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The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-24
Comment on
; League Editorial
Brockway, Montana,
May 81, 1918.

Brockway, Montana,
May 81, 1918
Mr.. Ben M. Larson,
Circle, Montana.
Dear Sir:
Your editorial in last weeks
Banner on the Non-P artisan
League strikes me as being es-
pecially good.
/ have read extensively on both
sides of this League matter since
its first organization, and can see
that it is relying more and more
on the pro-German and the other
worst elements for its main sup
port.
Any true American farmer will
do well to look carefully into the
workings of this organization, and
its leaders, before giving it his
support.
Your very truly,
James A. Brockway.
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Red Cross Work

Mrs. Sam Hansen, 2 pair socks
j. Hobaugh, l pair socks
C. TilIotson, 2 shirts
/" D. L. Eastburn, 1 shirt
A. j. Cravdai, 2 shirts
Fred Johnson, 2 shirts
Miss Ruth Anderson, shirt
" Alice Rorvik, 10 bandages
Made at meeting 10 bandages
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Charter No Reserve No
Report OF the condition of
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Circle 1918
RESOURCES
Loans discounts -.-----ss1s4l3ss
Notes and bills rediound (other than bank
Zoo 90 $132039 "a
lOvea sunsecu cured
1000 90 $500 90
U. 272
Stock of Federal Reserve bank5 ubcripon) $50 90
Value of banking 27O5 90 20 90
IFurnitur
Lawful Reserve ank------- OIL
Cash 598 al
tamoun due rom and companies
than included IN tems 3, Aandl5 2657 90
Checks OF n the city rtowna report
bank (other than Item H)----------.-
H. l5 l6 II 81
Checks on outside or town of
bank other cash ------------------- 6S 10
War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually &c so
Total
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid n .-- $4,000 ooI
1000 COL
2712
expenses dtaxespa paid 81
deposits subject ochck----------- IS
Certificates deposit dse in less than 80 days (Ohg than
borrowed d. 500 90
outstanding 80
Dividends unpaid ------- 1870 1000 DOL
o demand deposits (other bankd eposts)
subject reserveItems 65541 81
o money 3944 IA
Total of time deposits subject Items A. 49,
and4
payable, other with Reserve Bank in
Guiding all obligations representing money borrow
other
Total -. $l54556 As
LEHMAN Cashier bank do solemn, swear that the
the knowledge belief
M. LEHMAN, Cashier. Ii
ands to me dayofM
R. Miller Notary Public
Montana residing Circle July IT, 1920
W. c. McClntock Sorg, Eynon
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
ROLL OF HONOR GROWS
Nothing in Talk About Ball Play.
ers Hanging Back.
Many Stars Have Enrolled Their
Names and Departed for Training
Quarters-List Given Is Worthy
of Attention.

Desist from the talk about big
league ball players hanging back
from the fire, and lodging their duty
in the trenches! That sort Of stuH
was first heard early last summer,
when the boys didn't hurl themselves
forward en- masse and demand enlist
ment in a body. 1t doesn't go any
more. Not for anyone who has Kept
track of the quiet fashion in which
the players have been stel ing up to
the enrolment offices, &c ing their
names upon the papers, and heading
for the training camps. Count them
up; take note of the number of play
ers carried by big league teams, and
then see what sort of dodgers these
young fellows are!
The roll here offered is doubtless in
complete, for not a day passes without
some player hurrying his name to head
quarters. Moreover, lots of them
have signed up with the cOlors at lit
tie, out-Of-the-way hamlets, and it may
be weeks before all the names are
known. But the list, as it is, tells its
own story, and deserves attention.
Here's how the roll of honor stands:
National League.
Boston-Gowdy, Meanwhile, Schrei-
Der, Barnes, Rico.
Brooklyn-Cadore, Sherrod, Smith,
Miljus, Pfeffer and probably Johnston.
Chicago-Mann, Schick.
Cincinnati-KOpf, Rath.
New York-Kelly, Anderson, Robert
son, Baird, J. P. Jones.
adelphia-Rixey.
Observation-Disclosures, Carlson, Big
| bee, Carmody.
st. Louis-Miller.
American League.
Athleics-Noyes, Bates, Sharman,
Seibolc, Naylor, Haley, Lawton Witt,
Johnson, McInnis.
Boston-Barry, Lewis, Shore, Nc
Nally, Shorten, Gamer, Hoblitzel,
Bentley.
Chicago-Scott, Jenkins.
| Cleveland-Harris, Klepfer, De-
Berry, Smith, Evans, Guisto, Dicker.
son, TOrkelSon, Morton.
| Detroit-Burns, Oldham, Baker.
| New York-Pipp, Fisher, Love
Miller, Hendrix, GilhoOley, Shawkeys
SmallwOOd.
| st. Louis-Severeid, Jacobson, Sloan,
| Fincher.
| shington-Leonard.
| Special Class.
Major leaguers, now unattached,
who have gone to the front: Al Won
Kolnitz, Moose Mccormick, Sammy
Strang, Bill O'Hara, Eddie Grant and
Steve Royce.
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ALL MEN AT HOME SHOULD
PREPARE FOR WAR

The first test a man is put thru for
either war or life insurance is an exami-
nation of his water. This Is most essen
tial because the kidneys play most inn
portant part in causing premature old age
and death. The more injurious the pois-
ons passing thru the kidneys the sooner
comes decay-so says DR.. Pierce of Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. T., who further
advises all people who are past thirty to
preserve the vitality of the kidneys and
free the blood from poisonous elements,
such as uric acid-drink plenty Of water
sweat some daily and take Anuric, double
strength, before meals.
This An-u-ric is late discovery of DR..
Pierce and is put up In tablet form, and
can be obtained for Coo at almost any
drug store. For that backache, lumbago,
rheumatism, rusty" joints, swollen feet
or hands, due to uric acid in the blood,
Anuric quickly dissolves the uric acid as
hot water does sugar. Take a little An
uric before meals and live to be a hun
bred. Send 10 cents to DR.. Pierce for trial
package Of Anuric.
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NEWS OF SUPERIOR

Superior, Wis.-"One bottle Of DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription put mo
on my feet, and the second bottle com
pletely cured me. / had an operation
for tumor and my strength would not
come back. The doctors seemed pow
erless to help me. heard Of lady
who had been in as bad q condition as
mine and DR.. Pierce's medicine helped
her, so tried 1t, with the very best Of
results, and have been in the best Of
health ever since. / cannot say enough
In praise of 'FavOrite Prescription for
women."-MRS. L. r. CARMAN, 1721
Twenty-second st.
The Prescription is made up In liquid
or tablet form. 1t contains no alcohol
or narcotic. Ingredients are printed
on the wrapper. Tablets Coo.
If not obtainable at your dealers,
send 10 cents to DR.. Pierce, Invalids'
Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y, and he will mail
trial package Of tablets.-Adv.
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hered to the old plan Of stagecoach.
| This occurred during the beginning
of what economists have called the
industrial revolution" At that time
there followed in rapid succession the
invention of many machines, such as
the steam engine, cotton gin, spinning
jenny, and the like. This revolution"
ushered in the highly developed and
organized world we live in today. 1t
enabled Stephenson to bring the first
locomotive to workable stage in 1880.
1t also led to the construction of the
first steamboat in 1907 by Fulton.
These two factors in modern trans
pOrtation have done much for the
world. They have developed contin-
nents, brought the products of distant
lands to your table, knit together ma
tons through exchange with one an
other, and equalized the distribution Of
food. This latter is perhaps one of the
most important boOns 1t has conferred
upon mankind. The fearful famines"
Of the past, where millions of people
have persisted through failure of crops
III Ouc ulSlIlCl, COulu nave Dccu TcliCFcu
If adequate transportation agencies
were in existence and ready to equa-
lie the extremes of plenty and want
maintaining throughout the world.
But the modern transportation sys-
tenn that has relieved famines in In
dia, China, Ireland, and more recently
Belgium, would not be possible If the
millions of dollars required for its
financing were not available. And so
almost simultaneous with the indus
trial revolution people began to save
and invest money. Savings banks were
established and banks multiplied. 1t
is an astonishing fact that previous to
this period and since the time of Rome
the accumulation of capital by indi-
viduals was practically unknown.
Now capital is largely obtained by
offering bonds for the investment Of
the funds of many people. Your city
erects schoolhouses and bridges; your
county builds roads; the country as a
whole carries on its share in the pres
ent war-all through bonds.
Just as the funds of thousands of
investors have made possible the re-
building of American cities, so has
the same principle made possible the
progress and wonders Of the twentieth
century.
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to fee from Paris and died practically
penniless in foreign city.
At the, same time similar project
was coming to it's end In England. The
South Sea company, formed for the pur-
pose of trading in the South Seas, end
ed with q crash when most of the d.
rectors sold out when the value of their
shares had been stimulated to reach
1000.
These early attempts at large scale
business organization ushered in the
modern type Of corporation. A brief
sketch of how our present complex
business organization evolved should
be interesting to the readers of this
series, for the greater proportion of
banking is inseparably linked with
business. Many Of the investment
bonds on the market today are obli-
cations of corporations.
The corporation, in its essential prin-
cipleS, has been traced back as far as
ancient Babylon. 1t grew out OF the
activities of families in commercial
NIhtuiSS. ~ ltluliy VI uSliCtihS "ouhu
be as one in the ownership of boats,
equipment and in their operation.
Their trust in one another led natural
ly to the recognition of each member
as an agent of the firm, whose acts
bound the others, and to the unlimited
liability of each for payment of obli-
cations of the partnership.
The corporation came into existence
as an improvement over the partner
ship in handling large projects and in
limiting the liability of members. 1t
is asserted by Blackstone that the cor
directly from the practice Of Roman
business men. The Roman corpora
tons were known as colleges" They
enabled aristocratic Romans to engage
in vulgar trade secretly.
In medieval times the corporation
with municipalities and ecclesiastical
bodies. Guilds and municipalities were
often chartered by the crown because
they could exercise the power which
the king himself was unable to WELD.
The American trust" is not strictly
American. The idea Of trusts Origi-
mated in the middle ages through the
desire of the church to get around the
statutes of "mortmain." These laws
were not favorable to those who had
estates willed to them In perpetuity.
The scheme adopted was to have prop
erty decided to third party, who would
administer it for the benefit of the
church. This is similar to the modern
trust organization, where stock of va
rious corporations Is held in trust by
a holding company. Probably the pop
ular idea that trusts are illegal origi-
mated in this first evasion of the law.
The trade union has apparently al
ways existed. The Romans had them.
In medieval times they were called
guilds and crafts. Journeymen often
formed associations for protection. The
purpose they gave was religious wor-
ship, but that was only a cover for
what we would now call trade unions.
They conducted strikes and obtained
increases in wages.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18

10 G.. Loomis, Chicago Athletic asso-
.iation athlete, who formerly was ma
tional champion in the sprint events
and high jump, has enlisted Ia the
Three Hundred and Thirty-third field
artillery at Camp Grant.
Loomis returned to Chicago recently
after completing period of six
months service as driver Of an ambu-
lance in the Verdun sector.
The former Splinter weighed 15S
pounds when he started for France.
At his physical examination at Rock
ford, which he passed with flying col
ors, he tipped the scale as 17S pounds.
eff this war continues long enough,
Jo," remarked one of his friends
among the officers, "and you continue
to gain weight, you will become a
shotputter instead Of runner"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
BILL CLYMER is OPTIMISTIC
Manager of Louisville Team Says Ca
Ianity HowIing Is Growing Very
Tiresome to Him.

William J. Clymer, manager of the
Louisvilles, has Joined the baseball OPP
timists. "SOme of these fellows are
trying to talk baseball to DEATH" says
Clymer. "They are grumbling over
nothing. The more they prattle about
cheap baseball next year the more the
public will lose interest. You can't
fill a theater with a poor show at low.
prices. You must provide the best at
fractions for reasonable admission
fees. If all the baseball men will pull
together in an effort to save the ma
tionaf game the task will be easy. If
the theaters and race tracks can run
next year, surely the ball parks can be
kept open. This calamity business is
growing very tiresome. Cut it out !"
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George Bancroft.

George Bancroft was author Of
voluminous and detailed history Of the
United States. He was public man
as well as an author and occupied
many positions Of honor and trust in
the public service Of his country. He
was collector of customs of the port
of Boston from 1888 to 1841, and Sec
rotary of the navy In the cabinet Of
President Polk. While holding that
important Office he established the
United States Naval Academy ut An
napolis, Maryland, at which practically
all the naval officers of the United
States are trained. He served as
United States minister to Great Brit
ain, Prussia and other Germanic states.
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1917. Western Newspaper Union.

(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
ier exceeded that which occurred in
Paris during the early part of the
eighteenth century. 1t was when Laws
mississippi Scheme" reached the
crest in its meteOric course.
In two or three years the manufac-
lures of Paris increased four-fold. The
population was added to by hundred
thousands. The vast numbers of peo-
pie who came to Paris were forced to
live in garrets, kitchens and stables.
This amazing activity was caused by
anucipations that huge profits would
be derived from trade with the Louisi-
ana province. AT the beginning of the
reign of Louis Nv France was in seri-
Gus financial straits owing to the wars
or Louis XIV. Law was Scottish
nnancier who submitted to the French
government tempting plan for reduc-
ing the national debt by systematic
cultivation of commercial relations
with the French territory in North
america.
With the protection of the govern
ment he organized, in 1717, the Com
pagnie dOccident, capitalized at 1OO,-
OOO,OOO livres. His company was in
vested with the privilege of trading ex-
clusively with the Province of Louisi-
ana for twenty-five years. The influ-
ence Of the Compagnie d'Occident over
Louisiana was made so great that ii
amounted practically to a new govern
ment. In IT'S the name of the COM
pany was changed to the BanQue Roy
ale, with the king, himself, guaran-
teeing the notes that were issued. In
i1l9 the company obtained a monopoly
OF trade with the East Indies, China
and the South Seas and was named
the COmpagnie des hides.
: BY this time so successful was Law
IN arousing popular interest that when
$4,000 new shares were offered 100000
applications were made for them. Then
the boom above described reached it's
elimination.
The entire scheme was doomed to
failure. Actual operations had hardly
been started when the government
greatly increased its paper money cir
culatiOn on the strength of this pros
perity. People began to realize that
they were riding on the crest of a
bubble. The end came swiftly and al
though Law endeavored to remedy mat
tiers by drastic measures he was forced
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
RETIRE REAL LADY FOR GOOD
Owner Of Winner Of Kentucky Futurity
Announces Three-Year-OId Will
Never Race Again.

A. II. Cosden has announced that
The Real Lady, 2:03, winner of the
Kentucky Futurity and holder of the
worlds record for three-year-old trot-
tiers, will never race again. She is
said to be as sound as bell, but she
has trotted nine of the fastest races on
record for FLIES of her age in the last
two campaigns, winning $27,675, and
her owner is now going to breed her to
Peter Volo, POP, the only trotter that
ever held the record for yearlings,
two-year-olds, three-year-olds and four
year-OldS.
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pyright, 1917. Western Newspaper Uniol

"Your scheme is preposterous in the
extreme. 1t is of so eXtravagant a
character as to be positively absurd.
Then look at the recklessness of your
proceedings! You are proposing to
cut up our estates in all directions for
the purpose of making an unnecessary
road. Do you think for one moment
of the destruction of property in itT"
Such was the comment of one Sir
Astley Cooper, a great Englishman,
on the first railroad that Stephenson
proposed in England!
Other comments Of the time are also
Interesting. For example, Mr.. Berk-
eley, member of parliament for Chel-
tenham, said: Nothing Is more dis
tasteful to me than to hear the echo
Eof our hills reverberating the noise
1of kissing railroad engines running
Through the heart of our hunting coun-
try and destroying the noble sport to
which 1 have been accustomed from
tmy childhood"
But this is mild In comparison with
what one Colonel SibthOrpe said: Il
would rather meet a highwayman or
see burglar on my premises than an
Iengineer."
Physicians stated that travelling
Through tunnels would expose healthy
people to colds, catarrh and cOnsump-
tion.
= Witness this reassuring article ap-
pearing in the London Quarterly Re
view in 1925: 'Tt is certainly some
lconsolation to those who are to be
whirled at the rate of Is or 20 miles
IAN hour, by means of high-pressure
engine, to be told that they are in no
danger of being sea sick while on
shore; that they are not to be scalded
Ito death nor drowned by the bursting
of q boiler; and that they need not
mind being hit by the scattered frag-
ments or dashed to pieces by the fir
ing off or the breaking Of wheel. But
with all those assurances we should
expect the people Of WOolwich to suf-
fer themselves to be fired off upon one
of the Congreve's ricochet rockets, as
trust themselves to the mercy Of an
engine, going at such rate"
Indeed, for long time, the nobility
of England would not ride on
the railroads. If any travelling was
10 be done they would allow their
servants, with the baggage, to use the
railroad, but for themselves they ad-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
Play Lacrosse In Army.

Lacrosse may be played in the army,
If the suggestion of the q. S. Intercol-
legiate Lacrosse league is followed. 1t
has been pointed out that American,
Canadians, Australians and many Eng
lishmen know the game, and French
soldiers have been taking it up. At
a recent game In Salonica, Greece, at
least five nationalities were represent
ed, each with expert players.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
Thanks of Oarsmen.

Thames Rowing club of Putney, Eng
land, offered its clubhouse and rowing
equipment to Harvard and Yale oars
men, which brought thankful re-
sponses from the two American uni
versities, many of whose crack oars
men are enrolled in the government
service and may be able to row from
the famous English clubs quarters on
the Thames, London.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
GIVEN RIGHT TO APPEAL

Hereafter when the president
of the National league suspends
a player for more than ten days
an appeal can be fled with the
board of directors. When Mr..
McGraw was set down for 16
days last summer for his trouble
with Umpire Byron, there was
no provision for an appeal, there
being a conflict between the ma
tional agreement and the
leagues constitution. The New
York club wanted to have Nc
Graw's suspension reviewed by
the directors, but was overruled.
The magnates, at their recent
meeting, simply cleared the at
mosphere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18

A, and in three-base hits, with %.
Cobb was at bat more times than any
other player, facing the pitchers 588
times.
DOME Bush scored the most runs,
tallying LIP times.
Everett Scott played in the most
games-157.
Wallie Pipp led in home runs with
nine.
Ray Chapman made the most sacri-
fee hits-67.
Eddie Collins drew the greatest num-
Der Of passes, getting SO bases on balls.
Bob Roth famed oftener than any
other player. He struck out 70 times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To half pint of water add OF. Bay
Rum, small box of Barbo Compound,
and Il OF. of glycerine. Any druggist can
put this up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for max
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound. 1t will gradually darken
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft
and glossy. It will not color the scalp, is not
sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
War Use of Cattails.

High explosives require so much
cotton in their manufacture that exc
perimenters have been casting about
for substance to replace 1t.
1t remained for Charles Geard, a.
Denver inventor, to discover that the
floss of cattails can be substituted for
guncOttOn in the making Of ammuni-
ton.
Germany, it is reported, has for some
time relied upon cattails to take the
place Of cotton in the manufacture Of
explosives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There ID
only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness,
and that Is by a constitutional remedy.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces!
Of the System. Catarrhal Deafness isl
caused by an infiamed condition Of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have O.
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when 1t Is entirely closed, Deafness IL the
result. Unless the Inflammation can be re-
NAL condition, hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases Of Deafness are
caused by Catarrh, which is an infiamed
condition of the Mucous Surfaces
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
be cured by HALLS CATARRH
FL J Cbensv &c Co ci To1sao f nSsc
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AuntY All Unset.

Aunt Elvira rushed into the house,
hysterical. 1--WE lost my hearingT she
shouted.
''You have?" her frightened sister
shouted back. "How do you known
"See that man out there playing
that hand-organ? Well, can't hear
single motel" And Aunt Elvira wept
afresh.
THAT'S mOving-picture photogTa-
pher at work !" snapped her sister,
New York Evening Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-18
TY COBB BATTING CHAMPION
Wins Title for Tenth Time In Thirteen
Years With Percentage Of .3e3-
Other Winners.

Ty Cobb was the batting champion
for the tenth time in ID years, with a
percentage of 1888. He also led his
league in stolen bases, with 55. He
led In safe hits, with 225; in total
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FREE TRIAL BOX
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Not Moro Than One Box to q Family
Old Newfoundland.

Newfoundland this year celebrates
the four hundred and twentieth ami
versary of her discovery. In 1897 John
Cabot sailed from Bristol on voyage
which was made famous by the finding
of Newfoundland. 1t was not until
1852 that 1t was formally taken pos
session of in the name of Queen Eliza
beth. Many Of the fishing boats from
that ancient colony took part in the
defeat Of the Spanish armada. In the
present war Newfoundland has given
10000 men to the service Of Britain.