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United States" the preacher said
while several enthusiasts far of in
one corner echoed chorus of
: 'amens"
Rev. Lees prayer continued for Z II
minutes, winding up with the Lords
prayer. in which the audience joined.
Chairman McCombs began his open
ing speech at 12:43, being accorded
complete attention by the crowd
which now filed every seat. Applause
was scattering and sporadic through
out.
O1i.the platform with McCombs was
Colonel Martin, Bennett Clark, son OF
the speaker, a couple of volunteer
cheer leaders and last. most interest
ing of all, petite Miss Emily Young
Chairman McComb's private secre-
tary. So far as known she is the
first women who has sat on the speak
ers' rcstrum at a democratic conven-
ton. Call for the convention was
then read while the audience sat and
famed and mopped their respective
brows
Complete quiet greeted the perspir.
Ing secretary's oratorical effort OF
the reading of the call.
Chairman McCombs had read the
INST of temporary convention officials
friends of each officer according to
the reading of his name, brief bits
of hand cIapping.
Delegate George NJ. Greene, OF
Rhode Island, got into the Iimelight
by recognition OF the chair to make
the usual perfunctory motion to adopt
the temporary officers as officers OF
the convention.
BY this time it was apparent the
steaming atmosphere of the hall was
rapidly taking the pep out OF the
round of applause greeted former
Governor Glynn of New York, temper
airy chairman. Some of those on the
platform worked their flags vigorous
" and boosted the applause a Bit
while the band aided by footing until
Chairman McCombs' gavel stopped
them.
Start of Enthusiasm.
Glynn's first thought that struck
the audience and brought forth a
spark of enthusiasm was his defense
of the Wilson Americanism and his
Characterization of the Americanisn
of others as pepper hot" politicians
His reference to Jefferson, Hamil
ton and others as those whose neu
trality was attacked in their day
but applauded by history, was another
enthusiasm envoker.
At this time summer rain had set
in outside, and the skylight was fully
needed to light things up. The hea,
was sticky and enervating and was
shown in the absence OF any spontan
city in the applause until volunteer
cheer leaders on the platform got
busy and literally pulled it out with
waving of flags.
Such demonstration greeted
Glynn's prediction of victory al the
polls in November. He did not men
ticn President Wilson by name, but
Immediately the presidents name
was taken up with the cheering and
flag waving. Enthusiastic young men
ON the stage urged delegates to rise
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err business. council upon motion,
adjourned.
ED. S. LOTION.
Attest: Mayor.
10. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
May 80, 1916, 9 a. m.
Council met in regular session with
all members present except Mayor
Lotion; Mayor Pro Tenn Hilpert pre-
siding Minutes OF meetings of May
25th, 1916, were read and approved
Resolution No. SO.
Be it Resolved, BY the City Council
of the City of Keokuk:
That the following pay rolls be.
and they are hereby approved and
ordered paid:
Warrant No. Bats, Park ......3 $3.50
Warrant No.. 3479, Sidewalk. 36.78
Warrant No 24S0, Sewer 80. $500
Warrant No. 1881, Street $3.50. 1885
Warrant No. 34s2. County Road 1918
Warrant No. 1883, Motor
Vehicle ~. .... 1850
Warrant No. 24s4, T. j. Cow
vim, cement cutters and in
tersections, Improvement 1880
|, Roll call:
Aye-HHpert, Hickey.
Lofton-Absent.
FRED HILBERT. Jr.,
Attest: Mayor Protein.
10. w. sANDBERG, City Clerk.
There being no further business.
Council took recess until a. M,
May goth. y
FRIED HILBERT, Jr.,
Attest: Mayor Protein.
10. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
May 29,~1916, 2 p. m.
r.,,oiI oovepad after rocoSs with
all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding. and passed the following
Resolution No. 81.
Be it Resolved, By the City Council
of the City OF keokuk, that 1t is
deemed advisable and necessary to
make improvements by grading be-
tween sub-grade and established
grade. and paving with concrete, the
foundation to be prepared, grading
done and paving to be constructed IN
accordance with specifications to be
prepared by the City Engineer, and
approved by the City Council, the
following named alleys and parts OF
alleys, to-wit: In block 3 A Estes
addition, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth and Main and Johnson; in
block 8. Reeves, Perry & Williams
addition, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth and Concert and high;
block AZ. City of Keokuk, between
Third and Fourth and High and
Morgan; block So, City of keokuk.
between Fifth and Sixth and Frank
lin and Orleans avenue; block 40,
City of Keokuk, between Third and
Fourth and Fulton and Franklin
streets.
The expense of making said inn
proyements to be assessed against
all privately owned lots and parcels
of land abutting thereon and ad-
iacent thereto, according to area. so
as to include one-half of the privately
owned property between the alley
improved and the next alley, whether
such privately owned property abut
upon said alley or not, but in no
case shall privately owned property
situated more than one hundred fifty
G5O) feet from the alley so improved
be so assessed. to the extent that the
same is assessable by law, said as
sessments to be made in accordance
with the law governing the same.
Be it Further Resolved, That the
City Council will meet OF 800 o'clock
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St Louis Cash Grain.

ST. Louis Cash Grain.
Furnished by Long Commission Co.,
403 Main. Telephone No. 1901
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 14.-Wheat-
No. 2 red, new, $111@1.12h: No. 8
red, new, $1.06; No. 2 hard, old, S1.00
Q1.02.
Corn-No. 2, 75@7sc; No. 3. 75c;
No. yellow, No. 2 white. 761sc; No.
3 white, 751sc.
Oats-No. 2. 371ac: No. 3, 35hc;
No. white. 3S04Oc; No. 4 white, 3Sc.
Kansas City Cash Grain.
FURNISHED by Long Commission Co.,
4O3 Main. Telephone No. 1901
KANSAS CITY, June 14.-Wheat-
No. 2 hard, 97c@$1.03: No. 3 hard.
94c@$1.01; No. hard, s3@95c; No.
2 red, S1.04; No red, 98c@$1.02:
No. 4. red, S5@951sc.
Corn-No. 2, 701ac; No. 3, 69hc;
No: 2 yellow, 72k@7sc; No. 3 yellow.
oats1No. 2, s4Qs5c; No. 3. $40
33c; No. 2 white, 40@401ac; No. 3
white, 37h @39c.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, June 14.-Hog receipts
$4,000; market strong, 5@10c higher.
Mixed and butchers, 1885 $3.50;
good heavy, $9.60@9.s0; rough heavy.
ss.30@945; light. $s.2o@9.s0; pigs,
s7.50@S.90.
Cattle receipts $4,000; market
weak, 1Oc lower. Beeves, $1,000
11.4O; cows and heifers. $4.00Q10.00;
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HOll call.
Aye-Lofton, Hilpert, Hickey.
ED. s. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
10. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
Resolution No. 81.
Be it Resolved, By the City Coun-
Gil of the City of Keokiik:
That the owner Of the southerly
half of lot SO and the northerly half
of lot 81, in block IA, Mason's upper
addition to the City of Keokuk, be.
and he is hereby ordered to abate
nuisance existing upon said prem
Uses consisting of standing and stag
nant water, By causing said water to
be removed therefrom by causing
said lot 10 be drained or filled. In
the event of neglect or failure OF
said owner to so abate said nuisance
within ten days from the service OF
the notice herein provided upon him,
the Superintendent of Streets OF the
City of Keolui!i shall cause said
nuisance to be abated and report the
cost of the abatement Of same to the
City Council, to be assessed as
special tax against said property.
Be 1t Further Resolved. That the
property owner be forthwith notified
to abate said nuisance as herein
provided.
Roll call:
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charges for rooms over normal times,
but fortunately for the hotel men,
nothing was said about cot prices out
in the hall and these are weighted
down with tired men and all the
tariff the traffic will bear.
The hotel and business men have
only few days In which to get back
the 100000 they gave for the con-
vention and there is no denying they
are after it.
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to their feet waving flags vigorously
until they had the audience started
off. The band added to the din. Back
of the press stand Bryan aided in the
cheering by vigorous hand claps. The
sergeant at arms stepped forward as
Glynn, smiling, stepped back 10
await the end of the noise and waved
his flag, demanding new and re.
doubled applause from the delegates.
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a. M, on the 18th day OF June, 1915.
in the council chamber in the City OF
Keoluk, for the purpose of consid-
ering objections to the passage OF
the said proposed resolution, and to
the construction Of the said improve
ment, at which hearing the above
resolution may be amended and pass
ed, or passed as proposed.
Be 1t further Resolved, That the
City Clerk be and he is hereby in
structed to cause notice of the pend
ency of the above resolution and the
time at which the said proposed res
olution will be considered by this
council. and objections to the passage
thereof heard, to be published as
provided by law in The Daily Gate
City, newspaper of general circu-
lation, published in the City of Keo-
kuk
Adopted May 10Th, 1916, by the fol-
lowing vote:
Aye-Lofton, Hilpert. Hickey.
Aye; Noes-0.
/ Approved and signed:
ED. S. LOTION,
Mayor OF the City of Keokuk.
O. W. sANDBERG, City Clerk.
There being no further business,
Council took recess until May 81,
1716, 9 a. m.
ED. 8. LOTION,
Attest: Mayor.
rO:@ W. sANDBBRG, City Clerk.
'si May 81. 1916, 9 a. m.
Council convened after recess with
all members present, Mayor Lotion
presiding.
Resolution No. 90.
Be it Resolved, BY the City Council
of the City OF Keokuk:
That the following pay rolls be, and
they are hereby approved and ordered
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p : "a :
Aye-Lofton, Hilpen, Hickey.
ND.>S. LOTION.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk
Resolution No.i63.
Be it Resolved. By the City Coun'
Gil of the City OF Keo41lk:
That the following described side
walks be, and they are hereby order
ed constructed In accordance with
the specifications now on file in the
City Engineers office and which are
made a part thereof by reference:
Cement sidewalk feet wide in
front of the following described lots,
to-wit:
Lots 1, 2. 8. 4, s. 8, block SO. City
OF Keokuk, 300 feet.
Lots IL and -, block 1s, ,Leishton's
addition, 100 feet.
Block sc, Reid's addition, from the
Fifth street bridge southwesterly TO
the east line Of A street. iez 1eet.
Lot 80, Randall's addition, 30 feet.
Cement sidewalk, feet wide
alongside of the following described
lots, to-wh:
Center 1923 feet OF lot IL, block
10, Mason's upper addition. 48 20
feet.
Rear 46 % feet Of lot IL, block 10,
Mason's upper addition, 1873 feet.
Said above described work must be
commenced on or before June goth.
1916, and completed by August LIST.
1916.
Adopted May 81, 1915. by the fol-
lowing vote:
Aye-Lofton. Hilpert, Hickey.
ED. 8. LOTION,
iAttest. Mayor.
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
II was ordered that the above res
olution remain on file and posted In
the ONCE of the City Clerk Dor per
iod of one week for public inspection
as required by law, and that same
shall be considered for final passage
on June 9Th, 1915.
Attest. Mayor.
O. W. sANDBERG, City Clerk.
General Ordinance No. 475.
Reing an ordinance entitled An
Ordinance establishing zones OF qrueI
in the vicinity Of St. Josephs hospital
and Graham hospital in the City Oh
Keokuk," was presented to the Couh.
ell. It was moved and seconded thaI
the rules be suspended and saia
General Ordinance No. ATS be placeo
upon its passage. Carried. Moveu
by Councilman Hilpert, seconded ps
Councilman Hickey, that said Gen.
eral Ordinance No. Ats which reaos d.
follows:
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2 hard. s1.oa; No. 8 hard. s1.o1

Ql.OZ.
Corn-No. yellow, TIC: No. vel
low, 75h@ 76c; No. 6 yellow, 7Oh@
75c; No. 2 white, 75c; No. 3 white.
74Ac; No. 6 white, CSC; No. 2 mixed,
76Ac; No. 6 mixed, 1890.
Oats-No. 3 white. 39A@40c; No.
4 white, 3S@39Ac; standard, 40hc.
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DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
CONTINUED from page 1.

United States" the preacher said
while several enthusiasts far OF in
one corner echoed a chorus of
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Genera, Ordinances No. 47s.

AS long as It Is only talk. let the
other fellow have has way. why
should you care?
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able from Senator Stone who is to he
chairman of the resolutions commit
tee. The first session of the COM
mittee will be held this afternoon.
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HIGH. Heels. PUT
G0...R.NS on TOES.
Tells Women How TO Dry Up a.
Corn So 1t Lifts Out
without Pain.

Modern high-heeled footwear buck
lcs the toes and produces corns. and
many OF the thousands of hospital
cases OF infection and lockjaw are the
result Of woman's suicidal habit OF try
ing to cut away these painful pests
For little cost there can be obtained
at any pharmacy quarter of an ounce
OF a drug called frcczonG, which is
sufiicient to rid ones feet or every
hard or soft corn or callus without the
slightest danger or Inconvenience.
a few drops applied directly upon
the tender, aching corn stops the sore
ness and shortly the entire corn, root
and all. lifts right out. tits a sticky
substance, which dries the moment it
is applied. and thousands OF men and
women use 1t because the corn shriVeIs
up and comes out without inflaming
or even irritating the surrounding tfs-
sue or skin. Cut this out and try it If
your corns bother Advertisement
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100000 from liquor license. to meet
the annual state aid to local schools
amounting to 100000. and to meet
tho old appropriations for new build
tngs and lands.
This condition was met ana
remed1ed by an act or the second ex-
#traordinary session OF tho 1915 Iegfg-
lature. which act provided the neces-
sary revenue. and today places the
state on a sound financial basis.
expenditures for permanent JIM
7proyements. and buildings and lands,
during the last two years equal cx-
penditures for Same purposes during
the preceding seven years. The levy
Tor the, present year is nine cents, be-
ing less than levy prior to the passage
OF this act At the end OF the present
year the state Will have surplus and
will, without any state levy, have
sufficient funds for running the gov
eminent and maintaining all its in
stitutions. twill be necessary to levy
a state tax only to cover state aid to
local schools. and to cover the cost OF
permanent improvements to the state
or six-cent levy Is sufficient to cover
ordinary permanent improvements and
state aid to local schools
Purposes for Which Levy REQUIRED.
A study Of the purposes, as shown
by the following schedule, for which
last years state levy was used and
for which the current years levy viii
be used shows that it will no longer
be necessary to lay a direct tax to
meet ordinary expenses of the state,
a direct levy being required to cover
only state aid to local schools and
repairs ana improvements to state in
stitutlons and buildings the state hav-
ing sufficient revenue without any dr.
rect levy to meet all other expcndI-
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Expenditures ~ items.

Beginning at page 384 is a classic
cation showing the various purposes
for which money is expended. To
illustrate, this table shows that the
state expended during the year ending
June 80. 1916, for postage, $24,208. SO. \
for beef and pork s54 ,629.36, for -four.
{$30,028:6 for sugar SIS, 987-23, salaries
for education Sl.229,O14.75. Twenty
nine per cent Of the total dfsburse-
sments Of the state is for salaries for
education. This item consists of $525,-
s666.58 dtsbursed direct by the state
for education salaries and $703, 24S.17
state atdito local schools. The total
state aid to local schools is $71S, 566.17
IS of which amount is aid to
building funds and the balance, S703,-
s24S1Zj being used to pay salaries of
local teachers Attention is also called
TO the Classification Of expenditures.
page $50, by departments and institu-
@tfona, both general and special reve-
nue. expenditures
Appropriations Cancelled.
Beginning at page 3S9 will be found
Sastab1e showing general revenue ap-
preparations remaining unexpended
February 81, 1916, and which cancelled
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END
OF RAILWAY
Will. .B.":.E.B.y.....ZlT
And When Completed There.
Will. Be a Railroad across
the Andes Mountains.

J, ,- Il e v
VALPARAISO, Chile Nov. 22.The |
department Of public works has agals.
seriously taken under consideration
the proposition Of constructing theI
Chilean end of new Trans-Andine
railway. The line, which official re-
ports say will be built at tho earliest
possible moment, will connect the Ar
gentne port@of Bahai Blanca with Lee
bu and will cross the Andes in the
foreign regions OF Lonql1inlay. The Ar
gentine end Of the new trans-contin-
entail has been completed to within
thirty kilometers OF the Chilean from
tier whore work was halted to await
a like Development on the western
slope Of the Andes.
That Chile has not as vet rebuilt its
section is due to a difference of opfn-
ion among government engineers as;
to the most available route. Two
counter projects have been urged in
the chamber Of deputies. These call
for lines across the=mountains$ OF cen
tral and northern Chile, but the ex-
haustive report Of Senior Domingo.
Duran, government expert, which has
just been submitted, seems to have
settled the matter in favor OF the
southern pass. The bleak nature OF
the Andes in the northern and central
parts, with the liability of avalanches
when HllSnL Dlock& the line Tor months,
has apparently determined the govern
ment TO commerce work in the South
where the forests Of the high platcaus
will hold the sliding SHOWS.
At present semi-weekly trains are
running between Buenos Ayres and
Valparaiso over the existing trans
Andine road which crosses the great
plateau through the Uspal1ata pass,
10000 feet above the level of the sea.
The Etwice-a-week service, which was
maintained before the great war, was
discontinued until a fortnight ago,
when II was resumed because traffic
! across the Panama canal has created.
q profitable passenger service for the
lfSouth American trans-continental.
| Many Americans are now experiencing
the thrill decreasing the highest noun
tain range in the world, and OF seeing
from car windows those majestic
peaks. the close hand view OF which has,
heretofore been reserved for exper-s
fenced and adventurous mountain
climbers.
The boundary line between the Ar
gentine and Chile consists OF 1000
miles Of Andean peaks. most OF which.
are over $4,000 feet high and some.
which rise to 90. 900 feet! This massive
barrier can be crossed in but few
places even by men on foot, and the
building Of the new transcontinenta1
| will be notable engineering feat 1t
is expected that by the time it has
been completed the war IN Europe
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g.Ri.ILG: lE:E[GTI.T.
fGontinued from page 2, drst seed


n prtat1 Ion year with the revenue year
states finances. Information was
thus disclosed and presented to the
1915 legislature showing that the
state had accumulated a deficit in It's
general revenues which amounted
July u, 1913, to $d80,00O, this
deficit originating during the year
1912 when one cent state levy was
laid and when the industrial trouble
IN the Kanawha valley occurred,
which lost the state over $500, 900.
The one cent state levy was not suf-
ficient to cover the states ordinary
expenditures without including the
extraordinary expenditure OF main
tanning law and order
The state suffered a still further
loss during the year ending June go.
1915, in revenue from liquor license
of over 100000. The result wns
that the state finished the year June
80, 1915, with deficit of S766. 900.
which deficit would have been fur
ther Increased had not extraordinary
appropriations made by the 1913 leg
tslatuTe for buildings and lands been
suspended for want OF revenue until
the summer of 1915.
The state, Beginning with the year
1908, has contributed annually out
of Its general revenues 100000 to-
wards the support. OF local schools,
or three and one-half cents OF the
state levy is for local school pur.
poses.
It was. therefore, necessary for the
1915 legislature to provide for the
$766sOO0 deficit. the annual loss OF
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will have terminated and sufficient
traffic for both lines will be available.
AT present the crossing from ocean
to ocean. Buenos Aires to Valparaiso,
consumes only thirty-nine hours less
time than on an yother trans-continen
tai line if the isthmian roads at lie
.huantepec and Panama be excepted.
SAt0 8 80 in the morning the train leaves
Buenos Aires. Reaching the noun
tains a change TO a narrow gauge cog
wheel road is made. When the sum
NIT is gained the train is putting - 900
feet above the level of the sea and the
International tunnel. nearly three
miles in length. is entered. Ten min
.utes of darkness and the train bursts
out into the binding light Of tho high
plateau which Is Chile. The descent
lis made more rapidly, still BY cog
wheel road. rs 8&
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Percentage classification.
The total amount disbursed by the
state for all purposes Except invest
ment q the school fund, dis bllrsements
from the worknen's 1compensation fund
and disbursements OF taxes collected
for counties, district and municipall-
tieSl during the Year ending June so,
revenue and $l,O52.797.89 from special
revenue; total S4,173,375.62. Briefly
stated, this amount was expended from
appropriations for the following pur-
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ty,5 West Virginia. for the hearing and re-
ceiving of ali proof Of debts against the
estate OF the said William r. Smith, accord
ing to Section 10 OF Chapter 81 of the Code
of West Virginia, ut which time and place
you are notified to appear with such EVIL
dence of claims as may be used relative t o
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PenitentaFy SER supporting al paid from Special Tevenue

by expiration (section OF chapter IL,
provides that appropriations remaining
undrawn at the end Of three years after
passage OF the appropriation act shall
cancel), also Will DO found list OF
general revenue appropriations re-
naming unexpended at end OF year
which the board Of control treat as
cancelled. the same not having been ex-
pended nor required for future use.
The appropriations treated BY the
board of control as cancelled aggregate
S99,363:57. The appropriations which
cancelled by expiration aggregate
S$157 ,468.41, Of which amount So, $50 80
was under the supervision OF the board
OF control. In addition to the above
1.-THE board of control paid to the states
general revenue $16,119 from special
revenue which remained unexpended
at the close Of the year and not re-
quired for future use
Brushes have been invented to
polish either stoves or shoes that
have a RESERVOIR controlled by a valve
to feed polish to the bristles.
British women are taking up the
culture Of herbs.