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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
AUTO MECHS.
WILL ENTRAIN
Four From keokuk and Six From
Fort Madison Assigned to
Ames School For Mill
tary Work.

Ten automobile mechanics stu
dents, four from Keokuk and SIX
from Fort Madison, will enter train
ing. at the state college, Ames, on or
before August IS. These men form
Lee county's quota in a special call
recently imposed by the provost
marshal
The Keokuk men are:
john z. Harrington, TIT South
Fifth street.
Frank, Louis Dettmer.
Emile Francis Duniavey, s26 South
Second street.
Roy Walter, r. r. o.
The Fort Madison men are:
Raymond W. PaschaL Fort Madi-
son.
Clyde L. Hughes. Fort Madison.
Mark o. Baughman, Fort Madison.
Chester G. Vandagriss, Fort Madi-
son.
Sidney Vernon Wright, Fort Madi-
son.
Dale Jennings Dinwiddie, Fort
Madison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
One Conductors Watch Smashed and
Hips Of Two Hurt When Metal
Posts Strike
Them.
RUNNING BOARD BROKEN
Public Safety Department Members
Decide TO Chance Position When
Officials Com
plain.

When heavy metal traffic signs ON
Nam street began crippling crews on
open street cars officials OF the Keo-
kuk Electric company asked the pub
lie safety department TO move the
signs back farther from the tracks.
TWO conductors were hurt last night.
A G. Anderson, master mechanic of
the car company told Chief of Police
Hennemann, today.
Conductor Victor Baldwin was
struck in the side, his watch smashed
and his hip injured while he was col
lecung fares. The traffic sign fell
over and tore a part OF the running
board OF the car
Conductor Bert Phillips had a SIM
liar accident His side is black and
blue where a sign struck him as he
was collecting fares
Anderson was directed to Chief
John Anderson Of the fire department
who offered to have the guide pos Is
set back six inches farther or forty
two inches from the tracks. Conduc-
tors on open cars viii then be safe
from injury, it was said
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
keoIuk Regular Army Mans Name in
Casualty List Tocsy-srother
Lives In This
City.
SOLDIER Is MARRIED
Enlisted Two Weeks After America
Entered War-Attended o. 7.
c., at Camp
Custer.

Second Lieutenant Calvin R Fisk
has been severely wounded in France.
Lieutenant Ffsk's former home was in
Keokuk and he is q brother OF Joseph
E. Fisk, 1922 Reid street He Is the
son OF the Late Dr. c. P Fisk
Lieutenant FIsk's brother did not
know that he had been wounded until
informed by The Gate City, the news
Papers United Press report carrying
the name in today's casualty list
The soldier enlisted in the regular
army at Pittsburgh, Pa, two weeks
after the United States entered the
war and first went to Columbus, Ohio.
He was commissioned as a. lieutenant
June l, this year after attending Of
acers' training schol at Camp Custer,
Michigan. Then he was sent south 10
Camp Gordon, Ga.
Lieutenant Fisk was married in Co
lunbus last spring. He is twenty-five
years OF age.
He is with the Twenty-ninth COM
pany, Fourth infantry, replacement
regiment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
SORELY IN NEED
OF MORE NURSES
City Red Cross Auxiliary Asked to
Work Actively in Campaign
to Secure Required
Workers.

The Keokuk Red Cross auxiliary
has been asked to recruit as many
student nurses as possible for war
service.
There exists an extreme need for
$4,000 young women of character, in
telligence and education to fill TIE
gaps in hospital staffs caused by the
calling of many thousand trained
nurses to the front. The young
women must be 10 to 35 years old
The enrolment will begin July 30
Those who register in this yolun-
teer body will engage to hold them
selves in readiness until April 1, 1919,
to be assigned to training schools in
civilian hospitals or to the army
training school, and begin their
course OF study and active student
nursing.
John W. Rovane, 724 Bank street,
is acting as chairman of the commit
tee in charge of the Keokuk cam.
paign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
FIRST 2. 0. MAN
INTO SERVICE
keokuk Letter Carrier Goes With
Increment to Pike-Govern-
ment Men to Get Jobs
Back

Ernest F.. Klann, 1926 Johnson
street, city carrier. who left with
the last increment for Camp Pike.
Ark, is the first employee Of the Keo-
kuk postoffice to be called to the
colors.
The government has provided that
men in the mail service who are
drafted into the army be granted
leave OF absence from their positions
until their period Of military service
is over. If the soldier is honorably
discharged, he will find his position
open for him when he returns.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
Cockroaches, Rats, Mice
Easily Killed

The repuIsive cockroach or water
bug can be easily killed by using
Stearns' Electric Paste according to
the simple directions on the package.
Buy small box of the paste from
your dealer and overnight you should
rid your home of the bugs.
Rats and mice are also easily killed
by the use of Stearns' Electric Paste
and every housewife should know of
this reliab BILE way to kill off these
destructive pests, at the cost OF only
few cents.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
iMiIleTs Antiseptc Oil, Known AS
Snake Oil
Will Positively Relieve Pain in Few
Minutes.

Minutes.
Try IL right now for rheumatism
Neuralgia, Lumbago, sore, stiff and
swollen joints, pains in the head,
back and limbs. corns, bunions, etc.
After one application pain usually
disappears as If by magic.
A new remedy used internally and
externally for Coughs, Colds, Group,
Sore Throat, Diphtheria and Tonsil-
fits.
This oil is conceded to be the most
penetrating remedy known. Its
prompt and immediate effect in re-
1ieving pain is due TO the fact that
III penetrates to the affected parts
at once. As IN illustration, pour ten
drops on the thickest piece OF sole
Heather and il viii penetrate this
substance through and through in
1hTee minutes.
I Accept no substitute. This great
oil is golden red color only Every
bottle guaranteed-30c Coo and 81
a bother money refunded at
MoGrsth Bros Drug Co., keokuk. la.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
list will please say they are adver-
tised. e. w. M'MANUS,
Acting Postmaster.
Early Worlds Series.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, July q. - President
Charles Comiskey, of the White Sox.
favors worlds baseball series be-
fore Secretary Bakers work or fight
ruling is made applicable to baseball
players. September 1. Comiskey be-
lieves the leaders OF the major leagues
should fight 1t out before Septem-
Der /, IL the war department holds
that series after that date is i'm.
possible. Comiskey expressed great
satisfaction with Secretary Baker'
decision affecting baseball.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
LADIES'

When irregular or delayed use TIL
umph pills. Safe and always depend.
able. Not sold at drug stores. Do not
experiment with others, save disap-
pointment. Write for RELIEF and par
ticulars, its free. Address: National
Medical Institute, Milwaukee, Wis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

musical sensation. Boston Herald.
THE Navassar Band at Big Island
Park uckles the ears Of its audiences
with easy airs, stirs their blood with
enthusiastic rhythm, clogs their
senses with time, tune and jingle and
arouses them with original and pic
JQUA TONIGHT
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
a Feminine Mystery.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: But why
do they have no necks in their waists
and sleeves one can see through-and
then wear summer sweaters
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

turesQue s"-Minneapolfs Trib-
une
This remarkable collection Of young
lady musicians will be the big musical
feature of the local Chautauqua. They
VIII be heard in two concerts on tho
sixth day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
National League.

TODAYS SCHEDULE.
National League.
st. Louis at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at New York.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

and said that whether for good or
evil, it must be accepted for the pres
ent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

1.-THE Ma Vassars are a sure enough
Brain Storm Band. They blew them
selves into the arms and hearts of two
hundred thousand people yesterday
and got the glad hand from every
body."-Chicago Tribune.
THE NaVassar Ladies Band proved
kEOkUk CHAUTA
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
THE MA VASSAR ORCHESTRAL Leading Attraction

There are bands and bands, but
never before has the stage of the Hip
podrome been adorned with a group
of musicians who could compare in
charm with the instrumentalists who
make up the NaVassar Ladies' Band"
New York Herald
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

Ladies'.
Mrs. Mary Burrell
Mrs. ]. c. Clements.
Miss Alta Ewing
Miss Nettie Fawbel (3).
Gentlemen.
A. l.. Grace.
Mr.. Owen Deckerhast
John Magueil.
Mr.. i. L. Mitchells.
Mr.. Joseph Mulhollan.
MIR. Jerry Munson.
Post & Son.
Frank Tyler.
Edward II. Willfehrt
Persons calling for letters in above
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
CLUB STANDINGS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
American League.

American League.
Washington, 3; ST Louis, 2.
Detroit, Q; Philadelphia, i eleven
innings.)
Cleveland, s; New York, 8.
Chicago, Z; Boston, 2.
National League.
New York, s; St Louis, o.
Philadelphia, 8; Chicago, 2.
Boston, 11-12; Cincinnati, SO.
Brooklyn, 4; Pittsburgh, 3.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

skin became infiamed. Ii caused her
to be very cross and fretful.
"The trouble lasted about two
months. After using one cake of Cuti-
cura Soap with one boz of Ointment
she was healed" (Signed) Geo. Col
Iinson, SOC w. Winfield ST., Morrison,
H., August 8, 1917.
Why not use these fragrant, super
creamy ernollients for everyday toilet
and nursery purposes and prevent
these distressing skin troubles.
Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post.
card: "Cuticurs, Dept X. Boston" Sold
everywhere. Soap &c. Ointment Is and Soc
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

Subscribe for The Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
On Little Girl. Got So Bad Could
Not Rest at Night. Very
Cross and Fretful.
Trouble Lasted Two Months. One
Cake Cuticura Soap and Box
Ointment Healed.

"Our little girl had eczema over her
body Ii started on the back of her
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Boston.
Washington at ST. Louis.
Philadelphia at Detroit
New York at Cleveland.
Boston at Chicago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27

neck in the form of a rash,
and kept spreading until 1t
got on her head. 1t got SO
bad that she could not
res, a, night from the Itch
ing and burning, and she
would scratch SO that the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-27
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of letters remaining in the
keokuk postotice, uncalled for. for
the week ending July 81, 1918:
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27
Secretary Baker, In Washington, WMB
Able To Gallup Gen. Pershing, In France,
And ConUerse O0er 7 Telephone Next August

Hello, Mr. Secretary, this is Gen
eral Pershing speaking, have the
honor to report that we have the
enemy on the run and are getting
nearer and nearer TO Berlin"
Fine business and more power to
you. Press on. Roll them back.
The War Department and the whole
country congratulates you. If there
is anything you need Over There,
Just ring me up and I'll ship it over. !"
This is a purely imaginary con-
versation between General Pershing
sitting in his headquarters in
France, and Secretary Baker at his
desk in the War Department in
Washington, but after next August
it will be not only possible but prob
able.
Work of putting General Pershing
and Secretary Baker into telephone
connection is being rushed, The fact
that 5000 miles Of water and hun
dreds of miles Of land will separate
them will be an inconsequential de-
tail.
Telephone communication between
the two will be established when the
giant radio station which the United
States Government is building in
France is completed. The station is
being constructed by the Navy De-
partment, which has charge of ali
radio communication. 1t will cost
$2,250,000 and be as powerful as
the wireless station at Arlington,
Va, which has a range of almost g.
900 miles.
The practicability of using the
telephone in connection with wire
less telegraphy was established many
months ago and Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has already sat in his
Office in Washington and talked to
the commanders Of vessels far out
at sea.
1t would take an entire volume to
fully explain how the human voice
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27
NEW WAR TELEGRAPH SENDS
5000 WORDS A MINUTE

A league stride has recently
been made in high speed telegraphy.
An apparatus which in actual tests
has proved it's ability to transmit
over single grounded wire 5000
words a minute has been evolved.
The real significance of this es-
capes one until it is realized that
5000 words set in type will fill
seven q half standard magazine
pages.
Details of what appears to be an
epoch-making achievement must be
withheld for military reasons. 1t is
war invention and has for it's chief
purpose the liberation of hundreds
or expert operators for the signal
corps without disorganizing our
much needed commercial lines. No
secret Is divulged, however. when the
apparatus Is described as a printing
telegraph system depending upon a
universally used recording instru-
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27

can be transmitted several thousand!
miles and be heard as plainly as il
the speaker were just across the
room, but here is rough outline,
Of it:
The human voice vibrates the air.
or chops it up into waves. Whena
the sound of the human voice Isl
sent over the telephone wire to thei
wireless station, it goes up to the topI
of the high tower. There the vibra-l
tions or waves are thrown out on thel
atmosphere, which it chops up into
chunks. When the sound waves arel
thrown out on the atmosphere there
is sufficient powerful electrical cur
rent behind them to drive them to
start.
The wireless tower to which these
sound waves, the vibrations OF Sec
rotary Bakers voice we will call
them, are directed is equipped with
a powerful magnate which attractsI
the chunks of atmosphere. This at
traction is strong and comes just
about the time the Juice" put be-,
hind the vibrations at the start ist
eyaporating. The sound waves runs
true to the magnate which transmits
the vibrations down the wire into the
wireless station, where the sounds
are transmitted to the telephone
wire.
When the vibrations strike the
telephone wire they cease to be mere
waves of air but are converted back
into words which General Pershing
can understand The words have the
same tone, pitch and infection they
had when they left Secretary Bakers
lips and General Pershing can recog-
nize the Secretary's voice.
When the wireless tower in France
is completed Secretary Baker can
telephone to General Pershing with
practically as much ease as the
could call up a bureau chief in some
part of the War Department.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27

ment that has never before been as
sociated with telegraphy.
Messages are handled in any lam
guage or cipher with equal facility;
and rapidity. The speed of 6,000i
words a minute does not hinge upon,
the use of an abreviating code, but
by such an agency 1t could be in,
creased several fold. Crack opera
tors are not required. In two hours
time, it Is claimed, a quick witted
person with no previous knowledge
OF telegraphy can be trained to send
and receive messages. Instead OF
being highly complicated and expen-
sive the instruments are not of in-
volved character.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27
II Is The Side That Has The NeUe
That VII Win This War, Says Taft

the minute that that presented the
likelihood of war, Germany accepted
it as the opportunity for her to strike
down her neighbors, Russia and
France, and to enlarge her power.
She knew that Russia was utterly
unprepared. She knew that France
was unprepared. She knew that
Great Britain was unprepared. She
herself was ready to the last cannon
and the last reservist.
To End Afilitarism
President Wilson says the Allies
are fighting to make the world safe
for democracy. Some misconception
has been created on this head. The
Allies are not struggling to force
particular form OF government on
Germany. Their purpose is to end
the military policy and foreign
policy of Germany that looks to the
maintenance of a military and naval
machine, with it's hair-trigger prepa-
ration for use against her neighbors.
How is the change to be effected?
BY defeating Germany in this war.
Men who see clearly the kind of
peace which we must have, to be a
real and lasting peace. can have no
sympathy with a patchedup peace,
one made at council table, the re-
suit of diplomatic chaffering and bar
gaining.
And now what of the United
States?
The right of non-combatants on
commercial vessels, officers, crew,
and passengers, either enemy or neu-
trail, to be secure from danger of
life, has always been recognized and
never contested. Nevertheless, Ger
many sank, without warning, $50
American citizens, men, women
and children, and sent them to
their death by submarine tor
pedo, simply because they happened
to be on English or American com
mercial vessels. We protested and
Germany halted for a time, We
thought that il we condoned the
death OF 1850 we might still maintain
peace with that Power.
U. s. Forced Into War
But it was not to be, and after
more than a year Germany an
nounced her purpose to resume this
murderous and illegal course toward
innocent Americans. Had we hest
CcbICA1 VIC WOhlo nave AOSS O1A &hSAC
pendence as a people.
But we are at a danger point. The
war is now to be determined by the
active tenacity of purpose Of the con
testants. England showed that ten
acity in the wars of Napoleon. Ma
poleon succumbed. General Grant. in
his Memoirs, says that the battle Is
won not in the FIRST day. but by the
commander and the army that are
ready. even after apparent defeat. to
begin the next day. 1t is the side
that has the nerve that vii win.
at is doggedness that does it."
Stamp on al proposals Of peace as
i'll advised or seditious, and then
time will make for our certain vic
tory.
When the war is won, the United
States will insist on just peace, not
one of material conquest. 1t is a
moral victory the world should win.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27


SIT is the side that has the nerve
that will win"
With these pithy sentences former
President Taft closed his speech to
the soldiers in twelve Army canton
'ments. He has just made thirty
day tour of the environments for the
War Work Council OF the Young
eden'g Christian Association.
MIR. Taft talked on the Great War
why we are in it; what caused it;
who viii win 1t.
1.-THE battle is not won in the first
day, but by the commander and the
army that are ready. even after ap-
parent defeat, to begin the next day, !"
he said
Liked His Laugh and Talk
This is the stuff the soldiers liked
They believed 1t. They have to live
lit. And besides liking what Mr.. Taft
lsaid, the soldiers loved to hear him
laugh.
The Commanding officers at each
cantonment welcomed Mr.. Taft and
with their stats escorted him to
eadQuarters. The salient argu-
lents in Mr.. Taft's address follow:
Peace now. even though it be made
on the basis of the restoration of the
status quo without indemnities and
without annexations." would be a
failure to achieve the great purpose
for which the Allies have made
heartrendfng sacrifice. Armaments
would continue for the next war, and
this war would have been fought in
vain.
Future at Stake
i The Allies are fighting for prin-
icipIe the maintenance Of which af-
fects the future of civilization. II
they do not achieve it they have sac
rifced the flower Of their youth and
mortgaged their future for century.
The Allies cannot concede peace I'M
til they conquer it. When they do
so, it will be permanent. Otherwise
they fail.
Under the first William with his
Prime Minister Bismarck, who came
to power in 1862, the whole Prussian
nation was made into an army, and
lit soon became machine with a
lpower of conquest equaled by no
other. The diplomacy OF Bismarck
Pirst united Prussia with Austria to
deprive Denmark of Schleswig- H0l-
stein by force, then secured a quar-
rel with Austria over spolIs, and de-
prived her of all influence over the
German states by humiliating defeat
in the six weeks war Of 1866.
Then in 1870 the occasion was
iseized, when it was known that
France was not prepared, to strike
at her. France was beaten, and
iAlsace and Lorraine were taken from
her. The German Empire was es-
jtablished with Prussian King at its
head.
The destiny of Germany grew
larger in the eyes of her Emperor
land her people. and the blood and
iron policy which had been directed
first to the achievement of the unity
Iof Germany expanded into dream
Iof Germanizing the world. Germany
did not plan the killing Of the Aus
Eian Archduke and his consort, but
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-02-27
MAIL 1T HOME

Trench and Camp is exclusively
'the soldiers paper" Civilians are
clamoring for 1t. Send this papes
to your relatives or friends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-07
DRAFT EVADER HUNT
BEGUN HERE BY POLICE
Federal Agents Assist in
Roundup of Slackers-Many
From Other Cities Located

\ roundup of draft slackers Is on
today. Special details or police from
every district have been assigned to
arrest the delnqumts
Each patrolman has n complete de-
scrtptton of all evaders who are listed
with the local draft boards. The hunt
includes not only tho men who failed
to return questionnaires. but those who
failed to register or who failed to ap-
pear for examination when called.
The entire city is being covered" in
the Stacker hunt. Special agents from
the Department OF Justice. who have
been conducting AN investigation for
several weeks, have located many ell
gibles from other cities who are in hid
ing here.
Tho activity in Philadelphia Is part of
Il nationwide hunt for service evaders.
Those who have failed to return their
questionnaires will be classed as de-
serters. a large number of men who
have failed to return the questionable
are now in the military or naval service.
Their names are taken from the 'black-
list" as soon as this Is ascertained.
Tuesday was the last day of the three
days grace allowed to men who are de-
linquent TO report to their local boards
for proper classification. Many men took
advantage OF the extended period and
reported.
Some of the boards have listed as
many as 100 men, while others have
none.
The hunt will continue indefinitely.
and men who have left tho city will be
traced by Federal agents. Descriptions
and. where possible, photographs, will be
forwarded TO police of other cities in
an effort to locate the shirkers.