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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24
Of civic League Are in var,-
GUS Schools in City Today to -
Tell Pupils of the
Conditions.
COMMITTEE is NAMED
Mrs. Ayres, President Of Civic League
Heads List and Has Good
Committee With
Here.

The plans for the garden contest
are being explained today and tomor-
row in the various schools by men,
bers of the Civic league as follows:
High SCHOLARS. J. ]. Ayres.
George Washington-Mrs. Allie
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24

FOR RnNT-Three rooms furnished.
for light housekeeping; gas, bath:
north side. Phone Red 1853.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24

FOR SALE-Brown riding mare, s35.
Address Elm Row Farm, Route 4,
Carthage, III.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24

Alpha Trist Whist Club.
/ Mrs. L. A. Hamill entertained the
Alpha Trfst club today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24
rhimble Club Meeting.

Mrs Earl Cochrane entertained the
young women of. the Thimble club
this afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-The Gem restaurant, %
South Fourth street. Will sell cheap
il taken at once.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-24

FOR RENT--Three furnished rooms
for light housekee- .g, partly nIoo-
ern. Reasonable rent at S2f Exchange
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
EFFICIENT PUBLICITY.


The idea is entertained by some OF
the older type of merchants that the
good repute of their firm is spread
from mouth to mouth in conversation,
and that they do not need to adver-
tise in the newspapers.
That condition may have prevailed
many years ago when people had moth
ing else to do but gossip about their
neighbors. In those times everyone dis
cussed all OF his home purchases with
all his neighbors.
Today a man who depends upon con-
versation and gossip to spread the
news Of his store will not find that his
place Of business is much frequented.
People do not exchange Information
about their domestic habits as they
used to. You have little idea whether
your neighbors buy their goods OF
Smith, Jones or Brown. The world Is
full of wide interests and the bargains
one may find in certain store are
ordinarily known only to those who
find them.
The newspaper is the only efficient
means Of acquainting the public win
the business news OF the town. For
one person that will learn something
about a given store by word OF mouth,
a hundred learn about It thru news
paper notices.
The advertising columns Of a news
paper are read just az attentively az
any sensation that may appear In the
news columns.
The results Of the two policies are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
STATE SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS.

A mass meeting at Carroll, under
the auspices of the Citizens Club OF
that place. wired the Carroll county
representatives in the assembly TO re-
quest that they support the State Col
lege at Ames literally in the matter
of appropriations. Il is stated that 3
large number Of business men and
citizens generally were present and
voted unanimously for the resolution.
There is vast approval of the Ames
school over the state and the general
sentiment will favor liberality, not only
TO Ames but to all the state schools.
AS the agricultural college it lies
very close to the hearts of the agri-
cultural interests in Iowa where agrt-
culture is the main business of its
people. No cheese pairing should be
considered as to Iowa State College or
any Of the other educational institu-
tons Of the state. S. U. /. or Anes or
Cedar Falls, they should be cared for
in such wise as to develop the fullest
usefulness u edC1 dIlt o-A'
The excitement which has broken
out of late over appropriations and
their division between schools leads TO
wonderment as to the state and con-
dition of the educational board which
was created to avoid such embarrass-
ment OF the present character and in
tended to act as a board Of control and
review between the colleges and edu-
cational interests of the state. 1t ought
to know better what each institution
needs than the legislature; that is 1t
ought to know if it amounts TO any
! thing for the purposes that were in
Guided in the specifications Of its es-
| taolishment. Where is its budget?
What does it say each school needs?
| The assembly which created the
| board Of control foresaw relief for flu
ture legislatures thru an educational
board 1t is hard to see how the legis-
| lature can do better than to follow
pretty closely its demands and sug-
gestions. II the educational board is
| incompetent thru its personnel or by
reason OF faulty organization 1t should
be abolished or reorganized. If It is
competent and properly organized its
word as TO the educational budget
should practically settle the matter in
the minds Of appropriating legisla-
! lures.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
.ers DISCUSS IMPORTANT MEASURES.

The advocates Of county rights as
regards road legislation were routed in
the Iowa house by decisive vote and
the progress Of the past two years in
highway and bridge work is not to be
turned back. The present highway law
amended in few particulars is to
stand and the highway commission will
pursue it's work Of lending expert
supervision to engineering and con-
struction work in 1owa's $4,000, 900
purchasing department
Men who have informed themselves
upon the road problem, who have ac-
quainted themselves with the ex-
perience of states which are ten years
ahead of Iowa in road work are glad
that this fight is out of the way. The
entire sessions Of two legislatures have
now been consumed in quarreiins over
plans of administration. The real
essentials, the laws which other states
have and which must be enacted be-
fore Iowa taxpayers can ever get theiI
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14

moneys worth for the taxes they pay
have been crowded to the wall In two
sessions while legislators compare
lively uninformed as to road matters
quarreled among themselves az to who
should be road boss, the county or the
state.
Until we can distribute the frst cost
of a long time road over the period Of
years in which 1t is to last, until we
can distribute the cost of an improved
road such as graveled road or a
paved road equitably over the property
most benefited by 1t, until cities can
cooperate with surrounding country
in perfecting radical market roads
leading into town we will not have
any road building In Iowa that is
worth while. We viii spend our taxes
each year, we are spending as much
money now as any other state but we
are buryinR it in Iowa mud. An old
state like Missouri or a country Of
cheap lands like Texas and the sup
posedly old-fashioned states OF New
England and the old south are build
ing all around us without taxing their
citizens any more heavily than we tax
ourselves. but they have quit quarrel
ing a long time ago as to who the road
boss shall be. Most Of them let their
state engineers or commissions boss
the work while some still make their
county boards the boss but all vote
bonds and build hard surfaced roads
with other peoples money and apply
their road taxes to the bonds as they
use the roads. Most of them distribute
their tax burden according to some
scientific plan and those which are
getting results utilize the special road
district plan. What Iowa
needs is a special commission to study
the successful laws of other states and
report a comprehensive bill to the next
legislature. Our discussion and debate
hereafter should be upon measures
that are OF real Importance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14

A man and woman sat together at
a theater one afternoon last week He
wore cheap suit Of clothing that
fitted him poorly. Her dress was not
in the latest mode. Plainly. they were
from the country.
Right behind them sat tvs women OF
the city. One Of them put her lorgnette
to her eyes, bent forward and looked
critically at the woman In front OF her.
Then she settled back in her chair ana
said in a voice evidently intended Tor
the woman in front to hear:
why do some people have such
awful taste rs TO dress as they used to
before the food?"
The woman in front Heard 1t and her
face went red. The nan with her heard
1t too, and ne quietly land AA!s hand
upon his companions arm and patted
1t lovingly.
A man who sat near, and had heard
and seen this little tragedy. told OF It
afterward.
81 knew the man from the country,
and his wife," he said. II know that
she is his partner In running that
farm. Her vegetables, butter and eggs
provide an important part OF their in
come Now they have come to the city
for an outing. To my mind they be-
long to the class who are really our
best people. and the woman behind
them with the lorgnette is just a
coarse vulgar trump"
why is 1t that some city folks-not
all by any means. but some-assume
such airs Of superiority over persons
from the country? The farmer is gem
orally an ADLER and more successful
business man than the fellows who
make him the butt of their jokes. The
cattleman in his broad-rimmed hat
and high-heeled boots is superior in
intelligence to the city boob who smiles
at him, and the stockman's clothing
is not nearly so ..freaky" as that worn
by the town dude. Nine times In ten
the farmers wife mas q home OF her
own that the city woman. who feels
superior to her, can never hope to pos
sess. And the chances are that the
country woman is better bred, too, and
has finer sense OF the proprieties.
Clothes do not make the man." Is q
proverb as old as the hills. Another is:
Fine feathers do not make fine birds"
They are as true today as they ever
were.-Kansas City Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
COMING SACK FROM TINE GRAVE.

Frank and Nate Rainsbarger, after
more than a quarter of century be-
hind the walls of states prison are
again in Hardin county having been
permitted to visit sister who Is criti-
cally i'll.
they looked out of the train windows
OF .het- way sSa.aa saw a new world.
For these men have been sealed in
tomb like Lazarus and have risen again
to look on life. The twenty-five
years they have been entombed have
seen the most marvellous changes. The
face of Iowa has changed. The prairies
have utterly disappeared. Farms and
farm houses are as a new country.
Cities have grown. Nate and Frank
Rainsbarger, coming back home were
as men arriving from far and foreign
country. They had heard tales OF
great change and vast improvement
Now their eyes have seen. It must
have been a strange and to a degree
shocking revelation.
Perhaps it was no kindness, however
we'll meant, to give those men a glimpse
OF life and shut them back in their
graves.
1t brings up wonderment that they
should be kept in prison and refused
parole. They are old and feeble men
now a very serious doubt that they
were guilty as charged exists in many
minds They have been model prison.
ers and have earned good regulations
in prison to replace the repute that
went far toward their conviction.
No harm would be done the state or
justice were these two old men re-
leased on parole TO stare and wonder
at the strange land wherein they would
find themselves. They could never
overtake progress. All they could do
would be to sit in wonderment at
tempting 10 adjust themselves 10 the
new. They have lost the mightiest
quarter century that has passed under
the sun. Their punishment has been
long and severe. And they are old
men. It would harm nobody were they
to be released on parole.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
wom.n IN chicago Politics

Tho vote Of women at the recent
election was another answer TO the Oh.
lection made by anti-suffragists that
u,omen would neglect the francnise
even ,f granted it. Virtually the same
nronortion of the registration OF wom
an voted AZ Of men. It 10 true regis
tra.ion was not nearly 80 large, out
when we consider the long standing
ana elaborate machinery for gettins
out the male voters. the years OF para-
san association, habit, and traditlon'
the response Of women in Chicago mas
been most creditable.
The election also illustrated again the
value OF woman's conscience and In
terest in our civic Housekeeping. not.
ably ia the defeat OF the unit barney
GroRan and the election Of Carl 7.
Murray in the Eighteenth ward It
waa the women who turned the scale
for Mr.. Murray. thereby raising the
level Of the council and assuring them
selves and their ward an influence In
that body which win tell.
A. the council election year ago
several good aldermen were saved py
the women, and at the recent pri-
maries their vote counted for better
candidates. Chicago has every reason
to congratulate itself on the new fofce
in its affairs. Nowhere has the wom-
ans vote told decisively against good
government. In not few cases It mas
told CONSEQUENTLY tor Il.
Since the foregoing comment was
written an editorial from the Free
press Of Milwaukee has been brought
to our attention. It is reprinted below
ar an example Of the unhappy In
auence Of partisanship. It is q
grotesque misstatement Of the situa-
ton in Chicago.
So far as the appearance and actions
OF women in public, the late electoral
celebration showed nothing abnormal
Women always were present at sucn
times and some always have been
| vociferous. I.
Women now take a more active part
in campaigning and are to be seen
oftener on platforms and about polling
places. But except IN very infre0uen'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
HARDING AND cossoN.


W. l. Harding of Sioux City, and
George Cosson, of Audubon, one lieu
tenant governor and the other attorney
general, are going TO be candidates for
governor in next years primaries. The
last weeks developments point con-
clusively to that fact. Mr. Harding's
pitcher will break before he reaches
the we'll. He filed it with alcoholic
beverages once or twice too often, and
it won't hold water, after Iowa goes
dry. MI. Coson may be more success
full. Cosson is a bigger man than Har-
ding, more sincere, more of the type
Of the straightforward, always above
board politician, but Mr.. Cosson should
have stayed in the attorney generals
chair for at least one more term. He
has broadened rapidly and visibly since
he was elected to that office, and he
still is developing. As a gubernatorial
candidate he will, like the runner on
the athletic field. endanger his chances
for victory by squirting too early in
the game.
Mr.. Harding is a wet, and everybody
knows it. He always mas been wet,
and always will be, at least at heart.
He does not sanction prohibition. Iowa
right now does not appear to be fer
tile for the candidacy of LIQUOR advo-
Gates. Mr.. Harding should recognize
this If he doesn't know it now he will
know it a few months hence.
Mr.. Cosson is a great lawyer, and
his Job of the last Few years has given
him ample opportunity to demonstrate
that fact. But excellent legal ability
is only one Of many equally impor-
tant attributes required IN a governor.
Just how good a business man he may
be is not known. Heaven knows Iowa
needs a good business man at the helm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
Topics of the Times

The Sioux City police scandal trial
now in progress develops that whether
or not there is honor among thieves
there isn't much of the commodity be-
tween policemen and resort keepers.
The difference between the reports
from the Mexican war and those that
would be written of a battle between
savages in South Africa Is mainly the
difference between machine guns and
war clubs.
The conclusion that the state can
afford to keep the entire capitol extern
sion purchase is a wise one. 1t was a
good buy and we shall need it when
the boys grow up even If We don't farm
it next year
Frank Shankland, author OF the no.
torious Shankland bill announces a
candidacy for attorney general Now
ernor and Standard as attorney and
the prohibitory law playing Daniel in
that den Of lions?
Loose talk by disappointed seekers
after one thing and another who damn
everything in Iowa except themselves
is doing the state harm where people
do not know the smallness OF the per-
sons who are doing the spouting.
Now those who long and thirst for
a postoffice as heart panteth for the
water brooks should take a chance on
being the first man to mention The
first man to mention the successful
candidate is a strong card.
Time to quit making mud pie roads
and build something that will last.
Roadmaking in this state isn't an
amusement but a business necessity.
A strong man and a great news
paper man passed with w. r. Nelson,
of the Kansas City Star. Mr.. Nelson
has made the Star great among the
greatest newspapers of the world. Much
Of the strength of the Star was Mel
sons own strength who feared moth
ing and whose journal was as fearless
as himself. If he ever used it to drive
| men it drove them in the right di-
rection This country will miss Nelson
| much more than 1t would miss some
better known and esteemed greater.
Still, from appearances, that ant
| tipping law might be applied to Siou1
| City policemen without raising muct
opposition among the citizens of tha1
| town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
A Hot Artesian Well.

In the Flathead Indian reservation
near Camas, Mont. is an artesian well
containing hot mineral water. said to
be the only one in the world. Around
It, within q mile, are other artesfan
wells in which the water Is clear and
cool. A few years ago the government
threw open the F1athead reservation.
and those who were successful In tho
drawing now own fine ranches In a
fertile valley. Artesian wells have been
struck at q depth ranging from ninety
to 36s feet. In the summer Of 1913. on
the ranch within mile Of one of these
cold wells. drillers were at work when,
at the depth Of IA feet, hot water
gushed upward with such force that
the drillers were forced to fee. In q
few days the rush Of hot water han
washed q large hole, with the drill still
In. tho incapacitated. The well was
finally curbed 30 that 1t could be used.
Tho water Is 120 Fahrenheit. flowing
~ the rate Of sixty barrels minute. U,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
4 SCANS, Rock pwelIsr.

One Of the ctransest creatures known
to science Is the Dholas, or boring
clam. When still every minute the ani-
NAL bores into the sandstone lodges at
extreme low water, by means OF hs
sharp shell. which Is replaced by SCI
cretions as it 10 worn away. It pene-
trates the rock to depth Of six or.
eight inches, and ho!lows out its bur-
row as 1t increases in size, Shaped
roughly like top, 1t could not leave
it's rock dwelling even II II wished to
do 50. For food, It depends on the
animalcules that float in sea water,
which is seizes by Its long eiphon. or
tongue. The pholas IL in great de-
mand at the seaside resorts along the
Pacific coast. for its meat is very ten-
der and makes excellent soup Youths
COMPANION.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
shah's Costly Dlundsr.

The shah OF Persia, in all things per-
tanning to modern progress. Is N
ignorant as child. and. being y
despot, no one dare correct his errors.
He has just been guilty Of costly
blunder. at which all the engineering
journals are laughing. He has started
to build railway from Teheran to the,
Caspian sea. Instead OF beginning 1t
the Caspian and bringing forward rails
and materiad on the road az It pro-
gressed, he had all the iron and rails
carried across the desert to Teheran
and the work begun there. The total
cost Of the ten miles already conn
pleted IL $50 ,00O nearly half Of which
is for transportation expenses. This
manner Of work would bankrupt any
company: but as the shah is bankrupt
anyhow. it does not matter very much.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
Arc Your Movie Theater. cIean3

Clean your movie theaterS. Have
ycS ever stopped to consider what the
popular movie" theater can do to hurt
health conditions in your town? The
unventilated theater. remodeled. per-
haps, from an old store building, 10
probably the best Little breeder OF
tuberculosis germs in your city or
town. From the time 1t opens at noon.
until 1t closes at midnight or there
abouts, generally for about twelve
hours, one audience files In as another
files out or people come and go IN
thin stream. There IL no time between
films or the gathering Of a new audi
ence, TO allow a fresh supply OF air to
sweep thru the theatsr. from front
door to back. The ceilings are low,
and the seats closely set together to
give a large seating capacity. In the
unventilated theater Of this sort the
enclosed air is used up by an audience
in from six TO eight minutes. An audi
ence Of a single afternoon or evening,
will inhale and exhale this foul Ar
from twenty-three to thirty dinersnt
times. And the later you arrive. after
noon or evening. the worse the Quahty
of the air you breathe and the better
chance You have TO contract tubercu-
losis.
Do You know how the theater where
your children go, is cleaned? Go down
in the morning, say about ten o'clock
and see. The genial manager, the
smiling ticket seller are not In evil
dence. The only person in sight Is a
porter. usually colored and lazy VINO
by the sickIy light Of single gas-oet
or electric bulk, is making pretense
OF sweeping out the house. He may
have one door open few inches, ana
more than likely he sweeps the refuse
into the street. Then In an equally IN
different fashion he goes over the seats
or benches with a decrepit feather
duster. II the house. caters to a
tobacco-spitting. peandt-chewins, or
fruit-eating audience. he may sprinkle
d;sfnfectant on the floor.
What he does not do. Is to hing open
every door and window, sweep and DUST
with sanitary equipment ana
Thoroughly purify the air.
BY all means clean up your movie
theater. Insist that it be thorouehiy
aired after both afternoon and evening
performances, II there Ii an intermls-
sion. that ventilators and proper clean.
ing facilities be installed, or you WIN
not patronize nor permit your children
n natronize the theater.-Pictortal Re-
view.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
Bullets Don't Hiss.

That bullets neither whine, hiss,
howl. hum nor whisper. novelists to the
contrary notwithstanding, is informa-
ton given by Edward C. Crossman In
outing. with one possible exception
when in certain conditions OF open
country military bullets hiss to those
standing back Of the firing line-noth-
ing Is audible except a sharp crash Of
air closing around the bullets base
when it travels at high speed. At q
velocity of 1900 feet a second. or more.
the noise Is like nothing SO much an
a long and very violently cracked
blacksnake whip" Those who stand far
enough from the rife hear the bullets
crack and later the dull thudding noise
Of the rifle itself. which has been out
speeded. Jack London makes soldier
hit at 6O0-yard range first hear the
sound Of the modern rifle and then feel
the blow of the bullet. But the bullet
would have killed him half second
before the sound from the rife reached
him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-14
Nc T..r. Far earIy H,ress.

During the Spanish war when bul-
letins were pouring into the neWspa-
per offices relating to the fight outside
Santiago, Bruce keenan,, who was
among the waiting crowd in front OF
the Wichita Eagle, was suddenly
struck with thought. t.War 10 terri.
BILE" he said.
The crowd agreed to this
But" Keenan, went on. i am lot
sorrier for the men who are being
killed in this war than am for the
Americans who lost their lives in the
American revolution.
How is that" someone asked.
Because" said Keenan,. w.sc .sas 2
Judge and who was on this occasion in
his most serious mood. because tbos-
killed IN the revolution would be dead
by this time, anyway. 4