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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10

/; The Tom W. Alien show signs grins
4 from trolley wires. window cards, Dill
! boards and newspapers. A special
] program has been arranged for the
big week Twentieth and Main street
I will be the brightest place in kaokuk
while the show is here. They carry
their own 81 5ctric light plant and
every show on the ground is one
mass of lights The portable chute
tha-chutes with the. company is the
only one in the world. 1t is the exact
duplicate of the one at White City.
Chicago II Is forty feet high with a
zoo foot slide into big tank OF 500
barrels of water. Mr. Dolly Lyons
with his twenty tango girls featuring
Mrs. Tynos Cate of the Orpheum cir.
cult whera she was head liner.
dancing the Argentine tango, the
dance that ser New York in a whiri.
Is a product ton that is refined and
beautiful. The Crystal Maze man
aged by Mr. A. Seaman viii furnish
good hearty laughs for thousands dur
ing the weak. and Mr.. Robt. Kowess
LuuStuu- t-A- oi2kuAIScS
woman IN the worfd and the man
without any arms or legs who rolls
cigarettes and draws your picture,
Twelve curious things are to be seen in
Mr.. Kowe's offerings. Prof. Van Area.
the German dare devil motorcycle
king will perform some thrilling feats
on his motor In the largest dome in
the road; it is almost perpendicular
Mr.. Earl Strout will present Fam
tama. one of the most beautiful
shows ever gotten up 1t is a pro-
duction OF merit and class.
Now we don't want to forget the
kiddies. ha. hal We have it-dog
and pony show, the big merrygc
round and the largest ferris wheel
ever carried by a carnival COMPANY,
will keep them amused and out of
mischief.
This is the fifth week for the Allen +
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10
Lsdies. comn1itteesz Named.

The ladies OF the order have organ
ICED and have appointed the following
committees to attend 20 the enter
tainment of the visiting ladies'. De-
tails of their plans will be decided
upon Monday evening at a meeting to
be held at Y. W. G. a. All U. G. 7.
ladies in the city are expec-ed to be
present to lend their assistance
Committee on arrangements for the
Grand ball. Friday evening, June s.
Mrs. ". A. BaIbach. chairman. Mrs.
IT A. Bank. Mrs. Ray r. Majors, Mrs.
Jos. Greayes, Mrs. B. s. Andressen.
Mrs. Thos. Duncan Mrs. H. c. Brown.
Mrs i. F. Cufbertson. Mrs. Jos. g.
Busss Mrs. Hugh Dumenfl. Mrs. Jas.
W Huiskamp. Mrs. Il A. HaniH
Committee for arrangements on
auto trip for visiting ladies-Mrs. J.
". F1rfong, chairman. Mrs G. vi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10

shows this season and everything Is
new and while think of it, this big
aggregation is maanged by a keokuk
man. Mr. Ed. Heinze who has a
world OF friends mere and ne says hs
viii do mis- best TO give the people OF
his home town the cIeanest and best
arnusemerts they ever had During
hfs stay OF six DAYS. don't forget
Twentieth and Main street all this
week acknowledgements
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10
Former Local Man, Now Supreme
Secretary U. c. r. Win Attend
Convention Here in
June.
INVITATION TAGS OUT
Unique Advertising Stunt for Meet
Ing PIanned-sWomsn's Com
T n1ittees Are orsanized
to Assist.

Supreme Secretary G. G. Daniel.
formerly of this city. now at Column
bus, Ohio, will attend the convention
OF United Commercial Travellers OF
this state. in keokuk, June 4. 5, s.
In letter to Past Senior Counselor
q. G.. Johnson. the supreme secretary
accepted the invitation of Keoknk
council to attend the convention. This
will be the only grand council meet
ing he has attended this year, as it
is almost impossible for him to get
away from his office.
He will be one OF the speakers a.
the public meeting Thursday. June 4,
and this will make the meeting Of
more interest to many Keokuk people
who knew Bro. Daniel when he lived
in this city Chas c. Daniel is an
ether one OF Keokuk' s. products. and
his risen to an enFiabfe and import
ant position. in the Iargas. fraternal
order of one class of men in the
world. the United Commercial Trav-
eiars Of America He is a brother of
w. b. Daniel OF this city, and viii be
his guest during his stay in keoknk-
Five thousand tags printed In the
convention coiors have been distrib-
uted 20 the Keokuk travelling men
with instructions to hang them in ho-
tells. on grips and other conspicuous
places. The tags are of white print
ed in blue and tied with gold cords.
They are in the form of an invitation
and say.
.Keokuk council 400 q. c. T. enter
.ains grand council of Iowa June A..
and 6. 1914. III NEE. you there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10
Opening pay Program.

4
Thursday. June 4. at ESQ p. m.
! the grand council Of Iowa, United
Commercial Travellers Of America.
will open the fifteenth annual session
with a public meeting a. the Hippo
drome theatre, to which everyone is
invited. The program In detail is as
follows:
ZOO p. m-Band concert in front
OF HIppodrome
$50 p. Injecting called 70 order
by Past Senior Counselor G. G. John
son..
Invocation. Rev. Or. E. B. Newcomb.
The Ray of Hope lecture. jos. G.
Buss. 7rz
Address, OF welcome ON behalf of
the city Of. keokuk. Mayor s. w.
Moorteads
Reply from supreme council. SUI
preme Secretary &C Daniel of Co
lumbus. Ohio.
Address of welcome on behalf of
Keekuk council No. 400, L A. HamiIl
Piano solo. Mrs. Ralph B. JOY.
Response to address of welcome.
seior w g. Emerson of Des Moines.
Violin solo. Mrs. o. B. Towne.
Address. o.. 3. Towne. manager
Keotuk Industrial association.
Vocal solo. Mrs. O., w. Sandberg,
Mrs. W. C. Hughes. accompantst
Presentation of grand counselor's
banner to the Iowa council making
the largas- percentage Of Increased
mem bership in the official year just
closed Grand Counselor W. B. Elmer
son
Presentation of Mcintosh trophy
Awarded for same work as the banner.
Fred W. Mcintosh
This will be the meeting in which
all the people of keokuk and the
surrounding cities are invited. They
viii learn what the order of United
Commercial Travellers means to them
and to the travelling man
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-10

llc not take any chances with your
finer apparel. Safety tirs.' is the
soear always with us in cleaning and
egeing- Make this your first thought
ir he selection of your cleaner. In
cur shop your father and your mother
Lad their work done for years and
ysars. They were always satisfied
END YOU viii be pleased with our
work or we will not accept your
l,etley.
Your apparel is safe here. Work
called for and delivered promptly.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

6 bars Big Deal soap. ........ 25e
clairet,e soap. bars for .,... 25e
Big Deal soap. per BOx........ 2.25
clairette Soap, per box. :. ........ SIS
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
Hotels For the Plain Man.

The Chicago Record Herald is i'm
pressed with the fact that the palatia
hotels that are being built nowaday,
are somewhat too rich for the blood O.
the average man. The Record Herald
says:
Only two sorts Of new hotels are
much heard OF nowadays-those for the
millionaire and those for the down-and-
out. On the one hand, the bare neces-
sites; on the other, quite unnecessary
Injuries. Where in all the hotel plan
ming is there much provision for the
plain, medium sort of man? Where,
indeed?
Simeon Ford, the last of the old
fashioned landlords in New York, poses
this problem. Neither a philanthropist
on the one hand nor an impersonal cap
tain Of industry, marshaling hundreds
of varied tip takers, on the other, Mr..
Ford declares that the plain man, tenn
porarily soiourning in the big city, will
soon have no place to lay his head. He
thinks it good, sagacious business
proposition for some intending investor
to go off on side street and put up
plain hotel with 1000 hygienic cells at
ST. day
The larger cities are really begin
ming to need institutions of that type
more than they need palaces with palm
gardens and peacock promanades. Such
hotel would provide the necessaries as
distinguished from the superhuities and
would add greatly to the comforts OF
hundreds Of thousands whose object in
leaving home for few days is not at
all to splurge and spend"
1t may be that the architects and
capitalists now building stupendous
hostelries are Of the opinion that the
old-fashioned man who used to think
he was going some when he came to
town and put up 80 or So day for
board and lodging on the American
plan is extinct. As matter Of fact
the assumption is largely true, but the
old-fashioned man left a number OF de-
scendants who are chips OF the old
block and who do not relish the idea OF
paying as much for room as dad paid
for three square meals and more or
less downy couch.
A few plain hotels with "hygienic
cells at 81 day. would strike the
happy medium between hotel luxury
and lodgings among the lowbrows. For
there remains in the United States a
numerous and respectable element
which is neither in the millionaire nor
the moneyless classes. Willy COM
fortably fixed and able to pay as they
go the representatives OF this contin-
gent have no money to throw at birds
or to squander in palm gardens and
peacock promanades. And this ele-
ment, as the Record Herald intimates,
is worthy of consideration. - Courier
Journal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
PROTECT THE HEART
FROM RHEUMATISM.

RHEUMA PURIFIEs THE BLOOD AND
THROWS Orr CoMPLIcATING DISEASES.
Weakening OF the blood tissues by
continued attacks of Rheumatism af-
fects the heart and produces complica-
tons which result fatally. RHEUMA
puts the blood in condition to ward off
other diseases and eradicates Rheumatic
conditions from the whole system.
Recommended for all forms of Rheu-
matism. Fifty cents at divers Red
Cross Drug Store. This letter will con-
ince you Of its great value.
Il was SO crippled with Sciatic Rheu-
matism could not walk. Doctors could
do nothing for me. After taking three
bottles OF RHEUMA the Rheumatism
had entirely left me. Guy Torley, 129
Summit ave., st. Paul. MINI. adyt
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
Mrs. Gentry For ester.


We wish to speak few words OF com
fort to the bereaved husband and chill.
dren Of Mrs. Gentry Forester, or Aunt
Mandy" as she was called by her rela-
tives and friends.
She died very suddenly at her home
Friday night, Jan. 80. Truly we can
say. a good woman has gone. In the
language Of the poet
None knew her but to love her,
None knew her but to praise her."
Let me say to her dear children, don Z
grieve--try to comfort your father. Her
sad death will be harder for him to bear
than you. II she could speak to you
all to-day she would say: Dear chill
dren, comfort your father in his declin-
ing years. 1t will not be long until be
WI say so on the bright and blissfuI
LADY 2EADER.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
BAD NEGRO KILLS
HUMBOLDT OFFICER

Humboldt, Tenn, Feb. 10.-W. e.
Blakemore, City Marshal OF Humboldt,
was shot and instantly killed by negro
named Reuben Johnson at 4 O'Clock
this afternoon in the colored residence
section OF West Humboldt. The negro,
carrying a large suitcase, got off the
$40 O'Clock train from Memphis this
afternoon, and the detective on the train
told Blakemore to watch the negro. The
officer followed him until he went into
the house Of negro woman, Cicily
Moody, where the shooting occurred.
The woman claims she barely knew
Johnson and that he had just entered
her house when Blakemore came up
and asked him what he had and what
he was doing there. Johnson replied
that he had some whisky and began to
shoot. BIakemore was shot through
the neck and died instantly.
Three chambers OF BIakemore's pistol
we're empty, but it is not thought he hit
the negro. There were eight quarts OF
whisky and beer and four razors in the
negroes suitcase. He is little known
here but was reafed near Brazil, this
county, and has the reputation OF being
a desperate character. He made his
escape, but is being pursued by an
armed posse on horses and his capture
is expected by morning.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
MORPHINE
Liquor and Tobacco Addictions
Cured Within Ten Days BY Our
New Painless Method
Only Sanitarium In the World Civ
ing Unconditional Guarantee

Our guarantee means something. Not
one dollar need be paid until satisfactory
cure has been effected.
A law in Tennessee prohibiting the sale
of morphine has been passed. Be cured at
once and avoid the horrible suffering you
may have to undergo.
We control completely the usual with
drawal symptoms. No extreme nervous
ness. aching Of limbs or loss of sleep. Pa
tients unable to visit Sanitarium can be
treated privately at home. References:
Union Bank & Trust Co.. The American
National Bank. or any citizen of Lebanon.
Write for free Booklet No. 2. Address
CUMBERLAND SANITARIUM,
F. J. SANDERS. Mgr. Lebanon, Tenn.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Fresh Country Butter, per lb..... ......
Fresh Country Eggs. per doz..... ......
Special prices made on all kinds of case
goods.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
Yours for business, A. j. RAINEY.

The dead officer had been night police
man of Humboldt for several years and
was elected city marshal last December
over two popular opponents. He had
served less than six week. He is sur
vived by his wife and several children.
II you want the best and cheapest,
use Bon Air coal Union City Ice &
Coal Co.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Sugar. granulated. per 100 lbs...... $40
10 lbs. granulated Sugar for ...... 100
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
First Annual Meet.

Although the High School athletic,
oratorical and musical contest to be held
in Jackson on May will be participated
in by the High Schools OF West Ten
nessee, the thirteen High Schools Of
Madison County are alive to the prest-
ige that will come to them if they can
win and hold the prizes and cups in their
county. They have begun to train and
prepare for meeting the visiting schools
and, il possible, win every event. This
spirit is significant in that it shows
the enthusiastic interest that has been
aroused in the contest at home.
However, the Madison County schools
have stupendous task ak cad of them,
because number OF High Schools in
other counties are equally as determined
that they will invade Jackson with an
invincible force and carry home with
them the cups, banners, medals and
prizes that have been offered.
This will be the first time in the his
tory OF the State that the students OF
the High Schools Of either geographical
division will be gathered and pitted
against each other in friendly muscular
and mental contests, Progressive school
men and women of the State are COM
mending the plans Of the Jackson event
as worthy step toward developing the
school pride and ambition of the stu
dents.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13
Teachers Will Reorganize.
The West Tennessee Teachers Assoc

The West Tennessee Teachers Associ.
alton, which went into winter quar-
tiers" as someone very aptly expressed
it, about three years ago, is to be reor-
ganized. This will occur in Memphis
on March 20, 81 and 2S, when the West
Tennessee teachers will meet for the pur-
pose Of reorganization. Supt. Bynum,
OF Jackson, was the president for sew
eral years before it ceased to be and he
will more than likely be the president
for 1914-15.
With East Tennessee and Middle Ten
nessee each well organized with nearly
a thousand members each and holding
annual meetings OF much enthusiasm
and interest it behooves West Tennessee
to step into marching line.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Representative A. J. Oliver, of Allen
County, who. was stricken with small
pox, is reported out OF danger.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Southern furnaces report steady sales
OF pig iron.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Bernardino Machado, recently Am
bassador to Brazil, has formed new
Portuguese Cabinet, of which he is
nremier.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Thirty thousand Socialists held meet
ing in Stockholm protesting against in
creasing expenditures for ornaments.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-13

Remember Home Furniture Co. when
you clean house. They have polish
mops and plenty OF furniture polish.
Phone 80.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

ONE thing is reasonably certain, says
the Milwaukee Sentinel: There are
thousands of republicans who are
grimly determined to vote the ticket
that looks like the best club to beat
this high tax and low efficiency state
job trust out of power with; and I'M
less the republican ticket looks like a
winner and a real new dispensation
ticket, they will turn to the democratic
ticket rather than throw their votes
away. So season of "watchful wait
ing" pending this republican taxpay-
ers' convention and this nonpartisan
taxpayers convention, looks good to
us. They appear to be, each in its way,
in response to a general demand for a
rallying point for anti-high tax and
state business reform sentiment. We
urge our republican friends to suspend
Judgment, and give these convention
movements a chance to show what they
can do in the way of translating popu-
lar sentiment into political action, and
evolving a new deal ticket without any
moss on it, and that will make people
say, That's the stuff Get the
young men to the fore in that conven-
ton.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22
ARTHUR BRISBANE. who is said to be

ARTHUR BRISBANE, who is said to be
the most highly paid newspaper man in
the world and whose genius is every
where recognized, understood the truth
of this statement when he said: ''The
local newspaper in proportion to its
circulation is, in my opinion infinitely
the most valuable advertising medium
we have The value of the country
newspaper is based largely upon the
fact that the man who reads it looks
upon it as a neighbor and friend, a
personal acquaintance, and attaches to
the printed statements and advertise
ments of the country newspaper far
greater Importance than the big city
attaches to the statements and adver-
tisements of the big city newspapers.
AS friend talking to another about a
certain kind of goods can influence a
friend more than a stranger, so a
country newspaper, standing on foot
ing of friendship with its readers can
talk to them about goods for sale or
any other topic and impress upon them
more strongly than the big metropol-
itan newspaper which is really stran-
ger"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22
Interurban Hearing Continued.

Friday when the representatives OF
the Chicago & Wisconsin Valley Rail-
ways Co. and the representatives of
the GAINESVILLE & Madison Traction Co.
appeared before the railroad commits
sion for a hearing upon their respective
applications for certificate of con-
venience and necessity, for the build
ing of an interburan railway between
GAINESVILLE and Madison, a continuance
of the hearing was granted until May
% upon the request of the GAINESVILLE
company.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway Co. was also represented by
it's district engineer, Charles Lapham.
This company is interested in the mat
ter inasmuch as the proposed railway
parallels its line and crosses it at one
or more places.
The only result of the hearing was
the submission by both of the traction
companies of reports, profles ana maps
left with the commission for its scru-
tiny until the time of the next hearing.
Each of the traction companies seeks
a franchise or certificate to build line
in the same territory, fix the same SER
vice, and it is to aid it to determine to
which the privilege shall be granted
that the commission holds the hearing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

To CARRY out one of the progressive
vagaries which metamorphosed into
statutory enactment and is now looked
upon by almost every intelligent per-
son as the climax of absurdity and the
summing up of an era of innovative
nonsense and tomfoolery, fifteen girls
are now at work addressing 1876, 900 en-
velopes to be used in mailing the pri-
mary campaign text book to every per-
son in the state who voted at the last
election This campaign document is
edited by the men who are seeking Of
flee, each man writing his own biog-
raphy and putting therein such eulo-
CYSTIC and panegyrizing stuff as he
thinks proper. Do you wonder that
taxes are eating up your homes when
you see your money squandered in such
a reckless manner? 1t will cost fifty
or sixty thousand dollars to provide
every elector with two of these bien-
NAL specimens of egotitical self puffery.
The state of Wisconsin has been doing
some mighty crazy things during the
last ten years. 1t has been running at
big loss its experimental station
with the result that the people are fast
preparing to close it down and disman-
tie the Station y Stoughton Courier
Hub.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

IN DISCUSSING the taxation problem,
Ellis Usher says: 1t required no gift
of divination to fOresee from the start
that rise in assessed valuations would
inevitably lead to raising. more money
in taxes, and that the bond limit would
raise automatically, inviting an increase
in municipal and other debts. Nor did
it require especial wisdom to predict
that the promise of relief to the peo-
pie, through the increased taxes of cor
porations, and the creation of new
taxes upon inheritances, incomes, and
the like, would all prove to be as the
apples of Sodom All these things had
been tried before, elsewhere. There
was nothing new about the program,
either in principle or practice. The
talk about equalizing assessments was
demagogy from those who proposed it,
and ignorance on the part of those who
espoused the idea, if they were sin
cere. The tax commission has since
said, over and over again, that uni
formity in valuations has not been at
tanned. The only thing accomplished is
that we have the same or worse in
equalities, on a basis 100 per cent or
more higher, so the situation is, in
reality, that much worse and more bur-
densome. There was but one outcome
possible to the policy, entered upon in
1901. High valuations meant higher
taxes, more public debt, larger public
expenditures, and foreshadowed new
inventions in public undertakings to
find ways to absorb the steadily rising
flood of money flowing into local and
state treasures. Add to this the inev-
liable opportunities for the ''uplift"
! lightweight, and for the cool calculat-
ing job hunter, and the situation con-
fronts Wisconsin today, needs no fur
Their explanation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

COMMENTING on the recent change of
front of President Van Hise of the Wis
consin University wherein he declares
that this constant prosecution of the
corporations by the U. S. government
is nothing but politics, Ebert Hubbard
in the Philistine says: GAS he init
mates, our politicians are not so much
interested in the welfare of the people
as they are in doing what politics de-
mands. The primal thing is victory.
Truth and right are relegated to the
rag-bag. Votes are the needful thing,
and the vote of an ignoramus is worth
just as much as the vote of a man of
intelligence. Anything that catches
the attention of the ignorant voter is
condoned under the excuse of politics.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-05-22

OF COURSE Dane county should be
made to pay for the lives lost in Mon
days storm. 1t was quite as much to
blame for these deaths from lightning
and wind as the employer whose work
man carelessly falls down stairs in shop
or factory or store and breaks neck.
If our compensation law does not fix a
positive responsibility upon the county
in such a case, it promptly needs
amending. Somebody must be penal
lied for every casualty. That's prog
ress, as we of Wisconsin are being mis-
taught in these days of misrule, mis-
conception and mischief. : Madison
Democrat.