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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23

TERED in the Nauvoo Catholic GENE
terry, his body arriving here last
Thursday night.
John Reents. of Clinton. Iowa, is
a guest of William F. Hertel and
family In their Nauvoo home.
Philip Kyburz has returned to his
home near Nauvoo from Camp Grant,
ILL.,, where he was doing soldier
duty for some months. "Phip' looks
well, hale and hearty, and, although
he says he likes soldier life, he was
glad to get his discharge and again
enjoy civil life among his friends
and relatives
Ralph e. Nicols' comedians are
booked for a weeks stand in the
Nauvoo opera house, beginning Sun
day evening last The company has
splendid repertoire of comedies
and dramas and complete change
of program is promised every night.
The opera house has received thor
ough cleaning and fumigating. As
there have been no anusements for
some time, on account Of the influ-
enza ban, good sized crowds are
looked for. Simon Diekman, of the
Fort Madison opera house, has re-
leased the Nauvoo playhouse for an
other year. He will begin his movie
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
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NAUvoo, ILL, DEG. 20.

All of Nauvoo's stores kept open
doors during the last six days before
Christmas to accommodate the neBl
gent holiday shoppers
Fred Simmons who is an appointed
substitute mail carrier on rural route
No. 2, out of Nauvoo. was in the
county seat city one day last week
where he secured the necessary
papers to allow him to become citi
zen of these United States.
Mrs. John Ketterer and daughter
Madeline of Nauvoo, are in Omaha
Neb.. where they will remain for a
visit until after the holidays and
guests Of the lady's daughter, Miss
Marie.
Miss Clara Kramer and her sister
Mrs. Sarah Reimbold, of Nauvoo
have returned from visit to Roches'
ter, Mimi, where they went to CON
suit the noted surgeons regarding the
latter's health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Cambre and
child have gone to st. Paul, Mimi,
Oscar, and wife
Many strangers were in Nauvoo the
past few days buying Christmas pres
6uGS. uc llldlc 5CA PuiSheIoCo q Adi . y
amount of holiday cheer to last them
over New Years.
Mrs. Frank Eid who lives in Ft
Madison, sends word to her hus-
bands parents in Nauvoo that their
son who was in the army in France,
is about to arrive in the states if he
corporal and wounded some time
ago.
Tony Schlangen and Mrs. Allie
Chant of Powellton, were married a
short time ago in FIT. Madison The
happy couple are well known in
Nauvoo. the groom conducts gen
eral merchandise store in the suburbs
of Nauvoo, about seven miles east
of the city.
A good many of Nauvoo's male
citizens are busy pruning grape
vines in their vineyards every nice
day that comes along excepting holi-
days. Most all Of them claim that
fall pruning is better than that of
springtime and lessons the time to
other work when the crop season
arrives next year
Nauvoo has had its last Tom and
Jerry season in It's history last year.
Eggs are too high to offer this popu-
lar holiday drink oyer the bar this
year, and the price of hen fruit may
fall in the spring in consequence.
Ed. Wellner's name was seen in the
casualty list of last Wednesdays Chi
cago Tribune. 1t was under the head
of Missing in Action" 1t is hoped
that this young man as well as Fred
Haas who was also missing in action
NAV turn I'm among the living al
though there are faint hopes that
this may come to pass.
Nauyoo's chief OF police, John John
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
Notice Retail Druggists
No More Vaporub Direct
Buy If5Fr0m Your J0bber

in single mail. It is becoming i'm
possible for us to fill these promptly.
and instead Of distributing our goods
more quickly, they are really slowing
up the process.
We believe that we can serve you
better now by reverting to our former
policy of shipping exclusively through
the jobber, and, effective Immediately,
no more drop shipments will be
made.
While we have put on night shift
and have, thereby, about doubled our
production, we are still unable to fill
our back orders and won't be able to
give each jobber all the Vapo Rub
he wants. Hence, 1t will be necse-
sary for the jobbers to continue dis
tributing Vapo Rub in small lots only.
But we will be able to furnish each
jobber at least twice the quantity of
Vapo Rub that he purchased for the
corresponding month last year. SO
there should not be any difficulty in
your getting your pro rata share.
We feel that the public appreciates
the service that the retail and whole
sale drug trade have rendered the
country in this time of stress We
wish to express to both branches or
the trade our thanks for the kind CO.
operation extended us in our efforts
to meet this emergency.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
THE WICK CHEMICAL COMPANY Greensboro N. O.

Mrs. Mary Argast, manager; Drs.
Haggett and Rudolph, physicians.
Miss Susan Wilder. of the county
home bureau. was in Nauvoo last
Thursday afternoon and demon
strated on home nursing" and
what can be done for influenza. .
The event took place in the room
over A. J. Beger's drug store. and.
strange to say, there was a small at
tendance. The lady impaired much
interesting and useful information
to tho ladies.
The Nauvoo M. e. church congre-
cation has postponed the Christmas
eve program on account of the "flu'
epidemic
Charles Lewis, a former Sonora.
township young man, died in the
Mckinley hospital at Columbus.
Miss. the cause of his death being
influenza, followed by pneumonia.
His wife and two children were Wis
ting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. |. r
Lewis, wien they received a tele-
gram apprising them of his serious
illness, and they. with the young
mans father, Immediately left for
the southern city, arriving a few
hours before his death. but in time
for him to recognize the loved ones.
He was 80 years of age at the time
OF bis death The remains were In
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
Effective Immediately, No
More Direct Shipments VIII
Be Made Retailers. ALI
Shipments Now Go to job
bers for Redistribution.

When the influenza epidemic struck
the country and wiped out our ware
house and jobbers' stocks almost
overnight, we were faced with the
problem of distributing the
stricken districts--in the quickest
possible manner-our daily output of
Vapo Rub. We solved this by offer.
ing to ship direct to the retailers in
these influenza districts, by parcel
post prepaid, quantities of not more
than three dozen Vapo Rub in any
one shipment. and by shipping what
was left from our daily production to
our jobbers by express instead Of
freight.
This was costly, but it solved the
problem for the time being. Now.
however. we find that these small
shipments are constantly increasing
we have received as many as 1906
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
FORT MADISON
INFLUENZA BAN
Causes Injunction Suit Of Motion Pic
ture Proprietor Who Alleges
Determination and Dele
CATION Of Power.
CASE rs HEARD TODAY
Judge Hamilton viii Decide Merits of
Controversy and Citizens Up
There Are All Inter
ested.
CASE rs HEARD TODAY

Simon Dickman, proprietor of a
motion picture house in Fort Madi
son, has asked the district court for
an Injunction preventing the city
council acting as board of health
from closing his theater on account
of the influenza epidemic raging
there.
He alleges discrimination against
him by the closing Of his house while
other business pieces are allowed to
run open to the public. He also raises
the question whethe- the board OF
health can delegate its powers TO an
executive committee t. make an
order in its discretion. as the Fort
Madison board of health did in the
beginning.
Judge Hamilton Is hearing argu-
ments on the petition for injunction
in Fort Madison today. Fort Madi.
son is deeply interested in the case.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
THIRD CLASS
VACCINATED
Doctors Begin Sunday on the Third
Shots Of the Rasenow Vaccine
at the Free Sta
tion.

Sunday afternoon the third class IN
pneumonia vaccination began at the
free station in the George Washington
school building. There were seventy
two Keokuk people in IL. Many persons
have got off schedule and are coming
the day before or the day after the one
on which they are due.
On Saturday, the second class was
finished, and 322 persons were vacci-
mated IN the two hours between ! and
Q O'Clock, when the sta ton is open.
There were only seventytwo cases
Of Influenza IN forty homes in all keo-
kuk at 10 o'clock this morning
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
:LDER IS NOW
POSTMASTER
Few Appointee Receives His Commits,
sion and at Once Sits at Desk
in Big Room in Post
office.
iUSY LEARNING DUTIES:
Short, Sweet and Satirical Inter
view, and No Ceremonies When
Successful Candidate
Takes Charge.

This morning Joshua F. Elder was
ltting at the postmaster's desk in the
e room in the postoffice, busily read
z letters and official circulars and
l,sting up on the new duties he began
ilnday
/ His commission is dated November
| 1918, and 1t arrived Saturday, after
l. had filed his bond and the latter
I'd been approved. He at once took
4 er the roll top desk, but the account
q of checking the office will not
cur until the close OF business De
mber 81. When The Gate City asked
lostmaster Elder for an interview as
Is first message to the public, he re
lied:
1.-The days Will grow longer and the
gflts shorter from now on
He received his commission at the
inter- solstice.
Some Former Postmasters.
Acting Postmaster Edward w Nc
ilan1Is is now free to have no Other
ties except his law practice. HI
fved ad interim for nearly a year. az
(. the death Of his father, e P. Nc
anus, who dropped dead at that desk
Preceding McManus, the names o
!. Mporhead, Asaph Buck. David ]
:-ers and Colonel Richard Root maxi
/: modern times a line Of foremos
liens, who have been postmasters o
,olz,Ik and before the reign OF Col
el Root. other men prominent IN the
tory of KeokaIk held the position
lionel Root was the first posunaste'
serve a term In the present govern
mt building. which goes back thirt,
:lrs.
Ider's commission is for four years
4 he won It IN competitive e1amina
n last summer, in which there were
enty-three entrants.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23

day TO be slated for the place of
railroad administrator to succeed
William G. McAdoo
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
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nfted Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-Ex-Presi.
II Carl u. Gray, of the Western
xJ1onA 11ahoAA- vAa ranartsd In.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23

The Hawaiian congress has en-
ooxDsd woman suffrage
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-23
80 . . - 49, - = .
THE COMMUNITY
CHRISTMAS FUND

Contributions to the commu-
nifty Christmas fund to date are
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
Mrs. William Suitor

Mrs. Susan, wife of William Suitor,
died at her home on Pine street Sun
day evening. She was IS years old
and born in Kinnear's Mills, P. @.
She was married about 40 years ago
to William Suitor at Leeds, P. @.
They came to st. Johnsbury soon af-
ter where they have lived ever since.
She leaves besides her husband four
children and three grandchildren.
Her children are Edwin J. Suitor of
Derry, N. H, one daughter, Mrs. May
nard Bullock of Beebe Junction, a
daughter, Mrs. Oscar Hopper of Lyn-
donville, and one daughter who lives
at home, Miss Marion H. Suitor. She
leaves two sisters, Mrs. James Bal
ley of East Clifton, P. O., and Mrs.
Samuel Elliott of Sawyerville, P. @.
The funeral will probably be held on
Wednesday afternoon at Grace Me-
thodist church.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
CONCORD

The annual sale of the Universalist
church, Wednesday, Nov. Is, COM
mencing at s p. M, with a hash sup
per served at $50.
The ladies of the Methodist church
will hold their sale Wednesday, Nov.
20. A cafeteria lunch will be served.
Menu: Chicken shortcake, sand
witches, Goughnuts, cake and coffee.
The United War Work campaign
opened Monday morning with the fol-
lowing committee: George H. Hast
ings, chai-rnan; C. F. Cutting, Jethro
Lillicrap, L. w. Hastings, E. C.
Lewis, H. A. Quimby, Rev. George H.
Smith, Irwin Turner, J. G. Chapman,
Ed. Fullel, Will Adams, James
Hartshorn, George Whipple, William
Streeter, + NJ. Hastings, Clarence
Joslin. The quota for the town is
STAT and il is expected the people will
respond to the call as they do to ev-
cry emergency and will again send
Concord cover the top"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
u. S. Armed Guard
CITY Park Barracks.
Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. 20, Is

Brooklyn, N. I oct. ~, 1918
Dear Sister:
I am back again, well and happy
after two months and a half trip.
We left New York Aug. 3, and went
to New Orleans for OIL While en-
route to New Orleans, the tank o. B.
Jennings was sunk by the shell fire
of a submarine only Is miles away
from US, and the Diamond Shoal
Light Ship was also sunk by a sub,
an hour after we passed it. The
weather was fine till we reached the
Florida coast, then it grew warm,
too warm to feel anywhere near COM
Portable and to make matters worse
when we reached the Mississippi the
mosquitoes seemed to be millions in
number and like small air-planes. The
people who live along the river banks
have their houses fenced in with mos
quito netting. That Is no, place for
US white men.
We had fine weather going across.
We made one stop at Bermuda and
landed safely at Gibraltar. We wait
ed convoy there and in three days
left for Italy. This trip was not
quite so good as coming across. A
German sub. nearly got US, but did
not succeed for the ship on our port
bow was struck by the torpedo. The
sub. even had the nerve to come up
and shell US. We seemed to be the
one he picked out for he sent all
kinds of shells flying over us. We
were hampered by the convoy FROM:
firing, but the American converted
yacht cooked his goose with a shot
through the coming tower. One less
sub. for Germany. We reached the
port safely.
1t is strange country. AS 1 had
the chance | went to Pisa to see the
leaning tower and a great cathedral
there and several other old buildings.
We did not stay long there, but just
had time to discharge our cargo and
then we were returned to the States
which was an unenventful trip. We
arrived back in Gods country Oct
18TH
Well, this is all for now. With
love from your brother,
HAROLD ROBERTS,
Seaman
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
WEST BURKE

r. w. persmore has blood poison
in his left hand, and it has been very
painful.
Rev. w. C. Arnold is entertaining
his mothe,', Mrs. Arnold.
Arthur Way and Mr. and Mrs. Err
nest Robins are i'll with influenza. All
other cases are very much improved
MI. and Mrs. David Porter and Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Waite of st. Johns
bury were IN town Tuesday evening
to attend the farewell reception ex-
tended their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R.
P. Porter.
Mrs. Wayne Stoddard of Montpe-
lier spent the past week in town with
friends, returning home Saturday.
About one hundred and twenty-five
friends ard relatives gathered at the
W. r. C. hall Tuesday evening, Nc
9Th, to Did farewell to Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. Perry Porter, before they left for
their new lone at Brattleboro. The
evening was spent with music, read
lngs, and remarks by several who had
lived in town for years and fully real
lzed what it means to lose Mr.. and
Mrs. Porte. Refreshments of sand
witches, cake and coffee were served.
Rev. w. c. Arnold presented them
with a small token of remembrance
from both the Methodist church and
w. R. c., OF which MI. and Mrs. Por-
ter were very helpful and energetic
members.
Miss Lillian Matherson of Vince
lock is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Will
liam Anger.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take
Olive Tablets

Ifyour skin is yellow complexion pallid
tongue coated - appetite poor-you nave
bad taste IL your mouth "a lazy, no-good
feeling -yoa should take Olive Tablets
Dc. Edwards Owe / 4blets-a substitute
observation-disclosures repaired by DR.. Edwards
after II yeas CT study with his patients.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive OIL.
You will know them by their olive color
TO have clear, pink skin, bright eyes.
no pilnples, a feeling Of buoyancy like
childhood days you must get at the cause.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calomel-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome constr
patton. That's why millions Of boxes are
Sold annually at 10c and Csc per box. All
druggists. Take one or two nightly and
note the pleasing results.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
SPLENDID WORK OF
AMERICAN SURGEON
Army Physicians Tireless in Their
Efforts to Heal the Wounded

With the American Armies in the
Field, Oct. IA, Correspondence of
The Associated Press)-War has not
calloused or dulled the sensibilities of
the American army surgeon. Moth
ing stands out finer or nobler than
the tender care and earnest solicit
tude with which American military
doctors handle their soldier patients.
In three-day trip through the st.
Mihiel sector the correspondent OF
The Associated Press had many OPP
portunities of observing the work of
the American medical men. He visit
ed number of field dressing stat
ions and also several hospitals just
back of the battle-line, through which
hundreds of wounded Americans were
passing,
Disabled American soldiers, from
the time their wounds are dressed at
| the advance casualty station to the
time they arrive at the last base hos
pital, receive the most sympathetic
and tender care at the hands of the
army, doctors. They get better care
and more attentive treatment than an
average person would in peace times.
TO render the soldier free from pain,
to make him comfortable, to cheer his
spirit, the American military doctor
will exhaust every resource, will sac
rifice sleep and food and all personal
thought of himself.
Thousands of instances occur every
day where army physicians, SO absorb
ed and so sympathetically interested
in their patients, will keep night at
ter night an anxious and unbroken
vigil over the progress of their con-
dition, and will rest only when order
ed to do so by a superior officer.
Besides the use of anaesthetics the
Yankee doctor, caring for his fight
ing comrade only as he would care
for brother, resorts to a hundred
other means of relieving the wounded
mans distress. In the actual battle
zone he has to act as physician and
nurse, for no women are permitted
in the front lines. 1t is always i'm
pressive to see the gentle, cautious
way he places his patients in bed,
the infinite pains he takes to cause
them as little suffering as possible
when applying or removing dressings,
and how kindly and reassuringly he
speaks to them.
The ambulance drivers and stretch
er bearers spare no pains to see that
the sick and wounded in transit from
the front over broken French roads
suffer no hardship or discomfort.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
PATROL COMMITTEE
TO HAVE MEETING
First One Ali eady Held in Bennington


Beginning this week a series of
public meetings will be held in COM
munities throughout the state to set
forth the work which is being plan
ned by the patrol committee for the
citizens OF Vermont The first meet
ing is to be held in Manchester,
where state headquarters are located.
Edward F. Trefz has assumed
charge Of the campaign for the patrol
committee. He was formerly secre-
tary of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce and field secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. He has spent nearly half a
year in the battle zone in Europe as
a representative of the government
and has some wonderful stories of
the work which American soldiers are
doing there
Mr. Trefz regards the work which
is being zone by the Patrol Commit
tee in Vermont as highly important
and will urge the backing of the legis-
lature Of this state for a comprehen-
sive understanding of laws which will
be introduced in accordance with the
pledge cards which have already been
circulated throughout the state.
These cards involve better roads, eff
effective auditing of State accounts,
improvement! of the educational sys-
tenn, sheep raising and the adjust
ment of taxation assessments.
The plans of the patrol committee
have been placed before many groups
OF Vermont citizens within the past
two weeks and enthusiastic endorse
ment has been given to the plans in
each case. Last week at meeting
of the Bennington County Vermont
Improvement Association the entire
platform was endorsed.
Other states throughout New Eng
land are making plans for a definite
improvement of highways and officers
of the Vermont Patrol Committee are
IN touch VIII the authorities of these
states to procure definite information
to guide them in their work. Wal
ter b. Fraser, supervisor of accounts
| of Maine, has written from Augusta
| outlining the methods used in check
ing fiscal accounts used in that state.
He has invited the patrol committee
! to look over the Maine system of ac-
counting.
| Members of the patrol committee
point out that while the name
Patrol is commonly associated in
the public mind with state highways,
that the resent effort to secure ac-
ton of the legislature is by no means
confined to highways, but embraces
other legislation for the benefit of
Vermont.
Arrangements are soon to be COM
pleted for a mass meeting to be held
in this city addressed by Mr.. Trefz,
director Of the state campaign for
the patrol committee.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
GETTING THE NEWS
The Telephone Girls Kept Busy Since
the Early Morning Hours

The long distance telephone
brought the official news to st. Johns
bury and lorg before most folks were
awake the operator woke up ]. H.
Brooks aud gave him the good news.
Almost Immediately MI. Brooks talk
ed direct with the Associated Press
and got tie official confirmation of
the good News.
At 6 O'Clock Mr.. Brooks called up
the editor CT the Caledonian and by
7 o'clock a long distance telephone
message came to the Caledonian CIV
ing the official news that appears on
our first page
The Caledonian ertra went to press
at 500 this morning and 1000 copies
were sold before 9 o'clock.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
Hats Off to These!

Timothy J. Murphy of Chicago, a
freight handler, is the father of TWEEN
ty-one chi!d1en, eighteen of whom are
living. And the eighteen are engaged
in war work.
Eight sons, all of them six feet or
more tall, are in military service and
the ten daughters are engaged in Red
Cross and ether kinds of war work.
For this the Catholic Advocate
vouches.
But The Crisis is authority for a
still more wonderful statement:
John Ward, negro of Goldsboro
S. c., has thirteen of his eighteen
sons in the Ninth and Tenth United
States Cavalry, and seventeen daugh-
ters doing war work.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-11
Start a Scrap Book.

A good joke never grows old. Like
wine, time serves to improve it.; and
SO it is with all things worth while.
The scrap book occupied a prominent
place on the reading table in years
gone by and it is going to come back
again, for it stands in a class by it,
self. No other volume ever gripped
and held it's readers as did this keep
sake of almost-forgotten days, and no
book of the present, no matter what
it's theme or who its author may be,
will delight and really thrill ones own
family and friends as will a scrap
book made up of the happenings OF to-
day.