The Waco Times-Herald from Waco, Texas • 15

A Piano or Phonograph for Christmas will bring untold joy into the home fortunate enough 1 I I 1 pwo aatLs 1 11 i WWW pQff li nKmJt I Ths Christmas Gift Supreme I Now at last one time a money and a very little of it buy I happiness to have parents wise enough to choose such a gift nothing mysterious about buying pianos It seems like a lot of money but our plan takes the burden off your shoulder Let Us have a representative call or drop in at the store just simply to satisfy yodr curiosity if noth ing else No obligation whatso ever 100 instruments being offered during our Christmas Sale at 10 per cent to 20 per cent reductions ADAMS ALLCORN 115 117 ifth St Phone 257 Open Evenings Till 9 i 'W m' SR 5" III 4 tW Lq El 0 iTtwt HWWt S' sSr'M V' Vi'liini Hart at the Victory Today and Tomorrow in rrrr HARDWOOD LOORS SETE Cover your Old loors with MAPLE or OAK Old Pine loors scraped and finished HOWARD YOUNG Phone 2615 WILL BUY LIBERTY BONDS Or Your Partly Paid Subscriptions WILLIAM GREEN Phone 1070 National City Bank Bldg WACO DAILY TIMES HERALD SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 1018 NO BASEBALL BOLSHEVISM SSI WESTERNERS NOTHING TO REVOLT ABOUT ANDMAGNATES WILL STEER CLEAR ANARCHY United Press Chicago Dee 7 This is no time for baseball Bolshevism according to most western leaders of tlie sport If there are to be revolutions ac cording to' these sportsmen they should Le delayed until there is something to on Just now they claim it is a problem of getting the sport back on a sound peace time basis and completely back into the good graces of the fun With ti American league open ing its annual meeting here Monday there was tonight the usual talk of putting the skids under Ban Johnson Most of that gossip however origi nated in the east In the west there are more Johnsonopliile magnates Recent events naturally forecasted a resumption of major league baseball in the spring The league meeting here undoubtedly will deal more with plans for the season with the treatment of players salvaged from the army and witli league business than witn partisan quarrels The National league as represent ed here is preparing for the season inaugural The feeling here seems to be that no candidate is in sight to beat Joint A Heydler for The league presidency Plans Tor the spring training have been partially complet ed by some teams Conservatism Will Kale United Press New York Dec 7 Election of a president to succeed John Tener resigned is expected to be the most important matter to be taken up by the National league at its annual meeting here Tuesday afternoon The question of finances and next year's playing schedule will also be discussed John Heydler acting president said that whatever action is taken will be along conservative lines "Baseball is going to be slo along the readjustment he said will be no radical readjust Heydler said that probably import ant matters would have to be taken up jointly with the American league the two organizations probably will get together early next year War Time Rubbed Out United Press Chicago Dec 7 War time was a blank so far as college athletes were concerned The western intercollegiate meet here today restored college athletes to their former standing Siflce the conference blazed the way in emergency legislation follow ing the declaration of war it is pre sumed college conferences will fol low in this reconstruction work All war time legislation includi ing permission for freshmen to make varsity teams was repealed and tlie eligibility slate wiped clean for a fresh start Under the new ruling athletes will take up their course at tlie point they left off to enter tlie service The regulations apply to A men A Goodenough (Illinois) was elected president of the conference succeeding Prof Pooley (Northwest ern) Pyre (Wisconsin) was re elected secretary The conference indoor track meet will be held March 21 22 in tlie Pat ten gymnasium Northwestern uni versity The outdoor track meet will be on Marshall field Chicago June 7 AT THE MAJESTIC "Oil how I hate to get up in the morn ing Oh how I like to lie in So do we but the show at the Majestic doesn't start until 2 and that ought to give you lots of time for the big joy giving event from then on until 11 tonight A rollicking bunch of Georgette crepe deehine and onyx silk hosiery will be there to greet you and the smiles that lie in their eyes and lie and lie and lie will make you laugh and laugh and laugh Oh say and that ain't all you know what we mean Virginia Grey and Will Debrow will be there with that glad to see you smile and with their 75 mile fun shooter loaded to scatter and you will lie treated just like a cash customer ought to be treated you know yhat we mean Tlie playlet today is an unusual one and suffice it to say that it Is one in which you'll find much pleas ure Ha! ha! see jou at tlie Ma jestic AGGIES CLOSED THE SEASON WITH AVIN OVER SOLDIER BOYS Times Herald Special College Station Texas Dec 7 A and college closed the football season today by defeating the re mount station eleven from ort Sam Houston 60 to 0 Garth made four touchdowns Elam three razier one and Carlton one Alexander kicked six goals irst string men were used entirely in the first quar ter and scrubs entirely in the sec ond and during the second half Gra ves gave forty men on the squad a chance holding only Elam and Gartli in the game throughout the last half The Scrubs made one touchdown un aided The visitors never made first down BA XI) I NS IT UM NTS New and second hand AU stand ard grades Complete line of acces sories Repairing of all kinds Prices reasonable Chas Parker Band House 60S 14 Adv MEDICINE SALESMEN WANTED Man with auto or team and wag on wanted for this county The right man can make from $1'000 to $30000 a month and expenses Largest line of goods sold from wagons practically all household ne cessities Position permanent con tract perpetual (with privilege of ter nnination) No yearly renewal San itary free trial plan No refilling Lowest prices Quick delivery Tlie third largest and fastest growing company in its line in tlie United States Capital and surplus nearly half a million "dollars Correspond ence confidential if desired XVrito for particulars URST McNESS CO Dept 41 reeport HI BRANCHES Memphis Tenn Athens Ga I 8 1 i'lill HEAR If AMTT0I8 JtiO MS f81 ILSTER TOf The general meeting of tlm Yeung Men's Business league to be held next Tuesday night December 10 will be the first general gathering of ye organization" held in two months the monthly meeting of the membership having been 'postponed last month on account of the Cotton Palace Tlie agricultural progress and wel fare of McLennan county will be on the carpet A committee composed of Will Ed mond Gaylord John ish er Karl Sherman Wheeler and A Peterson will make a re port on the move thus far made to ward tlie end of establishing the Mc Lennan County Cow Test association plans for which were laid at a di rectorate meeting of the the day before yesterday Evans in charge of livestock and dairy extension work of A college will be present at the gen eral meeting and give additional In formation on the organization con templated Mayor Can't Come The matter of establishing here a municipal abbatoir or slaughter house for the convenience of McLen nan county stockmen and farmers will receive further consideration of the league Tuesday evening Mayor MsCustlan of Paris was expected to be present to make a speech in ex planation of the advantages of an abbatoir for Waco and McLennan county but he wired Secretary Wheeler of the yester day that his presence could not be counted upon as influenza and death of a close relative would pre vent his coming at this time Dr A Herring and Dairy Inspector Hudson however will be pres ent to champion the abbatoir Reports will be received at the Tuesday night general meeting of the league from all of the special and standing committee and there will be a general resume of the ac tivities of the league during the last two months anners' Meeting Wednesday Secretary Wheeler has mailed to practically all of the farmers in Mc Lennan county interested in stock raising invitations to attend on next Wednesday morning in the OCEAN TO OCEAN Today! When we tell you that face to face with tlie su per amusement offering that will greet you today giv ing you an honest to goodness tip that you'H appreciate and if you are a believer in the doc trine "Look to tliis day for its you will go no fur ther but will make your ar rangements to beat it to the Orpheum It's a cinch that you're going to like this bill for nothing lias been left out that would add to its enjoy ment and keep it within the confines of a two hour show Just look 'em over Oh! boy don't they look Gra rand and Glo rious? say they do But you haven't seen nothing until you see Joe Phil lips crank up and come down the home stretch with all these charming eccentric and delect able bunch of shapely Onyx Silk hosiery hanging over the sides and going to have to be used to city ways if you stand hitched while they go by be some joy afloat when Joe lil' ol' Steamship New York steams into the Orpheum Just for un Just for fun and just to make this a BIG DAY for you we have made arrangements for a SUPER JAZZ BAND to play for Constance Talmadge in "A This is a farce comedy plus intense drama and from tlie time tlie first shadow appears until she fades away like the fragrance in a rose garden of romance you're going to have your eyes screwed to the screen and you'll just simply have to see how funny this Jazz music is ah mom mer make you cry for joy THE HOME REINED AMUSEMENT Six Piece Orchestra Ocean Bound EATURING JOE PHILLIPS A Delectable Musical Splash in Two Dips 10 Talented Artists 10 inders and Keepers ONE ACT COMEDY By George Kelley Ross Wise Co IN A NOVELTY SURPRISE LEE AND BENNETT COMEDY SINGING AND TALKING DOT OATiM AN DAINTY DELINEATOR ROM SONGLAND Would Your iance Object if in Jest You Advertised for a Husband in the Daily Newspaper? Constance Talmadge IN Makes You Laugh and and Then Some CONTINUOUS PERORMANCE TODAY STARTING AT 2 :00 rooms a meeting of McLennan county livestock devotees to discuss the bringing here of a cow tester the forming of a county cow testers' association and the importing of choice breeds of Jersey and Holstein cattle Among the prominent speakers ex pected to be on hand is Walton head of tlie department of extension at A college fl fBRSGAflfl PROPOSES In InCLUBfBOAID RELATIVES BEAD HEROES Now it's the ifty ifty club and the originator of the movement is Ed orsgard of Waco The idea is to help tlie relatives of soldiers who have been killed in battle or xvho have died of wounds and to help those who have been incapacitated as a result of wounds from accidents that may have happened to them while in the service of their coun try If the scheme which Mr orsgard has in mind works out and he be lieves it will no one will be permit ted to give more than 50 cents to the fund regardless of a wealth or prominence and this will place all on an equality It is ths intention of Mr orsgard to have a neat enameled badge made with ths figures 50 50 thereon tliis being the official designation of membership Mr orsgard bases his estimate on a population in the United States of 120000000 people and if each of these were to contribute 50 cents a sum aggregating $60000 000 would be secured Not every one of course will become a member or the proposed ifty ifty club but even if the number of members was reduced 20000000 this would still produce $50000000 It is proposed by Mr orsgard that President Wilson najne an exec utive committee for every state in the Union this committee to be composed of the most prominent nnd highly esteemed men of their respec tive states these to decide the amount for the relatives of each sol dier killed in battle or who has died of wounds and who is in need of as sistance and also to pass on the question of giving aid to those sol diers who are too badly incapacitat ed as a result ot' wounds or injuries to carry on their ordinary avoca tions or to help themselves in any way Those with whom Mr orsgard has discussed his plans believe the plan is most praiseworthy to say the least and they are convinced of its feasibility They are of the opin ion that the people of tlie United States who have been so eager to show their appreciation of the brave deeds of the gallant American troops will not be at all backward in be coming members of the ifty ifty club New Code is for ootball ans New York Dec 7 ootball can be reconstructed But the recon struction probably won't affect the college sport greatly It's accuston ed to reconstruction which has be come an annual event like the deco ration of a flat Every winter the football savants gather to discuss the sport's recon struction They have had the game under anaesthetics every winter while they removed the appendix put it back and threw in a few little ap pendices for good luck or the past few jears only small changes have been made The so called game has proven satis factory and amendments have been minor affairs Now there is one more set of rules to be added These are for the ben efit ot the spectators They don't affect the players but they will give tle officials a few more precepts to follow These rules provide a standard set of signals by which the referee may indicate for spectators what is hap pening the field especially re garding infliction of penalties It is a game watched by people who know it more or less Numbering of play ers practiced by individual schools was the first recognition ot this fact Signals to let the grand stand know what is happening would be another rank Birch a busy Western Con ference football official has devised signals for the benefit of the press box They are simple If practiced by all referees the public soon would be as familiar with them as the news paper men code for penalties runs: Tripping Both hands on hips Holding One hand grasping the opposite wrist Unnecessary roughness Vigorous PUBLICITY DEI'AHTMENT WACO AIR COMMITTEE Barrett Chairman Issie riedlander Wilson Mrs Sarah Collins Claude Meadows Mrs A Deville Holloway Mrs XV Woodson Crippen Jr Mrs Win Wilkes Waco Texas December 6 1913 The weekly meeting of the Waco air Price interpreting Committea was lielil today and pri' es named as follows: XX holesale i Retail Price COMMODITY I rice Cash Carry Delivery i 66c to 69e Creamery Butter 16 oz pkgs1 7 tc 77c 59c to 65o Creamery Butter 15 oz pkgs 67c 72c 34c to 36c Oleomargarine best grade 40c 42c 0993c to 0996c sugar per lb He 1035c to 1 036c sugar in 2 lb eartons 1 1136c 9 Xie to Site uttce ancy Blue Rose lb 10 Uc 12 t0 UsCiice ancy Honduras lb' 16c t0 Potatoes Colorado and Calif 4c n4C Australian Browns I I 4c $290 to $300 ekae 1 14c I 15c 36 22 ozb Pr case: i $11 to 1 our ijasis 4S sacks! 1 1 0 1 $lou0 lour bulk i 6 1 2 0 (c t0 Corn Meal 25 Ib sacks per lb' Rc Co $290 to $300 Conl cises ji ib 14c 1 15c Sc Bread full 16 oz loaf 'Uif Compound 26VjC 27c 36c to 38c i(amS) ancy 39c 42c 64c to tSc iheakfast Bacon ancy "3c 75c 52c to 57c Breakfast Bacon whole I 00c 42c to 46c Breakfast Bacon standard! OOc 53c 28c to 30c pry salt Meat 35c 38c 39c to cream Cheese' 37c 40c to 9c Pinto Beans No 1 per lb lO'Gc 12X40 8c to 84c Black Eyed Peas per lb 9c 12c 1114c to 12c small XX'hite Navy Beans lb 1414c 17c 12 14c to 13 14 Beans perlb I 15c 17c 8c to 9c pink Beans per lb I 914c 1214c $190 to $210 no 2 Standard Canned "Peas 20c 22c $190 to $200'No 1 Tall Chum Salmon 19c 20c $210 No 1 Tall Pink Salmon 20c 20c $285 to $290 No 1 Tall Red Alaska Salmon 28c 30c 55c to 77c Evaporated Milk baby size doz 7c 714c $165 to $170 Evaporated Milk tall ize doz 15c 17c 50c to 52c MUk Compound baby 5c 6c $108 to $112 JMilk Compound tall lie 13c i The XX'aco fair price interpreting committee meets weekly at the Chamber of Commerce and invites all merchants and interested parties to meet with them so as to hear any criticisms and suggestions shaking ot both fists Off side One arm extended There are others equally simple and easy to remember Picture rames aUCameron Co ATTENTION ARMERS We are prepared to save you halt freight rate on car loads of all kinds of feed SELEY EAKLY GRAIN COMPANY (Advertisement) K'S.