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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
cHLDREN's DAY EXERCISES

apeclai Correspondence Of Evary Evenlnt
Newport June "a AZ Ne morning
scryioe u Neuport " y thuuh gc.n-
dav. Rov 7 K Moore made 500 e'ne
address 10 the parents
ln the evening ~ g o'clark 'hr ~h.idyrn
rendered verY Jeaeug th'drn ll
nrnprAEn.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
DR.. Reeds Golden Anniversary.

AT the NJ Il. Preachers Association
meeting at Grace Church todaythe sub
ject Of life insurance for young men, was
discussed The officers Of the society
were requested to send letter Of felicita-
tion on Monday 70 Or and Mrs. George
T. Reed, on their fifteth wedding ann
vcrsary Dr Reed was a former pastor
Of Grace Church
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
GERMAN SOCIALISTS BALK
Refuse 10 Enter Coalition Cabinet with
People Party Representative

~ Associated Press - Every Evening
Berlin. Ilnc li Lenders If the Ma
jnrtv putv today lliod Herr liniHzn
he moderate conservative chieftain who IS
trying - form cabinei nf hoW refusal
to eufrr coalition government id which
tho German People PafF WIS repre-
scntrd
II + reported lIcnze wlil confer wifh
Raurgrals partt icadcrs and attempt fo
fafm coalition gartrarrnt rf & rrtqa-
Democrats and nelnhrfs ~ tho 'crTnf.Jl
People PARTY whri wo8li commend lgP
votcs against faG hcld hs fhe twa Socialist
fact ions
II was hinfed that hc German National
ief= would prartige benevolent neHfralfr
ia order TINT tho Bourgeois combination
might conduct thr government
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MRS. YOUNG AT SHELLPOT.

Dorothy D Young Mrs James f.
Henry sang at the band concerts AT Shell
pot Park Yesterday for the first time Of
the present season and hundreds of park
patrons were delighted She viii sing
each Sunday. Dancing IS proving popu-
lar at Shelpot
Brandywinc Springs Park IS also
proving popular
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
Attend West Point Exercises.

Mr. and Mrs Eugene + Ellis are to
day attending the graduation exercises at
West Point, where Mr.. Ellis brother Is Il
member Of the graduating ei4ss Mrs
Ellis preceded her husband IL the school
last week and enjoyed tile festivities ar-
ranged for the commencement sen sn
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
To Graduate at West Point.

John Black Rvebold. son d Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick X ReyboId, is member
Of the class that viii graduate at the
United States Military Academy at West
Point tomorrow lie is d graduate Of the
Wilmington High School His parents
formerly lived here, but now 1--we at
IansdoMne. Pa.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14

june I I.HglutrTIuE and FNTefInenlat
~tation' game postponed eH account 81
ram June :. Sales and Experimental
5 tation tie score muc lnnnes. game
called account of darkness l'Atalia-
Paints and hemeal Company IHe IL
game postponed on account q ram
ts previously announced the playing
schedule is completed on June 3 .hiae
-, . aud u are st aside n dates ief he
playing Of postponed games after whielt
the winners ~ Leagues \ aHd b VIII ply
q three-game series To determine the
championship ! suitable trophy has
been donated for The winning team Il
should be understood that Leagues \
and Is are considered Of equal strength and
teams arc assigned 10 the league ~ chance.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
Probe Towns end Drowning TRACED.

Coroner Isaac Bullock viii hold an IL
quest at Townsend this afternoon ii he
eases Of The two boys who were drowned
at til ii place on saturday.
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" 10. A. Swimming Campaign

The J NJ. &. a. swimming campaign
was inaugurated today and many BOYS
and young men took advantage of it,. The
campaign runs on all the week.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
MAY COTTON REPORT.

Washington, juno II Cotton CON
slmcd during MAY amounted fo 5il ,0S0
bales of lint. and 81 .O32 Of linters, the
census bureau announced today
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Personal.

Mr. and Mrs Edward + Hanna have
returned from Petersburg Fla and will
stay north until October They viii
spend par, Of the summer ut Ocean City,
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letters en- Estates.

Register e5 Wills isaac Il Brown has
granted letters administration ~ the
estate II N.iiam Ahern to sarah
Ahern. and an the estate OF Marian
GIuoHjechI 20 Narv GaH0VieckI
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ELS Flag Day.

The Wilmington Lodge Of Elks will hold
Tag Day exercises at the knights Of
i27thIas Hall 600 West street at Q clock
tonight An interesting program has been
arranged.
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Refined Petroleum Drnns.

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening
New York. June l4-Rehned petroleum
was reduced q cents today, making cases
26 cents, tanks 1870 cents and barrels
23Ia cents gallon
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Du PONT COUNTRY CLUB.
BASEBALL STANDING

June 4, Advertising and administrative
game postponed on account 81 fsin laHe
q. Chemical -tahIikold and Administrative
game postponed hy agreement laae H.
Chemical-iahnkuld and Ilaiile-tarthas-
lng nnstnoncd hN agreencut
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-14
Many Aliens seek to Become Citizens.

Judge fiugh 81 Morris sitting n tBc
United States Court. tcday, was kept
busy examining applicants tor natural "a
tIon paper. Neyenty-.aur applicants had
been ordered t. appear iar examination,
and many complied with the order
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WEDDINGS.
SEYMOUR tnnos


snrefal orrasp spanIenrr If Evgry Evening
Rehahoth fcaeh. June y Tia wesl-
ding Il Mise f. (sracr Gordon, daughter
Il Alr a0d Mrs hariea l. Gordon #
Harrington. arl Eehcrt franklin 1eH-
nIauF a Wilmington. totlk place SATURDAY
mafnlneJ9Inc = n 6o elack III hr hrlao
summer home. ftehaha'h Beach Rev
Il ; eirant afIfrrt9ug he bride wore
II traseItnK autf II champagne tucoiotfe
After a frp south. N and 1lry Sef-
iraiif u ii f,.s4,ie II Rrh,bofh Bench durng
tie summer mouths. Alis Seymour e>-
peets - continue her etadiee tins t5l i
etnhs Bfoad street Conservatory q
Muse Philadelphia herr he IS taking
course ~ n,,laeaep Efr seymour
eu3Iavel hy The l.ennf irania Railroad
Company
Rs<k@-t.1 Nsu
Nl-s Z Alshel ls0eh daughter II
f1aHk I IsaeE u IL North Braame
street.. tud Edward H. Bauks. also 81
Wilmington. ws7e ms9aea last thuriaF
NJ tie 1eetafe 81 Il Pald Z & eh4tea
bg key honas + NaIdron.
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FUNERAL OF HYRoN ROSS.

Ida Mccarthy, daughter of Ija and
IosepA Nclau4N, died III this city
yesterday Inc funeral ser vices viii bc
aeld from tic home IT her parents, 2l03
Market street, tomorrow afternoon with
IuLeEILlenl II laLhelral lemnLnrN
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
MARGIN OF SUGAR PROFITS.

United States district attorneys throughout
the country have been notified by the depart
ment of justice that the departments policy of
holding the margin of profit on sugar sales to
one cent per pound for wholesalers and two cents
for retailers must be strictly enforced. This
margin of profit was fixed by the sugar equal
ization board more than year ago, but mis-
understandings, it is said, arose among the
states fair price committees to its appllca-
ton at the present time To clear up the
tangle district attorneys have been instructed
tc vigorously enforce the ruling with repect to
the margin of profit and to prosecute firms and
individuals taking more than that amount per
pound Query: Does the ruling extend, or has
it ever been extended, to wholesalers and re-
tailers doing business in southeastern Iowa.
Consumers are asking this.
Apropos of this development of activity, on
paper, of the federal department of justice, it
is pertinent to call attendtion to the fact that
after charging that thousands of pounds OF
sugar are stored in Davenport warehouses while
citizens are being ''milked' for enormous pro-
fits by exorbitant prices for the commodity, the
Davenport city council has passed resolution
calling on the mayor for an immediate investi-
cation and hearing, at which half dozen or
more local wholesalers will be hailed before the
council to answer to charge of boarding Dur
ing the past week sugar has been retailing IN
Davenport at thirty five cents pound.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and
God gives all things to Industry.
Franklin.
THE SHAME OF IT.

1t is asserted, and unfortunately is true, that
some thousands of proiteering nillionaires
were made by the war. 1t is equally indisput-
able that if the allies had not won the war with
the help Oh our service men, these war-made for
tunes would most Of them be in Germany in
stead of here. That schen1ers should amass
millions at home while patriots were giving or
rIsking their lives abroad is deplorable and
seems like an injustice to our gallant A e. F.
But it is not less unjust to the one hundred mil
lion Americans who stayed at home and toiled
but heaped up no fortunes during the war IF
there were some certain way Of making wartime
profteers disgorge ill-gotten gains wrung from
the people directly through extortion or ind-
rectly through greedy contracts with the gov
eminent there would be general rejoicing and
practically unanimous agreement that it should
be done. But who can suggest such wayf
There are inequities, iniquities, human laws
cannot reach, which must be left to the Great
Law, unfailng exact and Just
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
SLUMP IN PRICES Is FORECAST.

It is said of silk goods prices that they are last
to go up and first to go down. Being an article
Of luxury, it would naturally respond sensitive
ly to public tendencies to reduced expenditures.
And now silk prices are falling, the drop begin.
ming in Japan where the market became over
stocked. The wholesalers cut their prices fifty
per cent, and many manufacturers have reduced
their output or suspended work Following
closely on this, Chicago firm of silk jobbers
has Just sold three million yards at reductions
of fifty cents to two dollars a yard; and as this
cut makes silk relatively cheaper than cotton
goods these are expected to follow silk down.
There are several reasons which conspire to
bring to an early end periods OF lavish or reck
less spending Buyers tend to spend more in the
first year or two of relative aft uence than In
following years In the first year they get
iss stocked up and In the second they come to
find what things are profitable and what they
can do without. Considering the conditions in
the country and In the world, it would be rather
remarkable if the tendency to retrenchment and
lower prices did not become manifest between
now and election The three great bases of
textiles are the fibers of plants the hair Of ami
mails and the spun thread of worms These
clothe the civilized world, each having its SUI
perlative qualities. Yet they are so far inter
changeable that they grow cheap or dear to-
cether, the demand for one affecting the price
Of all
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
Wilkinson e. c.

trict Of Iowa, praying for the seizure
and condemnation OF Six Hundred
Fifteen Cans. more or less, each con-
tanning five gallons of Tomato Pulp.
You are therefore commanded to
seize, wherever found in this district,
and take into your possession the
aforesaid Six Hundred Fifteen Cans,
more or less. each containing five
gallons of Tomato Pulp.
You are also commanded to cite
all persons who claim right or title
to the aforesaid Six Hundred Fifteen
Cans, more or less, each containing
five gallons of Tomato Pulp, to ap-
pear and show cause on the 18th day
Of November. 1920, ut 10 O'Clock a.
m, at the United States District
Court at Keokuk, Iowa, and be pre-
pared then and there bo show cause
why the same should not be con-
demned and confiscated according to
the suit Of libellant, and report what
you shall have done in the premises
to this court, together with this writ.
Witness the Honorable Martin J.
Wade, Judge OF said Court at the
City OF Davenport, Southern District
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
A FunctionIess President.

Sioux City Journal: The American
people may shut their eyes to the
facts, may hide their heads in the
sand Like ostriches, but they cannot
shut out the bald truth that the coun-
try needs a stronger and more ag-
gressive hand in directing its affairs
from the presidential office. Apollo
gies have been made and accepted
for the delinquencies resulting from
the Illness of the president in the
hope that some turn in affairs would
relieve without harsh methods the
under which the govern
ment laDored. While the nation has
waited in patience, conditions have
become worse. 1t is now a question
OF whether these conditions shall be
allowed to continue and to grow
worse, or whether the time for plain
speaking and business action has ar
rived In a word. is it not time to
determine whether the misfortunes
Of the president shall become the
of the nation, or whether
the nation shall not place its own
vital interests, the interests of no..
100000 people above the personal in
terests of one individual.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
Hiqh Cost Of Anusements.

New York World: The payment of
amusement taxes to the amount OF
s1,479,517 by the theaters Of Man
haitian for the months of January and
February shows that the public in
that period spent nearly $4,000, 600
for dramatic entertainments
And certainly remarkable total it
is Of money spent solely for taxable
form of amusement and in only one
city. The figures will inevitably sug-
gest comparisons at a time of overall
parades and economy propaganda as
bearing on the relation of theoretical
thrift and actual conditions of ex-
penditure. The money paid for two
months of theatergoing in New York
would buy million pairs of high
grade shoes and quarter of mil
lion well made suits of clothes.
At least the high cost of the drama
is not bothering Americans seriously.
They may complain about the prices
of bacon and eggs and clothing, but
the great contemporaneous pros
perity of the theater under an in
flated scale of admission charges
only illustrates an inherent incon.
sistency of national character. It is
only the cost of the necessaries that
causes discomfort; the high price OF
Injuries does not matter much.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
IlF WE COULD KNOW


They were young, and Life SO new,
So brave and 4soundiess the view,
They loved this earth and loved it well,
Came War The blow dividing fell
They not of any more,
There is between us the Closed Door,
You say not So You find them near;
They not in distant sphere:
They do not dream their time away
A thousand years gone day.
But they resume their best delight
Some task whose end they keep in sight
Then, no Closed Door? No Heaven strange?
But just this Earth though with change
A vantage ground, in some Fourth Space
And old Earth wears lovelier face;
And all nharmonies OF sound
Tuned into music reach that ground!
Not far Not farther than Thought
That oft great distance has made naught
To souls yet dwelling in this flesh;
And, To- when broken in the mesh,
And the Ethereal Thing rides free.
How swifter shall the courier be!
They were young, and so unworn,
That it must still with them be Morn.
So blithe and eager are they yet;
Nor the Old Home would they forget!
You say. that it is even so;
o Seer, if we could only know
Edith M Thoms
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Waterloo Times Tribune We have
now the income tax, the inheritance
tax, the tax on excess profits, the
tax on corporations, the tax ons luxu
fies Every time taxes are paid, the
victim attempts to get it back by
| adding the cost to the things he
| sells-and in most cases he gets il
back. If the retailer were forced to
| pay the proposed tax on sales he
would add it to the sale price-and a
/, bit more than he pays for good meas
ure-
Webster City Freeman-Journal:
The papers contain much these days
about "Pussyfoot Johnson" but mo-
body should get the Johnsons con-
founded. ''Pussyfoot" is noted pro-
hibitionist and recently returned to
America from England He is no re-
lation to "Old Hi' of California, who
is anything but pussyfooter.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: And IL
Herbert Hoover ever had chance
for a presidential nomination, he has
talked himself out of it.
ticipation of the women in active re-
publican politics somehow did not
strike the editor of the Forum as SO
very extraordinary until lady dele
gate from Polk county took the seat
beside him in the state convention
and produced box of caramels. The
caramels were good, but we never
saw caramels in political conyen.
ton before.
Perry Chief: Taking a mandatory
over Armenia is like buying a new
automobile It's a fine thing to do If
you can afford it
Vinton Eagle: City folks will learn
a thing or two about rising prices of
food when their foolish persistence
in striking for fewer hours and more
pay has discouraged the farmer and
caused him to quit his habit of rising
at a. M and hustling like cyclone
through all the hours of daylight and
beyond. And the farmer is fast be-
coming discouraged with the outlook.
Ottumwa Courier: The cure for I'm.
rest, or very great portion of it,
must come from within. Ambition is
its name
Davenport Democrat: When people
get over demanding the very latest
thing in cloth and cut and style, they
will find that they don't need to wear
overalls In order to reduce the size
of their clothing bills.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
WITTY WOMEN

England has her bright and witty women
Ii politics besides Lady Nancy Aston; and one
OF them is daughter of former Premier Her
bert Asquith who has tongue of lunar caustic
which political opponents fear Of Premier
Lloyd George she said at recent conference of
the liberal party, that he paid lip service to
every principle in turn ga1nbled in all policies
hut invested in none. He was double jonted
morally and mentally, she declared, which was
u great qualification for an acrobat; but what
was needed in the head of a government was
not double joints but a single mind
Since the passing Of Dr.. Anna Shaw from the
suffrage stage we have not seen her equal "a a
ready, clever, keen and witty woman speakr.
1t Is yet to be demonstrated if we shall ever see
in American politics a feminine Job Hedges,
j. Adam Bebe, Sunset Cox or Proctor Knott
Irresistible drollery seems to be talent denied
to the sex which has so many other as not to
need 1t; and even the gifted women prominent
IN the D. A R-Daughters of the Annual
fumpus as someone fippantly calls them
have never developed any gift for giving a hum
orous turn to debate. But as American
women get fairly embarked in politics and sure
OF themselves we prnbably shall see female com
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
NOTICE or AMENDMENT TO
ARTICLES or INCORPORATION
OF THE "kEOkUk BASE BALL
GROUNDS ASSOCIATIONS

Notice is hereby given that at a
special meeting OF the stockholders
of the "Keokuk Base Ball Grounds
Association" an Iowa corporation,
held at the Superior Court room in
the city of Keekuk, Iowa, on the 6th
day OF May, A. d. 1920, the Articles
Of Incorporation were amended in the
following particulars to-wit:
By striking all OF Article two (2)
of the original Articles OF Incorpora.
tion of the said "Keokuk Base Ball
Grounds Association and substitute
ing in lieu thereof the following:
ARTICLE 2.
Capital stock of the corporation
shall be Twenty thousand dollars
($20.000O0) divided into two thou
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT OF N
TiCLES OF INCORPORATION "
"A. WEBER C0MpANY

Notice is hereby given, that the ~
nuai meeting in February, l9Zo u
the A. Weber Company. by unanifnos,|
vote of all its stock, the articles n
incorporation Of said Company, VIII
by increasing the Cap.s|
Stock Of said corporation from vi
hundred thousand (S100,0Go) dohsssi|
to two hundred thousand (s2OepvI
dollars, and that the President ~,
Secretary were authorized to ca''
into effect said amendment.
F. J. WEBER
President
JAS. M'EyoY
Eg'stu Secretsn
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
MCNITiON

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES IN AND FOR
THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT Or,
IOWA, EASTERN DIVISION.
United States of America, Libel
liant, VS.. Six Hundred Fifteen Cans.
more or less, each containing five
gallons OF tomato pulp, Libe1ee.-No.
50 Law Mention
The President Of the United States,
To the United States Marshal for
the Southern District of Iowa,
Eastern Division, Greeting
Whereas, a libel has this 23rd day
Of April, A. d. 1920, been filed In
this court by e. G.. Moon, Unite
States Attorney for the Southern Dis
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14
Two Murderers Executed.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, May 14.-Richard
Harrison and Chester Cantine were
electrocuted at Sing Sing prison
shortly before midnight last night.
Harrison went to the chair for the
murder of George Griflths, a Cana-
dian soldier. Canine was convicted
of numbering Carl Danzinger an aged
Poughkeepsie grocer.
Harrison contended he was limo
cent to the end.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14

paigners whose sallies, scintillations and acrim-
onious wit will delight everybody at whom they
are amed for a tongue with tang has ever
been sharp and dangerous weapon of the sex
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14

People who suffer beyond the formulas of expression
who crushed into silence and beyond pain"ant
display of erotonno bleeding heartno weeping at the
foot of the crossno hystecs-no phrases! They want
10 God, and He is watching over His own
Henry Adams ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14

The Mennonites Of western Canada are Pc
culiar sect, about eight thousand strong, and
strenuous in their objections to many things,
including military service. They wish to leave
the Dominion, which seems more than resigned
to lose them, and settle somewhere in the Mis-
sissippi valley. The head Of the sect has been
in correspondence, SO. he says, with Attorney
General Palmer, and has received assurance that
if they come to the United States they will be
exempt from military service. It is possible
that Ms. Palmer said this. It sounds quite
Picturesque; and people with conscientious
scruples against taking up arms have been
treated with notable consideration by officials
highly placed in Washington. Nevertheless
pacifsts had better think twice before emigrat-
ing on the strength of any assurance that Mr.
Palmer can give them: for by the time they get
here he is likely to be back in Stroudsburg, Pa,
ornamenting private life. Besides which CON
gress makes our laws
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14

Whom the gods destroy they first make mad
Evidently our President Wilson is out of temper
with his former sleeping partners in the league
of nations conspiracy, for, having affronted
France by accusation of tendency on her part
towards militarism, henow offends England by
a declaration that her navy was helpless to a
point Of panic during the war 81.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-14

Unsuitable greed! Having seized all the gold,
silver and precious gems, the Russian bolshevik
government now aspires to lay its felonious
hands upon thing more valuable than all
these-the egg supply. These costly units of
property are to be nationalized What nextl