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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19
EDUCATORS FAVOR
TEXT BOOK CHANGE
Cube Root, Least Common and Great.
est Common Divisor May
Lose Out

DIES MONIES, April 19.-Evidence
placed before the committee on elimi-
nation of useless and obsolete sub
jects from the public school books at
the session at the state house proved
to the educators that their recon-
mendations to the last convention of
, the Iowa Teachers association were
correctly based The committee now
is preparing a schedule to show how
the material in the text books should
be prepared so as to be Of practical
value to the pupil.
| Study of stocks and securities in
rthe future will not deal with theor-
etical stocks. In each city the stocks
of the street railway company, the in
dustrial concerns, city and county
bonds and other securities will be
studied. Pupils will be instructed
| how to invest and how to determine
whether certain stocks are worth
/ buying.
| The committee on arithmetic sent
letters to seventy-nine prominent
Iowa educators asking their opinion
on whether certain parts of the arith-
metic should be dropped Only seven
! of the seventy-nine educators voted
in favor of retaining cube root; six
for retaining the least common null
/ tiple and four for the greatest COM
mon divisor. The affirmative vote
of seventy-nine persons on other top
les follows: Apothecary's weight,
-four; troy weight, six: folding paper,
none; foreign exchange, seven; par.
tial payments, twenty-one; complex
/ fractions, eight; true discount, six;
partnership with time, two; com
pound proportion, thirteen; metric
system, eleven. All Of the subjects
mentioned have been recommended
for elimination from the arithmetic
as useless.
Committees reported on spelling
grammar, history. civics, reading and
other subjects.
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WHATCAN YOU DO FOR CATARRH?
Ask question How often has the doctor failed
have ontments salves vapours? What should do

making materials to enter the intes
tines, combines with these food ele
ments to enter the circulation, and III
less than an hour is at work through
out the body in process of publication.
S. s. S. is made from barks, roots
and herbs that are food and tonic for
the blood 1t stimulates-gives the
blood power to throw off poisons. You
will soon realize it's wonderful influ-
ence by the absence Of headache, a
clearing of the air passages, steadily
improved nasal condition, and sense
of bodily relief that proves how COM
plete1y Catarrh often infests the entire
system.
You will find 8. s. S. on sale at all
drug stores It is a remarkable rem.
edy for all blood affections, such as
Eczema, Rash, Lupus, letter, Psorias.
is, Boils, and all other diseased condi-
lions of the blood. For special advice
on any blood disease write The Swift
SPECIFIC Company, Medical Depart
ment. Room II. Atlanta, Ga. Avoid
substitutes
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Nauvoo entertained their children, Mr..
and Mrs. G. J. Baxter. Jr., and Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Heitzman of FIT. Madison for
several days recently.
The base ball season in Nauvoo will
be formally opened in about week.
Those who appear to know around
here seem to think that Nauvoo's
team will not finish the season close
to the bottom in the number of games
they play.
Rev. Father Tholen of Nauvoo was
called to Peoria by Bishop Dunno TO
take part in pontifical mass, so there
will be no holy week services in Maui
voo's Catholic church next week.
While nobody is worrying, still war
talk with Germany and Mexico re-
minds us that the Nauvoo, KeolSuk and
FIT. Madison interurban line has not
yet started construction work.
Nauvoos city council members will
meet in adjourned session next Moll'
day evening.
Let the young man in the city out
of a job try year on the farm. Plow-
ing behind mule will give him an
entirely new constitution, take the
kinks out of his throat, the gas out OF
his stomach, the WEAKNESS out Of his
toes and give him good appetite, an
honest living and sight of heaven.
1t is said the wonderland show boat
I is headed towards Nauvoo and Is due
here In about two or three weeks. The
boat Is on the Illinois river now and
will ply the big creek north bound as
soon as all towns are visited on that
little pond.
After living on milk for several
years, man has gone insane. An In
vestigatton OF some Of the milk we
drink doubtless would elicit surprise
that the man held out that long.
Nauvoo's Priscilla club will not
meet until Thursday afternoon of next
week.
A violin recital will take place In
the Nauvoo opera house on the even
ing of May 1. A gentleman Of Keokuk
who is teaching a number Of Nauvoc
and vicinity youths Will give the re
cital. His young son who is only nine
years of age will also take part, with
the instructor and his pupils.
It may be that some mean men Cb
ject to the harem skirt because the
wind doesn't have any chance of get
ting action on it.
| NduNoo DolucSliC Scie1Ce Cluo luo'
with Mrs. VIM. F. Hertel a few even
ings ago and admitted five new mem
bers.
The ladies who are arranging lear
year dagce in the Nauvoo opera house
for Easier Monday evening, April "a
are anxious for all to come and enjoy
a good time with them.
| When Irwin Hudson fell Off freight
wagon last week and the wheels rar
over him it was thought he was not
| badly hurt, but since the accident II
was found that bone in his ankle
was broken,
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OBITUARY.
TContributed.J

lCOntr1DOteo.J
Lewis Stephenson was born In Gin
cinnati, Ohio, June 9, 1884. and de
parted this life April 10, 1916, aged
rs years, ten months, three days. He
was united in marriage to Miss Cath
crime Armstrong Of Keokuk, Iowa, in
1866. The wife preceded him in death
eleven years ago. To this union were
born nine children, Edward Lewis
Stephenson, who died at the age of
seven years; Mrs. Bird, Keol1uk;
Benjamin Stephenson. Keokuk; John
Stephenson, wayland, Mo-; Mrs. F.
schwanzel, Way1and, Mo-; Milo
Stephenson, Keokuk; Herbert Steph-
enson, Alexandria, Mo-; Homer and
Robert Stephenson, Keokuk. Besides
the children, there are nineteen grand
children and two great-grandchildren,
also two brothers. Isaac Of Shelby
county, Mo-, and John P, of Keokuk,
and host of friends to mourn his
departure.
He enlisted in the army at the out
break Of the civil war and for three
years faithfully served his country.
He was promoted to the rank of cap
tain before being discharged. He was
an honored member of the Belknap
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BILE Compound and decided to try it.
got good results and I now feel better
than have felt for years and 1 am gain
ing in weight. I can gladly recommend
it to all women. Mrs. GEORGE w.
SEBoLD, 1911 West 4th Street, Whining
ton, Del.
Backache and bearing down pains
are danger signals which every woman
should heed. Remove the cause of these
aches and pains by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, that good
old root and herb medicine. Thousands
of women have testified to its virtues.
For forty years it has been making
women strong, curing backache, ner-
vousness, liberation and Inflammation,
weakness, displacements, irregularity
and periodic pain. :.
II you want special advice write
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co,
confidential, Lynn, Mass.
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SALEM
80 = = . ~ - =

Under the auspices of the w. g
T. u, a temperance program was
given Sunday evening A large audi
ence was present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Brody and
little daughter Dorothy, are at st.
Louis spending the Easter holidays
with relatives.
Mrs. John Packard and daughter re
turned to Keokuk Saturday after q
few days with relatives here.
Leon Smith and family enjoyed a
visit with Mr.. Smiths parents from
Birmingham. Sunday.
Mrs. G. T. Powell recently enter
tanned her nieces, Misses Maude
Marybelle and Grace Mathews from
Mt Pleasant.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bunker re
Gently entertained Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Slime Of Stockport.
Following a visit at the homes OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19
GOLDEN ELECTION
BRINGS OUT VOTE
Old Village Board Reelected With a
Tie on Office Of Village
Clerk.

GOLDEN, April 1s.-The election
Tuesday in Golden was holly con-
tested and reminded older citizens Of
the times when the wet and dry issue
was fought out at the polls. Nearly
everybody in Golden voted Tuesday,
there being 172 mems and 1877 WON
ems ballots cast. Four autos were in
service taking the voters to and from
the polls. The old village board was
reelected and there was tie on the
Office of village clerk.
Following is the result:
Trustees-H. G. Franzen (Ind.) !,
159; Robert Wheeler Qnd.), 1854: J.
M. Wallace Qnd). 1856; J. o. Rey-
holds (citizens), 143; R. C. Taylor
(citizens), 147; n. L. Cans (citizens),
1873.
For clerk-Harry ]. While (Ind)
1853; Carl H. Detmers (citizens), 1853.
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BoNAPARTE.
- - 90 . . & . .

Richard Shafer is seriously i'll at
his home on North Washington street
with pneumonia. All day Sunday he
was in a dangerous condition, but at
noon on Monday was reported slight
ly better, though not out Of danger
yet
Halsey Fender, son of Mrs. Wilbur
Fender, is quite i'll.
S. G. Lindsay, graduate veterinarian
Is now located at the Hooper barn
here and ready for business. Mr..
Lindsay is a graduate of a Kansas
City veterinarian college.
Elmer Smith has opened feed
store in the brick building on the cor
ner of Second and Washington street.
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her father Hiram Pickard, and her
son Bert Wolf, Mrs. Frank Wolf re-
turned to Ottumwa Saturday night.
Miss Annie Packer. principal Of
Pennington schools, spent Saturday
at home
Miss Martha Welpton Of Chicago fs
spending few days with friends.
A. c. Knight and family have
moved to Moline, Ill.
A number of Masons OF Salem All
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19
reconstructed keokuk and Hamilton
Bridge VIII be One Of the Finest
Crossings on Upper River
When Completed.
FLOORING BEING LAID
steel for viaduet In Place and Boards
Are Being Laid Now
One Span Vet to be
Rebuilt.

Keokuk will have one of the finest
crossings on the Mississippi river,
when the reconstructed Keokuk and
Hamilton bridge is completed and
the roadway on the second deck is
opened for traffic. 1t will be possible
to go from the center of the business
district of Keokuk directly across the
river and over to Hamilton without
crossing a railroad track. The via
duct which connects the Keokuk end
of the bridge with the thoroughfare
ending at Second and Main streets is
being constructed as rapidly as pos
sible.
All of the steel for this viaduct
has been put in place, and workmen
are busy now flooring the approach.
There is very gentle grade on this
side and the grade on the Illinois ap-
proach is no more than that Of Third
street between Main and Blondeau.
The viaduct on the Keokuk side
will connect with the roadway which
will be built across the land pur-
chased by the city for this purpose.
It will virtually give Keokuk high
bridge. The viaduct posts are set at
intervals between the railroad tracks,
giving sufficient clearance.
One Old Span to Change.
All of the bridge spans nave been
replaced but one, and that is the
span which was knocked out at the
time the War Eagle struck the bridge.
This spans one of the deepest parts
Of the river, and on account of the
high water is has been impossible to
get the false work in position to take
down this span. AS soon as the water
goes down enough to allow for an
anchorage this span will be torn out
and the new steel put into place.
When this is done the roadway on
the second deck of the bridge can be
completed.
The bridge engineers will have a
three story house in approximately
the same location as was the old
house. The engineers will have moth
Ing to do with the upper deck of the
bridge except to see that it is cleared
whenever it is necessary to open the
draw. The lower deck of the bridge
house will lead to the engine room.
AS soon as it is possible to use
the upper roadway the first floor of
the bridge will be taken up and new
floor installed. This will consist of
the railroad ties and steel supports as
is used in all railroad bridge floors.
1t was planned to have the bridge
done about the first of June and there
are still six weeks before that time
in which to finish up the job. 1t Is
expected that the most Of the work,
at least, can be completed by then
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Post, SIS, Department of Iowa. He
was converted and united with the
Methodist church in young manhood
The funeral service was conducted
at the home near Alexandra, Satur-
day. April Is, at 10 a. M, by Rev. j.
A. Norman, assisted by the Belknap
Post of Keokuk. The body was laid
to rest In the Frazee cemetery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19

Throw of Colds and Prevent Grip.
When you feel a cold coming on, take
LAXATIVE BROMO QUINTNE. It
removes cause of Colds and Grip.
Only One "BROMO QUININE." E.
w. GROVES signature on box. Csc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19
Bjo Vote for Unknown.

Charles City Press: One of the
freaks of the presidential primary
was the majority vote polled in Floyd
county by Olson over Adams for re-
publican national committeeman.
Olson was entirely unknown here,
but his name came first on the bal
lot and that settled it. If Adams had
not been favorably known he would
have Jared much worse.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19
four DOCTORS
DISAGREED
Pains Disappeared After Use
of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Wilmington, Del. was suffering
from terrible backache and pains II

my SIDE, With bear
ing down pains and
was very nervous.
l was always tired,
alw avs dro wsy,
never could g e t
enough sleep and
could not eat. I had
70 ur doctors and
each told me some
thing different I
read Of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vepeta-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-19

Prince Albert IL SOLD eueryrAere in
toppyredb bags, Sc, tidy yedtins, Zoe:
handsome pound and half pound tn,
hunlidors and that classy pound
crystaEgtass hun,idor rDitk the
sponge nloistener top that keeps the
tobacco IN the finest kind of trim
a!luaysI
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tended lodge at New london Tueeda1
evening.
w. G. II. u. WIN mee& WITH Mrs
Emma Keller Wednesday afternoon
of this week.
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No eforeage Apparont-
Washington Post: Occasionally you
meet a man whose nose tint fails to
give the slightest indication OF -dyestuff
shortage,
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THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

berg has struck a new and original trail
in the lighter realm of cartoons and few
men have done more than he to ease
life's ways and make gladnesS grow
where pain was planted
Were you to outflank the vigilant office
boy and pass into the cartoonist's we'll
lighted workroom on the top floor of the
Evening Mail Building, you would most
likely find, during certain hours, quiet,
mild-looking person rapidly filling in one
of those joyful drawings that have won
the admiration of thousands. The car
toon might be an I'm the Guy" picture,
showing up type we meet with daily at
almost every turn-that clustering fellow
who claims to be "I'' in his particular line,
while in reality the man who did put the
salt in the ocean is a little inoffensive
fellow who never says anything much
unless called upon.
But the cartoonist himself is not one of
these I'm the Guy persons-he is Of
modest, retiring disposition and apt to
do anything but talk about himself. He
is just plain "Rube" to the boys" who
know him-they are legion in New York
Mr. Goldberg was born in San Fran
c.sco Cal, in 1884 Soon after gradua
ton from college he joined the art staff
of the Chronicle and the Bulletin of that
city but in 1907, like all good men and
great, his ambition turned toward the
New York field, where he found a COM
Portable berth with the Evening Mail
and has been the cartoonist of that paper
ever since. He has originated number
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of striking and laugh-provoking cartoon
series, among which are Foolish Cues
TONS" I'm the Guy" "They All Look
Good When They're Far Away" What
Are You Gonna Do with IT," "Phoney
Films" This All Comes under the Head
of Pleasure" Its All Wrong" and 81
Never Thought of That
Asked how he happened to strike on
the Foolish Question" idea, he said:
Zone day l was looking at my board.
wondering how l could fill the space
was allotted for the next day, when it oc-
Cured to me that might draw picture
Of some one asking someone else a fool
ish question. The most foolish thing l
could think of right then was a woman
asking man who had just fallen from a
siXteenth-story window, if he was hurt,
No; l was just taking a beauty Sleep"
he replied. The next morning | received
many telephone messages and letters with
answers to foolish questions, and | knew
that the idea had made hit
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submitted one cartoon, which struck Mr..
Ochs so favorably that he called the young
artist to his private office and said
Marcus, if you can turn out that kind
of thing, it may as we'll be settled now
as ever. You had better do the rest
of the page"
So Marcus moved into Hy Mayors
chair, and found it plenty comfortable,
though neither too wide nor too deep.
Like Hy Mayors his cartoons are mark
ed by depth and reverence, as we'll as high
purpose. Marcus is quite serious-mind-
ed and takes every opportunity to i'm
press the great universal truths of con-
duct and life upon the reader. Though
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he can be keen and drastic, when neces-
sary, his treatment, generally, is pleas
ing and delightfully."- light, and certain
to bring a smile.
Mr.. Marcus is thirty-one years old,
and was born in Dutch Kills, Long Island.
After various vicissitudes he landed with
the New York Herald staff at the age of
eighteen, and five years later jumped to
the Times. He has illustrated "Mr.
Dooley' and some of George AIDES books,
and has done portraits and comics for
Life and other publications. The good
likenesses in his cartoons are due, mainly,
to his experiences in portrait work.
The young cartoonist is a good violin
player and takes no small measure of
comfort in a close game of checkers.
He is also fond of the camera.
Goldberg, Of the New York Evening Mail.
In his Introduction to "Chasing the
Blues" characteristic collection of car
toons and comics calculated to kill the
crouch hawk" Mr.. Goldberg warns the
prospective readers in these words:
Il must burden you with a terrible
COME ssion,-this is not a work of art!
My ever-present realization of the ma
terial virtues of kidney stew and gorgon-
zOla cheese has permanently destroyed
whatever of ethereal that may have been
born within me. If, however, as you
glance through these pages, a smile fits
across your face, a base hit will be regis
tered on my subconscious scoreboard of
satisfaction"
This paragraph is typical Of "Rubes'
style, both in his pictorial and literary
manner. 1t is Goldberg from G. to g.
Nothing pleases him more than the
thought that his immensely funny lines
and words have brought sunshine into
the lives of some folks on this side of the
River StyX. Ever evoking the magic of
his funnybone to the commonplace in
cidelts that make life worth while, Gold
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This series was conceived and fOrmu-
lated with the inspirational guidance of
Arthur Brisbane who has taken kindly
and personal interest in Mr.. Hershfield's
progress. The Evening Journal editor
saw chance to give the public something
that they would enjoy, something that
newspapers feared to print before, for
fear of offending the Jew. He argued
that the Jewish people had a sense of
humor as keen as any race on earth and
if they were given the kind that was
clean. without prejudice, and human, they
could not help but be pleased The old
stage type of Jew was truly offensive
and its condemnation was to have come
through a cartoon series that was clean
and honorable. AS Mr.. Hershfeld is a
Jew and knew what was pleasing to the
people, Mr.. Brisbane left it to his good
Judgment So able the Agent" had it's
inception.
Mr. Hershfield takes his humor and
pictures quite seriously, as a good car
tconist should. He is trying to bring the
Jewish humor to the plane that it de-
serves and to eradicate the ill-feeling
wrought by the type of humor enacted a
generation ago. 1t is clear and clean note
that strikes one in his cartoons and the
reader is always sure to find an apt saying
that will put him or her in kindlier
mood, for as able the Agent says, "a
smile on the face will do more good than
walking around with a chip on your
shOulder-blade.
When asked for some biographical data
about himself Mr. Hershfield beamed
brightly and replied: able the Agent
once said, Don't tell the story of your
life-there are books on Lincoln lying
idle in the Public Library And then
Able shut up like clam"
Mr.. Hershfield has not yet reached his
thirtieth year He says he owes deep
gratitude to the late Professor Bamberger
and to Mrs Fannie Dye for their care
and guidance. 1t was with their aid that
he was put in a school of illustration
Continued on page 40)
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September %, 1916

HershfeId, of the New York Evening
Journal.
1t was to Harry Hershfield, the young
cartOonist of the Evening Journal that we
owe the wholesome and refreshing stimu-
lation that comes from melodramatic &C
ton Mr.. Hershfield not only created
desperate Desmond but he has re-
Gently struck a gold mine of humor and
appeal in the series representing the
significant and informative adventures OF
able the Agent"
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MSrtin, Arthur C
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Mcdowell. Geo. Jr.
McLendOn, Tom
McDaniels. &.
Neal, Jim
Peters, Robert G
Palmer, Milton C
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Watkins. Homer c
Williams, Grady
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Rogers, Burton C
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