THE
NICHOLITE
24
September 1935 Vol XI No 1
Submitted by Charlene Hixon May 10, 2014
L.
PIKE HEADS NEW NICHOLITE STAFF
21
Members Organize
To
Carry On Work of Semester
The Nicholite staff, in an organization meeting held Sept. 4, 1935,
briefly
outlined the work for the coming semester. The members of the
class and
their staff preferences were taken at that time. Formal
announcement of
the staff was made Sept. 11 by Mr. Bellamy, faculty advisor.
Lester Pike
heads the staff as editor, assisted by Harold Schmitt.
Business management
is under John Loeb with Marion Barnhart acting as assistant.
The
remainder of the staff is listed on page 2.
The Nicholite is again being put out by a journalism class receiving
one-fourth
semester credit for each semester’s staff membership. A small
amount of
text book work will be covered as time permits.
The printing job is being carried by four boys, who are not receiving
credit. A
better print job is being anticipated as a result of the purchase of
the new
mimeograph. The staff looks forward to a good semester of
work being
accomplished.
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Alpha
and Spartan Soc. Claim Members
Holdeman
and Loeb Presidents of Societies
The literary societies, the Alpha Omegas and Spartans, are retained
again this
year. The freshmen were chosen by the president of each
society as
follows: Spartans – Leo Hollenbach, Doris Heath, Margaret
Fox, Harold
Elder, Vernon Carter, Mary Oostendorp, Bennie Mills and Norma
Hummel.
Alphas – Genevieve Hillyer, Robert Hillyer, Virginia Vogel, Loren
Brown,
LaVaughn Richter, Luetta Pike and Doris Meyers.
Margaret Holdeman was elected president of the Alphas, and john Loeb
for the
Spartans.
The two iterary plays have now been announced. The Alphas
will present
“Playing the Game,” directed by Miss Balzer and “Tiger House,”
presented by the
Spartans, directed by Mr. Bellamy.
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Nichols
Ranks High in Academic Meet
English
Correctness and Economics Take Second
Again, as for the last seven years, our school has ranked high in he
academic
tests, given each year to a large number of schools in the
state. We have
always been in the upper 25% of all the schools which participate.
Last year English Correctness took the lead. We ranked second
out of 84
class D schools and fourth out of the 274 schools of the
state. Economics
ran a close second; out of the 22 entries in Class D, our school took
second
place. In Class D, we won sixth place in Contemporary
Affairs, English
Literature, and American History.
We feel that this is something to be proud of, and hope to better our
record
this term. It is really a scoresheet of the work we have
accomplished as
compared with other schools, the majority of which are larger.
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Enrolment
for Year
A total of 58 pupils in the grades, and 51 in high school, make up the
enrollment this year. The largest class is the sophomores,
with 14
members. The primary room has 21, intermediate 23, and
grammar,
14.
This is slight decline from last year’s figures.
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Officers
Elected
Kathryn
Elder President of New Student Council
The classes of Nichols High School elected their officers and student
council
members Friday, Sept. 6. The class presidents in order from
senior to
freshman are: Harold Schmitt, Ula Green, L. B. Smith and
Luetta
Pike. In like order the vice presidents are: Earl
Schmitt, Madeline
Oostendorp, Pershing Elder and Vernon Carter. Similarly the
secretary
treasurers are: Margaret Holdeman and Edna Earl, Jean Elder, Charles
Elder and
Doris Heath.
Student council members are Senior, John Loeb, Lester Pike and Kathryn
Elder;
Juniors, Madeline Oostendorp and Marion Barnhart, Sophomores, L. B.
Smith;
Freshman, Virginia Vogel.
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Page
2
THE
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Issued
Fortnightly starting Sept. 25, 1935
The
Staff
Editor
Lester Pike
Assistant
Editor
Harold Schmitt
Business
Manager
John Loeb
Assistant Business
Manager
Marion Barnhart
Circulation
Managers
Betty
Pike
Mary
Dean
Berniece McMahon
Printers
Earl
Schmitt
Loyd
Hahn
Pershing
Elder
Louis Milder
Editorial
Staff
Editorials
Dorothy Dedrick
Columnist
Marjorie Thompson
Grade News
Editor
Edna Earl
High School
Editor
Ethel Smith
Town
Editors
Loretta Borgstadt
L. B. Smith
Country News
Editor
Madelyn Oostendorp
Ethel Hillyer
Features
Jean Elder, Ula Green
Sports
Editor
Keith Vetter
Cartoonists
Margaret
Holdeman
Kathryn Elder
Member
of Iowa High School Press Association
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Our
New Courses
Two new courses, Speech and Journalism course are being offered the
Juniors and
Seniors this year.
The subject Speech consists of three parts: The mechanics of speech,
actual
public speaking including speeches for different occasions, and
dramatics
in which the year will be climaxed with a public performance made up of
one act
plays.
The journalism course will be given second semester and will include a
more
complete study than any other work that has been taken before in
connection
with the Nicholite.
Both courses are sure to prove interesting.
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Our
Clean Building
When school reopened this fall, we found a clean, freshly painted
building
awaiting our arrival. What a difference a few dabs of paint
can
make! The halls and stairs actually shine in their new coat
of
gray. The two English rooms look so clean with out their
former
decoration of initials.
We students should show our appreciation to the schoolboard by
endeavoring to keep
those floors free from mud and those walls unmarked.
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A
Clean Slate
With a clean slate we start another school year. No bad marks
mar their
cleanliness now. Will the record given in six weeks be good
or not?
Whether it is or not depends on us. If we study hard, pay
attention in
class, and remember a little bit of what we learned, the results may
not be so
disastrous.
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HIGHLIGHTS
This column is pleased to present Mr. M. E. Bruce, our new high school
principal
and athletic coach, who comes from Hamburg, Iowa. Mr. Bruce
was graduated
from Peru Teachers College, at Peru, Nebraska, whre he specialized in
mathematics and physical training. May I also add that he
received a B.
A. degree. The Nicholite welcomes him to the school and
community.
Wimpy, a little Junior lad has made quite a hit with a blond freshman
girl,
D.M., and we will all wait patiently to see what the outcome brings us.
Yes, I know it, there’s no mistake. It must be Les
Pike. His
hay-fever sneezing sounds the warning bell that his majesty is
approaching.
We have with us this year several interesting freshmen.
Virginia Vogel
won the county spelling contest last spring, and was also awarded with
a letter
for honor work in the rural eighth grade examinations. Norma
Jane Hummel
and Harold Elder won high honors in the eighth grade examinations given
by
Nichols Public School.
It seems as though quite a few of our high-school girls have gone out
for kitten
ball this season. Is it to reduce? They say it’s
school
loyalty. We wonder?????
The ambitious Thespeians of the Alpha Omega Literary Society are
thinking of
the necessary polishing preceding the display of their wares in
October.
As soon as the coaching staff, a faculty member, successfully chooses
the play
to be presented, the turmoil of some will again flash into
action to be
curtain raiser of the Nichols High dramatic program of the
season. This
production, which by necessity will include man of the inexperienced,
will
perpetrate the need for a great deal of expanded energy.
We are certain future Nichols High basket-ball boys will appreciate the
new
fountain in the basement, as it will be a ready supply of water when
they come
hot, tired and thirsty from the floor.
Dear,
dear, is that general science
class ever dumb! For instance you should have seen the look
of
astonishment on a couple dozen faces when they were informed that they
were
merely branches of the animal kingdom.
School work proved too strenuous for Charles last Monday so he snatched
a few
minutes sleep in the assembly, to the great amusement of his neighbors.
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3
TINY
TOTS
Tiny
Tales of Tiny Tots
The enrollment of the primary room reaches the total of 23.
There are
five in the first grade, twelve in the second and three in the third.
Joyce Borgstadt, who has been ill, has not enrolled yet this semester.
Autumn is taking the attention of our “tiny tots” these days.
They are
trying to find all the signs of autumn that they can.
“Bobby and his Boat” is gaining the undivided attention of second and
third
graders in the form of drawings.
“How would you lie to be a goat, or maybe a fox?” Again those
busy second
and third graders come to the fore, by their playlet “The Boy and his
Goats.” The cast for the playlet is as
follows:
The Boy – John Call;
Rabbit – Gordon Daedlow; Goats – Russell Stevens, Edith Zybarth, John
Hillyer;
Fox – Norbert Fox; Bee – Joyce Borchardt. The rest of the
class was the
audience.
May we introduce to you, Miss Eileen Birker, our new primary
teacher.
Miss Birker, whose home-town is Vinton, Iowa, was a student at Cedar
Falls
during 1931-33.
Welcome to the Nichols School, Miss Birker. We hope you enjoy
your stay.
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Intermediate
Courier
Eleven pupils in the 4th grade, seven in the 5th,
and
five in the 6th make up the enrollment of the
intermediate room.
There is one new pupil in the 4th grade, Douglas
Stevens, from
Lacey.
New histories are being read by the children in the intermediate
room.
Later on in the semester, English workbooks are to be used.
The “Better English Club” will hold their election of officers Friday,
Sept. 20th.
Decorations depicting fall are being gathered for the intermediate room.
The fourth grade are making health posters.
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Grammar
Room Review
There are eight 7 graders and six 8 graders in the grammar room.
Two new dictionaries have been added to the reference books of this
room.
The Nicholite takes pleasure in introducing to you Miss Mary Louise
Neiswanger. She was born at Fairfield, Iowa. She
has had three
years of training at Parsons College. Before coming to Nichols, Miss
Neiswanger
taught a year at Libertyville, Iowa high school where she taught Home
Economics
and English. She also taught a year at a rural school in
Keokuk County.
We welcome you heartily, Miss Neiswanger.
He “Better English Club” of the grammar room has been organized and the
officers elected.
Jean Swickard is president; Junior Stevens, vice president; Alyce
Elder,
secretary; Betty Elder, treasurer; Doris Cozad and Alyce Elder, program
committee.
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Page
4
H.
S. DOPE
Welcome
We, the students of Nichols High welcome he following pupils to the
Freshman
Class: Margaret Fox, Doris Myers, Bennie Mills, Mary Oostendorp and
Virginia
Vogle ho come from country schools and Vernon Carter, Harold Elder,
Doris
Heath, Genevieve Hillyer, Robert Hillyer, Norma Hummel, Luetta Pike and
LaVaughn Richter from our own eighth grade. Eight are tuition
pupils.
Loren Brown from Johnson County joined the Sophomore class this
fall. He
formerly attended the Lone Tree High School.
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Hunt
and Seek
Twenty students are finding great difficulty in getting their clumsy
hands to
function typewriters. The biggest temptation is to keep from
watching the
maneuvers of their hands when they should be watching the rined page
that is to
be typed.
They are working in shifts again this year; the first thirty minutes of
the
period, half of them type and the other half study and then
visa-versa.
The practice period is 30 minutes of some other study hour.
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New
Courses Given
As we come back to our studies again this year we find there are two
new
courses to be offered to the upper classes. Speech, the first
semester,
is to be followed by Journalism the second semester. Although
these
courses are new to us, they have bee used for many years in larger high
schools.
The speech course consists of fifteen pupils who the first six weeks
will study
the mechanics of speech such as pronunciation, enunciation,
articulation,
etc. Public speaking will be studied the second six
weeks. The last
of the semester will be devoted to one-act plays which will be
presented at
some later date.
The journalism course will contain newswriting and publication of
school paper.
It will be offered to the juniors and seniors who have their
choice
between it and Business English. These courses, we think, will be of
great
value and use to the students wishing to take them.
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Soph.
Largest Class
Fifty-one members reported on duty Monday Sept. 2, to begin another
school
year. The senior class is somewhat smaller this year as there
are only 11
students. There are Thirteen students in both the junior and
freshmen
classes. The Sophomores boast of the largest class consisting
of fourteen
members.
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Page
5
RURAL
NEWS
Party
Held
A
surprise party was given in honor
of Vernon Carter on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the Carter home.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bruce and son, Melvin, Mr. and
Mrs.
Joe Yedlik, Frank, Ernest and Edwin, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Green, Robert,
Marvin
and Ruby, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Holdeman, Margaret and Udell, Mr. Horace
Schroeder, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Carter, Vernon, Juanita
and
Burton.
Ice cream and cake were served as refreshments.
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Oostendorp
– Yakish
Miss Beulah Oosendorp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Oostendorp Jr.,
became
the bride of Harold Yakish, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Yakish of Lone
Tree at
the St. Mary’s parsonage at Muscatine on Friday, August 30 at seven
o’clock
p.m. with the Rev. Father Pieffer officiating.
Mrs. Yakish graduated from the Nichols High School with the class of
1934.
The couple will reside at Lone Tree.
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Shower
Held
A post-nuptial shower honoring Mrs. Harold Yakish was held at the
Raymond
Wieskamp home Monday evening, September 16.
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Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Holdeman and family were dinner guests Sept. 15 at
the
Harvey Holdeman home.
Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Eddy of Marengo visited with friends over
Saturday and Sunday,
visiting at the Everett Pike, Elmer Pike and Harvey Holdeman homes.
James Brugman, who is a patient at the Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, is
now
showing some improvement.
Mr. and Mrs. William Oostendorp spent two days, Monday and Tuesday at
the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Mathias Lindle, near Muscatine.
Mrs. William Wieskamp has been confined to her home due to illness.
Miss Alberta Wieskamp, a graduate of the class of 1935 has entered
Ottumwa
Heights College.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Milder, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Herring and Mrs. Edward
Mum spent
a few days in the northwestern part of the state earlier this month.
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Rural
School Notes
The pupils of Athens School have organized a Good Scout Club, the
purpose of
which is to promote good citizenship. All of the pupils have
joined the
club.
Miss Jane Kirchner has been elected president, while LeMoine Kirchner
is the
secretary.
There has been a perfect attendance at the Athens School so far this
year.
Thirteen pupils have enrolled at the Poole School this year.
Subscribe to the Nicholite.
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Page
6
TOWN
NEWS
Alumni
Notes
Miss Dorothy Mills, from the 1935 class, left recently for Iowa City
where she
is taking a course in Nurses Training at the Mercy Hospital.
Mary Smith, also a 1935 alumni, left August 4 for Des moines where she
is
enrolled in the Iowa Beaauty School.
Bennie Swickard, Irvin Pike and Waldo Elder are awaiting their call for
service
in the United States Navy. They will be training at San Diego
for a
while. All three of these boys are Nichols High School
graduates.
Alberta Wieskamp has enrolled at Ottumwa Heights College at Ottumwa.
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Personals
Miss Betty Pike was surprised by a group of friends at a party Tuesday
evening
Sept. 17.
Miss Bertha Enderle of West Liberty is our new office clerk.
She procured
her position through the E. R. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hazen announce the birth of a boy, Ronald Eugene,
Sunday,
Sept. 15. Congratulations!
Ralph Borgstadt, Clarence Hillyer and Lee Carney returned from St.
Louis where
they attended two ball games between the Cardinals and the Giants.
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Schoolmaster’s
Club Meets at Nichols
Supt.
Hopperstadt Elected President for Coming Year
A school master’s club meeting was held at the school building
Wednesday, Sept.
18. Representatives from Muscatine, Wilton, Atalissa and West
Liberty
were present.
The officers for the following year were elected, running as
follows:
President, Supt. Hopperstadt of Atalissa; Vice President, Prin. F. G.
Messinger
of Muscatine; Secretary and Treasurer, Prin. Swanson of Wilton.
In general, the same program will follow as last year’s except for some
additional activities. There is to be a revival of the music
festival
which was held for the first time two years ago. Also, all
towns and
country pupils will participate in the exhibits of the West Liberty
Fair.
The chairman of the committee regarding the Music Festival is Supt.
Smith of
West liberty.
The chairman of the committee appointed for the fair work exhibit is
Supt.
Bellamy of Nichols.
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Looking
Back
Miss Marie Oostendorp became the bride of Mr. Edward Zybarth August 5.
Lester Pike left July 10 for the Citizens Military Training Camp at
Fort Des
Moines and returned Aug. 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Ballamy entertained the teachers at a six o’clock dinner
August
31.
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Page
7
FEATURES
Freshmen
“The freshmen are as unusual and as silly as ever,” are the remarks
being heard
all around the school.
Now freshies, don’t feel bad because we have all been through the same
stage. If you don’t believe me just ask the seniors, they’ll
tell you all
about it. It’s just the ide that you are new and
scared to death
that you will do something wrong, or the teacher will scold
you. Well
don’t worry about the teachers, they won’t bite. Just in case
there are a
few freshmen girls who need help, though I might mention the fact that
the
sophomore boys are at your service any time and any place, just go to
the teacher.
He’ll help you.
In fact, I know one sophtie boy who so desires the company of a
freshman girl
that he repeatedly takes her handkerchiefs so he can hand it back to
her.
That’s a freshman and a sophtie for you.
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Now
For A Laugh
We are all some kind of a star:
A soldier is a shooting star,
A boy and a girl are meteors at night,
A little baby comes from the milky way,
A Kaiser is a falling star.
Sammy:
“Say, Gus, what is golf
anyway?”
Gus:
“Well, Sammy, it is a
game where they chase a ball when they get too old to chase anything
else.”
Rastus Jr.: “Why is it that the government is going to draft all the
hotel
managers, daddy?’
Rastus Sr.: “Because they are such gallant chargers.”
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Did
You Know
All the Sophomore boys are Alphas?
A certain junior girl can’t spell measurement correctly. How
about it,
Ula?
Loren Brown lives the farthest from school and Denise Wolford the
closest?
One of our new Alumni has been rushing a certain dark haired freshman
girl?
The freshman girls are having a terrible time holding on to their
handkerchiefs?
That only one out of 23 General Science students knew that lead was the
basic
mineral for paint?
J. R. will have to learn that tripping some one is considered a foul
just as
much in the assembly as on a basketball floor?
That the Alpha & Spartan banner in front of the assembly were
dry cleaned
this summer?
That the basketball team are getting maroon and white colored
suits?
That there is only one red head girl in the high school?
A famous alumni personage recently pitched a no run, no hit game to put
the
local Indies into the final round at the Lone Tree Homecoming
Kittenball
Tournament?
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Page
8
ATHLETICS
M.
E. Bruce New Coach
When the fourteen candidates for fall baseball reported for the first
practice
session they were greeted by a coach M. E. Bruce who will coach both
baseball
and basketball.
Mr. Bruce is a graduate of Peru Teachers College, Peru,
Nebraska. In
college he won letters in football, basketball and track.
Mr. Bruce’s home is Hamburg, Iowa.
Those reporting for fall baseball are Lester Pike, John Loeb, Earl
Schmitt,
Keith Vetter, Harley Kirkpatrick, Virgil Vetter, Robert Kirkpatrick,
Stanley
Coon, L. B. Smith, Charles Elder, Harold Elder, LaVaughn Richter,
Robert
Hillyer and Lee Ulch.
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P.
T. Squads Chosen
This year the high school physical training boys were divided into four
teams
of which four boys were elected captains. The Captains and
their teams
are as follows: Earl Schmitt, Captain; Harley Kirkpatrick,
Charles Elder,
Robert Kirkpatrick, Harold Elder, Loyd Hahn. John Loeb,
Captain; Loren
Brown, LaVaughn Richter, Stanley Coon, Louis Milder, Marion Barnhart.
Lester
Pike, Captain; Harold
Schmitt, Lawrence Harder, Lee Ulch, Robert Hillyer, Ralph Neff. .Keith
Vetter,
Captain; L. B. Smith, Virgil Vetter, Pershing Elder, Leo Hollenbeck.
The teams will play touch every Tuesday and Thursday during the first
six
weeks. Each team has played one game so far.
The summary of first game:
Captains
Won
Lost
Earl
Schmitt
tie
1
Lester
Pike
tie
1
John
Loeb
2
0
Keith
Vetter
1
1
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Durant
Wins Opener
Errors
Cause Downfall
Score
7 – 4
Nichols bowed to a scrappy Durant nine Tuesday, September 12, by a
score 7-4.
A comedy of errors in the first inning by the local boys paved the way
for four
unearned runs. The battery for Nichols was K. Vetter pitch
and L. Pike
catch. For Durant, Arp pitch and Huesman catch.
The Summary:
| Nichols | | AB | H | R | | Durant | | AB | H | R |
| Schmitt | 2b | 4 | 1 | 0 | | Otto | 3b | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Loeb | 1b | 4 | 1 | 1 | | Huesman | c | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Richter | 1f | 3 | 1 | 1 | | Nodruff | 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Pike | c | 3 | 1 | 1 | | Arp | p | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| K. Vetter | p | 3 | 2 | 1 | | Cook | 1f | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| V. Vetter | 3b | 3 | 1 | 0 | | Finck | 2b | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ulch | cf | 3 | 1 | 0 | | Bujewsky | ss | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Elder | rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | | Johnston | cf | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirkpatrick | | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Nurevek | rf | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| H. Elder | rf | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Huesman | 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | | 29 | 9 | 4 | | | | 35 | 7 | 7 |
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Cone
Beats Nichols
He Conesville nine playing errorless ball Tuesday, Sept. 15, blasted
Nichols by
a score 23-2. The lack of experience and inability to field
the ball
caused the downfall of the local nine in the opening frame.
Smith’s
wildness in the last inning accounted for fifteen runs before the side
was
retired. The battery for Nichols was K. Vetter pitch and l.
Pike catch.
For Cone Wolford pitch and Hankins catch. Smith replaced
Vetter in the 6th
inning.
| Nichols | | AB | H | R | | Cone | | AB | H | R |
| Schmitt | 2b | 3 | 1 | 1 | | M. Kemp | 1b | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Loeb | ss | 3 | 2 | 1 | | Hankins | c | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Richter | 1f | 3 | 0 | 0 | | A. Kemp | ss | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Pike | c | 3 | 2 | 1 | | Jean | 2b | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| K. Vetter | p | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Abbot | 1f | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| V. Vetter | 3b | 3 | 1 | 0 | | Buser | rf | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Ulch | cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Wolford | p | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| Elder | 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Adams | 3b | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Kirkpatrick | rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | | Calhoun | cf | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| H. Elder | p | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Max Kemp | 1f | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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Advertisers
F.
A. Hummel
Nichols
Produce Co.
Mills
Motor Co.
Nichols
Mutual Telephone Co.
Kirchner’s
Store
B.
and W. Store
Poole
and Chown
Nichols
Lumber and Coal Co.
Poole’s
Transfer
Fred
Poole
R.
W. Heerd
Chown
Motor Co.
Rice
Café
Dr.
V. O. Muench, M.D.
Ward’s
Café
Clark’s
Garage
Farmers
& Merchants Savings Bank
Bob
Hazen
Drew
D. MacDougal
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