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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
HOME. COMING
STREET FAIR
Anne rican Legion Post is Entertaining
People at Memphis, But Rain
Spells Opening
Day.

MEMPHIS, Mo-, Sept 23-The
homecoming and street fair OF Vera
Stone post, American Legion, opened
yesterday. The crowds were good for
the first day, but as this is written
prospects for today are not flattering
on account Of the rain BECAUSE the
city could not furnish sufficient cleo
trio lights, the Legion boys were fore
ed to rig up an electric outfit. They
secured dynamo from the old electric
company here and hooked on a tractor
thus furnishing an abundance Of pow
er.
The free attractions are good. They
consist of aerial trapeZe act, silver
tone singing with the band, acrobatic
stunt and trained pigs. A dance pa
vilion is erected on the east side of
the square and is very popular among
the young people. The public square
is lined with concessions and are do
ing good business. The busiest con-
cessions, however, are the Ferris
wheel and merry-go-round.
In preparation for the homecoming
the public square was washed off and
wired, shutting out all vehicles. Flags
and bunting are much in evidence and
at night, especially, makes gala
scene with the hundreds of electric
lights.
One of the very good features Of the
occasion is the Community band Of
Keokuk. These musicians have made
a hit with our people who are loud in
their praise of this band They give
concerts in the afternoon and at night
from a band stand erected ON the west
side of the public square.
For several months the rope on the
flag pole in the court house yard has
been rotted Off The versatile Legion
boys, however, found way to replace
same By means of q kite flown over
the top Of the pole and through the
hook at the poles end, in which is the
pulley, they pulled UP a new rope. An
attempt was made on Saturday to get
the rope up, but the wind was wrong
and the kite could not be controlled
Sunday they had better success, so
that now the flag flys gaily and daily.
From the proceeds of the street
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
JUST LIKE
A ROCKER
Airplane Sensation is Described by
Young Woman Who Made Flight
as Similar to Sitting on
Porch in Chair.

4 s'It was just like sitting on your
front porch in a rocking chair"
4 This was the way Miss Lillian
Helley of 2007 High street, described
the sensation she felt yesterday in
riding in the big airplane which Pilot
Messer drove over the city.
II saw the football practice at the
playground, and the Shriners parade,
and Keokuk looked like a toy village
as we flew over part of it," she said
today. Miss Hoiley made the trip at
o'clock; and her father, w. l. Hol-
ley, made a trip about AIS O'Clock.
I'D go again the first chance I
get" Miss Holley said in her enthusi-
asm over the flight. ut was just as
comfortable as sitting on your front
porch in rocking chair. And it
wasn't cold; in fact it seemed warmer
up in the air, and the only time you
could feel any wind was when you
put your hand out or looked out of
the car"
Mr.. Holley was in the car when
the pilot made a couple of loops, and
enjoyed every minute of the trip.
Both Mr.. Holley and his daughter
are well known local colored people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
PAPER BOX
MILL GOES UP
Another Industry for Fort Madison
to be Built Adjoining Brown Pa
.... per Factory is An
nounced.

FORT MADISON, Iowa, Sept. %
Erection of large paper box mill for
the manufacture of fibre board boxes
here will be made by the Brown pa
per mill, recently consolidated with
the Hinde &, Dauch Co.. Sandusky, O.,
according to an official of the COM
pany.
Three blocks of property adjoining
the Brown paper mill has been pur-
chased, giving the mill an area Of nine
blocks. The capacity of the mill will
be $50 tons daily, while new machin-
cry will be installed in the old mill to
bring its production up to 200 tons.
Employment will be furnished sew
eral hundred workers when the new
mill Is completed, it is thought. No
immediate change in the Management
OF the company is announced
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
BENEFIT FOR
ROY VENNING
keokuk Team and Hamilton Will
Meet in Game Sunday, Proceeds
of Which Go to Injured
Shortstop of Indians.

Plans are being made to take care
of an overflow crowd at the baseball
benefit game Sunday afternoon for
Roy Venning, who was injured in a
game at Burlington few weeks ago.
Mr.. Venning is now at the home OF
his brother, Frank Venning, to re-
cover from the injuries.
venning played shortstop for Keo-
knc and in a recent Burlington game
broke an ankle in sliding into second
base. The team and the fans can
show their appreciation Of his work
in no better way than by a benefit
game. and this will be staged with
Hamilton as the opponent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
DOCTORS FAVOR
NEW TASTELESS
CASTOR OIL
New Process Makes Castor OF
Absolutely TaSeless.

Doctors have always prescribed
castor oil when a real laxative IS
needed, and all mothers know how
much trouble 1t is to get children to
take it. There need be no more
trouble, for doctors are now recon-
mending keIlogg's Tasteless Castor
Oil, from which absolutely all nause-
ating taste has been removed. Chill
dren take it readily. They need not
even know it is castor oil. This
splendid new form of the good old
family remedy is the result of a re-
markable process perfected by the
chemists or Spencer Kellogg & Sons,
Inc. In strength and purity Kellogg S
TasteIess Castor Oil is exactly the
same as the old-fashioned disagree
able kind Nothing has been removed
but the taste. Do not accept substi-
tutes, if you want really tasteless
castor oil. At all good druggists
Two sizes, Csc and Csc. (Advt.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Careless Shampooing
Spoils the Hair

Soap should be used very carefully, if
you want to keep your hair looking its
best. Most soaps and prepared sham
poos contain too much alkali. This
dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle,
and ruins it.
The best thing for steady use is Null
sifed cocoanut oil shampoo (Which is
pure and greaseless), and is better than
anything else you can use.
One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse
the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply
moisten the hair with water and rub it
in. It makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, which rinses out easily,
removing every particle Of dust, dirt
dandruff and excessive oil. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves
the scalp soft, and the hair fine and
silky, bright lustrous, fluffy and easy
to manage.
You can get Mulsi6ed cocoanut oil
shampoo at any pharmacy, it's very
cheap, and a few ounces will supply
every member of the family for months.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

fair the boys Of the Legion hope to
secure sufficient funds to enable them
to secure permanent quarters. Here,
as in KeokUk, and many other locali-
ties, the efforts of the Legion to in
terest people in their organization has
been fruitless and very discouraging
1t is humiliating to them to have to
beg the people of the community for
funds when only two years ago our
citizens boosted that nothing was too
good for our lads who put UP their
lives for our country.
The fair will continue the balance of
the week Unless the rain continues
throughout the week, large crowds
should be in attendance. The free at
tractions give two shows daily and all
are above the average. The bands
concerts are splendid and they alone
are worth coming miles to hear
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
WANT TO KNOW
ABOUT CROWD
Men Who Expect to Be Present at
the Opening of the Y. M. c. A.
Saturday Asked to Notify
by Friday Noon.

Men who expect to be present at
the banquet Saturday evening which
will mark the opening of the Y. M.
G. A. are asked by the committee to
send in their names by Friday noon.
Arrangements are being made for
the athletic events during the after
noon. These will commence at
o'clock and continue for three hours.
Four volley ball teams are entered.
and there will be an indoor baseball
game between teams from the senior
and business men classes.
Every man who comes to the big
event Saturday afternoon will be
given an opportunity for entering the
games.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
euneraI Services for the Late Mrs.
William w. Cox, Fatally Hurt in
Auto Accident, Will be
Held Tomorrow.
FORMERLY LIVED HERE
elizabe II, Ann Bush Was Born in This
City in 1859 and Lived Here Un-
til 1904 When She Went
to Pacific Coast.

william W. Cox has arrived in Keo
kuk from Cutler, California, with the
body of his wife, who died September
*. as the result of injuries she sus
tanned in an automobile accident at
Cutler, September 10.
Funeral services will be held tonor
row (Friday) morning at 8 o'clock
from st. Peters Catholic church and
interment will take place in the Cath.
ole cemetery.
Mrs. Cox was formerly resident of
this city and comes from an old and
prominent Keokuk family. Besides
her sister, Mrs Julia Stebinger, she
has many friends here who mourn
her death, which occurred at $3.50
o'clock Wednesday evening, Septem-
Der Is, at hospital at Orosa, Califor-
MIA, where she was taken following the
automobile accident of which she was
the victim September 10. Mrs. Cox
never regained consciousness after
she was hurt.
Elizabeth Ann Bush was born in
Keokuk in 1859, of an old and promi-
nent family. On April 81, 1895. she
was married to William w. Cox, and
in 1904 they left for California. When
a resident of this city she was mem
Der of the ST. Peters church. She
belonged to the ST. Mary's church Of
Visula, California. Mrs. Cox was a
woman highly esteemed by everyone
who knew her and one worthy of the
consideration which her friends had
for her.
The survivors are her husand, who
is also well known former resident
of this place, her sister, Mrs. Julia
Stebinger of Keokuk, and several
nieces and nephews.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
WILL ATTEND
r. C.. MEETING
Miss Laura Alton, Home Service Sec
ton Secretary Will Represent
keokuk Chapter of Red
Cross at OttunlMa.

Miss Laura Alton, secretary of the
home service section Of the American
Red Cross in Keokuk, left this after
noon for Ottumwa where she will at
tend a district conference of Red
Cross chapter representatives.
The meeting will be for the purpose
of discussing plans for the drive this
year, and also to talk over the Red
Cross activities.
Miss Alton has been officially dele
gated by C. F. Mcfarland, president
of Keokuk chapter, to represent the
CITY at the Ottunrwa meeting.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
RURAL LIFE IN IOWA
FORTY YEARS AGO
by M. w. Cunningham
(By Request.)

and two mich cows. The COWS fur
nished milk and butter for our daily
use; our meals were cooked by the
roadside, and we slept in the wagon
at nights. 1t required five weeks for
this trip because OF the stock we took
with us.
The church and school advantages
at that time were as limited as were
many of the comforts of life; the
schools We're fals remote from many
of the homes, and during the two
years spent in Nebraska there were
but three weeks of preaching in the
ineighborhood Water for the house
and for all of the live stock had to
be drawn by hand windlass from a
well eighty-fve feet deep. During
these two years we lived in a sod
house with only dirt floors except one
room which had board floor. On
account of the sand storms which
were characteristic at that time, it
became necessary to stretch a line
from the house to the barn during a
sand storm.
Horse. Rivals Weston.
After leaving Nebraska, we again
journeyed to Indianola, Iowa, where
we lived until the fall of 1882, at
which time my mother with the three
children started back to Pennsylvania
and father again began sthe journey
overland with team and wagon and
with one small colt following. One of
the horses that made half the team
on this long journey was first driven
through to Iowa from California with
herd of wild horses. This horse
then made the FIVE weeks trip from
Iowa to Nebraska, then driven back
to Iowa, and finally from Iowa to
Pennsylvania. She had record al
most as good as Weston, the noted
pedestrian. My parents have since
resided in Pennsylvania where they
raised family Of five children, each
Of whom is married. In 1907 the
writer came back to Iowa, and after
a few years on the stage in Lyceum
work, five years in college work as
teacher of oratory and expression,
five years in the furniture and under
taking business at Eagle Grove, Iowa,
he located in this city where he is
now in business
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Insanity is Defense.
limited Press Leased Wire Ser

limited Press Leased Wire SerVlce.J
CENTERVILLE, Iowa, Sept. %
That Tony Matte who Carmella
Russo shot and killed at her home
here, had attempted to blacken the
girls character was intimated by
witnesses for the defense today at
the trial here of the sixteen year old
girl, who is charged with murder.
Pete Crachillo testified that while
he was a soldier stationed at Camp
Dodge he. had received letters from
Matte which besmirched the girls
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Ak-sar-ben Festival.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
OMAHA, Neb., Sept 23.-Despite a
steady drizzle of rain, more than
10000 persons last night witnessed
the twenty-fourth annual electrical
parade Of the Ak-sarben festival. The
floats, seventeen in number, depicted
love scenes of history.
This afternoon the pilgrims days
parade with twenty-three floats de-
plotting principal events in American
history will be held The festivities
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
SIX YEAR OLD
LIKES PLANE.
Cteamont eaer Went Up in Air Flyer
with His Mother Yesterday and
Would Like to Repeat tire
Trip.

Ceamont Baer, six ye<-rs old, Is
probably the youngest aviator in keo-
kuk.
The Young man, who is the son of
Mt. and Mrs. Frank T. Baer made the
trip yesterday in an airplane, and en-
joyed it SO well that he has served
notice on his father he wants to go
again.
The trip was made by the little lad
and his mother.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
close Saturday night with a grand
ball.
franklin Autos Reduced

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 23.-The
Fl. H. Franklin Manufacturing COM
pany today announced reduction in
prices of Franklin automobiles rang
ing from II to 21 per cent. Fl. H.
Franklin president, in announcing
this action, endorsed the stand taken
by Henry Ford for general lower
ing of commodity prices to a pre-war
level.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
UP IN AIR
ON SUNDAY
Messer's Airpiane Will Make Trips
Sunday, Carrying Any Passengers
Who Desire to

An aeroplane, operated by G. e.
Messer of FIT. Madison, will be in Keo-
kuk Sunday and take up passengers
all day. The landing field will be in
the vicinity Of the ball park Mr..
Messer has been flying about eight
years and has had about 1900 hours
flying time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

! Inc following narrative will perhaps
pc OF interest to many of the early
pioneers OF this section of the middle
west, as well as to the younger gener-
alton whose lives and experiences date
back to the dawn of the automobile
age and other conveniences unknown
to our parents and forefathers.
The boy or the girl who rides six
blocks to school these days in six
cylinder car can scarcely comprehend
the many hardships and trying exper.
lences that were common to a life
on the prairie" but forty years ago.
10 them the story of the emigrant
wagons moving westward, the kind
led fires by the roadside where the
scanty meals were prepared, and the
unrestful nights spent in the wagons
reads like fiction.
But through trials and iardships,
through sacrifices and disappoint-
ments the wheels Of progress were
set in motion and the marked develop
ments that followed have made this
territory known as the middle west,
one OF the richest and most productive
to be found anywhere, while our own
grand state is known far and wide as
the bread basket of the world"
There are many people living in
Keokuk today who. could relate more
interesting stories of the early pioneer
days, but this little story will furnish
food for "Reminiscences and comparison
of the things that are with the things
that were.-Just now, in comparison
with the emigrant wagon as a means
of travel, the writer's attention is at
tracted by the whirr of an aeroplane
passing overhead.
In the spring Of 1876, my parents,
Mr. and Mrs r. S. Cunningham, to-
gether with their two children, left
Lawrence county, Pennsylvania and
came west as far as Iowa, settling on
a farm in Louisa county, near Wapel-
10, where they stayed until the fall
of 1879. 1t was while living on this
farm that the writer of this narrative
was born, / being their third child
At this time deep sorrow came into
the home occasioned by the death in
of my mothers mother
This cross was all the heavier to bear
because of circumstances which made
it impossible for her, my mother, to
go home to attend her mothers fun
eral.
Went to Nebraska. l+
Leaving louisa county we journey
ed by team and wagon to Hamilton
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

character. The letters were not in
troduced at the trial.
Mrs. Mary Iciavons followed era.
chillo on the stand and gave testi-
mony similar to that offered by era
chillo.
The defense is pleading temporary
insanity
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Coal Miners to Strike

Coal Miners to Strike.
limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Represent
tiyes of British coal miners, in gener-
al conference this evening, decided
that the strike set for Monday is Gin
evitable"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

One hundred and fifty years ago,
when Brazilian stones were poured
on the market, first quality diamonds
sold as low as SIS a carat.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Cured His RUPTURE:

was badly ruptured while lifting trunk
several years ago. Doctors said my only hope OF
cure was an operation. Trusscs did me no good.
Finally got hold of something that quickly and
completely cured me. Years have passed and the
rupture has never returned, although am doing
hard work n carpenter. There was no opera
ton, no lost time. no trouble. have nothing to
SELL but will give fu1i information about how you
may find q complete cure without operation. If
you write to me. Eugene NJ. Puiien, Carpenter
575G s;arcelius Avenue, ManasQuan, N. ]. Better
cut out this notice and show it to any others who
are rupturcd-you ma save a life or at least stop
The misery of rupture aud the worry and danget
an operation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Went to Nebraska,

Leaving louisa county we journey
ed by team and wagon to Hamilton
county, Nebraska, where we lived on
a farm for two years, On this jour
ney we took with us two small colts
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

Reading, Pa Ihad organic .infam-
nation, pains in the side and back
which were SO sharp that they pulled
me to my knees, and I could not walk.
1had an operation and still l failed, and
in the eight years suffered l had four
doctors and none helped me. My
mother-in- law advised me to take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. |
was then in bed, and after the first
bottle I could be out OF bed, then |
took Vegetable Compound Tablets and
Lydia E. Pinkha1n,s Blood Medicine and
also used the Sanative Wash. l still
take the medicine and am able now to
do my own Homework. My friends say,
sMy! but you look well-what do you
do? Who is your doctor?' And there
is only one answer, Lydia E. Pink
hams medicines which gladly recon-
mend. Mrs. VIM STEIN, $50 Douglas
Street, Reading, Pa.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23

z Gainesville, TeK.-"F or three years
I suffered untold agony each month
with pains in: my side. l found only
temporary relief In doctors medicine
band and II saw an advertisement Of
Lydia E.; Pinldaui's Vegetable Com
pound. I;rnentionedsit tota neighbor
and. sheitold me she had taken it with
good. results, and advised me to try it.
[ was thensins bed part. of the time, and
doctorsaid I;wouid have tobe oper-
ated on. butwe decided to try the Vege-
table Compound, and Ialso used Lydia
e. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. am
dressmaker and am now able to go
about my work, and do my Homework
besides. You are welcome to use this
letter as q. testimonial as I am always
glad to speaka word for your medicine"
Mrs. W. M. STEPHENS, 2o2 Harvey ST.,
Gainesville. Texas.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-16
FINED FOR EVICTING
CHILDREN FROM HOME
DURING SEVERE STORM
INV The Associated Press,

Denver, Colo, Dec. 15.-Mrs.
Minnie White, owner of property
on Twenty-ninth street, was fined
SIS in police court today on a tech
meal charge Of committing
wrongs to children
Testimony showed that Mrs.
White, during the height OF bit
ter cold wind storm yesterday,
evicted from her premises -four
children, the oldest of whom vas
not years of age and the young
est was a baby aged eight months.
The father of the children, Quin-
Ian Bailey, could not meet the pay
ment on the rent of the house
which was past due.
The mother of the family was
working when the eviction took
place. Alone, and pierced by the
cutting wind, the children sought
shelter behind a tumble down coal
shed, where they were found hud-
died alG in tears by Humane Off
Ger Harry Richter. He was sum
moned by neighbors, VINO had res
cued the baby numbed by cold,
and taken it to q fire to prevent 1t
from freezing to death.
Mrs. White testified that she had
not thrown the children out but
they had walked out and she had
locked the door. Police judge
Bray, in passing sentence on Mrs
White, declared she had taken the
law which relates to landlords and
tenants into her own hands.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-16
DEATH OF WOMAN DUE
TO KNIFE WOUND SELF
INFLICTED, VERDICT
CBy The Associated Press)

Chicago, Dec. ia coroner
jury investigating the death of Miss
Theodore Sanders of Laredo, Tex,
who recently stabbed herself to
death while talking on the mez-
canine floor of a hotel with II. II.
Carver, foreign trade manager of
the Chamber of Commerce, today
returned a verdict of death due to
a self-inflicted knife wound.
The inquest had been continued
several weeks at the request of c.
Il. Walker, said to be wealthy
cattle dealer of FL Paso, Tex, who
said he wished to introduce as ev-
idence a letter written by Miss
Sanders shortly before her death,
to an uncle in Mexico city. This
letter, he said, might present a mo-
tive for Miss Sanders act. Mr..
Walker did not appear today, how
ever, and the only witnesses heard
were physicians and Miss Ruth
Victor, who was sitting near the
couple when Miss Sanders stabbed
herself.
Miss Victor said she heard Gar
yer and Miss Sanders talking, but
there was no quarreling.