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Volleyball Schedule Arranged—First
Games to be Played on the
Coming Saturday
Evening.
Standing of Teams.
AV. L. Pet.
Crabbers ... 2 1 .666
Eagles 2 1 .666
.Indians 1 2 .333
Cannibals 1 .333
The final games in the basketball
Jeasrue were played at the "Y" gym re
sulting as follows:
Eagles defeated the Crabbers b£ a
•score of 4 to 2.
Eagles Crabbers
Jones ..., ', Redtnon
R. F.
Hops on Blood
L. F.
Saturday, March 31, 6:15—Crabbers
vs. Indians 6:45—Cannibals
Starting On The Road To Health
with nature's remedy—S. S. S. It gives vital
ity to impoverished blood, making it easier to
reiist tlie germs of disease, and strength to
drive oat disease if it (eta a foothold in your
system. If you get aick you have a better
chance for recovery if your blood is pure than
if it is run down. It is important to keep
your blood pure at all seasons.
If you suffering with Rheumatism or Catarrh, or
Eczctns, or Malaria, or Skin Eruptions, take them as
•vidcncaa of disordered blood and set a vegetable blood
purifier to drive out tho impurities. S. S. S. is guaran
teed purely vegetable, apd is especially recommended
as a blood purifier and feneral tonic.
Get S. S- S. at any drug store. Don't accept
substitute.
Write for booklet on blood disorders, also Medical
Advice, which is fumi«he«l without charre. Address:
Medical Dept. 16, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.
ATLANTA, GA.
OFFERS BASEBALL
I'SKETBALL OVER PARKS 10 ARB
Played Off in the
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8l/\ Final Games
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^*"5* Voung Men's Christian Assocla
tlon Gymnasium—Re­
Meyers McCutchan grounds over for purposes of train
R. G. ing.
Dickinson Kirchnerl "jt js
Roberts Happs
L. F.
McManus Ftancis
C.
Griffith Ailing
R. -G.
Breheny Groat
Ix G.
Vath. sub. Nelson, sub.
Field goals—Braheny, 2 Roberts, Le
ments for securing school athletic
schedule j'tat completed.
President Tener of National League
Saya They Would be Turned
Over to Government in
Emergency.
TEAMS TIED FOR LEAD FOR TRAINING TROOPS
Many of the Big City Parka WIM Hold
Brigade of Soldiers—Baseball
Will Do Its
Part.
[BY H- C. HAMILTON.]
[United Press Staff
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Field goals—Kirchner,Blood, Jones.! grounds. I cannot speak for them,
Free throws—Jones O-O, Meyers 0-0, ^t knowing them and their feelings
Kirchner, O-O. ... well, I feel sure that I speak what
they themselves would say.
*"It is hard for me to believe that
the bloody struggle now going on in
Indians defeated the Cannibals by
a score of 8 to 2.
Indians Cannibals
Jones Phillips
R. F.
Correspondent.]
NEW YORK, March 28.—'National
league baseball parks may be thrown
open to the government for the train
ing of soldiers. Governor John
Tener,
president
of the ^ague o-
dav declared be had no doubt tbat ir
the need arises, the Nationals mag
nates will be ready to (}o anythm„
in their power to help the country
wage war to a successful end.
"1 do not believe the magnates
are contemplating just now the po3
sibility of their grounds being needed,
but if that need should arise and the
DUl II -ll a.u nccu
Brookhart Ross government should call our
C. I am certain, would gladly give
tb?,r
matter for individual club
G. {owners to decide. They own their
Etirope will be partly transported to
this side of the Atlantic, but we
have no way of telling what may hap
pen We undoubtedly need a large
army and if it is necessary. I believe
baseball in general will throw itsell
In to help."
National league parks are ideally
located for such uses and are admir
ably fitted in most cases. At the
"rounds"an
aent
^The'tfes in the standing of the "amped.
teams in the basketball league win!
entire brigade could
through maneuvers without
afnost™
not he played off as the winning off ^bbets field Brooklyn, is
games applies toward the require-
9m*"er A^-f£T?
letter. The teams are to compete in gade. -^"Por' Braves field anJ
volleyball, baseball, track and swim- near Ebbets field. Braves field and
ming in addition to the basketball!the
Po,°
«re located very"
gro
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Volleyball Schedtrie.
The volleyball schedule opens next
Saturday evening and two games will
toe played each Saturday until the fol-.
lowing schedule has been completed:
[United Press Leased Wire Serv
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Eagles. ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Karl Puryear.
Saturday, April i, 7:16 Indians vs. penver bantam, hit too often to suit
Eagles 7:45—Crabbers vs. Cannibals.
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Ktlilor Chapman of Better Farming,'ray in ten rounds.
Chicago publication, puts out. the
warmest roast that has been penned CLEVELAND, Ohio—Phil Virgets,
end wired to Senator Iva Follette, boss New Orleans aspirant to the feather
of the filibusters. Mr. Chapman dubs weight champion, will enter the ring
the Wisconsin senator "the chief of I tonight against Rocky Kansas, of Buf
the Twelve Apostates." falo. for ten rounds.
Press Leased Wire Service.]
Jimmy
Saturday, April 14, :15—Crabbers
tb. Eagles 7:45—Indians vs. Canni-j
"ka13- ST. IXUIS. Mo.—Freddie Welsh.
Murphy and won in twelve
champion, and Bat Kelson, ex-cham-
For professional reasons satisfac-, p|0n, and who admits he can lick
tory to herself. Dr. Marian Hague Kreddie, have been matched for a
Kea, a member of the staff of the Bos- twelve round contest here. April 17
ton psychopathic- hospital, retains the jg probable date.
full dignity of her name, though the
bride of Dr. Baldwin I.ucke of Phila- NEW YORK—Terry Kellar lost to
delphia, pathologist in the University jim Coffey in the third round when a
of Pennsylvania. Moreover. loth hold «0wel was hurled into the ring. Augie
down their respective desks in distant Ratner defeated Knockout JafTe, Aus
cities. tralian middleweight in ten rounds.
Kid Williams won from Johnny Mur-
tik $«n SKcre
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MIAMI, Ariz., Mkrch 28.—The Cubs
discovered gold today but it was in
the heart of the copper district.
Pampered copper kings and affluent
miners, five thousand of them, paid
1 each to see the Cubs trounce the
miners here. And the Weeghman
crew even had to borrow bats.
PINE BLTTFF, Ark.. March 28.—
George Pennington, right hander,
youngest Brown rookie, is the find of
the season, according to Jones.
"Pen" in thirteen innings has fan
ned fifteen.
Hornsby's pretty new bat has a regu
lar Job now. Old P«p hammered out
a pair of triples and a single with
the ash. Bill Doak is glad to start
home tonight. Wants to see bis
favorite movies.
ATnan«rfa
the largest field in the
w°™d- h_,d brj.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 28.—The
spring world's series is due to strike
the natives here today when the Red
Sox and Dodgers mix.
NEW ORLEANS. March 28.—Pop
Roy Smith will be on probation with
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a
Keokuk
Rookies and Regulars
[United Press Leased Wire
Service.]
GALVESTON, Texas, March 28.—
Catcher Dolly Gray is the latest
White Sox to draw the walking pa
pers. Gray, a former Notre. Dame.fiv "triaJg
star, has been farmed out to Fort
Worth by President Comiskey.
LITTLE ROOK, Ark., March 28. ,R Campbell sold his heating and
rtnat• tr nam nat no 4 TflOrll.
OLD-TIMER SEES SOME NEW
THINGS ATAL. FIELD'S SHOW
Minstrelsy Now Inoculated With the Bag of Modern
ism— Vaudeville Instead of the Real
Article Is the Offering.
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name's Rufus Brown.
I see dem shiney tall silk hats—Al.
G. Field's In town.
Jes see dem swing their bamboo canes
and take up all de street
Look at dem as dey march along, oh.
Lor! Don't dey look sweet?
It makes mah ole bones loose again to
hear dat ole snare drum,
Jes listen to dat slide trombone, dat
boy Jes make it ham.
Dars no more work to' me dis day, my
business done shet down.
It wouldn't Jes seem natfherel, when
Al. G. Field's in town.
No other troupe is in de game, don't
make yon feel alive
Like dem old boys what walks de
streets, at 'leven forty-flve.
I reckon up In Heaven, boy—I've got
it on my mind—
You'll still hear de band playin" "The
Girl I Left Behind."
Old Saint Pete will ope de gates, and
greet dat minstrel band,
De angels dey will tune their hains,
and Join de chorus grand!
—Dick Jones.
What's all dat noise I'm lis'nin to?
heahs dat big bass drum. novel has been changed for the better, j0urney.
Dar mus' be somefln' doin' sho'—Come Just so, it is somewhat sorrowful to
j,e careiess
T-
on tes see de fun. I witness the passing of the old time throwing a cigarette stub too close
Well, Just as sho as I'm alive and ma
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minstrel show but AI. Field and
Neil O'Brien and Lew Dockstader and
the others are out for the coin, and
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Remember our price isstill
K"f
Fort Worth, but
didn't win laurels at the bat. It was generous deed, and besides conveying
his first game. He failed to hit safe- tne city one-half acre of land more
or less, as the meets and bounds
show, it»awards the city the use of
the North Fabius river, just south of
the tract of land, for securing water,
leaving the method and plan of ob
taining the same entirely to the city
and its boards £f aldermen.
MEHPHIS, MO.
The smallpox situation in Memphis
remains unchanged. About ten houses
are under quarantine and to all ap
pearances the disease is well under
the control of the health commis
sioner.
Monday. Newell C. Scott
the Mrs. Tillie Schenk
cottage. Consideration
On last
purchased
bungalow
$4,000.
on Tuesday morning of this week
plumbing business on the east side
of the square tc J. C. Courtney, who
is now In posession of the business.
Last Sunday Rev. J. R. Finley, pas
tor of the Fir.it Presbyterian church,
at the close of the morning' service,
announced his resignation as pastor,
to take effect on June 30. It is with
regret tbat we see this splendid man
quit the ministry in our city.
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By leaving your Laundry .Work in Keokuk you %ive
us a chance to add more working people to our force,
a condition which calls for improvement here, as you
know. Then also by leaving your work at home you get
quick service, thus we are both mutually well served.
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One wonders whether the new and eight days to make the homeward
not sentimental, accepts the insistent,
determination of the Producers to
But "AI. G. Field was in town" yes
terday afternoon and last night and
his company gave two performances
at the Grand Opera house. Following
the cue of Jack Haverly of the
eighties, the performance was spec
tacular, of great variety and of course
pleasing to audiences that packed the
Minstrelsy up to Sate Is vastly dif- I IVUtQ IB IIIIIUUUUCU I*# nuiilKiuww i. ..
ferent from what the old boys recall scenic effects at the very opening in
as the stunts ofTered by Dan Bryant
In his little playhouse in New York
City, in the seventies, when the black
man was shown in-the habit as he
lived 'way down s6uth and when Davs
Wain-bold, he of the compelling tenor
voice, sent across the footlights
chonlf that ring In memory over years
and years: and when Charkey Backus,
one of the real blackface comedians,
roused a riot of lautshs by his funny
sayings and when McAndrews. the
"watermelon man," said some things
to his mule that wouldn't look well in
holy writ. -Early in the eighties came
Jack Haverly, who. with his "masto
don minstrels" and the slogan "40—
count 'era—40—introduced vaude-"
vllle features Into what he waa pleas
ed to call negro minstrelsy.
strelsy today.
n|ght
the public, at least that part of it that disastrous flre. The prompt discov
is neither grayheaded nor bald and »8
and
reaulta
give what the younger gmention de discarding cigar or cigarette
mands—that is, a "variety show,
minus the feminine elemenlU The ,e8
nubile takes to it so. whats the use: ,,,
umvavoi. nna viihsa that nur neonle I the happy parents of a son, born to
them on Thursday, March 15.
However, one wishes that our people
of Keokuk might be priviledged to
witness a real old-time negro minstrel
"show" for once. It would be a reve
lation and a pleasure never to be for
gotten.
suppiy
theatre at each offering. MV. Field has I decided as to which he will accept,
not only kept pace with the elaborate j^r
scenic developments of the stage, but
has been a leader In the way, and '^here Mr. Conaway had been work
this season his production Is on a for
presented "a modem 'minstrel cabar-! e. Cunningham, north of town
et," which is designed to assemble in-1
to one number the possibilities of mln-1
for collars and.
shirts. You will like the work. Join the crowds at^-^^vg"..^
321 MAIN STREET
the Indians until May 1. Until re- records for the deed given the city
cent games he has proven himself'by Geo. T. Myers in i895, granting
vi~ tha mnnnrt tint Fohl water rierhts and privileges in con-
unable to hold the mound, but Fohl
will put him on the bench for a
month.
WAXAHACHIE, Texas, March 28.—
Ty Cobb stole home for the natives
yesterday against ™T
water rights and privileges
nection with the building and main
taining a pumping station together
with an easement, and extending the
city further rights and privileges to
use Fabius River for such purposes
as the city may choose. It is a very
Glen Oliver is getting material on
the ground preparatory to the erec
tion of a new home on the SanfOrd
lots east of the square.
At a recent meeting of the city
council the contract for the extension
of sewerage ditch along Madison
street was let to Arthur Crumpbell—
his bid being $1,190.99. W. T. Scott
offered a bid of $1,145.36, which was
rejected.
Chas. Bridgewater has returned
from St. Louis, where his hand .was.
operated on last week. The constant
use, of his trowel had affected the
palm so much paralysis of the hand
was feared. The operation, which
consisted of grafting new skin on
the member, was highly successful.
It was considered a very unusual
operation, but was very successful.
The car of seed potatoes bought
by our merchants cost them $1,608
for the spuds 'in Michigan. This is
In considering a site for the city's perhaps the highest price ever patd
new power-plant, the board of alder
men had occasion to go over the
foodstuffs
for a single carload of
shipped into this city.
J. J. Frary has decided to stay at
Hillrose, Colorado, this summer and*
operate his farm. He. will be Joined
in a few weeks by his daughter. Miss
Rue, who will keep house for him
I this summer. Mrs. Frary and son
I Ollie will operate the home place
three miles southeast of town,
R. L. Webb, Chas. Anderson and
Hubert Smith returned last Saturday
from Detroit, whither they went for
I three Maxwell touring cars which
I they drove home. Enroute back they
encountered some muddy roads which
greatly hindered them—it taking
act of a passerby in
tQ the p0rch
of the Ocie Mcln
togh hon)e eaBt MempMg on
i„8t
came near causing a
application of water extin-
i9hed the blaze
without any serl-
smokers should use cau-
are
Roads were never better if ever
as good, throughout a winter aa has
marked the past season.
Horace Rockwell has shipped his
household goods to St. Joseph and
with his family departed last week
for that city, where he has a posi
tion with the stieet railway company.
Fred Dennison has under consid
eration a proposition as traveling
salesman for a wholesale plumbers
house at Dubuque, Iowa,
hag Beverai
the
plane which places it ply station agent. He will resume his
stage spectacles of the day. The aud- operator at the local
ience is introduced to sumptuous
aul*
... j) W. Burns and Son last week
three beautiful animated tableaux.
Th. »r« .ho.. tt.
tation, the second, evening, and the nnaie caiven
third, the Humdinger express, a mod
ern view with a realistic railroad
scene suggesting the changes that
have come into the old life of the
south. The nert scene is one of daz
zling beauty, and bears the title, "The
Land of •lowers." In this setting is
He
un-
other offers and Is
an(j
Mrs. Arthur Conaway re-
turned 1a8t
Monday from Milton
past few months as sup-
to a
of Redstone, Montana.
Bates McLane, who lately pur
chased the Mrs. Anna Kitts property
In the south part, of town, plans to
erect a bungalow thereon this spring.
,Vern Cunningham Is sick with
smallpox at the home of his uncle.
charlle
moved
And then eomc the ^afterpieces, mon- W. A. Adams property in northwest
ologues, sketches and dancing exhibi-1 Memphis. Mr. Hughes is a concrete
tions, single and en masse—and the worker and was for a number of
show Is over and everybody well years associated with Senator C. F.
pleased. Carter in the contracting business.
Hughes sold his farm north
of Luray a few weeks
So
SATURDAY—Aty & Eve
Clara Kimball Young
in
"The Foolish Virgin"
BIGG
will
oot
ago and has
to Memphis, having rented the
SOU* (I BKIIOAISTS.
Parcel Poet If detlred—Price il, or S bottles S27a
Prepared by
TUB BVANS CHEMICAL. CO., CINCINNATI,
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The lure of fortunes plucked from
native soil lends unusual vim to the
"back to the land" movement'in spots.
Some idea of the push may be gleaned
from the energetic support volunteer
ed by the National, Suffrage associa
tion. The members mean to point
the way to plenty and independence,
encouraging -the ambitious by copious
advice and agricultural tracts'. Con
gressmen supply free seeds. With
WEDNESDAY,.MAB.
for plain
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AMUSEMENTS I AMUSEMENTS
HIPPODROME
r—T(TTHE THEATRE GOING-PUBLIC OF KEOKUK
SUCCESS! SUCCESS!
Is what the management of this theatre is striving
for. The only way to attain this success is through
the
co-operation
of the public of this community.
The brilliant attractions listed below should con
vince you of'our intentions and are well worthy of
your patronage. V'*
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TONIGHT 7, 8:15, 9:30 ADMISSION,5 and 10c
Metro Wonder Plays. Present the Renowned Actress
ETHEL BARRYMORE
i| fiv*The White Revert"
positively oie of the greatest plays of the year—Also latest Sidney
Drew comedy—Don't ml as this program.
TOMORROW—AFT. AND EVE., TRIANGLE PLAY
WM. S. HART in
"Truthful Tulliver"
FRIDAY— Aft. & Eve.
Valeska Suratt
in
'The New York Peacock'
GRAND TONIGHT
PRETTY, POPULAR, PIQUANT,
VIVIAN MARTIN
—IN—
"THE WAX MODEL"
The Seriocomic Tale of a French Model In England who Nearly
Starves for Love
And "THEIR WE4EK8 END,". Paramount Comedy.
TOMORROW—2:30 and 4 7, 8, and 9:15—6 AND 10 CENTS
A return •nflaflement of
MARY PICK FORD
—IN—
"Behind The Scenes"
200 Semtm In Bmlcony 5c
(Mdorku anu
relieved lot to 8 day
Blc is Don-poleooei:
and effective In treat
IngmnconidlKhirgafc
stricture.
Prevent* cootagtoo^
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Transfer, C«nera'
Hauling and Storage
Cart* Haull-O.
disc, rnaohlnery,
leal Instruments »nd
truck work. „-r.hou««
Our storage and w«reho
large, olean and safe.
PHons
tnese resources road/ for the
the new farther
needs tc
d«js
cure the land and begin plowing.
ids
—Gate City want
suits. •r
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set
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