Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1913 — BARBEE WIRE WORKS PLAY ATHLETICS SUNDAY [ARTICLE]

BARBEE WIRE WORKS PLAY ATHLETICS SUNDAY

Lafayette Team Will See What They Can Do With the Glassy Locals —Game at 2:30 O’clock. The Barbee Wire Works baseball team will be the opponents of the Athletics next Sunday. The visitors have been playing all season and have won a good per cent of their games. The locals will play in about the same line-up they had last Sunday. The ground is not in good condition, as there has been no rain since 35 loads of earth was placed on the diamond. Manager Kiplinger would welcome a rain before Sunday and If none occurs he will have several tank loads of water hauled and soak and roll the diamond again.

Under a special appropriation by congress to eradicate hog cholera, the department of agriculture has prepared to begin active work on July 1. Dallas county, lowa, has been selected for the opening of the campaign, which later will be extended to Ina Tana and then to one or two other states. The work will be begun in co-operation with the state veterinarian and the lowa state college. Charged with hitching his 12-year-old son, Frank, to a cultivator beside a mule and working him in the field In a temperature of 120 in the sun, John Freismuth, a farmer near Campbell, Wis., was sought Monday on a warrant Issued on complaint of the state humane officer.

Charles Ferguson, a ditcher, has filed a suit in the Benton circuit court at Fowler for $5,000 damages against Charles A. Glck, a farmer, living east of Fowler. The plaintiff suffered a broken leg 1n a runaway May 24. The defendant was building a fence along the highway and when Ferguson was throwri from a spring wagon he caught his leg id a posthole.