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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28

the men on the bUard-of directors, In
competency, carelessness Or dishon'
esty is impossible"
The. vet5 pest asset that any city,
town, village or hamlet can have is a
good bank. The daily routine OF the
banks activities records with never
failing precision the progress or the
retroprogress Of the community: Inc
bank is the heart Of the city's lie,
here all the new blood is mad n
pumped oSt~to the furthermost cor
ners through its arteries. the mer-
chants. doctors, lawyers, schoo'
teachers, pupils, preachers, mechan
les, clerks, laborers, and all who 1eel
and join in for the good Of the COM
munity in which they live, by plac-
ing their earnings lin the bank. AS
soon as they become. depositors IN
the bank they at once feel a certain
pride in that bank and know thai
they are part of it. They have right
and privileges that before they did not
enjoy. These good and helpful things
thew carry with them as they go to
the office. the mill, the pulpit or wher-
ever their line of duty calls them.
They, then in their turn. become an
asset to the bank by telling their
friends Of the many advantages ana
opportunities for their good thai the
bank has to offer and advise them 10
go into the bank, and talk 1t over
with some of the banks representa-
lives Thus they see for themselves
the benefits they will receive by De-
coming a depositor. In this way the
ban, helps The citizen and the citizen
the town. -,
The officers Of the State Central
Savings bank are all men who have
been connected with the institution
for MANY years. They have given to
the hank the best of their ability, n
% them in no~small measure the
hanks constantly increasing business
Is due. They are as follows: william,
7 ogan. president; Geo E. XIX anu
Wells NJ. Irwin, vice presidents; =.
T Rode. cashier: H. T. Graham ana
II Rovden Blood, assistant cashiers.
Tho hank is also very fortunate IN
h,,,in, an unusually strong list OF
d;-ectors as the names given below
Indicate: william Logan, w. N. sage
n A Mcnamara, C. J. Bode, James
tIriskamp. Wells NJ. Irwin, Geo. +.
Div H.. Boyden Blood and H.. w. Huis-
kamp. - l., a,
u..o,tad by its capital stock. ana
confidence by its surplus. the cap,'
tai of the State Central Savings oan6
g 100000 90 and its surplus n un-
divi0ed profit account is over $780,
GOA no The amount of a banks de-
nos;ts is always an interesting item
- the general public. In round num-
h.rs tho deposits of the State Centrai
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28
With Increasing BUSINESS Each Year
the Institution 10 To-day a Big
Factor in keokuk's
Success
D q AT HEAD
Man Who Has Been Prominent IN
Many Of the Business Activ'-
ties Here Has Forced It
to the Front.

One OF the strongest financial instl'
tutions in Keokuk as well as the
state of Iowa is the State Central a
ings bank. 1t has been doing bust
ness under this name since the con
solidation with the State bank III
1893.
The State Central has been a Dig
success. It has a basic principle un-
der which it operates, and this prln-
ciple which will be in force for ali
tim to come is as follows: Sa1ety,
facilities and the best Of attention ana
courtesy to all.
In defining this motto. which covers
every phase of banking, an ofncer
gave the following analysis: .
Success in business depends in a
large measure on the timely aid anu
cooperation OF a strong and conser-
vative bank. We make 1t a point 10
be genuinely interested in u depos-
itors. and 1t may be said without nesl-
fancy that the state Central SAVINGS
bank has made friends because IL mas
made good with the public. Our BANK
has a certain personality n nlsh
standing which is at once appeaiins
to the conservative business man, anu
this, Of course. is proved by the pro
gress the institution has made IN the
years Of its existence. The state Cen
tfal. with It's competent force, accur.
ate accounting, proper equipment anu
safe deposit vaults-all under tne
strict supervision of the state-'s III
. position to give careful and expert
consideration { its business. lnen
again. on account Vt the solidity u
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28
TWO "DEVILS."
Joe G. Conn Writes of Old Times in the Newspaper
Business in Keokuk.

basement window of the old Gate City,
with it's smell Of printers ink and
benzine and vet paper and the sound
OF the presses, something happened
and l was a levee rat no more Keep
that window in mind, for that was as
far as l got for three days. l moved
from window to window, took note of
what vas In that basement and how
all the work RAJ done. This must
have ~"peeved'' the incumbent of the
office of printers devil. for on the
third day he asked ME if wanted
his job. He said he was going to quit.
My size being against me, we Planned
hat when he came out Of the office |
was to go in-and it worked.
Mr.. Jesse B. Howell had to lean we'll
over the counter to see me. l read
his doubts, and assured him I could
do his work, n was hired. I have
been working ever since-over thirty
years-but no duty has ever impress
ed me with its Importance as much as
the 'wetting down" of the stock or
blank paper for the next mornings
edition. 1 had to sit down each morn
ing before starting the work and just
think-suppose 1 didn't wet down the
stock? Well, no paper in the morn
ing. The honor of it was too much,
so l proceeded then with the days
work.
They burned lamps those days.
legions Of them, and it was my duty
to clean and fill them each morning.
They published a weekly edition
then-the days before linotype ma
chimes and folding machines. This
brought Mr.. Fry and his force in
through the window one afternoon a
week, n it was then that ordinary
run of the mine printers devil was
supposed to put ink on paste brush
handles and do some hiding. This
happened with variations each week.
I recall Billy Douglass, Charley Rey-
nolds, Silence Maxwell, and Strim-
back-pronounced "Strim;' also re-
member Red" Martin and his gener-
GUS wad of plug tobacco on one side
OF his face.
Some mornings the bundles of pa
per stock were re-arranged and the
top uuires would be warm-that meant
look out for q new tramp rrinter-or
an old one on his rounds-also meant
a new batch of wisdom dispensed to
an e audience of stay-at-homes.
which included the writer
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28
WHEN
RAN A T
College Was Only One Of Many That
Conducted Game for d..
Profits.

It Is in the public conscience that
reforms are accomplished. In the sew
enteenth century ladies of fashion
went to the execution Of famous Grim
inals In London. In the eighteenth
century the fashion had faded and the
number Of crimes for which a felon
might be hanged was reduced by more
than two-thirds. Insanity was then
thought to be a possession Of devils
and insane persons who we're confined
in prisons, loaded with chains. Slavery,
once universal, narrowed it's limits
gradually until the United States was
one of it's most fertile grounds. In
the eighteenth century there was
slavery in every settled part Of our
country; white men were enslaved
for debt and crime, Indians were
made bondsmen and negroes were
brought from Africa in ships so
crowded and foul that many Of the
poor savages died en- route. Gradu-
ally the enslaving of whites and In
dams ceased, the importation Of ne
groes came to an end and the limit
of slavery was the southern states.
There grew up a monstrous body OF
law and custom concerning slaver7,
which it was sacrilege to condemn.
All that has passed away as COM
pletely as If it had never been.
Gambling has been a world curse
for thousands of years. In the early
of the nineteenth century
churches were built and maintained
by gambling. The government foster
ed lotteries. States maintained lot
teries in lieu Of taxing the people d.
rectly. Missouri and Louisiana were
the last states to abandon lotteries,
Colleges were built from the proceeds
of lotteries. Respectable Harvard was
not the only college that conducted a
sure-thing gambling game for profit.
Lotteries are gone; church, state and
college condemn and abhor them.
Even the ace tracks are closed,
though once the public sentiment In
their favor was SO great the state
not permitted to regulate their
evil practices.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28

N 1856 or possibly a year earlier,
the Des Moines Valley Wing
changed from a weekly to a daily
publication, my father, Henry Conn,
being then a boy Of 16, peddling
peaches from a basket and in regular
course struck the office, which was
located three or four doors east Of
Fourth street on the south side OF
Main. Andy Cairns, who was the
pressman, agreed to buy the stock OF
peaches II Conn would 60 to work i'm
mediateIy and help bring out the first
daily edition.
The press was a Washington hand
press, which printed n page at a
time, or at most two small pages, and
at the rate Of possibly two impress
sions a minute.
hi duties Of the newly installed
devil was to ink the forms (which
means the assembled type). This was
done with a hand roller, having two
handles and was alternately rolled
over an ink plate and the form.
When the first edition was printed,
Conn also delivered the papers to all
OF the subscribers, which were few.
J. B. Howell was editor and pro-
prietor, and ]. w. Delaplaine manag-
err. Dick Hyam and James Claypool
were two of the four compositors.
Twenty-seven years brought many
changes.
The name changed to The Gate City,
and the office was located in The Gate
City building on Fifth street. The ed
itorial and composing room were on
the third floor; office and the job de-
partment on second floor, and press
room in basement. Of course now
most every press DON has a door,
but be Il known that no old-time print
er ever entered by a door but by
window. always, and here is where l
come in. Fourteen years old, bare
foot, born in Irishtown, raised on the
levee and bred true to the traditions
OF both sections, considered uptown
as a place to be tolerated only.
Owing to my diminutive size could
circulate in any Tart of town and
escape the punishment that was the
lot OF a more robust adventurer. for in
those day dead lines" existed, es-
p- allv between Irishtown and the
levee.
1t was in sheer desperation that /
deserted the levee. There were n
Jobs there and when I struck that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28

York. For miles up and down the
river were steamboats, entering. or
leaving or loading, or unloading. At
that time st. Louis was the center Of
a steamboat traffic extending from
Pittsburgh, in the shadow Of the Allie.
ghentes, to Fort Benton, at the head
of navigation on the Missouri, far up
in Montana, neal the Rocky noun
tains, and from st. Pau to New Or
leans. Lines of steamboats, from its
levees connected st. Louis with points
not only on the upper and lower Mis-.
sissippi, the Ohio and the Missouri,
but with places on the Illinois, the
Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Red,
the Arkansas, and the other nayigable
tributaries of the Mississippi. In his
trips on the Mississippi and the Mis-.
souri, in those days seldom was the
writer out of sight of the smoke Of
other steamboats, Or out of hearing of
their whistles"
Oflcial figures from Washington
show that the steam tonnage at ST..
Louis in 1854 was greater than at any
other port in the United States except
New York and New Orleans, and
twice as great as at Philadelphia. In
that year the steamboat arrivals at
the levees at st. Louis numbered g.
3O7, Or more than nine on an aver
age for every day of the 366. Today
the river traffic at ST. Louis has
shrunk close to the vanishing point,
while the Missouri, between its mouth
and Kansas City, is almost as bare of
craft as it was when Lewis and Clark
assembled it in 1904.
There is some prospect for a revival
of steamboating, however, but it will
be on a small scale compared with
that of half a century ago. The in
ability of the railroads in periods OF
great Industrial activity to handle the
traffic is impelling even the railroad
m~agnates to wish that the rivers OF
the Mississippi valley could be called
in as a reinforcement. 1t was in
obedience to his demand that the
Iakes-toAG Gulf Deep Waterway associa-
ton was founded, which held its first
annual convention. that of 1906, in st.
Louis. AS there are $4,000 miles of
waters in the Mississippi valley which
are actually or technically n~avigable,
AMI as part of all of h streams OF
twenty-eight states drain into the big
river. the Mississippi and its tribn-
taries are a valuable asset for the
country.
The Mississippi has had an inter-
esting history. On its waters and en-
its banks battles have been fought be
tween red men and red, red men and
white, and white men and white.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-28
OFFICERS:

Savings bank are over $2,10O,O00.0 90.
For the adequate protection of all its
depositors it carries a cash reserve
of over $55O,O00 600. These splendid
figures which this bank has attained
and its high plane of standing, both
financially and morally in this com
munity, are due largely to it's presi-
dent, William Logan.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
Bankers of Southwest Gather Here

: ply, president of the Bank of Bisbeei
is also here and will represent Bisbee-
! Sam r. Lawler, of the American bank,
I of Roswell, n. NJ, is here. H P. Saun-
ders, cashier Of the American National
bank, of Roswell, will be here Saturday
TO present ROswen's claim Charles
solomon, president of the Arizona
National bank, of Tucson. viii be
here Saturday, and E W. Graves
cashier Of the First National hank, of
douglas, VIII arrive Saturday morning.
Other southwestern bankers who will
De mere for the hearing are.
J. b. Herndon. president of the American
trust ~ Savings bank. of Albuquerque
X T. Moore, manager of the ella Valley
Dahh & Trust company Of Globe: P p.
t-reer. president of the First National bank,
OF Globe; H. H. Kelly, president Of the
DemlnE National bank of Deming: T. L
Love. vice president Of the Silver City Ma
t'ohal hanki jackson Agee, cashier Of the
American National bank of Silver City:
,lohn Corbett, president of the Bank Of
Demng; j. g. Cooper. cashier of the First
9tate bank Of DeminE: Frank r. Coon. Of
me tlrSt National bank of LOrdsburg;
mark Thompson, Of Las Cruces: c. 2
Mitchell. president of Aiamogordo State
oanki j. J. Dale. cashier OF First State
bank Of Tularosa
To Review the Troops.
A review Of the troops at Fort Bliss will
ne held IN honor of secretaries NcAdoO and
houston saturday afternoon All branches
OF me service viii be reviewed by the two
caolhet members and Gen. Scott. After the
review tea viii be served at Gen. Scott's
the post
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
Sage Tea Turns
Gray Hair Dark
It's Grandmother's Recipe
to Bring Back Color and
Lustre to Hair.

That beautiful. even shade of dark.
glossy hair can only be had by brewing
a mixture Of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Your hair is your charm 1t makes or
mars the face. When it fades, turns
gray, streaked and looks dry, wtspy
and scraggly. just an application or
two of Sage and sulphur enhances its
appearance a hundredfOId
Don't bother to prepare the tonic;
you can get from any drug store a so
cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Hair Remedy" ready to use. This
can always be depended upon to bring
back the natural color. thickness and
lustre of your hair and remove dan
druff, stop scalp itching and falling
hair.
Everybody uses 'rWyeth's" Sage and
Sulphur because it darkens so naturally
and evenly that nobody can tell it has
been applied. You simply dampen
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through the hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the gray
hair has disappeared, and after another
application it becomes beautifully dark
and appears glossy, lustrOus and album
dant-Advertisem
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
How to Make Your
Hair Beautiful
Ten Minutes Home Treatment Works
Wonders, Stops Falling Hair, Itching
Scalp and Dandruff and Makes
the Hair Soft Brilliant,
Lustraus and Fluffy.

Better than all the sO-called hair
tcnics' in the world is a simple old
fashioned home recipe consisting Of
plain Bay Rum. LavOna (de Comp
and a little MenthOl Crystals These
three mixed at home in a few minutes,
work wonders with any scalp. Try It
Just one night and see Get from YOUR
druggist . o.. Lavona 6 or. Bay Rum
and Il draChm MenthOl Crystals. Dis
solve the Crystals in the Bay Rum and
,pCur in an OF. bottle. Then add the
LavOna. shake well and let it stand
fOr an hour before using. Apply it by
putting a little of the mixture on soft
the hair, taking just one small strand
a. time This cleanses the hair and
scalp of dirt. dust and excessive oil
and makes the hair delightfulIy soft.
lUStrOus and fluffy To stop the hair
from falling and to make it grow
again rub the lotion briskly. into the
scalp with the finger tips or a medium
stiff brush Apply night and morning
A few days use and YOU cannot find
q single loose or stra gSling hair. They
viii be locked on your scalp as tight
rs a wise. Dandruff viii disappear
and itching cease. In ten days you
viii find downy new hairs sprOuting
UP all over your scalp and this new
hair viii grow with wonderful rapid
ity
Any druggist can sell YOU the above.
The prescription is very inexpensive
and we know of nothing so effective
and certain in its result.-Advertise-
ment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
CONGRESS TO PROBE
STRIKES IN MINES
Continued from page -

Pennsylvania, Democrats, and. HoW ell
Vermont, Republican, star Ieu -.
Hcugbt0n. HamIin of Missouri, Dem
ocrat, and Switzer Of ONO, .IbPoo,l1-
can, will join the Michigan supcolii
nIttee later. oe
All representatives are menu Itch
the house committee on mlhes' WLlIoN
was instructed by the house IeSOII
ton to conduct the inquiry ana SUI
NIT a report. -, .1,
The Colorado committee VIII IeaoL I
Denver Sunday and expects 70 open
hearings at Trinidad either MONDAY
or Tuesday. The itinerary lnclHues
Trinidad, Boulder, WalsenDurS, DeI-
Yer and other places at when II may
seem necessary after the strike area
Is reached
The Michigan Investigators, start
ing at Hancock Monday, VIII nave
sessions there, at Houghton, Calumet
Want Price Provision.
Small manufacturers and dealers
who compete with great corporations
want some provision for price reSu-
latiOn in the new trust bills to prevent
their being squeezed when they can
not meet prices on large quanuUleS-
Before the senate interstate com
merce commission today delegation
spoke against the clause which pro
vides that nothing in the bill should
prevent discrimination in price be
tween purchasers of commodities on
account of differences in grade, quail
ity or quantity of the commodity sold
OF that makes only due allowance for
difference in the cost of transpOrta-
ton"
Cutting Drug Prices, Weapon.
c. H. Nixon of the National Assocla-
ton of retail druggists told the house
commerce commission that cutting
prices on patent medicines was the
club used by a combination of drug
stores and cigar stores to drive small
individual retailers out Of business
I'VE believe n monopoly is being
started with the object of controlling
the retail drug trade of the entire
United States" said he.
Samuel Untermyer told the house ju-
dietary committee that the interlock-
ing directorates bill would be lacking
unless 1t also prohibited interloclinS
stock ownership. The bill, as it stands
merely would substitute dummy di-
rectOrs for the real directors, he said
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
Every Home Needs
This Great Remedy
No Home Can Afford TO Be Without
a Mid, Reliable Laxative

IONIC.
No Well-regulated home should be
without a laxative, for there is scarce
" a day in a family of several persons
that someone doesn't complain of a
headache, of sleeplessness, or show the
first signs Of a cold.
A laxative then becomes a necessity
or what was a trifling congestion at
the beginning may run into serious
cold or fever. No harsh remedy is
needed, but simply a mild laxative
tonic that will make the liver active
and stir up the bowels. People who
have tried a great many things, and
are themselves heads of families, who
have seen the little ills run to big
ones, will tell you that there is moths
ing better than DR., CaldwelFs Syrup
Pepsin, which you can obtain at any
drug store for fifty cents or one dollar
a bottle, the latter being the family
size.
Among the great believers IN Syrup
Pepsfn for constipation in old or
young, and as general household
emergency remedy, is Mrs. NJ. F. Smith,
10 n Cherry St, San Antonio, Tex. To
use her own words, she says she will
bless Dr. Caldwell to her dying day
for she believes that through his rem
edy Syrup Pepsin, she found the way
to permanent good health.
DR.. CaldwelTs Syrup Pepsin is scien-
tifically compounded and its purity is
vouched for. Mothers give It to tiny
babies, and grown people, taking a lit
tie larger amount, find it equally ef-
fective. It is mild and gentle, pleas
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
TEXAN is RESTORED BY MAYR'S
WONDERFUL STOMACH REMEDY

Mr.. Hensley's experience is typical
OF those of the thousands who have
"a ken Mayr's Wonderful stomach
remedy with such success. The first
Gose proves.
Mayrs Wonderful Stomach Remedy
clears the digestive tract of mucoid
accretions and removes poisonous mat
Ter 1t brings quick relief to sufferers
from stomach, liver and bowel trou-
bles- Many declare it has saved them
from dangerous operations and many
are sure that it has saved their lives.
Inc remarkable success of this rem
cay has caused many imitatOrs, so be
cautious. Be sure it's Mayrs Prob
apiy 1T is known among your own
4elghbors Ask them. GO to Potter
Drug Co. drug store and ask about the
Wonderful results it has been accom-
pIlsnlng in cases they knOw-Or send
70, Geo. II. Mayr, Mfg. Chemist 154-l56
hitting St, for free book on stomach
alImentS and many grateful letters
rom people who have been restored
rEEy druggist viii tell YOU its wonder
Iui eI1ects.-Advertise
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06
OWES HER LIFE TO
THIS LUNG MEDICINE


The manufacturers of Eckman's Al
teratlVe, medicine for Throat and
Lung affections, regret that all suffer
ers OF these serious troubles do not
take the trouble to investigate for
themselves what this medicine has &C
complIshed during the past fifteen
years in number OF cases. Read this:
Griffith, Lake Co, Ind.
gentlemen: About September 10,
1905, my mOther-in-Iaw was taken sick
win catarrhal Pneumonia, which de-
Veloped into Lung Trouble. In jan
nary, when Rev. VIM. Berg, of st. Mich
aeIs Church, at SchererVille. Ind,
prepared her for death, he recon-
mended that 1 get Eckman's Alternative
and see if it woultr not give her some
reHe1 The attending physician de-
cared she had Lung Trouble and was
Deyond all medical aid So I immed-
rarely mad Rev. VIM. Berg to send for
a bottle Practically without hope for
recovery, l insisted that she try the
Alternative, which she did. I am glad
70 say that she soon began to improve.
NOW she works as hard as ever. weighs
twenty pounds heavier than she ever
ana before she took sick, and is in
good health
(AffidaviD JOS. GRIAIMER
NADOVe appreciated; more on reQuest)
Eckmans Alternative has beeEZDrOven
Dy many years test to be the most eff
lcaclous for severe Throat and Lung
AIIecJlons, Bronchitis, Bronchial As
thna, stubborn Colds and in upbuild-
ing the system Contains no narcotics.
polSons or habit-forming drugs. Sold
oy ieadlng druggists. Write the Eek
man Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pa for
pocket telling of recOveries and ad-
uILlonaI evidence. Kelly a Pollard,
knoolauch Drug Co. Peoples Drug
Standardization
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-06

goodbye Johnnie You apply GETS
IT. in two secOnds-nO fussing with
plasters that don't stay put with
saives that make cOrns pull and
make the toe beefy and raw. with
knives, scissors, raZOrs and diggerS
that make cOrns grow faster and that
may cause blood poison from corn
cutting and cOrn-bleeding. "GETS-IT''
shrivels up cOrns, they come right off
That's the new principle. It's just
"GETS-It' is safe. and never hurts the
flesh. Get rid of corns and caIluses-
"GETS-IT" is sold a 25c a bottle by
all druggists. or sent direct if you
wish, from Z. Lawrence & Co., Chi
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