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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-02

WE Offer the Following
w Prizes to Our Growers
for the Season of 1917 at
keokuk Factory:
For the first load OF rs bushels
tomatoes delivered at one time By
one grower, ten dollars.
For the second load (same as abova)
five dollars.
For the largest yield on II acre,
raised by boy under ls years Of
age, ten dollars.
Second largest, five dollars.
For the largest and best yield from
one acre by any contractor, fifteen
dollars.
For the second best, ten dollars.
For the third best, five dollars.
For the largest and best yield from
a two acre plat, twenty dollars.
Second best. ten dollars.
For the largest and best yield on
contract Of not less than ~ acres
nor more than acres, twenty-five
dollars.
For the best yield per acre on :
contract OF not less than "a nor more
than 10 acres, thirty-five dollars.
For the best yield per acre on a
contract Of not less than 10k nor
more than 20 acres, fifty dollars.
For the best yield from an acre OF
upland tomatoes not winning any
other prize, ten dollars.
Company patch. not to compete.
Growers wishing to enter the CON-
petition must notify the company
before May 18th, 1917.
The quantity OF tomatoes IN any
case is to be Of ripe merchantapie
fruit, and is to be based on the de-
livery tickets issued to the grower
from the Keokui factory.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-02
ELks ATTENTION.

ELMO - ~ =. !,
Special meeting OF the Elks. called
at request of Grand Exalted Ruler
Isighton, will be held in lodge room
tonight at o'clock sharp. Important
meeting.
A. L. KRAFT, E. R.
J.. J. WOLF, Cec'y.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
MODERN WOODMEN'S
PATRIOTIC FUND
Money to Pay Relatives of
Soldier Boys Killed in
Europe.

Creating extra revenue to be known
as patriotic fund" to pay the claims
Of soldiers who are killed in the
European war was the principal item
OF business transacted at the meeting
Of White Camp, No. SAB, Modern
Woodmen of America.
The resolution, which was unani.
mously passed, reads as follws: "A
special fund is hereby established.
which shall be known, and is hereby
designated as Patriotic Fund" 1t
shall be created and maintained by
assessments levied upon all Benefic.
iol members in good standing. The
amount OF each such assessment
against Beneficial members in good
standing shall be a sum which shall
equal 10 cents on each $500 Of bene.
fits provided in the certificates held
by such Beneficial members. and each
such assessment shall be payable on
or bfore the month for which the
same is levied.
"one assessment for such fund is
hereby levied for the month of Sep.
TENDER, 1917. and for each and every
month thereafter until such time as
the Board OF Directors of this Society
shall, by resolution duly passed, de.
termine that the necessity for further
assessments for such Patriotic Funo
no longer exists Out of such fund so
created shall be paid the death claim
o Teach Beneficial member whose
death shall result directly or Indirect.
ly from engaging in any branch Of
the military or naval service OF our
country or Conada in the present war.
Provided, however, that no such claim
shall be paid from such fund unless
the member for whose death claim is
made shall have been at the date OF
his death a Beneficial member IN
good standing. Provided, further,
that all of the provisions Of the by.
laws touching the levying of the reg.
ular assessments for the Benefit Fund
of this Society, suspension or failure
to pay same and reinstatement after
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
BASEBALL :: BOWLING :: BOXING ): OTHER SPORTS 4

practice there were probably but s..
900 people in the whole county. Roads
were in a miserable condition and It
was necessary TO travel by horseback
as buggies were not used. In those
days II a physician made three or
four calls he had busy day as most
places were almost inaccessible too
This outdoor life DR.. Brownfield at.
tributes his healthy condition today
although he is past the eightieth mile
stone.
In the early days physicians were
summoned at night For some reason
or other people did not want a ply.
stefan, except at night time. The far.
mers usually waiting until quitting
time" had been reached and then
they would Jump on horse and come
to the town to summon a doctor. AT.
ter being the victim Of many night
calls DR.. Brownfeld made 1t his bus.
mess TO find out why this was. He
learned that the reason was that the
farmers did not want their neighbors
to see a physician in the neighobnI.
hood II they did the "busybodies"
would make 1t their business to call
and inquire who was sick. Usually
this habit spread through the neigh
borhood and there was hardly no linn
1t to the number of callers. In one
instance DR.. Brownfield was obliged
to cross dangerous ford at night
time and 1t was really this incident
that nrOnntad him IN ,el, tbo raal
idea for summoning a physician at
night time instead OF during the day
the logical time.
In his travels in the interest OF his
profession DR. Brownfield has come
across much superstition. He laughs
heartily as he refers to the great faith
some people had in making poultices
out OF various things vhich had no
more medicinal properties than a rail.
road track. In those pioneer days of
medicine in Marion county Dr. Brown
field tells OF certain men who made
a study OF medicine without learning
it through a doctor or attending col
lege. They posed as physicians and
doctored the people in the neighbor-
hood. DR.. Brownfield came across a
chap who had a son who was very
i'll for week or more and after the
family physician" had failed he
called in full fedged medical men in
the person of DR.. Brownfield. The
self.made physician had used his so.
called last resort dose and then he
called DR.. Brownfield. who found that
the young man had been suffering
with typhoid fever
DR.. Brownfeld has always been
prominently identified with the Ma.
sonic Fraternity. He was made a
Mason in Fairmont Lodge in 1862,
he and Ex-Governor Fleming having
been in the same class. For fifty.
five years he has been member OF
the fraternity and he is also affiliated
with the Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
sons and Crusade Commandery.
Knights Templar OF Fairmont. and
has even had the experience OF
holding on to the rope" at Osiris
Temple. Ancient Arabic Order No.
bles Of the Mystic Shrine, at Wheel
ing.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
TWENTY TWO HUSKIES
WENT JOHANNESBURG
Hope With That Outfit to
Bring Home a Vic
tory.

At twelve o'clock today % candi-
dates for the Fairmont High football
team, accompanied by Coaches Moore
and Carpenter, boarded the inter-
urban street car for Clarksburg,
whore this afternoon they are clash
ing with the Washington Irving High
school. From the % candidates the
coaches will select a team that will be
hard to beat. From past reputation
the Clarksburg lads are of class when
1t comes to playing football, AID If
they are anything near as strong as
in past years, will make the locals
fight to win.
Coach Moore last night announced
the following lineup, which will
probably start the game today: Clark
Brown. quarterback; Paul Binns and
Paul Hess, halfbacks; Mathew Turko-
vich, fullback; Paul Stevens, center;
Capt. Arch Meredith and Pete Hamil-
ton, tackles; Thomas Cain and Seldom
Dean, guards; Louis Ross and Joe
Sarsfield, ends.
The men that made the trip are:
Seldom Dean, Louis Ross. Thomas
Cain, Mathew Turkovich. Paul Hess,
Paul Stevens. Joe Sarsfeld. Robert
Nixon, Raymond Klaw. Clark Brown.
Paul Bnins. Charles Loar. Carl An
DIRE, 'zell Brady, Kenneth Hess, Pete
Hamilton, Clay Mills. Arch Meredith.
Leon Vignol. Forrest Knight. Pierre
Hill, Clarence Aumiller. Coaches
Moore and Carpenter.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
Normal's First Game
With the Baptists

Fairmont Normal will open her
football season one week from today.
when the team goes TO Philippi. ".
Va, to meet the Broaddus College
eleven. Coach Bell, who is this year
In charge Of the management Of the
team, is arranging a good schedule
with several long trips.
The Normal team has been practic-
Ing each evening and will continue to
practice each evening until the game
next Saturday. Paul Hamilton is
among the new candidates for the
team who reported for practice yes
terday afternoon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06

such suspension. shall apply in full
force and in all respects to assess
ments levied for said Patriotic Fund.
Should there be a balance remain
ing in the fund provided for IN this
section after all claims allowed
against It shall have been paid, the
same shall be transferred by order
Of the Board Of Directors to the Ben.
eft Society and be handled and used
in all respects for the purposes and
under the limitations provided by
these laws for such Benefit Fund. This
section shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage"
Hearl McElfresh, OF the Home Saw.
ings Bank, was installed as banker
Of the camp by H. C. Shaferman, the
head consul.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
Baseball Sunday
at Traction Park

One OF the good baseball games OF
the season is expected TO take place
at Traction Park tomorrow afternoon
at $3.50 O'Clock when tie Elm Grove
nine meets the Consolidation Coal
company team. With Lee King IN the
outfeld and several other valuable
additions the Consolidation team will
be well loaded for any unusual
strength OF their rivals.
In that this will probably be the
last game OF the season for the Con-
solidation boys, they will make every
effort to win. Arrangements have
been completed to announce the re-
suits OF the world series at the end
nf each inning.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-10-06
For Burning Eczema

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From any druggist for 35c, or 500 for
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liquid. Try it, as we believe nothing you
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The fool-killer., 1917-01-01
THE LATEST DUEL.

The Fool-Killer has just receiv-
ed from a correspondent the fol-
lowing somewhat uncertain ac-
count of duel that was fought
in his neighborhood. Some way
or other I am half in the dark
about the result of the duel in
question, but I shall leave the de-
cision to my readers:
A duel was lately fought in
Texas by Alexander Shot and
John 8. Mott. Mott was shot and
Shot was not. In this case it is
better to be Shot than Mott.
There is rumor that Mott was
not shot, but Shot avows he shot
Mott, which proved either that the
shot Shot shot shot Mott, or Mott
was not shot, or that Mott was
shot not withstanding.
Circumstantial evidence is not
always good. It may be made to
appear on trial that the shot Shott
shot shot Mott, or as accidents
with firearms are frequent, it may
be possible that the Shott shot
shot Shott himself, when the
whole affair would resolve itself
into it's original elements, and
Shot would be shot and Mott
would be not. Anyway, it is hard
TO tell who was shot.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01

Almanac that "Time and Tide
wait for no man" And so I
reckon Time does travel, after all.
But how fast3 And which wayi
These are important questions
for you and me, and they are
mighty hard to answer.
AS I said few lines back, we
are dealing with the Present, and
we want to learn something about
it. If the Present moves, is it
going the way we are going, or in
the opposite direction3 My no.
ton is that it comes meeting us,
and sometimes it runs over us and
mashes us pretty tolerable fat, as
the poet says.
But when you get your micro
scope and examine it right plum
carefully, the Present is mighty
little thing to have so much power
as it has. AS well as I can tell,
it has considerable width from
North to South, but from East to
West it amt thicker than tissue
paper. The Past crowds up on
one side and the Future crowds
up on the other side until the poor
little Present looks like a very
tiny speck Of butter between two
big pones Of bread.
We are all after the butter. And
the bread, too. But some Of us
don t have Time enough to get as
much as we want.
And that's all I know about
Time for this time. Maybe some
other time I will take time to tell
you more about Time.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01
Setting and Hatohing.

Getting ready to, print The
Fool-Killer is sorter like raising
ehickens-only different. An old
hen sets three weeks before she
matches, but this tomfoolery
which you are reading has to be
Aatched before it can set. 7 do
the Matching, and then I turn
over what I have Matched to the
type-setter and he sets it up. The
setting was about to get ahead of
the Matching just new, and that s
why / Matched this piece.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01
A FOOL-KuLER PARABLE.

One time when I was about 40
big as a pound Of soap after a
days washing, me and another
little devil fell out and fit like
wildcats. Our mammies saw tho
racket and heard the dust a-fyin'
and came running to pull us of
Of each other. We were both on
top, as well as I remember.
After they had got us parted
they tried to get us to tell what
the fuss started over. I told il
my way and the other kid told il
his way, and of course neither Of
us told it straight.
But my nanny believed what I
told, and the other kid 8 nanny
believed what he told, and from
that they went at it, too. Our
daddies heard our mammies quar-
relling, and here they came and
joined in the fuss. Before it final
ly ended the whole neighborhood
was lined up on one side or the
other, and there was enough hide
and old clothes scattered around
there to start a tan yard and a
paper MILL,
From a strictly Bible stand
point the above yarn might be
called lie, but if you ain It al
ready seen a great truth in it you
had better read it over again. The
Great War that has drenched
Europe in blood started in just as
foolish a way as that, and has
been continued with just as little
reason, so far as the people who
fight and suffer are concerned.
And when Wilson asks them to
state what they are fighting for
he is making just as silly a re-
quest as if he had asked me and
that other little devil what we
were scrapping about. Naturally
each side will tell it it's own way,
and nobody will tell the truth
about it. Whether you take it on
8 small scale or large scale, hu-
man nature is always and every
where pretty much the same.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01
A SERMON ON TIME.

Yes, this is a sermon on time,
but you have to pay cash in ad-
vance for it. I never credit out
my sermons, not even when they
are sermons on time. The cash-in-
advance plan is better. And so
now is the time to subscribe, as
the poet says.
Does anybody know exactly
what sort Of looking thing Time
is, anyhowi I have lost a good
deal of sleep studying over this
problem, and I. amt got it fixed
yet.
Time, as we understand it, is
divided into three parts-Past,
Present, and Future. The past is
that portion of Time that has done
drawn it's pay and gone home.
But I don't know where it lives.
A long way off, perhaps. And
no doubt it has quit the job for
good, and never will come back.
The Future is that portion Of
Time that has bought it's ticket
and started, but amt got here
yet. The Future is coming to-
ward us all the time, but it don t
all come together. And it won t
all get here at once. IF it did,
we would have more Time on our
hands than we could use. And
Time is like wheat dough in hot
weather-if it ain t properly used
at the proper time it sours and
goes to waste. So you see if all
the Future came to us in one pile
and we couldn' t use it till it sour
ed, then we would be in a wusser
fix than Hiram was when his
gallus broke.
But coming right down to brass
tacks, as Paul remarked in his
letter to the Methodist Confer
ence, it is the Present that most
concerns us. And what is the
Presenti I will give a brand-new
fifty-cent automobile to any man
who viii give me a satisfactory
answer to that question. How
big a chunk Of Time is the Pre-
senti Go ahead and give me It's
length, breadth and thickness
And tell me how fast it travels
past any given point. The hired
man waiting for dinner to come
says Time travels in an ox-cart
and stops to rest it's team every
few steps. But the fellow with 8
note coming due and nothing tc
pay it with is very sure Time
rides in 1917 Model Overland
and is the most reckless driver or
the road. Which is right How
does Time travels Or does it
travel at all? Maybe it stands per
fectly still and we do the moving
ourselves. Which would make
Times apparent speed to every
man depend on his own speed
But that won't do, either, fol-
that would make Time wait on thu
motions of men, wouldn t it? Ast
|you remember Paul tells Us agai1
lin his second letter to the Medica
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01

Here's a marriage notice that
appeared in an exchange:
Married at Flinstone, by Rev.
Windstone, Mr.. Nehemiah Whet-
stone and Miss Wilhemina Sand
stone, both of Limestone. This
is getting mighty "rocky" and
there's bound to be blasting"
Of the "stony" hearts before
many ''pebbles" appear on the
connubial bench. The grind
stone Of domestic infelicity win
sharpen the axe of jealously and
discord, and sooner or later one
or the other Of this pair will rest
beneath a tombstone. Then look
out for birthstone.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01

I'm a stamp,
A postage stamp,
A two-center.
Don't want to brag,
But I never was licked,
Except once
By a gentleman, too.
he put me onto q good thing.
It was an envelope,
Perfumed, pink, and square.
I've been stuck on the envelope
Ever since
He dropped us,
The envelope and me,
Through a slot in a dark box.
We were rescued by mail-clerk-
Nore's the pity.
He hit me an awful smash
with a hammer.
It left my face black and blue.
Then I went on a long journey. .
OF two days,
And when we arrived,
The pink envelope and me,
We were presented
To a perfect peach Of a girl
With the stunningest
Pair Of blue eyes
That ever blinked.
Say, she s a dream!
Well,
She mutilated the pink envelope
And tore one corner Of me off
With hair pin.
Then she read what was inside
The Pink envelope.
I never saw a girl blush
So beautifully.
] would be stuck on her
If I could.
She placed the writing back
In the pink envelope,
Then she kissed me. =.
Oh, you baby doll!
Her lips were ripe as cherries,
And warm as the summer SUM-
We,
The pink envelope and me,
Are now nesting snugly
I'm her bosom.
We can hear her heart throb.
When it goes fastest
She takes us out
And kisses me.
Oh, say, this is greatl
I'm glad I'm a stamp
"A two-center.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01

The man who never makes mis-
takes
Must forfeit much delight;
he cannot feel the sweet surprise
Of sometimes being right.
The fool-killer., 1917-01-01

Comfort is pleasure with the
juice squeezed out.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
= irst Expression of the Peace
l Without Victory" Proposal

His peace without victory" attitude
found expression on May 25, 1916, when
this dispatch came from the capital:
Washington, May 25, 1916.-President Will
son to-day made known the conditions on
which he would consent to intervene as
mediator among the belligerent nations OF
Europe. He told callers at the White House
come only after the nations at war were
ready to agree that the interests Of all were
to be conserved-in other words, that neither
side was to gain a conclusive victory.
In his mind there was shaping central
idea-a league of mankind. At the BAN
quet of the League to Enforce Peace, held
at Washington on May 27, 1916, he said:
"The longer the war lasts the more deeply
do we become concerned that it should be
brought to an end and the world be permitted
to resume its normal life and course again
We are participants, whether we would or
not, in the life Of the world. What affects
mankind is inevitably our affair as we'll as
the affair Of the nations of Europe and of
Asia.
I'VE should labor for a universal associa-
tion OF the nations to maintain the inviolate
security of the highway of the seas for the
common and unhindered use of all the ma
tions of the world, and to prevent any war"
In contrast with his 'too proud to fight"
speech, delivered in the same city a year
earlier, on June 29, 1916, in Philadelphia,
President Wilson, describing himself as
sin a fighting mood" declared that Amer
lea, in dealing with other nations, must
"vindicate at whatever cost its principles
of liberty, justice and humanity" that
America first" must be translated into
action.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
LIE Clings to the Theory That
! l Force Is Wrong

But in the West he still voiced some of
his earlier pacifism with enthusiasm. In
Detroit on July 10, 1916, he said
81 hear some men say that they want to
help Mexico, and the way they propose to
help her is TO overwhelm her with force.
That is the wrong way. as we'll as the long
way. After fighting them you would have a
nation full Of justified suspicion. Thus you
would not help them. You would shut every
door against you"
Force will not accomplish anything
that is permanent" said President Wilson,
addressing the members of the New York
Press Club at the Waldorf on the night of
June 80, 1916. He cited the European
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

Mr.. Wilson's pride in the American
peace is disclosed here:
indianapolis, Jan. s, 1915.-In his Jackson
Day speech here to-day, before the militant
Democracy of Indiana, President Wilson SAID;
what future it is, my friends! Look
abroad upon the troubled world. Only Amer
lea at peace! Among all the great powers OF
the world, only America saving her power for
her own people! Only America using her
great character and her great strength IN the
interests Of peace and Of prosperity! Do you
not think it likely that the world will some
time turn to America and say: You were
right and we were wrong. You kept your
heads when we lost ours'?"
On January Is, 1915, the President
thanked the League to Limit Armaments
for its support Of his anti-preparedness
policy. On February the Allied press
scored him numerically for sending the
Kaiser birthday congratulations.
AZ On April he intimated that it was "too
early to pronounce judgment" upon the
belligerents. Speaking at gathering of
Methodists in Washington, on March 26,
he resisted the pressure Of the war advo-
Gates and asked them not to crock the
boat"