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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-04-13

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and intesrnes by making
sh4n do their normal work
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balanced ration than meat
Cr eggs. more easily digested
and costs much less. Ready
cooked and ready to-eaG
FOR breakfast with milk or
cream or for any meal with
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Consult oar Free Renfq
Service for lists of house.
and flats. There ia NC
charge or obligation OF
any kind attached.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
TORPEDO STRIKES
FLOUR BARREL
Price Has Dropped $2.1o Since Trad
ina in Grain Futures Has
Been Abolished.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO. May 24.-Mere announce
ment that speculation in wheat flu.
lures has been curbed" means nothing
in the. life of the average housewife
but the fact that flour today had drop
ped $2.10 barrel from its record
price Of $3.50 Is something she and
all the family, can appreciate
The grain exchanges of the middle
west abolished all trading in May
wheat on May IL and fixed maximum
price on July and September wheat.
On that day, flour in Minneapolis
the pfice-setting market-had reached
the season record of $3.50 for first
patents. On May IA the first day the
restricted trading went into effect,
flour dropped to $3.50. Today it was
quoted at S4.70, with every evidence
of going still lower.
The Chicago board of trade exuded
optimism over the grain outlook today.
1t was intimated that the government
is satisfied the beard can and will con-
troll speculation and that no step will
be taken to close the grain exchanges,
so long as the present situation OBJ
tains.
Prediction was made that the ban
on July and September wheat trading
would be lifted about June Is, when
Texas new wheat will be available
for shipment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
PURE WATERS
FOR ALL TOWNS
Emergency Apparatus at State Uni
versity Laboratories Will be at
Disposal of Iowa
Cities.

/ ANY city or town in Iowa which ex.
periences a sudden and dangerous pol:
tuition Of its water supply may relieve
the situation by using the emergency
chlorinator at the laboratories of the
state board of health, according to an
announcement by DR.. Henry Albert.
director of the laboratories at the
state university
The apparatus which has recently
been received by the health authori-
ties uses liquid chlorine-a compress
ed gas. This is the type of gas which
has been used on the European bat
Itleffelds to suffocate the opposing
troops It's peaceful use in water pu-
rification is infinitely more important
Small amounts of this gas possess the
power Of destroying the bacteria
which Turk in polluted waters, but the
quality Of the water for drinking pur-
poses is not impaired.
The usual amount of gas employed
for the publication is about two or
three pounds per million gallons. The
apparatus has been secured through
the courtesy of the manufacturers.
Wallace and Herman of New York.
At the present time the apparatus is
in use by one Of the cities of the state
where the water was the source of a
number of cases Of illness. Following
a rise of water in nearby river, pol
luton was found in the water of the
deep wells, which supply the city. AS
soon as the impurities Of the water be-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
WATCH OUT
FOR COAL PILE
Illinois State Chemist Sends OUT
Timely Warning to Those
WhosAre Storing Fuel
for Summer.

There is considerable danger from
spontaneous combustion in piles OF
coal stored AWAY fact which the
public should realize. Many fires are
started in this manner.
The danger is very much greater
in fine coal than in lump coal, and
wet or damp coal fires itself much
more readily than perfectly dry coal.
These things are of especial inter.
est just now because many people are
putting in coal for next winter, in an
ticipation of higher prices.
Professor S. w. Parr, state chem
list Of Illinois. sends out timely
warning on this subject. He says:
There is tende ncy for the fine
sizes Of coal, when wet, to heat
This, if helped along, might result in
fire There Is also tendency for
sulphur to cause this heat to increase.
If you want to store coal and be
reasonably safe, separate the fine
from the larger sizes. Screen all the
fine coal out of the larger sizes at
the point of storage and put only the
lump coal in the pile
Then pile the small coal to one
side. If you want to reduce the dan
ger Of firing in fine coal pile, have
that as nearly dry as you can, and
then make the pile compact
When the temperature of coal
pile has reached 100 degrees Fahren-
heit, you should begin to watch it.
When the temperature reaches 100
degrees, handle the coal out and use
it. When the temperature has reach
ed $50 degrees, spontaneous COM
bustion is well under way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
Lemon Juice
For Freck|es
Girls! Make beauty lotion at
home for few cents. Try It!

Squeeze the juice of two lemons in
to a bottle containing three ounces OF
orchard white, shake well, and you
have quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and complexion
beautifier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes disap-
pear and how clear, soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes! 1t Is harm
less.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
BANK WRECKERS
DISAPPEARED
State Authorities Searching for Nc
Farland and Bransfield Since
Two Banks are Found
Short

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, May 24.-Thomas F.
Mcfarland and Mark P. Bransfield
"whirlwind millionaires," were being
sought by the state authorities today
They were wanted in connection
with the closing of the Auburn State
bank and the Morgan State bank yes.
terday, pending examination OF
state auditor.
Mcfarland is president Of both
banks Bransf1eld is vice president
and cashier.
Against the 100000 deposits in
the two banks, 1t is said, the state
authorities preliminary examination
revealed but small percentage of
negotiable securities.
Mcfarland left a, wife and six chill
dren. Bransield left bride of six
months, who says she does not know
where he is.
Pank Examiner Ellis reported to
State Auditor Russell that there APP
pears to be nothing crooked in the
banks affairs-simply bad manage
ment. The banks, neither of which is
under supervision of the Chicago
clearing house association. are said
to have been on the brink of ruin
ever since the failure Of the LaSalle
Street Trust and Savings bank and
other institutions of the Lorimer-
Munday string
lnat approximately $4,000 had
been lost through the banks at
tempting to finance the Drexel Motor
Car corporation, of which Mcfarland
was director.
That more than 100000 had been
dissipated in backing the Bransf1eld-
Billings Piano Action company of
Saginaw, Mich.
at heavy losses had been sus-
tanned in fiat building transactions in
the Morgan park and Auburn park
districts.
Mcfarland and Bransfield got their
financial start through boosting the
deposits of the Auburn State bank
from few dollars to half million.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
K. c. MEETING
NEXT SUNDAY
esate Convention at Council Bluffs
Convenes Then for Three
Days Business
Session.

May % and May 30 are the dates
VI .ne annual state convention of the
,hhishts OF Columbus OF Iowa, which
70 be held at Council Bluffs. The
.ommlttee in charge of the arrange
mehts has provided everything that
.an contribute to the pleasure of the
nsltors and can help to make a sue
.ess or the gathering. A big attend
aace is expected. While this is 60
lug 20 be working convention, there
VIII be no lack Of entertainment
There will be number of others
aa ivy VIII be present, either as dele
tiaa es OF as officers of the organiza-
MI Ut as convention visitors.
Many notable Catholics are to at
naa u lhe convention, including Bishop
n saving Of Des Moines and the state
n seers OF the Knights of Columbus.
nc state officers are:
- =. Meyers, of Carroll, state den.
ta IVY, ). OLeary, Carroll, state secre
NY ny N. " kuhl, Earling, state treas.
ne program in detail
ato SUNDAY, MAY 81.
tecan oelnoon and Evening Informal
Eninph'!. 10 delegates and visitors at
sn' Oh Columbus club rooms.
MONDAY, MAY %.
tr,n d. m:-Solemn high mass at st.
RI p Aavler's church. Sermon by
Des N M Austin Bowling, bishop of
knish oo a. m.-Business session at
Of n, nl, OF Columbus hall. Address
~ Welcome, DR.. M. r. SNYDER mayor
W OSoun itl Bluffs. Greetings, by Joe
Coms smith, president of Chamber OF
kninh.e fce; T. M. Delaney. grand
Iten Council No. 1915.
'"V p m.-Business session.
trim p m.-Automobile sightseeing
Char, courtesy of Council Bluffs
her of Commerce.
and p p,.,l m-Reception to delegates
Canoes ltors at Eagles auditorium.
e0Hcert and dancing.
s.,o TUESDAY, MAY 20.
'V d, m.-Solemn high mass at
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
Iowa Among States In Which Women
Are Enrolling for Work In
Agriculture and Kin
dred Topics.
ACTIVITY BEING SHOWN
Garments for Gardening Being
Planned by Some of the overall
Manufacturers of the
Country.

| Woman suffragists throughout the
country are taking up crop work a
| the call issued by the Nationa
| Woman Suffrage association. Will
the cooperation of state and fedora
authorities, Michigan, Maryland, Con
necticut, New Jersey, Iowa, Nebraska
and Texas are among the first states
to react to the associations wal
service program.
Connecticut suffragists are providi
ing land for cultivation. In rural
leagues and small town leagues, every
suffragist is setting apart a patriotic
lot upon which an extra effort Will
be expended Upon farm eight miles
from Greenwich, belonging to Miss
Ryan and Miss Runtz-Rees, director
of the work of the local committee,
will be established the Fairfield Coun-
ty Camp Farming school, where an
eight weeks course in practical
farming and care of stock will be
given.
New Jerseys woman suffrage asso-
citation is enrolling women for war
relief work in agriculture, clerical.
domestic, personal, professional,
transportation work, aid for soldiers
dependent relatives, public service
contributions and miscellaneous.
Nebraska women are making an
especially strong point of the can
ming industry, every woman being in
structed to put up twice her usual
supply. In this manner $500 tons Of
preserved food will be released for
consumption of army and other non
producers by Nebraska alone.
Iowa suffragists have put out regis
Two dc ell ict TIM ont
in at least one of the following divis-
ions: Suffrage thrift, agriculture,
Of foreigners, child
welfare, industrial occupations, Red
Cross. Under the direction Of Ames
college, the Iowa Equal Suffrage as
sociation will send out Instructions
on the canning and preserving Of
vegetables and fruits Committees
have undertaken the cultivation of
vacant lots Another feature Of the
committee work will be cooking
schools.
Michigan women have issued bull
letin setting forth their plans for or
ganization in amplification of the
nationals program. Advisory bulle-
tins will follow. Vice chairmen have
been appointed for each Of the thir-
teen congressional districts, who will
line up individual clubs and county
wide woman's organizations. Wom-
en- are registering for emergency
service, and are pledged to increase
food supplies by agricultural work
and conservation.
Garments for gardening are being
tried out by the association with the
view to combining practical and
features. One of the
oldest manufacturers of overalls is
in design for worn-
ans overall, to be slipped on over
her ordinary clothes. This will af
ford protection without the incon-
venience of making a complete
change of attire. Garments, to be on
sale at all department stores, will be |
made of denim, khaki, and Bingham.
A well known pattern house has TAX
en- up with the association designs !
Tor patterns for one-piece garden I
suits with either short skirt or bloom
ers and leggings. A suffrage. blouse
s also being evolved for agricultural
wear
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

to the motorist. The country town
marshal with big tin star may be
short of grocery money on the very
day you visit his domain. Also, and
perhaps more important, any acct.
dent you may have in that bailiwick
while driving faster than the board
sign allows, makes you defenseless
in a damage dispute. for you have
placed yourself without the law in
driving faster than six miles an hour
in Wayland, Missouri--this is the low
est limit encountered anywhere-or
over ten or fifteen miles an hour In
most of the small burgs. The speed
limit in Des Moines and some cities
of consequence is twenty-five miles
an hour. One town in Iowa that
looks prosperous and pretty and al
together like. live wire among
municipalities has sign in big let
tiers reading: mo speed limit.
Please drive carefully through town.
They say even cross-continent tour
lists in big twelve cylinder cars sell
dom exceed fifteen miles an hour on
their streets.
1t might be well for automobile
Wichita, Kansas, or Des Moines. Iowa,
and try to have a sensible conference
with the city council on safety
measures and streets and alleys.
Always keep your car under con-
troll by the above definition. 1t will
save lot of repair bills and law
suits, and you will get to your des-
tination about on time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

At ST. PETERS
-. ueirs Of Rockford" Drama in
Five Acts, Presented in Hall by
sodality Of Children
Of Mary.
NAY CALENDAR MONTH
49,. Audience Pleased by Excellent
program Which Included Sew
eraI Interesting Musi-
cal Numbers.

ohio Heirs of Rockford" drama
!, Ave acts was presented in st.
na.ar,s hall last night before a large
andience by the Young Ladies So.
d dslity of the Children of Mary Tor
G. Peters calendar month OF May.
Mics Marie Hayes, president OF the
.oao,ity. was chairman of the enter
.s;nment. The program was pleas
:an one and was thoroughly enjoyed
Nv e everyone present. Between the
osts of the play, musical numbers
..are presented. The characters in
,hs drama handled their parts in a
.snable manner and those who were
~ the musical program performed in
their usual pleasing style.
The program follows:
The Heirs Of Rockford.
Act School Room, st. xavier's
Act II-Madame Rockford's Salon
on her, Fiftieth Birthday.
mill kindergarten
Act III-Madame Rockford's Bou-
ioir
Act Iy-Madame Rockford's Salon
One Year Later.
Act V - Lawyer Blackstone's
Library.
The Graduates-Th Misses Rose
welsh, Agnes Tigue. Ruth Miller.
Anastatia Cavanaugh, Margaret
Tigue, Marie Moeller. Julia
sheahan and Marie Faber.
Mother Alexina. Marie Hayes
Madame Rockford. .Genevieve Crotty
Her Daughters
Madame De F1acheton. ........
.....,. Anna Landman
Madame Won Schuyler. ........
..... Julia Sheahan
Mrs. Riverton -. Katharine Hayes
Madame Rockford's Nieces-
Gwendoline Rockford. Rose Welsh
Olivette Rockford. Marie Moeller
Psyche and Venus, the Twin
......A. Connolly and c.. Welsh
Mrs. Stafford 800. Mary BRASIL
Mrs. Gray, kindergarten teacher
................. Anna Baum
Mrs. Briarton. ....... Ruth Miller
Her daughter, Cordelfa. Agnes Tigue
Lawyer Blackstone Joseph Code
Mrs. Blackstone. -. Anna Landman
MORRISON, Mdme. Rockford's
maid .............. Mable Riley
Musical Program.
Click-C lick-Click -. Graduating Class
Somewhere in Dixie. ...........
Misses Anna Connolly and Celes-
tine Welsh.
Dur Queen is Coming Chorus
iolden Jubilee. Chorus |
Mother Machree. Mrs. Robert Walker
Violin and Piano Selections. -.
...John Salzer and Anna Welsh |
Dlano Solo. Miss Norine Farraher |
scenery loaned through the courtesy |
OF Dodge Theatre Company; cleo |
trical effects through the courtesy !!
Of c. S. Abell
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
WHAT LEE COUNTY
SPENT FOR ROADS
Close to $25, 900 Was Amount Paid Out
Last Year For Highways I'M
provement in This
Section.
MUCH BRIDGE WORK
Over 1000 Was Paid Out for This
Feature Of System, Commits
sioner's Report for
Year Shows.
MUCH BRIDGE WORK

Lee county spent close to $4,000
for road work during the year 1916
according to the annual report of the
state highway commission for the
year ending December l, 1916. The
commissions report so far as Let
county is concerned is the following
The total county road expenditure
was S24,255.24 Of which $959.75 or -four
lper cent was spent for permanent
work; $3.50 or 3 per cent was spent
for temporary work; $16,416.30 or 67.7
per cent was spent for repairs; 81,
1882 or 1876 per cent was for main
tenance: 81 ,475.19 or 6.1 per cent was
spent for equipment and unused ma.
terial; $5909S or "a per cent was
spent for miscellaneous work No
roads were built to permanent or nat
uraI grade. Three-fourths of a mile
was surfaced with gravel at cost OF
$959.75. Three-fourths of a mile was
built to natural grade at a cost OF
$3.50.
The county road system VISA drag
ged an average Of ASS times, the av-
erage cost Of dragging seventy cents
per mile one round trip. The averag e
cost Of repairs and maintenance was
S141.13 per mile of county road. The
total average expenditure per mile Of
county road was $161.7O.
The total township expenditure as
shown by reports from all Of the sew
enteen townships was s36,929.27.
The total expenditure for bridge
and culvert work during 1916 was
$51. 755.0S of which S35,24S35 or 6S.2
per cent was spent on permanent
bridges and culverts; $3,623.5S or 7
per cent was spent on temporary
bridges and culverts; s9,45S.71 or 1873
per cent was spent on repair work:
s2,243.57 or As per cent was spent on
equipment and materials: $43596 or 8
per cent was spent en- filling bridges
and culverts and S74491 or IA per
items
OF the total amount s3s,s7193 spent
for new bridges and culverts.
S35,24S35 or 9O.6 per cent was spent
for permanent work; s3,6235S or "a
per cent was spent for temporary
work. The amounts above referred to
We're spent on the following construc-
ton:
Sixtytwo box concrete culverts cost
ing S17,101.99 40 circular concrete
culverts costing S4,9T3; 25 corrugated
pipe culvers costing S62092; 119
boiler pipe culverts costing $4,000. &c;
10 headwalls on culverts costing
81 ,S6675; 6 I-beam spans on concrete
abutments costing s11,306.61.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
.Superfzuous Hair, Roots
And All, Quickly Go!
(AbsoiutsIy Nsw Home Method)

For the first time in hundred years
a genuinely effective method of removing
unsightly hairy growths has been discov-
cred. The new phelactine process does
not merely take off the hair-ends it ac-
tually removes the roots! It does this
instantly and harmlessfy. 1t does not
act anything like the depilatory, cleo
trical, or other methods. Phelactine is
non-odorous, non-poisonous, non-irritat-
ing. Get stick of it from your drug
gist follow the simple instructions, and
have the satisfaction Of seeing the roots
themselves removed at last. If not per-
fectly satisfied the purchase price will be
returned to you.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

The Speed Myth-Only recently
nave Law makers dropped the err
roneous idea that there is some Ger.
tain relation between speed and
safety in driving an automobile. The
most up-todate ordinances make the
speed limit twenty-five miles an
hour and provide for real safety in
a real way otherwise
A tyro with new automobile
Should not be allowed to drive over
i've miles an hour in city street
and ten miles an hour in the country
The expert in driving and safety
first may attain forty miles an hour
In city or country at times without
the least danger to anyone.
The really safe speed rule is this:
Always keep your car under con-
troll, so that you can bring it to a
full stop before you reach the nearest
point at which there is a possibility
or encountering an obstruction. an
other car, a vehicle or pedestrian.
In that rule emphasize full stop.
possibility and absolute control. To
reduce it to figures requires factors
OF the drivers personal equation, the
speed and the character of the car
and of the road surface. If it is
complied with you will never strike
an obstruction of any kind.
But every Incorporated town has
its speed limit in miles per hour,
posted in large figures at
the corporation limits. Nobody pays
much attention to the thing, and
thereby sometimes much grief comes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

came known the water was treated
with chlorine as a safeguard against
further trouble. Examinations made
since that time have shown the treat
ed water to be entirely safe for drink
ing purposes.
Cities or towns desiring the ap-
paratus in an emergency should apply
to DR.. Henry Albert, director of the
laboratories for the state board OF
health, at the state university. No
charge is made for the apparatus.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

A1Iens Foot.Ease, the antlseptc powder to be
shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot
bath. 1t relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet
and takes the sting out of corns and bunions.
Used by tho Allied and German troops at the
'front.'. Aliens Foot--Ease is a certain relief for
sweating, Gallons, tired, aching feet. Sold by
Druggists everywhere. Csc Always use it to
Break in new shoes. Trial package FREE
Address, Allen s. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

bankers at 9 a. m. he discussed plans
for the sale of the bonds.
At noon he speaks at luncheon at
the Commercial club. At two p. m. he
addresses the Nebraska Food Conser-
walton congress in session here, and at
three D. m. viii speak to the boy
scouts, on the subject every scout
feed soldier
The party will leave tonight for To-
peka, GansaS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24


= Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, (via London) May "a
Count Tisza's fall as premier of Hun.
gary was no surprise here. His resig
nation and tie withdrawal of his
cabinet had been expected ever since
opposing forces in Hungary demon.
strated Tiszas resistance to real
franchise reforms. Presumably this
Is the main reason for his downfall
but information here today indicate ed
that Tisza's hostility to complete
commercial Impeachment with Ger.
many has likewise been instrumental
Counts Itchy and Szerenyi, both
former members of Count Tisza's
party, were mentioned as successors
in Vienna and Budapest dispatches
today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24

st. Peters church.
1890 a. m.-Business session at
club house of Council Bluffs Rowing
association, Lake Manawa.
p. m.-Informal reception to all
visitors and members,
p. m.-Dancing at Rowing asso-
citation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
German Held by Police.

LOS ANGELES, May 24.-With a
notebook in his possession, in which
there was reference to fort Curry
and "U. S. ship No. 2, Long Beach,
Bruno Weinard, German who speaks
little English, was taken into custody
early today by. the police and is be-
ing held for investigation by federal
authorities. He refuses to explain
his notations,