Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — Midshipman Dismissed. [ARTICLE]

Midshipman Dismissed.

And now comes Harvard College and abolishes the game of football, because, as stated by the overseers, “It is a menace to the morals as well as the bodies of the players; that the present method of playing the game is thoroughly bad and ought to be stopped absolutely and Anally, and that any university taking this actiou will later be considered as a benefactor by many players and by all lovers of healthful, clean sport and fair play.”

William O’Keefe, the democratic treasurer of Marshall county, has just turned $1,320 5(5 into the county treasury, the amount received by him as interest on ojuuty fuuds for the past year, making a total of $4,02(5 34, which he has turned in from the same source during the four years he has been treasurer of that county. Mr. O’Keefe is probably the only couuty treasurer in the state who has ever done so preposterous a thing—-from the politicians’ standpoint—but he argues that the oounty money, as well as that of the state, belongs to ttie people, and they are entitled to whatever revenue is derived from the same. Seemo a little strange, every time a millionaire or greatly prominent man gets the bellyache that he dies. Marshall Field, the great merchant prince aud hundred times millionaire, is the latest victim of “too many doctors.” The poor man and the man in average circumstances can congratulate himself that he is not “great” for when he gets sick he usually thinks he can afford but one doctor, and as a consequence is soon upon his feet again. In the past quarter of a century we have seen scores of prominent public men die when surrounded with all the medical skill that wealth could procure, and from complaints that nine out of every ten men in the ordinary walks of life would have easily recovered from.

Annapolis, Jan. 18.—At noon when tbe full brigade of midshipmen were paraded for the regular dinner formation, Midshipmen Pettersen Barto Marzoni, and W. W. Footer, of the first class, and Trenmor Coffin, Jr., of tbe third class, were publicly dismissed from the United States navy for having plebes or fourth classmen. The order of the secretary of the navy was a short one and in each case was addressed personally to the midshipman directly concerned.