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The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

Jones said, had made the elk worth
about $S5 a head.
Jumping over to Pennsylvania, we
find the deer here making a nuisance
of themselves. This states game pro-
tective measures have been too sue
cessful and have resulted in the accum-
ulation of large number of half-taipe
does frequenting settled areas. These
animals have made inroads on 4EEsltn-
ers' crops and orchards, and as re-
suit, law has been passed giving
landowners the right, under certain
rules of the game commission, to Kill
such animals when injuring their prop
erty and to use the carcasses
In this connection the following
statement by the Pennsylvania State
Game commission, Seth E. Gordon, ex-
ecutive secretary, is enightening.
Last winter committee represent
ing sportsmen and farmers sponsored
legislation to relieve farmers and
fruit growers from inroads on their
crops and orchards by deer In various
sections of the state. The Depart
ment of Agriculture then reported that
material damage had been done by
deer in about twenty counties of the
state and urged relief from these
depredations.
"The legislature provided several
methods of relief. The old law per-
hitting landowners to kill deer to send
to charitable institutions when mate
rial damage was continued and, in adj
dition, the state game commission was
required to designate the sections of
the state where deer are committing
serious depredations, in which desig-
mated areas the law allows landown-
ers, under certain stipulated condi-
lions, to retain and use in their own
households all edible portions of the
carcasses of deer killed instead Of
sending them to charitable institu-
lions.
1.-THE game commission, after decid-
ing upon constructive plan of action,
on, July 10 took the first step toward
relief and designated seventeen coun-
ties and parts of three counties as
having within their borders segregated
or scattered areas In which deer are
doing sufficient damage to warrant
allowing landowners, whose lands are
open to public hunting and whose
crops are actually being injured, to re-
tain the carcasses of deer killed as
provided by law, the district game
protector to be the judge in the mat
ter of damage. This action of the
board does not authorize killing deer
anywhere else in said counties, neither
does it authorize the killing Of any
other kind of game to be retained for
food.
During a period of about a month
prior to July Is, nine deer, four buckle
and five does, were killed and the car
casses either sent to charitable institu-
tions or buried because they were un-
fit for food.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

stay where there are people So he
was driven west.
Massachusetts made her game laws
after he had disappeared, hence she
didn't say anything about selling elk
venison. The western states made
their game laws while there were still
wild elk left, so it is against the law
to sell the meat there.
''Elk meat is delicious and profit
able sort OF food We calculate that
we can raise elk at from 6 to 8 cents
pound, production cost. That's
about what 1t costs to raise beef Elk,
however, are much easier to raise than
cattle The elk thrives on less food
than any other member of the deer
family, or any other animal near its
size, and it is almost immune to dis
ease. 1t puts on weight faster than
the reindeer, which is grown in Eu-
rope, and which our government is
growing for meat in Alaska.
ELK will browse on the young tips
of trees and bushes, which acts on the
bushes as pruning does on apple trees.
They do we'll in pasture land and also
in land covered with scrub growth, as
is the cape. White oak tips, of which
they will find plenty here, give a pc
culiarly delicious flavor to the meat.
'sThe meat is not so gamy as deer
meat, and it is peculiar in that the
fat is as good as that of the buffalo's
hump, which is regarded as a delicacy
in the West. Elk meat has one-third
more nerve and energy building quail
titles than beef, mutton or pork, and
one-third less fattening qualities"
After the fence is put up, Mr. Jones
explained, there IS nothing else to do
except see that the elk are kept in
side of it. They feed and take care
of themselves. They will dig down to
get at grass under the snow, or stand
on their hind legs and browse eight
feet from the ground. The cows breed
at two years Of age, bringing forth
their first calf on their third birthday,
and one year from that time on.
The Elk Breeding and Grazing asso-
citation, which is the name of the Jones
Brothers company, hopes to increase
the herd to 1900 head, the number
that could be raised on their 1900
acres.
A year ago they brought nine elk
from RushviIle, ILL.,. which are now
much at home on the Nemasket range,
and proved the feasibility of importing
more. This year the government de-
cided that the National Bison range Of
$4,000 acres would soon grow too
crowded if the 900 to 1900 elk there
were kept along with the 500 buffalo
The opportunity that the Jones boys
had been looking for had arrived at
last. 1t was not long before Percy and
Maurice Jones and Ike Milton, on their
cow ponies. had rounded up their first
400.
The cost of the work and the carfare
from Montana to Middleboro, Mr..
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
All Were Bobbed Except
the Little Pokerface"

Miss Helen Wills, besides possessing
the most powerful forehand drive
ever seen in woman's tennis on the
Riviera court, holds the distinction of
being the only unbobbed player out
of the 80 entered in the recent tour
nament
A hairdresser at the Hotel Metro
pole, while preparing the champions
headdress prior to her appearance on
the courts for practice one morning,
asked, why don't you bob your hair,
Miss Wills?"
81 am too old-fashioned," replied the
twenty-two-year-old champion.
But while thousands of spectators
applauded her during her match
against Mrs. Aeshlimann, an elderly
British countess in the audience was
heard to remark:
81 love her because she has not sac
rificed her beautiful hair to a foolish
fashion"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
PITCHER RETARDED
BY USING TOBACCO
Results of Experiments at
Johns Hopkins University.

Famous baseball pitchers who suffer
occasionally from lack of control
would have less difficulty in locating
the plate" if they were total abstain
ers from the use of tobacco, according
to experiments at Johns Hopkins uni
versity.
The experiment, as conducted by
DR.. Robert L. Bates of the psyche
logical laboratory of the university,
was made with darts rather than with
baseballs, the pointed arrows leaving
a sharp mark for study. Approximate
ly 5000 dart throws were measured
in the experiment.
Six undergraduate students Of the
university were used as subjects,
their habits varying from occasional
smoking with heavy Inhalation.
AS in the case of baseball pitchers,
the students showed evidence of tenn
permanent and a tendency to expert
ment with their shots.
Using standard 10-cent cigars and
well-known brand of cigarettes the
students took turns smoking and pitch
ing at the target.
The amount Of tobacco actually
smoked was measured to the fraction
of an ounce.
The pitchers were found to be more
accurate in their losses upon days
when they refrained from smoking.
However, temporary stimulation
was registered Immediately after
smoking, aiding the accuracy, but
when the effect had worn off the shots
became so poor that many missed the
target entirely.
The attitude toward the experiment
was found to be largely affected by
the use Of nicotine, the pitchers"
showing their Temperament" upon
several occasions by becoming discour-
aged by their initial shots, suffering
from the blues and other forms of
mental unrest.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
Gl2lSi!sEACgtlS1

Basket ball may be a classic, but
it is in no sense a dead language
Gertrude Ederle is planning another
try of the English channel about July
Is.
Jess Willard was the heaviest fight
er who ever won the worlds cham
pionship.
Carl Theobald was elected captain
of the Columbia water polo team for
next year.
There are 5000 firms engaged in
manufacturing golf supplies in the,
United States.
The high-jump record for horse is
feet 1916 inches, made by Great
Heart in 1923.
Arlie Tarbert of Cleveland has been
chosen captain Of the 1927 Ohio
State basketball team.
Princeton university maintained its
rowing squad for the fiscal year end
ing July 81, 1925, at deficit of $22.-
770.57.
University of California has COM
pleted negotiations for track meet
with Princeton university at Prince
ton May %.
The Australian cricket team Of 10
players is on its way to England,
where they win participate in series
Of contests.
After holding the worlds open
squash championship since 1914, Wal
ter Kinsella has retired and will not
defend his title this year.
Jim Reed, who won the 115-pound
wrestling championship at the inter-
collegiate wrestling meet at Penn
State, has been elected captain of the
Lehigh university wrestling team for
next year.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
BastiIIe Day Torch Race

At midnight of BastilIe day of each
year begins the annual relay torch
race from verdun to Paris. Various
athletic organizations are represented
by runners who bear lighted torches,
racing in relays, on their way to the
shrine Of the unknown soldier In Paris.
The runners are stationed every two of
The 1856 miles, and each racer hands
his torch to waiting companion who
goes on his way Through the dark
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
Baseball Player Today
Rated as Business Man

What's the difference between the
player of today and the old-time play
ersY was the question put to Grover
Cleveland Hartley, veteran catcher, in
the Giants clubhouse.
"Well,' replied Hartley, ''the ball
player Of today is far better business
man than the ball player of yesterday.
The player of today knows the value
of Florida real estate, and he knows
his value as box Office attraction.
'.And when it comes to signing mis-
contract he let's the club owner know
he's a business man as well as ball
player"
That's the difference between the
ball player Of today and yesterday.
The old-time player was smart in a
baseball way, but poor business man.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
BIAS E.BALl. I'll
NOT ES EAl

AS much as 100000 is spent BY the
major leagues each year for new base
balls.
Cardiff, Wales, supports four base
ball leagdes, one of which is wem-
ems circuit.
What politics needs is the number
Of star holdouts that accompany each
baseball season.
An easy way to think in billions IS
to pay some ball players what they
think they're worth.
President E. S. Barnard Of the Oieve-
land team announces that the Indians
would train at Lakeside again In 1927
Joe Bush looks for big year. He
says the large outfield space at Wash
ington and the tight defense the club
will give him should help him 70 per
cent.
Mike Baker, who managed the Lon
don team of the Northumberland
league last season, has signed with
the Columbus club of the American as
sociation.
President Rube Vanguard Of the
Providence club of the Eastern league
has announced the sale of Pitcher Joe
OgrOdoWski to the Albany club Of the
same league.
Dave Bancroft is learning the ways
of hard-boiled managers. Last year
some of the players put things over
on him. It will be difficult for them
to repeat in 1926.
Jake Winner, star shortstop In the
independent Twilight league last sea-
son, has signed with the Manchester
team Of the New England league. Wi
mer will act as field captain d
Decatur of the Three-I league has
signed Howard Bushell of Peoria,
young catcher He formerly played
with st. Viator college and has had
considerable semi-pro experience.
The Lincoln club of the Western
league has signed Outfelder Ray
mond Mann, who managed the Bur-
lington team of the Mississippi VAL
ley league for a spell last season.
Russell (Lena) Blackburne, who
managed the Little Rock team Of the
Southern league last season, win be
carried by the Travellers as utility
man, according to Manager Joe Can
tillon.
Joe Pate, the Texas twirler Connie
Mack succeeded in persuading to Join
his aggregation, has fully recovered
from the bump on his head he get in
practice. Joe has promised to keep
his head out of the way of pitched
balls.
In "Chuck" Corners the Cards have
dead ringer for George Sisier. Con-
ners got his baseball training as
member of the Donnelly Stars, team
sponsored by Arthur Donneliy, wealthy
st. Louis sportsman. CHUCK is only
seventeen and has great promise
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
st. Louis Didn't Pay
for jim Bottomley

Jim Bottomley, perhaps the
best first baseman in baseball,
with the possible exception Of
George Sisler, didn't cost cent.
A friend of Charley Barrett,
scout for the club, recommended
Jim. Barrett wrote him.. and
the modest, unassuming reply
interested Barrett. He sent Bot
tomley a ticket from his home
in Nokomis to st. Louis.
The first two balls Bottomley
hit in morning practice cleared
the wall at Sportsman's park.
He was Immediately signed and
farmed out. Inside of six years
he is the outstanding star in
his position.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
Olympic Body's Paper

The British Olympic association is
now publishing Journal, the aim Of
which is to bring the young people Of
the country interested in athletic sport
into closer touch, to give expert adj
vice on such matters as training and
organization, and as, Earl Cadogan.
chairman of the council. says In a
foreword in the first number, to assist
In spreading the true British spirit
of craftsmanship through all nations"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

road to Middleboro. To him and his
older brother Maurice the United
States government has sold all but 30
of the herd of nearly 1000 head of
Wapiti deer, or elk, which, up to re-
Gently roamed the National range at
Dixon, Mont.
On a range of 1900 acres on Cape
Cod these animals are now running
wild. When they have become plenti-
full enough the surplus animals will be
killed for meat and shipped to the
markets of Boston and New York.
Because nobody else in the country
them in freight cars, and take care
of them as herd, the government
awarded the animals to the Jones
brothers
All through his early years Percy
Jones talked in earnest about the rails
ing of elk. while his neighbors laughed
at him and advised him to raise vege-
tables for the summer trade.
They continued to ridicule his idea
in 1905 when the brothers quietly be-
gan buying land after reading De-
partment Of Agriculture pamphlet in
which experts called attention to the
raising of elk as food-producing an
imals Recently the scoffers were
forced to laugh on the other side of
their mouths. On one eventful day q
long train of special express cars
pulled into Middleboro Gathered at
the station was the entire town. The
elk had come Through the heavy
wooden bars of their freight car cages,
the great, soft eyes of the Wapiti
looked out, surveying the strange
scene. This was the country from
which their ancestors had been driven
by the Indians many years before the
Pilgrim fathers had come to settle in
Plymouth
Larger than the ordinary deer of the
eastern forests, the elk has a shaggy
reddish name about his neck, his back
is lightish brown, with large shaggy
circle of white hair over his hind
quarters, which he raises up as dan
ger signal to his followers when he
runs. The horns of these animals had
been cut off before they left Montana !;
they are sometimes as much as four
feet high
The first shipment consisted of 400
head, and it was with no little effort
that the shy beasts were detrained
Great, wooden ladderlike shields we're
used to prod and urge the Wapiti
from the cars to the trucks which car
ried them to their new home. At the
range the trucks were backed up to a
dirt ramp, as you win notice in the
above picture, and the tail gates were
drawn. But instead of leaping out
the frightened animals went right on
pushing each other and stamping
around inside the truck Sometimes
it took as much as FIVE minutes before
one of them would raise her beauti-
full head, look out across the ramp,
and then, suddenly with one desper-
ate lunge, bolt for liberty. Soon the
others followed.
THE reason we chose Massachusetts
for our elk raising is that conditions
are perfect there" said Maurice A.
Jones, in explaining their venture.
Then, too, it is one of the few states
without laws against selling the meat.
The elk is not so tame as the ordinary
deer. The deer will live where there
are people, and come and steal bit
of food off the back porch when the
winter is rough But the elk won't
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

ness of the night speeds the runner to
the next relay station, where another
member Of his organization takes the
torch from his hand, repeating the
operation until the flaming symbol is
passed on to its final destination
Dearborn Independent.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22
Rats and Matches

While it is true that rats and mice
cause fires, it has been proved in the
laboratories that even starving ro-
dents will not nibbIe matches.
Mice may cause fires by scratching
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

about in matches" says an authority.
I'm New York city there is a record
Of fire caused by mouse, cat and
a box of matches. The cat was watch
ing a mouse that ran into a match
box. The mouse, scrambling about,
set the box on fire. The cat bounced
on It's prey and knocked the box to
the floor, where the fire caught In a
rug"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

The British air ministry will use
metal instead Of wood for construc-
ton Of future service aircraft.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

Mile. Contostavlos, the noted tennis
star, was participant in the recent
fiesta tournament at Monte Carlo,
France, in which Frau Neppach, Mile.
D'Aivarez and the king of Sweden
were taking part. This photograph
shows Mile. Contostavlos in action.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

ERCY JONES has realized
his childhood ambition.
when I'm a man." he told
his playmates of years
ago, "I'm going to raise
elk. See if / don't -
Percy stuck to his word,
and today he is raising
elk on the Nemasket
range, 16 miles outside
Plymouth. Mass, on the
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-04-22

AS much as 100000 is spent by the
major leagues each year for new base
balls.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-09-16

me. deariel See me come down.
Here comes Florence Dombey frst.."
With some difficulty the book fol-
lowed the knife and the furniture into
the blouse. Florence Dombey, being
hastily inverted. showed a length of
light marlin cord wrapped about her
cotton legs.
"Here she comes. babyi Catch now
for Lydia"
The baby below, a tiny plump repli-
ca Of Lydia, sat up with gurgle OF
delight and held up her arms as Flor
ence Dombey, dangling unhappily, up
side down. on the end Of the marlin
cord, was lowered carefully into the
perambulator.
"And here I come. Watch me.
babyl"
With a swing light and agile as a
young monkey, Lydia let herself down.
landing with spring of which an
acrobat might have boosted. beside the
perambulator.
There, sweetness l'-kissing the
baby-"first we'll az Florence Dom.
bey. then wen start for home.s
tContinued)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-09-16
A. B. FITzLOFF MARRIED

Mr.. and Mrs. H. 3. Shafer, Victor
and Eleanora, drove to Duluth Sat-
urday to attend the wedding of A. B.
Fftzloff who was for a number of
years connected with the local bank.
At 4:30 Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Fitzloff was united in marriage to
Katherine Macdonald of Duluth.
The ceremony was performed at the
home of the brides parents by Rev.
Kirsch, pastor of the East End Luth-
eran church. Victor Shafer was best
man, and Margaret Mcdonald, sister
of the bride, was bridesmaid. The
wedding was attended by ninety in
vited guests, relatives and friends Of
the happy couple. They received
many valuable and useful presents in
Guiding several hundred dollars in
gold. After wedding tour of the
Great Lakes, Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzloff
will reside in Duluth where the
groom is connected with the Mime
sofa National Bank.
Congratulations are extended to the
newly weds. wishing them a pleasant
voyage on the matrimonial seas.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-09-16

Yet not quite all the children. For
under one Of the oak trees was baby
carriage In which little girl Of two
lay fast asleep. And far above her,
perched lightly but firmly in a sway
ing fork of the oak, was long-legged
girl Of twelve. She sat where she
could peer easily down on her small
sleeping sister, yet high enough to be
completely hidden from casual view
She was a thin youngster, with short
curling hair Of dusty yellow. The
curly hair did not hide the fine square
head, noble head for so small girl,
set well on the little square shoulders.
Her eyes were blue and black dashed.
her nose nondescript, her mouth large,
her chin square and her little jaw line
long and pronounced. She wore a
soiled sailor suit of blue galatea.
Caught in the crotch Of two opposite
branches was q doll almost as large
as the sleeping child below. 1t was
a queer, old-fashioned doll, with q
huge china head that displayed bril-
liant black hair and eyes as blue as
those Of her little mistress. The doll
wore a clumsily made sailor suit OF
blue calico, which evidently had been
washed recently, but not ironed. II
Is necessary to meet the doll properly,
for she was an intimate and important
member of the little girls family. Her
name was Florence Dombey.
A battered red book lay In Florence
Dombey's lap. 1t was called, "With
Give in India" 1t was written by
G. A. Henty and told Of the marvellous
and hairbreadth adventures Of an
English lad In an Indian campaign.
Florence Dombey's attention, how.
ever, was not on the book. 1t was riv-
eted, hectically, on her mistress. who
with her tongue caught between hel
lips, was deftly whiting cigar-boz
cover into doll furniture, Of scale
30 tiny that even had Florence Dom
hey had doll of her own, It could
not have hoped to use the furniture.
The little furniture maker suddenly
closed the knife sharply. Darn It
I've cut myself again." she said. She
dropped the knife down the neck Of
her blouse and began to suck bel
finger. "Here. let me have Henty
Florence Dombey. Don't try to pil
It all the time. You know I don't gel
hardly any time to read"
The furniture and the remains o.
the cigar-box cover followed thu
knife into her blouse and she opened
the book. But before she had begun
to read there was q sleepy little cal
from below.
eyes, baby!. called the child
Here's Lydia. up IN the tree! Watcl