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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
The Peanut.

The common peanut originally came
probably from tropical America. Pea
nuts were introduced into the United
States in the days of the colonies. Bo-
t~anically the peanut belongs to the
same group of plants as beans and
peas, but the peanut natures its fruit
or nut under the surface of the soil.
not above ground, as do most other
ieguminous plants. Properly speaking.
the peanut is n pea rather than a nut,
the term nut having been added on
account of its flavor, which is similar
to that of many of the true nuts. The
peanut is known under the local names
of goober, goober pea, pindar, ground
pea and groundnut.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
A FINANCIAL 0UANDARY.
Uncle Joe C~annon's First TussIe With
Domestic Economy,

Representative Cooper of Ohio in
vited Uncle Joe Cannon to go to his
home town. Youngstown. and make a
speech. Uncle Joe said he couldn't go,
he wasn't in speaking trim, but that he
had rather go to Youngstown than
anywhere he knew. And as he said ii
Uncle Joe's eyes got sorter dreamy, and
he surprised the congressman by wan
dering off into the following story:
Cooper, l got my wife out of Youngs-
town. Seems Ike yesterday when we
stepped before that justice of the peace
and were married. | was just starting
out to practice law in Illinois, and be-
sides our railroad fare back home
just had 500 in the world. l handed
that 500 to my little new wife and
told her to go to the nearest store and
buy what we actually needed while |
stepped around to the courthouse.
In about an hour when | went to
join her saw her coming to meet me
much pertufled. She had spent So
oyer the $100 at the store and had
come for me to straighten things out
Right then and there | was up against
my first big responsibility. | wanted
my wife to have those goods that she
had selected, but | couldn't have pro-
duced another dollar to have saved my
life. SO l went in the store and told
the young clerk who had waited on her
just how it was. And he believed in
me and shipped us the goods.
DO you know who that young clerk
was, Cooper? 1t was Marshall Field
And Uncle ice walked off, with a
mist in his eyes.-Washington Herald.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
ABOUT CAKE BAKING.
How to Prepare and Bake All Kinds of
Good Sweetmeats.


Where do you set your loaf cakes
and what place in your own oven do
you give to mullins and small cakes?
From your answer your success would
be gagged by a scientific baker.
Thin layer cakes, cookies, biscuits,
macaroons and other small cakes
should always be baked in shallow
pans set at the top of the oven. This
gives the heat a chance to circulate
around the cookies rather than concen-
trate under them.
Loaf cakes bake more evenly in sheet
tin or aluminium pans than in iron
pans. The shelf in the center of the
oven is right for loaf cakes, and no
cake should eel be set on the bottom
of the oven.
1t is a good idea to start sponge cake
and loaf cake in a very slow oven and
then increase the heat as the cake starts
to rise. About ten minutes before the
cake should be done the gas can be
turned off entirely as there is sufficient
heat left in the oven to finish the bak-
ing. Whenever it seems desirable to
reduce the heat it is better to turn
down both burners halfway rather than
to turn n out completely.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Oriain of the Cat.

In Arabian legends the cat is traced
back as far as Noah and the ark. It Is
one of the animals that came off the
ark. but did not go on. Puss' origin Is
accounted for in this way:
During the time the ark was floating
about over the tall mountains mice and
rats became an intolerable nuisance to
the people on the great vessel. and
they complained to Noah that every
thing was being literally devoured by
the pesky vermin. That august per-
sonage forthwith called the male lion
to his side and began to stroke lis back.
w%hereupon the great beast sneezed,
and. 10, a full sized cat was blown
from his nostriis.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
A FESTIVE IDEA.
This Fetching Way of Arranging Your
Dining Table.

LINING iapies
1t is a new idea now among observ-
ing housewives to have, instead of the
round or square luncheon cloth, one
long runner for the square or oblong
table, with enough large and small
doilies matching it to fill in along the
sides. OF course both ends of the ia
BILE are covered by the runner, an ex-
cellent idea when part of the meal is
served from the table instead of from
the 'slde."
While this arrangement is especially
appropriate for the oblong table, it can
be used for the square,, oval or round
table with some modification. In the
square table the symmetry is often
better preserved by two runners cross
ing in the middle. In the oval or round
table the ugly line where the runner
falls over the rounded edge is done
away with by cutting the runner,
rounding the edge to fit the table and
setting on the end to fit with a fine
seam or a bit of beading. This ar
rangement mean that the runner could
be used only for the one size of table,
but 1t is worth the trouble.
Square hemstitched doilies with a
simple corner motif are used with the
plain hemstitched runner. 1t is a good
plan to make plate doilies and napkins
of the same size and decoration, so
that if one gives out the other may
come to the rescue. A large dolly for
the plate will do away with an extra
tumbler or teacup dolly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
new STATIONERY
SEALS ITSELF
Fads For Spring In Milady's Note
Paper-A Revival of the Old
Fashioned Habit of Sealing
Your Letters.

A Ii the girls are waxing most en-
n thusiastic over sealing wax.
- Even the butcher, the baker
and the candlestick maker,
aside from their first natural surprise
at having their bills paid at all, are
doubly stunned at receiving their
checks in envelopes dashingly sealed
with monogrammed splotches of vivid
wax.
You see, the dear girls are practic-
ing on everybody just to perfect their
art of making a good impression. Nat
urally by the time they write to Percy
or Harold they want to make a per-
fectly stunning impression, and only
practice makes perfect. as the copy
books tell us.
Since, paradoxically, in fashion it is
always the oldest that is the newest.
at the present moment it is no wonder
that the gentle art of sealing CORE
spondence has returned to stick. Cleo
patra used to finish off her long papy-
rus rolls of love talk to Mark Antony
with a COB Of hot sealing wax duly
stamped with her royal scarab seal.
There is no doubt that Eve her.
self scratched little stone billets-douX
to Adam when he was away for a
week end and finished them up with a
flourish of red clay on which was
stamped her mark. carved on the tooth
of a dinosaurs.
Great seals of state, government
seals, royal seals and pontifical seals
have always been the last word, as
'twere, so what more fitting than that
the last word Of fashion be a seal also?
With the lovely new paper embossed
with a monogram or crest in a con-
trasting or darker tone in the upper
left orn it is a last artistic touch to
seal the envelopes lined with the same
color as the enclosing, with the same
shade of sealing wax in which the i'm
print of the smart crest or monogram
is set.
Buff colored paper, monogrammed, en-
velope lined and sealed in golden brown.
is a favorite color scheme, as pearl
gray combined either with a darker
gray, silver or purple.
An attractive Wedgwood effect is
obtained with blue paper bordered in a
tiny line of white with a white mono
gram and sealed with white wax. Let
tuce green paper combined with the
white in the same manner is also
charming and refreshing, although apt
to have a cooling effect even on al
ardent swain.
OF course the perfection of the color
scheme is further carried out by hav-
ing the tapers where n melts the
wax partake of the same chosen hue.
and the quill pen wherewith n writes
must always p~erforce be colored like
wise.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Malice and Superstition.

In the middle ages malice and super
stition found expression i'll the forma-
ton of wax images of hated persons.
into the bodies of which long pins were
stuck. 1t vas confidently believed that
in that way deadly injury would be
done to the person represented. This
belief and practice continued down to
the seventeenth century. The super
stition indeed still holds its place in
the highlands of Scotland, where
says u well Informed writer. within
the last few years a clay model of an
enemy was found in a stream. having
been placed there in the belief that as
the clay washed away so would the
health of the hated one decline"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16

then sewing it on with even running
stitches; or your sewing machine very
probably has an attachment which will
enable you to sew on the binding
much more quickly.
Binding is used not only for the
seams of most woolens, but for silks
and linens. There is quite a heavy
ribbon seam binding which is used for
suitings, and there is a lighter weight
ribbon suitable for binding the seams
of dress goods.
Whether the seam is pressed open or
has both edges bound together and
pressed to one side depends on the
kind of seam. If you want a flat in
conspicuous seam, press it open. II
you want the effect of a welt edge
that is, a raised edge-on the right
side, press both edges to one side and
add another stitching to hold them
down and keep the effect you want
Seams under plaits should have both
edges pressed to n side and bound
together so that the plaits may be fat.
The next lesson will tell you exactly
how to make collars and cuffs.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Alaska's Tanana Fields.

The Tanana coal field, Alaska, will
be tributary to the government rail
road now under construction from
Seward to Fairbanks. Though the coal
in this field is Ignite and hence of low
grade, vet it has great value as a
source of fuel and power for Fairbanks
and other Yukon placer camps. The
field is about sixty miles south of Fair
banks. 1t is estimated by the United
States geological survey that the Ne.
ana field contains some 10000, 600 ZOO
tons of lignite.-Argonaut.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Lanterns In China.

There has long existed among the
Chinese a passion for fireworks and
lanterns. Travellers have called China
the land of lanterns. and the term is
opposite. In every city. at every port
and on every river and canal as soon
appearance. They are hung at the
door of every dwelling; they swing as
pendants from the angles OF pagodas;
they form the fiery crown of every
shop front; they cluster round the
houses of the rich and light up the
novels of the poor; they are borne with
the carriages of travellers, and they
swing from the yards and the masts
of vessels.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Grass as Ii Grows.

1t may be a matter of surprise that
tender young grass can ever force its
way up through hard ground. The
principle is the same as that of opening
a tin of condensed milk. The SHARP
point of the tin opener is first insert
ed in the tin and when an entrance
has been forced the blade can follow
So it is with the grass. Each blade
has a fine noint, which. by the mystic
rious power of growing life, forces its
way between the particles of soil, how.
ever tightly they may be packed to
gether, and thus a passage is made for
the blade to follow.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
The japanese WAY,

The question of choice between two
vases was decided by a patron in a
Japanese shop when the proprietor
said: THAT smaller vase, madam, is
thoroughly japanese in form and deco
ration. That floral pattern In gold
aransz unperhalfiSchsracteerist
and SO, too. is the exceedingly narrow
and short neck. The vase will hold but
a single blossom that should be long
stemmed and stand upright. Thus the
flower will be individualized and the
vase likewise. That is the Japanese
way"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
Keeping Attractive.

An important step in keeping attrac-
tive is to see that your neckwear and
accessories are fresh. Always put your
hat and veil On with care. Choose the
most becoming colors for your gowns
and suits. The well groomed woman
has the advantage over her sister who
is untidy. The knowledge gives her
self confidence, and with self confidence
rightly gained n can accomplish any
thing.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
What a Dynamo Is.

A dynamo or generator is simply a
machine for delivering electricity. 1t
may be driven by gas engine, steam en-
CINE. windmill or other convenient
means. Just as a pump driven by an
engine water to flow, so a dy-
namo delivers electricity. The mag
neto of an automobile is a form of
dynamo.-Farm and Fireside.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
TRUE CONTENT.

The accommodating of a substan-
tial fortune can create a prosper
ous man, but mol necessarily a
happy enc. A peaceful conscience
is the true content, and wealth is
but her golden ornament.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
An Unusual PiIIowsharn.

A pillowsham that is quite unusual
is made of fine white linen, ornament
ed with three fillet crochet insets. The
sham measures about fifty-nine inches
long and twenty-five inches wide and
is finished with a deep hemstitched
hem. The square fillet insets should be
set about two inches from the top and
about six inches from the bottom,
measuring from the hem.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
The Whole Thing.

Il suppose said the %absconding
cashier to the friend who had run
across him i'll parts unknown, that
there was "a good deal of talk about
me after l disappeared"
81 should think there vast answer
ed the friend. "Why, man, the wealth
er wasn't mentioned at all for two
weeks"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16

The history of Abyssinia dates very
far back. Before Christ the country
formed part of the ancient country of
Ethiopia. The queen of Sheba was
an Abyssinian queen, and kings of
Abyssinia claim descent from her.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16

Seryiceabie navy blue gaberdine at
fords daughter this smart spring coat,
cut with a kilt skirt and double breast
ed front. Natty white and blue but
tons add almost as much trimming as
does the white cloth collar all pieoted
around the edge. .
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16

Creditor-How often must I climb
these five flights of stairs before l get
the amount of this little account?
Debtor-Do you think l am going to
rent a place on the first floor to ac-
commodate my creditors?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-16
sAsHEs ARE PROMINENT.

Il From all present indications,
X sashes are to be an important
!. factor in the composition of the
\ spring frock. Especially is this
!. true of the costumes which show
!. the Roumanian influence, as well
+ as of the types which are more
+ directly oriental in their charac-
+ ter. In some instances the front
+ of the sash will show a trimming
+ motif, while. again. novel shaped
!. enumeration will be placed in
!. the sash ends. Tassels will vie
! with separate motifs in perform
i ing the last mentioned service.
+ Among the new sash ideas is
+ the use of a half sash somewhat :
+ suggestive of the half belt idea, d.
+ which has been so successful a =.
!. feature of the coats of the cur D..
+ rent season. String and crossed .
+ belts are also the mode. &.
|. F.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11
THREATENED
LIFE OF PRIEST
Was Told He Would Be Killed Unless
He Quit Enlistment Ser
mons to His
People.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SIOUX CITY. Iowa. Aug. 11.--More
than forty persons were under inves-
tigation here this afternoon on anti.
draft and treason charges. The in,
vestigation started when Rev. NJ
Cybuski. of the Lithuanian Catholic
church. told federal authorities he
had been threatened with death
unless he stopped his enlist
ment sermons from the pulpit.
Father Cybulski turned over list
Of more than fifty names of persons
who We're holding open anti-draft
meetings in the Sioux City packing
house districts He has received word
that he would be assassinated unless
he ceased his efforts In booming en-
listments FOR the army. He has also
been active in persuading his parish
toner's to remain away from the anti
draft meetings.
The federal authorities refused tC
name the persons thought to be the
heads Of the anti-draft propaganda
here. It was intimated that a score
Of arrests would be made unless the
propaganda was stopped.
The population In the neighborhooG
Of the church Is almost entirely
Lithuanian and Russian. with few
scattered Austrians and Bohemians
It is thought the Austrians started
the propaganda.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11

NJ. Public worship at 1O:45 a. m. ana
500 p. m. Subject Of morning ser
mon: "The Church of the Living Goo
Its Functions" Subject of evening
sermon: knowledge and Persuasion
The church in St F'rancisville will be
In attendance at the morning services.
Basket dinner in the basement at
noon.
Bethel A. NJ E. church.-Services
beginning Sunday. August ~: AT Z
a. NJ, will be baptising at the river
front. All candidates who are to be
baptised report at the A. M. e. church
at $50 a. m Sunday school at a.
m. Alonzo Drain, superintendent.
Preaching at II a. m. and p m,
At IL m, bRptising in the church by
sprinkling. Monday night the official
board will meet in the lecture room
of the church Wednesday the Sun
day school and the church viii go
to Wild Cat springs for their annual
picnic. Truck cars will leave the
church at 9 and 10 a m. Friday will
be fast and prayer day beginning at
s a. m and last until p. m. At
8 p. m, love feast and general class
led by DR.. n. J. McCracken, p e., Of
Chicago, III.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11
FOUND WOMAN
TIED TO CHAIR
Claimed to Have Been Robbed of
$4,000 Worth Of jeweIry
While In Hotel
Room.

United Press Leased Wire Service
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11.-Found
bound, gagged and beaten in the st.
James hotel here early today,
woman giving her name as Grace
Welsh, 35, of New York, told the
police she had been robbed of
iewelry worth $4,000.
A man who says he is Harry I,
Kelley, also of New York, arrested III
the hotel, is held on suspicion.
4 The woman is in hospital suffer
ing from gashes about the head, said
by the police to have been inflicted
with the butt of revolver. Police
Also declare she was drugged
Attracted by cries of murder
from the twelfth floor of the hotel.
pfacers and hotel employees rushed
Upstairs and found the woman tied in
chair with strips cut from bed
Pheets. She was bleeding about the
bead. Kelley. the police say, was
|eaving the room with a revolver In
lis hand just as an officer reached
(he door Two other M en- are said
70 have been seen leaving the room
Fhile the policeman was overpower-
ng Kelley.
Kelley, according to the police. at
irst claimed to be the woman's hus-
and. Some Of the mystery surround
ng the case, it is said, will be clear
ID up at Kelley's hearing today.
Kelly was held in $4,000 bail this
Forming for further hearing next Sat
rday. The injured woman was I'M
Die to leave the hospital to testify
oday.
After giving the New York address,
ne victim of the assault later said
ne was from Decatur Illinois, &C
fording to the police.
She was dressed in an evening
own when found. AS soon as re-
lVed, say the police, she accused
elley of the crime. called hysteric"
ily for her children and asked that
GER chauffeur in this city be notified.
according to the woman, she met
Heiiey at Atlantic City and came
ere with him yesterday. They reg
tered as man and wife at the st.
ames.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11
roher Lumber Company's
property Will be Used by
Industry Which Will
Make Fiber Cans.
E NJ, RICH IS PRESIDENT
novenuort and Keokuk Men
Compose Officers and Di-
rectors of This New
Corporation.

III. Iowa Can company, new cor
..r.tion. which will engage In the
ppssn,racture Of fiber cans, will locate
w. liant in Keokuk In the Taber
, s,aher mills property. The first
INIT o of the plant viii! be equipped
VA readv for operation by September
~ II will employ fifty people. Two
,dditiona units will be added, as
fast as possible to equip, and when
operatina at capacity, 100 to 12o peo-
ale will be employed.
Announcement was made this
uorning of new industry for Keo-
rn,E The Iowa Can company with
Keokuk and Davenport men at the
hsad will engage in Keokuk in the
manufacture of fiber cans of all
Ives and kinds These cans are used
IN ths packing of oatmeal, baking
nowder coffee, and the like, and the
market for the product is practically
| ,nbounded The Taber Lumber mills
will be the location. The buildings
will be remodeled to suit the needs
Of the new industry, and 1t is ex-
| oected that the plant will be turning
| MT cans by September 10. Workmen
will 90 to work Monday morning to
remodel the building.
| c. NJ. Rich. president of the Purity
Oats company of Keokuk, is the pres
dent of the new company; Henry Z.
KahI of the Walsh Construction COM
oany of Davenport, is vice president;
Charles Shuler of the Iowa National
bank at Davenport, is the treasurer,
and Dick Lane Of Davenport, Is the
secretary. These men together with
Ia. H. Rich, vice president Of the
Purity Oats company, and Joseph
IOufek, general superintendent OF
| 1.-THE Purity Oats company, are the
directors and incorporators of the
| Iowa Can company. The company
| is incorporated for 100000. The
stockholders and incorporates are
all directly connected with the Purity
Oats company, at Keokuk and Dav-
EXPORT
Taber Mills Secured.
The new company will use all OF
the Taber Lumber mills on CONNER
cial alley. The track facilities are
Ideal, and the location is considered
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11

ing meeting at 7:45. Reading room,
same address, open every afternoon
except Sunday from 2:30 to 4:3O.
Swedish Methodist church, at
Twelfth and Concert streets, F. J.
Swanson, pastor. Sunday school at
$3.50 a. NJ, and preaching at 10:45.
No meeting In the evening. Monday
evening, Aug. 10, the Evangelist Rev.
J. e. De Camp will give a missionary
lecture in the church.
First Baptist church-Sunday
school, $50 a. NJ: morning service.
1915 a. m. Sermon, Our Brilliant
Moments" Young peoples meeting
700 p. m. Evening service, 500.
Sermon, "Ltfe's Terminate For the
two Sundays following the pastor will
be away. Morning services only will
be held during his absence.
First African Baptist church. cor.
ner Seventeenth and Main streets
Rev. F. c. Boiling, pastor. Residence
1919 Palean street.-Morning service
preaching II a. m. Sunday school
1890 q. m. superintendent, Mrs
Eliza Hawkins. B. Y. P. u, $50 p
m. President, William A. Smith
Evening service, preaching at s .. m
| Pilgrim Rest Baptist church, cor.
ner Fourteenth and Exchange streets
| Rev. J. H. Helm, pastor. Residence
1919 Bank street.-Sunday school a.
! 10 a. m. Preaching at II a. m anc
p. m, by Rev. T. B. Gardner Of st
Louis, Mo, Morning subject, Walk
! ing With God" evening subject
"Christian Preparedness. Bible elias.
at o'clock.
/ Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
Tenth and Main streets. Rev. F. C
Edwards, D. D, minister.-PubIit
worship, 10:45 a. m. and 500 p. N
Morning theme. THE Failure o
Christianity" Evening subject, "Dr
Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde" ILLUSTRATED
with stereopticon. Sunday school
$50 a. N. Epworth league and Vol
unteers, 700 p. M,
The First Methodist Protestan
church, Twelfth and Exchange streets
Rev T.. Leroy Steffey, pastor. Sur
day school al $50 a. m. Christia
Endeayor prayer meeting at 700 I
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-11
Railroad Rate Decision.

limited Press Leased Wire SerViCe.N
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-THE in
terstate commerce commission held
1t unlawful for any company to bill
its interstate freights to points near
the boundary of one state and recon
sign them into the next state to de-
feat the new interstate rates. This
decision was made in the case OF the
Kanotex Refining company of Kan
sas against the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad.
Rates of SO and 35 cents per 100