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The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

The American Red Cross is the largest and most
ecent organization for the relief Of suffering that the
World has seen. ~ n
It is made up almost entirely Of volunteer workers.
the higher executives being without exception men ac
customed 10 large affairs, who in almost all cases
giving their services without pay.
1t Is supported entirely by its membership fees and
by voluntary contributions.
1t Is today bringing relief to suffering humanity
both military and civil In every torn allied country
plans tomorrow to help in the work Of restora-
ton throughout the world.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

The Red Cross stands ready make its second appeal the
generosity country and entitled favorable hear
7u organization that has done much promote
and relieve human suffering Besides caring for
wounded and making life endurab for them during their
battecken and comforess regions of France
as relieved and helped the hopeless and destitute refugees of Bel
sum France The world knows how we'll has performed its
undertakings. This if give according your
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

1t might be we'll remind certain people that the President
United forces the
which fond invoking clothes him with almost absolute
power 1t supreme folly suppose that Congress- mighty
matte take fraction of his authority That
delegated him by higher than any Congress- There
middle oadthe American citizen who does full
operation obedience government this crisis enemy
aud should be treated as such.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20
TELFAIR APPLICANTS
BEFORE DISTRICT BOARD

Austin Browning, of Lumber City;
Abe Cohen, of Glenville; J. E. Woot-
en-, Arthur Hardin, Herman Hardin,
w. K. McKitchen, Fred Brewer, Ri
ley Davis, Monroe Horton, J. H.
Horton, w. L. Lilies, ]. E. Thomas,
Walter Coleman, c. c. Cravey, B. G..
Lavender, all of McRae, were before
the district medical exemption board
Friday.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

Fitzgerald and Ben Hill coun-
ty went "over the top" on the
Third Liberty Loan and Toel-
ken's 'Shebico' Special Bicycles
are going too. Better buy one.
Good as a gold bond.
TOELKEN BICYCLE CO.
Bicycles, Tires, Expert Repairs
Where Main & Central Meet"
4 4
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

great calamity. ~ ~AA'~ -
need. 80 's' wy M nn time u
..o. WIN hs Thousands Of workers. IT, tremendous
:. ~ an smooth running transportation facilitieN
u ~ serving ~ Atnsyicas advance guard-and thue
helping 10 win the war ~ s~e~
Congress authorizes IT,
President Wilson hea1s H.
Ths War Department sudits its sccounts
asticaly endorse II. ' "o' snsnussa
Twenty-Five million Americans have 3o,nsd n
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

sometimes mighty hard the relationship between
effect Who would have thought when the thermometer
stayed sight for days time last winter that would
nav more for ice this summer?
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

Mistress Mary quite contrary,
How is your war garden growing
with potatoes it grows, and beans in rows,
And pretty maids do the hoeing.
II used to raise shells and silver bells,
But now Pm great deal wiser.
Our war gardens stand an aid to our land,
And a help to beat the Kaiser"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-05-20

FIRST of the American Army they died in France!
Gresham! Enright! Hay! They died for us.
And willingly! But not pray God, in vain
For the sake of them, if for no other reason,
will you not give to the Red Cross which will care for
the men that follow them?
For the sake of what they died for will you not
give-and give till the heart says stop?
None of us here can give as greatly as they gave
and as others are yet to give But can we not sacr-
flee ourselves little? Will you take little from
the comforts of your life and give not mere "con7
science gift" that saves your pride and let's you say
to yourself: II have given to the Red Cross"-but
a gift that cuts down into the quick and hurts be-
cause it makes you deny yourself?
1. 7n Remember-hey gave till they died!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
The Town Looks Different Now.

But after ALL the casual observer does not
sense these more important facts as easily as
he does the outstanding physical improvements
in Keokuk
He can not help seeing the new Irwin Phil.
lips building that would loom up IN any city OF
anv size: the Purity Oats additions still going
on every year more and more and larger and
larger; the immense enlargement of the Hub1n,
GER plant in which is now entirely lost the old
pork packing house Of which Keokuk was SO
proud before she attained the real thing; the
finest Elks club in this part of the world, the
handsome country club the Y. w. c. A., one OF
the best buildings of that organization any
where, and the Keokuk club; the fine Masonic me
temple; the handsome home of new 6an5
and the building of new trust company added
to Keokuk institutions; two very handsome
school buildings in opposite parts Of the city;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

Of KEOkUk?
the new and large street car barns and the sub
station of the electric company; half dozen
new and large plants like the new Mills Ellis
WORTH Weber-Kirch and Lutz & Stahl estab-
lishments a hotel that has made Keokuk
famous everywhere. -
Some Specimens of Growth.
AS regards geography, a whole new add-
ton with population enough to require and fill
of the school buildings, and block
of good modern residences on Orleans avenue,
on the opposite side of town, are but instances
Of much house building in Keokuk.
Here at Keolxuk is the best bridge across the
Mississippi between Minneapolis and Saint
Louis, built since and because the water-power
came to Keokuk.
In these five years the municipality repaired
to reconstruction the entire large sewer system,
built over three miles of concrete streets be-
sides over two miles of brick streets, and some
macadam streets, giving Keolluk over forty
two miles OF improved streets.
A Fool Question by Blind Man.
Is Keol1uk growing?
Well-er-you see-the facts of record are
that KeolSuk is growing so fast that most OF her
people do not realize that since the water
power started Keokuk has just about doubled
her assets as a manufacturing and Jobblng
center.
Is Keokuk growing?
The question is paralyzing to the man who
keeps informed, by it's very absurdity, when
Keokuk is growing more healthily than most OF
the middle western towns. 1t is like that other
inane question asked by some other Writings
year ago: Do you think we Will get into the
war?
Is Keokuk Dragging about it? Not any
louder than a snowflake hits sleeps back.
On Modesty and Some Kinds of Men.
A dude continually Dragging about the
riches of his father and the family OF his
mother is contemplate.
But a good strong, efficient salesman of
fine character will never get a job, nor earn a
bonus on his sales, as long as he takes pride IN
having holes in his shoes and insists that his
goods are not as good as they ought to be-
That kind of salesman gets fired promptly.
Getting fred is exactly what that kind OF
people Deserve
Or maybe big band playing joyously right
in front of the hearse.
Keokuk has right to brag if she desires, Tor
she has ACQUIRED lately half dozen Of the best
industrial plants in America and some OF the
largest of their kind in the world, and others
are coming regularly.
On Dragging and the Biggest Asset
Any town that has doubled it's business IN
the last five years. without war contracts, IS
mighty near the head of the list IN real INDUS
trial growth.
And the largest asset of all is the list OF new
men of big brain, large view and tremendous
energy-Kelogg, Hall, Weissenburger, Phil
lips, Pagels, Rich and others who have been
added to the citizenship of keokuk, as pig
generators of energy and upward pushing
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Making Millions from Limestone.


One of the latest to come, and one OF the
largest and best is the Gas Tank Rech 1a gins
company's carbide plant, more than hall ;! com,
n1eted and being rushed. Firmly established
as leading independent maker Of acf hSaerns
in Milwaukee, it comes to Keokuk to become
ahsolutelv independent of everybody. It will
buy only coal. It owns plenty Of limestone s
here The coal is burnt into coke IN huge ovens,
and the flaming gases from the coke furnaces
burn the limestone into lime in kilns. Coke ana ana
lime go to big electric furnaces carbon ana t5,a
calcium combine, and carbide of calcium IS the
nroduct which is packed in containers mace
here end Of the plant The I IanK are are
ohont two blocks long and nearly a block VIDE
including ten thousand cubic ie yards df Of mog g
do11a,.s and will make about half million dol
lars worth of carbide every year: The com
pany has been furnishing acetylene TO ra ~
roads for Pintsch gas lighting and formerly 70
automobiles Just now there is appearing an
enormous demand for its use IN wela ora +r 10
automobile repair shops everywhere where tne
acetvlene is combined with oxygen. Alfeaoy
some oxygen makers are looking toward heo-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
WHAT ARE THE ACTUAL FACTS ABOUT
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF KEOKUK?

- -
kuk as location for an allied industry to the
immense works here of the acetylene company
which are one of the biggest and best acquisi-
lions possible for any city OF any size.
The Angle of Fifteen Years Ago.
Most of these are metals industries, but
there has been sufficient variety come to Keo-
kuk in the last five years.
Fifteen years ago, Keokuk would have
talked for months about the acquisition of such
concerns as the Pechstein Iron works, the Pure
Ice company, the American Cement Machine
company, the Briar Mills, and the Iowa Can
company.
The last named is of unusual importance on
account of it's possibilities. The world war has
showed tin cans into the list of things our
fathers used. The can Of the future will be
made of fibre, equal in every way to the tin
containers and much better in many ways.
All these things are strongly financed and
profitable. There is not one Of them running
business on a shoestring.
And they keep coming, despite tOpsy- turvy
conditions. The Fluid Compressed Steel COM
pany, arrived but not yet established, is a big
thing which will make all sorts of hollow tubes
and pipes of steel.
How keokul Quietly Doubled Her Assets.
Keokuk has been growing SO fast that even
the assessor can not keep up with the additions
to it's assets. But in 1900, the assessed valua-
ton of Keokuk property was S2,317, 1876 about
which figure it remained year after year. In
1917, the assessed value was just about mil
lion dollars more, or an Increase OF over forty
per cent.
The bank deposits increased from $780,,
$40 to little less than $5,OOO,0O0, or about
trebled notwithstanding million dollars
was removed for Liberty bonds, war work and
thrift stamps
The postoffice receipts, universally accepted
as the best barometer of business, increased
from $4,000 to $4,000, or more than
doubled
Compared with the past, 1917, shows figures
of remarkable growth in Keokuk, in spite OF
war conditions. The figures generally used by
statisticians and economists show at least a
doubling since the big Keokuk water-power
was built.
The Town Looks Different Now.
s4a,. tho casa1al Observer does not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
[eY G. WALTER BARR

q.
Time passes in events, not years It is only
five years since the titanic turbines in the
worlds greatest water-power installation be-
gan to turn the gigantic generators and initiate
a new industrial center at Keokuk in the
middle of the long stretch of the Mississippi
river.
But in that five years, the world has turned
topsy-turvy and a whole era in the life Of man
kind has passed through human ken.
Five years ago, men made forecasts in in
dustrialism and city growth and schedules of
progress in manufacturing and finance, only to
have them flung to the four winds by the burst
ing shells of a world bombardment
Yet, it is we'll to turn for moment from
the blood red skies of the east to contemplate
calmly and accurately exactly what has
occurred here in this middle western city since
the Mississippi was harnessed for the pursuits
of peace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
The Elite of Industrialism.

A cursory survey shows in plain sight the
smokeless buildings covering hundreds Of acres
which house some of the largest and most I'M
portant industrial establishments in America.
There is the River Smelling and Refining
company largest makers Of the purest zinc IN
the world, and in its potentlalltles one OF tne
hest assets in any industrial district, of which
any manufacturing center would be proud;
Near by is the United Lead company which
is in class by itself, but has made that
large class by it's constant engagements OF OUT
put. , - ;: ~
ElectroM etals company which last year passed
Baltimore and is now the second largest maker
of ferro-silcon in America.
Midway is the Standard -Four. Tire com cor
pany, firmly settled in manufacturing selllng
more tires than it can make every day IN tfe
year, and one of the strongest IN the country
outside the few monster factories
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
ADJUSTMENTS
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"

The first play presented at the Au-
guSta Opera house since the infiu-
enza ban was lifted was "Parlor,
Bedroom and Bath" a new tale OF
wayside inn, which draw good-siz
ed audiences Saturday afternoon and
evening. It was Z scream from be-
ginning to end ana was enjoyed by
all
The plot Of the play-and il was
not a deep plot-concerncd Reglnalo
Irving who desired to impress upon
his wife thai he had a fatal attrac-
ton for women. and the cOmplica-
lions which followed his cnUm $ plan
to impress Mrs. Irving We're many
and came in quick succession.
The character. Reggie was por-
trayed by Walter E. Perkins, who,
with the assistance of Margaret T..
Johnston as Nita Leslie. and Grace
Ellsworth as Polly Ha thaway, kept
the humor Of the play alive every mo-
ment The other characters We're
well presented.
irhe staging Of the play was excel
lent and in short this comedy which
has scored big hit in the larger
cities found great favor with the To-
cal theatergocrs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18

Seven members of the old Dirigo
team are still living.
Mr.. llagg lived alone in this house
for many years. He never married
and he came and went silently and
unostentatiously He seldom, if ev-
err, entertained callers. For long
time he blinds on the front of the
house have been closed, partly brok
en-, ami the whole house in Il gen
eral state of decay and delapidation.
No one has ever been seen to cross
the threshold of the house but the
owners. For this req son, much cur
iOsity has arisen as to what the
house contained. some even looked
on the old residence as haunted and
boys have watched for ghosts. But
no hobgoblins ever came.
When the doors were flung open
the otler day, for the first time,
there were disclosed many things of
antique value. Old lanterns. dishes
of q pattern 100 years ago, old paint
ings on the walls done with the
brush liz years ago, odd looking COT
fee pots. andironS of peculiar pat :
tern. chairs Of ancient make, orna-
ments never seen in these days,
trinkets of all kinds, and heirlOoms
further back than one would dream.
Greenwood Flage is the father Of
James F'lags and the 129th descend :
ant of Thomas Flagg of Water
town, Mass.
The F'laggs in the early days wero
"some punkins" in Augusta. Ger
shom Flagg, one Of the earliest mem :
bers of the family, was one Of the
Plymo It'll proprietors and an ances-
tor of the Fullers, Norths AMI
Bridges of Augusta, all influential
families. He owned 4Sth part If
the Plymouth patent which was half
Of one full share. In the division o.
the company land. lot No. s fell 20
Gershom which included all the te"
ritory between Bridge and Winthrop
streets.
One of the streets now included N
this territory is named Flagg street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18

ers for the transport and other sup
ply organizations worked day and
night at their tasks.
Day by day the official communi-
cations and the tclephone even to the
far east line told the Americans that
Tor every mill the Germans gave
way before them they We're yielding
another mil" to the British and
French ON the lett: thai the Amcri-
can pressure was felt like an Arctic
current throughout the line.
ON the morning OF Nos emher the
German official communication told
the Americans they had won, because
for the first tiuic in the war the enc
my officially admitted chat the Amer
lean attack had effected break
!, through. The American. knew that
what finally happened Oh the morn
ing of November II, WhoI. the armis-
tee was signed was on,y a question
Of days Last Monday morning the
general commanding Il certain divis-
ION was called TO the telephone in n
Tar advanced position end asked il
II" Bad understood that hostilitics
were to have ceased AT IL o'clock in
the morning.
YES rcpilyi the general. II did.
h'It at 10: oS w were 20 ng like hell"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
Social Club Meetings

The DreXels will meet at ? O'Clock
Monday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Fred Logan, South Chestnut
street.
The Deborah Society Of the Pen
ney Memorial church will meet with
Mrs. Horace Coburn. School street,
Monday evening at 80.
The o. N. N. Club will meet at >
o'clock Thursday afternoon with Mrs
Edgar Turner. 228 State street Please
come prepared to sew.
The members Of the Current Events
Club are requested to meet at .
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Joseph Hodgkins, SO
Eastern avenue, to make scrap books
for the Red Cross. The ladies are re-
QueSted to bring scissors and library
paste.
The Woman's League will meet at
2.3O p. NJ. today with Mrs. Paul D.
Sargent. Western avenue.
The Murray Alliance will meet at
1.3o this evening with Mrs. f. f.
Parkman, 50 Green street.
The Woman's Board will meet at
" CioCh tiiS dIlcILOON with -WI >.
Frank Adams. s Church street.
The Armitage Club will meet at
230 Monday with Miss Mary Ed
wards at 8 Myrtle street.
The Charming Guild will meet at
p. M. Monday with Mrs. Bassett, AZ
Green street.
The Christian Science Belgium Re
lief Society will meet with Mrs.
Howard McFarlane. Chapel street, al
. o'clock this afternoon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
SOUTH GARDINER

Mrs. A. B. Libby Of Gardiner was
the week end guest of Miss Marion
Lawrence.
The Kings Daughters Harves:
supper Tuesday evening was largely
attended. The supper was an old
fashioned boiled dinner The vestry
was prettily decorated with flags.
The following ladies' had the supper
in charge: Mrs. Charles Bailey, Mrs.
Merritt Spearing, Mrs. Alonzo Mil
lory. Mrs. p. A. Smith. Mrs Clarence
Mahar Mrs. Harvey Harlow. Mrs. w.
p. Hodgkins and Mrs. Ed Smith.
Mrs. Fred Fogg had charge Of the
vegetable table. Some of those pres
ent from out of town were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Longfellow, DR.. and Mrs.
Fred Strout, Mrs. Guy Lawrence and
son of Gardiner. Mr.. and Mrs. Jerom e
Farrell, Augusta, Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes
and Mrs. Ernest Foye of Pittston, and
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Smith left Thurs
day for a visit with relatives in Pitts
field, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
FEELING GROWS
THAT PRESIDENT
WILL GO TO EUROPE
aShiDyton

W aShlngl"n, NOV. l1.--As v:
there has been no indication that the
! President has reached Il decision On
the suggestion from high sources m
Europe that he at least be prevented
from the opening of the peace con-
! gress. but there has been a feeling
mere fro several days that he will 80
/ to Europe. though probably not as an
active participant in the meeting.
The general belief here now is Con-
Sress cannot assemble before January
for even after the United States amt
the Allies have completed their pres
Ont exchanges of views and the SUI
prone council has dra wn up the pro-
gram for the meeting will ~
requested for the assembling Of IN
commissioners which are to represent
the participating nations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
How About II Gardiner?

How about Il Gardiner? Are you
going over in the United War Fund
Drive or are you going to be salts
fed with almost doing it? This is a
question that you will answer today.
Gardeners quota is s11,l54. There has
been already paid in the sum OF
sS329.53 and enough pledges have
been made to raise the grand total
to s946i. This means that we are
$1,000 behind. Now. how about it?
The canvass has been completed but
YOU still nave the privilege. and it is
a privilege. OF adding your mite.
Room at the postoffice is still doing
business and your offering, no mat
ter how small. will be appreciated.
One of the workers in a contiguous
town reports a pledge Of eight cents.
It meant a whole lot, however, more
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
Mrs. Susan J. Burbank Of Chelsea

Mrs. Susan J. Burbank, widow OF
the late Alvin Burbank, passed away
at 1915 Sunday morning at her
home IN Chelsea. after a lingering
illness covering a number of years
aged rs years. 5 months and II days
The immediate surviving relatives
are three sons. Walter r. Of Chel-
sea. Arthur f. Of Boston, and Lew
ellyn Il. of Chelsea. and one daught-
er. Miss Alice NJ. Of Chelsea, also one
brother. Nelson Hilbert Of Lawrence,
Mass. Funeral services VIII be helo
at II O'clock Tuesday morning from
the home of Walter r. Burbank IN
Chelsea, Rev. c. Q. Perry Of the
Hallowell Methodist church ofiiciat-
ing. and will be private. Friends will
please emit flowers. Mrs. Burbank
was a woman loved and respected by
all who knew her. She was pos
sessed of a cheerful and gentle dis
position and bore her suffering with
patient fortitude. During he'd long
wears, OF suffering she was tenderiy
cared for by her daughter. Miss Alice
NJ Burbank
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-18
NATIONAL HOME

Officer of the day, Capt. w. S.
Oakman
Charles Zero has returned to the
Branch from through to Augusta.
Richard T.. keegan, who has been
passing furlough with relatives in
New ork City. returned Saturday,
Edward P. Buck. late unassigned
l4th Ne. Inf. has been granted a
discharge from the Home.
George Dorcey. late Co. NJ, Me.
Inf. and Harry B. Bates, late Co.
c, 10 L. S. Inf, have reported for
e-admission.
The funeral Of the late Edward
Green was held from the Home chap
ell at ID A. NJ. Saturday, Rev. C. ii.
Temple officiating.
Col James e. Miller, inspector gen.
eral md chief surgeon, is at the
Branch on his semi-annual tour Of
inspection.
The funeral of the late Daniel Car
ley will be held from the Home chap
ell at 10 A. NJ. Monday. Rev. c. H.
Temple officiating.
Jesse Hebert, late Co. D, n. Y. II.
A.. James Libby, late Co. X. 20 Me,
James Murphy, late 9Th Battery.
Mass. l.. A., and Francis F. SAILS
bury, tate Co. B, 81 Me. Inf, have
been admitted to the Home
The following have been trans
ferred here from the Southern
Branch: Charles Connors, late Co.
G, r. I. L. A; Herbert w. Potter,
late Co B. p L. S. Inf Owen Far
reil. late Co. I. Conn. Inf; George
W. Horribly. late Co. 3, IL n. Y. Inf !:
Charles ]. Meers. late Navy; Frank
G. Hayes, late Co. Z, Me. Cav:
Levi Cole, late Co. A, 126 n, Y. Inf;
Alfred o. Cobb, late Co. d, "a Mass
Inf; Matthew Bradley. late L. S.
M. c.; John A. Hunter. late Co. I, }
Conn. Inf; and William A. Spen-
Ger, late Co +, s Conn. Inf
The moving picture program for
Monday evening will be Miss Billie
Burke in 'In Persuit of Polly" a
FIVE part Paramount feature, also a
comedy reel.
Roland A. Pierce. Home printer.
has been granted a pass to Northern
Maine on a hunting trip.