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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
British ah.l French Forces
Eyacuate Serbia Says Berlin
DIVIDED CHRISTIANITY
CAUSED THE WAR.

Columbus, o., Dec. 10.-"Divided
Christianity" is responsible for the
present European war;" Fred b.
Smith of New York, originator Of
the men and religion movement,
declared in an address last night
before. joint session of the COM
mission on church and country
life and the executive committee
of the Federal Council of Church.
es. He predicted future wars IL
Christian churches do not unite in
a common cooperative federation.
Other speakers yesterday urged
church federation movements,
particularly as a means Of improv-
ing the country church.
The Rev. Harry F. Ward, of
Boston, another speaker last night,
expressed the opinion that violent
conflicts between capitalistic and
labor classes in farming COM
munities may develop unless some
thing is done soon to prevent the
growing tendency toward the
system of absentee landlords.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10

Notice of Great Britain's action
came to Secretary Lansing through
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British am
bassador here, and Ambassador Page
at London.
After the seizure OF the Hooking and
Genesee it was announced that they
were to be requisitioned for the use
of the British government without
awaiting the outcome Of prize court
proceedings. The United States pro-
tested vigorously, insisting that cases
involving vessels OF American regis
try be dealt with regularly and with
out delay in the prize courts. The
Trans Atlantic company has filed with
the state department affidavits from
it's stockholders in an effort to prove
that every share is owned by citizens
Of the United States.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
ALLIES
GRAIN
BURNED

Erie. Pa, Dec. 10.-Two of the three
Anchor line elevators owned by the
Pennsylvania railroad company, were
destroyed by fire with their contents,
100000 bushels Of wheat. The loss is
estimated at $750,000 The third ele-
vator holding $4,000 bushels of wheat
was saved by the firemen. The wheat
came from Canada and awaited ship
ment to Great Britain and her allies.
A rigid investigation as to the cause
of the fire has been started.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Text of Prohibition
Amendment Resolution
to Be Introduced In
Congress This Session

The National Daily, ofiaIal organ
Of the Anti Saloon league says:
The convening Of congress today
brings to the attention of the people a
number OF important issues that con-
gress will have before it at this ses-
sion. One Of these important issues
will be a resolution to submit to the
people of the states an amendment TO
the federal constitution prohibiting
the liquor traffic in America.
The committee representing all the
temperance forces in this country met
in this city Friday and wrote the text
Of the proposed resolution. 1t today
made public the following statement:
"The National Amendment Commits
sion of 19 members appointed by the
July conference at Washington Of all
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Hundreds Of Shriners
Here For Ceremonial

There are hundreds Of Srne parts
ceremonial
at Ell temple this
aft Z
months FRA nix L.
an
Of of the officers OF E
rang are to ne n the mobiles. st &
Of pulled off at the banquet
hall of the temple from
$50 to- will of
jealousy giving anything
will mobiles
program follows and it will be
be beginning to
Mobiles Aquatic Exhibition
$3.50 to % Banquet. "a ss#
u m.--Ceremonial.
70. Il
r. m-Moying pictures and Musical Comedy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Uncle lam May Break Relations With Austria Hungary
cASsELToN BANK
BROKEN FROM OUTSIDE
SAYS COMPTROLLER.

Washington, Dec. 10.--Comptrol-
Ter Williams issued a statement
yesterday declaring the closed Ma
tionaI bank Of Casselton, n. D.,
was broken from the outside"
THE defalcations of its presi-
dent and cashier" said the comp
trolIer's statement. exceeded It's
total capital and surplus" The
case, he said, was an argument in
favor Of his proposal to require
national bank officers to give
surety bonds. The bank has a
capital OF $4,000.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
FATAL FIGHT
OVER "SCABS'

Cincinnati. O.. Dec. 1o.-one man
was shot and killed and two others
badly wounded in an attack by five
non-union painters who were at work
on q new annex to a local hospital.
In statement to the police. nurse
at the hospital said that she saw Ave
men approaching several of the paint
ers and heard one of them say: 3
'No scabs can work here"
A few minutes later. she said, she
heard several shots and saw one man
fall The five men escaped. The dead
man was Joseph Shall. a non-union
painter.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
DUP0NT'S
new TOWN
|. I. BURNED

Hopewell, Va, Dec. 1o.-This new
town Of $4,000 people, grown UP since
last summer with the great explosive
plant of the Dupont Powder company,
was almost wiped off the map late yes
terday by a fire which, started in, a
restaurant and did property damage
estimated at considerably more than a
million dollars. r..
The Dupont works outside of the
settlement completely escaped damage,
although for a time they were seri-
lously threatened.
Scenes Of wild disorder accompanied
1 the FIRE, and citizens are said to have
lynched a negro for looting. There
Twas no loss of Tfife otherwise; however,
and only a few minor injuries were re-
ported.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10

the temperance forces OF the entire
country met at Washington Friday,
December 3, to determine the form
OF the prohibition resolution TO be in-
troduced into the present congress.
AT the July meeting the only vote
that was taken showed 126 to eight in
favor OF the form Of the old Hobson
amendment voted on last December.
This vote. however. was purely ad
visory, the commission being given
full power to act. At a thoroughly
harmonious meeting which iRsures
union of the temperance forces of the
nation, the commission decided In
favor OF the wording of the Hobson
amendment. New York state was
(Cnnf{ruoa an Daoa
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
United States Doubled
Foodstuffs Exports

Washington, by the
tthan double
Statistics Of the today
100000 compared with s31s000,OO0
of whe and
barrels flour 42Oooooo Of bacon
pounds Of fresh beef zoe pounds Of canned beef 3oooO
of lard 26ooOoo
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
MACMILLAN
PARTY SAFE

Clinton, Ia, Dec. 1O.-That the Don
aid B. Macmillan party, with head
quarters at Etah, Greenland, is safe, Is
indicated in letter received by Mrs
Jerome Lee Allen of Maquoweta from
her husband, a wireless expert with
the party. In the letter dated April
Of this year, Allen says the party
are anxiously awaiting the arrival OF
a ship,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Blank and Solid Shot
Fired at American Vessel

San Porto Rico, two
shots fired by the French cruise Desca holding
the Como said
Coamo had the
became alarmed and
Captain Barbours until
captain protested the action lieutenant.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
President Wilson
Appeals to Business
to Be Prepared in
" Columbus Address

Columbus J. Dec toPeparednsss by business mobilize
by President Wilson ringing address before the Columbus
Chamber of His added Significance
United Austria Hungary
Of LOO including leading officials and business
me of Ohio.
His theme The statesmanship of Industry.
president told business impossible
business e He declared nseparabe
history business United said
with the history of the nation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Was GIRL .
MEMBER i.
OF GANG?

Lacrosse, Wis, Dec. 1O-When Cliff
ford Skinner. fourth member of the
party of auto bandits who held up the
Western State bank in ST. Paul yes
terday afternoon was taken from n
Chicago bound train here, he was ac-
companied by Lillian Mitten, said to
be the fifth member Of the band.
The girls was cut short and she is
said to have worn q boys cap, suit of
a mans clothing at the time of the
hoidup when she accompanied the
robbers in an automobile.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
Disavowal of Sinking
ofAncona Must Be Made
Without Further Delay

Washington, Dec. 1O.-Diplomatic relations with
Austria Hungary are in danger of being broken off by
the United States unless the urgent demands of the
American note to Vienna for dsavowal of the sink
ing of the Ancona and reparation complied with.
Furthermore it stated upon high authority the United
States expects prompt reply to its communication.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
'Intimation'' to Same
Effect Is Received
in London--Bulgars
. Pressing Attack

Berlin, Dec 1o.-According to information re-
ceived in military quarters here the Anglo-French ex-
pedton in the Balkans has continued its retreat and
has now entirely evacuated Serbian territory.
London Dec. 10--What seems to be an intima-
ton that the troops of the entente allies contemplate
the evacuation of Serbian territory if they have not
already done so, contained in statement declared
in Reuter- dispatch from Saloni to have been issued
by the French general staff on the Balkan front.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10

London, o-The 5uearans heavily reinforced and we'll
supported BY artillery violently their attack upon the
British Macedonia Their assault
through all the preliminary stages and approaching the eli
intensity.
Although the serbian continues apparent fCm
which Macedonian conflict
major Of the R"grn has diverted its asntioR 70 & thS
great anxiety IL Enaland will determine m srsat measure
The numerical superoriy o the a: been ssn'cr
voiced here TO the ab Of the British forces to rsps the IN
tiOn, however that the British French have yet found
withdraw further positions mentioned
official communications. .....4
their positions Demrkapu advane
ing Of vadar the Of and south OF
from both sides The allied retreat toward the Greek border thu
accomplished good order without serious
losses, ...
nothing it's
plight of serbians fleeing into Albania
TO be growing less serious. .
military affairs these OF
Serbian has shifted southad
where the
relnauh but small OF ad.
by them Butte De SouainL
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10
wEATH e n .

Light snow and colder tonight; sat
urday partly cloudy and colder.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-12-10

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
SAGE TEA TURNS
GRAY HAIR DARK
It's Grandm others Recipe to Brine
Back Color and Lustre
to Hair.

That beautiful, even shade OF dark.
glossy hair can only be had by brew
ing a mixture OF Sage Tea and Sui
phur. Your hair is your charm. 1t
makes or mars the face. When it
fades, turns gray. streaked and looks
dry, wispy and scra ggy, just an appIi-
cation or two Of Sage and Sulphur en-
hances its appearance a hundredfold.
Don't bother to prepare the tonic:
you can get from any drug store a.
ffty-cent bottle of "Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Compound" ready to
use. This can always be depended
upon to bring baci, the natural color.
thickness and lustre of your hair and
remove dandruff, stop scalp itching
and falling hair.
Everybody uses ''Wyeth's" SAGE
and Sulphur because It darkens so
naturally and evenly that nobody can
tell 1t has been applied You simply
danpen sponge or soft brush with
1t and draw this through the hair.
taking one small strand at time by
morning the gray hair has disappear
ed. and after another application 4.
becomes beautifully dark and ap-
pears glossy, lustrous and abundant.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
year longer under its present in
adequate conditions is also much re-
GREETED by local people.
KEOKUK statesmen
AT FIRMS "SPREAD"
Banquet and Cabaret as Fitting Close
to School Of instruction at
Chicago Greatly Enjoyed.

S. |. Sawyer, A. c. Sweeney, Dee
Buss, w. S. Shelley and G. C. John
son, all formerly travelling out Of Keo-
kuk for local house, but now travel
ing for the B. Heller G Co., of Chi
cago, attended the annual banque.
and cabaret rendered the statesmen at
the States restaurant at Chicago last
Wednesday. There were sixty-eight
in attendance at the banquet and cab
aret, this including the department
heads and members Of the firm
The fifty or more statesmen had
come from all parts of the United
States to the annual school Of in
struction conducted by the firm dur
ing the week between Christmas and
New Years, and this banquet was the
fitting finale
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
623 Main Street

does the average American. With
the sharp racial, tribunal and lingual
divisions of the Balkan peoples. relig-
GUS diversions exert far more pow
erlul distinctive influence there, than
is the case with US. Greek orthodox,
Roman Catholic, various protestant
confessions, anQ the Mohammedan
faith have served to segregate these
people from one another.
AL the energy, destruction and
clamor which the friction between its
many contrary types Of people and
ideals has occasioned, has retarded
the development OF the Balkan PENN
sula so that 1t is some generations be-
hind the achievements of the west;
and the traveller in the byways Of this
country has had to put up with those
same inconvenience which he would
encounter in undevefoped Asia. The
roads in the Balkans are bad, in most
cases mere cattle and footpaths. The
villages are squalid, ill-kept, without
improvements. without comforts, with
out conveniences- The means OF
transportation are uncertain; the
mules are indispensable, the railway
trains are capricious, boats move ac-
cording to the tempers of their cap.
tains and the moods of their engineers,
while the treacherous roads make
horse and cart risky adventure
Furthermore the law and order OF
much Of the Balkan lands Is at best
"a matter OF considerable uncertainty
The Balkan peninsula has been
war-torn for nineteen hundred years
Tor more War became a continuous
experience OF it's people with the com.
ing of the Romans. and, under the
I 900 years of the rule Of Byzantium
when this east Roman empire did
yearly outpost duty for christendom
until its destruction by the Turk, the
Balkan peoples definitely took the
place which they hold today, that of
being buffer people between an up
per and neither milestone An OUTPOST
of the west in the east, they have
been everlastingly employed with
fighting both the east and the west or
among themselves, which has helped
to make the Balkan peninsula the
poorest stretch of land In Europe"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
CHILD GETS SICK
CROSS, FEVER|SH
IF C0NST|PATED
California Syrup Of Figs"
can't harm tender stom-
achr or bowels

A laxative today saves sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty
their bowels. which become clogged
up with waste, liver gets sluggish;
stomach sour.
Look at the tongue, mother! II
coated. or your child is listless.
cross, feverish, breath bad. restless,
doesn't eat heartily, full Of cold, or
has sore throat or any other chill
dren's ailment, give a teaspoonful OF
California Syrup Of Figs" then don't
worry. because 1t Is perfectly harm
less. and in few hours all this con-
stipation poison, sour bile and fer
menting waste will gently move out
OF the bowels, and you have a well.
playful child again. A thorough in
side cleansing is oftimes all that is
necessary 1t should be the hrst
treatment given In any sickness.
Beware OF counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot
tie OF California Syrup Of Figs"
which has full directions for babies.
children OF all ages and for grown
ups plainly printed on the bottle.
Look carefully and see that 1t is
made by the California Fig Syrup
Company"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
Even the master Of Tongues" Needs
an Interpreter to Get Through
This Confusion of
Languages.
MATERIAL PRIDE HIGH
Religious Divisions Exert a Powerful
Influence in the Government
Of the Several Countries
of War Torn Section

WASHINGTON, .. e.. Jan q
Some Of the lea ing characteristics Of
the Balkan region, that part of the
world which a confusion Of races,
Languages, customs, nations, religions,
and traditions has caused to be the
centuries-long theatre of seething, in
cessant religious and racial struggles
are described in statement given to
the press by the National Geographic
society. 1t says:
Many peoples of many minds meet
on the fringe between the east and
west, the Balkan peninsula, and each
of these peoples clings tenaciousIy to
its language, its traditions, its relig.
ion, and to the manners and ways OF
its kind. Several families of the
Slayonic people, each with it's own
tongue and patriotism. are there. The
Turks, the Greeks, and sprinkling OF
Germans, together with many fragra-
mentary types of peoples, from west
and east, survivals Of nations and
tribes of yesterdays history, add to
the Kaleidoscope bewilderment. The
Balkan lands are Babel through
which no ordinary master Of tongues
may hope 70 go without the aid of an
occasional interpreter and much use
OF sign language
in the hearts of most of these PEG.
pies, no matter how small their land
or how little the world may know OF
them there is kapt alive 6ory CON
seriousness OF their nationality. The
Montenegrin is as devoted native of
his small bowl of country among the
mountains as is the citizen of our own
United States, the difference being,
where any, that the Montenegrin re-
minds himself much more often of his
nationality and its advantages than
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
Our Rubber Stamp
Department

We operate the most modern and best equip
ped Rubber stamp plant in the West, urning out
the highest class of rubber die work possible to;
make Our assortment of type faces is complete
and we carry everything in the way of metal
work to use with the rubber dies, such as selfink-
ers daters OF all kinds time stamps. local daters,
cigar canceling daters. etc.
We for orders promptly and inteN
gently giving you city service at moderate prices.
This department receives orders from all over the
west and should have ALL the Keokuk business.
In this connection we carry. full line OF
ink pads, inks, daters numberers, price markers,
rubber type and holders, racks, brass stencil let
tiers and figures, stencil inks and brushes, num-
bering machines, check protectors, etc.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
Holiday Week Was One Of Family
Gatherings and Reunions for
People Across River
Season Gay One.
HEARTHsIDE's CHARM
This Was Magnet Which Attracted
Many Of Those Who Used to
Live Across River and
Who Returned.
Especial to The Gate city

HAMILTON, ILL.,. Jan. with a
mantle Of snow stretching over hill
and dale, and lowering temperature
that assured white Christmas, the
the footing horn that are indeed the
jovial concomitants, served to make
the Christmas of 1914 replete with
those experiences and joys. which are
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03

associated with the ideal Christmas,
and which is identified In memory as
an old fashioned one.
The firesides of many homes we're
made happy by the presence Of re-
turned children and grandchildren and
Others Of our townsmen made pilgrim
ages to the home spots OF other days.
Home Corners.
Among the corners were Dr. z. NJ.
Hanson and family Of Keokuk. guests
of Joseph Letter; Eddy Hazen and wife
at E. A. Hazen's; A. ]. Brown and
wife OF Ferris, at Mrs. IN. A. Bum
pus'; Arthur Tribouiet and wife, at
David Sweets: HRS. Guy Blakeslee
and family from Hannibal, with rela-
tiyes; Clarence BANTER and wife. Of
Burnside at Joe LETTERS; Louie Olsen
from Chicago, at his fathers.
Mrs. Lionberger OF LaHarre was
the guest of her son, Clyde; Mesdames
Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Hart
man, OF Lorraine, were Christmas
guests OF Mrs. Samuel Peterson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sells OF KeolSuk
were guests OF M. c. Warder and fam
lily.
Mrs Edith Fullmer and children of
Bentley were guests Of DR.. and Mrs.
F. L. Fullmer.
MIR. and Mrs. H. Parks and daugh-
ter, Clara, were Christmas guests at
the Egber's home.
Warren Hall is home from Chicago
for the holidays
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Rice, Mrs. Sal
lie Dickerson, of Bowen, and Mrs. Jos.
Tralopp, Mrs. Walter Harlon, OF York,
Nebraska, were the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. W. II. Maberry last week.
Out Of Town Visitors.
DR.. and Mrs. Runyon at LivinGton,
guests Of DR.. Claude; VIM Powers and
wife, George Gray and family and
Henry Gray, at w. A. Rayburn's in
Keokuk; w. H. Honce and family and
Albert Schneider and family with rel
atives at Nauvoo. Beed johnson spent
Christmas with his sisters near St.
Joseph, Missouri; Miss Theresa Klay
was in Des Moines visiting her sister.
Mrs. Allen and petting the new baby.
MIR. and Mrs. George Ederer Of EIvas-
ton, spent Christmas day with their
relatives, Mr.. aud Mrs. r. Tnman and
Mr.. and Mrs.. J. NJ Dick OF Keokuk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cuerden and
family were Christmas visitors In War
saw, the guests OF Elmer Eyemann
and family
Mr.. and Mrs. o. c. Mccartney and
baby were the guests OF Peoria reIa.
tives over Christmas
DR.. and Mas. Vaughn we're Lomax
visitors Christmas, the guests OF DR..
vaughn's parents.
s. H. Moore and family we're Christ.
mas visitors in Ferris, the guests OF
the Abbott family.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Haueise were
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
Two Important Features
OF OUR BUSINESS
Our Typewriter Rental
Sales Department

We carry a good assortment Of high class
rebuilt typewrters of standard makes, Under
wood l.. G. Smith Bros. Oliver, Remington bought
direct from one of the best rebuilding firms In the
u. S. They are all in fine condition and VIII
give an ordinary user as good service as
a new machine The prices run from $4,000 to
$500 and we rent them rentals from $500 TO
$500 per month according to class OF ma
chine allowing the paid to be credited on pur
chase Of machine at any time.
II kept on rent long enough the rent paid
will pay for the machine without any additional
cost to the user.
We invite your inspection OF this stock
and will quote anything not in stock to suit
individual requirement.
We also carry complete line OF typewriter
supplies, ribbons, Carlo oil. brushes and
typewriter paper Of every description.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
FORMAL OFFICIAL
GETS APPOINTMENT
Curtis N. Hart Made District Deput,
Of Moose--is in the Organize
ton Depar&Ynent

Curtis NJ. Hart. until recently clerk
o. Lee county, has been appointed
deruty director of the Loyal Order oil
Moose and entered upon his duties
here yesterday. He is now connected
with the organization department OF
the national organization i'm posi-
ton OF responsibility and OF much iui-
rortance to the organization. He will
remain in this city for the frs. ninety
days. after which he probably will be
transferred to some other city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03

Tioga visitors Christmas
Miss Jennie Hawkes. was the guest
of Keokuk relatives.
q. w. Thompson and family were
Christmas visitors with relatives at
Wythe