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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-16
LolOer Main Street Work.
man Has Been in Neigh
borhood Nearly Half Cen
tury-7aiks History

The march Of time is about to push
stephen Trott, Keolkuk,s Oldest shoe
maker, from locality he has accupied
on Main street for forty-two wears
with the building of the new Purity
oats company warehouse, which will
De built some time in the fall be-
tween Water and First streets Trott
W. WI De forced to seek another location
for his cobbler shop.
Although he will be crowded out by
the new building Trott isn't going to
ieaVe the old familiar neighborhood
ne says. With calculating eye he block.
ed out an upper" to shoe with a few
strokes OF sharp knife as he talked
about having to move.
1t feels like home when one has
stayed this long in place." he said.
I'm planning to take little shop close
by" In fact he has in mind two diff.
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STRING PRAIRIE.
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Most of the people of this vicinity
are through cutting their grain and
putting up their hay. The hum Of the
threshing machine will soon be heard.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Felt and daugh-
tiers Hazel and Nellie motored to Keo-
kuk Tuesday.
Mrs. Cal Shark of Argyle visited
several days the past week with her
daughter, Mrs. Ray Downey and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Schoene and son
George, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hayes and
sons, Miss Lorreta Morrisey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Felt, daughters Hazel and
Nellie, Mr. and Mrs. John Schoene,
and George RUDE were Donnellson
callers Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Haffner are the
proud parents of baby boy, born Sat
urday July 10.
Mrs. John Young Of Keokuk, who
has been spending few weeks with
her sister, Mrs. George RUDE, return
ed home Sunday.
Julius Felt and sons Lynn and Glen
took dinner at the Lewis Felt home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs O. H. kinkade, Hazel
and Oscar Kinkade and Fay Derr were
visiting Burt Kinkade of near st.
Francisville, Mo-, Sunday.
Andy Sheppard, Henry Felt, Francis
Raines and Henry Horsey called on
Lewis Felt Sunday afternoon.
large crowd of this vicinity at
tended the union services at Donnell-
son Sunday evening. Music was
furnished by the Donnellson band and
patriotic songs were sung. Rev. A. E.
Bentzinger of Danville, spoke on Camp
Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Felt, daughters
Hazel and Nellie, and Henry Felt were
Pennington callers Saturday after
noon.
Mrs John Dekloe and daughter
HELEN, and Stella Kinkeade, Maude
SKINNER and Clarence Felt were Ar
gyle callers one day last week.
MISS Louise Allen and mother are
visiting at the V. G.. Burke and P. c..
Doyle homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cort Springer and lit
lie daughter Marguerite of Davenport,
iowa, visited recently with her pa
rents. Mr. and Mrs. O. Fl. Kinkeade
and family.
Mrs. Henry Felt is visiting her
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daughter, Mrs. Oliver Reitz OF
Granger, Mo.
Miss Stella kinkeade visited at the
home of Nellie and Hazel Felt Sun.
day afternoon.
Mrs. Drius Derr, Maud Skinner and
Fay Derr visited recently at the Mr..
and Mrs. o. H. Kinkeade home
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bergthold visited
Sunday afternoon at the John Berg
thold home.
Maud Skinner of Montrose, has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Drius Derr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert ReitZ and fam
lily motored to Burlington Sunday and
Miss Louise Hem accompanied them
as far as Denmark.
Mrs. Daniel Haffner of near Sharon
is spending few days with her son
Albert Haffner and family.
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Nauvoo, Croton and Mt. Hamill. The
members families were also in at
tendance. About ninety were pres
ent. Sandwiches, coffee, ice cream
and cookies were served. All depart
ed at late hour having spent a
pleasant evening.
Mrs. Swanson and children Of Keo-
kuk are visiting at the Fred Rokey
home.
Walter Swinderman and family
spent Saturday evening at the AL
Pezley home.
Dewey Kerns of Fort Madison
spent Sunday at home.
Misses Emma and Kate Barnes
spent Sunday evening at the Gus
Schuelka home.
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American Federation of Labor. Un-
der those circumstances, 1t was de-
clared, the shipyaTd owners have the
right to fill the places Of the strikers
and the men so employed cannot be
considered as strikebreakers.
The order of international Presi-
dent Weyland of the boilermakers
came from Washington after Wey-
land had conferred at length with
E. V. Macy of the shipping board
labor adjustment committee. Assur-
ances that the Oakland strikers diff
ficulties with their employers would
be adjusted quickly were given by
Macy
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CITY BUYING
MORE w. S. S.
Sales Last Week in keokuk Cam
paign Exceed S5,4oo-Totai
Now More Than
$751;, 900.

War savings stamp sales in Keokuk
for the week ending July IS, amounted
to $5,462, according to report sub
mitted by ]. P. Ingle, chairman of the
city war savings stamps committee
The total number of sales is now
s1s1.614.25. which is SS.7S per capita.
In the junior bond drive Iowa is In
the front rank.
Of the states quota Of s47,53O.52o,
the report shows that cash sales and
pledges of which there is record IN
the state office now total s44,2S7, 4S9.
or s3.243,o31 below the quota.
According to the report there are
sixty-seven counties in the state that
raised from 101 to 1872 per cent OF
their quota.
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LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

squeeze the juice OF two lemons In
to a bottle containing three ounces OF
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best
freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier, at very, very
small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will sup
ply three ounces Of Orchard White
for a few cents Massage this sweet
~ fragrant lotion into the face, neck
arms and hands each day and see how
freckles. sunburn. windburn and tan
disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes. Vest 1t is
harmless.
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Fire DESTROYS Plant.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July TO-
The big fertilizer plant Of the Amer.
lean Chemical company and thous
ands of tons of fertilizer were de
stroyed by a fire of unknown origin
here today.
The loss is estimated at more than
S1,50o,000.
Forty carloads of nitrates, chemi
Gals and fertilizer on a railroad sid
ing near the plant were also de
stroyed by the fire and explosions
The entire city fire department bat
tied with the flames to keep them
from spreading to the municipal
docks, cotton warehouses and the
city electric light plant
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approved by the city council, the
| following named street and parts OF
street, to-wit: Main street from the
| west line of Water street to the east
line of Second street, 66 feet be-
tween curbs Brick block paving to
be constructed fifteen feet wide on
each side of the center line OF said
street; concrete to be laid eighteen
feet wide on each side OF the street
between a point fifteen rect ana
thirty-three feet on each side Of said
center line of Main street. The ex.
pense of making said improvement
to be assessed against all privately
owned lots and parcels of land abut-
ting thereon and adjacent thereto,
according to area, SO as to include
one-half of the privately owned prop.
erty between the street improved
and the next street, whether such
privately owned property abut upon
said street or not, but in no case
shall privately owned property stu
ated more than three hundred (300)
feet from the street so improved be
so assessed to the extent that the
same is assessable by law. said as
sessments to be made in accordance
with the law governing the same.
Be 1t Further Resolved, That the
city council will meet at 9 O'Clock
a. m. on the first day of August,
1918, in the council chamber in the
city of Keokuk, for the purpose of
considering objections to the passage
of the said proposed resolution, and
to the construction OF the said inn
provement, at which hearing the
above resolution may be amended
and passed, or passed as proposed.
| Be 1t Further Resolved, That the
city clerk be and he is hereby in
structed to cause notice OF the pend
ency OF the above resolution and the
time at which the said proposed reso-
luton will be considered by this
council, and objections to the pas
sage thereof heard, to be published
as provided by law in The Gate City.
a newspaper of general circulation,
published in the City OF Keokuk.
Adopted July 16, 1918. by the fol~
| lowing vote:
| Lofton-kbsent- q
Hemmy-Aye.
| Hickey-Aye. ~
| Ayes, 2.
| Approved and signed:
D. j. KENNY,
Mayor Pro Tenn
| of the City of Keokuk.
Attest: o. w. SANDBERG,
City Clerk.
In Witness Whereof, / have here's
unto set my hand
ISeal1 o. w. SANDBERG,
! City Clerk of the City of Keokuk. y
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civ Council Passed Resolution Of In
tention to Brick and Concrete
Main Street
Hill.
OWNERS TO FOOT BILL
municipalities Share to Exceed $4,000,
According to Estimate Drawn
IA Days for OBJ
lection.

Twelve individual property owners
will be effected by the paving of Main
street from Water to Second street,
resolution of intention for which i'm.
nrovement was unanimously passed
nv the city council in meeting today.
John F. Winters, city engineer, has
filed an estimate of cost with the coun-
oil which contemplates completed
iob at s12,345. The abutting proper
~ will pay for the cost Of the paving,
largely.
Councilman T. J. Hickey. superin-
tendent of streets in rough estimation
several days ago believed that the
work would call for an expenditure Of
nearly $4,000.
Who Property Owners Are.
The owners of property in the two
blocks on Main street as listed by the
engineer are F. w. Klingbiel. Irwin
Phillips company, Louis Sterne. Pur-
itv Oats company, John Leisy, Sig
mind Brothers, Daisy Childers, Bertha
Landes, Anna w. Giller, Frank Burt,
RJom- Collier company and Mary Nc
Carthy.
Winters estimates that the citys'
share of the cost will be $4,340.6O.
The street, which is sixty-six feet
wide, will have center of thirty feet
constructed of vitrified No. l paving
brick. On each side will be concrete
paving to width of eighteen feet.
The paving bricks to be used are eight
and a half inches long, four inches
deep and three and half inches wide.
4
Time to Object.
Property owners will have fourteen
days in which to enter protest against
paving.
The next steps will be the ordering
of the work and the rec ,ption of bids
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WON'T WRITE;
ASKS DIVORCE
Husband Who Remains Silent For
Eleven Years in California
Is Defendant in
Suit

Declaring in her petition that for
eleven years her husband has failed
to contribute to her support or write
her a line, Mrs. Julia Boquet has
sued Louis Boquet for divorce.
Suit was filed today.
Mrs. Bouuet states that in 1907 the
defendant went to California and en-
Gagged in his calling as chef, neglect.
ing to support her or their children
since that time. She AYERS that he
wiIfullv deserted her without reason
able cause and that she has been
forced to support and educate her
three children.
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Lee and State OF Iowa.

Lee and State OF Iowa.
And unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second day
of the next regular September Term
of said Court, to DE begun and holden
at Keokuk on the 10th day Of Sep
TENDER, A. D., 1918, default will be
entered against you and judgment rem
dered thereon as prayed for in said
petition.
B. F. JONES,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Tire Joint installation of the Gro
tonr Mt Hamiil and Charleston |. 0.
N !, lodge was held at the l .. O.
F.. dali Saturday eve n ig, Mr.. Mackie'
ID. D. G.. M, installing ohcer' 1hose
attending from distance were from
Fort Madison, Montrose, heokuK'
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Gate City Want ads.
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-04-12

Lingerie Frocks Also to Be Among
Spring Favorites.
Net, Filet and CIuny Are Numbered
With Successful Varieties-Voils
and Tinted Materials.

Lace afternoon dresses and lingerie
cording TO some indications. At an ex-
hibition held recently, writes a fashion
correspondent, some of the most at
tractive gowns made from or in COM
binatiOn with American made laces
were shown.
The adaptability of the American
manufactures was here very clearly
demonstrated, for the laces included
most of the best-knOwn varieties
cluny, yenise, net and filet.
AS to the gowns, they could honestly
be called successful. One especially at
tractive model had a one-sided draped
waist which showed the lace under and
over the chiffon which was used for
the gown.
Lingerie dresses are in flesh-colored
and p%ale-tinted fabrics, and tinted as
well as white laces are used with them
also little insets OF embroidery.
Among the smartest of these frocks
for summer wear are the voileS and
tinted voiles, with soutache braiding
in patterns which are conventional in
design for the most part. no matter
how much ground they may cover.
For trotter frocks and street wear in
general, are frOckS of silk jersey, some
of which show a clever use OF fiat
braid, applied closely in ows. Dark
blu, taupe, and black are the usual
%colors, and the braiding usually match
es rather than contrasts with the
dress. Button-up-the-back dresses,
wide-braided girdles and models with
high collars are ew or old features
of this seasons gowns. just as you
choose TO look at it.
Silk frocks in bright colors show
overdraperies Of chiffons and indie
Structible wolfe.
Pongee vas used for q spring suit,
which was embellished with braiding
and further boasted of Il dotted foulard
vest, with the conventional points in
the front. The braiding ran up and
down both sides of the front and
around on the skirt part of the coat.
In spite of all this decoration the col
ors matched exactly except for the
white spots on the vest, and the SIM
pie lines helped to give the desired
air Of simplicity
Midnight-blue satin was the material
chose for a three-piece suit which was
cut with q short bObbed-off Elton jacket
and wide sleeves cut off at the wrists,
with undercuffs of Chinese crepe add
ed. The crepe vas used again for the
top of the dress, which was straight up
and down and collarless. Cuffs and
collar on the jacket were of peacock
blue. and worn with his costume was
a hat covered with peacock feathers.
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FIRST COUSIN WORTH HAVING
Would Be Grand II Every Nephew Of
Uncle Sam Could Have One
Just Like Her.

The home-body on her way 10 mar
ket had been buried in her shopping
list until the voices of her neighbors
reached her.
"What did you hear from Jack?'
"I had a nice letter yesterday from
him so interesting. He told about
some girl-perfect stranger-who sent
him q box cf homemade stun. There
were socks and wristlets and n he'll
net and candy"
"Why. the idea of sending all that
to a strange chap"
"But you see." Jacks mother went
on to explain by way OF apology for
taking the liberty-it seems she had
got his name out OF a list OF boys In
! camp down there-she explained that
as Uncle Sam was her uncle, and
Jacks too, that made them first cous-
ms, and so he couldn't possibly be Of
Tended with her. Wasn't that cutter"
81 should say So"
Then she told him IL he opened the
candy when he vas on open or 'neu-
trail seas he must divide with his other
cousins. and II there was any OF the
candy left by the time he landed In
France he must give IL to his second
cousins-the English and the French.
II was the cheeriest letter. And so
interesting! So much so that he sent
IL to me TO read. Cunning little mink.
using that Uncle Sam gag"
Sure" remarked her companion.
but that's the girl OF it,"
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ing. The employee of Uncle Sam took with him four pairs Of eyeglasses as
they were to stay down river several days, and eyeglasses aree easily broken
During the days that ensued three pairs Of glasses were broken, until he
mad gotten down TO his last pair
One evening the party took a trip in a automobile. Oh the IA back
later, through some Encouragement the ar went over in the ditch and its
contents spilled into the road.
Nobody was hurt, but the government employee had that last pair OF
glasses knocked IF his nose.
They searched the road, but we're unable to find the aids TO vision. The
ian had he notion that they had fallen OF the grass n were unbroken
He chung to this hope after they had returned to the launch.
"Jim." he told the cdored manofaI-work, tomorrow morning early yu
go back up the road to where w had that spill last night and see II you can't
find m " glasses"
"The next morning, when the government employee aW0ke, he recalled
his glasses,a nd wondered If Jim had gone after hem
IL can see him now" he said. Now he is coming down the road, now he
is looking In the grass-ah! there they are"
Jim had got ahead of him, however, for no sooner had he thought this
han hat early bird jim hove in sight at the head of the ladder running dow
into the cabin.
Il found IN. 1 found 'emr ~ shouted Jim. holding h glasses aofti in
triumph.
Then jim slipped M broke IN glasses into a thousand bits.
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ceived some variations in the form of
trimming. For instance, blue and
white foulard are used with it.
Moire silk and ribbons of modernist
patterns are promised for the borders
Of tunics and of panels, maybe. Jet.
too, is TO be used largely for trimming.
Collars are promised high with
points and flaring pieces projecting in
Il smart way under the ears. But we
have been threatened with high collars
before this. Who shall be brave enough
to say that we must adopt them willy
nilly?
1t will be noticed from all of the
above hints as TO what Paris is doing
that a subtlety of detail has taken the
place OF the former change la s:lhou-
cite which happened from season to
season. We have been denied a spec
tacular change, but we have been Civ
en- In its place q far more artistic
thing, the attention to detail which, af-
ter all, constitutes the art of the we'll
dressed woman.
One Of the quick ways which have
leaped into fashion for ome to con-
serve wool for the army is the use OF
n short, slim, separate skirt with a
cutaway coat Of ~velveteen. heavily
lined. Women who have such costumes
declare that they will yea these
| skirts with cOrslet blouses of soutached
silk and satin in the spring, thereby
saving cotton for the government.
Hats made of worsted have already
been r, placed by those Of satin and
velvet. Entire coat suits made of
! worsted have narrow bias 1ounces
mounted on n taffeta or satin founda-
ton. The short jacket which goes
with these skirts Is so heavily trimmed
with fur and has such a wide waist
coat of satin or matelasse that Ii can
be considered n bit of camouflage.
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FROcKS FOR STOUT WOMEN
Avoirdupois Is Being Overcome by Ex-
perts Who Make the Overweight
Persons Stylish.

A%voirdupois is not worth q picayune
for too many experts are at work max
ing the stout figure as f~ashionably cor
rect as any. True, observes a fashion
writer, there are styles which only the
thin woman can wear, but her stouter
sister is never by any means excluded
from all hat Is smart and attractive.
Some seasons more than others tend
TO make the stout woman's selection an
easier one. and this season is like that.
First Of all, there Is that surplice
line of the bodice. which is always be-
coming TO the stout. especially when
1t a be accommodated 10 any waist
line.
The stout woman has been told that
she should eve wear glossy fabrics.
You can hardly blame her for yielding
to a lovely satin, can you? But If she
does, Ii should be of a dark shade, and
made on lines which suggest length OF
figure. A black and white gown does
wonders with a long white gorgette
collar, n becomingly rounded neck line.
and a surplice waist again.
Everybody is wearing a tunic these
days, even the woman Of too much
weight. But here Is n conservative af-
fair, girdled at 4 becomingly low waist
line and long enough of skirt not TO de-
tract from her height. The panel idea
Is always n great help to stout figures.
Colors, bright ones, are 10 be Stunned
by the stout woman III she does In
dulge I'm anything light. IL should never
be conspicuous.
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down Your natural environment is the hon nc % shoul have me-
Marriage is generally a matter Of settling up"
"You can't fool me with a cheap cynidsm like that L yu too well
and while II hobby is hne-"
the limousine class, and wen in the spring my fancy doesn't u to human
fashion plates-hough I've got a tremendous liking or my women friends
understand. AS l was saying, I've gone in lately for shells. A shell gives you
a live interest in the water comes from. Got an abaone lastn night from a
friend who vat in a gmssbottom boat on Carmel bay, while he watched a Jap
cut 1t from the rocks 20 feet under the blue. And when get through in
now-Tm going to travel all owe creation hunting for specimens. Ever study
the cdors If n she'll just to give you IN idea-="
Which is just one answer, girls, dear, to the universal questionnaire:
Why bachelors?
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SOME TIMELY FASHION NOTES
Hints From Paris That Will Be Use.
full to Women Who Like to Know
What ls Being Worn.

The silk materials hat promise to
nave the greatest vogue are the new
heavy jersey weayes
We are promised n revival OF lace
for the midsummer dresses. Lace and
taffeta is n happy combination that Is
prophesied.
Tulle Is To have a decided place. II
Is used for dress trlmmlngs-collars,
panels. revers. etc. Ii Is also ex-
tremely popular for hats.
TIE ever-popular serge dress has re.
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very much impressed with the fact that am N elder" sddM Matthews.
maj | used to know.
This fellow was a chicken-Ieaing. goodfornothing darkey. But one
day he announced to the owner of the plantation that he had beer elected IN
elder by his comrades.
You n elder" cried the owner. Why, you chickenstealng, goodfor-
nothing SAM How did they come to make you an elderT
We'll, boss, 1t dis way explained San De rough elnent in
de church des rz up In dy might an say, 1--WE wants repsentaton"'"
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lenoth Of the Skirt.

In deciding on the length OF the
skirt for your new dress you have con
siderable leeway. A prominent French
dressmaker says that nothing should
be shorter than six inches from the
floor. Some OF the distinctive evening
and afternoon frocks are considerably
longer than this. and street and sports
frocks are worn shorter than this with
perfect impunity.
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daughters and sisters Of senators and
representatives IN congress, past and
present, of cabinet ministers and 9th
ers In high official station. were pres
ent AT a trench breakfast. The feast"
was served with the same utensils and
in precisely the same manner as
"chow" Is dished mp In army camps
and environments or In the trenches.
The menu too. was identical with that
Uncle Sam provides for the men In
khakl. The official women OF WISHING.