The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-07
NoTEs AND COMMENT.

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NOTES AND COMMENT.
This is said to be the latest song
hit in Atchison: NO Matter How
Hungry Horse Becomes, it Can Not
Eat a Bit"
Lightning speed characterized the
divorce court in Des Moines one day
recently, five DEGREES being granted in
twenty minutes.
The state treasury now contains ST.
019,826.44 which is more than $780,
900 greater than Treasurer Morrow
had year ago.
Tae last session OF the Iowa legis-
lature cost the treasury department
$137,0S0.47, which covers salaries,
clerk hire and incidental expenses. !
Governor Carroll has appointed for
mer Adjutant General Byers chief oil
inspector to- succeed Capt. Hugh
Pickle, who held office fifteen years.
1t is remarked by the Memphis
Reveille that with lumbago in his
back and blind partisan senate on
his neck, Governor Hadley Of Missouri,
has had his strenuous times lately.
A collar button was found in an
Oklahoma mans appendix, showing, as
the st. Louis Dispatch points out.
the futility of searching under the
bureau instead of calling surgeon.
According to George Fitch, a new
wife, new baby and new automo-
bile are three things which fill the
possessor full of embarrassed pride
when he takes them down the street
for the first time. q
Mayor Arthur Of McKeesport, Pa,
who is police magistrate, has decid-
ed that men convicted of intoxica-
ton must sign papers permitting their
wives to draw their salaries for one
year. In the cases of unmarried men
the next of kin will draw the salaries.
The alternative is six months in the
workhouse.
Optometrists of the state are max
ing big plans for their state conven-
ton at Des Moines, May IS, 1o and 20.
It will be the first convention since
the legislature has recognized optom-
etry as a regular profession. AT
this convention will be conducted a
school or institute for optometrists to
brush up for the examinations which
most of them must take after July a
in order to continue the practice Of
fitting glasses.
Zone good way to end violations o.
liquor laws in mulct cities" says the
Cedar Rapid Republican, is to make
| it the duty of every policeman to re
port to his chief any suspected viola
ton of the laws. If that is made the
duty of every policeman on his beat
there will soon be an end of such vic
lations. Heretofore city policemen
have gone on the theory that the en-
| forcement Of the liquor laws wal
something that did not concern them
They have regarded it as county ant
state business. But is it not the dut!
of an officer to see that all laws arr
enforced?"
The Democrat relates that cir
went into store at Washington, Iowa
and bought a pair OF stockings for fiji
Ity cents, although she hated to blu,
such cheap ones and she was some
what sad at her lot in life that 1T di'
not justify her in buying higher price'
ones. Presently girl she knew cam
in and bought pair of silk stocking
at high price and said to the mel
chant, Papa will call and pay TO
them" But the merchant being wise
said, "All right, just leave the stock
ings until papa comes and pays TO
them and then he may bring them t
YOU" And the first girl was not s
sure whether she felt bad about he
condition in life or not"
An Editor at Eishty-eIsht.
Sioux City Tribune: The Hon. [