Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal Cardinal Gibbons gave a dinner at the archieplscopal residence at Baltimore in honor of Cardinal Mercier, the guests including leading citizens of Baltimore and Washington. • • • Sporting . Jockey Sande rode six winners in Wednesday’s races at Havre de Grace, the first time the feat has been performed in something like 20 years. Sande had seven mounts. • • • Benny Leonard won handily from Johnny Dundee in their eight-round bout at the First Regimeflt armory at Newark, N. J. z• * • Johnny Kilbane defended his claims to the featherweight title by knocking out Frankie Burns in the fifth round at the Jersey City baseball grounds. ** * 0 In beating the New York Giants the second game of the series at Cincinnati, Pat Moran's Reds cinched the National League pennant. ♦ • •

Washington Twenty-four stores for the sale of surplus army stores at retail will be opened in as many cities on September 25, the war department at Washington announced, •f • * Acting Secretary Roosevelt of the navy at Washington has announced that he is opposed to a discontinuance of the Y. M. C. A. welfare work in the navy. The war department is discontinuing the wfirk. " • • * 'fears and cheers greeted the returned First division, led by General Pershing, when it marched down Pennsylvania avenue over the American Way of Victory laid out at Washington more than 50 years ago. It was Washington's first great parade of the war and the crowds showered all their pent-up patriotism on these sunbronzed veterans. * • • Twenty-two men were invited by President Wilson to represent the general public in the Industrial conference he has called for October 6 in Washington. • • • The principal senate amendment, liberalizing the prohibition enforcement bill, to permit home manufacture for Individual consumption of “nonintoxicating” cider and light wines, was accepted by house conferees at Washington.