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TONIGHT
Wednesday and Thursday
Not a war picture, but a plea for
preparedness. A call to arms against
war.
Same complete show, with orches
tra and effects matinees and nights.
Jefferson, Jackson, Montrose and Des
Moines Townships Unite
For Future
Work.
OFFICERS ARE. ELECTED
Is
Interesting and Instructive Address
by Professor A. M. Locker, at U.
Church Last
Night.
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A district Sunday school organiza
tion comprising Jefferson, 3es Moines.
Montrose and Jackson townships was
formed at the Lee County Sunday
School conference held at the United
Presbyterian church last night. The
committee on business, of which E. L.
Williams was chairman, recommended
the forming of this organization and
this was later adopted. A budget of
575 was created, ?50 to go to the coun
ty and state Sunday school associa
tion and $25 to the district association.
Rev. U. B. McBiree read the report of
tfee nominating committee. The repor1
was adopted and the following officers
chosen for the newly created district.
President, Hery P. Krueger, Trinity
c&nrch.
Vice president, Dr. Coulter, Summit
vilie.
Secretary, Miss Pearl TJhler. Chris
tian church.
Treasurer, Claude Townsend, Bap
tist church.
Elementary superintendent. Miss
Jessie Van Steenwyk, United Presby
terian church.
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Shown Nine Months in New
York, Six Months in Chicago
at Prices Ranging From 25c
to $2.00
Reserve Your Seats for
Nights Shows
MATINEES—Entire balcony, 15c Main floor, 25c.
NIGHTS—Balcony, first 5 rows, 35c remaining 10 rows, 25c Main floor,
first 5 rows, 35c -emaining 12 rows, 50c. Children, any seat, 10 cents.
It is not only a wonderful spec
tacular production, but there is a
beautiful love theme woven through
the entire picture.
The story is based on Hudson
Maxim's book, "Defenseless America"
Secondary superintendent, W.
Thon, Methodist Protestant church.
Teacher's training superintendent*
G. R. Whaley, Christian church.
Bowden, Sandusky.
Home visitation superintendent,
Mrs. Shaffer, Vincennes.
The new district association will be
gin shortly an active missionary cam
paign along lines recommended by
Prof. A. M. Locker in his address last
nigat. This campaign will call for ex
tensive woTk on the part of the church
laymen and a Sunday school and
church census of the whole district
will be taken. Extension meetings
will be held. Sunday schools and mis
sions will be established and other
features tried.
Professor Locker's Addresa.
The address of Prefessor Locker,
state Sunday school secretary of Min
nesota, was of great inspirational ben
efit. The speaker told what had been
accomplished in other communities in
making the church and Sunday school
more effective and recommended the
same work being tried in this district.
"Since Christ sent out his twelve
desciples, men have been preaching."
he said.
"If Christ were here today, how-
around and watch him do it. I
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over, I do not believe^that he would I unlty to the minister alone.
approve of all of this preaching.
Church people are these days depend-' As a second point in his addresa
in* on the preacher to preach folks Professor Locker said a church need
into heaven, and the laymen
sit^d
a good organization,
believe
there is a more'effective way of win-
individual" work. jbe
a preacher
If we desire
Notable cast including Chas. Rich
man, Norma Taimadge, Thais Lawton
and others
Notable among Its endorsers are
Lindley M. Garrison, MaJ. Gen. Wood,
Admiral
System in St. Paul.
Missionary superintendent, Mrs. J.
P. Hornieh. Presbyterian church.
Adult superintendent, Miss Ida St. Paul, the parish of the church oc
Holmes, Montrose. cupied some two square miles of ter-
Temperance superintendent, Fred {ritory.
Professor Locker told of the system
of registration used in his church in
8alvsuuu ol
were
y°"
"We spend hundreds of thousands superintendent because you thlnk
o. dollars each year for preaching B^e him an office he will become
Half of this amount might be used
to
DeweY, Theo. Roosevelt.
Bombardment and Invasion of
New York.
Wall street in flames.
Enemies' warships in our harbors.
Held first, and to properly chart this
field is one of the big tasks."
E-ach year a committee of lay­
men would make a canvass of that
territory and give to every inhabitant
a card to sign telling which church be
belonged to. which he preferred, or
whether he preferred any or not.
After these were collected, the
cards of those who were already in
the church were laid to one side and
the cards of those who preferred a
certain church were given to that
church. Personal work was then re
sorted to to get these latter families
into the church. If no church was
preferred, every church In the district
would go after the signers until they
were lined up with some congregation.
All the churches of the district work
in harmony. There is plenty of work
for all and no chance for denomina
tional feuds. The work Is done once
a year and takes but an afternoon if
properly organized.
The speaker said that this church
canvass would be a good thins for
Keokuk to try, not only because it
yielded results in strengthening a
church, but it gave all the members
some ta.sk to do. instead of leaving
the work of salvation of the com-
so that the
new converts received could be held,
He
said
thaJ
ning people to Christ than preaching teachers and Sunday school supenn
at them. That way is through
per-jtendent
SO°d Pastor, officers,
a certain
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Interested In Su^ay school
better advantage. Personal work, not This is very poor plan. \ou need
only by the preachers but by the lav- the best man in the church for you
men of the church, is needed, a I superintendent and you need a wide
church should organize its forces for awake business man as Sunday schx
this campaign and the preachers' secretary not some boy or girl jho
should train his churchmen for the will mumble over the record on Sun
task.
"I have never known
who knew his territory.
day."
Professor Locker also advocated
the reading of the absentees in the
to do the work we must know the secretary's record. A third point talk­
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A gripping human story of America's unpreparednes* for war, pronounced'
by military experts as the camera's masterpiece of the age.
YOU WiLL SEEz
ed on was evangelism. The speaker
said that he did not approve the an
nouncement of decision day. He said
it was like telling: your sweetheart
that in two weeks you are going to
ask her to be your wife. He also
thought it advisible to havfe six to
eight week decision campaign, In
which a great deal of personal work
was done. The speaker also made a
plea for co-operation between the'
churches. I
Following his address, a collection
was taken for Sunday school work lit
the district and county.
Address by J. O- Boyd.
The other address of the evening
was given by J. O. Boyd, who had
been transferred from the afternoon
program to the eyening. Mr. Boyd
took up the progress of the girl and
boy in their transition "period. He,
said at this time the eyes of youth
were turned toward ideals and visions
of future life and that it was very es
sential that they have the proper
training at this time.
He advised that older teachers be
secured for Sunday school classes of
young men and women. He said
these teachers should have loving
and sympathetic hearts. Mr. Boyd
also said that the time was coming
when a church would offer the amuse
ments to satisfy the social instincts
of the young instead of merely saying
Every ill trained boy or girl," he
said, is a detriment to the commun
ity.**
4n closing the program. Rev. A. C
Beecham of Montrose, convention
leader, thanked The Gate City for its
full account of the meetings, and also
the delegates who turned out for their
enthusiasm and support.
Rev. Steffey'a Address.
Following is the address given by
Rev. E. LeRoy Steffey on "The Pur
pose, Scope and Needs of a District
Association/' at the session of the
conference yesterday afternoon:
"The Sunday school is engaged !n
the biggest job in the world—the mak
ing of men. This is our task, and we
ought to he ashamed to be unlike
those who are doings this work in the
best way. And those who are doing
the work in the best way are those
who are keeping up with the modern
methods of child development, and
christian training.
"Of the schools in this district it
may be said, if we are doing the
working indicated a moment ago, "we
are laborers together with God.' No
one school is big enough for the task
even in this city, and I know of no
man, pastor or layman, who is so
small as to believe that he or his
church or school is big enough to
handle the situation in Keokuk. There
is room for every school here in the
city, and for every school in this dis
trict, a district composed of Jackson,
Montrose, Des Moines and Jefferson
townships. And if one school is meet
ing with a greater degree of success
In this work of making men it is the
duty of that school to let the other
schools know how It is doing this
thing, and every other school has a
right to know how the work is being
done. This information may be best
imparted through an organization of
the religious forces
vention to discuss the plans, the
ways, and the means of winning men
to the Sunday school and to Jesns
Christ
"This is pre-eminently an age of
organization. Go Into the Industrial
world and watch the operations going
on in one of its large manufacturing
institutions. It is all system and or
ganization, every man for his place
and every man In bis place .and no
man interfering with the other man
in his place. Look at the intellectual
world. Oar teachers are organized
Into their city, township, county, dis
trict, and state teachers' associations.
Why? •That they may meet in con
vention to discuss the problems inci
dent to tiie development of the child's
Highest priced picture ever brought
to Keokuk, excepting "The Birth of
a Nation."
"'"'ilt holds the same position among
pictures that "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
does in our country's literature.
Aeroplane raids.
Great naval battles.
Submarine attacks, giant artillery,
'machine guns, thousands of men
and horses.
A Smooth, Hairless
Skin for Every Woman
(The Modern Beauty)
"With the aid of a plain delatone
paste it is an easy matter to rid the
donTdV this "and don't do that, "and elfin of unsightly hairy growths. The
letting them find their own pleasures.: Paste Is made by mixing some water
with powdered delatone. This is ap
plied to the hairs not wanted and af
ter 2 or 3 minutes rubbed off and the
skin washed, when every trace of hair
will have vanished. When you go to
your druggist for delatone, be sure
you get the genuine article.
mind. If it is necessary for organiza
tion in the industrial and intellectual
world to get. somewhere, it is equally
necessary in the religious world.
"Every organized christian associa-!
tion is the sphere of* a spiritual cul
ture analaguous to that which is
going on in the realm of nature—in
the gardens, the vineyards, and the
cornfields.
"The purpose, scope and need of a
district Sunday school association
consists in this—Information, Jnsplra-1
tion and realization. The object les
son of the hour of the first christian
convention, the convention held in
the 'upper room' in Jerusalem, is the
inspiration of christian work for ail
the ages. Note the picture presented
in that assembly—men crowned with
the flames of heaven—the world in
miniature before them—men speaking
fluently the language of all nations—
men by thousands at the feet of Jesus
—this is the significance of the un
folding of the work meted out to
every christian worker.
"In Lee county there are those who
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One show each night, one show
each afternoon. Seats reserved In
advance for night 'shows only.
Lesson taught by picture a ringing
reply to Bryan and other pacifica
tors
Orplieum sTheatre^
TOD
AY—VAUDEVILLE
.GREAT EDWELLS
Stirring Feats Hindoo Magic
Nothing Seen Like it Since Herman was Here Years Ago'
Also Regular Picture Program—$L50 Show for
ADMISSION 10c AND 15c
Admission
5 and 10c.
Twice Dally
Mats. 2:30, Rights 8:15
Children admitted to any seat In
the theatre for 10 cents, matinee or
night.
Many who have se^n both pictures,
say It Is greater than "The Birth of a
Nation."
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Ladles Free To-Night
To Introduce this mammoth film produo
tlon, ladies will be admitted free tonight
only, when accompanied with one paid adult
ticket.
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-TONIGHT— 7, §8:30, 9:30
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Wilfjjft Mack & Enid Markey in
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A powerful society drama produced by Tho». Inc. Also
MACK SWAIN and all star Keystone cast In
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Movie Star"—2 acts
A Mack Sennett comedy—t"A Scream from start to finish."
Tomorrow Mat. & Eve.
'The Price of Malice'
A S Act Wonder Play featuring
HAMILTON RAVILLE
and—
•BARBARA TENNANT
are crying, 'Come over and help us,*
and this cry echoes almost every cry
of wretchedness, misery, Ignorance
and superstition. One towuship in
the county Is reported as having but
one Sunday school, and two town
ships as having no Sunday schools at
all. It is time that the organized
Sunday schools of the county get to
gether in some sort of unified effort,
in township or district organization,
and answer this cry for help. The
individual church or Sunday school
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NUXATED IRON
too
the individual churches and Sunday article soon to appear in this paper.
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of evil, or cope with the great prob
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places, gathering up the fragments,
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some way contributes to the welfare
and benefit of others."
I?
$2 for an Ear of Iowa Corn.
Christian Science Monitor: Tfffi
hundred dollars for a bushel of corn,
usually a fair price for two hundred
bushels, was obtained by the editor
of a farm paper in Iowa a few days
ago. The grain will now be retailed
at |2 an ear, and but one ear wili be
sold to any farmer. As seed, so per
fect is thta corn that it is .worth, liter
ally, far more than Its weight in gold.