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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Every Druggist in U. S. In
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While You Wait at Counter
if Relief Does Not Come
Within Two Minutes.
Delightful Taste, Immediate
Relief, Quick Warm-Up.

The sensation Of the year in the
drug trade is, Aspironal, the two
minute cold and cough reliever, au-
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oratories; tested, approved and most
enthusiastically endorsed by the high
est authorities, and proclaimed by
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hand the clerk half dollar for
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With YOUR watch in your hand. take
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your money back in two minutes if
Won can not feel your cold fading
away like a dream within the time
limit. Don't be bashful for all drug
gists invite YOU and exnect YOU to
trv it. Everybody's doing it.
When your cold or cough is re-
lieved. take the remainder Of the
bottle home to your wife and babies
for Asnironal is by far the safest and
most effective. the easiest TO take and
the most agreeable cold and cough
remedy for infants and children
Advertisement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Coach Jones Retained at S. U. /.

Coach Jones Retained at S. VI.
Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City, Oct. S.-Howard H.
Jones, director OF athletics and foot
ball coach at the university of Iowa,
has been >re-employed by the board
III control of athletics for five years
with an attractive advance in salary
under contract which will keep him
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
The
Substitute
Millionaire
By
HUBERT FOoTNER
HUBERT FOoTNER

What made it harder for me was
that despised your father as a
weaker man than myself When |
let this out to your mother in my
anger and bitterness, she retorted
that II he was less strong he was
certainly move loyable.
Il left Cartonsville in my bitter
ness. My one idea, like so many
CALLED young men before me, was
to do something that would force
Phoebe Farrow to acknowledge ito
herself that she had chosen the
wrong man. l resolved to make my
self rich man, the richest in Amer
lea. To gain this end was prepared
to deny myself everything above the
barest necessities OF life. Every cent
was to be set to work to earn five,
II succeeded, as every man must,
who Is bent on a thing so deter
minedly as l was. / did not return to
Cartonsville for fifteen years. Fifteen
years of slavery they We're. Those
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Dunn's Cleveland
Indians Built Up
Under His Rule
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Cleveland, Oct. S.-There are only
four players on the Cleveland Ameri-
AN League club who ever previously
participated in worlds series. CO.
accidentally they were on the same
-eam-the Boston Red Sox.
Manager Speaker was member of
he Boston team when 1t won the
championship in 1912 and 1915. He
anne to Cleveland in trade during
he spring of 1915.
Mtho requested by president James
Dunn to take the MANAGEMENT OF
he Cleveland team on several oc-
asions. he declined to do so until
aid season of 1919.
Under his leadership the Cleveland
cam displayed improved form and
more aggressiveness. and only lost
he 1919 flag by game and half,
lie has kept the Indians In first place
practically all OF this season.
Third Baseman Larry" Gardner
auttielder Joe Wood and Catcher
Chef" Thomas were members OF the
lex Sox when they won the cham
ionship in 1912, 1918 and 1916.
Outfielder Jack Graney is the dean
u the Cleveland players in point o.
'crvice. He first joined the club at
he start of the 1908 campaign and
aas been a member continuously
'ince the start Of the 1910 season.
Next in line is Catcher Steve"
o'Neill. who reported Sept 10. 1911.
pitcher Guy Morton, Second Raseman
William Wambsganss and Outfieldcr
Elmer Smith were the next<to arrive
They donned the Indians uniform ir
1914. Morton reported in June
Wamhsganss Aug. /. and Smith
Sept. Is.
Graney. o'Neill, Morton Wamhs-
yanss and Smith are the only mem
'crs of today's team who survive the
club that was purchased by Owner
lanes G. Dunn in 1916. Pitchers Jim
Sashy and Stanley Coveleskie. how
ever. had been purcha sed prior to the
sale Of the club to Dunn and re-
ported the week aftsrward.
iris Speaker bedarnes an Indian
hat Spring and Joe Evans joined the
club later when his university term
expired. Joe Wood was purchased In
1917 while Harry Lunte joined the
team late that season. altho he did
not really play until 1919.
Wheeler r. (Doc) Johnston who
had been member of the Maps i'm
1912. '13 and n, rejoned the team In
1915. Chef Thomas cast his lot with
the club about the same time.
Those added in 1919 We're Catcher
Leslie Nunamaker, Pitchers Ray
Caldwell. George Uhle and Robert
Clark: Third Raseman Larry Gard
ner and Outfielder Jameson
Thet1920 aggregation of reinforce
ments consists Of First Baseman
George Burns. Pitcher Walter Mails
and Shortstop Joe Sewell
Pitcher Russell Ellison of the Uni
versity of California also was eligible
to play with Cleveland In, the series,
but went to his home in California.
Pitchers Ted" Odenwald. cykowski
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
it'll the Hawkeye institution until

with the Hawkeye institution until
June, 1926.
Mr.. Jones is just entering the fifth
year of his present five-year contract
which expires next June. and since
coming to Iowa has been uniformly
successful with athletics. The board
is delighted with his decision to re-
main with the university and is con-
fidently expecting that he will con-
tinue to keep Iowa on the athletic
map. particularly as regards football,
In the Big Ten conference.
DR.. Howard l.. Beye has been
named by President Walter A. Jes-
sup as the member of the athletic
board from the faculty of the college
of medicine to succeed DR.. Henry j..
Prentiss.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

were the years that formed me fol
life-deformed me I should say.
was already a rich man when I went
back.
II found the situation much as
had imagined it, Your mother was
the hard working wife of a poor man
"a man destined to die poor. She
lived in a small inconvenient house
without any servant. and her pretty
hands were red and rough. And !
was millionaire, You were five
years old at that time and your
parents only child. Both your elder
brothers had died in an epidemic.
But my triumph did not come off
as i had pictured. Phoebe pitied me.
"'No wife nor chick?' she said,
with her rare soft smile Poor Silas,
How useless your wealth must seem
to you'
Then / saw as In n great white
light that / had only been fool for
my pains. ] returned to New York
and automatically resumed the bust
ness of making money. | could not
stop 1t was all / knew. 1t filled
my days and kept me from thinking
II often wished to change my wa,
of life. but 1t was too late then.
was already known as Silas. Clyde
the usurer, and men had hardenef
their hearts against me. My diff
dent attempts to make friends Were
rebuffed was forced back into the
rutt 1 had worn for myself. There
was nothing for me TO do but earn
the reputation the world had given
me.
Il have told you that in fancy |
often gave you advice. But it Is not
as "a good example that | desire to
hold myself up to you. | urge You
to avoid my example. Never let
money get the upper hand of you.
Old Silas Gyde the miser tells yQu
money is no good except to spend
have succeeded in creating the in
cubus of wealth, and in SO doing lost
my soul. leave you the harder
task of Kidding yourself OF 1t, without
losing yours.
your we'll wisher.
"Silas clyde"
Under date two years later the
letter was resumed:
II have opened this to add warn
ing. When you inherit my money,
you are bound to inherit my cares
also. Ever since i became rich
enough to be notorious, l have been
a target for mems envy and hate.
expected it. Indeed, l enjoyed it.in
way. I gloated over my books OF
clippings. Their hatred gave me a
sense of being somebody in the
world.
In my daily mail received. and
still receive, hundreds OF letters. APP
pealing. threatening. abusive: letters
from every kind of crank. / ignore
them. But lately real danger has
begun to threaten me in the spread
of anarchistic doctrines among the
people And there are not lacking
those to turn the justifiable discon-
tent of the people to their own black
guardly advantage. My threatening
hatred behind them.
1.-The elimination was reached Il
month ago in the shocking death of
Ames Benton. the first tragedy of
the kind that has occurred in Amer
ica-but not the last fear. / knew
the man; did business with him;
I had talked to him the day before
his death. What brought it closer
home to me was the fact that Ben
ton was what you'd call a popular
man; openhanded, affable. Of a kind
ly nature. If they did this to him,
what will my fate be!
1.-THE affair may be forgotten by
the time you read this, so will say
Benton was a prominent and wealthy
man-tho not so rich as president
and director in many corporations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

team whose members wrote them,
I'VE shall come just to teach you
boys the game and bag a few corn
field canaries."
Altho Rugby football was intro
duced by Grinnell into the athletic
events of the middle west in 1890, the
Pioneers played the old game of
soccer, known as, association foot
ball. since 1870. This game was first
played in Iowa by the group of stu
dents that We're coached and cap
tanned by the late Professor Jesse
Macy. the famous political scientist.
The Pioneers this year are not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

Fle was blown to pieces in his bed
at night by an anarchists bomh
The man that threw it likewise lost
his life in the explosion. How he
succeeded in reaching Mr.. Benton's
bedroom will always remain mys-
terry. Among Mr.. Bentons effects
we're found threatening letters sim
liar to those I have received The
assassin's accomplices--it is believed
that he must have had accompiices
have never been found.
This affair has not helped me to
sleep better nights. My courage is
Of the daylight variety. So long as
can have my eyes open and my
wits about me, I am willing to take
ny chances, but at the thought of
being attacked in my bed confess
my heart turns to WATER Soil have
taken my measures.
"The Madagascar Hotel which 1
was building was oil but complete.
To secure light and air on the west
had already bought the ad-
joining dwelling on Forty --th
street. I got it cheap because
it had been a private insane asylum
and was in bad odor in the neighbour
hood. The transaction had been eff
fected thru agents, and it was not
known that was the owner.
II had an opening cut between the
hotel and this dwelling. BY dis
tributing the work among many
hands I was able to conceal my
eventual purpose from all. The peo-
pie who put In the steel doors
thought that the rear door was to
give on shallow cupboard in the
wall. When the doors were in I
knocked out this cupboard myself
and had clear way thru. Nobody
who knew thought it at all out of
the way that Silas Clyde should put
in a steel vault in connection with
his suite in the hotel.
81 have installed myself in rear
room of the old dwelling. The front
of the house which has been board
ed up for years I was CAREFUL not to
disturb. Here I can sleep in peace
If the ghosts of the poor insane
patients stalk thru the halls, they do
not trouble me.
But they may get me yet, of
course, and l am writing to put you
in possession tof all the particulars
I am sure now, that there is a devil
ishly able brain using the anarchistic
agitation to further a Matchmaking
scheme on a gigantic scale.
'For instance, Immediately after
poor Benton's death I received a
letter threatening me with the same
fate, and l have reason to believe
that many other rich men received
similar letters. l promptly put mine
in the hands Of the police, as did
others, with what result? None, ex-
cept that l instantly received anoth-
er letter apprising me that my act
was known, and that if ! did not i'm
mediately cease all dealings with the
police I would be shot down in the
street.
Il ignored this letter, and three
days later | got a bullet thru my
hat in City Hall Square. The news
papers seemed to take the attitude
that it was no more than my due
But the other rich men appreciated
the significance of the act, and
have no doubt the matchmaking bust
ness was much stimulated thereby
Still the police did nothing, and I
resolved to have no more to do with
those gentry. but to protect myself
Nov observe. a week after the
attack on me | was called upon in
my office by a polite young man who
handed me the card of the Eureka
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Thirty Years of Football at GrinnelI

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Oct. S.-When the Pho
neers meet Drake on the gridiron on
Oct. so. they will celebrate their
thirtieth anniversary in football. For
Grinneil College played the first game
Of football In Iowa on the home grid
oron against the Iowa State Univer-
sity team in 1890.
This game was won by the Pho
neers with score of $40. For those
days this was considered an over
whelming score, and Grinnell College
celegrated a sweet revenge on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

There is a popular belief rather
widespread that the third finger of
the left hand usually known as the
wedding ring finger, is the first fin
ger that a newborn babe is able to
move and is the last part of the body
over which dying person loses con-
troll
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Iowa Meets Cornell Saturday.

Iowa Meets Corncii Saturday.
Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. Oct. Son Saturday
Iowa meets Cornell College in the
first of two state games scheduled by
the Hawkeyes this season. In spite
of the creditable showing made by
the Comedians in their two games
played this year the Old Glory eleven
rules decided favorite on account
of the defeat administered week
ago to Indiana. II Ia not expected
that Iowa will be put out of the run
ming for the state championship by
one of the relatively smaller col
leges of the state as Ames was by
Coe a week ago.
Altho Iowa has not regarded the
Cornell game as likely to present a
serious obstacle to the advance of
the Hawkeyes Coach Howard Jones
has been developing his team method
ically and Will be ready to go the
limit to win if necessary The Meth
odists are known To have an array OF
veterans. and With Coach Finger dis
playing his usual ability as a teacher
tend themselves to come out ahead:
Coach Jones is not seeking any I'm
pressive scores against Cornell.
The regulars will play the game UNI
I'll it is safely won. and the second
and third string men on the squad
will be used as much as possible.
they may not get in the game at all.
out, II is expected that they will get
their chance.
The regulars will be saved for the
Illinois game the following week.
Coach Jones has been experimenting
with his material in an effort to boil
ster up the left side of his line and
thedineup for the opening of the Cor
nell game is uncertain. When time
comes to meet the Illini it is expected
hat the men to play left guard will
ave been pretty definitely deter
mined.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

comparatively as strong as they
were in the first year that Grinnell
was represented on the gridiron, but
there is every indication of a good
season.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08

Protective Association His PROPOSE
ton In brief was, that for stated
sum paid every month (four hundred
dollars was the amount namely his
organization would guarantee TO pro-
tect me against all threats from an
archists, and would warn me in adj
vance of any plans that were laid
to attempt my life. Since the police
had failed to suppress the reds, he
said, his people had succeeded in
placing their agents in every circle
of anarchists, to take note of and
report on all their activities.
(TO be continued).
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
BETTER THAN
WHISKEY FOR
COLDS and FLU

New Elixir, Called Aspironal,
Medicated with Latest Scien-
tific Remedies, Used and En-
dorsed by European and Am
erican Army Surgeons to
Cut Short a Cod and Prevent
Complications.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Line Sports MeUs and Comment

and Hamilton. who were in Indian
uniforms the last few weeks of the
season, We're dismissed until next
spring.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-08
Penn Withdraw. From Conference.

Penn Withdraws From Conference.
NOskaloosa, Oct. S.-Unable TO COM
,iy with the freshman ruling of the
Iowa conference during the present
ootbali season, Penn college of Oska-
ioosa has been forced to withdraw
temporarily from the association OF
iowa colleges. Scarcity Of material
will force the Quakers to play first
year men in all their scheduled
games.
Withdrawal of the local school
from the conference does not indi-
cate amy bad feeling between the
Quakers and other members of the
union. Penn vii play number Of
conference schools this fall, and will
probably seek readmission into the
conference at an early date.
Action of the Quakers was taken
during a faculty meeting this week.
The Washington times., 1920-09-19
Advantage Of a Business Education
BY E. F. WHITMORE.
Proprietor of the Washington Busines College.

has been the means OF saving thou
sands of homes, and has made happy
and comfortable tens of thousands OF
people who might otherwise he liv-
ing in poverty and wretchedness.
A thorough knowledge of short
hand, typing, bookkeeping, account
ing with their allied subjects and up
to-date business methods places a
young man or young women in a
position to procure employment in
any large city or hamlet in the coun-
try at a good alary. If more of our
young people could be made to
realize the Importance of adding this
specialized knowledge to their High
school or College education, l am sure
that their success would be far
greater than il has been in thou
sands OF cases.
There is employed in every office
one or more stenographers and book
keepers and the employment Is pleas
ant and remunerative. Our young
people today should be made to see
the splendid opportunities which
await them in our commercial actfvi-
ties, for upon their training rests the
future of our great country.
A great many OF our young people
today are inclined 10 go along the line
Of the least resistance. Many of them
have found out too late that they need
technical education to fit them for
The Washington times., 1920-09-19

1t has been said that the only per-
son who doesn't need business
training is one who never expects to
have any dealings with his fellow
men.
Business training today is an abso-
lutte necessity. Like all education. IL
Is something no one can take away
from it's possessor Hard times do not
affect II, and its value increases. as IL
yields constantly increasing dividends
year after year. IL is the best invest
ment that young man or young
woman who expects to earn his or
her own living can make. 1t is the
best safeguard that a young man
with capital can have. and IL is the
best legacy parents can leave their
children. To present a young man or
young woman with a paid-up course
in a business school is to give him or
her a passport to successful bus
mess career.
IL every man or woman in America
had a thorough business training,
.ens of Thousands OF promoters, long
headed. cunning schemers, who have
thriven on the peoples ignorance.
would be out OF an occupation.
/ believe to have a thorough busi-
ness education II one of the greatest
blessings in American civilization to-
day, because through it's teachinE<it
The Washington times., 1920-09-19
ny ANNA L.. ROSE.
Educational Director.

These arc stirring times. No more
need we bewail the fate that decreed
that our lives must be lived In
dull. drsb period OF the worlds history
Everything in the world Is undergo
ing change and upheaval, and on part
OF our cultural heritage has remain
ed unshaken. Today less than ever
before dare we rest satisfied with
our former standards OF education.
methods, objects and even subject
matter itself has been challenged by
the spirit OF the new age TO show
its right TO exist.
The educational program OF the
Young Woman's Christian Association
faces the same situation. A refusal
10 meet the demands that press upon
us will mean a forfeit of the homo
able position we have held in the
past. and make further advance i'm
possible. More than any other or
ganization our very existence depends
upon our success In acting as an
advance guard TO the army OF ed
ucational progress.
"The old order changeth," was
never more true than at the present
time. Gone are the infiexible and
Interchangeable rules which have bound
the curriculums OF our schools and
institutions OF learning for so many
years. Education no longer Is within
the reach OF the chosen few alone.
The opportunities and advantages OF
all school systems are being brought
to the whole mass OF people, and
nowhere Is this more apparent than
in the Y. w. c. A.
1t is women and the work OF women
In which this organization is particu-
larly interested and despite the fact
that everything has been done 10
educate the girls and women of this
The Washington times., 1920-09-19
General Purpose of Y. w. C. A.
Educational Department

nation TO a real sense OF their re-
sponsibilities and their opportunities
there are countless thousands who
have never been reached and who
have not had their chance.
Our responsibility. therefore, Is 10
create a Christian attitude toward
womens work in the minds. first OF a
community; second. OF leaders; third.
OF girls; and then 10 unite and
standardize the means by which the
girls themselves can be qualified for
their work. IL is the responsibility
OF the association nationally and
locally, and all over the United
States associations are rising to this
challenge.
The day OF the volunteer teacher In
the educational departments has pass
ed. The best material available is
provided for the teaching stan. The
Washington Association Is particular
ly fortunate in that regard, for the
best in the world can be found here,
and every effort is made to get them
before the association. We are not
bound by precedent or prejudice. III
course OF study not on our list is
desired, the class will be organized,
and competent instruction secured II
there are five registrations. This de-
partment is run for the girl and II
she needs a certain thing at certain
time, every effort il made to give IL
TO her. Sometimes II IL only very
small lack that would fit girl for a
higher position. She need only re-
member that the Y. w. C. A. is not
very far away, and that there she can
get II.
These are the days OF opportunities
and responsibilities, not only present
but future, and education Is only
valuable in so far as II eduucates for
the extinction OF class feeling and the
essential unity OF humanity.
The Washington times., 1920-09-19
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