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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
THE WORLDS WAY.

At Haroun's court it CHANGED, upon time,
An Arab poet made this pleasant rhyme:
1.-THE is horseshoe, wrought OF God,
Wherewith the sultan's stallion should be shod.'
On hearing this, the sultan smiled, and gave
The gold piece. Sing again, o slave!
Above his lutte the happy singer bent,
And turned another gracious compliment
And, as before the smiling sultan gave
The man sekkah. Sing again. slave!
Another came, fluent as rill
That wanders, silver-fOoted, down a hill.
The sultan, listening, nodded as before
Still gave the gold, and still demanded more.
The nimble fancy that had climbed so high
Grew weary with its climbing by and by;
Strange discords the sense went quite anl1ss
The singers rhymes refused to meet and kiss;
Invention tagged, the lutte had got unstrung
And twice he sang the song already sung.
The sultan, furious called mute. and said:
o nausta, straightway whip me, off his head!
Poets Not in Arabia alone
You get beheaded when your skill Is gone
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
Some people are so fond Of i'll luck that
they run half way to meet it.-Douglas Jer-
rold
POOR MAIL SERVICE.

Keokuk businessmen and others are sufferers
in inconvenience under the Burleson rule of the
postoffice department Mail trains are usual
sly, unless delayed by heavy storms, on time;
but they fail to bring what gives them the
name. It now takes full twenty-four hours
for a letter to travel from Chicago to Keokuk,
and a letter from New York City wends its slow
way in from three to four days. son account
of the war; is a lame excuse a cause for all
this disarrangement The complaint may truth
fully be diagnosed as Burlesonitis, and word
comes from Washington that the postmastex
general may be the next subject Of congress
sional clinic as Investigations Of the
war and navy departments and the slipping
board are disposed Of The Merchants associa-
ton Of New York City is expected to be the
operator in chief in this examination. For
some weeks this association has invited crit
cism of the mail service under the Texas auto
crat who yields authority over the postal af-
fairs of the nation. It is alleged that mail de-
livery is unconscionably slow letters are often
delivered to wrong addresses or placed in the
wrong lock boxes, business transactins are de-
layed on account Of poor service, and communi-
cations with banking correspondents are held up
until after the hour for clearance, thus causing
a loss of one days interest on large sums of
money.
Dissatisfaction with the United States postal
administration is widespread For instance, a
correspondent of the New York Merchants as
ISOLATION says: eve now have very poor
service in the postal departments the delays
are frequent in mail" The Beaver Falls Pa,
Chamber of Commerce finds that 1.-the banks
and business houses of Beaver Falls are ex-
periencing delays in the transferring of mails.
McKeesport, Pa, complains of delays, and so
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
GIRLS! ACT NOW!
HAIR COMING out
MEANS DANDRUF|
WILL SAVE YOUR
HAIR AND DOUBLE ITS
BEAUTY AT ONCE.
TRY THIS! YOUR HAIR GETS
SOFT, Way, ABUNDANT
AND GLOSSY AT ONCE.

Save your hair! Beautify 1t! i
is only a matter of using a LITTLE
Danderine occasionally to have /
head of heavy, beautiful hair; soft
lustrous, wavy and free from dan
druff 1t is easy and inexpensive t
have pretty, charming hair and lot.
of it. Just spend few cents for /;
small bottle of Knowlton's Danderins
now-all drug stores recommend i
apply little as directed and with
in ten minutes there will be an ap
pearance of abundance; freshness
fiuffiness and an incompatible CLOS
and lustre, and try as you will, vol
can not find trace Of dandruff O
falling hair; but your real surpris
will be after about two weeks use
when you will see new hair-fn,
and downy at first-yes-but reall.
new hair-sprouting out all over you
scalp--Danderine Is, we believe. TIL
only sure hair grower. destroyer 0
dandruff and cure for itchy SCALP
and it never fails to stop fallin;
hair at once.
If you want to prove how prett,
and soft your hair really is, moistel
cloth with a little Danderfne an
carefully draw it through your hal
taking one small strand at a time
Your hair will be soft, glossy an
beautiful in just a few moments
delightful surprise awaits everyon
who tries this.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
FARMlNGToN.
. : . . . . . . = . =

The churches here all consolidated
for the next ten Sundays Meeting
was held here Sunday night at the
Baptist church, Rev. White of the
Nazerine church preaching.
Miss Iva Logan of Russell, Iowa,
spent last week with Mrs. VIM. Nc
Kinley, they both making several
calls in town with friensd of Mrs.
Mckinley.
The school opened again Monday
after weeks vacation.
Miss Florence Wright spent Fri
day and Saturday at home here. re-
turning to her school at Douds where
she is teaching the fifth and sixth
grades.
Edna Marshal is very poorly at
this time. She is Elliot MarshaPs
oldest child.
George Kline who is stationed at
camp somewhere in Texas, Is home
on a furlough visiting his mother
Mrs. Kline, and sister Miss Rosa.
Fraud Coulter is home visiting his
wife and family. Frank is employed
at Moline.
MRS. Ed. Hartrick of sigourney
| Iowa, visited last week with her par
! ents Charles Serrod and wife.
Elman Coulter spent SLAiSILudS Al
Chicago visiting his uncle Charles
Good and family. formerly of this
place.
Del Story closed out his restaurant
last Saturday.
Glen Cores sold his place here in
/ town to Mrs. Smith. Glen is going
to move on one of Ketcham's places
| to farm.
Mr.. Sam Hampton was a business
caller in town last Friday.
| John Boreman. wife and two girls
spent Christmas here with relatives
returning to their home at Daven
port last week
The r. N A. had installation OF
| officers last Tuesday.
| Mrs. Don Hunt and baby are here
visiting her parents DR.. Kirkpatrick
and wife.
Miss Leitha Bradford accompanied
Miss Grace Woods as far as Keokub
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
THE SERVICE FLAG.

Kansas City Star: Today I order;
ed a service flag, and when SAID
tssOne star. please 1t was with a
swelling heart, for the star STANDS
, for my first kin contract with the
war. And yet it was not my nag
but goes to my sister-mother or the
| lad who has just gone to France with
| the gas and flames division.
My pride in the single, beaut1fui
blue star is as nothing compareu
with the pride his mother will feel
when she sees it. To her the star
will represent a lad so teeming Win
strange fancies and ambitions that
he puzzled and distressed while ne
delighted her. He thought it was de-
creed that he would be a great writer
He did succeed in writing class
| play last year when he was gradu-
ated from a school of agriculture.
On the farm his mother was
dreamer. too, and she knew there
were possibilities in her boy, but she
dared not define them. She was IN
duty bound, she thought, to discou.'
! age him-and yet she didn't. Instead
III suspect she fostered his least prac
teal aspirations.
Then. at the moment she had dread
ed most-the time for him to launch
out upon life-came war, and hei
boy was one of those in training at
Fort Smelling. He did not get 4
commission. Perhaps he was too
young, or too much of a dreamer. Blu.
1.-The training seemed to take all the
nonsense out Of him, all the indecis
ion. yagueness. She hardly knew
her boy for the same interpretive
perhaps egotistical, youth who had
entered the officers training camp.
| He was one of those who returned
for the second training, and in ali
the days of his furlough at home on
THE farm she had soldier IN mel
house, not a dreamer. He would MOI
miss his daily target practice 10.
any holiday making she could plan
1.-THE poetic drama he had been al
work upon was not resumed.
! LET Percy Mackaye go on writ
ing them; / want to help live an
epic" That was his attitude, and il
persisted. The second training camp
drought no commission, but II
brought no admitted regret either
4 His mothers heart had been ready
Ito melt into tears, but who could
weep over lad like this, chin in air
proud with new and far flune
pride. thinking of trench tactics
How her fingers flew at the knit
ting after he told her the bought
socks" made his feet sore. And the!
could fly! Don't / remember how
was startled over and over again bS
her when I was the baby sister ant
she could already make the needles
fly! But my yarn always tightene-
and / did not learn to knit
And now Mary's son has gone ,t
France in a gas and flame regiment
and Mary will sit in lonely Mime
sofa farmhouse and knit everything
a soldier can wear. She will supply
her son and then go on knitting foi
his regiment. She will go without
shoes, If necessary, to buy yarn, ant
she will look out and see the singis
star on her service flag and hel
heart will find comfort in the thought
that she is helping win the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
does Somerville. N. J. The National Petroleum

does Somerville, n J. The National Petroleum
association of Cleveland, Ohio, says our let
tiers are arriving from one to two days later
than the usual schedule" Students at the Fort
Niagara training camp, New York, complained
Of delay in receiving their mails a month or
so ago. 1t was said that there were f1fty car
loads Of mail on the sidings in Washington on
Christmas day, and million dollars worth OF
securities from Savannah to New York City
got lost in the shuttle for nine days, to the ex-
ASPIRATION of businessmen interested in their
prompt transmission It was found later that
the mail including these securities had been LETT
in a car which was laid up for repairs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
GENERALS JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

Heavy snowfall in the Alpine buttresses OF
Italy give hope Of disaster in those treacherous
passes to the great armies with which the kais-
er power has invaded Venetia Already the
.Germanic commissary is having trouble; sup
ply trains are being covered by great white
drifts, and movement along the lines of COM
munication is becoming exceedingly difficult.
It would not be the first time in history that
a change in the weather was productive of great
military and political effects. Generals Janu-
airy and February were the traditional allies
of Russia, although they failed to protect her
in the present war. They seem to be rushing
now to the defense Of Italy, where we hope they
may be more fortunate in thir campaign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
MooAR.

Our school is closed again as Dori
Rockelman and Kenneth Gambrel ar
ill with scarlet fever. Both home
are quarantined.
Mrs. Louis Leake is reported as be
ing better.
Nellie, the twin daughter of Mr.. an
Mrs. Nellie Brown Of Summitville |
getting along fine. She was operate
on for appendicitis two weeks ago i
Keokuk. Mrs. Albert Miller, a
aunt of little Nellie's, Is also gettfn
along nicely from an operation for
tumor.
We were sorry to read in Satul
days paper that Fred Lemons wa
drawn for the war as Fred is certain
1y needed at home.
Nearly everyone from this villag
attended the funeral last Friday Q
James Philip. He was a good boy an
will be sadly missed by his fello'
workmen at this place.
Pearl Webster and wife spent Sur
day with their mother at Summit
vile.
A moving machine, to be attache
| to the stern of launch to clea
waterways of vegetable matter, I
the invention OF Frenchman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
keokuk. Iowa, Jan. Z, 1918.

(Bolsheviki is the plural form of a
Russian word, whose significance is
those who want more" Bolshevik is
an adjective derived from the noun
while bolsheviks is an English form
used as an equivalent Of bolsheVlki.-
Editor The Gate City.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

Huge Program LOT BullulHS ouipS.
Old stuff, old stuff. Bring on the
ships. More ships and less programs
please.
Des Moines Register: The shady
doings of the Chicago packers, now
being brought to light, would interest
the public much more if the revela-
lions could arouse tie hope for cut
in the price of meat.
Sioux City Register: "A little
legislative oil applied in the right
places would help the old machine
along" contends the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil. One may be pardoned
for suspecting, however, that the
Nonpareil is also provided with
handful of sand a monkey wrench
and few sticks of dynamite for
equally judicious distribution among
the moving parts of 'the machine"
Cedar Rapids Republican: Former
Congressman Vollmer has finally
been warned by the papers of Day-
export, to the effect that he is over
talking himself and talking in man
ner that his home city can no longer
endure without protest. Davenport is
the seat of vast war activities. 1t is
one of the cities that has been most
benefited by the munition factories.
If there is any place in Iowa where
the people ought to be loyal to their
government it is Davenport. The
protest of the Davenport Times
against the further activities of the
sloppy VoIlmer are, therefore, in
to- Z c.
man wants to be more German, why
does he not go back to Germany
where his ancestors came from. If
he wants to praise things German
the best place for him to do it is
Germany-but if he should find him
self there he would probably come
to a few conclusions-one Of them
that the U. S. A. is still a mighty
good country, and it has been mighty
good to all who have been privileged
to live here.
Fort Dodge Messenger: Altogether
encouraging reports come from all
sections of the country that the
presence of winter has not led people
to lose sight of the great task that
will once again face the country
uSAt LfGI W mere
and children alike are planning to
start just where they left off in the
i, matter of increasing the national
food supply. Countless colleges are
giving courses designed to train
supervisors of home gardens, fathers
are sending for seed catalogs and
high school boys are signing up for
farm work. If nature does her part
1918 will be another record breaking
year for American crops.
Marion Register: Did the demo-
cratic party disband during the civil
war?
| Grundy Democrat: We have a pic
ture of legislature adjourning in
twelve days.[ 1t will take just about
| that long to grease the machinery
and start it in motion.
| Sioux City Tribune: Senators La
Toilette and Gore remained in their
seats and did not applaud when all
| the other senator's cheered the presi-
| dents recommendation that war be
declared against Austria Hungary
Perhaps what the president had said
about pacifists-"T may safely be
| left to strut their uneasy hour and
| be forgotten''-had made them angry
| Waterloo Tribune: Jazz
| bands, we are informed, were invent
ed by the gypsies. Maybe that's one
of the reasons the gypsies keep SC
well out of sight
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

something finer than to do right against In
rlination; and that is to have inclination TO do right
There something reluctant obedence and
that joyful obedience The rank of virtues is not meas
by disaseeabeness but by its sweetness to the
it. The real test of character is JOY FOR
you rejoice that you love. And what you love,
that you are llke.-Henry Dyke.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
a Possible Limit.

New York Sun: At certain seasons
and places an edict that there shall be
more moonless nights will be unpopu-
lar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
Voice Of the People

THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed bv
correspondents. Writers OF commune
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, bur
for the information Of the 1ditoE.l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

last Tuesday, Grace going back tc
Quincy, Ill, to business college.
Roy Sewers left Monday to attend
business college at Quincy, Ill.
Elmer Price, wife and children are
in Des Moines visiting relatives.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
Bolsheviki.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
In reading The Gate City, which is
a regular habit of mine, notice that
the name of the predominant factor
in Russian government is sometimes
spelled bolsheviki and other times DOL
shevik. / have also noticed this IN
the Chicago and st. Louis newspapers.
kindly advise me through the col.
umns of The Gate City which of these
is correct.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

The need for conductors and brakemen on
the government controlled railroad system
ought to provide a few jobs for non combatant
majors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

Railroad Director McAdoo declares his mot
to is: 'The public be pleased Moving the
coal cars along will help bring about realiza-
ton of this motto.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

An army officer whose business it has been
to discover how many horses there are in the
country and where animals suitable for govern
ment use are to be found, gives it as his best
opinion that the actual number Of horses in the
United States today is nearer twelve millions
than the twenty two millions the country has
been supposed to have We have sent million
and half to Europe; and aside from the needs
of our cavalry we must send one horse or mule
to France for every four soldiers we sent over.
Horses, and especially the army type of horse,
should be bred during the coming year on an
unprecedented scale. Federal and state de-
partments of agriculture and important horse
breeding associations are in agreement as to
this for there is sure to be great demand for
horses here and in Europe after the war. 1t
lis pleasing to note in this connection that the
Red Star Animal Relief the work of which is
to cure animals injured in the war, is said to
be saving for future usefulness eighty per cent.
of the animals that come under it's care.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

'"Soapless day. is the latest conservation
suggestion. Will the small boy who confines
his scrubbing to the section anterior to his ears
plead a patriotic motive?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

Seventy little Greek shine-boys Of
Lincoln. Neb., presented the Fifth
regiment with silk flag costing $135.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

Since the national capital became bone dry
many congressman are thinking Of resigning
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

The bolsheviki are contemplating decree in
Russia abolishing courts and lawyers. If they
could only abolish the misunderstanding that
produce courts and lawyers, might hail
them as heralds of the millennial dawn.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Huge Program for Building Ships.
Old stuff, old stuff. Bring on the
ships. More ships and less programs
please.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

Des Moines Register: The shady
doings of the Chicago packers, now
being brought to light, would interest
the public much more If the revela-
lions could arouse tie hope for cut
in the price of meat.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-08

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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-09-12

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF MADELINE PETER, DE-
CEASED
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has been appointed
administrator of the estate of Madel-
inc Peter, deceased, and has duly
Qualified as such administrator, and
notice is hereby given that all pers-
ons having any claims against the
deceased are required and directed
to serve the same upon the under
signed administrator at the office of
R. W. Greene, .Bellingham National
Bank Building, Bellingham, Wash
ington, and file the same with the
clerk of the court above, together
with proof of such service, within six
months after the date of the first
publication of this notice, to-wit,
within six months from the 9Th day
of September, 1918.
WILLIAM GEORGE,
Administrator of the Estate of
Madeline Peter, deceased.
R. W. GREENE,
Attorney for Administrator
First publication, September 5,
1918.
Last publication. September 10,
1918.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-09-12
HERE'S WAY TO MAKE THREE
LBS. OF SUGAR WORK LIKE 4

Do you want to make three pounds
of sugar do the work of 4? Here is
a simple home method based upon
one used by fruit canneries and ice
cream factories.
Boil together slowly for one-half
hour the following: pounds of su-
gar, " pints of water and 1-3 tea
spoonful cream tartar.
This has greater sweetening power
than sugar; will not crystalize and
has pleasing slight honey flavor.
Many families are using it instead
of sugar for all table purposes. Over
cereals or in drinks it will stretch
your sugar supply by one third.
Why? The acid in the cream of tar
tar, with boiling, has inverted your
sugar from sucrose to levulose, the
food chemists say. The levulose be-
ing considerably sweeter than sue
rose gives the same degree of sweet
ness to three pounds in syrup form
as four pounds in graduated form
would have.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-09-12
DELTA AND SUNSHINE

Mrs. Andrew Johnson is visiting
with her daughter, Mrs. Alma Will
kinson of Seattle, for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Barteldts spent
Monday evening at the H. Wander
Mey home.
The Delta auxiliary of the Red
Cross met at the home of Mrs. z
L. Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Telgenhofi
and family spent Sunday at the j
Wander Yacht residence at Wiser
Lake.
Last Thursday evening about thir-
ty of the friends of Abe Verdun ga
thered at the Verdun home for a
farewell party for Mr.. Verdun as
left on Friday for Camp Lewis.
Games were played till a late hour
after which light refreshments were
served.
Miss Jensen primary teacher at
Delta spent the week end at her
respective home.
Mrs. Ortis BuzZard formerly Miss
Florrilla Hathaway, is visiting at
the w. H. Jackman. home this week,
Miss Edith Axlund spent one day
last week visiting with Mrs. H. c,
Berthuson.
On Sunday evening Mrs. w. H.
Jackman entertained at luncheon Mr..
and Mrs. Blonden and two children of
Bellingham, Miss Cecilia Hathaway,
Hazel Ecker and Mrs. Arnold.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-09-12
USE MADE AT HOME GOODS

AS the war goes on the need for
conservation in every direction is
constantly increasing. Not only must
We conserve food and fuel but we
must relieve the railways as much
as possible for war needs. One way
in which this can be effectively done
is to use products made at home.
President Wilson, himself, has urged
us to "use the products of the local
factories" in order to save locomo-
tives and freight cars for the War
Department
The Pacific Coast produces large
quantity of things which are equal,
if not better than similar goods
brought from the East Among these
are many of the products used by
motorists This is particularly true
of lubricatiEg oils.
Government and other experts have
long recognized the unsurpassed
qualities of the lubrieating oils re-
fined from California asphalt-base
crude.