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The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-19
IMPROVEMENTS ARE
TOLD N EXCELLENT
OF COMPANY
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
: Company Has Done Much.
During Past Year 1.
MORE WORK IS BEING
"a. ;, PUSHED AND PLANNED
Except For Drought This Years
0utturn Would Have Been
Banner Crop

Except for the drought of last year
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany would have this year harvested
its banner crop, Nue Of 10000 tons or
more. Even now it is indicated the
crop will be In excess of last year s.
This is told in the annual report of
the company, copies of which have been
received from San Francisco. The re
port is an excellent one and shows the
great improvements made, in progress
and planned for the present year.
Last years output Of this company
was 69,sl2 tons and this years. crop
was cOnservatively estimated at So
649 but the returns from the cane
thus far harvested have indicated that
the early figures may be considerably
surpassed
Receipts are Large
Net receipts from sugar last year
were $5,74s,9 1896 and from all sources
Of revenue 1894 1882. Expenditures
were $3.50, 347.77 which included IN
come taxes for 1917 slS3, 662.04 and
n reserve for taxes on the profits of
1917, of $685., 309.66. Dividends of
eighteen percent, 81 800, 900 were paid
during the year and there was carried
forward 10 profit and loss $464 ,392:O5.
The permanent improvement account
has been increased over last year by
&I,977; 273.16
To make good the loss of young
cane and rattoons killed by the drought
when rains came in November, much
replantipg was done and for this pur-
pose more than $4,000 bags of seed
were used. After the setting in of
winter weather much wedding had to
be done and ct the present time the
cane has responded spleBdidly to the
rains and fairly good results from the
1919 crop are expected. Because of
water shortage not an acre was plant
ed in October and planting was al
most at standstill in August and
September
Last Years improvements
Among the improvements treated in
the report is the Waiale reservoir
and ditch which will give an added
storage capacity and will be of great
value in holding the storm water from
Waihee stream. This reservoir Is now
in use as is the Haiku ditch where
work was started in June, 1915. The
Koolau ditch will be completed during
the present year.
Last year the camp was largely re-
modelled and los laborers' cottages were
built and the new Office building was
completed a substantial concrete, fire.
proof structure.
The statement of 1917 Improvements
The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-19

f. o
(Cuban) France, a95 Italy, 81.
With freight
high when will be shipped and returns
substantial the 1919 crop
0 O SO
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
MERCY MUNITIONS
NEEDED IN TRENCHES
Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, Fight
ing Author, Makes Stirring
Appeal for 7. w. C. A.

Lieut.. Coningsby Dawson, who wrote
Garry On" says Of the war work
which the Y. w. c. A. is doing: "YOu
at home cannot fight with your lives,
but you can fight with your mercy.
The Y. w. G. A. Is offering you just
this chance. 1t garrisOns the womens
support trenches, which lie behind the
mems. 1t asks you to supply them
with munitions of mercy that they
may be passed on to US. We need
such supplies badly. Give generously
that we may the sooner defeat the
Hun"
What Lieut.. Dawson says of the Y.
w. G. A. he might have said of all the
national organizations which are COM
ing together for the biggest financial
campaign that organizations have ever
headed. All the $17O,5OO,OOO to be
raised by the seven great national or
ganizatlOns the week of November IL
will be used to garrison and supply
the support trenches behind the lines.
They are the Y. NJ. c. A., the Y. w.
G. A., the National Catholic War Coun-
Gil, Jewish Welfare Board, American
Library Association, War Camps Com
munity Service and Salvation Army.
American girls in various uniforms
mingle strangely with picturesque
Brittany costumes in France. The
American Y. w. G. A. has a hostess
house in Brittany where the Signal
Corps women live and a hut where
the nurses spend their free time Both
these centers are fitted with many OF
the comforts and conveniences OF
home.
'At a tea given at the nurses hut
one Saturday afternoon" writes Miss
Mabel Warner, of Salina, Kansas, Y
w. G. A. worker there, "there was al
odd gathering-One admiral, a bishop
| a Presbyterian minister, a Roman
I Catholic priest, q doctor, an ensign
one civilian and myself"
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
First Victory Boys Work.

"Say,, I'm VIA to you, all right" a
Western Union messenger boy whis-
pered to one of the directors of the
United War Work Campaign in the
New York headquarters. The direc-
tors desk had only just been moved
in and the work of the big drive had
hardly begun.
'Tm onto your stunt" the boy went
on as he swung a grimy fist over the
desk; you're gOin' to give US fellows
that amt old enough to go to war a
chance to earn an give to back up a
fighter an help win the war. Listen ;
I'm in on this"
The crumpled S5 bill he dropped on
the desk made him the first of "a mil
lion boys behind q million fighters
who are to be lined up as Victory Boys
during the week of the drive.
There will be a division of Victory
Girls, too, and every boy and every
girl enrolled will have to earn every
dollar he or she gives to the war work
fund.
Smyrna times., 1918-10-30
SERVICE THAT WINS
The SOLDIER HEART
Fred LockIey, Y. M. C. A., Tells Of
the Gratitude of the Boys
at the Front.

"One Of the discoveries men are
making over here" Fred LOckley, of
the Y. NJ. G. A. and of Portland, Ore
gOn, writes from London, 'is that
more pleasure can be had out of CIV
ing than getting. Many a man who
has spent money freely in the old days
to buy pleasure is finding that he gets
more pleasure over here by the spend
ing of ones self in the service of others.
"a few months ago / went out with
a fellow Y. NJ G. A. secretary to hunt
up Out-Of-the-way detachments of
troops. A stable guard here, a ma
chine gun company there, a platoon
somewhere else. We carried our
goods in an automobile. We had
plenty of writing paper and envelopes
for free distribution, and chocolate,
cookies, chewing tobacco and smoking
tobacco, cigarettes razor blades,
tooth paste and things of that kind for
sale. American war service workers
were busy everywhere. We found Sal
vatiOn Army lassies making dOughnuts
for the boys and X. of c. secretaries
giving help. Books furnished by the
American Library Association were to
be seen on all sides.
Hearing firing at a distance, we
drove down the road and found a
score or so of men at machine gun
practice. The officer gave the men
half an hour recess to buy goods.
"At another place we came in sight
of a lieutenant drilling a platoon.
said to the lieutenant: How soon be
fore you dismiss the company? We
have Y. NJ. G. A. goods for sale
"He said: Right now. Sergeant
dismiss the companyr
"And ten seconds later the compan!
was in line waiting to buy goods from
our travelling " Grateful is no nam,
for it, The men can't do enough t.
show their gratitude"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
Late Market Quotations

crushed. s1o.25; powdered, ssli
granulated, $500
| Coffee Rio No. on spot, 10Sc. 4
Tallow. firm. City. 19c; specIIsl
1890.
/ Hay. easy. No. j, s2.ooG2.1O; No
IS s1.65@1.sO: clover. s1.65g1s5
Dressed poultry, quiet. Chickens
2S@6oc; fowls, 25@351hc; ducks, At
Live poultry, firm. Geese, 25G26S
ducks, 3O@32c; fowls, 35GS7c; tlr
keys. Doc; ROSTERS. 26c; chickens
! S6@37c.
Cheese steady. State milk common
to special, 2S1s@331sc: skins com
mon to specials, S@251ac. .
Butter, steady; receipts, lo'saa
Creamery extras, 5SAsG59c; daiis
tubs, 47@5T1sc; imitation creane'
flrsts, 45@46c. -,
Eggs. quiet; receipts. 1902. Near
by white fancy, S49SSc; nearby mif
ed fancy, 5O@58c; fresh, 529bSc.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. - Butter
Creamery extras, CSC; creamei,
standards, 55c; dairy extras 'Vg
SIC; dairy firsts. 521s @541sc. az,
Eggs-Ordinary firsts 4Ssg4s'
firsts, 4Sk@49hc. Van,
Cheese 34@341sc; 1ouN'
Americas, 35k@35 mi,
Potatoes-Receipts, 4S cars. W.
consin and Minnesota, per e'7
$1.60@2.00. o.,aon.
Live poultry - Fowls, s2h or. ,.,
ducks, csc; geese. 10000; spi'A'
chickens, 27c; turkeys, 3oc'
Rye and Barley.
CHICAGO, Oct 1s.-Rye-No'
Nominal.
Barley-s0c@$1.o1.
$700@10.oo.
-Clover-Nominal.
New York Money Market
NEW YORK, Oct 1s.-Bar sii'
New York, $1.01h. -.
Demand sterling, $4.75 7-lo'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

Notice 10 the qualified voters of the
City OF keokuk, Iowa:
The registers OF election OF the
City of keokuk, Iowa, will be in con-
slant attendance at the places herein
designated from eight (S) o'clock a.
IN. until p. m, Thursday, October
"a, Friday, October 20, and Saturday.
November z, 1918, for the purpose OF
registering all qualified voters for the
general election TO be held on Tues
uay, November 5, 1918.
Said registers will also be in SEES
sion at the same places on said Sat
urday, November 2, 1918, from eight
CD O'Clock a. N. until nine go o'clock
p. M for the purpose of revising,
correcting and compiling the regis
ira tons.
First precinct-Sfxth street engine
house.
Second precinct - Edward W.
Moores shoe shop, No. 26 South
Fifth street.
Third precinct-Leake Printing Co.
office. No. sol Main street.
Fourth precinct-West Keokuk en-
CINE house.
Fifth precinct-Camp's drug store
Sixth precinct-Ewers cigar store,
1920 Main street.
Seventh precinct-Jos. SittIer's
grocery store, 1928 Main street,
Said registers will be in attend
ance on election day, Tuesday, No
vember 5, 1918, at the same places
above mentioned during all the hours
that the polls are required to be
open, for the purpose of granting Ger
tihCates of registration to legal
voters, who were absent from the
city during all of the days fixed for
registration, or to foreigners who
may have received their final papers
since the last preceding day for
registration, or to any person whose
name was on the preceding SATURDAY.
and in the absence of such person
stricken from registration, and who
on said day of election shall prov,
to the satisfaction of said register!
that he is a lawfully qualified electo
OF said voting precinct.
Every voter and every person VIII
Will be voter on election day l
notified to present himself for regis
tration in the proper precinct and Of
the dates above mentioned, else h
VIII be debarred the privilege of vol
ing at said election.
Given under my hand this 18th da-
OF October. A. D. 1918.
ED. S. LOTION. Mayor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

The river will remain nearly sta
tionary or fall slightly from Musca-
tine to Warsaw during the next forty
eight hours.
Weather Forecast.
For Keokuk and vicinity, Showers
tonight and probably Sunday.
For Iowa: Unsettled, with prob
ably showers tonight and In east
portion Sunday; cooler in west por-
ton tonight.
For Missouri: Showers tonight,
with probably clearing Sunday morn
ing; cooler in west portion tonight.
For Illinois: Unsettled tonight and
Sunday; probably showers: slightly
warmer in northwest portion.
Weather Conditions.
The weather is unsettled in the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

1850: cows, $7.5o@12.5o; stockers
and feeders, $8.5o@12.00; calves
S7.75917.25: Texas steers, $4,000
ITO; COWS and heifers, s7.50@15 90
Hog receipts, $500; market steady
Mixed and butchers, $1T0O@17.75;
good to heavy, s17.60@,17.S5; rough,
S15.25@15.50; light, s16750I7.5O;
pigs. $14.25@1575; bulk, $1,000
1915.
Sheep receipts, 600; market steady.
Ewes, Sl1.00@12.00; lambs, $4,000
1915; Gamers and choppers, $4,000
800.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 19-Cattle
receipts, 5000 head; market steady.
Steers, s7.50@1915; cows and heif-
ers, S5.50@12.50; stockers and feed
ers. s6.00@13.Oo; calves, s600@1250.
Hog receipts, 1900 head; market
10c lower. Bulk. s16.75@17.40; heavy,
$17.00@17.60; medium, s16.75@1750;
light. s16.5o@174o.
Sheep-Market steady. Lambs,
$13.50@15.40; ewes, $800@950;
wethers, s6.00@1S.00.
Omaha Live Stock
OMAHA, Neb.. Oct 10. Cattle
Receipts, ESQ head. Market steady.
Steers, s9.00@1825: cows and heff-
ers. s5.50@11.00; stockers and feed
ers, $4,000 1880; calves s6.00@1300;
bulls and stays, s7.50@9.50.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 head. Mar
ket 10 to Csc lower. Bulk, $16.75@
1710; top, $3.50.
Sheep-Receipts, 100 head. Mar
ket steady. Yearlings, $900@11. 90;
wethers, Ss.00@9.5O; lambs, $1o.50@
1875; ewes, s6.0o@S.0O.
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, Oct 1e.-E1our, dull,
unchanged.
Pork, easy Mess, $4o.0G@41.0o
Lard, unsettled Middle west spot,
$25. 925.60.
Sugar raw, dull. Centrifugal test,
1928
Refined. dull Cut loaf, $1,000;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
INFLUENZA IS
UNDER CONTROL
comparatively Small Number OF Gases
Reported In keokuk in Ratio
to Population Of the
City.
HAMILTON DOES WELL
Some Complaints Of Some Factories
Here Not Causing Sufficient
Preventive Measures
to be Enforced.

A score of cases of influenza re
ported to the mayor in the twenty
four hours ending at 10 o'clock to.
day brings the grand total of cases
in Keokuk UP to the even hundred
mark.
The patients are all in seventy-nfne
homes, several cases occurring IN the
same family in many instances TO
swell the total without practically In
creasing the danger Of transmission
of the disease.
In answer to request from Gen
eral Rupert Blue, Mayor Lotion
wrote the head of the public health
service, at Washington, full report
of the conditions here, including the
number of cases, the manner In
which the epidemic has been sue
cessfully combated from the start,
and clippings of The Gate City daily
news reports as the easiest way to
tell General Blue exactly all about
Keokuk's statas in the influenza fight
A Few Complaints Filed.
The public interest is most about
prevention here now. People con-
stantly telephone the mayor Ior ad-
vice and to report occurrences they
think dangerous to tn public health.
A complaint which interested the
board Of health was one to the, effect
that some factories employing num-
Der of men, or girls in one case, nave
not put into effect the spraying OF
all noses and throats every few
hours, as most Of them are doing. IL
is hoped that every factory and store
in town will pay special attention to
this disinfecting OF its employees.
The showers forecast by the
weather bureau, with the drizzling
rain that began soon after noon, Is
said by physicians to be state OF
weather conducive to people con-
tracing influenza. They advise keep
ing perfectly dry, especially the feet,
and rs warm as possible.
Hamilton Is Doing Well.
Hamilton is doing remarkably well
in these influenza times. It has only
fifteen cases in eight homes, and it
is applying precautionary measures
10 the limit
BARRIERS there wear gauze face
masks while at work.
Store clerks all make a point OF
not talking to people, face to face,
and have been trained to converse
at a sort of obliaue angle and at a
greater distance than leaning over
I the counter toward the customer.
This was made universal by organ
lied intention.
Everybody in Hamilton seems to be
a committee on prevention Of inlu-
enZa, and the effect of all this is
seen in the small number of cases
there-about one to Ism of population
the same as in Keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

Chicago Cash Grain.
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.-Wheat-No. 3
spring. s2.19.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, s1.52@1.54;
No. 8 yellow, s1.42@1.45; No 4 vel
low, $1.30@1.35; No. 5 yellow, SIPS;
No. 6 yellow, $1.05@1.R.
Oats-No. 8 white, 67@6Skc;
standard, 6Sk @69c.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. Hogs-Re-
ceipts. 1880 head. Market lower.
Butchers, s17.25 a 1915; packing,
s15.25@1700; light, s1675617.90;
pigs, s1450@15.25; roughs. $4,000
1928.
Cattle Receipts, $500 head. Mar
ket steady. Beeves, $9.000194O;
butchers stock, s6650130O; Gamers
and cutters. s5756675; stockers
and feeders, s7.0o@12.50; COWS, s6.65
@13.00; calves. s15.50@16.00.
Sheep-Recefpts, 1900 head. Mar
ket steady. Wool lambs, sS.00@15. 90;
ewes, s3.50@16.00.
ST. Louis Live Stock
EAST ST. LOUIS, H., Oct 49,
Cattle receipts, 1900; market steady.
Native beef steers, s11.5O6ds.25;
yearling steers and heifers, $500
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
Comes Here to Federal Court to En-
force the Decree Of State Board
Of Consultation
Rates.
SUIT Is BEFORE WADE
Bill Of Complaint Sets Up That CITY
Council seeks to Maintain the
Rates Of Franchise, Now
Too Low.

After the city OF Fort Madison re-
fused to abide by the decision OF the
state board of Cancellation appointed
at the suggestion OF Judge Wade TO
decide public untility rate disputes,
the Fort Madison Gas company has
| fled suit in the federal court here
| to prevent the council Of the other
county seat from compelling 1t 10
charge the present franchise rates.
The franchise rate is S1.16 net and
| the state board found that $l.66 net
| is proper rate now.
| The complaint filed before Judge
Wade's court sets out the above facts
and alleges that the loss was $1,614
during the first half of the year 1918.
with worse financial conditions since
and that the city is seeking to take
the property without due process or
Jaw.
One Sided Negotiations.
Negotiations between the company
and city for a raise of rates began
in January, 1917, but never reached
anything very definite. When the
state board of Cancellation met there
to consider the matter, the city coun-
Gil refused to appear before it. The
board expert made his report. and
the board granted the company an in
crease of fifty cents per thousand
feet.
The company says 1t has 2,150 GUS
toners, and the difference in rate
will amount to about $4,000 per
annum in its income account
First Case Decided by Court
The decision by the state board
was the first one announced by it
The board members went to Fort
Madison the afternoon Of the day
they held the final hearing here OF
the Keokuk gas rate case, but the
decision in the keokuk case has not
been received
At the request Of Judge Wade, last
summer. the Iowa public utility COM
panies and the city governments met
In joint session and selected five men
to act as board to adjust all rate
disputes in the state. Both sides
agreed to abide by the decisions OF
this board of Cancellation to avoid
congesting the federal courts with
many suits. The board has about
seventy cases on its docket This
suit of today in the United States
court here is the latest move of the
Fort Madison Gas company.
Seeks to Raise Franchise Rates.
The bill OF complaint says the
present franchise was issued August
Is, 1915, giving certain gas rates
which were just rates at the time.
The gas company now protests that
it is necessary to raise the price Of
gas owing to increased cost of pro
duction.
The city council has held them to
the rates as provided by the fran
chise granted three years ago, it is
despite the ruling of the
state board. The gas company now
asks for writ of injunction restrain
ing the council from enforcing the
ordinance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

northern districts, with showers from
the Missouri valley to the upper Mis-
sissippi, and change in temperature
is slight
An area OF high pressure. with
somewhat cooler weather, is follow
ing from the extreme northwest.
Local Observations.
Oct. Bar. Tenn. Wind. W'th'r
1s, p. m. ..30.16 SO NE Cloudy
10. s a. m 30.14 81 e Cloudy
Mean temperature yesterday, Sc;
highest, 81; lowest, 81; lowest last
night, 81.
FRED 2. GOSEwISCH.
Observer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
Railway Center Captured.

LONDON, Oct. IS tdelayed) Brit
ish and American troops, continuing
their attack between LIE Cateau and
Bohain, have captured the important
railway center of Wassigny, Field
Marshal Haig reported. Fighting is
still going on in that region.
Further progress was made on the
whole front from the North sea to
the Sensee river. Additional adj
vances of more than five miles were
made between Lille and Douai. The
British captured Tourcoing and Rou-
baix and passed eastward OF those
cities. Occupation of Douai was COM
pleted.
"Anglo-American troops continued
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

(. Department OF Agriculture,
Weather Bureau.I
River RuiIatin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

teen points in the message OF
President Wilson to congress OF
January 8, 1918. and the four
points contained in President
Wilson'S address on February IL,
1918, serve as the foundation and
in which the viewpoints declared
by President Wilson in his adj
dress of September 81, 1913, will
also be taken into account"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

LONDON. Oct 19.-Marshal Foch
a few days ago told Field Marshal
Haig that 1t was the British break
through the Hindenburg line that
brought about the German peace
offer, the London correspondent OF
the Manchester Guardian says he
learns Indirectly. but In q most I'M
questionable way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
SUGAR Hoarder Penalized.

Emma Marsh, wife Of a goveriin. "a
employee at Jeffersonville' mo- .ooJ
mitted to John Mcdonald, federal is s,,
administrator for Floyd county
she had purchased 70 pounds OIL su
for a family of four. and as coH' !,
ouence she was permitted to pay
the Red Cross $25. Gus F. hieiia .ss,
described by Mr.. Mcdonald as a. Il
proud" of having bought Ito pouuus "a
sugar at one time, was permitle'
pay S15 TO the Red Cross
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19


tributions of 100000 francs Young
girls were. arrested on trumped up
charges. and outraged in prison.
Bombed by American Planes.
by Frank ]. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
IN FRANCE. Oct. Is (night) In
the first ideal day for flying in a
fortnight, a big fleet of American
planes bombed German concentra-
ton centers. There were numerous
combats and three enemy machines
were brought down inside the Ger
man lines. Observation planes drop
ped thousands OF copies Of President
Wilson's latest note to Germany De-
hind the enemy front
= There are indications that since
the notwithstanding line was
broken, the main body OF Germans
are retiring upon other defenses In
the rear. leaving only machine gun
outposts.
Bantheville wood was patroIled
without serious opposition. Along
the Mouse, patrols reported the
Brieulles region only occupied In
slight force by the Germans The
Boches are throwing in engineers
and minewerfer companies and Rus
sian workers.
The Americans retired slightly
north Of Grandpre today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19

Raisin bread is an excelle ,,cses
stitute for cake in children iuA
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-19
TWO HUNDRED MILE
FRONT HAMMERED
ICON inued from rage L.

November. 1914, 1t had to pay CON
tributions of 100000 francs Young
girls were. arrested on trumped up
charges, and outraged in prison.