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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
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I &. . vi.
Mrs. Cora Deamer Smith and SON
are visiting relatives and friends here
while on their way to California to
make their future home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hayes OF
Washington, D. c., are visiting his
mother and other relatives and
| friends here.
Rev. and Mrs. Arthur PEBBLES OF
Rutland, Mass, were visiting hts sis
ter, Mrs. Charles Wharton and fam
| lily last week, enroute to California
where they will visit the exposition
and also make their future home.
Rev. PEBBLES occupied the pulpit at
the Congregational church here yes.
terday morning.
Miss Marion Wharton OF Keokuk
left for her home yesterday after a
pleasant visit with Charles Wharton
and family.
Rev. Barnett and wife are expected
home this week
! Mrs. Bement and sister, Miss Mary
| Houston will leave for the formers
| homo at Sioux Falls, S. D. this week.
The commitment Of the body OF
the late Mrs. Marie Sturges Houston
to earth. was made at p. N. last Fri
day.
Henry Hitchcock came Friday aft
ernoon, called here by the death OF
| his grandmother, Mrs. Houston
Mrs. Ayres OF Keokuk, Mrs. Thos
| McClelland of Galesburg, ILL.,, and
| Mrs. Bullein of Moline, were visiting
relatives here last week.
| Henry Dow and wife are visiting
relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Glover are en-.
Pertaining a ten pound boy since last
| Wednesday.
! Relatives here received word last
| week of the death Of Colonel Brack-
EFT at Washington, d. C. The inter
ment was made at Arlington national
cemetery.
| John H. Young Of Charleston, Iowa
| was calling on his sister, Mrs. HEM
and family last Saturday.
| The Apron Ten met with Mrs.
Fischer last Wednesday.
| The Eight Weeks club met with
| the Misses Louise and Olive Hem
last week.
| Miss Benjamin of Donnellson was
! calling on Mrs. Hem and daughters
| last Saturday.
| John Van Tuyle OF Keokuk spent
Monday at his home here.
Mrs. II. NJ. Van Tuyle and daugh.
ter Madeline. are home from a visit
with relatives in Keokuk.
| Mrs. Flint and daughter Winifred
and Mrs. Ellen Bean are home from
their trip to Mt. Pleasant.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hazen and daughter
Verna attended the chautauaua at
West Point, Iowa, last Thursday.
| Miss NJ. Chanie is visiting at Don
Nelson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
Iowa: beautiful Land.

Olgona Upper Des Moines-Republi-
can: One has only to ride over Kos
suth county and see the wonderful
improvements that have been made
during the past ten years to realize
that we are living in the grande3t
place on earth Every town shows
marked signs of prosperity. New mod
ern homes, new business houses, beau
tiful streets, lawns and parkings are
to be seen everywhere. Many of tho
farm homes are modern, the houses
and barns equipped with electric
lights and a water system; the farms
are nicely fenced with woven wire
and their dooryards are large and
beautiful, containing flowers and fine
shrubbery: and the large and well
laden orchards all tend to prove that
this is a land of plenty, peopled by a
progressive and successful population.
The vast fields of oats, corn and other
grains here and there, with these beau.
tjful farm homes. male picture at
this season no artist has ever been
able to euaal with paints and brushes.
Northern Iowa never knew a famine,
the fertile soils of this section will last
for ages and lucky Is the man VINO
casts his lot IN this beautiful fertile
portion Of the Mississippi valley, un'
eoualed on any portion OF the globe
we are and should be a happy and
contented people, living in a land OF
peace and plenty.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

The last federal census shows the
total number OF farms in the United
States to be 6.361, SOP, containing s1s,-
79S,325 acres. The land In farms rep
resents 46.2 percent, or less than one
half Of the total land area OF the
country. OF the total acreage given
only 47S,451,750 acres are ciassed as
improved land" The balance COM
prises wood land and other unim-
proved land in farms The improved
land given above is only about 2o.l
percent of the total area OF the coun-
try. The average size of farms, as
shown by the last census, is 1881
acres, of which an average Of 75.2
acres are improved, and 62.9 acres
unimproved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
League Attempting to Interest All
River cities in Practical
Value of Improve
ments.

Mayor Moorhead, as head Of ths
city government, has recently receiv
ed a great deal of literature On the
value of river terminals from the MIS-
sissippi Valley Terminal league. This
league has for its purpose the awaken
ing of river towns to the value oil
modern and adequate terminals as an
essential to practical and continuous
use of the rivers for the carrying on
of freight trade.
This league is at the present time
carrying on an extensive publicity
campaign, paid for out of small con.
tribution of money from cities alons
the river. interested in river terminals.
At recent meeting of the league,
held in st. Louis. extensive plans were
laid for the creating of interest in the
terminal projects. C. F. Mcfarland
of this city is a member OF the exc
cutive committee of the league.
In recent communication received
by the mayor, he is asked to give pub
licity to the work of the league IA
this city and vicinity.
Accompanying the letter are state
ments from dozen prominent men,
including mayors in a number of
cities On the Mississippi and Illinois
rivers. telling of practical benefits de
rived from river terminals or the need
of such Improvements.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
CLEANING Up kEokuk.

| Burlington Haw&Eye: AttorneT
General Cosson is determined that
4 Iowa communities shall obey the laws
land where local officials appear to De
lax in apprehending and Furnishing of
TENDERS, he is invoking the aid OF
state officers. Tuesday four state of
ticers from Des Moines descended j
| Keokull and got busy, with the result
that six keepers and fourteen inmates
of reputed houses OF ill fame are I'M
| der arrest and will be prosecuted.
Three alleged blind tigers were also
raided, their proprietors arrested and a
! quantity of beer and other liquor con-
tfiscated.
The law that permits outside officers
to make raids like those at Keokuk
was fathered- by Mr.. Cosson and in
many localities its enactment created
considerable criticism. the commun-
!ities declaring they were amply able
to tend to their own business. keokuk
was among the communities that re-
sented the law That there is a rea-
son" for the law Is proved by the re
cent raids in the Dam City. The local
authorities, if they were diligent at
all, must have known that houses OF
ill fame and bootlegging establish
ments were fioulishing there. Neither
the disorderly house nor the blind
tiger can hide its red light under a
bushel long.
So far as the Hawk-Eye is informed
there is no occasion for visit to Bur
lington by state officers. The local
authorities are diligent and efficiea At
and vice in Burlington has hard sled
ding.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
a,o,h.r passIna species.

Iowa Falls Citizen: What has be-
come CT the barefooted boys and gins
ye used TO see throng the street. II
is rare thing now tosee any OF the
small fry with their pedal extremities
bare. We are all either prouder or
better off than in boyhood days. We
remember when there were only one
ar two families whose children wore
shoes and stockings the whole year
round. and they were considered
ngtr,ck M" Our mothers used to have
70 whale us to make US wear our
shoes on Sabbath. and we would hike
homo and get them on as soon as
church was out. Nearly every fellow
had stone bruise or had stunlped his
big toe and carried # in a fling m
Iesg he was a "Miss Nancy" and
nIaved with the girls. or course,
there ia not the same Inducements to
run barefooted now, for there Is no
dust nix inches deep in the streets for
a fellow to shuttle through. or ponds
IN front Of every gtore when IL rains
for him to splash around IN
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
Decorah, Iowa.

people. MRS. MABEL CHRISTOPHER,
6o3 Mechanic St., DEBORAH, Iowa.
Shenandoah, Iowa.-"I gave Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to
nv FIVE children at different times
when they needed tonics and it
worked a1ls right. It is mighty good
for SICK headaches. One Of my daugh-
tiers took it for that and was relieved.
It has always acted well for us. We
have never taken any other medicine.
consider it one of the best medicines
there is."-MRs. 3. J. SIMMONS. III
Seventh Ave, Shenandoah, Iowa.
Iowa people need this powerful
vegetable remedy that puts the stoul-
ach, liver and bowels in fine condition;
that clears the skin of pirnples, rash,
blenishes, and eczema; that dissclves
boils and carbuncles that make nerves
stronger and steadier and gives to pale,
weak, rundown people the fullest
measure of health and happiness
Dr.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
ery, free from alcohol or narcotics,
does just what is stated above, simply
because it banisfes from the blood all
poison and impure matter. 1t is the
world S great Blood Purifier; it will pene-
trate Joints, dissolve the impure deposits
and carry them out, as it does all impure
ties, through the Liver, Bowels, Kidneys
and Skin. Get It now! Either in liquid
or tablet form, from your druggist or
send soc. or s. 90 to DR.. Pierce, Invalids'
ISSssl, Buffalo. N. Y, for the tablets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
keokuk, Iowa 49,. August 10, 1915
TO A DEAD FRIEND.


r, = couId believe that all your win
someness
Had faded from the face OF Goa $
great world,
That neither here nor there your
spirit walked
With all its glory an its strength
unfurled,
If 1 could believe that all your deeds
were naught,
Then grief would pierce my young
heart through and through,
And earth would lose its JOY in losing
you.
But not in vain the character you
wrought,
And not in vain the splendid hours
we knew.
Oh, sweet the wonder of our kindred
thought,
And wise the counsel that cleaned
from you!
Because I know that still more radi-
ant skies
Are somewhere meeting your I'M
Troubled eyes,
Because feel the things you
dreamed to do,
God, in his love, must some day make
come true.
Life is still sweet, for me and all its
pain
Is laid to rest, for we shall meet
again!
Vera F. Keevers, in the Spring
field, Mass, Republican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

church will meet with Casper Felt
Thursday evening, Aug. IL. All mem
bers are asked to come.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Warren and
daughter Marjorie, Mr.. and Mrs. L. r.
Reid and Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Barnes
autoed to Fairfield Friday and attend
ed the fair.
Misses Mary Yester, Lulu and
Mabel Allen and Mrs. Chas. Jester
linked it" from Keokuk Wednesday
for visit at the G. W. Allen home.
They walked the entire way and were
on the road from $50 a. m. to 5:45
p. m.
The funeral services Of the late
Theodore l. Krehbiel were conducted
from the Mennonite church at 2
O'Clock Friday by Rev. Hiity. Inter
ment in the Mennonite cemetery.
Mrs. Andrew Halfinan of FL Madi-
son visited in Donnellson Thursday
and Friday.
Mrs. Frank Rokey and children OF
Shannon City are visiting relatives in
our vicinity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
WHERE PEOPLE ARE RICHEST.

Americans are the richest people in
the world. This was probably true be-
fore the war and is certainly true nov
since the richest countries Of Europe
ARE destroying property even more
rapidly than lives. Various estimates
before the war credited the average
Englishman with 81, 500 to s1,T00 AMI
the F,renchman with some s1.4O0. Be.
GUM was close third and Germany
with about s1.100, was rapidly coming
up with them. But according to re
cent bulletin Of the bureau of the cen
Isus on ESTIMATED Valuation Of Ma
tional Wealth. the average American
lis worth s1,965.
How unequally this wealth is dis
tributed is shown by the accompanying
diagram which suggests many poin IS
Iof interest and inquiry. 1t appears that
as rule the west is richer than the
east and the north than the south.
The agricultural and mining states OF
the northwest monopolize the ton
places if we exclude the District ct
Columbia which Is supported by all
North Dakota the distribution Of prop.
erty is more even than in New YORK.
The gain in the last ten years has
been tremendous in the United States
as whole. In 1904 the average wealth
per capita for the country was s1,31S.
OF course it Is impossible to mako
an accurate valuation Of real and per.
sonal property, but probably the fig.
ures are relatively correct at least.
The average Iowan, then, man. woman
or child, is twice as well of as a
Rhode Islander and the latter twice
'as well off as the North Carolin!an.
The state standing is as follows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
Daily Stock Letter.
ICopyright 1915 by the New Yol
Evening Post.

ICOpyr1ght 1913 Dy the ne" IOrh
Evening Post.l
NEW YORK, Aug. 1O.-Trading
was broader today and the stock mar
ket was in every respect more inter
esting than yesterday with sus-
tanned rise in the railway shares as
the feature. Buying of the shares was
based partly on the splendid crop
showing and partly on expectation
that the western roads would soon
get an increase in freight rates at
the hands Of the interstate commerce
commission.
One of the most interesting de
yelopments was the very sharp rise
in the stocks of roads which pene-
trate the western grain country They
showed general gains with the best
buying that has been seen for weeks
past There was demand for such
issues as Union Pacific, st. Paul.
Northern Pacific and Canadian Paci-
nc.
Industrial stocks were also strong
and active with new high records for
several OF the war issues. Steel
shares attracted most attention, how.
ever, the rise in the United States
Steel shares being passed partly on
reports of dividend resumption on
the common stock.
The dealings reflected some in
crease in the volume OF outside bust.
ness and the activity in the four
shares indicated clearly that the
market had gained new support
since the crop figures cane out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
poNNELLsoN.

-
Miss Alice Taylor visited in Keo-
kuk several days the past week.
]. l.. Wise and daughter Katherine
visited in Illinois several days the
past week.
Mrs. VIM. Benjamin has returned
home from Lincoln H., where she
attended the funeral of her brother
John Donnell.
David Bechtel of Moundridge, Kan
sas, has been visiting with his sister
Mrs. K. NJ. Tayler, the past two
weeks.
Mrs. G. w. Holdefer and son Rob-
ert have gone to Van Vert, Iowa,
where George has charge of the Bur.
lington station.
Miss Winona Barnes visited with
her grandparents near LaCrew the
latter part of the week.
The Jugend-verein Of the G. e.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Pennsylvania produced 1889 PA
tons of bituminous coal in 1914, &C.
cording to figures made public by the
United States Geological Survey, the
value of the output at the mines
being $3.50, 0O6,296. The great eco
nomic loss due to strikes Is empha-
sized by the statement that during
the year an aggregate Of over a mil
lion working days was lost on this
account: at the same time the enor-
nous magnitude of the Pennsylvania
coal industry is shown by the further
statement that this lost time repre-
scented only about 21s percent of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

The Hannibal Courier-Post has Just
issued seventy-two page annual in.
dustrial edition which Is replete with
information about this thrifty Missouri
city. The fact that the Courier-Pcst
was able to print a seventy-two page
paper is compliment TO the live me :
chants of that city who literally pat
ronized the edition. Every manurac.
turer and business house took liberal
space in which to give an account II
their part in the progress OF the ctr
The paper is splendidly printed and a
credit to the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

OF the total number OF farms In the
United States. according to the last
federal census, the number worked by
owners Was shown to be 3.9+8,722:
the number operated by managers.
5S,104: and the number operated by
tenants, 2.354.G76
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

total amount OF time worked, The
number OF men employed in the
bituminous mines of the state was
1S4.201, the average production per
man for each of the PA days worked
being 81 tons,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
His Real Name.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
DENVER. Colo. Aug. 1o.--Richard
Weinmau, of Milwaukee, was the real
name of Richard Won Millar, SELF
styled German count and spy, who
leaped from train going fifty miles
an hour last Wednesday to escape en-
posture for passing worthless checks
here. The police today believed that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Headed by big rooster a flock Of
hens in Pittsburgh marches every
evening from its yard TO the railroad
station to meet the owner, ]. l.. Arm
strong. The flock then escorts Ann
strong to his home, the rooster lead
ing all the way.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

A citizen called at The Gate City
yesterday and made the statement
that IL the local authorities had en-
forced the laws the recent visit Of the
state officials would have been unne.-
essary. There's something to the
statement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Major Jost of Kansas City is facing
possible impeachment, Just because
an auditing committee isn't satisfied
with the way the pay rolls down there
were made out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

At the first Of the year, according
to a government estimate, there were
1857, 900 farm animals in the Unit
ed States, gain in a year of about
1922, 600
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

The Massachusetts Federation OF
Women's clubs has Endorsed the suf-
frage movement. The ants waged
war against the position. The vote
stood 203 to SO.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Boys and girls in Vienna under the
age of II have been ordered to serve
as hospital orderlies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

It was a Danville, Ind. total alb
, stainer whose cow ate fermented corn
and got drunk and scandalized the
neighoorhood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

The chief of police of Southamp-
ton, England, Is advertising for po-
Iicewomen at salary Of from 81 to
SO week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
IOWA PEOPLE.

Before I was
married. I took
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medi-
cal Discovery
for a rundown
condition. I
only took two
b ott1es and
have been per-
} fectly well since
that tim e. I
always reconl-
mend il to other
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Zaandam, Holland, is to have
sugar factory.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10
No Lhance-

Council Bluffs Nonparel: Hiram
Johnson is a good man and would
maze good president, but he stands
no more show of landing the plum
than James Hamilton Lewis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

committed to the county Jail for
thirty days unless such fine and costs
are paid.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

when the full story Of the e i.t,. he.
Weinman's gracious personail! o-d
comes known, his proven local red ga
of women's broken hearts, u.ps sn
hotel bills. worthless checks anu
ciety dupes will be found in DOT
cities stretching from coast to coaSs
Tire well-to-do Weinman family s GU
ployed Denver lawyer to iooh me
the dead mans interests ana snip
corpse to Milwaukee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-10

Milan, Italy. has 100000 people.
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Read The Daily Gate City. 10
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
These little things are great to lit
tie men.-Goldsmith.
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DENMARK.

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
BIG ACT At COLONIAL

In THE Haberdashery Girls" a musi-
cal comedy act that opened yesterday
for a three-day engagement at the
Colonial Theater, Busy Corner audi
ences are being offered one of the best
vaudeville features that ever worked
beyond the footlights of the popular
Market Street Playhouse. The music is
catchy, the scenery is elaborate, the
comedy is good. and above all. there
is bevy of pretty maidens well drill
ed in the art of dancing. The girls
represent models in an apparel shop.
and the various goods are displayed in
all their attractiveness on the living
models. Large audiences saw this act
at both performances yesterday. and
came away satisfied that Wilmer and
Vincent had made good their promise
TO bend their energies toward pleasing
the public with Colonial shows. now
that the Orpheum doors are locked. on
the same bill with The Haberdashery
Girls" are Ray Fern, a clever comedi-
enne;. Benham and Karr. who offer a
comedy musical skit in comedy aero
battles. The girls in the "haberdash-
cry shop will conduct the Country
store at the Colonial tomorrow night.
Advertisements
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
Writer of Black Hand
Letter Is Under Arrest

Wilkes-Barre, April 1S.-Placing
$1,000 in marked bills in an old tin can
and then waiting in the vicinity of the
lonely spot back of Luzerne, where the
Rev. Father j. V. Krdirka, rector of
st. Mary's Lithuanian Church, of
Kingston, had been instructed to place
the money State police late last night
arrested Michael Petrikinis, of Lu-
zerne. He is said to have confessed
TO having written 10 black hand let
ters in which he demanded money of
the priest and to having dynamited
the home of the clergyman week
ago. Petrikinis will have hearing
before Alderman Frank Brown to-
morrow. at which 10 charges of eXtor-
ton and the dynamiting charge will
be pressed against him,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
"sIGN OF THE CROSS. AT THE RE-
GENT


Audiences which filled the Regent
Theater greeted every production of
The Signs CT the Cross" yesterday and
to-day. The film. with William Far
mum. in the stellar role. is among the
best ever brought TO Harrisburg. TAX
ing part in the great play are more
than 500 people and the principals in
the cast are among the notabes in the
movie" world. When Wilson Barrett
wrote the story of THE Sign of the
Cross" he little thought that every de-
tail which minds eye conceived could
be pictured on a screen. but neverthe-
less this is just what has been done
The Sign OF the Cross" in five reels
will be shown at the Regent Theater
tonight for the last time.
For tomorrow and Thursday Mah-
ager Magaro has engaged the remark
able film, Cameo Kirby. with Dustin
Farnum i'm the leading role. This film
tells a pretty story of romance and ad-
venture and gives the star an ample
opportunity to display his ability. =
Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-13
DEATH OF MRS. MARY K1LMoRE
.Sfreial 10 Thc Telrrrahh

Mechanicsburg. Pa. April 13.-Mrs.
Mary c. Kilmore. widow of the late
William A. Kilmore. died yesterday at
her home in Shiremanstown after four
weeks illness. She was aged So. and
is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Ray
mond Eberly. of Shiremanstown. The
funeral service will be held on Thurs
day afternoon,