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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20

etable Compound had helped her, and
/ tried it. and after the third bottle
was cured. Mrs. ALvENA SPERLING,
146S Clybourne Ave-, Chicago, III.
If you are i'll do not drag along at
home or in your place of employment
until an operation is necessary, but
build up the feminine system, and re-
move the cause of those distressing
aches and pains by taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs.
For thirty years it has been the stan
dard remedy for female ills, and has
positively restored the health Of thou.
sandsof women who have been troubled
with displacements, inflammation, ul-
ceration, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, bearing-down
feeling, f1atulency, indigestion, dizzi-
ness, or nervous prostra.on. Why
don't you try it?
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THIS WICHITA
WOMAN 5 ADVICE
VIII Be Helpful to Every Woman
of Middle Age Whose Health
Is Broken.

Neglect or improper treatment Of wo-
mans ills almost inevitably leads to a
train OF unfortunate results and fire.
auently to lifetime OF misery. In time
almost every organ of the body becomes
Affected. the nervous system is broken
down, the digestion is weakened and
symptoms OF kidney trouble develop.
Women who become pale and lose
weight and ambition and are subject to
headaches end fainting spells, need such
a tonic as DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
These pills have permanently cured hun
ireds of cases OF that nature that had
resisted all other remedies A cure near
at hand is the best evidence.
Mrs Y. /. Turner, whose address is
18th and Arkansas avenues, Wichita,
Kansas, says:
For one year when was As years cid
was in poor health. | was terribly
bloatcd. My hands and feet felt as
though they We're being pricked with
! needles, There We're awful pains around
my heart and at times it seemed as
though my heart would stop beating I
was very nervous and could not rest at
all. | could hardly walk at times and
was frequently Confined to bed. ] had
dizzy spells and was completely broken
down in health
While was almost helpless in bed
| and could not turn over without help,
,cgided to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
could see that ] was mending before
bad taken many boxes and took them
antil cured. Dr., Williams Pink Pills
arc our family remedy and / occasionally
Jake them for their tonic action
Our booklet, Plain Talks to Women
viii lie sent free upon request.
Dir. Williams Pink Pills are guaran.
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morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor anything
% cause drug habit. They do not e.,
| pa the bowels but they actually make
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you want good health you must have
| good blood. Bad blood is the root al al
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GOLDSBORO
HEARD FROM
A Lady Who Lives in GoldsborO
Joins in the Chorus Of Praise
for Cardui, The Wcman's
Tonic.

Goldsboro, N Ca physician treat
ed me for many distressing symptoms,
writes Mrs. Eta A. Smith, "blit gave
me no relief.
81 suffered with neuralgia around the
heart and was troubled at times with my
head. ! had pain in my left side, bowels,
left thigh, shoulders and arms.
"After taking Cardui, | am now we'll
and can recommend it TO other suffering
women"
Just such doubtful symptoms, as those
from which Mrs. Smith suffered, are the
ones for which it will pay you to take
Cardui, the woman's tonic.
1t is at such times, when there is MOTH
ing to show, for certain, the real cause of
the trouble, that you need tonic, to give
The body strength to throw off the illness
that evidently threatens.
Take Cardui, when you are i'll, with
the ailments of your sex. Take Cardui
as tonic, to prevent illness, when you
eel it coming.
Your druggist keeps it.
N. Write to: Ladies Advisory Dept. chatta-
| :ooga Medicine Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. for Special
| Instructions. and 6A-page book Home Treatment
! or Women sent in plain wrapper on request
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Looks Like Suicide.

IOWA CITY, May 20.-Mystery and
sensation envelopes the sudden death
of Colonel J. C. Leasure, justice of the
peace of Iowa City who was found
dead in his bed at his home here late
Wednesday afternoon. He was finan-
cier and recorder of the A. o. U. w.
and had received formal word from
the grand Office that his lodge had
been suspended from membership
pending the receipt of dues and as
sessments unpaid and long overdue at
Headquarters in Des Moines; also the
local members, about fifty-five in num-
Der. received the same type of notice
Wednesday and began to search for
the officer Monday. In most cases
they had paid Relatives said he had
gone to the country. AT 4 O'Clock IN
the afternoon he was found dead in
bed. If no wounds are found his
bondsmen will be responsible.
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CARTHAGE, ILL.
B . o .. . o . . o o . . . . q

o % . . ~ y @ % y y q o q
Miss Laura Manner and Sara and
Flora Geiger leave this week for Mt.
Vernon Iowa, to attend the May fes-
tival and witness the graduation of
Miss Margaret Geiger from Cornell
college, after which they will take up
their residence for the summer at
the Geiger cottage, on Lake Okoboji.
Mr. e. o. Jacob. state student sec
rotary of the Y. M. c. A., was the
guest of the college association on
Thursday Mr.. Jacob has resigned
this position and will become travel
ing secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A. in
Turkey next fall, with headquarters
at Beirut, Syria.
B. c. Bonnarjee, of India, spoke in
the various churches at this place
last Sunday.
Miss Katherine Cherrill is visiting
her sister, Mrs. John Marsh, of Keo
kuk.
A. L. Macarthur, Of Hamilton, was 6
| business visitor to the city the frs
of the week.
Mrs. X. E. Little, of Oregon, I'll.
will attend commencement and be witt
her son at the J. B. Rise home.
Miss Fannie Cannon returned from
the Maplewood sanitarium at Jack
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of the church in this city. He said in
part. 1t is not easy to fill at once
the position of historian and prophet,
and yet this is what we are expected
to do in meeting of this kind The
former is easy, and the second is i'm
possible to those who have even a
small stock of wisdom. But we can
share one thing with the prophet, we
can be sharers of his vision. This
We have, and the next thing is to
bring the vision to earth, and to make
1t possible for the kingdom of heaven
to be something real among men. 1t
has been said that we have no settled
creed, and that we have no real
basis of theological thought. Thought
is splendid If it leads to actions 1t
is worse than useless If it does nots
Merely to think that we have dis
charged a religious duty by going to
church and hearing sermons, is one of
the greatest fallacies of the times.
Men are beginning to see that this is
a form of selfishness which has little
in common with the fulfillment of
4
the vision of Jesus, which was the
tho vision of redeemed and regen-
Grated society. The mission of the
missionary was not simply to make
| converts to any form of faith which
| intensified selfshness, but to show
men how to transmute hope into real
ity. and express their faith by service,
! as well as to lead them TO sec that
| salvation and sacrifice were synony.
nous terms. This was being done
and We cannot hope for a regenerated
world if we do not make regenera
ton tell for something more than a
mere experience.
The evening meeting was the clos
ing of the conference. 1t was ad
dressed by President Long Of
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amson, of Keokuk, are the guests Of
Miss Gene Scott.
Miss Edith o'Harra is visiting in
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Alfred Helfrich of Virginia, H.,
was the guest of home folks the first
of the week
James symonds, of Chicago, is Wis
iting homo folks.
Mrs. Frank Halloween and children
expect to leave soon for Chicago, to
spend the summer,
Mr. and Mrs. j. A. Califf attended
the funeral of the lady's sister, Mrs.
Chas Carter, formerly Marie Eta
Archer, of Warsaw, which was held at
her home in Lima Tuesday.
Harry Peterson, of La Harpe, who
has been working with Arthur Thomp.
son for several seasons as carpenter,
fell Tuesday, while working on the
John Shultz home, breaking three
ribs. He returned to his home that
afternoon.
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sonvilie, last Saturday, much improved

sonvilie, last Saturday, much improved
in health.
Miss Mary Hammond, of Warsaw,
was the guest of Miss Helen Elder
over Sunday.
C. W. Walker and James Hill are
in Omaha on business.
Miss Freda Laaken of Quincy, spent
Sunday with Miss Dora Goessling.
Miss Vera Van Littert, of Keokuk,
is the guest of Miss May Harris.
Mrs. John Worthen, of Warsaw
spent few days last week with her
sister, Mrs. G. L. Ferris.
Mrs. Clyde Johnson is visiting her
parents in Monmouth.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Wilcox, of New.
ton, Kansas. are visiting the family
of f. A. Wilcox.
Frank Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, is
visiting the family of his uncle, JOIN
Vertner.
Misses Lillian Miller and Edna AID
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Tabor College and DR.. L. O.
Baird, secretary OF the A..
NJ. A. The address of the even
ing was by Rev. c. A.. Mills D. D.. of
description and power He thrilled
the audience with his demand for re-
ligious patriotism, and q lifting of the
people towards the highest ideals of
our fathers. This country has a past
which does not stultify it by its
achievements, but is great enough and
grand enough to fill us with inspira-
ton for the future. Travelling in
Europe, he saw many things, but he
could not help saying "how meagre it
all seems" Nothing but the past
Monuments of the dead, but no idea
of the present which was living and
the future which was yet to live
Where they had memoir we have
hope, and where they showed a
monument for the dead, we created
hope for the living. This is rather
the country of today with its rich life.
and tomorrow with it's greater achieve,
ments. But we will not come to our
own by sitting down in idleness The
whole church was waking to the work
which was at its doors. Somehow
there was a feeling in the air that we
are on the eve of greater things than
we have yet seen, and the coming OF
the kingdom draws nigh.
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the recent issue for the erection of the
new George Washington school.
All warrants will be left hereafter
with the chairman of the finance COM
mittee, John Dunlap.
superintendent Aldrich reported an
enrolment for the month of 2,109, and
an attendance of 1865, with a bank
deposit of s1o9.71. There was se7.S1
more deposited in the bank by the
children this month than in the cor
responding month last year.
School will begin on the first Tues
day Of September for the fall term.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20
KILbOURNE Prizes
AWARDED WINNERS
Frank Wahlgren Was Awarded the
First Prize Of $s2 and Anna
Hartrick Will Receive
$41 as Second.
LIST OF GRADUATES
Best Grade For Four Years is Made
BY Adelaide Bartruff With
Miss Hartrick Close
Second.
LIST OF GRADUATES

Frank Arthur Wahlgren, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Wahlgren Of 1704 Des
Moines street, was declared the win
ner of the first Kilbourne prize of $50,
with grade of 95.1 per cent, at a
special meeting of the board OF educa-
ton last night and Miss Anna Magde-
lene Hartrick, daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Conrad Hartrick of 1902 Carroll
street, was awarded the second prize
of SAL for the grade Of "a per cent.
Miss Adelaide Bartruff, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Bartruff, takes first
honors of the class OF 1910. having an
average of 92.4 per cent for the four
years work, and Miss Hartrick takes
second honors, having an average of
916S per cent for the course.
Honorable mention was given to the
following pupils, having made grade
of 80 per cent or above for the four
years work: Adelaide Bartruff, John
Lawrence Cruze, Will S. Haggott, An
ma Sophia Magdalena Hartrick, Adah
Rebekah Musser, Dorothea Madeline
Marley and Frank Arthur Wahlgren,
and the following pupils were declared
ready to receive a diploma from the
Keokuk High school:
Adelaide Bartruff, Gertrude Henriet-
TIA Bode, Florence Ethel Brown, Mary
Leila Colvin, John Lawrence Cruze,
Harry Alvin Duncan, Sarah Anne Eiiz-
abeth Foelker, Will S. Haggott, Anna
Sophia Magdalena Hartrick. Van
Brocklin Hayden. Vera Belle Hawkes.
Fern Stricken Hood, Thomas Henry
Howells, Eva Leah HUDSON, Helen
Marie Jones, Alberta Mae Jester
Grace Aileen Jester, Charles Leva1
King, Leila Victoria Mattern, Thomas
NJ. McNally, Bernard Wende Merriam
Adah Rebekah Musser, Dorothea Mad
i eleine Marley, Roscoe James Nichols
Sarah Alice Noble, Glenn R. Parsons
i Eunice Rachel Peters, Gratia Jewett
Reed. Frances G. Russell, Louise
School, Frank Arthur Wahlgren. Val
B. Walker, Margaret Augusta William
son. Ruth Turner Zimmerman.
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Commencement.

The commencement exercises will
be held Thursday evening, May 26. at
the Grand opera house. T. H. Nc
Michael, A. NJ, D. D., president OF
Monmouth college. will give the conn
mencement address.
Two commencement tickets are to
be given to each member of the gradu-
ating class with the privilege of buy
ing and reserving ten others. before
the seats are put on sale to the gen
eral public.
Class day Wednesday the twenty.
fifth, was declared holiday in all the
public schools.
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General Business.

The list of bills allowed will be
found in another part of this issue.
Owing to the absence of w. ]. Rob
erts and the departure of DR.. Hughes
before a general discussion could take
place no definite action was taken
upon the matter of domestic science
department being established, but the
sentiment of the majority of the mem
bers present, was that such course
be added. and as soon as possible
]. A. Dunlap resolved that warrants
be drawn to pay bonds No. / and of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20
CONGREGATIONAL
PEOPLE !. LE AVE
Closing Session Of the seventy.First
Annual Assembly Held in the
Church Last Even.
ing.
1 WORDS OF FAREWELL
Unfinished Business Attended-Rev.
Geo. G. Williams to Preach
Next Annual Ser
mon.
v
WORDS OF FAREWELL


The Congregationalist have come
and gone. Back to their homes. in
every part of the state, to praise the
courteous treatment they received
while in session here during the
seventy-first annual meeting of the
general association. More than $50
ladies and gentlemen, delegates to
this assembly feel themselves greatly
indebted to the members of the local
churches and Keokuk generally for
the very enjoyable time they spent
while here and if possible, Keokuk
would next year be the meeting place
again of this representative body of
lowa's church men and women.
Those delegates who have gather
ed here during the past week, are
among the finest people in the state,
cultured and kindly, generous and in
diligently friendly and among the
worlds biggest-hearted people. Keo-
kuk has felt it privilege to enter.
tain this assembly of ardent church
workers, as those who have returned
TO their homes over the state, felt Ii
a privilege to be the guests of the
First Congregational church here and
Keokuk.
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What Everybody Wants.

Everybody desires goood health
which is impossible unless the kidneys
are sound and healthy. Foley's Kid
ney Remedy should be taken at the
first indication of any irregularity,
and a serious illness may be averted.
Foley's Kidney Remedy will restore
your kidneys and bladder to their nor
NAL state and activity. Wilkinson C
Co.. and ]. F. Kiedaisch & Son.
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Final Business Meeting.

AT the close of the evening session.
a business meeting was held at which
the formal routine business of the
conference was ended, Expressions
of satisfaction were heard upon every
hand. and it was the general feeling
of ministers and delegates that this
has been one of the best and most
profitable meetings ever held. The
last act of the members was to ex-
press in the form of vote their
unanimous desire that the Rev. G. G,
Williams should be named as the
preacher of the annual sermon for
next year. This is one of the great
est tributes to the hospitality of the
church which SO we'll entertained the
association
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operation. l had
already had two
operations, a n d
they wanted me to
go through a third
one. / suffered day
and night from in
flammation and a
small tumor, and
never thought of
seeing a well day
again. A friend
told me how Lydia
r. pinkham'SVep-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20
THIRD
OPERATION
PREVENTED
BY Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound

Chicago, Ill. - st want to tell you
what Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for me. / was so sick
that two of the best doctors in Chicago
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-20

Many Ills come from impure blood
Can't have pure blood with faulty di-
gestion, lazy liver and sluggish bow
els. Burdock Blood Bitters strength
ems stomach bowels and liver. and
purifies the blood
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Thursday Afternoon.

In the afternoon at 200 the Home
Missionary society held its annual
meeting with Rev. G. C. Williams,
state president. in the chair. The
secretary read the annual report, and
showed that a work had been done
which was greater than for many
years previous. The amount of money
collected. the number of missionaries
supported and the number of fields
supplied all showed an increase Adj
dresses We're delivered by mission
aries from the various fields, and
also by Mr.. G. q. Lougee, business
man from New York, who has been
engaged in raising the debt of $500,
Vooeo on the various boards of Ma
tonal societies. The feature of the
afternoon was the address of the
president, Rev. G.. c. Williams, pastor
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No Morning Session.

This mornings session was omit
ted from the program, many of the
delegates leaving for their homes
during the night and early today
Words of farewell were said last
night and all unfinished business
pleasingly dispose. of.
The most important business done
yesterday, was the adoption of the re
port of the committee on polity and
the acceptance of several amended
bylaws of the constitution of the
State Congregationalists Although
practically the same as before. there
are several changes of interest to the
denomination.
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Next Annual Meeting.

The seventy-second annual session
of the general congregational associa-
ton of Iowa will be held at Red Oak
next year. That is the present indi-
cation, that city having made a bid
for the meeting which will be held
in lay, 1911.
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Read The Daily Gate City.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Dolls all dressed at Mrs. Gaffney's. X
E. +. Brown was in Jackson the first
OF the week.
w. d. Strong spent Wednesday in
Breckenridge.
Messers Doan and Campbell transacted
business in Riverdaie, Wednesday.
j. j. Barton spent Monday evening
with his brother, who is taking treat
ment at the ST. Louis mineral bath house.
Rev. Jay Clizbe was ST. Louis visitor
Tuesday.
wreck near Copemish delayed the
afternoon south bound train nearly three
hours last Monday afternoon.
Postmaster @. F. Brown transacted
business in Jackson and Detroit the first
of the week
Sheriff Frank Oonvis and wife of Ith.
AGA were in Alma, Tuesday, to attend
the funeral of Glenn Naldreth.
Vernon Wright wears the smile that
wont come Off It's nine and one half
pound girl, the first youngster in the
Wright family and Vernon is cores
pondingly happy.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give their annual bazaar and supper
at the parish house Wednesday, Nov
| l4th. All kinds of fancy articles on sale
Just the place do buy your Christmas
presents.
]. Does your piano sound tin-panny? II
it does, have it tuned now by competent
experts. Representatives of the Michi
gan Piano Tuning company can be Sc
sured through the local solicitor at the
hotel Arcadia. Don't put the matter of
but write or telephone the Michigan
Piano Tuning company, care of hote
Arcadia, Alma.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08
HOUSE HOLD GOODS FOR SALE.

Being about to move from Alma / will
offer the following articles for sale cheap
for cash All the articles are in good
condition and will give ss good service as
new. Peninsular range. used four years
i'll good condition. Music cabinet, rock
ing chairs, large upholstered chair, three
enameled beds with mattresses and
springs. These goods may be seen at my
home, 507 Woodwork avenue any after.
noon. +. Il. Brown.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08
Buy a boy doll at Mrs. Gaffney's.

Buy boy doll at Mrs. Gaffney's.
Subscribe for your magazines of
Rhodes.
Mrs. M. l.. Crossett and Mrs. Ira Swan
were callers in st. Louis, Saturday.
Representatives of the Michigan Piano
Timing company of Grand Rapids viii
he in town next week Orders for piano
tuning should be mailed or telephoned
at once to the company's representative
at the Arcadia hotel.
On Wednesday night Rev. w. E.
Doty was pleasantly surprised at his
home on State street by the members of
the Knights of the New Century and
their friends. Light refreshments were
served and very enjoyable time was
reported by all. The self invited guests
OH leaving left behind them a pound
each of some useful provision as all APP
probation of the work done by Mr.
Doty as pastor.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08
THOSE CALENDARS.

Crandell & Scott. the furniture dealers
have on display in their east window one
of the largest display of hand painted
calendar backs to be seen in this part of
the state. If you are planning a gift to a
friend cali and see them.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08

Mrs. Gaffney has dolls all ready for
Christmas.