Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1909 — K. O. K. A.'S WIN FIRST GAME IN RACE FOR PENNANT [ARTICLE]

K. O. K. A.'S WIN FIRST GAME IN RACE FOR PENNANT

Defeat Chicago Thursday By -Score of 7 to 4—Cope Hanley Nominated For City Clerk. Boy City, Winona Lake, July 30— The K. Of. K. A.*s defeated the Chicago team yesterday afternoon in the first game in the contest for the league pennant by a score of 7 to 4'. The Clark boys were in the box. Cope Hanley Nominated for Clerk. Boy City, Winona Lake, July 29 Cope Hanley, of Rensselaer, was nominated for city clerk on the Conservative and Liberalist tickets. His election is assured. The preliminary race has been run and the big race for the city offices, which is to end Friday, is on. Never before in the history of Boy City has interest been so manifest. All day yesterday the talk was wholly of the caucuses to be held during the evening, and by night the excitement was at fever heat. Immediately after supper the band gave a concert on the plaza and then the meetings were called to order. After the party leaders had been nominated and all the business transacted, members of both parties met on the plaza and speeches were made by all the candidates. All the speakers were introduced by Mayor Joe Clark. At 7:30 o’clock the Liberalist caucus meeting was called to order and, after a stormy and heated session in which there were brilliant speeches made by different boys, a strong ticket was put in the field headed by Varnum Evans, of Chicago, for mayor. The remainder of the ticket is for clerk, Cope Hanley, of Rensselaer; for treasurer, Emerson Meeker, of Union Mills; for board of public works, Joe Clark, of Portland, and Chester Tobman, of Union Mills. At an enthusiastic meeting of the Conservative party last night a strong ticket w’as placed in the field, headed by Upton, of Muncie. After a selection by the band, the meeting was called to order, and after a few' talks by the camp leaders present the following ticket was nominated: For mayor, Lester Upton, of Muncie; for city clerk, Cope Hanley, of Rensselaer; for city treasurer, Homer Sechrist, of Alexandria; for board of public works, Harry Rodgers, of Champaign, III.; Will Ferguson, of Ossian, Ind., and Abb Williams, of Richmond, Wis.

Base Bail Leagne Organized. The baseball league has been oiganized and the schedule arranged, and this itternoon at 2:30 o’clock the first 1 1 me will be played- Chicago and Rensselaer will be the opponents for the opening match and a lively exhibition of the national sport is expected. The Boy City band will be out and liven things up with music. Mayor Joe Clark will pitch the first ball over the plate and the race for the pennant will be on. Mr. Penhallegon will umpire. The names of the nines in the race are as follows; Chicago, Rensselaer, Band, Ossian, Union Mills, Winona. The Boy City baseball diamond was the scene of another exciting game yesterday morning when the Band team and the team from the Chicago camp crossed bats. The final score was 12 to 11 in favor of the Band. This morning at 9:30 o’clock the officers and managers of Boy City will play a team picked from among the boys. —Boy City News. A number of remarkable cures are reported on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne, at St. Anne, 111., marktag the close of a nine day's novena, which terminated Sunday. Lillian 1 ouDtaln of Kankakee was cured of blindness, and scores of crippled and afflicted people threw away tbqlr crutches and bandages. Three thousand pilgrims thronged the streets of the little village, including a delegation of 1,100 from Kankakee and 400 from Chicago. The only foreign countries to which letters can be sent at the domestic rate of two cents an ounce are Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, New Found I and, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Panama, and to other foreign countries the rate of postage for letters is five cents for the first ounce and three cents for each additional ounce. The only foreign countries to which domestic rates for articles other than letters extend are Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Panama.