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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-01-01
The Other Side

Ever and anon We read In the press
arguments against mail order houses,
the most Of which are reasonable,
and common sense arguments to
back them up are used. and all Of
them are worthy Of consideration; I;
but there are. two sides to the ques-
tion the same as all others.
When town like Telluride for In
stance has four good dry goods and
cl6thing stores that never advertise
dollars worth . year, except for
clearing sales, and one gents furnish
ing store that advertises all Of the
time. and incidently, has plenty Of
business, it is no wonder that the
people buy from catalog houses.
How do they know thee four dry
goods stores are on earth? They
never see anything in the papers to
indicate 1t, except at intervals, and
between those intervals a couple Of
car loads Of cataiogs are unioaded in
the post office and the people get
them, look them over, see In plain
print what they want, with the price
attached, and they make up their
minds to end-away and buy just be-
cause they are asked to-rsceive a
suggestion to buy-And that Is all
there Is to 1t.
Several large firms In the east have
tried to spend more money advertis-
ing than they made by reason of the
advertising, and they failed to do 1t.
Now, II advertising pays big
store in a city, advertising will just
as surely and just as proportionately
pay in q small city. But II one wants
to encourage the mail order business
and is In the same kind Of business
himself, ali he has to do Is to pass up
the town papers and the people will
do the rest. Nov, II advertising does
not pay in Telluride, what In the
world increases business during .
clearance sale? There matters show
for themselves. A word TO the wise
is sufficient II you would stop peo-
pie buying outside, use the same
means to notify them that you have
desirable goods for sale and want to
sell them, as the mail order houses
do and you'll increase your business
aid diminish the sending out evil.
The argument 10 simply common
sense, any one with . grain Of COM
mon sense can see it.-San Miguel
Examiner.
fTks above III good aound srgds
nent and has gospel truth in 1t.
We have noted that many business
houses whose cry is-"Patronize
Home Trade" send out to some big
jobbing house for their stationery ETC.,
and in the meanwhile, the home
newspaperman becomes John ID.
Asterbilt from fighting Montgomery
Roebuck Il Co. and boosting home
trade.-Ed. Heraldl
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-01-01

A Chicago man got ten years for
abducting girl, which rs far Is We
know ID the maximum penalty ever
inflicted for stealing chicken.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-01-01

The life Of Macy A. Phelps expir-
ed Friday December 24th at the home
of his brother, l.. H. Phelps on lower
White river. The cause OF death be-
ing tuberculosis from which Mr..
Phelps had been suffering for many
years. Undertaken Gourley prepared
the remains for shipment back to the
old home In Michigan and Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. H. Phelps started on their
sad journey accompanying the body
to its final resting place.
Macy A. Phelps was born in Mich
igan July is, 1881 and died Dec. "a,
1915, aged 81 years, months and 8
days. He came to Colorado seven
years ago for his health. Mr.. Phelps
was patient sufferer and a hard
worker. He was liked by all who
knew him. With his brother l.. II.
Phelps, Mr.. Phelps had not long ago
succeeded in establishing one of the
best ranches in the county by intro
ducing by means of a pumping system
water on Blair mesa.
Without doubt Lower White river
lost one of her most progressive farm
ers in Macy A. Phelps.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-01-01
CARD OF THANKS

CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kind words and
assistance at the passing of our dear
brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Phelps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
MAY BE TRUE;
NOT IN KEOK!UK
No One Here Has Noticed Any Less
Flies This Summer Though Of
fetal Says There Are.

Although no ny statistics are at
hand and nobody has been around
counting flies, nevertheless w. B.
Barney. state food and dairy commits.
sioner ventures the assertion that flies
are fewer than ten years ago in Iowa.
The swat the fly campaigns are be-
ginning to show results, Commissioner
Barney says:
"If this swat the fly movement
keeps up persistently we will have
practically eliminated flies in an
other decade" said Commissioner
Barney. cit is showing results in a
most appreciable defamation OF flies.
feel sure we do net have nearly so
many flies in this state as we had a
few years ago.
There are places in Germany
where flies have been exterminated
just because the people have made
continuous war against them. It will
mean a great deal to the public
health when We get rid Of flies.
They are germ carriers, these
pests. Doctors say they carry ty2hus
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
CONVENTION AT
WATERLOO, Ia.
Big Preparations Being Made for the
Annual Gathering Of Knights
Of Pythias.

The following dispatch from Water
| loo tells Of the arrangements being
made for the Knights OF Pythias con-
vention to be held there the latter
part OF this month, which will be at.
tended by delegates from Morning
Star lodge of Keokuk:
Waterloo will entertain twelve
hundred knights Of Pythias and hye
hundred Pythian sisters at the annual
state convention to be held in this
city, August %, % and "a. Delegates
from Pythian lodges all over the
state of Iowa will pour into Waterloo
to attend the conclaye, which is ex-
pected to be the largest and most sue
cessful In history. Practically every
city Of any size In Iowa will bC repre-
scented.
Headquarters will be established at
the Russell-Lamson for the Pythians,
while the Pythian sisters will have
headquarters at the Ellis hotel. Sep
arate registration books will be kept
by each organization.
The convention sessions OF the
knights will be held on the second
floor of the local Pythian temple on
Commercial street. The Pythian sis
tiers will hold their sessions In the
lodge room off the third floor OF the
temple. It will be the first time IN
the history of the order that both the
knights Of Pythias and the Pythian
! Sisters have held their grand lodges
in building owned by = lodge OF
the order.
The local committee In charge Of
the convention plans is laboring haro
{ on the arrangements and, 1t is ru-
mored, everything Is moving smoothly
and quietly to q successful termina'
ton. G. Buckley is the general chair.
| man and is proving himself q grand
organizer With his corps OF assist.
ants. he will have all plans completed
/ within a few days.
| The city will be handsomely dec
Grated with the national colors and
! colors Of the order.
/ In addition to the two grand lodges
the celebrated D. o. K. K.-the Pythi
an Shrine-will stage big ceremonial
on Wednesday. August %. There will
! be bands, a gigantic parade and a
| '.horribIe" ceremonial at the armory
| There will be candidates from both
Waterloo and other cities over the
state. The gang in charge OF this de.
partment asserts that the work that
/ is going to be administered viii be
done In terrible manner"
| Following the torture" there will
be a big banquet at Pythian temple
at 1900 p. M There will be eats,
catchy music, funny stories and stunts
/ galore. It is declared that the pro-
/ gram of entertainment Will be among
the very best ever staged in Waterloo.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
Why Sioux City Rooms.

Dubuque Times-Journal: Speaking
of the sSle of the Sioux City Daily
News to Topeka, Kansas, interests the
State Journal of the latter city says:
Sioux City few years ago was the
same size as Topeka was, but the city
has made great strides in recent years,
awakening 10 the paramount necessi-
ties Of good modern heproof hotels.
good roads and big advertising OF
stores to draw the people to the city.
The daily newspapers of Sioux City
are crowded with announcements of
big advertisers paying from 20 to 81
cents an inch for their display"
In attributing the growth of Sioux
City partially to the extensive adver-
Using of the big stores the Kansas
paper confirms a view frequently ex.
pressed. Nothing tends to advertise
and benft a city more than extern
sive advertising in the local news
papers. 1T is the biggest factor In at.
tracing outsiders to city.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
SAVING.

Suppose that at twenty one should make
VOW to put away at least FIVE cents day ana
not touch his savings for ten years. From TINS
investment. so small that he would scarcely
miss it. he would have at thirty the sum OF
S1S2 30 to his credit.
This is httles
Yes; this is the smallest thing he has gained.
He has learned to look upon his pennies as
fortune seeds, and that lesson is worth more
than his nickel a day.
He has acquired the habit of saving which
grows infinitely faster even than money at
compound interest.
The chances are that within year he has
made his savings dime day and within two
wears a quarter, that at thirty he has thrifty
fortune plant and at forty he is rich.
Fortunes and all successes are built up hike
stone walls-a stone at time.
He who declines to lay the first rough stones
of the foundation, because it is too humble
task or seems too poorly paid for, will never
make progress in building his success.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
BROkERING LAW
BEING ABUSED
Emory n. English, insurance Corr
missioner So Declares in
Letter Issued.

DES MONIES, Aug. Emory H.
English, state insurance commission
er. today warned some of the Des
Moines insurance agents they are yto-
lating the law in ''brokering" lines of
insurance.
1T has come to the attention Of the
department that local agents for IRE
Insurance., casualty and bonding COM
panoies are making practice OF en-
ploying clerks. assistants or sub
agents for the purpose Of solicitation
of business without having such in
dividual licensed as agents." said Mr..
English. This practice is Illegal and
expressly prohibited by the terms OF
section 1821-k Of the code. enacted in
1904 Furthermore, the individual so
acting without license subjects him
self to 1ne Of $25 per d.y for every
day so employed.
'In the larger agencies another
practice in violation of law has
grown up by the licensing Of indi-
vidual agents for but tne or two
companies only, but place the busi-
ness secured by the agent in any
company for which the agency rep
resents and desires to favor. care
being taken that policy issued IL
properly signed by the particular in
dividual who has a license as agent
for the company in which the risk
is written.
Another illegal practice with which
Des Moines agents are credited Is the
so-called 'brokering" of lines of in
surance. Agents enjoying privileges
granted by license for one company
or several companies, in case they
have more than one license, are
said to divide up lines and place
various amounts with com panies for
which they are not licensed"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07

tuberculosis. typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, and diphtheria have been men
toned as the specific diseases COM
monty distributed, and the fifth or
less definite type, namely the dtaFrh-
Deal troubles, viz, cholera infantum,
summer complaint, infanttle diarrh-
oea, etc. These are all characterized
by diarrhoeal disturbances OF more
or less severity. The cause OF these
diseases Is as yet unknown. They
are not specific diseases as are the
first four mentioned. and none Of
them can probably be attributed to
any particular type OF bacteria. How
ever, they seem to be associated with
large number of bacteria in milk.
They are especially common among
children in warm weather, and the
mortality from such diseases rises and
falls with the number Of bacteria in
milk, and the number Of bacteria In
perature, and these diarrhoeal trpl-
bles during the severe warm weather
are far less common among children
that are breast fed than those fed on
cows milk. Again, experience has
has shown that pasteurizing the milk
causes Z notable reduction in the
amount of intestinal disturbances
and In the mortality OF children from
such sources. In our large cities the
children's death rate is startling in
hot weather. and is always directly
associated with a poor quality and 9
high bacterial content of the milk.
In New York City from 1900 to 1904
there was 26,563 deaths from diarrh-
Deal diseases in children under two
years OF age. The Rockefeller Insti-
tute, in cooperation with the New
York health department, made an
Investigation covering q period OF
three years. During the winter per-
Tod the mortality was 25, and in but
one instance was death due to dis
ease of the digestive tract, while
during the summer period the NOR
tally was 10.5 per cent, four-fifths Of
the deaths being due to diarrhoeaI
Asease- The following shows the
results obtained:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07

and notes dated August the nrst, A
D., 1863.
In witness whereof we have here
into set our hands, this 5th day OF
June, 1865.
MARY e. HUYCK.
w. n. HUYCK.
State of Iowa, Lucas county.
Be it known that on this 9th day
OF June. A. D., A865, personally ap-
peared before me the undersigned, 2
notary public in and for said county,,
Mary =. Huyck and William II.
Huyck, her husband, personally
known to me to be the identical per-
sons who signed the foregoing instru-
ments of. as parties thereto and ac-
knowledge the same to be their volun-
tary act and deed for the purposes
therein mentioned.
And the said Mary e. Huyck being
by me made acquainted with the con-
tents of said instrument OF writing,
acknowledged on an examination aparf
from her husband, that she executed
the same and reIinQuished all her In
terest in said real estate therein de-
scribed without any cOmpulsion or
undue influence of her said husband
Given under my, hand and seal no
tarial, the day and year above writ
ten.
THEODORE NJ. STUART,
Notary Public.
The article is written in good style,
and is preserved perfectly, It Is !
voice from out of the time long pass
ed into history. The records OF our
republic since 1865 would indeed com
pose mighty volume. Great are the
changes and events in our land. an l
with all these notifications OF an I'M
mense empire our ship OF state
moves steadily onward Currents and
waves impede the progress OF the
fine sh.p, sld days Of darkness pre-.
vail, yet the sky clears and the good
vessel energies in brightness ana
yalor. Now and then our land VIZ
have a new birth of freedom. as
abraham Lincoln said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
DISEASES DERIVED FROM COWS
THROUGH THEIR MILK
BY Or. ". 2. sherlee.s.

Pasteurized milk Number O, !.
fants under observation, Al: rsr.
ed well entire summer. Al. ~
diarrhoea, 10; deaths, 1. -
Raw milk-Number OF tnfants
der observation, 81; Remained ~.
entire summer. II; had diarrhss'si
"a; deaths, 2.
Thirteen of the fifty-one infant,
raw milk were changed before ~.
end Of the season to pasteurized NM ny
because OF serious diarrhoea; but IS
that, the results with raw milk wous
have been more unfavorable. Thus
is therefore conclusive that the nv
teurixation OF milk for use. esnaa ~,
ly during the summer months ~.
only Is the safe and proper thinr hut nv.
for the safeguarding OF the lives ~ !.
the helpless little ones who can NJ =.
help themselves It should be COM IN.
pulsOry.
Pasteurdzation alone can i,su
freedom from disease in all the aSo,,o
named specific diseases and can s 10
done SO simply and safely IN tbs
home that there is little excuse ~,
any persons exposing themselves H.
the many diseases that are distr,h
uted in the milk. namely, typhoid
fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, tuber.
culosis, foot and mouth diseas
splenic fever. lock-jaw hydrophobha
infantile paralysis, etc.
How to pasteurize milk in tn
home:
Place an inverted pie pan In tn
bottom OF an ordinary tin waite,
pail, on this place the bottles Of milk
to be pasteurized, fill the pail With
cold wafer UP to within one inch q
the top OF the bottles, punch tvo
holes in the paper cap about the sizs
of lead pencil. place the pail on the
stove and heat 1t to Temperature OF
1877 degrees Cd for twenty minutes
Cool the bottles by placing them
under the cold faucet and later on
the ice.
Milk thus treated Will keep two or
three days in = room at the Ordinary
temperature, and on ice for several
days.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
RAILROAD INVESTIGATION.

All who recognize the Importance OF doing
something for the relief of the railroads will
find reasons for satisfaction in some of the Sc
lections for membership In the committee OF
congress which is to make a sweeping investl-
CATION into transportation problems Senator
Newlands, the chairman, is the author OF the
resolution providing for the inquiry, and it may
be presumed that he understands the need for
legislation to simplify the system Of regulation
under which the carriers are now compelled to
bear needless and costly burdens. Senator I'm
derwood is another member of the committee
who may be expected to take broad view OF
the whole situation In urging support OF the
plan for an inquiry, he made clear his belief
that unless investment In railroad securities is
made more attractive than it is today, the COM
panies will be unable to secure the new capital
required for additional equipment and improve
ments necessary to handle the transportation
business of the country. The public's atti-
tude toward the railroads is friendly, but the
carriers have been handicapped by hostile
Legislation and the apparent inability of the in
terstate commerce commission to recognize the
larger needs of the roads. What is needed is a
change in the temper of the men who make the
laws federal and state. It is not unreasonable
to expect that this change will come as result
of the investigation soon to be undertaken.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
Do good with what thou hast, or it viii do
thee no good.-Penn.
CONTINUE THE EFFORT.

Germany's flat refusal to accept the i'm
practicable conditions of Great Britain upon
the distribution of American relief in Poland
should not end the American effort to aid Po-
land Pity for the sick and starving Polish
non-combatants surely is not abated by Ger
many's assurance that plentiful crops will be
harvested the first of October.
Poland's suffering is counted In years now
and two more months is little; only few moro
thousands of deaths, few more dead babies
and mothers But if the people of the United
States can save Poland as much as a day
misery. neglect of the opportunity will be 2
lasting regret.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
"A VOICE FROM THE PAST
ey Jasper sIire. k.hoka, Mo.

The following legalliterary produc-
tion takes US away into the ffty-one
. wears ago. It il deed which is pre-
scented by Mrs Charley Wilsey OF
Kahoka.
We may review few OF the great
events of the day when this legal
document was made. Andrew John
SON was president of the United
States, being in ONCE less than two
months. in place of Abraham Lincoln.
A military commission composed OF
nine high federal officers were In
daily session, hearing the evidence
against the conspirators in the as
sassination of President Lincoln.
The civil war had ended. yet all over
our land there existed feelings of sus-
picion. unrest and great uneasfness.
Issues of national and worldwide I'M
rcrtance we're to be net and solved.
Would the American republic survive
the fiery ordeal OF five years OF ma
tionaI alienation and blood? It was
confronted with the problem OF long
years of reconstruction.
The legal document Of 1855 follows.
1t is of local interest:
Know all Eaen by. these present,
H. Huyck, both of Lucas county,
Iowa. do hereby release all right,
title and interest which we have in
and to the following described real
estate, to-wit: Lots number seven
and eight, in block number seven In
the town of Kahoka, in the county OF
Clark, in the state of Missouri. Here
by quit claiming to John c. Kelley
all our rights. title and interest in
and to said property, and we hereby
release, discharge, cancel and acknow-
ledge full and final satisfaction OF
certain mortgage on the above de-
scribed property. executed by William
Cohagan and Agness Cohagan, his
wife, TO Mary E. Huyck, TO secure the
payment OF three promissory notes,
each for the sum OF three hundred
and sixty-nine dollars, said mortgages
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
THE OPIUM CURSE.

century or so ago it was considered fairly
respectable to believe in visitations of judg-
1nent providential or otherwise, and one would
be condemned for sensing anything of judg-
ment in the new chapter of Great Britain IS ex-
periences with opium.
The royal proclamation prohibiting the i'm
portation of opium into the United Kingdom
is issued seventy-seven years after England
forced opium on China
East India opium was being carried to China
at handsome profit to the English expIoiters
and with Unreasonable harm to the Chinese.
when the imperial government of China issued
an edict of prohibition. In 1889 the Chinese
forced the surrender of twenty thousand chests
of British opium, and destroyed the drug The
British continued the trade and demanded that
the price of the confiscated opium be paid by
China There followed a two years war, which
brought Britain a twenty-million dollars in
demnity, gave Britain the city of Hongkong
and established an opium tariff Another
war with opium in it came in 1856. No near
~ successful protest against opium was
heard again in China until the republic made
opium smoking unlawful
Opium, like fire, is cruel enemy The
London dispatches, censored as they are. give
no details of the debauchery that led 70 gov
eminent action but the British government OF
today, like the Chinese government Of 1890
sees the harm of opium. Ten years ago thor,
was estimated to be about fifteen milf,
npium smokers in China; England knows wei
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-07
WoMEN,s WORK.

It is estimated that seven million women OF
Great Britain are working at war and peace
Jobs, of whom 66S,OOO are employed in war in
dustries Many of these were art students,
musicians, seamstresses or women reared In
luxury who never worked at anything before
and never entertained the possibility of doing
so until the war broke out. Besides these wom-
en- in cap and overalls at the lathe, the stamp
ing machine and in the powder shed and cart
ridge factory, thousands are working on farms,
blowing. hoeing, milking, caring for cattle.
Others are carting, driving distributing, run
ming elevators acting as tramway motor driv-
ers or conductors. Others are taking men s
places in banks insurance offices, commercial
establishments, in leather and textile trades
and pottery, paper making, wood working,
brick, paint, rubber, chemical and other indus
tries They are also commercial travellers and
chauffeurs and a growing proportion of wonl-
en- doing masculine work are putting on man s
attire as more convenient and economical.
How permanent this invasion of man IS field
will be it is idle to speculate until we know how
the war is to end and when. But it seems
doubtful if women will ever withdraw from the
fields of male activity they have entered. This
appears to presage some notifications Of fam
ilv life. which then may have two earners in
stead of an Garner and conserver, and mod
ernization of the idea of home.