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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22

Give yo,usfamily this coooanutcreampie
tonight, made with Libby's Milk. SEQ
how they'll sly It's "the best pie they
ever ate"-thatsit has "suchsa 'diauzsat
tastel"
Libhy's ,Mnk-pure, fine milk with
more than half the moisture removed,
nothing. added-is so rich, SO like thick
cream, that makes all!pie filings I'm
usuallNrich and luscious.
That~is because this rich milkois Sc
lected for it's extraordinary richness in
some of the nnostfanous dairying dis
tricts IN the country.
Make,Libby's Cocoanut Cream Pie.
See ii your husband enjoys it as much, as
other nensdo-sud when you make the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22
Sheep Department

Adam Seyb, director, Kahoka;
Isom ]. Martin, Kahoka w. d. But
Ter. Kahoka; c. e, Barr. Kahoka-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22
Chester White Department.

NJ. F. Coffin, director, Pennington;
Leo Handlon, Pennington; Elmer
Vornkahl, Pennington; c. p. Barr,
Pennington; T. B. French & Son,
Harrington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22

Duroc aJersey Department.
Joe Casey, Kahoka; w. ID. Butler.
Kahoka; ]. L. McWilrIams, Kahoka.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-22
Hampshire Department

Hampshire Department.
Isom J. Martin, Kahoka; Geo.
Blattner, Wyaconda.
Horse Department.
M. p. Heinz, Kahoka; Joe Casey,
Kahoka; Andy O'Day, Kahoka.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
HEADS OF AMERICAN
LEGION MEET. NEXT WEEK
Representatives from Every State
department to Assemble at
National Capital

Washington. Dec. 11,-Department
commanders, representing all state or
carnations of the American Legion in
this country will meet in Washington
next Monday for a three.day confer.
ence with government officials and
committees of the Senate and House
to urge immediate action on affairs
affecting the interest and welfare of
. eX-seryice men.
The purpose of the conference will
be to work cut in detail recommends
tons made at the recent natinoal con-
vention Of the legion in Minneapolis.
Nearly all the department commanders
have SAID they would attend,
Franklin UOlier OF RAAadel4a6}a the
national commander, made the follow
ing statement
The first concern Of the representa-
tiyes Of the legion who attend the
Washington meeting will be the WEI
fare OF disabled service men. Based
on a careful study of conditions affect
ing these men, the legion presents
specific recG lamentations to govern
ment officials and members of Con
gress calculated 10 obtain for them
and their families that liberal treat
ment which they have reason to eX-
pect from the people Of grateful and
patriotic nation.
ITO this end immediate action is
necessary not only by officials Of the
bureau OF war risk insurance, the fed
era board for vocational education,
and the public health service. but also
by Congress. Legislation should be
enacted promptly to put the treatment
of these men and their families as
regards compensation, disqualification,
medical care, and vocational training
on an adequate and liberal basis"
With the cooperation of II. G Ghol-
mondeley-Jones, director OF the bureau
of war risk insurance the conferees
will consult with officers of the yari
GUS bodies mentioned by Commander
D'Olier. This viii be the first meet
ing OF the new national officers with
state officers of the legion It is ex-
pected chat at the same time the mill
Lary policy committee of that legion
VIII meet in Washington with Senator
Wadsworth's committee to discuss the
military policy suggested at the le-
gions convention. An effort also will
be made to have the legions commit
tee on land development and home aid
for cS-serVice men consult with Con !
gress leaders on legislation. The lc- |
gion conterees will meet first Ut the |
headquarters &C the lsgion's legislative
M a lssssi III "A
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11

er Liberty bonds alleged to be valued
at $4,000, plus interest, from Mrs.
Annie T. Cops of Rutland, sister of
the late Mr.. Lalor
The action is one in trover, II being
alleged that on or about Oct. 8, 1919,
Mr. Lalor lost the bonds and Mrs.
Cops came into possession of them
and has converted them to her own
use II is set up in the declaration
that she was formally requested on
Dec 8 to return the bonds to the es-
tate bur refused to do SO.
The bonds involved include 90 tc
the value of $1,000 and one of S1.O0
Mr. Labor is reported to have left an
estate of $4,000. In his will, which
was filed in probate court recently. he
teft ali Of the property to his wife OK.
cept requests varying. from $50 to
$500 to his brothers and sisters.
\ claim for $4,000 against the es.
tate hinges on the decision OF the Yer
mont supreme court in the breach OF
promise case in which Miss Anna c.
Dyer of this city obtained a verdict to
the sum named against me late Mr.,
Lalor.
Mrs. Cops was formerly assoclat-
ed with her brother in the operation
OF The Hotel Bardwell business in
this city.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
playing .cheekers d. Vermont.

tAfore the game of golf come round,
That takes an old chap, fairly sound
And dries his juice and numbs his will
And makes his heart stand darn near
still;
! The game that fails to save or give
The strength man must have to
/ live;
That fills him full of strenuous zest
And works him when he needs to rest
Afore the times I've jest portrayed
Another games Vermonters played.
That game was checkers-hear the
/ click
OF browning kings and jumping quick:
I've seen 'em play in Stoddard $
store
Till Stoddard went to lock the door;
I've seen Cal Cobb and Galen Grout
APPLYING till the fire went out;
The boys begun afore their teens
And played with different colored
beans;
A handbook lid, with charcoal scored,
A-quickly made checker board.
No crossroads vile where natives
met But had its checker club or set;
Each logging camp its sacred place
Where you could find the checker
face"
The statehouse had it's checker ring,
Each poorhouse had its checker king;
The jiff the prison guards was free
They'd start a guardroom checker
bee;
Backgammon, yes; and giveaway
Was games for mothers fools to play.
rye hung around old cobbler Hicks,
With one boot off for him to fix
When in would come ledge What's.
his-name
And stump him Jest for half a game;
Then Hicks would kinder stretch his
legs,
And spit a rhouthful out of pegs,
And then they'd start, BY Gum! to
play
And keep it up Almost all day
ut did't do no good to fret
Or I'd a-been there waiting yet
The Braintree champion come along
one time and played with Silas
Strong.
And 81 a-skunked him right in sight
IOf Strutty Mills and Minot Wright
He tried to work the old fourteen"
But Silas blocked him slick and clean;
We all Clipped in a-handsome then
And bought set of fancy men,
But 81, confund his modest hide,
He never used 'em fore he died
There ain'tn other game / konw
That tries your intelectuals so;
A billiard ball, however struck,
Dilutes geometry with luck;
The painted deck the idler deals,
The idler's painted soul reveals:
And all the games a-played with dice
The brainy never think of twice,
But checkers calls for thinking
straight
Up here in this old standby state.
Daniel l.. Cady.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11


claiming total membership Of 10000
has addressed an open letter to Con
gress in opposition to the Cummins
bill, He declared in the letter that the
bill would establish a vicious, danger
Gus and undemocratic" precedent and
that it would compel a per capita con
tribution of $40 for every man, woman
and child to enrich about one per cent
Of the population.
The bill, the letter added, would
lnvo,ve paying the railroads $S75OO0,-
90 additional and swelling the cost
of living by about S4,375, 100000 and
farmers would be required to pay at
least S2OO. COOS 600 year more to the
railroads for Transporting farm pre-
ducts.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11

The coal strike is temporarily ended
but the issue is not settled. 1t is mere
iy left dangling over the heads of the
American people along with so many
Their menaces that the only safe
place for a timid citizen is in the deep
woods. Congress has just opened its
long session and ought to provide
remedies which will establish economic
justice. The remedies, whatever they
are, will be imperfect and will have
to be done over but the only way to
get progress is to start and then cor
rect errors and improve methods I'M
til something is evolved. The most
contemplate failure in the world is
the failure to try.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11

| Some compromise should be work
ed out on the notwithstanding plan
/ This is given point and pertinenco b!
I the present coal shortage II is es
! TINA ed that / 100000 tons OF coal wa,
saved by the plan during the last yeal
of its peration-Rutand Herald
I The saving in coal is very mCdestly
estimated by the Herald The electric
light bill of the nation was also cut
ten per cent by the daylight saving
law, yet a small minority Of the PEG
pie bulldozed Congress into repeating
the law. The present Congress has
. press agent and one CT his recent
/ requests for free publicity included
tho TO lowing
y member Of Congress must com
bine in himself the knowledge OF the
lawyer, the banker, the manufacturer
the farmer the worker, the chemist
and the social uplitter He is held
responsible if he fails 10 give 100 per
cent effectiveness in his work On each
problem He is human, and To err is
human. If his fellow citizens believe
il necessary to criticise, let criticism
be made in the American spirit OF fair
play.
The average member of Congress
5 a mighty fine, likable citizen but
too often largely incapable of doing
business Tho daylight saving law
repeal is striking example Of the
incapacity CT the present Congress
1t is of vastly greater Importance to
the people of the world and the ad.
vance Of civilization than is the
League OF Nations because it enters
intimately into the life Of every man.
woman and child in the land. It aids
the people to utilize a valuable asset
of time that was going 20 waste. 1t
was the most valuable aid in controll-
ing the advancing cost of living. yet
the present Congress turned down the
law without even finding out that its
opponents We're basing their opposit.
ion on an incorrect understanding. A.
member of Congress grayely writes to
a constituent that one of the reasons
for ,he repeal of the Law was that it
imposed such hardship IN suburban
people who had to &c. up early TO
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
THU n PEOPLE
SHOULD I IKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain itrO-PhOsphate to
Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
Ia Increase Strength, NiSOr
and Nerve Force.

| Judging from the countless prcpara-
/ lions and treatments which are coutin-
ually being advertised for the purpose
] of making thin people heshy, develop
/ ing arms. neck and bust, and replacing
ugly holloWs and angles by the soft
curved lines of health ANA beauty, there
are evidently thousands of men and
women who kecnly feel their excessive
/ thinncss.
| Thiuness and weakness are often
| due to starved nerves. Our bodies
rced more phosphate than is contained
/ in modern foods. Physicians claim
/ there Is nothing that win supply this
/ deficiency so well as the organic phos-
phatc known among druggists as bitro-
phosphate which is inexpensive and
! is sold by most all druggists under a
guarantee of satisfaction or money
back. BY feeding the nerves directly
/ and by supplying the body cells with
/ the necessary phosphoric food ee-
lments bitro phosphate should produce
/ q welcome Transformation I'm the
/ appearance; the iucr6ase in weight fire.
! Quently being astonishing.
Increase in weight also carries with
| 1t general Improvement il the health
| Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack of
energy which nearly always accompany
excessive thinness, should soon dis
appear, duh eyes brighten and pale
checks glow with the bloom OF perfect
health
CAUTION; While Bitro- Phosphate
ia UNSURPASSED tor tbs relief of ner-
lvo'lsnesB general debility, etc those
taking it Irho do not desire to put on
fosh should use extra care in avoiding
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
Filled 10 Oyertt wing
#iih The JOy of living

The simplest remedies are nearly
always the best That's why thous-
ands of brighteyed, clearskinned men
and women keep themselves nt and
inc by having an abiding faith in
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
Bennington Bnnnrr
VERMONT.
FRANK e. HOWE, Editor and Pub'r.


The price Of white paper used in
printing newspapers has gone up to
eight cents per pound in the open
market, due to consumption far out
stripping production. This means that
advertising and subscription rates are
going to be raised again and even that
Will not save some of them. over a
dozen suspensions of newspapers are
reported in the trade journals of last
week The cost of getting out The
Banner is today three times what it
was ten years ago and more than
double the cost of three years ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years 1t was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment pronounced
it incurable. Catarrh is q local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
dtions and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine, manufactured by +. j. Cheney &
Co., Toledo, Ohio. is a constitutional
remedy. is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System One Hundred Dollars re-
ward is offered for any case that HAIRS
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
Ell. CHENEY 6 CO.. Tcledc, Ohio.
Sold by DrugEists, 25c.
Halrs Tamil u Pills for cnhsfinatinn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
SUES FOR $4,000 BONDS
Rutland Widow Brings Action
Against Her sister-in-Law.

Rutland, Dec, 10-Mrs Margaret
Lalor, as administrators of the estate
Of Charles H. Lalor, her husband, a
well-known Rutland hotel man, who
died few weeks. AGO hos hr"'"''
suit in Rutland county court to recoy.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
FARMERS DO NOT LIKE
SENATE RAILROAD BILL
Claim X Would Raise Cost of Living
BY More Than Four
Billion

Washington, Dec 1.-THE Cum
Minis railroad bill, which was OF
the verge of passage Monday, but
which is now undergoing an unexpect
ed bufleting by Senators cbiecting &c
its various provisions, still was before
the Senate yesterday. The measure is
designed TO meet conditions upon the
return of railroads to private control
Despite the renewed attack on the
bill, leaders predicted il would be
brought to a final vote before the end
of the week.
George 2 Hampton, managing direc-
tor of the Farmers National Council
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
Optimistic Financlers.

paint rosy pictures of results they
will obtain with your money We of
fer full protection and conservative
returns,-safety for your family and
satisfaction to you National Life
ms Co, (Mutual) Earle S. Kinsley,
General Agent Mead Building, Rut.
land, vt Adv
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
'.OUCH! THAT OLD
RHEUMATISMY'
Just get out that bottle OF
Sloan's LinimenT and
'knock il galieY-West"

w yERENT prepared for that
wv quick switch in temperature,
were you? Left you stiff, sore,
full of rheumatic twinges2
You should have had bottle OF
Sloan's Liniment handy - that would
have soon eased up the muscles, Quoted
the jumpy, painful, affected part -
penetrated 'gitk0W yabbing, bringing
gratifying relief.
Helpful in all attacks Of lumbago,
sciatica, external soreness, stiffness,
strains, aches, sprains. Get bottle
at volIr druquistis 35c. Zoe. 81 40
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
C. w. WRIGHT, NJ. ID.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
GI ASSES pRNPREIX Fitted

OcuIist and Aurist 20 North Adams
hospital. Recently in charge of eye,
ear, nose and throat services at Post
Hospital, Eastern. Department. Head
quarters.
Tel. ;I52-M DowIin Block. No. Adams.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-11
Flowers in Greenland.

Greenland, 1t seems, is n place Of
flowers as wen as Of ice, reports Gas
Logic Botanists have counted 100
specimens Of Towering plants, grow
ing in the land Of the Smith sounl
Eskimo, on IT'S northwest coast.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-08
CARRANZA IN ACTION.

The department of state is made authority
for a news despatch from Washington telling
of overt acts by the Mexican government to
force recognition by American interests OF the
confiscatory action of the Carranza government
in taking over title to their properties without
any provision for compensation. Mexican sol
diers under orders from the government have
in several instances driven workmen off Ameri-
can oil properties and prevented drilling oper-
atoms until the owners Of the properties recog-
rize the claim of the Mexican government to
ownership.
If this sort of thing is in actual progress in
Mexico it will soon bring our government policy
out of the penumbra into which it went subse-
quent to watchful waiting and Pershing's futile
expedition. This congress is not likely to be
beguiled with yelled promises or stilled by COM
mands There will be some action by congress
to set our protective machinery to going if the
agents do not act of their own
volition under constituted authority Appa-
rently Carranza has got into action. 1t is high
time he were met and so decisively that his
bluff, if it be bluff, be called past question:
his attempted defiance of international right be
ended by his submission or elimination.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-08
WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?

clutches. Many honorable. forehanded,
self-respecting dealers, hotel men and
saloonkeepers conducted their bust.
ness in q way with which no fault
could be found. They bought where
they would, sold what they would.
obeyed the law and discountenanced
immoderate drinking. Neither did tho
distilling and wine-making interests
of the country seek to control the re-
tail business. 1t was the brewers who
brought about its disbursement and OPP
posed its reformation. They sowed
tse wind and have reaped. a whiri-
wind of popular wrath which has
brought their pernicuous system down
with crash.
But public sentiment could not be
reused to the necessity for reforming
the situation until it got out of hand
and now we are in for national ok.
pertinent which thoughtful people. the
best minds in the nation. view with
serious misgivings and statesmen OF
other lands with unconcealed aston
ishment No nation can enthrone ia
naticism scornful of natural personal
rights without inviting great, grave
dangers. For where zealots and bigots
and narrow sectaries and reforming
groups succeed in restricting human
liberty in one way, history shows that
they never willingly stop as long as
any liberties remain. Relief comes
only when they have pushed the peo-
pie to such point of evaporation
that a furious reaction overwhelms
them and sweeps all their work away.
The Anti-Saloon league set out pro-
fessedly to destroy the saloon. This
was all they sought, they said, and
the moral sentiment OF the country CO.
operated with them in this to the ex-
tent at least of looking on ia silence
while the league bulldozed, black.
guarded and dragooned legislators
into doing its will. But the reformers
were hypocritical, insincere, and moth
ing will now content them but laws to
make the use or possession of any
beverage, cider, beer or wine contain.
ing fraction of one per cent. OF al
cohol crime. This system, IL they
put it in force, will not endure. The
American people are not such sheep
as that. Just what course events will
take Is uncertain and the possibilities
give thoughtful people concern. Prob
ably, however, situation will develop
in the next few months or years which
will SATISFY all reasonable-minded men.
But whatever the eventual outcome,
no trump will bring to life the saloon
as 1t has existed. The brewers in
their arrogance and avarice have done
that to death.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-08
rochester Post.Expres: The

| Rochester Post-Expres: The saloon
! Is moribund. 1t Is stricken Win
death. The moment of dissolution
may be delayed. The actual death CUR
gle may not be- heard this year, but
as an institution it is in extremis, and
when it passes it will be dead beyond
resurrection in any form that we now
know. The mourners for 1t will De
relatively few. The country can get
along without it. AS conducted, it had
come on the whole to promote intem-
perance. As it might and should
have been conducted it would have
met a legitimate, popular need. Bui
the brewers perverted 1t into an
agency for evil They killed 1t by
making it too bad to live.
There are 1900 breweries in the
country. Many OF them are small
concerns. Many of them produced a
limited output of wholesome matted
beverages, largely limited to table use
in temperate homes. They used hops.
They maintained the standard OF their
brawings. They were satisfied with
reasonable profits and made no at
tempt to force their product on or into
any body Other concerns produced a
straw-colored, harmless beverage of
low alcoholic content, most of which
was bottled for consumption in fami-
lies that were quite as we'll ordered,
moral and reputable as their neigh
borS who saw evil in its use. The
business they did and the decent way
in which they did it were unobiection-
able and tended to a simple and con-
tent ed home life on which the allure
ments of public drinking places had
little effect.
But some hundreds of the breweries
were controlled by men whose con-
scienceless one idea was to force their
product on the people. Their huge
buildings broke the skyline in every
considerable city. Their product was
as poor as it could be and still be mar
ketable. They used every cheaper sub
stitute for hops that could be found.
Greed was their motive. Quantity
production was their aim. They cared
not who dispensed their stuff or how.
so long as they got their money for
it. They put retailers in business
everywhere They had them mort
gagged to the eyes and under contract
to use their beer exclusively. They
owned thousands of them body and
soul They defied the law as far as
they dared. They treated public senti-
ment with contempt. No agent was too
disreputable to handle their products
as long as he would do their bidding
and get rid of their stuff. Decent sa-
looms or dives or dens of thieves, 1t
was all one to them. They went into
politics. They lobbied with legisla-
lures Temperance was no concern Of
theirs. Intemperance paid them bet
ter. Confident in their power to over
ride all opposition, they flouted every
suggestion to put the business on a
higher plane, and became the most
powerful, impudent and obnoxious
business interest In the country.
Not all retailers We're in their