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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13
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NOTICE OF ELECTION.

The regular annual election OF
directors of the Keokuk National
bank will be held at the offices of the
association, corner Fifth and Main
streets, Tuesday, Jan. IA, 1919, be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock a. m.
and 3 o'clock p. m.
E. r. COCHRANE, Cashier.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13
For Permanent Control.

WASHINGTON, Dec. ia reso-
luton to make permanent control of
telegraph and telephone lines was
introduced in the house today by
Representative Moon, chairman of
the house postoffice committee.
The bill also provides for govern
ment ownership.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13
STUFFED UP With
"A BAD COLD?''
Get busy with a bottle Of
Dr.. Kings New Discovery
at once

Coughs, colds and bronchial attacks
they are all likely to result in danger
Gus aftermaths unless checked in time.
And how effectively and quickly DR..
Kings New Discovery helps to do the
checking work! 1nhamed, irritated
membranes are soothed, the mucous
phlegm loosened freely. and quiet,
restfur sleep follows. 6Oc and $40.
All druggists have it. Sold since 1869
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13
Seven Gent Fare Turned Down.

DES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 13.-If
the Des Moines city railway hopes
to get seven cent fare it will have
to appeal to the courts. The city
council today refused to grant the
two cent boost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13

The present army of anthracite
mine workers, it is said, is barely
sufficient to maintain the present
maximum output of 275,00O tons
daily. There are now $4,000 mine
workers, or $4,000 fewer men than
before the war
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13
Constipation Emancipation

No more lazy bowels, yellow COM
piextion, sick headache. indigestion,
embarrassing breath, when you use as a
corrective DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They systematic the system and keep
the world looking cheerful. Csc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-13

A striking illustration I
vance in the value of ped
forded at a recent aucd
London. A necklace of 50 4
was bought in 1868 at a I
eler's for $3.50, was sold Il
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

preservation. The battle is ours;
it must be won, for the sake of
all that we hold dear.
THE imperative needs of the
hour, in this supreme crisis of
the worlds history, are men, mu-
nitions. money, food and cloth
ing-to maintain armies in the
field, and fleets upon the oceans
and in the air-to keep alive the
suffering peoples who, already
have experienced the cruel raw
ages of ruthless warfare. This
greatest of wars probably will
continue for years longer, and
will try us out as by fire. In
the coming years let each true
American = man. woman and
child-who shall survive the aw-
full cataclysm be able modestly,
but proudly, to say of the pres
ent struggle for world freedom,
in which | had part. y
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
WHERE YOUR DOLLAR GOES

What becomes of the dollar
which is invested in government
bonds? Here is the course il
takes as visualized by Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo in his
annual report to Congress:
First, it goes to the govern
ment as a loan for the war.
Second, it is expended by the
government for food. clothing
and ammunition, which go d.
rectly to a gallant soldier or sail
or whose fighting strength i
kept warm by the clothing, and
whose enemy is hit by the am
munition.
1T has not been expended in
the purchase of needless food
and clothing for the man al
home, and is therefore released
for the use of the soldier, it Is
saved wealth to the man at home
and can be loaned to his govern
ment at interest with resulting
benefit to himself and to his gov.
ernment. f"
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

"skinners," but in this respect
the Arizona men who pilot the
combat and field trains of the
158th are said to have them all
skinned mile. They sure can
talk to them.
Among the leading members
are the following: Dobie Joe,
Pima Red. Chop Suey Pete,
Texas Ranger, California Poppy,
Chee-Chi, Hard Boiled, Toro Joe,
Flagstaff, Marine Kid, Butter
Harold, American Beauty, Baron
Bean, Grimes, Laredo Lupe,
Rusty Russell. Jawbone Jones,
Wild Wiley, Beau Brummell and
many Others, Rough border char
acters and gunfghters you think?
Oh, boy! No, merely the names
of some of the officers, all gen.
tlemen. and Dobie Joe is none
other than the sky pilot. Lack
of space prevents the publication
of the enlisted personnel of the
regiment, but these will no doubt
be mentioned frequently from
time to time in dispatches from
the front.
Slowed away in the jockey box
of one of the combat wagons is a
pairof the heaviest leather chaps
procurable and it is the avowed
intention Of ,cer tain members of
the regiment to strafe the kaiser
in the good old chapping way so
familiar and popular III Arizona,
before he is put out of his misery.
Meanwhile, the Vampires are
"rearin' to go' and not until the
march of THE Foundered Mule"
resounds along Inter den Lin
den; until the Indians do snake
dance around Won Hindenburg's
monument; until the wild whoops
of the cowboys echo through
the Wilhelmstrasse; when the
Mexican vaqueros strum La
Paloma" and Yankee Doodle"
on their guitars in evening SER
enades in Pottsdam' gardens;
when the Stars and Stripes floats
from the spires Of Berlin; when
Parson Dobie Joe says the last
glad rights over the carcass of
the kaiser--then, and only then,
will the Demon Vampires return
to the fold-for then the world
will be safe for democracy.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
UNCLE SANS TEN COMMAND.
MENTS

President Wilson is about to
sign a bill which takes it's place
in history as the most liberal
legislation in protection of a ma
tion's fighters ever known. 1t
is good enough, strong enough
to be called the National Ten
Commandments, and is in effect,
thus:
Thou shalt not evict, for non-
payment of rent, a soldiers de-
pendents, under penalty of $10,-
600 fine.
Thou shalt not cut off SOL
dier's life insurance because of
delayed premiums.
Thou shalt not foreclose a
mortgage on a soldiers property.
Thou shalt not take away a
soldiers home on which he has
made part payment.
Thou shalt not sell a soldiers
property because. of his failure
to pay the taxes, national, state
or, local.
Thou shalt not settle a law suit
against soldier during his alb
sence.
If a soldier sue, the courts
shall postpone action until he
can attend to it.
If a soldier have a mine, OF
timber or farm claim, assess
ments on which are overdue, it
shall be held for him.
Honor thy soldier and thy sail
or, that thy days may be long in
the land of liberty.
No man hath greater love than
he that offereth his life for the
worlds sake, and it is command
ed that neither lawyers, nor the
loan sharks, nor the gatherers
of tithes shall fatten on him.
Congress is content to call this
bill a civil rights bill. It's the
divine rights bill. Washington
Herald.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
WoRLB.WAR SITUATION

A condensed statement of the
war and of the duties of Ameri-
can citizenship has been prepared
by Justice Vim. E. Hawkins, of
the Texas Supreme Court, at the
request of the Grayson County
Council of National Defense. 1t
is as applicable to Arizona as it
is to Texas:
'The authenticated record, in
cluding statements by Germans
in high authority and even the
kaiser, and many published vol
umes, and unparalleled economic.
industrial and military prepared
ness on the part of the Central
Powers, demonstrates the fact
that for fifty years the Teutonic
nations have planned to establish
a mighty empire. stretching from
sea to sea across Middle Europe,
from which they propose to re-
duce all other portions of the
world to subjugation and all
other people to vassalage.
''The far-fung scheme both
enlarges and embellishes the sin
lister dreams of Caesar. and of
Hannibal, and of Frederick. and
of Napoleon; and Kaiser William
proclaims that, whereas other
visionaries have failed. he will
succeed. God forbid! Better for
our loved United States of Amer
lea and our people that the At
lantic and the Pacific should
meet and roll their restless waves
across our farms and our cities
and above our mountain peaks.
To-day, the armies of the
Central Powers, the mightiest
that ever shook this planet, con-
front along the Western line.
the assembling forces of the AL
lies which have rushed hurriedly
from the walks of peace to meet
the ruthless invader. Today. the
most momentous issue ever sub
mitted to the gage of battle
trombles in the balance: Prus.
sian Militarism versus Western
Civilization and Democracy. De.
struction of German autocracy Is
the present and pressing task of
democracy. of civilization and of
humanity. Far removed as we
are, the fight. for us, is the self.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
LET HIM LIVE!

As long as the flowers their perfume
give,
So long i'd let the kaiser live
Live and live for million years.
With nothing to drink but Belgian tears,
With nothing to quench his awful thirst
But the salted brine of the Scotchmau's g
curse.
! would let him live on dinner each day,
Served from silver on golden tray
Served with things both dainty and
sweet
Served with everything but things to eat.
And I'd make him bed of silken sheen,
With costly linens to lie between,
With covers Of down and filets of lace.
And downy pillows piled in place:
Yet when to its comfort he would yield,
1t should stink with the rot of the bat
tlefield,
And blood and homes and brains of men
Should coverhim. smother him--and then
His pillows should cling with the rotten
cloy--
Cloy from the grave of soldier boy.N
And while Gods stars their vigil keep,
And while the waves the white sands
sweep.
He should never. never, never sleep.
And through all the days, and through
all the years,
There should be an anthem in his ears.
Ringing and singing and never done
From the edge Of light TO the set of sun.
Moaning and moaning and moaning
wild
A ravaged French girls bastard cmla.
And would build a castle by the sea,
As lovely castle as ever could be:
Then I'd show him ship from over
the sea,
As fine a ship as ever could be,
Ladened with water and cold and sweet,
Ladened with everything good to eat;
Yet scarce does she touch the silvered
sands.
Scarce may she reach his eager hands,
Than hot and hellish molten shell
Should change his heaven into hell,
And though he'd watch on the wave
swept shore,
Our Lusitania would rise no more! g,
In "No Mans Land" where the Irish
fell,
I'd start the kaiser private hell;
I'd jab him. stab him. give him gas;
In every wound I'D pour ground glass;
I'D march him out where the brave boys
died
Out past the lads they crucified.
In the fearful gloom of his living tomb,
There is one thing Id do before was
through:
I'd make him sing. in a stirring manner,
The wonderful words of the "Star-
Spangled Banner"
Van Amburgh. in The Silent Partner.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

With the direct of the u Government the
SelsF Foo Circus with its long trains painted white and
blue viii to Stafford for afternoon performance only We'd
nesday April l7 Featuring of sensational and patriotic
specaces in its twomie parade and performance Sesoo this
bigger and better ever with many
troupe of aerial acobac and equestrian parts
of the globe.
ballet of fifty girls appear the ensemble the great pro-
and in the tome street parade The parade carries
large section several blocks length which animated stirring
appeal American fighting blood Headed by fife and drum
corps of bona de Civil War Veterans clad old regulation
uniforms and fully armed this section of the parade will be worth
travelling miles to
The Foo has been enlarged until it perhaps the most
complete travelling in the world addition the giant
gorilla Colossus only gorilla in captivity stands six feet
high and weighs 1856 This giant beast the realization of
the show mems Dreams the gorilla has seldom captured
alive And this specimen Colossus declared by African wild
animal be the largest they have truly the
missing link
one great side shows Carlos Trevno the two
headed Mexican who has perfectly shaped head growing
his forehead
Other features of the Circus are too numerous to
mention Suffice to the management spent $5 600
equipment for parade and performance this year.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
GRAHAM COUNTY is BEHIND

Graham county does not show
up very well in the sale of war
savings stamps and baby bonds,
according to the tabulated state
ment, which shows the amount
to be raised by each county in
the State. The people of Gra-
ham county have only purchased
SIS, ,6l1.00in savings stamps and
baby bonds up to. March 25th.
The proportion to be raised
this year by Graham county is
1924, lao. 90, which means that
$40, ,512.0O must be raised every
month, a per capita of $50, 90,
and Graham county's ratio for
savings stamps and baby bonds
during the months of January,
February and March is 4S cents
per capita. The people of this
county must wake up and get
busy ard buy more stamps, for
we must invest our full appor-
tionment of 1924, $4,000, and We
have a balance of 1928, d29. OC
yet to raise. and we must g.
busy if we are to accomplish the
task set for US.
The following statement shows
the amount allotted for each
county and the amount reported
raised in the sale of war savings
stamps, up to and including
n
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
BUILD SILOS

The plans made by the Ari-
zona Council of Defense for the
building of silos and conse.
quent saving of summer crops,
brought through into the winter,
has brought most happy results,
especially in the Salt River val
ley and in the farming country
around Tucson. The University
of Arizona agricultural depart
ment suggests that the move be
extended to embrace stockmen
and dry farmers. For fattening
cattle and sheep. it is declared
there can be no better ration
than silage and cotton cake meal.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
CUT DOWN
ernment.

Cut down auto mileage and
save gas, tires and lubricants.
The army and navy can use them.
Cut down sugar consumption.
France needs sugar. Cut down
on wheat bread. Corn is good.
The Allies need wheat. Cut
down on beef consumption and
help the poor here end the armies
abroad. Save milk for the chill
dren; adults do not need much.
Gut down! If by doing so you
save money, there are the bonds.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
Women Braver Than Men

Women often do their daily tasks in
home. Office or factory while suffering
pain and misery that would put man
in bed. However, much of women s
suffering can be alleviated. Backache.
sore muscles. stiff joints, rheumatic
pains, dizziness and like symptoms are
caused by dsordered kidneys and blad-
der. Mrs. Thos. Davis, Montgomery,
Indiana. writes: II doctored several
months without relief, when | COM
menced using Foley Kidney Ills, and
got relief. Eight bottles cured me. !"
Safe, harmless; quick results. Stafford
Drug CO. adv-e-<t
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
Cut This Quit Il Worth Money

Don't miss this, Cut out this slip,
enclose with Sc and mail il to Foley &
Co., 1886 Sheffield Ave-, Chicago, Ill. /,
writing your name and address clearly.
You will receive in return a trial pack
age containing Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound, for coughs, colds and Group;
Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides
and back, rheumatism. backache, kidney
and bladder ailments. and Foley Ca
thartic Tablets, wholesome and
thoroughly cleansing cathartic for con.
stipation, billiousness, headache and
sluggish bowels. Stafford Drug Co.
adv-8-4t
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
Some Good Advice

Don't hink too much of your own
~ b - w stch other peoples ways
al. .ear4 fro0 Them" This is good
advice, especially when bilious or con-
s''nsted. Yu viii find many people
IN T'e' N e ! ias Tablets for these
n - wttl t.e be results, and will
W ~Si. W sSl..w vss,sr oxsmpae.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

Totals SIS, ,274. $1,000 so3l, ,475,VO
Population, 263, ,73l; amount
raised, $531. ATS. 90; State aver
age, $2.02.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

From now until next harves,
watch your grocery list "a here
Willis no groceries W i,ss
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
HE BOUGHT WAR STAM. )

There was man in our town
And daily he grew wiser;
He saved each cent and ,.S .,,-.
To help TO lick the kaiser.
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05

The man who grows more food
adds to the wealth of the world:
the man who grows dollars may
be adding only to his own wealth,
Graham guardian., 1918-04-05
Mule SINNERS Wonders

Speaking of mule skinners, the
American Army is famous for
the extensive vocabulary of ite
New Britain herald., 1918-10-11

fas as / was concerned. I said, "Yon
take me to some one that can talk
my talk and then Wen see So they
brought me here and the doctor looks
me over and says the reason why
they didn't cut was because the chunk
of iron was too close to my heart.
and so I couldn't stand to take either.
However, says he If you're game
enough to let me do 1t without knock
out drops. So I says, Doc. I'm
your man
And he never wiggled a toe
chimes in the nures.
But says Arthur, T didn't care
for it much when ] heard him saw
Visiting the Wounded at NeuiIly.
LAS I step into the corridor to go
from Geogra phic Ward No. 1 to
Geographic Ward No. 2, I take a few
minutes to jot down some of the things
I've promised to bring next time. Here
are a few Of them: One detailed map
of the American front, one small comb
and mirror; one jar of jam (straw-
berry,; one cheap volume of Shake
spear (any pIay); two bars Of a GER
tain kind of soap; one good lead
pencil and some funny post cards;
one guide book of Paris and one nail
fi1e.'
New Britain herald., 1918-10-11
Glass OF Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluIces of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stasnant matter.

Those OF us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache. stuffy from a cold
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid
stomach, lame back, cam instead, both
look and feel as fresh as a daisy al
ways by washing the poisons and tox-
ms from the body with phosphated
hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
q glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in IL
to flush the stomach, liver, kidneys
and ten yards of bowels the previous
days indigestible waste, sour bile and
yweetening and purifying the entire
ailmentaGy tract before putting more
food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
Is wonderfully invtgorating. It cleans
out all the sour lamentations, gases,
waste and acldity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and
and 1t Is said TO be but little while
until the roses begin to appear in the
cheeks. A quarter pound Of lime
stone phosphate will cost very little at
the drug store, but is sufficient to
make anyone who Is bothered with
biliousn ess, constipation, stomach
trouble or rheumatism a real enthus-
last on the subject of internal santa
ton. Try 1t and you are assured that
you will look better and feel better in
every way shortly.
New Britain herald., 1918-10-11
YANKEE WOUNDED
SHOW GREAT GRIT
Hospital Visitors See Exhibitions
Of Great Bravery

Washington, D. c., Oct. 11.--Carol
Corey. in a communication to the
National Geographic society, gives re-
markable pictures of the spirit of
the wounded soldiers in American
Military Hospital No. / at Neuilly. a
suburb of Paris. y part of the COM
munication, which chronicles a visit
to the two wards maintained in this
hospital by the m embers of the So
ciety, is given as q bulletin of the
geography series which the So
ciety has been issuing to the Ameri-
can press from its Washington head
quarters for four years:
Got any chocolate? begs one
wounded soldier who is able to sit up
in bed. He doesn't look more than
seventeen but insists that he'll be
nineteen next Tuesday. He's got what
he calls three scratches, and throws
back the covers to exhibit a leg
bound up like q mummy. I can't
help thinking that I'd hate to have
scratches like his.
But, gosh! 1t was worth it. as
serts he. IF you'll stay with me a,
minute I'll tell you about it.
"I was a motorcycle despatch
bearer, they let me carry a forty
five. I was pumping up a fat tire
when l heard my captain talking to
a man in French uniform. Now. you
see, I know a lot O. German. All of
a sudden this bird gets tangled up in
his French and begins to fill in with
a few Kaiser words.
"IIa. Hal says I to myself; so
that's the little idea I went straight
up to him and I says, You're a spy,
| that's what you are. Just like that!
| And he never denied it, but started
| to beat it.
1.-The captain stood in the mid
! die of the road, with his mouth wide
| open as I started to run after the
| Dutchy. He could run some, let me
| tell you. When we got to the first
| turn there was q big military car
| painted just like French one. What
! do you know about that! A man in
side throws open the door, and then
| ] got busy. Bing! Bing! says I. and
! he went down like a. lump o dough
The fellow in the car jumped
out. hauled him in, and the chauf-
! feur started on high. The live one
| stood up in the back seat and out o
! three shots he made three hits
! Whoopeei This is the life:'
How the War Gets Some.
Funny how this war gets you
soliloquizes a soldier young in years
but old in experience. Why, wher
I I was at home I couldn't watch m,
father kill a chicken. Now? Huh
Once / was racing along with SOM
New Britain herald., 1918-10-11

O. my pals, when we saw g. mess o
Squareheads hiding out In ditch.
All right" says 7, Take that for
the Lusitania, and that for the Tus-
cania and that and that and that for
them Belgium babies! And we threw
every grenade we had with u.s.
THE man from the north of Ire
land who hasn't been an American
citizen very long stghs and says. Sure
/ like to lie here and think o. the
sea-. And the one who tells me he
was born in Damascus and can speak
seven languages compares his chill
dren to 'blooniin' roses. The red
faced fat boy yawns, oh fer a dip at
old Coney' and a fourth asks the
nurse If it's true that only seven died
last night.
patch Me Up Quick, Doc"
"A shoulder, now almost we'll, is
being dressed, and the surgeons
mouth witches ever so little as he
hears, Patch me up quick, Doc, and
get me away from here--I'm needed
somewhere else
The funny little Frenchman who
answers to the name of 'Rlondy' has
complete charge of the photograph.
He hardly waits Eor one record to
finish before putting on another
Wondering why he should be here,
7 am TOLD because he's got the habit
He's been in the hospital SO long that
no one has the heart to send him
away
Visiting the Wounded at Neuilly.
Anyhow he's such a help. But
you ought to see him limp when the
major comes around!'
".Only one thing worries me- an
/ nounces a faint voice from the nearest
! cot The top OF my tin hat and the
top OF my nut sailed away together,
! and If they don't give me back that
| helmet I don't care what becomes of
me-
"'You ought to wear your soovneer
round your neck, like I do ad-
admonishes another. He boastfully
: shows us what's left Of a button
really only the rim. His tunic was
open when Mr.. Bullet said 'Howdy!'
| Pretty good work. says he, but not
good enough
From the pocket of what he calls
his 'kinona' a proud owner pulls out
a piece of hard tack. In its center
is a big chunk of shrapnel, and my
attention is called to the fact that said
hard tack is still intact. And Their
they expect a tooth to crack it, he
snorts.
doc, I'm Your Man
THE two enormous, open-Windowet
tents are crowded to capacity, ant
dotted all about the wide immaculate
terrace are men in rolling chairs
Only one of them rs In bed, and ths
| nurse stops before him because she
wants me to meet the boy known t.
all the hospitals as the finest soldie1
in any army.
TELL her about yourself abe or
ders.
Why. there's nothing to tell
! smiles Arthur, except that I wa
wounded about a month and a hal
ago. They kept me in a French hos
pita1 until day before yesterday. The
} told me there was nothin dom a