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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
CITY NEWS.

Only few more shopping days
before Christmas.
Read Gate City advertisements
and make your holiday shopping easy.
Mrs. w. C. Hayes of Belvidere,
H., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Louis
Sterne.
"A daughter was born to. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Tickle of Argyle last
Friday. December g.
Second Red Cross war subscrip-
tons are past due. Pay to A. M.
Wyllie, No. 10 North Fifth street.
Twins, son and a daughter,
came to Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Short,
at ST. Joseph's hospital this morning.
Regular meeting of Morning Star
lodge No 5. K. of p at Castle hall,
Fifth and Blondeau. o. w. Rowe,
c. c.; ]. A. Burgess. X. Of r. and s.
Merchants can get their holiday
announcements before the largest
number of shoppers by using the adj
vertising columns of The Gate City.
All the poultry demonstrations
planned by J. S. Clare have been
postponed. They were to have been
held all over Lee county this week.
&C. F. Mcfarland accidentally
struck the back of his hand against
the edge or table so hard that he
broke one of the bones. He is carry
ing 1t in typical Red Cross splint
and dressing.
Regular meeting De la Sale
council GIG, X. of c., tonight All
members requested to be present.
Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Hall, corner Fifth and Main J. J.
Hayes. recording secretary.
n II, ,g.I,
early Don't put it off when there
are so many good reasons for get
ting your Christmas plans done early,
besides the great patriotic reason. If
you can only realize 1t, it's the ideal
way to do Christmas shopping, and
always has been. The wisest women
you know-the good managers-have
been doing it for years, and could
never quite understand why so many
people put it off until the last few
weeks or days before Christmas.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
CITY NEWS.

For good brooms at reasonable
prices. see Sommers, 62S So. 18th.
Don't allow yourself to be fright
ened into the flu. Keep happy and
do your Christmas shopping early.
Mrs. LOREN Garlichs and son.
Lorren Warwick. of St. Joseph, are
visiting Mrs. Garlichs' mother, Mrs.
Florence Warwick, and will remain
through the holidays.
Butter is up a cent a pound,
eggs are up three cents a dozen, and
ham has advanced three cents a
pound in the food administration
Keokuk price list, while the best
bacon is down four cents a pound.
the cheapest grades remaining I'M
changed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
to get a creditable showing from
these two places.

these two places.
VIII Win Despite Handicap.
For some inscrutable reason, the
apportionment was made by popula-
ton. so that the fourth ward of Keo-
kuk carries as large quota as sew
eral townships full of rich farmers.
Also. the plan of selling Liberty
bonds through the banks on small in
stallments took the cream of the
thrift stamp trade in the cities which
was supposed to belong to the war
saving stamp campaign. With these
two big handicaps, II the cities reach
their quotas they will be accomplish
ing a great task-but Keokuk has
never yet failed to go over the top,
and 1t is hoped that she will do it
this time in addition to all the other
times since the war started.
The quota of the city OF Keokuk
was 100000, and 1t has bought to
date about 100000 worth of stamps.
The sales in November were about
S22,400. Of which $4,000 worth were
sold during Thanksgiving week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
THRIFT STAMPS
CAMP |GN LAGS
keokuk and Fort Madison are Behind
Their Quotas and Not Nearly
Up With Country Town
ships in County.
WEST POINT HAS HONoRs
Difficult to Get Exact Figures, But 1t
is Easy to SEQ That the TWO
Cities Must Hustle,
or Fall Out.
WEST POINT HAS HONoRs

The campaign on war savings
stamps has been ordered continued
to December Is by State Director
Homer A. Miller Of Des Moines.
The reports from various town
ships are beginning to come In to
E. G. Lynn, Lee county chairman
and the following is summary to
December l.:
Sold during year up to Oc-
tober l about. $245, zoe
Sold during October about. 10000
Sold during November about. 10000
Total this year. .......... 100
Buying outside Of Lee county
makes it hard to get the exact figures
as many persons buy across the
county line, both ways.
West Point Wins Honors.
The town of West Point carried of
the honors in November by selling
more war savings stamps than any
other town in Lee county. Marion
township sold over $4,000 more than
their quota In one week.
The following townships are re.
ported as over their quotas: Harri-
son, Cedar, Marion, Pleasant Ridge,
Green Bay, Washington, West Point.
and many Of the others are nearly
done and would have been over had
it not been for bad weather and
sickness.
From present indications, the only
places that will have serious trouble
in meeting their quotas will be FIT.
Madison and Keokuk. These two
cities are tagging behind and 1t will
take the united effort of all local
workers assisting the city chairmen
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-10
AN OLD TIME
kEOkUKIAN DEAD
Patsy Doyle Known and Liked By
Many People Here, Succunbs
to Pneumonia in

Patsy Doyle died shortly after 9
o'clock last night of pneumonia at the
Power View hotel, ON North Water
street, after few days illness.
He was well known in Keokuk and
had lived here thirty-five or forty
years, occasionally leaving town for
a short stay elsewhere. He ran
Print shop for awhile in Memphis,
Mo. where he has relatives.
He was about sixty years of age and
was man who made friends easily,
and Is spoken of In kindest terms by
all who knew him
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05
A NERVOUS WRECK
Fsom Three Years Suffering. Says
CaFiui Made Her We'll.

Texas City, Tcx.-lp m interesting
statement Mrs. G. II. Schill, OF this town,
says: "ror three years ! suffered untold
agony with my head. ! was unable to
do any Of my work.
lust wanted 10 sleep all the time, for
that was the only ease | could get, when
was asleep. became a nervous wreck
just from the awful suffering with my
head.
was 50 nervous that tie least noise
vould make nc jump out OF my bed. !
had no energy, and was unable to do
anything. My son, a young boy, had TO
do an my household duties.
| vas not able TO do anything until !
took Cafdu!. took three bottles in all,
anl It surely cured me OF those awful
headaches. That has been three years
ago, and | know the cure is permanent,
Tor ! have nc,cr had any headache since
taxing Cardui. -.
Noilingra!ieyed me until took Cardui.
Il did wonders for me-"
Try Cardui Tor your troubles-made
from medicinal ingredients recommended
IN medical books as being OF benefit in
female troubles, and 40 years OF Use has
proven that the books are right. Begin
taking Csrdui today. NC-iA
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05
IilI SCRAP BOOk
WHERE NUT NuuU sons Il NSIi;
MIIttII W.


where 1r, ,"m "us Kaiser VIII
hplm'
Are th,, 300 thr thi,h cot the rrht
Az, the, BOO th, y.f, nrHt trenches
Win th, enemy ull 300 sight
Are tho, buried with thousands aud
thousands
into that he'll nt Ncrduu'
Are they Swing THEM lives with 'h"
others
10 win sou 20 pioa, boo the auu
Where ,rc your sons kaiser WI.
helm
We rend NJ the dying and dead
With loathinr aud horror and pity
Eut sever o. word b. said
OF 20 .on ur the kaiser dying
lu 90 valiant victory
Dt % SON of the kaiser dying
To win yoL 20 place in the sun
where are your Sous Kaiser Wil-
helm
At tho call OF the f1thorlaud
surely the SONS ct tho kaiser
should |vuliuutly take their stand
~ tbs side OF the huWblcst subject
Facing the enemy. gun
Giving their lives with the others
To win YOU zee place in the sun
Philadelphia Record.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05

way ~ dctccting the fact that th1a
was included under operating rN.
p,u-o- t sum ot money which ht
N,ru Wi-u-ed
The fact that a firm makes $50. u0o. -
600 ou % total business ut 50, Co. 600 ooy
indicates uothiug 70 would rvuuir,
tu audit OF then books ana 10 dca,le,
rive at uu intelligent conclusion iu
the premises
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05

eiur way 60 create the impression
thnt you are familiar with sucro-s Is
To- I, modest Youths Cumpar uu.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05
GO 10 Ir.J>cLl

bndl u government d"tN NOT lh-
tend Co tolerate any %footishu,ss with
rcicrcuc, to th, food situation. either
ON the pnrt OF producers co. ,ousur,r..
In quite evident. l.ccently 10 WIS re-
ported Co lcdcral authorities that q
Nebraska farmer nad allowed .cycri.
thousand bushels ct wheat to rot ne-
cnusc no di5 not want tu sell BE- at th'
prevailing price. lie held u tu Dis
bins hoping that Uncle sam would iu-
crease the price. and when that time
came "a was his Intention to mark,,
the wheat aud reap the benefits OF
lthc higher price. In the meantime
the wheat spoiled
Reports have been current from
time 60 time tina certain foodstuff-
were being boarded ur held for higher
price~ This was particularly true "f
wheat. the clam has been made that
hundreds Of thousands of bushels were
"a tho hands Of farmers who were re-.
wlnlug possession 81 he cereal until
Ithc price was boosted, and ~ the
lpuycrnmcut was poWcriess to rcmeuS
the situation by compelling the far
mere to sell, the couutr, simply hao
To- grin and bear &C. PERHAPS u am
example is nude in j. few cases and
Ithi- d|i-lo,pl,, ls dealt with as IL dc
SERVES To- be-. Il viii have o. beneficial
l%cCrcct iu the future.
We are avar, Of the Importance ot
agriculture 900 this war. u IS The
foundation stuu, OF the entire struc-
turc Il MAJ also uc stated that asrl-
culture is mo- less important in time
uf peace, tor without the farmer there
would bc huJ very utt.y produced in
the wal Of foodstufis. &c IT, not our
Intention 10 helitt,c hits Importance IN
tho world, bccau-c the worid depends
Iuruu him-aNd upon him alone for
It's li,lu- lie Is IT. eNerthe.ess it
-,rm- Goo us that considerable anne
,--at, sob STUFF. has been iuduigcd 100
owen ,h, r.rmers. especially Since the
nsr u,elu
Esrrruud, buov-. 90. .oursc th.t
the high co-, OF living na. hlt tla
FARMER o., - compelled 300 pas w.r,
FOR vhn ne buys tnan he dd uei9r"
,ho war began But 200 this respect hn
Is u.t ALONE Everybody b. |u th,
. .H
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-03-05
OUT or THEIR OWN MOTHS

"Thc fiteful day draws near Z
And even II the tWi- I
light of the gods he upon u,. ict q
~ come iu furious battle rather Z
than len lingering ~ickliucss Z
Graf du NOTWITHSTANDING speech Z
1t stuttgart meeting Of Che
, l'au-icrmau League AlIdcut- Z
, -yhe Blurtcr. Arm %. ipli Z
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Colonel Roosevelt
Improves Rapidly

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was suf-
fciently improved yesterday to be per-
mitted for brief period to read a
book, the Colonel being propped up
in a reclining position. There was
noticeable abatement in the pain in
the ears, and the Colonel was generally
more comfortable.
The only bulletin of the day, issued
after Drs. Walton Martin and Arthur
B. Duel had made thorough eXamina-
tion of their patient, read:
Colonel Roosevelt's condition is
steadily improving. His adjustable
bed is SO raised that he is partly sit
ting in bed. He had restful night
and is really making remarkable head
way"
Among the messages Of good will re-
ceived yesterday were cablegrams from
M. Raymond Poncare, President of the
French Republic; Georges Clemenceau,
Premier of France, and M. Pinchot,
Secretary Of War.
II pray for your speedy recovery"
the French President said.
There were many callers at the hos
pital yesterday. Among them were the
Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of the
Washington, D. c., diocese; the Very
Rev. Dean j. c. F. Brattenahl, also of
Washington; the Rev. Judson Swift,
secretary Of the American Tract So
ciety; Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Julien w.
Robbins, and General Mesrop Melton,
who was secretary Of the Persian Lega-
tion during Mr.. Roosevelt's occupancy
Of the White House.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Many Realty Men
Favor SCHOOL, Lunches

The ten speakers who appeared in
favor Of school lunches at the public
hearing held in the aldermanic cham
Der yesterday afternoon had a single
opponent in the person of DR.. Henry
Berg, who said he voiced the protest
of 5000 members of the United Real
Estate Owners Association, who pay
taxes on one-seventeenth of the real
property in New York City.
Are we going to make soup kitchens
of the New York schools ?" he de-
manded with such vehemence that the
crowd that filled the room laughed at
his evident seriousness. He MAIN
tanned that the city could not afford
the expense; that the system would
have a pauperizing influence on school
children, and that public schools would
become eleemosynary institutions.
William H. Collins, chairman of the
Welfare Committee of the Board of
Aldermen, who presided, cut short the
speakers criticism of the newspapers
and individuals who favored passage
of the ordinance.
DR.. Josephine Baker. Director of the
Division Of Child Hygiene, whose sur
vey published in The Tribune yester-
day showed that thousands of New
York school children are under-nour-
ished, appeared to urge the establish
ment Of school lunches, which enable
child to get at least one hot meal a
day, as the most effective remedy for
underfed children.
DR.. Gustav Straubenmuller, acting
Superintendent of the City Schools, ex-
pressed the willingness of the school
authorities to carry on the lunch sys-
tenn on passage of the ordinance.
"The Board of Education has for
years extended q willing hand to the
voluntary lunch committees, which
have been doing this work in
twenty schools in Brooklyn and thirty
five in Manhattan" he said, "but l and
my colleagues are opposed to free food
except for the very poor children, who
can be provided for under the ordi-
nance. School lunches should be pro-
vided, not only for the sake of the
poor, but for many children who can
afford to. pay, but are under -nourishcd
because they get the wrong kinds of
food. Food education and service
through the schools will remedy that
condition."
The ordinance, which bears the name
of two Socialist aldermen, has the ap-
proval of the Socialist delegation and
most of the civic and philanthropic or
CARNATIONS in the city. 1t provides
that the Board of Education shall ar
range to serve meals in the graded
schools at maximum charge of two
cents meal, or free to poor children,
at the discretion of the Board of Edu-
cation.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Police Chase Trio
Of Thieves on Roof

Three burglars moving about on The
roof of the homo Of William c. Hill,
AS West Fjfty-second Street, near Fifth
Avenue, last night, caused great ox-
element, when four patrolmen from
the East Fifty-hrst Street station. who
were hurried there, began shooting as
they gave chase to the robbers. who
escaped through a house in Sixth Ave
nuc.
One of the trio of thieves was be-
lieved by the police to have been a
woman. A woman's handkerchief with
the initial "A' was dropped in the
chase. The police also found an over
coat and sack coat on the roof. No
one OF the tenants in the block reported d
the loss of these articles.
Patrolman Rosenberg while p,,rsr;nc
the burglars hurt his hip and right
hand when he jumped from the roof
OF Do TO AZ, a distance OF seven feet.
Mr.. Hill was the first to notify the
police, and the desk lieutenant had
hardly sent the patrolman to answer
the call when Mr.. Danforth. of 40 West
Fifty,second Street, and Mrs. Eugene
A. Philbin. of 63 West second
Street, called up the station house.
This ghoborhood was terrorized a
.A2st sA'ss s2,sssinns ~hin s1bsssrs bssnyrs tyi;s t
EHv.Atyd Stxaak
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Mrs. Gait Sends
Letter to Senate

WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator
Shafroth Of Colorado. to-day read into
the record of the Senate letter from
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage Association, in which the suf-
frage leader called attention to King
Georges signature of the bill giving
British women the vote sa "a challenge
to the United States to make good her
calm that she fights for democracy. !"
The letter. upon which Senator Shat
roth urged prompt action by the SEN
ate, follows in part:
"Lcst the press dispatch may not
have come TO your notice, I write to
inform you that woman suffrage as a
part of the representation Of the pco-
pie act became a law in Great Britain
OH February 6. It, applies to the wom-
Ell of England, Scotland. Ireland and
Wales. This is not referendum, but
u definite grant OF the vote.
"This action challenges the United
States to make good her claim that she
fights for democracy
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

lers were found selling sugar from
pushcarts, but most of these were sell
ing it at the regulation price, on con-
dition, however, that the purchasers
buy abnormal quantities Of groceries
at exorbitant prices.
"The East Side Is honeycombed with
traffickers in sugar" said Mr.. Johann.
There seems to be plenty Of sugar
available, but the consumers are not
able to get it, because the wholesalers
are selling it only to dealers from
whom they feel safe in demanding IL
legal prices. The result is that many
poor families have to go begging for
sugar because they are unable to buy
quantities of groceries.
ut may be that a different system
of distributing sugar may be neces-
sary. The question will be taken up
Immediately with the distributing
committee. The wholesalers are do
ing the direct profiteering. In some
instances we have found that retailers
have paid as high as IS cents pound
on the theory that they must have the
sugar and sell it at loss to keep their
trade"
Since the food administration or
dered that, beginning last Monday. nc
egg-laying hens shall be killed before
May I, the retail prices of other poul-
try have gone skyrocketing. The
wholesalers have been called to meet
at the boards Office, 220 West Fifty.
seventh Street. this morning, to fix q
minimum retail price for all poultry
other than hens.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Grenade Explodes in Hand

CAMP DIX, N. J., Feb. III A grenade
which Captain William o. Hill of Com
pany A, 3i0th Infantry, was using to-
day IN the instruction of class in
bomb throwing exploded in his hand.
The fingers of his right hand were
blown off. his left hand was mangled
and a grenade splinter penetrated his
body.
To the surprise of the surgeons. no
enc else was hurt. Captain Hill is in
the base hospital. Surgeons believe he
will recover, but will be unable to re
main IN the service. lie lives in Med
ford Park, \. Y, and received his COM
mission at Plattsburg last August.
reports that more than half of the
1000 New Jersey men of the next draft
will be sent to New York regiments
were confirmed to-day BY an anouncc-
ment from division headouartcrs. and
1t is believed that there will be strong
protests by state officials, particularly
as the ranks Of home regiments at
sssg sg w @sss sS T. FL .s.s issm Ass. sY o. III spa
>kgX ~
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Food Inspectors Swoop Down
On East Side Sugar Profiteers
Federal Board Acts Complaints of Overchargng Among
Poor Famies-One Dealer Forced to Make
Refund on 5000 Pound Sale

Acting on complaints that scores of
East Side dealers are making fortunes
by profiteering on sugar, that many
poor families are being forced to pay
from IL to Ia cents a pound for it.,
whereas the maximum price fixed by
law is S.6 cents, and that groceries are
being boarded in great quantities, the
Federal Food Board yesterday started
general investigation of East Side
food conditions.
Inspectors swooped down on the
haunts of the dealers, and, according
to ?. A. Johann, chief of the complaint
department, found J. Ehrlichman, Al
jackson Street had just sold 5000
pounds Of Louisiana sugar at 10 cents
pound, the presumption being that the
retailers who bought it would demand
more for it. In the sale also was in
cluded 200 pounds of granulated sugar,
at I'm cents a pound, and four bar
rels of cube sugar, ct Ia cents a
pound. Ehrlchman was compelled to
refund an amount equal to the over
charge.
A general survey of the East Side
convinced Mr.. Johann that fragrant
violations of the food regulations were
being committed there. 1t was found
that dozens of grocers and sugar deal
ers had obtained licenses and had gone
into business over night. Even ped
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
unnel Plan Approved
BY Jersey Governor

TRENTON, Feb. 14-Camden is a
step nearer Philadelphia and Jersey
City is somewhat nearer New York as
the result of the approval tonight by
Governor Edge of the three bills de-
signed to bring about the erection of a
bridge between Camden and Phila-
delphia over the Delaware and the con-
struction Of q tunnel under the Hudson
River between Jersey City and New
York.
Governor Edge is responsible for the
elimination of the efforts of the pres
ent Legislature in bringing the bridge
and tunnel Nearer to realities. The
scheme has been talked of for years,
but little was done until the Jersey
Executive took the matter in hand and
made the three bills introduced by
Speaker Wolverton, Of Camden, admin
istration measures.
The first of the measures provides
for the appointment of board to be
known rs the Interstate Bridge and
Tunnel Commission. This committee
is to consist Of eight members, who
Will receive no compensation. The sec
ond of the measures orders a prelim-
nary survey and estimates, and will
allow the commission to contract with
Pennsylvania and Now York for each
state to pay half of the cost of con-
struction.
The third measure will provide the
money. A tax of one mill on each dol
lar of valuation Of all real and per
sonal property is to be collected four
years, beginning with 1922. All of the
work is to be under the supervision of
Major General George W. Gocthals
consulting engineer of New Jersey.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Labor Organizer Describes
Conditions at Wage
Arbitration
Women Replaced Mer,
No Reason to Oppose De-
mands Of Unions, Says
Witness

CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-Timothy A. Nc
for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Union and previously en-
ployed by packers in various cities,
criticised the stockyards firms for their
opposition to organized labor and
graphically described conditions in the
plants in testifying to-day before Fed
eral Judge Samuel Alschuler in the
wage arbitration.
He urged the adoption of an eight
hour working day and equal pay for
men and women performing the same
service, and declared there was no
good reason for the refusal Of the
packers to accede to these demands of
organized labor.
The witness said he had been a
packing house butcher for twenty
three years, but since the stockyards
strike of 1904 the packers had refused
to give him steady employment because
He said hundreds of union men had
been similarly disseminated against.
He said he organized packing plant
workers at Kansas City. Kan: Sioux
City, Iowa; Denver and St. Joseph,
Mo-, but declared that the packers had
declined to deal with the union or sign
wage contracts.
The witness said that in the past two
years the packers in Sioux City and
Kansas City had supplanted men with
women in hundreds of positions. The
women, in most instances. ne said, are
colored and are receiving twenty and
twenty-five cents and hour, while the
men who formerly did the work re-
ceived twenty-six and twenty-seven and
half cents an nour. He said the
packers did not give their employees a
raise in wages from the strike in 1904
until 1916. Since then three small
raises were allowed but increase in the
cost of living had more than Offset the
increase in pay. The witness ridi-
culed the welfare work in the packing
plants.
"To get more work out of the men
the packers employ few pacemakers,
or rushers as they are called, in each
department, who do more work than
the others to speed up the gang" said
the witness.
Half dozen employees Of the Chi
cago packers testified to working con-
ditions and wages and said that men
with large families were unable to live
decently on the wages paid