nous Cub machine became but memories
 the owners of the Chicago Nationals have inaoe intending efforts to lift the Cubs pack to pennant glory. In 1913 Johnny ayers tired to do 1t, put failed. Hank o Day. Roger Bresnahan. and Joe Tin her each took crack at the job in sue cesslVe years. But they couldn't mako 5000 Fred Mitchell arrived at the Cub 1 neim in 1917 and his second year as a ieader brought a National league pen- nant to Chicago.
 condition somewhat similar exists in the American. Connie Mack landed his team at the top in 1sI4, but since then
 tne Athletics have widowed in the mir of second division. They've never figured m anything but a cellar championship battle since then
 Bill Carrigan succeeded Connie as a remnant winning leader by romping through in 1915 in his third year at the helm Of the Red Sox machine. And then Bill upset modern tradition by repeat ing in 1916. He's the only leader in either league who has been able to 'come back during the past five years
 Jack Barry essayed the Red Sox helms man job in 1917. but failed. And the man Who beat him--Clarence Rowland-was a 'fledgling," The White Sox general was a comparative newcomer in the circuit, yet he succeeded where veterans like Hurhie Jennings. Fielder Jones. Clark Griffith, and Connie Mack had failed.
 And here again in 1918 the history re- beats by showing Ed Barrow, first year. man. as far as Boston is concerned beating all rivals to the wire for pennanf hcnors.
 Strange-isn't it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
The Horrible Handicap
 of Poisoned Blood

may be laboring under. S. s. s. offers hope. This remedy has been in general use for more than fifty years. It is purely vegetable, and contains not a particle of any chemical. and acts promptly on the blood by routing all traces of the taint, and restoring it to absolute purity
 Some of the most distressing cases of transmitted blood poisons have yield- ed to the treatment of $. $. S.. and no case should be considered incurable un- til this great remedy has been given a thorough trial. s. s. S. acts as an anti dote to every impurity in the blood. You can obtain it at any drug store. Our chief medical adviser will take pleas ure in giving you without cost any ad- vice that your individual case requires Write today to Swift Specific Co.,, 433 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
The Innocent Suffer Even Unto the Third and Fourth Generations, But Relief
 Is Now in Sight

It has long been accepted as matter must be suffered by innocent posterity, yet it is hard to become reconciled to this condition. The heritage of physical infirmity is a handicap under which thousands must face the battle of life
 Scrofula is probably the most no. ticeable of the transmitted blood dis orders, though there are other more severe diseases Of the blood that pass from one generation to another Nc matter what inherited blood taint you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Master Must Control
 All Wireless Messages

Washington, September 13.--Under a ruling today by the war trade board, no vessel under the American flag will get bunker coal unless her wireless apparatus is so fitted that messages cannot be sent without the knowledge of the master.
 The master is held responsible for seeing that no message is sent to the enemy. that reports are made of ves- sells sighted, or of any weather con- ditions experienced and that no mes- sages for emergencies can be sent within 200 miles of England, France, Portugal or Italy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

changed her style of shooting and won the championship.
 Nine women shot in the Grand Ameri- can handicap this year Besides Mrs Almert, Miss Wettleaf and Mrs. Vogel, the entrants were Mrs. c. D. Moon of Eau Claire, Wis; Mrs. D. J. Dalton, War saw, Ind. Mrs. IT. F. Snodgrass, Chi cago: Mrs. J. H. May Chicago; Mrs. A. H. Winkler, Chicago; Mrs. C. II. Buchanan, Sioux Falls, $. D.; Miss Lu- cile Meusel Green Bay, Wis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
VERNON

Vernon, September 1S.-(special) Mrs. NJ C. Young was notified today that her son, Lieut.. O., E. Young. had arrived safely i'll France. Lieutenant Young graduated at the University of Alabama in 1913 and practiced law in Vernon until he volunteered in May, 1917 He was a member of the firm of Nesmith & Young and was also mayor of Vernon. His brother, Lieut.. P. T Young, has been in France nearly five months.
 At least two-thirds of the cotton in this locality has been picked. The farmers are having it ginned as fast as possible and are selling the most of it now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Oil Shortage Threatens.
 Senate Committee Told

Washington, September 1s.-Unless some method is devised to encourage develop ment of oil lands. the country will face serious shortage of crude oil to supply the American and allied armies, the Sem ate finance committee was told by J. Henry Covington, representing the na- tonal petroleum war service. The oil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
166 More Americans
 Held Prisoner Announced

Washington, September 1S.-Names of 166 American soldiers, including four cap- tains and 12 lieutenants, who are prison CTS of war at various camps in Germany, were announced today by the war depart ment
 The list includes the following men from southern states: At Camp Landshut. Lieut.. William H. Pluler, Kershaw, $. C.; lat Camp yellingen, Lieut.. Clyde c. Vaughn, Liberty Hill. Tex.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
He Knew Differently

From the Peoples Home Journal.
 "A man cannot serve two masters-'' began the presiding elder.
 "The dickens he can'tr' interrupted Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark, who is blessed with a helpmate and IA children. I'm serving Is of 'em, and doing mighty fair job at it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Even Bones Are Valuable

From the Peoples Home Journal
 English housewives are urged to save bones Eighteen pounds of bones, even after they have been used for soup, will | yield enough glycerine for an 1S-pound shell and can be ground into fertilizer or chicken food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Senate Adjourns Till
 Thursday of Next Week

Washington, September 1S.-The Sen ate adjourned today until next Tuesday when it plans to take up the water power bill, for consideration of amend ment to the Senate draft by the House.
 Plans for taking three-day recess un- til the Senate finance committee is ready to report the revenue bill con tinued today and leaders hoped to reach an agreement after the water power bill is disposed of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
Drs. DOzier & Dozier
Oldest Established Firm of Medical Specialists in Alabama. Twenty five Years in Birmingham.

We treat scientifically and with wonderful success. all man ner of chronic diseases of the Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat, Lungs, Heart. Liver. Stomach. Bowels. Kidneys and all diseases of the Skin and the Pelvic Organs of AE>o and WomAu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-14
strange-isn't it?

smoke is a valuable weapon in this war; it is extensively used on both sides to mask military and naval movements and elaborate means have been devised 10 throw up clouds of smoke The Scien- tihe America says: During poison ous gas attack smoke is employed 'o ward on the fumes. Being considerably heavier than the poisonous gases gener- ally employed. a barrage of smoke causes the dangerous fumes to pass over trenches and dugouts and to dissipate themselves in the higher regions.