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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
SEND THANKS TO
ODD FELLOWS
Herman Lodge Receives the Sincere
Appreciation of the Widow
Bose For Aid to Her
Orphans.

The Secretary of Hermann lodge
of Odd Fellows has received the fol-
lowing letter from France:
LIE Frazee. Sept. 8, 1918.
Sir: Through the office Of the
American Benefactors for War Or
phans, No. Volney street, Paris. I
have just been informed that the
United States committee have adopt
ed my children. Also / have just
received a check for forty-nine dol
lars for each of the two and the
name of their benefactors. Also,
sir, it is with the most profound rec
ognition OF your goodness that l sin
cerely thank you for your gener-
osity.
In the bereavement which has
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

come TO me it is pleasant to know
that in this world we have friends,
known and also unknown to us, that
take pity on us and our devastated
France, and that the spirit and prac-
tice OF fraternity is not in vain.
l will teach my son to revere your
name and to never forget the spirit
which prompted this good deed from
your good hearts.
/ enclose a photo of my son Paul
your adopted son, with the hopes
that you will not be disappointed in
him. His two sisters are at each
side OF him.
Will you, sir, agree to accept from
my child the homage due you, and
with my most sincere thanks and
recognition of your goodness.
WIDOW Bose.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Reason for the Sudden Cry for All the
Fruit Pits and Nut Shells In
Country for the Red
Cross.
COLLECTION MADE EASY
Grocery Delivery Boys Put in Front
Line in'This Fighting in Big
War, and Every House.
wife Needed.

why this sudden cry for all the
! nutshells and fruit pits?" asked a
man this morning.
The answer is interesting as show
ing the complex needs of a world
war today and the great resources
of America.
The Germans introduced terrible
gases as a weapon against the sol
diers of the allies. This was coun-
tered with masks by which the sol
der breaths air filtered through sub.
stances which do not permit the gas
to pass to the mouth.
One Of these substances is carbon,
that useful substance sometimes
known as charcoal or coke, or graph
tie or diamonds, in its various forms
and degree Of purity.
How They Save Keokuk Soldiers.
Recently, it was discovered that
the carbon made by burning nut
shells and fruit pits is most efficient
in filtering the German trench and
and shell gases.
Such carbon is the best material
for the filter of American army gas
masks.
There are enough nutshells and
fruit pits being thrown away in
America to make the filters for mil
lions of gas masks. If 1t is all saved
and used, it will save immense suf-
fering for American soldiers.
Hence, the government wants
every nut shell saved, collected and
delivered at its gas mask factories,
to be burned into carbon for the
masks.
Delivery Boys In Front Line.
The war department asked the
Red Cross to do the collecting. The
Red Cross asks every man, woman
and child in America to help.
Every grocery store in America is
asked to install q box or other con-
tainer in which it collects the things.
Every grocer's delivery boy is put in
the front line to help win the war
by being made special commits
sioner to collect the seeds and shells
from the homes and carry them to
the grocery stores. From the stores,
the local chapter of the Red Cross
will collect them and ship them
east. Finally they will be worn in
the gas masks of Keokuk and other
American soldiers.
That is the story of the sudden
cry for fruit pits and nutshells.
Every one in America should be
saved. A half ounce from every
person will total 1900 tons OF car
bon for gas mask filters and make
a million masks better than any
other mask.
The Easy Way to Do It.
These are the ones wanted:
Peach stones. prune pits, plum
pits, apricot pits, olive pits, cherry
pits. date seeds, Brazil nut shells,
hickory nut shells, walnut shells,
butternut shells. Other pits are de-
ficient in carbon and are not wanted.
The pits will be dried in the oven
or sun, with the kernels in them. The
meats should be taken from the
nuts. Shells and pits need not be
separated, but all piled together.
Country people should parcel post
the things to the Keokuk chapter OF
the Red Cross.
The easy way is to keep dish
or pan handy in the kitchen and
into it put every stone and shell
named above, and occasionally give
them to the grocer's delivery boy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Errors Please Someone.

errnr sl,osa Journal: Typographical
ara a'. a,, SAID William Dean Howells.
bn, always amusing. When l was a
Msrtt ~ my fathers printing office in
4yna .-h ferry, | once made a good
,yr;tta. apnIcal error. My father had
tho, h' The showers last week.
tn ne copious, were not sufficient
men," set IL up milk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30

eral Won Boehms army, have beer
shot following an attempt at revolt
according to advices from the Swiss
frontier today.
Boehm's army (German) has been
severely battered in the present often.
sive operations of the allies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Told in Two Words.

Chicago Daily News: President
Wilson used only sixty-eight words
in replying to the Austrian peace
feeler, but if the Austrians understood
Americanese two words would be
Misunderstanding doing!"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Sweetness Iona Drawn Out.

Pittsburgh Gazette: What we need
is a convenient apparatus for con-
verting sugar into liquid so that it
can be sprayed on the rolled oats
with an atomizer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
RevoItlno Germans Shot.

PARIS, Sept 30.-Dozens of nom
commissioned officers and men of Gen
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
WHEN YOU SUFFER-
FROM RHEUMATISM
Almost any man will tell you
that Sloan's Lininens
means relief

For practically every man has used
T. who has suffered from rheumatic:
aches. soreness of muscles, stiffness of
;oints, the results of weather exposure.
Women, too, by the hundreds OF
thousands, use it for relieving neurltLs'
lane backs, neuralgia, sick headache.
Clean. refreshing, soothing, economicais
or,;ckIy effective Say "Sloan's Liai-
n,ent" to your druggist. Get 1t today.
70 : . !! 9 I! 8.
81 5 s J En- Z S., ! . 8
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Fire Damages Barber Shop.

The lire was in the Nelson barber
shop and considerable blaze.
A water heater run with gas caused
tne nre' The family live above the
snop and have telephone. Mrs.
nelson turned in the alarm as soon
as it began
Nelson and other men attracted by
me nre fought it with water and by
peatlng 1t with cloths and finally
s4thlguished it. In the meantime
.hey were asking one another where
.ne oiankety blank the fire depart
men. hent was. Mrs. Nelson called to
mem that she had turned in an alarm
promptly, and why the firemen did
question.
Iney got the answer next morning
W., Mnea chief Anderson finally located
me building which with its con.
o aents was considerably damaged is
oWhed by A, ]. Hickey.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
49,. Damage Made Probable by Care
,..sness Of Telephone operat-
ors in transmitting Fire
Alarms.
GIVE WRONG LOCATION
-. nepartment Sent to Franklin
street When Fire is in the
Lower End Of South
Fifth Street.

# is demonstrated that when. Keo.
rulr relies on the telephone service
for fire she is leaning on a frail sup
port 1913, 80 +ho
fire to the department is becoming
increasingly common on the part OF
the girls who reign at central.
Saturday noon, they sent the de-
partment to Tenth and Franklin street
for a fire that actually was IN the
lower end Of South Fifth street, about
as far across town as one could get
from the place the firemen were sent.
Moreover, it was not a mere slip
Of the tongue, for few minutes later,
when asked again. the central opera
tors insisted that the alarm was turn.
ed in for 1915 Franklin street, while
as a matter of fact it was for 1Ol6
South Fifth street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Hard to Find An Excuse.

Which two street names do not
sound alike, affording the excuse OF
poor enunciation in giving the alarm
as might be the case with Morgan
and Des Moines streets, or Seventh
and Eleventh streets. Was 1T the
war?
Chief Anderson and others who are
somewhat familiar with the duties
and actions of hello girls are at a
loss to understand how the mistake
could occur except through simple
carelessness as to where the firemen
were sent.
The telephone girls simply insist
that the alarm was turned in for 1016
Franklin street, but why they think a
man down by Bloody Run turning in
fire alarm should say Franklin
street by mistake is beyond mere
man
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-30
Investigation Helps None.

When the apparatus reached Tenth
and Franklin streets Saturday and
found no fire near there, Chief An
derson sent fireman to telephone
to investigate the alarm.
1t took nearly a minute to arouse
central, and much more time to reach
anybody who would talk about it.
Finally voice said she would see
about 1t. Later she said investiga-
lion showed 1016 Franklin to be the
location of the alarm coming to CEN
trai-the alarm that actually was for
lVl6 South Fifth street.
BY next morning, Chief Anderson
had learned the facts, but that is a
rather long time to ascertain the
location of a fire in a city.
The fire had been extinguished
Without the firemen, luckily, but II a
Dig plant had been burning, the delay
would have been the same. The dan
ger OF loss to property by such in
correct locations given the fire de-
partment is incalculable.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
GASLESS SUNDAYS AN
AID TO COJJRTSHTp

Editor the Evening Telegram: One
Joy comes from gasless Sunday. Gas.
less Sundays have certainly brought
Joy to some people-the COUPLES that
spoon along suburban and country
roads in the twilight and early even.
ing hours are now able to COO in the
! moonlight and wrap each other in
each others arms without being
shocked and disturbed by the honk-
hcnk and the tell-tale headlights Of
the oncoming automobile. Love-mak-
ing since the advent of the auto has
peen exceedingly hard and difficult
All THIS is now changed greatly. I'm
der the old regime the young fellow
who had worked up his courage to
the point Of putting his arm around
MS girls waist has been SO startled
by the headlights flashing so suddenly
upon them that it would be hard
matter for him to gather up heart
again to make second ATTEMPT Now
with the automobiles out Of the wav
the love-making can go forward and
make better progress than Under the
old conditions. OF course the trag-
edy OF 1t for some of the girls is the
TACT that it has come just when most
OF the desirable young fellows and
the best young fellows are away In
Inc service of Uncle Samuel. There
are Burroughs given for the weekend
rhese come in mighty good for over
and the gasless SUNDAYS. Tn
Ill this beautiful, quiet and cozv
darkness will bring many a chan TO
ne sense point of asking his STEADY"
he paramount question-and this
much sooner than it would under the
ormer times, and when the autome-
'lles were a disturbing factor to him.
once heard a powerful sermon
reached from the text, "Do evil that
GOD may come" This may no. apply,
the case of the gasless SUNDAYS
nd at my age l don't dare to saw ;
or fast toward life's terminal I {
trend; ;
The run seems short tonight; ,
Cd only knows what's at the end; {
hope the lamps are white {
W. S. B. +
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

We understand that It is the dis
position of those in charge of the
labor situation in this county to han.
die the matter with the least posi-.
Die disturbance or disorganization of
business conditions, which It is high.
ly necessary to maintain at as near.
~ normal as is consistent with the
duty the county owes to the govern.
ment, Those who have Jobs of anv
Kind that are permanent should hold
on to them. at least until thew are
offered employment in what is known
as essential labor. They will not he
disturbed until actual necessity
arises, If it should arise at all. Mean.
while, though, it would be we'll for
everybody to engage in steady per.
manent employment. Industrial slack.
ers will not be tolerated, any more
than military slackers.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

One of the strangest of the MANY
strange things in this funny old world
is that some slick gent can blow into
community with a plausible stock
selling scheme, and he'll have to rope
himself in to keep the mob from man.
handling him in their anxiety to get
the pretty, worthless certificates. and
then some people will have to be
begged and pleaded with by their
bankers and best friends to induce
them to make reluctant purchase Of
ponds OF the United States govern
ment, the safest and most dependable
securities in the world.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

We know you are perfectly good
for your subscription. The grocer
knows, too. that you are perfectly
good for hundred pounds of suga,
but go to him and see If he'll lei
you have it. The same authority
that says to the grocer that he shall
not allow you to have more than two
pounds of sugar a month tells us
that we cannot send a paper to a
subscriber who is in arrears, We
may not be enthusiastic about these
syulings-but "it is war;. and we have
to abide by them.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

We are told by the food authorities
to use more milk but it seems that
about all the milk that is available
In this vicinity is the milk of human
Kindness. Any gentleman or lady
with a large family of respectable,
well-conducted cows, favorablv dis.
posed to giving down. will be cor.
daily welcomed in our midst
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Tribune has a good head-writer
but sometimes he pulls bone"
F'rinstance an article in todays paper
is headed, MAN Has Five Wives
and is in Deep Trouble" What's the
use of adding that last sentence?
Man with only two wives would he
In deep trouble, and some Of 'em with
only one wife are in about IN to
their necks-what?
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
Wavelets
Fro m
The Deep
!. C. Green

Now that we have taken the Bull
out of Bulgaria, we will proceed t.
take the Turk out of Turkey and thu
Germ out of Germany.
Tourist-"Isn't the atmosphere du.
bious in this city,"
Towner-"Yes, kind Of a question
air" Y.
The kid that expects an old-fash-
Toned spanking, sure sits on the anx-
ious seat.
If a man would think before he
called another a blockhead, he
wooden do it.
Present company is always sus-
pected.
Diner-"How's your liver and
cnions"
Waiter-"My liver is in bad shane.
but my onions are strong"
Turkey will soon want peace and
who would turn down piece Of tur
key?
Did you notice they have to labe.
hem "ham sandwiches" NOWADAYS. It
'ure keeps one from getting mixed
Up.
In Florida in winter time MANY are
allied but few are frozen.
Should there be a scarcity Of labor
his winter, send your wood to an
,ecream parlor and let "banana
nlifD II
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Lost valuable article last Sunday
on the streets Of Lakeland; inserted
an adv in your paper in Mondays is,
sue. Immediately after it's delivery 7
received the lost property. Thanks to
your efficient paper, and an honest
man. LAKELAND cITTzEN
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

The surest sign that the Governor
has failed to measure up to the salts
faction of anybody is shown, not by
the vicious jabs of his enemies, bu.
by the pitiful weakness exhibited
whenever his friends try to say some
thing in his defense.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Shot gun "kulture" seems objec.
tionable to the Germans, but they are
much too humane weapons to use on
murderers of defenceless women and
children.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

SERIAL 3452-Will sell the only
paying dairy and milk business in
Lakeland. Can show good net in
come, Cash only. Address Box
10 vi phone S25 Red. 1850
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03
MEMBER or the ASSOCIATED
PRESS

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication 4
all news dispatches accredited to II or
not otherwise credited In This paper and
also the local news published herein.
All rights for republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Who had many, many guns,
And his bullets were made of steal
steel, steel,
And every bond helped him to bring
down many Huns,
Until he made the Kaiser soueal
squeal, squeal. NJ
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Mr.. F. D. Jacobs, the piano tuner,
Will be in Lakeland soon. Orders for
tuning may be left at L. M. Futchs
residence. 7qst
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

FOX SALE-Two Jersey mich cows
Apply at Lake Parker Boat House
794S
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Should there be a scarcity Of labor
TINS winter, send your wood to an
'icecream parlor and let a banana
split" it.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

Inere was a great, big man.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-03

In Florida in winter time MANY are
called but few are frozen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-14
FLORIDA WOMAN HELPS
IN THE WAR PROGRAM

Mrs. George Forest. who has been
in the city at the Pensacola Hospital
for several days. having accompanied
Mrs. VIII Brooks, of Camp Walton,
who is under treatment there, will
return in few days to her home neat
Santa Rosa. Walton county, where
she has an extensive farm under Gull
tivation. Mrs. Forest has recently
volunteered in the canteen service of
the Red Cross, and expects to leave
soon for Cleveland, Ohio, where she
has a winter home, where she will
visit for some time before going
abroad.
Mrs. Forest Is, perhaps, the only
woman in this section who may be
called an agricultural expert. She is
a graduate of the agricultural depart
ment of the Ohio State University, and
her farm is one of the models of this
section and is conducted under her di-
rection.
This year Mrs. Forest has special
lied on citrus fruits which are being
extensively grown In West Florida
stating that grape culture in and near
Santa Rosa compares most favorably
with some Of the vineyards in Cali
fornia, and that many farmers are go
ing into this branch of agriculture on
a large scale.
For a number OF years a most ar
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-14
WHAT HAVE you DONE TO-DAY?

WHAT HAVE you DONE ToDAY7
The boys in the trenches are facing
grim hell
What have you done today?
They're facing the canister, bullet
and shell;
They're giving their lives - every
shot is a knek.
They live and suffer, as pen cannot
tell
What have you done today?
There boys must go hungry. and
stand In the trench
What have you done today?
There our boys, as well as the Eng
lish and French,
Must stand In the mud and the filth
and the stencil,
And freeze in the rains that SO con-
stantly drench-
What have you done today?
I see them by hundreds, their faces
upturned-
What have you done today?
They lie in the sun, and are blister
ed and burned,
They're ground in the treadmill that
ever is turned;
they're twisted and churned-
What have you done To-day?
/ see empty sleeves-some with one,
Some with two
What have you done today?
I see some with clutches and one
empty shoe.
Disf1gured. MANNED. tortured my
Godi is it true?
Eyes gone from their sockets-say
what if 'twere you?
What have you done today?
You're here with your eyes and your
limbs and your life
What have you done today?
You're here with your health and
your home and your wife:
You're free from the carnage of ac-
tual strife,
You don't play the drum. Will you
play for the fife.
What have you done today?
The Red Cross IS calling It's chal-
lenge is fair
What have you done today?
Have you assumed burdens Just all
you can hear
Then think of the boys as they
fight cover there"
Then give till it hurts-then double
your share
What have you done today?
-Machinists' Monthly Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-14

'I would save more wheat" she ad-
mitted frankly, 'if my neighbors
would. But when 1 see all of them
still using 90 per cent of wheat in
their cooking I lose all of my en-
thusiasm for cutting my wheat RAJ
ton to zero or even of reducing 1t to
the official ration of one and one-half
rounds per week for each person in
myself. my neighbors would waste
more than 1 could possibly save even
if I went wheatless.'
It is true, 1t is much easier to fol-
low the example of someone else
than set an example yourself. But
suppose our soldiers should say. there
is no use for us to be brave or to con-
tinue fighting because there are slack
ers in the army" where would we
stand in the war today?
The fact that others are making no
effort to put their households on a
wheatless basis or at least keep to a
ration Of a pound and half a week
for each individual should be an in
centive to you to put your household
on an absolutely wheatless basis.
There are bound to be towards and
slackers everywhere. We cannot ex-
terminate them. The anly thing left
for us to do is to redouble our efforts
also to set them such a shining ex-
ample of patriotism that they will
blush for their cowardice.
So If your neighbors are not doing
all you think they could in saving the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-07-14

dent suffragist and deeply interested
in the war program Of the United
States government, since the opening
of the war. Mrs. Forest has devoted
much time to patriotic work as well
as endeavoring on the farm and in the
home to aid in the Win the War pro-
gram of the United States Food ADJ
ministration.
She is very eager to tell, however,
of the splendid work that the women
of Santa Rosa have accomplished, es-
pecially in the civic league, of which
She is president.
In this small community through
work of various kinds, the members
of the organization raised one hundred
dollars for a piano for the school, but
decided at recent meeting to devote
this sum to the purchase of two lib
erty bonds-a wonderful exhibition of
that splendid spirit which is mani
Testing itself all over.
Captain and Mrs. Forest usually
spend their winters IN Florida and
their summers in Ohio. Captain For
est is master of one of the steamers
of the Great Lakes and when in Flori-
da he and his wife spend much time
watching and enjoying many other
outdoor pleasures afforded here in
the winter season.