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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10

dred acres of the berries then. BY
the way, what has become of the two
cent copper piece? A person seldom
! secs one nowadays and they were
! a handy coin too.
| What has become of the kite-flyins
children? A number of years ago one
could see in the Nauvoo heavens
kites in every direction, and the
youngsters would try which ones
kite could be sent the highest.
How did that war argument turn
out the other evening, asked Nau.
VOC citizen of another. Fine" he
was answered. Everybody jumped up
and talked at once, and then came re-
freshments."
Waldomer, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Max Kruger of Nauvoo, will gradu-
ate from dental college in st. Louis
Thursday of this week. Waldomer is
fine young man and no doubt will
make good in his profession.
A Nauyoo woman advertised in a
want column of newspaper for two
setting hens and got over one hun
dred answers. NOW she claims she
could have saved herself whole lot
of bother if she had just telephoned
around among the neighbors in the
first place. The want ad probably
appeared in the Keokuk Daily Gate
City's want columns. She is surely
knocking the want ads, but in the
right way.
The Fort Madison X. G. society will
give a moonlight excursion on the
steamer Sidney next Friday evening
and this fine river ship will make a
stop at Nauvoo for our young folks.
1t is probable few of our young
people have any need for reminders
that life is short and it seems good
common sense to enjoy it as we go
along. The majority of them reason
this way without urging. The ones
who don't, are the ones who are not
burdened with popularity. but who
always have money in the bank with
which to buy another farm or make
business investment and who be-
come rich in later life. But while
young people need no urging to enjoy
themselves, 1t seems shame that so
many of the more careful sort who
consistently make and save money
all their lives are not able to climb
down off their conservative platform
in later life and soften their closing
days with a little of the ease and
pleasure that money can buy.
Going away Wherever you go for
your vacation this summer, see that
he Keokuk Gate City follows you
each day. Changes of address Will
be made as often as you desire. Just
think of the pleasure you derive
from this popular paper that pub
fishes all the war, general. local and
Nauvoo news.
We learn that short time ago
farmer unloaded about fifteen dozen
eggs on a merchant. After guam
tity of them had been disposed of to
various customers, general COM
plant went up and upon examination
it was found that most of the eggs
were long, gray boards and bore all
the earmarks of the year of the big
comet. He probably did not know
that there is a penalty provided by
law for the act of parting thusly with
venerable and decrepit old hen fruits
that have grown so fond of the old
home place. Count well the cost and
figure out if it will pay to incur the
displeasure of the state prosecutors
for the paltry value of few dozen
eggs, whose age you are not sure of
because their teeth are all gone.
Nauvoo boys ought to indulge in
horseshoe pitching. 1t is a pleasant
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Iron eros. for MInnea polls Man.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June TO-
Prof. Herman Emil Zoch, formerly OF
Minneapolis, has just been awarded
an iron cross for his bravery in play
ing a piano at the front. according to
word here today. Zoch is in the Ger
man army, enlisted as soldier, but
his only activities consist of hauling
a grand piano on a motor truck and
playing ragtime to the soldiers. 1t
was said here today that at times fir
ing ceased on both sides under the
magic strains Of the professors piano.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10

Good Deal Over FeetI"
corn or callus among the millions OF
feet In the world that "GETS.IT'' will
not remove-there's no escape
"GETS-lT" is the new way, the simple
common-sense, sure way. It does away
with greasy ointments, salves. pads
cotton rings, harnesses, knives, scis
sors, razors, files, and the limping and
the painful pigeon-toe walk of so many
corn-pestered people. All you do is
put drops of "GETS-IT" on-the
corn shrivels up-and goodbye. Moth
ing else in the world like "GETS-IT.'
Millions are using it. There's no pain,
no trouble, no changing shoes because
of corns.
"GETS-IT" is Sold by druggists
everywhere, csc a bottle, or sent d.
rect by e. Lawrence & Co., Chicago
Sold in Keokuk and recommended as
the worlds best corn cure by Engle'
hardt & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10
The Nauvoo Gate City
Nauvoo, ILL.,. June 10, 1915

Now is the time Of the year when
one should get up with the sun and en-
Joy the beauties of nature. THESE
vine-clad hills are at their best at
that hour
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Cowels Of Chi.
cago, and VIM. Buesigh Of Mines, III,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ruben
Hummel in Nauvoo last weeks end.
New potatoes Of the home grown
variety are in Nauvoo's market ana
selling at stiff price.
Hancock county's board of super
visors will meet in Carthage next Mon
day. The board consists of twenty
Ave members. Alderman (mayor)
Hart of Nauvoo will attend.
Madam Rumor has it that one OF
Nauvoo's business men and popu-
lar first ward young lady will soon
toned January thaw.
lock-
st. Mary's academy will hold their
exercises Thursday,
June II, and the Spalding institute Oh
June 16.
June could make hit and be more
popular by putting on real old fash
toned January thaw.
1t makes one feel like boosting Nau.
VOC every week in the Nauvoo Gate
City when this town has number OF
Sucker, Sawbuck & Co., mail order
house people in it, and among some
business men, too.
DR.. J. A. Bortz has fine electrical
X-ray machine for use in his practice.
1T is of the newest and latest design
and valuable machine to locate any
Fart of the human body.
VIM. Hemmy, Nauvoo's assessor,
has completed his work and Will .e-
turn his books this week. He found
but fifty-seven dogs in Nauvoo, but
from the noise they make during the
night time, it sounds like there are
many times that number.
There will be home Corners meet
ing held in Jonora, a few miles be-
low Nauvoo, next August. The Nat
VOC band will be invited to be present
on one of the big days.
Miss Hazel Mills, one of the IN
Istructors in Nauvoo's st. Mary s
academy, will soon leave for other
fields, which is sad news to her many
friends in this city. The members or
the new orchestra rendered the lady
la farewell party at the home of Miss
marguerite Yaeger, last Sunday
evening.
We had a long dry season in NauVoo
the first part of the week. There was
la long time between drinks for those
who wished to patronize the saloons
Election day last Monday followed the
close up Of Sunday.
The Nauvoo canning factory was
compelled to run until midnight for
several night to catch up with the, big
piles of peas accommodating at the fac
i tory.
There will be Fourth of July cete-
bration in Nauvoo after all, and as the
day falls on Sunday, the doings Will
Il be held on Monday. Our business
men were called on to subscribe II
defray expenses for the big day.
rlauvoos baseball boys have the mat.
ter in charge. The old Mormon city
can draw a large crowd any old time.
We always entertain all corners and
they are always too anxious to come
again. Remember Nauvoo will cele.
brate.
Last Monday the judicial election
for the ninth district was held In
Nauvoo to select three judges for
term of six years. There were IL
votes cast in Nauvoo and distribute
as follows: Democrats. Patrick Gal
ligher, Al; VIM. WINS, 49, John Law
Ter, AZ. Republicans, Geo. w. Thomp-
son, 65; Henry Waggoner, &c and
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suIIdlns Committee. and Country
Club Realty Company Held
Joint Meeting Last
toight.
ON SAME GENERAL LINE
Location viii be Same AZ Old Club
Dining Service IN Running
Order Once
More.

The new Country club house will be
built on the, same location as the one
which burned last month, and the style
If architecture will be practically the
same. This was decided at a meeting
of the building committee of the club
together with the Country club realty
company last night, Architects plans
for the new building were submitted
and were favorably considered by the
Joint committees.
Some changes In the plans submit
ted last night will be made before the
final plans are accepted. The new
structure, however, will be built along
the same general lines and in the same
location.
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Dining Service Ready.

The dining service at the Country
club has been resumed. The caterer
Aill be at the club ready to serve sup.
per Saturday night to all who order.
The usual custom in regard to the din
ing service will be observed again
this year. The service has been an.
nounced as being in running order,
and members may be served.
A telephone has been installed in the
new pavilion and the number is sO1.
There will be dance at the club
Saturday evening, with Agnes or.
chestra playing forsthe dance, as usual.
There will be the bus service from the
city according to the usual schedule,
also
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10
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1SSSSS Tablets ,

will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in this town have used them
and we have yet to hear of case where
they have failed. We know the for
mula. Sold only by us-25c box.
McGrath bros. Drug Go.
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z Drops Of ''eETs-IT"
Out Comes the Corn!
7't's the Worlds Wonder; Never FaIIs.

your make goo-goo eyes at your
feet. after you use "GETS-IT," and
youll ind the places where those
olankety corns used to be, just as
smooth as your cheek. There's no
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-10

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20
THAT REMINDS.

The will Of J. E. Lindsey, Of Daven-
port, when filed the other day left over
a million to be divided among the
beneficiaries.
The will and the big bequest recalls a
vanished industry which made many
miilionaires in Iowa. Lindsey was a
partner of weyerhauser, the lumber
king and his million grew on the buttes
Of Wisconsin and along the river
reaches that led to Beef Slough
and the Mississippi. He and
the other lumber millionaires reaped
where they had not sown and har-
vested crop that they had not
planted. All along the big river the
mills screeched all day and sometimes
all the nights turning the pine forests
into lumber and the lumber into mil
lionaires. Vast forests that should
have furnished future generations with
their products vanished from the face
Of the hills.
But the millionaires were incidents.
The destruction OF the great pine
forests was as natural as other de-
struction that arrives in the process OF
development. The great west was be-
ing settled. The armies OF the civil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20
NAT GUERNSEY WAS NO FOOL.

Nat Guernsey, for years enjoyed the
largest income of any lawyer in Iowa
eecaused he possessed the kind of
brains that big clients were able to
buy. Finally he was retained per-
manenuy by the American Telephone
and telegraph Company and he moved
down east into the paved road coun-
try. In short Nat Guernsey has been
rated as shrewder man than the
average citizen and this is what he
writes to the Register and Leader
about our Iowa roads:
For fifty years Iowa has been do
ing road work, almost all of which is
purely temporary. If sound plan
were devised and carried out consist
entity without making an effort to do
everything al once have no doubt
mat in the next ten years, without an
increase in taxation substantial enough
to ne noticed. all CT the important
thoroughfares crossing the state east
and west and north and south could be
made into good permanent roads. If
TINS We're done the people would not be
satisfied until all Of the important
roads IN the state had been put on a
perulane Gt basis"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20

little more response would be In oroer.
Henry Ford is a successful manu-
facturer and distributor OF motor cars.
Early in the development OF the
automobile it occurred to him that II
wound be good business to put out
a car that would combine simplicity.
durability, low cost and economy %
operation It was his idea tina. .hls
combination of merits in single c.'i
must. prove popular and proNlaoie.
He was right about 1t. The extraoru.-
nary success that has ATTENDED ms
business venture has made him many
times a millionaire. AS the prohts
continue to roll in with no sign OF
diminution Mr.. Ford Is put to 1t TO
make disposition of them. He mas
none of the inclinations Of the conVen-
tional millionaire.
Mr.. F'ord's first guess as GOOD way
to dispose Of his surplus was to DIVIDE
IN with his employees. The move
proved popular, though 1t introduced
complications in an industrial com
petition in which Mr.. Ford happened
to be the only manufacturer who could
afford to be SO generous. HIS next
decision to give rebate to purchasers
of his car If new sales record were
established was a stroke OF genius
which gave him more popularity and
Incidentally left plenty Of surplus
profits. Then the newspapers and
magazines began playing up Mr.. Ford
as a great economist, socioiogist
penologist, phllantnropiss AID ether
imposing nouns. That spoiled him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20
III 10 To Estimate Corr,
r"A Crop Reporter In Dos Moines Regi.ter.l

A~oo Z
ears. After the corn is thoroughly
dried 1t can be weighed again to de-
termine the shrinkage, and 1t can be
shelled to determine the per cent Of
shelled corn.
All Of these items can be put on
the one card. OF course It IL not al
ways necessary to put all Of these
things on the card. In order to make
this plain will give some sample
cards Of actual tests Of this and other
years Whers the yield per acre 10
given each hill Is supposed to be as
good as the sample: Il
Sept. II. fs14-One hill, big white,
four ears. weight four and one-haif
pounds: per acre. 1876 pounds.
Oct. I, l915-Two pounds, ten ouncesj
shrinkage. ~ per cent.
Sept. 10, 1914-One hill, three ears,
three pounds six ounces; per acre, H.
657 pounds.
Oct. 1. 1s15-Two pounds four
ounces: shrinkage. 80 1-3 per cent
Two adjoining rows Of corn planted
June 3. 1912. frosted Sept. %. Picked
Nov. 9, 1912.
Silver King. small early. ten hills.
twenty-four ears-Weight. Nov 10,
thirteen pounds two ounces: weight
March 20. 1913, ten pounds eight
ounces; dfty-six bushels per acre.
Big white. big late, ten hills. twen-
ty-two cartwright Nov. ~, twelve
pounds three ounces; March 26, eight
pounds four ounces; forty-nve bushels
per acre.
Reds yellow Dent-oct to s. 1915.
four hills:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20

In a Aeading article in the Register
and Leader Mr. John Cownie calls at
tention to the condition Of the corn
crop in Polk county. He claims there
is q poor stand. I agree with him In
his estimate, as I find the same con-
dition in Jasper county.
But he doesn't undertake to account
for the poor stand except In the one
case. where the worms cut the corn.
Furthermore, he doesn't say just what
influence the stand has on tho yield
Of corn. He seems to take 1t for
granted that a poor stand means Q
poor crop. but he doesn't give any
figures to back up his position.
In spite Of this I agree with Mr..
Cownie again. but I will 80 little
further and give a few figures to
bolster US up. as we will have con-
siderable opposition among the 2oo.-
600 Iowa farmers. happen to be one
OF those miserable crop reporters that
Mr.. Cownie takes a slam at. but we
don't all ride in autos or get our In
formation second hand But this poor
stand Of corn Is no Joke.
In view of the condition Of the corn,
the question comes up. does the farm-
err fully realize how much Is lost by q
thin stand? II farmer loses a calf
with black leg he hastens to vacctnate
all his calves to prevent further loss.
But he will suffer a loss OF rs per cent
of his corn crop thru poor stand ana
think nothing of it or try to discover
just what the loss is.
Now there are some truths about
corn that can be determined just as
surely as you can determine the
weight Of chunk Of coal by putting
it on the scales The way to do 1t is
to use the scales Not the scales that
weigh a wagon load. but the scales
that weigh a fraction OF an ounce.
The farmer raises corn. not by the
acre. but by the hill. The hill Is the
unit. II the hill Is blank there Is
total loss. If there Is only one stalk.
there will be loss, because single
stalks like single people, do not 40
we'll alone Now I venture to say there
is not one farmer In 1000 that has ac-
curate scales to weigh and that goes
out In the fields and tests the corn TO
determine the relative value OF the
different number Of stalks to the NIL.
This is one of the most interesting
and profitable works a man or boy can
engage in I have done more or less
of this work every year Tor many
years with increasing interest.
/ will give .ou my method. Counter
scales of the best grade with a beam
to weigh accurately by one-fourth
ounces up to twenty-five pounds. A
supply of common MANILA shipping
tags 2kx5, inches. with eYelets II
several samples are to be tested. take
tags and string to the field and mark
each sample. The whole can be taken
to the house to weigh and he hung up
in safe place for further study. There
should be written on the tag all tnat
YOU want to know TO identity the
sample to which the tag Is attached.
The tag will appear about as follows:
The field. the date OF planting. fhe
date when picked. the variety or corn:
the number Of hills and the NUMBER OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20

war had disbanded and the soldiers
| were making homes by pre- emption
and purchase of the wild lands. Iowa
had felt the impulse which has car
ried her from scattered community
in the sixties to the greatness Of her
present. The demand for lumber was
insistent and imperative. So the
forests fell to build houses on the
prairies and fence the fields and
bridge the streams. In the course Of
the operation millionaires grew like
the scriptural gourd. The supply
seemed inexhaustible. But the demand
was inexhaustible. 1t denuded the pine
lands of the forests and set them here
and there across the Mississippi valley
as the neuclei of cities and mighty
empires of agriculture.
Who shall say that they were not
we'll spent. They had grown where
they stood for ages waiting the full
ness Of the time when the wilderness
beckoned to the pioneer Without
them the development had been de-
layed. That is what the Creator planted
them for by the side of rivers that
led toward the need of the time. And
SO need reached out and took and
civilization rode on the RATS that
floated their acreage of logs to the
mills that made the millionaires.
Waste, there was waste and as seen
today. criminal waste. But none saw
it then. The days work drove. The
bleak prairies called to the axmen and
drove the great saws to whirl faster.
The trees fell, foated, were torn into
lumber and were nailed upon house.
walls or fence posts before the waters
of the Eau Claire and the Wisconsin
were dried from them. 1t was job
done in intense hurry. The big seven
foot rotaries that rushed screaming at
at the logs and tore away the slabs IL
that characterized every operation.
And there will be waste where there is
driving demand. always waste when
the result is the dominant demand.
The pineries are gone. The last Of
their millionaires are going. But
pineries and millionaires served in
crisis OF uationa! development. Per-
haps the millionaire deserves little
more credit from this angle than the
pine log his river crews rode down the
spring rises and RATED between the
majestic walls of the Upper River, but
they did il.
lie. US not mourn too much over the
destruction of the pineries. Rather let
US look about on the country that de-
structicn assisted in the making and
realize and consider that those lands
where the tall pines grew are being
plated into farms.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-20
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CEDAR RAPIDS LIKES CONCRETE.
(Cedar RAPIDS Gazette.1

SxSA~AxS 1S<A1-ALSS
Cedar Rapids Gazette.l
There Is no better piece Of paving in
Cedar Rapids. according 10 the opinion
OF Mayor Roth and Commissioners
Hughes and McDuff, than Nineteenth
street from the Mount Vernon road to
Grande avenue, which has Just been
completed and which will be open for
traffic in the next few days. The street
is paved with cement. The mayor, the
two commissioners and newspaper
day by w. G. Haskell. who also insisted
that 1t was the best piece OF paving.
The mayor inspected the street from
one end to the other and pronounced it
perfect. The cost to lay it waz t1.1s a
made that the paving would last
the expansion joints crosswise instead
improvement over the old order.
Mr.. Haskell made a suggestion to
the council which he said would add
to the life Of the paving and that was
to bury 1t for a month. He said that
all the cement roads of California are
covered with earth for period OF
thirty days and after the earth is re-
moved they are sprayed with mix
ture Of oil and sand. which produces a
road that never wears out, he says.
Cedar Rapids probably will not be able
to follow this procedure on account
OF being short financially, but Mr.. Has
kell insists the Street should be given
chance to dry thoroughly and there
fore should not be opened to traffic for
week or ten days.
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|" or shoes and ships

The self-starter is a device for crank
ing an automobile which never WORKS
when anybody is looking on. 1t Is a
peculiar fact that a new, robust sell
starter which will spin the engine one
hundred times hand running, In the
garage, Immediately contracts creeping
paralysis the moment it is asked 10
transact business on a crowded street.
There is nothing that will cause the
owner of a new car to litter up tho
landscape with sulphuric language
quicker than to have his self
stutter on the four corners, and De
obliged to dig the crank out from under
the back seat and pump on the hanole
in the presence of a skeptical and un1
feeling audience. Yet this happens every
day. without any appreciate increase
in the mortality tables.
The self starter Is the work or gen.
ius who grew tired Of cranking his car
and being kicked in the right wrist by
the back-fire After several thousand
people had had the same experience
and were living cheerfully of their ac-
cident insurance, the self-starter was
brought out and placed Immediately
under the right foot, where the driver
could16 on 1t while the car was IN
motion and strip few cogs out OF the
hy wheel, at 81 per cog. This caused
a number Of thoughtful owners to go
back to the crank and take out few
new accident policies.
The most popular form Of self
starter is operated by electricity, which
ia fed into it by storage battery, hung
onto the running board. where 1t can
work loose and cause a short circuit In
some vital spot. The battery is Kept
alive by hope and rainwater. and -
charged by the engine whenever the
speed of the car exceeds forty 1.-TWO
miles an hour. When the battery dies,
which usually occurs several miles from
a civilized community, it can be re-
charged by the end Of the week, pro-