The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

heads crushed or slices cut of OF
their sides. There should be fish
way in the dam, thus saving this
needless slaughter.
Will G. Ayers left last night for
Winnebago, MINI. He expects to re-
turn in the fall
Miss Ethel Brinkman has gone to
Chicago to join her brother, Harry
and wife in a northern lake trip.
Popel Giller Co. move into their new
office Monday.
The front OF Odd Fellows hall build
ing is being painted.
A friend has handed in the follow
ing which will be of interest to both
republicans as well as democrats: ut
will be remembered that last fall
Woodrow Wilson declared that If he
was elected president he would hang
as high as Haman, any Wall street
financier who would attempt to bring
on a panic. OF course he did not
mean it literally; but fguratively he
has done that very thing. For two or
three months the money market has
been panicky and it seemed clear that
Wall street was trying to brighten
congress out of passing the new tariff
measure by refusing it's customary
loans to the business world. One great
New York bank, for example, between
Nay 10 and June cut down its loans
and increased Its holdings of specie
by nine million dollars. Others were
acting on the same lines. Nothing will
bring on panic more speedily. The
danger was imminent. Now comes to
the rescue the courageous president,
and his equally courageous secretary
of the treasury. On June IL Secretary
McAdoo hurled thunderbolt into
the Wall street camp by announcing
that the government, authorized by
congress, had $5oO,00O,00o immed-
lately available for the business world,
What did 1t mean? Merely that the
world of industry need no longer de-
pend on the great money trust of Wall
street. The effect was magical The
great financiers quickly saw that their
power to dominate the business world
was gone. They speedily opened
their Golfers and the governments
money was not needed. Perhaps it
will not be. Wall street will be meek
enough on finding it has a MASTER
A great first step has been taken
towards SCATTERING it's tyrannical pow
er.
VIM. Hill has bought a IS horse
power seven passenger Studebaker
auto.
J. A. Califf of Carthage and Earl
Rayburn of Hamilton were here Fri
day with plans of front elevation and
blue prints, securing members for the
Lake View Motor Boat club, which
will erect handsome three story club
house of hollow tile and stucco, on
a terrace fronting Lake Cooper at the
mouth Of CLANCY creek; the new
boulevard runs through the grounds
at the foot of the terrace The new
club house will be large and airy with
wide porches enclosed In wire
screens, and will have all the modern
Iconveniences. Mr.. J. A. Califf and
family will have charge Of It.
There will be a stable and garage
connected with the house, and also
boats of all kinds for pleasure, besides
La bathing beach; there will be ten
mis- court, and a croquet ground. The
membership of the club will be about
100 or so, and up to date 1t includes
leading people of Hamilton, Warsaw
and Carthage. The membership fee
is $4,000, $500 of this to be paid
down, and $500 on completion of
the building which will be some time
this fall. Members pay $1,000 per
year for five years, beginning May l.,
I1914. This club house it is predicted,
is but the first of a number of club
houses that will be erected on thy
shores Of Lake Cooper by this time
next summer. No doubt ice yachting
will be popular on the lake in few
years.