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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15

The town Of Northbrfdge, Mass, in
corporated three years before the bat
tie of Bunker HILL has voted for lao
consecutive years against the license
Of the liquor triftic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
HOW TO DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE.
BY Veteran Student Of Safe Motoring.


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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Still En- Route.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: The long
skirts which the style experts told us
about some weeks ago appear to have
been delayed in transit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Army Allowance.

The commissary department as al
lowed forty cents a day for eacn
man. With 100 men in the guard the
cost of feeding the guardsmen runs to
$40 a day, $3.50 week and $1,120 a
month.
The different foods which make up
the army ration cost the government
at present prices, about 35 cents per
ration. A ration is the allowance for,
subsistence for one person for one
day For an army of 100000 men
the disbursem ents for food by the
commissary department of the United
States army would total about
100000 day.
The standard ration for subsistence
Of United States troops. according to
existing army regulations, is shown
below:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15

The 15-cent loaf Of bread has made
it's bow in Chicago and the scent LOAF
has all but vanished from the counters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
Men are Well Fed.

Company l. is now being fed by
the camp comissary department. A
kitchen has been erected at the camp
and meals are served to the men on
the grounds. The commissary &C.
partment has been in operation since
sunday and meals similar to the ones
above have been served to the guards
men. Leo BRASIL. Ralph Chestnut
and Oscar Bishop are the camp cooks
and Privates L. Fry, Leroy Martin
and Lawrence Winkler, the kitchen
helpers.
The camp kitchen is fitted out with
new kitchen equipment. Adjacent to
this structure is the kitchen supply
tent in which food supplies are kept.
'The guardsmen, have plenty to eat
and the variety is snch that the daily
fare does not become monotonous.
Next Sunday the guardsmen will be
served chicken dinner.
1t is planned to make Sunday a
visitors day at the camp and Keokuk
residents on that day will be invited
to come out to the grounds and in
spect the camp and seeshow the local
guardsmen live.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-15
a,v,s Menu Served to Guardsmen
At Local Camp Reads Like Gard
From Some High Class
Restaurant
coMM1ssARY DIVISION
uas Been in Operation Since Sum
day-euardsme to Have Chick
en- Dinner Next
Sunday.
Today's menu at the Company L

Today's menu at the Company L
camp;
BREAKFAST.
French Toast
DAT Meal Scrambled Eggs
Bread and Butter
Fresh Milk
Coffee
DINNER.
Roast Beef
Mashed Potatoes Brown Gravy
Custard Rice Pudding
Dreamed Peas
Bread and Butter
Coffee,
SUPPER.
Beef Steak
Macaroni and Tomatoes
Creamed Gravy Hot Biscuits
Stewed Peaches
Bread and Butter
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

meaning of this mans conduct? He
learned how to worry. He got his ed
ucation. That is his story. Could
it be simpler one?
In the school the boy and the girl
find what best they can do. They
even learn with amazing certainty
hat there are lives of service far
greater than those they see about
them. AS they are permitted to abb
sorb the wonders contained in books,
they lift narrowed intellectual ho-
rizon and go on to possibilities they
could never know outside of the
school house.
Boys, girls, get your education.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
CHRISTMAS BOOZE.

1T is supposed to be rather difficult
to get Christmas booze, but no one
who walks abroad can doubt for a mo-
ment that there is leak in the prohi-
bition entertainments somewhere.
When you see fellow on the streets
who is looking northwest with one eye
and southeast with the other, taking
off his hat to garbage can and light
ing his mustache with the illuminated
end of a cigar that smells like sum-
mer zephyrs in Jacksonville, it is pref
ty safe to take it for granted that his
interior has been lighted up with some
thing thronger than sweet milk. Al
bany Herald.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
"WHEATLESS DAYS"

The Americas Times-Recorder thus
tells how to get by rather embarris-
sing situation which frequently con-
fronts the housewife in these days of
high prices and food conservation
when there are no biscuits left over
from dinner and the grocer doesn't
send any bread for super, and there
is not single cracker in the house,
you can make everything all right with
your guests by simply explaining that
you are observing a wheatless day
Hawkinsville Dispatch and News,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
WITH THE EXCHANGES
POLlTEN ESS.

When a man politely raises his hat
to a lady in the streets and she dellb-
eratcly refuses to speak it is sure
sign that her parents were woefuily
ignorant of the first principles Of po-
likeness and failed to give her the train
ing necessary to carry her drought
the world Everyone admires and
likes a friendly woman whether she
be pretty or not On the other hand
good looking woman who lacking
in poIiteness can be easily disliked by
everyone with whom she comes in con-
tact-Lyons Progress.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
DOGS VS. SHEEP

Houston Post: Governor Dorsey
of Georgia in a speech before the In
terstate Conference of Landowners
recently at Savannah, said that the
day is not far distant when Georgia
will take her rightful place among
the states as a sheep producing coun-
try.
1--WE like dogs better than sheep,
is the reason the Georgia governor
gave for the few sheep in the state.
Texas is in the same boat. Texas
people like dogs deter than sheep
And SO long as they do, just so long
will Texas lose the millions OF dol
lars that The sheep industry would
make for the state under proper con-
ditions
There are 25,000,000 dogs in the
United States OF these fully 90
100000 are worthless and worse
they are real threat to the commune
ties which permit them.
But the same food that supports a
dog will support a hog. And the
hog does not kill sheep.
There was a time when Texas
prairies supported 100000 sheep
Texas farms could today support
that number. And there is no more
profitable industry known to man.
But the sheep-killing dog is al
lowed to roam over the state and
no farmer will buy more sheep when
his flock has once been killed dy
som ewandering cur.
A special session of the Texas
Legislature may be an expensive in
vestment To But if it were possible
to do away with the sheep killing
dogs Of Texas by law, such an eXpen
diture would be of the most prof
table and the nest patriotic invest
ment this state could make.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
GAS FIGHTING

Included in the recent annul report
Of Secretary Franklin K Lane is the
following;
when the Bureau of mines was
created by Congress five years ago
it was hardly to have been imagined
that the methods used for the saving
of life in the coal mines of the United
States would become of vital use in
in the problem of saving lives and
destroying lives in a world war; yet
that is just what has happened.
"The soldiers kit, which was so
simple thing in other wars, has had
to be increased by gas mask not
unlike the helmet of a deep-sea diver,
with box of chemicals adapted for
offsetting the effects of the various
kinds of gas the enemy is known to
use
when we came into the war we
found ourselves prepared with the
knowledge, the machinery, and the
men to promptly meet the need of
gas masks in great quantity and of
superior type. Thus the men who
had been on this work of meeting the
gases compounded in natures labor
atory were found to have a reserve
Of knowledge as to what gases will
kill and what choke and what will
burn and what will hasten disease,
which in a war Of cumulative fright
fulness would make the United States
modestly distinguished if it wished to
50 shine. AS one Of the group said:
We chemists in America have never
turned our minds to the destruction
# human life. Our work has been
constructive-the chemistry of the
soil, of cement, of printers ink, OF
the by-products from petroleum and
tar, of ten thousand things which will
make for longer happier life for man
Bus if the world is to be turned up.
side down and instead of staying death
md disease and making new things
hat man can use for his own enoble-
ment we are wanted to push toward
the work of the destruction of man
and all his works we can become ri.
walls of the worst in such enterprise.
"This is not the time to present the
things done and the things doing by
these men of the necromatic science,
but when the day comes for casting
up accounts and giving credit their
work will not go unrecognized.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
WEEKLY.

Semi Weekly, year ------------ $500
Six Months NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $L00
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

THE COMPANY MANNER


How can the man accustomed to the
larsh hurley-burley of the everyday
business routine forget all this when
he enters the home and assume a
sentleness and a tenderness which
the lowliest of the home deserves
lust 1865 days in the year? I'm these
lays the business man lstfhs He
seldom goes a mild pahe But a.
home if there are periods he can
spend there,-all those running hur.
y must be "shucked" off. The home
deserves something better.
A sincere pleasant manner real
satisfaction at being at home usually
come to the man who has a good home
to which he may come.
But nothing could be less satisfying
in the long run than the assumed
manner that occasionally shows itself
DO we not, we children of a larger
growth know Of pleasant words and
endearing terms used only between
husband and wife when they wish TO
impress outsiders with the felicity
Of the relations which assume very
Inherent place as soon as the door is
closed and there is no one around to
see the ayerted gaze and the indiffer-
ent air which mark their natural be-
haNlorS Why can't we wear our
company manners with our every
day gowns instead of hanging them
away out OF sight only to be brought
forth on occasions of ceremony along
with our best bib and tucker?
Wouldn'- life be richer and sweetey
If more of the little courtesies were
shown whe0 there are no eyes to be.
hold them save those that are sure to
brighten al the unusual demonstra-
ticn Is there any one in the world
IS sweet and true and devoted as the
nome felix's, yet are there any in the
whole wide world treated with the
scarf courtesy as these dear ones re
ceive? Bring the company manner
into the intimacieS of home and life
and see how much brighter and sweet,
er Will seem the world at large for
the knowledge that you are giving
your best TO those who deserve it
most
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
MEAT CURING PLANT.

This unusually cold weather does
not do away with the necessity of a
meat curing plant. Every farmer
should have some provision for pro-
perly preserving his meats. Those
who have not are the losers, as has
been fully demonstrated in this section
for many Montgomery Adver-
tiser
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

many of us have been saying, unoffici-
ally, for a long time He condemns
the nambyrpamby goody-goody type of
book, especially for girls, as being cal
culatcd to bring religion into con-
tempt or to soften and enervate both
mind and instinct '-Quitman Free
Press.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
A REASON GIVEN.

A prominent Cherokee county citizen
deacon in the Baptist church and a
recent foreman of the grand jury, is
out on bond for making blockade
Walton Tribune.
Perhaps he was tired of viewing so
many rusty corkscrews.-Nort Geor-
gle Citizen.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
A MAN WITHOUT FRILLs


The other day Representative
Royal c. Johnson of South Dakota
quit his place in the greatest law
making body in the world to take
private's place in the army Of his coun-
try,-to do something as a man in
the great struggle which his country
is entering with her bravest manhood
to the front Representative John
son could have gone to an officers
training school and there prepared
himself to be an officer and undoub-
teddy he could have won place high
er up than that of private. But
he went to aprivate's place and is
now going to serve his country in
that capacity
Asked to make public why he die
such a thing and give the world some
thing Of how he came to his place as
congressman, he declared he had new.
er possessed strong ambitions or enter
tanned dreams as these terms are
generally understood he was
a plain man who had worked hard
and had risen because of his education
~ found that had to work and that
if | ever got anywhere, | had to have
an education"
And here lies the secret in many
great mans life. Representative
Johnson has already done more than
millions will do in the matter of adj
vancement He has rendered public
service that will not even come tc
one in hundred of the average A.
mericans. And still he has gone
only part of the way that all men of
Influence and power go. He found
he had to work and he found he had
to be educated.
We have said so many times to our
country boy and girl friends they have
to be educated, We have told them
they already know how to work and
have half the fight won in life.
What we have said to them can be
said to all the boys and girls who
would even find themselves and rise
higher in life Half the fight is
knowing how to work and possessing
Willingness to go at it and stay at il.
The larger portion of the other half
is an education without the frills.
These qualifications with honesty of
purpose and sincerely will put the
boy and the girl far ahead in the
race
Representative Johnson is a man
without the frills He learned how
to work and got his education. These
are all The claims he could make
when he was called upon to take
stock of the qualifications which put
him high up in life. His recent vol,
untary entry into the lowliest branch
of his country's service lifts him even
higher and this country is today look
ing upon him as one Of its trues.
citizens. His example is being held
up to million sof men. He did none
OF it for shOw,--he did not have to
make show of himself The whole
country caught that spirit quickly
and surely.
And so it is with men aid affairs
in all times How shall we impress
upon our boys and girls the fullest
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

Dancing is one form of amusement
being provided on a large scale for
the men of the Army and Navy.
1t is one Of the ways The war camps
community service, under direction
of the War and Navy Departments,
provides wholesome pleasure for the
troops.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
TUTORS PROVIDED.

Ignorance is pretty well scattered
over the globe, but Russia, SO far as
we know, is the only place where it
is cultivated as a Macon
Cultivoted as a science is right, and
by Teututors-North Georgia Citizen.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
GooDY-eooDY BOOK.

THE suggestion of the chief inspec-
tor of reformatory schools as to the
kind Of literature to be provided for
their inmates embody what a good
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30
Members of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusives
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
nied by full names and address. Not
responsible for views of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-30

inferred as second class natter at
HE postonce at Corde:e, Georgia, I'M
der the act of March Sth, 1879.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19
BIG INTEREST
SHOWN FOR
VALLEY
San Diego Capitalists Find
That Chicago Financiers
Have Eyes of Valley.

On his return from a. trip to Chi
cago, where he had been summoned
as a witness in government case be-
fore the United States commissioners
against two men for impersonating
government secret service officers in
San Diego, C. L. Williams, vice pres
ident of the American National Bank
of San Diego, very enthusiastic over
the great interest manifested in that
city and other eastern business GEN.
ters in the San Diego & Arizona road
and the development of the Imperial
Valley. Many business men in Chi
cago, Mr.. Williams said, are as well
versed in the resources of that Won
derful section as many persons in San
Diego and asks questions as to the
increase of cotton and make other in
quiries as to the valleys resources.
Mr.. Williams stated further that
many business men he met from New
York, Chicago and Denver spoke OF
the large amount of cotton shipped
from the Imperial Valley to Galveston
and thence trans-shipped by steamer,
all of which business, it was declared,
would pass through the port of San
Diego when the S. D. & A. road is
completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19
STUDENTS ARE
ELATfD OVER
Showing Il
Kermiss Nets $500, Which
Is to Be Used for Fur'
nishing New Equipment

The students of the High School are
particularly well pleased over the
showing made by the Kermiss held
Friday and Saturday nights. 1t was
predicted that the Saturday night per-
fOrmance would draw but very few
people, but Professor Randall stated
this morning that number were
compelled to return home owing to
lack of seating capacity.
Over 1000 attended the first even
ing's performance and the two pro-
d,,ctions netted the student body ap-
rroximately $500. This money will be
used to fit the auditorium stage with
scenery and other equipment, orches-
ira instruments and to meet the needs
OF the athletic association.
A system of accounting has been
installed by the students and to use
any of the money it will be necessary
for the. treasurer to sign voucher
which, in turn, has to be approved
by the president of the Student body
and the high school faculty.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19
HINDU DECLARES
COMPANION HAS
M0RM0N|ST|C
TENDENCIES
When Accusation Is Made
Bag Singh Wakes Wroth
and a Battle Ensues.

Bag Singh and Pindar Singh knew
each other back in India, and later in
Manila, and their acquaintance was
renewed in Ell Centre Saturday aft
ernoon when the two Asiatics engaged
in fight on Fifth street. This morn
ing City Recorder Whitelaw fined
each Hindu $40 for disturbing the
peace.
Pindar Singh alleged that Bag Singh
married woman in Manila and later
took to himself another wife in this
country. This serious accusation dis
turbed Bag, with the result that the
two began pulling hair and turbans
Saturday afternoon. They were ar
rested by County Probation Officer
Swanson.
Mr.. Swanson told the Hindus this
morning that it was an American Gus
tom to shake hands and make up after
fighting. Each reached hand to
bootleg where a knife was concealed
and with the other hand extended
greetings with sardonic smiles Of ven.
geance wreathing the mouths Of each
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19
'STF|DL CLAIMS
PAIR STOLE
HIS Cash
Seeley Ranch Hand Misses
$50 in Cash After Frater-
nizing With Companions

The deposition of Andrew Steidl
who alleges that G. c. Hawkins and
Dave Greenberg robbed him in the
baseball park on or about the 18th
Ct March, was taken this morning be-
fore Justice Mayfield. The prelimi-
nary hearing was then continued un-
It'll March %. In the meantime Haw-
kins and Greenberg are being held at
the county Jail.
Steidl stated that he was employed
IOn a ranch in the vicinity of Seeley
and came to Ell Centro on March Z aft
Ter having had check for SIS cashed
il. Seeley. In addition, he had purse
with about $11 in currency. He told
the court this morning that he met
Hawkins and Greenberg on the even
ing of March z and they induced him
to accompany them to the ball park
where some liquor was promised.
After entering the park, Steidl al
Ileges that the demeanor of his COM
panions was such as to cause him to
fear for his money and his safety
He grappled with the men and upor
recovering consciousness an hour later
found his money gone. He reported
the matter to the sheriff's office
Sheriff Applestill and Deputy KemT
later arrested Hawkins and Green.
berg, whom Steidl identified as the
lrobbers.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19

With perfect baseball weather yes
terday afternoon and a good sized
bunch of fans out, the Ell Centre club
defeated Seeley in one of the most
sensational games of the season, one
lone tally by Rath proving to be suf.
ficient. It was battle of pitching
between Priest and Thompson, with
the former easily carrying off the
konors. Thompson had bad frame
in the sixth. when three singles and
daring base running by Rath brought
in a score.
Priest allowed four singles and
these were as widely catered as the
POOR Belgians. An analysis shows
tGat only one Seeleyite reached third
base, and that was simply due to
poor throwing on the part of Pfeiffer
who made sorry peg to second in
the second to nip Cardcastle, and a
moment later made weirder one to
third to nab him there, Furthermore.
aside from Hardcastle, Fairchild, in
the first inning, was ithe only See
<Co,,rrNyrYuY, 0NJ r1A s.e. TWO,
Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-19
COMMISSIONERS
IN COURT WILL .
SPEED TRIALS
IS CLAIM
Introduce Bill for Creation
of Court Commissioner in
All Counties of State.
(By United Press)

Sacramento, March 19.-"In intro.
ducing the bill creating the office OF
court commissioner in each of the
counties of this state and providing
for their appointment in counties
where and when needed" said Assem-
blyman H. M. Wright today, II am
actuated by desire to get at what
believe to be one Of the real causes
of the ever-increasing congested court
calendars in some of the counties OF
California.
ut must be apparent to everyone
who has observed court procedure that
Cur superior court judges spend con-
siderable part of their time at pres
ent in performance of those duties
which, although required Of them un-
der the law, might with equal pro-
priety and absolute safety be dee
gated to competent clerical assistants
l have, therefore, provided in this bill
for the appointment of court COM
n,issioners with large clerical powers
This would relieve the judges Of much
CT their work now performed in cham
bers, thereby enabling them to de-
vote their time to hearings on the
bench.
"The salary of the commissioner is
fixed at $12 per day when actually
employed, to be paid by the county
uron approval by the presiding judge
The salary is ample to procure COM
petent service.
"The demand made uon the legis-
lature at this and previous sessions
for the creating Of additional judge
ships for the largeI counties in order
to relieve congestion Of court busi-
ress that has become unendurable
we'll illustrates the need of adopting
some method of relief other than the
constant increase of judges.
"The time has arrived when some
radical reforms should be instituted
that will simplify and expedite court
procedure, and thereby lessen the cost
and delay now arising in securing JUS
tice through the courts. Until that
reform is accomplished, however, the
relief afforded the public as well as
the judges through the appointment
of court commissioners is worthy OF
careful consideration.