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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
TODAY.S BIT OF VERSE
MY WAY.


Mayhap it stretches very far,
Mayhap it winds from star to star;
Mayhap through worlds yet uniformed
Its never ending journey runs
Through worlds that now whirllng wraltns
OF formless mists between the suns:
| go-beyond my widest ken,
/ shall not pass this way again.
So. as CO. and cannot stay,
And more pass by this way,
II hope to sew the way with deeds
Whose seed shall bloom like Maytime meads,
And flood my onward path with words
That thrill the day like singing birds;
That other travellers following on
May find CLEAN and not gloom
May find their path pleasant way -.
A trail of music and of bloom
Sam w Walter Foss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald: Has
ony one heard Of bootiegger being ar
rested in Des Moines or any of her
sister inland towns recently? Is there
any one who doubts that bcotlegging
is going on in almost every city block
of those places? Why is it state Off
cials with headquarters in Des Moines
persist in hurrying out to some border
town to seek offenders? Don't you be-
lieve it would be a good idea to COM
mence in THE center of the state and
work toward the outside in the clean
lup campaign?
Cedar Rapids Republican: Vice
President Marshall meekly says that
he leaves it all to Wilson. That is JUST
about the Marshall me-too size of him.
-ay the Lord bless that same Wilson
with four years more of life, to the
end that the little man who is vice
power.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: From the
east there come reports Of gigantic
stock swindles. Out in the west people
are more modest and they are not so
familiar with high finance They oner
silk skirt for ten cents, and would
make a fortune out of that IL the auth
critics did not interfere. They sell a
few gold briggs and let in an occasional
Mike" on the old race horse game.
Here and there they make a little
ready money by selling a herd Of wild
horses TO a gullible person. and there
l are indications that they will soon be
putting all sorts of oil stock en- the
market The latter will be more val
liable than in other years. owing to
the advance in the price Of paper
Manson Democrat: That diet squad
! in Chicago has finished its labors and
has proved that individuals may live
well on forty cents per day. Git out!
Who couldn't live on 40 cents day.
| day in and day out? If our family ate
up 40 cents per day per head that
would be $40 every twenty-four hours
and we know we never spent that
much on a days grub for the gang I'M
I less ii was Christmas or Thanksgiving.
4 The average family in Manson would
think it continual banquet If they
spent forty cents per day per person
( for eats.
/ Waterloo Courier: The SEVENTEEN
anniversary of Towa's statehood falls
on the 2Sth day of the present month.
At time when so many of her sister
states are celebrating their centennial
! or preparing to do so in near future,
Iowa should feel young by comparison.
She still boasts of citizens who have
lived within her bounds during the
whole period of her statehood. But
while still in the vigor Of youth Iowa
is not behind her Older sister states
in progress. The seventy years of her
history have been crowded with accom-
| plishment, so that comparison with
older communities shows her up In a
I. most favorable light.
Ottumwa Courier: Administration
lofficials have discovered that the
army's treasury is alreaf- some $685.
100000 overdrawn because of the mob
Slization Of state troops on the border
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
lrrepressibIe.

New York Times: The little Brim-
mer boy across the street is forever
asking questions.
You had better keep still or same
thing will happen to you. his mother
told him one night. Curiosity once
killed cat, you know"
This made so deep an impression
that the boy was quiet for several
minutes. Then he said: Mother,
what was It the cat wanted to
know"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
8 Out Of Every 10

City The Gate City into
out of every 10 homes where local daily paper IS
taken.
Only now and then will you find home where
The Gate City isn't taken-they re few aud far be-
tween. Make canvas of the city and you vii find
block after block where The Gate City goes to every
home without single exception
There is no other way that a merchant adver
tise-Reach as many people-Cover given terri
tory as thorough-as quick and-at the cost, as
through The Gate City. You may use any kind OF
advertising you choose-Bills, Circulars, Solicitors
and it will cost from two to ten times as much as
The Gate City.
Take personal advertising which is considered
good solicitor salesman from your store could
not cover the City of Keokuk and average out Of
every 10 homes-we mean that the solicitor would
be unable to get response to his knock at out OF
every 10 homes It's been tried-and a fair average
so to 60 per cent responding to solicitors knock
Thus The Gate City would reach more homes
than personal representative The Gate City
reaches out of every 10 homes where local daily
paper is taken Your message can be placed before
the occupants of 9 out of every 10 homes any day
you like-whie it would require solicitor 36 days
to cover the city-and 5 days for back calls This
would leave no time at all to talk gcods-wc know
we've tried it more than once
Besides the City of Keokuk, you talk to thous-
ands of Gate City readers on the Rural Routes and
many thousands in the surrounding towns and
camps
Nearly $4,000 people read The Gate City each
evening They will spend thousands and thousands
yes, several hundred thousand, dollars for Christ
mas gifts. It may be Clothing Shoes, Dry
Goods Musical Instruments, or Hardware
Jewelry, or Groceries, Candy, etc.
These Gate City readers-this very minute-are
wondering what to buy suggestion from you
will bring them to your store
USE GATE CITY ADS FOR RESULTS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Some one arises to explain that the
militia law is bad and does not work
out right. That may be true. And yet
when that law was adopted, everybody
seemed to consider it model. Per
haps> the law is all right. except that
part which refers to the pay of the
militiamen. And there seems to be
little difference OF opinion with regard
to the statement that the pay is simply
ridiculous.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

of Mexico It has also been discovered
that the deficit is apt to grow to $780,
100000 or even t75.o00,00 before the
troops can be cut off the payroll. Wag-
ing peace with Mexico is pretty expen-
siye
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

A Kenosha (Wis.) citizen of Italian
vintage hid half dollar in his mouth.
The coin slipped. A doctor recov-
cred the deposit in time to save his
life and pull his leg" for 800.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

field OF college work." for II ia a
foregone fact that there will be many
contestants for the 1900 set up as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Sometimes Villa appears more of combat
ant than a bandit, and Carranza's outfit more
OF q bluff than government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

a DIR. Shaw, New York university professor,
remarks that woman cannot be friend. One
of them must have promised to be sister to
him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Nothing is more helpful in making out the
Christmas shopping lists than the announce
n1ents in the advertising columns Of The Gate
City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

lure for the study of such .
but useful branch of learning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

The danger is not that the number of anti
high cost of living bills to be introduced in con-
gress Will be too few but that out Of the mass
there will not be even one that will meet the
situation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
VISIT kEOkuK
As our GUEST

These best Keokuk stores that have
banded together to refund your travel
ing expenses have earned their envi-
able regulations because Of the actual
merit Of the goods they sell and the
earnest, effective service continually
extended. You cannot do better
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Evidence accumulates in New York City
that there is an Oliver Osborne. With this
mystery unravelled it may yet develop who>as-
saulted Billy Patterson and the age of Ann
NAV be determined.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Senator O'Gorman of New York attributes
President Wilson's two elections to accident
IF the senator or any of his Tammany friends
get anything from the white house in the next
four wears it will also be accidental.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

prince asked Dante why it was that most people
found quite stupid person agreeable than a
man Of the highest learning and accomplishments Dante
replied that he nothing extraordinary in the fact
acter.-Petrarch.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14

Ottumwa Courier: Administration
officials have discovered that the
army's treasury is alreaf- some $685.
100000 overdrawn because of the mob
IHization Of state troops on the border
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-14
GET A CASH RE-
FUND SLIP WITH
YOUR FIRST PUR-
CHASE.

when you come to keolkuk and le
these merchants pay your travelling
expenses In. cash.
-AYREs CHAPMAN, jewelers.
eAUR-MULLARkY CO, Shoes
cEATRAL DRY GOODS STORE
pUNCAN-ScHELL FURNITURE CO.
EWERs-M MCCARTHY CO., Clothing
GOLDEN RULE DEPARTMENT STORE
HODGE a HAWKES., Shoes
j. NJ. hUlskAMP 4 SON, Shoes
FRANK n. JONES CO., Mems Clothing and Furnishings
LINQUIST BROS, House Furnshers
NATHAN LoWITZ, ReadytoWear for Women
g. .MEGcHElSEN Dry Goods
JUSTICE HOAR, Clothing
JULES RENAUDS SON, Jeweler
c. H. ROLLINS Co. Books, Stationery, Office ~uppes
ScHELCDEMPLE FURNITURE co.
SULLIVAN & AUWERDA, Dry Goods
WE'LL 4 CO., Clothing
WILKINSON Co., Drug Store
WiNGER- BROS, Dry Goods
THE YoUNkER STORE. Dry Goods
THE ROYAL CLOAK CO. Ready-to- Wear for Women
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
FOUR PERSONS DIE IN FIRE.
Flames Sweep Through Tenement
House in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, July Il. = A fire
which swept through tenement
house in the Park slope section of
Brooklyn early yesterday cost the
lives Of four persons - Mrs. Arthur
Miller and three of her children, An
ma, Eleanor and Ethel, seven, five and
two years old, respectively.
Arthur Miller, husband and father
of the four who perished and three
other persons were removed to hospi-
tails but viii recover. Mrs. Miller and
her daughters were suffocated by
smoke while Miller was trying to as
sist thep to escape.
Many of the so tenants saved their
lives by jumping into nets spread by
firemen and others were rescued by
policemen and fire-nen.
Fire Marshal Brophy announced
last night after an all days investi-
CATION that in his opinion the fire
was the work of pyromaaiac
Twelve detectives are searching for
man who has been seen in that
part of Brooklyn just before several
recent fires have started.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
SELECTMEN NAME
ADAMS TREASURER
One of Peoples Bank Tellers to Sue
ceed Late w. H. Brackett by
Appointment Until March.

! The board of selectmen today ap-
pointed Frederic c. Adams, one of the
tellers of the Peoples National bank.
town treasurer to succeed the late Wilford
ii. Brackett, who was cashier of that
bank. The appointment covers the pc
rod until the annual town meeting in
March, when a treasurer will be elected.
As Clarence Z. Merrill Of the Brattle-
boro Trust Co., son of A T. Merrill of
the board of selectmen, was candidate
for the office, Mr. Merrill did not partici-
pate in the voting, leaving the choice of a
treasurer to the two other members of
beard, Chairman w II. SF6ITman and
a. W. j. Wilkins
The salary of the town treasurer is only
$50 annually, so that the office is not one
that appeals especially to an individual,
but it is of more Importance to the bank
represented by the treasurer. For this
reason Messrs. Stellman and Wilkins de
cided to continue the treasurership of the
town with the institution designated by
the voters at the beginning of the fiscal
year, until such time as the voters can
have opportunity to vote on successor to
Mr.. Bracket.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
GUARDSMEN NEEDN'T RUSH.
Orders Given to Delay Moving Them
Until Fully Equipped.

WASHINGTON, July II. - The war
department sent orders yesterday to all
department commanders to delay trans
portation to the border of National
Guard organizations now mobilizing
until they are thoroughly equipped and
organized. The effect will be to revoke
ruling issued when the Mexican sit
uation was acute, waiving certain re-
quirements. The order affects about
$4,000 men still held in the camps.
The latest information of the de
partment is that 100000 National
Guardsmen now are at the border.
With the 10000 regulars there and s.
600 additional men called from the re-
serves, officials estimate that there is
sufficient force to cope with any pres
ent emergency and will make unneces-
sary the despatch of any more guards
men until they are completely equipped
and organized.
Published reports that use of a gen
eral draft was being considered to fill
the National Guard ranks were denied
by the department. Reports that Ma
tional Guard units are being provided
with poor and insufficient food are not
borne out in preliminary telegraphic re-
ports received from all the department
commanders.
A message from Gen. Funston report
ed that Gen. Trevino had sent many
troops south with the intention of oc-
cupying the Guerrero-San Borja- Santa
Rosalia line against any pOssoble north
ward advance of bandits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
FOUR QUARANTINED
IN BRATTLEBORO
Health officer Tucker Takes Precau-
tion to Prevent Possible Infantile
Paralysis Outbreak.

Four children who have come to Brat
tleboro from New York have been quaran-
tined by DR.. Henry Tucker, health officer,
in accordance with recent order promul-
gated by the state board of health as a
precaution against the possible introduc-
ton of infantie paralysis into this state
from New York city, where the disease is
epidemic.
Two of them came from Brooklyn and
are children of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul r. Hen
kel and are with relatives on Frost street
The two others are children of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Cullen Robertson of East Orange,
n. j., who came through New York on
their way here, and are at Mrs E. A
Starkey's on Oak street
The children are not i'll with the dis
ease, but the regulations require that
they be quarantined two weeks from the
time they were in New York, SO that in
case the disease develops it will have no
opportunity to spread.
Under the regulations it is the duty of
persons knowing of children coming from
New York to report the facts to the
health officer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
BOYD MAY HAVE
TRIAL BY JURY
Hearing Set for This Morning Contin-
ued to July 25-Hughes to Bring
Breach of Peace Charge.

The case of the state against Har-
ry Boyd, charged with assault which
was continued to this morning, was
again continued to July % at the re
quest of State s Attorney o. B.
Hughes. The state attorney an
nounced that he intended to file a new
charge against Boyd and asked for
the continuance.
1t was announced by III. B. Chase.
counsel for Boyd, that he might ask
for a jury trial and Judge +. E. Bar
Der ordered that in the event the re
spondent was to have a jury trial the
request must be filed not later than
Thursday.
Boyd was arrested the night of
July 3 after Mrs. William NJ. Randall
had fallen or been thrown from an
automobile in which she was riding
with Boyd and Miss Edith Walker.
Mrs. Randall was IN critical condi-
ton in the Memorial hospital several
days and was taken to her home last
week a little improved.
The states attorney first charged
assault, pending the outcome of the
injuries to Mrs. Randall. This morn
ing he informed the court that he
would bring charge of breach of
the peace against Boyd, charging
that he committed a breach by driv-
ing the automobile recklessly and in
juring Mrs. Randall and Nelson Der
by. Derby was walking in the bridge
when struck by the machine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
RoTARIANS TO CONVENE.
Members From All Parts of the World
Will Meet in Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, O., July il. = The
van guard of the 5000 or more repre-
sentative business men from all over
the world who will attend the seventh
annual convention of the international
Association of Rotary clubs have ar
rived here. Sessions will continue five
days.
The rotary convention is termed
Z" the great central market place for the
exchange of ideas, the real function
being to specialize in the science and
art of cooperation in this manner. 1t is
a rule of the association that one repre-
sentative of any particular business
may join the club in each city. This
rule rs enforced strictly in most clubs,
but in some instances two members of
one firm are admitted. Elaborate prepa-
rations for entertainment have been
made by the Cincinnati Rotary club.
Probably the most important bust
ness features to be taken up by the
convention will be on the question as
to how far Rotary clubs should go In
civic work and activity and what the
organizations should do with the in.
voluntary past rotarians.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
Decision Reached with Ref
erence to Main Street
Retaining Wall
CHANGES NOT TO BE
MADE AT PRESENT
Selectmen Think Fill Should Be AL
lowed to Settle Before Permanent
Top Work Is Done - Several Con-
tractors to Figure on Job.

A. i. Merrill, clerk of the board of
selectmen, said this morning with
reference to recent articles that have
appeared in The Reformer concerning
the lack of any activity in the mat
ter of Strengthening and widening
Main street that people did not un-
derst and the situation.
He said that two or three weeks
ago, after another conference with
Herbert g. Barber, attorney general,
who owns the so-called Raw and
Judge properties on Main street, from
which some of the land was taken for
the purpose of widening and straight
ening the street, it was decided to
have the necessary retaining wall
built by the town and Mr.. Barber.
each paving one-half of the cost
Mr.. Barber's architect said that
seven or eight contractors would be
asked to bid on the work of con-
structing the baak wall separately
from the bidding on the construction
of the building which Mr.. Barber
intends to build on the site of the
buildings destroyed by fire a year
ago.
The selectmen feel that the town
should wait until such time as the
two interested parties can have it
done by one contractor, for it viii
cost the town only about one-half
the amount that would be expended
were the town to build the retain
ing wall regardless of Mr. Barber.
Mr.. Merrill was asked about pos
slble delay on the part of Mr.. Bar
Der and replied that Immediately af-
ter the conference, holes were dug
IN the property to determine how far
down 1t would be necessary to exca-
vate to find suitable bottom and that
this move showed that something
was to be done.
1t was pointed out to Mr. Merrill
that if the building operations for
Mr.. Barber were not started until
late this summer the street would
remain as it is through another win
| ter.
Mr.. Merrill promptly replied that
| If work were to be begun immedi-
atelY he for one would not expect
20 see the street completed this fall.
| He says that very long and very
| deep fill is to be made after the
wall is built and that it would be
poor Judgment to try to lay a per-
manent street and sidewalk on top
of deep fresh fill. 1t would be al
lowed to settle before permanent
| work is put on top.
As Mr.. Merrill was speaking for
| the board, this statement would indi-
| cate that there is no apparent pros
pect of anything being done to af-
feet the lines of Main street in the
immediate future.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
VEHICLES COUNTED
BY TRAFFIC OFFICER
Nearly 1900 Pass Main and Elliot
Street Corner in Five Hours
Fairly Busy Place at Times

Traffic Officer Charles Wood counted
Saturday for five hours the number of
vehicles that passed the corner of Main
and Elliot streets, where he was on duty
The hours during which the count was
kept were from 8 to L in the morning
and , to 4 in the afternoon.
There were $50 automobiles, 557 teams
and 63 motorcycles and bicycles that
passed his post As there were other
hours. especially late in the afternoon
Saturday, when the traffic was heavier, it
is presumable that had he counted during
the last five hours of his tour of duty the
number would have been even larger, al
though the figures given indicate that
Main street is a fairly busy place at
times and incidentally that the traffic Off
Ger there who is 'on his job as Mr..
Wood seems to be, has plenty to keep
him busy.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-17
CALLS WASTE WAR TREASON.
Chancellor McKenna Urges Nation to
Invest Savings.

LONDON, July 1.-THE week be-
ginning yesterday is regarded in
England as War Savings Week, in
which every citizen of the United
Kingdom is expected to invest ac-
cordng to his means in the various
forms provided by the government for
financing the war. Chancellor of the
Exchequer McKenna, in manifesto
issued last night urging the import
ance of the nation 5 efforts in this
direction and referring to the pres
ent military operations IN France,
says:
"This is no battle of day or two,
but the beginning of a long, patient
and arduous offensive demanding from
our soldiers heroic exertions and un-
imaginable sacrifices. Are we at home
content to be mere spectators of
this wonderful effort -
Pointing to the necessity for the
same patient and rigid self-delial on
the part of the community, Mr.. Ne
Kenna says;
Extravaganza and waste are trea-
son in war time and indifference is q
crime. -