davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
K. OF c. PICNIC
At BLUFF PARK
Amusement Committee Has Sent Out
Circular letters to Members
and Large Crowd Looked
for
is AN ANNUAL AFFAIR
This is the Seventh Given BY the
Council and an Excellent
Program Has Been
Arranged.

The following interesting circular
has been sent out by the amusement
committee OF the knights OF Columbus
telling full details OF the big picnic to
be held at Bluff Park next week
Dear Sir and Brother
The Seventh Annual Picnic Of De In
Sale Council go. Knights of Column
bus, will be held at Bluff Park on
Thursday, July %, 1909,
The knights, their faniii.es and in
vited guests will be taken to the pic.
mic grounds on Steamer Ottumwa
Belle and barge, the boat to leave the
Keokuk wharf at 8 a. m.
Tickets to the boat and grounds will
be at Burke Bros, 504 Main street and
can be secured by members only.
Those securing tickets will be expect
ed to donate one dollar to help toward
defraying expenses. Payment OF one
dollar will entitle each member to as
many tickets as he may desire These
tickets to be used as invitations for
families and guests, each member ia
sign the invitation so extended, and
to stand sponsor for those whom he
invites.
The Council will provide the boat
and in addition, will furnish coffee, SUI
gar, cream and ice; all Of these free
Of charge, and to be had on the boat
Those in attendance will be expected
to bring their own edibles and dishes
Coffee will be for sale at dining hall
on grounds controlled by park owner
but those who wish may bring free
coffee from boat to grounds provid-
| ing they furnish their own vessel to
carry It in.
The grounds are at our disposal dur
ing sne entire day. The management
Of the grounds will have light refresh
ments on the grounds for sale. and
meals can be secured in the dining
hall, thus accommodating those not car
ing to take baskets. With this the
Council has NJ connection.
It is hoped that every member who
possibly can, will arrange to go up on
the boat in the morning and thus be
able to enjoy the entire day. Those
unable to go in the morning can come
up on the noon train, and arrange
ments have been made to have the
boat await the arrival Of the evening
train SO that any one who cannot go
up on the boat or noon train may come
up In the evening and enjoy the boat
ride home.
Members unable to go should see
that their families are provided with
tickets and the resident Knight should
see that the families of nonresident or
absent knights are properly provided
for.
Committees, In charge OF the Lee
turer, will be appointed to arrange for
proper amusements. Entries for rae
es among married women, married
men, girls, boys, fat women, etc., can
be made at Ewers-McCa clothing
store. Entries will close the day be.
fore the picnic.
The committee will sell ice cream,
soda water, cigars, peanuts, ETC., on
the boat at customary prices
Let everyone unite in an effort to
make this an enjoyable day for all.
as the committee has done some hard
work and wish to make this picnic 9
grand SUCCESS. ~ 3Iova
|1o q eThe Amusement Committee.
l.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

Teething children have more or less
diarrhoea, which can be controlled by
giving Chamberlain's Collie. Cnoiera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. All that is
necessary is to give the prescribed
dose after each operation Of the
bowels more than natural and then
castor oil to cleanse the system. It
Is safe and sure. Sold By Wilkinson
4 Co. Pharmacy. ). F.. Kiedaisch 4
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
ROB
BARTRUFF SAFE
Entered Clothing store Last Evening
And Carried Away More than
5000 In Bills and
Currency
CAME THROUGH WINDOW
Climbed Telephone Pole and Entered
Through Rear Safe Not Looked
and Easily Opened and
Robbed.

With the intention OF blowing open
the safe II necessary, ''Yeggman" en-
tered the clothing store OF r. T. Bar
truff. SIG Main street last evening,
opened the safe with single turn and
relieved the cash box and cash draw
ers OF 5000 In currency and
bills and took So from the cash
register in the front Of the store. The
robbery was reported to the police this
morning and an effort is being made
to trace the robbers, although no ar
rests have been made.
Entrance was made through back
window of the store on the store floor.
There is a large telephone pole run
ming up near the side Of the building
and the robbers used this means to
raise themselves to the level Of the
window. Standing on the telephone
pole they pried open the window and
the entrance was easy.
When the store was opened this
morning the small Office about the
middle OF the store was in muddled
condition. The safe drawer was wide
open, the iron box had been taken out
and opened from the rear, drawers of
the safe were scattered over the floor
and all the money gone. When Mr..
Bartnuff left the store last evening he
did not turn the combination, but sim
ply turned the knob which closes the
door, and 1t takes considerable force
to turn the knob back, even though the
combination has been turned and the
safe locked. There is never as much
money in the safe as last evening and
for this reason the safe is never
locked. The burglar and his assistant
II there was any,, came prepared to
blow open the safe If necessary ac-
cording to discoveries made this morn
ing AS is was the knob was simply
struck with a hammer and turned in
that manner. The iron box was cut
from the interior woodwork of the
safe and screws removed from the
back. opening it. After relieving the
safe of its contents the small cash
| register In the front Of the store was
opened and two dollars taken from It.
The money was all that was taken,
no clothing Of any kind being disturb
ed.
The robbery recalls the one which
occurred in the store of Mr.. Bartrufr
when he was situated at the corner of
Fifth and Main street about eleven or
4 twelve years ago. A burglar entered
| the store for the purpose of stealing a
4 suit and was discovered by an EN-
ploye who was sleeping in the base
ment at the time The man made his
escape to the roof Of the adjoining
building followed by the police and
was caught with little difficulty, spend
ing year in the penitentiary for the
act.
Active Elsewhere.
Not only did burglars enter the Bart
ruff store, but 1t is thought that the,
made an attempt to rob several othel
residences on the south side. Mis-
Sheehan, living between Ninth ant
Tenth on Bank streets, summoned thu
police about midnight, thinking some
ore was trying to enter the house. Sh'
reports having seen the man escap'
across the street when the alarm wa
given and described him as tall
heavy set man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
Sunday, August Fifteenth.
Brave Fire Ladies'

often receive: severe burns. putting
out fires, then use Bucklen's Arnica
Slave and forget them. 1t soon drives
out pain. For Burns, Scalds, Wounds,
Cuts and Bruises Its earth's greatest
healer. Quickly cures Skin Eruptions.
Old Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Felons; best
Pile cure made. Relief is instant. Csc
at Wilkinso.. 3 Co, ]. F. Medaisch 4
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

Foley's Honey and Tar no. only
stops chronic coughs that weaken the
constitution and develop into consump-
ton, but heals and strengthens the
lungs. It affords comfort and reflex
in the worst cases of chronic bron-
chitis. asthma, hay fever and lung
trouble. Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

trio Bitters In this institution for nine
years. It has proved a most excellent
medicine for Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney troubles. We regard it as one of
the best family medicines on earth.
1t invigorates the vital organs, puri-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

fies he blood aids ,.-gestion. creates
appetite. To strengthen and build up
thin. pale, s-eak children or rundown
people,. it has no equal. Best for fe-
male complaints, Only SOC at Wilkin-
son & Co.. ]. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

2:so p. m. Lecture Ernest wray
Oneal.
500 p concert-Lyric Glee'
Club.
Sunday, August Fifteenth.
9:46 a. m. Sunday school,
Hoo n m. Sermon-Rev. DR..
Yutzy. Carthage.
200. p. n: Concert Cleveland La
Dies Orchestra.
$3.50 >. Lecture hrnest wray
Oneal.
500 p. M. concer, Cleveland La
dies Orchestra.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

FINE ENTERTAINMENT
\ Hungarian Orchestra VIII Play On the
Opening Days and Ex-Gov-
4, ernor Folk viii
Speak.

The Hamilton Chautauqua for this
summer Is to be held On August 6 to
il inclusive and will be held as usual
at wild cat Springs. The program for
the assembly has been arranged as
follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

A man applied at the factory for a
job. Among other questions the fore
man asked him why he had left his
last place. WELL" he replied, they
asked me to please leave. and I didn't
like to refuse them. "-Housekeeper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
Active Elsewhere.
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been
helped by the President of the Indus
trial and Orphans Home at Macon,
Ca, who writes: I'VE have used Elec-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

The worlds most successful med
icine for bowe, complaints is Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. 1t has relieved more pain
and suffering, and saved more lives
than any other medicine In use. In
valuable for children and adults. Sold
by Wilkinson & Co. Pharmacy. j. f.
Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
His Mistake.

The vender of images, who had just
been thrown out of large office
building, wept bitterly as he looked at
his torn clothes and broken wares.
who did this?" inquired the friendly
cop. "I'll pinch EN-. If you say the
word mo, 1t was my fault, said
the victim, gathering up the remains
of plaster image 81 insisted on try
ing to sell bust of Noah Webster to
a meeting of simplified spoilers"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

200 p. m Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
1880 p. m. Lecture Judge McKen-
lie Cleland. 'The New Gospel in Grim
inology."
500 p. m. Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16

Read the want column.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
Friday, August sixth.

Friday, August Sixth.
200 p. m. Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
2:3O p. m. Lecture Judge McKen-
lie Cleland. "The New Gospel in Grim
inology"
500 >. Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
saturday,, August Seventh.
900 s. m. Morning Hour Charles
3. Tarney. assisted by Mecca Marie
varney.
300 >. m. Concert Hungarian Or
cAestra. s.
$50 ,. Lecture Mecca Marie
Narney.
f7:sO p. NJ Concert Hungarian or
chestra-
$50 ,. M. Entertanier Charles R.
Taggart
Sunday August Eighth.
9:45 a. M. Sunday school.
1900 a. n. Sermon Rev. r. p.
Powers, Warsaw.
200 p. M. Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
2:so p, lectureH. NJ Boor-
man.
7:8o pm Concert Hungarian or
chestra.
500 >. m. Lecture Charles 3. var
ney.
Monday, August Ninth.
S:0o,a. n. Morning Hour Charles
b varney. assisted BY Mecca Marie
vaney.
7:so .. M. Concert slayton ,uDi.
lee Singers.
2:3O p. m-Lecture Inui.
80 p. mo Concert 'slayton Jubi-
lee Singers.
800 p M. Entertainer John 3.
Ratio.
Tuesday, August Tenth.
900 q. N. Morning Hour Charles
E. varney, assisted by Mecca Marie
vaney.
900 ,. m. Concert -slayton Jubi-
lee Singers.
s2;s0 p. M Lecture Mecca Marie
Varney.
500 p. m. Concert slayton Jubi
lee Singers.
Wednesday, August Eleventh.
800 q. m. Morning Hour Charles
=. varney. assisted by Mecca Marie
varney.
ESQ .. M Mcclure Joseph. w
Folk, ex-governor Of Missouri.
800 p. m.-Magician Edward Re
/ no.
Thursday, August Twelfth.
300 a. Morning Hour Charles
p. varney, assisted by Mecca Marie
{ Varney.
2;aO p. NV. c. T. U. program,
500 p. m.-Reader-Phidelsh Rice
Friday, August Thirteenth.
/ 300 a. M Morning Hour Charles
s =. varney. assisted by Mecca Marie
Varney.
200 p. ms Concert Lyric Glee club
2:s0 p. m.-Lecture Rev. Father
Daily.
7;sO p. m.--Concert-Lyric Glet
Club.
500 p. LActure--Ph idelah Rice
Saturday, August Fourteenth.
300 q. m. Morning flour Charle
varney. assisted by Mecca Marie Var
ney.
200 p m. Concert. Lyric Gle
Club.
s9s ~ -
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
wednesday, August eleventh.

800 q. m. Morning Hour Charles
F. varney. assisted by Mecca Marie
varney.
ESQ p. m.LectureJ Joseph. w.
Folk, ex-governor Of Missouri.
800 p. m.-MagicianE Edward Re
no.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-16
Tuesday, August Tenth.

~ ~ -
900 a. Morning Hour Charles
E. varney, assisted by Mecca Marie
varney.
900 p. M Concert slayton Jubi-
lee Singers.
$3.50 p. M. Lecture Mecca Marie
I Varney.
500 p. M. Concert slayton Jubi-
lee Singers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06
BIG WINDS KEEP
Av|ATORS IDLE.
GOTHAM MEETING OF WRIGHTs
AND cuRTIss PREVENTED
CHICAGO OFFERS DATES.

New York, Oct. "A fitful wind,
averaging more than Is miles an hour,
prevented Wright and Curtiss from
making flights yesterday. Curtiss
came to the city from Governors Is
land, during the day and met repre-
sentatives of Chicago interests, who
claimed to have obtained the use of
the Hawthorne race track for three
day series of fights following the Cur
tiss engagement at st. Louis next
week While these representatives
declared that Curtiss had accepted
their offer, the aviator later said he
had not definitely decided, and added
that if he accepts, the dates of the
flights will be October Is, Is and II.
While Curtiss goes to Hammonds
port tonight, he intends to make every
effort for flight up the Hudson and
around the battleships before he
leaves. Wright agreed to make flights
until October 9, and planned a num-
Der of lengthy air trips in addition TO
the one UP the Hudson.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06

get your base on balls.
"This third batsman had steady
hand, and, sure enough, he got his
base on balls Cummings pitched the
ball and it seemed to be coming
,traight for the plate, when suddenly,
just as it was ten feet or so away it
curved out and missed the plate by
foot Mills called a ball.
The next ball came straight on, but
the batsman, hoping to hit it and pro
fitting. by his experience, swung his bat
far out. But instead of curvfng out
like the last one, it seemed to Jump.
1t crossed the plate ON level with the
batsman's eyes.
"That scared him, and he just stood
there without making move until
succession of wild balls sent him to
first base. The fourth batsman
struck out so easily that it was pa
thetic
well, sir, Cummings began to get
more control over the ball after that
first inning, and Mills had to admit
that it was coming over the plate. But
except by accident, not a single Jun
Tor National batsman could touch it. II
jumped it sank, it wabbled from side
to side. Mills rubbed his eyes and
wondered how the thing was done.
Cummings merely smiled.
"In the fifth iIning one of the Ma
ptionals, by dump luck, landed on the
sphere and drove it into the next
county. There were two men on
bases, at the time. That gave the Ma
tionals three runs. So far as know,
they had no other runs in the whole
game.
After it was all over the whole
town buzzed about Cummings queer
pitching.
.. How do you make the ball
curve?' asked a hundred persons.
Does it curve?' Cummings would
say innocent like.
And then he would shut up and be-
come a clam.
when he got back to New York he
was signed by the champion Athletics
and became their star pitcher. Other
pitchers watched him and got on to
the trick, but it was three years be
fore anybody did it as well as he. Dur
ing those three years his team kept
the championship
"And that. so far as know, is the
! story of the origin of the curve ball.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06
Hon. First Cured Ball Was
Pitched bg Arthur Cummings

Who pitched the first curved ball?
It is a problem that is holly discussed
by the old timers every year.
"The name of that pioneer, said
veteran not long ago, was Arthur
Cummings, and he was a New York
boy-a tall, thin young fellow with
hair as blonde as chorus girls. How
he came to discover curve pitching |
don't know, but it was generally be-
lieyed afterward that he hit on it by
accident. He tried it for the first time
in 1867 in game between two scrub
teams in Washington.
"The famous Excelsior club of New
York was then visiting Washington
as the guest of the old National club,
and the two played a series OF games
on the old White Lot. Toward the
end of the series some one suggested
that the young New Workers who had
come over with the Excelsior substi-
tutes and a number of other young
fellows, among them Arthur Cum
mings. The Washington nine was
made up, in the main, of players be-
longing to the Junior Nationals, the
crack amateur team of Washington.
Cummings was rising young
pitcher. but no one thought that there
was anything remarkable about him,
and the Junior Nationals prepared to
knock him out of the box. But when
the first batsman famed out the
Washingtonians began to look sur
prised.
Its the darndest. thing we ever
saw said this batsman. Il struck
right out at three balls and every one
of them seemed TO jump aside just az
it got near the plate. One jumped
outward, another inward and the third
seemed to rise. May be I'm begin
ming to see things.
1T puzzled Jewell, the catcher, too,
not to speak of Al Mills, the umpire.
Jewell caught all of the balls, be-
cause it was then the custom for the
catcher to stand far back and catch
on the first bounce, but it made him
dizzy.
The second batsman of the Junior
Nationals went to the bat and wal
Hoped the air three times. too. Al
came up close to the plate to see what
was wrong. 1t looked to him as If
Cummings were wild.
Just keep your head, there he
said to the third batsmans and you'll
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06
Game to the Core.
HUNGARIAN ESTATE OWNER.
Never Thorws Off Medieval Habits
and IS Lavish in Hospitality.

Never Thorws Off Medieval Habits
and is Lavish in Hospitality.
I have before me the wages list be,
longing to large estate in Hungary.
says Baroness ORGY in The Youths
Companion. 1t is quite typical. The
doctor heads it. His duties are to
look after births in the village and
to mend broken leg when neces-
sary. He receives 400 kronen a wear
about SIC in English money-and
has the use of a cottage; but he also
has eight measures of wheat as part
salary, so many measures of oats and
loads of maize and straw, so much
hay and wurzel for his COW, and SO on
in a descending scale, down to the
unskilled laborers, the women who
help at thresEing, the boys who mind
the pigs at living wage of about 40
or so kronen year-about g2-and
so many sacks of potatoes and maize.
1t is the medieval system of barter.
The Hungarian gentleman farmer is
the most contented individual in the
world in spite or because of the fact
that he knows absolutely nothing of
what is going on around him. He
does, perhaps, read his newspapers
which arrive daily from Budapest and
has vague ideas that all Austrians
are thieves and scoundrels, and that
therefore a union with Austria must
be fatal to Hungary, but as a matter
of fact the political situation of his
country does not interest him in the
least; it does not affect the richness
of his wheat Or the weight of his
maize heads.
A keen sportsman, he is unham-
pered by any game laws. In Hungary
no one is allowed to carry gun I'M
less he owns so much land, and the
owner of land and therefore of game
naturally makes his own laws for its
preservation.
His chief characteristic is hospital.
| ity, almost barbaric in its lavishness.
all are welcome as long as there is
room in the house. What matter to
him if OK, sheep or calf has to be spe-
cially slaughtered to feed the gay
multitude who come to visit him? He
has plenty and to spare.
| OF town and town life he knows
nothing. Budapest is noisy and the
automobiles are smelly. He prefers
driving his magnificent horses in
teams of four or five along the roads
i where right and left the rich fields
belong to him.
! There are at the present moment
any number of high-born Hungarian
noblemen of ancient lineage and large
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06

to me, The idea of things Now,
l am questioning, gentlemen, | am
questioning whether the real concep-
ton of education is in the mind or
the teacher and in the mind OF the
principal and in the mind of the pub
lie yet where it should be. | don't
want to find fault. / will not find
fault, but l will try to look into the
philosophy of teaching as well as
can and also into the application OF
teaching to human necessity. 1t is
very easy to stand up and crltlclse,
but it is harder thousand times to
do things. | have very strong opin-
ion that the high school of today
should be made of more service to
the common men, to the men who
will never go any further. Think for
moment what a vast number of your
pupils stop at the eighth grade!
Think how that eighth grade school rs
thing compared with the country
SCHOOL, Think of the mathematics Oh
education all over this state hitting
the farmers Ninety-five per cent.
of the farmers all over the state have
never had any other schooling but
that of the country district school,
The state never did anything for
those people. 1t never did what 1t
ought to have done Now then, at the
eighth grade, as l said, a great ma
jority of the people stop. A great ma
jority of the students stop and but
small fraction go through and gradu-
ate If we graduate in a year 20
scholars out of 200, if we graduate,
you see, one-eighth, we think we are
doing excellent work. Now, when l
talk with these young men and ask
they why they do not go through and
graduate, they tell me some things
that / do not hear elsewhere. Why
they say, I'VE don't see any necessity
for it. We don't see any use in it,
Their hunger to get into the practical
things of life convinces them that
time will be thrown away. Now, |
wish something could be done by
which the great body of students IN
the high school could be convinced
of the value of graduating in the high
school, evep though you may be pur-
suing studies that practically are
worthless in many particulars, but |
| feel as though something should be
done with the high school to convince
OF itself, is a local necessity, that it
should subserve the interests of the
local community to q larger degree
than it does and to that extent I do
deprecate it's being subservient to the
university. I believe that the local
high school should establish its own
curriculum and that it should be alb
solutely without interference ON the
part of the university or any of its
officers. We have had some expert
ence ourselves that were not very
pleasant.
Now, these are few of the
thoughts that have, and they are not
worth much gentlemen, they are not
even worth MY time in coming to
give them to you. They are not worth
your sitting and listening to, but this
much | will say as a parting shot,
that the high school of Wisconsin is
the most important school today in
the state 1t is a thousand times
greater than the university in it's Ell
feet upon the public welfare. 1t is a
thousand times greater than any
other educational Institution. 1t ought
to be the most perfect piece of work,
educationally considered, that the
state affords