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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
X. OF c.. WAR
ACTIVITIES
AppIicantsN For Overseas Secretarlal
Work Must Be Forty-six
or Over In Order to
Be Considered.

No applicants for overseas secre-
tarial work in the Knights OF Column
bus will now be considered for serv
ice who are not forty-six years old
or over. according to word which has
Just been received from the New
York headquarters by Joe McCor-
mick, Of Cedar Rapids, recruiting
secretary" for the X. Of G. in Iowa
This is in accordance with the plan
OF the order not to accept men for
secretarial work who are subject to
the draft. Quite number OF good
applicants were secured last week at
the state fair, where Mr.. Mccormick
had recruiting tent on the fair
grounds.
In addition to the two colored Sec
retaries which lately arrived at Camp
Dodge to take charge of K. c. build
ing No 2, which has been given over
to the exclusive use Of the negro
soldiers. two more negro secretaries
are being sent to the camp, as an
other building for the colored boys
soon is to be built by the K. OF c,
DR.. William r. Arthur, the .colored
secretary at building No. 2, is a
graduate physician and has been do
ing X. Of C. secretarial work at Camp
Funston.
That the boys who frequent the
X. OF c. buildings at Camp Dodge
are keen for letter writing is shown
by the fact that $4,000 sheets OF pa
per are now being given out each
week and about half that number of
Stamp sales will average
better than 800 day, and the num-
Der of money orders purchased show
that the new soldiers are going to
Law aside something for that rainy
day when they return from over
there"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
ADVISE
SPRING TON|CS
Say There Is Nothing Equals
Iron and Phosphates

Experienced Doctors claim that
everyone should take good tonic In
the Spring, that during the cold win
ter months we all eat too much meat.
fats. heavy foods and too little fresh
vegetables, that the entire system Is
clogged up, over loaded and over
worked causing thin, impure watery
blood and that tired nervous feeling,
pimples and bad complexion.
Honest doctors ali over the land
have found and are recommending and
prescribing phosphates and iron as
their spring tonic for the blood and
nerves. they say it removes all i'm
purities. unclogs the channels and
sends the rich red life-giving blood
through the veins, renewing health,
strength and nerve force as nothing
else will.
IF you are all in, run down, fag-
ged out and your nerves all shot to
pieces and the JOY gone from life, take
Phosphated Iron, the red blood and
nerve builder. 1t will make you feel
like doing things again, renews that
youthful feeling, you can almost feel
coming back. Try Phosphat-
ed Iron today, 1t has helped thousands
and will not disappoint you.
To insure physicians and their pat
tents getting the genuine Phosphated
Iron it is put up in capsules only DO
not allow dealers to give you pills or
tablets. Insist on capsules. McGrath
Bros. Drug Co, Keokuk. Iowa, and
leading druggists everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06

poultry association have their pre-
MUM list ready Because of the joy
and help the roundup brings TO the
children of our schools, we solicit the
patrons cooperation.
Through the efforts of Tom l..
Clark these men We're signed UP for
the trip and we might say in this
connection that this is the first time
an employment agency was ever
operated in Memphis.
J. G. Drake died at his home, cor
ner Jefferson and Lincoln streets,
Friday morning, Aug. 80, 1918, after
an illness of one week. He was born
April 81, 1888, in Hardin county, Ken
lucky, and moved to Iowa in 1854,
thence to Scotland county, Mo, in
1S55-living here until his death.
Mrs. Ben Morris, Mrs NJ. J. lack.
Misses Esther Wayne and Ethel Pat
terson and Leo Morris attended the
community picnic at Bluff Park,
above Keokuk, last Thursday Leo
assisted Prof. Bowers band that day.
One of our leading farmers feels
fairly well satisfied with a yield of
fifty-two bushels of wheat to the acre
from an 1S-acre field, and 936 bushels
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
located. The letter has the ring of

located. The letter has the ring of
true patriotism.
The local board is in receipt of in
structions from Provost Marshal
Crowder to send all questionnaires Of
men in the 1917 class-who have de-
ferred classification to the district
board at once for review and reclassf-
fication. This means that many men
of that class who have been placed
in any one of the deferred classes
may possibly be put up in class one.
Naturally the result of the district
boards review is awaited with in
tereSt here.
The senior class of the Memphis
high school held their first class
meeting on Monday, the first day Of
the school year. Twenty-one mem
bers were present and two members
were absent, making a total enroll
ment of twenty-three students.
H. A. Kerr received a telegram last
Monday morning announcing the sud-
den death of his daughter, Mrs. Fred
Dodd, at their home in Bedison, Mo-,
on Sunday night 1t was known by
the family that Mrs. Dodd was very
ill and on Saturday morning her
mother. accompanied by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clarence Hanks, who was
visiting here, went to her bedside.
On Thursday evening eighty men
from Scotland and Schuyler counties
will depart in special coaches for
Camp Stuart, Newport News, Vir-
ginia, to work on government build
ings.
The next county gathering of
school folks in Memphis will be the
roundup. The dates are Oct. 10, IL
and u. The meeting this year prom
Uses to be better than ever. The
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Miier's Antlseptie Oil, Known an
Snake Oil
Accomplishing Most Wonderful
Results

II want to thank you for your won<
derful OIL states Mr.. j. G. Gibson
Of Jonesboro, Ark. My little girl was
very low with diphtherta- I had
given her two doses of medicine
which cost me $40, with no results.
l bought 30c bottle OF your oil and
one application relieved her. Now
she is we'll" Mr.. Gibson made this
statement before hundreds of people.
Mrs. Florence Meager, 294 Whitney
street, Hartford, Conn.,, writes: ~I
have used your Antiseptic OIL for
neuralgia with good effects. Only
thing I have ever tried that stopped
the pain immediately" Mrs. Will
liams Gadsden, Ala, writes: 81 have
used your great pain oil for rheuma-
tism, stiff joints, also for sore throat,
and want to say that it is the great
est remedy l ever tried. / recommend
1t to all sufferers Many cures re-
ported daily from thousands of crate
full users of this wonderfol oil. Every
bottle guaranteed, SOC, Coo and s1.00
a bottle, or money refunded.
Get it at McGrath Bros Drug Co.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Alkali Makes Soap
Bad For Washing Hair

Most soaps and prepared shampoos
Pntaln too much a1kali, which is very
FURIOUS, as it dries the scalp and makes
Re hair brittle.
Inc best thing to use is just plain null
ned cocoanut oil, for this is pure and
purely greaseless. It's very cheap, and
ed.s the most expensive soaps or any
[!ns else all to pieces. You can get
y at any drug store, and a few ounces
~ y. last the whole family for months.
simply rnoisten the hair with water
pa rub it in, about teaspoonful is all
ta' IS required. 1t makes an abundance
\ fich, creamy 1ather, cleanses thor
|ughiy, and rinses out easily. The hair
res quickly and evenly, and is soft,
ta,sy to handle. Besides, it loosens and
andruff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06

of wheat is not at all a bad thine
to have around at this particular
time.
Rev. Joseph H. SIaney of st. Louis,
has for the past three SUNDAYS been
supplying the pulpits of the Presby-
terrain churches at Granger, Meadow
and Pleasant Hill, with view of
taking up the work as their pastor.
Mr. Slaney wishes to state that what
ever may be the result of his visit
here, the people have most favorably
impressed him by their hospitality
and splendid christian patriotism. He
finds the crop prospects here so much
better than in the southern counties.
where the corn is absolutely burned
up.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
PL AN PARKING
FOR STREETS
City Council Receives Suggestion
from a Nursery Firm to
Beautify the
City.

The city council has received sug-
gestion for identifying the city by
some, simple landscape gardening In
the parking places in the streets as
in upper Main street, from nursery
company which sells the plants and
shrubs.
The plan includes blue print show
ing the lay out of the trees, SHRUBS
and beds and it would make a fine I'M
provement in any street to which it
might be applied, with parking in the
middle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIes
Girls! Mako beauty lotion at
home for few cents. Try III

Squeeze the juice Of two lemons
into bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake well, and you
have quarter pint of the best freckle
and tan lotion, and complexion beauti-
fer. at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see how
freckles and blemishes disappear, and
how clear, soft and white the skin be-
comes. Yesi It is harmless.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Burlington Railroad Laboratories Re-
port it up to Government
Standards and
disable.
CONFERENCE HERE SOON
Chemist Of the WaterworIes Company.
Sanitary Engineer Of Iowa and
Laboratory Director
to Come.

Mayor Ed S. Lotion has arranged
conference here for next week on
the water supply conditions of keo
kuk by party of experts.
After receiving telegram from
President Hoffmeister. OF the water
works company, through H. P. Scan
Ian, local manager, the mayor tele
graphed the state board of health
experts asking them to come here
on a day to be set later ea-ly next
week for the consideration OF all
points in connection with the Keo
kuk water supply.
The waterworks company will send
a chemist named Donaldson. The
mayor has asked to meet him, Lafay'
cite Higgins, sanitary engineer for
the Iowa state board Of health, and
Henry Alberts, director Of the state
board of health laboratories at Iowa
City.
keoleuk Water Now Good.
The mayor today received the re-
port of the examination by the Bur
lington railroad laboratories OF
sample OF water sent them August
20, by DR.. H. A. Kinnaman. local sur
geon Of the road.
The report says the water Is safe
for drinking and In entire conformity
with the standards OF the United
States public health service. which
also certifIes the fact based on the
laboratory examination.
The sanitary analysis OF the water
sample which accompanies the re-
port on purity is microscopical and
meteorological only and is not nearly
so complete and thorough as the
analyses by the state laboratories at
Iowa City furnished the mayor fire.
auently, and often in disagreement
..ith Tia RAILROAD Elaboration CepOrt
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
NEW OFFICERS
ARE ELECTED
Knights and Ladies Of Security Lodge
Select OFFICIALS to Serve for
the Ensuing
Wear.

The new officers elected by the Keo.
kuk lodge of Knights and Ladies OF
Security are:
President B. Mortimer; vice presi-
dent, ]. K. Martin: secretary. Birdie
Dunn; financier. Mayme c. Schenk;
prelate. Harriet Riffenbury; guard,
Gussie Jones; conductor. William
Riffenbury; sentinel, Edgar Morgan.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
AUTOMOBILE
THIEVES STOPPED
William Holland Catches Them in
the Act of Taking His Car
and Drives Them
Away.

When William Holland left his
automobile in front of his mothers
residence last evening he kept one
eye on it
When some boys started to steal
the car, he got out before they had
It moving and drove them away, thus
saving the police and himself a lot
of worry and expense hunting
stolen car
The boys scattered and got away.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Keen ,Em on the Run!

Omaha World-Herald: One wishes
that Germany could have no use for
any generals except retreat special
lists" from this time on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
HA ~ A remedy for infections
R~ OF the urinary tract.
AH - Painless, nonpoisunous
o4t3Sz44E w. and Will not structure
Relievesin to days.
Treat;so =; $I.So Sold BY Druggists
1sc WHO each bottle or mailed on REQUEST
THE EVANS PREPARED. BY
n"s CHEMICAL CO., CINCINNATI. q.
hertlina Has. Resianed.

[cE.,Press Leased Wire Service.
-; A, Sept. German I'm
h,- chancellor Hertling has hand
s resignation to the kaiser on
mo. Vi III health, according to re-
- from Munich via Zurich. 1t is
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
Registration the Topic Now.

Just now the registration Of the
new ages under the new draft law
is the predominant topic, following
campaign against the German
propaganda, which was very effec-
tive.
A bulletin of information contain
ing complete statistics concerning
the fighting man power of the coun-
try was prepared in consultation with
the provost marshal generals office.
An autographed letter from Gen
eral Crowder to the fourmtnute men
explains the urgency of the situation
and calls upon this great army OF
speakers to use their best efforts to
meet their part in 1t.
In this connection General Crowder
says: 1--WE want to inspire every man
with the resolution to come forward
at the time appointed and do his
duty.
The Face to Face Appeal.
"One of the most efficient ways to
communicate this inspiration, stimu-
lating the keen sense of duty to be
performed, is the oral appeal, face to
face This is where we. are relying
upon the great organization of four
minute men. We believe that you
can reach effectively the millions OF
men who are due to come forward
on that day to register.
"The original registration brought
forward 1855, 900 men. This time our
calculations give us every reason to
believe that the number to be in
cluded reaches thirteen million. 1t
will be Americas greatest effort to
complete the army. Your part will
be an important one, and I earnestly
invoke your assistance and call upon
you to put your best skill into the
task"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06

not known whether the resignation
was accepted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
WHY THE FOUR
Minute MEN?
The Organization That Appeals to keo-
kuk People Most Just Now is
a Great Sue
cess.
HOW IT is DONE HERE
Is Under the Direction Of VIII q.
Blood Who Is Making it Of
Great Interest to
Everybody.

One Of the most popular features
ever put on at the Keokuk motion
picture theaters Is the four-minute
oratory.
While the four-minute men have
been talking all over the United
States for nearly a year, they have
been unknown in Keokuk until re-
Gently, and within a week they be-
came the chief topic Of conversation
in the homes.
Under the direction of VIII G..
Blood, in charge OF the work In Keo-
kuk by order Of the government bu-
reau of information, the four-minute
speeches have become "a very popular
institution.
The list of speakers will be en-
larged in the future, and those who
have appeared have all made distinct
hits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-06
How It Is Managed.

The four-minute talks in motion
picture theaters was a happy idea.
Each week the topic is changed, but
it is the same during the same week
all over the United States. A PAM
phlet of data, facts and arguments
is sent out weekly to all the four
minute men. and they must conform
to this syllabus, although each forms
his own speech out of part Of the
facts given him.
The work is done by contract with
the big motion picture theater Or
ganization, and part OF 1t Is that any
speech must not exceed three min
utes, even If the local theater man
ager requests it. The penalty for
violation is to be barred from ever
making a four-minute man speech
again.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
HOW THIS LITTLE BOY
Recovered Strength After Sickness

Garrett, Texas-"The measles left
my little boy aged nine years in a
very weak, run down condition - he
coughed a good deal, and as medi-
cines did not seem to help him, we
finally took him out of school, and
thought he would never be strong
again. One day read about the cod
liver and iron tonic known as Vinol,
and such change as it has made in
my little boy-it stopped his cough,
he is now back in school, strong and
well.-Mrs. e. A. Wright.
There is nothing like vinol to re-
store stNngth, appetite and vim to
pale, sickN children. We strongly
recommend Vinol for this purpose
j. C. Pecor Drug Co., ]. Jas. Wood &
Son, Druggists.
p. S.-For children's eczema, Saxol
Salve is guaranteed truly wonderful.
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& Ohio Ry.

NiicSdPcdkC O. OnIO Ky.
Schedule subject to onanas without notice
Effective Sunday May 2eth.
East Bound
No. will arrive a;4s a. m
No. will arrive 1850 D. m.
No. Is will arrive s,2s D. m.
No. Will arrive SEQ D. m.
No. 16 departs $500 p. m.
West Bound .
No. 10 will depart 6:25 q. m.
No. will depart 1900 q. m.
No. II will arrive 1880 a. m.
No. will depart $40 D. m.
No. will depart $3.50 D. m.
Trains No. 10, IT, IS and 10 are
daily, except Sunday.
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peace were so quickly accepted by
Germany was shared by all the brave
but suffering peoples of our allies.
For reasons apparent to all, the real
expressions of feeling In respect to
President Wilson's utterances in Eng
land and France are restrained. But,
when the torrent of American public
opinion compelled gradual return
toward demand for unconditional
surrender, the Joy of our allies was
unrestraned. They know that a YER
dict at the election fer a Republican
house will end forever the dangers
which seemed to face a negotiated
re?ce.
Instead of obstructing the presi-
dent and our allies in winning this
war and a dictated peace, nothing
would 80 discourage the Germans and
hearten our allies as the return of a
Republican, congress.
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WIPED OUT KIT WITH COLORS, Is
GIVEN THREE MONTHS

Camp Meade, Md.-Cuasin Hussini
of the Three Hundred and Twenty
fourth field signal battalion, was
found guilty of DESERVING the Ameri-
can flag by using flag to wipe out
his mess kit He was sentenced to
three months at hard labor after the
reviewing authorities had tawen into
consideration some of the testimony
offered in his defense with regard to
his igornance of the insult to the en-
blem of the nation.
Flags that have become worn or
weatherbeaten here are burned and
never used for any unworthy purpose.
Sussini was bootblack In Worose-
ter, Mass, when he volunteered for
service in the army, Originally he
came from Abyssinia,
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-01
HARTFORD GETS S1O5,OOG, LAR.
GEST PENALTY TAX

Hartford, Conn.-The largest pen
atty inheritance tax on record, $685.
eco, was paid by the heirs of the late
Martin Sheldon of New York and Chi
cago father of Mrs. Philip Armour,
who had not paid an investment tax
to the states for five years. The town
of Suffield, where he died, gets enough
to wipe out the entire town debt and
have $4,000 balance.
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COMES FROM TREE

Rice paper, used in making cigar
cts, has nothing to do with rice, but is
made from the membranes of the
breadfruit tree, or more commonly of
fine new trimmings, of flax and hemp
So light is this paper that 500 of-the
tiny sheets 90 to make an ounce.
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The great measures for which the
president can claim credit in this
war are the two draft acts. The first.
he could not have secured but for Re-
publican support. The second he did
not initiate until four months after
he had first rejected it and until after
Republicans and certain Democrats
had forced it upon his reluctant at
tention.
but for the Republican COMPRESSION
al support that he has had in this war
he could not have conducted it to its
present status. He charges Repub-
licah leaders with seeking to take the
1choice of policy and conduct of this
war ont of his hand by putting 1t pn=
der instrumentalities of their own
choosing. The difficulty with this
statement is that 1t is not true.
The mere mention of the name of
julius Kahn and his work in this con-
gress answers every reflection the
president makes on the Republican
minority.
What the Republican leaders at
tempted to do was to furnish the pre-
sident with an executive organization
by which he might carry on the war
more effectively. There was not the
slightest suggestion that he was not
to appoint those who were ia exercise
the powers under his supervision and
direction. He did not wish to delegate
power to his appointees sufficient to
enable them to achieve what had to
be done and so objected.
In the end he was driven to do in
more awkward way that which
months before the Republican sought
to give him effective machinery to
do. Thus the war council of Mr. Bak-
er passed into innocuous desuetude,
while Stetinius and Cocktails, first re-
iected were given requisite power
Thus Denman was put forward,
withdrawn, then another, then an
other, and finally Schwab was given
the unrestricted chance to push the
making of ships. So with aviation,
lementable waste and failure came
first and then Ryan with requisite
headship and authority is doing the
job.
What was 1t that stimulated re-
form of lamentable methods and de-
lays in clothing, rifles, machine guns,
artillery and ammunition but inYesti-
cations in the senate military COM
mittee of Republicans and few will
full but patriotic Democrats?
The patriotism and usefulness of
the Republicans as a minority in win
ming this war stand out so clearly as
compared with that of the leaders of
the Democratic majority that the Re-
publicans may well go to the people
on the issue which the president
raises.
Nor Is there any more real weight
in the presidents plea that an cleo
ton of Republican congress will in
jure the cause of the couRtry in this
war abroad as a vote of want of con-
fidence in his prosecution of the war.
The intelligence which be says the
European peoples have enables them
to see that an election OF Republi-
can congress will mean more certain
prosecution of this war to an uncon-
ditional surrender than II the presi-
dent shall secure a house and senate
that will only do his will and second
lbs desires.
The SILVER which went through the
hearts of the American people when
the implied proposals of the presi-
dents first note for a negotiafionad