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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Young Woman's Christian Association
Has Espled Several Propositions
For Their Build
ing.
ALL HAVE STRINGS
Lease or Purchase Of Home Telephone
Structure, Not Possible Now
Other Roads
Open.

Some weeks ago, when the Young
Woman's Christian Association was
debating on the matter of securing a
suitable location for building their
own home, several business men and
officers o. the Young Mems Christian
Association proposed to the directors
OF the Y. w. c. A. that they build on
the lot adjoining the Y. M. G. A.
building and establish themselves for
a period of five or six years. At the
end of that time, the building would
be taken over by the young mems
organization and a boys dormitory
made of it. Such an institution will
be in demand by the city in a half
dozen years or such matter of time,
the Y M. c. A. directors contend.
In nut shell, the Y. w. c. A. is
still searching diligently for some
reasonable proposition, whereby the
association can purchase and build or
remodel building for occupancy.
The matter is still undecided, though
several propositions have offered
themselves LOT COuSldtIuliou'
Would Like phone Building.
Now that consolidation of the LEGAL
lines of the Bell and Home telephone
companies has taken place. the build
ing occupied at the present tima by
the latter exchange, will be vacated
some time within the next several
months, 1t is supposed. The Bel
company has lease on this buildins
for the period of a year, however
and whether or not the Y. w. c. A
will be permitted to lease or purchase
is an unsettled proposition.
State Superintendent G. E. Hall o
Omaha, has been conferred with II
regard to the possibilities of Obtain
ing the building for the use of tn
Young Woman's Christian Assoeia
ton. but satisfaction of a definit
answer has not been forthcoming.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
FIRE CHIEFS ARE
IN CONVENTION
Came From All over Country &c
Talk About Their Big

MILWAUKEE,. Sept. 2o-The TWEEN
ty-third international convention Of
international fire chiefs opened here
last evening. Chief Thomas Lau-
der of Edmonton, Canada. Travelled o.
600 miles to attend the convention.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Every Member Joining Y. M. c. A.
VIII be Given Medical Exam
lnatlon by Family
Physician.
S STEP PROGRESSIVE ONE
Plan Has Been Adopted In Many
Cities Of the Country, but keokuk
is First Of the Smaller
Ones.

The Keokuk Y. NJ. G. A. Is the only
association in the country in a city
under $4,000 inhabitants to provide
for thorough physical examination
for members who enter the gymna-
SUM classes. In order to bring it
about a medical examining board
composed Of score of the leading
physicians OF the city has been form
ed.
The step which was consumated to-
day is probably the most progressive
of the season in relation to work Of
the athletic department of the asso-
citation. The doctors who have become
identified with the board are the fol-
lowing: Drs. G. r. Armeptrout. E. C.
Wollenweber. c. A. Dimond, F. B. Dor
sey, ST., Frank M. Fuller, William Ho-
gle, H. l.. COPYRIGHT, w. w. Holmes,
G. A. jenkins, H. A. Kinnaman, w. P.
Sherlock, F. C. Smith, ]. R. Wedel,
Bruce R. Gilfillan, L. M. Coffee, Rob-
ert Fegers, o. T. Clark, R. M. Lapsley
and E. NJ. Hanson.
| The plan is this: When man OF
boy joins the association he will be
asked to go to his family physician
which in almost every instance will
be member of the medical board
and be examined. The doctors will BIZ
/ furnished with cards which will BIZ
filled out and forwarded to the asso
citation physical department to be fiji
ed. The examination will disclose an.
4 physical defects and will enable tn,
physical director to reject an athlet
if there is anything serious the mat
ter with him and place it before tn
family If they do not already know Il
the event that the person is an olde
member the matter of his physica
short comings, will be taken up direc-
In this way it is certain that no men
Der will be injured through his att
, letic work in the association and tn
association will be better able t
treat those in need of it. This pla
has been universally adopted in tn
larger associations of the county
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

accompanied Miss Edna Harper to
Decatur, Monday last, where the lat
ter will enter Miliken university.
Mrs. w. c. Hamilton is visiting Mes
danes Clara Smith and Eta Johnson
in Keokuk.
Miss Nellie Showers, of Fresno,
Cal, is visiting Miss Grace Walker.
DR.. a1d Mrs. D. NJ. Owen, Of Hers
man, visited a part of last week with
Mrs. d. M. Johnson.
A. w. Stricken, of Chicago, was the
guest of his nephew Russell Smith
several days the past week.
A. w. Boscow, of Comanche, Iowa
visited friends in the city the past
week.
| Miss Henrietta Mack has returned
/! from Aberdeen. South Dakota.
| Frank McMinimy of Miles City
Mont, arrived Friday for visit with
his parents.
i Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Ross Swigert and
son Mack, returned Tuesday from
Frankfort, Mich.
Miss Mary Lawless left Saturda,
Afor Champaign to attend the univer
sity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

placed under $500 bonds. The minis
ter is middle aged man and has
family depending upon him for sup
port The crime he is charged with
was committed early Friday morning
Some money and frame of valuable
coins were taken from Halk's restau-
rant. Bloodhounds, were brought from
Springfield during the day and in fif-
teen minutes had located Rev Wal
stom and he confessed and returned
the coins to the owner, who did not
want to prosecute him, but was will
ing to help the man and his family.
Rev Walstom claims he was starv-
ing and was forced to obtain money
somewhere.
The large hay barn belonging to R.
McDannold & Son, located northeast
of here, was struck by lightning Mon
day morning at o'clock. The barn
aud contents were entirely consumed,
the loss being $1,000. There was in
surance of $500.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
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CARTHAGE, ILL.
= . . . . . . . = = . = {

The NJ. E. Central conference which
was neld in Peoria, returned Rev. NJ.
l.. O'Harra to this charge for another
year. Attorney S. l.. McCrory was
chosen a lay delegate to the general
conference which meets in Minneap-
oils next year and j. B. Johnson was
elected president Of the laymens or
ganization of this district.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Pierce, of Boise,
Idaho, are visiting their cousin, Miss
Lulu Ayres.
Mrs. Emily Tyner is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. George Rhea, in Jack
sonville
Miss Mary Dorothy, who has been
visiting her niece. Mrs. U. S. Ferris
departed last week for her home in
Phoeniz, Arizona
Miss Geraldine Mosley returned
s Wednesday from visit in Macomb
Mrs. Mary Whitehouse OF Augusta
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
How's This?

we ofrer One Hundred Dollars Rewart
for any case CT Catarrh that cannot bs
cured bv Halls Catarrah Cure.
+. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. 9
-. the undersigned. have known /. j
cheney for the last 10 years and beiievt
transactions and financially able to car
~ out any obligation made by his Arm
Walding, Kinnan {: Marvin. !
Wholesale Druggists Toledo. Q
acting ..rectly upon the blood and nsu
cous surfaces Of the system. Testimon
iaIs sent free. Prce Is cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls ran ily Pills for constipA
ton
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
THREE YEGGMEN
AND TWO SAFES
Add a Little Dynamite to Combination
and the Result Is
$4,000.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 2O-Three
yeggmen dynamited two safes in the
store OF G. C. Montall at Marilla, fif-
teen miles from here and secured
$4,000 in cash and checks. They had
an automobile and escaped toward
Buffalo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Digestion and Assimilation.

1t is not the quantity of food taken
but the amount digested and assimi-
lated that gives strength and vitality
to the system. Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets invigorate the
stomach and liver and enable them to
perform their functions naturally. For
sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
Digestion and Assimilation,

1t is not the quantity of food taken
but the amount digested and assim-
Hated thae gives strength and vital
ity to the system. Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets invigorate
the stomach and liver and enable
them to perform their functions nat
urally. For sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
MEXICANS FIGHT
ON RIVER BANK
Fifteen Reported Killed and Many
Wounded In the Battle
Today.

ROMA. Texas, Sept. 2o-A battle
was fought between the forces Of Ma
gonists and Maderoists on the banks
of the Rio Grande just below hero
and fifteen are reported dead ard
many wounded. The town of Camargo
was captured by the Magonists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20

AS usually treated. a sprained
ankle will disable man for three or
four weeks, but by applying Cham
berlains Liniment freely as soon as
the injury is received, and observing
the directions with each bottle, cure
can be effected in from two to four
days. For sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-20
MINISTER OF GOSPEL
PLACED UNDER BOND
While Starving He Stole Money and a
Frame Of Valuable Coins From
Restaurant.

MT. STERLING. H., Sept. GOV.
H. Walstom, the Versailles preacher,
who was arrested at Bluffs, charged
with stealing, was brought here Sun
day morning by Deputy Sheriff Logan
and waived examination and was
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
TEACHER SEARCHES PUPILS
Each of Fifty Scholars in Room Sub
jected to Ordeal After $3.50
Is Missing.

Wichita, Kan.-Miss Katherine Muir
ply, teacher at the Lincoln street
school, is in trouble with the parents
Of her pupils because she had all the
children in the room searched after
she had missed $1.60 from her purse
Miss Murphy searched the girls
while the janitOr searched the boys
Then the pupils went home and told
their mothers and fathers. Immedi-
ately there arose a protest that was
heard all over Wichita Fifty fathers
Immediately placed the case before
the school board, which is now con-
Quoting an investigation
Miss Murphy is the teacher of the
sixth grade, and the money was con-
tributed by the pupils to buy drawing
paper. During a recess the money dis
appeared from Miss Murphy's desk
She called in Miss j. r. Daugherty.
Four pairs of eyes cast searching
glances toward the desks where the
so pupils sat, all innocent of the sus-
picions.
In sharp, short and decisive words
Miss Daugherty announced the disap-
pearance of the money and demanded
that the guilty pupil step forward.
Eyes opened wide, heads shook mega
lively as if to say:
you can search u.s.
That was just what the teacher and
the principal decided to do The two
teachers marched the girls into hall
way and searched each of them de-
spite fearful protests of innocence
The janitor took the boys into an
other hallway and put them through
the third degree. When the search
vas over the $16O was still missing.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
Pure-bred Colts Paw.

Good, pure-bred colts are worth at a
very conservative estimate at least
5000 per head as yearlings The cost
of raising them is but little greater
than that of raising good grade colts,
aside from the greater initial cost of
the mares. When we take into con-
sideration the fact that pure-bred
mares are sold at from $500 to $500
per head, while good grade mares are
worth from $3.50 to $3.50 per head, it
may be readily seen that the mature
mares will sell much closer to grade
mares than pure-bred colts will to
grade colts. Pure-bred yearlings that
are brought along in first-class shane
very frequently sell at from $500 to
$3.50 per head.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
IT'S COSTLY TO BE SINGLE
Pennsylvania Town Now Proposes to
Tax All Of Its UnWedded
People.

Ebensburg, Pa.-An ordinance was
introduced in the council here to
place tax of $25 on every unmarried
man and woman in the city over
twenty-seven years old. The city
clerk is to take census of unmarried
persons and the tax list will be made
up from this report.
The ordinance provides that men
who shall swear that they have pro-
posed to three unmarried and unbe-
trothed women and shall give their
names shall be exempt from the tax,
and women who have never received
a proposal shall also be exempt, while
those that have refused a proposal
shall be taxed an additional $40.
The only opposition to the ordi-
nance was from Second Ward Coun-
Gilman j. G. Bench, who argued that
a woman who has never received a
proposal should be taxed double in
stead of having her tax remitted. He
argued that a woman who has never
received proposal is to blame, on
the ground that she has never taken
care of her feminine charms.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
PROPER FEED FOR DRY cows
Warm Yard During the Day and
Stabbed at Night.

Dry COWS that will come fresh in
spring should have the run of we'll
protected warm yard during the day
and stabbed at night. A cow that will
calve in spring cannot be kept in good
order on straw and fodder alone. She
should have little grain in addition.
Two quarts of wheat bran and two
quarts of crushed corn and cornmeal
given daily to each will keep them in
good thrifty condition and the calves
will be stronger and healthier. Feed
may be saved by cutting the fodder
and straw and mixing the meal with
the cut feed. Mix one bushel Of the
cut fodder and straw with the corn
chop and bran. Mix with just enough
water to make the meal stick to the
fodder Give the mixed ration morn
ing and night. Each one should be
haltered in her own stall. She can
then eat her ration without being
crowded out by greedy cattle.
After the mixed feed is eaten turn
out in the yard when weather is suit
able. A little salt sprinkled over the
cut feed will make it more palatable.
Heifers and yearlings should be
we'll fed. They are growing and can
not be kept healthy unless they have
enough nutriment to provide for their
natural growth.
The heifers should have a roomy
pen to go under in stormy weather
and at night
Keep the calves in a separate pen.
Bed heavily with straw. If the straw
is clean and dry large portion will
be eaten BY giving a thick bed the
cattle can be kept comfortable. They
will eat less and keep in good thrifty
condition. BY this method a large
quantity of manure may be made, as
all the urine will be absorbed by the
straw
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

What clever prankishness was that
of the boys Of West Lafayette college,
Ohio, who put oil in the milk for the
girls dormitory, causing twenty of
the co-eds to become so ill as to re-
quire the attendance of physicians!
They were nearly as daring as the
young men of the Pacific coast insti-
tuition of learning who raided the
girls dormitories and frightened
some of the occupants into Mysteries
by pulling them out of bed. The
twentieth century young man does
many things that would hardly have
occurred in any earlier age. Is it be-
cause of the disappearance of the
birch as an aid to education?
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
FARMING WITH DYNAMITE.

From an eloquent pamphlet issued
by an eastern railroad we learn of
new and unsuspected uses for dyna
mite on the farm Besides it's familiar
tasks of extracting stumps, starting
log and ice jams and breaking up
boulders, dynamite is just the thing
it seems, for digging bitches, Telling
trees and eXcavating cellars. Blowing
hole to set an apple tree is cheaper
than digging one and it kills bugs and
lOOsens the ground so that the tree
grows better besides, says the New
York World. Dynamite charges set
off eight or ten feet apart to break
up subsoil restore fertility to worn
lands. If a swamp has no outlet for
ditching you may sometimes drain it
by boring deep hole and blowing up
it's hard pan bottom, The dynamite
crops dote on it. Dynamite detona-
tions, the red flag of warning and oc
casional hired men sent skyward in
installments may seem inconsistent
with the idyllic calm of rural pursuits,
but it is too late to complain. The
farmer already threshes and saws
wood with his automobile motor, vac
cinates the soil for fertility, lures the
cream out of fresh milk by centripe-
tai force, educates butter with chem
ical germs, marries staid and respect
able fruits to produce strange mon
sects, frost with smoke blankets and
blight with recondite acids. He is a
chemist, physicist, mechanic, physi
clan.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
SEEK A MISSING
KANSAS SEER IN SEARCH UN-
EARTHS THREE SKELETONS.
Finds Bones of Adult and Two Chill
dren in a Farm SandhiIi-Mys-
terry Has Aroused Neigh
boring Farmers.

Offerle, Kan.-Guided by Jacob Min
gle, a hermit, who claims the power o.
a seer, in a search for Paul Reich, a
bachelor farmer who has been miss
ing, farmers unearthed from a sand
hill on the Reich farm, near here, the
skeletons of three unidentified per-
sons. One skeleton is that of an adult
and the other two of children. Reich
has not been found The discoveries
of the skeletons intensified the search
for Reich Search for him had been
going on for some time, and prior to
the finding of the human bones, many
searchers had given up the quest, con-
vinced that his body was not on the
farm. But when it became known
that parts of three bodies had been
found band of searchers far larger
than the original one gathered. Every
inch of the farm will now be investi-
gated before the quest is abandoned.
To Mingle the discovery of the skele-
tons was as much of a surprise as it
was to the men who unearthed the
bones. In the communications to the
searchers, issued from his home after
he had retired alone and studied for
hours the few clues connected with
the Reich disappearance, he spoke
only of finding the body of the farmer.
Mingle drew rude charts for the guild
ance of the searchers. 1t was one of
these that led to the sandhill where
the bones were found. Neighbors Of
Reich believe he has been murdered.
The night before his disappearance
he telephoned a physician he was Ill.
The following morning his house was
found in disorder and he was gone.
Blood was spattered on the telephone.
Reich was not known to have any enc
mics. Officials are checking over the
list of people who have disappeared in
the last few years, in an effort to
identify the remains.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
RoaSterS.

For roasting a young fowl about full
grown, but still soft meated, is used,
and to roast satisfactorily it must be
moderately fat. Roasters are roughly
classed as "small roasters" and 'large
roasters" The greatest demand is for
small roasters weighing four or five
pounds each, though the demand for
large roasters, weighing eight or nine
pounds each, is steadily increasing.
Yellow skin and yellow legs are more
generally demanded than a white skin
and dark legs.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
Back Broken rs Years,

Bloomsbury, Pa.-His back broken
fifteen years ago in stone quarry
caye-in, Frank Shaffer of Bloomsbury,
aged thirty-seven years, died here
Medical men agreed at the time of
the accident that he had only few
DAYS to live, but he improved, aud
after time was able to sit up, al
though he had no use of his legs. He
was able to use wheel chair and
conducted a poultry farm, caring for
the chickens himself
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

We are accused of being the most
wildly speculative nation in the world.
But in the year London has run wild
over the rubber craze, then went
through boom in oil shares, and has
finally turned to bull gamble in
British railroads. The United States
has, on the other hand, practically
stopped speculation, perhaps for the
sufficient reason that the lambs had
no more fleece to shear.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

Judge Shafer if Pfttsburg utters the
following words of wisdom to mere
men: Never reply to the taunts of
an angry woman. Flee from her, and
do not begrudge her the last word, for
she will have it anyway" We have
never made the acquaintance of the
Judge, but we are willing to wager a
few shekels that he is married.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29
Socis for Hens.

AS soon as the weather permits ac-
cess to them throw in few grass soda
occasionally and see how eagerly the
hens will tear them to pieces, contact
with the fresh earth having quite as
much charm for them as the bits of
fresh green or the possible insect
which has failed to seek a less shall
low wintering place.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

1t may be that woman must put
her soul into her dress in order to
look well, but, at the same time,
good deal of Importance rests on the
sort of a physique she is able to put
into it,
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

Members of a club in Atlanta say
they will go to Jail before they will
tell what they know of women drink
ing in the club. The poet was mis-
taken. The worlds male chivalry has
not perished out. 1t has joined the
Atlanta club.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

People who live in New York com
plain that the place is becoming too
noisy at night. The people who make
the noise will find it difficult to under
stand why men and women who long
for peace and quiet insist on living in
New York
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

The new derby hats for men were
perhaps invented for the purpose of
showing that women's hats were not
the ugliest things in the world
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

Far be it from us to arouse slum-
bering trouble, but what has become
of the tight trousers and padless
coats with which we were threatened
a few months ago?
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

The man who doesn't figure up the
batting averages of the players after
each game cannot expect to be admit
ted to the sacred inner circle of fan
dom.
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

A Chicago judge holds that a clean
shirt is a necessity, not a luxury.
Strange how many people live with
out the necessities of life!
The Parker post., 1911-07-29

First Hobo-I told that woman
had beat my way around de world.
Second Hobo-Was she Interested?
First HObo-Yes; she got out a rug
and told me could beat my way to
de dinner table.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-12

Reg1ar $50 and 7.50 Suits are includ-
ed in this showing. We have taken
these Suits from our regular lines and
placed this low price on them for
quick clearing. Dark fancy Worsted
Suits in browns and grays as well as
Cashmere Suits in light grays and
tans with wide knickerbocker pants
and stylishly tailored and double
breasted coat; sizes from 8 to. Is
years.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-03-23

The average test of 5000 eastern
college men and athletes is Alps. The
average of 16 school agriculture men
so far tested and having had no pre-
vious athletic training is 5402, super
iority of 81 per cent of the Idaho farm
boy over the eastern college athlete.
The university authorities are much
pleased with the success of the first
year of the school OF practical agricui-
ture which opened last October, and
closes March 18th. The total registra-
ton reached "a.
These boys found their work at the
forge, in stock judging, in elementary
horticulture, in dairying and in other
lines wonderfully interesting and bene-
fetal. They are now going home. but
are already planning for the second
years work next October. In addition
to the six months agricultural coures
for boys from the 9th grade, Idaho will
offer next year a similar course in home
science for girls.