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4 .„.._, sn '•%'-. 4 MISS HILL &7 N. 4th St. Keokuk, Iowa SEVERAL LEAGUES GAV® UP GHOST DURING SUMMER That baseball was not the most profitable investment in the world this season is shown by the list of leagues which have disbanded, and those which have curtailed their seasons. This list was received last week by Presi dent Justice: The following leagues have dis banded: South Michigan, Ne braska State. Bi-State league. Middle Texas league and the Central Texas league. The South Atlantic league shortened its season and quit July 20. The Georgia State I league shortened its season and •quit July 17. The Central association will have no trouble in finishing the I present season, and by next year it is expected that many of the "nanclal troubles which beest in- d,Tidual a I n--' SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 191? Lt t«x A Great Reduction in Prices on Porch i'S *\1 Shades I". F- We received a permit from the factory, al lowing us to make-prices on porcli shades lower than we have ever been able to do before. This sale will be for one week. A big cut on porch shades means a big saving to the purchaser. Do not miss this sale. rS Schell-Demple 18 Furniture Co. £13-615 Main Younker Company Splendid suite office rooms, second floor our building. B^th Main and Fifth street frontage, double entrance, best of light and* ventilation. IJght and power^ Gas, electricity, steam heat, a? ...... Will remodel jgnd re! furnish to suit %enant. Reasonable rental M. Younker Company 11 ir Covered Buttons We cover button^ in all ityles and in MATERIALS to match YOUR GOWN. We car ry a complete line off the latest and most fashionable shapes in. buttons and cover them ar tistically and' perfectly. clubs will have been and th'R the troubles of season will have all been erased. Inappropriate. iJ""chell Republican: "Small" grain a raisnomer this year. 1 vrTj?T^•. v'-^v '. TO SPEAK TODAY Especially Fine Sunday Program Hate Been Prepared for patrons at Hamilton Chautauqua Today. THE PROGRAM PLEASES Oxford Quartette and David F. Luck ey Are Forerunners of Splendid Attractions for This Special electric car leaves Keo kuk at 1:20 and 7:05 p. m. [Special tq The Gate City.] HAMILTON*, 111., Aug. 7.—The Ham ilton Chautauqua opened its eleventh season most atfspiciously on Friday night with a copcert by the Oxford company. The rfale of season tickets has been unusually good and the tal ent secured for the ten day's program Is the best which the Chautauqua bureau has to offer. The local man agement is in the hands of prominent residents of Hamilton as follows: President—A. B. Agnew. Vice president—J. P. Guthrie. Treasurer—H. G. Williams. Secretary—M. G. Dadant. J. A. Gordon. A. L. McArthur, H. S. Harrison. B. Mathis, Warren H. Orr, H. E. Rayburn, "W. H. Harkrader. The tent colony in the grove back of the big tent is not so large as in former years, owing to the weather conditions this season, there being only four or five tents as against twenty or more in former years. The Oxford company which opened the programs of the assembly is a musical organization of a high order. The opening program included: Quartette— Carmena H. Lane Wilson Aunt Margery Parks Pian0 (a) Praeludhim Macdowell (b) The Spinning Wheel.Chaminade (c) Blue Danube Waltz Strauss The prigram closed with The Mi kado in costume. Saturday's Program Prelude. The tent was comfortably filled on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock to hear the prelude given by the Oxford quartette. The program included: Quartette— Bridal chorus from The Rose Maid en, by Cowen. The Rosary, by Nevin. Piano—Stacatto Etude, by Rheuben stein. tiip closing group of songs was six nnrsCTy rlivmes of English folk songs the musical arrangement for which was by H. Walford Davies. (a) Lullaby. (b) We Willie Winkle. (c) Valentine. (d) 'Tother Little Tune. fe1 Thomas and Annice. (f) if All the Sea were One Sea. Missouri Veterinary Speaks. The lecture for the afternoon was bv David Francis Luckey state veter inarian for the state of Missouri. He snoke on the Prevelence and Preven tion of Tuberculosis, speaking in par ticular of its presence In cattle and •^•'"•'ii"-?f •. ..p. ... .... I "U'- PROGRAM FOR TODAY. 1 1 a S Krughoff. 2 p. m.—Prelude by the Arca dians. 2:30 p. m.—Lecture by Henry Ad rian. 8:00 p. m.—Full concert by the Arcadians. V^. rv-''"'?-.:.-^-v"^' VV- LT ':v^"' Your unrestricted choice of all our fine voile dresses, former values of $10 to $25. (Also party gowns included) values to $30. the infection of herds. In opening his lecture he said: "Suppose you were to read in The Gate City tomorrow morning that some powerful force had come from Iowa over into Illinois and had killed 6,297 residents of this state? And' that furthermore in the next year that same force waB going to kill during the next year one out of every eight of the residents remaining. What would you do about it? You'd surely do something, wouldn't you? Well, can contract from the outside. Know Milk Supply. cattle and another law to pen a dairy man who knowingly sells milk from diseased cows. Organization—that is, all the community working together— and education are thg" two things that are needed to wage this war, a RESULTS IN WESTERN [TTnlted Press Leased Wire Service.] LAKE FOREST. 111.. Aug. 7.—Re sults in the western tennis tournament were as follows: THE DAILY GATE CTT We have 150 clean new colored wash street dresses and porch dresses, worth $1.50 to $12 Mon-' day your last chance and choice— 79c, 89c, $1.98, $3 A SUMMER BENEDICTION. O happy one, for whom the days there is exactly such a force at work: Of summer break in wonder signs, right here and we are going to talk Whose life grows pure, tuned to the about what we can do to put i! to praise rout. Of God's- own mountain priests and pines, Is Community Affair. I Lay down thy chain of cares and ills Beneath some mighty sunlit crest, And shadowed by the great hills— I Rest. "To tight tuberculosis is a commun ity affair one man who doesn't co operate can defeat the final driving out of the disease. Whenever we quit eating, drinking and breathing tuber. O favored spirit, who shall breathe •culosis we are out of danger. There is j-The wild, white incense of the sea, One thing which every man, woman and And watch time's lights and shadows child should unfailingly observe and wreathe, that is to cover the nose and mouth Yet dream of all eternity— whenever they cough or sneeze. In Forget thine old reward or blame, hospitals and sanitariums the patients Forget tliy little goal and quest use paper napkins for handkerchiefs Wrapped by the peace that hath no and these are burned. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have in every school room a pile of paper napkins for the children who forget their handker chiefs. "Remember one thing, hereditary is broken by no holiday, cuts no figure in the transmission of Open thy doors to scent and sound, tuberculosis: it is a disease which you I.et summer meet thee on thy way. name— Rest. home-bound soul, whose household round Gather its glory and its balm, Make ready for thy royal guest, A shrine of sweet perpetual calm— Rest. "It is criminal carelessness not to know all about the source of the milk I supply which feeds your family. Many I And thou, O toiler in the heat, cows which look healthy and normal Whose eyes no birds nor blossoms are affected with tuberculosis. If you cheer, have any suspicion regarding your Against whoso toil and lonping beat jmilk supply, an appeal to your milk The blaze and burden of the year inspector or state veterinarian will For thee the cold white stars are give you the information you need. born, You don't need many laws, two are For thee, night veils the burning •enough, one to punish a veterinarian west who passes with a clean bill diseased From crimson eve till golden morn— Rest. sense war not to take^ life but to save it,^to ^j)e American flag shocked on Friday, by a person who kept a small refresh ment stand on the road to the circus ground. She had a table on which I Last Night's Program, save in this state alone annually 6,297 lives. Don' you want to enlist wag The program on Saturday evening, ]0th. One of the members of the was given by the Oxford quartette and was a presentation of The Chocolate jje flag. 1 Women's singles, fourth round—• Miss Louise Pound. Lincoln, Neb., de feated Marjorie Hires, Kansas City, C-3 6-3. Men's singles, fifth round—George M. Church. Princeton, N. J., defeated John C. Neely, Jr., Chicago, 6-1 6-0. Men's doubles, seml-flnal round: Walter T. Hayes and Ralph Burdick, Chicago, defeated Jerry Weber and A1 Green, Chicago, 6-2 4-6^ 6-2 8-6. Heath Byford and Alex Squire, Chi cago, defeated Gifford and Ketchum, Chicago, 6-3 9-7, and 6-1. Men's singles, semi-finals—Cy Hill, Chicago, defeated Hubert James, Chi cago, 6-2: 6-4. Men's singles, semi-final round: Wal ter T. Hayes. Chicago, won from J. J. Armstrong, St. Paul, by default. —Real The Gate City Want coltmn. -Ellen Hamlin Butler. Women Find Flag Law Violation. Several patriotic people had their of the proprieties in the use of jau the American flag for a local A a TENNIS TOURNEY !prlsonment Seores of Matches in Men's and Wom en's Singles and Doubles on Lake Forest Courts. chapter driving by, saw an jja I Soldier, by Richard Strauss. The the proprietor if she knew she story of the Chocolate Soldier is from Geo. Bernard Shaw's Arms and a Man. I protection of the flag. She replied The opera was given most acceptably. U9e an( wftg that she I The costumes were elaborate and the tjon of the law and was very polite I stage setting remarkably good for a jn j^,. expression of regret at the oc I tent. The generous applause showed currence—but she didn't take the flag the appreciation with which the from the table, as was discovered catchy airs and tuneful music was ]ator jn evenlnsr. To use the flag received. jn stopped and i0iatin« the Iowa law fbr the didn't know it was a vlola- ny other way than as a banner is generally speaking, a violation of the law and the penalty is fine or im- Entertains for Visitor. One of the pleasant social affairs of the week was the one o'clock lunch eon given on Thursday afternoon by I Mrs. D. W. Bishop at her home in West Keokuk. Six past president of the W. R. C., were present, and the company was in honor of Mrs. Flor ence Cook of Kansas City, who is visiting here. The guests included Mrs. Louisa Rollins, Mrs. Rachael French, Mrs. D. W. Bishop, Mrs. Flor jence Cook of Kansas City, Mrs. Mary I A. Johnston and Mrs. Florence Miller, the six past presidents. Besides these there Were present Mrs. Anna Lofton, Mrs.'Fliesbach, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Stultz, Mrs. Balbach, Mrs. A. N. Swan son, Mrs. George Stevens and Mrs. Just returned from my N. Y. City buying trip yesterday find broken lots of CLEAN, LATELY PURCHASED "summer merchandise" which I will sacrifice Monday at prices that do not even pay for the material used alone. Space does not al low the description of all, but read the following few price rec ord breakers that will make you sit up and take notice. (Monday's the Day) Buys fifty, nifty Parasols, worth $1.50 Buys one hundred classy silk, voile waists, worth $2.00. Many of the above items v/ill be good for all fall and the balance for at least two months wear, hence watch the crowds and follow the early purchasers and reap the benefit at its best as others do. Double Value Coupons will be given away, good on all Toilet Articles Washing-1 band ,.r«a_ was guest of honor at a dozen or more parties and social affairs during her visit. Her daughter Miss Vivian Coulson was honor guest at a number of dancing parties given by the young people. Those in the party will be the Misses Olive Morgan, Celestine Dickey, Lll- lian Miller, Madeline Narrley and At her home yesterday afternoon, lTL S,e\fert en,tertaln°? Eighty-eight club in honor of Miss ,nK Edna I^tuger of Bettendorf, Iowa, 8t. John's Guild, Mrs. Harrie Collins will entertain St. John's Guild on Monday afternoon from 4 to 8 o'clock at her home "Col lina farm," on Belknap boulevard. Dinner Hostesses at Club. Dr. and Mr, A Arkansas for the last ten years. O. H. Club Will Not Meet. ment 1 Marie Busch. The afternoon was spent, in visiting and the occasion proved a delightful one for the guests. For Des Moines Visitor. Miss Elizabeth Hixon of Des Moines is spending the. month of August, the guest of Mrs. Paul Pechsteln. Mrs. Pechstein entertained at an auction bridge party during the week just closed, in her honor. Four tables were played from three to five o'clock •tik'-Z memL^rs asked to take note of the postpone-1 so to the circus at Keokuk. Thimble Club to Meet. Mrs. Karl Hcmmy will entertain the members of the Thimble club on Wednesday afternoon at her home on North Eleventh street. Woman's Alliance to Meet. The Woman's Alliance wiU meet in the parlors of the First Unitarian eago. •church on o'clock. Monday afternoon at 3 C. W. B. M. Auxiliary. The C. W. B. M. auxiliary which was to have met on Tuesday after noon, Aug. 10, has been postponed one week. An Impending Crisis. Boone News-Republican: We won der how long Missouri is going to stand for the destruction of mules by German submarines. HOW'S THIS? Over hundred beau tiful crepe de chine waists, all shades, all sizes. $3 values, Monday Only $1.29 Geo. W. Eymann taken'for crowd is her house guest. caught for the supper. Lima people Speaking of cold years, the year I are noted for never doing things 11833 was noted as the "famine year" halves. All had a delightful time ana the weather was ideal. A sweet little daughter, seven I pounds, came to brighten the home of our young friends. Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Buckert, at 6 o'clock Friday mo rn)ng Ausnst 6 Mrs Rnd A ^rank Fl ... x! Vu rv I i(anv nr.,.,- npnnle went to the I bel and Miss Grimpe will remain for There will no meeting of the O. Many Warsaw people went louie tt rluh thin week The members are Hamilton chautauqua Fridaj, and al-, a longer visit. ciub tms ^eeK ne „lrPlia at Warsaw will play ball with Mrs Frank I ^3 and pfp*pp?,: The Warsaw Gate City at which time a luncheon was served.' left Wednesday for Chicago. Mr. and and felt about 9 a m., August B. by The house decorations were pink and Mrs. Davis will spend the summer in three persons, in different ParJ8 white asters. Very attractive bridge Chicago with Mrs. Connor, and Mrs. Warsaw. No imagination about this, favors were given by the hostess. I Finlay will spend several weeks there., sure. among the Keokuk women in the visit cently. to the city this week of Mrs. Champ Mrs. Wm. Johnson of Warsaw, Clark, who will be the speaker at the died in a Quincy hospital Wednesday Hamilton Chautauqua on Sunday aft-1 evening, of tuberculosis from which ed here Saturday. Hay is'jotting on ernoon, Aug. 15. As wife of the speak- she has been a sufferer for some me the ground and wheat sprouting in er of the house, she is one of the most the trouble beginning with an attack the shock. prominent women socially in this of whooping cough at the time one or country, following the politcal law of her twin babies died with it. She was social precedence. She is a promi- an estimable woman and a devoted nent club woman in her home state mother and wife. She was twenty of Missouri and has had an Interest I nine years of age, and leaves a hus in public welfare work in ton. She is expected to arrive in eral occurred Thursday afternoon, Keokuk sometime Saturday and It is Rev. Cole officiating. hoped that an opportunity will be Warsaw, 111., Aug. 8, 1915. Mrs. John H. Finlay and guests, Methodist church Sunday evening Mr and Mrs Fred Davis of Washing-1 and not in the park. ton, D. C., and Mrs. Frank Connors, A few flakes of snow were seen Mr. and Mrs. Collingwood Tucker of Mrs. D. W. Loomis of Warsaw and Interested In Mrs Clark Keokuk were guests at the six o'clock her sister, Mrs. J. H. Bohan and Mrs. A good deal of Tnterest is felt dinner given by Mrs. J. H. Finlay re- and four little children. Her tun- Pierce. received a dispatch them, given at the Eountry club or else-1 Thursday from his brother Albert H. I & mammoth picture of a wooly where, for Keokuk people to meet her.! Eymann, formerly in the drug busi- ,jOSi sitting up and begging, may be ness here, announcing the death of his wife at the Page hotel, Denver. Mrs. Coton who spent the 'Colo.. J"* 31. She had been for month of July with Captain and Mrs. a long time at A. C. Decker! 911 Grand avenue, has tomo. Texas and finally *ent to Dm returned to her home in St. Louis. She ver Been nt t0 j)en. Jul 30 1)ut she 8 uc- the sho ck 'el*teen hours later. Her daughter was with her and also her sisters Mrs. Buehler of Den ver, and Mrs. DeSouchet of Pueblo. Colo. Mr. Eymann was summoned from Kingman, Kansas, where he was on business at the time. ilrs. Eymann was a native of Warsaw, though her Will Camp at Bluff Park. A party of young women from here early"*womanhood was spent in Win will amp this week at Bluff Park. teraet j0wa where her remains were burial She will be sincere- ]y mourne(i by her friends here. The Waraaw Ethel Curtis of Montrose. Saturday morning where they played for the picnic of the Christian Miss Inez Seifert Entertained. 'church: there was an immense band went to Lima there but the church was pre- I pared to feed them, 125 chickens l.av- been w»°i ,aughtered for he fried chicken dinner and 200 pounds of fish Oaunt. a ,iered almost every hour by many I and the Misses Baldwin. friends. Mrs. Buckert was Miss Ma- tb° Crockett, has held the chair of pub- agency. TTr«i.flaw'«' school h*»e1n«i All th« old tearhers Uc speaking in the state university of, Word came Friday tha^ Warsaw_s ^hoo^be^ins. All the old teachers jj PACfE NINE Children's early school dresses at 1-3 Off Save 33 l-3c on every dollar purchased both of Qulncy, drove_over to La Harpe Thursday, and returned Friday evening. Many loads of wheat were market. A human skeleton was found at the foot of the Ft. Edwards bluff by some workmen plowing for the foundation of the Standard Oil Co.'s station. Only the skull and a few bones were left. The, remains were only about eighteen Inches below the surface, and a rusty razor was found with on one of the galvanized iron bill boards being erected by Edgar Hamburger, city bill poster. The picture has possibly been accidental ly formed by laying two plates or sheets of zinc face to face, just as they came out of their finishing bath and the solution stained them. They were Bet up, side by side, in the bill board, each sheet showing half a dog. The likeness is striking to any ob server and needs no stretch of im agination to see the picture. Another picture formed In the same way is that of an almost complete skeleton. The board is on the northeast cor ner of Seventh and Main streets. No candidate for mayor has been secured yet. Mrs. Howard Baker has returned from a ten days visit with relatives and friends in St. Louis. Miss M. Gibson Hunt of St. Loufa is the guest of Mrs. C. C. Crawford. Mrs stlffett and gon of Mo here vlsltlng her 8 over uckert Among the hostesses at small "Miss Alberta" are doing fine,: the Mississippi restaurant, Denver, ners on Saturday ®ven"1K' .aL conRratulations are being ten- Colo., writes Interestingly under date Gf iater, Mrs. ^e United States. Snow fell some time in every month of the year, several inches falling in the city of Philadelphia. One thing not able was the potato crop the coun try over was a failure. Fred S. Rattermann, proprietor of ju]y 30, cf and b«lle Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. Mrs Nellie VanderverUer Crockett. Roy Bartholomew I Cofo/^The^rty i^havlng a^dSit 5.. home to tim. .ishts.ete „«d baseball club was beaten at Mt. Ster- are retained. ling where it was to play two games A. W. Ehlebe Is Home from his Ne at the Brown county fair. the recent visit of Mr. Mrs. IL E. Roth of Warsaw, and tn »c. only few week, to e,plre More 1 braska trip: Mrs. Ehlebe, Miss Gum- Keokuk. L- E. Lennon has sold his seventy- the two acre farm, known as the Kretch- Ouincv Fagles—old Reserves—Sun- man place, for $9,500 to Henry Wem Idav August 8, 2:30 p. m. at the fair haner of Rocky Run. D. Woods, the I gro,'indS I latter's son-in-law, will farm the The =tork. on his rounds in War- place. saw left at City Clerk Paul Kran-I Dr. P. D. Gaunt has returned from shaar's home a little daughter. Fri-! a short business trip to Chicago, day evening. August 6. Br on Sr.. of F- Keokuk few days' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Lj -\V. Kirkpatrick. Tuesday, th© latter'a visitor the past week. little son David will be two years German school will be held in Evan gelical hall for some weeks in August, Two bovs and a girl as follows: Ion Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. An 8V, pound boy, born to Mr. and' The Presbyterian social on the lawn Mrs Perry Zinn. August 2: an eight of Joseph Fry, Thursday evening was pound boy to Mr. and Mrs. Albert well attended considering the coolness Rock. July 24 and a daughter, to Mr. of the weaUier and Mrs. Sam Jacobs, of Elderville. Piedrit of Keokuk is a Warsaw July 23. Mrs. Jacobs was Miss Olga Ackerman has gone to Mt. Clemens, Mich., where he will JoiA Kcbbles' Uncle Tom's Cabin Co.. J'^p^ppp^^^uesday" for^a: which opens the season there. Guy E. Bell was a Canton, Mo., vls*t°r- Satory of Warsaw Albert Lishen and wife of Peoria If toe weather is unfavorable, the are visiting at the home oI Mr. Lish union services will be held in the I en's mother. ...