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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

/, this mighty cause placed by the side
of the record Of the men who are
| dying that others may live, and in
doing SO are following the example
! Of the Son OF God Himself
Until you have made your purchase
of Liberty bonds and your contribu
tons to the great work Of the chart
table organizations whether they be
the Red Cross. or the Y. M. G.. A.,
or the Y. w. @. A, or the X. of c..
or whatever may best express your
individual effort to help the soldiers.
on this basis, then think not for one
moment that you can stand with a
clear conscience before the men who
are giving their lives, and who in
the great day of judgment, when the
hearts and the lives of all shall De
made plain, shall be able to compare
what they have done with what you
have done.
Buy Liberty bonds, therefore, until
your buying HELPS YOU. until your
buying GIVES YOU a clear con-
science, until your buying ennobles
YOUR soul and broadens YOUR con-
ception, even by your financial in
vestment in Liberty bonds, Of the
tremendous struggle of all the ages.
In buying Liberty bonds you buy
the safest investment on earth. You
give nothing. The country gives you
in return for your money a security
safer than would be a first mortgage
on every railroad in the United
States; safer than the cash in your
bank or in your safe-deposit vaults;
safer than the home in which you
i've: because the railroads and the
cash in the bank and in safety vaults,
n NJ Lob
which you claim, the iron ore and
the coal to which you hold title, are
all practically under first mortgage
to the government for the redemp-
tlon OF these Liberty bonds More
than that, every ounce OF physical
and mental power, every ounce OF
initiative and of brain force In the
nation Is under mortgage for the re-
payment OF these bonds. The govern
ment has the right to take your
farm, your home. your railroad bonds,
to take your earnings, to take the
potentially of all OF your material
and financial power expressed in
material things, for the purpose of
redeeming these bonds.
But the government gives you in
these Liberty bonds its promise to
pay good rate of interest, to redeem
lueu at SpeclIleQ time, and in do
ing this 1t offers you the safest in
vestment which today can be found
in all the wide world. II it did not
pay you single dollar OF interest.
II It's promise to redeem the bonds
was indefinite as to time, the gov
eminent would still have moral
and physical right to claim your
utmost contribution to the extent of |
all your wealth and your earning
power for the prosecution OF the war. |
Buy Liberty bonds, therefore, and |
buy them until 1t helps you indi- |
vidually 10 understand the whole war
Issue, because where your treasure |
is, there will your heart be-" and |!
when you have bought them In this |
way. then you have bought Liberty
bonds to the extent that your pur-
chase WILL HELP the government.
WILL HELP every soldier on the
battlefield, WILL HELP all ciyiliza-
ton, and to the extent that you fall |
to do your share in this work you
are recreant to your duty to your
country, to humanity, and to God
Buy Liberty bonds!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
GOVERNOR AT
OLD SETTLERS
Van Buren, County People Heard State
Executive at Reunion
Held at Chau-
tauOua.

| BONAPARTD, Iowa, Aug. 26.-Mrs
Ben Roof and two children of Ere
mont came Thursday evening for
visit with Mrs. Laura Dulin.
Mrs. Gertrude Crawford and daugh
ter Cecil, of Moberly, Mo. came las
week for a Visit with her parents, MI
and Mrs. d. w. Cheney.
| r. L. Fender has improved the resi-
dence he recently purchased from
Miss Mary Spence, by the addition o
a neat front porch.
| A marriage license was issued from
the county clerk Office last week t
Claude Musser and Miss Hazel Hoot
man of Birmingham.
The August term OF the distric
court was convened Monday by Judge
Anderson Frank A. Nichols Is cour
reporter and E. F. Morrison Is cour
bailiff.
The following grand jury was drawn
Monday afternoon: Cyrus Landess
foreman: Arthur Brown, w. c. Wins
low, J. j. Downward, Frank Warmers F
f. Bell and Bruce r. Vale. Mrs
George r. Buckles Is clerk of the
jury and Bert .Jemison is bailiff.
The following cases came up fol
trial and were settled as follows:
Case of State VS.. Frank Hufford
assault with intent to do great bodily
injury, was omitted from the docket
Arthur Laughery VS.. z. F. Scott. at
tachment. dismissed at plaintiffs cost
John Stevenson VS.. independent
School District OF Webster Ridge. on
contract, settled and costs taxed to de-
PENDANT.
Earl F. Funk VS.. T. e. and Dana
Teal, on note, settled and costs paid.
Cases of VIM. Alternately VS.. F. b.
Alternately; Jolly Hardware Co, vs..
w. A. Brown, and B. F. Ketcham VS..
Webb Barker, default entered.
Farmers and Traders State bank
VS. Ross Downward. ct al. on note. De
PENDANT entered against p. +. Down
ard. F. z. Sears and w. o. Bostock.
continued as to Ross Downward and
until discharged from the military
service.
Default entered in the cases Of Cen
tury Savings bank of Des Moines VS..
Floyd F. Johnson, ct al, NJ. F. Mich
OILS VS.. w. H. Nichols, ct al, Farmers
and Traders bank VS.. F. r. H. Keck,
on note: settled.
Mary $. Atkins VS.. Perry Atkins,
partition.
Ftka VS.. Oscar Etka, divorce, set
tied and dismissed at plaintiffs cost.
Amos Sickle VS.. Henry and VIM.
II. Wallingford ct al. continued to
March.
Tena johnson, deceased. VS.. Josh
johnson. divorce.
Sarah e. Green VS.. VIM. Green, di-
vorce.
Alma Hartrick VS.. J. C. Hartrick,
divorce.
Hattie Wells VS.. Andrew Wells, di-
vorce.
Lulu Dunn VS.. ]. Hershel Dunn, di-
vorce.
Addie G. Yost VS.. Ward B. Yost, di-
yorce; decree ordered.
The registered Hampshire hog sale
at Wickfeld farm. near Cantril. Sat
1rday. was one of the big pure bred
hog sales of the year and some fancy
prices were brought by some of the
offered. p Men notable in the
of pure bred pork animals
n many states and others identified
with publications interested in live
stock production were present. The
average price brought by thirty-nine |
,ows was $3.50. The highest price
'rought by a SOW in the auction ring.
vas that received for High Toned !
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
DREAMER OF DREAM.

DREAMER OF DREAMS.
would could move mighty mountains and hills,
Uproot them and build keep In the air;
! could turn teeming rivers and black, turbid r1s
TO make lake pleasaunce, placidly fair.
If / would!
But lie list to the wind chlIrnng
Sweeter seems;
And sail yellow leaves the swift autumn
Dreaming dreams!
II would could grasp in my hand half the earth,
Make them mirthfu sad laughed I CRIED
could guess the Where the World Before Birth,
At the Infinite Whence and the Whittier beside
If / would!
gut wonder watch the small, busy world
Past streams;
And shepherd my woody white clouds, wind unturied
dreaming dreams
Basil Stephenson. in Contemporary Verse
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Davenport Times: The old boys
who have been '.rearin' to go" now
have a. chance to get into the war
game, since men between 46 and Sc
may enlist In non-fghting units of
Uncle SANS army Don't crowd,
conference.-the paths Of glory are
wide enough for all.
Charles City Press: The Canadians
also want to be called Americans.
Then they should come within the
fold. for they cannot consistently
claim this distinction so long as they
pay tribute to foreign land
Muscatine Journal: The creation of
the new students army in the col
leges of America will exert an infiu-
ence to keep more young men in
school. 1t places a military import
ance upon college work.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: SPANS
latest pronouncement is that she's
going to remain neutral no matter
what it costs. To a nation that
doesn't value it's dignity or the lives
Of its people, it won't cost much.
iowa ClJy CItlZen. Inc landing or
United States troops at Vladivostok
lis an Indication that our government
has decided to be in with the other
allies in the settlement of the per
picking Russian question.
Upper Des Moines-Republican: The
German sub crew that trampled upon
and sneered at the American flag they
captured on fish boat they sank will
some day soon kneel at the foot of
the stars and stripes.
Des Moines Register: Monday night
the press association managed to
sidetrack the war news long enough
to inform an anxious country that
the president had defeated his physi-
clan in nine-hole golf match.
Denison Bulletin: Every dollar of
wealth and every iota of property In
this country is now staked in this
war. Every man, woman and child
is compelled to serve in some capa-
city to win it. The one who holds
back or hinders now is the enemy
more than ever before.
Sibley Tribune: Those who heard
Senator Vardaman's lecture in Sibley
are not likely to quarrel with the
presidents condemnation OF him as
unfit for reelection to the senate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
OUR PATRIOTIC INDIANS.

For the first time since the dawn of history
all the Indian tribes within the confines of the
United States are united in one common cause.
It is probable that more Indian braves are
under arms in this country and in France than
have fought in any single war campaign in one
hundred years Upwards Of three thousand
young men from the Cherokee, Creek, Chicka-
saw, Chocktaw and Seminole tribes in eastern
Oklahoma are in the service either in the train
ing camps or with the American forces over
seas, and young men from all the other tribes
are fighting in the army Of the q. S. A.
These valiant young original Americans,
nearly all of them volunteers, are fighting for a
single purpose-to ''make the world safe for
democracy and under one flag, the Red,
White and Blue. They are making a good rec
ord on the firing line. The Indians with Perish
ing s army have won honors in their hand to
hand fighting against the Germans. They are
demonstrating that the Indian of today is no
less brave, resourceful and efficient as a fight
er than was his father as warrior in the days
of old.
The old men and women, the boys and girls
Of the tribes back in their western homes have
caught the real spirit of the against the
Huns. They have come to believe that this is
their war; that any nation which makes war on
America is warning against them, and, guided
by well-drected intelligence and native prud-
ence, they are going to the limit in conserving
food and in the production of such farm crops
as are most needed for food by their soldier
boys and their allies beyond the sea.
The report of Cato Sells commissioner of In
dian affairs shows that every reservation in
this country had an increase in the average of
land cultivated by the Indians last year, rang
ing from five to one hundred per cent, the aver
age being thirty-one and six hundredths per
cent Many thousand bushels of wheat and
corn we're added to the nation g food supply by
this effort of the Indians to assist in clicking
the Hun"
The first war savings society in this country
was organized by Indians and is known os the
United States Five Civilized Tribes War Saw
ings society. These Indians have purchased
Liberty bonds TO the amount of nearly seven
million dollars. From January first to March
fifteenth they invested half million dollars in
War Savings stamps and have contributed lib
orally to the Red Cross.
The war is bringing out the best there is in
the Indian nature It is giving him a higher
appreciation of the country In which he lives
and of the flag which protects him. When it
ends he will have better understanding of his
to the world. He will be more in
telligent and industrious and better fitted to
take his rightful place by the side of his white
brother in guiding the nations affairs and in
shaping its policy.
The American soldiers have done wonder
fully well in France, but may we say in passing
that the time is not vet a1spicous for adroiri,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

The American soldiers have done wonder
fully well in France, but may say in passing
that the time is not yet suspicious for admiring
and grateful countrymen to send the boys guide
books of the city of Berlin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

found time to write anything-and to
raise a family.
The war has many things to answer
for. and among them the taking away
of Kilmer will not speedily be for
given.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
Indisputabie.

New York World: Outside of SCUM
Carolina very few persons will ps s
found to dispute President Wilson,.
assertion that Cole Blease ought no'
to be elected TO the United States sen
ate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
The Peril of Ford.

Chicago Daily News: Henry Ford
as United States senator voting on
a peace treaty might have his head
full of that old pacifist gable of his.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

AS time rolls on one becomes more and more
convinced that Uncle Sam is not running the
war to please Wilhelm Hohenzollerp,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Further Conceaiment Impossible.
Chicago Daily News: Enemy propa.
ganda has worn so many disgulseS
that 1t has about exhausted the sup
ply and goes around almost naked
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

0SoPACS Oh sale ana
le consumer should pay -
9 appointed by J. F. Elds,
he'd with whatever dan.
~ the food administrator
Consumer Should Pa,
. 1888 to $1.63 per sact /
j 24h pounds or 70 ~ !
pound In less than m m
Packages.
r6lc to 69c per sack Of IA
pounds. or &c per pou ~
In less than mill pact
ages.
$1.65 to $1.72 per sack )
IAN pounds.
INC to TIC per pound
1910 to lac per pound.
&c to 63sc per pound.
Hc 70 1Nc per pound.
shc to Sc per pound.
,SAc to 93zc per pound.
&c to 13hc per pound
14c to 1411c per pound.
1910 to lac per can.
&c to 61ac per can.
lShc to zoe per pound.
zoe to 21hc per pound
1870 to $50 per pound
lShc to 22c per can.
1sc to 71Ac per can.
Sc to soc per can.
18c to 281tc per can.
14hc to 28hc per can.
16hc to 21hc per pound
Tic to zee per pound.
Ice to 2Shc per pound.
$O.13 to $5.67 per case
: .SA per pound.
S2.s5 per 25 pound sack
$ .s5 per 10 pound sack
5 .4S per s pound sack.
33c to SIC per pound.
3Sc to Sec per pound.
29c to Soc per pound.
3 lc to 33Ac per pound
S4c to 35c per pound.
40c per dozen.
Soc per pound
33c to 35c per pound.
&c per pound.
3Oc to 43c per pound.
4Oc to 49c per pound. n
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
u THE IlI!' OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

The following table includes mo ct Of the
gives the prices which both the reta Her and I
each one as determined by the special committe
food administrator for Lee county, and publ
changes are necessary for public INF ormation
Article Retailers Pay
Wheat Flour ........ sll.oo to sl1.s5 per ba
rel OF S24M pound sack
Rye Flour .......... $l22b to $3.50 per bar.
rel OF twenty 10 pound
Barley Flour .$1o65 to $11oo per bar
rel OF eight 241a pound
Corn Flour ......5%c to 6Ac per pound
Rice Flour ........1OAc to 11Ac per poun
Corn Meal ......4Ac to SIC per pound
p peml Hominy ........eAc TO 90, &c per pound
Ground Rolled oats SIC to exc per pound
Edible Corn Starch -.6s to 1oc per pound
MILK, tall cans 1870 to lie per can
Milk. small cans .....4hc to &c per can
Navy Beans ..........14Hsc to 15c per pound
Lima Lima Beans ..........15c to Ice per pound
Unto Beans .........1 Oc to lie per pound
Canned Corn .........13c TO 15hc per can
No. Canned
Tomatoes ...,.... 1910 " Ioc per can
No. Canned
Tomatoes ........ 1Sc to 21c per can
Canned Peas ......... 12hc to zoe per can
Canned Dried Beans .1Oc to zoe per
Raisins ............. .11hc to 15c per pound
Peaches. Dried .... .12c to 1Sc per pound
Prunee .............. lie to zoe per pound
Corn Syrup ......... 1885 to $4.2b per case
Granulated Sugar. bulk $S.17 per 100 pounds
Granulated Sugar, Is
pound sacks 1880. 1887 per 100 pounds.
Granulated Sugar. 10
pound sacks $S.47 per 100 pouncs.
Granulated Sugar.
pound sacks .. 1857 per 100 pounds
Lard, bulk ..... Csc to 29c per pound
Lard small pals -. rs to Bic per pound.
Lard, Substitutes. bulk 24c to Csc per pound
Lard, Substitutes,
small cans ....... &c 20 28A per pound
Cheese .27hc to CSC per pound
Eggs, country .33c to S6c per dozen
In
! pound cartons -. Acc per pound
....... PC to CSC per pound
Potatoes, New .......2Ac per pound
Ham mountaineering to 35c per pound
Bacon .-.............3 2c to 40c per pound
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

When eubman eats and sleeps and jokes and fights
beside the waiter who used to bring his cocktail he learns
TO love that and the love Is mutual And thus In the
armies of those who after the march home
to lasting peace the stamp Of aristocracy will be the
stamp of worth.-Credo Harris.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Muscatine Journal: The creation of
the new students army in the col.
leges of America will exert an infiu.
ence to keep more young men in
school. 1t places a military import.
ance upon college work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Charles City Press: The Canadians
also want to be called Americans.
Then they should come within the
fold. for they cannot consistently
claim this distinction so long as they
pay tribute to a foreign land.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Waterloo Tmes-Tribune: SPANS
latest announcement is that she's
going to remain neutral no matter
what it costs. To nation that
doesn't value it's dignity or the lives
of its people, 1t won't cost much.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Sibley Tribune: Those who heard
Senator Vardaman's lecture in Sibley
are not likely to quarrel with the
presidents condemnation OF him as
unfit for reelection to the senate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26

Iowa City Citizen: The landing OF
United States troops at Vladivostok
lis an indication that our government
has decided to be in with the other
allies in the settlement of the per
picking Russian question
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12
Until Such a Peace
We Have No Choice

A general peace erected upon
such foundations can be discussed.
Until such a peace can be secured
we have no choice but to go on. So
far as we can judge, these principles
that we regard as fundamental are
already everywhere accepted as i'm
perative except among the spokes-
men Of the military and annexa-
zionist party in Germany. If they
have anywhere else been rejected
the objectors have not been suffi-
GENTLY numerous or influential to
make their voices audible. The
tragical circumstance is that this
one party in Germany is apparently
willing and able to send millions of
men to their death to prevent what
all the world now sees to be just.
| would not be a true spokesman
of the people of the United States
if l did not say once more that we
entered this war upon no small oc-
casion, and that we can never turn
back from a course chosen upon
principle.
Our resources are in part mob
ilized now, and we shall not pause
until they are mobilized in their en-
tirety. Cur armies are rapidly 60
ing to the fighting front, and will
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

Reichstag, and a definite enumeration
of the imperial governments reasons
for rejecting the enlightened principles
that MIR. Wilson has laid down. 1t will
strengthen the hand Of all the liberal
elements in Germany and Austria Hun
gary, and it must inevitably widen the
growing breach between the German
autocracy and the peoples of Austria
Hungary, who are growing more and
more restless under the burden of sus-
Germanism.
The address as whole is an express
sion of the highest craftsmanship that
the war has produced, and whatever the
immediate effect may be, one thing is
certain: There can be no assurances
of lasting peace until the principles
that President Wilson has defined are
part of the permanent code of the ma
tions.
"'The Sun"-What ought to impress
the country and the world far more
than any brlliancy Of foil play with
Won Hertling. any tactful use of the
opportunity presented by the war
veal ihSSo W HAUSbI ia ~ uiSAty. HIS
President Wilson's unqualified re-
affirmation of the nations purpose to
fight on forever. if necessary, rather
than to yield one essential of that for
which We are fighting.
There is moral grandeur, there is the
true American spirit in the notification
President Wilson addresses to the rep
resentatives Of that selfish autocracy
and that reckless militarism which now
form the only obstacle to an honorable
settlement bringing back peace to the
world.
"Staats-Zeitung."- THE most signifi-
cant feature Of the Presidents address
before the Congress yesterday is it's
admission that negotiations looking to
the conclusion of peace are already
under way. The very first sentences
of the speech were those selected in
which to convey and emphasize this
fact. The President alludcs in them to
his own earlier statement of war aims,
as we'll as to that of the British Prime
Minister on January 8. and to the Ger
man and Austro-H Hungarian replies to
these Yesterdays address may be ac-
cepted as being in the nature of a
counter reply.
1t is once more the turn of the Cen
trail Powers to move in these long
distance negotiations. 1t is not i'm
New-York tribune., 1918-02-12

probable that they will accept the
principles laid down by the President.
Whether they accept or reject them
however, at least they must reply to
them; and it is to be sincerely hope1
that the course of the negotiations
winch have been SO happily inaugurat
ed Will not be interrupted before they
nave ended in just and lasting peace.
which shall forestall any further shed
dlng OF blood on the battefieds of
Western Europe
German Herold". The extraordinary
speech delivered yesterday by Presi,
dent Wilson before the Congress will
mark the 11th of February as the most
memorable day in The history of the
war. This speech, in fact, signifies a
sincere peace proposal. 1t is a demand
direct to the German Imperial Chancel-
ior, Count Hertling, to give an answer
that might make it possible to start
pva.e WIsa Heeolla1ions. President
slons IN order to reach n reasonable
understanding in the event American
best. W .o"''uered inc
we tnink 1t very probable that on
Sucn basis a peace can be obtained
we oellevc that the German Chancellor
VIII soon answer President Wilson's in.
vltat'on IN manner that will render
me achievement of negotiations nos.
sLole ana remove the necessity Of fur
tner war sacrifices. President Wilson
offers the hand to n peace agreement sot
and we hope that the Central PowerS
VIII not hesitate to accept it.
"Volkszeitung."-W we have al,
ready emphasized with regard to
President Wilson's programme can now wv
be repeated more strongly: The tons .lU W
OF the President of the United Statas
Is more obliging than on former occa'
slons. The highest official Of the TYn;t-
ed States no longer INDUCES in General
reasonings and accusations, but con.
hnes himself to statements of fact
clothed in the most obliginr words
And what is more, he distinctly an.
phaslzes that the points in the nro-
gramme raised in his irst manifesta-
ton of peace aims are not a rigid Nv
alterable dictum, but should onlv he
considered Is provisional delinest;on g
OF principles, subject to eventual mod d.
tication. o"' '"oo'-
The President of the United States
dld not. however, deliver his snssch
only, with the object of making nrora r.''
ganda. These frequent mysterions d;s
cussions recently with Colonel Honsa
rather indicate a now peace movemant ant