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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Probate Court NeWs-Hancock
County

In re the estate Of Mary Ayers, de.
ceased.-Report filed by Louise
Ayers Palmer, executrix of the estate
shows the payment of the following
legacies: To Edward Ayers, $500;
to William G. Ayers, 5000; to Clark
p. Ayers, $3.50. That the balance OF
S1,275 being the consideration for the
homestead OF deceased, has been
distributed equally between Alice
Henry, Margaret Ayers and Louise
Ayers Palmer. Order of court filed
approving said report and discnarg-
ing the executrix from further duties.
In the estate of Lena Eymann, de-
consolidation of Marie Eymann
for letters of administration to issue,
which petition shows that death &C.
Cured in Warsaw, Dec. 13, 1913,
decedent leaving no will; that the
real and personal estate consisted OF
household goods and other personal
property, and residence property
located in Warsaw, the personally
estimated at 5000. That she left sur
viving no husband, and Anna Klump,
Oscar, Walter, Hugo, Marie and VIII
lie f. Eymann, her children. Letters
of administration issued to Henry p.
Klump as administrator, who files
his bond with William A. Dodge ana
Edwin II. Klump as sureties, in the
sum of $400 which is approved.
An inventory of the estate of Oil
yer II. Cossart, deceased, was filed
by Charles Grassland, administrator,
showing no real estate; cash on
hand, Sill; notes and accounts,
$1,000. An appraisement bill of said
estate shows the appraisers estimate
of value of property allowed to Jen-
ME NJ. Cossart, the widow. and
Jesse. Merle and Francis Cossart.
minor heirs, 5000 each. Ed. Walton,
w. c. Waddill and A. f. Clark, ap-
praisers Final report of the account
of Thomas Wyles, as administrator
of the estate of George NJ. Loring
shows that the sum of SS3S.50 was
received by him, and a like amount
paid out, said estate having been
fully administered upon.
In the estate of John A. Barr, de-
ceased.-Bond of John \. Walker,
administrator on the sale of real
estate, with David E. Mack and Ed
ward c. Mack as sureties, in the sum
of $4,000 filed and approved, said
real estate being described as: Sc.
of NE. 1885, NV. of SW. 1865.
Order of court filed approving said
bond and directing the administrator
to proceed with the sale of the same.
Order of court filed directing the
pavment by Henry Trautvetter. of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

The annual stunt fest will be held
at the college gym under the auspices
of the Y. NJ. c. A. on Wednesday
evening, April 3. at 8 p. m. The stunt
fest has been very successful here
TO fore and it is anticipated that this
wears will out-rival all others in Sc
curing large and appreclatlve
crowd.
s. ID. Faris, county superintendent
of schools, is making every effort for
the school children throughout the
county to assist in the observance of
the centennial celebration, and IS
planning for each school of the
county to arrange and give suit
able centennial and patriotic program
on the 18th of April, which is the
anniversary of the enabling act OF
congress. on April 1s, 1918, the state
centennial commission has recon-
mended that April IS. 1918, be one
of the dates to be observed this year,
and has mailed to each teacher sug-
xestive programs. planning for the
exercises to be held in the rural dis
tricts in the afternoon or evening,
while in the larger schools teachers
NAV hold two sessions, afternoon and
evening, at which celebration all
patrons and friends of the school are
urged to attend, and if desired, local
speakers will be arranged for.
The following programs to be car
ried out, which may be rearranged
at the pleasure of the teacher.
Songs Illinois. America, Star
Spangled Banner, America the Beau
tiful, Battle Hymn Of the Republic.
Themes-The French in Illinois:
Old Kaskaskia; Illinois in the Revo-
lutionary Struggle; State Boundaries;
The Northwest Territory; Illinois
Under the First Constitution; Ed
ward Coles; Elijah p Lovejoy; Lin
coin and Douglas Debates; State
Capitals.
Readings-"Oh Captain, My Cap
tain." by Whitman; 1.-The Corn
corE" by Whittier: THE Prairie -
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

Red -blooded men of courage are on
the firing line = and there are many
anemic, weak, discouraged men and
women left at home.
At this time of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes ~pimply" or pale skin.
Bloodless people, thin, anemic people,
hose with pale cheeks and lips, who
have poor appetite and feel that
tired, worn or feverish condition in
the springtime of the year, should try
the refreshing tonic powers OF q good
Alternative and blood purifier. Such
one is extracted from Blood root, Golden
seal and Stone root, Queens root
and Oregon Grape root, made up with
chemically pure glycerine and without
the use of alcohol. This can DC
obtained in ready-to-use tablet form IN
sixty cent walls, as druggists have SOLD
u Tor fifty years as Doctor Pierce
aolden Medical Discovery. 1t is 9
Standard remedy that can be obtained
In tablet Oh liquid form.
A good purge should be taken once
week even by persons who have 9
movement daily, in order to eliminate
matter which may remain and cause 8
condition of auto-intoxication, poison
ing the whole system. To clean the
system at least once a week is to prac
uce health measures. There is nothing
50 good for this purpose as tiny pill:
made up OF the May-apple, leaves O
aloe and jalap, and sold by almos'
all druggists in this country as Doctor
r'erce's Pleasant Pellets. sugar-coated
easy to take.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Imo Miles of Highway.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, April 1.-Scott
county officials expect the state &c
grade two miles Of the state highway
east and north of this city. ]. A
RYAN. county road engineer, will take
I'D the matter of improvement with
the state highway commission some
time this week It was announced to
dav. He has prepared a new survey
of the highway together with th2
probable cost of repairs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
What Became of That Hour
That Was Lost Sunday Morn?

An hour a day gained has it's dark
side as well as it's light For instance
rent becomes due an hour sooner. We
are one hour nearer the grave. Life
and fire insurance expires one hour
sooner. The thirst parlors in the dry
towns close one hour earlier. Weeds
have an exta hour to grow in the gar
den.
High noon isn't as high now as 1t
was before and midnight is not quite
so mid.
The profiteer has now another ex-
cuse for raising the price. He can
say ION account of the change in
time, etc. etc.
The biggest change comes around
midnight. What used to be today Is
now tomorrow.
Wonder If fellow died at $50 a.
m, Sunday, if the life insurance COM
pany couldn't avoid payment by claim
ing there was no such time?
A Keokuk policeman on the night
force left the station one minutes be-
fore two Sunday morning and walked
rapidly to the union depot. He got
there at $40, an hour and fifteen min
utes for eight blocks.
A travelling man who arrived in Keo-
kuk at o'clock Sunday morning and
walked up the hill to the hotel, found
that it took him over an hour to make
the trip. He wiped the perspiration
from his face and said to the hotel
clerk: "Whew, ] knew that was some
hill was climbing, but didn't realize
it was that long"
If fire had broken out In the Estes
house at o'clock Sunday morning. 1t
would have taken the department an
hour to get there. By that time the
fire would be beyond control. But 1t
didn't.
Children whose bed time has been
$3.50 o'clock, will have to go to bed
before it gets dark these evenings.
That's tough on the kids, but war is
war.
Easter Sunday of 1918 can always
be remembered as having but twenty
three hours. We used to think Decem-
her q was the shortest day Of the
year, but the war has changed many
things and now Easter Is the shortest.
If showing the clock ahead one hour
is such good thing, why not go
little further and shove the calendar
ahead one month. Why not tear off
April altogether and have May right
now, thus avoiding the April show
ers and have fresh vegetables and
warmer weather right away? Or go a
little further and shove the whole
year ahead. That might see the end
of the war six months behind. Good
scheme for somebody with plenty of
spare time to figure out and suggest
to Washington.
Prisoners whose sentences expire
before October 81, when the clock
will be pushed back again, have had
their sentences reduced by one hour,
by the pushing ahead of the clock.
The chickens held convention
Saturday night to see whether they
would crow by the new time or the
old time Grandfather Rooster, who
presided, was not in favor of any new
tangled notions There were a lot Of
the young bloods, however. who want
ed to get up an hour earlier and the
committee decided to purchase an
alarm clock to hang in the chicken
house so that the morning salute
would be properly given.
TIME
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
. . 80 . . . . 80 . :

Above is the allotment to the sub
Liberty loan, the campaign for which
starts next Saturday.
The assessment of each city, town
and township is the basis on which
the allotment was made, the county
auditors figures for 1917, being taken
as the basis.
This is the method used in appor-
tioning the loan among the states,
and among the counties in Iowa, and
hence Is used In making the fina.
apportionment among the towns and
townships.
1t is not precisely and mathematic-
ally just, but neither is any other
method Of apportiontng, and this way
has certain advantages over any 9TH
er.
| Figures Are Only the Minimum.
The figures in the above table are
only the minimum allotment to each
subdivision Of the county. The en-
tire loan Of $3,O00000,O00 asked is
expected to be oversubscribed heay-
lily, and Lee county is expected to
oversubscribe the minimum accord
ingly.
The last time the farmers were
not specially canvassed, and the sub
scriptions were made through the
banks in the towns and cities. This
time, every farmer will be solicited,
and every school district will get
credit for its subscriptions, as will
every ward in the cities.
The allotment for all Lee county
this time is over a quarter more than
the county subscribed for the last
loan.
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Fish Desert Rhine.
CRv limited Press.1

NDy CHItcu eo''J
WASHINGTON, March 27.-Even
the river Rhine has cast its scorn In
the German populace.
"The Rhine has become more an !!
more empty of fish" is the cry utter
ed by the Deutsche Tageszeitung, re-
cent editions of which have arrived
here.
The Tageszeitung complains that
so scarce has fish become in the Ger
man provinces that ellis sell at en-
ormous prices and the quantities OF
sea fish, which used to be sold a.
reasonable prices, are thing of the
past.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

the interest on the mortgage in favor
of the estate of John Michael Traut-
vetter, deceased.
The resignation Of j. H. Holms as
probation officer of Hancock county,
was filed with the county court,
which has been accepted by the
court.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

thoI uoui huOWeun no man, no, not
the angels which are in heaven.
revelations 3:10-The hour of
temptation, which shall come upon
all the world. to try them that dwell
upon the earth.
What became Of that hour between
q. m. and a. m. Easter morning?
where did those sixty minutes go
which were abolished from the face of
the earth?
mated when the clocks of America
were turned ahead
Keokuk observed the daylight saw
ing law Sunday morning by turning
the clocks ahead one hour. And every
city and village In the United States
did the same thing. Whatever time 1t
is now, 1t was an hour earlier a day
ago. One hour Of Sunday morning
must be accounted for somehow. some
where. Who's got It?
The earth is approximately $4,000
miles around. 1t makes full turn in
tWenty-four hours. or travels at the
rate OF say one thousand miles per
hour. We poor mortals, clinging to
the earth as best we can are being
whirled around at this excessive rate
of speed. We are going some. Yet
Sunday morning at o'clock, when the
clocks We're changed, we made an ex-
ira jump Of thousand miles in our
mad race. Did you notice the change
The miser has 100000 out at inter
est at six per cent. His income from
this is $1.37 every hour of the day.
Sunday morning he made an extra
$l.37 when the clocks were changed.
But when the clock is changed back in
October, he will lose an equal amount
The sick man was to be given pill
every half hour. The nurse had been
instructed to be very careful in fol-
lowing out the instructions. Some
body changed the clock and she got all
muddled up as to whether to give the
dying man two extra pills. 1t was a
case Of life and death. The nurse
tainted and the poor sick man got no
pills all night long. When the nurse
regained consciousness, her patient
had recovered and was out working in
his war garden.
The early worm had become tired
OF lodging the early bird every morn
ing, so the worm made his trips over
the top an hour earlier each day But
the bird observed the new daylight
savings law and met the worm half
way as usual.
A certain man came home at 2
o'clock. Before retiring he changed
the mantle clock. When it struck the
hour of two he showed it ahead anotl1-
er hour and it struck three. Then he
went to bed. In the morning his wife
accused him of coming home at five
No argument was allowed. She heard
the clock strike five. Oh. what's the
use?
The clock in West Keokuk in the
Lincoln school belfrey. was banging
six bells at seven o'clock Sunday
morning, one of the few slackers in
Keokuk. The hands have since been
changed and the clock is now running
on war time with the others.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
War Finance Corporation Bill.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. !
WASHINGTON, March Coon.
ferees on the war financial corpora
ton bill agreed today They com
promised on S3,0000OO,000 as the
Ioaning power of the corporation in
stead of 81 600 GOO GOO fived by th'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

state and S2,OOGOO0,OO0 by the house.
The house plan was adopted on this
capital issues committee which is TO
consist of seven members, TO be ap-
pointed by the president and con.
firmed by the senate. The senate
plan for this committee was for five
members
The conference report will be sub.
mitted early in tho week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
sneeiaI PRAYER Meetings.

MONTICELLO, Iowa, April l.
Churches here held special prayer
meetings Yesterday at which supple
cations were offered for the allied
cause and for the failure of the Ger
man drive on the west front.
The PRAYER meetings were called by
Mayor J. s. Voorhees,. They were
largely attended.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
The proclamation:
STATE OF IOWA
.XECUTIVN DEPARTMENT,

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
To the People Of Iowa:
One year ago. our country formally
entered the present war.
The spirit and teaching Of America
have always been against autocracy
and military domination. Our COM
mon enemy for more than half GEN.
fury have been preparing for world
conquest. One of their detectives has
been to eliminate our ideals of govern
ment from the face of the earth.
The sons of Iowa have already made
the supreme sacrifice On the field OF
battle in defense Of our country. In
this fighting. they have been so brave
and generous in yielding their lives
that recognition OF this sacrifice should
be made on the anniversary Of our en-
terng the war.
Therefore, by virtue of authority in
me vested as governor OF the state OF
iowa, | w. l.. Harding. hereby set
apart April Z, 1918, as
PATRIOT DAY
and designate that one service IN
every church on this day be set apart
urge that the Third Liberty Loan be
every minister in the state at this one
service on this holy day urge the ad-
visibility Of all his hearers loaning OF
their material wealth in support Of the
army and navy for the establishment
of Liberty and Christian ideals
throughout the world. / further es-
pecially urge all the people as far as
possible to attAnd this service and
consecrate their lives and property
anew to the winning of this just and
necessary war in which we are en-
gagged.
In testimony whereof, have hereun-
to set my hand and caused to'be at
fixed the Great Seal of the State.
Done at Des Moines, this twenty
ninth day of March, 1918.
w. L. HARDING,
Governor.
By the governor:
w. s. ALLEN,
Secretary of State.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Secretary of State.
A Crop Of Figures.

Chicago News: 1t is easier to gar
den with a soft pencil and a pad of
paper than with the spade, hoe and
rake. but the easy kind brings few
vegetables to the table.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

Try a Lewis Single Binder sc CT
gcr-always Lewis after that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Governor Harding Issues Proclama-
ton for Churches to Observe
Next Sunday for
This.
HONOR OUR IOWA BOYS
Third Liberty Loan, Also Will be Civ
en- Place In Church Services,
According 20 This
Proclamation.

All churches In the state will hold
patriotic services Sunday, April 7, in
recognition of the Iowa boys who have
sacrificed their lives on the battle
fields Of France, and in commemora-
ton CT the anniversary OF Uncle
Sans entry into the war.
In special proclamation. Governor
w. l.. Harding has designated the day
as Patriot Day" Ministers have
been urged to give special considera-
ticn to the third Liberty loan at the
services.
Church attendants will be asked to
give of their wealth for the army.
the navy and "for the establishment
of Liberty and christian ideals
throughout the world"
Announcement of patriotic services
will be made from Iowa pulpits next
Sunday.
The proclamation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Change in Clock Brought
About Some Interesting
and Also Embarrassing
Situations

Mark 13:32-But Of that day and
that hour knoweth no man, no, not
the angels which are in heaven.
revelations 3:10-The hour of
temptation, which shall come upon
all the world. to try them that dwell
upon the earth.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-08-17
Primary Election Notice

Notice is hereby given that on the first
Tuesday, the 3rd day of September next, party
primaries of the Republican and Democrat
parties will be held in Eureka County, Ne
vada, for the nomination of party candidates
of said parties for the following offices:
United States Senate.
Representative in Congress.
Governor.
State Controller.
Surveyor.General.
Attorney General.
The polls will open at 8 a. m. and continue
open until 6 p. m. the same day. The polling
places are:
Eureka Precinct No. lin the the M. and
I. o. o. +. Hall.
Ruby Hill Precinct No. Pa the School
House.
Beowawe Precinct No. 4-In the Branch
County Jail.
Palisade Precinct No. 5-In the Club Room.
Mineral Hill Precinct No. Elm Bruffy's
House.
Alpha Precinct No. I'm Pete Carletti's
House.
Prospect Precinct No. SIN School House.
Three Bar Precinct No. Sin Steve Da-
mele's House.
Diamond Valley Precinct No. 1O-In Edgar
Sadler's House.
R. McCHARLES, County Clerk.
d First publication August 10, 1918
Last publication August 81, 1918.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-08-17

the new victory the French, Amerl-
cans, British, Canadians and Austral-
ians are sharing.
On the Soissons-R Rheims front the
French and Americans have been
nibbling at the enemy, but IN the
process they have established some
strong bridgeheads across the Vesle
river from which to continue their
operations. If the Germans retreat
to the Hindenburg line, there will be
no chance of holding the line OF the
Vesle, and the crown prince will with
draw without attempting to try con-
illusions with the French and Amerl-
cans south of the Aisne.
During the week German subma-
rines operating off the American and
the Canadian coasts have sunk a
number of fishing and other vessels.
The Germans torpedoed the hospi-
tai transport Warilda between France
and England, killing 100 or more
patients. The ship carried 600 sick
and wounded.
The French, British and American
forces in the Archangel region have
driven the Bolsheviki and their Ger
man allies south toward Vologda.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-08-17
Notice To the Public

Complaints have been made to this Office
and to the Board of County Commissioner
against the permission and existence Of o.,
tain nuisances within the town Of Eureh
and particularly on the ditch on Spring sd
Buel streets, and owing to the dangertOh sala
thereby, the prevalence Of diseases at present
and the necessity of cleanliness as a prsyss
tive therefor, and at the request of the Coui
ty Commissioners
Notice is hereby given that the dumping o
throwing of garbage, rubbish, tin cans, ETC.,
into, at or near the ditch on Buel and Spns
streets, within the limits of the town OF NJ
reks, is, under the laws of the Stete OF new
da, a public nuisance, and punishable a.
misdemeanor; and that any further otfenss y
this kind will subject the person or persons
offending to prosecution, and to the paynsi'
of all costs and damages caused by such sa
including the costs of removing or aOs's
such nuisance.
JAMES MACKEY,
Sheriff of Eureka County, NeVadA
Dated at Eureka, Nevada, this llth dSa
January, 1918.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-08-17
and Hunting NOdu

Notice is hereby given That all person. h
Eureka County are warned against kiGa
game or fishing out of season, or fishing !
hunting in Eureka County without a lcsp,
therefor.
The new Fish and Game law makes it ~
DUTY of the Deputy County Fish and Gam
Warden to enforce and cause the ~prosecutm
of any violation Of the Act, aud as such o.
Ger I give public notice that no favoritsmv will
pe shown.
MARTIN MAHONEY.
Deputy Fish and Game Warden of Eureh
County.
Eureka, Nevada, May II, 1917.
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Soldiers Given Dance

When word came that three SOL
der trains were laid up at Caliente
and that 1000 soldiers were just ach-
ing for some one to entertain them,
all the girls of the entire county were
rounded up and taken to Caliente in
automobiles to give the soldiers a
dance. An army orchestra furnished
the music and the whole town joined
in the festivities. Sixty-three troop
trains passed through Caliente within
a week, but this was the only party
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PROGRESS OF THE WAR
Continued from page one

a moving picture screen. The enemy,
meantime. is almost blind. His ma
chimes have been downed in such
numbers that he cannot tell what the
opposingf forces are doing or planning.
With Villers Bretonneux as a GEN.
ter, the British struck to the north
and south. Their northern flank of
attack reached almost to Albert, their
southern to Hangard. South of that
the French were ready for attack
near Morisel and Moreuil, where
heavy resistance vas to be expected.
The British attacked without artillery
preparation. The French bombarded
the enemy for about 45 minutes be-
fore moving forward to the assault.
Then they took Morisel and Moreuil
in severe fighting. Meanwhile the
British. Australians and Canadians
had been pushing forward south of
the Somme with the apex of their
wedge directed toward Rozieres.
The first day they did not take that
town, which is about seven or eight
miles east of Villers, but they gained
positions beyond it to the north. On
their left flank the British did not