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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
IOWA FARM LAND
VALUES INCREASE
One Hundred Per Cent Added to Val
ue in Past Ten Years-Official
Report Coming.

Official figures show that Iowa farm
land has increased in value fully one
hundred per cent during the past ten
years. The farm that was worth S16-
900 ten years ago, is worth 1872 600
now and the best land has gone above
5000 per acre. There are many who
are convinced that the best land will
be commanding $500 per acre by and
by And there are some who are say
ing that it was impossible to improve
the roads when land was worth $50 to
$50 per acre, but that it is impossible
for farmer to farm and make a pro-
fit when he is cut off from the market
for weeks and months by bad roads.
The farmer could not AFFORD good
roads when lands was cheap, and the
farmer who owns high-priced land
cannot farm without good roads.
A Dies Moines correspondent says:
The tremendous advance in farm land
and all agricultural and live stock
values in the past ten years is brough:
out in q striking way by the agricul-
tural statistics just compiled by A. L.
Swan, manager Of the state census,
and Ora Williams, editor OF the cen
sus The farm land and equipment is
worth more than twice as much as Il
was ten years ago. The value Of farm
animals and poultry shows an in-
crease Of so per cent and OF farm and
garden crops OF &c per cent
The value OF the land and buildings
| per acre. as reported TO the enumera
tors o. the 1915 census, was SELLS as
against s55.85 ten years ago. The total
value Of farm land and the equipment
( thereof Is now reported at over $4,000.
/ 300 900. The major part Of this in
crease has been in the value Of the
I land alone.
/ Farm animals and poultry were val.
ued st $500 .G2l,s75 in 1915 as con-
| pared 20 $4,000. 900 in 1906. The
value Of farm and garden crops pro
duced for the year 1914 was $f37 .225
CGZ, which IS $3.50 900 more than
the value for ten years before.
/ In spite Of the increased profit.
there are fewer people operating
farms now than ten years ago and
the average size OF farms has increas-
| ed rather than grown less- Reports
were secured from 1875 farmers
Operating that number OF farms as
against 209,1 ten years ago The
number of acres reported as included
In farms Is 52,951 $50. q decrease 81
l2T7, 900 from the previous census. The
leverage size OF the farms reported
upon increased from 1873 acres TO 1Gi
acres and the value Of each farm, Land
, alone being considered increased fro;r
ST,420.55 to ST., 5S2.47. II land an
, buildings are considered together, a
: is done in the matter OF assessment
r the average value Of farms and build
!. ings Is found TO be .l9,sgses a
J. against ss,s72.7s0 ten years ago.
Z, There has been slight increase {,
1.-THE number OF tenant farmers an,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
ChiiG's Life Saved

Jones's child was taken seriously III
recently with cholera moTbus and hot
water was needed instantly to save its
life. Jones rushed into the bath room
where he had just had an "Ohio-M-
instantaneous Non Vent Pipe Water
Heater installed over his bath tub and
quick as a wink started a flowing
stream of boiling hot water 1t was a
hard matter to sell Jones this heater,
but now he says he would not be
without 1t for anything. Have your
dealer place one on thirty days trial
Write for booklet and full particulars
The Dayton Manufacturing Company
Dayton. Ohio.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
ADJUSTMENTS.
Blanche Sweet, Grand Tonight


Whether you are a motion picture
fan" or just 90 occasionally to see
the better things. there is rare
treat in store for you tonight and to-
morrow at the Grand. Tonight only,
Blanche Sweet in q new, entirely
different and novel play, The Thou
sand Dollar Husband" produced in
Lasky's true superior style with an
alI-star cast including Tom Forraan,
Theodore Roberts, Camille Aston, II.
y. Carpenter and other true Para
mount artists. Sunday tomorrow
and Monday, W. S. Hart, peerless
portrayer Of powerful western types.
with Bessie Love and Louise Glaun
ia new scenic and historical thrill
er, The Aryan" The Keystone
comedy on the same program Is a
rlix-ap Of Inerrinent called AN Oily
Scoundre1," with many Of the Key
stone faYorites.
Both programs are extra good and
will furnish an evening Of exceptional
pleasure for All who attend the Grand
And don't forget that the Grand ID
thoroughly cooled and geDtiiated-a
place of comfort ali the time.
In all II her previous Lasky pro
auctions, Blanche Sweet has had hus
bands thrust upon her. She has been
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
News Of Death Of Samuel Wheeler
Received Here Today by 'r:is
Brother, J. w.
Wheeler.
OCCURRED LAST NIGHT
Decedent Spent Most Of His Life In
keokuk and Enlisted From
Here In the Civil
War.

]. w. Wheeler Of sos Ridge street,
has received a telegram from Berke-
ley, Calf, announcing the death of
his only brother, Samuel Wheeler,
who was formerly well known resi-
dent of Keokuk Mr.. Wheeler died
at his home in Berkeley at 500
o'clock last evening after an illness
of some dur on.
The decedent came to Keokuk In
tuyhood and this city was his home
the greater part of his life. He left
here for California fifteen years ago.
His many friends here will learn with
regret of his passing. Mr. Wheeler
was past eighty years of age.
Samuel Wheeler was born at OF
tawa, ILL.,, but came to Keokuk with
his parents when a boy. At the out
break of the civil war he enlisted
from this city in the Third Iowa cav
airy and served with distinction in
the great conflict. AT the close OF
hostilities he returned to Keokuk- He
was employed for many years as q
machinist in local railroad shops.
Besides his brother, ]. W. Wheeler
of this city, the decedent is survived
by his wife and four daughters. One
of the latter lives at Berkeley, two at
Orange, N. j., and the fourth in New
York. A son is dead.
1t is not known here what the
funeral arrangements will be.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
Tentative Plan Made by Architect J.
L. Brady is Attracting Great
Deal Of Atten-
tlon.
HANDSOME STRUCTURE
Provisions Made for store Buildings
In Conjunction With the
Armory and Coll
scum.

An idea of what Keokuk's new
armory and coliseum may look like
when completed can be gained from
the drawing made by Architect ]. l.
Brady, which is on exhibition in the
window of Jules Renauds Son.
The drawing is only a tentative one
but well illustrates what hand
some structure the building will be.
The drawing has attracted great
deal of attention and is helping crys-
talize sentiment in favor of the con-
strlction of such building for keo-
kuk
Mr.. Brady has illustrated how store
rooms may be utilized in conjunction
with the armory proper, but whether
these will be included in the final
plans, rests entirely on where the
building is located. II store rooms
can be made out of part Of the
armory building and these rented,
the rentals would help greatly in re-
firing the bonded debt.
There is great deal of armory
talk on the streets now and the idea
seems to be meeting with general
favor throughout the city. It is prob
able that the canvass after subscrip
tons will be made some day next
week and the outlook is bright at the
present time
The armory committee is planning
on bringing here a man we'll posted
on the national guard and armory
proposition and who Is moreover,
convincing speaker on the subject.
and he will undoubtedly be able to
put pep and enthusiasm into the COM
mittees who are to make the canvass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
OVERHEATED FLUE
CAUSES SMALL FIRE
Fire Department Made Quick Re-
spouse to 1924 Franklin This
Morning.

Slight damage was done by a fire
caused by defective flue in the kit
chen of the home of J. E. Roach,
1924 Franklin street, at $3.50 this
morning. The kitchen range had been
in use since early in the morning, and
the overheated f1ue set fire to the
timbers of the roof. Members of the
family quickly extinguished the blaze,
before the fire department. which re-
sponded promptly, arrived. The roof
was carefully examined to make sure
that there were no smoldering sparks
between the chimney and the tim
bers about it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

pursued by hundreds Of admirers and
had many at her feet, but in her
forthcoming production, 1.-THE Thou
sand Dollar Husband" she buys a
husband and strange as it may seem.
the purchase does not welcome the
sale. In this production, Miss Sweet
Is first seen as a Swedish maid Of all
work in a college boarding house. She
il madly in love with one Of the stu
dents and when she suddenly becomes
wealthy and the young man faces ruin,
she offers to pay his debts IL he will
marry her. How the wealthy bride
of the loyeless marriage Is set upon
by a band of crooks and how she is
eventually saved and wins the love of
her husband goes to make one of the
most unusual photo-dramas ever pre-
gented.-AdYertisem
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
RURAL SCHOOL TERM
SHOULD BE INCREASED
So Says School Extension Agent Of
United States Bureau Of
Education.

]. L. McBrien, school extension
agent, of the United States bureau of
education, says the folloing in Talk
One, on the rural school term:
The first problem in the program
of the federal bureau of education in
its nationwide campaign for better
rural schools is that OF a longer
school term. "a school term of not
less than 100 days for each child" is
the minimum term, according to Com
missioner Claxton, which all states
with a shorter term should strive to
reach.
The latest data $4,000 available
concerning the length Of term for
urban schools and for rural schools
separately give the average number
the year for urban schools, 1S4.3, and
for rural schools, 1871. For the
United States as a whole the urban
schools are in session 46.6 days
longer each year than the rural
schools" says A. c. Monahan, the
bureaus specialist in rural school
administration.
In Rhode Island and Connecticut,
the difference between the urban and
rural school term is 3.8 days, while
in South Carolina it is SS.5 days.
The average number Of days in the
rural school term in the several
states ranges from 80 in New Mexico
to 100 in Rhode Island. Four states,
New Mexico, North and South Caro-.
lima, and Arkansas, each had in 1910
rural school term Of less than 100
days, But" declares MI Monahan
these averages do not tell the whole
story. There is much variation above
and below the average, there are
many school districts, and even many
counties. where the term Cor the past
year was not over so days"
From the reports for the schoo.
year ending June 80, 1915, tne.e were
fifteen rural school districts in Arka1
sas that held no school that year;
eight school districts in that state
with only one month Of school; sixty
school districts with only two months
of school, and 577 school district:
with only three months Of school
And yet a great majority OF ths
town and city schools in Arkansai
have a school term of eight or nin'
months. That there are equally de
plorable conditions IN the rura
schools of other states will be show
IN the next talk. This discrimination
against the farm boy and the farm
girl in free school privileges IS no
Just or wise.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
Pom 3;x5{ S y
a 1Oc CIGAR FOR &c.

highest type Of executive ability and
engineering skill. His work took him
to the tropics, away from the social
aspects of life that men prize. 1t
made him virtually an exile for years.
It confronted him with unprecedented
obstacles. But in those obstacles lay
the essential attractiveness OF the
situation. 1t was a mans job. His
reward comes in the consciousness OF
having done a great and difficult work
well. No man coming to the end OF
his career thanks God for an easy
life.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
Dr.. carreps Great Achievement.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: Heal
ing wounds by algebra has sensa-
tionaI sound. but this is what the emf
nent surgeon DR.. Alexis Carrei is now
doing in France. According 10 re-
cent letter to the American fund for
French Wounded. he has discovered
an antfseptic which will absolutely
nrevent gangrene- The wound is
thoroughly cleaned and dressed and
then an Impression is taken on
connecting that looks like the film OF
kodak." This is taken to the
Ia boratory and the number of mic
robes Is counted. After few days
the record is plotted alphabetically and
an equation is worked out by which
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

the exact day on which the wound
will be healed can be determined.
The layman may have difficulty in re-
garding this as "a simple treatment"
but no doubt it seems so to the eye
Of science. That it is possible shows
once more how much modern surgery
has accomplished in the way Of less
ening the ravages of war. Thousands
now recover who in former days
would have had no chance at all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

The Women's Preparedness COM
mittee OF Philadelphia, headed by
Mrs. George w. Childs Drexel. voted
more than $4,000 last week for
fund to help establish two base hos
pitfalls On the border. It is hoped to
enroll $4,000 members by July 20.
The work will be done under the aus
pices Of the Red Cross.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
GoethaIs.

Kansas City Times: General Goeth-
ais, who is retiring from the govern
ment service after having completed
the Panama canal, is a lucky man.
He is lucky in having had the oppor-
tunity to do a splendid public service.
With his extraordinary ability it
might have fallen to his lot to be-
come a mere millionaire. Instead he
was called on to undertake a task of
unusual difficulty, calling for the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

state college who cannot swim, says
G. E. Linden, instructor in swimming.
That country boys who come to col
lege are often the ones who cannot
swim is the experience Of the depart.
ment. Last year $50 out of 1000
freshmen could not swim at all. City
boys with high school and Y. M. e. A.
gymna Sums and public swimming
pools are more likely to swim than
boys from the country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
Aliens Eoot-Eass for the Troops.

Many war zone hospitals have ordered Aliens
Foo.--Esse, the antiseptic powder, for use among
the troops. Shaken into the shoes and used in
the foot-bath, Aliens Foot-Ease gives rest and
comfort, takes the friction from the shoe, and
prevents tho feet getting tired or footfo-e. Drug
and Department Stores everywhere sell IL, &c.
Douf accept any subst4ute. Try to-day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
FUNERAL RECORD
e>>>>~~ 80 -
Mrs. Lillian Fulton.

The funeral OF Mrs. Lillian Fulton,
who died Wednesday afternoon, was
held at 2:30 this afternoon, from 81.
Mary's Roman Catholic church. Inc
Rev. Father Giglinger was In charge
of the service. Burial was In tho
Catholic cemetery. The following
acted as pallbearers: James Bennett,
Note Davis. Fred Jenkins, w. j..
Greene. Horace Gardner, Morgan
Myers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
ReasonahIx Expedftlous.

SpringfeId. Mass, RepublIcan: tx
change of civilian prisoners between
Great Britain and Germany comes
rather tardily, but in Napoleon's day
some English civilians were prisoners
in France for a good many years.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

acres operated under leases as COM
pared TO ten years ago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22
Wire as you build
for the future

Like the nails and screws the electrical work
should go into your building to last as long
the structure itself.
If the electric wiring is installed by reliable
competent contractor of standing, it will serve
you well. But if it is cheap in price and quality
you only inviting trouble
Perhaps you may never know all is not right
until the day of trouble comes Then it will be
mighty expensive job to find the trouble and
have it repaired or have the whole defective
system replaced.
And the electrician" who installed your
worlz-what of hm?, Probably out of business
couldn't make go of it-didn't know that
quality not price, was the foundation for
And even if you do find him, what redress
have you? He is financially irresponsible
Protect your future we'll your present
by having the electrical work of your building
installed by reliable, established and COM
petent contractor.
KING PLUMBING co.
SIG Main Street
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

Swedish NJ. E church, corne
Twelfth and Concert streets, Rev
Clarence H. Lind. pastor. There VII
be no preaching services on accoun
OF the pastor being in Melrose. sun
day school at $50 a. m.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

st. Johns church, Episcopal. con
cert and Fourth streets. Rev. John Z
Sage. rector; Rev. A. Lee Jones, Gu
rate-Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Communion service at S:45 a. m, Rev
George Long, celebrant. Sunda.
school at 9:45 a. M.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

Redeemer English Lutheran church.
place of worship is at the Baker Mis-
sion chapel, on Twelfth, between II
mea and Des Moines streets. M. Engel.
pastor. 513 South Eleventh street-No
morning services. Sunday school at It
9. 30 a. m. Evening services at
O'Clock. Invitation to all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran
church. Twelfth and Morgan streets.
Rev. s. C. Franzen, pastor-Morn-
ing service at 1890. English evening
service at 500 o'clock. Sunday
school at $50 a. M. with Bible classes
in Swedish and English languages: A
cordial welcome is extended to all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-22

st. Mary's Catholic church. Rev
George G. Giglinger. pastor.-Masses
ZOO and 800 q. m.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-08-04
OWE DEBT TO sERvIAN BARDS
Men Of Letters Have Kept Alive the
Spirit of Liberty Which Is the
Country's Pride.

The schoolmaster as the citadel and
hope of national aspirations is today
what he was hundred years ago.
when Korais laid the foundations CT
Greek independence by purging the
native tongue of it's barbaric infec-
tons and bringing it as near as pos
sible to the language of Pericles 1t
may be the professional schoolmas.
tiers, or it may be the professors, writ
ers, poets, who constitute themselves
the schoolmasters of nation. With
the hedge priests of Ireland who kept
alive the national spirit under fierce
prosecutions stand the Servian bards
who, through the centuries, kept the
national soul alive under the despot.
ism Of the Turk. AS applied to racial
awakenings, Fausts conclusion is
wrong. In the beginning is not the
deed, but the word, the word that
often has to be taught to people that
has forgotten it, and even when half
learned falls upon their ears from an
ancient past as a call to great deeds.
It is the schoolmaster and the book.
men who have stirred up and led rev.
olutions in our own day, the intellec.
tuals in Russia, hansen and Sigurd
Ihsen In Norway, Braga in Portugal,
D'Annunzio and Martinetti in Italy,
and now Pearse and his predecessors
OF the Gaelic league in Ireland Among
the Jews today the revival of national
aspirations expresses ITSELF in one
form, through the rebirth of the Ian.
guage Of the Bible as a spoken tongue,
parallel strangely akin to the Gaelic
renaissance.-New York Evening Post
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-08-04
WONDERS OF GRAND CANYON
No Other Spot on Earth 10 Believed
to Possess the Same Interesting
Formations.

Many people still living can remem
Der thrill Of wonder and admiration
that ran through the world in reading
of the daring exploit Of Major Powell
In 1859 In navigating the rapids of
the Grand Canyon Of Arizona in a
small boat. It was his account Of his
trip more than anything else up to
that time that called the attention Of
the world to the magnificence of that
wonderful gorge and to the brilliancy
OF the coloring on its rocks.
The United States has recently pub
lished bulletin, No. $40, report on
!; the geology of q portion of the Grand
Canyon by L. F. Noble. This gorge
offers an opportunity Of studying the
history of the formation Of our globe
presented in no other spot now
known. On the top are deposits Of
the Carboniferous period, and below
this strata, some Of them OF immense
thickness, ranging down to the Cam.
brian period ct the base. In the Grand
Canyon We come to the basic rocks
sf the earth, the granite and gnefss.
This panorama II described q prob.
ably the most complete geological REQ
ord Of the world revealed to the eyss
& nan.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-08-04
Shen. Farmers Union.
Woodstock, Va.
ON THE JEALOUSY OF WOMAN
That Is Her Weapon, Charm and Wor
ry, and Isn't the Same Kind as
the Masculine.

In ordinary times, when no world
movements stimulate, the chief exas.
peration of woman resides in jealousy.
1t differs from male jealousy, for the
male is generally possessive, the fe-
male competitive. 1 suspect that Euri.
pides was generalizing rashly when he
said that woman is woman's natural
ally. She is too sex-conscious for
that, and many Of us have observed
the annoyance of mother when her
son weds. Competition is always vio-
lent, so much so that woman is gen.
orally hooking or angry if a man
praises ever so slightly another wom-
an. If she is young and able to make
a claim on all men, she tends to be
still more virulent because her claim
Is on all men. This is partly due to
the marriage market and its restric-
lions, but it is also partly natural No
doubt because 1t is natural, woman
attempts to conceal that jealousy, ma.
ture being generally considered ig-
noble in the civilized world. In this
respect we must accept that an as
sumption of GOODNESS is considered a
means of enticing man. 1t may well
be that, where woman does not exhib-
1t Jealousy, she is with mastery skill
suggesting to the man a problem:
why is she not jealous? On which fol-
lows the desire to make her jealous
and entanglement.-W. L. George.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-08-04
BIRD IS EXPERT BRIcKLAYER
Feathered Artisan Rolls Mud Into Pei.
lets of Required Size and Erects
Substantial Home.

Years ago, before houses and barns
were as plentiful as they are now, the
cliff swallow used to build his house
OF tiny mud bricks on the side of a
rocky cliff. The nest builders find a
convenient patch of clay, roll up the
mud into tiny pellets and carry they
to their nesting Site There they
fashion them into a home as skillfully
as any bricklayer could do it, rounding
it over the top like roof and leav-
ing round opening for a door.
Today the bird doesn't have to find
a cliff for his home. A sheltered place
under the caves Of a barn will suit
him just as well. You'll find more cliff
swallows today at home under the
caves than you will In their ancestral
castles on the rocks.
The bird wears shiny blue-black
cDat and brownish-yellow vest. His
tail, reddish-brown, is only slightly
forked, which distinguishes him from
the regular 'swallow-tails"
Perhaps you have been told that the
nest of the cliff swallow is infested
with bedbugs, and perhaps you have
torn down all the nests you could find
to get rid of the pests This is q
common SANDER agai.at the swallow.
The nest contains no insects which can
be communicated to the house. On
the other hand. the cliff swallow per.
forms immeasurable benefit by de-
stroying many leaf bugs and weeyils.
Philadelphia North American.