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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28
81 Louis Cash Grain, Close.

st. Louis Cash Grain, Close.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 2S-Corn,-
No. 2 white, s1.S8@1.89; No. white,
s1.S5@1.sS; May, s1.33A; Septen'
Der, S1.76&; December 1913.
Oats--No. white, 721A@73c; No.
8 white, 72hc; No white, 71Ac:
May, 7SAc; September, 72Bc; De-
cember, 74kc.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28
Progressive Reading Club.

The Progressive Reading club met
Yesterday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. H. II. Smith, 1924 Ridge street.
Refreshments were served during the
Afternoon, the dining table being very
decorated In cosmos. The
next meeting Of the club will be held
|September 10, at the homo Mrs. Coch-
|rane, on South Eleventh street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

L. c. Club to Meet Friday.
The L. C. club of the Valley VIII
meet Friday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Frank Bird All members are
urged to be present.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

WANTED-To buy Ford runabout or
light truck in good condition. Ad-
dress Keokuk Fish Co., foot of Main
street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

LOST-Two little female red pigs
Notify 21O6 Des Moines or call
Black 1868. Reward
IOST-Bay horse, l white hind foot.
Flease notify Hickey grocery,
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WANTED Carpenters for concrete
form work on warehouse; 80 cents
per hour ]. H. Hunzinger & Co..
Burlington, Iowa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

FOR RENT-e27 South Third, lights
and water would sell on Install
ment plan. Inquire 1913 North Sew
enth Phone Red 1896,
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FOR RENT-Ffve room house, 1928
Bluff street; convenient to cereal.
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CROCHETERS WANTED Posi-
lively no canvassing. Stamped, ad
d. essed envelope for particulars.
y s. Nickel, SIT Lycoming ST., Will
Transport. Pa.
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WANTED-Capable girl for factory
work. Apply in writing, stating
whether employed or not. what sort
of work you have done, and age
Address 2. O. Box 1923.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

FOR SALE-Two good inner tubes5
cheap; size 35x4h. Telephone
Black 965,
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WANTED-Boarders and roomers.
304 Exchange.
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CLASSIFIED COLUMN
WANTED

WANTED-To loan money on furni.
ture, pianos, live stock, etc, on
easy payments. Strictly private.
Keokuk Loan Co., over Miller's shoe
store.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Used organs, $500. $500
$1,000 and $500. Easy terms. Dun
can-Schell Furniture Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28
The Forty Ninth Annual
Fall Session
AT THE
Gem City Business College
QUINCY,
Tuesday, September 2, 1919

Of IN
the Keokul Hamilton Warsaw
and typew1itng
other schools school each finish their thorough
randto get O.
and accountant
their children Of Keokuk received
busnes training school
The
salaries rom$1 0 $40O a
urrive n
full of
D.. L.. President
v. G. M1Eselman President
T.. E.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-six room modern house
926 Orleans avenue. Enquire 621
Exchange, or phone 267.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

FOR SALE-Used Universal, Garland,
Favorite and Pennlsular base
burners in the best OF condition. The
early buyer will pick the best. Deliv.
cry can be made when desired. Easy
terms. Duncan-Schell Furniture Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-28

FOR SALE-Two 30x3 wheels, two
30x3 tires, two 30x3 tubes. Inquire
SIT Main street.
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FOR SALE-120 acres good. well
improved farm. one-half mra on;
from Durham, Mo. A real bargain az
$50 per acre. Call and see, or ad-
dress D. NJ. Custer, M. D., Durham,
Mo.
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FOR SALE Five passenger touring
car, lights, starter and good me-
chanical condition. Will sell cheap,
803 South Twelfth. Phone Red 1913.
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FOR SALE delivery truck in first
class condition; one h. p. boiler,
one b. .. gasoline engine. Can
.230LFL14
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FOR SALB-Large soft coal base
burner. D. G. Artz, lilo Morgan
street.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-09

Her name was Araminta she
had gray eyes that were merely
gray; they could not be said TO have
expressive depths. nor TO match the
sea, nor be described as pools Of
mystery No one had ever wonder
ed what secret lay in their depths
for there was no secret and OBJ
viously no depths. They were just
gray eyes.
Her hair was merely brown: It
could never in "A poets widest flight
be referred TO as chestnut shot with
gold. nor as amber rejecting points
OF flame. IL was just brown hair
she wore IL parted on che side and
done simply on her neck. She had
never worn it any other way. Why
should she wear il any Other way2
There was no one 10 dress for but
the Mooreheads. and Mrs. Moore
head reserved the right to all the
elaborate coiffures in that house
hold.
Then too. she. Araminta. always
wore shirt waists and skirts. very
nice shirt waists 10 be sure always.
and neat tailored skirts. but shirt
waists and skirts they were never
| theless. She still considered a "one-
| piece" dress the height O. giddiness
/ in dressing. and her shoes were
made with fat heels, not because
/ they were the newest fashion. but
/ the Oldest. She had never bought
a pair with the slightest pretense of
/ a curve.
But although her features were
unremarkable and her clothes a
/ platitude. no one had ever said
Araminta wasn't good looking. Per-
/ haps IL was because no one ever said
much about her at all Elimine ton
was part of her routine. That and
/ teaching Hortense MoOrehead her
French grammar and English his
/ tory.
His name was GalaRad. but he
\ didn't look the part. Like Araminta
/ the adjectives that best describe
/ this knight of mathematics. Latin
and Greek. were negative. The eyes
! behind spectacles with firm tortoise
shell rims. were brown and near
/ sighted. also like Araminta's with
out high lights or hidden fire with
in. His hair. rather long. was light
and brushed so fatty and smoothly
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-09
As the Poet sings
By Olive Roberts Barton

against his head as to give the er-
feet of paint not quite dry. His
clothes were always, winter and
summer. an Intellectual dark gray.
and his cravat tiny bow OF black.
Galahad was tutor 10 young Moore
head, Junior. And although no one
had ever gone out of his way to
declare that the instructor re-
sem BLEED his prototype, like Ara
minta, he was not at all bad look
ms
The two of them often walked in
the garden after tea. A lovely old
English garden 1t was with high
wall and enormous areas Of FOX
glove. canterbury bells. snspdragon
and hollyhoclis.
But no matter how wonderful the
sunset. or how romance laden the
breeze. these two never thought of
anything more sentimental than
Theocritus or Charlemagne. or war
editorials by Harvey or O'Dell.
Why should they talk of any
thing different? They wore drab
clothes and lived drab lives and were
oAPROSNu ~ tAAAAAAAAhNN Aiif-AA per
atty. Therefore it was natural 10
talk of the deeds and thoughts of
others. Neither ever thought of
coming an opinion or sensation OF
his own.
And so things went on. and on,
and on. And Araminia still wore
fat heels and a waist and skirt and
was neutral enough to have pleased
a dozen Mrs. Mooreheads; and Gal
ahad Git had never occurred TO him
to resent his nancy still wore
colorless cravats and hose and big
spectacles: and failed TO see any
beauty in the roses.
Until fate, one day. in a mad
caprice. picked up these two and
flung them pell nell into the heart
OF the world, into the middle of life,
where things were real. and expert
ence deep, and where. love and hate
reigned supreme.
Galahad was drafted,
That's all there is TO say about
him. He merely disappeared from
/ the MoOrehead household after a
| few handshakings and good wishes.
and the ruffile caused by his dissp-
pearance soon settled down again 70
/ a dead calm. MoOrehead. Jr, was
The evening world., 1919-03-05

regimental front and returned with
all the information necessary. As ne
shivered into his clothes -. A." re-
marked how he had gSp right up
against bunch OF Germans hidden
In hedge and had heard their con-
vcrsation---he could speak German.
Il did It tonight, but tomorrow,
Barney. will be my last Take It
from me, there's fearful line Of
machine gun nests along that bank"
Tomorrow was 81 AS" last, for
as he advanced with Conlcy In the
first wave he was caught in n sweep
ing machine gun bombardmcnt and
Killed. Conley was wounded.
For time stories like Conlcy's nut
damper on frivolous soldier spirits.
IL was not for long that the tragic
lives In our minds when thoughts or
homegoing are uppermost. There is
always good laugh going around.
Capt. Joseph u. Eddy, son of tho coal
baron OF New York, is one OF Gen.
Organs aides and noted for his keen
appearance. Not long ago the CAPTAIN
sent his laundry to n French wash
erwoman. Tho laundry situation in
France Is something like II was ut
Camp Wadsworth. One can always
get good shirt for an old one by
Just claiming the first good shirt ono
sees in the washerwomans load.
Capt Eddys laundry was OF the
faest quality. But the laundry lady
gave 1t to private whose first name
was Eddie, and the private sent It to
another laundry woman who gave It
to another soldier named Eddie, and
II passed through all four infantry reg
imcnts and was lost, so Capt. Eddy
thought. one day this week Cant.
Eddy's car was stalled at the Mont
fort Railroad crossing while a French
troop train on its way to Paris was
halted From one of the doors Of u
forty hommes eight chevaux palace
car some washing was hanging OUT.
The Captain recognized his favorite
handkerchiefs and started for them.
But the train pulled out. Laundry.
like rumor travels.
The evening world., 1919-03-05
By Bide Dudley
Copyright, 1919, By The Prcsr Pub iahinz Co.
LIl.n ~ A..rL L. AI---LL

Copyright, 1919 By The Press Pub Hhinz Co.
The New York E,enius wordl
T \ the realm of the stage youth Is
wonderful asset, and yet there
Is no age dead line in the acting
profession. Some OF the most popu-
lar players of the present day, who
are still active in their chosen work,
are past sixty and few have passed
the three score and ten mark. There
Is no reason why member OF the
profession should retire on account
of age, unless he or she Is incapaci-
tated physically, There is a finish
that comes with later years that
youth lacks. Coupled with an under
standing and an ability born OF long
experience, it does not take second
place to youth by any manner OF
means. The player OF sixty who Is
still active has to understand his
trade or he will not be active long.
Not great while ago Patricia Col
llnge was starred at Henry Millers
Theatre in a play called "Tillie." In
her support was Maud Granger, sew
enty-two years old, yet still an alert,
talented player. Then there is the
ever popular Rose Coghlan. She re-
Gently concluded an engagement in
THE Man Who Stayed at Home"
and she is past siXty-five. In Dear
Brutus," at the Empire, is Marie
Wainwright. winning the plaudits of
thousands weekly. You may not be-
lieve it, but she is siXty-fiVe years
old.
Acting in the London music halls
recently was Lily Langtry, young
woman at sixty-six. She is still a
great success. In Paris, preparing to
continue her stage work, is the great
French actress, Sarah Bernhard Ally
though she has but one leg, Nine.
Barnhardt. at the age OF seventy-four,
Is still an active figure in theatrlcals.
William II, Crane, who is past seven
ty, has finished just recently star
ring tour on the Pacific Coast, and is
now sought by oliver Morosco for the
title role in another "Cappy Ricks'
company.
The evening world., 1919-03-05
No Age Limit on Stage
Popular. Players Past Sixty Prove Years
an Asset as Valuable as Youth.

Genevleve Ward, at the age OF
eIghty-four. played Lady Macbeth"
in London a short while ago and did
II well. She was born in America but
has spent many years abroad. Until
about two years ago Ida Vernon, now
sovcnty-five, was with William Hodge.
She met with an accident, however,
and is off the stage recuperating.
Frederick warde, still active, is past
sixty-five. Francis Wilson, who con-
siders himself anything but retired,
was born more than sixty years ago,
Frazer Coulter is still in the harness
at seventy. John Drew. born in 1858,
is good for at least fifteen years more.
Robert Mantell, one of Americas best
Shakespearian actors, is past sixty,
yet he isn't nearly through.
Robert Downing Is playing Ten
Nights in a Barroom" this season. He
has passed the sixty mark. Robert
Hilllard, recently starred on Broad
way. is past fifty-nine, while Eddie
Foy is in his early sixties.
Others who are past sixty and yet
able to act, and act well, are Charles
A. Stevenson. Kate Bateman, George
Giddens. John Hare, oliver Dowd
Byron. James o'Neill, w. j. Fergu-
son, William II, Thompson, William
Gillette. Mrs. w. II. Kendall, Fred
eric De Belleville, J. f. Dodson, Marie
Bates, Annie Mack Berleln, George
Woodward. Jeffreys Lewis, Helen
Tracey, Harry Harwood and Sir
Johnstone Forbes Robertson.
Efiis Elsler was born in 1858. Clara
Morris, who has retired, is seventy
two. Ellen Terry, now lecturing on
Shakespeare" abroad, is seventy.
Kate Claxton. OF Two Orphans" fame,
is seventy and retired. F. F. Mackay,
who teaches acting and frequently
acts for the edlfication OF his pupils.
is eighty-six. And there are others,
both active and recently retired. who
have passed the seventy mark.
Thus 1t may be seen that. while
youth is a marvellous aid TO the pro-
fession OF acting. the solid foundation
OF the stage. is made up of the bricki
Of ass.
The evening world., 1919-03-05

No, say some. BY heavens. yes, say
others-the clean, safe. steady. friend
ly work instead Of counting gas and
shrapnel shells!
VIII he go non-resistantly TO the
store with wife's housekeeping list,
and face with meekness the domestic
court martial when he returns without
the baby's condensed milk? No, say
some. BY heavens, yes, say others.
Anything-ANYTHlNG for PEACE!
Will Bill consume the pies and
naky biscuits of his home kitchen
with seemly appreciation. after bully
beef and hash? Or will he. with
cruel candor, complain that he
learned how to make better pan
cakes than these in the old mess
shack at St Mihiei"? Or Gee! This
bed amt done accordin' to army
rules. Look-a how that blankets put
on! Never would-a passed muster
In our camp at Thierry."
Marion Cothren, lawyer, Suffrage
leader, writer and beautiful lady, lust
returned from many months sojourn
upon the hghting fronts of France,
for the Red Cross. inclines to the
theory that "the day OF the hem
pecked husband is over. The re-
turned doughboy may be a better
man than when he went away, but
he won't be 4 better husband from
the viewpoint of the commanding
American wife, He is through with
blind obedience"
How about 1t, Gentle Reader?
The evening world., 1919-03-05

She Is a slender woman, not much
over Ave feet, with eyes as blue as
her horizon uniform. She first went
to Russia in the spring OF 1917 and
established work in Petrograd, Mos
COW and other centres for Russian
girls. She went out with the Ameri-
can Consul and the other Americans
in September, 1918, going to Stock
holm, Sweden. From there she made
long, toilsome journey TO Vardo,
the northcrnmost port of Sweden,
and from Vardo took n Russian fish,
ing boat to Archangel, in October.
1918. She and her five associates,
Miss Marcia Durham, Miss Clara
Taylor, Miss Elizabeth Dickerson,
Miss Hannah Ogden and Mrs. Bryant
Ryale. together with two Red Cross
nurses, were the first and only
American women to enter Northern
Russia since the American soldiers
were sent there.
First we opened our hostess house"
she said yesterday, which, OF course,
was nothing but log nut. we had
the greatest difficulty in putting even
that together, for no one outside Rus
sa can conceive the utter lack OF
every common article. There were no
nails TO be bought and no tools. But
the British and Americans we're so
glad to see us that they helped us out
with everything they could supply or
construct, and somehow we got the
house up.
Then came the question OF decorat-
ing 1t. We had to make 1t look some
thing like home for those boys Of ours,
Finally we went to our friends, the
Michigan Engineers, and they man
aged to supply US with one can OF blue
paint. But what were we to do for
The evening world., 1919-03-05

VIII Buddy be. in short, like the
perennial circus. bigger and better
than ever before"7 The ideal compile
ment to the ideal girl who waits for
hlm2
Far be II from us, gentle reader,
to hint that he may possibly return
with an unholy desire TO put his feet
on tho fender, light stogie and en-
courage everybody to work but
father" But we admit that while
collecting evidence concerning Bud
dy's new state OF mind and soul we
received setback to our optimism
from an army chaplain who asserted
that human nature never changes"
Don't expect a new sort OF man
to come home from the war" he
warned. "Ho will have the same
virtues and faults he took away with
him. II he seems different at first, It
Is only because he has learned in
eighteen months what it would have
taken him eighteen years TO learn
without the hard lesson OF war"
Which is only another way. per-
haps, OF phrasinS what | was told
by Charles Brook, one Of the returned
secretaries OF the "Y."
"He went overseas n boy" says
Mr. Brook, and he comes home a
man"
But Secretary Brook goes further.
lie believes Buddy's nature has
changed and as he spent sixteen
months In France-first with the 10th
Regiment, Forestry Engineers: then
with the artillery in the training
area at De Souge; later with the "a
The evening world., 1919-03-05

hallboy, Horace. Horace salutod.
came to attention and the Colonel
addressed him.
where have you been in the war;"
inquired the Colonel.
Down In dc woods. boss; down with
de boys in dc woods. You know de
woods" replied the darkey.
you mean the Argonne Forest7"
querled the Colonel.
''Yas. sab. boss. OATS 1.-THE hr-
gonne Woods. Where was you.
boss?"
with the 27th up in France. Our
boys broke through the Hindenburg
line" said tho Colonel
II remember dat: yas sab, re-
member 1t sure, boss. remember
how dat line sagged way down in the
Argonne, boss. Sure 1 does"
Our wait here is also producing
many reunions. Wounded men are
coming back from English hospitals
and our artillery. separated from us
during the war. Is In tho Laval area,
forty kilos from here. and buddies
from Brooklyn are being reunited.
Stories OF the Hindenburg and Mt
KENNEL days are being told in cor
ners OF dimly lit estaminets. Many
wonderful tales untold until now be-
cause the survivors were wounded or
missing are being told. One OF the
most thrilling was told by Barney
Conley, whose father, n former police
captain in New York City, was In the
Tenderloin district in Its PALMER
days.
Conley had buddy in the old
Seventh, J. A. Kennedy, a famous
New England swimmer who came all
the way from New Hampshire to get
into the millionaire regiment. -. A."
as the Seventh knew him was a
muscular giant and a swimmer des-
tined some day to carry honors from
Hawaiians. Australians and all COM
ers. lie will be remembered by men
Of the New York Athletic Club as a
champion underwater swimmer.
-. A." went through our first scrap
in Belgium without wound. Conley
and y. A." were bunkies.
Last October when our men were
all set before st. Souplet for the next
mornings show. Conley. ~. A." and
Lieut.. Lockyear, Intelligence Ofhcer
of the Seventh, crossed over the tape
in tho darkness to make a recon-
Nuisance OF the La Selle River, few
hundred yards east OF 81. Souplet
Nothing was known OF the depth OF
the river or the general condition OF
things on the eastern bank. When
the three men reached the river shore
they found 1t too deep TO wade and
hundreds OF German eyes were wait
Ing on the other side to sweep the
river with machine gun fire.
Kennedy at once saw that he was
the man to do the Job, and It would
be lonely one. The regimental
front ran along the river for 500
yards. The water was just deep
enough to swim in.
TITS job for me-" ~. A." said as
he relieved himself OF his khaki.
u. A." had never been known by
his terminates 10 talk OF the ideals
OF a soldier. the great things Ameri-
cans were fghting for. and he knew
nothing OF theatres.
TITS a mans war. It's a big thing
rye a chance TO do something here
that others cannot do. and I'm going
to do IT," said the Swlmmer as he
handed over a German watch and O
few trlnkets to Conley hia pal. tits
Just what we came over for" he con
cluded, with a shake OF his bunkle's
hand. The Lieutenant and conley
placed u. A." In the water gently
because even a splash would have
stirred those Boche machine guns
into deadly action. The officer and
coniey pushed ~. A." under the
Water and he Waa OF lika a ash1