The daily Gate City. [volume], June 27, 1915, Image 12

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The Duplex Alcazar
is a single range
that does the work
of two. With it
you can cook in
comfort every
month of the
year.
Burns
Coal
!P»«
TWO RANGES IN ONE
XHEX
'mm
The Housekeeper's
Delight
Same Oven is used fat both
Coal and Gas
Call and See 1 his Wonder fu Range—For Sale by
Schell-Demple Furn. Co.
613-515 Main Street
•tfoJI Kit
We carry a large line
of ail kinds of sport
ing and athletic goods
and invite your special attention
to our ».
BASE BALL SUITS
Call ancl see our 3tock.
Uniforrus: Boys 4 piece suits, sizes (5 to 12
Burns Coal and Gas
separately or both at
once. You can burn
coal in the winter and
keep the kitchen
warm gas in the
years $1.00
Youths 4 pie'ce suits, sizes 12 to 18 $1.50
Men's sui,ts complete, made of good mateiial an.l
of good workmanship $3.50
Special prices to clubs. Managers of teams are
invited to see our sample suits.
702
Main St.
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Place Your Orders Now for
Chestnut Hard Coal
The price is at the bottom now and is sure to go higher
Phone us your feed orders, a full line of corn, oats, hay,
chick and scratch feed. Prompt deliveries.
Wm. Schaefer Coal Co.
Phone [phone] Main
Carpenter* Will Fight.
Slimmer and keep
the kitchen cool. I
H. Wolfe
Burns
Gas
wages eight weeks ago. This was the
Chicago will fight to a finish in the jtrlct council.
building construction tie-up that has The situation tdnight was admitted
hceoi ^n since they struck for higher ly serious.
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Letter la Received Trom Treasury
Department Saying That It Will
B& Referred to Official
'"W: Charge *•, '.
DECISION ON MONDAY?
Keokuk Stamp Users Are Hopefuli
That Department Will See Fit
to Continue Office
Here
The protest of, the Keokuk firms
which are large users of revenue
stamps, against the removal of the
stamp office here will be definitely
settled on June 28, according to let
ters received here yesterday from the
treasury department. The letter is
signed by G. E. Fletcher, deputy com
missioner of Internal revenues. Mr.
Fletcher states that Deputy Comtnis-
sioner Gates will have the final word
in the. matter, and that Collector Louis
a a in is he a or
ana. for
tives
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city. He is expected to be at his desk [United Press. Leased Wire Service.]
on the morning of the 28th instant,! CHICAGO, June 26.—Miss, Lulu
and his attention will be called to'the Long, Kansas City's dashing horse
matter herein referred to. woman, won the, plaudits of society
"Collector Murphy will "be duly ad- folk at tKe Ideal horse show by her
vised of the final decision reached by gameness and second prize,in event,
the office in the premises." Miss Long was driving Illustrator in
The local firms are Hopeful that the tb,-» gig class. In rounding a curve
local protest will have weight with }the gig tilted, throwing her. She held
Deputy Gates and that he will coun-' to the reins, brought the horse to .a
termand the order previously gjveh. If stop though dragged several yards
he dees not do so, the office will be and continued the race^ winning a red
closed, here Wednesday night. ribbon. f~ A
The Warsaw Gate City
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JEALOUSY CAUSED I
t" DOUBLE TRAGEDY
Burlington M«n Killed Himself At
»fa ter Putting Bullet in Wopnan'a
Breast
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BURLINGTON, Iowa, June 26.—
Herman H. Schniotger, 50, Is dead
by his own hand and Mrs. Ida Siim
mere, 46, proprietor of a rooming
house is fighting for l|fe in a hospi
tal, shot through the breast, and the
double crime is charged to jealousy.
Mrs.. Summers is separated from her
husband and has one boy. She man
aged the rooming house and Schnict
ger is a roomer who paid her con
siderable attention. There are re
ports that other men were attentive
and this caused jealously., No one
knows just how the shooting occur
red, but Mrs. Summers says Schnict
ger fired a bullet from his revolver
into her breast, then turned the wea
pon on himself. Inflicting a wound
that caused his death at 6:30 tonight.
He was a watchman for the Buurllng
ton road and had formerly been a
policeman and Is well known. He was
an Odd Fellow and a Red Maf
Ri-Sentenced to Gallows.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 26.—
Charles O'Nato- arrived here from
San Quentin today to be re-sentence'J
to death for the murder of Wm.
Alexander, an aged millionaire of
Warsaw, 111., June 27, 1915.
Misses Mary and Tillle Hammelof Friday afternoon with a large string
St. Louis aro
visiting
scenes of his bpyhood. His friends,. tbo windows. The photo is-of good
will woubtless be glad to learn of, his I size, suitable for framing.'
prosperity. Very' warm yesterday, in tjie 80's.
The city council has granted the term as chaplain »f the Illinois G.
as principal of the Lutheran parochial mother Mrs. Frank LeBron, Sr., and
school—an honorable efRcient and from there she will return to her
BaF^ball Sunday at fair groi
2:30 p. m.
Warsaw
Improvement.
John S. Moore of Keokuk was
Warsaw business visitor Saturday.
There will be a few peaches raised
In Warsaw this season, though this ls
not a peach year.
On Monday. June 21, the order of 1 Hant_®"d
iDaidv Ayers.
Mrs
Pr.,mAlfen
inches and
June's
Texas. He must be re-sen-
Dallas,
». .4. tt»la fenced as the date originally set for
Fletcher states that Deputy Comtnis-|
hj8
execution passed while the case
a Qn, aPDea]
Glenn wltt bis pal,
Murphy will be advised fully. re-sentenced to the gallaws.
The letter from the commissioner
follows:
"Replying to telegram of the 23rd
instant, signed by your company and
other business firms, .protesting
against the discontinuance of the
stamp deputy collector's office at Keo- =i.ui, •», -—e
kuk, Iowa you are advised that final!this afternoon won the first auto race
action in this case will not be taken hero this season. His time was 91
until -the return of Deputy Commjs-1 minutes 30 seconds.
sioner Gates, who has these matters i
in charge, and who is now otit of the I
and the .*lr. and Mrs.' rjiitg uausneriy 01
right man wherever he is placed. Kirksville, Mo., _came over to attend ouriing
laced. Kirksville, Mo., came over to attend
grounds, the funeral of Mr. Daugherty broth-
ilton whose record has been almost freight train at Columbus Junction,
The city council at its special see- Boys are in the habit of throwing
sion last Moniiay evening, appointed stones in the urn at the drinking foun-
Mayor Marsh. Street Superintendent tain, and also into the horse fountain the kingdom of Gi
ID H. Kraushaar and City Engineer on Lafayette street. They njust stop Among the institutes
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he
will also
Eddie Hearn Wins.
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ST. PAUL Minn.. June 26.—Smash
ing around a 100 mile course without
a stop, Eddie Hearn, driving a Case,
Daring-
Home-Wo
man.
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their cousin! of fish that almost dragged on the
Miss Flora Hammel. ground.
James T. Hopkins, a Lima bojr 'of Otis Goodenough, the photo artist,
years ago, is one of the heaviest tea )a8t Sunday took an excellent photo
importers in the United States. He of one of the large trolley cars loaded
also imports Chinese and Japanese I with passengers, Wiarsaw bound. It'
goods and curios, visiting China, P5jr-1 was at Crystal Glen the light and
mosa and Japan every year In the In-1 background of trees was just right
terest of his business. He is located and on® could recognize the features
in St. Joseph, Md. He still hag. ai
0f
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every passenger on the river side!
he a as he a a a re a
The strawberry crop did not hold Farmers busy until middle of after-,
out long, and the raspberry crop wiU noon and then they came in, In their
autos.
be no better.
Mrs Wm Oippol and two children There is a radish on exhibition in
arrived Tuesday from Angola, Jxuisi- a Main street store -window that meas-
an indefinite visit with rela-! ures 17% inches in circumference
I and 10 inches in length. Its growth
Mayor R. O. Marsh has appointed began with over half a dozen radishes
J. S. Prosser city engineer. which gradually merged into one.. The
Hyde S. Rogers of Denver, a former top* Was over two fi3et high and the
Warsaw boy and a newspaper man of base of the stalk as thick as your
extensive experience, has a live, yiumb. It weighs about two pounds
article Warsaw and her needs, in the and was raised by Jacob Schriebe*.
Bulletin of Friday. His suggestions! Rev.vlsaiah Villars, pastor of War-:
are always good as he always has the saw M. E. church from 1875 to 1877,
welfare of our city at he&rt. It would died at his home in New Lennox, I1U
be a blessing could we have him with on tb* 16th inst. He was well known
us as of yore throughout the state and served one
for'Sunday religious, services during! 'Unary draying purposes. Tt is a light The committee which presented the
the months of July and August. The machine but does its work well. constitution to the church meeting
first service will be held on Sunday,! Miss Elizabeth Unser of Chicago
is at the Little Brick for the follow-
Eastern Star was entertained bj p4Rn^n?pi Terriil R^v H' 'than ••",u
who has been visiting the family of xagei( Johannes Schater and Geo.
Mr. Bowen of Hamilton was a busi- her uncle J. W. Kirkatprick, for th® Bellershelm, Rev. C. Wltte being the
ness visitor here Thursday. past week, has gone to Bluff Park,
Prof. Wm. Erdmann has Just closed Montrose, where she will visit for a j8ters who served the congregation
his twenty-seventh consecutive year short time at the cottage of her grand- ^vere Rev
faithful record. He is also organist home in Chicago. er of the present president of the
and choirmaster of the church and the Mr. and Mrs.' Ellis Daugherty or
cake were served at -lose of meeting. I of Peter Ernst Friday. Horses pulled more than can be saW o^some^ ot er
May's rainfall at Warsaw was 6.73 the binder, but the wheat was cut **nd
7,91 inches. It was bound with power from a gasoline
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wet down here sure, and we would motor carried on the machine, thus
hav. been glad to have helped out. saving great draft on the horses this
some dry towns. 1 muddy weather.
H. H. Schildman of Filer, Idaho The Gate City traveling repnesenta
has been visiting his parents Mr. and tive reports the growing popularity
Mrs. Henrv Schildman of Rocky Run. 1 Of the great Iowa
this week." He came as far east as. the 7.000 mark.
Omaha with three carloads of lambs.! A double jubilee will be celebrated
and took the occasion to visit his old by St. John's Evangelical church in a
h0lne. few months, the fiftieth anniversary
Mrs Ella Conyers Matthews of of the congregation in connection
Colorado Springs, Colo., Is here visit- with the seventy-fifth anniversary of
Ing her mother Mrs Mary Conyers. 1 the Evangelical synod of North Ajner-
A small boy went up Main street! ica, The constitution of St. John's
St .. -.«v
?agtor at
erahje
Syjj0(ji
will tackle Ham- er Aquilla who was run over by a ^hlle the Y. P. S. was founded in and
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s. Prosser, the new board of local it or be fined. Nothing "'Jty or soiiea the members of the Ladies' Aid and sence, during which he
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The 1916
Series Twelve
Cole 8
is a oerfect «vm
phony of the most
improved motor
car features which
include—
Wider Body
mmmmmm
New Lustre
Finish
ImDroved
Carburetor
and Manifold
SoecTal Motor
Refinements
1M4-" Sflt.
Phone 1080
House Paint
For Next Week
$1.20
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petition of Revs. George Long, A. E. R., and several years as chaplain of church was adopted on Jan. 2, 1865,1
Cote H. F. KrughofT and J. M. Thomp-1 the Joliet penitentiary. while the church building was dedK
son asking the use of Ralston park, Warsaw has one auto track for or-
cate(j
in the fall of the same year,
wa"g
competed of Messrs. Conrad,
that time. Among the mln-t
f.
Baltzer son of the ven-
]ate president of .the Evangeli-
caj Byno(ji
Rev. A. Baltzer, and broth-
yno(j Rev. John Baltzer of St. Louis.
Rev. John Baltzer of St. Louis.
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the service of Rev. F. Baltzer
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:kle Ham- er AximMa while the Y. P. S. was founded_in and country went— Golden Rod afield. Just drop into any county seat
-. -. -. 1 in and country went— Golden Rod afield. Just drop into any county seat
1906 under the present pastor.. For floating theatre at the levee, and the In Iowa and price the plants. In soma
unbeatable this season. Iowa. longer than a generation the ladies recnlar moving nicture nrozram at nrnminant inotomoa von mieht take
aI(J ha8 done a
church
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of the kingdom of God In general. Wednesday night' from thj» Panama
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Illinois
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congregation as well as for the
have
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and
been
8yn0d bave already
d«8^b*e
now nearing
iiiB ixieujuBis ui iue uiuibb «iq iwu sence, auring wiiicn ne nas in
Y. P. S.. Is the Illinois Orphans' home extensively, he. will remain all sum- vmu .minui »oV.
Ornhans' hnme ...
The W R. C. will noia memorai dren, which burned down a short time electric installation at the exposition. American lap President McKinley
ted services Sunday. June 27, at
recelved-
can
handle, just send the thur M. Bartlett
Charles Ewing and, G. A. deliver the address surplus 4°wn here, or, be brotherly the state golr championship, having ing but a coaling statton In the Is
Mrs. John Schmidt the g^est of honor and neighborly at least and speak a 1 snccessfully defended his title against lands. We had no business in that
being Mrs. E. M. of St ^arya The public is ^vlted.
word for
.Warsaw. Our factory James W. Hufcbell
Mo. Six other out of town guests, A novelty the operation or which Is Results:— less now. We have all we can attend
No bette™ sitl for "S
No„
pw Pitt.
Pittsburgh" or "new Pittsburgh"
could be desired than the tract of
land along the T.. P. & W., between
Hamilton and Warsaw. A factory
employing 500 men, located between
Wa'rsaw and Hamilton would in a few
yeacs unite the two cities a wedding
that woujd be celebrated with great Moines,
rejoicing. Warsaw has an industrial second.,
commission that will be glad at any
time to favorably entertafh any good
factory proposition.
No lack of amusements yesterday.
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Come and see them and have a demonstration,
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for beautiful lines. The epi is low,sumptuous, dignified.
POWER—-Cole Eight's motor actually develop® seven-
horsepower—the car weighs less than 3,500 pounds
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FLEXIBILITY—Cole Eight's speed range is from a
mile an hour to sixty miles an hour, in high gear. Gear^
shifting is, practically done away with^ -v
OOMFOB®—Cole Eight does not let a ljum'p or a
of a jerk get through its direct'spring drive to its passen-'
gers. Besides, the upholstering fairly pillows you.
PRIDE—It's a satisfaction to let people know that .'
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try on the globe could not be persuaded!, to drive anything^
else.
CERTAINTY—A big, successful company, built strict
»ly oil the sheer merit of its product, concentrates in giv
ing Cole owners the latest approved luxuries in motor
qpj* construction at all times.
VALUE—-Cole Eight, with a wheel-base of 126 inches
divided front seats ,and full seven passenger," comfort,
sells for $1,785, f. o. b. factory.. /.
COLE MOTOR CAR COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS,* U. Sr«A.
Builders* of the StAndarized Car
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S-* Two Sizes, S for 25c and 10c atralght.
WARD'S OIGAR STORE. 525 MAIN
the service of Rev. F. Baltzer Madison on the steamer G. W. Hill at example of the prosperity of the coun
he ladles' aid was founded (1884), 2:15 p. m.—many people from town try* publisher. No need to go so. far
the ladles regular moving picture program at prominent Instances you might take
reamland. $25,000 along and have to bring it
kiuiuuuvu Thomas Osborne arrived home away with you.
i« tcucini, vv«uut3Bua ui^jik iiuiu iuf» rauamB
Among the institutes supported by exposition. After Be'veral years ab-
haB
traveled
Hoyleton, 111., with over 100 chil- mer. He has been working on the the Philippine islands fell into the
A number of jubilee gifts for .asked Secretary Wilson, as a farmer.
Bartlett Win*
Keokuk, ir you get more factories CEDAR RAPIDS, la., June 26.—Ar- that is where "Tama. Jim" gave bad
of
of
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paper which •oM above
Aaain.' 'how much of th« land we ought to
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[United Pres. Leased Wire Service.] keep. Mr. Wilson replied, -All." But
been'received. I [Unltej P^es.'lVased Wl^e "service.] keep. Mr. Wilson replied, "All." But
Ottumwa, retains advice. We ought to have kept noth-
Des Moines. Part of the world then and we have
President's Bight: E. Boardman, to' on this side of the Atlantic, and
Marshalltown, defeated R. N. Mc- Pacific and we do not always attend
Manus, Ottumwa, 8 and 6. to that all properly. .We have about
Director's flight: A. F. Peddie, as much business trying, to govern
Cedar Rapids, defeated Newman portions of the. orient as Japan would
Dorr, Des Moines^ 4 and 2. have In trying to govern Cuba or that
Championship: A. M. Bartlett, Ot- part of Mexico which goes by the
tumwa, defeated J. W. Habbell, Des name Bf Lower California. But near
Moines,
and 1, ly twenty years ago we looked at
Veterans: Woa fcy E. E. Door, Des such matters differently,, and we al-
Shockley, Oskaloosa, lowed the same greed to demlnate us
that has -dominated other nation^ al
foreign ownership and the gov
j_though w,_
Our
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Third and Blondeau'
Barn Paint
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Unci* Sam and the Philippines.
Cedar -Rapids Republican: When
*3 ternment of alien races is necessarily
Marioti Register: The De« Moines out of harmony with the principle# .of
No lack of amusements yesterday. Capital points to a, Kansas county our government, namely the principles
Knights of Pythias excursion to
$10,000
as an that evetjr people should govern iuclf.