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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
MEETING FOR
Y. w. WAR WORK
To be Held This Evening in Opera
House at Bonaparte With
j. c. Calhoun in
Charge.

BONAPARTE, Iowa, Dec. 19.-Mrs.
jeanette Jerome returned to her nome
III Chicago last week after a few weeks
visit with her mother, Mrs. Maria
Smith and other Bonaparte relatives.
j. G. Weller. who has been here at
the home of his parents for several
days, returned to his home in Douds
last week. He was recently operated
on for appendicitis at Keokuk and as
soon as he was able to travel he came
here for a short visit with his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. w. F. Weller.
A special meeting in the interests
of the Y. NJ. G. A. will be held at
Whiteley opera house tonight. Hon.
j. C. Calhoun, of Keosauqua, will pre-
side at this meeting and will explain
the manner in which this organization
is taking part in the war work. The
committee here has arranged for a two
reel moving picture show and some
patriotic songs. The campaign which
is now being made is for the purpose
OF raising $4,0o0,000 Van Buren's
quota is about $1,000.
Mrs. Mary Ketchan has been sick
for the past few days, but is much i'm
proved at this time.
Churchill Main, of Carthage, H.,
came last Friday for a short visit at
the w. s. Lane home.
j.. b. Ware of Wilmore, Kansas, is
here for a visit with his sister, Mrs.
Lightfoot and other relatives in this
locality.
Don Fish, county agent of Henry
county made a canvass of Harrisburg
township last week for signers to help
organize a farm bureau in this county
Mrs. Marion Sargent OF Douds, Wis
tied here at the J. w. Fitzgerald home
last Friday.
John l.. Johnson, who has been en-
ployed in a tailor shop at Rock Island,
Ill, for the past several months, came
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
TODAY,s BIT OF Frs
A PATIENT LITTLE WOMAN.

A patient little woman who had done the best she knew
To lead her loved ones on the path which angels beckon to
Where all earth's many peoples shall gather soon or late.
And she saw the ones who entered with the lovelight on
each brow,
And the ones who stood and trembled, for their deeds ac-
cused them now;
And she saw beyond the gateway bright homes the blessed
win,
Yet still she stood and waited, nor strove to enter in.
"Come in. come in" an angel urged; for you the way is
clear.
You walked the path OF humble love. and Love is sovereign
here. ~
Come in; the door is open; come in where Love is King
But the patient little woman drew the farther from the
door,
AS she said, 81 still must tarry, though forgiveness l i'm
plOre.
1 have prayed-oh, never ceasing-that my loved may
/ would wait without the gateway till they all are gath,
cred in"
But Nay" the angel muttered, possess thy soul in trust.
We may not know His purpose, but His ways for aye are
No earthly loves need enter in the mansion of the blest,
Where earthly ties are broken and the earthly passions
rest"
Il have toiled for them and loved them; l have yearned
Ger them" she said.
Zen in Heav'n I'd hear their voices, calling me from out
LIES din
Let me wait outside the gateway till my loved are gath
cred in"
Still the patient little woman waiteth by the pearly gate
And sometimes she hears a whisper, 81 am coming, moth
And that whisper cheers her spirit more than all the an
AS they beat between the portals of the happy Promised
Land;
And some day. from out the shadows-for the great Lord
God is good
One by one they'll stand beside her where she long fol
them has stood,
And the patient little woman to her heritage will win
When, beneath the pearly archway, all her loved ones
"A. j. waterhouse.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Monday morning OF this week for a
visit With his family here.
A son was born to MI. and Mrs.
Frank Mailer on Sunday, December 8,
1917.
Harold Tuliyy and Stanley Hooper re-
turned to their homes here from Des
Moines, where they have been employ
ed during the past few months.
Earl Householder has purchased
the John Frank farm on Vernon
Prairie and will move to same about
March /.
A literary program and pie social
will be held at Bradford school house
a short distance southwest of here,
Friday evening of this week.
Mrs. Fred Becker and daughter
Katharine Sommer, Of Chicago, are
here to visit during the holidays with
her mother, Mrs. Anna Sherman and
sister, Mrs. e. c. Smith and family.
Mrs. Glare Sergeant has returned
from Dies Moines to the home of ner
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Marriott,
near ~Bentonsport. She was recently
operated upon for appendicitis and is
recovering nicely. Her husband was
at Camp Dodge for some time. but is
now in camp in Arkansas, having been
sent there a few weeks ago.
The tax levies for the coming year
In Van Buren, county have been certi-
fed to the county auditor, for the in
corporated towns, and gre :.s follows:
Birmingham, total tax, 1902 mills;
Pennington, 90.02 mills; Bonaparte,
1922 mills; Stockport, 79.42 mills;
Mt. Sterling, 1872 mills; Keosauqua,
1912; Milton, 1O0.92; Cantril, 105.S2.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
"rHE BOOK OF NEW YORK"

New York is the diamond stickpin
in the front Of America SO says
Robert Shackleton in his volume de
voted to the high and low places OF
the metropolis and entitled The
Book of New York" published by the
Penn Publishing Co. Philadelphia.
There are some in the interior who
have not yet viewed the wonders OF
Manhattan; there are some who
have travelled Broadway and Fifth
avenue and yet are strangers to the
real New York, the homes of its peo'
pie, its historic landmarks and those
byways of more than usual interest
| comprehended within a territory
! south Of Fourteenth street and north
| Of the Battery. But 1t takes the in
stinet of a ferret endowed with a
human instinct for research to bur
row out the old places known to
fame and find the home Of the
poet Bryant, the earthly resting place
Of Petrus Styvesant and many other
facts obscure from the knowledge of
people who would be glad to know
The man who writes of New York
I should take the city seriously, yet
not o seriously; and this is the plan
pursued by Mr.. ~Shackleton in his
what may be called a guide book to
the metropolis. The city is so great.
so mighty, so tremendous in popula-
ton, in wealth, in power, in achieve
ments that any tendency to over
estimate should be checked, that
every claim to Importance should be
carefully weighed, and the subtle
danger Of Decentralization should be
avoided. But with all these tend
encies in view, New York is seen as
a city of immense and wide interest.
| And as a chronicler of events and 4
photographer of things that are. Mr..
S%hackleton has steered clear of the
shoals of undue admiration and has
made a book of human interest and
not %pedantic, one that is a pleasure
to read, an education. The volume
is profusely illustrated
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
3 BELMONT.
30

Miss Eta Krichel is at home from
fkeokuk, sick with tonsilitis.
The Misses Neva and Myrtle Brown
and William Metternich of Nauvoo.
ILL.,, visited with Miss Lena Van Aus.
dali last week. Mr.. Metternich was
called into military service and is now
in camp at San Francisco, Calf.
The Cosmopolitan club will hold it's
regular meeting Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. julius Krichel as hostess.
The Parent Teachers association
held their monthly meeting at the
school house Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Wygle, who is at the hospital
in Rochester, Mimi, is reported as
no better.
The Belmont school and Sunday
school will give a Christmas entertain.
.ment at the school house Christmas
eve.
Otto Hawkins and family have NOV.
ed on the Van Ausdall farm.
Revs. Grey and Van Ausdarg have
closed their revival meetings at Bel
mont.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

reasons why comparatively few of them emf
CRATE. The only men of French stock any
where who have outgrown their affection for
their motherland are the French Canadians OF
Quebec, who seem as a rule devoid OF loyalty
either for England or France and not very
much in sympathy with the other provinces OF
the Dominion. Nor is it to be wondered at that
the rest of the Frenchmen on earth love France.
Every nation in the world with the exception OF
Germany loves her; and in aiding her America
should be swift of foot and jubilant of soul.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
A NATION WORTHY OF LOVE.

The little French church of ST. Sauveur in
Philadelphia seems to be entitled to head the
honor roll although the stars on its service
flag may be few compared with those of larger
societies. All Of its male members between the
ages of seventeen and fifty years have gone to
the front, some with our army and others with
the army of France. Only mothers and daugh-
tiers and wives and little ones are left, and the
women have taken on themselves the support of
four orphans in France besides sewing for or.
phans here and knitting all the rest Of their
spare time. Frenchmen are proverbially loyal
to their beautiful land, which is one of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Eight years e the load represented
by motors in the steel mills Of this
country called for a generator capacity
of around $4,000 XIV. Today the motor
load approximates 100, 900 XIV. and the
electric furnace load $4,000 XIV. Dur
ing the past two years the increase in
the use of electrical energy as meas
tired by the increase in generator rat
ings is in the neighborhood of 200 per
cent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

An aIbatross in a storm is a wonderful sight. No mat
ter how furious the gale, no matter how fierce the hurricane
squalls Of Cape Horn, the great bird scars up against the
blast grim and serene. Then wheeling, he comes sweep
Ing down on the wings Of the gale at a speed 50 trcmend.
GUS that II cannot be less than eighty or ninety miles an
hour, when, describing a low but immense circle, with the
tip Of his lee-wing Just brushing the top Of the giant waves,
he again takes his fight upward against the storm. No
living creature conveys the idea of boundiess freedom so
perfectly as the King of Space, the Wandering Aibatross.
Paul Eve Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
BAR TENDER
ON SUBMARINE
German Back Home on Visit When
War Started and Was Pressed
Into Service Of
Navy.
Webb Miller, United Press Staff
CORRESPONDENT.

HIBy Webb Miller, United Press Staff
Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 4-(hy MALL
"Hey, Pete, don't you remember me?
I've sold you a good many beers"
That was the surprising greeting. in
perfect Americanese, which an Ameri-
can blue jacket got from a member of
the u boat crew captured by the
American destroyer-(name blank. A
sailor in town on leave today brought
the story. After the U boat had been
taken by the destroyer and scuttled
Thy its crew, the Germans were flshed
out of the water and put aboard the
destroyer. They were sem below and
given dry clothes.
while dressing and warming them
selves by the heat Of the engine room,
every one Of the blue jackets who
could leave his station filed down to
look over the catch. Suddenly one of
the Germans jumped to his feet and
fairly shouted his unusual greeting.
Don't you remember me?" he de-
manded of the astonished sailor. 81
tended bar at that saloon near the
Brooklyn nav yard. You used to
come in and tip n e. frequently
The group of Americans crowded
around while pete" shook hands with
his one-time bar tender.
i lived in lii ole New York for ten
years the German said. "Wisht / was
back there now. Just before the war
started, ! was in Germany on a visit.
They grabbed me-nnd now look at
me.
Il guess this wars over as fairs we
are concerned But when / get out.
I'm going to hot-foot it back to New
York. No more kaiserland for me.
This is a low-down game, this u
boating, but it's better than standing
in Flanders mud to your knees dodg-
ing shrapnel. When they get you in
this sub game, they get you good
usually.
"Wisht / was back DRAWN schoon-
ers over on the Brooklyn side"
Three OF the crew of t~hIrr--eient
spoke English and talked with their
.captors. Most OF them were surly and
Observation-Disclosures they owed their
lives to the American blue Jackets.
tine navy department announced
the sinking of a German submarine
and capture of part of its crew ON No
vember "A. The y boat was injured
by o bomb dropped by an American
destroyer and remained helpless
afloat. The submersible was taken
in tow, but one of the German crew
apparently opened the sea valves and
the boat sank, her crew i,lmpine intn
the water.J
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

1t appears that during one of the
recent raids on 'the East Coast OF
England, a Zepp, which came to
grief, dropped two bombs on a well
known golf course, which had the
effect Of providing two excellent pot
bunkers, which the players have
proudly nicknamed Big and Little
Willie.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
IOWA PRESS

Des Moines Register: Don't mislay
your ear muffs. You may be needing
them again before the week is ended.
Cedar Rapids Gazette. Perhaps
Senator La Toilette has r~econciled
himself to the idea hat George Wash
ington will still have the tallest monu
ment in America.
Ottumwa Courier: Senator Kenyon
wants to reduce the salaries OF sena-
tors and congressman to $1,000 a year
during the remainder OF the war. 1t is
safe to predict that there will be no
flood of letters from constituents
raising objections to this proposal.
Boone News-Republican: Corn and
pork are the main stays which the
government is urging every farmer to
cultivate.
Sioux City Journal: Another adj
vantage of the national prohibition
amendment is in the splendid chance
for action it will give the hoys who
were always in favor of national pro-
hibition but who considered state pro-
hlpition more of q hindrance than a
help.
Central City Newsletter: After
the first of January, office seekers
will begin to get busy again. 1t is
necessary to have this once in two
years in Iowa, and it is a good thing
that it is. not every year. We have
been wondering If the war and all the
important issues which go along with
it will make political campaigning dur
ing the coming season any less siren
iuous. Shall we forget our war strug-
giles to again take up the nasty little
political s~quabbles?
Davenport Democrat: While We
hold that the administration should be
supported during the war, regardless
of party, we recognize that it Is a poor
rule that does not work both ways.
Democrats, therefore, will stand ready
to applaud President Wilson if his
choice for railroad administrator
Ishould fall upon Charles Evans
Hughes or any other competent repub-
flican, and if he we're to take into
places of large responsibility such men
as Senator John w. Weeks and other
big men whose opportunities to serve
should be equal to their willingness
and ability.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

1t is the outward expression Of kindly
thought and feeling, the practice of little acts
Of courtesy, of thoughtful attentions, which
sweeten and refine ffe.-Orison SWEET Mar
den.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

An exchange suggests that the tanks be
called turtles. But a gasoline machine is of no
practical use after it has turned turtle
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

The United States has no more enemies than
it had before, but it has classified and labeled
one more and the process may have to be re-
peated once or~twice before the end.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Corn price boosters, in view of the greatest
crop the country ever produced, ought to re-
read the presidents remark about what has
been substituted for the law of supply and de-
mand.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Mr.. Hoover asks us to subsist on three
pounds of sugar a month. Now, Mr.. Hoover.
show us the three pounds Of sugar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20
AN ECHO OLE UNDERTAKING.

~ A~N "
A Dutch financial publication remarks that
Iif the government Of the United States carries
its foolish policies towards railroads so far that
they are unable to pay their fixed charges a
very dangerous condition will ensue. The rea-
son for our governments treatment of it's car
Iriers is found by the Dutch writer in the fact
that our RAILROAD policy, as for that matter all
political action in this corrupt country, is de-
signed to get into the good graces of his males
ity the voter and thus keep a political party in
power
Naturally this unfriendly critic goes too far
in attempting to explain our governments I'M
Sympathetic attitude towards the roads. Yet
the fact remains that during the first decade Of
this century sensational writer's of the muckrak-
ing school left nothing unsaid to prejudice the
people against the railroads as monstrous octi-
pi fattening on the body polite, and were large
ly responsible for the Liberal policy towards
them which threatens, as this Dutch observer
clearly sees, to bring dangerous conditions on
the land. Our roads must be kept solvent at
whatever cost, and able to furnish the adequate
carrier service the needs Of the country de-
mand; and there is reason to hope that the i'm
perative necessity of treating them justly is
realized now at Washington.
Samuel Rogers, director of the census, wants
all registration of births and deaths placed un-
der his supervision. Remembering the manner
in which population figures were juggled after
the draft law was passed, whereby, to the relief
of the south, the quota from the north and west
was increased, it is to be hoped that this ex-
tension of the bureaus authority may be post
poned until census affairs are placed in the
hands Of a conscientious director.
Corn price boosters, in view of the greatest
crop the country ever produced, ought to re-
read the presidents remark about what has
been substituted for the law of supply and de-
mand.
The United States has no more enemies than
it had before, but it has classified and labeled
one more and the process may have to be re-
jpeated once or twice before the end.
An exchange suggests that the tanks be
called turtles. But a gasoline machine is of no
practical use after it has turned turtle
Mr.. Hoover asks us to subsist on three
pounds of sugar a month. Now, Mr.. Hoover,
- WV nc fha tbroa Wounds Of ar uor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Des Moines Register: Don't mislay
your ear muffs. You may be needing
them again before the week is ended.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Boone News-Republican: Corn and
pork are the main stays which the
government is urging every farmer to
cultivate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-20

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Perhaps
Senator La Toilette has reconciled
himself to the idea that George Wash
ington will still have the tallest onu
ment in America.
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-04-27
PLEASANT VALLEY.

>
MIR. Vernon @. Black and Miss Ethel
!P. Myers, both of Pleasant Valley, were
quietly married Saturday evening.
April q, at the Lutheran parsonage,
FSivler Run, by the Rev, =. Luther Hon
man. They were attended by Mr- At
chic zepp and Miss Hilda Powell. both
Of Pleasant Valley. The groom Is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Black and
the bride, the Oldest daughter of Mrs
Gertrude and tine late, J- Roy Myers.
An old time serenade was given them
at the home OF the bride the same
evening. We wish them Joy and hap
piness in their new welded life On
Sunday, April 15, reception was held
at the home Of the groom's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Black. About 40
relatives and friends enjoyed the ele-
CANT dinner and refreshments which
were served In abundance. Guests
were present from Baltimore, West
minister and other places. They will
reside in Pleasant Valley, where the
groom II engaged i'm farming.
Rev. J. Luther Hoffman has left for
new field of labor in Baltimore. The
pulpit will b. filled by a Lutheran
minister, Sunday morning at IN
! o'clock.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-04-27
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MO. 1891 EQUITY.

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In the Circuit Court for Carroll County
Ex-parte: In the matter Of the Trust
Estate Of George wv. Rupp, individu-
ally and George w. Rupp, trading
as The Rupp Furniture Company
Edward %. Weant, Trustee.
Ordered this 21st day OF March,
1917. on the aforegoing petition that
tine Circuit Court for Carroll County
sitting in Equity take jurisdiction in-
the Trust estate Off the said George WV.
Rupp, individually and trading as The.
Rupp Furniture Company, and that the
said Trustee settle said Trust estate
under the supervision and control of
the said Circuit Court for Carroll
County, sitting in Equity.
And it il further ordered that the
said Edward OH Weant, Trustee in the
above entitled cause, give the usual
George W. Rupp, individually and
trading a. The Rupp Furniture Com
pany, who were such prior TO the 18th
day OF March, a. d., 1917, to file their
claims properly authenticated with the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
County, Oh OH before the 18th day Of
June, "A. Id. 1917, BY causing copy OF
this order to be published in some
newspaper printed in Carroll County,
once a week for four successive weeks
before the 30th day or April, 20. D4
1917.
VIM. H. THOMAS
True Copy-Test
EDWARD %. CASH, Clerk.
mar 30 a.