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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-28
CITY NEWS

DIX Mz-go89 Of St Louis. Al open
form
Mss AEs dancing studio. 4zg5.
Man Plozs 14Is-
u C. T. dance Saturday night
Fes-ZzrT y. Masonic hall
Get gOxr shoes repaired al An.
ts-goo e ECtcas-sol's. Iii Nam
Hear DR. Msngolffs lecture, THE
SS34riE o. = New Age" az open forum
5SEc1zy night 9:s9
a regular meeting Of the keo
XIX Ministerial association will be
mel Ga- the Z NJ c. A. Monday
morning 10 O'Clock
Attractive service al First Bap
tist church Sunday evening Large
chorus choir. Bapsisms. Sermon
subject Why Should q Christian
Unite With the church,"
/ Norma Talmadge as Jennie Ma
lone. alias Jennie Miller. surpasses
faM Ter previous dramatic characters
In "a Daughter Of Two Worlds" the
marvellous story OF sIums and society
by Leroy Scott. Colonial Sunday,
Monday. Tuesday.
Warren lift. of Hamilton. son of
Mrs Clara Jolidon lift, is at Eamp-
ton Roads ON the Z. s. s. Jupiter. He
has had promotion and is now a
yeoman- He Is stenographer to the
CHIEF engineer OF the Jupiter.
We've waited long time for
Norma Talmadge as Jennie Malone
in "a Daughter OF Two Worlds" but
wen gay 1t is worth waiting for.
Don't miss il. She gives the greatest
emotional and dramatic psrforman nee
OF her career. Colonial Sunday, Mon
day. Tuesday.
The Carnation club OF Bethel A.
II. E. church viii hold its regular
business meeting Tuesday evening
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. l..
Teabeau, 1902 Tiuea street, at p.
m Mrg. Tebeau and Mrs Fred
Holmes will be the hostesses.
u. c. T. dance Saturday night,
February %, Masonic hall.
When she cries, youl cry. When
she smiles, you'll smile. When she
gasps you'll gasp. When che clutches
for help, you'll grip your chair, and
when she screams, you'll probably be
put out But come anyhow. and see
Norma Talmadge as Jennie Malone in
"A Daughter Of Two Worlds" It's
"a picture!
-" ora was received mere yeslel
day by Nj and Mrs. II. P. Ribyn, OF
this city, of the death Of James @.
Anderson, which occurred at his
I home in OskaIooga Thursday night
} from influenza. He will be remem
! bered by railroad men on the Koch
/ Island who live in this community as
J the keeper OF lunch counter" near
! the depot at Oskaloosa. He was tht
father of Clarence Anderson. resi-
/ dent in former times OF Keokuk, whG
! died here at st. Joseph's hospita
/ last week. The funeral will be hele
/ FROM the home at Oskaloosa today.
! Norma Talmadge as the famouG
destiny girl in "A Daughter OF TWO
. yyorlds"-the first from her own
studio. It's big. Colonial Sunday
Monday, Tuesday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-28
CITY NEWS.
buy sommers. brooms.

Buy Sommers' brooms.
Il. c. T. dance Saturday night
February %, Masonic hall.
--Tbe Ladies of Charity will take
corporate communion at ST. Peters
church at 1880 service for their de
parted member. Mrs. Ellen Sargent
why Should Christian Unite
With the Church ?''-subject Of SER
mon at First Baptist church Sunday
evening. Revival chorus choir will
sing Baptism at this service.
u. c. r. dance Saturday night,
February 28 Masonic hall
In business letter to j. B. We'll,
the writer, Richard Washburr Child.
now with Golfers, formerly with the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-28
FUNERAL NOTICE.

JOHNSTONE-F'une services for
the late Alexander Edward tombstone
will be held from the residence, 3O2
High street, Monday afternoon at
2:3D o'clock. Burial private. Please
omit flowers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-28
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish TO thank our friends and
ueighborg who were SO kind to us
during our mothers Illness and de-
mise.
ROSEBERRY FAMILY.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-28
Your Credit is Good

The terms of this sale are cash or
credit contract. We charge interest al
on all payment contracts.
We keep automobile trucks and will {
to your home if you live within twenty
We prepay freight and guarantee sal
$500 or more within 100 miles Of Ke
Articles selected now can be act aside
small payments on same.
Cur prices during March are as low as present day
being greatly under the present advancing market
This sale is too good for anyone to miss and we WI
able to share in it.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
chtlaren,s Christmas GIFTS.

There are two types of gifts you can
give to the youngsters. One consists
of costly contraptions of a mechanical
nature, that wind up and go for a few
days until their fiimsy structure breaks
down. Affairs of this kind interest
children. But they don't teach them to
do anything, and the easy way in which
they go to pieces leads them to be care
less with their possessions.
Another kind of gift is any simple
little toy with which they can accom-
plish something themselves. Building
blocks, for instance teach a. child to
use his hands deftly. If taught to pick
them up carefully and not lose them,
he learns a lesson Of neatness. Every
day the little hands manipulate any
such a toy, they acquire skill for big
ger tasks. This is the kind of thing
you find in abundance in the stores of
Brookhaven where they like to distri-
butte toys that help little folks make
the best Of themselves.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Milk and Egg Prices Perplex Housewives

Jackson, Miss, Dec. 15.-The sugges-
tion offered Monday night at the meet
ing of the Jackson Board of Trade with
regard to the removal of municipal re-
strictions and licenses on the sale of
meat in the city so as to permit farm
ers to butcher their cattle and sell with
in the city and reduce the price of re-
tail meat to point commensurate with
the present wholesale price has been
cordially received by housewives, who
are wondering why the suggestion stop
ped with meat.
Dissatisfaction amounting to indigna-
tion is moving the guardian of the mar
ket basket and furnisher of the balan-
ced ration as she continues to pay 20
cents a pint for milk in the face of
the fact that cottonseed, which furnish
es the bulk of the cows milk, is now
selling at $23, as compared with $SO-odd
at the peak of prices when the 20-cent
price of milk was fixed, and that eggs
are peddled on the streets at IS cents
the dozen, though the price of CONNER
cial hen feed has dropped 80 per cent
within the past month.
The fact that these two products are
absolutely essential to proper feeding of
children, and that mothers are urged to
supply their tables with the food that
growing bodies most require, serves to
add fuel to the fire of her indignation.
Wartime food propaganda taught wo-
men to substitute for meat, so that the
high cost of steaks and roasts resolves
itself into a question of take it or
leave it, to some extent, but milk and
eggs she must have, and with COW and
hen products still soaring in the face of
reductions in price of the factors that
caused wartime increases, the women
of the town feel that the Board of Trade
might extend it's action to include these
more important items of the menu with
cut prejudice to the other
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
President moarath Informs Cotton

Mr.. j. w. McGrath, President Mis-
sissippi Division American Cotton As
sociation, has addressed the editors of
Mississippi informing them that a eau
Gus was to have been held at Jackson
on Friday, December 18th, by the Pres
ident of the Bankers Association Pres
ident of the Farmers Union, and Pres
ident of the American Cotton Associa-
ton for the purpose of perfecting plans
looking toward the organization of each
voting or school district and county for
the reduction of cotton acreage.
After the meeting was scheduled for
Lincoln county the Big Cotton Conven-
tion was held at Memphis and the plans
were changed. The work has been
broadened so as to include the mer-
chants and the bankers, and the mode
of reducing the cotton acreage has been
revised, The work has been turned ov-
er to the Bankers Association of the
different states and all agricultural as
sociations were requested to cooperate
with them in putting the work through
as speedily as possible. The new plan
is as follows:-
/. Have the farmers to sign pledges
to plant cotton not exceeding one-third
of their lands in actual cultivation in
1921
2. Have merchants and bankers also
sign pledges to see that this program
is carried out. The bankers pledging
not to extend credit to either merchant
or farmer who have not signed pledges
to abide by this agreement.
g. Organize each county and voting
or school district so as to have the
work done thoroughly and quickly.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
zazlehurst Fire Chcorea.

Hazlehurst, Miss. Dec. 14-Fire last
night caused about $4,000 damage at
tie Cumberland Telephone Company
Exchange building here. Smoke was de-
tected by the night girl operator in the
warerooms of the telephone company.
Back of the telephone exchange ware
rooms is a pressing shop run by Neil
Caldwell and next to that a Chinese
Charlie Fung, has his laundry. The
flames seemed to have started at the
petition walls between the Caldwell
shop and the wareroom of the ex-
change, but the cause has not been as
certained. The telephone company's
loss was about $1,000; Caldwell lost
$1,000 of clothing he had in his shop
to clean or press for his patrons. be-
sides all his furniture and fixtures. His
total loss being $500 with no insurance,
and Fung's loss by fire and water dam
age was not exceeding 500.
The telephone company had insur-
ance to cover practically all losses The
buildings were damaged about $500.
No one was hurt and the property
damaged will be rebuilt at once. Tele-
phone service has been restored.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Asks Remempranoos for the insane

Superintendent Mitchell of the Mis-
sissippi Insane Hospital at Fondren, has
issued the following appeal
Dear Friend
1t is my earnest desire to make the
approaching Yuletide the happiest and
most cheerful of any year to our pa
tients in this hospital, but it will be
necessary to call upon the well wish
ers of the institution to assist me at
this time.
VIII you, as a friend or relative of
some one here, send a contribution, in
order that he may not be forgotten?
1t may mean but very small effort on
your part, but you can rest assured
that you will be more than repaid by
the pleasure and gratitude which these
patients will feel.
Wearing apparel Of any kind, is es-
pecially appropriate, and tobacco for
the men, fruit candy, etc., for others
would be most acceptable.
If you send any parcels, kindly ad-
dress them to the patient in my care
and I will see that they are delivered
to the patient for whom they are in
tended Also write your name plainly
on either the outside or inside of the
package so that we may properly ac-
knowledge same.
If there is no one in the hospital in
whom you are particularly interested
and feel that you would like to make a
Christmas gift to any of these unfor-
tunates, you can send such contribu-
tions to me, and will give it to some
one here who will not have loving and
faithful friends to remember him.
I trust that the years to come will
be full of happiness and prosperity for
you. and with the best wishes Of the
Season, / am
Yours truly.
c. D. Mitchell, Stunt.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
pairying is Productive.

Jackson, Miss, Dec. 15.-H. c. Fergu-
son, dairy specialist for the federal farm
demonstration office, gives the follow
ing advice to farmers:-
Right at this time farmers general
ly and with very good cause, are de-
moralized by the serious slump in the
prices of their products. 1t is notice
able, however, that dairy products have
fallen off in value about the. least of
any farm product.
II do not believe that there is any
reason whatever for any farmer not
taking up dairying now if he can get
cows that are giving a good flow of
milk, and if he has plenty of hay or
otEer coarse feeds. 1t would hardly be
advisable, however, to buy cows at
this time, and then have to buy both
the grain and the hay necessary to
feed them until spring
THE price of butter fat has fallen
off about rs per cent while other pro-
ducts have fallen off as much as so per
cent to 60 per cent. With feed at its
present low figures there is still a good
margin to be made where cows with pro-
ductive ability are properly handled.
Dairying has never yet failed where bu-
siness methods were used in handling
it and there is no reason why it should
now.
"At this time. when all of the lead
ers of agriculture in the south are ad-
vocating a SO 1-3 per cent reduction
in the cotton acreage, let's plan to use
the extra labor next year in dairying
and raising feed for the cows. Remem-
ber that profitable dairying depends on
four things-good markets, good cows,
intelligent handling and an abundant
supply of homegrown feeds. Farmers
can no more dairy prohtably by buying
all the feeds they use than they can
produce cotton proftably and buy all the
feed for the work stock and food for
the family USE"
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Retail Pork Prices nit Level Of lel4.

Chicago, Dec. 14.-Hogs today sold
down to 50, compared with $1,000 in
August of 1915. Retail prices, although
slower to react, are today approximate
ly on basis of the days of 1914 To-
days prices mark the low point thus
far Of a slump that has continued for
four months from the high prices then
prevailing.
Retail prices on cuts Of pork and
beef furnished by John Irwin of irwin
Brothers, one of Chicago's largest re-
tail butchers, are as follows: Smoked
ham, per pound 26c; pork loins, per
pound 19c; light native cattle cuts are
80 per cent to 40 per cent lower than
in 1915. Prime beef alone continues
high, while prices on chucks and rounds
are at low level.
Leading retail butchers did not
hesitate to say that today's prices are
as low, if not much lower than before
the war.
Wholesalers declare that the retail
markets must lower their prices stin
more to compare with the present
wholesale prices.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Tumble in Cattle Prices shown in
New Orleans.

Prices Of hogs on the market at the
Crescent City Stockyards show decline
over one week ago. Cornfed or ''tops,,
are selling today at from to 10 cents
per pound. Last week they sold for . u
to II cents The porkers at this time
last year were going at 10 and 1Sh
cents.
Fat well-bred steers are selling for
Sh to 10h cents, while choice heavy
,yearlings are going at from 71s to 0
cents. Choice calves are bringing 81
to 10 cents. One year ago steers sold
for 10 to liz cents and yearlings sh
to 105k. while calves were being gobbled
up at from 101s to 1s cents.
Present prices on the local cattle mar
ket are forecast Of additional de-
creases within the next few weeks, ana
an almost complete return Of pre-war
prices. according to live stock nnen.--
Times Ptcayune.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
rag Contest 3 Teatura.

Fernwood, Miss. Dec. f5.-There was
a large attendance, at the Methodist
Church last night when the Rev. G. M.
Hammond delivered his interesting lee
ture in behalf of the Anti-Saloon League
the school children taking part in the
program. The main feature was a flag
contest, the schoolroom receiving the
greatest number Of votes was to be a.
warded large United States flag, and
it was won by Miss Bertha Jones' room
fourth and fifth grades.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Senator Harrlson conaems conrress.

washington, Dec. 10.-Failure to pro-
vide adequately for the rivers and har-
oors OF the country was placed SQUARE
ly upon the shoulders of the Republi-
can party today by Senator Pat Harri-
son, of Mississippi, in an address he
fore the National Rivers and Harbors
congress. He said that while the last
congress appropriated a billion dollars
for the army and navy it allotted the
meager sum of $12.000,0O0 for the de-
Velopment and needs of the great water
ways of the nation. This neglect of
the country's waterways and harbors
he declared, had characterized that no.
htical party for 20 years.
Referring to annual estimates lust
submitted to the Congress for consider
alton at this short session, Senator Har-
rison said that they showed contem-
plated expenditure Of about $40 for the
army and navy as against 81 for the
rivers and harbors. Expressing reali-
zation of the necessity at this time
for making proper provision for the
army and navy, Senator Harrison de-
plored that the government should be
asked to appropriate so bountifully for
these departments to the detriment Of
the waterways, whose continued devel-
opment and constructive maintenance
involves SO much that is vital to Amer
lean commerce and those things in
which the peoples interest is first and
paramount.
He said that he stood for broad
liberal and upholding public policy in
the matter Of caring for the nations
waterways and harbors as the ultimate
solution Of the unsolved problems Of
keeping the country's transportation fa-
cilities equal to its constantly increas-
ing farm and factory production.
Cheaper freight rates, he said would
follow increased means Of transporta-
tion and cheaper transportation assures
q lowering Of the cost Of living.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Auto Fatalities Continue to increase.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Deaths from
automobile accidents continued to show
an increase during 1919 with a total
Of 1859 for the census bureau regis
tration area comprising about 80 per
cent of the countries total population,
according to statistics just completed
by the census. The total includes g.
sos deaths in sixty six of the larger
cities of the country for which statis-
tics were announced early this month
and which total was not clearly indi-
Gated as representing the aggregate for
those cities.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Action of Governor scored at culfport

Action of Governor Scored at Gulfport.
Gulfport, Miss, Dec. 15.-PubIic o.
pinion here is running high against Gov.
Russell because of his action in sus-
pending the prison sentence imposed on
w. H. Wood by Judge Graham. Wood
earlier this week pleaded guilty on
charges of embezzling moneys coming
under his control while superintendent
of education and was sentenced to one
year IN prison. Late Tuesday a wire
was received to the effect that the SEN
tence had been suspended until the jan
uary meeting of the board of pardons.
On former occasion Wood entered a
plea of guilty to a charge somewhat
similar and was given fine and ten
days in jail. He paid the fine but new
er served any of the Jail sentence the
Governor having interfered.
Judge Graham who passed sentence
on Wood and District Attorney Cowan
are both outspoken in their condemna-
ton of the Governors actions and many
citizens declare that the granting of the
suspension to their mind makes it ap-
pear that the Governor is willing to
trample the law underfoot when his
friends are involved. 1t is claimed here
that Wood is staunch supporter Of
Governor Russell and this is the reason
for the Governors interest in the case.
The crime for which Wood was con-
victed was grave one he being alleged
to have taken some five or six thousand
dollars and while the money has been
refunded to the county the people of the
coast who had reposed confidence in
Wood feel that the law should apply ev-
Ell to the Governors friends and say
that respect for law and order cannot
prevail where it is trampled upon by
men in high office.
No one here is very much surprised
at the Governors action in this case but
many are shocked that he refuses to let
just sentence be put into effect.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
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Our school is still progressing nicely.
We have good average.
Wellman choir is planning to go to
Topisaw to the singing convention the
4th Sunday in this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Thompson, of
Jackson, visited their father and moth
er at Wellman Saturday and Sunday
last.
We are longing for the Christmas hol-
idays so we can enjoy home a little
while.
Our number one concert and box sup
per will be Wednesday, Dec. 22. Every
body is invited especially girls from 9TH
er schools to bring boxes. Don't forget
the date for we are expecting grand
time.
Nhuroe
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
world Needs More Cooks, Less dancers.

A San Francisco Judge rebuked the
mother of young respondent in a d.
vorce court because she had fattered
her daughter in the belief that she
would do better at esthetic dancing
than plain cooking. The judge declared
that the world was terribly overstoeiIed
with girls who interpret dancing, but
couldn't tell the contents Of an Irish
stew.
If the courts are going to rule that
plain cooking is more vital than plas-
tic dancing there will be evolution In
many homes. But it does seem for
fact that there are more fancy dancers
than good cooks on the wrong side Of
the divorce courts. A wife who can
make good wafhes has a grip on her
Job that the courts cannot shake loose
Los Angeles Times.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
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Quite a number of our young people
enjoyed the singing given by Miss Ruby
Case Saturday night
Misses Maud and Mandy Jane Entri-
can spent several days last week with
their cousin, Miss Covington, at Union
Church.
Miss Clara Griffin came home Satur-
day from McComb to spend few days
with the home folks.
Sorry to say Mr.. ]. N. Elzey is on
the sick list.
Miss Katie Belle King spent Saturday
night with Miss Alice Cade.
We are very sorry that our pastor
Rev. w. w. Nelson has left us but we
hope that we have a man who can take
his place.
Just a Kid
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Girl Commits Suicide, Leaving NO
Explanation.

Scooba, Miss, Dec 15.-Miss Edwina
Tart, Is years old, sister-in-law to DR.
Canning Bell a leading physician Of
DeKalb, near here, committed suicide
Wednesday by shooting hedself through
the heart, She left no explanation and
relatives and friends were unable to
account for her action.
She had been i'll since Tuesday and
was at home with her mother who is
deaf and did not hear the shot. A
neighbor Mrs, Daniels. happened 10
be entering the house. and when she
heard the noise ran to Miss Tart.s
room finding the unfortunate girl
dying.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Chunns.

To relieve rheumatism, sprains, lame
back, lambago or pleurisy, Ballard's
Snow Liniment is remedy of proven
merit. 1t is very powerful and pene-
trating. Three sizes, soc, 6Oc and $1.2O
per bottle. Sold by Price Drug Co., and
Brookhaven Drug Co.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
GOOD ADVICE.

Take Chamberlain's Tablets as soon as
you have finished your supper and they
will produce gentle movement of the
bowels on the following morning. They
will also improve your digestion and
make you feel better in every way.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Eleotlon q city rshrarian.

A Librarian for the Public Library
will be elected at the Executive Com
mittee meeting Friday, January Z, al
400 o'clock. Candidates for the office
will file their applications in writing
with the secretary. Mrs P. B. McMullen,
or with the President, Mrs, 3. 7. Hobbs.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Youth Of ls divorces his 7a-Ysard-o,a
Bride.

Knoxville. Tenn, Dec. 1s-Anothar
nuptial barque foundered TODAY when
Henry T. sutton. 10 obtained 4 divorce
from Masgie sutton. "a. The disnarltv
IN their ages did not figure in the suit.
tne plaintiff basing his case upon the
srounds that his spouse deserted him.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Etter.

The Leader has oil leases in stock
and supply you on demand in GUAM
titles from one up. They are the offI-
cial prescribed form for use IN Mis-
sissippi. Orders By mail viii be
promptly taken care Of.
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18
Notice 10 Treaanaaaara.

NY lands, located east Of Gum Grove
church are and have been POSTED
against hunting, trapping and fishing
under Section 1892 Of Code Of 1906. Flu
ture trespassers will be proceeded a.
gainst by law. R. d. NETTLES
The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-12-18

A. remedy that will penetrate is ne
cessary in the treatment of rheumatism.
Billiards. Snow Liniment goes right
through the flesh to the bone and re-
lieves promptly. Three sizes, soc, 60c
and $1.25 per bottle. Sold by Price
Drug Co., and Brookhaven Drug Co.