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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-01

stand and bleachers began TO roar
Maybe Thomas was little wilC
but we know e. ~ wel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-01
THE OTHER GAMES.

OUVER-Funny that the
same two ball teams could play
each other two games In success
sion the same day, one winning
the first by ID to 1, and the other
winning the second by 10 to g
You'd think that any team that
would lam another by a II to 1
score could at least win a second
game. But Spokane couldn't re-
peat against Vancouver yesterday
There was lot of hitting, 2 hon.
|ers, a threeIbagger and five dou-
bles. The result of the day left
both teams in the same position
in the race as they started.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-01

Moskin and Berry; Yates, Cri-
ger and Smith.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
REPUBLICAN PARTY POLICY.

REPUBLICAN PARTY POLICY.
| In a carefully considered and we'll
written article reproduced in another
column of this issue of The Gate City
the keosauqua Republican enters Wig
orous protest against the suggestion
that Republicans accept President
Taft's reciprocity ideas as the policy
of the Republican party. The Keo-
sauqua papers reasons for dissent are
set forth at some length and are en-
titled to great weight in reaching
conclusion in this Important matter.
The Republican is published in a
strictly agricultural community and it
voices the views of its farmer readers.
practically without regard to party
lines. Almost to a man. Democrats
as well as Republicans, they are
agreed that the proposed Canadian
pact discriminates unfairly against
western farmers and in the interest
of eastern manufacturers, and that in
its practical workings it would injure
the tillers of the soil without benefit
, tiIS lH6 EDlSuIliGIS VI IOOu
to any appreciate extent. This is
the view advanced and maintained
from the first by The Gate City and
it is glad to see it endorsed by pa
per so well qualified as the Republi-
can is to speak for the farming com
munity.
Not only would our agricultural
interests be he seriously Injured if
the treaty went through, but there
would be an abandonment of the Re
publican policy of protection which
has been the bulwark of the party in
the past No such abandonment is
called for or warranted either in the
public interest or as matter of party
expediency To accept it as party
policy, as has been proposed, would
mean surrender of the strongest po-
sition the Republican party has ever
held or can ever hope to hold. The
Keosauqua paper has done we'll to
raise its voice in protest against the
proposition. It's article should be,
carefully perused by every Gate City
reader.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
CARTHAGE. ILL.
) $3.50 eee~~A~~.e

Misses Erma Rand. Edith O'Harra
and Mary Lawless, were Quincy visi-
tors Saturday
r. J. Kirby returned Saturday from
two weeks visit with his brother
at Moorhead, Mimi.
Miss adelaide Merrill leaves to-
morrow for Kansas City. to spend the
week with her father. She will also
visit at St Joseph. Mo.
Mr.. Fred Milby went to Keokuk
Sunday to accompany his wife home,
Miss Lillian vertner and Miss An.
ma Sebree expect to go to Chicago
next week for ten days visit.
Miss Ruby Anderson of Quincy, Is
visiting Miss Grace Kimbrough.
Miss Ruth Ferris. of Quincy, spent
Sunday with homefolks in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Campbell wen
to Quincy Saturday evening
Mrs. Lulu Manussier and baby o.
Basco, visited over Sunday at the
home of her grandparents, Mr.. an,
Mrs. Jameson Wetzel.
DR.. H. J. Elsea visited with rela
] tives over Sunday in Dallas City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

is another mOOted question. The city
council. as well as many other citi-
zens of the town, would like to have
this question answered satisfactorily.
Don't all speak at once, but all speak
intelligently and to the point. Three
of the saloon licenses expire June 4,
and at this time the city will lose
5000 in revenue. In the end the prop
erty owners of the town will as us
ual, have to bear the burden. Are you,
and will you stand for your share?
A baby daughter was born Sunday
evening to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Greg
DRY, of Clark City
Dr. and Mrs A. w. Teel, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. o. Butler, Mr. and Mrs Jacob
Wickham and Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Wick
ham attended the Wickham-Roche
wedding in Keokuk Tuesday afternoon
The barn of Harry Caruthers was
burned last Friday evening and the
contents, including three horses and
five calves were consumed
tuberculosis Day was observed in
Kahoka last Sunday evening, and a
program on the subject was given at
the Baptist church. Several interest
ing papers by Kahoka physicians on
the subject were read. 1t was a good
meeting and largely attended and it
is hoped will be instrumental in help.
ing to wipe out this dread disease.
A tax on old maids, cats, old bach
elors, etc, might help to bring in
enough revenue to make up for the
loss of the saloons.
Mrs. Roy Cutting, of Atlanta, Mo-,
is the guest of her parents. Marshal
and Mrs. R. W. Jewart.
While assisting VIM. Painter to car.
ry a steel vault from the sidewalk to
his store room on the second foor.
Marshal Jewart met with a painful
accident and is compelled to use a
cane. In mounting the stairs the mar
shal's left ankle got In the way and it
was crushed between the step and the
vault. No bones were broken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Mrs. Chas. Swope of Clayton, was
calling on friends in the city Satu.
day.
Mr.. Edw Hall Of Quincy visited
over Sunday at the home of Frank
Gray, north of the city
Henry Walker of Keokuk was in
the city the first of the week
Miss Emma Bell visited over Sun.
day with her parents, in Warsaw.
The following were Keokuk and
Hamilton visitors. Sunday: Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. v. Helfrich. Mr. and Mrs
r. W. Saer and son Robert, Mrs Pet
erson Miss Margaret Geiger. Miss
Ruth Hartzell, Miss Ona Rohrbougll,
Miss Leota Cutler, Clarence Talbot,
Karr Parker, John Walker. e. Mo
Clure, James Stockton. E. o. Reaugh,
H. w. Hecox and son, Chelmer, Harry
Peterson, Mr.. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Fletcher, Mrs. Julia Erwin, Bes.
sic Edgcomb
Attorney Truman Plantz, OF War
saw, was In the city Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
RIGHT AND WRONG WAY.

In its issue Of Sunday morning the
ST. Louis Republic undertook to ex.
plain why Detroit was able to take
factories worth s30,000,0O0 from St
Louis during the last six years. The
want of systematic work to procure
them is the strongest reason, and the
lack OF interest in them after they
come, in order to hold them and en-
courage them to develop is another.
One instance is cited which illustrates
the difference between ST. Louis and
Detroit which may serve as point
err for other cities, including Keokuk.
The story in part is as follows:
While Henry Ford was inventing
an automobile engine in Detroit, l.. E.
Boyer was inventing an adding ma
! chine and pneumatic tools in ST.
Louis. Now watch the careers of
these twain inventors, both rich be-
yond the widest dreams of Midas.
Ford stuck to Detroit, Detroit kept
Ford and he made her.
Did st. Louis cast Boyer off and
! send him to help Ford to make De-
troit, or did Boyer cast of st. Louis
when he had got his start?
This brings us to the oft-asked
question: Why did the Burroughs
Adding Machine Company leave ST.
Louis and come here to Detroit?
Plumply comes the answer from
Detroit: The Burroughs Adding Ma
chine Company was driven out of st.
Louis by an unsophisticated city coun-
Gil.
The Burroughs Company says it
bought land between Laclede avenue
and Forest Park boulevard and Grand
and Spring avenues. There it wished
to put up a great new factory Plans
were drawn and the company prepar-
ed to build. This in 1904
The ground sloped sharply from
Grand west and was bisected by an
alley, which the Burroughs Company
proposed to cross with bridge,
which was to run from the first floor
of its Office to the second floor of its
factory.
The city council, say certain stock
holders of the Burroughs Company,
was in due form petitioned to permit
the Burroughs Company to build this
bridge across the alley
The city council refused, say the
Burroughs stockholders.
Then the Burroughs Adding Ma
chine Company picked up their tents
and like Bedouins stole away from ST
Louis in the night. When they got
TO Detroit. Loco strong, they were met
with brass band by the mayor and
principal citizens. At 10 p. m. every
man and woman in the employe of the
company was sleeping in his or her
home.
Detroit had prepared royal vel
come for the concern that st. Louis
had lost.
Now the Burroughs people have
the prettiest factory in America It
covers two blocks OF frontage and
eleven acres on Burroughs avenue
In ST. Louis it could not have a
bridge over an alley. In Detroit they
vacated a street for it and named a
beautiful boulevard for it."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN.
The Waterloo Reporter well say

Inc Waterloo Reporter we'll SAYS:
An organization of girls in Keo
kuk has been heraldea about the state
as going to shine shoes on the streets
IN order to raise money to send dele.
gates to the convention of the order
We hope the story is Joke. In Kan
sas City the mayor forbid a similar
stunt being pulled off. The cause
may be worthy, but the manner of its
accomplishment is not to be com
mended. No gentleman would permit
a girl or woman to shine his shoes
and girls should not lower their wom-
anhood by caressing the feet of the
other kind of man.
The Reporter in the foregoing states
the view of right-thinking people gem
orally regarding the stunt it is pro
posed to pull off here With this ref
erence to the matter. brief as it is,
the whole thing should be dismissed.
Let us all try to forget that anyone in
keokuk ever suggested anything of
the kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
STARTLING DIVORCE FIGURES.

Startling figures relative to mar
riage and divorce in Iowa are reveal
ed in a table of statistics on the sub
ject, covering the year 1910, just com
pleted in the Office of Secretary OF
State Hayward. The figures as sum
married in the Des Moines Register
and Leader show:
That one ont of every seven couples
that are married take their matimon-
ial troubles into court.
That one out of every ten couples
married are divorced.
That so per cent of the divorce &C
tons instituted in court are not con-
tested by the defendant spouse.
That less than ) per cent OF the d.
yorce actions started end with the
court denying the divorce decree.
That three times as many wives
bring divorce actions as do husbands
That 91a per cent Of all divorces are
given permission to remarry within
one year, the iowa law forbidding re
marriage within that length of time
without special permission of the
judge granting the divorce decree.
That Polk county's ratio of divorces
to marriage, in relation to the popula
ton, is greater than any other coun
".
That Lee county had twenty-three
divorces TO 1874 marriages.
That Grundy and Butler counties
had the fewest number OF divorces
two each.
A summary Of the report, as com
piled by Deputy Brewer. is as follows:
Population of Iowa ,... 2,224,T71
No. marriage licenses Issued 21,53f
40. divorce petitions filed 1925
Total No of divorces granted 2,274
J, Divorces granted TO wives 1.T1f
Divorces granted to husbands 55S
Divorces granted bv default. 1872
Divorce petitions denied III
Number of Divorces given per.
permission to remarry within
a year ....... 81:
Polk county leads the list of coun
ties of the state in the number of di
vorces granted That county's tota
, was 2S6 Woodbury. county. in whicJ
Sioux City is located. comes second
with 14a DEGREES, and Scott county i
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Mrs. S S. Ball and daughter Aileen
were guests of her brother, Roy COT.
fey. at Weldon, Iowa, the first of the
week
Mrs. ] T. Townsend and daughter
Margaret have returned from a visit
with relatives at Ball, South Dakota.
Edward, s year-old son of Mr.. and
day of last week by vicious mule tied
near the vacant Fulton lots. The lad
was knocked distance of about ten
feet and sustained two broken and one
cracked ribs. The mule was not shod
otherwise the results might have been
more serious. The boy is getting
along nicely
Corn planting is in full blast and
very few farmers are coming to town.
Two carriages loaded with Masons
attended lodge at st. Francisville
Tuesday evening and enjoyed sup
per.
County court adjourned last week to
June 70.
Probate court is in session this week.
Neil vermillion and family have
moved to Topeka, Kansas
F. NJ. Boyer was called to Chicago
Tuesday by the death of brother.
A marriage license was issued Mon
day to Fernando Day and Miss Mary
Elizabeth McAllister, both of near
Winchester.
Chas. w. Watson, of Kahoka,
National bank examiner, has receive
a promotion and has been assigned To-
Kansas City and st. Joseph. He Will
maintain an Office at Kansas City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

The work of beautifying Keokuk's
river front should not be overlooked
in the march forward. Visitors to
the city by river and rail get their
first view of the city in that locality
and it is highly desirable that the I'M
preston be favorable one. The
present condition and aspect of Keo-
kuks river front is a disgrace to the
community, and should not be allow
ed to continue day longer than is
absolutely necessary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
KAHokA, Mo.
|. . : . . . . . . . : !. >

The special census as taken by
James Murphree gives Kahoka 1894,
or more than the government cea-
sus. The special census was taken
to determine whether or not the sa,-
looms of Kahoka could run under the
block system. This will settle the
matter to the satisfaction of all. In
order for them to run in Kahoka it
will require majority of the tax
payers OF the town. Whether they
can secure this majority is mooted
question. II they cannot 1t means a
loss to the city in revenue of $1,000
year The city now assesses as
high as they can go under the law.
Where will the city get enough reve.
nue. to make up this deficiency? This
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
keokuk, Iowa May II, 1911
MY BODY AND /

MY BODY AND |.
got this body in the Fleshing Shop
When 1t was small and pudgy-like
and red;
No teeth it had nor could it stand
erect
A fuzzy down grew sparse upon its
head.
AT sight of it the neighbors stood and
and laughed
And tickled it and logged it UP and
down;
Then some one put it in little cart,
And wheeled it gaily through the
gaping town.
When it grew bigger and could walk
and run,
/ wet it in the pond above the hill,
Or took it to a building called a
school
And there had to keep it very
still.
And later, when its muscles stronger
grew,
made 1t SOW and reap to get its
grain,
And tanned it in the summers fierc-
est suns,
And toughened it with wind and
cold and rain.
1T served to keep me near my friend,
the Earth.
1t helped me we'll to get from place
to place,
And then, perhaps tiny bit of me
Has sometimes worked out through
its hands and face!
How long I've had it! Longer than it
seems
Since first they wrapped it in a lin
en- clout,
And now t is shriveled, patched and
breaking down
I guess, forsooth, that have worn
it out,
And l? oh. bless you! I am ever
young,
A soul ne'er ages-is not bent nor
gray.
And when the body breaks and crum-
bles down
The Fleshing Shop is just across
the way!
Richard Wightman in Success Mag
szine
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

There is said to be movement on
foot in the Eleventh district to defeat
Congressman Hubbard for renomina-
ton. His vote in favor of the Canadi-
an reciprocity agreement is strongly
resented by his farmer constituents
who are looking around for someone
else to represent them in the national
house. Goodby. Mr.. Hubbard, Take
care Of yourself!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
NOTES AND COMMENT.

Alex Miller declares that the trou-
bic with too many people is that they
are natural fools.
According to the Sioux city Journal,
the Des Moines baseball squad is
made of sixteen pretty good ballplay-
ers and hoodoo.
Innocent spectators of battles are
crat not 10 be SO innocent as TO for
get that modern rifles carry long
distance.
Red Oak, with population of less
than 5000, will pave forty blocks this
have a total Of 100 blocks. nearly ten
miles Of paving.
The Davenport Times suggests that
when the new law requiring ice cream
to be pure goes into effect in Iowa,
the governor might well appoint WON
en- to be inspectors.
The Washington Democrat quotes
John Wilson. farmer residing north
east of that place, as saving that his
wife makes more out of eggs than he
does out of the farm.
A Kentucky representative has in
troduced bill placing a tax on com
plexion powders and such There IS
always somebody wanting to place a
tax on the necessities of life. com
plains the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Bishop McFaul tells the New York
newspaper men that journalism should
be founded on the ten command
ments. ut always was says tbs
J Sioux City Tribune. They are brok
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

KeoRuk is happily coming into a
belief in itself This is the one thing
1t has lacked in the past, and its pres
ent possession augurs well for the flu
ture. city that believes in itself
never fails to give proof of such be-
lief. Its citizens attest their conf
dence in it and in each other by
marching side by side in the promo
ton Of the interests of the communi-
" and such city is as sure to go
heet,footed forward as that the sun
will rise tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

DR.. Crumbine of Kansas. who start
ed the fly swatting crusade, has found
that the French paint their kitchens
blue because of the fy's aversion to
blue paint, and that the people of In
dia grow hops about their homes to
keep flies away. the odor of hops be-
ing offensive to the fly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
en- often enough to keep the reporters

III oieSh ciiou5n W Keep the Icpol teIs
busy
IF the farmers of the Eleventh
district" says the Harlan Republican,
shall stand for the reelection OF
their congressman, Ebert Hubbard,
they are different from the farmers of
the Ninth. Down here none. compar
atively speaking, not even Democratic
farmers, are favorable to that meas
ure."
The King drag can soon transform
a poor piece of highway into a boule-
vard,r says the Cedar Rapids Gazette
THE man who invented the King drag
deserves to be pensioned by the ma
tional government and by every state
legislature. And the lawmakers who
pass statutes compelling the dragging
of the highways deserve the thanks
of hundreds of thousands of farmers.
teamsters and tourists in every state. >
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

third with ninety-nine DEGREES. The
heavy population in these counties &C.
counts for the large number of de-
crees.
The general state average is one d.
vorce to ten marriages. as noted
above. In Lee county there was one
divorce to every eight and fraction
marriages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Russian Footwear.

All Russians have weakness for
handsome footwear and the result is
that there are more pairs of snowy
boots worn in the cars empire than
anywhere else on earth. This prefer
ence extends to the women as we'll az
to the men
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

The cost of the Muscatine strike.
directly and indirectly, is estimated
at 100000 AS neither side gained
anything from it this large sum was
all wasted. In addition Musgatine has
suffered serious loss in reputation and
standing. The average strike is clear
ly mistake.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Did YOU ever see anybody Diaz
hard?r inquiries the Davenport Demo
crat. Never Nor many puns that
caused greater regret that the English
language was ever invented.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
THOUGHT FOB The DAY.

Little Boy Blue, come blow your
horn,
HOr people won't know that you ever
We're born,
For We'll be overlooked, say the ones
who are wise,
Unless we keep hustling and adver.
tise.
Nixon Waterman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
TO HUGH L. COOPER.

Here's to the man who plans things
Build things-makes things:
Who talks not of wonders of old,
Nor gloats on ancestral gold,
But takes off his coat and rolls up his
sleeves
And takes hold and DOES things.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

The Wells-Farso Express company s
dividends were only $40 per cent last
year. 1t is wonder how such a cor
poration manages to exist
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

President Diaz is having almost as
much and as serious trouble as base.
ball umpire.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Both the weather and current hap
Fpenings tended to make 1t hot old
time in FL Paso Tuesday night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
Marriage Licenses.

James y. Whewell stillwell. Mari
n. Vision. Stillwell; Henry Staff. TIC
ga. Lille Lowery, West Point; F. A.
Crane, Quincy, Amanda E. Jabin
Quincy; Joe NJ. Curtis, Miller. South
Dakota, Mabel J. Horner, Dallas City
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Kiowa, Kan, has for its slogan
'Katch Kiowa, Kansas, if You Can,
1t must be going some
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Another reason lately put forth
against woman suffrage is that the
women would have to have their bal
lots back to add a postscript.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

A St Louis man has invented a ma
chine ITO conserve wind power Go
ing to can campaign oratory2
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Better leave 'em on little too long
than take EN- off little too soon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

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express
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papers promptly Will confer favor py
giving notice of the fact.
Address all communications to
THE GATE CITY COMPANY.
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following news stands:
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Ward Bros. 525 Main street.
Depot News Stanu-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

Alex Miller declares that the trou-
bic with too many people is that they
are natural fools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11
THE e ATE CITY
PUBLISHED BY
TIE GATE CITY COMPANY
DAILY BY MAI

6. r. sklRviN. Manager
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-11

According to the Sioux city Journal,
the Des Moines baseball squad is
made of sixteen pretty good ballplay-
ers and hoodoo.