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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH Practicing Hard for Walker Cup EGG MARKETING PENNOCK IS SLIM BUT HAS STRENGTH ! Its a Privilege Slenderness of the Yankee Southpaw Belies Power. In that pitched against FARMERS COOPERATE IN ORDER TO DISTRIBUTE PRODUCTS TO BEST PRICES Figures Are And 1925 eting July, Herbert Pennock of the At Hand For Both 1924 For Enterprises MarkLarge Fraction of Eggs Produced SaH Lake City Thirty per cent more eggs wore maiketed in 1925 than In 1924, according to recent estimates by the department ot agriculture. The increase was due to two reasons, find, many of the old associations engaged in the cooperar tive marketing of eggs received larg-,in members their from quantities 1925 than in 1924, and, second, a number of recently formed organizations reached their full stride as marketing agencies during the latter year. 1924 Figures are at hand for both ufid 1925 for nterprises handling a large fraction of the cgg9 marketed cooperat ivoly, and these hIiow on the whole an increased volume of business although in some sections of the country the associations suffered a decrease in valume of business. Gains are partlculaily noticeable in the reports received from Missouri, where a large portion of the output of the farm flocks is marketed through the county exchanges and the centrally established assembling nad packing esplants which have been developed pecially to serve the farmers in marketing surplus eggs and poultry. Tho Minnesota Kgg and Poultry exchange is largely responsible for un Increase in tho quantity of Minnesota eggs marketed cooperatively. This as sedation was formed in 1921 and began operating durlpg the latter part of that your. It is a federation of seventeen local units with 22,000 members. In 1925 It bundled a huger number of cases of Minnesota eggs than bad ever before gone through cooperative channels. Fifty-eigh- t creameries, elevators and stores have reported the marketing of eggs in 1925 as service to their members. Undoubtedly several time's this number have assisted their patrons in assembling and shipping small lots of eggs. Producer-owneand cooperatively operated sales agencies In the consuming markets of New York, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis. Los Angeles and San Francisco have marketed largo quantities of eggs for cooperative associations located In the producing regions. d shut-ou- t that he the Athletics last YanPen- kees lost eight pounds. When nock Is in flesh, and that Isnt during the pitching season, be weighs about 153 pounds and this really brilliant southpaw is six feet tall. lie Is as slender as a reed and as tough as hickory, a real wonder for skill, durability and capacity for work. Youll hear people sympathizing with Pennock about hi being overworked by Miller Ilugglns and all that, as If Huggins didnt know his capacity better than anyone else. A lot of people think they know more about running a ball club than does Huggins, but they dont. Pennock can stand a lot of work. His whole career tells that. He started in the big league In 1912, and here he Is 13 years later, as good as exer nnd with the best season he ever bad only a year behind him. lie came back quickly from that game a shut-oumind you and games of that length or over are a strain on a pitcher to which none, no matter should ever be subjected. Twelve Innings are enough to allow any pitcher to go. Nearly always the after affects of the abnormally long games are bad, and loug to get over. Pennock Is of xviry toughness. He has slim arms, slim legs, Is below weight. lie reaches 104 at his heaviest. Being below weight Is hardly aD Ideal condition und Pennock has not stamina to go long routes. Rather would It be his coolness, his easy delivery, his Intelligence, that tells him how to save himself. lie doesn't work any harder than he has to. He conserves himself. No more wear and tear than is necessary. lie has long, pliable muscles, the kind Jim Corbett used to have, (hough not as firm. In the box Pennock Is a study In conservation, a picture of grace, alert and understanding, with splendid control and unruffled in tight places. As a masterful xvorkman, as a sedatixe for the excitable, and as a stayer for his apparently frail physique, he Is one of the pitching of his time. t, weight on bis frume, Ilolund It. Mackenzie, Washingtons greatest amateur golfer, and the youngest member of the American team that will compete In the Walker cup matches in Scotland In June, Is buck borne in Washington to polish up his game for these Important matches. Under the careful eye of Freddie McLeod, professional at tho Columbia Country club, Mackenzie is practicing diligently. With ten pounds of well-adde- d Mercy for Jim OConnell Is Favored by Wrigley Jimmy OConnell, former New York Giants outfielder, should be given another chance in organized baseball, In the opinion of William Wrigley, Jr., owner of (he Chicago Cubs anil Los Angeles Idciilc Coast league clubs. Wrigley said that OConnell, who was outlawed from organized baseball as a result of the National league scandal of 1021, was the victim of circumstances and Innocent of any wrongdoing. O'Connell wns the principal figure In the alleged attempted bribery of Heine Sands, shortstop of the Philadelphia Nationals, during the critical scries between the Phillies and the Cozy" O'Connell asserted Giants. Dolan, conch of the Giants, had put him up to approaching Sands. The whole thing, in my opinion, was n rather crude practical Joke on the part of Dolan," said Wrigley. Two Pitching Stars Are Nearly 40 Years of Age Walter Johnson of the Washington Amerlenns and Grover Alexander of the Chicago Nationals, king pitchers In their respective major leagues, this year celebrate their birthday anniversaries. thirty-nint- Rickard Signs Tunney Gene Tunney and bis manager, Lilly Gibson, have signed with Tex Rickard a contract under the terms of which must fight any opponent the selected for him by the big promoter within the next year and cannot fight any one at all without the sanction battle of Rickard. A Tuimey-Will- s seemed the most likely product of the contract. BASEBALL BE 2J NOTES Wise farmers know that It never rains good and bard In the spring until the baseball schedules begin. Johnson, who hn.s been a member of the champions since 1907, wns born In Humboldt, Kan., November 6, 1SS7. Digging Potatoes In April In Idaho He enme direct to Washington from Catcher Ren Pimond of the Tulsa the semlpro ranks and has partici- club of the Western league is recovPoise. Digging Potatoes at Victor, pated In 751 major league games, havering from an appendicitis operation. Idaho, in full swing. That may sound ing scored 394 victories. He wns the The Phillies have sent Outfielder peculiar to most Idaho potato farmers third best American league pitcher who are accustomed to digging pota- last year In point of effectiveness and George Purning to the Reading club toes in the fall, but L. 0. Schultz, fed- holds the strikeout record with a of the International league on option. eral horticultural Inspector for Ida- total of 3,324. Alexander, a native of St. Paul, The only charter members remainho Is responsible for the story. Here Neh., piade his first major league aping in the National league are the it is: Forty acres of spuds are now pearance with the Phillies In 1911 Chicago Cubs and the Boston Braves. being dug at Victor. They have been and was obtained by bis present In tho ground all winter. The yield He has the Cubs, In 1918. club, Eddie Richey, a shortstop of Stark-vtlle- , sacks 300 to 200 per is running from In 5(14 contests, of which lie pitched Miss., Is having a tryout with acre, with 75 per cent of the crop good, has won 315. Alexander was born team of the Cotton the Hattiesburg tho sound tubers. Early frost caught 20, 1SS7. February States league. diggers last fall, and the ground got so hard that it was impossible to Now that Ty has had his vision ImHe Needed the Clothes continue work. Along came a by the removal of pterygia, proved llres-nahaAt the age of sexentoen Itoger blanket of snow that remained he able to tell the umpire will he the catcher whom John or more all winter, and kept do for his eyesight. to what picked for his the ground from freezing more than team, began Ills career In malor a couple of inches. John Levi, big Indian outfielder, league baseball as a pitcher for the who starred oil the Harrisburg SenaWashington club In 1897. In Ills first tors last summer, will play for ManJersey Owners to Meet At Caldwell banker a Washington game promised this seahint a $50 stilt If be would w in the ager Rankin Johnson again son. fmi-hl0. to 3 JerAfter did. He game. Caldwell, Idaho. Idaho State season he refused to go back and sey Cattle club delegates will convene that Zach Wheat and Jacques Fournier In Caldwell May 7 for the annual state didn't enter big league baseball again of the Brooklyn Dodgers nre perhaps until 1901. meeting of the Jersey breeders, acthe most superstitious about their in the an announcement to cording bats. Each buys from 130 to 140 a To Swim Channel state organization. Ivan II. Laughrey, year. western representative of the AmeriMor-lecan Jersey Cattle dub. and Mr. The Toledo Blade says Its baseball extension director in the national hope is already half way up the pennant pole. The trouble Is the Mud Jersey organization will be speakers. The annual session of the Can-AdHens liae been leaving It at half mast. organization, which had been set for May 5, will be held instead as a part of tho state meeting. A university of baseball Is being Players planned at Stockton. Cal. will be trained for mix lineament In 4 s s Floods Menace Soviet Capital the game as well as in a business s , V education. Moscow. Hundred-- - of thousands of T.loxd A. Brown, Brooklyn National Russians stand in danger of biing driven from the :r crowded homes by longue left handed j Itcher, has boon floods because of a flesh rainfall released to the Memphis Southern association club, under an optional along the upper readies of the Mos(L vV v cow river. The high wttr, which has agreement. already reached the woist ieeord in Joseph Dunn, former Brooklyn Naeighteen yeais. abated a few indies, tional league catcher, and pilot of the but the new rams bt oualit another E ille team In the Three I league anx of has not which crest the yet rise, ' last year, has been made manager of reached the city. the Elmira club of the Xexv York- Fennsylvania league. Dairy Experiment Yields Big Returns Elackfoot, Ida. R. F. Ipsen, manaLeslie ' McCullough, who was reger of the Laabs Cheese factory at purchased by Newark from cently Elackfoot, reports that the manufacIn the Three-- I league, Bloomington cream of ture of the whey TO been sent on option to York, has butter is panning out better than anFrank Pessans team, In the New ticipated. More than 500 pounds of league. butter are made daily. 300 gallons of Miss Helen Walnwrigbt of New was in stored the pas- York announces that she will try to whey cream A. 5V. Elliott, field captain and teurizing tank and is was made into swim the English channel In August. leading shortstop In the New York, butter furnishing In the neighborhood Photograph shows Miss Walnwrigbt, Pennsylvania league, with York last of 1200 pounds of butter. Begginning who will win a prize of $2,500 from season, has been sold outright by the soon the factory will start a third D, P. Davis, a wealthy sportsman, if Newark club to the Scranton club In cheese vat. she succeeds In swimming the channel. the New league. six-inc- h six-inch- Mc-Gra- e ng a i rJy v A how-rugge- AMENDMENTS MEET APPROVAL OF HOUSE COMMITTEE; TO STUDY BILL Entirely New Section Four Is Written Into Colton School Land Measure And Bill Amended To Give Appeal R!ghts Colton D. C. Th9 Washington, school land bill, with certain modifications suggested by the subcommittee that has been studying the bill for a week, was considered by the house public lands committee, but no action was taken. As the bill was read, its provisions generally seemed to appeal to members of the committee, but Chairman Smnott remarked that the bill is so important and some of the suggested changes are equally Important that he wanted time to study it further before his committee acts. The chairman gave assurance that the bill would be brought up again, but no definite day xvas set for resuming consideration. Several important changes in the bill were suggested by the subcommittee, consisting of Representative Colton, Morrow, Winters, Letts and Driver. seeks Section two of the bill, to impose a limitation on the time within which the government may question a states title because of the alleged mineral character of school sections, is amended in two particulars; the government is to be restricted only in its right to institute a suit in any court, and the period within which it may be started is made six years, instead of three years, as provided in the Colton bill. As originally written, the bill would have imposed this limitation on proceedings in the interior department as xvell as the courts, but all reference to departmental activities was stricken out by the subcom- Rock Springs, Wyo. This week will see the big shear under way in western Wyoming, and about of the total 1926 clip is under Slim Callender, a student at Culcontract to eastern firms. Some shearver Military academy, jumped 6 feet ing began last week and several 3 Inches in the Wisconsin prep school flockmasters will begin soon. The miles track and field meet. clip at the wells, twenty-eigh- t north of Rock Springs, also will get Jack Lorch. star guard of the east- under way during the week, as it will ern Intercollegiate champions, has west of Rock Springs. The number been elected captain of the next Co of fleeces in the 1926 clip is about team. lumbia basket-bal- l the same as in 1925, but the amount of wool is a matter of conjecture until Great Britain has not developed a the shearing is well under way and worlds champion since the first bales have been weighed. the late Boh Fitzsimmons left CornIn 1925 approximately 2,750,000 pounds wall nearly thirty-fivyears ago. were clipped in western Wyoming, and a year ago this date saw almost Commercial Athletic Club. Inc., has of the total sold. Only a litobtained the Boston franchise In the of the 1926 tle more than football newly formed professional is said to have been contracted clip league sponsored by Red Grange. for delivery. Market tendencies In the nations wool center, durThe Association of American Horse Boston, the past week have brought enShows, Inc., consists of 76 members ing to local flockmasters couragement throughout the United States. Shoxvs some of whom feel that 1926 will be are annual fixtures in various sections a much better year for them than it of the country summer and winter. first promised to be. Indications ,are a better price The English Football association, that lambs will bring indicated. sales first the than soccer the of the governing body one-thir- d heax-yxveig- e three-quarter- s d one-thir- Poultry Farming Increase Rapid teurs. state. Ogden. The Utah State Farm Bureau federation, through its canning crops committee, has begnn the organization of canning crops associations In various counties. It is planned to Join all associations into a state federation, It was stated by Martin B. Brown,' chairman of the canning crops committee of the state farm bureau organization. Salt Lake. The mineral wealth of Utah is the title of a comprehensive booklet just off the press, and compiled and published by the mining committee of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. The edition runs to 20,000 copies, and will be distributed by the commerce chamber throughout the country to arouse interest in Utahs mining industry, according to J. C. Dick, chairman of the committee. Ogden. J. D. Claiborn of Kimberly, Idaho, topped the Ogden market Saturday wrilh two carloads of pulp fed steers weighing 1435 pounds, each bringing $S.20 a hundred, xxhich is the highest price paid on the Ogden market in months. They were sold to the Western Meat company of San Francisco. Salt Lake City. Is Salt Lake City destined to become one of the greatest commercial fertalizer centers of the w'orld? Recent developments of potash in Utah and nitrates in a nexvly discovered bed in southern Nevada, seem to point In this direction, according to Eli F. Taylor, register of the Salt Lake land office, who is daily receiving glowing reports on the latest findings in connection with these two products. Salt Lake City. Due to the fact that members of the Utah Canners association refused to pay the farmers $12 a ton for their tomatoes this year while they declare most of the other of the country are paying that much or more, the farmers are planting sugar beets and other crops instead, M. S. Winder, executive secre- tary of the Utah State Farm bureau announced recently. The Fort Duchesne Farm Myton. bureau, with John Hacking as presito dent, has arranged a campaign fight the weeds in that part of the basin. George E. Young is project leader east of the Uintah river and John Gardner is leader for the west side. The weeds they will try to exterminate are the white top, murdock-burr- , morning-glory- , cockleburr, Russian and Canadian thistle. Myton. Tuesday the work of widening the Grey mountain ditch was completed and water was turned in. The work has been going on for three months. Salt Lake City. A new mining company has been formed by business men of Salt Lake and Ogden, who expect to continue development work on nine claims in the Park City district recently purchased from William M. Curtis of Park City. The claims adjoin the old Glenallen property on the east and west, and have already some development work done on them, t including an croscut tunnel The tunnel is said to run along the vein for 200 feet where good showings of ore have been found. The mine Is 800-foo- silver-lea- Salt Lae City. No farm industry advanced xvith greater strides the has In The marvelous growth popularity which hockey has enjoyed in Boston last few years than the poultry busithe last fexv seasons is evidenced Ip ness, the value of which for 1924 has the announcement that the arena been estimated by the department of where the hockey matches are played agriculture at $994,000,000, $525,000,000 Is to be enlarged to accommodate or more than half of xxhich represents the value of eggs produced 6n the 11, (XX) spectators. farm, and $469,000,000 from poultry It is believed safe to asproduced. Harvards New Captain sume that the final department of agriculture figures for 1925 xxill show ' that the xalue of the industry has ' ' mark. The passed the total numbers of poultry on farms January 7. 1925, xxas $442,300,000, xxith a value of $349 006,000. Of this number, 4 17,000 000 head, xvith a value of $336,177 000, wire chickens. During th year C7S. 300,000 chickens were raised, xxith a xalue of $115.013 000 The chiiken ez;s produced amounted h 3 bilPcn-dolla- r to 1.903,276.000 dozens, xvorh $521,-547.00- 0. Sait Lake Overlooked in Finance Bill Salt take City. Advised that the army const uct. on bill, which passed the house pf representatives at Washington, didnot include any approprie tioc for Fott Douglas, the military affairs comrAitee of the chamber of commerce ' hold a special meeting for the pu pose of considering what may be done to have the bill amended xx hen it conies up on the senate, it 11 A study of CapL C. L. Todd, who Is Salt Lake City. All arangements have been completed for Utahs participation in national egg day, May 1, according to A. R. Mickelson of Draper, designated Utah state chairman by the national poultry council, sponThe poultry sor of the movement. council, in planning a national egg day cited it was for the purpose of paying tribute to the hen for her part in American agriculture. In Utah, the observance will be directed toward acquainting all persons with the magnitude of the poultry industry in the states Wyoming Sheep Being Sheared Charles Hoff, the Norwegian vaulting king, asserts that Germany will soon be a real rival In the Olympic games. game, will send a group of 18 players to Canada next May. The squad will include 14 professionals and four ama- captain of Harvards baseball team. to Utah mittee. The subcommittee also struck out the first par section three of the bill, making reference to rules of practice in school lands cases. An entirely new fourth section has been written into the bill, prescribing manner in which the states may Of the 20 2:10 trotters sired by the from adverse rulDillon Axxvorthy 11 have Peter the appeal to the courts land the from department, the ings Great dams. original court appeal provision being John S. Malick of Cincinnati has abandoned. been elected enptain of the Harvard '27 baseball team. News Notes Live in was announced by chamber officials. Brigadier 'neral Lucius Holbrook, is of the local post. in comm,' property. Salt Lake City. Twenty-founew the Utah Shippers Traffic association from five different cities were selected by the nominating committee at a meeting held at the chamber of commerce recently. They wpre chosen to succeed the old board of ninety men, who were poked to resign because of a state law limiting boards of directors to txxenty-four- . directors r of Brigham An auto caraxan than 100 business men nnd poultry producers of this section lrit Bringham City Wednesday for Draper. The purpose of the visit to Draper, vhich is me of the leading poultry prxd, icing centers of tho state, was to inspect the plans thre and get detailed information on the industry from the successful producers, with a view to stimulating the poultry industry in this city and vicinity. City. convex ing more lishment and development of the dairy cattle in America and Cache valley was discussed by Professor George B. Caine, head of the dairy husbandry department of the Utah Agricultural college and experiment station, at the Kixvanis luncheon. Washington. leases on Auctioning of tracts in Richland coal and Roosevelt counties, Montana and Sevier county, Utah, was authorized by the department of the interior |