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Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11
TWO PROMINENT
BUSINESS MEN
Invest in Baxter Mining Field
: Speak of Baxter's Fine LO- y
cation, Fine Buildings,
and Fine Water

Hon. o. s. Gibson, prominent re-
tired farmer and business man Of Ar
kansas City, Kan, and Geo. Swensen,
twice-Over rich in the oil game in the
Arkansas City Oil fields. also of Ar
kansas City, have been stopping at
the Empire Hotel the past few days.
Both gentlemen have invested in the
mining interests south Of, Baxter in
the Bendene mine.
Messrs. Gibson and Swensen both
think, Baxter Springs Is destined to
make a city. They spoke in the high
est terms Of our beautiful and pic
ings, and especially laid stress on the
turesque location, the many fine build
fine quality Of our water.
Mr.. Gibson is Of the opinion that
when peace has been declared the
price Of lead and zinc will come back,
the Baxter fields will be opened up.
and Baxter will ego out Of her banks"
using q boom phrase.
A little side information on the
character Of Geo. Swensen will not
come amiss here. A few years ago
he was a struggling farmer with not
any too much Of the worlds goods
around him. He made an oil lease on
his farm in q wildcat territory and &C
cepted a One-eighth royalty The well
proved an oiler and this encouraged
Mr.. Swenson who had other wells put
down, some of which equaled the fam
GUS oil wells in the FL Paso fields. To-
day Mr.. Swensen can draw his check
in many figures and it will be hOnOred.
Oil derricks have gone up for miles
around him-tOday Mr.. SwensenI
doesn't farm but has invested some of
his wealth in the mining interests near
Baxter.
These gentlemen having invested
money in the Baxter mining field, and
being SO well impressed with Baxter,
it is more than a possibility that they
will become residents Of Baxter
Springs where they would be close to
their mining interests.
Both gentlemen made the Daily Cit
izen a pleasant visit, Mr.. Gibson hav-
ing known B. F. Lloyd Of the Citizen
office for many years.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11
FOR THE VICTORY LOAN

Mrs. A. R. Kane has received no
tice Of her reappOintment as Chair
man for, this district Of the WOman's
Liberty Loan Committee for the com
ing Victory Loan campaign which be-
gins April 21st, and continues three
weeks. :
All captains and helpers who assist
ed Mrs. Kane in the previous Liberty
Loan Campaigns are expected to work
in this campaign and are requested to
notify her at once as to whether or
not they win be available.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11
|sDEhENE GDBnt
ABRKDE GIs
Kansas Natural to File New Motion
; with Supreme Court for New
Opinlon-Same Old

The attorneys arriving home from
the Minneapolis conference witt
Judge Booth respecting the gas rate
as decided by the u. s. Suprem'
Court for Kansas and Missouri, are o.
the opinion that the receiver for tn
Kansas Natural Gas Company and thu
various gas distributing companies
will seek a further hearing before the
Supreme Court Of the United States
following the oral Interpretation
placed upon that courts recent de-
cision in the gas case. That was the
word brought back from st. Paul last
night by e. M. Harber, city counselor,
Of Kansas City, No., who attended the
gas conference with Judge Wilbur F.
Booth.
Mr.. Harber said that previous to
the conference officials and attorneys
for the gas companies had said they
were satisfied with the supreme court
decision. They placed an entirely diff
ferent construction upon its terms
than. was placed by attorneys for the
two states and the cities involved.
They did not agree with the latter
that the companies were enjoined
from collecting more than the origin
al contract rates, nor that they were
required to make refunds Of the over
charges.
Will Ask New Ruling
"But after listening to Judge
Booths oral ruling" Colonel Harber
said, "they came away from st. Paul
with q different feeling. was inform
ed the attorneys for the Kansas Ma
tural receiver would file a motion
with the supreme court asking for
and q new opinion that
would make the courts ruling more
definite and certain.
"T also was informed that the dis
tributing companies would ask the
supreme court to issue an order to the
effect that refund Of overcharges not
be required"
Booths Opinion Here Monday
Colonel Harder said he was not at
liberty to quote Judge Booths orally
delivered opinion, but that his inter-
probation Of the supreme court opin-
lon cOincided in most particulars with
the conclusions reached by attorneys
For states and cities involved. Steno-
graphic notes were made, and Colonel
Harber said he had been promised a
typewritten copy Of Judge Booths
opinion today.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

I.|I,.. AZ. IIl>. A|||o Amos. Mt.
lis 1Nd 1|al, 1i|I,l l.I |lIl,l. DD.y
WeakIsy.. Jason inhd lIMIy DdIIID
spsnt Sunday evening at-Alr 'BryHnts
Muslc was the order Il the evening.
lli1se6 Ola Tats and Alive Amos,
MessrA. Harry and Jason Brittle and
DOry weakley enjoyed music and var
ious games Sunday afternon At the,
homo of Misses Nettie and Nsryl
Smith ~ Nss~ = eDV
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The names Of all workers are to be
sent to the Federal Chairman 50 that
each one may be awarded q medal;
these medals are reputed to be made
from war trophies. This will be the
last campaign Of the kind and at its
close the woman's organization win be
disbanded. =
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11
4 ElA9 slEE
IS 0PERIEIN8
Kansas Has A Real whlsksy SIN
Made Out Of . wash Boiler
and ss'Fs''s y Rs.E
End Of Car

A statewide order has been sent. ou'
for the arrest Of 4 negro who is tour
ing Kansas in q Ford car which has 9
whiskey still built under the reAI,seat
The machine makes 'mOOnshine" As Il
= runs and the operator Of the auto
Etill sells this liquor whenever he, has
. WORTHWHILE supply, and then dis
appears. So far, efforts to catch him
have been futile.
Throughout last winter q negro
naWed' Dickson has been living at
Hugotown, Kan. He owned q Ford
car and. seemed to be IN. industrious
citizen. law-abiding In. every respect.
Recently the car has not been used
much, and II has just developed that
It was undergoing an overhauling and
rebuilding that has made It into a real
distillery, q movable distillery that
makes whiskey as It runs, avoids the
usual nuisance laws by moving and
makes Dickson 30 hard to catch.
A blacksmith at HugotOwn, who
does some tin work, told what he had
done to the car for. Dickson apd, SUBJ
nitted q diagram to the Attorney
General, and he has forwarded It to
the internal revenue collectors, =
He Il Moving Rapidly
The Attorney-General and his law
enforcement helpers, the Sheriffs and.
police Of every county in the State and
the Governments internal revenue
collectors are al hunting for Dickson
and his Ford with the complete Aav-
cling distillery. Dickson has been
heard from in several communities,
but from the time adviceS come to the
officers to the time they. reach the
spot where Dickson was selling, the
supply has been exhausted and the
distillery was moved to parts IN
known.
Dickson put q washboiler under the
rear seat Of the car. In the boiler he
installed q worm and then had the
blacksmith build and solder the pipes
to connect with the water jacket and
radiator Of the car. The intake and
outlet pipes were constructed Of tin
in the approved fashion Of stills and
when furnished the outfit was as COM
plete a distihery as anyone could
wish.
When the car is under way, the
heat from the engine, most Of which
is wasted anyway, would operate the
still. The harder the car was driven
to escape the officers the faster the
still would work. Aa the supply 0ffi-
quOr was made Il could be packed to
bottles around the boiler.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

Having spent $3.50 several years
ago fos GaVsrtiSing without drawing
any crowd 70 thsir stores some mer-
Ishauts Hrs convinced that publicity
does not pay:
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

In times gone by the Germans in
signing treaties always wrote their
official signature as Deutsches
Reich" Won't they have to make It
read this time "Deutsches POOd?"
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The class in arithmetic will now
come forward and solve the problem:
III It takes five months to write q
League Of Nations, how long viii It
take Germany TO, make Of It another
scrap Of pAper?"
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

Some people deny that they never
show any public spirit, as they run to
all the fires and point out the mistakes
that the fremen make.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The Bolshiviki are said to have 90
eiAllEsd everything from the army "a
baths, which really doesn't mean that
they take baths; they just get caught
ont IN, the rain,
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

People who spend $500 a year on
automobile joy riding, often grOwl
about 500 a year income tax to sup
port the government that makes pros
perity possible.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11
1.ooo.ooo Gallons q Day.

The dalay cOnsumptiQp Of EaSolepe
and dIstlilate By the $4,000 motor 70
hIcIes operated in California 10 ap-
prOximately 100000 gallons.-Indlan-
apolls News.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The. cups that inebriate 4 going
70 make handy mantel pieO after
next July, along with the old fash
iSned beer stems.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The Official trade Journal Of the bar
tenders union, "The Mixer and Serv-
err" won't have much excuse either for
existing longer,
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

= There Is many a'deal put over now
adays that IL far from an ideal.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

Over in France station agents are
called "Chef-de-gare;" here in this
country you don't dare publish what
they are some times called.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

After checking up our last sum.
mer's lettoyers we have figured it ont
that B. " d. stands for "Be Very De-
liberate."
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

The Rev. Mallard, has been named
the int Chaplain Of Organized La
Dor in the south. Sort Of a decOy, we
suspect.
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

II is said that at the time Of the
signing Of the armistice the Germans
had resOrted to paper water pipes and
articles Of clothing made from paper,
including socks. The suggestion may
prove valuable in finding q way to get
rid Of our old dailies.
Saner kraut is said to contain high
percentage Of "vitamens," which is a
fat soluable and is necessary in our
diet 10 cOunteract the fats that we
eat, which accounts for the average
dutchman being such q slender fellow.
When asked to explain the electric
iphenomina which appeared about mid
night last Saturday in the southwest,
old Pert Nye, local weather prognos-
ticatOr says that neither Ayers Al
manac nor the Ladies' Home Journal
made any reference to it and he sus-
poets it was only the end of a perfect
day being celebrated by some of them
Miami jags, home from Joplin.
After checking up our last gum
mer's leftoyers we have figured 1t ont
Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-11

To furnish a dining-room
atractiYely the wall covering
must be resful and unobtru-
siye. You can obtain these
results with '--.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
CITY NEWS.

u. C. T. meeting 7:45 tonight
Live rabbits for sale at 1915
Franklin.
For goodness sake try 'Hamilrs
Steel Cut Coffee"
Wanted: An apprentice for Wing
err Bros millinery
Chicken pie supper Baptist
church Tues, Feb. IS, 5:3o-7:3O, SOC.
Miss Lillian Bartholomew who
was recently operated on. is con-
valescing.
Special for Monday: Navy beans
1oc lb.; pure buckwheat 10 lbs. Soc.
Fred DeYong.
Miss Coral Meador, of Quincy.
H.. is spending the weekend with
Miss Helen Stebbins.
Masonic: Special meeting of
Hardin lodge Monday, Feb. IL, 1880
n. M E. A degree.
Poor goods are dear at any price
This is especially true of poor cof-
fees Use the best, 'Hamill's Steel
Cut"
u. C. t. initiation 7:45 tonight
Nobody wants the worst of it.
In fact, everybody is looking for the
best of it. You get the best of it
in "Hamill's Steel Cut Coffee"
II ]. Conradt, of indianapolis,
arrived last night for a weeks visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Conradt, of Twenty-eighth street and
Bellrnap boulevard.
-Keokuk lodge No Is, /. o. o. F.,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
is IN
BEST CLASS
Many Years Ago Her Citizens Took
Measures Now Being Preach
ed to Municipal
ties

Mayor Lotion might reply that as
far back as 1853, Keokuk took the
measures that are now being recon-
r1ended to municipalities anout the To-
cation Of cemeteries.
Chicago people are sending out
newspaper propaganda preaching the
ACCESSIBILITY CT locating cemeteries at
a perfectly safe distance from the pre-
sesnt city limits, of giving them
enough land 70 grow, and to provide a
method OF financing which will main
tain them. They are compiling Stats
tics of graveyards destroyed by the
march of progress, as Lincoln park
Chicago has replaced an old cemetery
containing many graves.
Oakland cemetery OF Keokuk, Is so
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

meets regularly every Monday night
at 1886 o'clock J. B. Well, N. c.;
Henry Shaefer. recording secretary.
Work in the first degree.
"A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. c. E. Peil of Detroit, Mich, at
Graham hospital this morning Be-
fore her marriage Mrs. Peil was
Miss Eva Nichols of this city.
Important business Q. c. T. tonite.
James Robert Harris and Estella
Mae Hoskins, both Of Clayton, Ill.
were married at o'clock yesterday
afternoon By Justice E. E. Hawkes.
at his office on North Fifth street. !.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
MERCHANTS TO
MEET AGAIN
VIII Attend to Business of Conrr1er r.
clal Club eftcrfs Dinner at
the Hotel Iowa Next
Tuesday.

Energized by the good evangelistic
work OF Frank stockdale. the Keo-
kuk merchants will start into the
spring with new pep and with din
ner at the Hotel Iowa dining room
next Tuesday evening.
The business meeting of the Com
mercial club viii follow the dinner,
and the dinner will start at 6:15
o'clock. a number of matters of
Importance to Keokuk retailers will
be considered.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
MILLIONS TO
THE FARMERS
Some Reports of the Money Paid for
Farm Products in Some Han
cock County CommEni-
ties Last Year.

The paper going through only one
bank at Blandinsville for cattle and
hogs shipped from that point during
1918, amounted to s1,3SS,790.
a r. Hamilton, a prominent Angus
ia stock buyer, paid to the farmers of
that locality during 1918, 1884 1854
10 livestock, which included 1926
hogs, 1858 cattle anu 1,617 sheep.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
Reconsider Recommendations.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The SEN
ate military affairs committee will
reconsider its recommendation that
Brig. Gen. Robert E. Noble, medical
corps, be given the rank in the regu-
lar army. Strong objection to Mobiles
continuation developed after the
committee voted to recommend it.
Noble was Jumped" over los other
ofricers. He was a colonel before the
war and was given temporary rank
of brigadier general
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
He Acted Rather oueerIy.


But he did not go there. He re-
marked in the conversation with the
grocer that he hated to meet his
folks, as they thought him dead and
his mother got his life insurance.
This latter is prema ture. She has
not got it yet. but the United States
considers Corporal John Albert Har,
tung to be dead and buried and his
life insurance payable to the benefi-
ciary-
The sister of the corporal, Mrs.
Cooper, wrote her mother here that
Albert is alive and was seen there,
and that she would see him today.
The mother here replied with an
invitation for them all to come up to
Keokuk tonight or tomorrow morn
ing to a big dinner and reunion, This
went down early this afternoon by
special delivery letter.
The sister seems sure and the
mother somewhat doubtful about the
corporal being alive yet. He enlisted
at Canton, Mo-. in September. 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15
is He Buried with Honors Of War Uu-
der Lilies of France, or Wan
derino Around City
OF Quincy.
SISTER THINKS NOT DEAD
Mother In kcokuk Hopes to Have Him
at Home for Big Dinner Sun
day But Case Has Some
Queer Angles.

| Is Corporal John Albert Hartung
! of Keokuk, resting in a brave SOL
diers grave under the Lilies OF
France, or is he walking around the
! city of Quincy today?
Was he killed in action last No
yember, a weelc before the armistice
was signed, os is he going to'eat big
Sunday dinner with his mother, Mrs.
Anna Hartung, OF 226 South Fifth
street, here in Keokuk tomorrow?
His sister believes, and his mother
hopes, that he is alive and In Quincy
today and may come up here tonight,
attracted by that invitation to Sun
day dinner sent him through his SIS
ter by his mother.
But some queer angles to the case,
make 1t rather mysterious, whatever
outcome of fact is developed.
Dead and Officially Buried.
Last November, his mother got one
of those kilograms signed Harris. adj
jutant general Of the army, telling
her that her son, Corporal John AT
bert Hartung, had been Killed in
action on November 4. This was
week before the armistice was
signed
Later, MIS-. Anna Hartung, Inc
mother, received a letter from gen
eral headquarters of the army in
France. signed by General Pershing,
telling her that the body OF her son,
Corporal John Albert Hartung, had
been found and buried with military
honors in a cemetery with the grave
plainly marked, and that his grave
would be cared for tenderly until the
l. I,a 10 Arpa r-fn
Not long ago. Roy Kellar, of Lewis
ton, Mo-, wrote the mother that his
chum. Albert Hartung, and he went
over the top together. and while
Kellar escaped without scratch,
Hartunx made the supreme sacrifice.
Alive, Searches for Sister.
All that made it look like Corporal
John Albert Hartung was dead and
certainly dead and permanently.
But
Yesterday afternoon. his sister.
Mrs. Harry Cooper, Of 337 South
Fifth street, Quincy. went to the
grocery store The grocer told her
that a soldier who said he was her
brother. Albert Hartung, had been
there earlier in the day to enquire
her home address. Mrs. Cooper is
sister of Hartung.
The man in the grocery store said
he had gone to her old address, in
Georgia street and found her moved.
So he went to the grocer to trace
her. 1t happened that he struck the
very store at which his sister trades.
and only three blocks from her home.
He was told the address of his sister,
few blocks distant.
He Acted Rather oueerIy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-15

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-06
ROTARIANS hear
INTERESTING TALKS
Weekly Meeting Yesterday Was We'll
Attended And Highly
Interesting

The weekly meeting Of the NhocIlnE
ptarY club held nj noon yesterday ~
-. Hotel Mrl.ur' Was well attcniCu ahu
e cXrrcI>rS unusually interesting.
Hon. James W. E,WnI4;, the first Srca;-
I introduced. explained III" purposes ol
+, Wn,"!lrE lmpI"N' mont C HliIllN'H
I'll told II tn" great h'n"Ht" lhat may
o1lc to tn" community thr"uEh us e.
# Ia hcautlfy. rNlrnd and add |" me
HuStrial Development Of III" city. Al
I. conclusion ii MIR. EWinGS lhlk
rr:;hcr If these present H'r" add'i l"
Il list ii contributors TO the city I'M
pavement fund.
iisS Julia Fulton. who was f"' SiN-
tol months engaged IN cant''h SCR i'c
fe the l. NJ. I. y. overseas, CAV an
inrrx,in:. ialk n. Mhlch she told Of the
mn nI,r.L Nv tn" Y. NJ. I. ~ "anlc"n
inhr Wu;id War. Shr sp"k" In hlEh
nrsc O; The American soldiers Tor lhc't
cxcmr cruri,"uSy and EaI!An,r! u
wtd,, tn American women IN lah'''
Sh said ,h:,, not hing rNr'"drd Inc re-
,:rri ,hcv always showed for IN" WON
en-, Miss &. Louise Patterson. "i me
Auihnu society. delivered n mos, &c
iiyTful illustrated l""iur" On Nnl' re az q
hIIs Shn demonstrated how 81" mac
hry own huiu, a N"riiHhlc bird farm.
rrridlul, Ih,ln with all tn" necessary
;aci,l"s for feeding. bathing ana i'uH!
inc N!,ss Patterson dwell upon tac hc-
vnnr,,,.,; and Measure If bird culture.
ShoIrrrl that boys AND Girls II" taught
to t. an interest in birds. not VIII" "
run,kur with a camera. .,;,,,.
.\'rS,iu,inn WAS adopted inStruclinS
tie uhlIr Affairs C"mmItt''' |" NV
cato ia" possibility If l"r' hiSih :
Iy'hMnt, I."rl AID converting II INTO u
free .:.Tli for the use Of The 5"n"ri'
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-08-06
Denver Making Strong
Bid For Trade in The
South American Field

DENVER. Aur I--DCnr|r exporters
are rapiLly pushing open the gate" 81
commercial South America hy giving
rrcn,,r attention to tho nee Is Of l."' II
American countries. 10y moro SNmpa'h"I-
il. Difference - hI%in"sS customs rr"'a-
rcrt below the equator. ry m"r" careful
IN riinG and by refrain nG FRI IN hurrEirS
the South American merchants to pa!
their bills.
Lessons derived rom IN" experiences
Of Denver manufacturers may b" bon"-
fit 10 those Of any section T.: inc ci~'-
trv. business circulars er" beng iSSu"d
i'm S1ani:;h and correspondents tamIilar
with that Language Al" minE Tmp!"E"d
So as to- arryuarh ~" customer IN MS
own Language.
P.sliz:ns that much of their mcrcAan-
disc must nc transported 10y mules oyer
The Audc.Iu passes. thu Denver n'a are
limiting tho W.. ;;lIt "f package. III me-
cnincry 10 about 80 pounds AMI are
racking thrm in cases composed ~
heavy rlarhs reinforced with steel
bands.
I.icnsion If credit is beng arranged
through tho assistance Cf certain New
York banks.
Denver exporters fINd that ii IS best
nnr TO introduce innovations with PAIN
ful sudicnnr:%.
There IS scarcely South american
country with watch som" Denver manu-
facturcr has not established c"mmcrctl
relations Til" And, an mEcS Of tho West
nrc reached lay way II III" west coast : :
south Am,r ira are III" best customers
for III, class Of machinery which Dcnrc'
has Ia offer.
Ono local exporter r. mining machH'-
cry reports that Ii" has received more
INQUIRIES from Latin America III III" past
sIx months than ever before during q
corrcSrnnGlnC pr ri0d.