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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
workInsmen Read Newspapers.

Charles Stelzle, in the Philadelphia
North American: Another very clear
cut conclusion whic hthis study pre-
sents is that the daily newspaper is
the workingman's greatest university.
Workingmen spend more spare time
reading newspapers than they do in
any other way.
OF tho 1000 men interviewed, fully
100 per cent read newspapers. The
higher the grade Of worker the more
time there was spent in this manner.
The only particular In which 100 per
cent was reported was in the case OF
those who earned from $50 to $35 per
week; every one in this group was an
habitual newspaper reader, although
the men earning from 500 to $25 per
week spent most time reading news
papers.
1t is worth nothing that there were
three times as many men who read
newspapers in the eight to nine hour
group as there we're those who read
magazines, and that the men who do
read newspapers spend eight times
as much time reading them as the
men in the magazine group spend in
reading magazines
Here is unquestionable proof that
newspapers are Americas greatest adj
ucational factors among men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
rhe Real Loss.

Sioux City Tribune: A large mer'
canti'e company failed recently for
$40 ,000. 900. 1t was the sensation OF
the business world. Salem. Mass,
suffered a loss Of $30.000,00O. It is
just interesting news. The mercan-
ills failure wiped out no values; II
destroyed nothing. There are assets
In plenty to more than meet the obli-
cations.
The Salem fire wiped out value. It
destroyed property, some of which
can never be restored All of that
which will be rebuilt out OF the peck
cts of the insurance companies, which
in turn will take 1t out OF the pockets
of the people. That money would
have been used for other things, to
enlarge existing business, to invest in
new ones. to improve land, to DO the
thousand and one things money Is
called upon to do. Now 100000, 600
will have to be taken out Of the chan
nels Of other activities and used to
restore Salem just what 1t was forty,
eight hours ago. Nothing new Gre
ated; just the old replaced.
Yet some people think a ire loss is
no loss at all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
Income Tax Yields.

Des Moines Capital: The secretary
of tho treasury announces that the re-
ceipts from the income tax on persons,
payable on Or before June 30, will be
more than s23,000,G00 under what the
department estimated last Decemb Der.
1t is not at all strange that there
should be many surprises in noting
the actual operation of this law. The
treasury department is finding two
large distractions to the attainment
of it's expectations. First---those who
wilfully evade the provisions of the
law: second-those who through ig-
norance fail to conform thereto.
1t is going to take considerable
time to educate those who are amen
able to the income tax law so that
they can become adjusted to its re-
quirements. When lawyers and bank
ers admit that it is one of the most
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
THE WINDING LANE.

The wood-light grows more mellow.
dim.
The leaves dance happily.
The russell path CLOVIS deeper hued.
To greet her worthily.
And all the birds in chorus sweet
Sing, rapturous. insane.
When lassie comes to meet me
Adown the winding lane.
She's swestaas little roses are.
AS quaint as mignonette,
And shy as modest pansy-buds.
With shower-jewels set,
She's Happiness! And from this world
I've nothing more to gain
When lassie comes to meet me
Adown the winding lane!
tScsAA>. yi1
This earth would be kindlier place
II every man could know,
The fragrance Of shady path
Where cool, green grasses grow.
Where, when the sunset hour came by
And life was sweet and sane,
His singing lassie turned the sti1e
Adown the winding lane.
Ethel Hallett Porter In July LIP
pincott's.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

Almost a perfect score-that's the
record Of the two year non-collegiate
work in agriculture at Iowa state col
le.e as far as sending students back
to the farm is concerned. This year
~ of the As young men who completed
the course and got certificates are
going back to farms, and the other
three will go back as son as they get
additional training in the four year
collegiate course. OF the AZ, 3S have
returned to Iowa farms, "a going to
farms of their own or owned by faith
ers or some ether near relative with
whom they will soon become partners.
The other four who stay in Iowa are
working on farms this year but will
30 on places of their own next year.
Only four young mon who got their
certificates will go outside Of Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
one Kind Of "Hoo."

Waterloo Times Tribune: The indi
vfdua1 who occupies more room In q
crowded street car than he is entitled
to is called seat hog"
The one who catches more ash than
Is his share Is called "fsh hog But
there are other kinds Of human hogs.
For instance, there Is the city man
who, In strolling through the parks
or woods, gathers more wild flowers
than he or she can possibly care for.
They loot the garden spots of nature
with as reckless hand as ever a
city was looted in time of war
This robbing of the beds of wild
flowers is not done 1naliciously. It
is done thoughtlessly 1t is done be.
cause the city dweller, unaccustomed
to natures wilo beauty, is carried
away by enthusiasm.
1t only shows that the city man in
the country is very much of "r'be '
Stage comedians have long delighted
TO depict the country "rube" in town,
but there is ample opportunity for
them to impersonate the city ''rube"
in the country.
The advantages, even at that is In
favor Of the country "rube." Even
the most exaggerated stage picture of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
THE NEWSPAPER AND THE TOWN


The value of live, energetic news
paper to any town or city is absolute
ly impossible of estimation There
are SO many ways that the newspaper
promotes the interest Of the city and
the Individual citizen when 1t is pub
lished that 1t would be like trying to
number the sands Of the sea to enum-
crate them. " It Is the true friend OF
the city or town, and every resident
thereof. and stands ready to fight the
battles even OF individual citizens in
the nerve or the courage to do. It
stands as great bulwark of defense
for the city and for the people.
But this is only one feature" says
the Publishers Auxiliary.
There's another that is seldom
given much thought and that is that
the newspapers of any town Or city
are paying investment for such
places as Industrial institutions. Peo-
pie welcome with open arms and loud
acclaim any factory costing few
thousand dollars and they think the
| town is wonderfully fortunate in Sc
curing a plant that will give employ
ment to a. number OF people. Some
times they even put up bonus to Sc
cure such plant. There are many
newspapers which give employment to
a number of people. and nothing is
thought of it. The money that comes
to the paper Is spent In the town or
city where 1t is published. None Of
it goes away except for ink and paper
and some other small supplies that
cannot be bought at home. The news
paper is essentially home institu-
ton. 1t works day and night to build
up its home town and state, and
spends its money freely with home
people. 1t is published on strict bust
ness principles these days, and that is
the reason for the growth and pros
perity that has come to many papers
during the past few years.
"As business enterprise, good
newspaper is about the best industry
that any town has, and its publishers
ask nothing but a square DEAL"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

To the Siberian stronghold OF
Akatui. prison for murderers and
thieves, group of Russian revolu-
tionists was exiled some years ago.
One of them was Marie Sukloff who
recently escaped to America. The
terrible experiences through which
this delicate girl-now but twenty
eight years old-went, are described
in the Survey by Winthrop d. Lane.
But in Akatui she had the compan-
ionship of group of revolutionists
known throughout all Europe. Among
chem was Gregory Gershuni whom
many Americans will remember, for
he came here following ais escape in
1907. "Gershuni set at naught the
government which imprisoned him by
escaping In barrel Of sauerkraut,
only to die q year later OF lung
trouble. This version of Gershuni's
escape has been denied, but when
asked Miss Sukloff II it was true, her
answer was characteristic Of her ex-
perience. L was among those she
said, who helped to nail the lid on
and punch the breathing holes"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
ELDERvILLE, Ill.
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Miss Florence Howard was q Keo-
kuk visitor Thursday.
Carl Kapp OF Hamilton was bust
ness visitor here Monday and Tues.
day evenings.
Oscar Johnson has placed q fine
Hazelton piano in each OF the homes
of Geo and Lib Hempen.
Mrs. Ralph Marshall from near
Carthage visited home folks last
Thursday
Miss Clare vogel is spending a few
days with Miss Dora Van Blair in
Hamilton this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. vogel attended
the funeral Of Henry Meyers in Suffer
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Perry Of Bowen spent last
week with her daughter Mrs. Clyde
Van Blair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Christner and
son Harold spent Saturday and Sun
day with relatives in Rock Run.
We are planning for big time at
the picnic to be held by the Elderville
Sunday school July 4th.
Mr.. Frank Harrison, south of here,
who has been very sick is improving
at the present time.
Charlie Van Blair and family wer,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

1.-THE guest OF her cousin. Miss Lottie
Phelp. s1 vi
VIM. Wayland was business caller
in Wayland, Monday.
Candidate Ingold WAS in town Friday
and was guest at the Murray nome
Mrs. H. e. Stump and Miss Ethel
Guthrie were having dental work done
at Kahoka last week
Carpenters are at work on a new
barn for Mr.. George Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Vice OF vincen-
mes were in town Friday evening.
Claud Hill of Marshal, Mo-, is back
on business.
Frank Phelps was a passenger on
the noon train Monday.
Master Durkee OF Canton is visit
ing his cousin, Mrs. Roy Campbell.
H. E. Stump is sightseeing In st.
Louis.
Mrs. VIM. Guthrie was shopping in
Kahoka Tuesday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
GIVING Birds ! Chance.

Atlanta Journal: II mans instinct
las hunter could have been diverted
from birds to insects, the history OF
economic affairs, and especially OF
agriculture, would have been very dit
iferent But he has continued killing
birds, not merely as sport, but often
for greedy traffic, long after the need
Ito do so passed away. The time has
come when governments must take
serious thought for the protection OF
bird life in order that plant life on
which human sustenance depends may
not be jeopardized and destroyed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

Iowa and Des Moines are not ex.
periencing any OF the financial diff
ficulties that are Detailing cities
throughout the east, judging from
figures in the office OF w. G. Nc
Arthur, clerk OF che United States dis
trict court. Thus far there have been
only five bankruptcy actions filed In
the federal court in Dss Moines dur.
ing the month Of June. This lie the
lowest record in the history of the Of
flee during Mr. McArthur's service.
None of the failures during the month
were business houses. The average
number of failures in June is more
than double the number that have oc-
Cured this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
ST. FRANcisvILLE, NO.
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Rev. Payne filed his appointment.
Sunday morning and evening, Rev.
Fry at 800 O'Clock.
Large crowds from nearby towns
were In attendance at the Yeoman
play Friday. $50 was taken in at the
ice cream table.
Eighteen in number from here were
at the play at vincennes Saturday
night. .a,s.
When Rubin Comes to Town" ID
the title of play to be given At the
hall July Is, by the 8. NJ. SIS charac
tiers: Jimmie Zane, Willie looks, Ed
Kinkead. Florence Day, Hazel Harton
Mable Jones. After the play they
serve ice cream and cake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Harsch were
over Sunday visitors with Illinois
relatives. 10 ss,s ee.s
! Mrs. H. G. Campbell and dauohter,
Miss Elizabeth were Kahoka- visitors
Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Eliza
beth was in attendance at the teach
ers' meeting.
Miss Hazel Harter was Kahoka
visitor last week.
Miss Irene Stump spent three days
of last week with her aunt, Mrs. Ed.
Meister, of Vincennes.
Little Madeline Wolf OF vincennes
was visiting few days with ler
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. c..
Campbell
Mrs. Sam Bates and Mrs VIM. Way
land were Wednesday afternoon call
ers in Wayland.
Mrs. Haywood and Annie Allen
were morning passengers Tuesday for
Kahoka, where Miss Allen was having
dental work done.
Misses Elva and Aileen Mckinney
of Sugar Creek were Saturday and
Sunday visitors with the Hand girls
]. b. Harsch and family motored out
from Keokuk Friday evening and at
tended the Woman play.
Mrs Hannah McKenney is home
from weeks visit in Quincy.
Miss lola Davis of route 1, is with
her mother in Kansas City.
Mrs. Alternately was visitor Sun
day in Warsaw. She was accompan-
led home by her granddaughters,
FcTu duu avn WOOt0i idEC.
Mrs. Ealy and Mrs. Miller Of Keo-
kuk spent the past week with their
mother, Mrs. Thos. Hill, who is a
sufferer Of rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wilson Of Way
land were visitors in town one day
last week.
Miss Garnie wilsey OF Keokuk was
home Friday night to take part in
the play
Mr.. Jack loops and family from
Illinois, are visiting relatives this
week.
Mr.. Ed DeYoung and family, Misses
Beulah and Nola Usher, came out from.
Keokuk and srent Sunday with rela-
lives.
Miss Marie Harsch of Keokuk was
with relatives Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Brown was a Tuesday
shopper in Keokuk.
Mrs. H. F. Kirker of Wayland, at
tended church here Sunday.
Mrs. James Fore was a Keokuk
visitor Monday.
Miss Martha Phelp of Sandusky. -
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

By Dr.. Frank Crane in Des Moines Capital

If congress were to offer me my choice any state
in the union reward for my worth and modesty,
should say unhesitatngy .sGive me Iowa. "
Because Iowa is the most American state IN the ma
There are few milonnires, few paupers. No scum
dregs speak Of They just plain United States
folks
Iowa buys f1st-class reading matter than any
other state, excepting New York.
Every ten miles SO III Iowa there is chautauqua
in the summer time. And where you find chautanquas
you find the people of the western world at their best
If any foreigner wants to see what real, genuine
dyedn United Stateser is let him attend chau
tauqua
Iowa is the New England New England is not New
England any more 1t swamped, Diluted and washed
out by immigrants
There is about as much of the old Mayflower stock
left in Massachusetts, there is old colonial furniture IN
Nantucket
Iowa is where the New Englanders who had snap
have gone to.
In a recent financial paper note:
That the farms Of Iowa worth more than the
farms Of Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts
Rhode Island Connecticut New jersey Delaware Mary
land West Virginia. South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Arizona, Utah. Nevada, New Mexico, Montana and Wyo-
ming combined.
increase in value of all farm land in Montana,
Idaho Wyoming Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona Utah.
Nevada, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oregon combined
The Iowa crop greater in value than the wheat
crop of Canada or Argentine Republic.
The annual in Iowa worth more than the an
nua yield of either iron o1e anthracite COAL petroleum
products, the products Of all the god silver copper
mines of the United States
iowa farm property is valued at $3,745, o00, 600.
Iowa farmers own farm machinery valued at $95,447
900.
Value Of Iowa CATTLE $118,864 900.
Value of Iowa horses, 81, 551 0OO
Value Of Iowa swine, $69, 3OO0
Value of Iowa mules, 50 551 600
V Value Of Iowa sheep, S. 748 600 Is-z tx ss sss4
Value of Iowa poultry, $23, 482, 900.
Iowa last year made 9S911 9o6 pounds Of butter in
creameres Of which all but 6978 pounds export
ed from the state.
Value of Iowa potato CROP 1888 887
u Iowa hens produced more wealth than Colorado's
mines ii
Iowa's per capita wealth, $1,839
Some state believe mel
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
THE IOWA CORN CROP.

Prospects for Iowa's corn crop were
never better at this season of the
year. according to bulletin. issued by
the Des Moines Iowa Department of
Agriculture Throughout the state the
small grain crop is good while hay it
not quite ND to the average because
of dry weather. The bulletin says:
Iowa has enjoyed good growing
weather thus far this season. The dry
weather of the early spring made Dos
stbIe the planting of big acreage OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
Progress.
Delegates

Philadelphia Ledger: Delegates
to the electrical convention being
held in this city represents an invest
ment OF more than $4,000, 89o,o00 IN
capital. Much of it was invested
when trolley lines were experimental
and the entire electrical industry was
so undeveloped that money put into
it might or might not be recovered.
If there had been law requiring that
the issues Of stock sell a. par and
limiting the returns to profit OF 6
per cent we should still be using horse
cars and lighting entirely by gas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
NEWSPAPERS GOOD ENOUGH

Men who are engaged in the publicity
game are turning more and more to
the newspaper columns to get the at
tention of the public Theatrical
managers who have been large pa
irons Of the billboard manner Of post
ing their attractions are a group to
realize the advantages newspapers
have to offer over billboard paste. The
manager of the Garrick, Chicago, has
decided that newspaper space only is
good enough to insure packed houses
for a play. In explaining his stand
this manager said:
"Billboards usually are most mum.
erous where the persons who read are
the fewest. Many managers believe
that the billboard as getter Of pa
tronage is thing of the past. but few
Of them have the courage to stand
by their convictions. The Shuberts
tried out exclusive newspaper adver-
Using in New York year ago with
gratifying results, and this caused the
experiment in Chicago. You know
that persons who ride past billboards
are usually going too fast to read
them and 80 per cent OF the folks who
ride read the newspapers while on the
cars. During the last year, with "Ro-
nance and the Road to Happiness,
two of our biggest successes. the Gar
rick and the Princess advertised ex-
clusively in the newspapers. A spec
ial matinee, advertised for three days
in the newspapers, was sold out by
10 o'clock in the morning of the per-
Torrance and 900 persons were turn
ed away"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

The will Of the late Jacob A. Riis,
social worker, author and friend Of
Colonel Roosevelt, says that Mr.. Riis
had accumulated no money to give to
the settlement which he founded in
this city and which bears his name.
The bulk of the estate, the value of
which is not given, goes to his wife,
Mary Riis. Four children by former
wife have heretofore been provided
for, the will says, by deed Of trust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
nHoueHr FOR TO-DAY.

All travel has its advantages. II
the traveller visits better countries he
may learn to improve his own, and
II fortune carries him to worse, may
learn to enjoy his own. The
use of travelling is to regulate the
Imagination by reality, and instead of
thinking how things may be. to see
them as they are.-Dr. Samuel John.
son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

him has never shown him up as a
hog" But turn city "rube" into a
big patch Of sweet williams and the
bristles stick out all over him. He
seems to think that nature planted its
wild garden for his especial benefit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02
Hamilton visitors last Sunday even
ing.
The Best Medicine In the World.

The Best Medicine In the Woro.
MY little girl had dysentery se.,
bad. I thought she would die. Cnan.
herlain's Colo, Cholera and Diarrno.s
Remedy cured her, and l can eru ~.
fully say that l think it is the . u.s'
medicine In the world" writes W.
Wiilfam Orvis, Glare, Mich. For sa's
nv an DEALER. advertisement
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

The queen of Bavaria has been hit
in the head with skyrocket. When
will these effete European nations fall
into line for safe and sane Fourth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

complex statutes ever drawn or enact
ed, 1t Is not strange that the masses
OF the people should become confus-
ed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

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keokuk, lows July 2, 1914
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS

PHYSICIAN.
Or. w. p. SHERLOCK,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once. 1S North Fifth stree: in tns
Howell, building.
Once Hours-10 to IL q. IA. to
3 p. M: evenings. 2 to 8; sundaya
II to p. m. United States civil ser
vice examiner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-02

DR.. BRUCE L. GiLFiLLAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once. 611h Main street, ovef
Winger Bros. store. Bell phone wv
Black
Residence, SIT North Fourth street.
Bell phone 12S0-Red.
Hours-1o-12 .. M: - p. M; 'S
p. M Sunday by appointment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-18

FOR RENT - House No. 1873 Cumber-
land Road, Enola, Pa; all improve
ments; $500 per month. Apply Jacob
Bowers. IA South Brick Church Road,
Enola, Pa.