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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-31
PENNINGTON HOME
LOSES A CHILD
Little Daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mar.
tin HarnaseI Dies After Three
Weeks ILLNESS.

DONNELLSON. Iowa. Dec. 31-on
the twenty-fourth of July, 1906. a III.
Tie oaby daughter came into the home
OF Mr. and Mrs Martin Harnagel /. at
harrington, Iowa, and for nearly two
and one-half years grew strong ana
lovely, her happy little life shedding
sunshine in the home to which God
mad loaned her. Unusually bright for
her age and possessing a most loyablc
disposition, little Martina was not only
the idol in her own home but an.
deared herself to large circle of
friends who loved her for her sweet
"lhsomeness and quaint little yays
For some weeks she had been ailing
slightly, but never too sick to lisn her
little baby prayers when going 70 he'd
until December IL, she was strick m
Win tfaumatic mengenitis and for
three weeks all that competent madi.
cal skill, good nursing and tireless
parent care and love could do wae
done to relieve her patient suffering
and restore her to health but It was
all IN vain. It seemed as If the Great
Gardner who had given this tender
little bud to the care of loving parents
needed her now TO bless and beautifv
the Heavenly Garden, SO Monday
morning ere the dark had given way
TO the dawn. tie little flower drooned
It's head, the pulse ceased to register
the heart beat, the eyelids closed over
those once lustrous brown eyes, the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-31
Marked Foo re.th.

Three years ago was marked cor
death. A graveyard cough was tear
ing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed
to help me, and hope had fled, when
my husband got DR.. Kings New Dis
covery." says Mrs. A. Williams. OF
Bac. KY. The first desc helped me
and iproveme-ts kept on until | had
gained So pounds In weight and my
health was fully restored" This medl-
cine holds the worlds healing record
for coughs and colds and lung and
throat diseases. 1t prevent pneumon
Ia Sold under guarantee at Milkin.
son & Cos and j. Kiedaisch G. sons
drug store. SOC and s1.oO. Trial bottle
free
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ucts generally was notable and brought
increased strain on poorly employed
or paid labor. Cotton was an excep-
ton to the strength of most products,
dropping 8 cents from the high price
at the opening of the year. Strikes
were comparatively few, one large
coal dispute going far to swell totals
immigration fell off sharply, but later
began again to increase. Railway
building was small, but. on the other
hand, bankruptcies were comparative
~ few and relatively unimportant.
A Look Ahead.
1t would, of course. be unwise to say
that the outlook is entirely clear.
There is still a measure of doubt as
to the reality of some of the i'm
provement shown on the surface of
things. Shocks and damage like those
received slightly over a year ago are
not at once taken up and paired.
Short hours are still col,lon in in
dustry, and some time must elapse be-
fore public buying ability equals that
before the paric. Some of The optim-
ism displayed in the securities mar.
k is a month or SO ago was not fully
shared in by many lines of business
There are problems to be met and
solved before American trade and in
dustry are fully restored to the nor
: al. One of thece is the question
whether the admittedly excessive
cost of conducting trade and industry
! Lecause of high pr.ces for food, and
hence for labor, will not have to be
adjusted. Bearing upon this is the
probablo proportion of the European
| demand for our products in 1909. in
I view of the fact that trade among our
/ best foreign customers is still very
much depressed. Our winter wheat
crop does not promise to be burden
/ some, and foveign trade is declining
Then the tariff revision outlook is not
entirely settled yet 1t seems. too. as
4 if further growth in general trade
which is confidently looked for in
1909, might have some important tenn
\ porary effects upon the money mar
kets and possibly upon security Lric.
es, as will the continuance q, what
4 seems to be necessary. very la.ge fu
ture borrowings by railroads for i'm.
| provements. In the end, of course
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CURED TO STAY CURED.
Flow <eokuk Citizen Found Com
pete Freedom From Kidney
Troubles.

If you suffer from backache-
From urinary disorders
From any disease of the kidneys,
Be cured to stay cured.
Doan'a Kidney Pills make lasting
cures.
Keok4k people testify.
Here's one case of it.
Alexander McBain, retired, 81 North
Sixth stree., Keokuk, Iowa, says
November 1909 Il ave no reason
to speak otherwise than in the high.
est terms of Doan's Kidney Pills and
gladly confirm all l have heretofore
said about them"
On May 5th, 1906. Mr.. McBain
said: For fifteen years suffered
from kidney complaint and during
t at time tried various remedies and
was treated e hysicians without re-
ceiving relief was often unable to
work for days on account of the acute
pains in the small of my back and
AIDED to this trouble was a retention
o tue kidney secreticns. The pass
ages were also attended with !. scald.
ing sensation and caused me great
misery. ! had read a great deal about
Doan's Kidney Pills and deciding to
try them, ! procured a box at Tvilkin-
son & Co.'S drug store. They e4>acted
a complete and permanent cure"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milourn Co. Buffalo,
New York, ie agents for the United
States
Remember the name -Doan' sand
take no other.
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Medicine That Is Medicine.

Il have suffered a good deal with
malaria and stomach complaints. but
have now found , remedy that
keeps me we'll and that remedy is
Electric Bittcrs; medicine that is
medicine for stomach mr. liver troy.
bles, and for run down conditions"
says w. G. Kiestler, of Halliday, Ark.
Electric Bitters purify and enrich the
blood, tone up the nerves, and impart
vigor and energy to the weak. Your
money will be refunded if it fails to
help you. SOC at Wilkinson & Cos
and j. Kiedaisch & sons drug store.
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Some Results of the Year.

Perhaps the most notable features
in 1908 We're the slightly increased
yields Of most leading crops. which
commanded higher prices at times
of heavy marketing than in the pre-
ceding year of shorter yields. Elk
ceptions to this We're found in cotton
and hay, where lower prices Offset en-
larged yields Cereal prices ere
aided by exhaustion of old supplies.
European war talk and strong bull
speculative movement. Farm val
ues as whole were the larg-
est ever recorded. but low prices for
cotton, due to immense movement and
d strike in Lancashire, We're a draw
back to a southern trade in the ait
umn Clearings for the year, which
We're the smallest since 1904. We're at
the lowest in February and at their
highest in December. Foreign trade
shrunk from the record totals of
1907, with the largest loss IN imports.
Reduced foreign buying ability was re.
tiected in our export trade late in the
year. Industrial movements in iron.
coal coke and other production and
in building, showed shrinkages from
1907 or 1906 records. Failures in
creased 81 per cent in number but
liabilities shrunk q per cent from
1907 January holding the years rec.
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after-panic conditions. Money re-
leased from productive employment
was drug on the market, and denied
employment in trade and industry, it
turned to the securities markets for
employment. Unquestionably the
strength manifested by securities from
the middle of February onward was an
important element in bringing about
the revival later shown in trade and
industry, and the expression 1.-THE tick
er tells the story" found frequent en-
ployment among that large class of
sanguine people who believed, as it
turned out justly, that the growing
strength in American securities fore
Swallowed a considerable amount Of
recuperation and repair. This same
ease Of money, too, made it possible
for the railroads to borrow funds at
less eXhorbitant rates, thus facilitat-
ing improvements and repairs, and in
vestors proved more willing to take
municipal and other bond issues that
proved almost unstable in 1907. Fin
ally, higher court reviews of and de-
cisions against hostile legislation and
extortionate lower@z-court penalties
were helpful in restoring confidence to
the business world generally, and even
proved sedatives to national and state
officials who found it less popular than
heretofore to indulge in corporation
batting. Later on the apparently fore
gone result of the presidential election
removed hesitancy, induced the plac-
ing of orders freely, and. perhaps, led
to a greater growth of optimism than
was really justified by the improve
ment in actual trade, striking as it
was The rush upward of security and
commodity prices in the fall, ref1ec-
ton of this optimism, had slightly
cooling effect upon those who believed
that prosperity had returned in full
tide and the talk of tariff revision in
the closing months undoubtedly made
for reawakening of conservatism as
to the future. In addition, the failure
Of stocks of goods to move at retail
as freely as expected owing to mild
weather, and the late opening of holt
day trade tended to curb the buoyant
optimism SO notable in the earlier aut.
umn, when large crops bringing high
! prices were moving to market
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c.. 3. & q. Railway Co

c.. 3. & @. Railway Co.
Trains leave from Union Denot
Berths and tickets. Fifth and John
son streets.
South Bound.
NO. 8 st. Louis and south
leave 1o.as IN
No. II ST. Louis and Kansas
City and west, south, leave $40 ~
No 4. Quincy. Hannibal &
st. Louis, leave 1879 pm
mo. 10. Quincy and Hannibal
arrive .............. s:37 I'm
NO. l0 cave .......... 800 pm
North Bound.
No. z. Chicago, st. Paul and
points west. leave ..... 2:35 am
No. 10, Chicago. st. Paul
and points west, arrive -. 1920 pm
NO. IL, leave ........ 7:25 pm
No 3. Burlington, Chicago
and east leave ......... 2:05 pm
No. l. Burlington, leave -. 1885 am
mo. 81. Donnellson, c., B. &
4. G., and North Road,
leave 700 I'm
NO. so, from Donnellson, c..
B & K. c., & North Road
arrive 7:10 pm
NO. ], K. & W.. west, leave S:55 am
No. 3. Centerville, leave ..9:15 pm
Arrive.
No. 4, from Centerville and
points intermediate, arrive 12:4s pm
mo. 2, from Centerville and
west arrive ............. 300 pm
Daily.
daily exceDt Sunday.
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]I|IIl

Train 473-Leaves Keokuk 1905 am
Train 741-Leaves Keokuk $40 pm
Train 472-Arrives Keokuk .S:O5 PM
TRAIN 470-Arrives Keokuk 1908 pm
Local Freight Trains.
TRAIN S6-Arrives Keokuk .10:15 am
"Train S5-Leaves Keokuk .11:a0 am
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Guilty Of counterfeitlno

Passing counterfeit money is no
worse than substituting some un.
known worthless remedy for roley's
Honey and Tar. the great cough and
cold remedy that cures the most OBJ.
stinate coughs and heals the lungs.
Wilkinson & Co., and j. F. Kiedaisch
& Son.
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DR.. w. p. SHERLOCK,
Physician and Surnenn.

Ofice-Y NJ. C. A. Bldg. ONCE
phones: Iowa, sos; Miss. Val. 1877.
Residence. 912 Fulton street. Res
phones: Iowa, sob; Miss. Val. 20e2.
Office hours, 900 to 11:00 a. M.
$50 to $50 p. m. 80 to $50 even.
ings. 2:3O to $3.50 Sundays.
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DR.. J. EATON JOHNSTON

n oIClAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing O-.e.
opathy in the county. The Smith.
sonian truss fitted and guaranteed.
The only truss that holds. Office
North side of Main street. third door
above Fifth. Phone 49, Residence,
Ninth and Webster. Phone 4s4. P.
o. Lock Box, Al, Warsaw, III.
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DR.. CORAL r. ARMENTRouT
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Office-Y. M. c. A. Building. Resi-
dence 912 Fulton street. Office bours:
10 to IL a. H.; to p. m.: evening
hours by appointment. Iowa Zone
529-Y, and Hub. phone 2092, office
phone. Residence phone, Iowa, I'm;
Hub. 3515.
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PHYSICIANS.
DE-. F. C. SMITH

I 6TN' " W. OWI II,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: $40 Main street,
second floor
Office Hours: 10 to IL a M; 2 to A
p. NJ; Z to s p. m.
Iowa Phone: CAB.
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FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Keoknk Aerie. No 6S3-Meets first
and third Wednesdays of each month
at Horn hall. corner Eighth and Main.
Visiting brothers cordially invited
Frank ]. Moeller. W. President; A.
Noaks, Secretary.
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
John w. Young, Builder, Supe..d .
tende1t and Contractor for all kinds
of construction. Also genera rep ~
work. Prominent and careful 49, ..
ton given to plans and es,lnlatsSovs
Your patronage solicited. ONCE :, 20 20.
Bon, eau. Iowa phone. office, 1is''
residence 3342.
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A. O. u w.

Keokuk Lodge No. 256 Meets
ever. Thursday night at 1880 O'Clock
at hall over Keokuk Savings BANK
corner Fifth and Main streets. vlSr
ing brethren cordially invited. RODE
Patterson. M. W.; Ed. w. Moore, ~
corder. 0a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-31

Herman Lodge, No. 11e (Germa,,
meets regularly every "Wednesday
evening at 8 o'clock. Fred Kors,:h ,r1,
N. G.. Albert Keifer, Rec. Sec
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Differences From Other Years.

1t will be seen from tho abova that
1So6 was not exactly like the years
which followed those OF 1897, 1857
1875 or 1899, periods of immense
stress, ard years, moreover when
American interests were more largely
centered in few things, and wnen in.
dustry va not diversified rs it is
now. For instance, there was no mar
hllel this year to the depressed condj
tons of agricultural prices which rul.
e in 1893 to 1896 Perhaps the clos.
Est analogy to the recently past de-
preston was the period following
The financial panic of 1884. witch was
severe while it lasted but from which
recovery was relatively rapfd Our
most recent upheaval was severe and
acute enough, however. in that indus
trial outputs were sharply and sud
denly reduced at an early date and
this fact, together with the pro.-1ntnese
OF the later recovery. which was made
possible by the absence of underlying
weakness and depressing stocks Of all
kinds of commodities places 1905 in
a class by itself. Yet here were many
drawbacks to be surmounted There
was very unsettled feeling in labor
lines regarding possible wage reduc.
tons, the spring was cold and wet
while the summer and fall We're hot
and dry, and the approach of the
presidential election in itself held ele-
ments of disturbance and doubt
Throughout the year there was mani
fest one of the usual phenomena of
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COURT OF HONOR.

A. o. u. w. hall, Eighth md Main.
Meets the first and third Friday
nights of each month Visitinga mem
oers cordially invited. w. ]. Kessier,
chap.
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G. A. r.
The Hawkes. Ha;

w. R. c.-The Hawkes. Hal,-p-
Ma me meeu a. OF florence Relief Cor 8 I
NO. ioo; the second and fourth ~hnr :.
aays OF each month at q. o,cl a,
=. ~. sharp. Mrs. Chas. M cnoh
resident: Mrs. Lena Van Fleet saS
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES
h1!!zlXA6ASn

No. 2. daily, leaves at .. 4.ao mn,
NO. 90, daily except Sunday,
leaves at s.As 80,
NO. 76, daily except Sunday,
Freight, leaves at ..... GEO Am
Arrive.
No. q, daily except Sunday.
freight, arrives 7.ao IN,
NO. 81. daily except Sunday,
No. 3. daily, arrives .. 11.05 am
NOS. rs and n carry passengers.
Toledo, Peoria and Western .,ai,..av
xTratn 204-Leaves n.n,,
.n la,n LEAVES ......... 2.l5 pm
Strain 5-Arrives .8 .35 nm
xTrain 9-Arrives 10. 40 nm
xDaily.
"Daily except Sunday,
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B. P. O. Elks.

B. P. o. Elks.
Keoknk Lodge No. l06-sieets first
and third Tuesday nights at ElM'
hall Gibbons opera house block. Sixth
and Main streets. Club rooms open
dcily. Visiting brothers cordially IN
vited. Rice H. Bell. H. r.; William
Reimbold, Secretary.
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

ffaII over SaVIngS BanK.
Keokuk lodge. No. 544-Meets reg.
ularly on the second and fourth FRI
days of each month ]. w Steigef
Director; Charles Schulz, Reporter.
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INDEPENDENT ORDER on nnr
FELLOWS. -
nan seventh and Main Streets
keokuk Lodge, No. 10, meets rev,
larry Monday evening at $50 o,cl oe1
WIN. herman, N. G.; O. w. Anschnt.
Recording Secretary.
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DRs. ocHILTREE AND BROWN

DRs. ocHlLTREE AND BROWN
Offices and X-Ray Laboratory over
City Drug Store.
DR.. V, B. Ochiltree-Hours, 80
1890 a. M, Sc and SO p. m.
Dr. w Frank Brown-Surgery Kid.
ney and skin diseases.
Hours: 2:30-4:oO p. M; 7:45-s > m
Sundays, 2:3O-4:Oo p. m.
Both phones.
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Puchechtuck Lodge No. IS mast,
every Friday evening at s O'Clock +
X. Hellenthal, N. G.; Geo. w, In.
megart. Per. Sec. " -
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Canton Leach. No. a, PIN: i 81 b
F.-Meets every second Tuesday Of
each month. Frank Wahlgren Cap.
tain; Geo. w Hardin, Clerk.
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Belknap Post G. A. R M q
Scnouten.s Hall. Tenth and M.h
slreets-Meets the first "Wednesday ,' :.
mander. oom'
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Dr.. w. 3. LaEoRcE

Practices only General Surgery and
Diseases of Women.
Hours-9 to 10; 2 to S.
Residence and Office-323 Blondeau.
Bell Phone, SIR, Miss. Phone 157
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OF the Business Conditions of the Year
Just Closing With a Forecast
For the Coming
Year.
HURT BY THE PANIC
But Recuperatlon Was Shown Dur
Ing the Latter Part Of the Year
mo Boom For the
Year 1905

Nineteen hundred and eight 9artooB
of most of the phenomena of al after
panic year with its full quota of early
weakness, doubt and uncertainty. but
guiding forces and ultimate results
were toward recuperation and repair
i mis-, at first very slow, later FASTENED
t. point where conservative optim
ism ruled general business. Its early
months witnessed a very heavy vol
ume of insolvencies. the aftermath OF
the financs-l storm of 1907; saw bust.
ness sharply reduced in volume, IN
immense of amount of transportation
facilities of the country unused pub
lie buying ability greatly reduced low
levels touched for most securities, a
vast number of idle operatives ir all
lines, a glut of money in the banks,
and feeling of weakness akin to that
felt by the human patient after a
wasting fever. Later, particularly in
the last half of the year, marked re-
covery of strength developed, conf
dence was largely restored. money
vas easier to borrow, industrial
wheels revolved faster. idle cars de-
creased in number, buying became
more confident, larger crops sold at
good prices helped to swell collec-
lions, employment was more Plentiful,
wage reductions and ruinous strikes
We're largely avoided labor proved
more efficient. and altogether the con-
trast between the early and late
months of the year was very striking.
Indeed, those who took counsel of the
fears which had been awakened by the
crash OF 1907 were agreeably surpris-
ed ct the speed and the apparent
soundness of the recovery.
Explanatory of this, the cary dag.
posis5of the 1907 trouble. needs to be
borne in mind To all appearances
the cause of the collapse was largely
financial, though perhaps partly po
litical, in tn. hostile legislation and
legal proceedings against corporations
We're additionally disturbing factors
Industry at the beginning of the panic
was not widely involved, but became
unsettled through the dislocation OF
financial affairs. Stocks of commodi
ties We're not large, and fortunately
the trouble affected the agriculture
interests of the country only in a re
mote degree. Most of the damage
was visited upon, first. the financia
community. and secondly, and later
tie manufacturing and commercial
elements of the country Through i
all the great food-producing interests
aided by good domestic and foreign
demand and extremely remunerative
prices, felt the effects only Indirectly
and here, with restored confidence in fl
rSncfal lines, ere furnished firm foun
dations for the later revival. the re
cuperation and the renewed upbuiIdins
&C notable in the second half of tn,
yea. The American farmer. witt
fattering profits in 1907. found larg
and insistert demand for his surplu
products at good prices in 1908. Agrt
cultural values as whole were tn
largest ever known, and the prosper
1ty of this basic industry. uncommo,
IL year following a panic, proved. a
never before, that Americas egg
were no longer in one or two baskets
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"a q. e q. hallway Co.
Trans leave from Union Depot
berths and tickets. Fifth and John
son streets.
The Newtown bee., 1908-06-26
BUCKLENS ARNICA SALVE WINS.

Tom Moore, of Rural Route i, Coch- ran, Ga., writes: "I had bad sore come on the instep of my foot and could find nothing that would heal it until applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Less than half of a 25 cent box, won the day for me by effecting a perfect cure." Sold under guarantee at R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown; Taylor Curtis & Co.,, Sandy Hook; P. J. Garvin, Bethel; l.. Goulett, Stevenson; H. W. Osborne, Easton; w. B. Hawley, Sher- man; Smith Bros., Cornwall Bridge; Connery Bros, Georgetown: J. M. Sullivan, Bedding Ridge; G. F. Baker, HawleyviIle e. W.Hurlburt & Co. Rox- bury; Allen Joyce, Roxbury Station; G. w. Hatch, Bridgewater w. N. No- ble, New Milford; E. H. Beardsley, New Preston; Cogswell & Wettereau, Washington Depot; Harry Brown, Southbury; C. P. Williams, South Britain; Perkins Bros., Warren W. N. Hurd, Long Hill; druggists.
The Newtown bee., 1908-06-26
For Men and Women

This mark identifies the highest type of mems and women's shoes sold at $3.50. And though leather and labor are now more costly, we maintain the high standard which has made Zenith Shoes famous and which our label guarantees.
 Zenith Shoes for men and women are made of the finest quality matel ials by expert shoe makers, and have more hand-work in them than any other $3.50 shoes. They come in the latest styles, in all feathers, and in sizes which insure "a fit for every foot"
 Zenith Special Shoes are $4-a special high grade.
 We control Zenith Shoes exclu. sively and sell them in our new and enlarged shoe section ;n our base. ment salesroom.