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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05
for a weeks visit with relatives

for a weeks visit with relatives.
 Miss Gertrude Turney of Coventry is with Mrs. Josephine Nj. Sumner for a week.
 Roads in Bad Shape.
 Bolton is having it's annual siege of muddy roads; the recent warm weather is bringing the frost out fast and in places the roads seem bottom less. A poor time to be doing any |, teaming. Mrs. Loren White of Andover was a recent guest of her sister, Mrs. Cary D. Carpenter.
 Miss Myrtle Rogers of South Man chester has been visiting Miss Sara B. Pinney.
 Miss. Jennie Lee has been visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Charles M 1 Lee. at the Center l Miss Josephine Mathein is home from Preston for a week vacation. l Miss Anna Caseili has returned home from visit with New York relatives l Rev. and Mrs. Frank K. Abbott's nine months old baby, who has been Jill, is improving.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05
Stomach Misery Get Rid of That Sourness,
 Gas and Indigestion

When your stomach is out Of order or run down. your food doesn't digcst It ferments in your stomach and forms gas which causes soHrness; heartburn, foul breath, pain at pit of stomach and many other miserable symptoms
 Mi-o-na stomach tablets will give joyful relief in five minutes; if taken regularly for two weeks they will turn your fiabby, sour. tired out stomach into a sweet, energetic, perfect work ing one.
 You cant be very strong and vfgor- ous if your food only half digestS. Y0u1 appetite will go and nausea. dizziness biiousness. nervou5ness. sick headache and constipation will follow
 Mi-o-na stomach tablets are small and easy to swallow and are guaran- teed to banisA indigestion and any or all of the ooVe symptoms or money back. For sale by The Lee & Osgood Co. and all leading druggists.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

cronin III.
 MT. and Mrs. D. J. Hines have re- ceived the following letter from their son, Warren:
 Somewhere in France
 March Is, 1918.
 My dear Mother: Have finally ar rived at destination. but the trip was very tiresome. l suppose you have been worrying about my safety. We'll, we were in trouble once, having met two submarines, but they were easily taken care of. it being believed one of them was sunk. However, a tor pedo was launched, but it went wide of it's mark. We were aboard ship for long time and it was very tedious. Many troops were aboard and it is, of course nec- eSsary to carry as many as can be gotten on, and for that reason condi- tions were very much congested. In our sleeping compartment berths were arranged three high and that was the worst place of them all. We did net know what tables were, but just went along in line. got our portion and look ed for a soft place on deck to eat. Ev- erything was not as rosy as it might
 
 For the first week about all we were doing was running into and out of storms. The worst of them was when we were out for a day or two. It started to come up in the evening, gradually got worse as the night pro grsssed and about o'clock in the morning was at it's best. The ship listed to such an angle that water came over and washed the deck. This was unfortunate for us as the hatch way leading to our sleeping compart- ment was open and the water gushed down there so it would remind you of sleeping under Niagara Falls. As the boat kept rocking back and forth the water was running back and forth un- der our berths and it swept everything before it. We were hunting around there for about two hours, getting all our stuff together
 I was not seasick a bit, but did fec a little groggy one morning, although 1 recovered very quickly.
 We arrived in a port in France which is about 50 years behind oul times and in fact everything over here does not compare at all with the states The railroad facilities of France art away below our standard, but the U s. hoys will before long bring that fea- lure Into Q better 1gnt. They Drougf us in these old style compartmen coaches and we were all pretty neari! Cead when we arrived at OFT. station.
 We are quartered in a station. part iv complete1 and looking out it iron tho outside would remind ere cf , mansion. This station I urderstant costs in the neighborhood of two O three million dollars. We are located right in the heart Of cit and it i the funniest place I ever saw. Som of these people that kick about Eos
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05
OLD MYSTIC
Farmers Making Maple Syrup Ser vices of Easter--John Arnold Tay- fer Dies Aged eo--United Workers Hold Annual Election.

Mir and Mrs, Henry Norman and daughter, Miss Marion Norman have returned to Norwich after a visit at the Norman homestead.
 The children of MT. and Mrs. Goss are ill
 Mrs John ". Shank and son John n:e of Broohside were Easter guests of Mrs. Sharp's parents. Mir. and Mrs. Sherwood R. Swan of Preston City. Mrs. Albert w Burrows and daugh- ter, Mrs. Marvin C. Smith were West erly visitors Tuesday.
 Miss Dorothy Beckwith. daughter of Mr. and Mrs Clarence W. Beckwith, Is recovering from a severe attack of grip.
 Allan Stevenson of Boston was the Easter guest of local relatives.
 Making Maple Syrup.
 The farmers of Rocky Hill section
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

The first bulk shipment of grain from Vancouver via the Panama Canl al to a British port has arrievd.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05
BALTIC.

Warren Hines Writes From Some where in Franee-Had Stormy Trip Across-Train Dispatcher William Cronin III,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

Barker of Battery D, Fort Terry, are supposed to be en route overseas al though one can only guess,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

MT. and Mrs. D. J. Hines have re- ceived the following letter from their son Warren.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
A NOTABLE CONVERT.

It is reported from Washington that Presi-
dent Wilson is convinced that universal mill
tary service is the wisest policy for the nation
to adopt and that the new army plan to be pre-
sented to congress later ON will embody pro-
vision for some form of universal military
training If the president is a convert to such
measure, he is but following the logic of
events. Long ago Lindley NJ. Garrison (who
was forced to resign as secretary of war be-
cause of his advocacy of the policy now said to
be favored by the president) Ehhu Root, Colo
mel Roosevelt, General Wood, many other men
prominent IN affairs, in politics. in military mat
ters, leaped ahead of the progress Of our war
antaglements, foreseeing that we must be en-
ragged and also foreseeing that universal mill
AIRY training offered safety for the present and
future.
But now more certainly than ever does our
safety lie in training young citizens in such
Il way that they shall be fitted for military duty
at call upon reaching the age determined. The
women of the country, except for the pacltst
group are now either reconciled actively in.
clined to military training for all young men;
this has come through the results which that
training has produced on those who have been
spirited. intelligent and confident army of
young men is rapidly making its way to the
front From such training, modified as the time
might suggest, there would come into civic life
each year an army of like young citizens; and
they would be ready to defend their citizenship.
1t is to be sincerely hoped that President Will
son is ready at last for universal military train
ing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

Telegraph denying that there is any desire In
Japan for such an alliance and assuring her al
lies that the japanese nation Is determined 10
Join in the prosecution of the war until German
militarsm is crushed
Why should Japan loyalty be questioned!
As England IS ally she has been faithful to all
her agreements. The United States has no rea-
son to distrust Japan. Her offer to send troops
to Vladivostok to protect the valuable stores
located there was made bona fde and its dis
interestedness was manifest. In Japan there
has always been a high code of honor known as
''bushido,' which inculcates sensitive regard
for truth, devotion to principle and adherence to
every solemn obligation In her relations with
other countries this code has never been dlsre-
garded In the early stages of the war she ex-
PEELED the Germans from China. She is now
prepared to resist Germany's progress IN 81
IBERIA The time may soon arrive when the de-
fe1ise of China's and all Japan vital interests
will compel both these nations to resort to
armed force.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
SUCH WOMEN ARE DEADLY WRONG.

An enemy without our ranks is the woman
who boasts that she has never used any wheat
substitutes and that she is doing all of her can
ming without having obtained a sugar certif-
cate. There are such women, many of them,
who appear to believe that it is to their credit
to say that they have thus far succeeded IN
evading the rules and regulations issued by the
government Every woman knows what the
law requires and the woman who wilfully or
thoughtlessly violates or evades the law is dis
loyal to herself, her famely, community and the
nation. its fighting forces and their allies In
stead of being worthy of credit for evading the
law without detection, women who do not
strictly obey every precept for conserving food
deserve ostracis1n. They tacitly admit that
they are unworthy of esteem or respect, and
that to all intents and purposes they are per
sonally at war with the United States and its
allies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
CHILD PATRIOTS.

Harrison Rhodes, of the Vililantes:
There Is a great deal of talk about
the need of teaching patriotism in the
schools. Germany, so we tell our
selves, learned this long ago as part
of preparedness for national action.
So now, though almost afraid that
we are learning one lesson too late,
we are recognizing our schools,
wedding out disloyal teachers, and
including in our curriculum this great
new study, love of country, and there
is a. great deal of quoting of the
2roverb which says that as the twig
is bent SO is the tree inclined.
No one doubts this proverb, but it
may sometimes seem a little discour-
aging that we must wait ten or TWEEN
tv years for trees and results. For
tunately we need not wait that long
for results. Anyone who has studied
the situation has already discovered
with surprise and delight that the
result is here and now and that the
effect upon the prosecution of the
war of school children's eager patIi-
itism is powerful and immediate.
What no one had reckoned with
was the effect of the child's beliefs
upon its parents and its home. We
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
Huqhes Condemns Zone Rate Law

| the publisher and public when there
should be a constant effort towards
greater simplicity. There is no more
reason for a zone system of rates for
newspapers and magazines than Ior
| letters.
| Newspapers and magazines are al
mitted to the second-class postal rates
on the well established policy OF en-
Icouraging the dissemination of intel
| ligence, but zone system is a par
rier to this dissemination. 1t 1T is I'M
portant that newspapers and maya
zines should be circulated, 1t is euqal-
| ly important that there should not be
sectional divisions to impede their
general circulation through the entire
country.
We are proud at this moment of our
united purpose, put II we are TO con-
tinue as a people to cherish united pur-
! poses and to maintain our essential
unity as a nation, we must foster the
influences that promote unity The
greatest of these influences, perhaps,
| is the spread of intelligence diffused
Dy newspapers and periodical Ittera'
ture. Abuses in connection with sec
ond-class mail matter will not be cured
by zone system of rates. That will
hurt the good no less than the bad,
and perhaps some of the best sort OF
periodical literature will be hit hard
est.
We do not wish to promote section
alism, and lone country" means that In
our correspondence and in the diffu'
sion of necessary intelligence we
should have uniform postal rate for
the entire country. The widest and
freest interchange is the soundest pub
lie policy.
hope that congress will repeal the
provision for the zone system which is
decidedly a looking-backward and
walking backward measure.
Very sincerely yours,
CHARLES E. HUGHES.
Washington, D. c.,
June II, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

have joked a great deal about the
modern child's bringing up its par
ents; we are now seeing it happen.
The child who goes from school with
simple passionate belief that an
Americans whole duty is to help
America win the war brings to bear
upon any doubts in his parents
mind, upon any tortuous pro-German
reasoning there, a battery of limo
cence and fervor that cleaIs out the
enemy as a victorious charge of our
boys in France clears the Huns
trenches. The child who assumes as
a matter of course that his beloved
parents must be burning with his
same fire, sets up, all unconsciously,
before them an ideal of themselves
which they will hesitate long before
destroying.
If the home to which the child
goes is one but lately removed from
across the seas, if it is to one Of
those muddled, only half American
lied families that the light from the
school is carried, you can see how
the influence of the school house is
building UP in the souls of our Amer
lea such as we who know her and
love her best would wish should be
LuSIS- II Is ScuOOi CQ1lUIcu, IL any
body, who can make that famous
melting pot of ours melt quickly.
America has always worshiped her
children-sometimes spoiled them, so
our critics said. Now over all the
land they are working to defend
their mother. Almost as moving as
the thoughts of soldiers and Red
Cross nurses over there is the
thought of boy scouts drilling here
and little girls learning to knit. Let
US Of the older generations be
warned. The youngest generations,
beautiful, strong and generous, press
behind us, cheering and waving the
flag. We must live Up to their ideals
of patriotism and service; we must
never undergo the ignoble shame of
failing to be the Americans they
think we are.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
From his neck down man is worth about
$1.50 day; from his neck up he may be
worth 100000 year-Michael Bowling.
HUGHES CONDEMNS ZONE RATE LAW

Members of congress who, in the face of gen
eral adverse public sentiment and the protests
OF publishers voted to institute the indefensibIe
zone rate postage law for appliance to news
papers and periodicals. will extract neither
sympathy nor encouragement from the letter
lpr1nted IN other columns of this page of
former Supreme Court Justice Charles F
Hughes, who was the head of a commission
which made an investigation of the postal de-
partment of the government Bv virtue of
months of painstaking investigation on the mart
of Mr.. Hughes in postal affairs he is enabled r.
speak in condemnation of the destructive zono
law with technical authority enforced by nro-
fessional reputation of national recognition
In the letter to Allen II. Richardson, of the
Publishers Advisory board, the former iust;co
condemns absolutely the ubiquitous, reaction
airy and destructive law In this view he is in
accord with public sentiment and the dictates
of fair play.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
GOOD WORK INTERRUPTED.

Many persons will regret that the Rockefeller
Foundation finds it necessary to discontinue, for
the war period, its study of industrial condi-
tons. The Foundation says in its announce
ment that England, France and Germany are
already formulating programs OF national re-
construction, which include transportation, in
dustry, housing, health and education, and that
a. bill providing for the creation of commission
on reconstruction has been introduced in our
congress. In these circumstances it deems it
best to discontinue a study which promised re-
suits of permanent value. The Rockefeller
Foundation has given a splendid public service,
and no one will question its right to abandon,
for the present, a work now handicapped by the
war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
LOVE ME LITTLE. LOVE ME LONG.

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Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden OF my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burnett soon 10 waste.
Still l would not hare thee cold
Not too backward, nor too bold;
Love that lasteth till it's old
Fadsth not in haste
Love me little, love me long!
Is the burden Of my song.
II thou lowest me too much,
Twill not prove as true a touch:
Love me little more than such
For / fear the end
I'm with little well content,
And little from thee sent
Is enough, with true intent
To be steadfast, friend.
Say thou lowest me. while thou live
/ to thee my love will give.
Never dreaming to deceive
While that life endures;
Nay, and after death, in sooth,
i to thee will keep my troth,
AS now when in my May Of youth:
This my love assures
Constant love is moderate ever,
And it will through live persever;
Give me that with true endeavor-
I will il restore
a suit of durance let il be,
For all weathers-that for me
For the land or for the sea;
Lasting, evermore.
Winters cold or summers heat,
Autunn's tempests on II beat;
1t can never know defeat,
Never can rebel;
Such the love that l would gain,
Such the love, tell thee plain,
Thou must give, or WOO in vain;
So to thee-farewell!
Anonymous.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

Sioux City Journal: Really fire
proof buildings could be constructed
out of the foreign materials that
rcomprise part of every ton of coal.
Des Moines Capital: But it must
be borne in mind that loyal, high
minded, patriotic newspapers which
are unafraid, will be necessary when
all our battles come on to us after
the war, for we are going to have a
battle of the "isms." We are going
to have battles of selfishness, dis
guised and masquerading. We are
going to have all kinds of battles.
The. public can engage in this con-
f1ict by encouraging the brave who
are fighting for the right and dis
couraging the equally brave who are
fighting for the wrong.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Mr.. Gar
field admits that many of the coal
mine owners and operators have
made more money than they had
ever dreamed of seeing in one year.
OF course their happiness is very
gratifying to the men and women
who had to pay two and three prices
lot IH6lG coal IdSl Wlutel dlu lueu
could not get all they needed.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The colo
mel didn't need to jump on the fool
editor who said his sons were tin
soldiers Everybody decided he was
all the things the colonel said he was
before the colonel spoke.
Monticello Express: 1t is as hard
to get the truth from Russia as it is
to discover the whereabouts of the
elusive individual who hit Billy Pat
terson.
Carroll Herald: The governor made
more popular hit on his foreign
language proclamation than in his
dictum against summer vacations.
To demonstrate his sincerity of pur-
pose in the latter case it is suggested
that he spend a week or two on one
of dads farms in Osceola county dem
onstrating how real patriot should
spend his vacation.
Perry Chief: Insurance agents are
not idlers-at least the kind most Of
us are familiar with are not They
work us so hard and hang on so tight
that we buy TO get rid OF them.
Sibley Tribune In Kansas the soft
handed fellows from town got out
and helped garner the harvest It is
hotter in Kansas than here, and it is
cinch that the same plan win work
in Iowa. Our men are as enterprising
and determined as the Kansans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
Printers Play
Big Part in War

NJ. G. Scott, president of the Inter
national Typographical union, tells in
letter to The Gate City what the
| typographers of the nation have done
for the cause of the war. The facts
are interesting.
Mr. Scott says:
On June Is, 1918, 4,0S1 journeyrnen
members of this union and Csc ap-
prentices were in the army and navy
FORCES of the United States and Can
ada.
Seventy.five of our members have
fallen in battle in France or have
died in military camps in America.
To the widows, orphans, fathers,
mothers or other relatives of these
men this international union has
paid mortuary benefits amounting to
$22,350.
During the past twelve months this
international union has paid 1854 200
10 1900 old age pensioners.
In the same period this union has
paid mortuary benefits amounting to
$312, 400.
Money Spent for Home.
The total expense for the mainte-
nance and for improvements at the
Union Printers home at Colorado
Springs last year was S167, 500.
This union has invested $4,000 in
each of the three liberty loans
$50 900 in all. Our subordinate organ
izations and individual members have
invested more than 100000 in these
securities.
Our strike expenses for the last
twelve months were but S1,237.
The gross earnings of our mepohar-
amounted to more than 81 600 Ooo
for the year for 1000 members. and
the Insignificant amount expended for
strike purposes reflects our determi-
nation to give full patriotic support
to the governments under which we
live in the terrific responsibilities
which now confront us all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

full effect to the earnest recommen-
dations made by President Wilson in
his proclamation creating the ma.
tional war labor board.
There should be no strikes or lock.
outs during the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
JAPAN IS LOYAL,

There is evidently no foundation for the ru-
NOR that after the war Japan would enter into
an alliance with Germany. An association
which represents the leading newspapers in
Toxic has sent a cablegram to the London Daily
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

1t is a hopeful fact worth recording that the
young men Of the country show a keener interest
IN the problem of licking the kaiser than they
do about the batting average of baseball play
ers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: A disaster
in Sioux City, where building caved
in and number of people were
killed, again calls forth all manner
of comment and more especially IS
the need of proper, thorough, com2e-
tent and honest inspection pointed
out. As long as all sorts of ins2ec-
tors are political appointees, no real
work can be expected of them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09

Our idea of a sinecure in these epoch making
oSys Is the job of secretary Of commerce.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-09
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

gives t the which
Elder
Lee published with whatever e
Article :, Consumer should nsa I Pay
~ $500 rel of 24A pound pounds &c PEI
in less than MIL
Rye Flour &c 6c of 10
~ ~ ell of twenty pound pound
sacks in less than mill PACK
Barley Flour s1o55 to s11oo per
rel of eight 2414 pound IAN pounds
RGa Flour Flour io s Ds pound @ s. per PEI
fs eh f ns &c per-
S4c pound
Edible per pound isAe
MIX tall cans :lolze per 1870 to i9c per
NAVY n can. 'i per pound SIC to- per per
to pound
Canned .....1sc 1870 ls1zc can
to 21hc per
Tomatoes .1se to e,c &c
Canned Peas Peas to zoe per can M ssH per can
pound
Pran to s per per pound e to ss per PEP
pounds 81 per pound
$3.50 pounds pound sack
.....sSss sack
ss4s pound sack
Lard bulk 26Ac to 27c 31c pound
Lard small pals &c zoe pound
Lard Substitutes bulk 24c 25c pound
small pound
Sheese .25c to 26c pound 33c to 35c pound
. candled .S5c per dozen
l pound cartons -. 44c per pound pound
onarsaTlne 7c to 2sc per pound sSc to 35c pound
Ham per pound
Bacon to &c per pound &c to 46c pound