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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10
WEATHER DELAYS
W|N0NA PRACTICE
Lefty Davis and His Young
sters Have Hard Time
Getting in Work.
BY

Winona. Mimi. April 1O.-After a
three hour workout Tuesday afternoon
IN which Lefty Davis and his crowd
OF youngsters chased the sphere to all
corners of the League park. the play
ers awoke yesterday morning to find
the ground partly covered with snow
and a drizzling rain coming down,
which blasted their hopes Of spirited
practice for the day. Lefty. however.
was not to be foiled by the weather
man altogether and set to work round
ing up bats. suits, M other material
necessary to the first hard practice.
Despite the fact that the weather
Is most unpleasant, Manager Davis
had several of the players don their
uniforms sometime late yesterday and
do what practicing they could Just east
of the Y. NJ. c. A.
At present Davis is dickering with
Charles Comiskey, owner Of the Chi
[cago White Sox, for a. first class CATCH
er. blu nothing definite is Forthcoming,
and as Winona already has several
fast men lined up for the position. 1t
land here. Several other applications
from players who would like to have
a chance to make good with the Wi.
ona aggregation have been received in
the last few days, and 1t is probable
that other players will come here for a
tryout.
No Bids Reoeived.
The latter part Of last month the
Winona Baseball club solicited bids
for the concessions at the park but
up to date none have submitted fig
ures to Chairman James Of the finance
committee. Mr.. James urges that all
who plan to bid for these privileges
turn in their bids as early as possible
as h date set for their opening is
April 10. The concessions to be sold
this way include the cushion privilege
and the placing of 100 posters for each
Of the twenty-one series.
Workmen were busy all day Tues
day fixing the fence at the park but
as yet nothing has been done with
the infield. which will have to be
gone over carefully before hard prac-
tice begins.
Transportation has been wired to
Harry Coffin. a pitcher with a long
list Of brilliant victories. who has
been trying out with Winnipeg at OF
tumwa, Ia. but owing to the fact that
Ia numt<r of the older men have re-
turned. there was no place on the
roster for him. c. Chapman, who
caught for winona last year has per-
sonally recommended the player to
the directors.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10
1.POPT...
C0r1r1EN
By James P. Sinnott.
Lest We FORGET.

Lest We Forget.
Twas little Willie Keeler,
With sayings that were quaint.
Who said the truest mouthful.
With Hit 'em where they amt"
Cincinnati positively denies claiming
the pennant.
A suggestion to cubists-"Evcrs de-
scending the stairway rude"
A convict league has opened the sea-
son. Anybody want a franchise:
Frank Chance only looks like a mill
ion ollar TO New York just now.
Hughey Jennings's team of Tigers
seems TO consist Of one Samuel Craw-
ford.
.Daubert is surely the %fair-haired boy
When 1t comes to playing first.
From their recent games, it appear
that Washington is either kidding us
along or in very Door condition.
shoes in Chicago the man is Roger
Bresnahan. late Of the st. Louis suf-
fragettes.
No doubt the near Indian warwhoop
that used to greet Chief Meyers on his
every appearance will come forth from
cold storage and welcome Jim Thorpe.
Here's a deep one. We hear tho
remark that the Brooklyn outfeld
would be very formidable were it
whole Wheat. Get it?
And now Pittsburg smites the Kan
sas City club tanners IA to /. Had
the Pirates scored two more il might
have Interested our secretary of state,
William Jennings Bryan.
Having watched him cavort around
the keystone 1t is u humble opinion
that Mr.. Chase can m will play sec
ond:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

The martyr strain, we believe, has
a higher average development arnong
women than among men,.
Office.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

kid" Hamburger. sheriff Of New.
York county, challenges the world at
the old Daniel Webster game! He
ready to speak. asked or un-
asked, on any subject. anywhere. any
time.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

This forthcoming Rivers-Cross mix
up. sizes up like an Irresistible force
meeting an immovable body! 1t looks
like curtains for the first man hit.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

The Phiilies seem to present a differ
ent set of outfielders every game. The
sets are equally effective-or is defec-
tive the word?
Charley Ebbets sported as expansive
a smile at the opening Of his new
stadium as if the 10000 bugs" pres
ent had come to see the field and the
team. and not Frank Chance and
his Yankees.
Everybody's doing it. so why not get
aboard? Here's our dope on how the
first division Of each league will look
in october ext. National league
One, New York; two. Pittsburgh;
three, Cincinnati; four. Chicago. Amer
lean league-One. Philadelphia: two,
Boston; three, New York; four, Wash
fngton. If it doesn't appeal to you,
write your own ticket.
A headline reads: "This Frenchman
Regular Scrapper!." All excited we
gaze below and see that one Anton
Pollet stopped Frank McManus in five
rounds. A communication ticket TO Nut
vile for any one who ever heard of
either before.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

And now Pittsburg smites the Kan
sas City club tanners IA to /. Had
the Pirates scored two more it might
nave interested our secretary of state,
William Jennings Bryan.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

Having watched him cavort around
the keystone it is our humble opinion
that Mr.. Chase can and will play e c
ond:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

Here's a deep one. We hear tho
remark that the Brooklyn outfeld
would be very formidable were it
whole Wheat. Get It?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-10

No doubt the near Indian warwhoop
that used to greet Chief Meyers on his
every appearance will come forth from
cold storage and welcome Jim Thorpe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
THE DAILY GATE CITY

to work in paper-goods factory at 81
"a week. The question Why did you
leave school was put to soma sse
more mature MARKERS in the corse,
trade. Ninety-one per cent of these
women had left school between the
ages of 10 and 16, and fully so per
cent because of their dislike of school
or because they wanted to go to
work. OF seventy four workers in a
clothing factory So percent had left
school between the ages of IS and 16
25 percent of their own volition.' y
In the opinion of the authors of the
bulletin. conditions such as were
found in Worcester emphasize the i'm.
perative need for special training of
a practical sort for girls between the
ages of Is and Is. In the main the
children left school simply because
they disliked the school work Not
getting the kind Of training they
might have liked and would have
profited by, they blindly Joined the
army of shifting, inefficient. discon-
tented girls that go from one monot-
onous factory job to another, and, be-
cause of their lack of training, rarely
rise above the class of low-paid, I'M
skilled workers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
GOVERNMENT HY ENGINEERS.


In an address at the 18th annual
commencement exercises of Iowa State
college at Ames the other day Gov
|ernor Eberhart of Minnesota, speaking
Ion Industrial Education declared
that in future we are going to have
government by engineers instead of
by lawyers. He went on to explain
that in the valuation and operation of
public utilities. and in caring for the
health of the people. we must have
more trained engineers, such as the
State College is turning out. He went
on TO say:
The time has come when we must
deal with crime and poverty from a
different angle. The surest proven
ton of crime is to provide wholesome
occupational training to insure all
young men and women an honorable
and a sure living
we must give attention to the
practical problems of home-making
Last year, 100000 American homes
were broken by divorce because men
and women have not been trained in
the Importance and art of making
homes
Governor Eberhart told of the work
in Minnesota in building consolidated
schools where farm children are given
training in agriculture, home econom-
les and manual training. I'VE are
finding that the consolidated schools
are success as social centers for
their communities. and that it pays
to teach agriculture he said.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
BOURNE BOOSTS GOOD ROADS.

BOURNE BOOSTS GOOD ROADS.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., chairman OF
the joint committee on federal aid in
the construction of post roads. is
nrmly convinced that in the effort to
malt the drift of men and women to-
ward the city no public undertaking
VIII aid more than Improvement of
highways, for good roads destroy the
isolation OF country life, improve mar
ket opportunities and decrease the
cost OF hauling farm products to
town To meet the situation he has
suggested a plan of federal aid to good
roads, designed to unite the nation
and the several states in an expendi-
ture Of ss.ooo,ooo,0oo in fifty years for
good road construction and mainten.
ance In statement to the press lust
issued he says:
Ihls plan, If adopted, will make
american highways the best roads in
the world, bring remote agricultural
lands within practical hauling distance
from property, enhance the margin of
pront on farm products, vastly in
crease the average daily attendance
at rural schools, make the motor truck
an economical vehicle for American
farmers. tighten the labors of Ameri-
can horses, save wear and tear on
harness and wagons and add to the
comfort and happiness OF all rural resi-
dents.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

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agriculture and the interior depart.
ments who are to draft a table OF
allowances and tolerances. These
allowances will be presented before
congress when completed and will
doubtless be added to the present
law.
One feature Of the last conference
has been the Endorsement Of law
establishing legal carat. Up to the
present time there has been no such
weight designated by law In this coun-
try and the usual weight accepted by
the jewelers. has been that of 2O5
n illigrams, It is now proposed that
the legal carat be of 200 milligrams
in: weight. to agree with tnat adopted
by foreign countries. Sss T
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
DENMARK.
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Miss Edith Wilson who is a stu
dent at Knox college at Galesburg, Ill.
LIS home for the summer vacation.
Miss Nellie Arnold who has been
teaching In the graded schools at
Stout, Iowa. is home for her summer
vacation.
Miss Edna Bennett OF this place
who has spent the past year with her
sister, Mrs. Fegar in Keokuk will be
one of the graduates in the Keokuk
high school this year.
Miss Minnie Woodroffe will leave
soon for the summer work In music.
Miss Frances Arnold OF this place
who has taught music in the schools
Fof Guthrie, Okla, the past year, this
being her fourth years work there,
goes to Houston. Texas to teach this
coming year with quite an advance in
salary
The baccalauerate sermon by Rev.
Lyman was we'll attended yesterday
and the words to the graduating class
were especially appropriate.
The recital tonight by Miss Blanch
Woodroffe, the academy graduate in
pianoforte, assisted by others, will
draw the usual large crowd.
The Joint program by the high
school societies tomorrow night will
draw full house.
Mr.. Sniff of Missouri Valley, Iowa,
and the editor Of the Harrison Coun-
ty News is visiting his mother and sis
ter here. also other friends.
There is a new boy at the home Of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mason, east of
town
Mrs. Westoff Of Downing. Mo-, is
here with her son Professor Westoff,
but will leave soon after commence
ment for California to spend the sum
mer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
Opening Of the Locks.

Rock Island Union: It is expected
that the locks OF the Keokuk dam
viii be opened either today or tomor-
row. This will restore through nayi-
cation between this city and ST. Louis.
The Streckfus boats have not been de-
pending unon the opening of the locks
for the first trip mp the river. The
steamer Quincy is at Iseolsik and viii
not go below thatplac ..ts The steamer
Dubuque, which is in the short traie''
below Keokuk, leaves ST. Louis today
with the steamer Quincy's passenger
list and freight cargo and will arrive
tomorrow at Keokuk where the cargo
will be transferred to the last named
boat which will then start on the trip
to st. Paul, arriving here Saturday
morning.
The opening of the new lock marks
another epoch innthe history rof 'navi.
cation. 1t may not come in the life.
time of many of us, but 1t will come.
The new dam will give slack water
navigation for sixty miles. In time,
as there becomes a necessity for fur
Their electrical development, other
dams will be built and further reaches
of the river will be converted into
great lakes
Already the new lake, which has
been named by the government eng1-
neers Cooper lake. is now beginning
to form. In places it is ten miles
wide. The water has raised behind
the dam SO that there is head of
about fifteen or eighteen feet, and the
reservoir is only about half filled. 1t
is interesting to note in this connec-
ton that the stage of water below
the dam, notwithstanding the vast
amount of water that has been held,
gives good navigation, and it is said
that the flow will not be reduced at
any time SO as to interfere with the
movement of the largest vessels.
During the early years of naviga-
ton it was necessary to portage, or
Tighter" the vessels over the Keokuk
rapids except in high water time. The
distance from the head to the foot of
the rapids was about ten miles. But,
with the opening of the canal by the
government all this was changed. It
was a godsend to the rivermen. Now
there will be no more rapids; there
will be no more canal One lockage
does the business and the rest is deep
water navigation.
Already the people of Keokuk are
preparing to make use of Cooper lake.
They are constructing motor boats
and other craft for speed, for pleas
ure and for comfort One leading
business man passed through this city
last evening enroute to Red Wing
where he will take possession OF a
new pleasure craft he has had built.
1t will have a speed OF twenty miles
an hour. He expects to pass here with
it next Monday on his way home.
While we will not be directly af-
fected one way or another by the
completion of the new dam It has It's
great general effect on the entire riv-
er. 1t spells the time when the great
Mississippi highway will again be
used as thoroughfare for pleasure
and for profit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
DoNNELLsoN.
: } . !. : !. 80 !. 800. :

Miss Hazel Grant left for Center.
vile Friday morning for weeks
visit.
Fred yornkahl has a new auto.
Rev VIM. Kreis, Mrs. L. E. Half
ner. Misses Anna Wiegner and Julia
Roth returned home Thursday even
ing from Warsaw where they attend
ed the Y. P. S. of southeastern
Iowa. They report fine meeting. (.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Felt and Mrs.
Chris Seyb visited in Hamilton and
Keokuk several days last week.
Miss Alice Taylor of Keokuk visit
ed home folks several days last week.
Mrs. Chas. Scheurs was Burling-
ton visitor Thursday evening.
Emile Hennies is working for NJ.
r. Dickey and Co.
Misses Irma Holdefer, Clara Wah-
rer and Beulah Meinhardt are home
from attending the state Sunday.
school convention at Burlington.
Quite few from here attended the
funeral OF Peter WiegneT, ST., at
Franklin Thursday.
Mrs. Vim. Dawson Of Bonaparte
Is visiting her daughter Mrs. Dr.
Thompson.
Mrs. John Frank of Mt Sterling
was an over Sunday visitor in our
city.
Miss Alma Young of Burlington Wis
tied with her cousin Miss Ruth Young
last week.
Miss Fay O'Neal of Milton visited
in our city last week.
Miss Alice Mehl is home from a
three weeks pleasant visit at the
Jno. Frank home near Mt. Sterling.
Mrs F. c. Tabor and son Ray are
visiting at the Orvil Kiger home near
Galland
Miss Daisy Benjamin is home from
Moline. ILL.,, where she taught school
Miss Marie Fischer of FIT. Madison
IS visiting home folks
Mrs. james Lowenberg and daugh-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
AMBITION.


wish no niche within the hall of
fame
No monument of bronze or crumb-
ling stone;
No tickle populace to shout my name.
No arch triumphant-crown or
throne.
But be 1t sail when have reached
the end
OF LIES rough road: He seemed to
try
DO make each bird and beast a loving
friend
The flowers nodded as he passed
them by,
And children welcomed him to join
their play;
For those who laughed he multiplied
the cheer
He had for those who toiled, help
ing way.
For those who mourned, a sympa-
thizing tear
A. W. Sylvester in Our Dumb AMI
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
Dead In Bath Tub.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
! CHICAGO, June 1o.-The body of
James Cam, 40, was found lying in a
bath tub at his home with stab
wound in his heart. In the bottom of
the tub lay closed jack knife smear,
ed with blood. The police scout pos
sible murder theories. They say that
Cam had long been a sufferer from
erysipelas. The position Of the body
indicated that Cam first filled the
bath tub full of water, stabbed him
self and then closed the knife before
he became unconscious.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
WHY GIRLS LEAVE SCHOOL

The idea that children leave school
to go to work, because their parents
need the money, is vigorously com
batted in bulletin just issued by the
United States bureau of education.
The authors of the bulletin have
made careful staudy Of trade and Ia
Dor conditions among girls In Worce,-
ter. Mass, preliminary to the estab-
lishment of a trade school for girls.
They find that from one-haif to
three-fourths of the girls at work in
the factories could have had further
schooling If they had wanted to or if
their parents had cared to insist up
on it.
The survey showed that the num-
Der OF girls between Ia and 1G years
Of age who leave school is constantly
increasing. During the past Ave
years many more girls between those
ages left the Worcester schools than
can be accounted for by increasing
population. Only about II per cent
of them had finished the grammar
schools; most Of them left In the
sixth and seventh grades.
Why did the girls leave school?
Various reasons were assigned by the
girls themselves. Some thirty girls
said they did not like school," could
not get along with the teacher; .
were not promoted; or wanted to go
to work. Two were working to help
yta - ~
cash girl of fourteen years who had
left the ninth grade to go to work In
department store for 50, later $3.50
a week. Another was girl of fifteen
| from the eighth grade, who went to
1 work in a corset factory for 81 and
rose to s4.82. Still another girl was
takin music lessons and contributing
to the payment on piano.
Twenty-seyen girls were found at
home. II some cases they had left to
help in the housework, while few
/ had left at time of temporary stress
and then had not returned to school.
Four girls had changed places with
the mother, who worked In a corset
factory, laundry, or some such place
while the girl. whose waae.earnins
power was small kept house for the
mother Of the children.
Curious differences as to what the
parents thought they could afford
We're discovered. The mother of =
family of eight children living in an.
parently the direst poverty, wouIc
have been glad to have sacrificed and
pinched still further to have had her
daughter stay in school lonoer. If she
would The mother Of another fam
/ lily of six, living in a comfortable
apartment house, with hardwood
floors. piano and other Iuxurles. said
her daughter wished to stay in schoo,
longer, but the burden of supporting
the family was too heavy for the fatn.
err TO bear alone; so the gil, was tak.
en- out of school to o to work a
visit to Swedish family revealed !,
carpenter and lis wife, a washerwo-
man, who had Just built and owned a
new three-story Apartment house. Ye,
the t5-year-cld daughter with a sew.
enth-grade education had been sent
4
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

tiers Agnes and Maisie left for Lin,
coin, Missouri. Monday morning for q
several weeks visit with her parents.
n Mr.. and Mrs. Thee. Abel and son
Henry, Mr.. and Mrs. A. e. Hirschler
and son David Sundayed at the John
Felt home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10
Under FALLING Wall.

CHICAGO, June 1O.-One fireman
was caught under a falling wall and
seriously injured and a score more
were In peril In a $4,000 blaze that
wrecked the plant Of the Shavings and
Sawdust Company early today.
Lieutenant William Mcclure sought
to escape when he saw a wall top
pling but was buried beneath one sec
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

1t is asserted that the druggists of
Iowa and the makers of patent medi-
cines will undertake at the coming
convention of the Iowa Pharmaceuti-
cal association at Waterloo to adj
just their differences as to the man.
ner Of marketing this product. There
has been much friction between the
Two because Of the sale of medicines
TO department and general stores and
by peddlers. There was also seri-
Gus difficulty which arose during the
legislature when an effort was made
e pass bin that would require a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Thursday will be Iowa's birthday
anniversary. On that day seventy
five years ago President Martin Van
Buren, signed the act which admitted
Iowa to the sisterhood OF states. The
LEGISLATURE some time ago adopted the
wild rose as the state flower and it
has been proposed that on next Thurs
day every man, woman and child in
the state wear rose, either wild or
domestic. The suggestion is good
one and should be carried into effect.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois has been appointed democratic
tariff scout in the senate j. Hams
task is to lure the mavericks into the
party corral.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Militants may do everything else
that is wicked and criminal in Eng
hand and still be endured but when
the effort is made to stos horse
race the nation will spring to the de-
Tense of the sacred game. That is
where the British worm implacably
turns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Iowa's annual apple crop Is worth
more than that of any of the Pacific
coast or mountain states. Iowa's ap-
pie crop is exceeded in value only by
the states of New York, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Missouri.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

This is the way Denver girl wrote
an essay on Man" Man is the
person that a woman marries. Man
sprang from monkeys; SO did Won
an. but she sprang a good deal farth-
er."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

A Kansas paper has started an agi-
tation to compel motorcyclists to slow
down at certain places so that people
can see them go by
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

DR.. friedman says that his serum
was not money-maker. Nor health
maker, either, according to latest de-
velopments.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

More than ten thousand Iowa hogs
are marketed on the Chicago market
on an average every day of the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

It seems to Abe Martin that some
fellows don't even want to let bad
enough alone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Flies in the dining room usually
Drecede nurses in the sickroom.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-10

Flies follow filth. Fever follows
flies. Swatting saves sickness.