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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1947
Page
3
Since baseball’s major league organization in 1876, only about 15 players of 7,000 have been permanently barred for throwing or concealing a plotted game. Notable cases include four from Louisville in 1877, seven from the Chicago White Sox in 1919, and two from the New York Giants in 1924.
The Camp Fire Girls program emphasizes giving service and neighborliness with examples from Sherman Texas Portland Oregon Reading Pennsylvania and more. Projects include visiting veterans hospital patients assisting polio drives helping a Battle Creek family and making puppets for San Francisco children’s hospital. The movement spreads friendship through activities in a nationwide roll call of caring events.
Ed Brant of Winfield Kansas received the nickel he earned in September 1898 for sweeping a school room. He dropped the coin which rolled into a crack and lay hidden for nearly 50 years until the old Ak ron school was torn down. He notes the coin’s value has not kept pace with inflation.
Helena Montana reports Diamond City once a booming gold town with 10 000 residents and 32 saloons now silent save for E B Robison who has lived in a log house since 1918. The Confederate Gulch site shows revived trees and buried ruins while Robison recalls a $7 000 000 Montana bar haul and Civil War era rushes.
A Holstein cow owned by Harvey Sweigart in Annville PA gave birth to a two headed calf. The animal has four eyes two noses and two mouths with a head split before the ears forming two distinct faces.
Overland Park Kansas 62 year old Christian G Segner built a ball field with lights a 700 seat grandstand dress rooms and a soda stand on seven acres at a cost about 15000 The park opened in May and operates every night except Saturday Segner says he wants to give kids a place to play and sometimes fills in as an umpire The high point is when a youth team manager allows him to take the pitcher's mound
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