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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14
WANT MORE COAL TO MOVE.
Investigation to Be Made OF Opera
tors and Dealers.

" oohih h6lou, IVY. t.--Aif- lluuiSul-
ate investigat tion Of reports that coal
operators and dealers are not carry
ing out the orders of the fuel admin
istration fixing prices and governing
distribution will be started by the
Department Of Justice. All Federal
district attorneys will be directed to-
study the fuel administration regu-
ations and to see that they are en-
forced. The directions will call for
prosecutions wherever it appears that
the law has been violated.
Seizure of coal from trains by Ohio
city officials will be left, the fuel ad-
ministration announced tonight, to
tho Ohio State fuel administrator for
action. In statement to-day Fuel
Administrator Garfield characterized
thfs sort Of confiscation as whole,
sale robbery"
All trans-shippers Of coal at New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Hampton Roads were ordered to-day
to make future shipments through
the Tidewater Coal Exchange to ex-
pedite the movement OF coal cars.
The exchange was formed last June,
but number Of shippers declined to
join 1t.
"This order" said statement ac-
cepted as authoritative, "will result,
1t Is intimated, in increased produc-
tion Of approximately ten million
tons Of coal year, on account Of de-
crease In detention of cars at the
ports, and therefore an increased
supply of coal at the mines. 1t also
will assure sufficient supply Of coal
for emeleency requirements Of the
army and navy"
Operation of the exchange thus
far. 1t Is claimed, has reduced classi-
fications from 1000 in number to so.
All coal arriving at the ports Is pooll
ed and the purchaser takes from the
pool and the grade he desires ire
spective Of whom he deals with as
seller.
Bunkering in mid stream. ordered
recently, already is said to be saving
a large number of cars.
Carolina Supply Short:
Columbia, Nov. 7.-Stressing the
acute shortage Of fuel in South Caro-
lima, the central advisory committee
of the State fuel administrati ton,
which met here to-day with B. B.
Gossett, Of Anderson, State. fuel ad-
ministrator, reached the conclusion
that the people of the State, in order
to conserve the supply Of coal, should
bura| more wood. TO further a
movement Of this character, a census
Of the supply of the State will be
taken and, when necessary, munich
pal wood yards will be operated.
Without desiring to cause any un-
due alarm" said Administrator Cos
sett In his report to the committee,
Il am thoroughly satisfied that des-
pite all the assistance that the Fede-
raj fuel administration can give.
there is going to be serious suffering
for lack Of fuel in our State unless
something definite and practical can
be done without delay looking toward
the substitution of wood for coal as
far as possible"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14
Whenever You Need q General Tonic
Take 0rOye'S

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic Is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because 1t contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. 1t acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria. Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 60 cents.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14
Josephine Klaren 81, Efie Lee Shaw.
TIL Il n 4 a

Josephine Klaren 81, Eme Lee Shaw.
81, HIKE Thode 91.6.
1st Grade-Legare Ansel 95,3.
r.tt.e Burley 91.3, Ethel Chastain
ef. Carrie Finkenstadt 97.3, Jmne
Haynes 93.6, Chas. Humphries 81,
Marvin Smith 96.3, Sam Werner 96.3,
Eileen Aull 90.2, Harry Sloan 90.7,
Jim Smith 80.
The following pupils own Liberty
Bonds: Frederick Bischoff, Dorothy
Brown, John Edward Bauknight,
Carolina Darby, Laura Gregory, Guy
nell Abbott, Frank Craig, Eugene
Parker, Derrill Darby, GarWood
Jaynes, Mamie Cudd.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14

The Old Standard xenera1 strengthening tonic,
GROVH'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. drives out
Malaria enrlches the blood aud build up the sys-
tenn. A true tonic. For adults and children. 6Oc
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-14

~ M. M {:
BUGGIES
THEY RIDE AS EASY AS YOUR
NEIGHBORS AUTOMOBILE.
- Everybody who owns will tell you that this is a
TACT and dng the nfxt tsW weeks at least fifty
- have Just received my second CONSIGNMENT Of the
AMEs BETTER BUILT BUGGIEs.
These BuggeS contracted for months ago. and
expect to run these fifty Buggcs and you $500 on
will 5* ar, the doing fos this gs t bs o
supply the farmers in this section with the goods that wifi make
your work lighter and your riding easier.
MY LINE OF HARNESS
is right in line with my Buggies. have selccedthese Har
ness with The leather used in their manufacture
leather Instead Of that kind stuff our arness a1x peops
HOMEMADE HARNESS
nas viii M h.y ees mssn 1 @ oa look better %
st My House. which is the largest Show Room in West
LIBERTY 55 B9NDs, Amfs Busgiss, Good Homs,Mads
Cotton Planters, and any and all Implements used on farm
~ And last comes something you all know and that is
GEORGE E. MISSION WAGONS
CThe Nilsson Has No EquaD
Avery Wagons Studcbaker Wagons You can look ot anv
time and see these passing your door.
j, Wade Dickson, WESTMINSTER, S. 6.
Look for Me When In Westminster
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
THE COAL COON COMES DOWN.

Referring to the coal situation, The Coal
Trade Journal says: ''With the federal trade
commission keeping very close swatch on all
transactions, producers who were formerly out
for all they could get are now anxious to keep
their prices within bounds" The federal trade
commission appears to have succeeded in low
ering the price of coal at the mine mouth by
simply allowing the operators to understand
that their action in raising prices would be in
vestigated by the government As soon as they
saw that the authorities were in earnest and in
tended to shoot, they climbed down as prompt
ly as the legendary coon.
The trouble is of course that the dominant
idea of the producers is to fix prices as high as
the traffic will bear. It is easy to increase
prices and keep down the output. That is
simply matter of giving orders and seeing
that results follow in accordance with the
pleasure of those giving the orders. 1t is quite
profitable proceeding for the producers, and
the profit is accentual until some higher power
calls a halt.
There is reason to believe that foodstuff
prices are fixed to a large extent after the
manner adopted by the coal producers In any
event few indictments bring them down, as
would not be the case if there were actual seri-
Gus shortage of supply.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed BY
correspondents. Writers of communi
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, but
| for the information of the editoT.1
Weak Support for Liberty Loan.
To the Editor of The Gate City:
| The figures obtained from the local
banks as to the amount of the Liberty
loan subscribed for in Keokuk are dis
tinctly disappointing to the United
States and probably correspondingly
pleasant to the kaiser. The amount
subscribed here is under Sc per CAPT.
ia. The amount Of the bonds offered
at this time is $40 per capita-as-
suming 100,OOO,000 as the population
of the nation. Keokuk is not doing
her share.
I have talked with various persons
who have not subscribed, or have
done SO for only nominal amounts,
and their objections seem to be three
fold, as follows:
/. 1.-The people back east have the
most money and ought to subscribe
the most"
2. Il can make more money from
other investments--in my own bust
ness, for instance"
8. Il don't approve of the methods
being used to sell the bonds and
therefore won't subscribe
1t seems to me one question an
swers all these objections, namely:
What would happen to the country If
everybody felt and acted the same
way?' We must learn that only in our
numbers are we strong. The sub
scription the richest man in the coun-
try can make is a pittance compared
to the cumulative total of our millions
of people, each doing his or her share.
We are not responsible for subscrip-
lions in the east but we are respon-
sible for subscriptions right here in
Keokuk: and the only way the great
sum can be raised lin that whole
hearted way that will be challenge
to the kaiser) is for each to do his
part and not worry about what some
one else thousand miles away is
doing.
With regard to the amount of profit
obtainable on the bonds compared to
other forms of investment, the rea-
son for this disparity is largely the
government loan itself: and it seems
to me the man who takes advantage
Vi lue 3 COuultlOH Tue .
money needs have caused in the stock
market, to make money there rather
than by helping the government out,
is hardly distinguishable from the
man who speculates on the food situa-
tion which the war has produced.
Taking the third point Of not sub
scribing because the sales methods
are not approved of: Does this not
seem like punishment disproportion-
ate to the crime? Suppose everybody
disapproved the sales method, is it
quite fair to Uncle Sam to starve
him finacially because we disapprove
of the activity of some few of his hun
dred million nephews and nieces?
G. w. KELLOGG.
Keokuk, Iowa, June II, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
To Keep the Face
Fresh, Clear, Youthful

More important than the cosmetic care
OF the complexion is its physical care To
keep the face clear. fresh, youthful there's
nothing better than ordinary mercolized
wax. 1t absorbs the soiled or faded
worn-out skin particles. Cosmetics simply
add EMBELLISHMENTS to the complexion
That's the difference. BY all means, ac-
quire the mercolized wax habit It's so
easy to get an ounce OF the wax at the
druggists, apply at night like cold cream
and wash it off next morning There's
no detention indoors, the old skin coming
on 50 gradually no one suspects you're
using anything. When in q week or two
the alluringly youthful, roselike underskin
is fully in yiew--well, you won't want, or
need, makeup complexion after that 1t
must be apparent that this process means
complete radiance of all cutaneous blem-
ishes, like freckles, pimples, blotches and
blackheads.
For wrfnkled, loose or saggy skin, a
race bath made by dissolving AN ounce of
powdered saxolite in half pint witch
hazel surpasses massage cream and
everything else for results Its action is
instantaneous. and perfectly harmless Il
improves facial contour wonderfully.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
Small BOND Ruxers-

indianapolis News: No person who
can spare S50-and good many per-
sons can spare $50 nowadays. especial
ly on the installment plan-can make
a safer or more profitable investment
of it than TO buy liberty bond. In
addition to the safety and profit there
is the element of patriotism, for every
one of these bonds helps the country
just so much in a just war There are
millions of people who can and should
buy one or more of the smaller bonds
the $50 or 800 observation-disclosures
their investment in the aggregate will
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
Ia CREW
>>~>>~ . = . . . . . . :

Mrs. A. c. Davis was a guest at the
home of George Refior and wife last
week.
Our merchant, W. e. Alter, has pur-
chased car.
Lightning killed one of John Lang's
horses last week.
Quite number attended the ice
cream social at Clay Grove Friday
night.
Clay Kechum made call at the Re-
flor home last week.
Jessie Smith of Mt. Pleasant was in
this vicinity Monday and Tuesday.
Jesse Davis is doing some carpen-
ter work for William Young.
The floods Of last week done a
great deal of damage to the cornfields
and gardens.
Mrs. Elmer Davis has gone to visit
her father and mother at Burns, Wyo.
Marguerite Dempster visited with
her uncle and aunt for a few days.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

The denominations of the Liberty bonds
have been placed at such low figures in their
minimum that it will be no hardship for persons
having ordinary incomes to invest in under
taking the object of which means the ultimate
salvation Of this country and free government
for humanity throughout the world. Buying
Liberty bonds is free will financial offering on
the altar of patriotism. 1t is wholly voluntary.
It. therefore, is fair test Of patriotic devotion
The volume of subscriptions should be so great
as to impress the world with the depth and the
sincerity of patriotism in this land.
Total subscriptions to the Liberty loan now
aggregate one billion, three hundred million
dollars out of a possible two billion dollars.
The loans last full day for subscriptions
falls on Flag day, June fourteen. In order
to bring the loan to successful conclusion,
seven hundred million dollars must be sub
scribed by that time Keokuk can help
We all should go to it.
The nation has a right to expect financial
assistance from every citizen according to his
ability to serve The national government is
not asking for charity. But it does ask and
expects investment in the war bonds. Again,
Go to it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
DANGER OF CAMP LIFE.
Military Men Are Urged to See That
Moral Surroundings are improved.

Military Men Are Urged to See That
Moral Surroundings are Improved.
jamie Mendenhall, in Des Moines
Register: Why are there so many
of our finest young men who do not
wish to enlist? The boys have hest
tated about telling the whole truth.
However, tust the Other day ] heard d
young man say: I'm willing ID go 10
battle today, but would rather spend
a year in hades than to spend it in a
military camp" Then he told how
one bunch Of fellows returned from
the border. Three out of twenty-thTee
came home clean.
We women and girls were told that
we were doing nobly to encourage the
boys to fight for their country We
ase willing to do that, and much more.
There are some things we are not
willing to do.
The young people in the country are
taught to believe that their bodies are
sacred, and now we are told that the
military camp is the home of the pros
titute! Such condition does not
seem possible in America under the
star spangled banner. Our glorious
flag of red, blue and white glowing
with its message of sacrifice, truth
and purity.
Commanding officers, medical Of
ticers, lawmakers and law enforcers,
we want you to insist upon having
clean camps. If you make the camps
clean you will have won wonderful
victory even if you never reach
France. Training camp is what we
call it. The training should help the
boy to be good soldier. He should
be better citizen and always a bet
ter man because of the camp life.
Wicked women have been allowed
to stay near the camp. You have per-
mitted these women to be there. Re-
move these and bring some of the
boys mothers who are real women to
the camp and watch the results. The
change would help many women ply
sically, and such an experience surely
ought to benefit any woman mentally.
Instead Of prostitution quarters, why
can't we have camp homes?" Let us
all do some hard thinking and some
hard work
We are not willing to send our boys
away clean and have them return or
even go to battle with their souls
smirched Military men, won't you
begin to plan clean camps for the sake
of the white stars in the flag waving
DER you? Our boys and girls are
taught never to let the flag be defiled.
1t is the emblem Of our nation. A ma
ton is made OF men. Then how much
worse to defile man than to defle
the flag?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
STRING PRAIRIE

Mrs. Fred Felt and niece Elizabeth
Mr.. Vess Surena and daughters Mil
Idred and Mabel, Mr.. Henry Horsey
and sons James and Leslie, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Hayes and daughter Lu-
Gle, Mrs John DeKloe and daughter
Helen, Mr.. Albert Haffner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Felt, Hazel and Nellie
and nephew Glen, Mr.. Thomas Hayes
and son Joe and George Brodsky were
recent Argyle callers.
Miss Mary Brothers who taught the
spring term OF school at the Union
school house, returned to her home
in Monroe county, Iowa, Monday, ac-
companied by Miss Margaret Burke
who will visit relatives there.
Miss Alice Horsey visited Friday
afternoon and evening with Hazel and
Nellie Felt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Haffner and
baby motored to Keokuk Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Felt and
nephew Glen Fett Hazel and Nellie.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
UNFAIR AND UNJUST.

The federal trade commission should, in the
interest Of newspaper publishers and the pub
lie, apply the same stick to the news print
trust as it has to the coal producers. What is
sauce for the goose should be sauce for the
gander. But in the paper case it seems to be a
matter of whose OK is gored. The government
is a large consumer of print paper, and has
forced the international Paper company to sup
ply the required stock at two dollars and fifty
cents per hundred pounds. Under the threat
if seizure of its mills the corporation agreed to
furnish its product at the rate the federal trade
commission decided was reasonable. Original
~, two bids were made on news print paper,
one of seven dollars and twenty five cents and
one of seven dollars and fifty cents hundred
pounds. Both were rejected by the govern
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

ment Under continual pounding the figures
were gradually brought to three dollars ana
ten cents. Then came the threat OF seizure OF
the mills, and President Dodge, of the lnternsc
tional company, replied that he would furnish
the paper at two dollars and fifty cents hun
bred pounds.
Meanwhile newspaper publishers are forced
to contract for news print paper at price al
most double that paid by the government
Why should this discrimination continued 1t
is unfair, unjust.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

John and Andy Burke. NJ,
John Schoene, George pr.a sad
and Mrs. Albert Ref and Wv,
Clarence Felt and George S salaly
tended the band concert Al I n
Saturday evening. 'aasl
Mrs. v. j. Burke and con !,
Ed Bergthold were recent NJ soaiI
callers. 1Vnat1
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Haze.
baby motored to the Dania, ' y /
and A. J. Longwith homes ne. aa I
on Sunday. A'ds
John Burke returned to ot,.
day after a weeks visit with ' N
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. v. j. Bl,raaa ny
Webster Downey Of Keoknt !.
ing relatives in this vicinity
Mary and Bill Burke ws,, y
Keokuk callers. y
Mrs. William Case of vincor,.
daughter and son, visited tho nv
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Willi,m 10y !
hard, Sunday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
Precedent for Russia.

Iowa City Press: If we read MIS-
tory Alright, the United States, then
the disunited colonies, did good bit
OF thrashing around before they
were able to put up much of fight
against England. The militia regi-
ments of the various colonies in
Washington's army acted and talked
a good deal like the soldiers and
workmen's delegates" in Russia just
now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
ANSWERING THE CALL

ANSWERING THE CALL.
/ meant to do my work today
But brown bird sang in the apple tree,
And a butterfly fitted across the field,
And the leaves were calling me-
And the wind went signing over the land
Tossing the grasses to and fro,
And rainbow held out its shining hand,
So what could do but laugh and go.
Richard LIE Gallienne.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

IMcAdOO admon1sheS the AMERICAN
people mot to be more tender with
our dollars than our sons" And be-
sides, the sons yield higher rate or
interest.
Sioux City Journal: The way TO
raise revenue with the least disturb
ance to the normal life of the public is
TO make the levies after the processes
of money making have been completed
and the proceeds have been scattered
among the various benefciaries. OF
business
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Some mil
lions of Americans are being made
aware, for the first time, that there is
government Of the United States, OF
which they are an actual, sensible and
responsible part; that any person en-
titled to be called a competent citizen
can make himself valuable to himself
and to his fellow citizens; that the
government is alive and has all the
needs OF all it's living component parts
The government of the United States
is being and not thing; it is a per-
sonality and not an arrangement.
OI6 independently. IL Lie
would attach the same penalty on the
elections that it does for failure to reg
would have less complaint to make
about those in the public offices.
Malvern Leader: Down with the
food hog-or "up with him" would be
better.
Waterloo Courier: Americas battle
song in this war will likely as not be
a piece Of ragtime.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Buy Lib
erty bonds. Pay what you think it is
worth to be an American citizen.
Sioux City Tribune: The average
girl doesn't know whether the pen is
care, but she thinks the uniforms are
just grand.
Davenport Times. Missouri is har-
vesting 100000 quarts of strawber-
ries, estimated to be worth S1,926,000,
but wait until the Iowa corn crop is
heard from.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Salvar-
san which is used in armies and
navies, as well as in civil life, now
costs $3.50 a. dose, due to the fact that
the patents for it are held in Germany
and the holders refuse to have it man
ufactured here. 1t can be manufacture
ed for fifty cents dose. or there
abouts. A supply was brought over in
the Deutschland, but it has long since
been exhausted. The doctors are de-
handing that the government shall
abrogate the German patents and per-
nit 1t to be made here. That would
seem to be the commonsense Of the
matter. If the German patent holders
will not consent to its manufacture
here. then it will have to be manu-
featured in spite of them, agreeing, at
the same time, to pay them the neces-
sary damages for this country may not
want to abrogate the patent laws that
protect property.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

add enormously to the total. Not one
of them should get the idea that his
mite is Of no consequence, and the
wider the distribution Of the bonds
the better it will be for the bond-hold-
ers and the country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12
Criminal.

New York World: Federal agents
have found fifteen carloads of pota-
toes rotting on sidetrack near an
Illinois town. Some day that misuse
of food will be crime, with storage
accommodations for the person guilty
of 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-12

Denmark reports big crop of early aspara-
gus. But Denmark's biggest crop, early and
late, is news from Germany that isn't So