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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
CITY NEWS.

Grand Leaders make you smile.
Special Saturday, fresh eggs 25c.
Fred DeYoung's.
Dollar Day tomorrow, 80 read
Lowitz's add sure.
Fine spring chickens at Jos.
Haubert's, 709 Main street
Spend Sunday on Str. Dubuque to
Burlington and return. Ly. $3.50 q. M
Adults 75c.
The Deutschland arrived home
safe, SO will your shoes tt you take
them to Sayller's shoe hospital. 112O
Main.
duplicate auction score pads. Soc.
Something new. Obtainable only from
Gate City Co.. Is North Sixth street,
-Pucketchetuck lodge No. 45 meets
every Friday evening at 500 O'Clock.
w. L. Utley. N. c.; George W. I'm
megart, permanent secretary.
For quality meats, choice roasts,
sau.ages. fresh bologna and break
fast bacon, try Joseph Haubert's hne
meat market, 709 Main Phone SO.
Wines from the cellars Of q. Bax-
ter's Sons, Nauyoo, Ill. can be had
for family purposes in no less than
gallon quantities. Write for prices or
come direct to their cellars.
John Il. Hamilton, who for the
past two years held the position Of
reporter on the Evening Democrat at
Fort Madison, has resigned his posi-
ton effective today, to accept an I'M
portant post with the Sinclair Coal
company of Detroit, Mich. Mr.. Ham
fiton will depart Saturday for Detroit
to take up his duties there.
High class river outing to Bur
Jington every Sunday on Str. Du.
buque. L7. $3.50 a m. Adults Toe.
The path to a second lfeutenancy
| In the United States armg has been
made less rugged by the elimination
| OF geometry and trigonom etry as
examination requirements. In add
ton, an applicant may in the future
| take the second Heutenant's exaun
nation after only one year of service
The old ruling required two years.
Order nice roast or spring chick
en- for your Sunday dinner from
Marley. Phone 1445.
Fort Madison Democrat: Tuesday
afternoon at 500 o'clock Mr.. Everett
Wood and Miss Viola Palmer, both
of Keokuk, were united IL marriage
by Justice Buckler. The groom Is q
machinist In Keokuk and following
the ceremony they departed for Keo
kuk where they will make their home
! Smoke Grand Leaders. They
satisfy.
Dollar Day tomorrow, 80 read
iIowitz's add sure.
| Spend Sunday ON Str. Dubuque to
Burlington and return. Lv. $3.50 a. m
1 Adults 75c.
| Widows who have widows pen
sion claims, viii find Green Yer
million in his Office at the court
house on August 3d. Mr.. Vermillior
will swear all pensioners to thei
claims at this time. This applies only
to the state widows pensioners, and
has nothing whatever to do with the
federal pensions. Only those who
iAaYe state claims should auulz.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
Substance Once Used to Decorate
Malefac.ors by Vigilance Com
mittees Adopted for Mark
ing Safety Aisies.
GIVES GOOD SERVICE
put Down AZ Printing for Paint, 1t
Alone Proves ideal for Mark
Ing Llnes-cost 10
Very Low.

A suitable paint Tor the marking
OF safety atsles and zones in the Ousi-
ness district, has at last been found
Rather, 1t might better be said that
a suitable material has been found.
for 1t is not paint at all. Old fash
toned coal tar, the stuff that boys
used to get on their hands, and
which vigilance committees applied TO
malefactors In early days, Is the
coating that Is being applied.
Commissioner Of Public Safety Fred
Hilpert thought that possibly ta1
might be used to mark out the Lines,
and then a coat OF white paint could
be applied to the tar. The paint
doesn't adhere very well to brick.
and II was thought that II might show
more tenacity when applied to tar.
However, when the tar had been
put on, 1t was found that it doomed up
Just as well as the white. when first
put on. A travelling man, who was
watching the work. introduced him
self. and when he found that the tar
was merely q printing coat, he said
that In Indianapolis, Indiana. ms
home. tar was used as the regular
material for marking out safety
afsles and zones In the principal
streets.
The tar has not been painted, and
It L. proving an excellent marker. 10
the day time. It looms up plain
enough to be readily apparent TO
pedestrians. and at night, when the
arc lights along Main street are
lighted. 1t shows up much better
than the white paint.
Commits sioner Hilpert has rece1veo
a reply to his inquiries regarding
suitable paints from the officials at
Chicago. They use substance.
Concrete White Cement Coating.
for this purpose. Concrete Is manu-
featured by a concern in New BRIGHT
on. New York. The letter from Chi.
cago, said nothing about the cost o.
the material. so City Clerk Sandberg
wrote this afternoon to the factory,
for price quotations.
II the price is reasonable, the coat.
ing viii be given a fair test, and u
It proves much better than the tar
1t may be adopted. However. the tai
costs almost nothing, and gives very
good service. so 1t IL very probable
That It may be the material to be
used in the future.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25

Al the worlds a stage, but man
seldom hears the prompter when he
misses his cue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
ADJUSTMENTS.
pousias Fairbanks-Last Tlme To

Douglas Fairbanks-Last Time To-
night.
A sure-flre- guaranteed-to -please-you
program Is on at the Grand tonight.
There are seven reels OF fun, romance
and real thrills. but it's mostly fun.
Douglas Fairbanks, most popular
among the young men actors, appears
| in his newest picture "The Good Bad
Man" In i've reels and there is also
the funniest Keystone comedy In two
reels, called THE Snow Cure" and
featuring Ford Sterling. A whfrlwind
finish in which a real bear does mar
velous stunts and keeps crowd OF
people ON the jump, keeps the aud
ience in a roar Of laughter during The
Snow Cure"
Douglas Fairbanks Is supported In
his new picture by the winsome Bes-
sic Love, q young woman who has
worked her way into the hearts OF all
photoplay fans. The Good Bad
Man. is a western drama and differ
ent from the others. The question OF
Young mans parentage tortures his
otherwise normal and naturally
CHEEKY mind until he finally becomes
a bandit. When the day comes that
he himself falls in love, he forsakes
the girl. and leaves her to his rival.
rather than ask her to marry a man
who does not know his own history.
But when he learns that he had a
father and that his father was killed
by the very man who is trying to steal
his own sweetheart, then comes a
whirlwind OF events, with Douglas
Fairbanks plunging through them to
a Misunderstanding finish that gives a
wonderful thrill.
Come tonight at Z, $40. $40 or
I9:15 If you want to be in at the start
of this excellent program.
Saturday tomorrow comes Blanche
Sweet to the Grand, appearing with
lThos. Meighan in her very latest
|I asky-Paramount picture, THE Dupe"
and one Of the best Of her career. Be
lsides matinees at 2:30 and a o'clock,
there will be night showfngs at $50,
I7.4o. $50 and 10 o'clock.-Advertise-
ment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
Hanoed to a Tree.

ELKADER, Iowa, Aug. 25.-After
relatives had searched for hours for
Mrs. Ben Roys, they found her body
hanging to tree Thursday. She had
been i'll for weeks and was believed to
have become Respondent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
M|SSOUR|ANS ARE
. SHOWN BIG PLANT
Retail Merchants From the show-Me
State, Wers In keokuk Yes
terday. Coming up on
Bald Eagle.
DAM Is AN ATTRACTION
Convention Session Of Organization
Was Held on the I
8 sS.t En- $
route.

A big delegation Of Missouri retail
merchants from Hannibal were on
the dam yesterday and visited the
power house and the government res
ervation. They came to Keokuk on
the steamer Bald Eagle. and held q
part Of their convention enroute. The
retailers enjoyed visiting the big
hydro-electric plant here and were
shown all Of Its workings.
A Hannibal paper had the following
concerning the trip:
The steamer Bald Eagle left Han
nibal early this morning carrying
more than $50 persons who have
been In Hannibal attending the six
teenth annual convention of the Mis-
souri, Retail Merchants association
The meeting was opened In Hannibal
Tuesday. The final sessions were to
be held ON the boat today, including
the election of officers and the selec-
ton Of the next convention city.
A number of Hannibal people &C
companied the visitors to Keokuk
where the retailers were to inspect
the power dam.
A resolution was adopted by the
organization yesterday afternoon
Recommending that legislation be
passed to eliminate the practice OF
giving trading stamps, coupons. pre-
miums. ETC.. by merchants. The con-
vention also went on record as favor
ing q state trade commission to co
operate with the federal trade COM
mission. the work of which the or
ganization Endorsed highly.
The visitors were yesterday after
noon entertained at q fish fry given
at the Sni ECarte club In Illinois. A
big spread was enjoyed In the even
ing. The trip was made In automo-
biles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
nenIe. He l. tho Man.

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Aug. rs
Persistendy denying charges that he
is an alleged wife slayer formerly OF
Dallas, Texas. man giving the
name of o. P. Wood, held by local
police for Texas authorities, declared
today that he is victim OF circum-
stances and Will establish q satisfac-
tory abb.
Wood was taken into custody sls-
pected Of being Ollie Beaupre who
Jumped his bond while waiting for
a new trial on q charge OF killing his
wife with Q hammer In 1911.
A telegram received by Detectives
here from Waxahaci1te, Texas. stated
that COPY OF the indictment against
Baupre was on the way here and
that the sheriff there would start for
Los Angeles soon with reQuisition
papers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
Let sootleaaers GO.

DIES MONIES. Iowa, Aug. 25.-The
policy of the Iowa state fair board
with reference to bootlegging on the
fair grounds Is: Seize the liquor. but
let the bootleggers 60"
This was made known today by Cen
eral James Lincoln, commander OF the
Ames cadets policing tho grounds.
who said he was ordered by President
Cameron of the board to release three
bootleggers the student police ar.
rested last night. Indications from the
raids during the night were that boot.
leggers planned to do thriving busi-
ness at the fair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
ONLY SON
DIES TO-DAY
Death Of Young Child Much Mourned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Peevier OF
Sandusky.

william Pewter Jr., eight months
old, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. William
Peevler. of Sandusky, died at 400
O'clock this morning. Death was due
to q complication OF diseases. The
child was born January rs, 1915.
He was an only son and his sudden
death Is great blow to the parents.
to whom he had meant much, In the
few months of his life.
He leaves to mourn his memory, be-
sides his parents. two sisters. Thirley
Irene and Hester Eta.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
BILLIARDS AND BOWLING.

FOR SALE-Billiard tables, brand
new, caron and pocket, with complete
outfit, s125: second hand tables at re-
diced price,. Easy payments. Cigar
store, drug, delicatessen and soda
fountain fixtures. The Brunswick
BalkeCollender Co. Davenport, Iowa
I. c. Sanders. agent, PIG Harrison ST
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
PERSONALS.

MISS nellie l. Reddy left yesterday
for Twin Falls, Idaho. after spending
two months vacation with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Reddy.
Miss Hattie benson has returned
from a vacation trip TO Chicago and
other points OF interest.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
Cotton n 1s cents.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Cottcn sold
at 1s cents a pound ON the New York
cotton exchange this afternoon Tor
the first time since 1911 when It
sold at 1880. Prices were UP a fun
cent for the week at today's high
figures, the biggest advance IN a
short period in many years. Crop
estimates and weather reports have
formed the basis FOR the present bull
movement Todayis advance was II
points.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-25
FUNERAL NOTICE.

SFEMANN-The funeral OF Mrs.
H. G. Seen1ann, who died this morn
ing, will be held Sunday afternoon. at
2:30 from the home, 1902 Main street,
and at $3.50 from the st. PauTs
Evangelical church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Benighted North.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer condemns the
Georgia legislature for its failure to pass
the so-called anti-lynching BILL Georgia
does not disapprove of lynching," the Plain
Dealer says, "and the members of the leg
islature are representative of Georgia sentl-
ment." Continuing: "The 20 out of 142
who voted for the bill are spokesman for the
intelligent and enlightened minority which is
to be found in any benighted American
community"
And that from state where only few
days ago a negro was accused of assaultlng
a woman The sheriff took him and hid
him away. A mob had formed. 1t was a
mob that commanded automobiles, for there
was a line of 100 cars awaiting the sheriff s
return. The sheriff, returning, was met at
the city limits. He was directed to tell
where he had hidden the negro. He would
not. He endeavored to escape, but could
not. He was seized and his clothing was
stripped from his body. He was battered
and kicked. Two of his ribs were broken.
moose was splaced about his neck. Who
is this-the negro? No, the sheriff. After
half an hour of torture and insults the half
conscious man surrendered. He was taken
to waiting motor truck, which formed the
head of the procession of automobiles into
which the mob climbed. The procession
then left the city at high speed.
Another incident in the Intelligent and
enlightened" North of which we have seen
no criticism and denunciation by Northern
newspapers was the running of thirty
Southern negroes out of Michigan town by
a white mob.
Our Pharaseeical friends of the North
could accomplish more good by condemnine
mob violence in their own sections than by
indulging in criticisms of the South.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Editor.

Consider the editor He weareth purple
and fine linen. His abode is amongst the
mansions of the rich. His wife hath her
limousine, and his firstborn sporteth rae
ing car that can hit her up in forty fiat
Lo! for the people falleth over each other
to hand him money.
A child is born unto the wife of mer-
chant prince. The physician getteth twenty
five golden plunks. The editor writeth a
quarter of a column and telleth the multi
tude that the child tipped the beam at nine
pounds Yea, he lieth even as a centurion.
And the proud father giveth him chrome.
Behold, the young one groweth up and
graduateth, and the editor putteth into the
paper swell notice. Yes, swell notice
He telleth of the wisdom of the young wo-
man and of her exceeding comeliness. Like
unto the rose of Sharon is she, and her gown
is played up to beat the band. The dress
maker getteth two score and four ducats,
and the editor getteth note of thanks.
The daughter goeth on journey, and the
editor throweth himself on the story of a
| farewell party. 1t runneth column, and
the fair one remembered him from afar
with a picture post card that costeth six for
jitney.
| Behold, she returneth, and the youth of
the city fall down and worship her. She
picketh one and 10 she pickett lemon. But
the editor calleth him "one OF our most
promising young men," and getteth away
with it. And they send unto him bid to
the wedding feast, and behold the invitation
cards are printed in far city.
| Flowery and long is the wedding article
which the editor printeth. The minister get
| teth ten bones. The groom standeth the
editor off for a twelvevmonths' subscription.
| All flesh is grass. and in time the wife is
gathered into the silo. TIL minister getteth
his bit The editor printeth death notice
two columns of obituary, three lodge notices.
ten verses of poetry and card of thanks.
And he forgetteth to read the proof and the
darn thing cometh out: "Gone to Her Last
Roasting Place"
And all that are akin to the deceased
| jumpeth on the editor with several feet. And
they taketh out their ads and canceleth their
subscriptions.
Canst thou beat it?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Battle of Ballots.

The state primary in Georgia, under the
auspices of the organized democracy of the
state, is being held as this issue of The News
goes to press. Taking active interest, as a
rule, in all state political campaigns The
News has refrained from taking any share,
save its news and advertising columns, in
the contests of the past three months. 1t
has been impartial in its attitude, and awaits
the outcome with complacency.
All the men, of course, whose names are
on the official ballot to be voted for are
democrats, bound by the latest declarations
of their party, as enunciated in the state and
national platforms, so no matter whom a
voter may prefer he will support demo-
crat
But it is a good rule, wholesome pro-
cedure, to try and select the man one be-
lieves to be personally worthy, and who
will render the most valuable service in the
Office he aspires to fill. There should be
proper measure Of consciousness, of
patriotic spirit, in exercising the privilege
of voting.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Waste of Yesterday

News comes from Sheboygan, Wis, that
three corporations have been organized
there to make furniture from sawdust, or
rather from paper made from sawdust, ac-
cording to processes on which the federal
forest laboratory at Madison is now work
ing This utilization of sawdust so long a
''waste," which the lumber industry found it
a vexing problem merely to get rid of, Illus
trates how science goes on to convert into
valuable material the wastes of yesterday.
Some of these days some one will write
most interesting true romance about the utll-
ization of what former generations regarded
as useless. 1t will find much material in the
mining industry, beginning, perhaps, with
the shrewd Scotchman who found fortune
in the waste dumps that the ancient silver
miners of Athens left behind them, unre-
garded for at least a millennium. 1t will
show American copper, coal and other
miners are today working over and winning
wealth from what an earlier generation left
behind as waste,
Another chapter will tell the story of cot
ton seed, which for years planters burned
as the lumber millers did sawdust-merely
to get rid of it. Another will tell how long
cokemakers let billions of feet of gas. escape
into the air before science found how to
save it properly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
Growing Lack of Courtesy.

SIS the average man growing less polite
in his bearing toward the average woman!
am not sure, but l am inclined to believe
that he is. And if he is, believe ] know
the reason why"
That is the remark of a well-known Geor-
gian, who proceeded in ruminative way
"You know, the average American citizen
is peculiar as to one phase of his politeness,
especially where women are concerned-lf
you want to call it popularity; that IS, ne
hasa inherent usefulness that those of the
gentler sex shall manifest some degree OF
appreciation. He is beginning to, notice
with resentment that the female of the spe-
cies nowadays is inclined to take his little
attentions quite severely as matter OF
course, and that she neglects to return her
little thank your whenever he puts himself
out of the way to provide for her comfort
and pleasure.
81 mean this: Every day | ride on a
street car, and many times have vacated
my seat in order that a woman might be
relieved from the fatigue of standing. In
few instances does the woman in the case
thank me, and when she does she scarcely
deigns to pay me the compliment of
glance.
81 believe there is not day of my life,
with the possible exception of Sundays, that
do not hold open the door to some store,
office building or to some office within
building in order that a woman may pass
in ahead of me- For this little courtesy
and often it is more than mere courtesy
for some of the doors are heavy am
thanked on an average, / should say, of
about once in twenty times.
II cannot help but notice this little side
light on modern femininity and its foibles,
and believe other men notice it as acutely
as / do It isn't that / am voicing COM
plant, general or individual; but, all the
same, we men would like the compensatory
consolation of feeling that our women folk
appreciate our efforts to display the peculiar
veneraton which we ought to, and do, feel
for them"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Maine Campaign.

Names campaign, which ended IN It's
state election on yesterday, was character
lied by old-fashioned methods of influence
ing voters. There were spectacular parades,
feasts for thousands, speeches by the hum
dreds, and a deluge of drinkables in that
'dry' state. Each party-democrats and
epublicans-undertoOk to Guido the other
in all these things, because GAS Maine goes
SO goes the Union in the presidential cleo
ton two months later.
And perhaps this keen political compe-
tition was justified by the uncertainty of
the independent vote.
Whichever party has won has paid dearly
for its victory, not only in the money ex-
pended, but in the supreme effort to carry
the state.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
Great Increase i'm
Southern Grain CROPS
From Home and Farm.

In the eleven cotton states the produc-
ton of oats in 1915 was 55,OOO,OOO bushels
more than in 1914, an increase of more than
so per cent in one year. At the same time
the production of hay rose from 4,577, 900
tons to 6,260,000, and corn leaped from
610,851 900 to 812,885, 900. There was also
a gain of nearly 100000 bushels in the
wheat crop. Perhaps the most striking in
stance of the change in Southern agricult-
ure, however, is the introduction of crimson
clover into Alabama. Despite the value of
this legume as a cover crop and a fertilizer
it was unknown in Alabama when the de-
partment of agriculture determined to pop
ularize it. The county agent in each of ten
counties was asked to find ten farmers who
were willing to assist in the work by plant
ing one acre in clover as an experiment In
this way 100 acres were planted in the state
the first year. Two years later 100000
acres were planted. The practical demon
stration on the hundred farms had convinc-
ed the farmers that crimson clover made
money for them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-13
The Great Day.

Each man in time has one great day,
One day that mounts in bliss Ger all.
Each man, at labor or at play,
Hears soon or late some purpose call.
Each man in some supreme high hour
Is more a man than ever before.
In each comes some time to flower
The will that lifts him more and more
All. mine be that great day when love,
Slow circling to her bourne of rest,
Sweeps down from azure skies above
To fold white pinions on my breast!
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