Doing Our Part
The growth, prosperity and advance
ment of any community, village or city, de
pends largely upon the enterprise and co
operation of its citizens.
This bank realizes its duty in this re
spect and its resources and experience are
available at all times for the promotion and
welfare of legitimate enterprises.
Resourses $400,000.00
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Boy Scoot Party
Held Last Night
The eagerly looked forward to Boy
Scout party was held last evening
with all boys present with the excep
tion of one, Sidney Henrikson, who
was severely burned a few days ago.
The scoutmaster and his two assist
ants, and two of the commissioners,
H. Painter and J. H. Flickinger, were
also on hand. Owing to unavoidable
circumstances, P. C. McMullen, com
missioner, could not be present.
The affair began promptly at 8:00
o’clock ending at 10:30 p. m., and the
success of the party was vouched for
by the happiness depicted by the
future young business men of Stew
ard. “Where is my tail,” a pensive
looking reindeer without a tail, was
the first game played and consider
able fun was had in the many attempts
of the blindfolded scouts to pin the
missing tail in the correct’ position.
The next game was “Goo Goo,” in
wrhich all present took a chance
punching out small rolls of paper on
which weie instructions as to what
they should do. The toughest one in
the entire list was drawn by Harold
Painter. He was compelled to roll a
peanut the entire length of the hall
with his nose. The boys saw to it
that he did not fudge on them.
The meeting opened up in regular
THE GRIM REAPER
TAKES TO FOLD
MANY ATHLETES
NEW YORK, Dec. 31. (/P)—Death
took many prominent figures from
the world of sports in 1925, chief
among them being Christy Mathe
son, beloved “Bix Six” of baseball,
and Walter Camp, “father of foot
ball.”
These two men were dominant in
their separate fields of athletic in
terest, Mathew,son having run the
whole gamut of diamond fame from1
playing star to major league club
presidency. Camp long was an out
standing factor in tKe development
of the gridiron sport, in addition to
•which he gave to it an unique insti
tution in the All-American team.
Both of these men died suddenly
and at somewhat dramatic moments.
Camp passed away in his hotel room
in New York while his associate
were wailing for him to attend a
meeting of Football Rules Commit
tee. Mathewson died at Saranac
Lake, N. Y., as the world’s ^series
opened in Pittsburgh, a date mark
ing the ewtntieth anniversary of the
1905 championship games in which
Mathewson achieved his greatests
fame as a pitcher.
Baseball ranks particularly were
hard hit by death during the year.
One of the most picturesque and
popular figures among the club own
ers passed away in the person of
Charles II. Ebhets, Brooklyn pres
ident. A fortnight later, one of his
partners, Edw'ard J. McKeever, vice
president of the club, also died.
Mathewson, Ebbets and McKeever
were among thirteen baseball fig
ures whose memories were honored
in appropriate services during the
annual league .sessions heit. Others
included Julius Fleischmann, director
of the Cincinnati club; John B. Di.v,
and James Montgomery Warn. for
me' i1.* - * i * ^ *. an,l ina iagv,
Mvely, of th New York Giat + »'0
eu.' ying a . 'amt er *:
in early days; Marvin Goodwin, for
mer Cincinnati and St. Louis pitcher;
Sam Crane and “Bill” Phelon, veter
an New York and Cincinnati baseball
writers. Thomas Patrick Powers,
former president of the Eastern
League, also died during the year.
Football recorded more than a
score of deaths thruout the country
during the college and school season,
notable among them being Charles
Prior, star Lehigh quarterback.
Boxing had its ranks depleted in
the death of Pancho Villa, world’s
flyweight champion, following an op
eration at San Francisco. Pepper
Martin, well known junior light
wreight, died of pneumonia in New
York; Mickey Shannon, light heavy
weight .boxer, was killed by a fall
in a bout at Louisville and Battling
Siki, picturesque Senegalese and for
mer light heavyweight champion, met
a violent end in New York.
Track athletics lost two former
heroes in Myer Prins*tein of New
York, ex-soldier oif world’s record
iaind Olympic honors 'in broad jump
ing, and Emilio Lunghi, famous Ital
ian middle distance runner.
Other athletic notables claimed by
death included Joe Fogarty, Yale
basketball coach; Jock Caldwell of
Atlanta, former Southern tennis
champion; and Mrs. Lizzie Reid, the
first woman golf player in America
and widow of John Reid, who intro
duced the game in this country and
taught it to Andrew Carnegie and
John D. Rockefeller.
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Mrs. Mose Smith at the age of 90
has received the honorary degree of
.master of arts from Mt. Holyoke
College, in recognition of her mis
sionary work.
Mrs. Jack London, who made sev
eral ocean voyages in small boats
with her famous husband, will short
ly cruise in the Mediterranean in a
45-foot sloop. * *
business form, after which came the
games, and then refreshments of
sandwiches, cakes, cocoa and ice
cream. Mrs. Harold Painter made
a large batch of puffed rice candy
for the scouts*. Appropriate speeches
■ were made by the scout heads. For
the best personal act of the past
week, Francis Leslie was presented
with a handsome and durable scout.
knife.
TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND
PATRONS
We express our sincere thanks and
. hearty appreciation, for the splendid
support given us during the year about
to pass
We hope you enjoyed a Merry Xmas
and wish that the NEW YEAR bring
forth abundance
OF HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY
TO ALL
Brown & Hawkins
Corporation
“QUALITY FIRST”
May the NEW YEAR
Bring To You
It's Fullest Measure
of Prosperity.
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Wishing all our friends
and costomers a
Happy and Prosperous
New Year
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