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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
What
THE NEW EDISON
means to you

This Edsons brings into home the ter!
Creation Of the art worlds great artists The New Eiso
differs utterly from talking machines in that talking machine
give reproduction music whereas the New Edso
literally ReCreates every every kind Of instrument
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

newspapers, have seen and
heard these astounding tests
and were positively unable to
distinguish the original art
lists voice or instrument from
Edison's Recreation of it. In
other words, they could not
distinguish one from the other
when they listened alternately
to the living artists and to this
wonderful Edison invention.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
What music
means to
you

I NJ asto, q ali tie arts. has
the greatest influence over
the emotions
NAPOLEON.
"a love OF the higher school
Of musical composition is one
Of the surest tests Of a re-
fined and elegant state Of So
ciety."
MOORE
Musical training is a more
potent influence than any
other, because rhythm and
harmony find their way into
the secret places OF the SOUL
PLATO.
Music is a more lofty reve.
lation than all wisdom and
philosophy
BEETHOVEN
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

It's absolute fidelity to the orig
inal has been proved hundreds
of times in public by direct
comparison between the living
singers and instrumentalists on
the one hand and Edison's new
invention on the other.
Over 100000 music lovers,
and the music critics of more
than 200 of Americas leading
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
WESTERN UNION CUTS DAY.
Railroad TeIesraphers Not Included In
Reduction of Hours.


Reduction of Hours.
1t will cost the Western Union Tele-
graph company several million dollars
a yeaS. 1t is estimated. to put into eff
feet the eight hour day for it's $4,000
employees. recently announced. The
employees will work only eight hours
and will be paid the same wages as
they now receive for nine hours work.
This means what would amount to a
121a per cent wage increase.
The company is not able to give the
shorter workday to all its $4,000 en-
ployees, it is announced 1t has decided
to install it on May l in every place
possible. The majority of those unaf-
fected by the decision receive wages
from railroads or other sources as well
as from the telegraph company.
Although the railroad telegraphers
are not included in those who benefit
from the Western Union eight hour day
order, the Order of Railway Pelegra
piers is now engaged in general eight
hour movement. in which it has been
successful ON number of railroads.
Also it is the contention of the rail
road telegraphers that they are included
under the provisions of the Adamson
eight hour law. recently upheld by the
supreme court of the United States.
which gives the basic eight hour day
to all persons engaged in the operation
of trains in interstate commerce.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
EIGHT HOUR DAY BENEFIT.
Testimony of an Employer as to the
Value of Lessening Hours.

Testimony of an Employer as to the
Value Of Lessening Hours.
No more striking example Of the en-
ployers' new attitude toward the eight
hour day can be found than a letter
from George f. johnson Of Endicott,
Johnson & Co., Of Endicott, N. Y, says
writer in the Survey. Twelve thou
sand employees affected by this reduc-
tion to eight hours on Nov. /, 1916,
held a great eight hour parade in cele-
bration.
Mr.. johnson writes: "Our purpose in
establishing the eight hour day was to
make proper recognition Of the fact
that in prosperous business like ours
the more people participating in the
prosperity the greater the benefit of
same. AS our business has grown
and prospered we have recognized this
principle: All of the workers should
sharp in the prosperity.
We have no theories about the eight
hour day. Never have had. We think
the eight hour day has arrived We
think it Is a mistake for employers of
labor to dispute it. We agree with
the president, Society has set its seal
OF approval upon the eight hour day.
The sooner 1t is recognized universally
ESQ far as possible) the better for all
concerned and the sooner the proper
adjustment can be made.
$50 far as we are concerned, Il was
the greatest pleasure in our lives to
grant the eight hour day voluntarily,
without reduction in wage, and we sim
cerely hope that it may be made pos
sible for US to still further improve,
constantly, the working conditions, and
the wage of all our working partners.
Finally, to sum up, it was simply
our honest desire to improve conditions
and increase the wage Of the people in
our employ, just as fast as we feel safe
in doing it. Meaning, of course, that
we must meet competitive conditions,
and safeguard the business always.
What it is possible for concern to do.
who are noncompetitive, may not be
possible for us to do, but we shall, as
above stated, keep constantly before us
the wish and the fervent hope that we
may improve conditions for all, with a
proper regard for the rights of the con-
sumner"
There indeed is the new spirit in in
dustry. 1t sums up feeling Of which
one catches glimpses in many indus
tries and many states from the Allan
tic to the Pacific. 1t gives in more de-
tail the general principle, "The time
has come for the eight hour day, and
it Is long enough for any one to work"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
TO LEWIS ENGLISH
Minnie English VS. LOWS English
State of Tennessee, In Chancery
- NJ HOOK

Minnie English VS. LOWS English
State Of Tennessee, In Chancery
Court Of Knox 'Ounty No. 1926
In this cause, it appearing from
the bill filed, which is sworn to, that
the defendant, Lewis English is
nonresident of Tennessee, so that
ordinary process cannot be served up
on him. it is ordered that said defnd.
ant appear before the Chancery
Court, at Knoxville, Tennessee, on or
before the first Monday Of June
next and make defense TO said bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed
and the cause set for hearing ex parte
as to him, This notice will be pub
lished in the Knoxville Independent
for four consecutive weeks.
This LIST day of May 1917
J.. c. FORD, C. & M,
G. H. Mynatt, Sol.
May II 10 26 1917
TO JULIUS WILLIAMS
Isabella Blair Williams vs.. julius
Williams
State of Tennessee. In Chancery
Court of Knox County. No. 1926
In this cause. it appearing from the
bill filed. which is sworn to. that the
defendant Julius Williams is a non
resident of the state of Tennessee, so
the ordinary process cannot be
served upon him. it is ordered that
the defendant appear before the
Chancery Court, at knoxville, Ten
nessee, on or before the list Mon
day of June next. and make de-
Tense to said bill, OF the same will
be taken for confessed and the cause
set for hearing ak parte as to him.
This notice will be published in
the KNOXVILLE INDEPENDENT
for four consecutive weeks.
This End day of May 1917
]. C. FORD. Crk & Mas.
Powers & Thornburgh, Solrs.
May, S IL 10 26 1917
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05

THE UNION MAN.

/. Trade unions are based upon !.
4 democracy. They are voluntary +
4. associations of individuals hav- I.
4 ing common interest. The sue i
!. cess of a trade union depends I.
+ upon the amount of energy put +
i. forth by each member. and to i.
4. the same extent that one MEM 4.
!. Der shirks duty or fails to do his i.
4 part to that extent the whole 4.
i. union suffers. The union man 4.
q. who thinks he has fulfilled bis i
4. obligation to his union when he I.
i. pays his dues, never attends I.
i. meetings or assists in the active i
i. work Of the organization fails to 4.
i. get all the good there is in union l.
/. ism. 1,
!. !.
!. X i. i. i. i. X i. !. + 4. i. i. i. i. i. 4 +
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
Ship Workers Victorious.

Nearly 1000 carpenters, joiners and
caulkers employed on wooden ship con
struction in several bay shipyards in
San Francisco called off strike fol
higher wages when their demands were
met by the employers. The men voted
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., thanks for his
il settling the strike.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
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THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
Differs Money To Farmers To Aid
In Foodstuff CAMPAIGN

Acting upon the suggestion of Pres
ident Wilson, many of our public
spirited citizens are holding meet
ings, making speeches and advising
the farmers and gardeners Of Knox
county to plant broadly all crops
which produce food for man and
beast, and it seems the desire, as
as well as the patriotic duty of every
farmer and planter of crops of all
kind and character. to grow the great
est amount possible offood and pro
vender for the consumption of our
people and their live stock, thereby
insuring them against want as well
as the reduction of the high cost of
living.
1t has been intimated that many
farmers in Knox county have notthe
funds with which to supply them
selves with ample quantities of seed
for planting purposes,
This bank takes pleasure in an
nouncing that it will lend to such far
mers as may need its assistance mon
ey in amounts of SIS and upward.
to be used in the purchase of such
seeds as they may decide to plant
upon their farms and in their garden
We will make these loans at a low
rate of interest to the owners and
renters of land on their names with
the names Of their friends or neigh
bors as endorsers. and will carry the
loans until January LIST 1918.
VIM. S. Shields, President.
nN1IE DIm
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
State Of Tennessee, In Chancery
Court Of Knox County. No. $4,000


In this cause It appearing from
the bill filed, which is sworn to, that
the defendants, Shirley l. Ledgerwood
and James +. Ledgerwood are nom
residents Of the State of Tennessee,
that the ordinary process cannot be
served upon them, it is ordered that
said defendants appear before the
Chancery Court, at Knoxville, Tennes-
see, on or before the first Monday of
June next and make defense to
said bill, or the same will be taken
for confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte as to them. This
notice will be published in the Knox
vile Independent for four consecutive
weeks. This 9Th day OF May 1917
]. G. FORD, Clerk & Master
T. L. Carly, Sol.
May 5 IL 10 26 1917
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05

The international Union of Machin-
lists has a membership of 10000.
Labor unions in Colorado are almost
unanimously opposed to the state In
lustrial commission rules.
Labor organizations of New Jersey
made a winning fight against the pro-
posed state constabulary bill.
The last anthracite coal strike in the
short course of five months caused q
loss Of $12O,OO0,OO0 to employers and
employees.
The Wisconsin assembly has passed
joint resolution memorialiZing con-
gress to assume the ownership and op-
Grafton Of all coal mines In the United
States
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
23RD ANNUAL STATE COUN
GIL JR. D. j. A. NJ.

The BIRD annual State Council, Ju
nior Order United American Mech
anics, will meet in the Bnrns build
Prince street and Wall avenue Tues
day, May 9th, for a two days session
Four hundred state officers. repre-
sentatives and visitors will be pres
emit State Councillor DR.. l.. c. Ogle
will preside, Judge Will D. Wright
will deliver the welcome address
and H. M. Rankin, State Vice Coun
cilor J. B Butcher, Past Stete Coun
cilor, will respond. T. J. Cline is the
chairman of committee on arrange
ments.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-05
Bio Award For Arm,

Justice William r. Platt of the SUI
preme court at White Plains, N. T.,
sustained verdict of $50, 500 awarded
by a Westchester jury to Adam Roeder
Of Mount Vernon against the Erie and
New Jersey and New York Railroad
companies for the loss of his right arm
in coupling cars. The amount is be-
lieved to be the largest ever awarded
for the loss of an arm in New York.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

The only thing he wrote a short note to his
mother saying that he had been captured and was
to be hanged and was not afraid to die. As he
stood on the scaffold messenger arrived from
General Dodge promising him immunity II he
would reveal the identity of his confederate. The
rope around his neck; the boy answered:
"If had thousand lives would lose them all
here before would betray my friends or the con-
fldenee Of my informant"
Then he turned to the executioner and said
casually, II ready" The trap was sprung
and one of the heroes of the Confederacy was
dead. He was then sixteen years old.
There underground railroad OF Confed
crate sympathizers running through Maryland and
Virginia. headed by Custis Grymes OF Virginia.
He came Of the family which gave a wife to
George Washington, and many of his emissaries
were high-born women. One was clergyman
Rev. DR.. Stuart, an irreproach Episcopalian
When the dashing but hopeless raid on Vermont
by n Confederate force in Canada was ordered In
1854 Grymes sent girl named Olivia Floyd, who
concealed the order in her hair 1t was the fash
Ion then for women to a curly net over their
locks and Olivia hid the documents there and
made wild ride bitter cold night into the
lines where she delivered the orders that resulted
in the attack Of st. Adams
Gen. Jim Lane had woman spy named Eliza.
beth W. Stiles, whose husband was murdered be-
fore her eyes by Quantrell's guerrilas in 1862
Border warfare merciless there some
thing Indian about It. Mrs. Stiles devoted her
life to vengeance. She was quite deliberate about
II. She went East and put her children in school,
and then came back to the West and put herself
under Lanes orders. She faced death many
time; she arragned before Sterling
Price himself. but she made him believe she was
Confederate spy, and he gave her q horse and fire.
arms and sent her on her way.
One Union spy. Mack Williams, found himself
In the Confederate line face to face with his own
brother. Confederate soldier. I'm a Yankee
spy" said Williams; you're a rebel Betray me If
you want to; it's your duty" 1t hard and
JoJto4 h,,x &L1 80
patriotism.
General Baker has recorded the fact that for
two years farm Fairfax Court House was
frequented by Union officers none of whom had
the least suspicion that daughter OF the house
Confederate spy. She was, Baker says "a
young and decidedly goodooking woman with
pleasing. insinuating manners" She appeared to
be n violent Union sympathizer. yet at night she
used to go out and meet Colonel Mosby and give
him the Information she had gained from the
credulous Union officers. Baker finally caught her
by sending a woman spy who gained her con.
fidence.-New York Times.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

a very stubborn man; while, the contrary
among Grants most valuable characteristics were
his open-mindedness and his wonderful faculty Of
putting lessons once learned into practice.
Behind that impassive face this silent man was
holding substantial scheme for putting down the
secession. This scheme embraced the general
movements Of all the great armies Of the United
States and involved the intelligent cooperation
OF half score of loyal general commanders
this general plan that incident Of battle, march
siege could disturb his eQuanimty.
Only once IN my presence in that whole cam
paign did he betray the slightest perturbation or
vexatlon. That with his chief subordinate
on the fatal morning Of the Petersburg mine ex.
posion. After the mine had been fired it was
absolutely necessary that the assault should be in
stantly made. We waited a long time to hear the
cheers Of the men they would charge through
the breach. At last, facing the stalwart COM
mander of the army, he cried "Why don't the
boys go in?" And on Meade-to whom this seemed
a idea-starting to stammer' some reply
Grant gave him one look Of intense disgust and.
wheeling his horse, rushed headlong to the front.
An example Of this resolute faith occurred at
the Wilderness. When affairs were in the most
terrible confusion our left officer rode up
and reported, in an excited manner, that Han.
cock had been cut OF and captured. Grant was
sitting on the ground with his back to a tree He
pipe from his mouth and said that he did not be-
lieve 1t. And he right. 1t was during this
battle that he gave me characteristic message
to insert in my dispatch to the Tribune Tell the
people that everything is going swimmingly down
here" This was in the midst Of an engagement
which was at least indecisve, and in which all hs
plans were being frustrated.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25
ULYSSES S. GRANT AND SOLDIER

By practically unanimous verdict, Ulysses s.
Grant is named one Of the few great military
cheftans of the world. And the closest scrutiny
of his work will convince that his fame rests
upon the most substantial foundation; upon sue
unqalifed and unquestioned; upon the car
ryng through to Its fulfllment Of the most stu
pendous projects, involving such perplexing and
elusive problems only to be encountered In
the art of war, Henry f. Wing writes in the New
York Christian Advocate.
And he his success without any Of the
purely personal advantages with which, in the
popular fancy, the ideal hero Is endowed. Grant
not handsome man. l mean there was
nothing specially attractive in his bearing. He
has the reputation of having been a wonderful
horseman; and he was of certain sort, riding,
occasionally, the most fractions animals, and rid
ing always like Of the furies. But, mounted
afoot, he had careless and almost souching
manner, and he cut a pretty poor figure by the
side Of the stately and dignifed Meade and Burn
side the splendid and dashng Sheridan and
Hancock. His habitua conduct was exceedingly
quiet and reserved, giving one the impression Of
innate dfidence, bordering real bashfulness.
His ordinary conversation was on the most COM
monplace topics, and have no recollection of his
ever giving expression by look or language, to the
extraordinary genius with which he certainly
endowed.
The trait for which he best esteemed, at
the time knew him. his tenacity. But am
certain that 1t was not appreciated How while
sturdily holding to his main purpose. he sub
mitted the details Of the campaign to almost and
sometimes most radical changes. His message to
General Halleck, from Spottsylvania, II purpose
to fight 1t out this line II 1t takes all summer"
interpreted to mean that he would not alter
his course one iota, whatever might happen This
did him great injustice, representing him to be
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

A.
Cornell Nathan Meyer the Home
field secretary
the taught
school supplied reduced
whom the project has explained.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

one other than Frank PaicA Gallagher Irish the
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

Jointly occupying the residence
with the result
he
and the longer he waited
under the bees
number neghbors and all the his
with Of boiling
in the
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

to TIL the soil has been opened under
the auspices Of the National League
for Woman's Service.
The Crawford estate, a plot Of
200 acres at Two Hundred and Twen-
ty-second street, Baychester avenue
and the Boston Post road, has been
donated by George Crawford for this
purpose. Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton,
chairman of the agricultural commit
tee Of the league, will have charge.
Mrs. August Belmont is the treasurer
Of the committee, and on the advisory
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25
Training Women Of New York to Till the Soil

NEW YoRKTo operated extension
Columbia public
college and high school girls
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

1Uur yedIs dgU HHu lUuHu Il kHOtHUI6
to go In and out. All during the spring
and summer they made their honey in
long rows Of honeycomb which reached
from one sill to the other. The first
year there were only two swarms, and
from these there came two swarms
swarms in all.
The third year two more swarms
from each made a grand total of 18
swarms Of bees and the fourth year
two more sMarms from each made "a
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25
Trainer Left Pets to Fight for Uncle Sam

pALTMOREWiuam Mecke trainer
United States Marine He visited
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

should their with determination and skill and
should discuss plans in response
o New England
links Its school
seemed, tearing
a remarked
s not me
operation
piazza, up"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25
Forced to Dispossess Bees From Attic Of Home

CAvANNAH GAE authority
seled"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25

corps recruiting station and following
a whispered interview, was taken to
the back room, there examined and
when he emerged was proud member
Of the "Soldiers Of the Sea-"
Not long after Meickle had proud
ly left the recruiting station another
member Of the circus came swinging
down the street, and when he spied
the blue coat of the marine on duty
he hurried upstairs to Captain Evans.
"Who are you, sir?" asked the cap
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-05-25
NearIv All Greater Boston Put Under the PIow

jures up In the schoolboys mlnu
picture Of the ashes Of the captured
city furrowed by the plowman rather
than the pictures which Greater Bos'
ton in wartime have registered on the
plates Of the camera.
The plow is a mighty weapon OF
the nation at war, a nation to which
has been allotted the tremendous task
Of feeding a large part Of the warning
world.
It is not enough that the farmers
in the great agricultural lands OF the