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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
overlooked Congressman Kennedy


Judge w R. Green of Audubon, Re.
publican nominee for congress to sue
coed Judge Walter I. Smith from the
Ninth district, is progressive, a
man OF character and ability and there
Is no question of his selection. When
he takes his seat every Republican
member from low will be progress
sive except the one from the Eighth
district. Thus the good work goes
on.-Freeman-T Tribune.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The Webster
City paper has overlooked Congress
man Kennedy. of the First district,
who has long been mathematical by
the progressive press as Joe Can
non standpatter. Perhaps, after all,
the progressives are ready now to
recognize Mr.. Kennedy and Judge
Towner as Republicans, without any
surplus appellations. It is very
good time for all Republicans to be
just Republicans without a complex
nomenclature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

The state anti-saloon league has
commenced peculiar crusade in the
interest of temperance. The superin-
tendent, w. c. Barber. Is asking that
all payments to workingmen be made
In cash and not by checks. He con-
tends that the use of the pay check,
especially where 1t is paid at the
close of the day on Saturday, virtual.
ly compels great many, employees to
go to the saloons to have the checks
cashed, and if the checks are abolish
ed the families will get larger por-
ton of the total wage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
STOP SPLITTING ON THE WALKS

STOP SPLITTING ON THE WALKS.
Keokuk has stringent ordinance
forbidding splitting on.the sidewalks,
but 1t is more honored in the breach
than In the observance Despite the
enactment the walks are befouled in
places with pools OF saliva, much of
which undoubtedly contains disease
germs Common decency, the appear
ance Of the city and the interests of
the public health demand that the
practice of promiscuous- expectoration
in public places be summarily stopped.
Too long have selfrespecting men and
women been compelled to wade
through repulsiye filth at prominent
street corners, deposited there by loaf.
ers whose presence in some instances
is an additional insult.
1t is not the eye alone that is Of
tended by the sputa with which the
walks are befouled When dried by
the sun and the wind such secretions
and the germs they contain are readily
taken up by the wind and blown into
the faces of all who have occasion to
use the streets. They are also carried
into the grocery and fruit stores and
find lodgment on the food products
offered for sale. The specific poisons
of some of the most dreaded diseases
are thus scattered promiscuously to
the deteriment of the health and hap
piness OF the community. There is
probably no more potent means for
spreading disease than the filthy hab-
1t of splitting in public places The
commissioners OF public safety would
do well to call the attention of the
public to the anti-spitting ordinance
and then proceed to enforce it rigidly.
The intelligent portion of the COM
munity, which is overwhelmingly In
the majority, will sustain him in all
proper efforts to that end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Wisconsin has ratified the income
tax amendment TO the constitution,
but that proposition Is still four votes
short of the requisite number. Thirty
one states have now voted in the af-
firmative. thirty-hve votes being need
ed Legislatures now in session in
which the amendment is pending are
those Of Florida. Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
1t seems unlikely that these five states
will supply the lacking four votes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
To the Electors Of the CITY:

In Of the fact that certain queries being made through the
the be voted this City and
have other desire than frankly discuss all objections that
made affecting the welfare Of the City, hereby any
who seriously desires sound and
merits of said with No. IS North Fifth
Street Monday "Wednesday Friday night o'clock will
be CAD discuss and explain fully all Of said the end that
all act together for the Cys best Before endorsing these
carefully considered the Cy best interests and endorse
them only because regard them the step yet proposed
looking TO the up-buidng Of the Greater Keokuk.
KEOkUK INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

In Germany they have an odd way
of Furnishing wife-beaters without de
priving the family of wages. They are
arrested Saturday night after their
work is done and put In Jail until
they have served out by Sundays the
full time for which they were sen-
fenced. Their wages are taken to
their wives for the support of their
families.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Iowa City is another Iowa commun.
ity that does things" 1t has raised
$4,000 for street car line now in
operation. 100000 for an interurban
to Davenport and the same amount for
a line to Owatonna, total of $4,000.
Such community is certain to grow
and prosper.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Alex Miller observes that the
prettiest blossoms do not produce
the best fruit. Look at the wild crab
apple.
and when the Sherman law was
adopted, there was not an insurgent
in the senate" says the Iowa City
Republican.
The Burlington Gazette says that
President Taft talked mighty good
common sense and decency in his
Jewish temple speech.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat OBJ
serves that Governor Woodrow Will
son has taken the initiative, but Col
onel Bryan will be satisfied with the
recall
"If good roads could be built by
newspaper talk" the Webster City
Freeman Tribune can see that Iowa
would not have a bad highway within
her borders
Governor Carroll vetoed the bill
which compelled everybody to fall
out into the ditch every time they
heard the foot of an automobile from
the rear says the Hampton Chroni
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Illinois now has a state inspector of
bee hives, and one of the papers
over there suggests that if they only
had an Inspector of sweet pea beds
and a general overseer Of sidewhiskers
they could get along fairly well Tor
another year Or two.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

James NJ Beck. general counsel of
the sugar trust complains of the
vagueness of the rule of reason laid
down by the United States supreme
court in it's Interpretation of the anti
trust act in the Standard Oil case. All
his doubts are likely to be dispelled
when the sugar trust gets It's deserts
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Eleventh district papers are saying
that Congressman Hubbard was too
consistent for his own or the dis
trict's good. The chances are against
his nomination for another term.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Mary Garden thinks women's clothes
are discussed much more than they
should be, which prompts a Texas
editor to suggest that in Mary's case
there should certainly be less discus
sion and more clothes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

"He talked necessarily all the time, :"
writes William j. Locke in the Amer,
lean Magazine, reviying, as B. l.. T,
points out in the Chicago Tribune, the
unanswered query, Why is magazine
editor?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Feuds are being revived in Breathitt
county, Ky. but what else could be
expected in county that maintains
no schools in twenty-one of It's twenty
eight school districts?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

to make noise like cheap car
The suggestion is not without val.
ue. Perhaps if automobile drivers
knew. what most people think and
know about the habitual use of the
muff1er cutoff they would make a
spectacle of themselves less frequent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

A New York court has ruled that
force may be lawfully employed to
eject bill collector. And yet some
people pretend they don't know what
is meant by a rule of reason
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Crude rubber that in April 1910,
sold readily at So pound now com
mands only s1.1o Thus Is the cost of
living coming down by leaps and
bounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Sioux City is running automobile
excursions in every direction In the
interest of good roads. One trip on the
program for the present week is TO
Spirit Lake and return.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Supplementary thought for the day
suggested by Kin Hubbard: Don't vor-
ry over trouble. 1t never broke date
yet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Hesitating to do rash act puts
away a penny of prudence to the
credit of a wise act.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

the visitation OF the cholera in the
early fifties. All the older members
OF the family have passed away from
earth.
JASPER BLINEs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

All roads will lead to Keokuk next
Saturday. An aeroplane in fight has
exceptional drawing powers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

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THE GATE CITY is on sale at tho
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

Gle. Carroll will receive the approx
al of all square deal auto dealers.
and all others who believe In right
doing, as the proposed law did not
even have legitimate leg to stand
on
The Britt News says the probabiii-
ties are now that nearly every county
In the Tenth district will have a can.
didate for the congressional nomina
ton next year.
In the view OF the Jacksonville
Courier, one good thing about cook
ing schools is that they furnish hus-
bands an opportunity to learn to COOK
like mother did.
The Arlington News observes that
in some cities like Des Moines they
seem to marry on trial. "If 1t is
satisfactory they remain married,
the News adds, "and if not they sepa.
rate
Suggestion for reporters by B. L.
T. in Chicago Tribune: When all
asthmatic little runabout, going eight
miles an hour, is mixed up In an &C
cident, why not refer to the machine
as big red touring car, running
sixty miles an hour?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
keokuk, Iowa .......... May %, 49,
GRAY MEN OF BATTLE.

GRAY MEN OF BATTLE.
Blow a note on the bugle,
Wake a throb of the drum,
AS down the Springtime highways
The old, gray soldiers come;
Bugle and drum to thrill them,
And quicken the step that lags-
Bugle and drum and old, gray men,
And the folds of tattered flags.
Room for the war-worn column
That wavers along the street,
Room for the crutch and empty
sleeve.
And the slow, uncertain feet,
A hush on the shout and clamor,
AS they pass with faltering tread
The gray men of the battles
Who pass to seek their dead.
Room for the men OF Antietam
Where charged their battered lines;
Room for the lions of Malvern Hill
And the eagles of Seven Pines;
Room for the clanking saber.
And the foot that once swung free
Through Shenandoah with Sheridan,
And with Sheridan to the sea.
Old and bent In the highways,
Their tattered flags on the breeze.
Never leaped at the jaws of death
Such fighting men as these;
Never saw flame of rampant.
When battle tides ran red,
The like of these old, gray soldiers
Who seek today their dead.
These are the men of Shiloh,
Who pass with footstep slow.
The steeled brigades that stormed the
clouds
OF Lookout with Fighting Joe.
These are the stubborn legions
That on Chickamauga hung.
When the bugles sang of slaughter,
And the old gray men were young.
o lingering note of the bugle,
Throb of the muffled drum,
As down the Springtime highways
The old/ gray soldiers come!
Only few more twilights
On the wavering ranks and thin,
Then night and folded banners,
And the sabers gathered In.
The West Coast Magazine, Los
Angeles, Calf.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25
THE GATE CITY
PUBLISHED BY
THE GATE CITY COMPANY
DAILY By MAIL

c, +. sKIRviN. Manages
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-25

TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat
wafer-a crisp, tasty, nourishin8 whole
wheat Toast, delicious for any meal
with butter, cheese or marmalades. Al.
ways toast it in the oven before serving.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
Ellis Jewelry Co. Sold.

The Geo. w. Ellis Jewelry Co.
was on Saturday sold to Wilbur We'll
ton, of this city, and Frank Mathers,
of Adrian, possession being given the
purchasers at once. An inventory of
the stock of goods was completed
Monday and the sore was opened to
the public under the new manage
mentlMonday evening. Mr.. Mathers
is we'll known young business man
of Adrian, and is we'll acquainted
throughout the county. Mr.. Welton
is Butler boy, and for some time
has been in charge of a iewelry house
at Letcher, S. D. The young men
will undoubtedly make a success of
their new venture.
Mr.. Ellis had conducted the busi-
ness for many years and during that
time built up an excellent business.
His many friends will regret his re-
tirement.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
Morgan Crowd Wanted Hughes.

In a recent speech in New York
G. W. Perkins, former partner of j.
P. Morgan, said that Gov. Hughes
was put forward in 1908 by Wall
street to represent the Republican
party's position on the trust question,
and that Gov. Hughes, in a speech at
Youngstown. O., construed the Re-
publican promise to amend the anti
trust law as follows:
I'm our progress we must avoid
false steps. Ours must be the rule
of reason" etc.
Congress refused to legalize ''rea-
sonable" or any other king of trusts,
so Gov. Hughes was put on the Su-
preme bench, and helped twist the
law to make it conform to the trust
idea of what the Republican promise
meant.
Add to Mr.. Perkins significant re-
mark, the further fact that Hughes
bitterly opposed an income tax, and
his qualifications as a Taft choice for
the supreme bench become readily
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02

Halloween night and CORVALLIS
night were both well observed by the
youngsters of this city. Making the
nights hideous with nerve tearing
noise producers, throwing corn and
gravel, writing on sidewalks and
windows, and carrying off everything
not nailed down and a good many
things that were, was the order of
both nights. However, one piece of
inexcusable work married the pleas
ure of both nights, and this was the
painting upon the new high school
building. This was done, in all prob
ability, in all innocence and in the
spirit Of pure fun, but the fact re-
mains that the black doors of the
building upon which the painting was
done win always present dingy ap-
pearance on account Of it being inn
possible to remove the stains.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
GOLTRA is ELECTED
COMMITTEEMAN
st. Louisan Defeats e. Y. Mitchell for
National Post by 19-to-12 Vote.

st. Louisan Defeats e. Y. Mitchell for
National Post by 19.to-12 Vote.
Kansas City, NO., Oct 31.-Despite
the combined efforts of the Folk
Reed contingent to bring about the
election of E. Y. Mitchell of Spring.
field, Mo-, to fill the vacancy in the
Democratic National Committee caused
by the death of Col. Moses C. Wet
more, Edward F. Goltra of St. Louis,
was elected to-day by a vote of 10 to
IL, one vote being given to John C.
Roberts Of St. Louis, who also is
aligned with the Folk forces.
The meeting of the Democratic
State Committee in the morning was
one Of the most interesting that has
been called in several years. Twenty
six members responded to roll call,
and the absentees were represented
by proxies.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
Miss0uri's Hunting Season Open.

Jefferson City, No., Oct. 31.-To-
morrow the hunting season will open
in this state. The number of licensed
hunters now is not definitely known,
but it is thought there are about TO-
600. In the past the number has
reached as high as $1,000.
Reports received by the State Game
and Fish Commissioner indicate a
much greater supply Of game, except
deer, duck and geese, this season
than has been the case in a number
of years. Wild turkeys are abundant
and the same is said to be true of
quail and all small game. Hunters
should bear in mind that they are not
permitted to kill the English phesants
which are to be found in considera-
bic numbers, or the native prairie
chicken.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
FARMING AS A BUSINESS
full Management Necessary to FL
nancial Success In Agriculture.

Much of the wealth of present-day
farmers has come to them without
work, by the increase in the value of
their land. The actual farm operations
have, in many cases, only paid ex-
penses. Few farmers have made an
actual business success of farming.
1t is possible to make farming pay.
On high priced land it is difficult
When interest charges are figured az
they would be in any other business
the profits look quite small. But farm
ing as a business is a success when
properly carried on.
To make farming pay it is neces.
sary that the stock on the farm be of
the highest efficiency obtainable. 1t
Ia not economy to feed two pounds
Of corn to an animal when another
type would do the same work with
the pound. The soil must be 80 ham
died that the crop yields are large.
for this is a fundamental part Of
farming. This means that the crops
must be rotated and the manure must
be hauled out, and sometimes the fer.
tilizer must be applied. The prod.
ucts that are sold from the farm must
be the kind that top the market"
For farm boys or men VINO want to
learn more of the practical things
that make better farming the short
courses have been planned at the Uni.
versity Of Missouri, under the charge
Of A. J. Meyer. Men taking these
courses have the opportunity to study
tn experimental work with crops and
animals that is carried on at the col.
lege. Stock judging, veterinary medi.
cine. crop methods and many other
practical courses are given.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
WITHERSPOON ACQUITTED.
Verdict of Not Guilty Rendered By
Jury in Fourth Trial of Case of
Long Standing.

The case of the State VS. John With
erspoon, charged with forgery, which
has for years been pending in the
courts, was concluded Friday after
noon when after only about an hours
deliberation the jury rendered a YER
dict of "Not Guilty"
Witherspoon was charged with the
forgery of deed of trust in 1898,
and since that time the case has been
tried four times.
The firm of Silvers & Silvers assist
ed Mr.. Dawson for the State and De-
Witt C. Chastain assisted by Carl ].
Henry conducted the defense. The
verdict was reached at lis D. m.
Friday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02

Household conveniences on the farm
usually do not bring in a direct profit
that can be counted in dollars. How.
ever, they bring in big profits in add.
ed enjoyment Of life. They bring more
rested housewives and mothers. They
give more opportunity for the farm
housekeeper to read and be up to
date. And they add years to the life
Of those for whose benefit they are in.
stalled.
No amount Of hard work will make
farmer successful unless he uses
brains along with it. There will al.
ways be hard work about farming.
but the same amount Of work will
make more profit for the thinking
farmer than for the one who Just
labors.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
Bates County Cannot Have Rock
Road Districts.

A matter OF considerable import
ance to the county at large was
brought before the Commercial Club
at meeting of that body Friday night
when A. H. Culver read before the
meeting an opinion rendered by At
torney General E. w. Major, the SUBJ
stance of which is to the effect that
counties under township organization
have no provision in the statutes
under which to organize special road
districts. 1t has been held that town.
ship organization was not contem-
plated in the enactment of that statute
which provides for the organization
of special districts. Bates, Barton,
Cass, Vernon. Henry are all under
township organization.
Among other proceedings of the
club was donation of $50 for some
special road work in Lone Oak
township.
The matter of the celebration of the
opening of the new depot was taken
up, but in view of the fact that date
has not yet been set for the opening
no definite arrangements were made.
The general opinion is that upon the
day of the opening the business
houses should close from 8 to s p.
m. and that all patrons of the Missou-
ri Pacific be invited to attend. Ad-
dresses will be made by Mayor j. E.
Williams and other well known
speakers. The officers of the road
will be asked to be present.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
TAFT, DISHEARTENED, AID.
MITS LIKELIHOOD OF
PARTY'S DE-
FEAT.
Sees Party Chastened by Off.Year
Losses,

Losses.
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 3O.-The Presi.
dent surprised a large audience at a
dinner at the Hamilton Club today by
what most of his hearers construed
as an admission of the possibility OF
a Republican defeat in the coming
election. He was addressing what
had promised to be an unusually en-.
thusiastic audience of Republicans.
Republicans present fastened to
tell the Associated Press the Presi.
dents utterances were due to weari-
ness after his long tour of speech
making, and especially after the three
days hard campaigning" in Chi
cago. 1t was his last public utter
ance in Chicago before departing for
Pittsburg tonight. He said:
Nov we are at--some people
think-the crisis in the Republican
party with reference to its continu-
ance in the guidance of the nation.
am hopeful that the good people of
the country, who know a good thing
when they see it, have only chastened
US in an off-year in order that we
may be better hereafter, but with no
intention of shifting from shoulders
that are fitted to bear the burden of
the present problems and carry them
to successful solution, to those who
are untried'and who have new theo-
ries of action that we do not believe
in and that we don't believe the peo-
pie believe in"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02

A new ruling by the postoffice de-
partment makes it mandatory on the
carriers on the rural route service to
deliver the mail to the patrons on
their route within the range of rea-
sonable possibility. Carriers are in
structed to deviate from their routes
when ever it becomes necessary, but
in all instances they must serve their
entire route or so much thereof as is
possible.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-11-02
PRICE. $500 PER YEAR

Senator Stephenson finds that he
spent another $1,000 to be elected
which he had forgotten about, bring
ing the total up to $lll,OOO. This is
at the rate of about IS cents apiece
for the Republicans of Wisconsin,
whereas the expert opinion is that so
cents each would have been cheap for
them.-Republic.