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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
retire on account of age, but still in
good bodily health.


Des Moines Capital Members of
the Des Moines school board have
paid high compliment to women by
selecting Mrs. HoffYan as president.
Under the. rule OF seniority man
could have been given the place. Mrs.
Hoffman is the second women to be
elected to the board and one of three
who has served in that capacity.
Sioux City Tribune: Uncle Sam
needs young men for the navy. AS the
young men will have great future
need of the government they should
put in few ticks for its security
right now. Within a very few years
the United States navy is going to be
the equal of any in the world. Young
men who enter the service now and
stick to it for time are in the way
of a very attractive career.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Waterloo Courier: Opinion OF the
press of the state is practically unani-
nous that the Thirtyseventh general
assembly should have adopted some
form of relief for the aged and indi-
giant taachara and even for those who
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

ResoIute thoughts find for themselves and make
vehicle. Inspiration and expression are relative
sides. He deeply will express strongly. The
slight sensation is naturally feeble and super
fciaI-Sr Philip Francis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown TimesRepublican
Will Parrot. of WateMoo, gets an
apology from the senate for turning
him out the other day. But if Mr.. P.
ives elected under the senate rules or
because of the law why apologize? It
may have been fool performance in
the first place but it is fooler to apol-
ogize afterward.
Sioux City Journal: The antilobby
Irule at Des Moines seems to be useful
only as medium for provoking lit
tie child's play when some grown man
gives himself over to the kind of
crouch that is supposed to be out
grown when one passes ones tenth
birthday.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
Monticello Express has once more
warned the legislature not to carry
their dryness too far. for drastic
things seldom succeed, they more
often defeat their own ends. But the
law makers seem always to be under
the influence of the few who do most
of the clamoring, and to disregard the
great majorities who are not forever
sending petitions and delegations to
law making bodies-but the great ma
jorities at last speak through the bal
lot boxes.
Des Moines Register: After three
battles with the weeds, some amateur
gardeners will doubtless be sorry they
enlisted for the war on high prices.
Iowa City Citizen: The legislature
has killed the bill providing for the re-
turn to the old plan of electirg county
superintendents by popular vote. The
LEGISLATURE has done wise thing.
vinton Eagle. j. H. Strict, the new
lIy appointed member of the state
board of control. tells his home paper,
the Sioux City Journal, that it is not
his intention to move to Des Moines
He has another guess coming If he ex-
poets to carry the position as a SIDE
issue The board OF control Is the
hardest worked and the poorest paid
commission the state has. 1t has
some twelve to fifteen state fnstftu-
lions to care for and the members
work from early morn till late at night
besides making monthly visits to sew
eral Of the institutions. The new
bank SUPERINTENDENT will receive a
1
the $4,000 paid 10 the members Of the
board of control He will get to his
office at 9 o'clock in the morning and
quit at o'clock.
Grundy Democrat: If Europe were
ruled by it's people instead of by its
royalty there would have been no war.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: OF course.
the teachers will continue their fight
| for their pensions. That is the only
way they will ever get anything.
Waterloo Courier: Opinion OF the
press of the state is practically unani-
nous that the Thirty-seventh general
assembly should have adopted some
form of relief for the aged and indi-
A-aant taaehars- and even for those who
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Grundy Democrat: If Europe were
ruled by it's people instead of by its
royalty there would have been no war
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Burlington Hawk-Eye: OF course
the teachers will continue their fighI
for their pensions. That is the only
way they will ever get anything.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Gate City want aos
suits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Des Moines Register: After three
battles with the weeds. some amateur
gardeners will doubtless be sorry they
enlisted for the war on high prices.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Iowa City Citizen: The legislature
has killed the bill providing for the re-
turn to the old plan of electirg county
by popular vote. The
legislatures has done a wise thing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Sioux City Journal: The anti-lobby
rule at Des Moines seems to be usefu
only as medium for provoking a lit
tie child's play when some grown mar
gives himself over to the kind of 6
crouch that is supposed to be out
grown when one passes ones tenth
birthday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
Now Call Up
THE CLOVER DAIRY Te 4sggs

and Order Their Special Nursery Milk lie Quart.
From Tubercun Tested Cows, Clarified and Pasteur-
lied Strictly and Thoroughly Safe-Guarded From
Cows to Your Home
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
MAYOR ELECT Gets
Line ON NEW WORK
Attends Advisory Board
Meeting With Other City
Officials
WOULD MODIFY
FIRE WORKS LAW

The last meeting OF the Mayors Adj
visory Board which Mayor James F.
Price T. Allan Hilles. of the Board Of
Water Commissioners and Oscar C.
Draper. chairman OF the finance COM
mittee Of Council, will attend was
held yesterday afternoon. When the
board meets again those mentioned
above viii have retired from their Of
fetal positions Yesterdays session
was attended by Nayor-elect John W.
Lawson. who was introduced TO the
members by Mayor Price as the next
Mayor OF the city Mayor Price also
made his farewell to the board mem
bcrs.
Mayor Price chankCd the members
for their services and courteous treat
mont during the past two years. The
heads OF the various city departments
present congratulated Mayor Price on
the manner in which he had attended
his duties as chief executive Of the
city and gave him their best wishes.
Mr. Lawson remarked that il had
pleased and interested him greatly to
attend the meeting and that he had
learned things which would be OF
great benefit to him during his COM
ing term.
Charles Warner. chairman Of the
llarhor Commission, is now a member Of
the mayors advisory hoard Owing toI
meeting of the Harbor Commission
yesterday he was unable TO attend the
cabinet meeting This was purely AMI
informal meeting, Mr.. Warner explained,
ms only he and James =. Winchester
were present Mr. Speakman having
gone South for his health. Several out
of-town men. who have been actively
connected with harbor work we're pres
ent 10 offer certain suggestions which
they thought advisable for the commits
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
POLICE BOARD ROUTTNE.

Owing to the absence of Commits.
sioner Samuel K Smith from the
city yesterday. five members of tho
police department charged with miss
ing reports or sleeping while on duty
had their cases continued until next
week. Only routine business was
transacted at the meeting
The American Car and Foundry
Company asked that John " WEIGH
and Elwood Russell be commissioned
as SPECIAL officers for the company
and this request was referred to Chief
OF Police George Black for action
During the month OF May, the POI
lice patrol travelled 926 miles. respond
ed to 500 calls, and carried 621 people.
During the same period. the matrons
had sixty-four females in their
charge. Chief of Police George Black
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
GENERAL BENSON As
'POORFARN Doctor"
Takes Rundown Places
Near Dover, Makes Them
Productive
TURNS LIVE STOCK
LOOSE ON THE LAND

DOVER. Del. June 6.-The meth
DDS used by General A. r. Benson
i'm reviving wOrn-out farms around
Dover p work al which he has beer
successful, should be Interesting 10
all who have any idea OF ever going
into the farming game and especially
TO those already at it. General Benz
son buys WORKOUT farms, farms that,
iiguratWely speaking need hair cut
a shave. n bath and a new suit OF
clothes. Benson Is a man who can
accomplish all that
With an abandoned farm in his nos
session, he starts at once grubbing
out the bushes and cleaning the ditch
banks. Liberal applications OF stable
comfort, bone and other fertilizers are
used and the soil is given thoro Guilt
walton.
AS soon as crops begin to grow. the
farm Is heavily stocked with hogs and
cows. To feed this stock. corn. wheat,
vetch. crimson clover, COW peas and
soy beans are grown. The vetch.
wheat and crimson clover are sown
together and afford pasturage in the
fall and spring Other fields are al
lowed TO grow and produce. spring
hay.
With the rotation OF crops, he has
been able TO grow 100 bushels OF she'll
ed corn to the acre from land that
hitherto would not produce ten bush
els. To secure this crop, he applies
thirty loads OF manure an acre and
some acid phosphate This aids the
corn and also the crop Of clover and
vetch He plants the latter in the fall.
when he harrows for the last time the
corn. AS soon as the day crop is
cut on this same field in the spring,
1t is put into corn again. Such meth
obs have made General Benson known
throughout the Eastern Shore as THE
Poor Farm Doctor"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06

sion to consider. This discussion and
study is but a part of the preparation
that is being made by the Harbor Com
missioners to enable them to take over
the work Of making Wilmington a ship
ping center.
Members Of the board discussed the
new ordinance recently passed by City
Council forbidding the sale or use Of
fireworks here on the Fourth Of July. II
was contendcd that some of the local
dealers had placed orders for such goods
and they would be the losers through the
new ordinance. II was proposed by the
members that the ordinance be modihed
so that harmless fireworks such as
spar<lers. etc. be allowed to be sold.
Nothing definite was done, however, but
81 is understood that the matter will be
taken before Council.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06

hampered by lack of men Many OF
them had refused TO work on the
streets. he said. He called the atten-
tion OF Council TO many unsanitary
conditions existing IN various parts
Of the city and was advised that
these were up to the Board OF Health
and that the owners or occupants
should be given the customary ten.
day notice 10 abate the nuisance, fail
ure on their part to comply, being
followed by arrest.
New Castles military census yes
terday totalod 74S. nearly one-halt
the nnmuCr OF registered voters in the
city In the First district 161 reg
istered. IN the Second 1O5; in the
Third. 252. and in the Fourth, 23O. The
heaviest registration was in the Third.
No disorder OF any kind marked the
day and the men presented them
selves at the registering places and
were registered leisurely by the reg
istrars. none of whom were over
worked The total registration was
within two Of the figures named by
several OF the registrars in the First
district. who guessed $50 reg atra-
tions
City Council will sit tonight, tomor-
row night and Friday night TO hear
assessment appeals. and next week
will meet to fix the tax rate.
Considerable trouble was exper-
fenced last night during the storm
and the residence lights were out a
good part Of the evening. The frs.
shutdown was due TO a large limb
being blown across the wires on Del
aware streets. but this was removed
and the service was resumed. Then
later in the evening the lights werN
out several times for short intervals
City Council was much put out by the
tricks PLAYED by the lights. as elecl
tricity is the only means Of illumina-
ton in the Council chamber Councilg
men stoops and Waggenmann startet
out on a hunt for lamps when the
lights went ont the first time and
both returned with one The session
was resumed by the aid OF such light
as the lamps afforded until the cleo
trio lights came on again.
An agitation 70 request the trolley
company to run its cars to Whining !
ton over the Market street bridge and |
passengers at Front and |
Market streets once more has been |
started IN certain circles. Those in
favor Of the change say thst much |
better time can he made by the cars |
over the old route and that Front and |
Market streets Is a more convenient |
point at which 20 discharge passen- |
gers. owing 70 the nearness of the |
railroad station II Is not thought |
that the movement IS general. how |
ever most Of the people using the 1
cars being satisfied TO leave the New |
Castle cars az Fourth and Market /
streets. I'm Wilmington.
Mayor Cayenders report for thd /
month OF May Is as follows: Arrests. |
90; collected in fines. Sf9475. Oh !
these. ffty-hve pad fines eleven wers +
committed TO the county worl1house /
for failure TO pay thirteen we're COM
mitted in default of bail and twenty |
were discharged
Beginning tomorrow morning and |
continuing Thursdays. Professor |
Henry IT. HAY will conduct a class !
in literature IN the New Castle Cen
fury Club This class viii take the
place OF the current events course,
which has been discontinued.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06

NEsTLB's FOOD COMPANY.
$50 Woolworth Building, New York.
Please send me FREE. your book
and trial package.
Name ''.''... '''.''''''s''..
Address .......'.... .............
City ....... Observation-Disclosures.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
county, RAIANcEs-

County Treasurer Charles II Lip
piucott presented the following fnan.
cial report to the Levy Court yester-
day.
To credit OF Levy Court. s40S4s. OF;
miscellaneous road account. St74 20.
Christiana Hundred s3,S2424; Mil
Creek Hundred S1130: White Clay
Creek Hundred. Sl6591; Pencader
Hundred. s2.S9S.74; New Castle Hun
bred. s2,697.44: Red Lion Hundred.
s955.12: ST. Georges Hundred. So
O5337; APPOINTMENTS Hundred,
S34.37: Blackbird Hundred. S1,st79t;
Hundred, S6s722.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06

Join The million mothers. Civ, your
baby this simple food. modified BY doc
fors, planned By scientists, free from
germs. easy 10 digest
Send This coupon without money FORE
Big sample can, and be one offhoss mil
lion ffsd mothers whose babies srs
growing bie and strong on Nestle . Food.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
cHANGE MEETING nATE.

This being Chautauqua week tha
meeting of the ladies' Aid Society 81
Goodman NJ r. Church will not be
held on Friday, June 8. as previously
announced but will be held on Fri
day, Juno 10, instead in the Sunday
school room OF the church
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06

reported having collected $3.50 70
dog tax
Last week the police made 131 af-
rests of which number fifty were
sent to the workhoEse The fines and
costs collected in the city court
amounted to S43O.95.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
What Do You Know
About the Milk Your Children
Drink?
READ THIS
GUARDING MILK
SUPPLY OF CITY
Board of Health Warns Housewives of Danger
of Contamination From Flies

Carefulnes in attending to and sanitary milk supply
and the determination far possible of the fly menace accord
ing Dr. NJ Myers secretary Of the Board Health will do
much to eliminate the possibility of another epidemic nante
paralysis this summer.
zone of the things that the Board of Health has been work
ing obtain for time the Standardization of the milk supply
the city Power present only given board inspect
the milk In addition lacking in Of the foremost ncess
ties of uptodae city of size namely meteorological
laboratory
Under present conditions the milk Inspector only examine
milk ascertain whether contains butter fat solids
and also to ascertain whether there preseryaes Personal
cleanliness the part Of the farmer dayman the dealer
housewife of the first essentials of clean milk
ascertain whether the milk receives from clean dairy
not and should come from unsantary place or found TO
be handled in unceany the milk should be obtained
elsewhere.
'Wherever possible the Board of Health is closing dirty
shops where milk is handled sold Under ordinance of the
city, the mik.inspector has this power Extra also being
with regards the milk licenses But the great
portion the responsibility health of the children the
city during the coming with the wife and mother"
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
TO READvERTlsE FOR BIDS.

Because no bids we're received for
paving with brick the approaches 10
the new river front bridge, County
Engineer Wilson was authorized by
the Levy Court yesterday to readver-
tise for bids
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-06
PAVING law rs PRINTED

Announcement is made by the
Street and Sewer directors that the
abutting paving laws passed by the
last Legislature have been printed in
pamphlet form and are ready for free
distribution
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-14
CANNOT HAVE LIQUOR
IN BOARDING HOUSES
Pollard Says There l. W DI>rrlmiun-
tion-LaN Applies Alike To single
nnd Married Mcn.

Tired OF the inaccuracies that have
sprung az ia connection with his rui-
ins OF the right of persons. under
the Mapp law to- have ardent spirits
in hotels or boarding houses. and stllI
moro w"ar- OF The questions OF pco-
pic VINO demand To Inc informed If
he has hold ,hot married mon enjoy
WHISKY rights that are not sh2rcd by
m"n vn1 are not married. Attorney
G;cn,5at l"l!.,rd Yesterday issued the
t"liuwia@ statement
.Hocc,,, r,rIi..,,i,,,. 81, h, nous.
n,nc,s sho,, y,ig.srre,d r,isnnnr,-
hYnsia as to ,b, alleged ruling az
~, ,,i,,.,-,, .,,,..'I b., rc,,,jn an
no ,Ii, u,,a., 40 n,oI,,hi,i,, ,,,.
AT h.,I,clors ii,ira i, h,,.Isardl hoard
tnn houses I'll, Iu, i'm his pprticu-
lar acc, mo-, dis.ri,niua;o against Tho
bachelors neither bachelors nor mar
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-14
Women's $40 Dresses

At this price
we feature an as
Sortincnt OF fine
quality silk taf-
irta and crepe dc
= h " nc dresses.
made III the lat
est and most APP
proved Siy | . :.
Values up 10 $50.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-14
GYMNASIUM DEMONSTRATION


The physical department, or the
louus Womcu's Christian Association
announces that the annual demon
Strati"n "f gymnasium work viii b"
given Friday evening at O'Clock IN
tn" gymnasium at tn, Central Build
ing AT Fifth and Main streets
The work includes "Nory variety Of
exercise for women ANA luis OF every
age ana condition. and is 50 wild. in
its scope that each member gets what
she most needs to give strength. poISc
and suppl"ncsS 10 tho muscles OF E,r
body. Nor il the element of r,cr,u-
ton overlooked. for special effort /,
madc 10 npport"u the work 50 that
business girls and women Of scdcutuiy
habits may una much-nc"d"d rci..N;-
ton without ov"rIaNing amy organ.
Basketball, vol!cyball ana baseball
arc each played III its season, whi.
more rollici>ing games and folk dances,
tu which every girl may join. arc given
constantly. The program for FRIDAY
evening VIII consist Of drills and
dsuuc"S thai have been actually pre-
pared ia the course of tho regular
class work. and FOR which no especially
dii'icult practice has been rouui,cd
The following is the program:
Grand march. = Marching tactics aid
Nuuccd class > Wand dril. intcrnc
dillo class. g. ,ar Soldier hoy murch-
iup CO. Three crow. Cc> | see YOU
thildr"u's class :. Dane" of the
Turks KuN,uursrolska. student cIns.,
g. swedish arm. :. Apparatus work
GAO Jockey dance. uIaht class. Cd,
Green sleeves. Intermediate class. &C.,
Highland Schottischc. u,crmcdiat.
.",-. 81 Indian conn dance advanced
ul...|,t,u. advance.
class, shadow dance. junior class 10.
Relay a.
rush pail ,"l Eunniug
Miss Martha Jane Hyde ANA Miss
l;uth Feet ar" iu charg" Of the ph!si-
B.. .luI,flf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

which foated the Confederate flag when
Fort Sumter was silenced by Dahlgren
in 1868. Perhaps | am mistaken, but
have an idea that that affair was quite
an important episode in American his
tory. 1t seems to me-but | may be
mistaken-that the flagstaff of Fort
Sumter is deserving of place in the
rooms of the New York Historical So
ciety where visitors who are interested
in history may see it. Of course, if the
New York Historical Society is not in
terested in history that is a different
matter. But | was always under the
impression that it was organized for
the purpose of creating an interest in
history and preserving the relics of his
tory in New York State and the United
States"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Has Another
Chair-Buf WhafS the Use?
A maid entered.

please set at my place at the lunch
con table the old Dutch chair" said Mrs.
Van Rensselaer,. THAT chair" she ex-
planned, when the maid had gone, be
longed to a Dutch doctor, Hahns Kier-
stede, who wrote the first prescription
in Nieu Amsterdam. He married a
daughter of Anneke Jans-afterward
Anneke JAMS Bogardus, whose heirs
claim all of the Trinity Church property
along Broadway. l gladly would pre-
sent that chair to the New York Histor-
zeal Society-and other relics Of the
past equally as valuable-but"-
She smiled gently.
"-But-what's the use-they would
probably put them all in that large cold
storage plant in the basement"
Well, now, to be sure, everybody
against whom charges are brought
ought to have chance to tell his side
of the story. Mrs. John King Van Rens-
selaer charges that the New York His
torical Society is dead. Let's give 1t
chance to prove an alibi.
as the New York Historical Society
dead or alive"
Unfalteringly this question was pre-
sented to the librarian of the organiza-
ton. Robert Hendre Kelby, in the build
ing at nth Street and Central Park
West.
u claim we are alive" he said. Il
know what you want-Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer's remarks have travelled wide.
How about that Marie Antoinette
chair that cane from the Palace of YER
sailles?'
He opened a copy of "The New York
Historical Society-1804-1904," written
by himself, and pointed to the para
graph reading:
ION Sunday morning. February 3.
1849. the small chapel in the University
Building. the floor below the rooms OF