Athletics Baseball As this issue of the "News" goes to press the Company's Baseball Team finds itself half way through its season with three victories chalked up to its credit and three defeats. Despite the walloping given us by the Vacuum Oil Team, the boys have justified the prediction made recently to the effect that as the season progressed they would play a much better game of ball. The game with the Vacuum Oil Company marked the absence from our line up of second baseman Don Crawford, who has left the Company to accept a position in Albany. A. M. Beebee who has been catching will also be out of the game for some time due to a split bone in one of his fingers received in the Vacuum game. The loss of these two men will cause considerable shifting in the line-up. The team has been improving rapidly since the opening of the season, having climbed from last place in the league standing to fifth place, but the men are not satisfied to remain in fifth place, and since the season is only half gone there is still plenty of time to go further up the ladder. At the last two or three games there has been quite a number of company employees and team boosters on the side lines urging the boys to do their "durndest." According to the boys on the team "Bill Peachy & Company" were responsible for our victory over Taylor Instrument Company, on June 19th. Bill says there is still plenty of room on the side lines for additional rooters. On the adjoining page, we are reproducing some snap shots taken by Mr. Evans. All Aboard For Manitou! Arrangements are practically completed for the big family picnic of the Gas & Electric Corporation. The "plans and specifications" call for the best one in the history of the Company and it behooves every one to set aside July 29th, "Cause dat am de day." Manitou Beach has been selected as the scene of the frolic, so there's nothing left for you to do (unless you are on a committee) but talk it up and get all set. PRIZES FOR PICNIC BALL GAME-Girls' Main Office Team vs. Andrews St. Team, 10 o'clock. J. P. Haftenkamp, Umpire-Candy. RELAY RACE, Men-Bill Folds. 50 YD. DASH, Ladies. 1st-Silk Stockings; 2nd-Handkerchiefs. PIE EATING CONTEST, Boys and Girls under 12. Boys, 1st-Gloves; 2nd-Ball; Girls, 1stWindsor Tie; 2nd-Handkerchief. LEAP FROG (team of Five), Men-5 Boxes Cigars (10 in box) MARSHMALLOW RACE, Stockings; 2nd-Silk Gloves. Ladies-1st-Silk CHILDREN RUNNING RACE (Combination) Boys, 1st-Combination Knife; 2nd-Club. Girls, 1st-Crepe de Chine Handkerchief; 2nd-Fanny Farmer Candy. BALL GAME between Married and Single Men Mr. Peachey, Umpire-Cigars. DRESS UP RACE (Combination,) Men-Belt; Ladies-Donation. CRACKER RACE for Ladies-Donation. BALLOON RACE for Boys and Girls under 12, Boys. 1st-Flash Light; 2nd-Ball. Girls, 1st-Purse; 2nd-Hair Ribbon. PILLOW FIGHT for Men-Cigars. Andrews St.-Candy. SHOE RACE for Children. Boys, 1st-Knife 2nd-Tennis shoes. Girls, 1st-Candy; 2 lbs. 2nd-Kid Gloves. TUG OF WAR, Men, Gas vs. Electric-Cigars. QUOITS, Men-Cigars. SWIMMING CONTEST for Girls, 1st-Bathing Cap. SWIMMING CONTEST for Men, 1st-Silk Socks. Starter-Mr. Anderson. Judges-Miss Russell, Miss Waltuck, Mr. Searle, Mr. Yawger, Mr. Earle. You Tell 'em Bill! Bill: Have you bought yours? John: Bought what? Bill: A share of the Company's 7%. John: No, I can't get a hundred bones together just now. Bill: You poor boob, you don't need a hundred bones. Do like I did buy one and pay for it at the rate of $1.00 a week for 100 weeks. John: Can you do that? Bill: Sure you can. years, Rip? Where have you been all these John: Well, do you draw interest on your payments? Bill: I'll say you do, and what's more I'm salting just that much away each week. John: Believe I'll do that. Bill: Well you had better shake a leg cause that's too good a thing to last long. John: Thanks for the tip, Bill. Bill: Keep the change, Buddy. The Declaration of Independence In Congress, July 4th, 1776 [The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America] When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.. |