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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05
CHARLESTON NJ.
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The public sale at John Hops
Wednesday was we'll attended. The
ladies of the Red Cross served lunch,
clearing $25.
The Charleston Red Cross auxiliary
turned in twenty bed shirts and six
teen pair of socks, Friday.
Roy Hopp and family OF Lead, Da-
kota, have moved on the Adam Hopp
farm.
Mrs. Mary Trump and daughter,
Katherine, spent a few days in Ka-
hoka, Mo.
Mrs. Susie Hopp and daughter.
Helen, were Keokuk callers Thurs
day.
Several of the farmers are going to
plant spring wheat.
VIM. Swinderman and family were
West Point callers Saturday.
Mrs. Amanda Meinhardt and chill
dren spent Sunday at the Joe Wahrel
home.
Arlie and Harry Barnes. Louie and
Johnnie Schuelka and Carl Trump
autoed to Keokuk Saturday.
The l. O. O. F. lodge gave their
banquet Saturday evening. Sand
wiches, ice cream and cake and cot
fee were served. About forty-five
were present. All enjoyed a pleaSan
evening together.
r.. B. Lamb and family of Montrose
attended the supper Saturday even
ing.
Miss Emma No0nan spent Saturday
afternoon at the Morgan Barnes home.
Miss Mary Kendall spent a few
days with Miss Mabel Schiller.
John Hopp is moving to Keokuk,
and Sidney Holmes will move on the
farm.
Walter Swinderman and family
spent Sunday afternoon at the A
Pezley home.
Bryan Handbook and wife spent
Sunday with relatives.
Arlie Barnes met with quite an &C
cident Friday, while cutting wood ii
the timber by cutting a deep cash il
his knee.
Miss Ethel Junkins is visiting a
the John Junkins home.
Lewis Allen of Council Bluffs, Is
visiting relatives here.
n. T. Kerns and daughter, Alvah
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05
Texas Senate Acts.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.J
AUSTIN, Texas, March 5.-Follow-
ing ratification by the Texas senate Of
the federal constitutional prohibition
amendment. Texas today is the eighth
state to line itself UP in favor Of a
"dry" nation.
The other states are Mississippi,
Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina,
North Dakota, Maryland and Mon
tana.
Texas is the third state to ratify.
the other two being Kentucky and
Maryland.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05
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rom any druggist for 35c, or $1.OO for
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Enen applied as directed it effectively
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05
Iowa Supreme Court Decisions.

Iowa supreme Sou't OsS'o'onS'
Especial to The Gate City.]
DIES MONIES. March 5.-Opinions
filed supreme court of Iowa, March
S, 1918:
Barker VS.. National Life associa-
ton, Polk, reversed.
Clancy vs.. Kelley. Polk, reversed
and remanded.
State of Iowa VS.. Conway, POLK, re-
versed and remanded.
Lektric Sales company, Inc, VS..
Hammer, Polk. affirmed.
Jugent VS.. Chicago and Northwest
ern railway, Polk, affirmed.
Harry A. Leo ct al, vs.. Mrs. Hoff-
man ct al, Polk. affirmed.
In re Katherine Kinball, Jackson,
affirmed.
Yetter vs.. Cedar Rapids and
Marion City Railway Co., Linn,
affirmed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05

1t cost the Canadian government
$1,000 a year for every soldier put III
the field.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-05

The Quicker You Get a Free Trial
of Pyramid Pile Treatment the bet
ter. 1t Is What You Arc Looking
For.
Don't talk operation. If you can't
wait for a free trial of Pyramid
Pile Treatment get a 60c box at any
drug store and get relief now. II
not near a store send coupon for
free trial package in plain wrapper.
and get rid of itching. bleeding and
protruding piles, hemorrhoidS and
ouch rectal troubles. Take no substitute.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Girl of IL Complains
Of Conductorettes

After listening to seventeen-yearold
Florence Kohl, conductorette on the
Bergen street car line, the Kings
County Grand Jury, investigating al
legged immortality among B. r. 7. con-
ductorettes and the manner in which
the traction company hires these
women, yesterday finished its session
for this week.
According to District Attorney Lewis,
the Kohl girl, who lives at 1877 Troy
Avenue, Brooklyn, said that she had
no difficulty in obtaining employment
as conductorette, although she is
only seventeen and looks several years
younger.
The girl told him, said the prose
cutor, that the Bergen street car
barns we're used by conductorettes as
u rendezvous, where they rsed to meet
men after they were through with their
work.
Mr.. Lewis said that the girl told him
she used the women's retiring room in
the car barn as place to sleep until
she reported for work at 8 in the morn
ing
The girl left the employ of the B. R,
y: recently, after having quarrelled
with another coductorettc, Mr.. Lewis
said.
"After all. it is q new occupation for
women" said J. ]. Dempsey, vice -prcsi.
dent of the B. R. T., yesterday, "and
the evils that exist in connection with
it will be rooted out just as quickly
as We become aware of them."
The grand jury will continue its in
yestigation Monday.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Sousa Arrives for
War Thrift Concert

Lieutenant John Philip Sousa, ac-
companied by his military band, who
arrived in New York City yesterday,
began final rehearsals for the concert
of the War Savings Committees Thrift
Festival at the Polo Grounds on Sun
day, June 2. Lieutenant Sousa will
also lead chorus of 10000 voices at
the exercises.
He brought eighty pieces with aim.
They are 20 be supplemented by 120
others from the Metropolitan, New
York Symphony and Philharmonic or
chestras. The soloists include Nine.
Schum Heink, Nine. Frances Aida,
Leon Rothier, Miss Marie Sundelius,
Charles Harrison, Oscar Seagle, Sophie
Braslau and Bette McKenna.
Theodore Bauer, who is training the
chorus, notified choristers to enter
through Eighth Avenue and 18th
Street, assembling underneath the
grandstand in units, according to the
number of their tickets, at $3.50 p. m.
A woman with a tive-star service
pin was the centre of attention at
Uncle Sans Metal Store, Winfield
Building She brought two silver bowls,
saying that the stamps will 60 to her
grandson, whose daddy is in the SER
vice. She is Mrs. Alfred Wagstaff, wife
Of Colonel Wagstaff, head of the
S. P. C. A
Trophies, cups, medals and varie-
gated assortment of family silverware
poured in throughout the day.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Assails Roberts
For Not Averti1ag
Shooting of Wife
Attorney Declares Miss
Lusk Was Insane at the
Time of Tragedy

WAUKESHA, Wis, May 2s.-Assail-
ing David R. Roberts as the "man who
might have prevented the shooting of
his wife, but did not" Henry Lockney
this afternoon made the opening argu-
Grace Lusk for the Staying of Mrs.
Mary Newman Roberts.
The story told by the veterinarian on
the witness stand, his repeated decla-
rations that Miss Lusk pursued him,
slapped him in the face when he re-
fused to say that he cared more for her
than he did for his wife, and threat
ened to kill him unless he told his wife
the truth and asked for his freedom,
were quoted as proof that the defendant
was insane at the time of the tragedy.
Declares Miss Lusk Insane
In assailing DR.. Roberts Mr.. Lock-
ney reviewed Miss Lusk's life and de-
clared that such a woman would be in
capable of the acts alleged if she were
sane.
"On the eve Of the tragedy" Mr..
Lockney declared. "the testimony
shows that Miss Lusk told DR.. Roberts
if he cared more for his wife than he
did for her that would end it all, but
that he assured her that he did care
more for her and promised to tell his
wife that night What he really told
his wife was that Miss Lusk was in
fatuated with him. If he had taken
the right course, even at that late date,
the shooting might have been prevent
ed, as Mrs. Roberts probably would not
have sought the interview with the de-
fendant which ended in her death.
Five Possible Verdicts
Five possible verdicts were indicated
in the argument of the defence:
Guilty Of murder in the first degree
VITA a life sentence, second degree
murder with sentence of from four
teen to twenty-five years in the peni-
tentiary, manslaughter in the third
degree with prison term of from two
to four years, not guilty, not guilty
because insane, with commitment to the
state asylum.
1t was argued that the defence hao
proved the shooting was not done with
malice or premeditation and the in
sanity finding was urged upon the jury.
DR.. Roberts is not on trial yet, de-
clared D. S. Tullar, special prosecuting
attorney, whose address for the state
preceded that of Mr.. Lockney for the
defence. Mr.. Tullar declared that Miss
Lusk deserved the verbal assault Of
Mrs. Roberts when the two met, and
argued that the defendants actions
and words after the tragedy indicated
that she was in full possession of her
mental faculties, realized what she had
done and only sought to take her own
life in an effort to cheat the law.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
On the Screen
Ivan Abramson Delivers
Moral Message in when
Men Betray''

"When Men Betray" is at least
90 44-1o0 per cent better than any Of
| Ivan Abramson's previous pictures, and
the list includes "Eniighten Thy Daugh-
ter cone Law for Both" and "Moral
SAicide." 1t may be seen from the
titles that MIR. Abramson does not write
play until he Is convinced that the
world needs the message which he has
for the people.
When Men Betray" was shown yes.
terday at Loew's New York Roof. with
sallie Crute and Tallulah Bankhead
as the chief incentives. The cast is
o. the ali-star variety, with beautiful
Ga!l Kane in the role Of the wronged
wife 0'e eN
Robert Elliot, as Raymond Edwardes,
olo petter~ work than we ever have
seen him do before. He is sincere.
forccful and convincing. Gail Kane. as
his wife, left nothing to be desired.
Inc only thing which was not con-
vinclng was the fact that he left her
Tor the vampirish Sallie Crute. He
could give no reason for his prefer
ence, so we decided that he must
have preferred blondes. He had two
lovely blond sisters at home. too, whom
other men betrayed One was Alice,
played by Tallulah Bankhead, and the
other was Florence, a worthy young
woman, who had the misfortune to fall
IN love with Jack Mclean. Now if
Florence had only thought to have
fallen in love with Reed Hamilton all
would have been we'll. He was quite as
noble as she. and apparently spent all
OF his time embracing his mother or
amusing Gail Kane's young daughter.
aged four. He is engaged in the
latter pastme so often that Miss
kane's husband finally becomes ieal-
Gus, and this is probably one of the
reasons why he renowned Sallie Crute
and returned to his wife. Men al
ways do that, however, if given proper
time and inattention,
Mr. Abramson wrote and directed the
picture himself. II III
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Temporary Relief Sought
Until One Year After
the War
Minimum Pay Shrinks
Table Shows Dollar of 1898
Now Has Purchasing
Power of 40 Cents

High school teachers met yesterday
afternoon in the Woolworth Building
to formulate plans for increased nay.
They came at the call of the High
School Teachers Association. which
has abandoned its long established,
purely professional policy in order to
do active work for increased salaries.
"The salary campaign is the crying
issue at present." said Clyde R. JET
fords, of the Boys High School of
Brooklyn, who presided.
AS chairman of the salary committee
OF the association, ne outlined what
had been accomplished The commit
tee has filed with the Board CT Edu-
cation brief requesting temporary re-
lief through a war bonus of $500 an
nual]y, to continue until one year after
the end of the war.
"The teachers in the high schools
are entitled, to at least the same con-
slderation for increase in salary that
has been given to t'e elementary
school teachers" the bnef points out.
I'VE are heartily in favor of increas-
ing the salaries of elementary school
teachers, but we maintain, however,
that it would be extremely unjust to
grant them any increase without Civ
ing at least the same percentage of
increase to all public school teachers.
The exclusive consideration which
has been given recently to the claims
of elementary school teachers in the
matter of salary readjustment seems
to imply that the high school teachers
are now receiving satisfactory salaries,
or that the difference between the SAL
aries of high and elementary school
teachers is already disproportionat
"New York City is one of the few
large cities in this country which has
not made a readjustment of teachers
salaries to meet the increased cost of
living. A study recently made by the
salary committee of the High School
while fundamental principles of the
minimum wage have been accepted
and adopted in fixing teachers salaries
here, the fact that the minimum sched-
ule was intended to provide a constant
standard of living rather than fixed
sum OF money seems to have been
completely ignored.
! "The purchasing power Of the teach
er's dollar has been steadily and rapid
ly decreasing. The dollar of twenty
years ago was worth 81 cents in 1908,
76 cents in 1908, SO cents in 1918. and
Sc cents in 1916. At present it is worth
40 cents, and it is very evident that it
will be worth far less before the war
is over and conditions become normal
again."
In tabulation the report shows
how the minimum salaries have shrunk
with the advancing cost of living to an
incredible minimum.
The following figures represent the
salaries established as the legal min
imum by the Davis law, and the pur-
chasing power of those salaries ten
and twenty years later. The last
column represents what $500 high
school teachers in the city should be
receiving now if their wages had kept
pace with the cost of living:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Slackers Ignore
Crowder's Edict
To Work or Fight
No Attention Paid to Anti
Loa6ng Law, Which Is
Effective Saturday

Industrial slackers are in no hurry
to join the ranks of those laboring
to win the war, despite the "anti-
loafing" law which goes into effect
Saturday and the "work or fight" edict
of Provost Marshal General Crowder.
to start July l. A survey of NUM-
tions plants in the metropolitan dis
trlct yesterday disclosed that the ex-
pected rush of bell-boys, hat-check
brlgands, elevator runners and pool
parlor sharks" for real war work
had failed absolutely to materialize.
The seriousness of the war labor
problem, admitted by the employ
ment superintendents of the plants,
has not been affected by the two
orders as yet, but it is believed that
the rush will come at the latter part
of June, just before the all-inclusive
Crowder ukase to men of draft age
is carried out.
The "labor slackers" will receive
scant encouragement, however, even
when they come forward, if the at
tltude of the employment head of one
of the largest munitions manufacture
ers, with number Of plants, is
typical.
"These men will rot seek work
because they want it," he said. "In
consequence they will do as little as
possible and still retain the jobs that
keep them within the law. We have
efficiently, and although a large part
of the men who come here are un-
skilled laborers, we will give the pref
erence to the young men who come
Tor the purpose of working, not
merely to evade an edict.
This may sound unpatriotic, but
but it is just the reverse AS long
as we can get men of 100 per cent
efficiency, l see no reason why we
should slow up the supply of much
needed munitions by taking on men
who will go along at half speed. The
problem has not come up yet, how
ever, as all our applications recently
have come from men already in war
work who are looking for higher
wages"
At the Offices in this city of the
Etna Explosives. the American Can
Company and Mass & Waldstein
among others, it was said that the
labor situation was decidedly un-
satisfactory because of the ex-
cessively high turnover of employ
ment. All the plants are advertising
and using other means in their power
to get enough workers, without sue
cess, it was admitted.
The hope was expressed that, in
the near future, skilled workers in
industries not essential to the win
ming of the war might be induced
through the enactment of the Crowd
er order, to change their trades in
favor of those now working night and
day to supply the country's fighting
forces with the sinews Of war.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29

with the state colors, it will provide
every kind of indoor recreation. There
will be canteen service, rest rooms, a
music room, musical instruments and
poolrooms, with large library. Per-
mits will be issued the men for the
use of the tennis, cricket and croquet
equipment and the boats on the lake.
In Madison Square Garden Italian
war relics will be on exhibition to-
morrow, with wounded Italian soldiers
and sailors acting as guides.
In the afternoon there will be, va;
rious kinds of sports. At Sheepshead
Bay during she automobile races the
Queen Of the Air" is scheduled to be
crowned in the aeroplane race between
Miss Ruth Law and Miss Katherine
Stinson.
Newark, in addition to the religious
and memorial exercises, will drive sew
eral nails into the Kaiser's coffin by
launching the first fabricated ship at
the Submarine Boat Corporations big
plant.
A feature of the day will be the ap-
pearance of the new rose-the Fran
els Scott Key"-which originated in
Baltimore. 1t was named for the au-
thor Of the rational anthem.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Six Specialists Confer
To Save Anna Held

Six physicians, specialists in blood
and bone diseases are in consultation
concerning the condition of Miss Anna
Held, the actress, who Is said to be
dying at her apartments in the Hotel
Savoy DR.. Donald McCaskey, Miss
Held's own physician, made this an
nouncement yesterday, and added that
the conclusions reached would be en-
bodied in statement to be issued
to-day.
One Of the physicians is Dr.. Ernest
La Place, of Philadelphia, noted spe-
cialist in bone diseases. The names
Of the others have not been given out.
The patient rested comfortably yes
terday. DR.; McCaskey said last night,
and seemed in excellent spirits She
was not strong enough, however. to
see any of the scores of friends that
thronged the lobby of the Savoy, eager
for word with her. Among those
who waited vainly were several women
who had been in Miss Held's company.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Sulphur Shortage Alarming

3 WASHINGTON. May 2s.-The sui
phur shortage is menacing the munir
tion industries of the country to-day,
according to evidence at hearing be-.
fore the Senate Committee ON Mines
and Mining. 1t was stated that unless
something was done soon to augment
the supply, either the new explosive
plants nearing completion would be
without material for operation. or GER
tain industries vital to the nation will
have to suspend.
A. e. Wells, advisory expert for the
Bureau Of Mines, reported that the bu-
reau had found the thiogen process
technically sound. 1t recovers materi-
ais that are going to waste in the at
mosphere from smelters, both solid
eleraents that contain valuable mate.
rials and the gaseous elements which
might be made into valuable products
Sulphur in this way, he said, might be
obtained at cost Of from $40 to $1a
r ton
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Kissing a Woman
Is Cited to Show
Banker Is Insane

George C. Lever applied to Justice
Giegerich in the Supreme Court yester-
day for the appointment Of committee
for the person and property of his
uncle, David Nevius, for many years
vice-president and cashier of the Union
Exchange National Bank.
One Of the numerous alleged IRA
tional acts of Mr. Nevius occurred
! about three weeks ago at the Office of
Joseph Osler, president of the Fifth
Avenue Bond and Mortgage Company,
when, it was alleged, Mr.. Nevius hugged
and kissed Mrs. Osler in the presence
of her husband.
| that Mr.. Nevius brought to his office
stocks and bonds valued at about $780,
900 which he wanted to sell. Mr.. Osler
said that he judged from the other
bankers action on that occasion that
he was mentally affected, and took the
securities from Mr.. Nevius for safe
keeping. Mr.. Osler said he had long
known Mr.. Nevius as conservative and
modest man, and was much shocked
! when he insisted on embracing and
kissing Mrs. Osler.
was his calling at the home of young
| woman to whom he was engaged at
6:30 in the morning and presenting her
with what he called "hoodoo ring"
whose possession would grant the
owner any wish. He asked the young
woman to kneel and pray with him to
the ring. Mr.. Lever also told about his
uncle buying ten Liberty bonds in a
Washington theatre and giving them to
ten strangers.
Mr.. Nevius, who is fifty-one years
old, is in q sanatorium. DR.. Stephen P.
Jewett and DR.. William Stenbach, who
examined him, quoted the banker as
saying: II did twenty-three years. work
! in the last week. ] have enough money
now. am not going to work any more.
have S25O,000 year income"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Public School No. 3 Celebrates
Its One Hundredth Anniversary

The children OF Public School 2
at Hudson and Grove Streets, took a
lew hours off yesterday from sewing
Tor the Belgians and selling War Saw
ings Stamps to muse on the calm and
picturesque days when the old school
was new That was exactly 100 hun
dred years ago. Little Italian girls.
with their black braids tied with cele
bration red ribbons, listened and
giggled at the strange stories told of
the nfty-one prim little boys who went
to the first school, in hired room up
stairs over the police station.
Everett P Wheeler, the oldest living
graduate of the school, who was in
the class of 1858. described the. IA
nous "sand table," on which the chill
dren learned to write, by tracing the
forms Of letters in thin layer of
sand. He told, too, about the visit of
Lafayette in 1924, when he inspected
No. 3 as the chest example of the pub
lie school system" and all the chill
dren were given crackers and cheese
and taken to ride in the Lafayette pa
rade at the expense of the trustees.
Grove Street was the playground for
The school children in those days. 1t
was street full of wild flowers and
famous for its beautiful shade trees.
A relic of those days came to light
unexpectedly when Charles w. Laws,
who was q boy in No. in 1850, dis
played good ticket" which was be-
slowed upon him at the end of his first