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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

OH as the hills but new as yester-
day and treats 1t in such manner as
to make it q. book for the family IL
brlry table. Like all OF Kyne's stories
1t is readable and full OF action.
IL ever anything denied and dis
proved a change of bolsheyism its
the cornfiel,is and country between
tho boundaries Of the state of Iowa.
Isn't 1t rich, wide and handsome7
An old man Of 81 In Memphis is
cutting his third set of teeth. With
groceries at present prices that GER
talnly seems to be tho high limit or
extravagancs.
The war veterans should remark
with qualification that two service
m,sn, Hayes and Gibson landed places
on therepuhIican state ticket.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

CANT Christmas and birthday pres-
ents for q boy. He folded his trousers
tight at tho bottom and pulled the
boots on over them. If he desired to
add q rakish appearance no lee tho
trouser log hang on the boot top.
Mons boots were moro modest and
usually heavier and thicker.
Ever get UP q q bitter cold morn
ing and work" pair Of cowhides
with your hands to soften their steel
like rigidity sufficiently to get your
feet into themf Ever sit before the
kitchen stove with a pan OF neatsfoot
oil simmerins on the nre and grease
your boots r Ever step out into freez-
Ing slush with those newly CREASED
boots ana get the swift sensation of
freezing feat. Pshaw. boy, you with
your soft shoes ,shivsring beside the
register or radiator what do you
know about grief7 Why man. nobody
had ever head Of an overshoe in
those days. Somebody conceived
making overshoes out Of buffalo skins
with the hair inside and some effe-
inmate folks bought and wore them
Later the arctic overshoe appeared
and grew into vogue and finally when
the messengers were cleaned out the
boot "Ane" and cowhide lost It's high
legs and became shoe.
It isn't astonishing that Coolidge
has his grandfather's boots. There
was no more reason why pair Of
those should ever wear out than q
suit Of ancient Milan armor should
have holes worn In the seat They
came al near being irnpervious to
wear AZ Havervixed steel and felt
like it on the feet. They never fitted.
II they had~itted they couldn't have
been worn. OF course the "nne boots.
fitted beautifully. made. OF sift and
supple calfskin. Why 4 pair Of those
fine boots would last the owner
decades for dress UP and dances and
such like. Just q touch OF backing,
shoe or stove. and they shone like a
nigger's heel.
Coolidge in his ancient wamus and
his srandad's boots would be worth
seeing. He'd be an object OF historical
interest an the guide books say.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
THEM WAS THE DAYS.

Il Z u !.
Ellis and Alger. Oliver Optic and
q. A. Henty, Harry Castyeman and a
half dozen others; do they read them
still, we wonder--the dwellers in Our
Town who are now the youngsters
we used to be? IS,
Are Rival Academies" and 1.-THE
Blue ana the Gray Series still best
bets In the school library and now
that the great and wicked city has
waxed in size and evil since Ragged
Dick" and "Tattered Tom were
written. have these lost their old
time SAVIOR?
! And Henty. whose books were SO
lplentifully interlarded with history
which we always skipped religiously,
do our successors still thrill over "The
Lion Of the North Under brakes
Flag" and similar epics, oblivious OF
the fact that most Of the plots were
oviously of the same design.
These authors were the middle
class of our youthful nteracy ac-
quaintance. They had the approval
Of the adults OF our household, tho
we always felt that our family su-
perfors would have locked more
brightly upon our future, II we had
shown more interest in Scott, Bun
yam, Dickens and other substantial
folk.
As for "Kins E!rady" and buffalo
Btlp and young; Wild West" and
Frank Merriwell' and "1'he Liberty
Boys of Seventy-Six and the rest of
that glorious host, they were matters
best left undiscussed and unread In
the presence Of our elders. They lived
behind the feed box in the barn and
were drawn out by stealth to lend us
their gorgeous cornpahionship.
In the big book case with glass
doors in the sitting room. there were
other volumes, that could be read or
rather whose pictures could DO ex-
amined by us only at the cost of
much diplomacy and persistence.
BATTLES and Leaders Of the Civil
War" was our favorite. It was filed
with pictures of carnage, each drawn
II You believed the caption, from
sketch made at the Time" You
couldn't look at the book without
feeling that enough had not been
said for the courage Of the sketch
artists Of the SOS.
And there was Picturesque Am
erica" too, portly volumes filled with
wood cuts and steel engravings of the
beauties Of this continent. And we,
turning the pages reverently. dream
ed OF the time when we would see all
the places pictured there.
Sometimes we wonder If the book
would still hold its charm now that
We know we never shall.
u. r. "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
PAs4lNa OUT.
By WALT MASON

49, PAo9iNG OUT. 1919 @s
FLU
shakes his head
spoil spirits dying
draped
neighbours wash big
nuin
earths maddng Will such ckTn
blow said dernedest time
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
Is per hundred weight on hoss",

Sc per hundred weight on hogs.
There is no doubt that tho primary
meat producers have been getting the
worst of 1t. Based on the scale Of
cost production AZ put forward by
wallace'B the estimate Of loss 10
presumably correct. Tho meat pro-
Queer II paying war prices for the
things no buys and selling his hogs
and cattle at little more than half the
high mark Of his own war prices. The
drives against the h. Q. Of l., such as
they hav0 boon, seem to have been ef-
rective only against the farmer and
livestock producers.
But there are more than 100, 100000
people looking at the situation from
different angles. The immediate situa-
ton interests most Of them much
moro then the future and their In
dividual interests arc predominant
with thenn singly or class collectively.
These consumers are likely to de-
clare themselves to the effect that Tor
government to hold q surplus OF
meats. which this and other con-
sumers have paid for in taxes. to the
protection Of prices would be wicked
Injustice toward him and his. class.
Yet the farmer and meat producer,
met with high prices Of that which he
is forced to buy and proportionately
low prices for that he sells. can not
continue to produce at loss and to
drive the meat producer to face GER
tain loss means driving him out Of
production and Is bid for scarcity
and consequent high prices.
The trouble lies in the disparity be-
tween prices the producer receives
and the prices he is forced to pay for
the products he receives In exchange
for his. He has been the receiver
general Of all the blows delivered
against high prices. His products
have gone down in primary markets
while wages and materials and farm
implements and all that he buys have
held their own or increased their
rates He has seen automobiles
smashed in order to save motor mans
ufacturers, has seen huge sums paid
out on contracts for goods and NUM-
lions that were never manufactured
and delivered and has seen the raw
material sold back to the same con-
tractors at junk prices. No wondei
he feels that he has been the victim
OF injustice. And he 10 not alone In
that feeling. It 10 = common sensa-
ton among tho common people.
The injustice lies In the failure e
make the attack al along the line
on the h. Q. of !. The farmer and meat
producer is willing TO take his equa
share Of the readjustment OF prices;
| but he wants . fair exchange FOL
| himself Of the products he delivers
| for the products he 10 forced to buy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

1. Why are dead birds and ami
mails seldom found?
2. Does the indented appearance
Oh egg shells prove they were broken
BY the mother bird7
8. Can the red squirrel fly?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
I. What Is the genuine snow
bird1
There is but one genuine snow
bird. nursing Of the snow. and that
Is tho snow bunting, a bird that
seems proper to the winter season. In
It's plumage 1t reflects the winter
landscape--,an expanse Of white sur
mounted or streaked with gray and
brown. They love the stack and hay
barn in the distant field, where the
farmer folders his cattle upon the
STOW. and every red-root, ragweed,
or pigweed left standing In the fall
adds to their winter stores.
3. On what does the otter feed?
The otter is a large mink or weas-
Ell, three feet or moro long and very
savage. II feeds upon fish, which 1t
seems to capture with ease. It is
said that 1t. Will track them thru
the water as a hound tracks q fox
or land. II will travel long dis
lance under tho Ice, on q single
breath Of air,
Show does the selection Of food
differ between animals and man?
Each species knows its proper food
from the iuYnn and all Individuals on
that species thrive equally we'll upon
It., There are no eccentricities OF
taste or ,.aprices OF indigestion
among them. But with us what is
ore mans food is often another
mans poison. and what one gloats
a,,>e aoo%bnr mos, ahhnp
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
PRICES AID GOVERNMENT CANNED MEATS

waiiac,ss Farmer makes very
strong objections to the proposals Of
the government to threw its canned
meats on the market with thu, inten-
ton of breaking the meat market
prices and striking a blow at the
high cost Of living. It considers It
swickedly unjust, for the government
Of the u. s.. to do anything, either
directly or indirectly to still further
reduce the price OF hogs and cattle
when prices are 80 low" and asserts
that the cattle feeders OF the corn
belt have been losing from $25 to
's75 q hea d on cattle and from 81 to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
The Windmill
THE WITCH.

THE WITCH.
A New England Episode Of the Early
18th Century.
One winters night she struggled into
town, y
But whence she came or why none
ever learned:
Then, bent beneath suspicious con-
slant frown,
Her paupers lodging and her
crumbs she earned.
Months crept to years and still she
dwelt apart;
The bitterness of life appalled, and
grew:
But often in her solitary heart
She hungered for affections others
knew.
Then came the day when she could
bear no more.
No longer would her throbbing
pulse be held,
Emotions from the past cried out and
tore.
Tho mother love, 80 long restrain
ed. unveiled.
A neishbors little girl, quite I'M
afraid,
! Had paused before her door to
gaze and rest
A symbol Of the things for which she
prayed
She seized her and she pressed her
to her breast
A moment, that was all. and then
the child
Ran screaming to her homo to tell
the tale.
The woman felt the flush of Joy and
smiled.
Remembrance OF this day would
never pale.
Three nights passed by. Tho child
was stricken down
With some disease for which none
knew the cure.
The tidings quickly spread throut
the town
They asked why Fate had taken
one so pure.
THEY learned about the recent cpl
| sode;
Suspicion. like a cloud. began t.
| break:
They dragged the woman from hel
| bleak abode
And crying Witch" they burned
| her at tho stake.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

this country, now a province Of
French Indo-China, Is forsaken save
by occasional half-naked priests,
who climb the great palms to tap the
upper leaves for sugar water, or
pause to grin at their own reflections
In the pools when they are tired OF
staring, uncomprehending, at the
forms that decorate The temple
walls.-Asia Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
Topics Of the Times


Why shouldn't a dollar look like 80
cents to us nowadays? That's all it
will buy.
Yes. Mr.. Bryan Is on the band
wagon but he isn't drumming.
II Tommy Lipton failed to lift the
cup he won the sincere liking and
admiration of every American. And
that isn't 20 easily done.
That fair margin coal profits will
probably be settled about the time we
begin to order Ice next summer.
Kindred Of the Dust" = new now
81 by Peter B. Kyne issued by the
Cosmopolitan Book Company, comes
up to expectations Of the admirers Of
that novelist. It deals with problem
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
HANDY DIRECTORY
- OF THE--
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os. A.
r. A. NJ, Tuesday. July 81. Second
degree, Z o'clock sharp. G. G. Jen-
nings. w M; John w. Wells, sec
rotary.
srGNET CHAPTER NO. 3S. r. A.
M, Monday, August IS. business
session. Frank T. Nokes, II. P.;
John w. Wells, secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
20, stated assembly; Aug. 1e, husi-
ness session, John w. Wells, re-
corder.
coNcrAvE sr. ALDI1MAR COM
MANDERY NO. 80. Tuesday, Aug.
IL, Is p. m. Business meeting, Clyde
H. Stewart, commanders John W.
Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTEF. NO. 81 o.
e. s.. Regular meeting Wednesday,
Aug. IL, at 8, for business. Mrs. w.
J. Richards, w NJ: Mrs. Archer
Walton, secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
TOO BUSY ANYWAY.

Our own isuess is that Nate Ken
dali has as yet thought Of nothing OF
the kind Il. g.. the senatorshipl. He
wis kept pratty busy thinking about
tho poninat on tor governor at,d he
win not be wise enough to devote
himself to his election to that office.
HO 10 not sc, foolish as to invite the
opposition OF those, who may believe
In Senator Kenyon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30
Lost o.,od.

Lost GlSod.
Therefore to whom turn / but to
thee the ineff,tble Name?
Builder and Maker, thou. Of houses
not made with hands!
What, have fear OF change from
thee who art over the same7
Doubt that thy power Gun fill the
heart that thy power expands7
There shall never bs one lost good!
What was shall live 81 before.
Browning in "Abt Vogler."
Burmese girls smoke cigars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

ITINERARY FOR A HONEYMOON.
Joy. Illinois.
Happy Valley, Missouri.
Honey Creek, Indiana.
Sweet Home, Oregon.
Delight, Kansas.
Sugar City, Colorado.
Randy, Ceylors.
Hope, Kansas
Loveland. Iowa.
Harmony. Arkansas. .
There Is, Of course, moral in the
story OF Lieutenant Wanderer, the
Chicago murderer, who never smok-
ed. chewed, drank or INDUCED in
slang. and went to church regularly
every Sunday, but darned II we can
figure IL out.
Possibly an anti-prohibition an
intensely profane person or an athe-
list might extract q large sized les
son from it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-30

Burmese girls smoke cigars.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11
RAY PLAYS
POOR GAME
British Golfer Does Not Make Very
creditabIe Showing in His
First Eighteen
Holes

UNITED Press Leased Wiree Srvice.l
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 11.-f Ted
Ray, the British exponent of golf, who
is ranked as one of the favorites for
the national open title in the meet
that began with 254 starters over the
Inverness course on Tuesday, does not
play any more consistent golf today
lin the second qualifying round than he
did in the first eighteen holes yester-
day, he may be eliminated before the
championship flight of sixty-four play
ers gets under way Wednesday.
Ray gathered an eighty score, six
strokes over par. There are seventy
five players ahead of the Briton, with
Leo Dieget, Chicago first with sew
ienty-0ne.
Harry Vardon, the other English en-
trant, who was paired with Bobby
Jones on Tuesday, finished with COM
Portable seventy five after an atrocious
iopening nine of forty. Jones started
with thirty-four but went to pieces
coming in and finished with forty-0ne.
Jock Hutchinson, Chicago. new west
ern open champion. played sterling
golf yesterday and finished with sew
enty-two. Harry Hampton, Richmond,
Va, and Rudy Knepper, eighteen year
old amateur from Sioux City, who led
the Simon Pures, also finished with
seventy-two. Knepper is the Iowa
champion, and looks very dangerous
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11
> @Sa1IIh
CARTHAGE, ILL, AUG. II.
zas.E y6z.assaE -

Rock Creek township, salary $140.
Miss Thayer Kruger, Ferris schoo
Rock Creek townsip, salary 500.
Miss Edith Alley, Ferris school
Rock Creek township, salary $50.
Miss Nina Wolgermath, Lafayette
school, Rock Greek township, salary
s65.
Miss Cora Sullivan, Oak Grove
school, Pilot Grove township, saiar,
s100
Miss Gracey Burow. Rossvill'
school, La Harpe, H., salary sos.
Miss Vera Crabill, MeGuffey school
Pilot Grove township. salary 500.
Mrs. Jesse McHastings, Eagle
school, Blandinsville, H.. salary $50
Miss Helen Lenix, Webster school
Fountain Green township. salary sS5
Selma Bolts, Oak Grove school, st
Marys township, salary. 500.
Miss Gertrude N. Dorothy, Car
thage, H., salary, sS5.
Miss Elva Dawson, Eagle school
Prairie township, salary $780,
Mrs. Virginia Willis, Grape Vine
school, Carthage township, salary $50
Miss Rose McNally, Chile school
Carthage, Ill, salary SIS.
Miss Margaret Tweston. Pleasant
Prairie, Montebello township, salary
s1O0
Miss Viola Scanned, Riverside
school, Monticello township, salary
$780,
Oak Wood school, Montebellc
township.
Miss Goldie Leach, principal, sala
ry s125.
Miss Emily Hall, intermediate
salary 1920.
Miss Avis Allen, White Brick
school, Warsaw township, salary $40
Miss Mabel Fisher, Fairview school
Warsaw, H., salary 500.
Hattie Boyer, Excelsior school
salary, $4,000
Mrs. John Howes, Orange school
Wythe township, salary 800.
Miss Florence Triboulet, Apple
Grove school, Bear Creek, salary $40
James Symmonds, salary 800. Bias
CO school, Bear Creek township
Clara Horton, salary s103. Basco
school, Bear Creek township. -
Martha Finlay, salary $50. Basco
school, Bear Creek township.
Mr.. c. A. Mccoy, principal of Bias
co school, salary s1,40o.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11

kuk visited Sunday at the home of
Mrs. Beeson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus Corns
Miss Olga Mccormick spent Sunday
with friends in La Clede, Mo.
Aaron Brown Of Keosauqua was in
town Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Shepherd of Bloomfield visited
Sunday with Mrs. John Combs.
c. v. Raney and wife visited Sun
day in Batavia, Iowa.
Rev. Duty and wife of Montrose,
visited Sunday at the F. G. Knapp
home.
Rev. Jas. McKiernan and wife spent
Sunday in Fort Madison.
Mrs. Wells was called to Fort Madi-
son Saturday on account of an opera
tion undergone by her son Willis.
Miss Annie Daley of Aurora, H., is
visiting at the William Trainer home.
Miss Esther Ross of Chicago, came
Tuesday to visit her grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Ross.
Mrs. Clayton Bell and children re-
turned to their home in Milton Tues
day. after few days visit at the J..
f. Marshall home.
George Durfee of near Kansas City,
lis visiting in Pennington this week.
Miss Stemple of Fort Madison, the
! new high school English teacher, cam,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11
Anyone NolO Can Haze
Pretty Curls and Waves

Hair tortured with the hot curling
iron is bound to become dry, harsh
and brittle, as SO many know from
sad experience. It's far more sensi-
BILE to use the simple silmerine meth
cd, which can do no harm and which
produces a curliness much prettier
and more natural in appearance. And
the effect lasts much longer, particu-
larly in. hot. moist or windy weather.
Silmerine is also fine dressing for
the hair, preserving its texture and
health, keeping it delightfully."- soft and
glossy
Liquid Silmerine is not sticky or
greasy and it won't stain or streak
hair or scalp. Get few ounces from
the druggist, pour little into a sau-
Ger and with clean tooth brush ap-
ply evenly to the hair just before do
ing it up. The added glory to your
browning glory" will be quite re-
markable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11
Illinois Woman Had Been in
Bed Three Months and. Rela-
tives Had Given Up Hope
Gains Thirty Pounds and
Does Own Housework Now.

II was down in bed and had been
here for nearly three long months
when | started taking Tanlac, but in
Tess than a weeks time | was able
10 be UP and today l am in as good
health as / ever was"
The above remarkable statement
vas made few days ago by Mrs.
George Sampson, 40S Norris street,
ottawa, Illinois.
"Besides getting relief from my
roubles / have actually gained thirty
bounds in weight and am simply over
Dyed at my wonderful recovery.
was complete nervous and physical
wreck, weighed only about one hun
ired pounds and wasn't expected to
Siye. had been in bad health for
Saearly six years and then some time
Ago broke down completely and mad
10 take to my bed. My nerves col
apsed and | became so Respondent
worried over my condition day and
hight. Sleep was almost out OF the
question and / began to fall off in
weight so fast it alarmed me.
.My stomach was badly disordered
Ind it seemed that every bite / ate
yave me the Indigestion Gas would
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-11
MRS. SAMPSON SAYS
TAkLAC GOT HER UP

form and cause smothering spells ano
IL would try to climb out of bed and
fight. for my breath. would fall into
Ifaintmg, sinking spells at times aEd
then again would almost go into hys
Iterics. was hardly more than a
frame and, so weak could scarcely
raise nv head off the pillow. MY
relatives Nand friends had given UP
hope for Sme and had almost lost
heart myself.
THAT was the condition ! was In
when a friend of mine persuaded me
10 try Ia lilac. l didn't believe IT
could help me, but l was never SO
surprised in my life. My appetite
lust seemed to return right away and
as | began TO eat better and sleep
better | commenced to feel stronger.
Well. before l finished that first bottle
/ was out of bed and by the time !
had taken my fourth bottle | was able
to do my Homework and take care
of my children, and | have six, too.
81 took a few more bottles of Tan
lac lust to make; sure my troubles
would not return and, as result, |
am in absolutely perfect health to-
day. / am eating whatever | please
without a particle of trouble and my
nerves are as calm and steady as
can be. / have gained so much in
weight that my friends are simply
amazed and they are all saying look
like different person entirely. This
is what Tanlac has done for me and
/ Just wish I could. tell how grateful
I feel"
Tanlac is sold in Keokuk by Will
cinson & Co., and by the leading
druggist in every stown. Advertise
ment