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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
STOP CALOMEL! TAKE
DODSON'S liver TONE
Work Without Making You Sck-Eat Anything 1T Can Not
Savate- Don't Lose a Days Work.

I discovered vegetable compound that does
the work of dangerous, sckening calomel and 1
want every reader of this paper to try bottle
and if it doesn't straighten you up better and
quicker than salivating calomel just go back to
the store and get your money.
1 guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's
Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work
and clean your thirty feet of bowels of the sour
bile and constipation poison which is clogging
yJur system and making you feel miserable
/ guarantee that one spoonful of this harmless
liquid liver medicine will relieve the headache, bill
iousness, coated tongue, ague malaria, sour stom-
ach or any other distress caused by torpid liver
as quickly as dose of vile, nauseating .calomel,
besides It will not make you sick or keep you from
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
Production Of Cotton Decreased.

Washington.-Heavy damage to the
growing cotton crop between June q
and July rs, caused by weather condi
tons, caused reduction Of 1885, 900
bales in the prospective production
The August cotton report Of the de
partment Of agriculture, announced
Wednesday, indicated production Of
12,916,OOO equivalent 5OO-pound bales
compared with 14,266.OOO bales fore
cast from the condition of the cror
June rs. The condition during the
month dropped s8 per cent to 1913 pei
cent of normal. This figure is com
pared with Sill on June "a, 1854 on
July % last year, 1854 in 1914 and
1876, the ten-year average, on July 25
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

days work. | want to see bottle OF this won
dertul liver medicine in every home here
Calomel is poison--its mercury-it attacks the
bones, often causing rheumatism. Calornel is dan.
gerous. 1t slckens-while my Dodson's Liver
Tone is safe, pleasant and harmless Eat any.
thing afterwards, because it can not salivate Give
it to the children because it doesn't upset the sto
ach or shock the liver. Take spoonful tonight
and wake up feeling fine and ready for full
days work.
Get bottle! Try it! If it doesn't do exactly
what | say, tell your dealer to hand your money
back Every druggist and store keeper here knows
me and knows of my wonderful discovery of a
vegetable medicine that takes the place of danger
Gus calomel-Adv.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
EXPLOSIONS OF AMMUNITION
CAUSES S25,OOO,OOO Loss
Quantities Of Dynamite and ShrapneI
Explode in New York Hay-Fire
Adds to Loss.

New York.-Property- loss estimated
at $25,OO0,000 was caused early Sun.
day by series of terrific explosions
OF ammunition awaiting shipment to
the entente allies and stored on Black
Tom Island, small strip of land jut.
ting into New York Bay off Jersey
City. The loss of life will not he de.
termined definitely until workmen EN-.
ployed on the island and on boats
moored nearby are checked up.
The detonations, which were felt in
i've states, began with continuous
rapid fire of small shells, then the
blowing up of great quantities of dyna.
mite, trinitrotaluene and other high
explosives, followed by the bursting Of
thousands of shrapnel shells, which
'howered the surrounding country and
water for miles around
Fire then destroyed thirteen of the
huge warehouses Of the National Stor.
lge Company on Black Tom Island, in.
Guiding merchandise valued between
I12,OOO,OOO and S15,OOO,OO0. The
flames were reflected against New
fork's Sky lines" of towering office
buildings which few moments be-
ore were shaken as If by an earth.
quake. Miles of streets in Manhattan
we're strewn with broken glass and
shattered signs.
Officials of the National Storage
company and the Lehigh Valley rail-
road declared that reports to them
showed fire started shortly after l
o'clock Sunday morning on a barge
belonging to an independent towing
company that had been moored along.
side dock used by the railroad com.
pany to transfer ammunition ship.
ments from trains to vessels in the
harboP.
The officials said they were investi-
eating ito ascertain whether the barge
purposely was set on fire as the result
Of plot"
Warrants charging manslaughter
we're issued for the arrest of Albert
". Dickman, agent at the Black Tom
Island docks for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company; Theodore B. John.
son, head of the Johnson Lighterage
and Towing Company, and Alexander
Davidson, superintendent of the Ma.
icnal Storage Company. They are &C.
cused Of having illegally permitted ex.
plosives to be stored where human
life was endangered.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
DauphterIs Idea.

Mrs. Brown was In the habit of in
Producing her big daughter as, This
Is Jane; she Is only fifteen-you'd
never think it, would you"
At last the girl protested. Its mean
of you to tell everybody how young T
am. l could have lot better time Il
you didn't"
Perhaps you could. But don't pro-
pose to have people saying, after
you've been out in society couple of
seasons, Don't tell me Jane Brown ia
only twenty-why, she was grown
girl years ago."
Just the same" retorted the daugh-
ter, "you wouldn't like It If / intro
duced you to my friends as This Ia
my mother. She's only forty-eight-
you wouldn't think 1t, would youT"-
Judge.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
|E TROOPS ARE RANKED
/ LIKE The REGULARS
ldisr General CrOwder in an opiH
says They Are Entitled to Pen
ilOns and Same Privileges.

ishingtOn. - MOoted questions
4 TIE status Of state troops called
he federal service for the Mexi.
emergency are reeited in an eX-
tive opinion given Secretary Of
Baker Saturday by Brigadier Gen
CrOWder, Judge advocate general
is army.
neral crOwder holds that the state
s1 are not subject to duty out
Of The United States unless, and
they are formally drafted by Or
Of tie president; that they are I'M
control Of the federal government
bot Of their respective state gov.
?, and that they are entitled to
sane pensions and privileges as
an
lAe congress by joint resolution
conferred upon the president au.
7 % draft the militia and nation
ild IN bis discretion, the general
out that the president had not
ised that authority.
ne meantime, he says, the status
g state troops lis that of militia
INTO the service of the United
iOF one Of the purposes speci-
the constitution, that is, to pro-
aa United States from invasion.
sie are three classes of troops
\ federal service, according to
linion. They are, first: the or
militia Of Texas, Arizona and
exlCo, summoned by the presi.
2 bis first call for state troops
ne Dick law Of 1903; second,
auonal guard automatically
= federal service under the
auoaal defense act, the Hay
'alan bill; and third, the regu.
which have not qualified un-
new law have status identical
we q Texas. Arizona and New
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
He Meant Well. but

Distinguished Out-of-Town Guest
(speaking at banQuet)-Your beautiful
little city appeals to me. AS we came
in on the train / remarked to my wife !:
"Ah, my dear; you and 1 ought to be
living on the top Of one of those mag
nifcent hills"
Toastmaster Tin hoarse whisper)--
Go easy: we've got only two hills in
town. The insane asylum is on one,
and the sewage works on the other.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
MEAN BANDITS GIVEN
RATTLE ON TEXAS SIDE
e,,,.s Cavalry and Mexican
60 Iointly RspeI Them-Four
|o0p p. Two Americans Killed.

.,onio. Tex-Carrancista and
y Gates troops fought side by
81 ~ engagement with Mexican
.ontb of Fort Hancock. Texas,
lls 'g according to an official re.
qs rom Brigadler General George
Al Fl Paso to Major General
y" ,bs bandits had been sur
Saa N a ranch house on the
usu . eide of the Rio Grande, and
wa r,ean customs guard had been
.no,ber customs guard, named
y .an down to the river bank and
! 70 a detachment Of CarranciStas
: Mexican side to come over and
The American troops.
..ntaip and eight soldiers re-
aod They joined in the fighting,
/, b.eame general. Soon, the re-
a.. the bandits fled from the
~ Sor,e and retreated over the
leaving behind four dead.
American dead numbered two,
.ts Twoney, Troop F of the
- United States Cavalry, and
Y, woods. customs guard.
..s..nt Lewis Thompson, Troop p
eighth United States Cavalry,
,srlOusly wounded. He was made
lsrget Of three bullets.
! american force consisted Of
men. under command Of Ser
Tbompson, two hospital corps
,us the two custom guards.
~ ,peedlly surrounded the Mexi-
n HE ranch house. Woods was
A., 10 fall, laid low by a bandit
lad slipped outside to aim at him.
/. death was avenged a moment
~ one Of the hospital corps men,
sbOt down the bandit just as he
fleeing back into the house.
vas at this point that Bean sum
a the Carranclstas. Brisk firing
,vsd for a time. Then quiet
mad IN the ranch house. A eau
Investigation disclosed three
dead bandits inside its walls.
IA remainder had succeeded in get
on. and making their way over
RIO Grande.
i Carrancistas followed in pur-
General Funston said that no
rican troops would join the chase.
number Of bandits that escaped IL
Known.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
Tn's Primary Election.

''nplets returns from the pri-
.l.'lion Of July %, submission
..'lsa 0y q small majority. The
alao confirm former reports
-o1as l. BIanton Of Abilene
sl'aled Congressman w. R.
~ Y 'ns Sixteenth district; that
y !. u, Of Franklin has de-
Y ( Houh Of Mexia for the
| 4. 's !, IN the Twelfth district,
g. ?. ShOlars, Jr., of Wood
! ~, Won for representative in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
Love ls Blind.

Another proof that love is blind is
that no decent husband ever sees q
freckle or wrinkle on the face of the
wife who has just put a bait of fried
chicken, hOecake, roas'n'ears, sliced to-
matOes and sparrow grass In front of
~!m.-Houston Post.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
The Crime.

"You don't mean to say the sheriff.
has done arrested the boys that made
up that lynchin' party?"
HE sho' did"
Name o goodness! What forf
Sheriff says he lows the laws got
to be respected mo- round here, an
them boys used tree in the cotehouse
grounds an tramped all over the lawn
right where there was a plain sign
sayin' Keep Off the Grass "-Town
Topics.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
Many Bodies WASH. Ashore.

Copenhagen. During June 100
bodies of men drowned in the Jutland
naval battle were found off the Danish
coast, 10S off the Norwegian coast and
100 off the Swedish coast in the Katie
gat. The battle occurred May 81
June /.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11
Hsa. kllls Shoe Manufae,ursr.

st. Louis, Mo.-oscar Johnson, pres
ident of the International Shoe Com
pany, died Friday at the company's
office Excessive heat is the cause AZ
signed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

n NSuses Wreck.
,s ssA-Rhree men were kill
\. 'ality-iOOr persons injured
~ 'o g and three coaches Of
!, Special of the Missouri,
-, Teas were deralled ten
4. So y q Dallas Tuesday. A sun
'ails caused the wreck.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

Many self-made man would have
suited better had he let his wife at
tend to the Job.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

sC'y in Milan County.
| Il.. le1,--seyeral wells are
y I 2 Milan county for oil.
Paving quantities has
10Y, load in the county. Gas
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

The classy woman is the one wha
can look well In cheap garments.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-08-11

Wealthy Russians are buried in
glass collins.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
ARE FILING SUITS
FOR COMING TERM
This is Last Day for Recording Ac-
tions to Go on New Term
Docket.

Today was the last day for filing
suits for the coming term of the dis
trict court A number of actions
we're presented to the clerk during
the forenoon, and it is expected that
there will be the usual eleventh hour
contributions this afternoon. The
new suits filed since the last docket
was made up will aggregate about
thirty-five or forty, it is estimated.
Lenora Coleman asks for a divorce
from Lewis Coleman and alleging de-
sertion as the cause for action. The
couple were married in 1891.
l.. f. Williams has filed an action
against r. S. Latta asking for judg
ment of S171.6S and attorneys fee.
1t is alleged that the money is due
plaintiff as commission for sale of
farm.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
Mrs. TrumbulI Pleases.

Fort Madison welcomed Mrs. Mn
lie Trumbull Tuesday. The Gem City
SAYS: The appearance Of Mrs. Mile
Trumbull of Portland. Oregon, at the
court house, Tuesday evening was
greeted with large attendance COM
prised mostly of women. About ten
men vertured to hear the address.
which it was declared was one of the
strongest arguments for suffrage that
has ever been given in Fort Madison
Mrs. Trumbull spoke twice in the in
terest of suffrage at this city, yester-
day at meeting at the home of Mrs.
A. f. Glazier in the afternoon and a.
the mass meeting in the evening.
Miss Kate Logan of Ames college,
also spoke at the event on Home
Gardening and the city beautiful
movement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
|EhTH Of mrs.
| HANNAH LUMbURG
kokuk Resident for Thirty-six Years,
Passed Away This Morning
After Lingering
~ illness.
las BORN IN SWEDEN
Ime to This Country aNS>to keokuk
in the Year. 1sso-survived
by Two Sons and a
Daughter.

Mrs. Hannah Lumberg of 1923 Elk
ange street, passed away this morn
after lingering illness. Mrs.
lmberg had been a resident of Keo.
k for thirty-six years and was one
the city's most highly respected
bmen. Her many friends here have
lrned with regret Of her death and
sympathy of the community has
ZEN extended 60 the bereaved family.
Mrs. Lumberg was born near Ore
b, Sweden on December 25, 1855, be-
3, consequently, sixty years of age
the time OF her death. The decd
came to the United States and to
Fokuk from her native land in April
30 and this city had been her home
er since.
She was a woman of many fine at
butes, God fearing, charitable, kind
d generous, lover of her home and
effectionate mother. The follow
children survive Arthur Lub-
lrg, Clarence Lumberg and Mrs.
lery Rumba1rgh, all of this city.
lere is one grandson, Charles Rum
ugh. The funeral arrangements
We no be neclemedto, unit ma hrlud
we not been completed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
CITY NEWS.

Use Blom's soap, best for general
use, made in Keokuk.
Don't forget new price on shirts
and collars take effect April 10. Call
phone 203. Keokuk Steam Laundry.
Call phone 2O3 for good shirt and
collar work. Keokuk Steam Laun-
dry.
The friends Of Miss Sadie Webb
who has been very i'll for several
weeks will be pleased to know that
she is ON the road to recovery.
-Thelma Redman was operated on
at st. Joseph's hospital and is getting
along as we'll as could be expected
-Mrs. Alice Clark VINO a few days
ago was stricken with paralysis, was
yesterday moved to ST. Joseph's hos
pital. She is in critical condition.
"A. P. Meyer, county auditor has
announced the voting places in Keo-
kuk for the presidential preference
primary election which is to be held
on April 10. They are as follows:
First precinct, 25 North Fourth street;
second precinct, 80 South Fourth
street; third precinct, Washington
school basement; fourth precinct, 226
3 tsreet, fifth presinct, 314 North
Fourteenth street; sixth precinct,
1924 Main street; seventh precinct,
Keokuk Electric car barn.
The coming meeting of the Keo-
kuk Retailers league will be held on
Wednesday night of next week. E.
C. Bishop of AInes viii be one of the
leagues guests and will explain some
matters in connection with the fall
celebration.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06

nine-year-old Wotan Maxa milan Zoel-
liner, violinist, and Septimus e. Bar
bour, baritone.
The following program has been
arranged:
Trio 'FPetit symphonique" (Tours)
-Wotan Zoellner, Mr.. and Mrs. AL,
bert Zoellner.
Vocal solo-Mr. Barbour
| Simple Aveu (Thorne)-Miss Cath
crime Claughley.
Concerto No. (Beriot)-Wotan
Zoellner.
Calife de Bagdad (Boieldien)-Miss
Gertrude Boeddeker, Mr. and Mrs.
bZoellner.
Reading.
Fifth Air varie Danda)-Hans
Glaha.
Carnival de Venice (Weiss)-Miss
Helen Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Zoellner.
Air varie CReiding)-Miss Howell
Berceuse from Joselyn Goddard
Carl Stempel.
Remember Me Gagye) = Edgar
Workman.
Call to Arms (Weiss)-Master Bon
icamp, Mr.. and Mrs. Zoellner.
Spanish Dance (Regfeld)-Albert
Zoellner.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
NEWSPAPER CONSULTATIONS

solidation will mean a saving to the
merchants, as they will get the same
service for less money, and that is
true. Mt. Pleasant merchants are
getting better service for less money
today than they did when there were
four papers in Mt. Pleasant, and they
get it for less money. Consolidation
is going on all over the country. The
older communities have gotten tired
of supporting newspaper that was
being run with a peck of old type
and a hip shot press. A newspaper
has certain bills to meet each month
and as rule they are big. Printers
all get better wages than they used
to get All kinds of printing material
has advanced in price and the utmost
economy and efficiency is required to
make things go. Another thing, most
merchants have learned that it is a
mistake to patronize new paper
that has no backing, except that Of
some disgruntled politicians who
want paper started to put the
blankety blank blank out Of bust
ness" A newspaper can't be run on
wind. The paper houses want their
money once a month and the butcher
and the baker and the candlestick
maker nave 10 De palQ SO Indt liey
can keep their wheels going round.
That is the way the two newspapers
at Keokuk looked at things and they
have done the thing that they hope
will remedy bad situation. Both c.
e. Warwick of the democratic paper
and c. F. Skirvin of the republican
paper will be connected with the
consolidated paper and Will try to
create a naper which will pay fair
income on big investment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
Voice of the People
"TraiI Hitting"-What 1t is and What
it Means
To the Editor of The Gate City:

To the Editor of The Gate City:
There is some current misunder-
standing of what is meant by the fig
ures appearing each evening in the
press as to the number who have
"hit the trail in the tabernacle cam
paign. Or. Scoville explains it clear
ly to those who attend the meetings,
but others are apt to get wrong i'm
preston, and suppose that it means
new converts only.
DR.. Scoville extends the invitation
to four distinct classes: % those
some church here, and come forward
example, (2) those who have been
members and feel that they have been
Indifferent, and want to make anoth-
er start toward christian earnestness
and fidelity, CD those who have been
members elsewhere and have come
to Keokuk without becoming mem
bers of church here, and (4) those
who make first confession of chris
tan faith. These different classes
sign cards OF different sorts, indicat-
ing their relation to the invitation.
All are counted among those who
hit the trail" So that the numbers
reported should not be considered as
indicating so many new converts, and
possible increase Of the church mem
bership and christian forces of keo-
kuk. In addition to the above, 1t
should be understood that some of
the new converts are from other cities
and towns in this vicinity, and many
others are children who have come
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
MANY IN KEOKUK
TRY SIMPLE MIXTURE

Many Keokuk people are surprised
at the QUICK action of simple buck
thorn bark, glycerine, etc, as mixed
in Adler-i-ka This simple remedy
acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel,
removing such surprising foul matter
that ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost
ANY CASE constipation, sour stom-
ach or gas. A few doses often relieve
or prevent appendicitis. A short
treatment helps chronic stomach trou-
BILE. The INSTANT, easy action Of
Adler-i-ka is astonishing. Wilkinson
& Co
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06

forward in the special childrens'
meetings. or at other times, and who
are too young to understand the
meaning of a christian confession, or
To be received at once into church
membership.
This explanation is made with no
purpose to undertake the value OF the
campaign. or the trail hitting. 1t
may mean much more for some de-
Iinuuent and Indifferent church mem
Der to Zine up" for a better life and
service than to enroll a new convert.
And the impression on some of the
small children may result in a later
addition to church.
Dir. Scoville has done a remarkable
work for Keokuk. And not the least
part of it has been the honor which
he has given to the church and Its
ministry. He has done and said
nothing to throw discredit on either.
but on the contrary to exalt and
honor both. With some evangelists,
a large part of their ammunition is
shot at the church, It's officers and
ministry What DR.. Scoville Is say
ing and doing to conserve the results
OF the campaign by bringing new con-
yerts into the church and making
present members more loyal and eff
ficient is of the highest value. AS he
expresses it. his purpose is to leave
mot a disorganized mob but an
army" prepared for real service.
Through many long years Keol1uk will
have reason to thank God for this
campaign under DR.. Scoville's leader
ship and the cooperation of his party
and the resident pastors.
A TABERNACLE ATTENDANT,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
More Satisfact


Davenport Democrat: Keokuk's two
newspapers, The Gate City and
The acknowledgements, have been
consolidated, and the result Is a
paper that is plainly better than
either of them and that ought to give
a lot more satisfaction to its readers.
Keokuk wasn't large enough city
to give proper support to two papers,
and the result was that neither -Sas
as good an article as the people we're
entitled to and as they can be given
under the new arrangement. The new
Gate City hi, its own leased wire,
and editorial and reporting ability
enough at its command, apparently, to
make real newspaper. Keokuk Is
one of the important links, too, in the
chain of river towns bound together
by a common interest and needing a
spokesman with a vision Of the splen-
did future Of the great valley and a
purpose to make his vision reality
in the years that are close at hand
Consultations Common.
Mt. Pleasant Free Press: The Con-
acknowledgements and The Gate City
at Keokuk, two Of the Oldest news
papers In Iowa, have consolidated
and will be run as an independent
paper. Thus, they hope to please both
the democrats and the republicans,
and it is doubtful if anybody will
have the nerve to go into Keokuk
and try to run partisan paper, as
it has been known among news
paper men for some time that the
field hardly afforded sufficient patron
age for two big papers. In their an
nouncement, they say that the con-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-06
Children Who Are Sickly

Mothers who value their own COM
fort and the welfare of their children,
should never be without a box of
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children, for use throughout the sea-
son. They Break up Colds, Relieve
Feverishness, Constipation, Teethins
Disorders, Headache and Stomach
Troubles. Used by Mothers for 2S
years. THESE POWDERS NEVER
FAIL. Sold by all Drug Stores, Csc.
Don't accept any substitute. Sample
mailed FRIED. Address, Mother Gray
Co., lie Roy, N. Y.