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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

a. Are You % Natural-born Citizen
(2) NaturaIized Citizen; (3) ar
Alien; (4) or Have You Declared
Your Intention to Become Citizen
Specify which,?
% If you were born in the United
States, including Alaska and Hawaii,
you are natural-born citizen, no
matter what may have been the citi-
zenship or nationality of your pa
rents. If you were born in Porto
Rico, You are a citizen Of the United
States, unless you were born Of alien
parentage. If you were born abroad,
you are still a citizen of the United
States if your father was a citizen Of
the United States at the time you
were born, unless you have expatriat-
ed yourself.
(2) You are a naturalized citizen
If you have completed your natural
izaion; that is, if you have taken
final papers" But you are not citi-
zen If you have only declared your
intention to become citizen Chat is,
II you have only taken out first
papers'O in the latter case you are
only "declarant."
You are also naturalized citizen,
if. although foreign born, your faith
er or surviving parent became fully
naturalized while you were under q
years of age, and If you came to the
United States under 21.
ca You are declaralt if, although
a citizen or subject Of some foreign
you have declared on oath
before naturalization court your in
tention to become a citizen of the
United States. Receipt from the
clerk of the court of the certified
copy Of such declaration is often
called taking out first papers, You
are not declarant If your first paper
was taken out after September 26, |
1906, and is more than years old.
(4) You are an alien if you do not |
fall within one of the three classes !
above mentioned.
5. Where Were You Born7
First name the town, then the
state, then the country, as "Colum-
BUS, Ohio" Vienna, Austria"
Paris, France" Sofia, Bulgaria
). If Not a Citizen, of What Country
Are You Citizen or Subject?
This need be answered only by
liens and declarants. Remember
hat a "deClarant' is not yet a citi-
EN- of the United States. If an
lien, or declarant, state the name OF
our country, as France" Japan"
China etc.
!. What is Your Present Trade, oc-
curation, or Office?
This does not ask what you once
id, nor what you have done most of ;
he time, nor what you are best fit
ed to do. 1t asks what your job is !
light now. State briefly. as Farm :,
r" miner" student 'laborer Con
arm, in rolling mill, in automobile,
'agon, or other factory),' "machinist
/ automobile factory" etc. If you {
old an office under state or federal f
overnment, name the Office you hold. =,
you are in one of the following {
hces or employments, use one Of {
le names hereafter mentioned: E
"Customhouse clerk" employed t
| the transmission of the mails or s
in an armory, arsenal, or ]
avy yard, ;" mariner, actually en-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
DUNCAN -SCF1ELL Furniture Co.
From the Cheapest $ Goodt the That is
From the Cheapest That is

We Chambers
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
HOW TO ANSWER
DRAFT QUESTIONS
List Of interrogatories to be Pro-
pounded to Men Between II and
81, June 5, IL
Compiled.
WHAT TO SAY TO THEM
Uncle Sam Desires to Know Twelve
Important Points About
His New
Soldiers.

KeolSuk and Lee county
MH Young men between the
'ESZ ages of 21 and 81 years who
y will register June 5 as the
first step in the mobilization of Uncle
Sans new army will be expected TO
answer certain questions PROFOUND
ed by the registrars. These questions
cover everything Uncle Sam wants
to know about his new soldiers, and
the men who are eligible to registra-
ton should study them and be pre-
pared to give the proper answers.
Here are the questions and the way
they should be answered:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

Bethel A. NJ E. church service
beginning Sunday, the Goth, 1917
Preaching, IL a. m. and p. m, by
the Rev. DR.. N. J. MoCracken, Of Chi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

I. Name In Full. Age In Years.
This means all your names spelled
out In full.
State your age today in years only.
Disregard additional months or days.
Be prepared to say 49," or "25," not
t"19 years, 3 MONTHS" or the like.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
10. Married or Single (Which) I?
Race (Specify Which,

This does not ask whether you
were once married, but whether you
are married now. In answer to the
question as to your race, state brief.
lX whether Caucasian" "Mongolian, -
Negro" "Malayan," or Indian"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

2. Home Address.
This means the place where you
have your permanent home, not th'
place where you work. Be prepare;
to give the address in this way
'232 Main street, Chicago, Cook coun
ty, Illinois," that is, give number
and name Of street first, then town
then county and state.
8. Date of Birth.
Write your birthday (month, day
and year, on a piece Of paper before
going to the registrar, and give the
paper to him the first thing. Elk.
ample: August 5, 1894"
If you do not remember the year,
start to answer as you would if some
one asked you your birthday, a.;
August 9Th" Then say ION my
birthday this year i will be Cor wasl
old" The registrar will
then fill in the year of birth. Many
people do not carry in mind the year
they were born. This may be OBJ
tanned by the registrar by subtracting
the age in years on this years birth
day from 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

Inc First Methodist Protestant
pInurch, Twelfth and Exchange streets.
r NY. q. Leroy Steffey, pastor Public
S roIshlp 10:45 a. m. and 500 D. m.
,n,aolect of morning sermon, Adop-
mo ,ph. Subject Of evening sermon,
=. ne IDEAL Christian. Sunday school
'.ao q. m. Christian EEdeavor pray
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
6. II Not Citizen, of What Country
Are You a Citizen or Sub iect?

This need be answered only by
aliens and decIarants. Remembe r
that a "decIarant'' is not yet a citi-
zen of the United States. If an
alien, or deClarant, state the name OF
your country, as France" Japan"
China" etc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19

or merchant within the United
States"
8. BY Whom Employed Where En-
pIovad2
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
SCHOONER BEEN IN
DOCK At MOBILE

Returning from Mobile, the Amer
lean schooner Charlotte Miller
dropped anchor Saturday directly
off the G. F. & A. terminals and will
probably be berthed today, to take
aboard cargo which was left on that
dock upon the occasion of the vessels
late visit here. While in Mobile the
Miller was drydocked and a great
deal of repair work was done on hull
and upper works.
The Charlotte Miller is the vessel
which, arriving in distress from
Aguin, Haiti, November %, reported
having encountered a hurricane and
was considerably damaged. The
schooner had a cargo in transit for
Providence, R. l., and upon survey
being ordered, portion of this cargo
was ordered discharged here. This
was done, and the schooner was then
ordered drydocked for necessary re-
pairs to make her seaworthy. Two
days after arriving here the vessel
was ordered to Mobile and is just now
returning. 1t was stated yesterday
the Charlotte Miller will shortly sail
hence for her original destination up
the Atlantic coast.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
FARM LOAN MEETING.
Be HELD WEDNESDAY

Instead of meeting on Thursday as
previously announced, the Escambia
county Federal Loan Association will
hold the next meeting on Wednes-
day evening, and all those interested
in the organization are urged to note
such change.
The association gives promise of
being one of the most active in this
part of the state, as widespread in
terest is being manifest, especially by
the Escambia county farmers.
A packet Of papers from the sec
rotary of the treasury reached the
city last evening, and these were
carefully studied. 1t develops from
such examination that there may be
more than one association formed in
any county. The suggestion is made
by the department that one general
secretary be employed in a county
where there may be more than one
association is formed, and that each
separate association employ secre-
tary, to be recognized as an assist
ant secretary. The general or COM
mon secretary usually is a central
banker, who performs the duties
without compensation.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
THE HIGH SCHOOL FIRE.

After four attempts, the hrebug has been
successful. More determined, if less eff
cient than the usual run of his kind, he has
succeeded in almost completely destroying
the high school building fire which, in
addition to the actual loss it enta1led,
threatened disaster to surrounding
buildings.
Whether it was a boy with a criminal
warp, or whether it was the work of an
adult serving some sinister end of his own,
remains vet to be determined But found,
he must be- Some idea of the pitch to
which the community is wrought may be
gained from the reward offered by a
private person through these columns for
the conviction of the culprit. He must not
be allowed at large-there is no telling
who may incur his anger next.
Equally serious is the problem of our
children Sadly behind in their school
work already, they now face complete
idleness at time when every week out OF
their life means the loss of something that
can't be replaced; it means the loss of SO
many bricks out of the foundation of their
career
But school must go on. Not now the
time to mention difficulties they must be
overcome. Armory Hall might be secured
or city hall, or the court rooms. With a
Encouragement of the school schedule
the march of education need not be in
terrupted Or the. Sunday school rooms
of the First Baptist, Christ and FRS
Methodist churches might be converted
into temporary school rooms There are ;
number of feasible plans-and school mus
go on
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DARNEY.


Plow shares and livestock beat war
babies.
The Enterprise Journal wonders
what would happen if it printed all
it knew. 1t would leave town.
Hy Price is the name of grocery
man in Texas and he has a lot of
cousins here.
If the British don't leave those
Turks in Mesopotamia alone, they
will get Kut.
Poor Germany After going to so
much trouble to lick the allies, to
have them call her a liar when she
tells about i'll
No matter how everything else
goes up, the holes in doughnuts and
the bones in pork chops remain the
same.
Sothern having given up his tour in
"If I We're King" may now have
time to tell Tino what to say TO the
next ultimatum.
Why do jokesmiths hammer sc
hard on matrimony? There are 9
number of things great deal worse
than marriage.
| A New York man shot at a rat or
the floor and hit his wife who was or
the gas range. He is one of the mil
lion men who were to spring to theil
country's aid overnight.
We are now warned against coun-
terfeit hundred dollar bills. Oh well
we have been so used to misfortune
lever since that human adder palmec
loft on us Canadian dime, that we
can stand little more.
Rattlesnake serum will now bt
used among our troops, and we maj
expect wholesale designations 0.
those who prefer the old fashioned
jug of cure to the modern tube o.
prevention.
The suffragette picketers of TIL
White House not only didn't recog
nize the president the other day
they also declined his invitation t
come in and get warm, during fear
full blizzard. From which It appear
that they are determined to give hir
the frozen glance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
CAPTAIN JAYNE ARRIVES.

Hospitality, the. oldest of the virtues, is
peculiarly characteristic of Americas old
est city, and Captain ]. L. Jayne, recently
assigned to our naval aeronautic station,
who, with his family, has reached Pensa-
cola, will find, before many weeks have
elapsed, that the welcome we now extend
him but coldly expresses the desire of all
to make their stay pleasant.
The only regret is that the changes in
the service, while forming new friendships,
should sever the ties of the old, but while
Captain Muslin has been designated for
duty elsewhere, he and his family will re
main in the hearts of their large circle Of
friends here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
THEY SAY
7. Z. ..

cit is astonishing" said VIM. r.
Johnson, what lot a little i'm
provement will do. / was out along
the Gulf Beach Highway the other
day, the first time in three years. 1t
doesn't look like the same state.
Formerly, what road there was, con-
sisted of holes and bumps; now a
dandy highway is being drilled right
to the surf beach, and it's some
beach. The country used to look like
a desert but now, well it looks fine,
and is looking finer every day. Like
a diamond in the rough, I suppose,
after it is polished"
Everybody must have a different
idea of what princess looks like, !"
said Pat Eagan, clerk of the San
Carlos hotel. ever since The Jour
nal printed the story about the Ha-
waiian princess STAYING here, people
have been saying, There she is,
about every striking looking lady
that passed through the lobby, tall
and short, blonde and brunette, young
or-younger," he said, automatically
1'willowy or inclined to embonpoint
/ guess though" he added, cts not
so strange after all. Just the nat
ural way that Americans carry them
selves would make you think they
are all princes and princesses."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

When the grand champion steer,
California Fayorite, sold for SITS a
pound as he stood In the ring, it
meant a new record for the "cost of
high living" nearly seven dollars a
pound for the best cuts of this
Christmas baby beef. Many cities
bid. but Detroit viii eat the beef.
Never before did a beef steer
bring such a price, $1.50 a pound be-
ing the nearest approach to it. Boy
victors of Iowa's Baby beef contests
stood open-eyed while the bidding,
started at cents a pound, jumped
up and up. The sale was made for
the University of California by Clay,
Robinson & Company IN just nine
minutes. Chicago packers bid high.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15


oren 9SI' 8 Dapartment Of Agfieu31Fe win the
Both the soy and the velvet bean thrive
in West Florida and Escambia county.
Soy beans have already been used for
canning purposes. To the velvet bean we
adverted the other day, in connection with
a local mill which makes a velvet bean COW
feed and has to import supplies from
Alabama
The value of velvet beans as COW feed
is shown in a recent bulletin issued by the
Alabama Experiment Station, giving the
result of an experiment extending from
December 10, 1915, to March "A, 1916, a
period of ninety-seven days.
Two lots of steers were fed, the one on
silage and cottonseed meal, the other on
silage and velvet beans The cottonseed
meal cost $35 ton; the velvet beans, in
I the pod $18. Of the roughage, the amount
fed depended on the appetite of the animal,
the concentrates being increased as fast as
the steer could assimilate them
The method of feeding cottonseed meal
is well known here and needs no further
discussion During the first two weeks the
velvet beans and pods were ground coarse
and mixed with the silage Then after the
| steers had acquired taste for Them they
were fed whole. An average of 2121
pounds of velvet beans day was consumed
or almost twice the amount of cottonseed
eal But, on the other hand, less silage
was used in the former case, the pods evi-
IDENTIFY taking the place of the roughage
The bulletin summarizes resulted as
| follows:
l. In this experiment pound o cotonseed meal
beans in pods The velvet lot,
CURED only two-thirds as much siage the cotton
q The cost per 100 pounds gain practically
equal. when cottonseed meal ton and
unhulled velvet beans SIS
| g. On the above basis. the profit steer
on tne veivet nean cation 1872, and the cotton
The velvet bean ration relished by the
In feeding velvet in pods with silage it
beans. y SIM nc
s. The gains by the steers in each lot
an average of lie pounds Lot 1yelvet
oeanse gained an aveage of 10 pounds per day.
Velvet beans will not cost our farmer.
anything like $18 ton to raise, and tn,
fact that they have been sending out Sc
many dollars for $35-a-ton cotton seec
meal is one of the reasons why prosperit,
has not reached the high state of develop
lment which nature intended for thi
region.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
VITAL STATISTICS.

White Births.
To S. E. Westmark and wife, boy.
To JOS. McVoy and wife, boy.
To Ralph c. Cushman and wife, a
10Y.
Colored Births.
To Teleskhorus and wife, boy.
To Milton Buomon and wife, boy.
To Moses Brooks and wife, boy.
White Deaths.
B. L. Diamond, u years.
A. Gadson, 81 years.
Thomas Keaton, so years.
Colored Deaths.
Dinah Porter, so years.
Infant of Milton Bowman, 8 days
George Slaughter, 81 years.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
DEVELOPING THE SOUTH.

Because the cut-over lands of the south
have been proved superior in agricultural
value to much of the land colonized in the
west and northwest, and because econo-
mists recognize that increasing demands
will be made on the south for the nations
food supply, number of movements have
been started for opening up this wider
ness OF wealth. Alaflamiss is one of them.
and for us the most important. The
Southern Pine Association is another one.
Composed of lumbermen, with member
ship embracing the entire south, it is now
more interested in crops than timber, and
as one of the officials said
sm snd o int b.s ssa brush
lands Who ezp e6s GneT Of large tracts of
diton generally doomend to disappointment con- con-
pulling sup eatans brush to a aad
be opened and the Iop Roads should
possible; then the tracts should offered on long
cut-oFer lands must be merchandized "ofuS'
The movement is only few weeks old
and arrangements are now being com
plated for big meeting in March at which
to perfect working details. AS the dav of
free land has passed, progress should be
even faster than might otherwise be ex-
pected, and how important it will be to the
south.
With only about "a per cent of our land
IN farms, with much of that unproductive
because of incorrect methods, it needs no
opt1mist to tell what leading part the
south will take when the resources of our
empire of prosperity are developed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

We have in mind Florida truck farmer
whom we first met about four years ago
He was badly off financially. He had mis-
cradle home and few acres in beans and
some other truck crops Not long ago we
again visited his place and found that he
had the same home and the same little
patch of beans He said that times were
harder than they used to be and we weren't
surprised This man understands livestock
and knows all about livestock farming in
Florida. Still he sticks to beans with the
forlorn hope that some day he will make a
killing. If that time ever arrivks we will
look for him to invest his prohtssin fliver
and some gasoline How much more argu-
ment is it going to take to convince the
truck farmers of Florida that they must
raise some livestock and poultry9
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

Statistics show that the American ner
chant marine on June 80, 1914, amounted
to 2.O27, 900 gross tons, and on Tune so,
1916. it is credited with 2,853,0O0 gross
tons, an increase of $4,000 gross tons
But this growth is not all due to new
building; $4,000 gross tons was due to
the transfer of foreign vessels (mostly
American owned) to American registry
The increase due to building is only 100000
gross tons.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
ODD. ISN'T TT

Only 20 hunters killed in Wisconsin
this season against 80 the year be-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

but Nose Greenwald for Detroit
house added his defiant nickle after
nickle by a nod until. 1915 2 pound,
Sold" shouted the auctioneer. Wires
went to the automobile city to pre-
pare to parade the grand champion
bought at price Of S1,96O. For
Christmas rib roasts that is a fabu-
lous figure.
Not a kernel Of corn had been fed
To this California champion-no
other grain than barley. In breeding
it was a Hereford sire by a Short
horn dam, stall fed by an Aberdonlan
herdsman, Alex Mcdonald The
best calf ever shown on the conti-
nent," was the claim by the head OF
the victorious college after PAVING
tribute to Mcdonald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15
WEALTH IN BEANS.

Notable progress has been made in bringing
about commercial utilization of bean seed for
the of oil, meal various less
complex products. The soy bean is well adapted to
the w ole cotton belt, indeed the whole
region. In cotton belt it promises be impor
wherever the of cotton has been
reduced. The immature bean seeds make very de-
vegetable canned with InaSmuch
soy beans can be more chearly produced than any
bean seed 1t is beived that there is large field
for the canning Of green soy beans Efforts
being made to induce canning factories put the
the market In the growing of the
bean and in manufacturing products therefrom the
United States successfully compete with the
Orient."-U. S. DEPARTMENT of Agriculture.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

Five thousand Japanese emigrants are
to be sent to Brazil each year over the new
steamship line In their new home the
japanese will be employed in the cultiva-
ton of rice, beans, potatoes, onions and
coffee.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-15

The door of an automobile is sometimes
forced open by pressure from within the
car. A new kind of door slides out of
sight irto the hollow walls of the machine.
There are neither hinges nor locks to this
door.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-12-30

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