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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

A business man called at The Gate
City yesterday to secure copy OF the
special edition which he intended to
forward to his father. The business
man expressed his appreciation OF the
special and commented quite compN-
mentary upon the late features 1t con-
tanned: features that are Just now the
talk OF the CITY and are worth much
to the city The Gate City gave con-
siderable space and expended consid-
cradle money on Industrial features
because we believe they are the ones
to feature. If Keokuk is to become
important in any particular line that
line must be Industrial
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
keokuk, Iowa. -. September 80. 1915
THE NEED OF THE HOUR.

THE NEED OF THE HOUR.
Great is our heritage Of hope, an:
great
The obligation Of our civic fate.
Fling forth the triple colored flag to
s dare
The bright untraveled highways q
the air.
Blow the undaunted bugles, blow. and
yet
Let not the boast betray us to forget.
For there are high adventures for
this hour
Journeys to test the sinews of our
power,
For we must parry-as the years in.
The hazards OF success. the risks Of
peace!
What need we, then, to guard and keep
us whole?
What do we need to prop the state !?
I'VE need
The fine audacities Of honest deed;
The homely old integrities of soul;
The swift temerities that take the
part
OF outcast right-the wisdom Of this
heart;
Brave hopes that Mammon never can
detain,
NOR sully with his gainless clutch for
gain.
we need the Cromwell fire to make us
feel
THE public honor or the public trust
To be a thing as sacred and august
AS some white altar where the an
gels kneel.
We need the faith to 60 path untrod,
The power to be alone and. vote WITH
God.
/, Edwin Markham.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
ouR OPPORTUNITY.

OUR OPPORTUNITY.
Visited the new River Smelling and
Refining company plantf
Yes.
Then you have begun to get some
idea of Keokuk's coming industrial
Visited the new River Smelling and
Refining company plant?
No.
Then you do not appreciate the
magnitude OF the protector the initial
unfolding OF Keokuk as an Industrial
center. Go out to the site and inves-
tigate. You will return better inform
ed and better satisfied. Some people
become pioneers without ever getting
an insight into what's doing" When
you see the activity you will be i'm
pressed with Keokuk's great opportun-
ity. This plant Is only one OF many
to come to this cfty-IF
Keokuk co-operates.
And the avenue Of cooperation 10
through the Keokuk Industrial Assoc
citation. And no matter how much criti-
cism or fault we flnd-no matter how
Just or unjust our complaints-this
fact still remains
That Keokuk must maintain some
kind OF business organization to
look after Keokuk's welfare.
And Keokuk is you and l.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
CUTTING OUT THE MuFFLER.

When the silver gray poet, Major
Byers. became college student this
fall, taking the automobile drivers
course following an experience with
a hill, reverse clutch and demo'-
ished bridge rail, between Des Moines
and Oskaloosa. the papers made much
of the incident. 1t inspired William
Wilkinson to print the following lines
in his Plain Talk:
The college up at Highland Park
Is proud as proud can be.
Having enrolled man who marched
with Sherman to the sea-"
We wish him luck and lots OF pluck
In learning his machine.
With scads galore-and then some
more
To buy the gasoline,
H-o Hum. The public never tires
or Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

The commission form Of government
has the taxpayers Of Leayenworth by
the ears. The third city In the United
States to embrace the system, the out
come is disappointing and mighty ex-
pensive. In four years the annual tax
budget has been boosted from $4,000
to $4,000, besides an occupation tax
just put into effect. Petitions abolish
ing the commission form are now
being signed and an early return to
the simple life is promised the tax
eaters.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

about we'll. took no other medicine
90 it must have cured me. have taken
1t several times since for other ailments.
rud have always been benefited BY it.
/ think it saved my 1ife."-MRs. S. r.
OWENS, 40 E. Fourth St., Ottumwa,
Iowa.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery helps the stomach digest the
food and manufacture nourishing blood.
It has tonic effect and soon enables
the stomach and heart to perform
their functions in natural, healthy
manner, without any outside aid.
Contains neither alcohol nor mar
cotics. Its ingredients are made public
and printed on wrapper. It's pure
Alternative extract made with glycerine
from native roots and herbs.
Sold by medicine dealers in liquid
or tablet form, or send so cents to DIR.
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y,
for trial box.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

The Burlington, Quincy. Fort Madi-
son and other ciose-by papers reach
this Office filed with frequent page
OF the business men.
1t indicates an alertness on the part
OF the merchants of these cities VINO
realize they must use printers Ink IN
liberal style If they pull the trade to
their Cities
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Physicians who have been studying
alfalfa as q medicine report that It
stimulates the bodily functions. cures
mental depression, increases the ap-
petite and causes an improvement IN
weight. A tincture of the plant Is
used internally.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
Pennsylvania Guard Head RetIrcs.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 30
Charles Bowman Dougherty of Wilkes
Barre, today completed FIVE years as
major general commanding the Penn
sylvania division of the National
Guard and went upon the retired list.
The governor may not appoint sue
cessor until the division is trp to the
standard required by the war depart
- 'i,.e may be before the end
of the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Mr.. Marcus Younker, former Keo
kukian and now resident OF Des
Moines was furnished surprise on
his visit to keokuk recently and ex-
pressed his amazement and apprecia-
ton over the progress the city has
made since his last visit. And among
iother improvements noted with plea
sure and approval is the new Hotel
Iowa. Mr.. Younker says 1t Is credit
to any city, and we agree with him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

In HIS haste to get rich quick,
Charles G. Crone, booster OF st.
Louis real estate, forged number o.
trust deeds, pocketed the money ana
landed in jail. A similar operation
performed by A. Fl. Fredericks las.
spring, won him ten years in the
Missouri penitentiary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

The business end OF the dancing pro-
fession show a high degree Of eff
1ciency in simplifying modern dances
placing one OF them within reach OF
wall-fiowers and dispensing with the
risk of mussing the floor. Pedal dex-
terity and nimble-knee action gave
way to rgenteel, sedate one-step,
which will restore the glow OF youth
to foxy grandpas and fatten the box
once OF the ball, says the Omaha Bee
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

longer talk or swal-
low. My tongue
would not move
and / was like one
paralyzed. / was
that way ut
four or i've years.
I took DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery for about
one and one-half
years " b e n I
stopped taking It
be c a u Sc / " 40
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
Of an army Of 100000 would. be $500

Of an army Of 100000 would be $500
on, 600 year.
"In the passage of the National
Guard bill, the country would be given
class OF soldiery that they could not
gain through the enlargement Of the
regular army. With regular army
equipment and officers to train them,
the guardsmen would develop into
trained men. The nation would then
have a reserve that would AFFORD ampir
protection and at the same time It
could be maintained at small ex-
penditure."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
County, COURT EXPENSES,

s sometime ago The Gate City Ques-
toned the advisability Of increasing
the number of terms of district court
in Loo county from four to five az
was proposed. our objection being
that the additional term was unnec-
essary and the financial condition OF
the county such that no further III.
crease in the Indebtedness should be
made. The judges took the same
view and the petition to increase court
terms denied.
The cost OF conducting the courts
of Lee county is exceedingly large.
As compared with the court expenses
LOT Qes Moines county almost equal
In Population to this countv-Lee !,
expense is S72,6S2.4S more than Des
Moines for the past four years The
court expenses for Lee county for the
years indicated are as follows:
Court expenses. Lee county
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

IOtdl 3tI,OtS.io
When 1t takes almost $4,000 more
to run the courts of Lee county than
1t does Des Moines county it is petit
nent to inquire--why? or course the
addition of another judge has some
thing to do with the case but Lee
county has not always supported two
judges. The items going to make up
the court expenses are~- for the dis.
trict court, justices Of the peace, po
lice and board OF prisoners and equa!
comparison has been made. Des
Moines county levy for court expensen
in 1914 was IA mills. For Lee county
80 mills This amount was in exces3
of the legal allowance. This year the
levy is fixed at 3 mills which is tho
legal maximum.
In 1911 the Lee county poor fund
was $T.S96.SO. In 1912 it was $S.27092
In 1913 it was ST., 1886 and in 1914
$24 ,309.64. In 1914 Lee county judges
began to issue widows pensions. as
provided by the state laws on accoun.
of dependent children and the amount
now issued on account of this law
WILL average $4,000 per year In Des
Moines county no widows pensions
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Z. Speaking OF the recognition Of Car
rama by the administration, II event
ually, why not now, Mr.. Wilson, bot
rowing the language OF a well-knowu
advertisement?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Sioux City kic..ers on the commits
sion system Of government have CIV
en- up the job for the present forr,
of government cannot be changed un-
til the spring OF 1918.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Quesffoss Of Sex9 = Are fully and properly
answered in The Peoples Common Sense Medi-
cal Adviser. As result Of knowing the laws
to follow. The mechanism of Life. Anatomy.
Brain and Mind-advice for Mother and Babe.
well are fully treated of in this book. All the
knowledge young man or woman, wife or
daughter should have, Is contained In this big
Home Doctor Book, containing zoos pages with
eneravings and color plates, and bound in cloth.
BY mail prepaid-op receipt ct dimeas
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

No wonder the Russian soldiers are
30 strong and healthy-they retire
early.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

AS the Jefferson Pee sees it, "the
two hest bets in the republican presi-
S-~-1tia, -pc- ~ ~--rmins of Iowa and
Root of New York.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

"The Goddess" the serial story that
has been running in The Gate City for
several weeks, ends next Sunday. This
story has been read by thousands OF
Gate City readers and seen at the
moving picture show.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

October 9Th is IRE prevention day.
What are you going to do to make
ORES less possible?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
KENNEDY EXPECTS
G. 0. ?. CONE BACK
Congressman From This District
Who Was in Fort Madison, tues
day, Talked on Prospects
Politically.
FINANCIAL DEPRESSION
Believed That when War and Sugar
Tax Expirss, Additional Meas
ures Must 30 Passed
70 Help Out.

That the progressives will come in
to the fold of the G. o. p. through
the selection Of a presidential candi-
date that will be satisfactory to both
and that the old split will be cement
ed and bound together is the predic-
ton Of Congressman G. A. Kennedy,
of this district, voiced In conversation
here Monday, says the Fort Madison
Gem City. "Of course we are looking
forward to an overwhelming victory
for the republicans in 1885, he stated.
Wilson Will no doubt be the presi-
Dental candidate, without opposition
at the next national election" stated
Mr.. Kennedy, "and believe that he
will pull stronger than the democratic
party itself in its present prestige.
His handling of the Mexican and
European situations deserves merit,
but It will be a long time before the
people of the nation forget the slack
conditions OF the country. before the
European war opened and provided a
market for the nations products"
ITO what do you attribute the con-
ditions which existed In this country
previous to the war;" he was asked.
THE cause is well known to the
public In general" he stated The
tarin and the conditions OF trade that
surround It are to blame. The pas
sage Of the bill permitted nothing but
Increased importation. It has forced
home industry to compete and as USUAL
Idisastrously with cheap foreign In
!terests.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

The trouble Is we have too "F"
U-boats in the American navy Do
you get 1t?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

Greece and Roumania will remain
neutral-for . minute.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
TERRIBLE BREAKING.
OUT ON HEAD
ltched and Burned. Child Would
Scratch and CryAlI Night. Spread
VeryFast. Caused Hair to Fall Out.
Used Cuticura. Trouble Gone.

Birdsons. Mo.-"When my Httlc daughter
was two years old she had : terrible break
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30

THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
It is only great souls that know how
much glory there is in being good. -
Sophicles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
WHAT WOMEN OF OUR
NATIVE STATE SAY.

Ottumwa, Iowa.-wI had a bad case
Of nervous prostfation. could no
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
About Reserve Force.

DO you favor the Increasing Of the
reserve forces to 50o.oo0?" he was
asked.
my only opposition to that measure
is the financial burden that would be
imposed upon the. nation in the event
OF its adoption. The average cost OF
the maintenance of one regular army
soldier is $1,000 year. There is now
standing army CT $1,000, including
officers. The cost OF the maintenance
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-30
TarIr Is Cause.


ut Is well known that jobbers and
even manufacturers buy up the raw
product here and ship It to Europe
for perfection and then ship 1t back
again to the United States to place
on the markets. l know Of instances
where shells have been consigned to
Europe, made into buttons and ship.
ped back to the United States.
THE nation Is also facing financial
crisis. The war tax which has recent
ly been imposed upon the people will
expire December 81, while the sugar
tax expires May L. With these taxes
the nation is unable to maintain prop
Fer financial conditions. That con-
gress will be forced to adopt some
further measure Of taxation when
those measures expire. is certain, or
it may result in the issuance Of bonds.
"The lack of leadership in congress
has also had disastrous affect on the
finances OF the country. 1t resulted
in the swollen condition OF the rivers
and harbors and the public building
The leadership Of the
committees on the majority side Is
VISITED almost entirely in the south.
The administration Is surely one by
It'ia ro,lth, with the south and for the
south"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
THE LESSON OF THE EASTIsAND DISASTER
 AND THE ATTACKS UPON THE LAFOILETTE LAW.

F glarIg by disaster
 Easand be perceived the extent of the wisdom patriotism and of the Christianity of those have shouting renzed opposition to the LaFollette the slaner that ingenious could think the law flseood that rec less menadacIty could conrve.
 The of the Eastand had written to Score y Redned protesting against the law the that
 would decrease the income of their vessel by 40 cent Secretary Redneld had spared inform hem good law, to them of the risks they would endangering the lives of their passengers they should continue to live under the present law until the shall take effect in November.
 The EastIand 4notorousy unfit She eapsized There saving aboard of her for but something like could safely have carried good 
 She type of which greed delights in building greed takes note of morality of the sanctity fife but only of dividends and of getting
 Let if this disaster with it's terribly shoutings slander against the LaFollete freely circulated kept portion press have sometimes crept into honest pap not familiar with the facts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
TIE BIC GRE cTiTEF AND THE LITTLE FIRE BOARD

HE STRONGEST argument against the unwarraned 1 ton of the fire board retiring Chief Mooney is not that they the hatred dice of their of their desire to be obeden to the crack of the political whip increased the of the department creating unnecessary This which the taxpayers should not forget
 graver consists in the removal of Bridgeport This of fire commissioners largely composed of inexperienced the conspicuous in the affairs of the city, distinguished their have cut down the best fire chief England s
 this language strong let it be measured against the statistics of fire loss in American cities.
 The Chief Mooney ought to be entitled
 
 Bridgeport. This what 1t amounts to-
 Another element which ought to be considered in making reckoning with the practical influences seized the city that they have instituted of ter ror enpoye honest, aggressions greed spoismen Honestly have become passports to official disgrace and only those who will take the Q lackeys and patiently do whatever they bid
 Mooney did lack diplomacy He a rough, rug ged courageous man, kowtow the who from time to time wandered onto fire board reward for political service Some of these had authority entirely without display during 1t their possession
 Mooney doubtless did from time to time too freely display the and of the anly the department, which the c will be the inclined to respect him What is want department executive ability, expected to preside pink teas the the graces of butler.
 Mooney should by all seek what redress is public should get ting city government worthy city, worthy public servants Mooney.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
ATOMIC THEORY


 The first scientist to propose and elaborate the atomic theory was Dr. John Dalton, an English chemist, who died in Manchester seventy one years ago today July 27.s 1844 It was in 1893 that the great cosmic theory which is associated with his name en- tered .Da1ton's mind, and 1t was first published in 1907. This theory, ap- piled in chemistry, accounted for the fact that in compound bodies the ele- ments combine in certain constant proportions, and assumes that all bodies are composed of ultimate atoms. the weight of which differs in different kinds of matter. The atomic hypothesis of Dalton gave a tremendous impetus to the science of chemistry, and reduced a. chaos Of obseryations to system and order It was discovered that there was as lit tie haphazard chance in the con- course of atoms as in the motions of worlds. Before Dalton made his dis covery. there was not a single trust worthy analysis. nor a single gas whose specific gravity was accurately known. Moreover, the theory was of great practical value, for it gave the manufacturing chemist rule by which he could achieve desired re- suits without waste or guesswo ork.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
SUIT ovER HIDDEN TREASURE.
Money Found in Sack of Cotton Dd-
 Divided Between IAtigants.

Alexandra. Tenn. July 27--The law suit between Elijah Parker and J. J. Stark. administrator of the estate of Ben s. Chapman, deceased, was com promised. By the compromise t1ae administrator received $25o and vii liam Parker. $247, each to pay their own costs and attorney sN fees.
 Ben Chapman died about three months ago. He lied alone and had but little to do with his neighbors and relatives J. J. Stark was appointed administrator and had a, public sale of his property which consisted of a small piece Of land and an old dilap- ddated house and household goods. the whole amounting to about $6, poo.
 In the sale was "a sack of cotton, which was floough by MT Parker for IS cents Several weeks after the sale he discovered there was $487 hidden in the cotton. He turned it over to the administrator who pre- scented him a small amount but Park CT afterwards grew dissatisfied and brought suit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
Distinguished Privates

Among the hundreds of British nob1es and lsni sats who answered the call for King and country not a few are sfieh fling m the trenches in the uniform of a Thomas Atkins. One of these distinguished privates is Sir Herbert Raphael. who, although a r1a11li ionaire, is proud Of his rank as a. private Sir Herbert is the son of the late H. |. Raphael, chief partner in the famous banking house of R. Raphael & Sons. and inherited large fortune, which he has since consid- erabIy increased. He graduated from Cambridge, and for some years practfced law but abandoned that profession tI r7e'cte #afs entire time to public work Since 1906 he has been a Liberal member of the House of Commons Another eminent pri- vate is the Earl of Crawford, who is Seotlandss premier earl and the holder Of title which dates from the twelfth century. The first of his an-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-27
Prince Oscar, Fifth Son
 of'the Kaiser, 27 Today

Prince Oscar, the fifth son of the German Kaiserss sta1wart sons. will be tvventy-seven years old today Prince Oscar was given a thorough education in military science, and went to the front at the outbreak of the war In October it was reported that the Prince had made himself a hero by personally leading a desperate charge at Verdun, which finally was success ful. After the victory Oscar was said to have collapsed with severe heart cramp and was ordered to Metz In the hospital there the Prince was decorated by his father with the Iron Cross of the first class. After more than a month in the hospital Prince
 Oscar returned to the front but little has been heard of him Since
 Just before leaving for the front last August Prince Oscar married Countess Sophie von Bassowitcf1
 daughter of Count Bassewitch-Levet zow, premier of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Sch The marriage opposed by tha Kaiser because the Countess is not of royal lineage but the Emperor relented when his son
 begged permission to marry his sweetheart before going to war It is understood that the Kaiserin was largely instrumental in inducing the Kaiser to permit his sons breach of the dynasty's tradition. The Countess was formerly maid of honor to the Kaiserin, and the latter was very fond of the girl. The Emperor, in accord ance with tradition, conferred a spe- cials name and title upon his daugh- ter-in-law, who is now Countess von Rupin. She will never be entitled to call herself a Princess of Prussia how ever, nor enjoy the privileges of a
 member of the royal family. By this left handed, union Prince Oscar has greatly increased his private fortune,
 as his spouse comes of a family which is immensely rich. The Countess is exactly six months the senior of Prince | Oscar, having been born on July 27th the Emperor's birthday-in 1888. Tn winning his bride Prince Oscar en- l countered the stern opposition of her father as well as of his own. Count Bassowitch-Ievetzow was almost vio- i lently opposed to morganatic a1Ii- ance for his daughter, but the young 1 couple finally induced him to give his consent. Prince Oscars wife is noted