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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
slip off and knit the third heel tc

slip off and knit the third heel to
prepare.
Continue until all stitches are
slipped off and then weave thread
lengthwise through sock for four
inches Also thread the four inch
length of wool at beginning of SOCK
and weave into the leg lengthWlse.
Wash socks with lux soap or equiv
alent and dry with foot fastened
down to prevent shrinkage. Tie IN
pairs with piece OF wool and mark
on tag size in inches.
Knitting Sleeveless Jackets.
Cast on 80 stitches, knit 2, purl
for inches. Knit plain until sweater
measures % inches. Knit 28 stitches,
bind on "a stitches for neck. Knit
% stitches. Knit 6 ribs on each
shoulder, then cast on "a stitches.
Knit plain for 10 inches. Purl 2,
knit 3 for inches. Sew up sides,
leaving inches for armholes. Size
five Amber needle or equivalent.
Knitting yarn, 2 hanks.
WrIstiet.
Cast on So stitches, using size 10
or steel needles. Knit 2, purl 2
for IL inches. Sew up. leaving slit
for thumb 21a inches long, inches
from one end.
Wr1stlets are more satisfactory If
knitted on needles same as socks
Muffler.
Cast on so stitches on bone or eel
lulod needles, size or slightly
larger. Knit plain until you have
made it from so TO 60 inches long.
Gray or khaki in color.
Wash Cloth.
Dexter knitting cotton No. 8, NJ. &
K. knitting cotton No. 10 three-ply.
Size 7 or slightly smaller Amber
needles or equivalent.
Cast on so stitches and knit plain
until cloth measures IL or 70 inches
square.
Knitted Wiper or Sponges-
Dexter knitting cotton No. S-M-
& K. No. 10, three-ply or equivalent
Knitting needles size 4 or slightly
smaller Amber or equivalent.
| Cast IS stitches.
Knit first stitch of each row.
Knit two ribs lover and back is
one rib).
Knit, one stitch, put thread over
needle knit next stitch and repeat
to end of work.
Knit the knitted stitch. drop the
thread over needle and repeat to end
of work.
Knit two rows and repeat instTuc-
tons until you have ten of the double
! rows and nine of the single large
mesh rows, and finish.
| Size about 9x9 finished.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-The in
terstate commerce commission TO-
day suspended until January 4, 1918
the operation of increased rates on
raisins and other fruits from Cali
fornia TO New York.
Increased carload commodity rates
on wrought iron pipe from southeast
ern points to western trunk line ter
ritory. were also suspended until
March 9. 1919
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
MARRIED LIFE
PALS ON MANY
divorce Actions Filed This Week
Are More Numerous Than Other
Kinds of Suits on
File.
MANY CAUSES ALLEGED
Cruelty, Jealousy, Joy Riding and
Drunkenness Are Few Of Reasons
For Wanting the
Ties Cut.

Stories of discords and jangles in
married life, sufficient to furnish the
married life cartoonists material for
months, are being spread over the rec
ords of the district court here in di.
vorce actions being fled. In the list
/ of suits filed since Tuesday, actions
flor divorce take precedent over all
| other kinds, in the matter of mum
Ibers.
It's about an even break as to
(which is most responsible, husbands
End wives appearing as plaintiffs IN
Ithe actions, althoNh wives are in
Itho majority as plaintiffs, in the list
|of actions filed this week. The petit
|tions set forth Joy riding, cruelty,
such as tearing clothes and threaten
ing to kill, jealousy and drunkenness
|as the causes.
Grace Marland alleges that she has
been cruelty treated by yer husband.
q. B. Marland, and specifically
charges him with having torn her
|rlothes off her body, assaulLng her.
. Ind forbidding her to leave home, or
to go out with the defendant, even.
She asks for divorce, and the restora-
ion of her maiden name, Grace Ham
lton.
Likes Other Men.
James Groran alleges that his wife,
Florence Grogan cares more for the
company Of other men than his, and
talleges that she 'goes auto riding at
Flight" that she has abused him, and
truelly treated him and told him she
Pared more for other men than for
him.
John Seitz asks for divorce from
Minnie Seitz. whom he alleges has
hurled missels at him and has struck
him at times He also alleges adul-
! ery in the petition on file.
Jennie Murphy asks for divorce
from VIM F. Murphy and title to
The homestead She alleges that de-
Pendant has become addicted to in
toxicants and that he has treated her
cruelty.
Some other Suits.
A. Geigcr has brought action
against John Herbner. ct al. for $3.50
alleged to be due on a promissory
note.
Peter Hatton has filed suit against
Harvey Hanson in which he asks
Judgment for sl35f alleged to be due
Tor rent, and he asks for writ Of at
fachment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
For sale at Wilkinson & Co.

universe. 1t Is country Of hustle
and hustle and confusion, land Of
sickening thuds, Of banging street
cars and ear-splitting overhead rail.
ways, of changing bells and brokers
shrieking through their noses. If the
lynch-pin dropped out of the cosmio
system and the stars came tumbling
about US, they wouldn't hear it in
New York"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Turned over Command.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.-Ma.
ior General Hunter Liggett turned
over command of the western army
department today to Major General
Arthur Murray. General Liggett viii
leave soon for Camp Greene, North
Carolina
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
i. 90 600 oOo-bushel buckwheat Gro

A 10000, 000-bushel buckwheat crop
is the latest forecast of the bureau
of crop estimates of the United
States department of agriculture.
This is an increase of 100000 bush
els over the estimate ct fhe crop for
December, 1916, and is slightly above
the five-vear-average crop up to 1916.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Italian Kings Family Dresses Simply.
-. Io..1,cr- 1


ROME, Aug. lily mail)-
american women. please take notice!
Neither Queen Elena nor the Queen
Mother Marguerite has had new
ress or new hat since Italy entered
he war
| The same rigid satorial economy
extends to the royal children. The
impIe Boy Scout uniform is practi-
Eally the 12-year-o!d Prince Umberto's
Sunday-go-to-meeting garment I'm
Pretentious frocks, generally in cheap
Rlaids or white stuffs and even ging.
pam, are the wartime clothes of
Prince Yolanda, Princess Mafalda,
Princess Goivanna and the baby prin.
Tess Maria.
The kings dress suit as the
forld knows is a greygreen uniform.
Rome and his family see him but
eldom and then only when official
business calls him to the capital.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
NV Word! What a Noise.
TBV United Press. I

LONDON, Aug. 15.-(By mail.)-
Here is the Londoner's conception
of America as set forth in one Of
the newspapers. 1t is submitted
without comment:
Everybody who has ever been to
America knows that delectable land
to be the noisiest, most uproarious
and clamorous spot in the whole
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06

The oldest armored cruiser in the
United States navy is the Saratoga,
ormerly the New York, which was
aunched twenty-five years ago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
keokuk Dam.

There are other glimpses here and
there about the state, including five
hundred feet showing the great water
power dam at Keokuk and half reel
showing the ceremonies at the Iowa
building at the Panama-Paci1c expo
sition. held at San Francisco a year or
so ago.
The Greater Iowa association has
purchased an Iowa-made moving pic
ture machine and dissolving stereoptl-
con. It has employed an expert opera.
tor who will take this equipment and
the films and the beautifully colored
still pictures on tour of Iowa, begin
ming Immediately after Greater Iowa
Week-or about Oct 5. Bookings are
now being made at the associations
Headquarters at Davenport. These
illustrated "travelog' talks We're
shown in the Woman's building at the
state fair this year and created an
immense amount of favorable COM
ment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Major Grayson of Pershings
Staff Through Red Cross
ASKS That Women of
keokuk Rush Their Work

With the coming of cold weather,
suffering among the boys IN the
trenches in France is sure to come
unless the knitted articles being made
through the Red Cross societies
throughout the country are rushed at
once. An appeal has been made
through the Red Cross, which has
been answered by Keokuk women
starting to work at once. 1t is hoped
that they will realize the urgent call
and will hurry their contributions.
The Red Cross society has issued
the following Instructions for knit
ting. which Keokuk women are asked
to follow explicitly:
In the first place, here are the
don'ts for the knitters Of socks:
Don't cast on tightly. An other
wise well knitted sock may become
useless by this tight cord at the top.
Don't knot your wool. Join it by
splicing the ends or leave two or
three inches of each end and darn
back carefully.
Don't make heel with seam on
the sole.
Remember a man may not have a
chance to change his socks for many
days, and lump or a knot brings
a blister. If the blister breaks, blood
poison sets in and may result in the
loss of a foot or a life. We cannot
afford to lose our men through negli-
gence or ignorance.
Don't use black, bright or dark
colors. There is again danger of
poisoning.
Don't use needles too fine for the
wool. The knitting should be elias
tic; if too tightly knitted the sock
becomes hard and boardlike with use.
Don't make a foot less than eleven
inches long.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Clear Lake,

About seven hundred feet Of this
film shows the beauty spots at Clear
lake. 1t shows pleasure boats hurry
ing hither and thither-the hundreds
yes, thousands of bathers enjoying
the cool waters of the lake on a hot
summers day and it tells most elo-
Quent story of this delightful play
ground for the grownups.
Another seven hundred feet show
Spirit lake and the Okoboji lakes,
whipped into whitecaps by strong
west wind. 1t shows the speed boats
hurrying across the lake--almost hid
den by the spray which they them
selves create. 1t shows bathers, too,
and it shows the long beach line with
its comfy" cottages tucked away be-
meath the trees.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Directions for Socks.

Here are directions for the knit
ting of socks with Red Cross heel
and Kitchener toe"
Materials-One hank wool and steel
needles Nos. 10 or II.
Cast on Ga stitches on needles
24-20-20. Knit 2, purl for inches,
Measure by rule) Knit plan for Z
inches. Divide all stitches on
needles, to be called front" and
'cheeP' needles respectively. You are
now to knit back and forth on heel
needle only, as follows:
*Knit across needle, slipping first
stitch; turn and purl all stitches tC
beginning of heel needle. slipping
first stitch. Repeat from until hee
piece measures inches in length.
Turn and knit 19 stitches or {;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06

Load Mo Quickly
load Ne to Capacity
Unload Me Promptly
And
Help Win the War!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-06
Greater Iowa Association is Filming
Important Scenic and Industrial
Points in the Hawk
eye State.
USE DURING BIG WEEK
Spirit Lake, OkoboIi, Clear Lake and
Other Interesting Points Will
be Shown In
CeIluloId.

Seven thousand feet Of moving pic
ture film have been taken by the nav
ing picture photographer employed by
the Greater Iowa association to pc
usde this winter in CONJUNCTION with
the two illustrated travelogs which the
association will supply to commerclal
clubs, women's clubs, churches ami
similar organizations during the COM
ing winter
About one thousand feet Of this film
shows the high hills and deep valleys,
the water falls. pictured rocks and
other varied scenery in the vicinity OF
McGregor,-where it is proposed to es-
tablish the Mississippi Valley National
park There is one remarkable piano.
rama taken from the highest point on
the Iowa bluffs which overlooks the
Mississippi and forty miles Of lowland,
over the roofs and spires of Prairie
du Chen and down to the Wisconsin
iriver-which brought Joliet and Mar
quette to Iowa on their voyage of dis
coVery.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

Gllmer, Ex-State Librarian. w
Were accompanied 20 Institute by
Mr.. /. Edward Hill. editor OF
the Mcdowell Times, He IS a CLERK
III the Office OF Secretary OF State,
We called on Mr.. c, II Io,re,
and stayed with him till 3.icr :,
p. NJ. He is the man the late Hon.
Scymore Edwards in,fa3ur.l 10
Theodore Roosevelt a. an :.
Charleston 5 leading nicn. v,r., 3.
quarter million dollars. We ."~...
that every race loving MAJ. who
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

they shall not be allowed to go in
the South for training.
We are curious to know why so
suddenly changed! Was It in com
pliance of the Houston Daily Post 5
order that Negro troops should be
kept out of the South and those
that have been ordered TO Southern
points must be sent elsewhere
otherwise appalling CONSEQUENCES
are lneVItablc,
1t further says: 'Thc war de
partmcnt must understand that and
understand il. quickly Secretary
Baker must quickly understand that
Houston or Columbia is not Clcvc-
land, Ohio, where social equality is
somewhat Of fixed element Of
racial relations, where Negro teach
crs teach white children, and ali
that sort Of thing. And that kind
Of condition is not going to be set
up in he South either in peace or
war.
Being an insult 10 the Secretary
Of War unless he considers the
source; a dastarlly threat 10 The
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

In the death of Hon. Harry S.
Cummings, of Baltimore, that CITY
the colored race and the State Of
Maryland lost a character who has
occupied unique place in Ameri-
can history for upwards of quarter
of a century. This was SO because
OF his occupancy of seat in Balti-
more's City Council during a long
period III which position he reflect
ed credit upon the people with
whom he was identified, and invar-
lably retained the confidence and
respect of his white Colleagues in
the Council. 1t might prove an
incentive to some aspiring young
Negroes for them to be told that
Councilman Cummings funeral was
attended by Mayor Preston and the
Council in a body, the flag on the
CITY Hall flew at haf-mast, the
Council adjourned out of respect to
him, and one or more Courts held
bret sessions on the day his funeral
was held.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

The Mcdowell Times, of Key
stone, West Virginia, is asking
that colored man be appointed to a
place in the Work men S Compensa
ton Department. It is but fit and
proper that the Times makes this
demand, because the appointment
OF one colored man to place in
this department would be but scant
recognition to a race of people who
compose tWentyeight thousand
OF the electorate Of this State. 1t
is an established fact that 90 per
cent of these votes go to the Re
publican party, and that oreaniza-
ton should see to it that it's black
contingent be fairly dealt with as
regards proper apportionment of
cttlceholding. The Negro every
where is firing of doing all the
voting, and none of the Office bold
ing, and those Of the Little
Mountain State are going to be-
come no exception to this new rule
that they have inaugurated for
their political benefit. So keep up
the fight, Messrs. Whittico and
Hill, of the Times, and your broth
er Clifford, of the Pioneer Press,
Will render you all the assistance
he possibly can.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

The War Department, through
its gentlemanly and erudite Secre-
larry, Hon. Newton Dieh1 Baker,
has put its stamp of official APPROX
al on all expressed determination
TO train Negroes for the New Ma
alonal Army at every cantonment
which is located in the South. 1t
is the only logical conclusion to
reach, and especially is this SO
when Our government is waging a
war for World Freedom and Dem
ocracy.' TO be consistent, there
should be no distinctions of any
kind, anywhere in the United
States that Uncle Sam has domain.
Later, we learn that Our friend
the Secretary of war has changed
his mind and decreed there shall
be separate training camps for Uncle
Sam loyal Negro soldiers and that
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

West Virginia Negro Masonry,
for thirty odd yeats has been n burn
ing disgrace The worst element
OF men have shamcd and disgraccd
our honest men who have done
their best to save so noble an order.
We have seen its officers drunk
at Grand Lodge meetings. Once
the Treasurer took off his coat and
walked the streets Of keystone
swearing with the fDulcst oaths,
that he could whip any S. of a
D. in the town AT another
Grand Lodge meeting, an officer
who was to respond to the welcome
address of the Major, was 50 drunk
that he had to be carried to 4 room
in the hall to lay and sleep off his
stupor. A certain click made it
their business to try to live on the
funds of the Grand Lodge, and stole
hundreds of dollars.
TO elect officers Of their ilk was
their game, and to do so, most all
the time was spent to that end. The
Grand Lodge has been carried to
all the announcement places possible
to keep the kick in poWcr-cven
once taking it to MoOrchcld, where
they had to go by stage from kcyscr
~ miles. Nearly thirty years ago
one of the kccneSt of rasCals stole
and squandered S1O7. so and never
paid it back. All insurance plot
was dlsgracefully attached to ma
sorry and hundreds and hundreds
of dollars gobblcd up by the ring.
However, change, thank heavens
took root two Yeas ago in Parkers-
burg, when men Of honor, who love
the order kept their solemn vows
trlumphed, and passed a resolution
that instituted 70 alton in office.
They fought it hard but died in tlci,
own dark deeds. There will be no
more sham elections. There will
be no more grouping, clicking and
trlcklng time away at future Grand
Lodges. The only man to be added
to the official BODY will be the pur-
suvlant-an appoiutee OF the Grand
Master, but Alfred +. Goodwin, of
Blueheld being Deputy Grand Mas
ter took the chair and has honorcd
it, because he is clean and honor
able. A better Grand Master has
never filled that place, and Negro
Masonry is destined to 90 onward
and upward under the new regime.
To destroy what was done at
Slarkrsburg last year-rotation in
office as the whites do-thc dying
recalc1trants lobbied and bicl>e1ed
together until The evening of the
closing day $ session, with 10 bust
ness done on account of it. Not
outstanding the clever people OF
Clarksburg prepared the finest re-
ceptlon ever given the Grand Lodge,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15
DR.. FAIR EY
HAGERSTOWN, MD.
DAAGNOSTECIAN

Only chronic diseases. Send me
your name and address and I will
send you a mailing case and question
blank. Don't use dope for chronic
troubles, get cured. It is a salts
faction to know what the cause is,
CONSULTATION FREE.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

GOOD T!l-.TA Is INVALUABLE
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

~. A.oO.& oiA..y. H.. .I.,, ..,. ~ s:dusg Al .
a1sAree Add Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or \ 4
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-09-15

hpD!ication of Lime Upon Heavy Soils
Ma';es Them Less Sticky, More Easily
Cultivated. More Porous-Green Ma
rurc Crops Are of !nestimabe Value
as SYhatitutcs For Farmyard Ma
fure OF Which q ScarEitY Exists.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1917-1918, 1917-07-02
ROAD WORK

In discussing the question of distribution of the terri
Oral road fund the following comment is made by the
Fairbanks Citizen:
That The question of apportonng out funds for road
work allowed by the territorial government easily be
the cause Of much contention and embarrassment is be-
coming more evident every day 1t is this contention and
the resulting bitterness that would surely create that we
uSt strive to avoid at all There is doubt that
the money appropriated sufficient to meet all needs
adequately but it should be enough to bring certain
amount of relief to all sections of the division.
1T is evident that only the pressing of the trail
needs can lie looked after at this time 1t should be the
duty of the commissioners investigate closely the claims
of every section for money for road work and base their
estimates on the findings of these Investigations There
should be no playing of politics in this matter nor any
alignment of any section sections against any other
part of tn division in attempt to increase the aot
ment Every petition for money for such work must and
should stand on its merit alone, or being without merit
discarded In no other manner there be any
full road work accomplished by the territory and its road
commissioners.
In determining the amount Of work to be done
through the division there should be certain amount OF
consideration paid to the work that is being done by the
Alaska road commission If this body doing all the road
work that is necessary for the adequate development Of
any sections or sections it would only act Of JUS
tce for the territorial commission to eXpend more money
in other sections not so favored by the federal commits
sion"
With these remarks in mind and in view of the fact
that the Alaska road commission is working on the main
road from Seward toward Kenai lake and from Mile -
through the Moose pass dstct it seems no more than
proper thai the territorial funds due this district be eX-
pended the road to connect Seward with the agcu-
tural section across the bay.
This has already been suggested and as the season
short work must be commenced soon to accomplish the
desired results.