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THE VANS IIi AUGUST 9, 1910 nsufgents Win at Boy City; Bosses Airaihiiated ASGHQFF GETS ANOTHER BOBS -Cui-x lVr4 -HeHi5 V-r-O Js Hir At -1 jif.oim.... ji rswwgjjpr- jjsM- jimiim. i 1 sLJfJj? Jl .1 m.llll ii.m III "icji is. v1 A-I BP MIL LADDE Pur Ascfcoff. Fif.h and Vir.e-t-ts, is eliming the railroad ladder at a rapid gait.

Within Uss than a year he has received three promotions by the His Four and today he received notification that he had been transferred to the office of the superintendent of mvn-tenance of the St. Louis division of the road. AsclioS came home recently on account of illness and was just preparing to return to his former position when the telegram telling of his promotion was received. BIRTHS J. N1 anJ Henry wife, Seeboite anl if 4 1 lc V.

Kur.s ar.tl srwi-a. boy: Henry iiV, Fulton-av, toy: Louis H. Kramer an.i wife, country, girl: Siias Rarnett and wife. 711 Jiaii iet-st. girl.

5 it UJ I I- iit 1 MARRIAGE LICENSES lljv 1 I I Richard J. Morris DENTIST 223 Main-st, Evansville, Opp. People's Savinsjs Bank. 'Phone 054. Opeu Evenings By Appointment.

NOTICE W. H. Woods Co. Wall Paper Store has moved to 110 Main street. Cheap sale continues.

4X A Mass MeetinK of the Hoy at tlie Election Booth; to the or, Islie Fields. Boy City was founded hist sin- mer by Judge Willis Brown, formerly of the Juvenile court of Utah, who believes that the civic, rather than the military, idea of discipline should prevail in teaching boys. Boyviiles have sprung up all over the country, as a result of Jidge Rtown's work, and tnese have most of the grotips now here. These Boysvilles conducted under the auspices of public school sj-stems. churches, and Y.

M. C. Boy City. is divided into wards and each ward elects its i.l-derman. A council mee'ing is held every morning.

A city ordinance forbids Smoking, on 'he grounds. Recently an offender who resisted was hustled to the dock and threatened with a ducking until he threw a ciearet away. Girls of about 16 years of ae came to the grounds and offered several boys clarets. Next morning the council passed a it-solution forbidding admission to the grounds of girls under 17 unac-cotnpsnied by parent or guardian. The marshall of Boy City being heieby ordered to THROW Tii EM OUT'" if necessary.

The Boy City News is written, edited and printed by the boys. Ciavde Preesen of East Caicago is the editor. He gets out a breezy, paper and knows Low to spring and extra cn election night, with a-1 the rush of a big news- ELECTION 29. 1910 I M-M at 10 cents an hour to everybody in camp, scon succeeded in t- ting henchmen to call a convention and organize the party. At this convention Fields publicly that, unlike William Jenninss Bryan, he knew enough to disavow an issue when he found it wasn't wanted, and deel.u-i.sl for baseball.

The foot bll crowd withdrew and nominated a full ticket, but failed to secure a tingle office. Three days before election Ottenheimer fell the roof of the refreshment hall while addressing the crowd and broke his arm. He passed the rest of the campaign period in the Boy City hospital, and lost by the narrow margin of T.O votes. In 4 57 ballots cast there were only 3S "straight" votes. The victorious Independent ticket is as follows-.

Mayor, Leslie Maristee, clerk, Rudolph Sihmock, Manistee. treasurer. Lex Balfour, Anderson, lnd board of public works. Arthur Findlir.f. Hammond.

Cluro Purge, Hammond. Timothy Sheehan. Manchester, N. H. BOY CITY JULY Crown to Winner When This Pair Meet a 1 1 Howell, and Kvih Stewart, Howoli; Joseph M.

Tovtl. and Cecelia Vi" I r. i 100-FOOT FARM WORTH MILLION rOTATOKS AM) STKIXO BKAXS KOVIXG WITHIN" UtH) KKKT tF CiKKAT WUITK WAY'S WHIT F.ST. Special trt esiHndence. XEW YORK, Aug.

S. Tnere is a "farm" in Xew York City 1 00 feet square and worth a million This ultra-expensive glebe is located within 20 feet of the Great Way, at Seventh-av and within a Kone's throw of where the aforesaid Way Is very white indeed. Just at present the farm is devoted to the production of potatoes, lettuce, siring beans and other staple green groceries. The- farm is cultivated by Acolph Uiobbe. a man of simple tastes ar.d back-to-the-soil yearnings, who has an office near the coiner of Seveuth-av and and who cultivates the vacant lot once occupied by the old Dodd's express building merely to keep his hand in.

He is an agriculturist by nature and only a. business men through necessity. There is a high board fenoe about the vacant lor, but passsrs-bv who peep through the crack or knot hols may see within a profusion of greenery. It is a evre enough trvck garden. is estimated that if Giobte vircir goui.

However. Giobb.e doesn' pay rent that way. He merely cultivates the property as a pastime, and i suffered to do so without let or hindrance, since otherwise the land would lie fallow until such a time as it could sprout a sky-scraper. were to pav rent for his farm in with i- hisj potatoes would be as costlv as so i ereat sapphires, his stritis bean's strinss of pearls of sreai price, ana nis iettuce as leaves oi Party Lines Completely Obliterated in Great Triumph of Independent Ticket; Hundreds of Youngsters Govern Themselves and Show Old Folks How. HOY CITY'S CHFKCH.

Creed I will play every parae square, whether it is with myself, my parents, or my God. Members include several hundred Methodists, Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians. Christian Sci-entists and Congregational- its Spot ial Correspondence. BOY CITY', AilS- 9. The insurgents have at Boy-City! Several hundred citizens, ranging in age from 11 to 17 years.

have iust dethroned their party; bosses, overturnea ponttcai tions. annihiiaicd one of their oil parties and ejected an dent candidate for mayor by the most apiiroved insurgent methods. Boy City of. by and for boys-is without graft, tobacco, profanity or pre.utdice, and knows ro party lines where worm ana jus tice are to oe consicterta. is an independent.

mnr.ieirialilv of fully or ganized politically, with its own flavor, aldermen, bank, postoffico. newspaper, grocery, lighting plant, waterworks, church and code of conduct. It is unique among boy camps and the election just held i an object lesson for the old folks. Last summer Boy City had a Land party and a Water party, the former of which was piedacd EDITOR CLACDE DREJSOEX. to support land sports and the Litter aquatic pastimes.

F.dgtr Crumpacker of Hammond, IiL. carried the banner of the Land 0-foot banner stretched rcross tho campus. By the nd d-" ne naa tne totsi vote in nis pocket." But election day still a week off. Leslie Fields, defeated for mayor last year on the Water ticket, abandoned his party, und by promising street-cleaning jobs ing was a blow to Evansvilie, it left the future second ciiy of the state without a tin shop. Afier accumulating a little capital Scantlin came baclt to Ev-ansville and engaged in business.

He still has the old books showing where long dead residents were "charged up" with guttering, soldering and other woik. He was his own stenographer and bookkeeper and now he gets much pleasure out of looking over his old account books and harking back to the long ago. One of the entries shows where he furnished the material and did the work on the Old Stato National bank in 1S39. Scantlin saw Evansvilla come into life as a real municipality. He took" part in the election of James Jones, the first Mavor, a id w-as a member of Evansvi'le's very first council.

He served the people well and voted for many of the first, improvements that were made to the little river town vi EvansviJle on its way to be a city. Scantlin was present waen tne old canal, that formerly ran down Fifth-st, was opened and he was alo present when Boh Evans, the founder of the city, picked up a shovel and threw the first dirt on the canal route. Scantlin retains all his faculties and has a wonderful memory for dates and events connected with the early history of the city. He Is as active today as many men not half his age and he firmly believes he will live 10 celebrate his 100th birthday. He Still spends much 1 his ft I (f 5tw.

Name of office Isipsnisit Fart? FoDtBaoVu? Voted For Pf" wicioiy using as s.oS-.n. We Swtm. Too! Thts year. O. C1LLMAN, Dentist.

Office In Keene Second and Main. (Over Good Clothes Shop.) Office Hours: 8 to 12 a. in. 1 to 5 p. m.

Evenings and Sundays by appointment. 'Phono 714. Argument over the worth of this pair has waxed hot all season, and in justice to be ih it is probable a meeting will be arranged for, if not in some stake event, then in a match race. The bringing together of these equine wonders in a special event DR. Q.

unnr Leer Ottenheimer of List Cln-manv had hrs campaign re Plated before he left htia. ana 5 i Picture; Below They Are Lining Left is the New "Insurgent" May Boy City is focated on the shore of Pine lake, a mile from The lads have a camera club in a permanent building. They boat, fish, bathe and enjoy themselves hugely. No 'api t.ii strings'" are here. Judge Browns says that makes and he lets the boys run in gangs.

"Play the Game Square" i-3 the motto of Boy City. There are no sneaks here. In the church are Methodists, Catholics, Jews, PrSsbyterians, Episcopalians, Christian Scientists an-', The creed is 'simple: "I ill play every game square, whether It is with myself, my parents, my teacher, my fellows or my Not a cent of cash is passed here. Even a postage stamp n.ust be paid for by check. New arrivals deposit their in the bank and pay out by check.

Tte Manistee ward has a bras band of 4U -fcdy in zouave costume, 'e-crjifted entirely from Boy City The "entire city is wired for eipc-trio lights. The power is! derived from an old steam jllei discovered last summer at Charlevoix. The great tent -j-all seat several thousand and here the Hoy City circus will be held on. Aug. 1l'.

The Greatest tn Earth." Tourists are assured in big posters that "Barnum Never Had a Show Like The "Plopolop" is coming into existence. The fat lady and living skeleton are here and looked wonderfully like "The Head Without a Body" vas sieu climbing a tree this morning. The wild man from Boreno and the bearded lady also have yuivd. and the athletes and acrobats are piacticing. "Educational recreation" is the title bestowed on Boy City doings by those who have watched events here.

Next year Boy City will begin to operate all the year "round as a self-governing school tow. Fifteen hundred acres of land have been bought by the wealthy men interested in the movement. About a dozen of the buildings at Boy City areper-manent structures. The lads sleep in tents. Canadian cities for 1909 showed total transactions of over InMde remains of a mam moth mound in Siberia were vege tables hitherto unknown to science, evidently relics of the animal's food.

Ohm Alexaadra of Engtaad la to go into retirement at Sandrlng ham. taree aiwetrat coiding to Most Anyining poiident's: corres D. 'dike F. "It a boy." Take the pot." 's. J.

"Heads, you win. "Let me buy." ir-C physicians auceeaafnlly moved a bullet from. a. soldier's heart, the soldier going back on duty a few days later. John D.

winhea he had never seen Kelley the Joan C. Kellej-, independent oil man, who is suing him for $200,000. haven't aeen yonr pea dog for several days," said Smith. "No," said his wife, "I have giv- en him away. I thought it wasn't right to have a dog around when I have such a good, kind husband to lavish my affections upon, Smith sank heavily Into a chair.

"How much do you vant, Mary?" he asked. Caaatlaa gold pieces, bearing the nor'trait of King George, will be Issued next January, ft. 1 r.rtiir sifter his arrivif U. a. i i w-i S.

t-i cc THE OFFICIAL BALLOT. MOST ANYTHING Oldest Man in City Reaches NinetySixth Milestone Today LfSJ3 rc-rf rr -r NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Anxiously the turf loving public looks forward to the meeting of those two cracks of the golden oval, Fitzherbert, Sam Hildreth's speed machine, and the champion of the Keene string, Ballot. i would cause the memory of many a veteran turfman to hark back to the eventful day when the mighty Tenny, pride of the 'due grus, bowed before the speed of the western bred Salvatore, and made momentary maniacs out of 20,000 spectators.

time in the open air and be may be found most any bright after-coon sitting in the back yard of his home looking over some old book" or tinkering around i.i the little phop and office he has fitted up in his barn. He enjoys exercise and his faJ voiite occupation is to get up early and attack a pile of wood he always has at hand, with a keen edged ax. "I am making new acquaintances right along," said ScatAlin to a Press man who called at his home to congratulate him. see, all the boys. I knew years ago have passed away.

I can remember all of them but the eld companions have gone. I used to know every man, woman and child in the city but now I know only a few people. "Like Well, of course, I like visitors. I enjoy meeting new people and making new friends." LAD HURT John Rea, an 11-year-old messenger boy. Is at his home, 11 Chaiidler-av, suffering from lnjurleB received yesterday when he was knocked down by an automobile driven by Douglas Viele, 74 Rlv.

erside-av. The boy is being attend ed fey Dr. Bacon. Work two it koaaes I Shawnee Heights Is now almost completed and the houses will be ready for occupancy by the last of the, week. Thomas Scantlin.

Evausville's eldest citizen, celebrated nis S6th birthday today at his home, 512 U. Third-st. He was up earlier this morning than some of the ycym? fellows who have easy jobs in banks and offices and he workel up an appetite for breakfast by a vigorous attack on the kindling wile. Most everyone lnows that Scantlin is the oldest man in town but there are lots of things about him that they do not know. Ona of these is that over Z0 years ago he was regarded as no better than a dead man and that he row chuckles ae he relates how he outlived the physician who predicted his death.

sir," he confided to a Press reporter, "for 10 years I Suffered from stomach trouble and dyspepsia. The family donor didn't think much of my chances and, to tell you the truth, 1 didn't either. Finally I shouldertl by rifle and went over into jibson-co, here about all I did for a couple of years, was to hunt squirrels. When I came back ray was gone and 1 have never been troubled with it since. I lived an outdoor life, kept regular hours, took lots of exercise.

Those were the remedies that cured mo." Scantlin came to Evansville xrith his father in 1834. His father opened the first tin shop in the city and young Tom helped bim by running errands and doing what he could about the shop. "When he reached his majority he moved to Princeton, and spened a tin fchop there. His mov Jnxfc Wli Says: Et many fl ia narhinea wouldn't git nt rdr, we'd s4t biiryia' my th' avla- lor. THAT PEANVT 1CIDET.

The true version.) The" boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but him had fled; The fllame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Mrs. Heraans. North Carolina teada the alatea in the production of tobacco. "Ymea an always amlllng, aren't they?" "Yes, and the funny part of it is that they occasionally mean it." There- are ahoat 790,000,004 aerrs of public land in the United States.

Gilford IMachot may raa for governor ot New York, but from present indications he would lost the Wall-st vote Caaada baa 23,000 aatias of nil-road The clearing hoaaea of 14 leadlac j- 1 Viii rawirowataisia(acB -Issi I- '1 r- a i.