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Digestion and Assimilation n.

Digestion and NssInIlatIon.
1t is no. the quantity OF food taken
but the amount digested and assim-
Hated thas gives strength and vital
ity to the system Chamberlain's
Stomach aud Liver Tablets invigorate
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3. P. o. ELKs.

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Keokuk Aerie. No. 6S3-Meets first
and third Wednesday OF each month al
Eagles hall. 523 Main. Visiting broth.
ers cordially invited. Geo. ]. D. Salzer,
w. President: G. A. Noakes, secretary.
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MODERN WooDMEN OF AMERICA
Gibbons Hall.
Keokuk Camp.No. 622-Meets every
Wednesday evening at 1880 p. m. Our
latch string is out to neighbors. Q. b
Lake, v. c.; ]. A. Pollard. Clerk
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ROYAL ARcANuM.

Keokuk Council No. $50 meets first
and third Monday each month Hawkes.
hall, Sth and Main. Visitingsbr
fraternally invited to attend. G. NJ.
Vogler. Regant, ]. I. Anniable. Seoy'
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Frail women, women during menstru-.
ion. pregnancy or nursing should Keep
he bowels well open. Try DR.. Caid.
ellis = Syrup Pepsin. At all drug
Jtores. so cents and 81 q bottle.
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A Q. U. '

A. o. u. w.
Keokuk Lodge. No. 256-Meets
svery Thursday night at 1880 O'clock
Ut hall over Keokuk Savings bank.
corner Fifth ana Main streets. Visit
ing brethren cordially invited. Thos.
W. Lester. NJ W.: A. 3. Moore. re-
corder.
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Puckechtuck Encampment, No. Z.
meets first and third Thursday even.
ings OF each month. VIM. G. Kum-
me-. Scribe.
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Herman Lodge No. 11s. Germany.
meets regularly every Wednesday
evening at 5 o'clock. J. ]. Rabe, N. G.:
Albert Kiefer, Rec. SEQ.
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necessary capital was provided and
preliminary surveys completed.
Hughes Makes Statement.
Judge Felix T. Hughes of the firm
of Hughes and McCoid was in Car
thage Saturday morning ming the Pc
tition and returned to Keokuk on the
Wabash train at 11:15 o'clock. He
gave out the following statement re-
garding the suit:
1--WE preferred the courts Of Illinois
because the Keokuk and Hamilton
Water Power Company is a corpora
ton of that state and its courts have
decided that such corporations can
not condemn land for the purposes
claimed by the defendants, and as the
Mississippi River Power Company
gets only the rights as assignee, as
the Keokuk and Hamilton Water
Power Company has, it cannot con-
denim. The Water Power people seek
an undue advantage over the Green
Bay farmers and have called to their
aid about all the lawyers on the
pool especially outside of Keokuk,
going to Burlington for Mr.. Blake,
then Mr.. Davis of Des Moines and to
Boston where they have many law
yers, one of which they say is the
"best in the world all to put through
condemnation steps, which as they
claim are SO plain that any law clerk
ought to carry out. They write long
articles and submit to interviews
through the papers. citing laws claim
/ ed to be favorable to them, and Mr..
Blake writes pathetically to the peo-
pie of this county and it's supervis-
ors to see that these Green Bay farm
ers submit to having their lands put
under a wall of water protected only
by a levee. The company threatens
dire calamities against the city of
FIT. Madison if they let any of their
4 lawyers take the Green Bay farmers
cases on percentage basis.
"Mr Cooper in his interview with
4 a st. Louis paper says he dropped
down a total stranger In Washington
/ and in a day or SO got congress to
H pass a bill giving his company the
Il power of eminent domain and all at
cost of $500, but no lawyer has
as yet been able to find any such act
of congress or one in which his com
panies are named or referred to and
such an act does not exist.
J "The Green Bay farmers are not
adverse to the building of the dam
! and the only charge made against
them is that they are unwilling tc
give up their homes and friends where
they have lived and most of then
born, and seek others among strang
ers and places where they do mo-
!, like to live. The farmers do not be
I ! lieve their lands will be SO benefited
, | as to warrant them in putting UP {
= 800, 900. 90, one-half of the levee cost
: and this is the only mistake and crime
4 with which they are charged and 81
/ they propose to sell the power PEG
Y pie their lands at what they believ'
, they ought to have in warrantint
: them in abandoning their homes ant
S getting others they know not Of "
e 1.-THE water power company has n
: more right to condemn lands thai
any other private manufacturing
company and If they ever had sucl
right under the Section 1890 of tn
Iowa code they have long since for
feited that right by not beginning tn
work in two years after date OF tn
act of congress of 1905"
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Puckachetuck Lodge No. 4s. meets
every Friday evening at 8 o'clock
Frank Vollers, N. G.; Geo. w. Imme-
CART, Permanent Secretary.
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Denies Right to Condemn.
WELCOME WORDS TO WOMEN

Women who suffer with disorders peculiar to their
sex should write Dr. Pierce and receive free the
advice of physician of 40 years experience
skilled and successful specialist in the diseases
of women. Every letter of this sort has the
careful consideration and is regarded sacredly
confidential. Many senstively modest women write
fully to DIR. Pierce what they would shrink from
telling to their local physician. The local physician
is pretty sure TO say that he cannot do anything
without IAN examination DIR. Pierce holds that
these distasteful examinations generally need
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INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODE
FELLOWS.
Hall Seventh and Main Streets.
keokuk Lodge. No. 13. meets regu.
Iarly Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock.
John Moore, N. g.; Otto Anschutz.
Recording Secretary.
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pose and the said act is SO far void
within the constitution of the United
States.
The petition then says that If by
virtue of Chapter the companies had
the right to acquire then it was lost
because more than two years elapsed
from the time the companies We're
authorized to do business and the
necessary capital was provided and
preliminary surveys completed.
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Hardin Lodge No. 2s.-Holds it, reg.
ular monthly meeting the second
Monday evening Of each month.
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FRATERNAL CARDS

MASONIC.
4 Hall, corner Fourth and Main
~ Eagle lodge. No. 12-Hclds i,a
IN regular meeting the arst Tues
day evening Of each month.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
IMPROVE COMMUNITY LIFE
ic Association. Some Timely
Topics Talked About,

WASHINGTON.-BiIl board nui-
sances, the smoke problem, the raw
ages of the typhoid fly and the or
ganization of effort to eradicate them
for the improvement of the commu-
nifty life constituted the general
trend of the discussion outlined for
the closing session of the American
Civic Association.
"Ciyic Cooperation to a Clean
City" was the subject of the opening
address delivered by Mrs. Car
oline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo,
Mich. Miss iona Gale of Portage,
Wis, was scheduled to follow with
a paper on Friendship Village I'm
proyement Society,""
In developing the topic, Legal
Control of the Billboard" Clyde D.
Day, assistant corporation council of
Chicago, was expected to show the
legal methods that may be invoked
for the abolition of the billboard.
There is only one phase of the
billboard's nuisance" says the asso-
cations announcement for today's
session, and that is the legal phase,
for public sentiment is very marked
in opposition to it,"
Cyrus Locher of the chamber of
commerce of Cleveland, Ohio, was
expected to speak on the smoke null
sance and the law, outlining as the
method of obtaining relief from
smoke evils the drafting of Ordi-
nances to be adopted after thor
ough study of the question.
DR.. L. o. Howard, chief entomol
ogist of the department of agricult-
ure, is to begin the afternoon session
with a paper on the typhoid fly. DR..
Woods Hutchinson will answer the
question, why Is Fly?" and Leroy
Boughner of Minneapolis, Mimi, will
tell about "The Newspaper as an
Educational Factor Against the Fly"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
BIBLES FOR HOTEL GUESTS.
5000 Young Men Carry Bibles to All
of Chicago Hotel Bedrooms.

5000 Young Men Carry Bibles to All
of Chicago Hotel Bedrooms.
Chicago has witnessed many
unique professions in the course of
her career, but it remained for the
last day of 1910 to furnish a parade
that has never been duplicated in
that or any other city of the land.
Starting from the Central Y. M.
Z. A. building at an appointed hour
one thousand young men, each carry
Ing a half dozen Bibles, marched in
procession through the downtown
streets, and stopped at all of the
leading hotels.
The young men were from the
churches and other religious organi-
cations of the city, and the burden
they carried, the 5000 Bibles, were
gwen free to the hotels by the Asso-
cation of Gideon or christian trav-
cling men of the United States.
The Bibles were placed in the
MOTEL bedrooms, the purpose of the
project being to encourage Bible
reading.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11

ing prosperity which depended upon
freedom of contract would soon
become a barren FORM said Justice
Hughes, who announced the opinion
of the court, IF it were possible to
establish statutory presumption of
this sort and to hold over the heads
of laborers the threat of punishment
for crime, under the name of fraud,
but merely upon the evidence of
failure to work out their debts"
The question of the constitution
atty of the law was raised in the
case of Alonzo Bailey, a negro labor
er for the Riverside Company. Bail
ey made contract to labor as a
farm hand for one year, received SIS
advanced pay to be returned at the
rate $2.25 a month during his term
of service, but quit work after a
month and a few days. He was ar
rested, convicted and assessed a fine
of twice the amount of the advanced
pay one-half of which was to go to
his former employer and one-half
to the state. When his case came
to the supreme court the department
of justice was allowed to participate
in the arguments, "as a friend of
the court" claiming that the thir-
teenth amendment to the constitu-
ton was violated by the law in ques-
ton. The supreme court of Ala
bama had upheld the constitutional
ity of the law.
Justice Hughes said that the court
at the outset dismissed the point
that Bailey was black man, be-
cause there was nothing in the stat
ute that disclosed discrimination
against negroes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
THE FAMOUS BATHTUB CASE
Lawyers Have Long Secret Confer
ence With Women Accused of
Murder of Mrs. Ocey Snead.

NEWARK, N. Although more
than a year has elapsed since the
bath tub mystery" in this city came
to light with the finding of the dead
body of Mrs. Ocey Snead, the indi-
cations are that the two sisters
aunts of the dead young woman
Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and Mrs.
Mary B. Snead, will be placed on
trial Monday charged with the MUIR
der of the young woman. They
have been held in Jail under indict-
ment since the detectives who were
at work on the case first placed
them under arrest.
Today the two women, who were
known as the Wardlaw sisters, had
a secret conference with their coun-
sell The conference lasted most of
the day. No one connected with the
case would discuss the case in any
manner after the counsel had fin
ished. 1t is probable, however, that
the lawyers reviewed the entire case
with Mrs. Martin and Mrs Snead to
freshen their meories in the case.
The case has been continued sew
eral times. While it is possible that
another attempt will be made to OBJ
tain a further continuance of the
case it is believed here tonight that
the trial will take place on Monday,
the date fixed for it to begin.
At today's conference the lawyers
had bundles of documents with
them, which strengthens the rumor
that they are putting on the fin
ishing touches of their preparatory
work to take the case into the court
at once.
Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead were
reported extremely nervous tonight.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
SOUTH 1ffSS'''sl bio 1T OF CRUELTY"
A DAWSON MERCHANTS "AO"
Used by Newspaper of Neighboring
Town as a Home Booster Article.
Sound and Timely Talk.

Merchants of Dawson have a rep
utation for their catchy, interesting
advertisements, which are often
written with view of beneftting
their town as well as the particular
firm or business that is advertised.
But the unusual honor has been done
one of them by a neighboring news
paper OF using his 'ad' as a town
booster article. The current issue of
the Arlington Courier reproduced
the advertisement of Mr.. C. M. Ad-
ans, the jeweler, that appeared in
the last issue of The News, and pre-
faced it with the remark that it con-
tanned suggestions that are applica-
BILE to every town. That part of
Mr.. Adams advertisement the Cou-
rier reproduced for the benefit it
might be to it's own town and bust
ness men is as follows:
Are you a booster, or are you a
sapper? We know a few merchants
and men with ratings who never
spend dollar at home when they
can buy the article away from home
at the same price-men who have
made all they have out of the home
people, and have put as little of it
circulation as possible unless they
saw where it would be the means of
increasing their supply. The same
men will sit up and tell you the evil
of ordering from mail order houses.
There are hypocrites in the mer-
camille world, and they should be
avoided by the man who believes in
UNFOLDING his community. We all
know him, and haven't the same
respect for him as for the man who
gives his home town the prefer
ence"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
CENSUS OF THE CITIES.
Facts of Interest About Those Hav-
ing $4,000 and More Population.

The Bureau of the Census has an
nounced the population of all the
cities of the United States having
as many as 5000 inhabitants.
There are 22S such cities-fifty of
which have population of 100000
or more, and IT'S of which have
population of $4,000 to 100000.
Of the fifty cities with 100000 or
more population fourteen have en-
tered that class since the year 1900.
These same cities contain nearly 25
per cent of the total population of
the country.
There are nineteen cities having
over quarter of a million inhabi-
tants, four of which have entered
the group since 1900. The rank
of the five greatest cities has re-
manned the same for twenty years.
Seven cities have advanced in rank
since the last census, three of them
being on the great lakes.
Of the 178 cities having a popula-
ton Of $4,000 to 100000 inhabitants
107 were in the same group in 1900,
seventy have been advanced during
the decade, and one has fallen below
the 100000 limit in the same period.
These 17S cities contained 8,2O4,-
$50 inhabitants, an increase of 1915
per cent.
1t is noteworthy that the smaller
cities as a group have maintained
during the last ten years, as we'll as
during the previous ten, a rate of
growth considerably above that
maintained by the larger cities, be-
ing 1915 per cent as against 1876,
while during the previous ten years
the ratio was 34.4 to 20 per cent.
About one-third (69 out of 22S)
of the cities of the country show
an increase of over SO per cent DUR
ing the last ten years. Of the North
ern cities 35 out of 1914 show such
increase; of the Southern cities 1S
out of 43, and of the Western cities
Is out of FL
Of the twenty-five cities which
have more than doubled their popu-
lation ten are in the West, eight in
the South, and four in the North.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
LUCKY HOOKWORM.
Some of Rockefeller's Million viii
Be Spent for Junkets, Etc.

DC spent 1OF JunkcCSy hCCs
A report from Atlanta says that a
health conference for the south"
has been called, and while the
Rockefeller fund of 100000 was
given for the primary purpose of
Graduating the hookworm, it is the
view of the committee that the issue
is a broad one, and Mr.. Rockefeller
meant the money to be used in any
legitimate manner towards the Grad
ication of disease and the advance
of the health in the south" Com
menting on this the Macon Tele-
graph remarks: 1--WE have never
expected that million dollars to start
many doses of thymol and epson
salts on the track of the hookworm.
The legitimate and broad method
of disposing of the tidy sum mani
testify calls for an unlimited number
of conferences and junkets and ban
quets and the like. The hookworm
is in better luck than Papa Rookie
Teller"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
NINE. DETHEBES LOOKS AT 1911
CAN'T STOP WEEVILS' MARCH
United States Investigator Hunter
Believes Pest Will Reach Ends
of the Cotton Belt.

WASHINGTON, D. c. Nothing
has happened up to the present time
to indicate that the boil weevil will
not eventually reach the northern
most and easternmost portions of the
cotton belt" says w. D. Hunter, in
charge of southern field crop insect
Investigations in a bulletin issued
yesterday by the department Of ag-
riculture.
THE boil weeyil last year infest-
ed nearly 80 per cent of the cotton
acreage of the United States. 1t was
found in 100 per cent in Louisiana,
80 in Texas, 80 in Arkansas, 80 in
Mississippi, and 50 in Oklahoma"
The progress of the insect to the
east will be more rapid than to the
north because of climatic conditions;
but the experience thus far acquired
seems to indicate, according to the
agricultural department experts,
that the boil weevil eventually will
overcome any climatic barriers. The
only exception to this is in the high
open plains of western Texas.
Important progress has been made
in the use of arsenate of lead as a
poison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ALL OVER EARTH
THERE ARE 1s7,7s8 OF NATIONALITY ALL
LANDS YORK THAN ANY CITY.

PARIS.-How the children Of Is
rael are scattered over the earth to-
day is shown in some Interesting
statistics published here in the Uni
vers Israelite The Jews now living
in the world number 11,S17,783, of
whom 8,942,266 dwell in Europe, t.
SIS, 400 in America, 522,635 in Asia,
1857 in Africa, and 1906 in the
lesser parts Of the earth. Russia is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
NEW EXPERT ON KISSING.
After Gazing on 1t Five Years He
PrOnounces 1t a Fake.

~AAS~A C0SAAAAS OAA II AAFO cars HIT
Pronounces 1t a Fake.
A new expert on kissing has aris-
en-. He is the gate keeper of the I'M
ion railroad station at Minneapolis.
He has held the job five years and
says he has seen an everage of three
hundred kissings per day at the gate.
That would give a grand total of
more than $4,000 osculatory dem
onstrations The gateman says he
used to think kissing a fine indoor
sport, but after gazing on it five
years he feels qualified to say that,
while it may be all right and mighty
nice in the home, it is pretty much a
fake and fraud in the railway sta
ton. However, the Minneapolis rail-
road people are not going to follow
the example of Omaha and Kansas
City and stop station-gate kissing.
People who feel like indulging in
the labial salute will be permitted
to go right ahead, just so long as
they do not delay the trains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
NORTHERN MAGAZINE SAYS THE
SONG BIRDS ARE UNNIERCT-
FULLY SLAUGHTERED.
IN CAROLINAS AND GEORGIA
The Mourning Dove, Which Works
diligently Against Insects, Is Bar
barously Slaughtered. Song Birds
Are Stayed by the Thousands.

Are Stayed by the Thousands.
NEW YORK.-Certain sections of
+ne southern states are called "the
black belt of cruelty in the maya
zine of an American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
sued here today. The bulletin takes
I'm the slaughter of birds for milli-
merry. 1t says in part:
THE strict birds laws of the
north can never count for much if
orr feathered neighbors have to face
an ordeal of shot and unmerciful
cruelty in their winter abodes. In
Georgia and the Carolinas the
wholesale shooting of song birds,
protected in the north, is widely
practiced.
1T is an ordinary sight to see
negro boys coming into the towns
in the early morning carrying long
strings of dead robins. Some of our
cherished song birds are Melted at
their roosting grounds and thous-
ands are sometimes secured in a
night, only the choice birds being
used and the others thrown away.
Mourning doves, which in north
ern states are preserved by COM
mon consent by sportsmen and repay
the courtesy by diligent work against
insects, are trapped by thousands
in the south. Florida has been for
years the scene of the barbaric
slaughter of the snowy herons and
egrets until the beautiful birds are
now on the verge of extinction
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
CONTRACT LABOR LAW VOID
ALABAMA STATUTE is DECLAR-
ED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The Same As The Georgia Law
Supreme Court of the United States
Hands Down a Decision of Far
Reaching Effect. No More Prose-
cutions for Jumping" Contracts.

WASHINGTON, D. C -Upholding
the constitution and laws Hereunder
as safeguard to the freedom of la
Dor the supreme court of the United
States through Justice Hughes, to-
day declared unconstitutional the
contract labor law" of Alabama.
The law in question provided that
if a laborer with intent to defraud
entered into contract to labor for
another and quit before money adj
vanced under the contract had been
repaid he should be guilty of a mis-
demeanOr. The quitting was made
by the law prima facie presump-
ton Of intent to defraud.
The supreme court today held
that the law in question furnished a
convenient instrument for the coer-
cion which the constitution and act
of congress forbid; and that it was
IAN instrument of compulsion pecul-
iarly effective against the poor and
ignorant, its most likely Victims
The provisions of the constitution
and laws destined to secure endur-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11

the European country with the lar
gest number Of Jews, 5,11O,54S, and
New York city has more Jews than
any other city in the world. It's jew
ish population is 100000. Warsaw
comes next with 254,712 Israelites,
and London is fifth with 144,3OO.
In Jerusalem the Jews number 3d.
600, or $50 per cent of the total
population.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
NEGRO FARMERS SAFE ROBBED
There Was $3.50 Missing When He
Counted I'm His Cash.

There Was 1855 Missing When He
Counted Up His Cash.
Joy Moses, the we'll known negro
farmer living three miles below
Blakely, suffered a severe financial
loss recently. Somebody evidently
familiar with premises and customs
went into his house, secuered the
keys to his safe and went to his
commissary and extracted $685. from
the cash drawer, and then replaced
the keys in their proper place. Just
when the theft was committed Joy
does not know, but he discovered
his loss on Monday morning of last
week when he counted up his cash.
Early County News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
GERM LADEN WAS PASTE FOR SOUP
TOMATO PRODUCT HUNDRED MILLION GERMS
CUBIC CENTnLETER WHEN SEIZED BY U s. OEEICIALs:

the paste said an analysis showed it
contained 50O,OO0,00O unhealthy
bacteria to the cubic centimeter.
1t is said the paste is made of the
leavings after the pulp has been
squeezed dry in the manufacture of
catsup. The dry pulp is then mash
ed into powdered form and canned
as something extra fac
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-01-11
MAN Is MADE DOUGH.

Baker, Asleep Standing, Staggers
Into Dough Mixer.
Asleep on his feet Jake Seligman,
New York baker, staggered for
ward into a power-driven dough mix
err, was drawn into the machine and
chopped to pieces before the power
could be SHUT off. He had lost much
sleep lately attending his sick wife.