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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
WHAT TO AVOID
IN FIT. MADISON
The New Chief Of Police up There is
on the Job In Really Enforcing
All Motoring
Rules.

That It Is well for motorists driving
into Fort Madison to carefully OBJ
serve traffic regulations there. is the
warning given by those who know.
The new city administration up
there includes a chief of police who
once was on the force in Chicago, who
has not lived long in Fort Madison,
who is a member of the dominant
party which carried the city over
whelmingly at the last election of the
labor ticket, and who does not give
q tinker's obstruction to solder for
any prominent citizen of his town, not
Il, speak Of Keokuk and other neigh
bors.
He arrests vioIators of the law and
sees to it that they are fined.
The three important things. OF
speeding, running without all three
required lights, and parking an auto
mobile too close to corner and in
other prohibited places, are what this
new chief of police Is looking after
Particularly Just now.
He is accommodating a specially once
2 week, and not dropping any as he
takes on a new one. BY the last OF
this week, he will have added getting
on theewrong side of the street, at in
tersections and elsewhere no doubt.
Motorists might as well take the tip
of the Fort Madison Democrat and run
true to regulations in Fort Madison
to avoid real trouble and cost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02

Whales have been known to dive
at the rate OF 800 yards Minute
when struck by the harpoon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
STEAMBOAT
CENTER HERE
keokuk Is One Of the Few Cites
Left on tho Mississippi With
Steamer Service Both
Ways.

AS 1t was in the middle Of the last
century, Keokuk Is now the chief
steamboat city on the upper Missis-
sippi, although the traffic now is
small fraction OF what 1t was years
ago.
The Helen Blair began last Satnr-
day to make her regular week end
trips from Keokuk to Davenport,
now the longest trip on the upper
river. She will make 1t every week
end, leaving Keokuk at O'clock IN
the afternoon.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays The
Helen Blair leaves Burlington after
the arrival of the Keokuk from Neo-
aux, making a through trip With one
charge between Keokuk and Oayen-
port. There is no other trip COM
parable to this on the upper Missis-
sippi now. To the south, the keo-
kuk goes to Quincy and return three
times a week, and that Is the only
steamboat service Quincy has any
more.
Captain Walter A. Blair, general
manager of the White Collar line,
has had the nerve to keep his boats
going after all other lines stopped,
and shippers are rewarding him for
It to a considerable extent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
KEOKUK PRODUCT
IN WORLD WAR
Or. Robert s. ReImers, Born, Reared,
and Educated Here, Says Some
Good Things In Memorial
Day Address.

DR.. Robert s. Reimers, born, reared
and educated in Keokuk, captain in
the medical corps of the overseas
army, with long service in France,
made one OF the addresses Memorial
day in Fort Madison, and part of what
he said is this:
II was as close to the line as 1t Is
possible for medical man working In
hospitals to get, but l saw no actual
fighting, but I can relate to you the
story Of the Memorial day ceremonies
at which / participated a year ago
today.
Everyone connected with the hospi-
tay was under orders to participate.
A band was procured from distant
army unit and the military parade
formed and marched out to the GENE
terry where q speakers stand had been
erected.
Picture day about like this. One
OF the few sunny days experienced
III France, Among the officers present
were French general and a French
admiral, the American consul general
OF the district and the French mayor
OF the little town where the hospital
was located.
During the ceremony speeches
were read in French by the general
and the admiral and then translated
into English by their secretaries.
"They were grateful to US for our
assistance, for our alliance and were
willing and glad to leave their siren
uous duties to join with us in respect
ing and honoring the memory Of our
dead.
"a little later during my term OF
service opportunity came for me to
visit some Of the great Dattlefields
and then / realized more than ever
why we should celebrate this day.
Rows upon rows OF crosses where the
machine guns had swept and under
each the body of an American boy
who had given his life for his country.
Then you were glad that you had at
least been able to serve and do your
duty. no matter how humble. There
10 honor enough for ALL"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
AMERICANS
LOST MASCOT
BOYS Parents Killed In Air Raid,
was Adopted by Air Force
But Not Allowed to
Leave.
rBy United Press.l

LONDON. (By mail. )-The STORY
of how the American air force adopt
ed a bright, curly-headed mascot was
told here at the police court when
the child was charged with sleeping
out" The chapters of his career
were as follows:
Parents killed in an air raid In
October, 1917.
Boy adopted as mascot by lS6
squadron, American air force.
Handed over to 153 squadron. when
1876 went to France.
Given to 22s squadron. when 153
crossed the channel
No. 228 squadron ordered home
Tried hard to pesuade the British
government to allow them to take
their little mascot with them, but the
government said: mo, not for foul
years"
So the Americans left their Lite
cornrade behind The boy, oerefr u
friends and destitute, was found
asleep under a hayrick, and was
taken to the police court.
After hearing his tragic history
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
The only Objectionable Feature.

Springfield, Mass, Republican,:
Omen sessions when the senate con-
sfders the peace treaty viii suit
everybody. But, oh! the intermin-
able speeches to poster1ty!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
SOCIAL WORK
CONFERENCE
Men and Women Prominent In Edu-
cational and Sociological
Work Attending.
Meeting.

ATLANTIC CITY, June 2.-Men
and women prominent in educational
and sociological work In all parts or
the world were gathered here for the
forty-sixth annual convention OF the
National Conference of Social work,
which opened today for ten-day ses-
sion
Reconstruction through social work
and child welfare were announced as
the chief topics of the convention.
Henry w. Thurston, New York School
of philanthropy, viii lead the child
welfare discussions.
Among the American educators
sch eduled to appear were Randall j.
Condor, superintendent of schools In
Cincinnati; DIR. C. E. A. WINSTON. Yale
university; Allen T. Burns of the
Carnegie Foundation and Dean Ros-
zoe Pound, Harvard law school. Dele
gates expected to represent Europe
are:
Belgium.-Dr. Rene Sand, professor
of social and industrial medicine at
the University of Brussels and ad-
visor on medical inspection OF min
istry of labor.
England.-Sir Arthur Newsholme,
eminent board; Mrs. Eleanor Barton
OF the Womens Cooperative guild, an
organization of the wives Of British
wage earners; Mary Macarthur. Eng
lish Women's Trade Union league;
Sir Cyril Jackson, board Of education,
London, and R c. DAWSON, director
of the Juvenile labor exchange OF
England.
France.-Dr. G.. Mulon, OF the
French war department, who super
vised creches maintained in connec-
ton with munition plants.
Italy.-Professo Fabio Frassetto,
professor of anthropology at the Uni
versity of Bologna
Japan-Mr Takoyuh Manage, In
the service OF the Japanese interior
department, In charge of the office
governing reformatory and relief
work
Russia.-Mr. Alexander Zelenko,
managing director. American commit
tee of the Russian cooperative union.
Serbia-Dr. Radmfla Lazarev1tch
Milochevitch, a Serbian physician
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
The boys like the organization and the

The bows like the organization and the
country needs the organization.
From personal observation, | know
the boy scout organization is helpful
to a community, not only among the
toys but the grown-up people as Wen
Boy scouts know the proper respec'
to be shown the flag when displayed
They keep order in outdoor meetings.
Every community in Iowa ought &c
be organized. Today, in the STATE
there are only ten thousand members
out of a possible two hundred and
twenty-five thousand who are ensiole.
The cause needs volunteer scoul
leaders. No greater field for construc'
tive work in building for better homes,
better manhood, and better ciuzen-
ship can be offered to any individual
than to be a scout leader. 1t Is 1oD
for a patriot. Where citizens COM
n.ittee is not already organized,
urge that municipal authorities get IN
touch either with Homer A Miller OF
Des Moines, Iowa, state chairman. or
Honorable w. G. McAdoo OF ne"
York, national chairman.
Therefore, by virtue of authority IN
me vested as governor of the state OF
Iowa, l, w. L. Harding, hereby SET
apart. in conformity with proclama-
ton by the president, the week begin
ming June Sth and ending June 14th,
1919. as Boy Scout week, and urge
that the citizens of the state become
interested in the movement and see
that each community is organized.
In testimony whereof, / have here
unto set my hand and caused to be ar
fixed the great seal of the state.
Done at Des Moines, this twenty
ninth day OF May, 1919.
w. L. HARDING,
Governor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
KEOKUK RUSHED
To ALEXANDRIA
When Dusiswhackers Raided That Mis-
souri, City, Four Hundred Pat
rIotIe Minute Men of keo-
kuk Hurried There.
ECHO OF ANOTHER WAR
Enemy Raided Stores and Secured a
Wagon Load of Arms and AM
munltion, But Fled Before
Guards Arrive.

How Keokuk troops rushed to re
pei raid by bushwhackers on the
neighboring city of Alexandria, is told
by Jasper Blines in his historical re
nliniscences running in the Kahoka
G,azette-Herold He writes:
One little keepsake much priced by
Abram Sortore, a former prominent
citizen of CLARK county, is a common
little powder charger which he found
the morning OF the raid the Confed'
crates made on Alexandria.
This was Captain Ausley and about
twenty-five men who entered Alex.
endrda and took possession, Sunday
morning, August 8. 1862.
Raided Stores for Munitions.
They secured about forty dollars
worth of gun caps, powder and LEAD
out of George Reds store, seven guns
and some ammunition out of knneys
store, about eighty sso!lars' worth out
Of the grocery store OF Isaac Coon
ram. and several smaller lots from
other houses; in all, they stole about
twenty guns, $4,000 gun caps ana
enough powder and lead to load
two-horse wagon.
They took breakfast at Hewitt and
Resslers boarding house. for which
they paid in reenbacks and coin,
and having got through with their
business, decamped about 10 o'clock
Calling Troops from keokuk.
In the meantime word of what was
going on was sent by union men up to
Keokuk, from which place four hun
bred men Immediately started down
to the seat of war, on the ferryboat,
but did not reach there until about
two hours after the searchers had de-
parted and of course there was no
battle.
The visiting C. S. A. band devoted
their attention to taking valuable
goods from citizens who were loyal
to the government The raid hap
pening in the night and early morning
caused but little commotion in east
Clark county. for the brigade OF raid
ers cal1ie and went rather quietly.
They selected their line OF retreat out
of the lower Fox river road, and Mr..
Sortore priced the little powder
charger or guage, as relic OF that
eventful Sunday morning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
BOY SCOUT WEEK
TO BE NEXT WEEK
Governor Harding Issues a Proclama
ton In Recognition of the Good
Work Of the Organ
ization

DES MONIES, June Governor
Harding gives the recognition Of the
state of Iowa to the good work of the
Boy Scout organization by a proclama-
ton issued from the executive office
sa follows:
To the People OF Iowa:
The boy scout movement in the
United States is recognized by special
charter from congress. The boys who
are members of the organization have
been very helpful in many ways in
war activities here at home.
The boy scout movement is educa-
tional. 1t trains for clean, kindly
courageous boyhood and manhood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
ROTTEN ROAD
INTO NAUVOO
The Illinois Lake Shore Boulevard
Has Been Allowed to Go to Ruin
by the Authorities
There.

The following is what the Nauyoo
Rustler says about it:
The boulevard between Nauvoo ano
Hamilton has seen its best days and
is now worse than the country roads;
il is a shame to leave this splendid
scenic driveway go to ruin, for it was
e delightful drive in the summer
time. 1t is getting worse and worse
and the macadam has about disap-
peared The Mt Moriah hill Is in
about as bad a condition as 1t could
possibly be, and no more attempts
are being made to repair it. Thus a
driveway costing thousands Of dol
lars is going to ruin, has seen its best
days, simply due to an unappreciatiVe
public of good driveways. Why is
this permitted? Go over on the
boulevard between Keokuk and Mon,
t1ose and note how they appreciate
good roads and how they keep them In
first-class condition. 1t will do your
heart good.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02

Rasps were first made of sheets of
bronze, punched and coiled round.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02

the magistrate said: You mustn't
mind being In the dock, my boz; you
haven't done anything wrong The
boy was placed In the care Of the
missionary who promised 20 hook
after him and find him proper work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-12
Fulton County Hires
AlDeKalb Convicts

ATLANTA, Feb. 12.-Fulton county
has tentatively perfected arrange
ments to lease the convict gang of
DeKalb county and put them to work
on Fulton county roads, while DeKalb
county will carry on her road work
program by contract
DeKalb county's gang dwindled to
such small proportions that convicts
could no longer be utilized economic
ally. It cost nearly as much to main
tain camps as their labor was worth
Hence the DeKalb authorities decided
to abolish their convict force and let
out their road building to contractors.
They submitted a proposition to the
Fulton authorities that was accepted,
and the switch will be made in the
next few days.
Fulton county is to pay SIS per
month per man for the convicts, and
is to house, feed and clothe them.
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Raid of PuIlnans
Uncovers MuchRye

ATLANTA. Feb. 12.-Importing Ii
quor into Atlanta on dining cars and
in the linen lockers of Pullman sleep
ers is getting to be a dangerous and
hazardous business, as the federal and
state and city officers are close in be-
hind the Pullman porters and dining
car funkies.
When a train from Cincinnati roll
ed into the union station Saturday a
squad of city detectives and federal
officers presented the conductor with
a set Of search warrants and proceed
ed to go through the car from stem to
stern, with the result that several
dozen pints Of bottled in bond rye
whisky, bearing the label of various
Cincinanti concerns, were found in
the lockers and pantries and ice boxes.
Blind tiger whisky in Atlanta has
now narrowed down to two distinct
types:
l. The mountain dew liquor brought
into the city by moonshiners from the
Blue Ridge, who run the blockade
with cleverly constructed automobile
gas tanks.
2. Cheap rye liquor from Cincin-
natl, brought into the city by the
dining and Pullman car route.
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his teeth fixed, the men gave him
great send-off and began to count the
days before his return.
But he never went beck The big
gest Bertha of them all struck him
down as he was on his way to deliver
a message for one of the soldiers whom
he had served. When he came out of
the hospital he went to the Y. N. C. A
leave resort at Nice, where GONZALES
cent doughboys enjoy all the delights
which formerly were possible of en-
joyment only by the extremely rich.
"The value of the contribution of
this leave area system to the Y. M. c..
A. program" said Mr. Williams. will
never be adequately told until the
boys themselves come home. I have
never yet heard of an American SOL
der who had spent his leave in any
one of the seven leave areas operated
by the 'Y' who was not enthusiastic
about the entire program OF the asso-
citation. Hundreds of real American
girls are overseas serving our boys in
these resorts. and the extent of their
servic evil be understood when it is
known that the "Y' can entertain
more than 10000 men at time and is
planning to double the facilities if
suitable areas can be located"
Mr.. Williams plans to go at once
to his home in central Tennessee and
later will hang out his shingle in Chat
tanooga and resume the prosaic pro-
fession Of counsellor at law.
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LAST Shell OF
BIGGEST BERTHA
HIT TENNESSEAN

ATLANTA, Feb. 12.-Back in the
u. s. A. after more than a year in Y.
NC. A. service overseas is Livesey Z.
Williams, a lawyer of Chattanooga,
Tenn. who complains that he is the
unluckiest of the more than 5000 "Y'
men who were sent to France. In Au-
gust he went to Paris during lull in
the fighting to have some dental work
done. Four months and half later
DE was discharged from a hospital
where surgeons had removed from
cavity in his hip what they said was
tie largest shell fragment they had
even taken from man who recovered.
That was lucky for him, Williams ad
KITS. but the unlucky part was that
this fragment few from the last shell
thrown into Paris by the German
loag-range gun, and it hit him after
he had gone through weeks of heavy
fighting at Cantigny and scissors
without getting as much as a scratch.
Williams tried twice to get into a
combat branch of the military machine
and actually put in several weeks at
Fort Oglethorpe. Ga, before the army
surgeons rejected him. Then he en-
listed in the Red Triangle army, spent
ut Lon
and finally sailed for France in De-
acember, 1917. He was assigned to the
first division and joined the regulars
without any noticeable enthusiasm on
their part. In few months he was
50 solid with them that their officers
had instructed the top sergeants to
provide army trucks for the "Y" man
any time he needed their assistance in
getting supplies.
The satisfaction that derived from
being able to get close to these men,"
said Mr.. Williams at the HEADQUARTERS
of the Y. NJ. G A. War Work Council,
more than compensates me for the
months that I spent in d hospital and
the fact that may be lame all the
rest of my life 1t got so after time
that l didn't lave to ask the top
sergeant for detail when there was
more work to be done than l could do
alone. These men just naturally saw
things to do, and volunteered to do
ihem. 1 don't think this spirit was
aroused by the chocolate t'iat made
fer them, the tobacco that 1 obtained
FOR them, the athletic supplies that the
"Y" furnished or the religious services
That arranged
Those rough old regulars just
couldn't resist the influence of the
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home atmosphere that tried to
create for them. The thinking man in
the army look IL beyonI The little lux
uries that he came to regard as recess
stiles because the 7. B.. {. ~. made
them so plentiful, anil saw in tne pres
ence of the "Y' mon GhC E.'nEr in
the camps AMI at the front the repre-
srrtatiVes of the loved ones a. home,
standing by VITA self-sacriice rs SYM
bells of the fathers and mothers. the
wives and sweethearts, brothers and
sisters, who remained at home. This
game leg becomes in my imagination
as 1.-the and flexible as formerly when
/ think of those men who regarded me
as their father or brother or pal"
1t was in April that the 1st Division.
brigaded with the French an Cantigny,
had the honor of being the first Amer
can unit to go into action in major
operation. Williams put up his Red
Triangle sign at a dugout. In front
of him were the light artillery units
and behind him the American heavy
artillery pieces. He was literally
within a rim of fire. Near him a
railroad junction was legitimate tar
get for German guns. He learned to
withstand the nervous shock of the
big shells which the soldiers called
freight cars, because of the noise they
made as they rushed through the air;
and he sympathized with the negroes
who said that the whiz-bangs made
them homesick because they seemed
to say "Alabam."
After finishing the job at Canigny
inc First vert to scissors. where Will
liams says as much excitement was
crowded into three days as a month
ana half had produced at Cantigny.
There was shortage of stretcher
bearers because of the violence of the
fighting and the heavy casualties and
for half day Williams closed up
the "Y" shop and went into action on
the front end of litter No wonder
that when the division was transfer
red to Nancy to prepare for the cam
paign at st. Mihiel and in the Argonne.
and Williams went to Paris to have
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ment of the Netherlands granted a spe.
cial charter authorizing its sale.
The good housewife Of Holland wouId
almost as soon be without food as with
out her Real Dutch Drops" as she
quantity calls GOLD MEDAL Harlem
Oil Capsules. Their use restores
strength and is responsible in q great
measure for the sturdy, robust health
of the Hollanders.
Do not delay. Go to your druggist
and insist on his supplying you with a
Capsules. Take them as directed, and
if you are not satisfied with results your
druggist will gladly refund your money.
Look for the name GOLD MEDAL ON
the box and accept TO other In sealed
boxes three sizes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-02-12
Daily Health Talks
GOING BACK TO NATURE.
By DIR. W. LUCAS.

People get sick because they go away
from Nature, and the only gay to gee
well is to go back. Something grows out
of the ground in the form of vegetation
to cure almost every ill. Some of thesa
vegetable growths are understood by
man, and some are not. Animals, it
would seem, know what to do when
they are sick better than men and
women. Observers have noted that .
sick horse, dog or cat will stop eating
food and seek out some vegetable
growth in the field or yard, which, when
found and eaten, often restores appetite
and health. Haven't you seen these
animals do this very thing yourself2
DIR. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, long
since found the herbs and roots pro-
vided by Nature to overcome constipa-
ton, and he had these vegetables col
lected and made up of Mayapple, leaves
of Aloe, root of Jalap, into little white
sugar coated pills, that he called DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. You must
understand that when your intestines
are stopped up, poisons and decayed
matter are imprisoned in your system,
and these are carried by the blood
throughout your body. Thus does
your head ache, you get dizzy, you
can't sleep, your skin may break out,
your appetite declines, you get tired
and respondent. As a matter of fact,
you may get sick all over. Don't you
see how useless all this suffering is ?
All that is often needed is a few of
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, which he
has placed in all drug stores for your
convenience and health. Try them by
all means. They are probably the very
@ing you need right now