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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
GLACIER ICE IS
 BEING EXPORTED

Geneva, September 3O.-(Special) )-This summers great heat has been the means of starting a new industry in certain ot the mountain districts of Switzerland, glacier ice being exported for the first time to Germany. France, Italy and other countries
 For many weeks past in Grindewald the Upper Glacier, about two miles from the railroad station, has been supplying carloads of ice for export. Cut straight from the glacier, the ice is removed in huge blocks to the station, where they were placed in covered vans and forward ed to various parts of Europe.
 The glacier being accessible the ice IS easily obtained, while the road from the frozen field to the railroad station is down hill nearly all the way Besides providing a good deal of employment this export of ice helps to swell the coffers of the railroad company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
Regains Speech

London, September 3O.-6Special.)-A motor car accident has been the cause or a woman temporarily regaining her lost speech. During an illness in Amer ica last year Mrs. Cranor of County Clare became dumb, and had not spoken from December till the motor car .n which she and her husband were riding at Blackpool was in a collision with an- other car. To her husbands amazement and delight Mrs. Cranor exclaimed to the driver of the other car: You never blew your horn" She has since relapsed into dumbness This is her fourth seiz- ure, due to nervous breakdown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
Easier Terms On Lion" Gas Water
 Heaters

''Lion'' Gas Water Heaters have also been re- duced in price to this extent that the installment price of $15 has been reduced to $14, and the terms made easier. These great little heaters can now be bought for $2 cash and s2 per month instead of $5 cash and $5 per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-01
Line of Intermediate
 Priced Stoves

We have likewise-in order to place the gas stove within the easy reach of all people-added a line of Sanitary sEclipse stoves at very low prices. These are excellent stoves we sell for $500 cash or $14.0O on the installment plan, the terms being $2.00 cash and $150 per month.
 This is the best stove for the price that we are able to secure, and we are firmly convinced that they will meet the requirements of hun dreds of families which have not felt able to purchase gas stove in the past.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
IOWA POWER CO.
FILED MORTGAGE
Il Covers the Dam Properties In
southeastern Iowa and Secured
a Bond Issue Of
$e5o,ooo.
DOCUMENT LONG ONE
Instrument Filed at Mt. Pleasant Pro
vides for Plants at Oakland.
Lowell, Augusta and Other
Places.

MT. PLEASANT. Iowa, June 49,
The Iowa Power Co., has filed with
the county eoorder mortgage run
ming to the Central Trust Co., OF Chi
cago, securing bond issue OF $780,
900 and covering the properties OF the
Iowa Power Co. at Oakland Mills,
Webster's, Lowell Augusta, Grimes
Ferry and Wapello, together with all
water and dam rights, and all prop
erty of all kinds.
Under the terms of the mortgage
the Iowa Power Co. is permitted to
realize on bonds to the amount OF
$l25,0O0 for the completion of the
Oakland Mills and Webster power
propositions. AS soon as these two
plants, singly or together, are ready to
produce 600-horse power OF current,
$4,000 more in bonds is available to
build the next two dams. When LOO
horse power is ready for delivery en-
other $4,000 is available, and SO on
until the entire system of six dams is
completed, with total bond issue OF
s650,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
A Perfect Shampoo.

May be obtained by using Meritol
Shampoo Paste This prescription
is highly recommended as an in
MIGRATING scalp cleanser and dand-
ruff remover.
1t is delicately perfumed and i'm
parts it's soothing properties to the
scalp and leaves a refreshed feeling.
Makes the hair soft and pliable and
gives it fluffy, silky effect
Has all the qualities requisite in
prescription for a high grade Sham
poo Paste = fair trial will convince
you that Meritol Shampoo Paste is
unequaled.
Manufactured and guaranteed by
American Drug & Press Association.
City Drug Store, local representatives.
For tired, aching. swollen feet, Mer-
itol Foot Powder. City Drug Store.
Meritol Chocolate Granules, a prod
uct of the American Drug and Press
Association, are positively without an
equal as a bowel regulator. They do
the work without the slightest evil
effect Try them once and you will
never be without them. City Drug
| Store.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
The Universal Pat.

Everybody must have pet, If you
haven't baby, you must at least own
a dog. If 1t isn't dog. it may be a
cat or kitten. In other lands it may
be a monkey have even known of
those who have alligators as pets
little ones. of course. Perhaps this
explains why, on a single Sunday, 4o,-
900 men. women and children, princi-
pally children, will flock into the Zoo
logical garden at Bronx park in the
northern part of New York city. This
may explain, too, why. in single
calendar year nearly one million and
half visitors at the park take time
and do 1t with pleasure-to visit
what is known as the finest geological
exhibit as well as the largest in the
world. Harriet Quimby, in Leslie's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
WILL NOT DIG
UP WAYS CORPSE
First Husband of Mrs. Henkle Is Mo-
To be Disturbed In His
Last Sleep.

DELAWARE, o., June 19.-Plans
for exhuming the remains of Edgar
Way, first husband of Mrs. Jessie Way
Henkle. under arrest for the al.
legged poisoning of her 21-year old
stepdaughter, Merle Henkle are
abandoned.
This announcement was made by
Detective Matthews. working on the
Henkle poisoning case, following his
return from conference with the
authorities at Wheeling, W. Va.
where Way died presumably of lead
poisoning. and at Caldwell, O., where
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
The Valves In Big Dam.

Some analysis of the effect OF the
dam on the river as far as Burling-
ton brings out some facts that may
answer the questions of the curious.
The effect of the dam upon high
water stages ceases below Fort Madi-
son. Fort Madison is in exactly the
same status as Burlington as regards
floods
During dry years, the water above
the dam will maintain constant
height. 1t will be kept at that constant
height by the water power company
The water at the face of the dam at
Keokuk will be kept constantly at 525
feet above Memphis datum-there is
a government mark on rock at Mem.
phis showing Memphis datum and to
this scratch on rock all Mississippi
river measurements are referred; il
corresponds to the equator in calcu
iatjrg attitudes.
The dam is as full of gates as q
collander is OF holes Opening and
closing these gates will regulate the
height of water above the dam. They
will be opened to the extent that vii
keep the water level just above the
dam $50 feet above that fixed datum
at Memphis. The dam considered a:
an obstruction to the river must b.
considered an easily regulated OBJ
struction, like a kitchen faucet, Or {
gas jet, which can be made to ALLOW
as much flow through it as is desired
There will be 119 Of these big valves
and each of them will open hole il
the dam thirty feet long and clever
1 feet high. Each will be large enoug
to handle a good sized river by Itself
! When floods are approaching. thes
gates will be automatically raised i
advance of the flood waters arrival
/ as at the dam in the Nile and else
where, and IN this way the food wa
tiers will pass out without causing an
new high water levels at Burlington 0
| even at Fort Madison. k
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Beware of Ointments for Ca
tarrh that Contain Mercury,

a, mercury will surely destroy the sense
who's system when entering It through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on nrescr:p-
lions from reputable physlcians. IS the
gooI you can possibly derive from them.
Halrs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
r. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. o.. c,n-
tains no mercury. and is taken inter
nally. acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls. Catarrh Cure be sure you
ref the genuine 1t Is taken Internally
i, ii made In Toledo, Ohio, by Il. j..
Cheney & &C. Testimonials free.
So by Druggists. Price. 75c per bot
Take Halls Family Pills for const,oa-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

the place where the effect of the dam
at low water disappears-where is the
upper edge of the pool formed by the
dam. This point is ten or twelve
miles above Burlington, probably as
far north as Oquawka.
Thus, the effect of the dam on the
river depends. Its effects on flood
stages ceases below Fort Madison; its
effect during prolonged drouths
reaches a dozen miles above Burling-
ton.
This article is an effort to answer
all the questions of the properly cur
ious about the changes in things at
Burlington to be caused by the dam
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

Way was later buried. Matthews de
clared that Prosecutor Handlan, Of
Wheeling, was unwilling to order the
remains exhumed, as his experience in
the Schenk trial had convinced him
of the inadvisability of prosecuting d
poisoning case unless the evidence
was very strong.
1t is not expected therefore that
there will be any further develop
ments until Mrs. Henkle is brought
to trial.
Merle Henkle, who has secured
rooms away from her father and step
mother, is still considering a vaude
vile offer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Slope Of the Dam.

The pool above the dam will have a
slope toward Keolsuk, as there Is now
slope to the river-it will not be
level as a duck pond, by any means.
The reason lies in the laws that gov
ern the behavior of fluids, and this
is not treatise on physics.
The illustration at the head of this
article is diagram showing the gen
eral conditions in this section of the
river. The vertical scale is greatly
exaggerated; and it is purely diagram
attic.
The broken lines mark the true level
between Burlington and keokuk The
upper heavy line indicates how the
surface of the pool will slope down
stream after the dam is in operation;
the water surface will be where the
seven-foot mark is on the guage at
Burlington; the water surface will of
course be at the top of the dam at
Keokuk. The difference of level be-
tween these two points-the slope OF
the surface of the pool-will be about
six inches between Burlington and
Keokuk.
The lower solid line represents the
/ present slope of the river; the line
connects the zeros on the guages at
Burlington and at Keokuk. 1t is this
heavy slope which makes the fall
which makes the big dam and water
power possible. In fact, this slope
is not one straight line, for most of
the slope and fall occurs between
Montrose and Keokuk-it actually is
composed of a multitude of straight
lines of varying lengths joined to
gether.
The diagram indicates exactly what
effect the dam will have at Burling-
ton at low stages of water
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

and to do 1t so that he who reads
may run-and tell the neighbors he
knows all about it. While the situa-
ton at the offices Of the Mississippi
River Power Company is much like
that at the White House, and Mr..
Cooper never talks for publication, and
can never be quoted outside of his
public addresses, this study of the eff
fects of the greatest water power dam
in the world may be relied upon as
being entirely accurate. OF course, 1t
takes up only few of the many
things in that most complex engineer
ing feat, the damming Of the magni-
ficent Mississippi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Mt. pleasant is Ignored.

In the meanwhile the officers of the
Iowa Power Co. are going ahead about
their business perfecting the plant and
preparing to manufacture current
They seem utterly oblivious as to
whether or not Mt. Pleasant takes
current or does not take it.
The city council on the other hand
is doing nothing, and SO far as can be
learned will refuse to treat with the
company. The progress of the com
pany will now be watched with q
good deal of interest. 1t evidently has
mapped out its future program but
refuses to disclose its plans. 1t Ger
tainly Is hoped that some arrange
ment may yet be made to avail the
city of the power at Oakland.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
w. w. in Sunday With Woodmen
Excursion of 700 From Quincy
German Band From BurlIne-
ton on Columbia.
DAY WAS PLEASANT
Railroads Brought Good Many From
North and West to See
Dam and Local
Sights.

Four steamers pulled into the boat
harbor here yesterday after dinner
with something like 1900 excursion
lists on their quartet of decks.
The Steamer w. w. had the larg-
est crowd, carrying the Modern
Woodmen lodge excursion from Quin-
cy. The boat had about it's capacity
of passengers aboard, 500, and arrived
a little after 8 o'clock. The Column
bia came in about the same time
from Burlington with 800 Schwabian
German Military Company excursion
lists. On the return the Columbia and
Black Hawk were locked through at
the same time, leaving the local land
ing at o'clock.
The packets Keokuk and Black
Hawk had good passenger lists, the
former carrying 200 or more and the
latter bringing what persons did moi
take the Columbia at Burlington.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Little Tots Of Sunday School Depart
ment Received Diplomas at
Exercises Sunday
Morning.
THEY ARE LEARNED
Sharp Questioning Of Biblical Sub
jects, Met With Ready Re-
Spouse From Diploma
Class.

The children of the Congregatit
Sunday school held their annual Ch..-
dren's Day exercises in the church at
the usual morning worship hour Sun
day From the cradle roll depart
ment to the members of the Baraca
class, the school was represented and
the program prepared and rendered
by the members of the graduating
class was one enjoyed by those at.
tending.
Rev. Geo. c. Williams. pastor, made
number Of well directed remarks tc
the little people and especially those
who are entering into the main schoo
from the infant department in charge
of Mrs Henry C. Becker. G. F. Nc
farland, superintendent, questioned
thoroughly in the usual manner, the
graduates who are amply fitted tc
become possessors of diplomas.
Following is the program for the
exercises, the department officers O
the school and graduates into the
main school.
C. F. Mcfarland superintendent.
Mrs. H. c. Becker, primary superin
tendent.
Mrs. c. j. Smith, cradle roll super
intendent.
@-Sss
Program.
Song, BE a Hero School
Recitation. THE Use of Flowers
Alice Beckman
Recitation, ~ t the Flowers Say
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Church Barrel ORGAN.

Speaking at LlangoIlen meeting,
the bishop of st. Asaph recalled that
8 held his first church appointment
1t Llangollen The music to accom-
pany the choir was then supplied by
barrel organ. ,bs boy he churned
it out by regularly turning the handle.
Westminster Gazette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Savers Not Affected.

The document is a printed a1alr
and one of the longest instruments
ever recorded in the county.
1t is believed the filing OF the trust
deed settles all doubts as to the apii-
ity of the corporation to finance us
scheme Of a string of dams and hydro
electric plants, and provides under
strict and safe conditions funds for
the erection and equipment of the sew
eral plants.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
By a. Waiter Barr In the Burlington
Aawk-Eye.

BY q. Waiter Barr In the Burlington
hawk-Eye.
KEoKUK, Iowa, June 3.-What ef-
feet will the big dam at Keokuk have
on the Mississippi river at Burlington?
AS simple question as can be
framed one that apparently ought to
he answered in few words, OF course;
actually answered in hundred words
by an engineer who knows; and yet
a question approached with diffidence,
because the answer is to be to people
presumably not well UP in hydraulics.
To the layrnen an interesting dia-
logue between two hydraulic engineers
Is aaout as ineligible as the CONVEX
sation Of all Indian who has had too
much fire water.
The chief trouble in answering this
question is, that the effect varies with
the stage of water as the stage is
now understood. But here is an ex-
PLANTATION Of what will happen at Bur
lington when the big dam is complete
and the turbines turning the Mlsslss'
ippi into power.
From Zero to Seven Feet.
The present and past high water
marks at Burlington will remain good
forever; the river will never get any
higher at Burlington, at flood stage
than it would have been If the dam
had not been Luilt. The high watel
levels ct Burlington will in no par
ticular be affected by the Keokuf
dam.
But with the river nearer normal
there will be an effect at Burlington
caused by the presence OF the dam II
the river at Keokuk. Take Climatic
conditions which now place the rive
at zero on the guage at Burlington
the so-called low water mark. Unde
exactly the same conditions, after TIM
dam is built, the river will be at thu
seven foot mark on the guage. Or 81
rear it that seven feet may be takei
as the mark in 1915 equal to zero II
1910. The low water surface OF tn
mississippi will be seven feet highe
after the dam is built than 1t IS &c
day. It may be phrased that the loS
water mark will be raised seven Zee
by the dam-if the steamboat me-
will kindly not listen. for Know a,
about the low water mark Wnicl
means zero on the guage and W
mean height Of the water at low s'ase
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Railroads Had Many.

Nearly 200 persons went north on
the * line at 1885 last evening. In
the neighborhood Of 100 went out over
the Keokuk and Western. The day
was a big, busy one for exclusion peo-
pie and not as hot as the previous
several Sundays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

Foley Kidney pills contain Just the
ingredients necessary to regulate
and strengthen the action of the kid
neys and bladder. Try them yourself.
Wilkinson & Son and j. F. Kiedaisch
& Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
WHEN THE SEVEN FOOT
Effect in Burlington Of the
Big Dam at Keokuk Clear
II Shown by Diagram
and Engineering
Data
When the River is Normal.

4
Burlington people who go down to
see the next big food will And the
water tapping the same old places II i
did during the last big food. But the
Burlington people who see the river
every day during such seasons as last
summer will see the river about seven
feet higher than it was last August.
This in brief is the effect OF the big
dam at Keokuk on the Mississippi al
Burlington, so far as stage OF water
is concerned
When the river comes under condl-
lions which would make it say nine
feet, on the guage today, the guage
will read about nine feet in 1910.
The seven feet added to the depth
of the river at low water Is not added
to the depth of the river when the
latter Is coming down at what is now
an eight foot or nine foot stage. IL
one considers that eight feet on the
guage is really the normal, decentiy
acting Mississippi-which now has a
lazy spell--then the answer is That
the dam will have no measurable Ell
feet on the normal, decently acting
Mississippi, for such a stage OF water
will not be affected by the keokuk IN
stallation.
In other words, there will be con-
! stantly at least seven feet OF water
along the Burlington water front, and
as much more as the rains up nortn
furnish. Navigation Is improved the
difference between the river conol'
tions of last summer and seven foot
stage at Burlington, by the building o.
/ the Keokuk dam In front OF Bur
,ington there will be forever a lake
at least seven feet deep for pleasure
4 boats and regattas, as well as loi
nackets. On the other hand there
! will be no increase in the height o.
1 the foods and June rises. An IDEA
condition. isn't it? This certain,
/ iustify the promise of improved
conditions at Burlington made IN Ia.
early stages of the promotion OF tins
4 great water power project
Sewers Not Affected.
!. An the above has to do with stag
:. Of water alone. Equally important
the velocity of the current, fer tni
i bears directly on sanitation
The velocity of the river at Bul
/ lington bridge, with the guage reao
ing zero. is now about three-auarter
Of mile per hour. After the dam n
built the velocity under the same con
ditions will be four-tenths OF a mil
per hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

The sewerage system of Burlington
is not in the least affected by the
building of the dam. A stage of
seven feet on the guage will not harm
the sewer system outlet, of course.
The velocity will remain sufficient to
carry away the sewerage turned into
the river.
While no conclusions with the math-
ematical accuracy of the calculation
can be made in advance of the thing
itself, it is extremely probable that
the Mississippi will be as self purify
ing in 1915 as it was in 1910.
Purifying the Mississippi.
Every newspaper editor seems tc
feel perfectly qualified to discuss
complex sanitary engineering science
just as every school teacher feels able
to conduct a big newspaper. The ed
itors have printed lot of rot about
the dangers of allowing sewerage tt
enter the rivers.
American rivers are self PURIFYING
to remarkable degree. AS mdlIel
of fact, determined by exhaustive OBJ
servations, the Mississippi river watel
at Keokuk does not contain any sew
age. although Burlington and For
Madison deposit their sewage in thu
river. That sewage is destroyed on thu
way down the river, by oxidation il
which the Des Moines rapids play
large part.
| After the dam has drowned out tn
| rapids, the sewage will not be SO al
fected to SO great a degree. But ar
| other means of publication wi
become an increased factors dimeI
tation in the pool above the dan
There will be some change in metho
of purifying itself, but there is n
reason to believe that the Mississippi
will be any less able to purify i
self after the dam is built. Burlins
! ton need not consider the dam as an
factor at all in its sewage problems
whatever these may be.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
FoIey's Kidney Remedy

is particularly recommended for
chronic cases Of kidney and bladder
trouble 1t tends to regulate and con-
troll the kidney and bladder action
and is healing, Strengthening and
bracing Wilkinson Co., and j. F..
Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

The woman OF today who has good
health. good temper, good sense
bright eyes and a lovely complexion,
the result OF correct living and good
digestion, wins the admiration OF the
world. If your digestion is faulty
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets will correct it. For sale ty
al dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Pastor to His Flock.

when look at you fellows" said
the jail warden, who was something
of a humorist, Il somehow feel that
the Lord didn't make good
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

Good Idea for Hot Weather.
1t is a Kansas woman who has
patent on fan provided with sheet
of absorbent material to hold water
to cool the air which it agitates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

Helen Metzinger.
Solo-Miss Doris Stanwood.
Recitation, THE Three Ants"-Del-
mar Thomas.
Song. Little Fishermen Primary
class.
Recitation, Let Us donald
yath..
Address-Mr. Williams.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19
Dam and Ice Water.

1t was toss up which was the
most popular, the dam sites or the
ice water barrels on Main street, at
the water works and at Port Sunshine
Hundreds visited both and many went
to the park to hear the band con
cert.
The firemen were kept busy during
the day refilling the big barrels in
which the ice water was contained
Water vas drawn from the fire by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-19

drants at the corners and carried TIC
the barrels.