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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
FARMERS JOIN COMMERCIAL
CLUES

In southwestern Iowa the farmers
OF the surrounding country are rapid
~ becoming members of The COM
mercial clubs in their respective towns
and the result Is proving most salts
factory TO both townspeople and
farmers This idea gems TO have
spread from the town Of Trenton, No.
which is not far south Of the Missouri
line Trenton il z city Of about fire or
Elk thousand people, but has com
mereial club With membership of
$40, about half of whom are farmers.
Ine Mcnmouth Atlas sensibiy SAYS OF
this new order Of thlngs.
The old-time jealousy and mis-
trust between the town people and the
country people has been entirely re.
moved The farmers and the citizens
Of the town work together happily for
/ their mutual benefit. The monthly
meetings are brought from q distance
I he roads are being improved and the
influence Of both tom and country IL
being thrown towards everything
which is helpful 10 beth. other com
munities might well follow this ex
ample"
/ The farming communities, IS vel
as the towns, have much 10 gain from
an alliance OF the kind Many Of the
problems to be dealt with are com
mon to beth ard there must ae co
operation of town and country If they
are TO be solved successfully. Be
sides, there are things the business
men in the towns know that the farm
ers ought to know. and there ars
other things that the farmers know
that should be brought to the atten
ton Of the business men in the towns
Our Monmouth contemporary is entire
ny right in saying that other commun
titles would do well to follow thu ex
ample of Trenton, Mo, as various com
munities in southwestern Iowa are al
lready doing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

.
In speaking before the members of
the Mississippi Bankers association
at Gulfport. Miss. the other day, r.
L. Quincy. in charge of the savings
department of the Commonwealth
Trust company of ST. Louis, charac
-terized the different devices and adj
vertising plans sold to bankers of the
United States as lemons
Some OF these lemons are pro-
grams. dignified announcements of
the banks name, capital and location;
special write-ups. and spasmodic in
stead of constant use of newspaper
space. he said.
He outlined plans for writing bank
and urged the bank
ers present to do this work themselves.
He. used a ste-eopticcn to reproduce
the newspaper advertisements, and
showed many which had brought in
depcsitcrs to open savings accounts.
The daily newspaper is a CONTROL
ing, likewise a compelling factor in
the daily life of every man and woman.
AM We ought really to say every boy
and girl. for children are omnivercus
readers nowadays Mr- Quincy said.
The shortest and most direct route
to the attention CT all the people is
through the columns OF the newspaper.
fer it is daily read by business men,
professional men, mechanics, artisans
all alike. Men and women. too
want their favorite newspaper the
very minute it comes of the press,
fer they crave the news served up red
hot. They also buy it to read the
advertising columns
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
Concerning Lafayette Young
Candidate for 81. S. Senator

Lafayette Young was born in Iowa.
He was raised on a Monroe county
farm. He made his living as boy
working at the printing trade in small
Iowa towns and as a Skinner in wooden
mills. He secured an education by
hard study at nights.
He is one of the charter members
of Des Moines Typographical union
No. lis. When he moved to Des
Moines twenty-five years ago and
bought the Des Moines Capital. he
changed it from a non-union to union
shop. He Is an honorary member of
the Des Moines Stationary Engineers
union. He has always advocated the
eight hour day.
He has advocated liberal pensions
for old soldiers. He has spoken at
more old soldiers reunions at his
own expense than any Iowan living
who is not veteran. He had three
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

brothers in the civil war. He was
too young to go.
While a member of the state senate
he introduced the first two-cent fare
law and the first compulsory educa-
ton BILL
He served in the United States SEN
ate five months BY appointment of
Governor Carroll. He fought Canad-
ian reciprocity and voted against
Lorimer taking seat in the United
States senate, believing that corrupt
practices were used in I.orimer's
election
Mr.. Young has always advocated the
eight-hour day, an employers liabili-
ty law that will protect working men
and pension for civil service govern.
ment employees.
He Is champion of good roads,
clean city, county, state and national
government.
He believes in equal rights to all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
4 SUMNER HEALTH SCHOOL.

Since the secretary of the Kansas
state board Ct health started the
slogan swat the flies. and led the
way in the campaign against com
mon Advantageous, roller-towels and
ether long-accepted abominatiens, the
public has come TO look to Kansas for
advanced ideas On health matters. The
announcement of the second annual
summer seilooI for Kansas physicians
and health officers, to he held at the
state university, June f0-15, is another
evidence OF progress in the sunfower
state. County and city health officers
and PHYSICIANS interested in public
health work are TO devote a week to
the study Of methods Of sanitation,
waser.suppiy, sewage-disposal and 9th
er sanitary measures. Medical officers
Of the United States public health and
msrine hospital seryice and other
well known scientific men are to lee
iture. conduct laboratory courses and
give demonstrations Ct food, drug and
house iaspectioDa for the benefit OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
PROPOSES RIVER TERMINALS.
Fight for Better Freight Rates
Cause Of New Movement at
Dubuque.


DUBUQUE. Iowa, May 30. The
largest proposition now before Du-
buque and in which the Industrial cor
poration is active, Is the establish
ment of river terminals with wharfage
and power loading and unloading
facilities. The project has been given
added impetus by the presence OF
Capt. Samuel Campbell of the Nation
ell Rivers and Harbors congress in the
city
In an address the captain pointed
out the necessity of such an innova-
ton if the freight rates made by rail-
ways for cities on navigable streams
are to be reduced to minimum Deal
ing with this phase of the project, the
captain cited railroad rates on lumber
from Washington to Dubuque and coal
rates from Pennsylvania TO Dubuque.
With the opening of the Panama
canal, the captain declared he would
handle consignment of lumber from
Washington. break bulk at New Or
leans. and land it in Dubuque for one
half the rail charges. Lumber costing
So thousand feet in Washington
costs SIG a thousand freight in Du-
buque or Minneapolis -the freight
alone being nearly twice the original
cost of the lumber.
Discussing the necessity for proper
terminals. the speaker laid particular
stress upon the extortionate charges
of negro roustabouts. A capacity
! loaded boat requires from three to
four days in the unloading under the
present method A beat is paying no
/ dividends while her anchor is out or
her lines fast. The electric or other
power driven cranes will handle this
same cargo in a few hours and at an
enormously reduced cost.
The other question involved is that
of raising the funds for the erection
of terminals and loading and unload
ing equipment. The city must do il,
declared the captain Private capital
would be engaged in paying all the
dividends the traffic would bear and
shortly the roads and river terminal
company would be on the same basis
the basis OF railways. The city
must operate it, providing for reason
able interest and small sinking fund
While Dubuque like most cities. =
he said. probably Is bonded up to its
limit, this is matter that would be
self-sustaining and there would be lit
tie difficulty in securing permission
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Investors will receive next month
the sum OF s97.1N6.645. representing
dividends and interest disbursements
by railroads. industrial and traction
corporations, according TO returns com
piled ~ the Journal of Commerce.
This compares with ses. G96.s s2 in
May, and ss3.ez1.7ef in June a year
ago. OF next months total, dividends
viii provide sa7.e0s. s45. against s4s,-
s4f,7s1 in 1911. while interest pay
n.ents viii involve s4s,soo, 600, or ST.
100000 more than in the same period
Ct the previous year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Figures taken from the records show
that the increase in wages resulting
from the strike OF anthracite miners
will be only about s6.o0o,0oo and that,
granting the companies other addi-
tional costs of production which they
allege, the twenty-five cents a ton
raise will take out of the public's
pockets ss,0oo,o90 more than enough to
cover all additional costs. It is an
exceptionally Geld day when the coal
barons fail to feather their nests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Since the 1st of May the leading
paper mills of the country. following
the lead of the paper trust. have put
up the prices of all grades of paper
10 per cent on account OF the in
creased cost of production. largely
charged to the demands of labor Most
of the mills have adopted the plan of
three eight-hour shifts, and this in
creases the pay rolls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Bank exchanges continue to reflect
the return of business to normal con
ditions in practically every section OF
the country. An unusually uniform in
crease over both preceding years was
reported by almost every city with the
total for all leading cities in the Unit
ed States last week aggregating 81
ss1,o1s.621. gain of SIS per cent, as
compared with the same week last
year and of 1s.2 per cent compared
with the corresponding week in 1919.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
How athe People" Rule


Cedar Rapids Republican: In Texas
they have had another spasm of the
people, burning a man at the stake.
The affair which was reported from
TYLER seems to have been enacted by
almost unanimous; consent. The peo-
pie ruled in that case as they Gid
when Christ was crucified- When yon
get the people in mass, or mob,
they have about as much sense OF JUS
tice or of decency as lot of hotten-
tots. The people who sit in their
places of business, or who work at
their jobs, or who sit at their fire.
sides toward the cool days of Novem-
ber-their Judgment amounts to some
thing, but the Judgment of the people
who go bowling through the streets
behind brass band or who are ex-
cited by the sight of burning fagots.
their judgment is not worth much.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
Certificate Re-extending
Charter
Treasury Department,
ONCE Of the Comptroller Of

Treasury Department,
ONCE of the Comptroller Of
the Currency,
Washington, D. c., May Is. 1912.
Whereas, by satisfactory EVIL
dence presented to the undersign
ed, it has been made to appear that
THE Keokuk National Bank" To-
Gated in the City of Keokuk, in
the county of Lee, and State OF
Iowa, has complied with all the pro.
visions OF the Act OF Congress ito
enable National Banking Associa-
tions to extend their corporate ex
istence, and for other purposes
approved July IL. 1882. as amended
by the act. approved April IL, 1902;
Now, therefore. l. Lawrence o.
Murray. Comptroller of the Cur
rency. do hereby certify that THE
Keokuk National Bank" located in
the City Of Keokuk, in the County
of Lee, and State OF Iowa, is author
lied to have succession for the
period specified in its amended
articles of association: namely, un.
til close of business on May Is,
1897.
In testimony whereof witness
my hand and seal of Office, this
25th day of May. 1912.
(Signed)
LAWRENCE o. MURRAY,
Comptroller of the Currency.
Extension No. iii.
Charter No. 1892.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Senator Depew says that under the
primary system a candidate can't be
nominated without gall and CAB. Cash
is also a prerequisite in statewide
campaign. OF all modern political
devices the primary is the greatest de-
lusion and snare.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

scattered and lacks any evidence of
being formidable at any point. He
will be renominated.
The Republican ticket will accord
ingly this fall be far nom a factlonal
one as it will have candidates from
both factions upon it. This will prob
ably have strong tendency toward a
unifcation of the party.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

The temperature at San Antonio,
Texas, on Tuesday was 103, as regis
tered by the thermometer in the tower
Of the government building there
Thermometers on the street register
ed several degrees higher In the
shade. Three prostrations occurred.
Delightful climate for this time of
year,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Shall We eat sparrows?r inquiries
an esteemed contemporary The e. >.
is at liberty TO do as it pleases, but
there will be no sparrows consumed
in this family as long as the supply of
beef, pork, mutton. chickens. turkeys.
geese, ducks and quails holds out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

these in attendance. The arrange
ment has the endorsement OF the Jour
nal of the American Medical Associa-
ton. which thinks that it will without
doubt be of great value in developing
competent local health officers and in
the health OF the people of
the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Abe Martin insists that wife ought
to have everything over actual living
expenses for living with the average
husband
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

New Jersey is the latest state to
declare for Roosevelt. Sowing the
wind preparatory to reaping the
whirlwind
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
No filth, no flies.

To settle a dispute. is rhubarb a
vegetable or fruit? Every reader of
The Gate City is entitled to one guess.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
keokuk, Iowa May 80, 1912

THE LITTLE BRONZE BUTTON.
A little bronze button on an old mans
breast
Mean and cheap it may seem to
some:
But 1t tells story of valor expressed
In words that burn, though the
metal be dumb.
A bit of bronze, of a simple design,
Yet it tells story that will live
alway,
A glorious tale of the heroes sub
Who wrote their names with the
stars for aye.
A little bronze button, and is that all:
a bit of bronze, scarcely worth a
glance?
Ask the grizzled men who at Lin
coins call
Marched forth to check the foes ad-
vance
They know its meaning, they know
the cost,
For they paid the price in their man
hoods prime:
Counting it cheap. and their lives
Gould the nation but live: Oh, gift
sublime.
A gift? Aye, surely; for did not all
Who marched and fought on south
ern field,
In the fortune Of war to survive or
fall,
Alike Their lives in that service
The little bronze buttons. how much
they mean
To the veterans, hoary, who wear
them now.
OF mountain they speak, OF plain and
ravine,
From low coast swamp TO Kene-
saws brow.
There's volume OF history in every
one,
Let him who will read the message
clear.
And learn how the BOYS of Sixty
Compelled the homage We pay each
year.
Then list to the story the buttons tell
OF deeds of valor that cannot die,
Which crowded into four years of hell
The normal advance of century.
They speak the long march under
southern sun,
The weary tramping meath trop,c
skies,
The long night vigils when day was
And tie picket must guard against
surprise
They tell of hunger and thirst and
pain,
OF grtevous wounds, and the sur
geons knife,
Of hopes that alternate rose and fell
In the heartsick, homesick soldiers
life.
They tell of prisons where death held
sway,
Crowded with boys from our north
ern hills;
Who sickened and wasted and rot.
bSQ away
Till death was welcomed as Ieas,
of ills.
They tell of the roaring. crashing gun
OF kissing bullets and snriekins
shell;
But mid such carnage the work waE
done
That Peace with Union again Nigh
dwell
But list: there's brighter side thar
this;
All is not dark, and dismal an,
drear;
For the day did come when TIL
minie's hiss
Gave way to the victor's rousin
cheer
And the buttons tell through the pass
ing years
That the Grand Old Army is wit
us still,
Bidding US honor the dead with tear
And guard our flag with heart
will.
&C. H. Andrews.
ruotIour cop TIE nav
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

In an old Moravian cemetery in
Gloucester county. New Jersey. is an
epitaph which reads as follows:
Remember, friend, as you pass By,
AS YOU are now. so once was I.
As | am now, so yon must be,
So be prepared 10 follow me-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

While swatting the fly do not neglect
to put up the screens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY.

Day by day their ranks are thinning;
One by one they disappear,
And at each succeeding roll call,
Fewer voices answer Here,"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Underneath this has been written in
pencil presumably by some wag:
To follow you I'm not content,
Til / find out which way you went. ?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
Man that is born of woman is of
few days and full of microbes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

Slow Pay.
Topeka Capital: 1t pays to be hon
est, but collections are often a little
slow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30

from the legislature to add the neces-
sary Indebtedness to care for this pro-
iect : Plans are being laid for pushing
the proposition
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-30
NEWSPAPER ADS THE BEST.

U. S Senator from New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-22
GETTING READYTO MOVE
Topeka Pension Office Soon Be Lo-
Gated in Washington.

The Topeka pension Office is expect
ing to be moved to Washington as soon
as the abstract of the last payments
are completed: the officers are getting
ready to leave in a couple of weeks,
certainly before the middle of Deem
Der.
Bids for packing and shipping their
equipments have been sent to head
Quarters in Washington. D. c. Four
parties have applied for the contract
but the bids must be approved at the
capital before they are let here
Tie agency will be known in Wash
ington as the Topeka Office and run as
a separate agency until the 31st day Of
January. 1913. when the law becomes
effective consolidating all the agencies
into one.
THE entire force, with the excep-
ton of one or two men, is expecting to
move" said Pension Agent Smith this
morning. IT will remain until the con-
solidation takes place, when I expect
to return to Kansas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-22
SENT TO The JURY
PickenS' Fate Rests in the
Hands of Twelve Men.
Eloquent Appeals to the Jury
For and Against Cashier.

The arguments for and against s.
E. Pickens, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Thayer. Kan, charged
with abstracting $4,000 from the bank
funds. were heard before Judge Pol
lock this morning in the federal court
c. 5. Briggs, attorney for the pros
ecution, touched in q brief and clear
cut speech the control Of national
banks by the comptroller of the cur
rency: the duty the national banks
and their officers owe to the comptrol-
Ter and the public at large: and fur
Their called the attention OF the jury
to the fact that the defense was re-
lying solely upon the unsupported evil
dence Of the ex-cashier-
Speeches from the three lawyers for
the defense. Hugh FarreIIy. r W.
Brewster, and J. I Sheppard, rapidly
followed. They argued their clients
case with the greatest ability; J. L
Sheppard, who gave the concluding tes-
tirnony, made a burning speech; he
juggled with words and brought all
his legal lore and native eloQuence to
bear upon the case.
He cited the fact that Pickens ad-
mitted his incompetency by requesting
the board to hire an adequate assist
ant instead of raising his own pay
What chance has Sam Pickens had2'
man. working early and late in the
interests OF the bank, willing to ex-
plain to the examiners everything he
has done? He has not been able to
produce his books. but can explain ev-
erything in time
Pickens himself, who sat quietly by
his wife's side, watched the trial with
feverish eyes; his cheeks were gray
and fingers nervous
Major A NJ. Harvey summed up the
arguments for the prosecution
Referring to the argument OF the
counsel" said the major, 7 notice he oe-
clares this man Pickens has not had fair
show. He says his client can produce
figures to exculpate himself. I know Ike
adroitness of Mr.. Brewster and Mr.. F II
reilly, and the extraordinary ability of Mr..
Sheppard Whose fault is II if Picker
has not had a fair SHOVE IF Mr. Pickens
declared he could prove himself innocent
it was his attorneys duty to demand an
examination
Major Harvey went through each sepa-
rate count charged against the defend
ant; he discussed the phases Of Pfckens'
failure TO appear when he was summoned
to the bank BY Beach, the vice president
who believed in him: and touched upon
his departure for Florida at the crisis II
the banks affairs.
Senator FarreIIy.' said the major
fer's to the officers shoulders; he tried TO
enlist the sympathy of the jury for the
unfortunate cashier. The books show. on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-22
ON A LONG JOURNEY.
Five Little Children OF for Coast
Alone to Find a Good Home.

Five small children of Charles
Jamerson, who have been neglected to
such an extent that interference by the
Juvenile court has been necessary,
were sent by the order of the court
to R. A. Lee. an uncle, who lives at
EIeusburg. Wash, who has promised
to provide homes for them. The chill
dren are making the long trip in
charge of the Oldest of the five, Truma,
Is years old. The youngest is Charles,
8 years old
The chiIdren's mother died last
spring leaving them to their father,
and he is said to have neglected them
woefuIly. An offer of a brother of
Mrs Jamerson in Washington to pro-
vide good homes for all five of the
children was accepted promptly as the
best solution for the problem that
confronted the court. The children
made the start for their new home
last night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-22
HOME MISSION WEEK.
Unique Entertainment at the Baptist
Church Tonight

The liner Lusitania lands this even
ing at the First Baptist church. 1t
is filled with an interesting group of
steerage senger-stolid Germans,
dainty japanese, taIkative Italians and
several Norwegians who. because of
their reconds in the Land of the Mid
night Sun, will. in all probability, be
sent back home
This is home mission week in To-
peka, in Kansas, all over the United
States Several interesting entertain
ments have been given at the various
churches. and one of the most unique
will be presented this evening at the
First Baptist church. 1t is under the
personal direction of Miss Ethel Ev-
eringham, and is quite out of the or
binary in every detaan.
The first act depicts the landing Of
the steerage at Ellis Island; the vari-
GUS examiners are shown, the foreign
ers chatter in their native tongues, and
a small boy who has Travelled alone
from Germany. with a placard about
his neck, is the center of attraction
The second scene shows a squalid
home in the New York Sums As
curtain raiser to the last act, an Amer
lean industrial school, a chorus of
children sing a funny little Chinese
nVT7n.