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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
RATE ADVANCE OUTLOOK.

! Word has come from the interstate com
merce commission that may indicate its attitude
toward the petition Of the carriers for fifteen
per cent advance in freight rates. All rail
roads have been granted tentative permission
to file supplemental tariffs, and railroadmen
believe that large part Of the increase, if not
ALL will be allowed
The action Of the New York Merchants
association in favoring a rate raise is signiti-
cant, because this important body represents
lone of the interests which will feel the effect
of the higher charges for transportation. In a
resolution unanimously adopted, the directors
of the association say that because of existing
conditions and the necessity for enabling the
roads to perform more fully their duty as conf
mon carriers to meet the governments military
requirements, and to provide adequate facii-
ties for the use Of the public, they approve an
immediate substantial and reasonable advance
in freigh charges $50 adjusted as to minimize
discrimination between communities The
wording of the resolution seems to show that
the association will oppose the ''flat" advance
asked by the roads. but the important thing is
its approval Of the general plan to increase
the rates, and its action will not be without eff
feet at Washington. With the railroads need
Of larger income to meet governmental and
commercial and industrial conditions recog-
nized by men who pay the bills, it should not
be difficult to arrange the details of rate adj
vance now considerably overdue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

"a The name of the corporation
is "Pechstein Iron Works" and Its
principal place of business will be
, at Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa.
(2) The object for which it is
formed and the general nature of the
| business to he transacted by the
| corporation is to own and operate a
foundry for the manufacture or fab
rication of castings, machine parts,
structural materials composed in
whole or part of iron or other metals
or their alloys; to own and
operate machine shop for the pur-
pose of machining castings, repairing
OF manufacturing machinery, ma
chimes or machine parts; to own and
operate a boiler shop for the pur-
pose of manufacturing iron products,
elevators, smoke stacks and other
structural works; to buy, sell and
deal in iron. steel and any and all
metals, alloys, minerals or materials
entering into the structure of ma
chinery; to engage in structural work
and the manufac ture Of machinery
appliances; to buy, sell, manufacture
and deal in engines, machinery, tools.
brass and metal products, hardware
supplies, machinery Of all kinds, mill.
boiler and electrical supplies, appli-
ances and equipment; and in each
and every way necessary or desirable
to engage in producing, preparing or
using any and all kinds OF metals
alloys and metallic compounds: to
own, purchase, lease or otherwise
own, sell, assign or dispose of trade.
marks, trade-names, patents, inyen.
mn ycy,,n ,fr
to own and acquire stocks, bonds or
other securities which may be legally
sold In this state and engaged in
any Similar business: to issue bonds
and other obligations in payment OF
property or for the purpose of carry.
ing on its business; to buy and sell
the shares OF its own capital stock
az well as the capital stock of other
corporations which may be legally sold
In this state; to sue and be sued in
its corporate name and to exercise
and enjoy any other powers not ex-
pTessly named which may be desir.
able or necessary and which are not
contrary to the laws of the state. and
70 do anything desirable or necessary
for the accomplishment of the pur
poses for which 1t was organized or
which may be incidental to the bust
ness of the corporation.
(3) The authorized capital stock
OF the corporation is eighty thousand
(S80,O00 dollars, divided into eight
hundred shares Of the par value OF
one hundred (s100) dollars each, of
which FIVE hundred shares shall be
preferred stock entitled to receive
each year dividend of seven per-
cent, and three hundred shares shall
be common stock. The stock may
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
viereck Is CRAWLING Now.

Burlington Gazette: Editor Viereck
of the pro-kaiser sheet called the
Fatherland is crawling In the last
issue of his insolent publication he
devotes the front page to an appeal
to the American press to be fair and
to asserting what a good American
he is and how we should all stand
back of the government and mass
of other hypocritical bunk that VIII
not fool any fair-minded American
who has been following the course
of the Fatherland's pro-German pro-
paganda for the past two years.
While the vast majority Of real
American newspapers were trying
to follow the advice OF President
Wilson, given early In the war, to
be neutral, even doing It at the ex.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

be paid for in cash or its equivaI
in property at cash valuation
proved by the Executive Council
/, the state. The corporation may
mence business when one thous
($1000) dollars of its capital stool
fully aid for, and other stock
be issued from time to time as
board of directors may authorizI
10 The corporate existence
gan February 8, 1917, with the i
ance of a certificate by the Secrel
OF State and its corporate existd
shall continue for period OF tw9
years from that date or until Fe|
airy 8, 1887.
(5) The corporation shall be 4
aged by a board of directors conf
ing of five members of the CORP
ton of which number three shall
selected by the holders OF conn
stock. and two by the holders OF
ferred stock and until the next
nual meeting to be held on the
Wednesday in January, 1918, the
lowing shall constitute the board
directors: Paul T. Pechstein, G.|
Hombs, G. +. Mcfarland, r.
Vaughn and j. o. Boyd.
The officers of the corporation s.
be as follows: President, PAU
Pechstein; vice president, G.
Hombs; secretary and treasurer
r. Vaughn.
The directors are to be elected
nually at the annual meeting Oh
Incorporation to be held on the
Wednesday in the month OF Jant1
in each year, and the officers y
be elected by the directors u
meeting of the directors held WY
thirty days after the annual meei
of the stockholders.
CO. The Indebtedness OF the
poration shall at no time exceed i
thirds of it's capital stock.
(D The officers, directors
stockholders personally, and tne
vate property of officers, difecJ
and stockholders shall be excl
from all liability for corporate
debtedness.
For a more full and complete wy
ing of the Articles of Incorpola1
full description OF
powers and purposes of lncofp1
ton see corporation book on y
157 of the Lee County, Iowa. ree a,|
at Keokuk. and the record OF u
said Articles of Incorporation IN u
rs, page. 1O4 of the corporate lee I'd
in the office Of the Secretary oi
at Des Moines, Iowa. 49,.
Dated at Keokuk. Iowa, 'his
day of February, 1917. ,,N
PAUL T. PECHSTElN'
F. F. VAUGHN,
J. o. BOYD,
G.. r. HOMES.
c. f. MCFARLAND,
Incorporators Pechstein Iron W.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
CHEAP OPTIMISM.

It is counted a virtue in many circles in
America to profess an optimism which turns its
back on evil conditions and in so doing pre-
tends to diminish their Importance There are
men and newspapers that brag of their ability
to ignore unpleasant truths. We have had po-
litical parties dominated by this spirit en-
ployed as an excuse for resisting all change and
all progress.
When fatal necessity appears on the horizon
they stick their heads in the sand and pretend
that danger Of attack does not exist They
look, in an inverted fashion, on the cheerful
side Of life. Pigs, when they have their feet in
the trough, criticize the pessimism of their
neighbors who have been crowded to one side
But such optimism does not set SO we'll on a
thinking animal, such as man is held to be- The
world does not get forward by ignoring OBJ
stacles to progress. When an obstacle exists it
has to be removed and sometimes nothing but
the hammer Of the knocIer or the rake of the
muckraller will do it. When a conscientious
thinker sees evidence of injustice or stupid-
ity it is his duty to make noise about it. and
to keep making a noise about it until it is
remedied. He should be sure of his facts and
he should not be needessly bitter toward ind
viduals, but he should not keep silent out of
any foolish regard for the externalities of life.
If the starched bosom of any kind of conven-
tionality, whether political, commercial Or So
clal, is in the way of truth, as he sees it. he
must remove it. A word or two of even nm
pleasant sincerity dropped into the most per
picking Of situations will sometimes clarity it
lnstantaneously. We need men who will dare
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
RUSSIA-AMERIcA

A.
wind in the world! The dark departs.
The chains that crushed mems flesh and bones
Feet tread no more the widowed prison stones
And slavery is lifted from your hearts.
wind in the world! o company
Of darkened Russia, watching long i'll yiin
Now shall you the cloud of Rus a's pain
Go shrinking out summer sky.
A wind In the world but God shall be
In all the future left kingly doll,
Decked out with dreadful scepter steel, and STOLE
But walk the earth in charity.
A wind in the world-and doubts are blown
To dust along, and the old stars come forth,
Stars of creed to Pilgrim Fathers worth
A field of broken spears and flowers strown.
A wind in the world Now truancy
From the true self is ended; to her part
Supreme again she moves and from her heart
great America causes death to tyranny.
wind in the world-and we have come
Together by sea in all the lands.
Vision doth last and freedom stands
With frightened wings and smiles beckons home.
John Galsworthy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

to stand up and speak the truth-one of them
is born for every half dozen regiments OF the
other kind.
To face the truth unflinchingly does not i'm
ply pessimism. Life is, on the whole, more
good than bad and to admit the existence OF
remedial evil and injustice is not to paint one s
mind with gloom Optimism bought at the
price of ones conscience and ones intellect is,
moreover, cheap and nasty thing-not worthy
of grown men and women-or civilized COM
munities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
Uncle Sam In Earnest.

Sioux Falls ArgusLeader: When
the congress of the United States
can appropriate S7,000,0o0, 600 with
out batting an eye and without a dis
senting vote, we help to make it clear
to Berlin that we really mean bust
ness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
is May Concern:

To Whom This May Concern:
In compliance with section 1913 OF
the 1913 supplement to the code of
Iowa, notice is hereby given of the
incorporation of the Pechstein Iron
Works under the provisions of chan.
ter 1, title 8, of the code of Iowa
and acts amendatory thereof.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

The campaign to substitute rice for potatoes
on home tables is already measurable success.
The price Of rice has doubled Doubtless there
are some other hitherto neglected foodstuffs to
which our attention should be called.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

New Jerseys fifteen million-dollar road i'm
provement system will have to wait while Gen
eral Goethals builds that armada of merchant
ships or the lesser job will have to be under
taken by another person.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
Not to be IGNORED

st Paul Pioneer Press: Better
take the weather man into this
scheme for increasing the agriculture
al products OF the country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Discerning readers will not fail to notice the
significance of the arrival Of Count Won Bern
storff in Sweden with the beginning of an agi-
taton in that country for the recovery Of ''lost
provinces from Russia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Kansas has worked out a single solution of
the farm labor shortage and automobile speed
ing problems. Joy riders are sentenced to ten
days labor on a farm.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Flags on automobiles are pretty and inspir-
ing, but the utmost care should be exercised in
placing them so that there is no danger Of their
fluttering in the range of vision of the driver
and causing accident.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Ell Paso is making desperate efforts to retain
the center of the r1umor stage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
GRANT RoosEVELT's REQUEST

There is one kind Of coalition which is
strongly in evidence now in the United States
That is the coalition of republicans and demo
Gratis to hold up the hands of the officers of the
government. Facing a threatened danger
party lines were partly obscured. When dan
ger actually raised it's head, when it came clear
Ily into view. party lines were incontinently
broken
In this view, what we need is a war waged
with every ounce of our national force; and we
need an army over the sea that the Stars
and Stripes may float beside the meteor flag Of
England and the tricolor of France that all the
world may know that we are in the with all
our heart and strength and in it to the end
In the natural course Of things it must be
months before we can have an army of stable
proportions But it would not be weeks before
we might have division in the field if the adj
ministration authorizes Colonel Roosevelt, as
he DESIRES to call to the colors volunteers ready
to follow him and fight in France.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

That there should one man die ignorant
who had capacity for knowledge, this | call
tragedy.-Carlyle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Senator Stone says he is willing to lay down
his life for his country. His countrymen will
not insist on the supreme sacrifice, but would
take it kindly if he would let loose his grip on
the Craftsmanship Of the senate committee on
foreign relations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Hogs at $164O per cwt. ought, in reason, to
be potato and onion-fed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Keokuk Dollar Day is your day-April 2Sth. |
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

i Council Bluffs Nonpareil: After the
new dog law goes into effect every
dog may still have his day, but he must
cut out the nights.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Waterloo Times-Tribune: Only
little while ago fellow VINO made a
garden was considered cheap and he
was kept busy explaining to his friends
tina the liked 10 do it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Sioux City Tribune: There is some
thing radically wrong with our trans
portatfon facilities when a man in
Montana writes to Sioux City friends
that he is feeding 300 bushels of po-
tatoes to his hogs because he can't get
q fair price for them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Mason City Globe-Democrat: A few
hills of potatoes and few rows of
beans carefully cultivated will beat
any Of the talk of the curbstone strate-
gist, If you can't carry a gun, get a
hoe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Monticello Express: The three
Iowa congressman, who voted against
the war measure, are reputed to have
the courage of their convictions"
However, they probably did not lose
sight of the balance of power in their
respective districts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

! Burlington Hawk-Eye: We have all
heard about the safe and sane Fourth.
we should have progressed since that
movement was begun. and we should
make every day of the year safe and
sane. For instance, We should not
fall for" all sorts of foolish reports.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-21

Ottumwa Courier: Every man would
like to live few days after his death
just to hear what his kin say about
him
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10
Epworth LEAGUE Notes.

The subject for the Senior Epworth
League meeting Sunday night. October
IA. will be Putting Religion in toli-
tics, led by Mr.. Chas. Fallon. Public
Is cordially invited.
Miss Maud Barry and Miss Kathleen
Crist have been elected delegates to
represent the cloverport League at the
Owe nsboro district meeting. which con-
venes at Greenville. October s6-27.
Instructions ID. the knowledge Of the
Bible are given st the, Junior Epworth
League mes.ingf every Sunday after
noon at 2gso'clock. Parents are re.
quested 70 send their children.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10
The best Svonen indeed necessarily difficult to
know. They recognized chiefly tn the happiness OF
their husbands and the nobleness of their children.
--Raskm.
BUSY MONTH.

Here few of the things that scheduled for the month Of
October The Liberty Loan campaign of 50 to
Red Societies So campaign
for the fund The 81 campaign for the
establishing libraries the house to house
will be made in every American home by committees
pointed by the u A. Bureau the househoders sign
the Hoover Pledge Card for the conservation of food Sunday DC
tober Day. Programs supposed be carried
in all the churches advocate good roads in Kentucky
this isn't enough make enlarge capacities for getting
giving and living perhaps nothing WILL Let's do bit for each one
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

Popham Bros. have is acres of fine
dark tobacco and good crop of corn
900
William O'Reilly sold to Israel Hol.
der two steers for $50.
Sam Haycraft had pear tree that
welded him 90 cans of pears, he also has
40 cans Of grapes and FIVE gallons OF
grape juice.
Jake Kendall, of Webster, sold Is
head of cattle for s1,0i2. They cost
him last fall $517. Tney were fed on
fodder, straw and grass. He also sold
300 bushels of wheat at %. IS per bushel.
d c. Norman & Son have 300 acres
of corn and 10 acres 10 rye. Jim Dean
200 acres of corn and 40 acres tobacco.
They say It Is fine corn and will make
40 to 50 bushels per acre.
Judge Henry Norman has three
gilt sows that fallowed 81 pigs and two
sows with 30 pigs. He says he has more
pigs than he knows what to do with and
Is very happy over his results.
900
Alex Eskridge carried of the honors
for the best sample of-five ears Of corn
over Joe Mattingly, d. C.. Norman
and w. R. Norman. Joe Mattingly
has the premium pumpkin weighing IS
pounds, but John Rhodes claims the
honor of raising Il. These samples
were intended for the Country Fair at
lrvington. They were not sent there
on account of being out of the district
and couldn't get In, SO they had little
fair of their own with above results.
Beard Bros. have cut and housed $50
acres of tobacco and are putting In a0O
acres in wheat.
Henry Williams, of Greensboro, was
at Harmed last week and conditionally
bought the Smith property, formerly
the home Of Rev. J. W. Hughes. for
$1,000. Mr.. Williams has wife and
two daughters. He Is locating there on
account Of the school. Mr.. Smith is
a farmer and is planning to raise
thoroue Inbred sheep aud hogs.
Schopp u Cook cleaned up all of Fred
Dutschke's crop of Burley at $50 from
top to bottom. His crop will run around
Is, 600 pounds, iaised on ten acres.
Gabe Pierce, of Holt, has Is 600
pounds of good dark. Nj. Pierce raises
fine tobacco and handles 1t right.
S. L. Bandy sold his crop of Burley
for Sl6 round. He set this price early,
got it and let it 60. He said, however,
il he had been a reader of the Brecken-
ridge News, he could have saved "a on
the hundred.
Sam Marshall, of Hardinsburg, has
5000 pounds of Burley and 5000 pounds
of dark. The Burley was grown on
new ground and is fine. For three
years Mr.. Marshall has been struggling
along to make crop. This year. he
says, will carry him over to the good.
There are hundreds of men In this coun
ty. like Mr.. Marshall. will come into
their own this year.
5000
The ten acres of Alfalfa that young
Jess Howard sowed In August Is now
foot high with good stand. Jess Is off
u, school and this will help him in his
studies.
raul Shrewsbury has good crop OF
Burley and dark tobacco. About 400
pounds of each.
The farmers In this county will have
a surplus when they market their crops,
enough to buy a million dollars worth
of Liberty Loan bonds.
900
Joe Glasscock sold Vic Robertson
Monday three cotton mules for $500.
Cotton Is selling higher than at any
time since the Civil War, says the
Yasoo City (Miss.) Sentinel. 1t gives
a sale of seventeen bales that broug hit
Ask cents.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10
llIiieracy Fund Subscription

Additional subscriptions TO tn Tilt.
eraoy Fund from Brsckinvidge county
are a. follows: Hardinsburg, Mrs.
Ssllie Beard q 90. B. Franklin Beard
Jr.. q 90. Murray Beard o. 90. o. L.
Block q 90, 7l3 o. 9Sd. s.. Louisvilis.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

The second 40 per 900 men, of the National
Army transported last week from their homes to the
The the daily began
Wednesday and ended Sunday The final quota of Is cent of
the 900 selected for the army will begin the
October record for maximum
established by the railroads during the five day period
ending September 49, when without single accident they
ported $4,000 of the army addition the largest
ur passenger and freight traffic they handled in their
history
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

Anderson county the home of of Kentuck
brands OF whisky voted dry last Monday by majority of
votes The addition of Anderson the dry Ken
lucky reduces the w counties thirteen and
creased the "dry" counties to 1Ol-Shelby News.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

The thing to do with Mr. La Toilette send him up few
thousand feet aerpane und drop him down within the
lines We remember when they Mr. Valandingham Ohio
the lines to the Condeae during the Civil War;
an aeropane Some of people thought that
an to treat Mr. Vaandngham but proved right
end.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

There interesting letters in the Breckenridge News this
week from the home boys who following the Stars and Stripes
Kentucky and California We deeply
in these boys and glad hear from them know that
serving the best of their ability and
things that will make the homefoks feel keen pride
them
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

We old friend G. p Bush the other day. He just
out from eight months of Illness We glad that he
covering and will be aoe attend business He
steel his Friends and always has pleasant
smile and good word Everybody knows him in Breckenridge
county He the first the Henderson Route had
and good May your days be long drawn out Mr. Bush
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

Jno l. Ditto, of Decatur Ill., has taken the Breckenridge
county boys for his oer boy and has Brock
enridge News to be him. Isn't there
adopt oder boy from county aad send them small re
membrance2
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-10-10

Work the Hadnsburg and Garfield pike moving steadily
Several loads of crushed rock Garfield being hauled
and put on the new work. This going be fine piece
just have little patience with the They doing
their best.