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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-01-24

CHAPTER IV-Kirkby, the old guide
Of letters which he says were found on
the dead woman's body. She reads the
letters and at Kirkby's request keeps
them
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-01-24

CHAPTER III.-Enid hears the story
or a mining engineer. Newbold whose
wife fell off a cliff and was so seriously
hurt that he was compelled to shoot her
TO prevent her being eaten by wolves
while he went for help
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
MANY VISITORS
WERE HERE YESTERDAY
Another Attractive Day Bringing
Many People to the City From
Many Points.

Yesterday was another attractive
day and Keokul1 had a number of
Sunday visitors. The crowd was not
SO large as in the earlier days of the
fall, but the hotels and restaurants
had an excellent trade. There were
large numbers Of tri-state people on
the streets all day and the water pow
er section was visited by many of the
visitors. 1t was a remarkably large
gathering for this time OF the year
and all the visitors seemed well
pleased with Keokuk. the water pow
er and the people of the city.
The street cars had good patron
age and large crowds were on the
lines going and coming Many auto
mobiles skinned about the city,
many of them belonging to visitors
from various points in Iowa, Missouri
and Illinois.
Keokuk just now seems to be the
most popular and attractive point in
Iowa or the surrounding states, and
these short pilgrimages to the city
are likely to continue even until the
frozen days of real winter have made
their appearance. A general invita-
ton is continually open, the latch
string is always out, and friendly
and hospitable hand extended to all
visitors, no matter from what point
they come.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

fications for the office and increasing
the facilities for the supervision OF
the schools The term of office should
be four years.
That the office OF superintendent
of public instruction be made non
partisan elective, and that OF county
superintendent nonpartisan elective
OF appointive.
That the enforcement of the com
pulsory attendance law be placed in
the Office of the county superintend.
ent.
THE adjustment OF the rural in
dependent districts and the establish
ment of the township, as the unit of
organization In rural districts to be
governed by board elected at large,
to consist of not to exceed five mem
bers.
THAT all school officers be required
to attend an annual conference to be
called by the county superintendent,
at such time as the superintendent OF
public instruction or his representa-
tive, particularly the inspector of rur-
al schools, may attend, and that
school officers receive nominal fee
for such attendance. Sections 27S0
and 2785 should be amended 30 that
school officers shall receive fixed pay
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
IOWA RATE CASES
TO COMMISSION.
Final Chapter In Long Struggle for
Equitable Freight Rates for
Iowa VIII be
Decided.
LOCAL MEN TO co
Will Assist In Presentation Of Arsu-
ments as They Affect Keokuk
and Southeastern
Iowa.
LOCAL MEN TO co

John Dewitt, manager; G. r. Joy,
president. Ira w. Wills, chairman OF
the committee on transportation, of
the Industrial Association, and j. P.
Allen, Of the Water Power company,
will attend the arguments In the Iowa
rate cases before the interstate com
merce commission in Washington, d.
EC., on Friday, Nov. Is.
The hearing is the final stage In the
controversy over Iowa freight rates
and the outcome of the case means
much to this city. If the case is
favorably decided, it will remove the
present advantage in freight rates
flom the east to the west that Hanni-
bal, Quincy and st. Louis have. The
state Of Iowa has filed the briefs Of
the compliments and the railroads
have filed their briefs in reply. The
hearing next week will consist Of the
oral arguments by both sides before
the commission.
Clifford Tnorne and Judge Hender.
son will make the arguments for the
state and the Greater Les Moines
committee has employed E. G. Wylie
to attend the hearings and partici-
pate in the arguments before the. com
mittee in the interests Of that city.
The men in charge of the fight for the
state believe that they will be reason
ably successful in securing. better
freight rates for Iowa and that the
fight will prove well worth the time
and expense involved in carrying it
through. The arguments will prob
ably take several days and it will be
some time before the commission
makes its decision.
The local men will remain through
out the arguments and assist the state
in presenting the case as it pertains
to Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
"A DOCTRINE FOR
The new CITY
Rev. r. W. LIlley Speaks Out at the
Christian Church Upon tho Basic
Doctrine Of Civic
Virtue,
GREED IS THE CAUSE
The Greed Of Men Is Responsible for
the Majority Of the Grimes
in Our Large
Cities.
GREED IS THE CAUSE

The Illustrated lectures upon social
and Industrial subjects being given at
the First Christian church are arous-
Ing much interest. Last night the
church auditorium was crowded and
similar audiences are expected during
the remaining three nights this week.
In the absence of the regular slides,
views OF various cities were thrown
upon che canvass and Rev. r. w. Lii
ley delivered an accompanying GER
mon upon The New City," in which
he took up the qualities OF citizenship
necessary to insure good city.
Rev. Lilley likes to deal with things
in. the concrete rather than the abb
stract. He goes to the very bottom of
the Question o. civic virtue with a
dlrectness that sometimes makes the
man, who believes his daily life is en-
tirely different from that on Sunday.
stir uneasily in his seat.
We have been teaching how to
live In the hereafter" said Rev. Lilley,
and now we are beginning to teach
how to live here. | have been told
that a preacher has no business
preaching about things of the present;
there Is no more urgent doctrine to
he preached than love thy neighbor
as myself But there is the other
extreme. believe in studying eco
Monies and psychology but the best
principles to follow for the building
Of the new city are those of Cod
Greed is at the bottom Of all our
civic troubles in the opinion of Rev.
Lilley. I'VE allow property to be
rented on Main street for Illicit pur-
poses. permit saloons to exist and
then put the drunkard, the man we
made, in the lookup. II a drunkard
commits murder we send him to pris-
on or hang him. but, my friends, we
who allow the sale of liquor that
caused him to commit the deed are
partners in the crime"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
TO PETIT LARCENY
Albert Myers Says He Did Net Steal
Grip Containing Belongings Of
One John Clark.

Albert Myers pleaded not guilty in
the superior court this morning to
the charge of petit larceny. He was
charged with stealing grip contain
ing the personal belongings of John
Clark, valued at $40. The stealing
occurred at the Mechanics Hotel at
Third and Main streets. He denied
that he had stolen the grip, saying
that two companions had taken 1t
and given two razors and a pair of
socks to him. His bond was fixed at
800 and in default he went back to
jail.
Otis Williams, accused of being
drunk and disorderly at Fourth and
Main streets Saturday night, was
given thirty days. Williams resisted
the officers and carried a bumped
head with him as result
Willie Cutwright calmly admitted
that he was drunk and making quite
a little bit Of noise at Fourteenth and
Fulton streets last night and his
sentence will be suspended on promise
tc go back to work and pay the costs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

pay for thirteen weeks and half pay
for thirty-nine weeks; if from FIVE to
ten years in service, full pay for thir.
teen weeks and half pay for thirteen
weeks; If from two to Ave years IN
service, full pay for four weeks and
half pay for nine weeks. In the case
of employees who have not been two
years in service heads of departments
will be permitted the same discretion
as heretofore, In continuing pay dur
ing temporary illness.
Life Insurance.
In the case of death resulting from
accident in and due to performance
Of work for the company, an insur
ance amounting to three years pay
will be paid to the dependents OF the
employee, the maximum payment being
$4,000.
In the case Of death resulting from
sickness or from accident outside the
business, the payment will be one
years pay for employees who have
been ten years or more In service,
and one-half of ore years pay for en-
ployees who have been from five to
ten years In service, the maximum
payment being $4,000.
II any state statutes provide for
more liberal compensation than is
provided under the benefit plan, the
statutory provision win prevail
Where the employees have legal rights
as in some accident cases, they will
have the option of exercising such
rights or accepting the company's
benefits.
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company has set aside from It's
surplus a fund which provides for
those whom it directly employees, and
also provides a reserve, upon which,
under certain conditions, the Asso-
ciated Companies may draw. This
fund is supplemented by funds set
aside by each company. The total
appropriations will aggregate some
thing more than $40, 100000. The bene-
fits, 1t is estimated, will cost annually
about s1,0OO.00O more than the pres
ent payments on this account.
The administration of the funds will
be in the hands ofa Employees Benefit
Committee of FIVE, to be appointed by
the board of directors of each COM
pany The committee OF each asso-
ciated company will have jurisdiction
over the benefits for employees of
that company.
The Employees Benefit Committee
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company will have general
jurisdiction over the plan for the en-
ire system and specific authority as
to the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company's employees benefits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
BELLIGERENT PRISONER
WANTED TO FIGHT
Fighting Employees OF Stone G. Web.
ster Give Battle to officer
With Poor Success.

J. R. Foodey and Fred Mcfarland.
employees of the Stone & Webster
Company, were found drunk at Sec
ond and Main streets this morning by
Officer Jake Parks and he started to
take them to the boarding house of
the company at Third ana Main
streets. When they arrived there, the
special officer would not let them
come in and Parks then decided to
take them TO the station as they were
too drunk to be allowed on the street.
When in front of the Colonial thea.
tire. Foodey began fighting the officer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

and he was compelled to use his club
to subdue him. Quite a crowd gather
cd around and the officer was severe
ly condemned for hitting the man. Az.
ter 1t was seen that the officer was
only doing his duty and it was neces-
sary to use force to make the arrest,
he was exonerated from all blame.
At the station, Chief Kenney upheld
the officer and said that the officers
were put on the beat to make arrests
when necessary and that the depart
ment would back them up. He was
emphatic in his declaration that the
officers should take no chances on
getting hurt In the performance OF
their duty and to use force IL needed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
JUDICIAL RECALL
WINS IN COLORADO
Every Official In the State Is Subject
to Recall as Result Of
Election.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DENVER, Colo, Nov. livery
elective and appointive official in
Colorado, including judges, will be
subject to the recall when the con-
stitutional amendment submitted at
Tuesdays election goes into effect.
Reports from about half the coun-
ties today indicate that this measure
and another providing for the recall
Of judicial decisions have both passed
ty substantial pluralities. The judic-
ial decision amendment provides for
the recall only of decisions by the
state supreme court involving the
legality of an amendment to the state
constitution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
MIGHT BE DEAD TODAY

Garden City, Kas.-In letter from
Mrs. James Hammer, OF this city, she
says. Il firmly believe that I would
not be alive today. II it were not for
Cardui. I had been sufferer from
womanly troubles all my life. until l
found that great remedy. I feel that
cant praise 1t too highly" Are
you woman, suffering from some OF
the troubles, to which woman Is Pc
culiarly liable? II so, why not try
Cardui. the woman's tonic7 You can
rely on Cardui. 1t is purely vegetable.
perfectly harmless, and acts gently
but surely, without bad after-effects.
Twill help you. Ask your druggist
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
THE PLEASURES or
THE TABLE.

Do you have variety enough in the
food you serve on your table? Or is
there sameness to your meals that
becomes monotonous? Try this change
for one dinner each week. Cut out all
meat and serve in its place steam
ing dish of Faust Spaghetti. 1t is
tender and finely favored contains
all the nourishing elements OF meat
in much more easily digested form
This Spaghetti dinner will make a
pleasant change for the family they'll
enjoy it. Write for our Book of Reel
pes-well mail you one free. Your
grocer sells Faust Spaghetti. SC and
10c a package.
MAULL BROS.
ST. Louis, Mo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

Your hair is as sensitive as your skin
even more SO. II stands up under heavy
hats, curling irons, and diseases of the
scalp, ETC. But there is limit.
When you comb and brush your hair In
the morning, watch for the "TRAILERS"
that turn grey. fall out, and comb out with
the first morning brush.
You MUST know that there something
wrong. II your hair was in good health,
il wouldn't fall out, nature never intended
that. There is something wrong at the root
OF things-the hair needs toDic-a restorcr.
When you arc dick you take medicine.
That is your FIRST thought. It's turning grey,
falling out. arc both ways the hair has OF
complaining of illness Ii can't dc II
in any other way DO YOUR part. Use
HAYS HAIR HEALTH
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
No More Eczema

Hero 1t Is at last.-Instant relief ana
q permanent remedy for all itching skin
diseases No more Eczema. No more
Itching Piles. No more BARRIERS Itch.
Ietter, Acne, Pimples. salt Rheum, Pol
son Ivy, Prickly Heat, Scaly Scalp.
Dandruff, Called or Itching Feet. Dr.
Hebras' Ungoid Is endorsed by the rneii-
cal profession as the greatest remedy on
earth for poisoned or lacerated condi-
ungoid heals Boils, Burns. Cuts.
Wounds and Sores as II by magic.
Or. Hebras' ungoid IS sold by ali drug
paid by The C. C. Bittner Co., Toledo. O.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
MANY CHANGES
IN SCHOOL SYSTEM
rwenty-three Recommendation for
Changes Made by state Teachers
Association Com
mlttee.
RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS
Encouragement Of Rural High Schools
to Meet the Needs Of Particular
Communities Arc
Advocated.
RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS

The Better Iowa Schools commits
sion has been investigating methods
by which the standard of the schools
might be increased and has made q
number Of recommendations which
would practically revolutIonize the
present system.
The recommendations, twenty-three
In all, received the Endorsement OF
the Iowa State Teachers Assoc'a-
ton. The recommendations OF the
commission include:
State department to define and
classify high schools
Passage of law safeguarding all
nominations and elections pertain
Ing to school matters.
School boards be empowered to
contract with city superintendent for
a period not to exceed three years.
voluntary consolidation of schools
Tor minimum area Of sixteen Sec
tons. State aid to consolidated
schools for a period of years; the
amount OF said aid shall depend on
the number of, departments, grade OF
teachers employed, course Of study,
kind Of buildings and equipment
Some suggested plans for raising the
funds to be apportfoned to schools
are, small graduated direct tax on
inheritances exceeding $4,000, a
milage tax, etc.
The encouragement of rural high
schools, The course of study should
meet the needs of the community,
while the quality OF work should be
equal to the standard of any high
school,
That every high school that meets
the requirements for the normal train
ing course shall receive $500 annually.
This method of training teachers for
the rural schools should be especial
ly encouraged.
That four additional normal
schools be established within the
next FIVE years. These schools shall
be limited to the preparation OF
teachers for the elementary schools
That applicants for teachers GER
tif1cates after July i. 1915, shall have
had at least twelve weeks OF normal
training
THE discontinuance Of the present
method of holding normal Institutes.
Short teachers meetings held
during the school year and com
attendance of teachers with
out loss of pay are recommended
Increase the powers and efficiency
OF the department OF public instruc-
ton; provide an adequate contingent
and travelling expense fund; fix the
salary of the superintendent of pub
lie instruction at not less than $4,000,
and make the term four years. The
duties of the deputy superintendent
are barely less important than those
OF the head of the department and his
compensation should be fixed COM
mensurate with his responsibilities.
Employ inspectors.
The employment of a rural school
Inspector, grade inspector, and
high school inspector, under the de-
Dartment of public instruction. States.
including nearly all tho e,,rro,,pd;n,,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
Employ inspectors.

The employment of a rural school
inspector, grade Inspector and a
high school inspector, under the de-
partment of public instruction, States,
including nearly all the surrounding
states, that are taking the lead in
educational matters employ such In
spectors
Increase the duties and importance
of the county superintendency, fix the
salary as high, at least, as that of any
other county official, mot less than
$1,000 raising the standard of quail
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

The boys appetite is often the
source of amazement. If you would
have such an appetite take Chamber
lain's Tablets. They not only create
a healthy appetite, but strengthen the
stomach and enable it to do its work
naturally. For sale by all druggists.
ADV.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
Health
And Success

are such intimate relations that no
one can be expected to be well
acquainted with success who does
not keep good hold ON health.
Most serious sicknesses start in
minor troubles of the digestive
organs. Thousands know by
actual experience that health and
strenpth-and therefore success
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
Are Increased
BY Use of

Beecham's Pills in time, and be-
fore minor troubles become deep
seated and lasting. This famous
family remedy will clear your sys-
TEN, regulate your bowels, stimu-
late your liver, tone your stomach.
Then your food will properly
.nourish you and enrich your blood.
You will be healthy enough to
resist disease strong enough to
take due advantage of oppor-
tunity after taking, as needed,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-11
Sickness Disability Benefits.

1ICNHcss OfbdUIIIly boHelItas
Employees who are disabled by
sickness or accident outside OF the
regular course of duty after ten years
or more in service. will receive full
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-12-13

box shaped and cut up crosswise into
three rooms. A sill, In the room IN
which the school was held, was
broken on n side, tnrowing up the
floor in the middle Of the room. Every
pane OF glass was out of the win,
dow, the door could not be closed,
and the walls of the room were black
with smoke, dirt ana cobwebs. The
teachers chair was without bottom,
her table was made Of an old drygoods
box, very roughly put together, the
benches on which the children sat
would not stand upright except when
the children were sitting on them,
and the stove was so full of holes that
1t hardly held the fire. The whole
place was reeking with odors and
smells common to old, discarded
houses where old shoes, rags, and a
thousand other things are left around.
This is n Of the worst types of
schoolhouses in the state, yet there
are many of its kind.
Much has been done during the last
ten years In the rural districts in
school decoration and Improvement by
the untiring and unselfish efforts of
Mr.. Thomas G. Walker and others.
yet because of the extensiveness OF
the field and the difficulties of the
work, much yet remains to be done
in this direction-J. M. Candy in the
Southern Workman.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-12-13
Fruits Of Kindness.

There is nowhere in this country
to be found palmer evidences Of the
fruits Of kindness than is exhibited in
the city of Nashville at this time.
Kindness comes from the cultivation
Of habit, and the people Of Nashville
we mean particularly the white peo-
pie, have through many years Of edu-
cational training learned to feel kind
ly toward her less fortunate citizens.
The spirit of tolerance has always
prevailed in Nashville, and those citi-
zens who were released from slavery
less than fifty years ago have been
made to know that in this city every
self-respecting and industrious person
viii receive a fair chance to get an
education and to earn an honest liv-
ing, and that they can live here in
peace and contentment.
The quietness of Nashville and the
peace that reigus among her citizens
have attracted the people of the ma
tion. And so, as a result this city
has been selected for the carrying on.
Of a great educational scheme tina
will in truth and In act make Nash
vile the athens of the South" 1
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-12-13
FRIDAY, E 10, 1912.
Or. w. D crum.

The death of DR.. VIM. d. Crum re
moves from national life a character
Of great renown. He was a man Of
high standing in his community,
whose integrity was not questioned
He came into national prominence
when he was appointed Collector OF
Customs at the Port Of Charleston by
President Roosevelt. 1t will be re
called that the Senate refused sew
eral times to confirm the appoint
ment, basing the same upon the bit.
ter attack Of Senator Ben Tillman,
Of South Carolina. But the persis'
tency of the President finally won
over enough votes in the Senate to
confirm the appointment. All
through that trying time those who
knew DR.. Crum best say that he de.
ported himself in the most manly
way, and thereby won many friends
Of all classes.
No better evidence of the mans
worth and standing is necessary than
to recall the fact that President
Taft, in carrying out his Southern
policy, felt duty bound to give some
recognition to this faithful and eff.
Gent public servant, and to appease
a pricking conscience he appointed
DR.. Crum Minister to Liberia. It
was while in performance Of his du-
ties at this post that he was stricken
down by the African fever from which
he never recovered. The nation has
lost a faithful servant in the death
DR.. Crum, and the Negro race one OF
its strongest men.