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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
Belt Line Around the [ axe.

burlington Saturday Evening Post:
The Fort Madison man who has plan.
ned to build an electric belt line
around the lake or pool created bv the
keokuk dam will find that the public
is responsive to his proposition. Such
a means of communication quite
around the pool is second in import
ance only to the dam itself. IT means
great manufacturing district forty
miles in length strung along two sides
OF a pool and connected at frequent
intervals with high bridges. While
frequent and adequate boat and barge
service on this pool will be neces-
sity, the humble trolley has also its
mission to perform. This mission is
that of providing quick and frequent
trips between all of the little centres
of population already ir existence
along the shores of the pool. The
proposed belt line Is one of the fea-
lures OF the coming industrial de-
velopment that is certain to become
an early reality. If the Fort Madison
man doesn't build it. then some one
else will. 1t is bound to come.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
FRANKLIN.
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The annual Sunday school picnic
will be held in the elegant and shady
park in our town Tuesday, July A..
The celebrated Bonaparte band will
furnish plenty of music. Amongst the
most important amusements you will
find two games of baseball, the Lee
County Officials VS. the Franklin City
Council, the lineup being:
j. ]. Datin, H.. j. Kennedy, o. R.
Johnston, F. G. Chambers. A. Meyers,
Bruce Lake, VIM. Reimbold, Theodore
Craig and Frank, Ballinger; while the
town will loom up with Mayor Gee
sickle, J Blacksmith, G. w. Smith, A.
Laisy, James Emmerson, F. Hammer.
H. P. Seyb and August Fey. Hon.
Judge Hamilton will be the umpire.
The second battle will be cotested
between Lee county lawyers and the
justices Of the peace of the district
and is as follows:-For the barrIs-
ters:-W b. Collins, e. c. Weber, Geo.
B. Steward, Joe Fraily, H. C. Stempe,
O. G.. Herminhausen and John NJ.
Hamilton, with Judges John Kempker,
Joe NJ Mum, Herman Brinck, d. F..
Alley, Con Schweer. Middendorf, F.
H. Ginning, Palsy and Leindecker of
Keokuk on the benches. The later
won't do thing to the former. 80 If
you want to see genuine day of fun
with lots of sport be sure and meet the
crowd in the elegant park
John Bernhard was the first victim
of the heat this season, he having
fallen Friday noon and was in bad
condition. He is able to be up, but
must keep out of the sun.
Another automobile will be added
to our town in a short time
Mrs. H. Straeb moves to Burlington
today to make her home with her
adopted, daughter, Mrs. Frank Smith.
Lily Wilhelm is very sick with ty-
phoid fever at the home of his brother
Charles in Donnellson.
Mrs. Fred H. Ginning spent seve-at
DAYS In Donnellson visiting friends.
Elmer and Edna Dickson of Keokuk
are in town for few days visiting
relatives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
The Matter of a Slogan.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat Slogan
/ is a Gaelic word pure and simple. 1t
has no root in the language OF any
other people. The meaning OF the
word ras never been better expressed
than in Scott's story of the battle OF
| F1odden in the two lines:
The border slogan rent the sky,
| A Home, A Gordon! was the cry.
In this couplet we see the slogans
real significance. 1t Is not argument,
not comparison, but only the shout
| ing Of name, or word or words,
which in itself, or in themselves,
stand for everything to be desired and
defended by those uttering the cry. A
slogan lis always short, sharp, ejacuia'
tory; assuming everything and con-
ceding nothing. No doubts, no hest
tations, no qualifications; nothing but
pure downright assumption of supe-
riority in every field. A Home! A
Gordon! You know who they are and
what they stand for; or, IL you don't
| 1t will be the worse for you, for they
are going to show you now.
Within the last half dozen years a
large number of the smaller cities and
many towns in the United States have
been adopting what are called, very
inappropriately, slogans Many good
notices have come into currency IN
this way, but not one slogan that we
can now recall. The failure to get
real slogans has been due, in almost
every instance to the conditions i'm
posed upon competitors. They have
been called to make an argument in
form of words which disdains all
argument. They have been asked to
glorify domestic life in war cry
They have been invited to teach the
world lesson In geography after a
manner of expression originating with
men whose slogans were only declar-
alton of their intention to teach some
body sharp lesson at the point OF
the sword. What wonder if much
that has been ridiculous has been
poured upon awarding committees?
The City of Indianapolis not long ago
rejected all of $4,000 responses to an
offer to pay for the best slogan. 7
explanation was that any one of them
would have made the city appear
ridiculous. 1t Is safe guess that
the most ridiculous among them were
written by people knowing what a
slogan should be and vainly struggling
! to fit one to the conditions of the con-
! test.
| st. Louis is not to have a slogan
at least for the present. The com
mittee of eminent and well-qualified
gentlemen chosen to make an award
have shown rare wisdom and discre-
ton in choosing what is, in itself, a
declaration that it is not slogan.
Some cities have a slogan; ST Louis
has the goods" is getting out of it
with much better grace than did
indianapolis. We congratulate the
committee on this fine strategy. The
contest happily leaves us without a
slogan, by the admission of the vic
torious competitor, approved by the
/ committee. This is a most excellent
outcome. We have no slogan, but VIC
have the goods. And with the in.
SEPARATION of this bold challenge to all
mere slogan towns, we should travel
hereafter at pace making 1t impos
sfble for any of them to catch us
with the goods on us.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
A Leading California Druggist.
Pasadena. Calf. March .. Isl

Pasadena, Calf, March 8. 1911.
Foley & Co., Gentlemen: We have
sold and recommended Foley's Honey
anc Tar Compound for years. We be-
lieve it to be one of the most efficient
expectorants on the market. Contain.
ing no opiates or narcotics 1t can be
given freely to children. Enough of
the remedy can be taken to relieve a
cold. as 1t has no nauseating results.
and does not interfere with digestion.
Yours very truly, G. H. Ward Drug
Co., G. L. Parsons, sec'y. and Treas. .
Get the original Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound in the yellow package.
Wilkinson & Co., and ]. F. Kiedaisch
& Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Carl F. Kuehnle, law partner of
Former Governor Shaw, has let 1t be
known that he will seek the Republi-
can nomination for governor of Iowa.
He expects to make formal announce
the Des Moines Press club at big
meeting to be held soon after his re-
turn from Europe where he is now
travelling 1t is believed by his friends
that he will be formidable candidate
and stands good chance of winning
the nomination
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

DR.. ]. P. Dickson of this city Is en-
gagged in an exhaustive study OF the
albumins with view of arriving at
proper food for inyalids and others.
In these days of the new crusade for
pure food he looks in vain for any
philosophical sequence in the things
advised to do or to use, inasmuch as
the advice is too vague for any case
certainty. Accordingly he is pursu-
ing some original Investigations along
chemical and physiological lines
and making public his sug-
gestions in various medical
periodicals. His latest contri-
button is in the Medical Summary
and is entitled Problems in Chem
istry." 1t is too technical and alb
struse for republication in newspa-
per Of general circulation, but it looks
to practical results in cookery and
properly balanced rations as regards
acidity, alkalinity and variety.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

James j. Hill has contributed $500
to aid in celebration st. Paul is
planning In commemoration of the
departure of the first Minnesota regi-
ment for the civil war. There will be
parade. fireworks and river
pageant. 1t has been suggested that
Iowa should take note of the depart
ure Of every regiment it sent to the
front in the same great struggle and
have some sort of observance Of the
fiftieth anniversary of each. AS most
of the Iowa regiments were organized
and mustered into the service in Keo-
kuk it is easy to foresee an interest
ing series of semi-centennial celebra-
tions here If the suggestion meets with
general favor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
sent him down to Washington to make
both himself and the state ridiculous.
EXPRESS TRUST ON THE GRILL,

Washington advices are to the eff
feet that the interstate commerce com
mission has agreed upon an order for
a complete investigation of the E,-
press Trust and its operations In all
parts of the country and the order
will probably be made public early
this week 1t will be by far the
most exhaustive inquiry ever under
taken by the commission and months
will be consumed in taking testimony
in all parts of the country.
Some preliminary work has al
ready been done which has tended to
convince the commissioners that the
complaints which have been pouring
in have been well founded, and that
the express combination must be TAX
en- in hand. Probably the order would
have been issued earlier had it not
been that the commission has been
loaded with business that 1t was nee
essary to clear the decks as far as
possible before engaging on such an
immense task
The order will be based on petit
ton filed by the Merchants Associa-
ton of New York and several hundred
other commercial bodies representing
subsequently every large city in the
United States. 1t is set forth that
the merchants of the country find it
necessary to make use of the express
companies and have suffered for many
years from unjust and unreasonable
charges, classffications, regulations,
and practices of each and all. of the
express companies. 1t is represented
that in many instances the margin of
profit Is insufficient to stand the alb
normal and extortionate transporta-
ton, collection and delivery charges
and frequently entail actual losses up.
on the shippers
1t is pointed out that the express
rates are from 21s to four times the
freight rates SO that the railroads by
their agreements under which they
get so per cent OF the express charges
actually receive more for hauling ex-
press matter than If it went by
freight.
~ - pOihIOu OuI -ludL tuS SITodC
Northern Express company, which
was organized in 1892 with s1Op, 900
capital, paid in ten years $4,000, 900 In
'vidends. It's last dividend was $780,
600 and in addition it had accumu-
lated surplus of s1,4SS,SS1. It is
charged that the express companies
have agreements among themselves
by which the parcels are routed so
that each company gets as much as
possible out of the shipper, even when
1t is necessary to delay transporta-
ton In order to get the maximum
haul
1t is pointed out that the terminal
charges Increase according to the
distance although the expense is no
greater on package transported 5000
miles they are approximately twenty
five times as great as on one going
twenty-five miles. The petition goes
into the express order business and
ventilates thoroughly the trusts meth.
DDS of increasing its charges for
every service or guarantee.
From all indications the EXPRESS
companies are In for a good drubbips
which. in the opinion of every one
who has investigated the subject thew
richly deserve.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Bank exchanges for the past week
make very favorable exhibit The
total at all leading cities In the
United States aggregated s2,765, 1885,
, 10, an increase as compared with
the corresponding week last year of
1872 per cent, and loss OF only 81
per cent as compared with the same
week in 1909 New York City reports
the remarkable gain over last year
of I'll per cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
DoNNELLsoN.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Holdefer and
son returned to their home in Indiana
Sunday after a pleasant visit in our
city.
Ollie Wiehelm is quite sick with
typhoid fever at the home of his
brother in our city.
Mrs. H. A. Trump was an over Sun
day visitor with Miss Pansy Beckett
of near Argyle.
e. G. Heaton who has had charge
OF the barber shop in our city the
past two months. left for his home
near Hillsboro, Sunday, Harve Hou e
OF Bonaparte having leased the barber
shop and took possession Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Barnes of near
LaCrew spent Sunday in our city.
DR.. Paisley Of Pennington was a
professional caller in our city Sun
day.
Mrs. ]. A. Taylor visited her son at
Humeston several days the past week.
Mrs. John Hulsebus and son of Of
tumwa are visiting relatives in our
vicinity.
Miss Edith Tabor has gone to
Brighton, Iowa, for a visit with her
sister.
Mrs. Chas. Holdefer has been SER
iously i'll for the past week, but is
slowly improving. which is good news
to her many friends.
George Snider has purchased new
automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Switzerland
have moved. to Humeston, Iowa, and
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Butler are oc-
cupying the Switzerland residence.
Miss Elsie Mattern Is home from
Grinnell for the summer vacation.
Mrs. Barbara Kreikenbaum of West
Point is visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas.
Holdefer.
Rev. VIM. Kreis, Ben Wahrer, Elm
err Seyb and Miss Rosia Koch attended
the Jugend-bund convention at Bur
lington, as delegates the past week
Miss Elsie Mattern returned home
Saturday evening from several
days visit in Keokuk
Mr.. and Mrs. V j. Krehbiel. Mrs
Barbara Hirschler and A. E. Hirsch
Ter went to Mt Pleasant in the Hirsch
Ter auto Friday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
keokuk, Iowa. ....... June 81, 1911.
THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.
Think happy thoughts!

Think happy thoughts!
Think sunshine all the day;
Refuse to let the trifiing worries stay;
Crowd them with thoughts Of laughter
from your mind
Think of the good, forget the bad you
find.
Think of the sun behind the clouds
the blue
AND not the gray skies that today
you view.
Think of the kindness, not the mean
ness shown;
The true friends, not the false ones
you have known;
The Joy and not the hatred of the
strife.
The sweetness, not the bitterness of
life.
Think happy thoughts!
Think happy thoughts!
Think always OF the best.
Think Of the ones you love, not those
that you detest;
Think of your victories and not your
failures here
The smile that pleased and not the
hurtful sheer;
The kindly word and not the harsh
word spoken.
THE promise kept and not the prom
Use broke
The good that you have known and
not the bad,
The happy Gays that were and not the
sad;
Think of the roses and not the with
cred flower,
The beauty of the rainbow. not the
shower
Think happy thoughts!
y Detroit Free Press.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

The deadly feather buster is being
abolished from the schools, according
to the Russell Sage Foundation re-
port of medical inspection. Sixty per
cent OF the cities use moist cloths
for busting nearly 500 use dust-ab-
sorbing compounds for sweeping and
eighty-nine cities clean their school
rooms with vacuum cleaners. In
, contrast to this fifty-one cities report
that their schoolroom floors are new
err washed, and in seven the washing
of school windows is entirely neglect
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
Worth Remembering.

Remember, brethren" said the good
man. as he closed the Bible and gent
~ shook a forensic finger at his hear
ers, there are no steam whistles in
heaven. and no angel is going to get
into trouble for twanging a harp over
time"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
THOUGHT FOB The DAY.

In line with the above: Train your
mind in strong, impartial and gentle
thought; train your heart in purity
and compassion; train your tongue to
silence, and to true and stainless
speech; so shall you enter the way
of holiness and peace. and shall. ulti-
mately, realize the immortal Love.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
Another Dam Thlna.

La Harpe Times: With the advent
of the dam site, the Dam cigar, the
Dam soda. the Dam City and several
other things, the office boy after read
ing over some of the Mississippi river
exchanges, says that in his opinion,
the dam is responsible also for some
dam big liars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

An Omaha debating society has de-
! cided that the horse is more desirable
than the automobile. but an unenlight-
ened public goes right on buying i'll
smelling gasoline cars.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

The woman of today who has good
health. good temper, good sense,
bright eyes and lovely complexion,
the result Of correct living and good
digestion. wins the admiration o. the
world. II your digestion is faulty
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets will correct 1t. For sails by
al. dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
Law VS.. Discretion.

Tama News: A California Judge has
rendered a decision that people neei
not dodge autos. There are lot of
things that the law does not compel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

There is more truth than poetry in
George Fitch's diagnosis of comic
opera, which he says is glad re-
union of old jokes and ancient melo-
dies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Within a few weeks the heads of
-four or five Iowa colleges have volun-
Itarily resigned. Better salaries else
where Is the explanation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Now that summer has arrived offic-
Tally. the weather has become more
bearable
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

All things come to him who waits
Including greatly needed showers
now and then.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

ment called The Financial Depart
ment."
The July Century might almost be
called Thackery number. save that
It's table of contents is so broad and
large and ample as to make 1t impos-
sible to limit 1t to any one name.
There is Thackery portrait in color
and articles on "Thackery's London
by Louis Melville and SThackery In
America by James Grant Wilson.
Heath Horton commences story In
two parts, "Other Times and Other
Manners
DR.. A. C. McGiffert has his eighth
paper on Martin Luther and His
Work" Among the nota9le contribu-
tors are Emerson Hough. l.. Frank
Tooker, Catherine NJ Ruth, Coles en-
cravings of French masters, part of a
second number of The Women of the
Caesers" by Prof. Ferrero, conversa-
ton in which the inventor Edison fig
ures.
There are verses by competent
authors and story by Howard Ham
ilton of Going as Far North as Pos
sible by Motor Car" The departments
are rich as usual in contents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Abe Martin tells of an indianapolis
hsirl who is getting to be SO pretty
that she hasn't girl friend
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

people to do that wisdom and discre,
ton recommend. Dodging autos is
one of them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

Lippincott's for July has capital
automobile novel by Eleanor Ingram.
From the Car Behind" completed
in the number. 1t is one of the best
of the bits Of work that she has done
and has all the necessary virtues to
be most successful short story.
Among other contributors are Caro-
Ign Wells. John Kendrick Bangs,
George R. Brown. w. j. Hampton.
Luther H. Gilley, in an article on
Games and Gangs" deals with the
boy problem in most interesting and
instructive way.
1t is an especial merit with many
readers that the stories in Lippincott's
are usually complete in a single num-
Der and the advantage of that, espec-
tally for light reading, is too manifest
for discussion. The prosperity Of Lip
pincott's may be inferred from the an
nouncement that beginning with the
| next or August number, 32 pages are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27
THE JULY MAGAZINES.

The Red Book Magazine for July
is vacation number, summer vaca-
ton at that, and it abundantly realizes
its purpose. There are stories by
Emerson Hough, Walter Jones, Mary
Heaton Worse. Edwin l.. Sabin, Mary
Taylor, Susan Glaspel, and the variety
OF the stories is apparent when Hugh
Fullerton also contributes a baseball
story and there is An autobiography
of Motor Car What the Theatres
Are Offering" is illustrated by photo
graphs and there are Photographic art
studies by White. Altogether the num-
Der is one of the best which the Red
Book Company has issued.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-27

added to the magazine in order to
give space for reading matter, espec-
tally fiction, and also new depart
ment called The Financial Depart
ment."