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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
DO AWAY WITH.
INDIGESTION
How to Purify Sour, Distressed
Stomach in Few Minutes.
Do you know this mani
Height 6 #. | inch
Weight.. 145 lbs.
Face. Thin
Features. Prominent

Stomach IN Few MINUTES.
Let us talk plain English; let as
call spade spade.
Let us tell the truth and say that
If you are constantly distressed after
meals, If you belch gas and sour food
comes up In the mouth, then your
stomach is in rancid condition and
should be purified and put in good
shape at once.
Your food ferments and your stom-
ach isn't strong enough to digest the
food you put into It, SO the food
sours and forms poisonous gases, and
when it does leave your stomach It
has not furnished proper nourishment
to the blood, and has left the ston1-
ach In a filthy condition.
Take Mona stomach tablets IL you
want to change your filthy stomach
to healthy. clean, purified one.
So strong Is our faith in the value
of Mona, we authorize your dealer
to cheerfully refund your money IL
Mona fails to relieve your indiges-
ton, rid you of dizziness, biliousness
and sick headache.
If you want to make your stomach
so strong that IL will digest a hearty
meal without distress, and you want
to be without that drowsy. all tired
out feeling, take Mona stomach tab
lets. No matter how miserable your
stomach feels, Mona should give
you prompt relief For sale by all
leading druggists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Make Your Stomach
Your Best Friend
stuart's, Dyspepsia Tablets Digest the
Food, Prevent Sourness and
Make You Feel Fine
All Over.

If you feel any distress after eat
ing take Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
let You will then have a good,
STEADY friend in your stomach. For
no matter what you eat there will
be no gas, no sour risings, no lump
In your throat, no biliousness, no
dark brown taste in the morning.
And should you now be troubled, eat
a tablet as soon as possible and re-
lief will come promptly. These tab
let's correct at once the faults of a
weak or overworked stomach, they do
the work while the stomach rests and
RECEIVERS itself. Particularly effective
are they for banQueters and those
whose environment brings them in
contact with the rich food most apt
to cause stomach arrangement. Re
lief in these cases always brings the
glad smile. Get a box Of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. so cents, in any
drug store. Be good to your stomach.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

ton believes that the public generally
will welcome the opportunity to hear
the really great speaker, who is to lee
ture on The Dawn of a new Day" at
the First Baptist church on Monday
evening, January 20, at s, o'clock. Mr..
Howard comes with the unqualified
endorsement of many men and women
OF note, and that he has been heard by
packed houses in fortytwo states
within the past year gives some indi-
cation of his ability Be sure to hear
him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
LECTURE.
Hon. Clinton N. Howard.

Tho admission fee set for the lecture
by Hon. Clinton N. Howard. The Lit
tie Giant" is only nominal, and is
placed thus low in order that the price
may keep no one from attending.
Keokuk hasn't had many lectures In
the past few years since the suspen
sion Of the regular lecture courses
which used to be held every season
for that reason the Woman's fedora.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Horse Brigade at Home.

rI1nited Press Leased Wire Service.]
CAMP DODGE, Iowa, Jan. 15.-The
horse brigade Of the 1o9th ammuni-
ton train, an all Iowa organization.
will be mustered out of service be-
fore next week, l. was announced by
Major Geiger, of Sheldon, command
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
It lsn,t our job.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: That
the United States should be suggest
ed as the power to act as guardian
for the orient is gratifying tribute
to the unselfishness OF its aims; but
might not this be regarded. to para
phrase Tennyson. as the burden OF
an honor unto which we were not
born?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

ant. The brigade. about 200 men,
arrived last night and was in the
"paperwork" stage of being demobil-
tied today.
The motor section of the train is
still in France, according to Geiger.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Lee county Board Have Orders to
stay at Posts Awaiting orders
for work from Time
to Time.
MEYER GOES TO NEW JOB
plffcult Work Now is to Get Names
and Data Of Men Who Enlisted
instead Of Entering
by Draft.

The Lee county board has no idea
vet when it will finish its work and
adjourn sine die.
II does not even know what Its
work in the future will be-
II has orders from General Crow
der to keep itself alive and await
orders which will come to 1t later
that will keep 1t reasonably busy for
considerable part Of this year Of
1919.
Hence. it is awaiting orders with
some curiosity, not to say alarm, and
until they arrive, 1t is doing what
4 has been told to do to date and
finding that the hardest work 1t ever
had to do is to get the relatives of
: enlisted men to furnish 1t with their
names.
Meyer Goes TO Another Job.
Secretary A. P. Meyer has resigned
from the board effective when 1t is
discharged from service later on, and
in the meantime has taken employ
ment with the Perfection tire people
at Fort Madison His wife will act
in his stead as chief clerk on tho
exemption board hereafter. and be in
charge Of its main office at Fort
Madison, while Chairman John c..
Scott keeps busy as usual here and
between here and the other county
seat
Sheriff Scott Is still amazed at the
difficulty of getting the information
the war department ordered the
exemption board to get from the rela-
tiyes Of all men who enlisted as pri-
Yates or officers. or entered the army
in any other way than through the
calls for this data. many parents and
wives utterly neglect to telephone or
write 1t, and thus much harm will be
done the soldiers who enlisted in the
future, by the lack OF records the
war department. requires.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
STOMACH UPSET?
PAPE'S DiAPEPsiN AT ONCE ENDS
DYSPEPSIA, AcIDiTY,. GAS,
INDIGESTION.

|. Your meals hit back! Your stomach
is sour, acid, gassy and you feel bloat-
ed after eating or you have heavy
Jumps of indigestion pain or headache.
but never mind. Here is instant re-
lief,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

to tell you some fine morning that
1t is a pleasant day, why not2 Al
smile, look of interest, just a
glimpse of your own personality
again, why not? Marriage is busfs
ness, and for most wonen the only
one All the honorable rules of busfa
getting may be logically applied
to man-getting.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

facts, as the nomenclature is highly
technical, although clear as crystal
to military man.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

Minneapolis no longer points the
finger of shame at st. Paul, recently
impaIed as an awfully wicked old
town by the Ramsey county grand
jury. The Hennepin county grand
jury has just told Minneapolis that
they are not in the ''holier-than-thou'
class, not by mile or two, and that
its police administration is no good
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

Don't stay upset! Eat tablet Of
Pape's Diapepsin and Immediately the
indigestion, gases, acidity and all
stomach distress enos.
Papes Diapepsin tablets are the
surest, quickest stomach BELIEVERS In
the world. They cost very little at
drug stores. 4
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
fort MADISON
OPPOSES PLAN
it's City Council Passes Resolution
Against Any State Public UtiI-
ity Commission Formed
by Statute.
FEATURE OF A DISPUTE
Judge Wade Considers it Essential,
Most Companies Oppose II, and
Substitute Board is Now
In Action.

The Fort Madison city council has
resolved that 1t does not want any
public utilities commission in Iowa
and has sent a copy OF its resolution
to Senator Frailey and Representa-
tive Oertel. 1t is as follows:
I'VE unanimously oppose the for
nation of a public utility commission
to have jurisdiction over the dis
putes which may arise between cities
and public untility companies. We
believe That such commission
would prove as great a failure in
this state as In other states. We
believe that the formation OF such a
commission would tend to destroy,
in measure, the home rule Of the
cities OF the state
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Factory Employees All Right.


George E. Rix. annual roll call
cashier, received the money collected
for the Keokuk chapter memberships
and magazine subscriptions and re-
ceipted for the $6,S30.05 they yielded
in money.
All the above figures are included
in the final report signed by MRS.
William N Sage, chairman OF the
Red Cross Christmas roll campaign
dated yesterday and transmitted to
tae Keokuk chapter.
A year ago the same campaign
brought in about 1900 members and
less than $4,000 in money
Some Of the factories of Keokuk
made a particularly fine showing OF
patriotism among the employees. The
J. C.. Hubinger Brothers company
plant reported 1876 members for the
Red Cross; the Mississippi River
Power company turned In 1871 mem
bers; Swift & Co., employees to the
number of 1876 joined the Red Cross;
the Purity Oats company employees
who Joined numbered "a.
Southern Part OF County Patriotic.
The country townships, like the
civ Of Keokuk, were a long time
stopping offering memberships and
money.
Since the last figures were given
out. New Boston sent in an add
tional $40, of which Sc was con-
tributfon from the Ladies Aid SO
ciety of the Methodist church there.
Mrs. w. S. White, chairman of the
Sugar Creek community, collected
and RENTED $50. Many other addi-
tional remittances and reports were
made until Mrs. Sage felt that 1T had
to stop some time and made ana
filed her report to the chapter OF the
activities of her organizations, which
contained some. of the brainiest and
most energetic women in the county.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Both sides Have Adherents.


The board appointed at the sug.
gestion OF Judge Wade, for his ad.
vice and aid to his co1t, acts mucn
like public utilities commission
formed by state statute.
Evidently, the city council of Fort
Madison, which is of the old kind
composed of aldermen from wards
and a mayor, each with strong ideas
and opinions on most matters, fears
that the board will grow into COM
mission. II is said that 1t will seek
to organize other Iowa cities against
the passage OF a public utilities COM
mission law by the legislature.
On the other hand, Judge Wade, in
a recent opinion from the bench,
spoke strongly against tie inherent
wrong in allowing mayors and alder
men to decide cases involving public
utilities.
One curious feature of the situa-
ton is that most of the public utility
companies oppose any state commits
sion and are thus in agreement with
the Fort Madison city council.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
FINAL FIGURES
On RED CROSS
Nearly Seven Thousand Members Sc
cured During Membership Cam
paisn Under Mrs. VIII
liam N. Sage.
REPORT IS SUBMITTED
It shows Great Loyalty Of People OF
Southern Lee County to Wei
fare Work for Sol
diers.

The final report Of the Red Cross
membership campaign carried on
during the last half of December
and the first days Of January SHOWS
the intense loyalty of the people OF
southern Lee county to the welfare
Ct the soldiers in the army.
Breaking all previous records to
flinders and nearly quadrupling the
number Of new members secured IN
any other December drive, total OF
6,691 members were secured by the
organization in charge of the cam
paign this year.
Tie total amount Of money secured
during this drive was $6,900.30.
OF the members secured. 44S SUD
scribed for the magazine as well as
becoming members Of the Red Cross,
and 125 Of these were secured by
Howard w. Wood, treasurer OF the
local chapter. While no special cam
,,aign was made for junior member
ships here, PSI of them were secured
and yielded STOPS, which was re-
mitted to Clyde Inman. junior
cashier,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
How II Lost It's Case.

ifIVW ~ kOSt IGS SAoSs
Fort Madison mad couple Of cases
of disputes about rates up there. The
companies filed them with the board
and made q showing to the board,
which also sent there It's expert en-
gineer to make a survey and inves-
tigation on the ground. as was done
here.
But the Fort Madison city council
did little or nothing at the hearings
except that the mayor came to Keo-
kuk to escort the board from here
to his home town. Here, Mayor
Smith told newspaper man that he
did not know what the gas rate be-
ing charged in his town at that time
was.
The gas company there got it's
raise of rates and the federal court
looked kindly on this raise approved
by the experts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15
Tho Present situation.

In the absence OF any state COM
mission in Iowa to decide the rather
technical factors in disputes about
proper rates for gas and electricity.
which were overwhelming the fed
eral court in the form of actions for
injunctions, Judge Martin Wade ask
ed that some body be formed to
solve each problem that arose.
Most OF the cities and most OF the
public utility companies got together
and agreed upon the personnel Of
an advisory body composed OF good
men for the purpose. This commit
tee, called a boards heard over a
score OF cases and decided what was
right in each one of the cases. In
Keokuk. after a. complete hearing, it
allowed raise in gas rates. bu. The
local company did not get an In
crease in street car fares.
Judge Wade in court, in the de-
cisions thus far made of lawsuits.
followed the ideas Of this voluntary
board appointed at his suggestion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-15

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
CONFIDENCE men
ROB EVANGELIST
Frederick Seibert, Assistant to
Billy Sunday, Is Victim of
econ" Artists.
WAS GIVEN WARNING
AS an Expression of Trust Religious
Man Gave SIicker $500 and Watch
and Chain Valued at
$3.50.

Chicag o-The school" for conf
dence men has turned out new prod
ICY whose latest victim is Frederick
Seibert, evangelist and Billy Sunday
assistant, who trusted him with $500
and a watch after the slicker offered
20 finance tour of the South.
The master confidence man is OPP
Grating under the name of C. Har-
court and poses as a wealthy sheep
raiser from Sydney, Australia. Fred
A. Salaman, wealthy English tim
Der expert from London, a guest at
the Blackstone hotel, was the first
victim of Harcourt and his aids, who
obtained $24O from him.
Detective SergeantS Edward Baynes
and George Lynch of the detective bu-
reau, who were put on the Salaman
case. learned of Seibert's presence in
Chicago as the next probable victim
and warned him, but this failed to save
the religious worker.
Hearing from the hotel clerk that
Mr.. Seibert had called for Harcourt,
the detectives suspected him as one of
the gang, but he convinced them that
he was an evangelist here to raise
funds and have some hymn books and
sheet music of revival songs printed.
He gave his address as the Office of
the Homer ROdeheaver Publishing
company, 40 South Dearborn street,
of which Billy Sundays song leader
ic tho Yrocidonf
Offered Evangelist SIS 600.
Seibert, who is from Marshalltown,
Ia, said he met Harcourt in shoe
shining shop and the latter offered
him $1,000 as an aid in building his
tabernacle.
Mr.. "Harcourt' introduced the evan
gelist to a friend" whose uncle, he
confided to Mr.. Seibert, had just died
in Australia, leaving him 100000.
'That tabernacle's a great thing"
said, the friend Believe me, religion
is great. I've notion to put $4,000
into your tabernacle.
Then he grew confidential. Leaning
over, he said:
'Now, since I'm going to trust you
with my $4,000, 1 wonder how far
you'd trust me?"
'"Trust you? With anything" said
Mr.. Seibert.
"How much money have you got?"
asked the stranger.
Mr.. Seibert counted it out-$55O.
A Matter of Trust.
you wouldn't trust me to carry
$500 of it around the block?"
The $500 went into the strangers
outstretched hand. He waited a min
ute.
''The watch and chain," he asked.
would you trust me with them, too?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16

view the country and the Republican
party are indebted for the publication
OF this interesting document which car
ries message from him "who, being
article Of the current number Of the
North American Review Colonel Har-
vey sets forth the vital import of this
last penciled notation of Mr.. RoUse-
welt He says:
"A1r. Roosevelt died the acknoWl-
edged leader of the great party into
which he was born. His last written
words, penciled by his own hand few
hours before his death and addressed
in the form of memorandum for the
brilliant young man for whose selec-
ton as Chairman of the National or
ganfzation he was largely responsible,
were these, as reproduced above in
facsimile:
"'Hays
see him; he must go to Washington
for 10 days; see Senate and House;
prevent split on domestic policies.
Here is evidenced as clearly as if the
few words filed a volume Mr.. Roose-
velt's realization of both his RESPONSE
bility and his obligation. The simple
memorandum marked the Inauguration
of definite party policy, to be carried
through to a no less definite conclusion.
1t was more than passing thought or
a mere suggestion. 1t was a Message,
signifying the need of immediate and
unremitting vigilance in achieving
complete unity of action in resolving.
domestic problems before attacking
those of wider range soon to be thrust
upon the country-a true soldiers call
first to close the ranks.
Nothing could be more characteriS-
tic or more clearly illustrative of the
breadth of vision, the foresight, the
directness in method and the painstak-
ing attention of the man. Nothing.
too, probably could have served his
purpose better than that these words
should have been his last. Difficult as
it is to reconcile oneself to the decree
of Divine Providence that the re-
moval of that great patriot at this cru
cial moment was not untimely, we cam
not but realize, as he would have been
the first to acknowledge that the last
vestige of animosties which might
have continued to impair his highest
aspirations was buried with him, and
thereby the perfect union which he so
ardently desired against all things un-
American was attained.
"Thus we find the Republican party
resurning full legislative authority
thoroughly united and invigorated by
the peculiar confidence which so often
carried it to victory in former years"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16

The tail went with the hide. With
$500, $3.50 watch and the chain with
the gold piece on it, the sallow man
turned away.
''Woll see," he said "We'H see if
you trust me!''
Mr.. Seibert was still waiting for the
Australian philanthropist to return
when the cafeteria which was to be
the meeting place closed.
Canadian Money Unchanged"
Mr.. Salaman, a guest at the Black
stone hotel, was in the reading room
when stranger nearby, reading a pa
per, introduced himself as G. Harcourt
Of Sydney, saying he had just sold his
sheep ranch for 100000. More talk
followed and the two men went to the
bar, where Harcourt paid for the
drinks with a 500 bill. He said he
also was guest at the hotel and con-
fided that he expected to meet his son
Rutherford and his daughter Minnie
there the next day.
The trimming was effected by offer
ing to exchange" American for Cana
dian money. Salaman says he remem-
bered later that Harcourt's counte-
nance changed when he told him thaf
he had only $24O In Canadian money.
The money was turned over to Har.
court, who did not return.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
ROOSEvELT'S DEPARTING
WORDS TO HIS C0UNTRYMEN

Col. Roosevelt died about 4 O'Clock
on the morning of January g. The
previous evening at great patriotic
rally in the New York Hippodrome a
message was read from him, written
especially for the occasion. In it was
this striking sentence:
Eve have room for but one flag, the
American flag, and this excludes the
red flag, which symboIizes- all wars
against liberty and civilization just as
much as it excludes any foreign flag
Of nation to which we are hostile,
= and we have room for but one
soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the
American people"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
LAST THOUGHTS
OF ROOSEVELT
Desired Republicans to Close
Ranks and Give Attention
to Domestic Issues.
TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF WISH.
Colonel Harvey in North American Re-
view Presents Facsimile of Pen
ciIed Memorandum Left by
Roosevelt.

were of the great domestic issues of
his country, issues whose determina
ton will decide the veal or woe of the
next generation. He saw in united
Republican party, just given a vote Of
confidence and a commission to formu-
late and carry into action policies of
reconstruction, the guarantee of the
prompt recognition and successful
handling of these domestic problems.
Tangible evidence of this is a memo
randum, the last penciled thoughts of
the late President To Colonel George
Harvey and the North American Re-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
Practical Demonstrators

It was at the Boy Scout weekend
camp. The boys had grown tired Of
climbing trees and picking flowers so
the scout master suggested that thew
have an impromptu concert. One how
sang, another danced. Then there
was a pause.
Come, Billie" said the scout mas
Ter to a member Of the troop, lyon
know How doth the little busy beeY--
4 don't" said Billie, examining q
merry patch on his hand; II only know
he dothl"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16

and the candy animals. And he will
bring back some candy canes to me.
and he will stroke my ears and pet my
head and he will say, as he does every
day after Christmas eve.
"'Well, Boy of the North, it was a
glorious, glorious Christmas day. And
now I'm going to look through my
magic and wonderful telescope to see
the children rs they smile over their
presents
Yes" ended Boy of the North, ..Tm
getting impatient too"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-04-16
Respectfully submitted by
ANDREW ZENZ.
HENRY MACKE.
VIM. PINK.
Evolution of Heroes.

Great men need to be lifted upon
the shoulders of the whole world, in
order to conceive their great ideas or
perform their great deeds; that is,
there must be an atmosphere of great
ness round about theim. A hero cam
not be a hero unless in heroic world.