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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-15
CROCERS' PRICES HIGH,
SAYS BUREAU OF MARKETS
Sugar Should BE Sold ut D1a and
Twelve Pounds of Flour
ut 80 Cents.
WHAT CONSUMERS SHOULD PAY
Commodities Listed With the Advice
That Those Who Charge More BE
ported to Administration.
Food plcntiful-PriCcS Lower.

AN investigation by the Federal
food administrations" declares the Ru-
:cau Of Markets, has disclosed the
ftci that some merchants are Charr
ing 10 cents for sugar and % cents
fo- twelve pound bags OF flour. These
prices are excessive. The prices in the
following list arc the highest that are
port instances where they have been
charged more. In such instances. the
food administration viii sec that the
price Of these two commodities are
reduced
The Investigation also showed that.
while the majority OF EroccrS were
making their prices conform t. tho list.
other. were charging more. Whcrc this
IS the case. consumers are advised by
tn" food administrator to patronize
those stores that keep their prices
within The range given by the bureau.
Tines" prices IRE considered by the
food administration to be fair and
equitable for the articles listed They
arc quoted on goods OF standard weight
and quality. Prices on low grade.
poor quality and short weight should
be cheaper it is contcndcd
This last statement is in reference
20 the criticisms rcCcntly made in re-
gard TO the prices furnished weekly
hy tn" administration. II was said
mat these prices were much higher
than those charged to the consumer
by tho city merchants
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-15
no INCREASE. ~ PRICES
SEVERAL, ITEMS n u-,-n

The prices Of a number Of articles
on th!S weeks list ar" somewhat lower
no increase in any Of tn. ronnndi'
ties listed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-23

No goods given out on approva
if goods are not satisfactory.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
SPURIOUS OLIVE OIL BANNED.

Washington Post: Food inspectors
have been instructed by the officials
In charge of the enforcement of the
federal food and drugs act to inspect
interstate shipments of olive oil to
prevent the sale in interstate COM
merce of cheaper vegetable oils under
the name of olive oil. Very little
olive oil is now being imported, say
the officials, and the domestic olive
oil is not sufficient to supply the de-
mand.,
The abnormally high price of gen.
uine olive oil has tempted unscrupu-
lous dealers to mix cheaper yege-
table oils with little genuine olive
oil and to sell the mixture labeled as
olive oil. Cottonseed oil, corn oil and
soy bean Oil are the principal substi-
tutes used.
Several seizures have been made
and number of prosecutions are
now pending in the federal courts as
the result of finding in interstate COM
merce products labeled "olive oil"
which upon analysis were found TO
consist largely of cottonseed oil. Cot
tonseed. corn and soy bean oils are
palatable oils which are not injuri.
GUS to health, and there Is no objec-
ton to their sale as food when prop
erly labeled, say the officials. Their
sale as olive oil, however, is a fraud
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
CLEAN INSIDE AND OUT.

There is proverbial close relationship be-
tween cleanliness and goodness, and we have
it on such eminent authority as John Wesley
that one is near second to the other In max
ing life worth while It seems to be conceded
that never has the world beheld an army
cleaner morally and with higher ideals than
ours which is now in France The boys are so
temperate and act with such propriety that the
people regard them more like sons than strang-
ers and little children whom they pet and
fondle follow them about in droves. AS for
their physical cleanliness, that is evident from
recent report of the war department that
forty-two Million six hundred and twenty-four
thousand pounds of soap had been sent them
in the last year, which figures out to three or
four pounds apiece month. The prisoners
they take are by contrast an unwashed crowd,
for soap is a luxury in Germany where more
pressing uses are found for fat than dermal
depuration. But our boys are clean outside and
in, and the only delinquency with which they
are credited is tendency to malediction and a
liberal use of emphasis words which have less
polish than force.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

themselves in exacting the uttermost penny
and those whose nature is not to do so are borne
along hopelessly on the currents OF trace
Without government regulation competition
would not have kept the price of sugar as low
as it u.s. But an incidental result of commodity
price-fixing has been that dealers finding their
profits on one article reduced have sought to
get even by putting up prices on other com
modities, the cost of which to them had not adj
vanced. Thus one price drags another up; one
exaction produces more; one consclenceless
dealer encourages many to profteer
Events thus conspire to make us look ike
a people intent on selfish interests; ana IL
must be admitted that we have shown some-'
thing less than a spirit of universal self sacrl-
flee that would have exalted us in the eyes OF
the world. We have not risen fully to hlgn
occasion We have not all of us cheerfuliy
shouldered our share of the burden, but have
been well content that others should. Yet, all
in all, the heart of the masses. of our people IS
right.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
GLASS OF SALTS #
YOURk|ONEYSH URl
Eat Less Meat II You Feel 5aekaehy
or Have Bladder
Trouble.

Meat forms uric acid which ef
cites and overworks the kidneys u
their efforts to filter 1t from the s!s
tenn. Regular eaters of meat must nusn
the kidneys occasionally. You must le
lieve them like you relieve yo..
bowels; removing all the acids, wasI'
and poison, else you feel dull 1nisei,
in the kidney region, sharp pains u
the back or sick headache, dizzinesss
your stomach sours, toungue Is coaIea
and when the weather Is oao w.,
have rheumatic twinges Inc ,.,
is cloudy, full of sediment; the cla 70,
nels often get frritated, opliglns iS
to get up two or three times OURS
the night. Id.
To neutralize these Irritating a'..s
and flush off the body's ur1nous Na s,.,
get about four ounces OF Jad s
from any pharmacy; take a ta so,.
spoonful in glass of water rorr
breakfast for a few days ana sSsr
kidneys will then act fine and bla n,o,,
disorders disappear. This lan,s
salts is made from the acid Oh s. .shis
and lemon Juice, combined with ii.4 !,
and has been used for generauon,o vs
clean and stimulate sluggish hlu ali,
and stop bladder irritation. 1au los
fs inexpensive: harmless and HAT -r.ter
delightful effervescent lln. and
drink. which millions Qf inen void
women take now and then: tnus IN
ing serious kidney and Diauus
eases.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
"sHocK sNEAKs OF THE WAR"

Lucius, B. Swift is thus quoted in Golfers:
tThe German socialist leaders are the shock
sneaks of the war; This has picturesque
appositeness to the situation. There can be no
doubt of the shock nor of the appropriateness
of the term sneak. But Of Germanys ability to
use her socialist fgureheads as shock absorbers
there is great doubt Honest socialism of the
John Spargo and Charles Edward Russell sort
has no more faith in German socialism than
have the rest of us. Allied labor is open in
declaration of utter distrust of the German
socialists There is no class interest to bring
about commerce between German socialists and
those of allied nations. The socialists of Ger
many are held to be Germans as completely
implicated in that peoples allegiance to the
kaiser's war plans any part of the German
nation. They may as the war plan breaks
down seek to revert to status as members of
world family of theorists, but their practices
will ostracise them. The hypocrite in high
places promises little means of safety to
Raiserism.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

State of Iowa, Lee County, ss.-In
the District Court of said County,
at Keoku6, November term, 1918
Dana Oliphant. plaintiff, versus
Leonard l.. Oliphant, defendant
Original Notice.
To the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby notified that a
petition is now on file in the clerks
office of the district court aforesaid.
at Keokuk, in behalf of the above
named plaintiff, against you and
claiming a decree divorcing plaintiff
and defendant from the bonds Of
matrimony on the ground that the
defendant, without reasonable cause,
wilfully deserted the plaintiff on or
about the twenty-fifth day of July,
1912, and has without reasonable
cause absented himself ever since;
and plaintiff also claims the custody
of their children. Frances Vera and
Mary Easla, and general equitable
relief.
And unless you appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second
day OF the next regular November,
1918 term of said court, to be begun
and holden at Keokuk on the eigh-
teenth day of November, A. D. 1918,
default will be entered against you
and judgment rendered thereon as
prayed for in said petition.
HOLLINGSWORTH & BLOOD,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
Every delay is too long to one who is in
hurry-Seneca.
PROFITS AND PRICES.

Germany has heretofore and habltually
voiced a pretended contemptous dlsdaln OF this
country as nation of money grubbers and
grabbers wholly intent on profits and too spirit
less to fight. She probably now knows that she
misiudged our fighting spirit and ability, and
her other indictment of nation of sor-
did profteers has been conclusively answered
{ by our sacrifices to finance the war and our
splendid generosity in succorng the Belgians
and other peoples she was deliberately starving
to death.
y AS matter of fact, if there is any people
wholly bent on money making by every I'M
scrupulous means it is the Germans. Their
national instinct and policy is one of agrandize-
ment and greed. They began the war with
that object and their soldiers from the crown
Iprince up to the most simple minded thievish
peasant have laid felonious hands on every
thing they could steal and carry away.
/ Nevertheless it cannot he denied that a ma
fionaI failing of ours as brought out by this war
is willingness widely evidenced in almost ev-
erv line of business to raise prices unwarrantably
and mulct consumers unblushingly or on spe-
icious pleas. We see it in our city. We
hear of it everywhere. There is a concience-
less element in our commercial life fierce to fat
ten on the necessities of nation at war Of
course the tendency of events is to carry all
prices up. War makes one commodity scarce
and the price scars People who have to buy
1T charge more for what they have to sell
Others follow their lead All prices climb
Higher wages are demanded. Dealers justify
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
sHERIFF's SALE.
State Of Iowa, Lee County-ss

State OF Iowa, Lee County-ss.
BY virtue of general execution tc
me directed. issued by the Clerk oil
the District Court of said County
against estate of Abraham Newbery
l, John c. Scott, Sheriff, will sell a
the highest bidder, at the front Of
the Court House, in Keokuk, Lee
County. Iowa, on the Goth day Of No
vember. A. D. 1918, between The
hours of o'clock a. M. and O'Clock
p. M, commencing at O'Clock p. N.
of said day the following property,
to-wit:
The Southeast Quarter (A) of the
Northeast Quarter (A) of Sectior
Five (5), Range Six (6), TOWNSHIP
Sixty-six (66) in Lee County, Iowa
and to be sold by order Of Court t.
satisfy said writ of execution.
JOHN C. SCOTT,
Sheriff of Lee County
BY w. s. Montgomery, Deputy.
Keokuk, Iowa, Oct. Is, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
PrussIan Doctrine.

New York World: 1--WE are paying
the price Of unpreparedness." said Mr..
Roosevelt in Liberty loan speech at
Columbus what we want to do IS
to remain prepared so no nation Will
dare look cross-eyed at u.s." That Is
not American doctrine. 1t Is Prussian
doctrine That is the way the kaiser
has been talking for thirty years. The
supreme ambition of German auto
cracy was to create such a state OF
complete military preparedness that
mo nation will dare look cross-eyed
at u.s." Everybody knows the conse-
quences. Everybody knows the cost in
blood and treasure and human suffer-
ing of this junker creed, which Theo-
dore Roosevelt is now preaching as
an example to the American people.
What counsel Of folly and worse
than follyl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE

PEACE.
They cry for peace who never saw the red,
Warm flowing blood soldiers bled,
Whose fabby limbs have yet to feel
The tearing thrust of pagan steel
They cry for peace!
They cry for peace whose eyes shall never scan
The tortured remnants of wounded man,
Whose sluggish minds can never know
The covering thing that dealt the blow
They cry for peace!
They cry for peace who have not seen the curse,
The Burning Cross the Child the Church, the Nurse
Their bodies have not borne the YOKE
And yet of all who live, they spoke
And cried for peace!
They CRY for peace while here our soldiers stand
Ipon the sacred soil of France beloved land,
And thunder while they fight and fall,
"Yanks! Give them hell" till comes our call
OF Victory-and Peace!
H T s., in the Stars and Btripes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

all agreed that there can be no peace obtained
by any bargain compromise with the govern
central empires, because have dealt with
them already them deal with other govern
parties to this struggle, at BrestLtovsk
and Bucharest. They convinced that they are
without Intend JUSTICE they observe no
covenants accept principle but force and their own
interest We cannot come terms with them. They
have made it impossible The German people must oy
this time that cannot accept the Woro
Of those who forced this upon We do not think
the thoughts speak the language OF agree
ment-President Woodrow Wilson, September Twenty
seventh, 1913
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
eATLINe AND HIS CREATION.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Just CEN
fury ago man who very greatly in
creased the destructiveness of mod
ern warfare was born in North Caro-
lima. This was Richard Judson Cat
ling, the inventor of the machine gun
that bears his name. The Calling
gun has largely been superseded by
improved machine guns of the same
general type, but it was the parent
arm of its highly destructive class. ,
Gatling's father was a cotton plant
er with taste for mechanics. and
young Richard inherited his liking.
He was a rolling stone in business
activities. by turns a teacher. a mer-
chant, manufacturer. a physician.
Although he never practiced medi-
cine, he was invariably callel DR.. Cat
ling, his degree coming from the Ohio
Medical college at Cincinnati in 1850.
Even while pursuing his studies he
invented hemp breaking machine Of
great value. In 1S57She produced the
first steam plow. Then he turned his
attention to firearms and was busy
with new devices when the civil war
broke out. He was living in Indian
apolis at the time, and in 1861, stimu-
lated, no doubt. by the stirring events
about him, he hurriedly developed the
rapid fire machine gun which was
thereafter to bear his name. In 1862
he was ready to offer for government
tests perfected gun--"a cluster of
barrels which, being reyolved by a
crank, are automatically loaded and
fired''-that would discharge $50
shots a minute. ~
So many were the red-tape delays
that the government failed to adopt
the Calling gun until the war was
practically oper.
The doctor greatly improved his
device in 1865, and with the endorse
ment Of the United States the sue
cess of his invention was assured. 1t
was used to small extent by the
French in the Franco-German war,
1870-1S71, and later was adopted by
nearly all the nations.
The first Calling gun to reach
Cleveland came in 1877 when the
Cleveland Calling Gun battery was
founded. The company, one OF the
very first of its character in the ma
ton, existed for many years and de-
veloped high degree of efficiency.
Dr. Calling lived to be eighty-five,
dying in New York city in 1903.
The Calling gun was largely sup
planted by the United States ord
department some ten years
ago, newer and lighter devices taking
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
Who's the STRANGER,

Who's the stranger, mother, dear,
LOOK, he knows us-ain't he queeri
flush. my own. don't talk SO wild
He's your father, dearest child"
He's my father? No such thingl
rather died away last spring"
Father didn't die you dub,
Father Joined golfing club.
But they've closed the club, so he
Has no place to go, you see
No place left for him to roam
That is why he's coming home.
Kiss him-he won't bite you, child;
All them golfing guys look Wild
The Neighbor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
Berwick Foraets TIo Wars.

One town in the British isles is,
technically, still at peace with the
central powers. 1t is Berwick-on-
Tweed, city on the North sea coast,
half in England, half in Scotland,
through which runs the boundary
line of the River Tweed.
Under the British constitution, Ber-
wick must issue a separate declara-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

ton when the British government an
nounces hostilities. 1t has. just been
discovered that Berwick was over
looked in the declaration OF Aug. 4,
1914. At the same time it was real
lied that Berwick is technically still
at war with Russia having forgotten
to proclaim peace at the end of the
Crimean war In 1856.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

its place, but there are many Of M
Gatlings still in service.
In recent review of the Francs
German war the writer says:
Had the French been able IN b,ir,
into action liberal number of Gas
ling guns the seemingly irresistjbl.
advances might have been STAYED
and the progress of the victors great
ly retarded, IL not altogether stonnad
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Probably where Won Hindenburg made the
big mistake was in thinking that American
soldiers were watchful walters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Camphor, quinine and aspirin are very ac4
tive, says drug trade journal. But so are the
pestiferous influenza bugs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
SHORTAGE OF COPPER.

There have been reports of failing reserve
of copper, but nothing looking to measures in
dicating a shortage has been made public by
the government. What the people have known
about it came from refusal of telephone COM
panies to install instruments in homes and of
fees, the excuse being that the government has
Communicated all the wire. Out side of this,
comes a report from the Michigan copper dis
trict that the output from its mines will be less
than seventy per cent of normal for the calen-
dar year. Shortage of labor is given as the
cause, and the record of the district in sending
men to the front is appended as evidence. A
similar shortage is said to exist all through the
mining districts of the country; and Judging
from lessened labor in coal production, this is
not surprising. Germany has been Selling
copper for two years and the supply in Italy
and France is below comfortable limits. More
than ever do we see the need of care in the
movement Of labor here, and the shortage of
the copper output is only one of many warnings.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Des Moines Register: Times have
changed greatly. The Huns are now
satisfied at the end of busy day if
nothing happened to prevent their re-
treat according to plan"
Waterloo Courier: The herr kaiser
knees, begging the Almighty to save
his crown and dynasty. Never mind
the disillusioned German people will
attend to the Hohenzollern dynasty
one of these days in regular fashion.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Hohen-
zollern virus has affected the entire
nation. The German people are as
tricky as their rulers-the souls of
murdered thousands, soldiers and
civilians, will vouch for that.
Charles City Press: Has anybody
heard of the crown prince lately?
Probably he has escaped into neutral
territory disguised as perfect lady.
Eagle Grove Eagle: There is much
demand in this country that the war
continue until German cities are de-
stroyed as those of Belgium and
France have been, desire that Ger
many is made to feel something of
the ruthless destruction she has
wrought upon the cities and people
of those countries.
Atlanta News-Telegraph: A man
who has foresworn allegiance TO all
foreign powers and potentates and
swears loyalty to this county cannot
love many lands, and be a good citi-
zen If he is not prepared to give
all of his allegiance and affection to
this land of his adoption he should
go back from whence he came.
Odebolt Chronicle: Now that the
American army and their allies are
about to tramp in the German sauer-
kraut beds along the Rhine, the Huns
are hollering for peace. The allies
are making the Germans dance to
their own music, and like all DULLES
they haven't the nerve to stand and
face the music.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

~ the food admin
Consumer % Should >.
si: o., to s1.s2 per SAL
pound in less than ~ M
packages. a alI
6Sc to Zoe per sacL !.
pounds, or &c per 0 VI
a IN less than mill J S,s.l
s1.7O to s1.73 ne, 80.
24h pounds, or sI ssss \
pound in less i THAI un' I ss
packages. NY
re to TIC per pou,,
&c to SIC per pound uuiaa
re to INC per Donna
SSMc to Sc per pound
SSAc to shc per DOM.
&c to 1870 per po uuSas
lac to 14hc per pou.d
Il 16c to 15hc per can N4S
&c to THO per can.
a7Ac to 1870 per DOM,
2lc to 21hc per pound
13hc to 15c per DOM,
lskc- to &c per can any
1sc to 21Asc per can.
25c to soc per can.
1sc to 2Skc per can
!ahc to 2Shc per can
1910 to 21hc per pouas
tic to 26c per pound rSJAs
lac to 22c per pound.
Job to 1857 per cas-.
5 .9kc per pound
$40 per rs pound s.,.
$ 81 per 10 pound sad
5 40 per 5 pound sact
S3c to 34c per pound.
34c to SIC per pound.
2sc to 3Oc per pound.
31c to 33Ac per pound
42c to 43c per pound
SOC per dozen.
&c per pound
35c to 39c per pound
&c per pound.
30c to 45c per pound
40c to sac per pound.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Great Britain and France are turning out a
new and swifter type of tank, according to adj
vices from London. machine of this type is
needed, no doubt, in order to keep up with the
retreating Germans
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Article. Retailers Pay
Wheat Flour ...... $1155 to $1175 per bar.
rel of PAN pound
Rye Flour .......... $1250-to $1275 per bar
rel Of twenty 10 pound
sacks.
Barley Flour ......... 5000 to $11.10 per bar
rel of eight 241z pound
sacks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKnr

The following tabe OF the san.,
On
should
Elder food county published i BY It'll
troion
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Des Moines Register: Times have
changed greatly. The Huns are now
satisfied at the end of busy day il
nothing happened to prevent their re-
treat according to plan"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-23

Charles City Press: Has anybody
heard of the crown prince lately;
Probably he has escaped into neutra
territory disguised as a perfect lady