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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
WHAT YOUR
DOLLARS DO
One Hundred Cents Worth
Of Mercy and Relief for
EveryWar Fund Dollar.

SYour Red Cross dollars--every cent
Of every Red Cross dollar-actuaily
relieves suffering-actually goes a.
you give II, for war relief. Not one
cent Of any contribution goes into
Red Cross administration expenses
the overhead Of War Fund admins
tration Is more than covered BY the
interest accruing from the banking Of
the funds All relief work not per.
tanning to the war Is amply covered
by the normal revenues Of the Red
Cross through membership dues.
Your answer to humanity's cry
your donation to war reiIef-includes
not only the care and restoration Of
the wounded It is a mission of mercy
to the famished, the homeless and
helpless, the lame. the halt, and the
blind-all the victims Of war that ap-
peal to the heart Of mankind.
The relief Of invaded soldiers. re-
lief of the mutilated and blind, train
ing Of crippled soldiers for useful pur.
suits-relief service for the care and
revival of soldiers on furlough from
the front-relief Of children through
out devastated terr!tory-relief Of de-
pendent families Of soldiers-relief to
prisoners in Germany-relief among
repatriated people returning to France
--children's refugees and hospitals
these are among the divisions Of or
ganized work that carries practical aid
to its every object in wide field OF
activity. Its scope embraces Russia.
Roumania, Serbia. Italy and Armenia
besides the great field Of France.
Your donation makes this great mis-
sion Of mercy your own.
Tho Fed Cross carries 100 cents'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16

stay just as you planned planned.
and said 10 myself: when the time
comes for us TO part | Shall make him
promise Dear Qne, this is my
promise, and | make 1t for the term
Of your own--"for the duration of the
present war"
promise you that while you are
away, whether it is months or years.
nothing except what can give you
and give all the others shall fill nv
life, ! promise you that I shall de-
vote myself, here in safety, TO the
work OF making what you do easier
and stronger and safer for YOU
promise YOU that shall give-and
give and give-for the Cause. Not
the money I can spare, not the time
I have left when everything else is
done, but all the money, oil the time,
all the energy have!
Your whole life has been altered.
has been set to sterner and graver
music. So shall mine be. You will
know self denial, privation and fatigue
while the war lasts. So shall know
them Even If black news comes, even
II the blacklist comes, shall remem-
Der that against your brave heart this
promise Is resting. and ! shall go on.
And while there Is one man among our
million and among the millions Of our
allies who needs clothing and nursing
and comforts and solace for your sake
shall not fail him.
Perhaps in Gods goodness this note
will come safely back to me in the
olive drab pocket. and we will smile
over II together. But, remember. until
that hour comes shall be always busy
filling my own small place IN the great
machine Of mercy and as truly under
the colors over here as you are over
there. God bless you!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
STRETCHING PARIS TO
MEET THE NEEDS OF FRANCE
THE RED CROSS HAS HELPED WHERE Gov
ERNMENTS WERE HELPLESS.

The avalanche NJ refugees that
pvept into Pari. from the north of
France had been the despair Of the
fivil authorities These homeless,
ptgnned people were @ new response
PLY 10 he added 10 The thousands OF
Wounded men that came steadily from
the shamb" Of the west front.
Paris Is on old city. II was not
Seady 70 AXE in ~ neighbors chill.
rr'n. lis population was already q
fgh' n SO +, made the hest OF It's
poor hospitality by Offering up It's gar.
F'r New building construction seem
% impossible, Men were scarce. The
h'chan'c was ether manning the
trenches or fsh,lng the light In the
pa factories Paris was distracted.
Il IL wonderful indeed how nobly
rst' tired 70 NEE. this condition.
hnd y ls remarkable how Paris met Il
WA %. aid Of our own Red Cross.
|. hhampered BY red tape or precedent.
eur Red Cross pu, or overalls and
Panpef' carried the hod, became archi.
wy engineer and contractor and went
r''o me building OF homes. Here was
sharch Iot that lay vacant; here an
'Hnni'ned hospital; there a worn out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
WHEN A CUP OF
COFFEE TASTES LIKE
A MILLION DOLLARS
He Got His Cup and Then
Went Onto Death.

Through the establishment Of the
line Of communication canteens In
France the American Red Cross is set
ting records In serving hot coffee, CO.
Goa and sandwiches to the troops. One
of these refreshment units made an.
other new record recently, serving
more than $1,000 meals in one week.
At another a cup Of coffee was served
every ten seconds for q period Of two
consecutive hours.
In single week these lines of COM
munication canteens often serve $4,000
American and French soldiers.
Soldiers In Box Cars.
Do our soldiers and their allies real.
~ want this form Of Red Cross sery-
ice2 ! letter from young American
aviator. 1917 graduate OF Princeton
University, Is probably typical. 1t
might be added that this man has since
been reported killed after bringing
down German Taube. "A so mile
train ride over here" he said. 'instead
N-o - -" MUM may taKe DAYS.
When we stop ct Red Cross canteen
you can bet that cup Of coffee tastes
like a million dollars"
It IS not always possible for reci.
ment to provide sufficient food and hot
coffee on these long Journeys, where
the men must often be packed stand
ing isto unheated box cars ordinarily
used for carrying horses. So ina CINE
for yourself the warmth, the cheer. the
comfort that piping hot coffee and
good sandwiches bring to our boys aft
er night on such a Journey! You
can Just bet that 1t stiffens a mans
courage. Your Red Cross is handing
out this renewed courage by the piping
hot cupful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
4 MOTHERS PROMISE
TO HER SON
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

My Dear One-Tm writing this very,
very small and on the thinnest Of pa
per, so that tightly folded 1t may slip
into one Of the olive drab pockets Of
your new uniform without encroaching
for the tiniest part Of an inch upon all
the new things that you must have
there-the passports and identtica-
ton slips and photograph, the knife
and pen and writing pad, the lists
and numbers and names and ciphers,
the address book and the thin manual
you have been studying so hard and
the slim little Bible, for this letter is
q part of your equipment. too, or at
least I like to think that 1t Is,
I'm going to tell you In it Just one
ing not to sayin these last days. You've
said to yourself, haven't you, that
there were possibilities that I, thank
God, hadn't seemed TO think Of
You've marvelled gratefully, haven't
you, that ! could say goodby with
dry eyes and talk about what we
should do when the war is over. My
dear, there is nothing-nothing-
can happen to you that l haven't fore
seen in every detail since May, since
the very beginning Of 1t all. I know
that some of our men are not going to
come back. 1 know-as I write this
in the room you love-that your fin
gers may tumble for this little piece
Of paper in some dreadful hour, q
month or two months or six months
from now, just to read 1t over once
more for the last time. just to feel
in your fingers out there in a shell
lighted battlefield something that l
have touched-for goodbye.
And thinking Of all this for almost
a year while you've been getting
ready to 60 I've been getting ready to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
THIS IS THE TRUE
RED CROSS SPIRIT
A Little Story With a Big
Thought in 1t.

A month ago the Red Gross chapter
in Bay City, Mich. received a hurry.
up call for $50 dunnage bags. Troops
were about to move, aud through an
oversight their equipment was not
complete. The bags had to be made
and sent within 4S hours. A request
for help was sent over the town, and
the stores were searched successfully
for the right materials. Among those
who quickly responded and came to
the chapter workrooms to help were
two little girls, sisters, about ten and
twelve years of age. each eager to lend
a hand and do something for the boys
who were going to the front. All day
long the fingers Of the women and
the little girls were fairly flying. Bag
after bag received the last stitch un.
til scores were piled up ready for
shipment. Closing time came, and the
woman experimenting the making Of
the bags counted those completed and
announced that If every one OF the
workers could come early the next
morning and work all day the bags
would surely be finished In time for
shipping by evening. Two crestfallen
little girls, the little sisters, were wait.
ing for her at tho door as she dc.
parted.
Red Cross Dunnage Baes.
I'VE are awfully sorry, ma am" said
the older Of the two, but ws can't
come back tomorrow. You see tomor.
row we have to-" And, without IN
ishing the sentence. she looked back
wistfully at the pile of bags.
1T Is too bad you can't come back"
said the superintendent, "but / want
to thank you. and we all thank you.
for the work you've done today. You
two have teen wonderful help. and
that pile Of bags wouldn't Be nearly 80
big If you hadn't been here. Good
night"
The next morning when the super.
intendent came down to unlock the
workrooms for the day she was aaton-
ished to see the two little girls s,.nd.
ing in the cold by the locked door.
"Oh. I'm 50 glad to see youi" she
said. Il thought you said you couldn't
conner?
"Oh. We knew those Red Cross Lays
just had to be finished for the col.
diers," exclaimed the little one, With
glistenlng eyes, land we got up ut
three o'clock this morning and got the
washing done early!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
REDCROsS
MASS
MEETING
CITY HALL
Sunday Night
May 10, at 8 P. M.

A S a preliminary to
a the Second Red
Cross War Fund Drive,
q mass meeting will be
held at City Hall Sum-
day evening, at the con-
clusion of the Red Cross
parade.
At this m ee tin g,
speakers will tell in an
interesting way, how
the hundred million
dollars raised last June
was spent.
Chairman Blaine S.
Viles of the Augusta
Chapter will preside
and will tell what is be-
ing done in Augusta by
the Red Cross.
The principal speak,
e1 Of the evening, how
ever, will be William E.
Kenney. Mr.. Kenney
went to France in June,
1917, and served a six
m o n t h s. enlistment
with the Am erican
Field Service. He was
attached to the 10th
Division of the Second
French Army, one of
the great fighting
forces of France; and
he served in and around
Verdun. He was on
duty at the taking Of
Hill 304 and M ort
Homne. He won the
Divisional Croix de
Guerre for exceptional
bravery-with one ex-
ception t h e highest
form Of medal given by
the French Govern
ment.
Mr.. Kenney will tell
of his experiences as an
ambulance driver and
of what he saw. His
talk will be illustrated
with $50 authentic
slides, any taken
quite recently, which
were lent to him by the
Frenc h Government.
Rev. Henry E. Dun
mack, Campaign Man.
ager, will make the
clio 81 n g address, in
which he will tell the
people Of Augusta what
the Red Cross expects
of them-and why.
The combined Angus
ia and Togus bands will
furnish music for the
meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
THE RED CROSS MAN
BY AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR.
o. the viailantes

o. the Vailantea
Broken with pain and WEAKNESS
And sapped with vile disease,
Back to the land of ruined towns.
vi murdered men and trees
through Switzerland from Germany
Inc trains of wreckage RAM
And on the French frontier they found
Red Cross Man.
And when to what had once been home
rhose haggard exiles came,
oooung wheat was green above the scars
~ steel and blood and fame
TM9und new built houses where once moro
me work Of life began.
ana SILL they found to welcome them
A Red Cross Man.
T rhhefe the husband clasped again
~. wue ne mourned as dead
Ths en,io was on its mothers breast.
u une o!d were comforted.
tn. TN. wonder If they hope to find
w W. angel Of Gods Plan
VINO meets them At the heavenly gate
Red Cross Mani
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-16
SUPPLYING FRENCH HOSPITALS.

The Red Cross hospita! supply serv.
Ice In France has 16 warehouses diled
with drugs, medicines. surgica! ipstru.
ments and dressings II serves 3.423
French military hospitals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
NO VIOLENCE
is REPORTED
Omaha Street Car Strike Continues
With No Attention to Ruling
Of Federal War Labor
Board.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 5.-The ruling
of the federal war labor board, re-
ceived late last night, that the street
car company did not have to recog-
nize the street car mems union, will
have no effect on the strike, lead
ers of the union announced here to-
day. The war labor board said that
the Kansas City agreement was still
in effect and that the company
would have to treat with the men
as individuals, but not, as an organi-
cation. 4u
General Manager Leussler, of the
! company, conferred with Chief OF
Police Eberstein this morning to as
certain what protection the city
could offer in case an attempt was
made tori cars today
Eberstein assured him that the
company would be given full protec-
! ton. 80 :.
If anybody tries to run car
] said President Ben Short, OF the
car mems union. well stop him. We
! won't break any windows, but the
cars won't run until the strike is
! settled =,
! II is not believed any attempt Will
\ be made to resume service today.
! The city council repealed all anti
/ iitney ordinances and hundreds OF
small TRACTION magnates' sprung
II, The people are taking the strike
good naturedly and no violence mas
been reported.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
PUBLISHES LIST
IN LIBERTY LOAN
Hancock County Council of Defense
FuIflIs It's Threat to Give Names
of All Not Buying A.
lotment. I
Is INTERESTING READING
Some Of Them are Women and Names
are Mostly English Ones, with
Figures from Large
to Small.

keokuk has 119 neighbors over IN
Illinois who seem to have more reason
10 complain Of getting their names in
The paper than anybody else ever dld
hereabouts. Several Of them are WON
en-.
Over in Hancock county, the exc
eutive committee of the council of de-
tense publishes in the newspapers
the names OF all who did not SUD
ycribe their allotment of the Fourth
/ Liberty loan during that campaign.
1t makes interesting reading, not
only at home where the people are
well known, but even to strangers.
The names are listed by townships
although Appanoose, Pontusac, Dallas
and Wilcox townships have no allegea
telinquents in the table. Augusta mas
only one name listed, and Wythe
Durham and Rocky Run townships
and Warsaw have only two names
each
Some Curious Figures.
The largest list is furnished by
Walker township with eighteen names
IN the list, seventeen of whom did not
buy dollars worth of bonds. Chill
township comes next in delinquency
: With eighteen names of whom four
teen did not buy any bonds, and the
otfler four bought, only S4oO between
hem, or S10O apiece. Then comes Rar-
! mony township with sixteen names
and twelve of them buying no bonds,
although one of them bought $1,000 OF
an allotment to him of S2,1Go.
The largest allotment to any one
person in the list is s2,T00 to each OF
tWo men in Carthage township, one OF
whom bought no bonds and the other
$4,000 worth the report says. The next
largest figure in the list is $1,000 o.
allotment to a man in Rocky Run
township who bought $1,000 worth OF
conds. although this did not keep him
put of the list of the council of de
iense. There are several allotments
mentioned of $4,000 each, only one OF
whom bought any bonds. There are
Many allotments given of few hun
ared dollars each and even some oil
Soo, which were not liqui6ated.
County over the Top Anyhow.
The committee states that IL gave
Que notice in advance that it wouio
puolish this list. 1t also states that i
made efforts to adjust the matter with
each one. and labored to get the allot
Mehts subscribed without success II
me cases now published.
An interesting fact is, that the
hames Of German etymology appear
u at least no more than good. old
standard English family names.
hancock county exceeded her quo
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

family lives near Pennington, has
his classification card dated back in
the middle of November, and even
Meyer admits that classification
card is positive proof that the ques-
tionnaire was filed.
The situation 10 date is, that all
the names in the famous Meyer list
belonging to Keokuk and vicinity did
not belong there. There is no infor-
nation here about the situation in the
northern end of the county, but in
this end the list should certainly be
ignored by the public, nothwithstand
ing its official character from the sec
rotary of the exemption board is the
expressed opinion of most people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
Stop Itching Eczema
Never mind how often you have f

Never mind how often you have tried
and failed. YOU can stop burning, itching
eczema quickly by applying little zefno
furnished by any druggist for 35c. Extra
large bottle, $l.O0. Healing begins the
moment zemo is applied. In a short time
usually every trace of eczema, letter.
pimples, rash, blackheads and similar
skin diseases will be removed.
For clearing the skin and making it
vigorously healthy, always use zemo, the
penetrating, antiseptic liquid. 1t is not q
greasy salve and it does not stain. When
others fail it is the one dependable treat
ment for skin troubles of all kinds.
, The E w. Rose Co., Cleveland. o.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

Read the classified column.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
LOCATE
YOUR N I. w
HON E Al-ON q
tn
BURLEN G T ON

Soldiers, sailors and civilians, in
seeking free homestead lands or
buying decided lands, will do we'll
to search in the territory served
by the Burlington Route. Its
lines through Western Nebraska,
Wyoming, Colorado and Montana
have been populated within the
past twenty years by ciViliza-
ton of the most prosperous type.
There are yet in the Wyoming
territory served by the Burning
ton large areas Of grass-covered
lands for homestead entry in
64o-acre tracts. You can buy
decided lands for dairy farming
in Western Nebraska and East
ern Colorado on terms that any
good farmer can meet. From
year to year the Government is
opening irrigated lands in the
BIG Horn Basin, with perpetual
water rights. II you settle along
the Burlington you rear your
home in progressive locality,
where every community is in
creasing in population.
Write me. want to start you
thinking as to where you or your
son had best locate.
S. 3. HOWARD,
Agricultural Agent,
c. 3. g. @. r. r.,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
COURT CASES
IN JANUARY
Assignments for Trial Made for the
First Term of the New
Year by Judge
Hamilton.

In the district court yesterday
Judge w s Hamilton assigned seven
civil jury cases for the January 1919
term. They were Watson VS.. Missis
sippi River Power Co.; Pitt VS.. Pitt
ct al: State Savings. Loan and Trust
Co VS.. McCutchan Land CO.. ct al;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

ia by five per cent as whole, and
every township raised it's apportin-
ment Notwithstanding the action of
the people whose names are published
in the paper this week, apparently to
make life less joyous for them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
WERE ANY OF
THEM CORRECT?
Proof of Errors in the QUESTIONABLE
Delinquent List of Secrc-
tary Meyer Keep
Coming in.

After practically all of the Keokuk
names in Secretary A. p. Meyers list
of uuestionnaires not filed have been
proved to be incorrectly placed there,
and the men in the clear, by The
Gate City. the number of corrections
continues TO increase by mail from
adjacent territory.
William Thomas Pollard whose
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
The Shows Over.

Alexandria Herald: Our boys in
France probably feel as the audience
does when the curtain goes down
Thev want to put on their wraps and
start for home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

Daniel VS.. Keokuk Electric Co.; Buck
Refner Co VS.. Rock Island railroads
Penrose VS.. Charles; Buck-Reiner co
vs. c., B. & Q. r. r. Co.
The final report In the estate OF
William d. Steele was made in The
district court yesterday by William
]. Steele his son. who was dismissed
as administrator of the estate. The
benefciaries of the estate Were VIII
liam d. Steele's three children, Eliza
beth. Charles and William ]. Steele
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05
The Offices and Committees.

J. P. Robertson, president: H. l..
Phillips, vice president; M. B. John
son, secretary-treasurer; H. Il. Flood,
recording secretary c. Wally, chap
lain: Charles Loeffler. sergeant-at-
arms George Humes, inside guard;
George Metternich, outside guard.
The executive committee Is COM
posed of Lon Laubersheimer, chair
man, C. Johnson and G. A. Luft
The organization committee is =.
Wally, chairman, II. L. Flood and
T. r. Mullen.
The grievance committee for the
Rock Island is Theodore Null, c. H.
Baer and F. ]. Stadler; that for the
Burlington is Emil Miller, NJ. j. Mul,
len. L. Swanson, g. A. Luft and Ph1l
Brennan.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

The first Moro girls ever gradu
ated as nurses receive, their diplo
mas as members of the class of 1915
from the Philippine general hospital.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-05

MEMBERSHIP OF FIFTY
Officers Elected, Committees Appoint
ed and Complete Organization
Made by Organizer
from Des Moines.

A lodge of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Clerks, Freight Handlers and
Station Employees was organized in
Keokuk last evening by r. V. Pal
mer, of Des Moines.
About fifty employees Of the Bur
lington and the Rock Island roads
comprise the new lodge here, which
will meet on the first and third
Thursday Of every month. The or
der is organized much like frater-
nal organization, with ritual and
regalia.
A complete set Of officers elected
last evening after the lodge was in
working order will have charge of
it's affairs. The official roster is as
follows:
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-08-16
Notice To Parents And
Guardians

Section l.. Section 149 of Chap
ter 159, Session Laws 1871, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 149 TAI. 1t shall be the
duty of the head teacher of each
district to check or cause to be
checked the enrolment of the school
against the report furnished by the
clerk as aforesaid and to report to
the county superintendent all pupils
not in attendance who are within
the ages of eight ~ and sixteen
90 and who have no release from
school: Provided. That this section
shall not apply to children over
fifteen Q5) who shall have COM
pleted the eighth grade.
CO.. At the beginning Of each
month thereafter it shall be the
duty of such head teacher to report
to the County superintendent, the
names of all children between eight
81 and sixteen Q6) not bearing
releases who have failed to attend
school during the preceding month.
1t shall be the duty of the county
superintendent to refuse to coun-
tersign the teachers warrants until
such reports are made as herein
provided: Provided. That dis
tricts having a superintendent of