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The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-25

ing Of Villa picture was forbidden because it
might arouse bitter feelings Another ruling
eliminated all snakes, even in cartoons
Two boards will allow only six of Shakes
peares plays to be shown, if the newspapers
are correct. Romeo and Juliet has too many
street brawls. The assassination in Julius
Caesar bars that. King Lear pictures too many
'scandalous discords. Hamlet is too oppres-
sive; Macbeth too murderous
One group of censors suggested that, in the
film Alice in Wonderland, - the scene where
Alice steals the tarts should be eliminated and
mothers should put little appreciative sym
pathy into their laugh at this point. Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch idealizes shift
lessness and must be retired
Boards have presumed to judge the accur-
acy of a picture; some boards have barred a
picture for political reasons, and then had it
run again for the enjoyment of their families
and friends.
But the greatest complaint against censor
ship is the fact that two boards agree and
no one board agrees with itself two days in
succession. film is barred here cut there
permitted in third place. Later the same
film, slightly changed and with new name
will be permitted in the first place, barred in
the second and cut in the third. Whim pref
udce and the political weather seems to die
tate decision frequently. 1t is undeniably cor
trary to the American spirit for censors to bar
pictures protesting against censorship.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-25

thriving saloon street intersection. which
nearly put out of business by the establishment
of picture house next door.
X. q. Bartholomew. experienced investigator,
recently made a report to the mayor of Cleveland
the motion picture theatres of that city in which
he says:
After having talked with many saOonkeepers,
is forced to the conclusion that the motion picture
theatre is today the greatest competitor and of
the strongest enemies of the saloon. OCCASIONAL
LN YOU MEET A CLERGYMAN OR AN EDUCATOR
WHO CRITICIZES THE MOTION PICTURE THEA
TIERS. But if you want to the motion picture
business flayed alive and its skin hung up to dry,
talk to a saloon keeper or pool room operator or
prize fight promoter the manager of bur
lesque show. Of if you speak Spanish, slip across
the Mexican border and listen to the gentlemen who
conduct bull fights"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-25
LIQUORS BATTLE METHODS.

Because of these things the liquor trust is
wagng an open and vigorous war upon the
picture industry. It's methods of fighting in
cude the increase of the federal tax on exhib-
itors, which would run hundreds of them out
of business the application of pressure on mo-
ton picture producers, and the influencing Of
censorship for the excelsior of all scenes in
which liquor is shown in an unfavorabe CON
nection, and the protection of all scenes where
it is shown a good-time agency
In editorial entitled Suppose the Movies Pay
the Tax, Midas Criterion advocates a federal tax of
ten cents per foot on negatives, three cents
prints, flat tax exhibitors equal to cent
for each paid admission. 1t says:
eff all the liquor men will keep agitatng
the matter of a movie tax and later get their
friends to agitating. pretty soon Uncle Sam
will hear about it and he will get busy on this
great glory-hole proposition
When such a federal tax pictures intro
duced into the revenue bill pending in Con-
gress, Midas editorial entitled THE Fruit of
Effort in which it claimed the credit for the sup
posed certainty that the proposition would go
oh
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-25
Alcoholic Liquors and What Strenl
iOuOr is AffemDtino in Refa

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The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-25
GENERAL ADVERTISING
GENERAL ADVERTISING
GENERAL ADVERTISING
ADVERTISING
Deance Prohibition Public Mora the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Ok

Issued News and Research Department the Board Of Temperance
PmnA E D.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17
Keokuk People Appreciate Our
TOILET GOODS SECTION

where toilet articles are sold as they have
been in surrounding cities stores for some
years.
Palm Olive soap, 2 for ............ .15c
Rubifoam (tooth wash) .......... 19c
16 OF. bottle witch hazel 19c
Lyon s tooth paste =. 1Sc
Ponds vanishing cream .23c
Sanitol tooth paste ......... 23c
Rubberset tooth brushes 22c
Prophylactic tooth brushes 29c
Pompeian night cream $50. ....... 3Oc
Listerine Nambert's) -. 39c
Pompeian massage cream ........ 39c
Java Rice face powder ............ 39c
La Blanche face powder A5c
Pebecco tooth paste A5c
Packers tar soap zoe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17
CITY NEWS.

Read Frank J. Ewers' ad.
Good progress is being made on
the Irwin-Phillips building.
Let Chaser do your guttering and
spouting and at right prices.
For your spring papering and
painting, A. O'Bleness. Phone 33S.
Just arrived, a car of extra fine
cedar shingles. Keokuk Lumber Co.
-General hauling and moving
ashes: reasonable prices. Phone 151>-.
-NauToo is voting today on the
wet or dry proposition. The interesr
is keen
Mrs. Roy Sherwood was taken 10
Graham hospital and her tonsils re-
moved this morning.
This is the kind Of weather to
make the farmer and the amateur
gardener alike, sit up and take no.
tice, and also TO smile.
Judging from the number of adj
vertisements for help wanted appear
ing in the CLASSIFIED columns, there
is no need for idle men in this CITY.
carpenters, paper hangers and
painters are busily engaged these
days. All over the city Improvement
is going on which gives employment
to mechanics.
Regular meeting Loyal Order Of
Moose, keokuk lodge No 704, tonight
at o'clock, in Moose hall. Visiting
brothers cordially invited John G.
Stadler, dictator. A. E. Moore, secre.
tary.
Work on the storm sewer being
put in on North Twelfth street from
Franklin street TO Morgan street Is
progressing rapidly Tile is already
being laid, and almost a half block
Of the trench has been refilled.
Regular meeting of Morning Star
lodge No. 5, knights of Pythias at
Castle hall Tuesday evening at s
o'clock. Work in Esquire rank. Visit
ing members invited. H. A Brunat, G.
C., J. A. Burgess, K. Of R. & S.
There Is scarcely vacant lot in
town which is not being utilized as
a garden spot. Even ground sur
rounding the cabin boats is being
titled for small gardens, and mum
Der OF the residents are expecting to
harvest their summer vegetables out
of their gardens.
A keOkuk man who recently re.
turned from Chicago says that that
city is seeth1nS with patriotism ana
that recruiting officers are pinnins
yellow ribbons on the men who go to
the marriage license bureau instead
of to the recruiting Office Men from
the army stand in the lobby of the
marriage license building and when
a man who would be eligible for sery
ice comes to secure a license, he is
tagged with bit of yellow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17
CITY NEWS.

READ Frank J. Ewers' adj
See Chaser now about that furn-
ace for your home while prices are
still right.
There are surely more gardens
in this year than last because tbo
number of complaints about chiCkens
running at large is greater than a
year ago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17

PROPOSALS FOR LEVEE WORK
Office of the Secretary, Mississippi
River Commission, 1871 International
Life Building, st. Louis, Mo.-Sealed
proposals will be received here until
IL a. m, May IA, 1917, for construct
ing about 259, 100 cubic yards OF
earthwork in the Sny Island Levee
Drainage District, Ill. Further infor-
nation on application.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17
GARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank friends and
'neighbors for the kindness shown dur
Ing our recent bereavement
J. P. CONNETT AND FAMILY
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17
BILLIARDS AND LOWING.

BILLIARDS AND LOWING.
FOR SALE-Billlard tables. brand
new, carom and pocket, with complete
outfit, $3.50; second hand tables at re.
duced prices. Easy payments. Cig3-
store, fixtures specially, send for ca
eIogue. Bruins wick Balke-Collender Co
davenport, Ia. l. c. Sanders. agent,
P. O. box 453. Phone Davenport 624e
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-17

COAL WHOLESALE ONLY
Have closed retail business until
June IA. D. z. REEVES &, CO.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
CHASE & CHASE RECEIVED FEES.
Full Satisfaction in Cutler Case Before
Action Was Dismissed.

In the article in The Reformer yes
terday relative to the supreme court de-
cision in the Cutler-Doolittle suit il was
stated that the case of Chase & Chase.
attorneys, which was a suit against Miss
Cutler for legal fees, was dismissed
without costs to either party. While the
statement was correct, the records show
that Chase & Chase previously received
their fees and the dismissal of the case
was by agreement of the parties. A stip-
ulation was filed with the court MAY 10,
signed by II. q. Bacon for Miss Ethel +.
Cutler, H. G. & +. +. Barber for Merton
A. Doolittle, and Charles S. Chase for
Chase & Chase, reading as follows:
Chase < Chase having been paid
for their legal services and disburse-
ments i'll said cause to their full salts
faction, it is agreed that they shall
make no further claim in said cause and
are to be dismissed from this suit with
out costs to either party.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
BOARD OF TRADE
TO LIST PROPERTY
Persons Having Rooms, Houses or
Farms TO Rent or Sell Requested
to Inform the Secretary.

IN line with a recommendation of
President Walker in his annual report
to the board Of trade, the board is pre-
pared to keep a list of all rooms to
rent, houses to rent and farms to rent
or sell III this locality. No charge will
be made for the service the only consid-
Grafton being that owners of the prop
erty shall keep the list corrected.
Persons having property of this kind
for rent or sale are asked to inform the
secretary Of the board Of trade BY let
ter, telephone or personal call stating
name, address. price and location of
property. Then the board OF trade will
ne in 4 position to answer inquiries
from persons desiring such property
and to put them i'll immediate touch
with the owners.
1t can be seen readily however, that
unless persons listing property are par
.ticular about keeping the secretary tr-
formed Of any changes the list will lose
much of its value.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
CONTRACTS FOR SHIPS.
Thirty Eight Orders Given for Wooden
and Stc-l Vessels

WASHINGTON, May 22-Maior-
General Gocthals, general manager OF
the emergency leet corpo alton Of the
shipping board, announced that IS
contracts bad hecl executed To date
for stcel and wooden steamships. This
is the beginning OF the >hipp'n4
board 's program. The ships viii be
paid for ont of the S50.00O,000 cap
italization of the fleet corporation.
Contracts i'm large numbers are
awaiting appropriations from congress.
The shipping board has baraaincd for
more than 25o,uoo tons Of wood and
steel vessels, and viii execute the coli
tracts the momcat congress approves
the administration PAN.
The list Of ship contracted for fol
lows: Merrill Stevens company, Jack.
sonyillc, Fla, T. wooden cargo carry
ing steamships complete aud four ear
90 carrying all steel ships complete:
Los Angeles ShipbuiIding and Dry
Docking company, Long Beach. Cal
eight cargo carrying all steel ship,
| complete; q. NJ. Standifcr Construc
ton corporation, Portland, Ore, ten
wooden cargo carrying steamships com.
plcte; Peuinaular Shipbujliing com
panv, Portland, o e., four wooden car
20 vessels complete.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
BRATTI EBORO VERMONT TUESDAY EVENING. NAY D. 1911
RED CROSS HEARS
BENSON'S REPORT
Brattleboro S Quota Toward State Mem
bership is 800 - Local Directors
to Meet Fridays.

The local Red Cross directors held a
meeting yesterday to hear the report OF
o. +. Benson, who attended the state
meeting in Burlington as a representa-
tive Of the local branch. statewide
campaign for Red Cross members is TO
he wagcd the last week in May. when
it IS hoped to swell the membership Of
the state to $4,000 and while the Brat
tleboro branch has a membership OF
over 250, its quota is 500.
Mr. Benson reported great cnthusi-
asm up the state Governor Graham
urged the delegates to realize that it
was duty every one owed the coun-
try to Join the American Red Cross,
that one was not fulfilling the privi-
Ieoes of MS citizenship if he did not
become member.
Andrew J. L. Hclmus of the New
England division viii speak at rally
and preparedness meeting in Bellows
Falls Wednesday night and will come
ncre TO confer with Nj. Benson. who
has been elected chairman of the cam
paieu committee.
Some cannot give Of their time, hut
by Joining the Red Cross the can give
their dollar each and they bind them
selves to nothing. simply are expected
to retain their membership another
wear.
In most towns the men are actively
interested and the local Red Cross,
while organized by patriotic women
for relief work. needs the help and ad-
vice OF the men. When Brattleboro
realizes her duty to the state and ma.
tion She viii respond to the call a
Nermonters rs Vet. have never been
found wanting.
Ms. L. w. Gibson was elected chair
man Of the civil relief committee Of the
local Red cross in place Of Mrs \. I
Hawlev, resigned. The directors voted
to have a regular board meeting Fri
day Of each week at p. m. in the ciyi
service examination room in the fed
cral building.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
OFFERED BY
GARDEN COMMISSION
Treat on Gardening, Conserving and
Canning and Are Free - Garden
Data Being Gathered.

The Reformer today received from
the National Emergency Food Garden
Commission several posters which have
been hung in the office.
These posters are done III four colors
and announce that food garden primers,
canning primers and other garden plant
ing data may be had by writing to the
National Emergency Food Garden Com
mission at 2l0 Maryland Building,
Washington, D. G.
This work Of cooperating between
The Reformer and the commission is a
part of the nationwide campaign that
has been conducted this spring to en-
courage the planting of food gardens.
The Reformer has been printing the
food garden lessons as first aid to
gardeners and now the canning lessons
will soon come along as part Of the
campaign to help readers of this paper
The National Commission is also
gathering data on the number of
gardens that have been planted and the
number Of people so engaged. which
when completed will be the first au-
thentic information the people of the
country will have on what is being
done.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
Chief Wilson and Policeman
Worden Receive Reap
pOintments
COMPLAINTS ABOUT
SPRINKLING HEARD
Village Commissioners Expect to Have
Third Sprinkling Cart in Operation i'll
Few Special Police Re-appoint-
ed Except Barbetti.

The village commissioners in their
meeting last evening re-appointed Po-
lice CHIEF George Wilson and Police
man Ellis G. Worden. They also re
all Of the former special po
lice officers with the exception of
Sahano Barbetti. There was no ap-
pointment of q day police officer, but
one will be made later.
The commissioners voted to buy
pair Of horses for use in the fire Ia
partment and on the streets, especially
during the sprinkling season Two
men were present to complain of the
way street splinkling is done They
We're II. p. Wellmaa and c. G.. Staples
The commissioners expect within a
few days to have third sprinkling
cart at work and that there Will be no
more reason for complaints Of insult
fieicnt sprinkhag.
They voted to increase the paw of
Henry Pellerin, a driver in the fire de-
partment, who is driving one of the
sprinkling carts, to SIC a week. an in
crease Of 81
Thor l.. Anderson, a former member
of Company /, Y. \. g., and Of the ma
chine gun company, but who is not now
in the service, has been appointed by
the commissioners as day officer. While
he has not accepted- -the-~aF Fsrefrrtment,
n IS expected that he will do so.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
TO BUILD UNDERsEA BOATS.
Simon Lake Expects to Turn Out Sub
marines 500 Feet in Length.

NEW YORK, May 22.-Simon Lake,
inventor Of the Lake torpedo boat, and
associates have formed new SIo,-
000,000 company to construct the
largest merchant submarines in the
world The submarines will be along
the lines of the German merchant sub
marine, the Deutschland, and will have
a carrying capacity of from 5000 to
10000 tons, this being far in excess
of the cargo that could be carried by
the Deutschland. The submarines will
be 800 feet long.
Notwithstanding that the boats will
be the largest of their kind ever built
the promoters of the new company de-
clare they will be able to start them
to Europe five months after the receipt
of an order.
Associated with Mr.. Lake are a
number Of wealthy men who will sup
ply the capital needed for starting the
plant None of the stock Of the new
company is expected to be offered to
! the public for subscription.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
MEASURES TO FORCE
COAL PRICES DOWN
Federal Trade Commission to Take Ac-
ton if Extortionate Practices
Are Continued

WASHINGTON, May 22-Measures
to force down anthracite coal prices
viii be taken, the federal trade com
.mlssion announced today, if producers
and dealers do not adhere to their re
.cent promise to cease extortionate prae-
tices. The commission issued this state
ment on the subject.
The committee has sent agents into
different parts Of the country, who will
observe closely throughout the anthra
cite trade the operations of plans form
ulated at recent conferences of tho com
omission with operators. iobhers and rep
resentatiye retailers for bringing down
Iprices TO moderate levels and Keeping
them there.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
J. r. Van Cor Reports Disap-
pearance of His Wife to
Officials
WOOD HAS BOARDED
WITH THE VAN CORS
Former Day Policeman Asks that
Weeks Wages Be Paid to His Wife,
Nights According to Mrs. Yeaw.

Charles H. Wood, who had been day
police officer since July :, 1916, is no
longer a member of the force and is not
in town. His wife is i'll in the Brattle-
boro Memorial hospital J. r. Van
Cor reported to Police Chief George vii
son and States Attorney William r.
Daley this noon that his wife had been
missing since yesterday afternoon.
Wood had been taking his meals with
the Van Cors since Mrs. Wood has been
Jim the hospital.
The village commissioners in their
meeting last evening failed TO reap
point Wood as an officer, and this aft
Iernoon Chairman f. w Gibson OF the
commissioners said that Wood was ab-
sent without leave from the chief or
Ianv OF the commissioners and was off
the force regardless of the reason for
his absence.
Wood recently received from Attor-
lnev =. b. Hughes a check for $50 as
settlement in a suit Wood had against
/ Mrs. Lucinda Marston for the care of
ltti 0l0t'I. II ls2 al J II NJ IltNSti>s Nitp
died three months ago. Wood had FIVE
! notes for $50 each made out to him in
payment Tor the care She received from
/ Wood and his Wife, payment TO be made
after her death. The suit was brought
iupon refusal OF the payment of the
notes. bat a settlement for about half
al the amount was brought about with
out the matter going to court.
\ man reported to Chief Wilson last
evening that Officer Wood had asked
/ that the chief turn over his pay for the
week ia Mrs. Wood. The commission
ers last evening approved the vouchers
for the village bills and the money will
| be given to her.
He has been living at the corner Of
Estev and Birge streets for the last
six weeks in the upper tenement of the
house owned by Louis Ycaw. Mrs.
Ycaw said this afternoon that Wood ap-
ipeared there yesterday afternoon and
said that he was going to the hospital
to see his wife. Personal inquiry at
that institution this afternoon by Chair
man Gibson developed the fact that
Wood had not been there yesterday ol
today. Mrs. Yeaw said that he had
lnot been sleeping mt home nights since
his wife Went to the hospital.
4 Officer Ellis Worden said last night
that Wood said to him Yesterday that
he wished to get off duty for a couple
OF hours and Officer Worden told him tC
4 report to the chief, who was 1T the 20
lice station. Wood went there, com
mented to the chief on the fact that hC
had bought Il new hat, but said moth
ing about being eff duty He was not
on duty yesterday afternoon and wa!
seen in citizen $ clothes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
GERMAN SEA RAIDER
REPORTED AT LARGE
British Naval Authorities Suspect Yes.
sci Escaped Under the Guise of
Merchantmen.
Merchantman.

NEW YORK, May 22-Informatiou
that the British naval authorities sus-
pectcd that "a German sea raider es-
capped from German port and was at
large was brought to America today
hy am arriving relief steamship. The
Belgian captain said his vessel was
fred ON by n British cruiser ON Nav
Is off the north OF Scotland. The snip
explained that the relief vessel, which
carries four masts was mistaken for a
tourmasted raider which was believed
to have left Germany under the gui~o
OF u merchantmen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-05-22
MOB BURNED NEGRO.
Between 1000 and 5000 Witnessed Kill
ing of Murderer.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May % Eli
Persons, 4 Negro, confessed murderer of
Antoinette Rappal several weeks ago,
was burned to death near the scene of
the crime at 9 clock today \ mob
estimated at from 1000 to 5000 saw
the death of the Negro.
Telephone messages at 1890 0 clock
stated that the mob had captured De
Witt Ford, mute, one Of the Negroes
implicated by persons in the murder
of the girl and was on the wa to the
.scene of the first lynching.