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#-y« V--. I: a' tvH •ri' 5 ,,\T f' &' te- 1 ,n ,lJ^M B!»«U)tyliiM»«WBa^|iyi *$8 -,jt ,^r v* ,- PAGE TEN ON'T make the mistake of going without a fail over coat. A topcoat will protect you against colds and pneu monia. Our styles are new and snappy belted and trench models as well as conservative styles. $12.00 to $25.00 Raincoats $5.00 to $22.50 No such values in Keokuk as ours in sweaters, $1.00 to $10.00 We sell the best boys clothing in Keo kuk, $3 50 to $10.00 WW bl h.UK bU, itfM9TRKRTm3Rm797377773r BEST BY TEST The Home of Clothing Satisfaction The Great Ojut- doors is Calling! Mild, mellow Autumn speaks! Get out of doors—walking Is splendid exercise. Keeps you in good condition. No finer walking boots than BAUR-MULLARKY'S They fit the arch—grip the foot firmly, vet comfortably—lend sup port where needed. Clean-cut, fashionable models, too—sustaining our reputation for com bining style with comfort. Price per Pair $5. to $8. Baur-Mullarky Co. STONE JARS We still have a few 1, 2 and 3 gallon size. BETTER BUY NOW. CANTON FLANNEL GLOVES AND- MITTENS Complete new 6tock on hand. Get our price* before you buy. Wm. Schasfer Coal Company 1111 Main. Phone 383 Have your glasses made and fitted by us. It will mean satisfaction to you. "Two registered Opto metrists at your com mand." RENAUD'S Just Received! A fresh shipment of Cream of Rice Highest food value Richer than meats Cooks in five minutes Can be used in 100 ways Easy to prepare. Easy to digest Immegart's Grocery Phone 43 706 Main Australia proposes to impose an additional Income tax of 10 per cent Mr. ana Mrs. J. Walsh will on single men and childless widows ieave tomorrow for bes Moines "to between 21 and 45 who have not yet visit their son LeRoy Walsh -who i. enlisted. in Camp Dodge. I GIVE! GIVE! w! THE DAILY GATE CITY AND CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT Seed Dili White mustard seed, oeiery seed, ground yellow mustard, tumeric, cinnamon, al spice, cloves, mixed pickle spices and all other spices used in pick ling and preserves- TRY MRS. PRICES" CANNING COMPOUND t10c. McGrath Bros. Drug Company 500 MAIN ST. 1 BENEVOLENT UNION 1 BLOCK DAY IS IS iS Envelopes distributed Monday, October 8 and collected Tuesday, Octo her 9 for the support of a home for old ladies and children. One of the old est charities in Keoknk. 3 ti WANT RECORDS FOR MACHINE Local people Can Help Dispel Lone some Feelings cf Ammunition Boys at Camp Cody. Keoknk people who want to do something for the Iowa ammunition train boys from here, have the oppor •unity to send them phonograph rec ords. Ear! R. Pflug, who is with thn !eadquarters company, writes that the tvoys are lonesome dow at Camp Cody In the land of cactus and saiv?, and that they have a talking machine, which keeps them from getting too lonesome, but that they want records. Pflu^ well describes the country the 'roops are in now, when he says he •.-ouldn't trade a square foot of Iowa :ar for the whole state of New Mexi co. The boys haven't had any new rec ords since June, so people here who ..ave records might help them out by making a big shipment some of these days soon. The boyp are in camp at Camp Cody, Demlng. New Mexico. MISTAKE IN JUST ICE-HOAR CO.'S ADVERTISEMENT OF LAST NIGHT. In last night's advertisement of the Justice-Hoar Co., it stated that thev would give away a $5.00 silk underskirt with every suit purchased Saturday that was over S16.50 in price. If was an error on the part of 'he printer and should have read "a $3.00 silk underskirt free." PROPOSALS FOR LEVBE WORK.— Office of the Secretary. Mississippi River ComraiHF'.on, 1311 International Life P,«i'4!rr, St. Louis. Mo.—Sealed proposals will be received here until 11 a. m., October 81, 1917. for cou -tniming abour 80,000 cubic yard* of \«ar'hwork in th* Henderson County Dralnaee District So. 1. 111. Farther information on application. im:rsoxals i, MEETING TUESDAY 'Pre«Jdo*it Justice Urges Retailers to Turn Out In Force and Chair man Chapman Looks for Ad MoT- WILL BE JOINT SESSION Ad Mo" Will Present Program Good Things for Gathering— of Big Supper Served at 6:30 O'clock. The regular October meeting of the Keokuk Retailers' league will be held Uuesday evening, October 9, at the Y. W. C. A. It "will be a joint session "with the Keokuk Ad club, and there wflU be a speaker here for the Ad club who will address both meet ings during the evening on the topic of direct. advertising. Supper will be served at 6:30 o'clock. President Justice is urging the re tailers to show up In large numbers at this meeting, and Chairman Chap man of the Ad club predicts a "whale of a meeting." There will be plenty to interest the members of both or ganizations, and it is expected that there will be a big gathering at the meeting. The members of the Retailers' league who realize just how -.ruea benefit the league has been in th*» promotion of special sale dayB, and the like, and Just how much the league lis done in the promotion of trade in Keokuk, are urged to get behind the organisation with all of their power and help push along the big probBem of good things for this fall and winter. The big dollar day sales of last Saturday were one Instance of the [big things the organization Is accom I plishlng. Some of the other things the league is planning along this line will be Just as big if all of the members will get behind the propo sition. STEAM COAL USERS. 10 cars good coarse screenings. Or der sample car. D. El Reeves & Co. CITY NEWS. —Serge dresses 510 to $25. Lowitz. —Chapel Fund market Sr turday at one o'clock at Laubersheimer's. —Save money by buying coffee and pancake flour from me at my special Saturday prices. A. PI J. Ewers. —Puckeeh etuck lodge No. 43 meets every Friday evening at 8:00 o'clock. Silas Brant, N. G.. George W. Im megart, permanent secretary. —Special prices on coffee and pan cake flour. Saturday only. A. P. J. —Regular meeting Keokuk Council No. 536, tonight at 8 o'clock. Hawkes' hall, Eighth and Main. Visiting breth ren fraternally Invited to attend. C. E. Powell, regent J. I. Annable, sec tt retary. g! —Next week will be national win 22 dow display week when the mer it chants are urged to give prominent display to nationally advertised 3' goods. All the Keokuk merchants 3 who handle merchandise that is given national publicity a/e asked to co-operate. if —Try Ludwig's for your fall and winter shoes. Price reasonable. —New skirts, $1.98 to Lowitz. —Melrose and Valley church. F. J. Swanson, pastor. Melrose: Sun day school, 10 a. m. preaching, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Valley: Only Sunday school 2 o'clock In the after noon. •It pays to buy your shoes at Ludwig's, 1004 Main. A British shell that will carry eight miles, and an Italian shell that will carry six miles, now on display In my window. A. P. J. Ewers. -All Boy Scouts have been or dered out for wcrk. on the bean farm. Saturday morning. The scouts will assemble at the Washington school grounds at 8 o'clock sharp and will proceed from there to the farm. Par ents of scouts are urged to see that their boys are free to answer this call. No scout will be excused from the work on the farm Saturday morn ing, unless he presents to his patrol leader a written excuse signed by his parents. The scouts have been re quested to bring something to eat. Choice line of full dressed chick ens 30c per lb.: alive, 23c. F. D. Haubert, 1408 Main. 8PRIN5FIELD COAL. Order Saturday while we have it on track. D. E. Reeves & Co., B931. PRIMARY CLASS IS TQ ADVANCE Eleven Members of Weaitmlnster Sunday Sohcol to be Gradu ated Into Junior Classes. Graduating exercises will be held at the Westminster Sunday school, next Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Several pupils hare completed the work of the primary grade and will be advanced to the Junior classes. Mrs. Wm. Aldrich, superintendent of the elementary division of the school will have charge of the exer cises. Friends as well as members of the church are Invited. The following are the pupils that irlll receive diplomas for the com pletion of the Primary work: Mrs. Phoebe F. Mills M»-yer« Ruth Bedford, Rutn Means, Mr. Charles N Or«m. *np*r-! Kdwfn French, Orin Hui.ter, Dollie Erlth intendpnt of equipment, of 2°JL,_h noria Ackley, Agnes Reeves, ard Oil company of Omaha, while viaited in this city. 4 Catherine Reed, Aramlntha s-K ... HUk'7'f EXHI Be Youthful in a Wooltex Suit and Make Your Selection From Among Our Smart New Models. This store is keeping up the highest standards of quality in merchandise, in service and reliability. Speafclng of Liberty. The Inevitable Label. SL Paul Pioneer Press: Home Is I Washington Star: Berlin now and a place where a man can lose his then mentions peace, but the "made temper without losing his Job. ,in Germany" label is always Implied. i* y«^ *nt U" vff* FW7?^ .r/.•,'• -i' 'I FRIDAY, OCTOBER' 5, We are convinced that one reason why the suits we are showing so consistently meet the approval of our customers, is the youth fulness imparted to every line. We call them young women's styles. As such they make a wide appeal and in this day of youthfully strenuous endeavor, they are widely appropriate. Paris and New York have said the authoritative word in their designing, and in the matter of material, service is assured. The assortment is now the largest it will be this season. Buying is so timed that by October 1st the stock is complete in% every particular. Let us show you this beautiful assortment of high-grade suits. It is a pleasure to dis play them. Sullivan & A uwerda ECONOMY In Ewers McCarthy Co's Clothes This season, being especially pre pared to give exceptionally good values in Men's, Young Men's and Boy's Suits, Overcoats, Mackinaws, Sweaters and Haberdashery. Our styles are correct, in good taste anywhere and recognized as leaders in Keokuk for both men and young men. Prices $12 to $30. The fabrics from $18 to $30 are all wool and exception ally rich in quality. Our Boy's Knickerbocker Suits $3.50 to $9.00, Mackinaws $5.50 to $6.50, Sweaters $1.25 to $5.00, are the best styles and values on sale in Keokuk. Hats, Shirts, Neckwear, Hosiery, Under wear, Gloves and Sweaters. "We are Keokuk's distributors of "Bradley Sweaters" Prices $1.25 to $13.50 best value and fit on the market Men's Phoenix sox, 35c to $2.00 the pair. Emery shirts, $1.00 to $6.00, perfect fitting, fast Stetson and No Name hats, $3.00 to $4.50. Borsalino," the famous Italian $5.00 hat. Faultless night robes and pajamas, 75c to $2.00. We show Keokuk's largest assortment of men's under "wear in both wool and cotton in light, medium and heavy weight, exceptional values, $1.00 to $4.00 the suit. Ewers McCarthy Co. KEOKUK'S BEST CLOTHING STORE 1? color. Persevering. Des Moines Register: comes to persistence the JJ®01'.f, tens nothing on the automobile sV, -^4 r..- -IB a