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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

to be the winner. And when the time
comes for the corn school to open a
lot of good things in corn growing may
be learned by the expert who will
come to Nauvoo to enlighten our farm
ers in agricultural work. The date
will be announced later.
DR.. ]. A. Bortz's family in Nauvoo
has received word from him at Fl
Riley, Kan. He says he may soon be
transferred to France.
Mike Baumert of the Nauvoo INDIE
pendent is still housed with swollen
glands OF the neck. Mike no doubt
thinks It a long time to be sick in
these days OF dynamite. trusts and
high cost OF living His numerous
friends hope to see him around again
and doing his usual good work In MS
printing establishment.
Henry Schneider. a civil war veter-
an of Eauvoo. will entertain the old
soldier boys of the Grand Army post
tn a birthday dinner in his home on
South Twelfth street Thursday OF this
week
The Hancock County Mutual society
of Nauyoo initiated Mrs. Paul Marie
into the order last Monday evening.
q
enioyed in which cards was the d.
vertisement and refreshments were
served. This order generously donat-
ed $40 from their funds for the use OF
the Nauvoo Red Cross society.
Nauvoo and vicinity people should
remember that card party and dance
will take place in the Nauvoo Knights
of Columbus hall Thursday evening,
January "a and that the proceeds will
be ussa for the benefit of the Red
Cross order.
The Nauvoo Woodmen mask ball,
which was 10 have taken place In our
opera house Wednesday night OF last
week. was postponed on account OF
the digsgreeable weather and extreme
cold. II will take place tonight:
A number Of persons are using the
ice covering on the big creek to go
from Eauyoo 10 Fl Madison, deeming
.he bridge safe for all reasonable pur-
poses The autos used on this ice
brioge for sportatfon make quick
trips for the roadway is not hindered
by hills and snow drifts. If the weather
becomes pleasant and remains cold,
this thoroughfsre win be the cause OF
many from the Pen City TO come TO
NsuYoo quite frequently. Nauyoos
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
CIVIL SERVICE
POSITIONS OPEN
Secretary Of Local Board Can Give
the Proper Blanks for Those
Who Wish to- Take
Tests.
MANY GOOD CHANCES
Suggestion is Made That If You Can't
Join the Army, You Can 90
Into Civilian
Service.

The civil service commission an
nounces competitive examination
for clerk in the departments at Wash
ington at salary on entering o.
from 81 Geo to $1,000 per snnn,n. Tili:
examination will not be held in keo
kuk but will be held monthly in Bur
iington and OttImwa, the date of the
next one being February 9.
Blanks can he obtained from Lillian
NJ. Perkins at the local postoffice.
Don't be a Stacker If you cannot
Join the army help with the civilian
corps. The ordnance department OF
the army needs several thousand
civilian workers. The civil service
commission is accepting applicants
for the following positions:
1000 stenographers and typewrit-
ars (men and won,en).
1000 typewriter operators Cmen
and women.
1000 general clerks tmen and wo-
mem.
500 index and catalogue clerks
fmen and wnmen1.
eco clerks qualified in business adj
ninistration.
800 schedule clerks tmen and wom-
an)
300 procuction clerks.
200 cler.-s qualified in statistics and
accounting
100 staisticians.
100 muhigraph operators (men and
women.
These positions pay from s1.100 to
1880 per annum.
200 engineers and 200 assistant en-
gineers of tests of ordnance ma
terial
Salaries from $1,000 to sa,4oo per
annum.
$500 machinisss, $500 per day.
500 machine operators, s2.75 per
day.
200 drop forgers- s5.75 per day.
800 tool makers, $3.50 per day.
Large numbers IN practically all
other trades.
500 mechanical craftsmen, $500 to
81 500 a year.
50 gauge designers, $4,000 10 $4,000
year
leo apprentice craftsmen. $3.50 a
year.
900 inspectors of small arms am
munition, $3.50 TO s2,400 a year.
200 inspectors of artillery ammu-
milton. 81 500 10 $1,000 year.
800 inspectors of field artillery am
munition, same salary.
SEQ assistant inspectors of field ar
tillery ammunition.
500 inspectors of small arms, 81, 800
to $500 a year.
100 inspectors OF material for small
arms, $1,000 TO $500 a year.
Also assistant inspectors of cannon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

visions of the law, land there may be
a few more"
Nauvoo's Grand Army members held
their regular meeting Thursday of last
week and selected all of the old off,
GERS to serve for another year. Ed
ward Argast. Sr., was chosen as a dele
gate to represent the post at the state
convention which will meet in Peoria
next June
Quite number of Nauvoo men were
stay-at-homes during the blizzard and
snow storm we had. They donned a
pair Of old-fashioned slippers ana got
an old-fashioned book and then said
that was their notion of night life
There were no mail for several days
and even the metropolitan Sunday pa
pers failed to arrive in Nauvoo.
Nauvoo's Young Ladies sodality Of
the Catholic church, elected officers to
serve during the year at a recent
meeting Virginia Datin, president:
Blanch Haas, vice president; Barbara
Stoefrel, secretary; Bessie Motif,
treasurer.
Lawrence, brother Of Mayor Ar
buckle OF Nauyoo, is at Leavenworth,
Kans.. in one of this governments can
tonments and is holding a position in
the culinary department.
The quarterly meeting of the Han
cock County Press association which
was to have been held in Carthage on
Friday Of last week. has been post.
poned indefinitely on account of biz
yards, snow storms and extreme cold
waves.
Report has it that German lady in
Nauvoo recently presented our Red
Cross order with SO in cash. This
generous lady said she was too old to
do work for the order and she would
do her bit for the soldier boys by con-
tributing some cash. The donation
was thankfully received and the off,
GERS OF the order in Nauvoo would like
to see more people here with a like
spirit.
The blizzard and snow storm and
severe cold spell struck Nauvoo as
we'll as other places last week. We
had no mail to speak of from last Fri
day until Tuesday morning. The rural
route carriers were handicapped and
missed a few deliveries. Lon Hohl on
route No. l came in last Friday even
ing and was about "all in when he
arrived in Nauvoo Frosted and froz-
en- feet ears. noses, fingers and faces
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
They're Elmo! Don't Stay Bilious,
Sick, Heada1hy or
Constipated.

Enjoy life! Keep clean inside with
Cascarets. Take one or two at night
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver
and bowel cleansing you ever expert
enced. Wake up feeling grand. Your
head will be clear, your tongue clean
breath right, stomach sweet and your
liver and thirty feet of bowels active.
Get box at any drug store and
straighten up. Stop the headaches.
bilious spells, bad colds and bad days
up, Cheer UP. Clean up,
Mothers should give a wohle Cascaret
to children when cross, bilious. few
ertsh or il tongue is coated-they
are harmfess-never grippe or sicken.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

for the lot And strange TO say his
hens laid the entire lot Of hen fruit in
one weeks time That man must have
some hen flock to lay that amount OF
hen fruit in seven days in the winter
months
Nauvoo State banks corn show
which was TO have taken place Tues
day OF this week has again been post
puned TO an indefinite date caused by
the corn expert being unable to come
through on his route TO Nauyoo on &C
count OF the big snow storm. When
this corn show is pulled on, proud will
be the man who lands the prizes. Be
cause Of the number OF prizes offered
competition was sharp, the best corn
growers Of this section having entered
the contest. So besides winning the
premiums il viii be quite q distinction
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
Many Jews Massaered.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE mas
sacre of many Jews at Petrograd is
reported in a cabkegram received by
the Jewish Daily Forward from its
Petrograd correspondent.
THE Jewish soldiers have decided
to take steps against the massacres."
the cable stated, land for this pur-
pose have called a general congress
of all the Jewish soldiers of Russia
to meet at Petrograd in January.
THE question OF organizing jew
ish regiments also will be taken up
at the special congress In January"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
Do Mothers Err?

When we hear of so many school
girls and girls in stores and Offices
who are often totally unfit to perform
their daily duties because of some de-
ransement peculiar to their sex, might
this not have been prevented by the
mother who, perhaps through neglect
or carelessness, failed to get for that
daughter the one great root and herb
remedy for such ailments, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? This
old-fashioned medicine is said to
have aneviated more suffering of wo-
mankind than any other remedy
known to Observation-Disclosures
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
NAUVOU, i'll, JAN. II.

VIM. ]. Dachroth of Nauyoo was
keokuk visitor last week and while
here was the guest Of his daughter,
Mrs. Lawrence Reiner.
James Kraft, a Nauyoo man is en-
gagged in the Standard Four Tire Co.,
N keokuk
Miss Marian ATgast, a Nauvoo tele-
phone hello" girl, has gone to Garth
age, where she has accepted position
In the chief office there. This popular
and accommodating young lady has
deserved this promotion and she will
give her new employers and public the
best of service in the hub city. Her
many friends in Nauvoo congratulate
her on securing the position at an ad-
vanced salary and wish her the best
of luck in her new field of labor.
The exemption board in Carthage
has placed the following Nauvoo men
in class four in the army service:
Chester Bird. O. A. Drake, Elmer Ar
CAST, Erwin Reimbold, John kraus,
ollie Koechli and Jacob Simmons.
Hagen & Rumble, the Nauvoo whole
sale and retail liquor dealers have
bought new Republic auto truck,
which they will use for their business
here
;. fellow from some town distant
from Nauvoo was in the city last week
looking for a business room in which
to open barber shop and tailor esta b.
lishment and finally selected the Bort7
building. After liquoring up during
his stay of couple of days in Nauvoc
he saw millions Of dollars in the bust
ness he intended launching in our bust
ness world After more sober thought;
he concluded Nauvoo had more anC
the best hair butcher stands than sh'
needed and he silently removed hi!
liquor soaked carcass from beyond thu
city limits to seek greener fields ant
pastures new
1t is said that soft coal is selling a
$3.50 the ton in Nauvoo now and sew
hral coal piles getting low in the homes
of some of our citizens at that.
You can hear of all binds of storie!
being told in Nauvoo nowadays On,
fellow who has pipe dreams now ant
then says that Nauvoo man who ha!
a flock of poultry took sixteen dozeI
eggs TO our market for which he go
Mty cents per dozen or eight dollars
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

mail carrier also brings the mails and
passengers from Montrose on the ice
bridge in his auto bus, and freight on
an auto truck The ice bridge here is
considered as safe as it has been in
any year heretofore
Nauvoo's Ladies' Aid society will
meet at the beautiful and comfortable
home of Mrs. Art j. Schneider on
Knight street Thursday afternoon and
it will be q social assemny of mem
bers.
The Nauvoo Lutheran congregation
has decided to discontinue the evening
services on account of their short coal
supply.
The revival meetings held by the 81.
E. church congregation in Nauvoo last
week and which were conducted by
Rev Williamson, the evangelist OF
Chicago, were not largely attended,
owing, no doubt, to elements that inter
fered. The reverend gentleman was a
forceful talker and the choir singing
led by Rev. Marston, pastor of the
church, was about the finest ever heard
in a Nauvoo church building.
The Nauvoo fire laddies are going
to enjoy themselves in a scrumptuous
manner on the evening of Tuesday,
February 5. 1t will be the date Of their
annual banquet and those volunteer
| fire fighters have extracted the sum
of Sc from their fund to pay the ex-
penses Of the feast they intend to en-
joy. May no fire alarm bell be sound
ed on this evening to interfere with
these fire heroes from gorgtng them
selves at the mammoth spread.
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Berger, Jr..
are on visit to St Louis relatives.
The knights of Columbus in Nauvoo
held card party in their rooms Tues
day evening and social followed.
There was large crowd out to enjoy
the festivities.
Five new candidates We're initiated
into the Nauvoo Odd Fellows lodge
last week. Brooks RUIZ, Levi Balmer,
Lee Johnson, Enoch and Cleophus
Starr were the men who were admit
ted into the order.
! The revenue officer of the govern
ment, who is expected in Nauvoo to
!, look after income tax people, has not
arrived so far. When he does come
| he viii start the machinery for col
Iiecting the income tax 1t is now
!: learned there are number of men in
Nauyoo who viii come within the pro
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
To Get This Big Aluminium
Cereal Cooker for One Dollar

A Million Homes
Supplied
We have supplied over . million users
Of Quaker Oats with an ideal way 10 cook
them. The purpose is to have Quaker
Oats cooked rightly.
Quaker Oats faxed from queen grains
only - has a wealth Of flavor. Right
cooking keeps that flavor intact It makes
the oat dish doubly delightful =. makes it
easy to digest.
So we had this Cooker made to our
order an ideal double cooker. Il is ex-
ira large, 50 little or much can be cooked
in it. 1t IS extra heavy, made to last a
lifetime.
That is the Cooker - made of pure
aluminium - which we offer this week for
one dollar, under the conditions below.
If you are serving Quaker Oats, or if you
will, we want you to have this Cooker.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
OPEN N0STRILS! END !,
A COLD OR CATARRA
How To Get Relief When Heal
and Nose are Stuffed Up.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SS%|VVVVVVV v v '
Count nifty! Your cold In heaa
catarrh disappears. Your clog
nostrils will open. the air pass
of your head will clear and you
breathe freely. No more snunl
hawking. mucous discharge. dr!1
or headache; no struggling for Or
at night.
Get a small bottle OF Ely's Cr)
Balm from your druggist and app
little Of this fragrant antls9
cream in your nostrils. 1t penetf|
through every air passage Oh
head. soothing and healing the J
len or inhamed mucous mempl1
giving you instant relief. Head 9
and catarrh yield like magic.
stay stuffed-up and miserable
lief is sure.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
Final Two Weeks Drive.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
CHICAGO. Jan 1T.-Preparations
for a final two weeks drive have been
made by the Dry Chicago federation.
a bulletin was posted in it's head
quarters which read: "Eighty-four
thousand seven hundred names sworn
10; minimum of 81 800 more to CO.
The vets decalre they will check
back on every name on the dry petit
ton as soon as it Is filed and that
they have 200 men to put at this work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

forgings, finished machine parts, gun
IRE control instruments, steel helmets,
cleaning and preserving materials,
1000 to s., 400 a year.
400 inspectors and assistant inspec-
tors of powder and explosives. s1,400
to s2,4O0 year.
For application and further infor-
nation see Lillian NJ. Perkins at the
postoffice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17

were quite numerous. Nauvoo was
practically cut off from the outside
world during the last half of last week
and IL the kaiser had been assassinat-
ed, people here would have been none
the wiser,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Capt. Clark May Go Back Into
the Service.

Capt. E. S. Clark Monday received
a telegram from the war department
notifying him to hold himself in
readiness for a.call to report for ex-
animation for. active service.
Capt Clark is a thoroughly quail
fled military man and only his age
has kept him out of the service so
long. For several years he served on
the staff of Gen. Fl. c. Clark. and was
afterwards in command of Co. b dur
ing that company's tour of duty on
the Mexican border. On the return
home OF the company he rendered his
resignation. which was accepted.
When the United States entered the
war with Germany he rendered his
services to the government. but on
account of his age he was not taken
at that time. but it now seems that
they have concluded to make use Of
him.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03

The Bennett-Wheeler mercantile
company. of this city. seems to be the
victim of some sort of jinx the last
few months. as from one cause and
another they have lost several of their
Oldest clerks. First Ed Armstrong
accepted a position on the road He
was followed in a short time by
Claude Keele who took similar po-
sition. Then Elmer Haynes moved
to Kansas CITY. leaving another va
cancy The last one to go was Jim
Crabtrec who left last week to take
charge of farm BELONGING to his
mother in the east part of the county,.
The farm has been in charge of an
other son, Clvde. who will 60 with
the next selective service contingent
from Bates county. Fred Lefkef ar
rived Monday from Fl. Scott, Kansas.
and accepted a position in the store.
Before he moved to Fl. Scott. many
years ago. Mr.. Iefker was connected
with the firm and with his former ex-
perience as a clerk. he will make a
valuable addition to the sales force. ;,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
The Old Settlers Re-Union,

The twenty-second annual reunion
of the Bates County Old Settlers As
ISOLATION, which was held in this city
Wednesday, was one of the most sue
cessful ever held by the association.
The weather was all that could be
desired, neither too hot nor too cold.
In fact, it was typical Missouri
autumn day. The crowd was late in
arriving. but soon after noon the
southeast part Of the court house
yard, where the exercises were held.
was filled with interested listeners to
the speeches and music.
Hon. Payton Parks, OF Clinton, was
the principal speaker of the day and
was followed by several of the fore
most speakers of this part of the
country. As the Times goes to press
the regular advertised program was
being carried out "a full account of
which will appear in the next issue
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Bates County Boys in Action.

Last weeks Nevada Herald pub
fishes letter written by Capt. Corey
from Somewhere in France" in
which he says his company, Co. B..
I2o machine gun battalion, had been
in two engagements in which they
not only stood up to the racket, but
were mentioned in orders. He tells
of seeing two of his men in, hos
pital. One was shot through one arm,
and the other through both. The one
with one good arm was holding a
cigarette for the other to smoke
The names of the boys were not
given. Capt. Corey says that the
magnitude of the-aSar cannot be con-
ceived by an ordinary man.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
M. E. Church Assignments.

Rev. y. J. Cutrell, who for the last
year has been pastor of the Ohio
street NJ. E. church in this city, was
returned here for another year by the
conference which was, in session at
Monet last week. Other appoint
ments in the Carthage district:
w. T. Wright. district supcrintend-
ent.
Amsterdam and Amorct. Glenn A.
Moss.
Butler, \. J. Cutrell.
Butler circuit. to be supplied.
Carthage circuit H. NJ. Hillard.
Foster and Virginia to be supplied,
Golden City, r. c. Lucke.
Hume and Independence, X. N.
Jones.
Joplin, Byers Avenue. w. X. Nell
son; Central Avenue, F. II. Sapp;
First church, F. l.. Geyer.
Lamar, c. a. Waters.
Neosho, S. F. Steavens. - -
Nevada, F. p Reed.
Rich Hill, J. J, Martin.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Hoover Suggests $3.50 for October
Hog Price.

Chicago, H., September Elm
answer TO a telegram sent to the
Food Administration at Washington
by the local office of the Bureau of
Markets as to the fixing of hog
prices, the following message was
sent from Hoover's office:
mo minimum price of hogs has
been fixed or contemplated. but the
report of live stock producers who
met with the Food Administration
this week recommends that average
price of about $3.50 be maintained
at Chicago during October. Atten-
ton is called to the fact that the pro-
posed price is a general average and
not a minimum
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Baby Daughter of Roy Baker Dead

Margery. the five months old
daughter bf Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Baker,
died at the home of its parents i'll
Summit township. Sunday night, Sep
TENDER 10Th. The child had been del
icate since its birth and its death was
caused by Indigestion.
Funeral services. conducted by Rev.
Moore. OF this city. at the family
home Monday afternoon and the re-
mains laid to rest i'll Oak Hill ceme-
terry. The bereaved parents have the
sympathy of the entire community
in their bereavement.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03

Born Saturday. September ~ to
Mr.. and Mrs. George Vanhoy. ~t this
city, a daughter.
Mrs. Robt. Megraw, OF Eayc,tc
Missouri. arrived in the city the las,
of the week and is visiting her moth
err, Mrs. T. J. Smith. and sister, Mrs,
ID. c. Chastain.
Mrs. O. D. Austin left the last ci
the week for Jefferson City. where
she is visiting at the home OF her son,
E. S. Austin.
Lyle Argenbright, OF Summit, lei,
the last OF the week for Norfolk, Nir-
ginia, where he is working in the
government ship yards.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Notice.

Services at New Hone and Corn
land Saturday night. sOct. SO. Bust
ness meeting and sermon at New
Hope Saturday night. Sunday school
and preaching Sunday morning. Lib
erty Loan sermon at CORTLAND at 3
o'clock.
Also special service at New Hope
Sunda" night
Everybody invited.
l.. w. Keele.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Notice.

All persons interested in keeping
up and in building tool houses at the
Cove Greek cemetery. will please
hand our secretary. Mrs. Kate Yeatcs
one dollar and oblige
Mrs. Mollie Hudson Pres.
Mrs. Jennie Hart. Vice Pres.
Mrs. Kate Yeates. Sec.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-03
Willard Isley, of Rich Hill, has en-
listed in the United States marine
band, says the Rich Hill Review.

Lis, your farm for sale with us
Phone 1877 Choate & Son,
sl-,I, Butler, Mo.
Mrs Hattie Levy arrived the first
OF the week and is spending few
days with her nephews, Paul and
julius Levy, and with her many But
Ter friends.
H. H. Henry. of the Democrat, re-
turned Sunday from a several months
stay in Colorado Springs and Den
yer, Colorado. IL ~ 10