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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Gun Tottna.

Davenport Times: 1t Is probable
the murder and suicide that occurred
early Saturday morning in Rock IS
land would not have occurred if the
young man had not acquired the habit
of "gun toting." With revolver
handy there is something suggestive
about It's look that often overcomes
the judgment and the natural inhibi-
tory powers that make for self-preser-
vation The lad who murdered Mrs.
Sleep at Elgin one of those unfortun-
ates that pehaps ought not to have
been born because of the weakness of
his parents. could not overcome the
impulse to kill when he saw the re-
volver on the cupboard shelf. The
young man in Rock Island, naturally
strong and aggressive, gave way 10
anger and the gun being in his packet
It probably seemed at the moment
quite the natural thing to do to whip
out the revolver and avenge his sup
posed insult. Had the habit of carry
ing revolver never been acquired by
the young man the young woman
would be alive and there would not
be the terrible blot Of murder and
suicide over against the record of the
young man Carrying a revolver is a
greater menace than protection to the
man who carries 1t. If you have been
violating the law by carrying a revolt
yer, stop now. Don't risk having the
gun handy. 1t will get you Into
trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
MOVING PICTURES AN AID.

Moving pictures are being used not
only in this country. but all over the
world. for the purpose of calling at
tention to the fourth international
congress on school hygiene, which will
be held at Buffalo the last week 8. in
August The film now being shown
in the cities of the United tSates was
recently taken in Buffalo by Pathe
Freres, and gives view OF the school
children of that city signing a petit
ton which is to encircle the globe,
inviting educators. scientists, parents,
city, state and national officials to
the forthcoming congress.
The children of school No. 10 at
Buffalo were the ones chosen for
making the molten picture, and their
petition was signed out of doors.
Seated at a table on the lawn where
the document was signed were Health
Commissioner Francis E. FTonczak;
Henry P. Emerson, superintendent of
education; Herbert A. Medium, pres
ident of the chamber of commerce.
City Clerk Harold j.. Balliett; DR..
Franklin C. Gram and Dr. W. H.
Heath of the health department: B.
Herbert Blakeslee, executive secre-
tary: all of whom are active workers
in behalf of the congress, which it is
planned will be the biggest effort ever
made in this country toward bringing
school hygiene before the world.
Motion pictures will be used at the
congress itself One of these will be
the motion picture film entitled
Tooth Ache which is produced un-
der the auspices Of National Mouth
| Hygiene Association, and which tells
of the terrors Of tootache in the
Jones family as well as of the need
of oral hygiene. The chief actors in
this film include John Henry Jones,
Mrs. Jones, his wife; Mary Jones,
their daughter; Master Jones. their
little son; Arthur Moore, a dental in.
spector; Miss Maud Van Vert, dent.
al nurse; William Brooks, dentist.
Miss Meta White. dental assistant,
Robert Jarvis, physician. Miss
Martha Johnson, teacher; Miss Ella
Whitehead, principal
/ There is also in the company a
large number of school children. Sew.
eral interior scenes, and one exterior
are shown including dining room, a
school room, and reception room al
a dental Office. The story of the
film gives in detail the suffering OF
John Henry Jones from bad tooth
and his ultimate happiness when TAX
en- in hand by his little daughter
Mary who has been receiving denta
instruction at her public school-in
struction which is being given in bu,
very few schools throughout this coun
try and the need of which is striking
Ply apparent, according to figure,
furnished by the National Mouth Hy
, giene Association.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Daily Stock LITTER.
copyright, 1913, by the New yorl
Evening Post Col

lSOpyIlSHt, 1919. ~ ahC 49,. Z, 49, 49,
Evening Post Col f
NEW YORK, May THE stock
market having gone up last week and
gone down yesterday and the day be.
fore went up again today, thereby IL
Illustrating once more the entirely fit
full and uncertain character of opin-
Ion of future. The investing public,
in fact gave as the sign Of following
the one lead as of following the 9th
er. Today's changes were irregular.
until the closing half hour when,
however, the buying movement be-
came general may have meant that
the market was not so entirely assur
ed as it PROGRESSED to be yesterday
that the fixing Of July as the limit
for agreement on Union Pacifsc's
plan to sell its Southern Pacific stock
means serious trouble. or that the
house vote on the tariff bill means
suspended industrial progress. So
far as regards the Pacific railway
matter, 1t is useless to talk OF the
hardship imposed on the company
and its bankers
| Their business is to find the best
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
May and fifteen are already signed,
Religious Work.

Religious Work.
| The religious work committee on
1.-THE showing OF the moving pictures,
from the Manager to the Cross" April
% and 26 report that the pictures
we're very plain and each picture was
good lesson in the life of Christ.
The pictures were displayed six times
/ and hundreds of people saw them.
Plans are on the way for the sum
mer extension work and the commit
I tee hopes to make arrangements for
activities in that line in the near
future.
The designations of Theodore A..
Craig and E. Ross Baker as members
! of the board were accepted. A special
meeting of the board will be held
Thursday noon to fill the vacancies
caused by these designations.
The men who have thus far signi-
fed their intention to attend the ma
tional convention OF the association to
be held at Cincinnati, o. May lois,
inclusive are Messrs C. R. Joy, G. f..
.1MCf dTlduu, n. ". DAOWA, PASoioShs ~
the local association and H. F Burns,
general secretary Of the local assocta-
Htion.
New apparatus was added to the
gymnasium during April, which adds
much to the attractions and value TO
that popular department.
The annuai meeting of the associa-
ton will be held Friday night, May 8,
following a dinner to be served at
|6:15 p. m. The guest Of honor at this
meeting will be Harold j. Wilson, Of
Burlington. member Of the board OF
the Y. NJ G.. A. of that city and also
member of an active state commit
tee of the association. who will give
the principal address at the meeting.
He is we'll informed on association
work and will give an entertaining
and instructive address.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
ST. FRANcIsviLLE. MO.
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Rev Becker OF LAGRANGE preached
at the Baptist church Sunday.
DIR. Strosnider OF vincennes was
called Sunday to see Mr.. Hendman
and Mr.. Calbert.
Bridge inquiries coming into this
town are Of much more substantial
kind than those received few week
ago
Several auto parties were in town
last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Mitts OF Williamstown
were the guests of their son and wife
over Sunday.
Misses Emily and Elizabeth Camp.
bell were Wednesday, and Thursday
visitors in the city Of Keokuk.
Roy Williams. wife and children OF
Revere, were Sunday visitors with
relatives.
Misses Alley and Florence Day
We're Tuesday callers in Wayland
Miss Rosalind Wells was way.
land visitor Saturday.
Miss Flora Lynn has returned IA
her home in Philadelphia. after .
pleasant visit at the home OF her
uncle, Mr.. Thos. Zane.
Mrs. Sarah Wells visited last week
with her son and family OF vincennes
Mrs. Oscar Brown and wife we're
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

The Chicago Record Herald editor
tally laments its failure to turn an
honest nickel by selling half ton of
literary junk from the public printing
office in Washington. AS a feeler to
buyers of weighty books, twenty vol
umes of census reports, 1S90-19O0.
were submitted for written bids.
These are some of the bids returned:
Absolutely Worthless Not worth
basement ROOM NO coin in circu-
lation small enough to express their
value. Cost nothing in the first
place. Worth nothing now
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
RURAL SCHOOLING.

We ought to have nine months OF
free schooling for every child In the
rural districts" says DR. P. P. Clax.
ton, United States commissioner CT
education. In letter to the superin.
tendents of public instruction in the
various states DR.. Clax;on calls at
tention to the present short rural
term and makes an earnest plea for
campaign by the state officers TO
bring the school term for country
schools up to that for city schools.
Many OF the state superintendent
have already pledged their assistance
in nationwide movement to bring
this about.
DR.. Claxton points out how far we
are in this country from approximate
ing at present even the lowest mini
mum he names--a school term of $50
days The average length OF the rural
school term is only 1SS days, or a
little less than seven months, while
for the cities it is 1874 days, or more
than nine months. Only two states,
Connecticut and Rhode Island, have
school terms exceeding nine months
In rural districts. Eleven others have
country-school terms Of between eight
and nine months. They are: Califor-
MIA, Iowa, Michigan, Maryland, Kan.
sas, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York,
South Dakota, Washington and Wis
consin.
Many states are considerably below
the seven months average. In num-
Der of them the country schools keep
open for only six months; Florida anc
Arkansas keep their schools in rural
districts open for five months; while
North Carolina, South Carolina and
New Mexico have apparently been
providing their country children with
barely four months and a half of
schooling every year.
Nearly all the city schools, the COM
missioner shows, already have nine
months terms. $50 days or more, with
welltrained teachers, and there Is no
reason, he declares, why the country
children should not have as many
days of schooling and as good teach
ers as boys and girls in the city. DR..
Claxton asks a minimum school term
for the rural districts Of eight or nine
months (eight temporarily; mini
mum qualification for rural teachers
of four years OF high school and not
less than two years Of college or nor
NAL school education, and good lib
raries for all rural schools. With
these he says, should go an effort
to adjust the work of the rural schools
more closely to the needs OF country
life"
A number of the states with short
rural terms are making splendid eff
forts to bring the country schools up
to the standard of their city schools,
in length of term and other essen
tials. DR.. Claxton believes that all
the states will be aided by concert
ed movement for better rural schools
throughout the nation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

way out which will of course be
done, As for the tariff controversy,
people in general will do we'll 10
keep in mind that predictions of out
right ruin under the schedules ADOPT
ed by the house are invariably heard
when any tariff reduction bill goes to
the senate. That policy serves, prop
erly, to direct the senate's attention
10 debatable poiri.s where amend
ment is still possible. but Wall street
should not allow Its general views to
s5e affected too seriously by the
maneuyer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
i HAVE SEEN BEAUTY.

HAVE SEEN BEAUTY.
have been beauty where the hills OF
spring
Lifted against the mornings food
ing gold,
Enrobed as with divine apparelling,
Haloed and aureoled.
| have seen beauty where the sum-
mer slopes
In rose and flaming poppy dipped
away
To valleys hung with sunset, like rich
hopes,
At the decline of day.
/ have seen beauty where the autumn
woods
Spread their Respondent arras to
the breeze
Wherefrom the sense gained new
beatitudes
And undreamed harmonies.
I have seen beauty where the winter
skies
Pulsed with the pale auroras from
81 the pole
Above wide fields that to the wonder
ing
Were like a stainless scroll.
have seen beauty in the gloom and
glow,
Upon the earth, in the engirdlins
air,
Till deep within my heart of hearts
know
Beauty dwells everywhere
New York Sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Iowa Supreme Court Decisions

Especial to The Gate City.]
DIES MONIES. May MARY ~
Combs vs.. TRAY. ms. Co., appellan'
Marshall county, affirmed.
H. F. McCombs VS.. TRAY. ms. g
appellant, Marshall county, affirmed
Hunt VS.. Waterloo G. F. & N. r.
Co, appellant, Black Hawk count
reversed.
Omeara, appellant, VS.. Lawrenel
and Faragher, Jones county. reverse
State OF Iowa VS.. Clifford Wilso
appellant, Calhoun county, affirmed
Calhoun county, appellant. VS.. y
Crary ct al, Calhoun county, afiirme
Dreier, appellant, vs. McGermott
AL Pottawattan1ie county, affirmed
Dietrich sand Hannah, appellant
We. Isaac Patterson. Crawford count
afirmed.
Alice A. Nixon appellant vs.. q
Klise, Van Buren, county, affirmed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Pieless pie Counter

New York World postmaster
general with only two places in his
department to fill may be congratu.
lated on his escape from one of the
penalties of Office. But the satisfac.
ton can hardly be shared by the faith
full and expectant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Exodus From scotland.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: Scot
land is losing population. The drain
is worse there than in Ireland. On
the way over now are 1900 emigrants
bound to this country and to Canada.
1t was record departure from the
Clyde. It would be fine thing If all
of these voyagers were bound for the
United States. Here settlers from
Scotland have done great work, and
here is room and welcome for every
Scot who wants to change his flag.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Members of the Audubon society
will be glad to learn that ten tons of
feathers, plucked four or Ave years
ago from the birds of the Hawaiian
and Midway Island by poachers, have
just been destroyed by the govern
ment. The lot contained 201 bales,
enough to equip millinery parade
stretching from Omaha to Council
Bluffs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

OF the 5000 women voters in Kan
sas City, Kan, at the recent election,
1900 supported the man who was
elected mayor If only the mems
votes had been counted the former
mayor would have been reelected. SO
the women in that town feel that they
hold the balance Of power.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

DIR. Booker T. Washington. the
distinguished leader of the colored
race, congratulates his people on the
fact that they own 2O,oo0,oO0 acres of
land and 100000 houses, 10000
stores, 800 pharmacies and fifty-seven
banking institutions in this country.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

John H. Billings, aged seventy-four.
of Brooksville, Me-, has cut IN the
woods thirty-two cords of cordwood,
fifteen cords of f1rewood, hauled with
his horse out of the woods sixty cords
ready for the stove. besides caring for
COW, heifer. horse and six sheep,
since the first of November.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
keokuk
Savings Bank
Capital 500, 900
Surplus 500, 900

Sunday dinner guests With their n
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. George BrownI
Mrs. Boatman and Mrs. Day wen
shopping in Wayland Thursday.
A party of the Lee county bridg
inspectors were in town SATURDAY.
The new veterinary made his seconl
visit Sunday We wish him success
Mrs. Isaac Thompson is numbere|
among the sick.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

In the nine years last past the New
Haven railroad increased its capital
stock, bonds and bills payable 400 per
cent. The New Haven is one of the
roads the eminent doctor Of railroads,
]. Pierpont Morgan. prescribed for.
It took the medicine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Social Work Committee.

The social work committee report
ed $50 using the game room during
the month. Receipts s3491.
II was planned to hold tournament
in April, but this was delayed on ac-
count of repairs on the game room. 1t
lis expected to hold the tournament in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

The fearsome yellow peril looms up
in the preparations for the fall Por-
tola fete, planned by San Francisco
Bay cities. The native born daughters
OF Chinaman stands good chance
of capturing the girl beauty prize.
What will the native sons do then?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Life of Grabbing Ahead.

From the Buffalo Express: The
dimple in the chin of the boy baby
looks cute now, but it will prove a
curse to him when he grows up and
has to shave himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

John W. Fletcher, New York
palmist, who committed suicide to
avoid arrest. left fortune of $4,000
to young friend to procure an edu-
cation. The first thing the heir will
learn will be the lights and shades Of
a will contest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Thirteen women ran for Office in
different towns in Colorado at the
April election and all but one was
elected. In Montrose, Colo. Mrs.
Mary f. Sawyer was so popular that
she had no opponent for the office Of
city treasurer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Babies in poor neighborhoods In
American cities die at the rate of s7s
in 1000 under one year of age, and
in the good residences the rate is 1876
in 1000, or less than one-half as great.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

An electrical devise has been in
vented in England which automatical.
ly awakens all sleeping firemen,
switches on all the lights and opens
the doors of a fire station when an
alram comes in.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

The German Reichstag hands anoth-
er solar plexus to the divine right
doctrine by passing a resolution re-
auiring imperial princes to cut down
their expenses.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Boston will spend 100000 on the
construction of dry dock which will
accommodate the largest liners now
aflcat or building.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

In one of his recent vocal spurts
of reform Governor Dunno of Illinois
announced that if he had the power
he would clap in the penitentiary
every officeholder who broke cam
raign promise
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Instead of bullets new German
gun shoots a combination of gases,
which temporarily blind and choke a
victim enabling him to recover later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Self Service

You render yourself a
service which at present
you cannot estimate, if
you regularly deposit part
of your earnings received,
for the service you. render
your employer. Let the
future reveal the value Of
self service, through a lib
eral interest account at
the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Recent irrigation works in Egypt
have cost s53.0oo,ooo, but the results
have more than justified the expendi-
ture.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

The price of furs averages three and
one-half times as much now, in the
big Canadian markets, as 1t did in the
decade from 1890 to 1900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Looks of Simple Ihinns-

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Many a girl takes dab of red paint
and handful of excelsior and i'm.
proves on nature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Mrs. Burleson, wife of the postmas-
ter general has written play which
will be given for charity in Washing.
ton by "all-society cast
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

st. Louis is to have ten-story de-
partment store at Tenth and st.
Charles streets, to cost $4,000
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

Germany has over 100000 women
employed in other than domestic SER
vice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07

A patent has been recently issued
covering the manufacture of dog bis
cult made in the shape of a bone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
Social Work.

The boys committee held one bust
ness meeting during the month when
plans were formulated for the visit
CT DR.. Winfield Scott Hall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-07
"A Western Tale Of AdUenture Not Melodyama
PRECIOUS W. Alters
b a. NJ CHISHOLM
Author 81 .7he Boss of Wind River etc.
b. A. M. CHISHOLM
Author 81 "7he Boss Of Wind Riuer, etc.

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Illustrates in
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The Washington times., 1913-12-22

John F. Slaven. W. D. Sullivan, A. B.
Lyons. George p. Killian, William c,
Mscfs gs1 rIa nd Joh Rabert S~oHa; Tar,er M 6i,ver
6. Metzerott, A Leftwich Sinclair. w.
Corcoran Thom, Arthur Ramsay, W. NJ.
Dove. Charles !. Ccrby. Carl Droop, Roy
c. Clafiin. II. c. c. Stiles. J.. VI. Thayer.
r. L. Montague. Myron j. Jones,
joseph Jacob. Floyd Z. Davis. Charles
" Clagett and william Z. Shannon.
Coincident with the election to direc-
torship. q president must be selected to
succeed d. J. Callahan. His Is the first
time in the history of the chamber
that the president has only served one
term. Mr.. Callahan has declined to fur
ther serve as president. declaring that
he has already given six years service
in official capacity to the chamber. and
he believes that the burden should be
taken by someone else.
The Washington times., 1913-12-22

An indispensable household arti-
Gle any woman would be glad to
receive. Saves time and saves
your carpets.
The Washington times., 1913-12-22
Chamber of Commerce
To Elect Its Officers

A big contest for office impeuds in
the Chamber of Commerce. prior to the
election of officers. slated for the second
v eek in January.
Much interest also attaches TO the fill
ing of the ten places for the directors
of the chamber. which will be vacant at
The end of the present term. Candidates
must be posted not later than December
20.
The following names for candidates
for diTectorships have already been
pisced upon the slate: Isaac ans, P.
J. Ryan, Edwin C. Reed, B. F. Saul,
The Washington times., 1913-12-22
Garrison and Daniels
To Depart at YuIetide

Secretary Of War Garrison and his
family will spend Christmas and New
Year in Merchantville. n. J.. with Mr..
Garrison's brother. Judge c. G. CARR
son. They will leave Washington We'd
nesday night. returning January ,.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels will
spend Christmas in Washington, but
will depart the next day for his home
at Raleigh, N. c.. TO visit his mother.
He will spend one day at Goldsboro,
n. c., and probably will return to
Washington Monday.