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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
STRING PRAIRIE.

This neighborhood enjoyed fins
rain Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Felt and
daughters, Hazel and Nellie, Carencs
Fett and James Hprsey attended the
ice cream social at Croton Saturday
evening
Mrs. v J. Burke and Mary, Eliza,
beth, Margaret, and John, William
and Joe Burke and SONS, James and
Louis, motored to Keo&uk last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Felt and ME-
and Mrs Henry Felt were Farming
ton callers Saturday.
There was a large crowd from this
vicinity attended the dance at tho
Weigner barn near Franklin Thurs
day evening.
MIR. Timothy Ford Is visiting al
the V. J. Burke home.
Albert Haffner and V. j. BurkH
were DonneIlson callers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Bergthold and
Jake and Clara, Mr.. Fred Felt, Mr..
and Mrs. /. R. Anthony and family
spent Sunday afternoon at the Lewis
Fett home
Mrs. Webster Downey and family
of Keokuk. visited the past week al
the Ray Downey and P. c. Doyfe
homes
Four auto loads of people from
this vicinity motored to Fort Madf
son Sunday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
Cocoanut Oil Fine
For Washing Hair

If you want to keep your hair in good
condition, be careful what you wash e
with.
Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much a1lali This dries the
scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very
harmful. Just plain n,llsified cocoauit
oil (Which is pure and entirely grease
1ess), Is much better than the most exc
pensive soap or anything else you can.
use for shdmpooing, as this can't pos.
sibiy injurc the hair.
Simply n,oisten your hair with water
and rub It in One or two teaspoonfuls
win make an abundance Of rich, creamy
lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp
Thoroughly. The zther rinses out easily.
and removes every particle of dust. dirt,
dandruff and excessive oil The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it
fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy to
manage
You can get nrulsihed cocoannt oil At
most any drug store. II is very cheap.
and a few ounces Is enough to last
everyone m the family for months. e
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
The Chautauqua in War Times

Inc Following article, a copyright
from Inc pen of DIR. Frank Crane, ia
NOUS author-preacher, and magazine
writer, appeared in the Kansas CITY
Star Of June Is, 1918:
Chautauqua is peculiarly an Ameri-
can institution.
mere was never anything like it,
In Europe or elsewhere.
NOBODY invented it. It was not de-
vlsed. 1t just grew.
us roots run deep in the American
character They go down to the old
Saxon Witenagemot, the New Eng
land town meeting and the Methodist
camp meeting.
Its idea is that Of free, assem-
olage Of sovereign people, every soul
king, every man looking upon the
problems of the world, it's govern
ments and it's morals, with a dtsposing
eye.
To this is added the greatest of
American enthusiasms, education.
The American people are always at
school. They conceive of education.
not as the privilege of the few, but as
the duty of the many, not alone for
gentlemen and scholars, teachers and
the learned professions, but also for
every man, every woman, every child.
So the farmers, merchants, clerks,
housewives, laborers, together with
the preachers, lawyers and doctors,
gather as one great commons, to lis
ten to the discussion of those vast is
sues that once were the secret
themes of kings cabinets, to discuss,
to form intelligent opinion, fearlessly
to decide, unafraid to take their part
in the councils of democracy.
In war time chautauqua may be Of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
DENVER, ILL
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Mrs. Ora Griffin is recovering nice
lv from her recent operation, which
she underwent at St Joseph's hos
pital, Keofuk
John Botkins and Aris Kindred
we're among the no who left for
Camp Grant Monday morning.
Irene Stein has departed for an ex-
tended visit with friends and reaar
tives at Canton, Peoria and Farm
ington. her former home. She was
accompanied by her grandfather. j.
M. Davis, who has been visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Charles Stein, and
family for some time.
Mrs. Dr. B. Ellison and daughter,
Of I-emars, Mo, are being enter
tanned at the Lyman and 81 johnson
homes.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Klip7ert and
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Scott attended
the bankers banquet held at Car
thage. They report a fine time
"The Contest Of the Nations" a
spectacular play, will be given at the
Christian church next Saturday even
ing by the Alethea Bible school class
This has a cast of thirteen characters
and opens with a drill by the nations
Time of opening, S:15 o'clock
The newly elected c. E. officers
are as follows: H. I. O'Brien, presi-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
Gbo WAR SAW
. A::GATE;;GIT t.!

Fred Schildman's wound had to b re
opened on account OF an accumulation
Of pus.
Mrs. Emil G. Schmidt (nee Anna
Fenor) of Milwaukee is here visiting
her sister, Miss Henrietta Fenor. Her
father returned with her.
Mr.. Andrew Hill and wife OF Beaver
Dam. Wis, are here visiting relatives.
Adam Buckert and party an-
toed to Carthage Sunday and heard
one of the best patriotic addresses
that has been given in this vicinity.
There was a large crowd present IN
the court house square.
+ Warsaw's soldier boys due to leave
Carthage at 5:25 a. m. Monday. went
over Sunday afternoon. They were
bound for Camp Grant with 100 others
The gardens were wide open" for
the recent rains and now you can al
most hear the corn pop.
One Saturday concert night fs IKE
another, only sometimes more so. we
have a jolly crowd with autos as
thick1y parked as teeth IN comb. A
number of cakes, the contributions OF
ladies', we're sold for the benefit OF the
Red Cross.
The harvest OF wheat IN the bottoms
is ripe and ready but the reapers
(hands) are few and hard to get even
at S. per day Oats and rye are In fine
condition and corn is clean and prom
Using.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

iinvalnohIo ro.,-; \ r,4A, u d
not on1r, o az a.'ies are won
Int aIso w. ~ e soluiIs o. tne 'front.'
boma p, ~ .ne splrle OF .he people AT
in tive, 4aippeu ~ ions pieparatlon
canine all orar The coI,n+,.1, 80 a No 70
prepared as is No nthsr ooanov ~
keen the home firas hnrning,' ~ -
maintain mat inteIligent ,,atrio.;s,,,,
that clear understanding Of what we
are fighting for. that indomnitabIe
resolution to win. and that cheerful.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
STORAGE
BUTTER PRICE
United States Food Administration
Fixes Prices at Which It must
be Sold and Limits
Profits on 1t.

Undue speculation in butter is to be
prevented by new special regulations
of the food administration received by
u. F. Elder, Lee county food admins
TRAITOR.
Licensees in cold storage butter
must sell it at a price based upon &C
tual cost and not on what 1t would
cost to replace it. The profit allowed
to be added to cost ranges from one
cent pound in carload lots to over
two cents on small lots, but these are
maximums and the deal is confined
within them to his actual cost in stor-
age.
The penalty for violation is revoca-
ton of license to do business in butter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

WARSAW, H., June 26.-Harry
Grant has rented the two-story build
ing on the southeast corner of Fifth
and Main streets. and will soon open
with big stock Of goods.
Battels and Myer have rented the
Goehring building, next to the Hill
Dodge bank, and will open a new
stock of groceries. This firm ex-
pected to occupy the store room in
the Battels building where Sohiltng
was before the fire, and the latter ex-
pected to move July 1 to the room
lust rented by Mr.. Grant. Mr.. Schill-
ing does not expect to resume bust
ness.
The telephone repair men found
more than eight breaks in the great
cable that contains 100 paper COW
cred copper wires. The cable is made
of lead pipe and was melted by the
big fire.
BY a printers blunder in the last
Warsaw letter it read I"the water tow
err was, as it were a monument to the
efforts of a farmer" the correspond
ent wrote it "a former mayor" How.
ever everybody knows wfat mayor.
Joseph Huston has let the contract
for a one-story store room, 26x65 feet
of brick and tile, to be erected on the
site of his former building, destroyed
by fire. n.
The Keokuk Electric shop Is hand
someIy fitting up new quarters IN the
old Hill-Dodge bank building adjoin-
ing the telephone central
Mr.. and Mrs. Price Of Hannibal
visited the family of David Ayres of
Wythe, Saturday
Word was received today from st.
Mary's hospital, Quincy. saying that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
Perfect womanhood.

Perfect wUnanhood depends on per
feet health Beauty and good dfspo.
sition both vanish before pain and
suffering. A great menace to WON
ans happiness in life is the suffering
that comes from some functional de
rangement which soon develops head
aches, backache, nervousness and the
blues" For such suffering. women
find help in that famous old root and
herb remedy, Lydia e. P1nkhams
Vegetable Compound, which for three
gen erations has been restoring heaich
to women Of America ruse-
ment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
Jake BeckIey Is Dead.

United Press Leased Wire Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 26.-Jake
Beckley, "old eagle eye" one of the
best known first basemen in the his
tory of major league baseball, is dead
here today Beckley expired of heart
disease late yesterday.
During his playing days Beckley
starred with Chicago, Pittsburgh and
st. Louis in the National league.
After his descent from the majors, he
played with Kansas City in the Ameri-
can association and Hannibal in the
old Western association.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

dent; W. Vance, vice president; NH
dred Herring, secretary; Gladys
Polling, assistant secretary; Ida
Clark. treasurer; Matte Scott, plan
list: Ethel Wristen, assistant pianist;
Helen Herring and Virgil Polling.
Librarians. The society has been
somewhat handicapped on account OF
the many illnesses and other things
to hinder, so It is just now getting
into line again for active service.
Mrs D. Vance and son. William,
are the possessors OF new touring
cars
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
Old Subpoena Unearthed In County
Clerks Vault, Shows Some One
Was Chasing Hun
In 1850.
IT'S YELLOW WITH AGE
Official Who Issued Summons Didn't
Know Name of Chin scraper,
But That Didn't
Matter.

Sixty-eight years ahead in chasing
the Hun!
1t wasn't matter of war this time,
but case of law. The Hun was want
ed as witness, that's all.
An old subpoena, issued January,
1850 has been unearthed in the coun-
ty clerks vault. 1t is yellow with age,
but easily deciphered. despite some
old fashioned handwriting.
This subpoena calls for the appear
ance in court Of '"The German bar
ber," whose christian name was evil
IDENTIFY unknown to the clerk who is
sued the summons. Somebody with d
long memory said this same barber
used to live on the levee. which was
at that time the business section ct
the city. Anyway the subpoena meant
business and the barber dropped his
razors to obey the summons.
A Suit Was On.
Faretra and Bishop were disputing
over property on Main street, and
this brought about suit and the is
suance of the old subpoena.
It read:
ITO the Sheriff to Lee county.
Greeting:
1--WE command you to summon
the German barber to appear be-
fore the district court of said
county on the day of the pres
emit term thereof at nine o'clock
a. m, begun and held at Keo-
kuk on the 20 day Of January,
1850 to give evidence in a suit
wherein John Farefra is plain
tiff and Joseph J. Bishop defend
| ant
Witness the undersigned,
clerk of said court, with seal
! hereunto affixed,
sP. N. BABCOCK, Clerk.
| "By G. r. SLOWER, Deputy"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

fellow is absolutely square he just says
He plays cricket"
With cricket in his system our Eng
lish friend thinks baseball dull game
if it's played well. He wants to see
lots of action-long hits, much base
running and lot of errors. In other
words his idea Of good ball game
is our notion of bad one. But he is
learning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

cell. So, strange things may happen
in the next four years.
| For instance, John Bull may have a
ball club playing for the worlds
championship.
John is really taking an interest in
the grandolgame this year, learning
all there is to be known about it, for
the first time since Wallie Skinclothes
leaned his knotted war club against a
falling persimmon, thus inventing the
pastime, back in the days when high
society revels were staged in the tree
tops.
Eight American and Canadian ball
playing full schedule as the Anglo
American league, Charity gets the
immediate money proceeds but the peo-
innate aim of bringing England and
America closer together.
OF course this object has hen
sought many times before. There
have been highbrow essays, summer
tours for rural schoolmar'ms and out.
ward official handclasps for years and
years. Sons and daughters OF the idle
rich have done their bit by playing
international polo matches and racing
their little yachts across the Atlantic
for Tommy Lipton's solid silver growl-
err.
And up to the time we came into
the war the average Englishman and
the average Yank understood each
other like you understand a Chinese
laundry ticket
Baseball's big success this year
looks like the real cure for the inter-
national GOODNESS that has puzzled
weIlwishers since the
days OF acknowledgements.
They like our slang over here, the9
like our movies. our jazz-ttme songs
and even the English" styles for
mems clothes, fresh from the sweat
shops Of the.U. S. A.
Eight thousand people, half Of them
Englishmen, clapped their hands ana
cheered with singular lack of restraint
as Admiral Sims stepped into the box
at Highbury football grond. London,
| Nav 10, and opened the Angio-Ameri-
lcan league season by pitching the first
ball to Major General Biddle, COM
manding American soldiers in Eng
land.
From that moment, through eleven
wrangiesome innings, they heard nun.
Idreds of brass-throated doughbies and
! lacks unravel vocal program tnaI
brought back memories of the Poio
grounds when Tinker and Evers ana
/ chance were earning Charlie Murphy's
biggest dividends.
English people can't resist compar-
ing baseball to cricket any more than
Americans over here can resist COM
pairing shillings to dollars. Cricket
really means more than game. When
an Englishman wants to say another
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
ANGLO-AMERICAN
WORLDS SERIES
England Has Taken up Baseball and
May be Deep in Game in
Few More
Years.
IRy limited Press /

LONDON, June 26.-World's series
-1922-London Teafighters, Vs. Comis-
keys White Sox.
1t reads like a pipe-dream, but four
years ago this war would have sound.
ed like message from the padded
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
American League.

Natnrafists declare that fish make
love to the partners of their choice
practically in the same way that pig
cons COO and bowato their mates.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
ToDAY's SCHEDULE.

National League.
st. Louis at Chicago.
New York at Boston.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati.
American League.
Cleveland at st. Louis (two games)
Chicago at Detroit.
Philadelphia at Washington.
Boston at New York.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26

American League.
st. Louis 80; Cleveland %.
Detroit 4; Chicago 2.
Boston Z: New York 3.
Philadelphia Washington postponed.
rain.
National League.
Chicago IA; st. Louis O.
New York a; Boston /.
Philadelphia g.; Brooklyn 2.
Pittsburgh Cincinnati postponed,
rain.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
INSURANCE AGENTS
/ COME ZOO 5IRUNG
annual Convention Of state orsaniza-
ton viii Take Place in keokuk,
and on River,
Thursday.
kPEAKERS PROMINENT
National Secretary and Greater Iowa
Association Man to Make Ad-
dresses-Rusiness at
200 p. m.

Insurance agents from all over the
kate will be in Keokuk, Thursday, to
htend the annual convention Of the
Iowa Association Of Insurance. Ag-
ents. The vanguard Of agents will ar
Five on trains. tonight. 1t is expected
that 200 will attend the sessions.
In order that they may not need to
suffer during spell of hot weather
with the rest of humanity, the asso-
citation members will spend the day
lon the Mississippi aboard the G.. w.
Hill. The executive committee, here,
that has arranged for the coming of
|the agents is composed of B. B..
Hobbs, G. r. Hombs and John Tu-
|multy
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
National secretary Comes.

National Secretary Comes.
Several addresses of unusual force
are to be heard The names of Chaun-
cey S. S. Miller of New York, secre-
Harry of the National Association of
Insurance Agents and Harry E. Moss,
assistant secretary of the Greater
Iowa association, appear on the pro
gram.
Mr.. Moss will speak about the in
sidous work of the Non-Partisan
league
A business session on the boat will
begin at 2 p. m. Luncheon is to be
served at noon and the boat will re-
turn to the city at 6. m. The cruise
is to be made on Lake Keokuk.
Des Moines Represented.
Mr.. Hobbs, who is chairman Of the
executive committee, learned today
| that eighteen agents from Des
Moines and six from OskaIcosa will
arrive in Keokuk tonight. Mr.. Milie,,
the national secretary, is expected in
on an evening train and a meeting
of the executive committee with him
will take place at the Hotel Iowa
The program to be observed by the
members of the state convention fol,
lows:
Address OF welcome, William Log
an presidents address; secretary
treasurer's report; report of execu-
tive committee; report Of legislative
committee; report of grievance COM
mittee; address, Chauncy s. s. Mil
Ter; address, "The Non-partisan
League Harry E. Moss, assistant
secretary of Greater . Iowa associa-
ton; Opportunities of Local
Agent" Eugene Walsh, Davenport,
Iowa; Compensation, Insurance" R.
J.. Dutton, resident manager. St.
Louis, Mo-, Fidelity and Casualty
company of New York: agency Ad-
vertising," Chester E. Ford. Des
Moines, Iowa: "Co-Insurance," E. w.
Tinsley, state agent of the Aetna
Fire Insurance company; Use and
Occupancy" Shelby A. Fowler, state
agent of the Phoenix Assurance com
pany, Ltd, of London: Boiler Insur'
ance and Inspection" NJ. L. More
land, state agent Hartford Steam
Boiler Inspection company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-26
National League.
w. L.
90 IT

YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-16
WRITE The BOYS
NOW FIGHTING in
FRENCH TRENCHES

The Times Recorder has received
the following communication, which
should receive the hearty endorsement
OF every resident here:
Mr.. Editor:
The people of Americas are as pa
triotic as the citizens of other cities
but unfortunately we are occasionally
thoughtless.
How many of US ever think of the
bravery, loyalty and patriotism of the
boys who have gone from Americas
who are under age, to the army and
navy?
We are prone to merely give this
matter just passing thought, but for
moment reflect and see if you can
remember single man who was three
or four years over age that has volun
teered for service as an enlisted man.
All honor to these wonderful boys
who have gone forward to protect
those principles that the enlightened
nations of the world are lighting for.
These words are written merely as
an appeal to our good women and men
asking them to write the boys, nearly
everybody knows, cheerful letter tell
ing them of the high regard our citizen
ry holds them, and their chivalry, and
better still spend few cents and make
them cmfwyp cmfwy cmfwyp cmfwy
him something that he may be unable
to get at the front You can easily
get their actresses by telephoning their
relatives and when you either write
or send him something to show that all
of us appreciate what he Is doing, just
examine your feelings and I believe
your feelings and l believe you will
have much better opinion of yourself.
A CITIZEN.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-16
Napoleon Once SAID

"a Footsore Army is an Army Hal
Defeated" Men in Training Camps, in
Cantonments, in the Army and Navy
suffer from blisters and sore spots on
their feet Every Comfort Kit" should
contain one or more boxes of Aliens
Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to
shake into the shoes. 1t freshens the
tired, aching, smarting feet and heals
bIisters and sore spots. The Platts-
burg Camp Manual advises men in
training to make daily use of Foot
Ease. Sold everywhere, 25c. adv
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CHRISTIAN Science Church.

CHRISTIAN Science Church.
Taylor street.
Morning service at II O'Clock Sun
~ Wednesday evening services viii
]e held at $3.50 o'clock.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-16
RAILWAY HEARING
AGAIN POSTPONED

ATLANTA, Ga, June 15.--The hear
ing of the Georgia Railway & Power
ICompany's petition for increased
electric light and power rates, as well
as Increased street car fares, is now
off the boards for fifteen days, pending
the time when the attorneys represent
ing the so called peoples committee
of Atlanta complete their analysis OF
the company's books and records ard
on June 20 they will go back before
the railroad commission and present
their evidence in opposition to the
petition.
In the meantime the commission is
hearing the petition of the Atlanta Gas
Light Company, which is a subsidiary
! of the Georgia Railway ard Power Co.,
for increased rates. aud Preston S
Arkw. ight, president o. tho opwer
company, on yesterday outlined the
gas company's case.
1t was shown that coal and oil, the
two main ingredients used III the manu-
facture of gas, have more than darbir d
in price on account Of the war, and
that the cost Of labor, materials and
liner items of operating expense hive
very greatly increased.
The business of gas companies
throughout the country, Mr.. Arkwright
showed, has been more adversely at
fected by war conditions than any
other, owing to the fact that coal
and oil have been more violently af-
fected in price by war conditions than
any other commodities.