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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-07

EAST ST LOUIS. Aug Cattle
receipts 400. market strong Texas
receipts Iee: native beef steers, $3.50
E1s.50: year.ing steers and hetstrs,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-07

by George Martin. United Press
STAT Correspondent
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20

to Use The Best Methods now
When the Nation faces a crisis we
must have the best farming in its
history. Labor is short, hence the
best tools and labor-saving devices
must be used to make it possible for
every farm laborer to cover as
much ground as possible and DO the
most efficient work. Farm women
and girls have important work to
do III the gardens, the orchard. in
raising poultry, and especially in
canning, preserving and conserving
our food supply.
Your County Agent and Home
Demonstration Agent become more
important officers now than ever
before. Your State Extension Di-
vision at the Agricultural College
will have still more important du-
ties. Look to these for counsel and
advice in this new burden Of extra
work. The County Agent will,
without doubt, have new duties and
responsibilities in the near future.
Farmers and Business Men, save
the breeding stock. Don't sell
cows, heifers, mares, sows, gifts,
ewes or hens. Keep them for breed
ing. If the breeding stock is sold
where will you get the means to
supply the meat of this country?
Let US forget all past difficulties
and join in a mighty effort to feed
the South. What can you do in
the next sixty days?
Respectfully yours,
BRADFORD KNAPP,
Chief.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20

son for this farmer for he was with
out the use Of the vehicle fornearly
"a month, and therepairs cost him
more than repairs for other wagons
would have cost had he purchased
the vehicle from a home dealer.
The moral is: Buy at Home for
your home dealer is prepared to
help you out in emergencies.
In a good many instances where
the home merchant loses trade to
the mail order house, lie is at fault
for failing to advertise his goods.
The mail order houses are constant
ly flooding the4nails with catalogues
and other literature, They go after
business.
The moral is: The home mer-
chant can get this business if lie
goes after it.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
|EDAL TO BE GIVEN TO
BOY FOR BEST SPEECH

} the School Boys of Lee County:
besburg, Slnithville and Vicinity.
entlemen:
AT the beginning Of the last fall
I'm I.promised to. give a Medal to
b boy who made the best speech
the end Of school. | write now
eall your attention to that promise
II to say that the contest will take
ice al Leesbtrg school building at
! close Of the Leesburg school and
II be under direction OF Miss Hill,
! expression teacher. All who
BIZ to take rart in it will please
'nmunicate with her at once. All
Us Of Lee county not over Is years
will be eligible provided he
lkes application for admission by
~ Is, 1917.
Yours truly,
j. +. Forester.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
A Three Day WhirIwind Of Things Worth While

It Up Late, but Win
Will Never 1t
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20

Saturday Judge Littleiohn granted
bail III the sum of $4,000 each to
Charlie Chapman, Jr., John Ethe-
ridge and Walter Johnson.
They were jointly indicted with
DIR. G X. Chapman. w. / Johnson
and H A Harp, charged with the
murder Of Walter Wade, near
Americas in August last year.
Bail for DIR. Chapman and W. /.
Johnson was denied in the same or
der which granted bond for threeof
the defendants. Harp was released
sometime ago on bond of $500.
The first opportunity to call the case
again will be at the May term of
Sumter superior court md develop
ments between now and then are
eagerly awaited.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
A HIGH PRICED Ram PAID
BY STOVALL & YEOMAN

Mr.. Guy s Pryor, one Of the first
farmers of Lee county to fnrsake
cotton as a money crop, came in
town Wednesday bringing d ham
weighing 3S pounds. Stovall 4
Woman paid him 49,. 80 for it, and
wanted its mate. This is q great.
deal better, in our judgment, than
cotton at even zoe. The advantage
being. that there is a market every
day in the day. Mr.. Pryor, who
also pays a great deal Of attention
to the raising Of mule colts, told us
that Yesterday he lost a very fine
mule colt Of his own raising.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
DMPANY TO BUY
FARM PRODUCTS

Albany, Ga, April 16-Albany
to become a market for all kinds
farm products if the plans Of q
lnpany organized here are carried
Z.
The preliminary organization Of
company was perfected at a
eeting this morning. E Young
8 elected president; Edwin Ster-
vice-president and Ben Adler,
Sretary and Treasurer. The bust
BIS will be conducted under the
me Of the Georgia Farm Products
mpany.
Ample capital for the company
BEGIN business with has already
en- subscribed and plans have
Ell adopted for making Albany a
e cash market for everything
sed on the farm.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
1. GOOD CITIzENsHIP

If you respond to the needs Of your town with
what your town needs from YOU, then no matter
what your vocation may be, you are, indeed,
good citizen. When dozen such citizens get to-
gether they can resurrect town from the dead
and make it an ideal town to live in. Environ
ment creates Tendencies. What is the environ
ment Of the boys and girls of our town. Ideals
and Amusements affect Character Impure water,
foul closets filthy back yards merchandise unprO-
tected from flies, affect Health. We don't want
any more Typhoid Fever, Malaria, Diphtheria, in
our town. Paint and lime are two Of the greatest
disinfectants ever discovered Let us paint up our
residences and stores, and whitewash trees fences
and outhouses It will make healthier and pref
tier town.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
Official Denial Of
Navy Battle Here

Boston, April l8--It was official
/ ly announced at the navy yard late
today that no credence was placed
in reports from 8 coast guard sta
tons on Cape Cod that heavy gun
fire had been heard off the coast.
The positive statement was made
that there had been no naval en-
gagement and that warships had not
exchanged salutes with foreign YES
sells.
The previous announcement that
heavy gun firing had been heard
during the morning was also issued
officially at the navy yard. It was
based on reports from Cape Cod re-
ceived by Lieut.. E G Blakeslee, in
charge of the naval radio district.
Newspaper correspondents at points
on the cape reported they had not
heard any gun firing.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
To Farmers, Bankers And
Business Men In the South
SAFETY

For nearly three years | have
done my best to warn you to pre-
pare for the present emergency.
For years we have tried to encour-
age classification in the South as a
basis for greater safety, both agri-
cultnral and economic. Since the
war began in Europe We have urged
Safe Farming. When prices were
low you did well and made great
progress. When cotton went to
eighteen cents and over you made
large profits because OF your prog
ress in Safe Farming, but some
were te npted to go back to cotton.
In common with many other men,
| | have tired to warn you Of that
danger. Cotton has not been high
but has only increased in somewhat
less proportion than food and feed.
Now the Crisis is Herel Phis
great Nation must arouse herself
for mighty struggle for liberty.
People without food and armies
without rations are conquered be-
fore they can begin to fight. Our
greatest safety now lies in Food
Production and in saving the waste
products.
If the South is to he Strong she
must have Food. If this country is
to be Strong she must be well fed
and have an abundance to sustain
those friendly people who are even
now fighting our battles for liberty
and democracy.
Transportation may be distribu-
ted. Your own defense requires
you to produce and Conserve your
Food supply. Don't Fail Now !
Il is National problem of defense
as important as men aud guns, ships
and cannon.
Business Men, if seed is short
canvass the situation like patriots
and get the seed for farmers. Ar
range the credits. Furnish farmers
seed corn, soy beans, cowpeas, vel
vet beans, peanuts, sorghum, etc :,
at cost. See that all things neces-
sary to help farmers are done. OF
course, We must produce cotton, but
with moderate acreage and a good
season there will be enough. Do
not sacrifice acres of Food to in-
crease your acreage in cotton.
Look Ahead? Get the warehouses,
the feed mills, shelters, clearing
stations, creameries, packing plants,
etc. ready You must do your
share and cooperate with farmers.
They must do their share and tend
crops faithfully.
Primers, in your Unions, clubs
and other organizations, resolve
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
BE A BOOSTER
It Isn't Your Town
It's YOU

If you want to live in the kind Of town
Like the kind Of = town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in grip
And start on long, long hike.
Youth only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new,
It's knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
Il isn't your tOwn-it's YOU.
Real towns are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When everyone works and nobody
shirEs.
You can raise town from the dead.
And II. while you make pour personal
Your nsiehbor can make one too,
Your town will be what you want to
see,
II isn't your town-it's your
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
Four Thinas VIII he Given
!. COMMUNITY Co.opERATIoN


Get together and pull together A BOOSTERS
CLUB of live, determined business men, who will
lay aside petty self-interest, and work together
for the general good, will put this town on the
map, and it will stay there. Pull together to
make our town more attractive. Pull together
and bring boys and girls to realize that in the
development Of our national resources, in promot.
ing more scientific farming in making better
schools, in building better roads, in developing
manufacturing enterprises, in bringing in up-to-
date methods Of merchandising, and in countless
other ways Of community building, there are OPP
portunities right in the "old home town" for a
career of usefulness such as can not be found else
where.
2. BETTER SCHOOLS
Ignorance tends to poverty and poverty tends to
crime The majority of the law-breakers and
criminals in our county jail are iliterate. Educa-
ton prevents crime. It costs less to give boy a
good education and start him on useful career
than it would cost later on to give him trial
and execute him fer committing a crime; and the
result is more satisfactory We want our town
to have as good schools as can be found in the
State.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
bYING AT HOME
IS PREPAREDNESS


A farmer bought a wagon from a
bill order house q year or two ago
a plice which he thought was
eaper than any home dealer
build sell it to him. The wagon
me all right, and worked fine for
veral months. Then it broke
wn. When repairs were needed
could not buy them from a local
altr because none handled that
AXE of wagon and it took 3 or 4
,eks to get them from the mail
der house. This was a costly les
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
HONOR ROLL FOR MARCH
THIRD GRADE

THIRD GRADE
Robert Bowden,
Margaret Clifton,
John Mark Hines,
Ben Hirschensohn,
Albert Hirschensohu,
Frank stovall,
Marvin Tarpley,
Goode Woman.
FOURTH GRADE
Willie Bell Goodwin,
Annie Hoyl,
Susie Kitchens, q.
Pauline Kitchens,
Garnett Pruett,
Ruth Tarpley,
Iona Mae Youngblood.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
.GOODE PRICE QUALITIES
AS JUSTICE OF PEACE

Mr.. Goode Price, who was re-
Gently elected to fill the vacancy as
Justice Of the Peace, caused by the
resignation Of Judge B E Powell,
has qualified and is now on the
job.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20

Senator Hoke Smiths pressa agent
says the senator has placed his
family on a war ration. A lot OF
the senator's constituents in Geor-
gia have been on war ration for
some time - Moultrie Observer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20

After all the war taxes have been
levied the probability is that neither
the present nor coming generation
will have reason to feel neglected.
News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1917-04-20
Tremendous Emphasis:
2. BETTER SCHOOLS
4. GOOD CITIZENSHIP
3. INCREASED FARM PRODUCTIoN

8. INCREASED FARM PRODUCTION
The empty Market Baskets Of the World are com.
ing to America. Can we fill themG Bring the
farmers into closer touch with the State and the
United States Department Of Agriculture for the
purpose Of obtaining expert, practical advice ON
farm problems, such as Fertilization, Rotation Of
Crops, Intensive Cultivation, Farm Labor, Farm
Management, Marketing, Etc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
FARMER HANGS HIMSELF.
ED POWERS LIVING BETWEEN
OSSIAN AND CASTALIA COM
MITTED SUICIDE MON
DAY.
Was Found by His Wife Hanging il
the Barn Shortly Before Noon
Hour,

Last Monday between the hours of
ten and eleven o'clock in the fore
noon Edward Powers, farmer living
between Ossian and Castalia commit
ted suicide by hanging. He was about
the home until little after ten, and
was found by his wife hanging in the
barn shortly before dinner. He had
been il i'll health for nine months and
was respondent.
Coroner DR.. s. p. Dahl, OF Decor
ah. was called to the home after din
ner Monday and an inquest over the
remains was held, and the coroaer's
jury decided it a case of suicide.
Mr.. Powers was A. years old and
had wife and family of children. He
was we'll known farmer. His sad
ending brings forth the sympathy OF
all to the bereaved family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
GRAHAMS OPEN EVENINGS.
Big Christmas Store Will Remain
Open Evenings Until Christmas.

Another page advertisement full of
Christmas suggestions for suitable
gifts is in this issue from Graham's
store. Manager Barnhart will keep
the store open evenings from now un-
til Christmas to give everybody an
opportunity to buy their gifts who
are unable to visit the store during
the day. With the suggestions offered
in this big Christmas advertisement
and the prices made will make gift
choosing easy. Their are gifts item
lied for father, mother, sister and
brother, and besides toyland is tenn
ing over with toys of all descriptions.
Look up the ad it is an. encyclopedia
OF gift suggestions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
One of a Glass Everywhere.

One of the rich men of Clayton
Icounty, il commenting on the activ-
lily of our bankers and others in push
ing the sale of the Liberty Bonds,
said that "they are all getting some
thing out of it," Certainly they are =
getting paid il coin that this man
does not understand. They are being
better paid than they would be if they
got some of the money that he under
stands. They are being paid IL patri-
otism, in knowing they are doing
their duty. They are also paying a
debt that this man owes equally with
them That is a return to the gov
ernmelt for opportunity to live as
they should, to have the protection of
life and property that no German
Kaiser ever gave his subjects. They
are paying the debt of opportunity
that this country offers them and
him of accumulating wealth AID pro-
perry. They are discharging a just
debt and being paid a price that is
so valuable that he does not under
stand the meaning Of it and never
will. He does not understand the spir-
it that prompts a man to leave home
kindred, and opportunity for bunk
in a barracks, hard work, rigid disci-
pline and the chance to be killed. He
is only a benighted, taX-dodging, sell
fish creature whose horizon is bound
ed by a dollar and whose vocabulary
contains no such word as "patrio-
tism. Elkader Register.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
WHERE THE GERMANS GOT
THEIR WAR Con.

When a Prussian paper. or even
the kaiser quotes Scriptures the quo
tations are apt to be from the Old
Testament and that from the crudest
parts of that book-something that
describes conditions as they were be-
fore the Jews had emerged from
semi-barbarism, when they preached
an eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth and when, in the name of the
Lord, who ever their Lord then was,
they gave to the conquerors all the
women OF the conquered peoples, or
as many of them as were neither too
Young or too old The fact that such
things are recorded il the Bible gives
the modern Prussians a chance TO be-
lieve that their ruthlessness is based
on the Bible and is founded on the
commands of God. But the rest OF the
world has learned a great deal since
the older books of the Old Testament
were written, for this is a progress
sive world and no one with good COM
mon sense would insist that what was
law for the Jews Of four thousand
years ago should be law now-ald
in the meantime the New Testament
has been written, book which has
great deal to say about other and
better things. The new book is as full
of mercy and kindness as the old Is
OF relentlessness and ruthlessness.
The kaiser ought to read more about
Jesus Christ and less about the Jeho-
yah of the Jews who was the tribal
God Of that period and the Germans
have set up for themselves a recrea-
ton of that ancient conception Of
God Cedar Rapids Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12

CAPT. J. J. DAILY WRITES
FROM FT. RILEY
Continued from first page. }

down the trees in Winneshiek leav-
ing only fringes along the river and
in the raviles adj you have Funston.
Riley and Funston are near together
placed about like DEBORAH and Free
port. Owing to cap rock 200 feet
up in the bluffs we have here much
the same canons, short and steep as
you have, with similar upland levels
reaching up close to the edges of the
valley and at an altitude above sea
level identical with that of the up
land there. The river there has cut
perhaps so feet deeper than the Kaw
has. The main stream comes from
the northwest and makes a sharp
turn to the east as does the Oneota-
and has a wider bottom.
Most of the boys will be out for
seven days at Christmas but as my
family is visiting in Dakota at pres
ent | will not be able to join them.
We were honored today by a visit
from Gen. Gorgas, head of medical
service of the army. He was accom-
panied by two other big medical men,
Welsh OF Baltimore and Vaughn of
Ann Arbor.
Van Epps of Iowa City. gave the
first lecture of our course last night.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
GOT SS55.6O AT CALMAR.
Red Cross Auction Brought Fine
Sum. Weather Was Severe,
Which Hindered the Sale.

At the big Red Cross auction held at
Calmar last Saturday they took
in $S55.60, which is certainly fine
showing, when it is considered the
weather was the coolest of the year,
IS below zero. Nevertheless a good
crowd braved the weather and they
are all to be congratulated on the
good big sum realized.
A lumber wagon sold for $50 and
was given back AID went the second
time at SIS. A peck of potatoes
brought $25.
The hat sold at the DEBORAH auc-
ton was sold again at Calmar and
only brought 50. and the only reason
il didn't bring more was the fact the
hour was getting late and they didn't
have time to auction it off the sec
ond time This same hat will go to
Spi,Iville and lie sold at the Red Cross
auction there next Saturday.
A goat that was given by Mr.. John
Walenta brought SO, bought by G.
a. Meyer, and he will send it to Spill
vile also for the sale there.
Taken all il all it was a very sue
cessful auction. If the weather had
been warmer it is no telling where
the amount would soar TO that they
unrlI Ioya lya, ~,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
To Peel Spuds by Machinery.

Here's another blow to the kaiser
The small Iowa spud that used to be
such Stacker when he was allowed
to go to waste or was fed to the hog,
is going to get Oh the job in the food
conservation movement
PAIRING machines run by hand and
pairing machines driven by power will
be used at the meeting of the Iowa
Potato and Truck Growers /associa-
tion at Davenport, November 1928,
and showed how small potatoes may
be prepared for the table by boarding
house keepers, hotel and restaurant
men.
Prof. A. II. Erwin of Iowa State col
lege will present data on the cost or
peeling small potatoes in this way
and the practicability of using most
of the small potatoes in the public
eating places of the larger cities,
leaving the large plump, smooth po-
tatoes for the housewives of the
country, who still have to MAKE use
of the old fashioned pairing knife.
IN these days OF food scarcity,
no small potatoes should be fed to
animals, because uncooked they have
relatively low food value" says c. l..
Fitch, secretary of the potato grow
ers' association
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
Sod Flock of Wild Ducks in Flight

sod Flock OF Wild Ducks in Flight.
During the Red Cross auction sale
at Frederika last week enthusiasm
ran high and everything offered for
sale brought a good price. Just at
the right moment flock Of wild
ducks were seen in their southern
flight. and as they approached from
the north the auctioneer asked for
bids on the birds. They were quickly
sold to man from Tripoli for 81
and he in turn donated them to the
society to be sold again. This was
followed by another purchase of the
mock, and the sale kept up until the
ducks were about out OF sight, when
the auctioneer announced that the
last bidder should go after his birds,
So having been realized from this
feature sale.
We have heard Of many novel fea-
lures during Red Cross sales, but to
sell flock Of wild ducks in flight is
entirely new. The people who bid on
them did so for the sole purpose of
assisting in the work of raising Red
Cross funds, and they got lot of en-
joyment from the novel sale.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
Red Cross Booth at Bears.

AS announced in another article
next Saturday at the Winneshiek
county State Bank and Mott & Cos
store, and young ladies will sell Red
Cross membership tickets. Since the
above was written we are informed
that similar booth will be placed
in the Ben Bear Co. store and mem
bership ctiekets sold there also. That
the bboths will be well patronized il
goes without saying. 80
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
Eighteen Below Saturday.

The weather man has been dishing
up real winter weather since. Satur-
day, when the mercury went down to
Is below. Sunday and Monday it was
ten below, and today a ragged snow
storm is on the program. Old King
Winter is hitting the high spots right
now.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
Sends Check for Red Cross.

Canton, Mimi. Dec. II, 1917.
Mr.. Ben Bear,
DEBORAH, Ia.
Dear Sir:
Being unable to attend the Red
Cross auction or send what | promis-
ed | herewith enclose SO as donation
for the same purpose.
Respectfully,
LON PIERCE.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12

Last year honey vas ! q coats a
pound. Now it is II s cents POI 1
The bees are not drawing any larser
salaries and they have not ENGAGED
in any strikes which would reduce
production" notes the Sioux C!ty
Tribune. In studying causes Cor adj
vanced prices, the honey industry is
an unusually fascinating field, v"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-12-12
H.ufl'ton Red Cross Day.

Don't forget the big Red Cross
auction at Button next Friday, Dec.
II. All who wish to donate can notify
&. W. Brittendahl at BlutftOl and he
will take care of your donations. The
sale will be cried by Col. Walter
Keefe.