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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Several districts in Illinois are plan
ming to install telephones l. their coun-
try school houses and the arrangement
promises to be great convenience to
teachers, pupils and parents. In case
of sickness of pupil the telephone
will come in handy to call 2 doctor or
to notify the child's parents. In bad or
stormy weataer it will enable parents
to inform the teachers that they will
come to the school houses for their
children AS a rule the phones are to
be put in without expense to the dis
tricts, socia or some other form of
entertainment being held It the school
houses and the money raised in this
way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
Horrors!

Nauvoo Rustler: Keokuk is pro
crossing nicely, thinks The Daily Gate
City. for it now has fortythree saloons
and twenty-four churches. From the
number of arrests recorded each day
in the Keokuk papers, it is surmised
that Keokuk needs reformation. She
is getting tough. But wait until mex!
spring when Tim Hickey or Alderman
OF is elected mayor, Then! L
makes one shudder to think of it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

phia doctor would do away with the
sweetheart kiss. He thinks the oscu-
lation of lovers is one of the greatest
helps to the spread of disease. Maybe
1t is, but the Philadelphia doctor will
never live to see it done away with.
Nor will any of his descendants ever
see it abolished. The sweetheart kiss
is here to stay. The world will vel
come tuberculosis, epizootic. and every
other malady from falling hair to in
growing toe nails, and back again, in
preference to parting with the sweet
heart kiss. The Philadelphia NJ. d
ought to go chase himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

OF all the prohibition candidates
in the state only one harmless cor
oner was elected The Waterloo Cour-
Ter expresses the opinion that he was
chosen in spite of his party doctrines,
and adds:
This pronounced declaration on the
part of Iowa people surely does not
mean that they favor saloons and en-
dorse inebriety. It means that they
have different views on how TO
handle the question Coercion OF one
part by another part has been con
demned by the voters of Iowa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Congressman Hulfs proposition 10
improve the Dee Moines river from
Keokuk 70 the Raccoon forks. making
Il uavigabIe. sounds 70 the Cedar Rap
ID Republican ike 2 romance out Of
the past In the view of the Republi
can ne navigation Of the minor
streams 81 still FAR in the future. Ita
idea Of the possibilities Of the situation
Is thus expressed
At the present such projects can
hardly have more in sight than polit
zeal tockey!ng. The country has de-
felt enough. az II is, that in the post
Office department alone amounting to
sserenteen millions. Revision Of the
tariff, at the present time is almost
impossible, because OF this deficit.
Now 10 enter upon an era OF improv-
ing the smaller rivers would almost
bankrupt the national treasury Let
us not get in too much Of hurry
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
POLICE AND The PULPIT.

Chief OF Police Miller of Des Moines
addressed Sunday school in that city
last sunday on the evils of intemper-
ance IN the Use Of liquors and cigar
cites. In beginning his remarks Chief
Miller said: You may be surprised
that / am occupying this pulpit but
there is very little difference between
the preacher and the pol ceman be
cause one represents the law and the
other the gospel and the two should be
classed together and go hand In hand
In speaking of tne use D. cigarettes
Chief Miller declared that the boy with
the stain OF the cigarette on his fin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Millers have recently learned of a
process of bleaching -four by passing
through il current OF electrified air.
The department of agriculture raised
the question whether t,is is process
of adulteration, but Professor Harry
Snyder, chemist of the Minnesota Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station testifes
that it does not adulterate the -four
nor cause any deterioration in it On
the other hand it is a help in making
it white and more attractive hence in
creasing its digestibility since diges-
ton is better with attractive food than
with repulsive. 1t is said that even
durum wheat flour can be made white
as snow by this new process.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Illinois was ninety years old on
Tuesday of the present week. Four
score and ten years ago President
James Monroe signed its birth GER
tificate as a state of the union. The
entire United States then contained
less than ten million population. Hi
nois now alone contains more than
half that number Illinois then had
less than $4,000 population. Almost
every county now has nearly as many
people as the whole state had in
1918.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
ANTI--REFORM

/ The Democrats advocated self reform,
! the Republicans advocated reform by
other people.
1 In the beginning of the campaign
we had Chain here, the Prohibition
nominee for the Presidency. He was
positively certain of victory in Illinois.
What did we see in Illinois? Speaker
Cannon was opposed by every moral
force that could be used against him
specifically ON account of his opposi-
ton to the Littlefield bill. The Little
field bill was measure that gave ma
tional power in the liquor question to
prevent liquor shipments into Prohi-
bition territory 1t YVES another case
of substituting reform by other people
for self reform. The fight made on
Speaker Cannon failed. Cannon's con-
stituency did not want federal interior
ence with local prohibition.
Governor Folk of Missouri is noted
reformer of boodling and grating.
When he began his work of cleaning
up ST. Louis. Missouri was solidly
Democratic 1t is now Republican. He
is to be succeeded by Republican
governor, and he was beaten In his
campaign for the United States senate
by a Republican, and Taft carried the
state. The point to be noticed is that
Folk was beaten by st. Louis, by the
city he cleaned up. He carried sew
enty-five counties outside of St Louis,
his rival only carried thirty-seven
counties He had majority in these
counties of 26,137. In all of the state,
exclusive of Kansas City and St. Louis
city alone, Folk had a majority of TO-
202 votes. The vote in these two cities
defeated him. In New York Governor
Hughes gained remarkable victory,
| but even he ran 10000 votes behind
Taft and if he had done the work in
New York City that Folk did in st.
Louis he would most certainly have
been defeated
The defeat of the reform governors,
Harris of Ohio, Folk of Missouri, and
Hanly of Indiana is no defeat of re-
form per Sc Antireform means that
/ reformers themselves may need re-
1 forming, that reform work may have
chosen mistaken objects or used mis-
/ taken methods. That such is some
( times the case was shown by an ad-
dress of p A. Baker of Columbus,
/ Ohio, to the superintendent and field
workers of the Anti-Saloon league at
1 the meeting of it's central district asso.
/ citation held recently in Des Moines.
He pointed out that the work of the
/ league was often done in "a spirit of
! vengeance" that ut is the old Adam
| in it that makes it love to see a man
/ behind the bars that the league has
/ laid too much emphasis on law en-
forcement. and been made the catspaw
of local civic societies." that the
league is not a police force, and the
state that enacts state law must en-
! force state law and not the league
In short, he admitted that the league
had been doing things it ought not to
have done and had been doing them
in the wrong spirit and needed re-
forming Antireform from this point
of view means reformation of spirit,
methods and objects of otherwise well
meaning reformers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Rev. Sundays converts at Ottumwa
number about 100 to dcte.
AS the Davenport Democrat sees it.
the turkey had a right to be chesty
in view of the price tag that he wore.
The Washington Democrat asserts
that negro is always interested in
the advertising bills up for Uncle
Toms Cabin.
learned professor declares he has
discovered an ape that talks The
Omaha Bee hopes he will not feel
called upon to name names.
1t is suggested by the st. Louis
Times that the ships thai bring our
soldiers out of Cuba in all probability
will return to Havana with cargo of
war correspondents.
The National League of Democratic
clubs is to hold meeting in Wash
ington next week to take steps to
keep the organization intact and in
working shape during the ensuing four
years.
Robert Kissick of Oskaloosa who
has been patriotic instructor under the
G. A. r. department of Iowa, has re-
signed his position, and an appoint
ment of a successor will be made in
few weeks.
Steel passenger coaches are to Pc
come the standard in use on the ILL.,
nois Central road. The company is
considering plans for nineteen all-steel
passenger cars roders for which prob
ably will be placed In few days
The John Morrell packing COM
pany Of Ottumwa offer a special prize
OF $25 every week to the man who
ships them the greatest number of
Yorkshire hogs C. c. Palmer of Ed
4 dyville, pulled down the s25 last week.
Canada has been spending some
thing like 100000, 900 for canals and
/ railroads with view to handling the
great wheat business of the north.
west
Richard V, Oulahan, wac had charge
OF the literary bureau OF the Repub.
lican national committee, is said to be
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
One difficulty met wish in the Ell

One difficulty met with in the en-
forcement of the Iowa child labor law
that the child was under the required
age. The burden Of proof falls upon
the state The state child labor com
mission Will ask the general assembly
TO reverse the process; tie employer
and the parents must prove up the age
when 1t is question by the state. 1t
IS expected that this will make en-.
forcement Of the law easic..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

The metropolitan papers frequently
poke fun at the less metropolitan
dailies and the country weeklies for
their amusing plumbers and for the in
sertion OF news items that are anus
ing or farcial or at least appear so
TO them But the Cedar Rapids Ca
zette notes thar the metropolitan pa
pers are not perfect by any means and
cites the Chicago Record-Herald as an
instance The ReH- is eyerlastingly
quoting amusing taings frcn the small
er papers. yet perpetrated the follow
ing in one of It's SUNDAY editorials:
THE Hayerhill plan is the Des Moines
plan modified 10 some extinct.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

A-pickin' out de climate dat though,
would satisfy.
If was a bulldog or setter or a snjtz
I'd romp aronn' an bark an scare de
strangers into fits.
I'd spend a heap O. time in dom mosly
If was mos any critter dat l ever sees
as | please.
A Twin in de sunshine or where leafy
shadows Turk;
But cause Is human folks. doggone.
Is got to go to work,
Washington Star
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
A Hard Luck Story.

If | was squirrel I'd have nothing
much to do.
Excep' to scamper roun' de tree when
people come in view.
If was catfish or sinner or bass,
I'd simply have to swim aroun' an let
de seasons pass.
If was bird I'd go fioatin' thro de
sky,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Anyone acquainted with the number
OF postcards going through the ma g
would not imagine for moment that
there would be a postal deficit The
volume Of this kind OF mail is enor-
nous and is constantly increasing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

A woman has gone into the bank
ruptcy court with liabilities of quar-
ter of million and assets of eight
thousand dollars. And yet some peo-
pie say that tt average woman has no
capacity for business"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

On the average American wages are
two and half times as much as Brit
ish wages. The difference in favor of
American workingmen is due to the
Republican policy of protection
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

gers is always viewed by an officer
with suspicion, for it is part of the
makeup OF all young criminals. As
consequence he is viewed with distrust
by all employers and corporations abso-
lutely refuse to hire him. He is I'M
variably, untruthful and cannot be
trusted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Up 70 ne hour Of going To press, the
German feet had not been sighted off
the coea II England. There vas no
aig1 elcae- Of arr Jspanege wars1ipz
u o1r Pzctae coss- Lord Roberts and
Ecaslc eTiteLtIy n .zrtmed their g1ess-
- y ince- ding dszger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Mt. Ayr is TO have public banquet
in the near future in celebration Of the
completion of $4,000 light plant
At the present time Mt. AYR is the
only county seat town in Iowa without
such plant A water plant IS also
In prospect and will probably become
a reality during the coming year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

ALot1s- olo~ Il - b zt-gck 1t the
tiToTc@ eYfl Z III h~s legislature
nex- Jz1zzry z1e1 BIZ I'll, De in
t-ocgcet vhlca viii require The
erideace Il II efrorc@ cazes TO
BE- Officially repo-@d snd made q
matter II -eco-d This MEASURE should
be PROMPTLY enacted into az
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

In the recent electlon 3. z. Carroll
received 25T2Is votes FOR govenor
and Fred White 1875 .9ss-a plurality
for Carroll Of s0.250 These figures
are the result OF 2 compilation Of the
semi-official returns sent 10 the sec
rotary of state by the county auditors
for inclusion in the Official Register
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Tom Watson says he will not run for
President again. Mr. Watson knows
when he has had an elegant sufficien-
cy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Mr.. Bryan refers to the recent cleo
ton as tho mystery of 1903" 1t may
seem to Mr.. Bryan to be that but it is
as plain as day to everybody else.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Iowa companies with s15.Ooo,o00 new
or increased capital have been incor-
porated since July 4 last. Under the
Peterson law which went into effect on
that date watered stock is Illegal, so
that every dollar of the s15.000,000 rep
resents that much cash investment,
The showing is highly creditable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

The football season is over. but it
is noted that some of the players ere
still kicking.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
DAuy ny MAIL.

DAILY By MAIL. ., m
One 800 Four months. :. ii =,
Six months 49,. L50 One month .n -
Entered in Keokuk postoffice as seeo"o
class matter.
Postage prepaid: terms In advance. ~
All subscription orders should ei,se is a
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Remit by postofice money , order. e *
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Subscribers failing to receive their p hv
pers promptly will confer FAVOR ~
giving notice of the fact
Address all communications to
THE GATE CITY COMPANY
No. 1S Nor.l Sixth ST. keokuk. Iowa
THE GATE CITY is on sale at the fol-
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third and Johnson.
c. II. Rollins & Co. e2s Main Street
Ward Bros. SIS Main Street
Depot News Stand.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

The figures 1912 added together
make 10. Nothing doing. Mr.. Bryan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
keokuk, Iowa. December 3, 1908.

Well. why doesn Ruth Bryan
Leavitt?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Four women in Cleveland are said to
have used hatpins to hold up man
They wanted pin-money of course.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Buy MADE in Keokuk' goods and
boost loo; industries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

Rev. Sundays converts at Ottumwa
number about 100 to dcte.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

The Sweetheart Kiss.
Cedar Rapids Gazette A Philadel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Alex Miller has noticed that nobody
is patient at the telephone
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

AS the Davenport Democrat sees it
the turkey had right to be chest,
in view of the price tag that he wore
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

The Washington Democrat asserts
that negro is always interested in
the advertising bills up for Uncle
Toms Cabin.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-03

A learned professor declares he has
discovered an ape that talks The
Omaha Bee hopes he will not feel
called upon to name names.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
Local Ball Team Victorious.

The Hendersonville base ball
team is doing some fine work on
their base ball tour.
J.. Mack Rhodes received the
following telegram yesterday:
Shut out Canton three to moth.
ing. Here tomorrow; Waynes-
vile Saturday." (signed) "A. P.
Gallamore''. The boys did not
reach Canton in time to have a
a game of ball Wed. They played
their first game yesterday with
Canton and will have another
game there today. It means a
great thing for the local team,
for Canton has often defeated
Waynesville, therefore, with this
end in view and the victory OF
three to nothing to back them up
they have great hopes of winning
victory in Waynesville, where
they will play tomorrow.
The local boys that didn't par
ticipate in the trip feel greatly
elated over their fellow mates.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
South Carolina Elections

Columbia, S. c., Aug. 26.
ing to flood conditions, reports of
Yesterdays democratic primary
have been delayed. On the face
Of present returns it appears that
Governor Ansel has been nomi-
mated for reelection over G. L.
BIease by no less than Is, 600
votes.
For the United States senator
the race was very close between
E. D. Smith, J. E. Evans and R.
G. Rhett. It seems likely that
Smith and Evans will have to go
before a second primary. In the
contested congressional districts,
Aiken, Patterson and Finley ap-
pear to have won. Ellerbee and
Hodges will have a second pri-
mary to settle their contest.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
MAGISTRATES Court.
Reece and Arledge

officers Reece and Arledge
,,ode a raid Friday and ar
Dosted several colored people for
I'oorancy. Along with them he
a;cIed up Simp Dogan. all at
nooan's dance hall, -.
GHGogan's case had a good airing
,o HT9 Magistrate Dermid this
corning. He was charged with
ming a house of ill-repute,
vas represented by Attorney
Station S and as a result was dis
missed.
Three of the fellows charged
with vagrancy, put up a bond of
COX each and made good their
escape. jim Logan and Mamie
Jenkins rather than face the
courts, secured license and were
married, and one more of the
b1nch will have his hearing in
MAYORS court today.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
Bad News, This.

Washington, Aug. 25.- John
R. Early, a leper, is held prisoner
in a tent at an isolated spot in
the outskirts of this city.
Early arrived in Washington
ten days ago and was discovered
to be suffering from the disease
while living at a Salvation Army
Mging house on Friday. The
department officers have written
to the authorities Of North Caro-
lima, to obtain permission to re-
move the leper to Lynn, N. c.,
his home. The public health and
marine hospital service are coop
Grating with the local authorities.
If the North Carolina authori-
ties refuse to take care of Early
he probably will be sent to the
leper colony in Louisiana.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
Ora samuel GRAY.

Ora Samuel Gray, of New York,
lectured at the Chautauqua last
night, on purpose, preparation
and principle" Hendersonville
people were not previously ac-
quainted with Mr.. Gray-to their
loss. It is to be hoped he may
appear here next year, for his
lecture last night must have put
new hope, new strength, into
hearts which were becoming a
little weary.
MI. Gray said: Depend en-
preparation, not pull, for your
,uccess in life. | believe in build
ing air castles, for the young
man who has ne yer built air cast
les will never erect castles of
wood and Of stone. Teach the
children the value of money, the
value of saving money. I believe
the instruments which are played
in Heaven are tuned here be-
low"
He illustrated the points of his
fine lecture by many clever
stories. For instances:
A young man suggested to his
sweetheart that they take a walk.
He had something to say to her.
He wanted to say it to her alone
it was of that nature. They stroll
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03

An electric street railroad from
the depot to Laurel Park, to Co
lumbia Park, to Osceola Lake, is
a proposition now being seriously
considered by local capitalists.
It is said $50, 900 would be am
pie capital to build the line.
The benefits not only to the
streets directly traversed by the
proposed road, but to the whole
city, would be direct and of the
greatest value.
The line would afford quick and
direct communication from the
depot to all the hotels, to the
p~rettiest natural park in the
South, to the new lake, where a
new town will practically be built,
and will be the biggest kind OF
an inducement forpeople to come
to Hendersonville.
The matter is now receiving
the serious consideration of some
of the most conservative capital
lists here, and there is no doubt
that it will become a reality.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
MORTGAGE Sale.

Under and by virtue of the
power Of sale in that mortgage
executed by w. II. Jones and
wife, Rosa Jones, on Oct. 3rd,
1905, to Smith & Schenck, and
assigned by them to the First
National Bank, which said mort
gage is recorded in Book 20, page
446 of the Records of Mortgages
for Henderson County, and de-
fault having been made in the
payment of the sum due and Sc
cured thereby, the undersigned.
to satisfy the debt and interest
secured by said mortgage will on,
Monday, October 9Th, 1908, at
the Court House door in FTender-
son County, within the legal hours
of sale, sell at public auction, to
the highest bidder for cash, all
the following described piece or
parcel of land, to-wit:
All that piece or parcel of land
in Henderson County near Up
ward, being a part Of the w. D.
Justice lands, and that part which
was decided or allotted to Rosa
Jones as one of the heirs at law
of the said w. D. Justice, join
ing the lands of Frank Justice,
Jim Hill, and Meredith Justice,
fronting on the old Henderson
vile Road.
This the 10Th day of August, A.
D. 1908.
SMITH & SCHENCK, Mortgages.
The First National Bank of Hen
Jacksonville, Assignee.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03

ed thro the cemetary. reading
the inscriptions on the different
headstones. AT last thev came te
the burial lot Of the young man S
family. Pointing out the differ
ent graves, with tear7 rolling
down his cheeks, his voice brok-
en- with emotio he said.
Mary, there's where myf tn
er's buried, and next to Llm hes
my mother. Over there s4unt
Jane. | expect to he b-buried
by that rose bush. an-an-and,
Mary, h-h-how would you Like
to be buried next to me-"
Mr.. Gray told the story of the
NeF Jersey minister who adver-
tised that he would speak on the
subject of HELL" Right below
this appeared the statement that
a soloist would sing Tell MothR
I'll be There"